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When Pokemon Champions was unveiled, my excitement gravitated towards one specific aspect: As cool as an official battle simulator sounded, support for Pokemon Home was the main selling point.<\/p>\n
While people might get into Pokemon for the competitive aspect, I’m in it to catch ’em all. Collecting every single ‘mon has been a longtime obsession, and I successfully built a “living dex” (a collection consisting of at least one of each Pokemon) over a couple of decades. After years of grinding, trading, egg-hatching, and transferring, I’ve gotten every one of my monsters starting from my Game Boy Advance through the Switch into the cloud via Pokemon Home.<\/p>\n
But after all of that, my 1,000+ Pokemon are just happy-looking static sprites sitting in an app. Pokemon Home feels more like a retirement home. Maybe with Champions, I thought, I’d finally be able to let my pocket monster friends out to stretch their legs and have some fun.<\/p>\n