Thread 58117675

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKO7DWheOas

Opening ceremony starting

First for Italy

the promo graphic has the wheel on the wrong side of the car.

My condolences to everyone in Anaheim, soulless city in a soulless state

>>58117694
Shame it's the 50's anymore.

Who the fuck is performing. Dj Khalid?

Cringe rap

>>58117702
we need to go back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4

Who’s got vgc pairings?

What's the reason for the Team Rocket merch?
They haven't been relevant to the games for decades, not even the anime.

Based host lady getting in on the singing. Love how she commits every year to cosplaying.

Sorairo Days

>>58117723
boomers fucking love team rocket merch

>>58117726
the only thing I remember her for is going barefoot on stream

>>58117719
https://www.pokedata.ovh/standingsVGC/0000150/masters/
Best I can provide you with. Sorry.

>>58117733
She did Misty and Lorelie last year.

>>58117723
They had a TCG set a few months ago

>>58117736
That’s good enough for now

>>58117742
Actually you can see their opponents if you click the name.
Not perfect, but if you have someone specific in mind then you'll know who they're playing.

>>58117719
https://rk9.gg/pairings/WCS02wcZg4VXtaqyIk5L

>>58117759
Thank you :)

>>58117694
Yeah why did they choose Anaheim? Is it a cheap to use arena or something? I can't imagine like it has amazing tourism.

I'm rooting for the "italian"

>>58117781
>skiploom
Good taste

>>58117785
the entire line is top tier taste
>>58117788
guy looks cheeky

>>58117781
SAAR DO NOT REDEEM THE PASTA BLOODY STRONZO

Behold the douchebag, in its natural habitat

Is the Girafirage guy back?

>so many Italians holding skiploom
what's going on

>>58117795
Is he bringing Koraidon again?
The dude has tried to make it work all year. If so, he gets eliminated day 1.

>>58117779
It’s built for tourism. It’s filled with convention halls and hotels and disneyland is there. From a logistics standpoint it’s great, but it is the epitome of the corporate clean, dry, and life-sucking concrete landscape that covers southern california

Kelsch is such a fucking sperg, but the guy can play.
Super german autism bottled into a guy who never leaves his parent's house.

>>58117809
This year for sure he and the giraffe will win

>>58117807
Yeah but I bet it's not fun conventions but like business analytics conventions everywhere.

>>58117818
Yeah, no one but illegals are cruising in a hot rod and they aren't wearing their mexican varsity jackets because they've got blood all over them back home.

>>58117818
There’s both. Been to two anime cons there. I assume it’s cheap for smaller conventions if there’s an opening. I just hate everything south of san francisco + sacramento. As someone who lives north of california, i don’t understand why someone would stay there aside from work.

Natalie Millar is a tranny who got caught cheating at local events lmao

Here we go.
Bikes and horses.

>>58117833
cavalry meta
lol

This looks miles better on Switch 2

>>58117848
Are the games running on it?

>>58117871
Yeah, the spectator is.

Damn Paul didn't even bring Miraidon

Paul good

>>58117873
that's not the spectator mode on stream

Horse damage is stupid

>>58117956
I almost hate it enough to make a mono normal team

>>58117956
Yeah, Calyrex needs 1 of 2 nerfs.
They either must hold the Reins of Unity, which just makes sense, OR Astral Barrage and Glacial Lance need the Origin Pulse/Precipice Blades treatment where they get 85% accuracy.
The Calyrexs are on the extreme ends of the speed tiers, which makes them basically free as far as team building.
Then you have the Miraidon problem, it's a nuke in a way that Koraidon only wishes it could be. Do you nerf Haidron Engine and not Orichalum Pulse?
Koraidon is without question the lesser of the two bikes.

Notice how much of a tera hog Koraidon is?
After the first game Calyrex Ice wasn't even brought and that's because there's no tera available for it to avoid astral barrage AND Koraidon has the clear amulet that Caly I desperately needed.
There's negative synergy between the 2 and the protosynthesis pokemon were too prolific on that team too.

Look through the round 1 results if you like.
Kelsch won his round 1. Wolfe won his. Baek won his.

WGC really needs to have more than 1 battle an hour, this is brutal. It's like this year after year and you'd expect them to figure it out by now.

