‘Pokemon Sword And Shield’ Latest News, Update: Saving Grace of Pokemon Tournaments? Make Competitions Less Boring

Although not as popular or a receiver of global acclaim as other e-sports tournaments, there are actually plenty of events that involve Pokemon games. This is where “Pokemon Sword And Shield” could play a major role where the feel of the competition is concerned. Basically, participants would like it if the game offers some changes to the system by making it less stale.

Pokemon tournaments can often be quite slow and stale, Eurogamer notes. This is why it interviewed some competitors and commentators so as to find out what they hope “Pokemon Sword And Shield” will offer. Among the most cogent answers came via European Championships commentator, Markus Stadter who noted how the game can change things up.

"With the next generation [of mainline Pokémon games], they have a look at what happened in the last season and try to switch things up, so for example with the 2013 World Championships in the semi-final, there was a very iconic match where the Japanese player was using Thunder Wave and Swagger to stop the other player's Pokémon from moving... that was pretty frustrating, at the time, because that strategy was pretty strong,” he said.

He then later added, "I definitely want some more tools to play with, obviously. We've played with Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Moon for like three years now I believe, so just to have some new mechanics, some new Pokémon, that can switch things up a bit is always cool. New abilities. Usually they always add new Pokémon, new moves, new items and so on, and for every one of those categories I could give you an example of what I think could be cool, but in general just having more tools.”

Many other competitors and players are of the same mind. Implementing these changes could then make “Pokemon Sword And Shield” the saving grace of the tournament scene. Things should become clearer when the game comes out in November if the leaks are anything to go by.