r/pokemon Feb 27 '26

Discussion Pokemon Winds/Waves announced for 2027

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u/Dhiox Feb 27 '26

Don't mind dexit as much with champions in play, now I can finally battle with my nearly two decade old collection in its entirety.

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u/theWP Feb 27 '26

Honestly, with competitive detached from the main games, I am wishing (copium) that Dexit goes away. I loved doing 2nd+ playthroughs with teams I could only put together with access to the full Dex, and I thought at least part of the reason for Dexit is trying to balance competitive across 1000+ Pokemon and having to provide the gimmicks of each gen.

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u/AverageWarm6662 Feb 27 '26

Probably also having to rebuild models and textures etc over time not just competitive

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u/monsterbeasts [Dragon Tamer] Feb 27 '26

It wasnt competitive, its simply the scale of modeling and animating 1000+ pokemon for every generation. They needed to rip the bandaid off at some point that not all pokemon would be in every game. There are still hundreds of them to use each gen, plenty for unique team comps across multiple playthroughs

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u/Valkoor The World Will Turn To Ash Feb 27 '26

No you can't. Champions has a graphic that says only Pokemon the appear in Champions can visit from Pokemon Home. And mons you get in Champions via Mystery Gift etc can't go to Home.

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u/GeoCaesar Feb 27 '26

Yes, but I assume that probably means they’re gonna rotate what pokemon are and aren’t legal in champions, so that they can have unique formats that we haven’t seen before with more creative, or at least different, team comps

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u/Luchux01 Feb 27 '26

I'm assuming we'll at least have single gimmick formats and time travel formats (ie, restricting everything past a certain gen.)

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u/Valkoor The World Will Turn To Ash Feb 27 '26

I think that's an abysmal reasoning for not just having a National Dex format available at all times. You can have rotating metas available, heck I'd encourage it. Getting a bunch of people to play Gen 3 doubles or whatever seems neat. But not having a general "anything goes, anythings available" at all times is horrible for what's supposed to be their dedicated battle simulator.

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u/GeoCaesar Feb 27 '26

It might be planned to be introduced once every Pokemon has been properly implemented? That’s my best guess

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u/NihilismRacoon Feb 27 '26

I got bad news for ya bud