If you had vivid fantasies about using your Pikachu, or your Chansey, Porygon2, or Dusclops in Pokémon Champions, The Pokémon Company just dashed them today with the news that not every Pokémon would be available in Pokémon Champions at launch, with the game specifically excluding any monster that's not considered a "final evolution." And that... kinda sounds like they mean Pikachu, too? This comes from producer Masaaki Hoshino speaking to a roundtable of journalists, as reported by HypeBeast . In the roundtable, Hoshino said, "At launch, only final evolutions will be available... After we introduce a lot of the final evolutions, we might consider earlier evolutions as well. For now, this approach is more accessible for new players." Hoshino's reasoning makes some sense, as new players might roll up into challenging battles using unevolved Pokémon without realizing how much of a disadvantage they are at. At the same time, this actually takes away a meani...