Is there a reason that more recent VODs are gone from the Live section on your channel? I’ve been wanting to go back and watch them but they aren’t there anymore
Thanks for sharing, they have a delicate band option that I love. The style is really hard to find, especially with number markers on the face and at a lower price point.
I can confirm that they absolutely called Tinkaton the Drift Queen back in college Went 5-4 with my own Tinkaton team at the International this weekend, she will rule the world
Playing off-meta is such a psychological attack in tournament settings. Even with open team sheets the intimidation factor of bringing something most people consider bad or unusable to an in-person competitive event immediately throws a lot of people off their game.
its about the idea that loss, win, win, loss, win is better than loss, loss, win, win, win. Because the second loss in a row can really affect you on a mental level. Most importantly, it might make it less likely to actually GET those three consecutive wins (I ignore the fact that your standing is worse in that situation - I am thinking about the quality of play)
I love seeing Espathra, a Pokémon so busted in singles that it got banned to Ubers, being called “bad”. The differences between VGC and Singles as metagames is always interesting.
@@noakinn For example, Chi Yu or Chien Pao have some risks in doubles because they hit YOUR Pokemon with their abilities too. But in a Single Battle, it's as good as a superior intimidate. Houndstone and Palafin also work nowhere near as well in 4v4 doubles than in 6v6 singles where they're unstoppable.
@@mrex666productions7 might still be interesting to someone to see how the metagame changes. Im still a fan of competetive singles as it is, about as much as the VGC formats. Sure, people have to make rulesets around it, but it's fun within those rulesets
The biggest example of this I’ve seen is definitely Gliscor. I don’t play singles, but I’ve heard that it’s poison heal ability combined with toxic orb makes (or at least used to make) it a pretty solid mon, but in VGC, I can’t remember the last time it was usable
@@kahunamed 99% sure they use the publicly available vods to recreate the fights, just to avoid nintendo doing their silly little nintendo content policy activities
@@mudboy5 The vods only showcase a couple of his battles no? Certainly not every one of every player’s rounds, unless there’s an archive for review purposes or something. Edit: Yeah Wolfey just takes notes while playing, he says it later in the video. He’s included footage from when he’s onscreen in tournaments before
he mentioned taking notes on his battles during the tournament. i think he was just jotting down every move made by each mon, except when he needed to focus harder
The fact that this video released at the same time as the Europe international is going on where seemingly every other game on stream has a team with a Gyarados can only mean Wolfey predicted where the meta would go using his patented World Champ Difference.
And since annihilape isn't that common anymore, you don't have to fear giving defiant boosts to it either. And since palafin is at an all time high in usage and often runs close combat, you don't need to worry about gambits much either
In the opening graphic Wolfey shows Gyarados has 58% usage rate, so yes, every other team. There's a big "except this one" pointing at it, you can't miss it
Tinkaton may not be the strongest Pokémon in the world… but the moment you let your guard down, she will make sure to treat you like another Corviknight
Offensively it’s just not good. It’s really really bad. However it has a good amount of support options and can function in a team being a real pain in the ass if played correctly. T Wave, stones, fake out, encore etc
I was honored to see you play in the Charlotte Reigonals in person and I must say, I was heavily confused when I saw your team but I was rooting for you the whole time in the audience. I remember that prediction into Amoonguss and that was insane. Thanks for coming
I always love pokemon that are used differently in Singles and Doubles. Espathra is a Stored Power setup sweeper in Singles while it's a Lumina Crash support in Doubles.
There are now like 20 comments about 4:30, so to answer: Gyarados isn't protected by psychic terrain as it is a flying type. Psychic terrain doesn't disable priority, it prevents grounded pokemon from being targeted by priority. Levitate, flying types, and air balloon will all prevent psychic terrain from protecting you. Since he'd already tera'd his ceruledge, he could not tera out of his flying type to protect Gyarados. Edit: actually gyara is tera flying, so it was always vulnerable.
What, wait I'm confused how does psychic terrain allow flying types to get attacked by priority. Flying types can't use priority moves in that terrain.
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 it protects the grounded mons, it doesn't do anything to the attacker. A flying type using priority against another flying type would succeed.
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 try to think terrains like this: its the pokemon that are affected by terrain, not the moves. If you stand on terrain (psychic terrain in this case) then you gain the terrains benefit (immunity to priority moves in this case). Flying type ISN'T STANDING in the terrain. Thus flying type doesn't get the protection a grounded pokemon STANDING IN THE TERRAIN would get. Its like... imagine the terrain be a shield. If a pokemon is behind the shield (stands in terrain) they are protected by moves the shield is supposed to cover. But if you hover over the shield then ofc it doesn't protect you.
