FAQ
Everything you need to know about Pokémon Champions and StrataDex. Short, direct, no fluff.
Pokémon Champions is a battle-first Pokémon game built entirely around competitive play. No story, no exploration — just types, abilities, moves, and matchups. It's the competitive scene stepping out of the mainline games into its own ring.
Yes — it launched in April 2026. The meta is still settling, which is honestly the best time to get involved. Everyone is figuring it out together.
Nintendo Switch at launch, with mobile support coming later. As the player base spreads across platforms, having a single place to look up legal Pokémon, builds, and meta info matters more than ever.
Yes — free to start. You can download it, open it, and battle without paying. Paid content unlocks extras, but the core competitive game is accessible to everyone.
Close but not identical. VGC is the competitive format and the official tournament circuit. Pokémon Champions is the game where those battles now take place. If you already follow VGC, Champions is the new venue — same sport, new stadium.
Only a curated roster is legal, and the list shifts over time. That's exactly why StrataDex keeps a clean, always-up-to-date legal Pokédex you can filter, sort, and build from.
The "meta" is the set of Pokémon, items, and strategies that are actually winning right now. Learning it is the fastest path from "losing to randoms" to "actually competitive." Our tier list is built from live tournament data, refreshed every 24 hours.
Because going first usually means going home with the win. If you don't know what outspeeds what, you're losing games you should've won. StrataDex has a dedicated Speed Tiers tool for exactly this.
A clear win condition. Real matchup coverage. Proper speed control. Roles that compress well. And six Pokémon that genuinely support each other — not six individually strong picks piled together hoping for the best.
Six strong Pokémon with zero synergy. Ignoring speed control. Wrong items. Overlapping roles. Skipping matchup prep. Most of these are easy to spot once someone points them out — which is half of what StrataDex is built to do.
StrataDex is a competitive Pokémon Champions hub — team builder, live meta data, legal Pokédex, speed tiers, core finder, guides, and Deep Dive+ team analysis. Built to help you get competitive faster without grinding through scattered forum posts.
Browse the legal roster, build and save teams, study speed tiers and cores, track the live meta, share teams with a link, and run Deep Dive+ analysis on your team to find what's broken before a tournament does.
Most Pokémon sites are general-purpose databases. StrataDex is built specifically for Pokémon Champions: legal-only roster, live tournament data, focused guides, and team analysis that tells you what to change — not just what exists.
Battling teaches you what doesn't work by losing. StrataDex helps you skip a lot of those losses by catching problems before you queue up — bad items, overlapping roles, missed speed benchmarks, and teams with no clear win condition.
Yes. Most of StrataDex is free forever: the tier list, team builder, Pokédex, speed tiers, cores, guides, and a free Deep Dive+ trial. Paid plans unlock 40 or unlimited analyses per month and advanced features.
No — you can browse most things without one. An account lets you save teams, run Deep Dives, keep a journal of your progress, and use premium features.
The Team Builder lets you assemble a team and immediately see how it holds up — type coverage, speed tiers, role balance, and where it lines up against the current meta.
Deep Dive+ is StrataDex's full-team analysis. Paste in a team and it returns an archetype read, synergy scoring, matchup coverage, concrete move/item/EV suggestions, and lead recommendations — in about 30 seconds.
Yes. Save teams to your account for yourself, or generate a shareable link to send to friends, post in Discord, or drop on Twitter. Great for team reviews and collaborative testing.
Depends on what you want. If scattered free info works for you, free resources are fine. If you want one focused tool for Pokémon Champions team building — with live meta data, legal roster, speed tiers, cores, guides, and serious team analysis — the paid tier pays for itself fast.
See a real team breakdown on our Deep Dive+ page, or contact us and we'll get back to you within 24–48 hours.