Oof

>>58118071
We really need some kind of service where all matches are at least recorded.
The wait between swiss really sucks.

>>58118071
Not just that, they're dragging out interviews to hell to eat up valuable watch time too.

>>58118071
They never improve.

>>58118071
Victory road has a side stream

Kelch time bby

>>58118112
the chad sitting pose

DO NOT REDEEM THE POKEMON

JUST GET ON WITH IT. JESUS.

didn't know Marco makes street food in India

Any one running unusual restricteds this year?
Everything I see is normal.
>ie Bikes, Horses, Wolves, Lunala, Kyogre

Zam + horse vs zam + horse

>>58118152
The worst possible match to watch, it's the best pairing.
Truly we are cursed.

Why is Kelsch throwing so badly?

>>58118198
Too deep in the sauce.
Mirror matches also just suck because the extreme plays that he's covering for aren't going to happen.

MICHAEL DO NOT REEDEEM THE WIDE GUARD

That was painful...

The AV Pao did absolutely nothing

>>58118221
b-but the ruination kino...

>>58118213
Playing way too aggressive.
You'll also note that there was basically no support otherwise, no form of speed control, no form of screens, some redirection, very aggressive teams.
I don't actually anticipate a ZentaRider actually winning, but it could be.

>Casters trying to say "this regulation sucks" without saying it sucks

Kek

>>58118221
>My defensive build on a pokemon with sub 90 defenses and 6 weaknesses didn't work!

God hes so fucking full of himself. It's hilarious. Is he playing a character or is this the actual guy?

>>58118267
hes not as creepy and greasy as the other ones

>>58118279
He is, just in a different way.

>>58118390
He gives off groomer energy

Any favorites winning/losing I should care about?

>>58118435
Azul going 0-2 on TCG lol

>>58118443
Oh I only meant in VGC.

>>58118443
oh didnt know hes competing

>>58118394
Thats just Italians

Wolfe got shook in his round 2 match, lost both.
Baek remains undefeated.

>>58118516
he won round three tho

bruh asian qt

That Amoonguss name

Good stand off in the end.

>>58117694
Fuck you bitch, California is PEAK SOUL

Koraidonbros...

Shohei Kimura dropped out in round 4 after 3 consecutive losses

>>58118145
ho-oh

>>58119145
>tfw you peaked 10 years ago
I know that feel

>>58117675 (OP)
Verlisify in the chat of the YouTube stream seething at people having fun.

How many more rounds are being played today and tomorrow before top cut?

>>58118064
Ross is disgustingly autistic when they interview him but my guy is a legit genius level player. I'm rooting for him simply because he's ugly.

>>58119199
He has a PhD in physics

Holy shit these fancy graphics for TCG are so much better than the set they had the last couple of years. It was only used intermittently during the year though so I wonder if it's here to stay.

>>58119145
Did he lose?

>>58119153
Which is funny because his record is 0-4 at a single regional and *checks notes** he claims he won at card shops? I know worlds eats him up because it's hard to reconcile "being the best" when you're not remotely close to qualifying for any vgc events purely from a skill level standpoint

Baekbros let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This year will be it, I feel it in my bones

This worlds is fucking brutal though all those super duper top could win worlds if things lined up right fucking out already just like that some of them full of straight loses Jesus Christ.
Guess that's what happens with this new CP format. Absolute bloodbath.

>>58119224
Yeah he's doing pretty good glad for him i watch his videos whenever i see a gen 4 pokemon on his team

>>58118064
cute plushie

>>58119224
I'm legally required to support Baek at every event he does because he's the best player I've ever beaten in a tournament set and it makes me look better by proxy (also his youtube content is very good)

The ravages of time

>Marco Silva is out
Pastasaars...
>>58119251
>>58119268
As a NB oldfag, I'm also obligated to support him. He's always been rather chill, and unlike others, he keeps trudging on ever so close yet so far, and has never been truly washed or been a bum, so I really want him to finally take it hime.
His channel is top-tier too and truly deserves way more attention.

The stream setup running on the Switch 2 is so nice now compared to how much the game struggled in double battle on the Switch 1.

>Eric Rios and Alex Gomez are both out
Nice.
Fuck those spaniard faggots.

