{"id":136933,"date":"2026-04-23T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-200273"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:30:00","slug":"pokemon-champions-ver-1-0-3-update-is-now-live-here-are-the-full-patch-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/23\/pokemon-champions-ver-1-0-3-update-is-now-live-here-are-the-full-patch-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Ver. 1.0.3 Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b0c46226691\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b0c46226691\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"47b0c46226691\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b0c46226691\/pokemon-champions.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b0c46226691\/pokemon-champions.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, The Pok\u00e9mon Company announced that it was working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/04\/pokemon-champions-bug-squashing-update-is-in-the-works-heres-whats-being-targeted\">bug-squashing update<\/a> to fix up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_champions\">Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/a>&#8216; launch state. Well, surprise! Said patch is now live.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>ver. 1.0.3<\/strong> update launched on Switch yesterday, fixing a handful of issues that were immediately pointed out at Champions&#8217; launch \u2014 though nothing as major as the lacklustre roster or Held Item options, sorry! Many of these fixes were outlined in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.pokemon-home.com\/ja\/page\/758.html\">TPC&#8217;s initial message<\/a> at launch (Leech Seed&#8217;s incorrect description, tutorial Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s wrong gender, etc.), though there are a couple of newbies thrown in too.<\/p>\n<p>The full patch notes were shared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en-americas-support.nintendo.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/71525\/\">Nintendo Support site<\/a>, and we have gathered them together for you to check out below:<\/p>\n<h2>Pok\u00e9mon Champions Ver. 1.0.3 (22nd April 2026)<\/h2>\n<p>The following issues have been fixed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The explanation for Leech Seed is incorrect.<\/li>\n<li>The gender listed for certain Pok\u00e9mon in the tutorial is listed incorrectly.<\/li>\n<li>The player is unable to select a move when they move the cursor over Mega Evolution while viewing move details and then press the B Button.<\/li>\n<li>The Unnerve ability doesn\u2019t work on Pok\u00e9mon with certain abilities, and they are able to eat Berries.<\/li>\n<li>The changes in speed caused by held items are not reflected in the order in which abilities activate.<\/li>\n<li>Certain other issues related to networking and visual appearance during battles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>It&#8217;s a step in the right direction for a game which, at launch, was in a pretty sorry state. &#8220;The convoluted monetisation, disappointing performance, and inexplicable bugs make this another lacklustre Pok\u00e9mon experience to add to the pile,&#8221; we said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/pokemon-champions\">our review<\/a>. Let&#8217;s hope TPC has some more fixes down the line, eh?<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/switch-eshop\/related-articles:199605,199729 @ 1776967199 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be checking out Pok\u00e9mon Champions again, now that this latest update has arrived? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo A couple of weeks ago, The Pok\u00e9mon Company announced that it was working on a bug-squashing update to fix up Pok\u00e9mon Champions&#8216; launch state. Well, surprise! Said patch is now live. The ver. 1.0.3 update launched on Switch yesterday, fixing a handful of issues that were immediately pointed out at Champions&#8217; launch \u2014 [&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-136933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136933","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=136933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}