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Legends: Z-A and Champions: release dates, platforms and add-ons
Legends: Z-A is the Legends game released on 16 October 2025 and set in Lumiose City in Kalos, with real-time battles and the return of Mega Evolution, sold for Nintendo Switch and as a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. Its paid expansion, Mega Dimension, went on sale the same day and added its story chapter in Hyperspace Lumiose on 10 December 2025. Champions is a separate battle game that launched on Nintendo Switch on 8 April 2026, runs on Switch 2 with a free update, is also sold for iOS and Android, and links to Pokémon HOME.
Legends: Z-A, its Mega Dimension expansion and Champions: dates, platforms and links. Read on official pages 8 Nov 2026.
Legends: Z-A is set in one city and brings back Mega Evolution
Legends: Z-A went on sale on 16 October 2025. The whole game takes place in Lumiose City, the largest city of Kalos, during a redevelopment plan led by Quasartico Inc. that aims to make the city a shared home for people and Pokémon. Battles run in real time with no turns: the player and the Pokémon move at once, moves are commanded directly, and the player can roll to dodge. Each move has its own execution time and area of effect. The starters are Chikorita, Tepig and Totodile. Wild Pokémon live in Wild Zones across the city, some of them alphas. At night the Z-A Royale opens battle zones where trainers climb from Rank Z to Rank A. Mega Evolution returns through a Key Stone and Mega Stones, and defeating rogue Mega-Evolved Pokémon earns more stones.
Mega Dimension is the Legends: Z-A expansion
Mega Dimension is paid downloadable content for Legends: Z-A and needs the base game, either the Switch version or the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. It went on sale on 16 October 2025 with apparel items, and its story chapter arrived on 10 December 2025. In that chapter Hoopa opens portals into Hyperspace Lumiose, a version of the city with Pokémon not found in its ordinary streets, and the expansion adds Mega Evolutions such as Mega Raichu X and Y, Mega Chimecho and Mega Baxcalibur. A Switch owner moving to Switch 2 can buy the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrade pack, which improves resolution and frame rate, in place of a second copy. A bundle of the Switch 2 Edition and Mega Dimension on one game card went on sale on 29 October 2026. The PokéAPI cache lists Mega Dimension as its own version group, mega-dimension, with no move data yet.
Champions is a battle game linked to Pokémon HOME
Champions was revealed at the Pokémon Presents of 27 February 2025 for the Nintendo Switch family and mobile devices. It launched on Nintendo Switch on 8 April 2026, with a free update that enhances it on Switch 2, and the official site now sells it on the App Store and Google Play too, with battles across phones and Switch systems. It links to Pokémon HOME, so some Pokémon from earlier games can be brought in, but only species that appear in Champions. The Pokémon Company named it the primary platform for the Video Game Championships at official premier events, starting with the Indianapolis Regional Championships of 29 to 31 May 2026. In February 2026 it also announced that Legends: Z-A would link to Pokémon HOME later that year, so Pokémon caught there can reach Champions.
The data pages follow once the games are in the cache
The PokéAPI cache of 7 Nov 2026 holds the three version groups, legends-za, mega-dimension and champions, all under Generation IX, with no move-learn methods. Learnsets for these games will appear in the move finder and on species sheets when the upstream data arrives. Until then the type chart for Generation IX applies to Champions, and Legends: Z-A uses its own real-time battle rules. In that cache, move data stops at Sword and Shield: Scarlet, Violet and every later game have version groups but no learn methods yet. The move finder lists only games with data.
5 checks before you act
- Choose the Switch version or the Switch 2 Edition of Legends: Z-A to match the console
- Decide whether Mega Dimension is wanted before buying, since a one-card bundle exists
- Pick Chikorita, Tepig or Totodile
- Link Pokémon HOME before moving any Pokémon toward Champions
- Install the free Switch 2 update for Champions on a Switch 2 console
Read next
Sources read for this page
- ReadNintendo UK: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Nintendo Switch 2 Editionread 8 Nov 2026
- ReadOfficial Legends: Z-A websiteread 8 Nov 2026
- ReadLegends: Z-A version-group metadataread 7 Nov 2026
- ReadNintendo Store: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimension DLCread 8 Nov 2026
- ReadOfficial Legends: Z-A website: Mega Dimension trailerread 8 Nov 2026
- ReadNintendo Store: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Packread 8 Nov 2026
- ReadMega Dimension version-group metadataread 7 Nov 2026
- ReadThe Pokémon Company press release: Pokémon Expands Entertainment Offerings with New Ways to Play in the Pokémon Legends: Z-A Video Game and the Reveal of Pokémon Champions (27 February 2025)read 8 Nov 2026
- ReadThe Pokémon Company press release: Pokémon Champions Launches April 8 on Nintendo Switch (24 March 2026)read 8 Nov 2026
- ReadOfficial Champions websiteread 8 Nov 2026
- ReadThe Pokémon Company press release: Pokémon Continues 30th Celebrations with the Unveiling of Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves (27 February 2026)read 8 Nov 2026
- ReadChampions version-group metadataread 7 Nov 2026