Everything Announced at the 2025 Pokémon World Championships

The 2025 Pokémon World Championships conscionable concluded, and arsenic is tradition, the closing ceremonies featured caller announcements amusive for Pokémon fans of each kinds, presented by Tzunekazu Ishihara, President and CEO of The Pokémon Company. Here’s a round-up of each the important Pokémon announcements revealed astatine the World Championships you don’t privation to miss, including the instauration of a caller instrumentality lawsuit called PokémonXP, and overmuch more.

Pokémon Champions Coming to the 2026 Pokémon World Championships

The yet-to-be-released Pokémon Champions, coming to mobile and Nintendo Switch successful 2026, volition beryllium the crippled utilized successful the authoritative Championship Series video crippled format successful 2026 and beyond. Read much astir however Pokémon Champions volition beryllium replacing Pokémon Scarlet and Violet successful the authoritative format here.

Empoleon, Dhelmise, and Vaporeon Joining the Pokémon Unite Roster

Empoleon volition beryllium coming to Pokémon Unite arsenic a playable quality connected September 19, portion Dhelmise and Vaporeon are “coming soon.” No connection connected what roles the 3 caller Pokémon volition be.

Starting connected September 4, Groudon volition beryllium taking implicit for Rayquaza astatine the Theia Sky Ruins successful the last two-minute agelong of the game. Defeating Groudon volition springiness you a “massive Attack boost and goal-scoring velocity increase.” But if the opposing squad knocks you out, they'll bargain the buff from you!

Mega Evolution Coming to Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket

A caller play is coming to Pokémon TCG Pocket this fall, and with it, the debut of Mega Pokémon, including Mega Altaria, Mega Gyarados, Mega Blaziken and much Mega Evolution Pokémon ex.

Legendary Pokémon Eternatus Makes its Global Pokémon GO Debut

Eternamax Eternatus began appearing successful the Anaheim, CA close aft the Pokémon World Championships concluded, but that won’t beryllium the lone accidental for GO players to get their hands connected this uncommon Pokémon. The Pokémon GO: Dark Skies lawsuit volition instrumentality spot from August 18-23, 2025, with the Max Finale taking spot betwixt August 23-25, 2025. During the unticketed event, which tin beryllium joined from anyplace successful the satellite with the escaped GO Pass: Max Finale, players volition beryllium capable to drawback each Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon that has appeared truthful far, positive Eternatus.

Mega Charizard X and More Returning to Pokémon TCG

We got a sneak peek of immoderate caller cards featuring Mega Evolution Pokémon and chill full-art cards during the closing ceremonies, including for Mega Charizard X ex, Mega Gardevoir ex, and Mega Lucario ex. Though not a “mega” itself, Oricorio ex was besides revealed, which has a unsocial Ability called Excited Turb: As often arsenic you similar during your turn, if you person immoderate Fire-type Mega Evolution Pokémon ex successful play, you whitethorn usage this Ability. Attach a Basic Fire-type Energy paper from your manus to 1 of your benched Fire-type Pokémon.”

We besides got a look astatine a new, adorable Mega Dragonite ex card, but not the full-art mentation conscionable yet! Its Ability Sky Transport volition let you to power your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

4-Player Ranked Battles Coming to Pokémon Legends: Z-A

The latest trailer shown durin the Pokémon World Championship closing ceremonies featured a breakdown of Z-A Battle Club’s four-player Ranked Battles. We saw successful the trailer 4 trainers battling astatine once, being capable to instrumentality down aggregate Pokémon astatine erstwhile with powerful, well-timed AOE attacks–like Draco Meteor. The extremity is to get the astir knockouts you tin earlier the three-minute timer is up, and don’t worry, you tin rejoin aft 1 of your Pokémon faints! These real-time Link Battles! tin beryllium played locally oregon online against different players.

PokémonXP, a New Pokémon Fan Experience, Coming to San Francisco

We already knew the 2026 Pokémon World Championships were coming to San Francisco, but truthful is PokémonXP, a caller “event that celebrates each things Pokémon” with “a scope of Pokémon-centric festivities.” It volition instrumentality spot August 28-30, 2026, overlapping with the 2026 Pokémon World Championships, astatine the Moscone Center successful downtown San Francisco. Passes volition spell connected merchantability September 17, 2025 and commencement astatine $120 USD for a multi-day walk for adults and $70 USD for younker nether 18. Passes see 2 Pokémon Trading Card Game booster packs, a PokémonXP collectible pin, and a lanyard.

There are 2 antithetic multi-day passes. The regular one, and multi-day + arena pass, which includes mean entree to the PokémonXP event, positive entree to the arena connected Championship Sunday.

2026 Championship Sunday Taking Place astatine Chase Center successful San Francisco

This year, The Pokémon World Championships hosted Championship Sunday successful an arena for the archetypal time, and successful 2026, they’re upscaling it adjacent more, bringing Championship Sunday to the monolithic Chase Center, which has a seating capableness of 18,064 (at least, for hoops games.) Compare that to the Anaheim Convention Center Arena, with a capableness of 7,500. Which, I heard, was filled to capableness this year!

IGN was astatine the Pokémon World Championships successful Anaheim this year, wherever we watched 2025 Pokemon World VGC Champion Kevin Han marque history, and played a first-ever demo of Pokemon Legends: Z-A.

Casey DeFreitas is simply a lawman exertion connected the guides squad astatine IGN and this twelvemonth is the 2nd clip she's covered the Pokémon World Championships successful Anaheim, CA. Catch her connected socials @ShinyCaseyD.