Champions: Move 'Mons, Get Mega Stones

A transfer feature that was supposed to let you bring your favorite monsters into Pokémon Champions instead started locking some of them in storage limbo on launch day, and the fix landed almost immediately alongside a new reward path for four Pokémon from Pokémon Legends: Z‑A. (pokemon.com) (thegamer.com) Pokémon Champions is the new battle-only game on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, and The Pokémon Company says it will be the official platform for Pokémon Video Game Championships at the 2026 World Championships in San Francisco. (press.pokemon.com) (pokemon.com) That makes Pokémon HOME the key bridge, because HOME is the cloud box where creatures from different Pokémon games can be parked, moved, and then sent out again like checked luggage between flights. (pokemon.com 1) (pokemon.com 2) The new promotion works only with four specific Pokémon first caught in Pokémon Legends: Z‑A: Chesnaught, Delphox, Greninja, and Eternal Flower Floette. If you store one of those in Pokémon HOME and then bring it into Champions as a visitor, the matching Mega Stone shows up in your in-game mailbox. (pokemon.com 1) (pokemon.com 2) Those stones are the items that switch on Mega Evolution, which is Pokémon’s temporary mid-battle power-up system. In Champions, that matters more than usual because the first ranked ruleset allows Mega Evolution and Champions is now feeding directly into official tournament play. (pokemon.com) (press.pokemon.com) The other half of the update is less flashy but more urgent: players reported transfer errors that left Pokémon marked as “visiting Pokémon Champions” while also failing to arrive there, which blocked trades and blocked moves into other games. (thegamer.com) At the same time, Champions is turning the brand-new Mega forms from Legends: Z‑A into fully competitive pieces with assigned abilities instead of vague preview material. The launch build gives Mega Delphox Levitate, Mega Greninja Protean, Mega Chesnaught Bulletproof, and Mega Floette Fairy Aura. (thegamer.com) That changes how these monsters actually play in a match. Levitate makes Mega Delphox immune to Ground-type attacks, Protean changes Mega Greninja’s type to match the move it just used, Bulletproof blocks many ball- and bomb-like attacks, and Fairy Aura boosts Fairy-type moves used in battle. (thegamer.com) There is one catch to all this moving around: only Pokémon that appear in Champions can visit from HOME, and Pokémon recruited inside Champions cannot be deposited back into HOME. Champions also forces visiting Pokémon to relearn any moves that are not legal in its battle system. (pokemon.com 1) (pokemon.com 2) So the story here is not just “free stones for four fan favorites.” It is that Pokémon’s new competitive hub is now tying together Legends: Z‑A, HOME, ranked play, and the 2026 tournament circuit, and even a one-day transfer bug was serious enough to threaten the whole pitch. (pokemon.com) (press.pokemon.com) (thegamer.com)