As someone that doesn’t play Pokémon but enjoys watching and learning competitive games, wolfed does a great job of fully explaining the reasoning behind his decisions
Wolfey, as someone who follows you since you had less than 100k, you being so close to the 1M subs, makes me feel so happy I've been part of this, from the time of daily wideos to today's quality ones. Let's hope your next achievement is Worlds 2023 Championship. 🎉❤
I love that you did this wolfey. Honestly, Espathra is my favorite pokemon from this Gen. I was disappointed that it wasn't "viable" and I love that you placed as high as you did using it and tinkaton. Great job homie. Keep up the great work.
Honestly, even without holding a champion title it's still really interesting to see the viabilities of other pokemon, especially when facing more common and uncommon matchups. We can't all have wins but you did amazingly with what you gave yourself anyways 💖 Great stuff Wolfey!
The amount of time and effort to go through and recreate each battle just to make a more engaging and visual video is insane. You are the reason I started playing ranked pokemon and the sole reason I got into competetive pokemon. Love your content, can’t wait to see and learn more
Love the different between espathra in doubles and singles, in doubles it doesn't have alot of usage but in singles it's kinda like the main baton passer
Just after seeing it I made a note in my VGC doc reading 'check out wolfey's substitute flutter mane. That shit looks sick.' And now I am absolutely glad to get more info on it. It's *really* sick.
I really like recreating the games for background footage, gotta be a lot of work both for you taking notes at the tournament and your editor/whoever is recreating them, but it makes it so much easier to follow/entertaining
I had to go look up the AV Ceruledge set I made a couple weeks ago just to see if the EV spreads were the same. We invested the same amount into hp/def just a little differently. This makes me happy
I just wanna say CONGRATULATIONS ON 1 MILLION SUBS! I’ve been a Pokémon fan my entire life and have played it since I was 6, although I never was that interested in competitive. That was until back in 2022 when I stumbled upon your channel, though despite knowing a lot more about it I never thought it was something I’d be good enough to do. You inspired me to dip my toes into competitive Pokémon, and while I’m not the best at it so far I think that I’ll get my footing in due time
I haven’t played Pokémon seriously since Sun & Moon era, but I still love your videos Wolfey. You doing commentary on your own tournaments is interesting and fun with the jokes and details mixed. Keep it up World Champ!
Thinks like this make wolfey a top player he's always on the edge an tryies to improve his own abilities in the long run. He always has a methodical approach and still challenges himself constantly. That's an elit, peak performance mindset.
Wolfe gives such a deep insight into competive Pokémon! As an outsider, I'm both fascinated and scared by the amount of skill and nerves it takes to play in these tournaments
Glorious editing and thanks for recreating the battle, I liked every second of it! Also the music choices? *chef kiss* So much effort poured into this video, thanks again!
Ironically, espathra is considered an UBER, (too strong for OU, the standard competitive format) in singles. So it can only be played with pokemon like flutter mane, iron bundle, koraidon, and miraidon
I'm so glad you finally got to a million subscribers ^^ I've been watching this channel since 2015 (I'm the guy who made that Steelix drawing some years ago) and I've always enjoyed your content so much. Thanks for everything! :D
"Known as the Drift Queen back in College" Sir, i am DYING laughing. That was entirely out of nowhere and i thank you for it. Truly, the World Champ difference.
@@phycin5942 I didn't even notice it at first. I was working on something and happened to look up at my screeen at that moment and did a double take and had to rewind.
I always love seeing somebody bring spice to what people consider a "figured out meta". Cheers Wolfe, you deserved better but should be proud and were entertaining to boot.
Man I've missed Wolfey🥺 Good that he's back. It was too long of a spell without new videos 😢 (he spoilt us with a ton of content when the new games dropped) Now I want a new video everyday 😂
Wolfe, just wanted to say: Congratulations on the 1m subs, it’s insane how far you’ve become since you first started 10 years ago and now you’re the spearhead of the vgc community and one of the rare few that no one hates. Cheers to you.
My first exposure to Wolf was him using mega gengar to time stall in gen 6. And I thought that he was a scummy player for the cheap tactic. After some time has passed now and I started watching his content in the last 6ish months, bro obviously has the skill to be able to do such a tactic and back it up with gameplay that is beyond solid. You're an incredible player Wolfey, I might not be that important but you certainly earned my respect with your skills and knowledge.
I won a competition in my county with a Swadloon back in the days of ORAS. The girl that lives next to me is still pissed that she lost to that cute bundle of joy.
