Hail / Sand / Shedinja user | San Juan ‘26 Special Champion | Day 2 T64 Worlds ‘22 | 5x Internats Day 2 | 3x Regional Top 4

New York, USA
Joined January 2017
Here’s the team I used to go 10-5 at the World Championships this weekend! It was an incredible experience, and I’m going to put some of my thoughts in this thread…
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Does this mean it’s time to bring back human made vgc puzzles?
Puzzle #2 🧩 Last two each. Their Tailwind has one turn left. Only one plan wins this turn, whatever they click. Most people click the wrong one. You're Sneasler + Kingambit. What do you click?
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The first big post about vgc bots was only like 3 weeks ago, and now showdown is completely infested with them and unplayable. I definitely underestimated how bad it would be…
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This has me thinking… maybe the next frontier is individualized pricing to join my teambuilding group. Brand new player? That’ll be $1,000 please. Wolfe wants in? That’s negative $1k. (I’ll pay him). Everyone else lands somewhere in between
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Unfortunately the masses are about to learn the worst time to use Hard TR Psyspam is when it’s good. In fact the only good time to use it is solving it when everyone thinks it’s bad.
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Here’s our world’s team. It actually has a really nice matchup spread, but you gotta hit your moves. Can’t complain too much when you know what you sign up for though! Thanks to everyone who helped me this year. I’m going to try once again to reach that next level next season.
Tough worlds run this year. I was really proud of our team and prep leading up, just couldn’t put it together on the big day. The team is much stronger than our results show, and got me to Champions Tier for the first time! Team includes some fun picks, Replica Code below! ⚡️🌸
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Worlds 2027 will be in Seoul or Sydney. I am very confident about this.
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Day 2 Main Event ❌ High Score in the XP Pinball area ✅ who is the real winner today? (it’s me)
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Last year at Worlds I played really bad. This year I played well, but the game didn’t cooperate. At some point it will all come together.
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The hard trick room players are fuming😂😂😂 (not me I’m not a hard trick room player)
Ok, smart guy! Let's see YOU take a crack at it!
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this format is hilarious because I’ll be looking at tournament results thinking “hm what are some other ways people are using this pokemon?” and the answer is nothing no other ways every team with that mon is exactly the same lmao
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when more team info is open the best players are happy because they will win more, then the casual players are also happy because they are worried their opponent at table 467 scouted their camerupt’s nature. and then everyone in between is a cheesy gimmick loving schmuck
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the amount of likes on this comment is lowkey the best proof I’ve seen that vgc is growing a ton right now.
Replying to @Game8_Pokemon
Trick room with scarf? SCARF? FUCKING SCARF???
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Congrats to the many who got the solution, which is in the reply. More coming soon! Open to feedback on the design here, this was my first time creating them in game rather than showdown.
Pokemon Puzzle - Champions edition The rules are simple - find the guaranteed win based on the situation and information below! Make sure you include the full sequence required to win! A little warm up puzzle here for the return of Megas…
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Turn 1: double protect (without using mega, in case they don’t mega) Turn 2: Ttar mega, uses rock slide. But be careful! Aerodactyl has to tailwind rather than attack, in case the opposing charizard protects this turn (and saves mega again)
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Pokemon Champions Ads in Times Square. What a time to be a competitive pokemon player/fan.
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Pokemon Puzzle - Champions edition The rules are simple - find the guaranteed win based on the situation and information below! Make sure you include the full sequence required to win! A little warm up puzzle here for the return of Megas…
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I know a lot of new players have been trying out vgc recently, and I think this one is at an accessible difficulty level! If you’re looking for more of a challenge, stay tuned… 🫡
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it’s actually a crazy breath of fresh air to go back to playing pokemon where there’s no magic button to get out of dying to an incoming super effective attack for the first time in 6 years
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it’s also crazy to think like 80% of players these days have never experienced this before
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