{"id":742,"date":"2025-07-16T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:14:05","slug":"i-still-love-this-pokemon-spin-off-game-ten-years-later-so-wheres-a-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/i-still-love-this-pokemon-spin-off-game-ten-years-later-so-wheres-a-new-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I still love this Pok\u00e9mon spin-off game ten years later, so where&#039;s a new one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong>. The franchise is part of why I love games so much. I grew up as a trainer, being around since the very first generation; I still have boxed copies of Pok\u00e9mon Blue and Yellow, not to mention the entries for the other generations. However, beyond the mainline games, I also have a fondness for the spin-offs, particularly <strong>Pokk\u00e9n Tournament<\/strong>, which happens to be ten years old today.<\/p>\n<p>While many may claim the Ranger series to be the best spin-off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/best-pokemon-games\">Pok\u00e9mon games<\/a>, Pokk\u00e9n Tournament is my hill, and I\u2019ll defend it like Ash defends Pikachu. In case you\u2019re new to it, Pokk\u00e9n is a Pok\u00e9mon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/best-switch-fighting-games\">fighting game<\/a> &#8211; it is literally Tekken with a Pok\u00e9mon skin, and that\u2019s more than okay with me. Who needs Jin when you can kick some butt with Pkachu or fan-favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/gen-3-pokemon\">gen 3 Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> Gardevoir?<\/p>\n<p>Originally, Pokk\u00e9n is an arcade game, first appearing in Japanese arcades in July 2015, with a worldwide release on the Wii U in 2016, and a launch on the Switch in 2017. However, the NS version has a slightly different name, Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX. Still, the premise remains the same: pick your Pok\u00e9mon and go to town on your opponent.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon\/pokken-tournament-anniversary\">I still love this Pok\u00e9mon spin-off game ten years later, so where&#039;s a new one?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokedex-all-pokemon\">Pok\u00e9dex &#8211; all Pok\u00e9mon listed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-go\/codes\">Pok\u00e9mon Go codes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-go\/eevee-evolution\">Pok\u00e9mon Go Eevee evolutions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Pok\u00e9mon. The franchise is part of why I love games so much. I grew up as a trainer, being around since the very first generation; I still have boxed copies of Pok\u00e9mon Blue and Yellow, not to mention the entries for the other generations. However, beyond the mainline games, I also have a fondness for the spin-offs, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}