Pokémon Champions limits you to three team slots by default, and the only official way to expand that is a membership costing $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. That subscription doesn't even include the battle pass. For players experimenting with Trick Room, Sun Charizard, Rain teams, or splitting time between singles and doubles, three slots runs out fast.
Here's the good news: the community already found a workaround on Reddit, and it works right now.
What is the Replica Teams trick?
Pokémon Champions lets players generate shareable rental codes for their lineups. These Replica Teams are normally meant for sharing builds with other players, but as Reddit user u/FromsoftwareNPC pointed out in the r/PokemonChampions subreddit, you can generate codes for your own teams, save those codes yourself, and use them to restore any lineup whenever you want. That effectively gives you up to 10 saved team configurations without spending a dollar.
The key detail: if you haven't changed the mon since you generated the code, restoring the team costs zero Victory Points. You only pay VP when Pokémon need retraining to match the saved set.
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Screenshot every Team ID immediately after generating it. Losing a code means losing access to that saved lineup until you rebuild it manually.
Replica Teams menu in Champions
How to generate a rental code for your team
Follow these steps inside the game to save a lineup as a shareable Replica Team:
- Open the Train menu from the main menu and select Replica Teams.
- Tap Share your Battle Teams.
- Choose an empty slot, or replace a team you no longer need.
- Select one of your Battle Teams from your inventory and choose Select this team.
- Review the team preview, then confirm Yes to share it.
- Your Team ID will appear on screen. Screenshot it or write it down immediately.
Repeat this process for each lineup you want to archive. The game supports up to 10 saved Replica Teams at once, according to the source.
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You cannot replicate any Pokémon you don't currently own. If you've transferred or released a mon from your box, you'll need to reacquire it before the replica can be fully trained.
Save your Team ID code here
How to restore a saved team using a Team ID
Once you have a Team ID saved, loading that lineup back into one of your active slots takes about a minute:
- Open the Train menu and select Replica Teams.
- Choose Build Teams using Team IDs.
- Select which active team slot you want to overwrite.
- Enter the Team ID for the lineup you want to restore.
- Confirm the team preview is correct, then press Yes.
- The game will show which Pokémon need training to match the saved set.
- Use the Plus (+) button to queue up any required training.
- Review the Victory Points cost and confirm to proceed.
If nothing has changed on those mon since you generated the code, the VP cost will be zero and the team loads instantly.
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This trick works for both singles and doubles lineups. Players juggling VGC double formats like Trick Room alongside singles ranked queues will get the most value from keeping 4 to 6 saved codes on hand.
Why three default slots isn't enough
Pokémon Champions only launched a few days ago as of mid-April 2026, and players are already running into the slot ceiling. The VGC double format alone rewards having multiple prepared archetypes ready. Trick Room plays differently from Rain, and both play differently from a Sun Charizard build. Swapping between ranked singles and doubles adds even more lineup pressure.
The game does grant a small number of additional box slots as players level up, but team slots specifically stay locked at three without a membership. The rental code workaround isn't a perfect fix, since loading a team still takes a few taps, but it beats deleting builds you spent Victory Points assembling.
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