Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions ’ launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs , some of which cause issues with basic battle mechanics — not great for a game that’s only about battling. But bugs can be fixed, and encouragingly, some of them already have been . Champions ’ bigger problem is that, in trying to be a competitive battling platform for all