>>58119286
Now instead we notice how fucking ugly the game is kek
Embarrassment one way or the other.

>Yuta Ishigaki is out
Yes, get fucked you dumb chink.
You failed my wife with your retarded turn 1 overprediction.

Marco Silva dropped out - 3-3-0

>>58119286
Is every competitor playing on the Switch 2?

Wolfie status?

>>58119327

Just about still in at 4-2-0

>>58119216
Oh man, I remember that. Verlisify exposed himself so hard. Verlisify is the epitome of a scrub.

>>58119327
One loss and he's out. Though I'm not sure how many he needs to win.

>>58119343
I think Wolfe nedds two more wins, even then he still probably wouldn't make it to Day 2.

Yikes, actual tranny commentator on TCG.

>>58119365
Well that sucks

Of course they're showing Wolfe's win and in game

/our guy/ on stream

>>58119153
He's actually based

Go Go Marcus!

>>58117675 (OP)
C'mon Marcus WHOOP HIS ASS

>>58119604
he's so fucked

What the fuck were those 3 turns holy shit they just let each other swing at their mons with no issue each time
what kind of mind games are these

That’s the world champ difference, BAYBEE

Bear stronk

lol EQ wins now GG Wolfe

Wolfe won :(

Aren't your chances higher if you go for final gambit?

APOLOGIZE

Wolfe won :)

>>58119654
if he went for final gambit he won if luna protected, but he predicted the EQ

>>58119654
He choked

I NEVER DOUBTED HIM

Wolfe aura farm

I thought Wolfe's team was kinda janky, but I guess that's just the world champ difference.

>>58119669
"Yes Verlisify, I can read your thoughts."

>>58119669
he's looking chunky

>>58119677
this is a standard Koraidon Lunala but that duo is considered outdated

I didn't miss any give aways right, it was just the Farigiraf today?

>>58119687
Yeah, the other event is Toedscool which is only available in person.

>>58119682
post bmi

The Cheating mon-hacker DogDick wins again

Wolfe has a girlfriend? I thought he was gay for Markus (German)

>>58119696
anon i hate to break it to you....everyone playing in tournaments is using injected pokemon

>>58119696
>verlis cant stop thinking about dog dick again

>>58119703
actually no. I went to a couple of events and I got all my mons legit. most people use other people to get the mons for them.

>>58119702
what happened to markus anyway

Why did Marcus tera fire this calyrex turn two? was he overthinking and thought it was to obvious and thought Wolfe would blitz the ape slot? you still cant risk your restricted like that.

>>58119708
how many tournaments have you won, anon?
you don't have to answer. :-)

>>58119708
And where do you think those other people get them? Retard.
That’s exactly what Wolfe did, he got someone else to get a mon for him and it was genned.

Didn't know Verlisify browsed /vp/

Wolfe's Tournament
Wolfe's Year
Wolfe's Game
Wolfe's Incineroar :)

>>58119716
zero I day two'ed Louisville
>>58119717
they catch themselves. its usually friends with tons of resources who lend them out. hell I lent my raging bolt over to a friend in and he top cut NAIC. After the '23 fiasco people get their shit legit or seek people out who will. do you play VGC?

Verlisify's twitter is REALLY funny right now... if you're into that sort of thing, of course.

>>58119738
Verlisify was hate watching? you already know he was refreshing rk9 with his name in the cntrl f

>>58117801
Wrong! Sulfuric acid

>>58119745
He got banned from the youtube chat, and then the youtube chat started making fun of him while he wasn't able to reply to them anymore.

>>58119677
>>58119684
It's weird because he's not doing his usual creative anti-meta thing, but he's also seemingly not up to date with what's conventional.

>>58119738
>wolfe
>wolfe
>wolfe
>NIGGERS AT AIRPORTS
well that was quite the turn

>>58119754
>usual creative anti-meta thing,
I remember when he brought sap sipper farigraf in 2023. looking back that was just dumb

>>58119757
I'm starting to think Wolfe was never that good at teambuilding.
Even the team he won 2016 with was one he made together with Markus.

>>58119702
she's a beard

Marco Silva eliminated.
Michael Kelsch went 7-1 afterwards.
Sperg bros... we're REDEEMED.

