It’s wild to think that Beyblade has been around almost as long as Pokemon and is still going strong. The fourth generation of the hit battle top game, Beyblade X, launched in July 2023, and ever since then my childhood love of Beyblade has been reignited. The ridiculously fast and unbelievably powerful Beyblade X beys make battles more exciting than ever before, and over the last year and a half, my social media algorithm has morphed into a steady stream of clips of beys doing things I didn’t think were even physically possible.
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The next generation of Beyblade is taking things to the next level, and I can’t believe these things have never gotten banned.
So far, my passion for Beyblade X has been an entirely passive experience. I haven’t made the leap to actually collecting any or playing competitively. It’s not like I’m ashamed of my love for a children’s toy – I’m TheGamer’s Disney trading card game guy, after all. But it seemed like it might be hard to find a community of adult Beyblade fans to let it rip with… until now.
Get Ready For The Beyblade World Championship
Today, March 21, is Beyblade Day, and Takara Tomy and Hasbro have just announced the 2025 Beyblade World Championship. Competitive Beyblade events ended during the pandemic, so this is the first time in five years that there will be an official World Championship. What’s more, in order to welcome multiple generations of Beyblade fans, there will be one age division for kids and another for adults. The series is set to begin regional tournaments around the world that will culminate in a final championship in Tokyo, October 11-12.
This is the moment I’ve been waiting for, and I can already hear glory calling my name. I know it won’t be easy; I’ve missed out over 20 years of evolution and innovation in the Beyblade scene. There is so much I don’t know, and probably even more that I don’t know that I don’t know, but I’m not going to let that stop me. No one will believe in you if you don’t believe in yourself, so I’m calling my shot: I will be competing at the Beyblade World Championship.
Getting Started With Beyblade X In 2025
When Beyblade’s PR reached out to me with the news, I took the opportunity to ask for advice on how to get started. What do I need to play? What are the meta beys? How do I let it rip with the best of them? They recommended I start with the Xtreme Battle Set and graciously offered to send me one to sample. It arrived the next day, and my professional Beyblade journey officially began.
If, like me, you haven’t played Beyblade since the early ‘00s, Beyblade X is both familiar and very different. For one thing, the blades are made of metal now rather than plastic – that’s a change that came with the second iteration, Metal Fusion, in 2008. The beys are made up of three parts: blades, ratchets, and bits, which can all be swapped out with different parts to customize your bey. The arena also has a different shape, with the largest knockout zones only being on one side, a clear plastic dome over the top, and a rail system that runs around the perimeter.
The signature feature of Beyblade X is X-Celerator Gear System. The bits have teeth that fit into the rail system in the arena, and when the two make contact the bey will be directed to spin around the arena, accelerating as it goes, before shooting into the center with an incredible amount of force. It seems too simple to actually work, but let me tell you from experience: it’s scary how hard these beys can slam into each other thanks to the X-Celerator system.
My first rip immediately made me feel like a kid again, and I’m so excited to explore what Beyblade X has to offer. I’m happy to get in while the iteration is relatively young. The selection of beys is still kind of limited, and three-part builds are not terribly complicated to understand. With the incoming third wave, CX, things are getting more complex with additional components to the blade, so I’m looking forward to learning the ins-and-outs and strategies as this generation continues to get more complex.
Beyblade X also carries over the core mechanic from the previous iteration, Beyblade Burst. The new beys can burst apart if they take a hit just the right way – the most exciting way a battle can end.
The Xtreme Battle Set comes with an attack-type bey, Dagger Dran, and a balance-type, Mammoth Tusk, and just between those two I’m already starting to get a good sense of the strengths and weaknesses of each type, as well as some basic understanding of how they like to be ripped (if you give Dagger Dran some angle on the rip, you’re going to see some fireworks in the arena).
It’s going to be a long road to the world championship, but so far Beyblade X is everything I hoped it would be. The beys and arena are well-built and solid, the designs look great, and the battles are incredibly fun to watch. The fact that they already have some crossovers with Marvel and Transformers is just the icing on the cake (these are the first beys I’ll be adding to my collection). With the upcoming tournament series and a brand new generation, it’s a great time to get into the hobby. Just be ready to meet me in the arena. I’ll be spinning Megatron, and I won’t be holding back.
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