Pokemon Champions Giving Away Free Reward for Limited Time

By Andrea Trama Published Jun 25, 2026, 12:48 PM EDT Andrea is an editor at GameRant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy. Her passion for games was combined with work when she came across GameRant in 2021, so she started her career in video game writing. Andrea loves games where she's tasked with thinking strategically. She has an obscene amount of hours in Path of Exile (almost 8,000 on Steam), over 2,000 hours in Destiny 2, probably around 10,000 hours in Pokemon games, which she always completes the Pokedex of and tries to fill the shiny Pokedex too, 100% completion in multiple RPGs of various kinds, like Borderlands 2 and 3, Oblivion (and Oblivion Remastered), she plays MMOs religiously (especially World of Warcraft), and she has a vast experience in playing and building decks for Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon TCG Pocket, and Disney Lorcana. Andrea has extensive professional experience as a translator and ghostwriter. She has a BA in Psychology from 2015, a Master's Degree in Communication & Translation from 2016, and a Master's Degree in Copywriting & Advertising from 2019. One of Andrea's favorite articles for GameRant is about Pokemon Violet probably outselling Pokemon Scarlet , which is what happened. One of the articles she's most proud of is about The Last of Us 2's Ellie and the game's perpetual cycle of revenge . Sign in to your GameRant account Add Us On follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Pokemon Champions is giving away a free gift for players to claim to celebrate the game hitting over 10 million downloads, but there's a deadline attached. Pokemon Champions came out at the start of April 2026, and it was met with lukewarm reviews due to the severely shrunk Pokedex and item pool compared to the main VGC hub of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet . The game has since replaced Pokemon Scarlet and Violet as a competitive-focused game, and it has already hosted multiple tournaments, including Regionals and NAIC 2026.