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Even if Champions does become the new hub of VGC starting in 2027 (because it's too fucking soon for it to be used in 2026, regardless of if Champions releases on January 1st), they're still gonna require you to transfer mons that are vital to the metagame from the mainline titles, because they simply won't be available for rental or permanent purchase with VP. It's not good business sense to just make everything available for free, because it tells players they no longer need to care about owning a Switch 2 or any of the Pokemon games, they can literally just waltz in with their mobile device, the Champions app installed on it, and nothing else.
ESPECIALLY because the Switch 2 props up a unique circumstance where the entire Switch 1 library gets another seven years or so of longevity, meaning key players such as Calyrex, Urshifu, the Hisuian Forms, the UBs, Paradoxes, so on and so forth...
ALL of them are still going to require you to transfer them from their native games, to HOME, and then be formally unlocked in Champions. There's no fucking way they're going to let you simply obtain them for VP, for free, and there's likewise no way VGC won't require you to use your Switch (2) per some terms and conditions applied by Nintendo themselves to make sure Pokemon doesn't stray too far from its native platform, even if the parasites at TPC are desperate to turn Pokemon into a mobileslop franchise.
