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This option costs Victory Points (VP), the game’s currency, to utilize, with the demonstrated recruitment in the trailer costing 1,000 VP. Pokémon can also be trained in Champions by using VP.

On the Play Store page, developer Dan DiIorio notes, “This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.” And it doesn’t. But for Google, that didn’t matter.