>>58119757
Weren't the team sheets open in 2023?
I could maybe understand using that with closed team sheets to psych people out of using priority moves.

Italy did not have a great day 1

>>58119781
Wolfe is a staunch defender of open team sheets. I don't like them, I think the "problem" is self-correcting.

>>58119782
I still believe in them

>>58119703
Pokémon-hacking is the foundational bedrock of Transgender ideology. You cannot just type code into a cheating machine and call it a Pokémon, it’s just a bunch of code mimicking a legitimately caught Pokémon. The Japanese players don’t hack, so you’re also lying; “everyone does it”, that’s not even true and doesn’t make it right.

>>58119704
GluckGluck on Verlis’ massive wolf dick

>>58119712
he still plays, he got married and took his wife's last name.

I yearn for she

Bros, I think Ho-Oh guy went 7-1.
Am I correct in thinking this?
He could do it and, by God, I hope he does.

>>58119891
he did. basically CIR Korai was coming up before the tour and Ho Oh counters those.

Death to Smeargle users

>>58119900
chad

>>58119900
Do you think the Iron Treads is enough pressure against Miraidon teams?

>>58119770
Kelsch VS Wolfe in semi's, Kelsch wins and loses in the finals again.

>>58119907
I put taunt on all my support leads, disruption is invaluable and makes your opponent's initial strat fall apart.(unless they tera dark and you're prankster)
Worlds has seen very aggressive play compared to the more timid plays I see on the battle stadium.

>>58119914
yes. Treads is super good vs standard miraidon. in fact in the miraidon mirror, the treads player usually always wins

>>58119891
>>58119900
he was the only person who brought ho oh to worlds. im rooting for him

>>58119947
Same, literally any restricteds that aren't a bike, wolf, moonbat, or horse, I was going to root for.

>>58119949
I liked seeing the teen with groudon earlier

>>58119959
I'm still working my way through the stream. Groudon is a bro, Pblades just buttfucks him though.

the chubby guy wolfe played last game threw the game hard, both games

>>58119996
He totally threw and Wolfe is not that good

>>58119654
>>58119660
you still lose because amoonguss lives gambit and forces incineroar to attack it while single target headlong rush is enough to KO incineroar

https://www.pokedata.ovh/standingsVGC/0000150/masters/
teams are up

>>58120005
>Montana Mott and Michael Kelsch brought eerily similar teams

>>58120005
???

>>58120014
teams that do well tend to be used by multiple people

>>58120017
based antimeta chad going 2-6 just to use his favorite, toxapex

>>58120017
aura

Couple Groudons made it to day 2.
0 Terapogos as far as I can tell.
Kyogre had a hard time, highest placing Swordfish core placed 137th.

>>58120017
>oops this is my singles team

>>58120017
nigga wasted thousands of dollars to bring a singles team to worlds

>>58120048
Kyogre is just a very mediocre legendary now

>>58120048
2 pagos teams made it. Jude Lee, and Max Morales.

ho oh guy ran the same team at Japan nats

>>58120069
Too much red, ugly looking team

>>58120063
It still threatens big damage turn 1 and I don't enjoy staring it down.
Weird that Groudon has thrived (relatively) when, on paper, Kyogre has so much more going for it.

>>58120069
chad

>>58120076
koraidon has high usage, wide guard forcing kyorge to click ice beam or hydro pump isnt ok either

>>58120069
Do you think he made adjustments after or just left it alone and decided to pilot better?

>>58120069
What does Ho-Oh do? Fat tera hog Tailwind?

>>58120083
bulky, regenerator, scared fire in sun is fucking broken. koraidon is the tera hog

>>58120076
>Weird that Groudon has thrived (relatively) when, on paper, Kyogre has so much more going for it.
Well it helps that this generation introduced an entire set of mons that get powerups in the sun.

>>58120080
Naoto Mizobuchi won worlds in 2019 with the same team he used at Japan nats, only difference was he swaped icy wind for scald on his tapu fini

Worlds Day 2 players.

>>58120095
Rooting for Aaron

>>58120090
+burns from sacred fire

>>58120095
>yan sym
Jesus Christ hes unbanned? smogonfags will know him.

