{"id":821539,"date":"2026-08-22T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821539\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:32:09","slug":"pokemons-battle-system-may-not-be-turn-based-for-much-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821539\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s Battle System May Not Be Turn-Based For Much Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pok\u00e9mon games have had turn-based battle systems for 30 years, though last year\u2019s Legends: Z-A<\/a> shook things up with real-time mechanics that required you to rethink years of learned habits and strategies. While it was a divisive turn, Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/a> has given turn-based competitive players a place to play that way for the foreseeable future, and it sounds like developer Game Freak intends for that to be the place for old-school battles as future games may continue to change things up.<\/p>\n

In a video on the studio\u2019s YouTube channel, game designer Shigeki Morimoto and Champions co-director Kazumasa Iwao spoke a bit about creating the battle simulator, and how the team wanted it to serve as a means of preserving the traditional turn-based battles while freeing up future games to experiment more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

[Translation via Resetera<\/a>]\u00a0<\/p>\n

I think one of the biggest reasons behind it was that the battle system, the rules for competitive Pok\u00e9mon battles that we\u2019ve been using throughout the Pok\u00e9mon series for so long, may gradually start changing as the Pok\u00e9mon series moves forward.<\/p>\n

And when that happens, there are people who have been enjoying the existing style of Pok\u00e9mon battles for decades, going all the way back to Red and Green, Gold and Silver, and so on. So simply saying, \u201cThe battles have changed, so now please go play the new version,\u201d didn\u2019t really feel right either. That was something that had been bothering us at Game Freak for quite a while.<\/p>\n

At the same time, we obviously want the series to continue taking on new challenges. But we also didn\u2019t want to neglect the battle system we\u2019ve had up until now. So we thought: maybe it would be good to make one game that carries forward the existing battle system and lets people continue playing it indefinitely. I think that was really the starting point for the development of Pok\u00e9mon Champions.<\/p>\n

Though they hint at future games continuing to evolve in terms of their battle systems, they don\u2019t get into specifics about precisely how that may happen. If Legends: Z-A\u2019s real-time battles are the blueprint moving forward, I\u2019ll be delighted, but I know there are some Pok\u00e9mon fans who didn\u2019t like that shift<\/a> when the game launched on Switch and Switch 2 last year. Based on some of the leaks<\/a> circulating around the internet, next year\u2019s Winds and Waves is seemingly going to maintain the original turn-based style, but perhaps whatever comes next will be something different. Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon games have had turn-based battle systems for 30 years, though last year\u2019s Legends: Z-A shook things up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[245297,74],"class_list":["post-821539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-pokemon-champions","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821539","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=821539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}