‘Pokemon Taiwan & Hong Kong announced the ‘Victini Battle’. It will be a sealed battle format Tournament with Raging Surf packs. The tournament prize will be Victini ex SAR & Victini ex SR Promos. Japan has not yet revealed these promos.’
I don’t think all of the Pokemon inside the illustration are playable, but it’s nice that they are featured since they are in the set (well besides Victini itself lol).
Raging Surf released last Friday for JP, and no JP version of SR/SAR Victini ex promo has been announced since
It feels like TPC is attempting to redirect international demand for potentially popular JP promos to international languages instead, along with the opening of a Pokémon Center in Taipei (Taiwan) in December 2023
No. The first Traditional Chinese card released before Japanese was the male prints of Indeedee V.
The card was released in the SC2a set - a set exclusive in Traditional Chinese - on August 21, 2020. The Japanese copy was released as a promo card given out in CL2021, whose first occurrence was on October 3, 2020, a month after SC2a.
As the Japanese copy has a promo number of #059 which was way before the number to be assigned to CL2021 promos (around #135) and the CL2020 stamp albeit given out in CL2021, this card was assumed to be planned for CL2020 release in Japan but was eventually delayed and fall behind Traditional Chinese copies due to remaining CL2020 events being cancelled.
Indonesian copies announced as New Release Battle promos for the upcoming SV3s set.
So now all 3 Southeast Asian regions get this card just like Charizard VMAX SAR.
