Pokkén Tournament Confirmed for World Championships, Switch Version Coming?

The big confirmed news of the day is that Pokkén Tournament will be returning to the Pokémon World Championships 2017. It was noticeably absent from the schedule that was first announced for Worlds, but Japanese sources have confirmed that the fighting game will be returning again this year according to Serebii.

Various tuning tweaks are slated to go live for the arcade version in Japan on Tuesday, but the Wii U version remains noticeably behind. The console version even lacks playable characters that have been available to arcade players for months. Fans will hopefully see an update, but nothing official has been announced.

One interesting prospect raised by presence of Pokkén Tournament at Worlds is the possibility that it will be re-released for the new Nintendo Switch console. With Wii U production officially ended it wouldn’t necessarily make sense to promote a game for a dead console. It seems likely that the title will see a port which may include the features and updates that the Wii U version currently lacks. We’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for news on the matter!

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1,977 thoughts on “Pokkén Tournament Confirmed for World Championships, Switch Version Coming?”

  1. Shout outs to smogon for
    1. Putting Trashroar in NU, like it belongs

    Fuck you to smogon for
    1. Dropping Hawlucha , Hoopa , Mudsdale CRESSELIA, , Minior, and Comfey to NU. Those won’t centralize the Meta at all -_-
    2. For dropping Araquanid back to RU after like two days… seriously… it belongs in UU… stop fucking around

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  2. Just spent like 30 minutes in Pokemon Tower looking for Cubone only to discover you need the silph scope to ID it. Which makes no fucking sense. But okay.

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  3. i bore……i need a new ice or Electric type
    and i want to make a Electric/Grass Sea Anemone

    some kinda bio-electric plant that draws in insects or fish since they are amphibious with its memorizing pulsing colors of its petals and quickly lashing out three electrically charges tendrils that electrocute the prey and quickly snapping its petals closed to consume it

    not much of a physical attacker but immense Special defense

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    • Anenemi
      the Alluring PKM
      Electric/Grass
      Static/Suction Cups HA: Regenerator
      it is a bright pink orange and green flowing anemone pokemon with a cylindrical body with 6 long wide paddle like petals each having a point at the end, it has 4 root like legs that have a split down the middle which creep and spider walk from locations, and it has three long wavy stamen like tendrils with a yellow bulb, its eyes are fairly hard to see but they are very close to the base
      “living either on land or sea it sends out colorful pulses through their petals to memorize and attract prey, as soon as prey is close enough it quickly zaps them with their tentacles and closes its petals to digest them”

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  4. Heyoooo a few things since the weekend started
    -3 New Pokémon Go Pokémon- Lickitung, Slowpoke, and… Porygon!!!
    -Finally caught Lunala and took Sneasel and Togedemaru off for Vikavolt and A. Sandslash
    -The only question I have for this post R. Rockruff or my new Ice/Ground type for Ash?
    -And Finally I got my crushes phone number today!!!!!! 😀

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  5. Hey guys… we have a severe issue
    Hawlucha, yes, the Nacho Libre birb himself, is sitting in the dusty depths of NU because it isn’t being used at all…… it was BL last gen… UU needs their hero back…. You up for helping the Luchaburd get his wings back?

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  6. Making evil team bosses pokemon teams can be hard af sometimes….

    Also, I have the signature mon of each of my three teams bosses made, and two revealed… the last one may be revealed quite soon

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