{"id":137428,"date":"2026-06-03T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-202007"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:45:00","slug":"pokemon-champions-launches-on-mobile-this-month-with-a-special-distribution-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/pokemon-champions-launches-on-mobile-this-month-with-a-special-distribution-to-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Launches On Mobile This Month, With A Special Distribution To Celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1e8fe51948b5e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1e8fe51948b5e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"1e8fe51948b5e\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Raichu\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1e8fe51948b5e\/pokemon-champions-raichu.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1e8fe51948b5e\/pokemon-champions-raichu.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Raichu\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_champions\">Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/a> has been out on Switch for a couple of months now, and in the coming weeks, it&#8217;ll launch on mobile too.<\/p>\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemon.com\/uk\/pokemon-news\/pokemon-champions-comes-to-android-and-ios-on-june-17\">announced<\/a> that the battle-focused game will arrive on iOS and Android on <strong>17th June<\/strong>, with pre-registrations going live today. Cross-save support is available in this one, for those who have been putting in the hours on Switch, so don&#8217;t worry about losing your precious &#8216;mon.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, all those who log into the game from its mobile launch day until <strong>2nd September<\/strong> will be rewarded with a Raichu and its two Megastones. You&#8217;ll find the Electric Type and its accompanying Raichunite X and Y stones in your in-game mailbox, after your first log-in during the event period.<\/p>\n<p>For those wondering about these Mega &#8216;mon&#8217;s abilities, Mega Raichu X comes with Electric Surge, while Mega Raichu Y carries the No Guard ability.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols cols-2\">\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Raichu\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/123f094d488f0\/pokemon-champions-raichu.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/123f094d488f0\/pokemon-champions-raichu.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Raichu\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Raichu\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f83ae5f171b27\/pokemon-champions-raichu.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f83ae5f171b27\/pokemon-champions-raichu.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Champions Raichu\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be good to see the game reach a larger audience after TPC has had some time to work on it. Champions launched in a less-than-perfect state on Switch back in April, with us calling out its &#8220;convoluted monetisation, disappointing performance, and inexplicable bugs&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/pokemon-champions\">our 5\/10 review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/pokemon\/related-articles:199605,201560 @ 1780508986 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be checking out Pok\u00e9mon Champions on mobile in the coming weeks? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Pok\u00e9mon Champions has been out on Switch for a couple of months now, and in the coming weeks, it&#8217;ll launch on mobile too. The Pok\u00e9mon Company has announced that the battle-focused game will arrive on iOS and Android on 17th June, with pre-registrations going live today. Cross-save support is available in this one, [&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-137428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137428","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=137428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}