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Following last week’s reveal of the next major Pokémon game Pokémon Winds & Waves (and a release window for the battle title Pokémon Champions), The Pokémon Company has officially announced it will be winding down Pokémon Scarlet & Violet‘s seasonal Ranked Battle content.
The final season for the Switch game “Season 41” will officially kick off on 1st April 2026. After this goes live, Ranked Battles will no longer receive updates. This season will run until the game’s servers are taken offline, and there will be no monthly rankings or rewards for rankings.
Image: The Pokémon Company
This announcement follows the recent conclusion of Season 39 and the start of Season 40. Trainers can now collect rewards for Season 39. As for Season 40, it runs from now until 31st March 2026. You can see the full ruleset for this season on Serebii.net.
If you haven’t already tried out Pokémon Scarlet & Violet on the Switch 2, these titles received a free upgrade last June.
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Did you participate in Scarlet & Violet’s Ranked Battles? How do you feel about Season 41 being the final season. Let us know in the comments.
[source serebii.net]
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Seems odd between this and the rerunning raid events that they’re dropping support for SV when WiWa is still over a year away. Guess there’s ZA but it’s kind of its own separate beast and it’s not like PLA’s existence caused them to stop doing SwSh stuff.
Makes since considering Champions is releasing on Switch soon, and that’s where competitive will take place for the foreseeable future.
@UpsideDownRowlet Oh yeah, I forgot about the existence of Champions. That explains that, though still makes the raid thing a bit odd.
Good point about Champions, I’ve made note of it.
The end of an era. Played hours of competitive play in Pokemon Violet, hopefully Champions online is even better. Do we know what regulation is being used for this final season?
Yeah, makes sense with both Champions and Winds & Waves coming as already mentioned in the comments and now also article – I’ve never taken part in these myself, but I hope those who did had (and/or will have with this final one) fun!
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