{"id":647810,"date":"2026-05-17T02:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647810\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:26:11","slug":"pokemon-champions-producer-on-how-the-team-is-deciding-which-pokemon-to-include-in-the-game-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647810\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Champions producer on how the team is deciding which Pokemon to include in the game and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pokemon-Champions-how-Pokemon-are-decided.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pokemon-Champions-how-Pokemon-are-decided-656x369.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pokemon Champions producer Masaaki Hoshino has shared a few comments about the game, including how the team is going about picking Pokemon.<\/p>\n<p>As previously mentioned, only select creatures were made available with the recent launch. Right now there\u2019s around 200 \u2013 we have a complete list <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/pokemon-champions-pokemon-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hoshino was asked about the team\u2019s approach to include Pokemon Champions in the game in the latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndw.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nintendo Dream<\/a>. We translated the various comments, which you can find below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will all Pokemon appear in Pokemon Champions?<\/p>\n<p>At first it will be a set selection of Pokemon appearing. Then we expect to establish divisions using set rules.<\/p>\n<p>How do you decide which Pokemon will appear?<\/p>\n<p>In order to do this Game Freak\u2019s Shigeki Morimoto thinks along with the development team members. The timing to introduce Mega Evolutions is being very carefully considered.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, will the Pokemon that appear be mostly ones that do not evolve further?<\/p>\n<p>To start, we will be introducing Pokemon that allow the battles to be played in a way where players can easily understand \u2018which Pokemon is strong\u2019. Clefairy and Porygon 2 may appear in the future, but first we are placing importance on the \u2018ease of understanding for players just starting out with battles\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>How will Terastallization and other special elements be added? <\/p>\n<p>An item called the Omni Ring was made to handle all special features. Balancing these is extremely difficult so we plan to proceed very carefully. First we will allow players to use Mega Evolutions.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview, Hoshino also commented on the game\u2019s graphics. In case you missed our coverage of that, head on over <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/pokemon-champions-dev-comments-on-the-games-graphics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pokemon Champions is available on Nintendo Switch with a free update for Switch 2 players.<\/p>\n<p>Translation provided by Simon Griffin and SatsumaFS on behalf of Nintendo Everything.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pokemon Champions producer Masaaki Hoshino has shared a few comments about the game, including how the team is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3381,279400,245297,74],"class_list":["post-647810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-interview","tag-masaaki-hoshino","tag-pokemon-champions","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}