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Game Freak have done a development interview with Famitsu, this time about Pokemon Champions New information - Pokemon Champions was originally planned to release for summer break (Late July in Japan) but was pushed a month early so new players could have as much time as possible to join in with Switch users - 8 days after the release, Pokemon Champions surpassed 10 million downloads - Brazil is the region with the most downloads after Korea, US, and Japan - June’s Monthly Challenge exceeded 1.3 million participants - South America and South Asian countries have risen to the Top 10 in player statistics for the first time - Multiple UI updates including for the Box are in the works - Pokemon for Regulation M-A and M-B were mostly chosen for their ease of use with entry level niches for new players - Items are added based on an evaluation of the current state of the metagame, in short, to shift - Regulation M-A was always planned to have a big focus on Weather, because Hoshino thinks Weather wars make battles way more fun - Regulation M-C will also focus on Mega Evolution - The staff are currently evaluating which of the first Legendary Pokemon will be added in Champions in a future season - Champions has a special “Tournament Mode” to handle team sheets for events - The decision to increase the tournament participants of PJCS from 64 to 128 was directly made by Hoshino to increase the overall competition - Viewership for Pokemon Champions tournaments have increased by 150% compared to previous games - Special themed tournaments are set to debut in the future - Announcements are being planned for Champions post-Worlds - Hoshino uses a team exclusively made up of Pokemon on the **Pokken Tournament** roster Link below👇🏽