{"id":136286,"date":"2026-03-03T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-198173"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:55:00","slug":"pokemon-scarlet-violet-announces-final-ranked-battle-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-announces-final-ranked-battle-season\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffPok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Announces Final Ranked Battle Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f16b7a4848b6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f16b7a4848b6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"8f16b7a4848b6\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f16b7a4848b6\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f16b7a4848b6\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"518\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following last week&#8217;s reveal of the next major Pok\u00e9mon game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/pokemon-winds-and-waves\">Pok\u00e9mon Winds &amp; Waves<\/a> (and a release window for the battle title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/pokemon-champions\">Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/a>), The Pok\u00e9mon Company has officially announced it will be winding down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>&#8216;s seasonal Ranked Battle content.<\/p>\n<p>The final season for the Switch game &#8220;Season 41&#8221; will officially kick off on <strong>1st April 2026<\/strong>. After this goes live, Ranked Battles will no longer receive updates. This season will run until the game&#8217;s servers are taken offline, and there will be no monthly rankings or rewards for rankings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"24538e7216333\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24538e7216333\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24538e7216333\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This announcement follows the recent conclusion of Season 39 and the start of Season 40. Trainers can now collect rewards for Season 39. As for Season 40, it runs from now until 31st March 2026. You can see the full ruleset for this season on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serebii.net\/scarletviolet\/rankedbattle\/season40.shtml\">Serebii.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already tried out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a> on the Switch 2, these titles received a free upgrade last June.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:183189,198072,197378,198079 @ 1772528779 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Did you participate in Scarlet &amp; Violet&#8217;s Ranked Battles? How do you feel about Season 41 being the final season. <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company Following last week&#8217;s reveal of the next major Pok\u00e9mon game Pok\u00e9mon Winds &amp; Waves (and a release window for the battle title Pok\u00e9mon Champions), The Pok\u00e9mon Company has officially announced it will be winding down Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet&#8216;s seasonal Ranked Battle content. The final season for the Switch game &#8220;Season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}