>>58120076
Both of them get fucked over by Koraidon's popularity for different reasons.
Groudon because Koraidon is just a better sun-setting restricted overall.
Kyogre because Koraidon is superior in a weather war.
At least Groudon is good into Miraidon, while Kyogre isn't.

>>58120095
I watch some of James Baek's stuff.
It's the usual by the numbers "THIS TEAM DID WELL IN PREVIOUS TOURNEY" but he's not annoying and plays well.

>>58120095
btw, since they did not meet the kicker for 3 rounds in day 2, day 2 is only two rounds. so Ko already made top cut, players with 7 wins need to win 1 set, the players with 6 sets need to win 2 sets to top cut

>>58120095
Wait his actual real name is "Wolfe Glick"? What the fuck do his parents hate him?

>>58120112
It's a cool name

>>58120095
Rooting for Yoshitaka Izawa.
I'm way behind on the stream, but I'm watching his battle right now and I'm very interested in his Ho-oh team.

>>58120112
yes his name is Wolfe Glick. hes jewish unironically so that might explain it.

>>58120112
Say that to his face and you’ll get the wolfe glock

>>58120095
wtf happened to italy?

>>58120095
How did the battleroom guy do?

>>58120095
>no canadians made day 2

>>58120099
he's literally 4chan incarnate

>>58120099
he beat Wolfe as well

>>58120185
yeah he's /ourguy/

>>58120099
QRD?

>>58120112
I was surprised that was his real name as well. I thought Wolfe was his surname, and the "glick" part of his name based off of the rating system.

Watching the Wolfe match, did Marcus ever once consider using protect on his Calyrex?
There were at least two instances where that was the obvious play even before everything was locked in.

>>58120112
Yup. I always thought it was some cringe furfag xbox 360 username that he stuck with.

>>58120223
Marcus threw because he was overthinking that Wolfe would read him. Wolfe has said it himself that he doesn’t like taking risky plays

>>58120124
there are plenty of italians still in

>>58120234
Marco and FedeCampo got knocked early. They didn’t have a good conversion rate either

>>58117675 (OP)
Don't care
I'll just watch Wolfey's video about how he lost at worlds again a few months from now when it comes out

>>58120275
>I WENT TO WORLDS AND YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT TEAM I BROUGHT
>uses a standard basicbitch meta team
>will act like his Koraidon is the most innovative thing ever because he ran close combat instead of collision course or low kick

>>58120275
Wolfe wouldn't even title the video that he lost at worlds. He'd call it
>I entered the 2025 world championship
and build up the suspense about how he decided to build his team, even though by the time he uploads the video months from now, anyone who cares enough to subscribe to him would already know if he won or lost.

>>58120333
EUIC was Reg G too.
Koraidon hasn't impressed me at all in Reg I.

>>58120333
low kick koraidon is a recent meta trend from Japan. this is how I know you dont play VGC lol

>>58120398
Yet his worlds video will bring up all the upsides and downsides to running low kick vs close combat despite him never considering bringing low kick in the first place.

>>58120333
>meta team
This isn’t meta, it’s just the team he lost the last two events with

>>58120346
There is zero suspense about his video, the title says it all
Entered = lost
Won = won

>>58120435
How would you know?
He didn't do a video about the one (1) time he won Worlds because that was 9 (nine) years ago.

>>58120546
the way you speak on winning worlds makes its seem like its so easy.

>>58120546
>How would you know?
because I can read

>>58119762
>I'm starting to think Wolfe was never that good at teambuilding.
he built a meta team in reg b that became standard in reg c, in reg f he built a broken standard balance team. his Charlotte winning team.

they are still shitting on Verlisify after he got banned from the live chat.

>>58119781
that wouldnt even work because everyone would know what he was running after round one. team scouting as a huge issue.

I do remember when Wolfe accused people of using binoculars to see what he was running while playing.

>>58120564
lmao that is genuinely funny. Had no idea he was raging in the chat, wish I was watching when it happened.

>>58117675 (OP)
When will they introduce champion aldith and her team?

>>58120257
At least they’re better than Korea

Why are there so many notable players bringing groudon? Isn't it just bad? They are all jobbing with it so it doesn't seem to have any anti meta magic.

>>58120097
FREE PALESTINE

day 2 thread
>>58121292

>>58119677
Wut?
No perish song?

>>58120564
Kek