I dont know why gyarados had such a low usage rate. Ive been using it since release and the variety of sets it can run and typing has made it a beast in my opinion
I think its just a case of where gyarados can do alot of things really well theres just alot more pokemon nowadays that can fill a specific role PERFECTLY, so the more generalist options become less popular even if theyre still quite strong. There are tankier tanks and faster/stronger sweepers, so in cases where you have to keep the same pokemon and movesets why run gyarados set when its versatility gets removed and you can just run something else that already is hyper specialized for the role you wanted the gyarados to fill? Not saying i think gyarados is a bad pick or anything just trying to explain the thought process on why people in official tournament settings *tend* to be more inclined to use a pokemon thats seen as a S rank for its role vs one thats B or A rank in many roles Though as wolfey demonstrates often and as youve seen for yourself theres no need to adhere to the meta to be successful and have fun, its just that alot of people also find hyper optimization fun as well and those are the type of people who are *usually* more competitive and go out of their way to be in tournaments so it just leads to most tournament participants trying to follow the meta as a correlated byproduct even if non-meta teams are sometimes harder to deal with because theyre less predictable
@JubioHDX I agree with this. I noticed myself while using it that despite how well it worked on my specific team I did think of other mons to fill its role better in one way but the versatility alone made it work. Of course that's with my team in mind where I'd have to replace two mons to cover everything it does for me
@@orchid685 don't worry gyaradoa now on top 12 on usage. It is really good counter to ting Lu and with t wave + waterfall you can lock out your opponent from moving. And it also got taunt so it stop spore as well.
Wolfe, I've been following you since a little bit before 150K. ...It has been nice to watch the road to one million, and will be nice to watch further. You're an amazing creator.
I gotta love the ace attorney music so much , I heard phoenix wright , apollo justice , and even the great ace attorney music all over the video. And I love a good mix of two of my fav games on wolfey's video.
I really like the idea behind this because just seeing meta staples in a mirror match gets boring real quick, and it also proves you can do well using knowledge.
Between you and Tang, I've finally decided to dip my toes into the competitive pool. Especially that last match at FW regionals with Tang and Ugarte. It was my first time at regionals, and the hype in the crowd was amazing, and imagining myself beating out the competition with an unorthodox team and making it into the top players just made me more excited to get into competitive. I'm currently hunting and breeding for a shiny living dex, but I'm also looking for competitive viable pokemon at the same time. at the end of the day, I'm excited to debut into the competitive scene in 2024, and I can't wait to see the meta then compared to FW 2023.
On a completely separate note, the ace attorney (specifically the great ace attorney) ost was so fire near the end. its one of my fav games and I love that its amazing ost is getting more recognition :D
I kinda want a "how to make bad pokemon more competitve" video. Not forcing it, just an idea if you want to. Your current content is absolutely fantastic and I literally drop whatever I'm doing when I get the notification that you posted a new video to watch it. Thanks for being such a great content creator and congrats on 1 mil!
This explains a lot I personally play Vgc on showdown and saw a lot of the gravity strategy on showdown and this explains it also great video congratulations and on 1 million too!!!!
Wow wolfey's first opponent haxxed the shit out of him. How incredibly close those games were while Wolfey's team was off meta and hax wasn't on his side is a testament to how great at this game he is.
My only gripe with the first match was "I'm gonna double protect both pokemon against the single kingambit". Like why not just double attack while it was that low? Am I missing something?
10 months late, but you can look at it like that. Espathra needs a few turns to unlock its final form - but it won't *get* those turns in double battles due to everything dishing out the pain left and right.
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Is there a reason that more recent VODs are gone from the Live section on your channel? I’ve been wanting to go back and watch them but they aren’t there anymore
Quick question, wouldn't psychic terrain block sucker punches at 4:45?
Ceruledge would have been better Tera flying against great tusk who is a ground fighting type
Thanks for sharing, they have a delicate band option that I love. The style is really hard to find, especially with number markers on the face and at a lower price point.
I can confirm that they absolutely called Tinkaton the Drift Queen back in college
Went 5-4 with my own Tinkaton team at the International this weekend, she will rule the world
He think
Truly the tinkaton of all time
5-4 is fire as hell in a physical competition. congrats daniel rumbletumblegames
Tinkaton supremacy
Came here immediately to look for your comment when I saw that 😂
Playing off-meta is such a psychological attack in tournament settings. Even with open team sheets the intimidation factor of bringing something most people consider bad or unusable to an in-person competitive event immediately throws a lot of people off their game.
Facts my team is full of goofy shit and my friends are always terrified
then you hit them with splash hahahaha
@@KuyoCuteeTv I'll fully use celebrate and hold hands, it gets people quaking in their boots
I almost lost to a friend that ran moonblast hypervoice primarina (yes she only had two moves) and regular altaria in OU...
@@the_spaggot3148 hahaha
“After losing, it’s really important to take some wins”
This is the kind of competitive-level advice we come here for
Only true professionals would know.
its about the idea that loss, win, win, loss, win is better than loss, loss, win, win, win. Because the second loss in a row can really affect you on a mental level. Most importantly, it might make it less likely to actually GET those three consecutive wins (I ignore the fact that your standing is worse in that situation - I am thinking about the quality of play)
World Champ Difference babyyyyyyyy
I love seeing Espathra, a Pokémon so busted in singles that it got banned to Ubers, being called “bad”. The differences between VGC and Singles as metagames is always interesting.
Because the new Pokemon in SV are not built for Smogon singles. Like don't.
@@mrex666productions7don't WHAT, MR. REX?!
@@noakinn For example, Chi Yu or Chien Pao have some risks in doubles because they hit YOUR Pokemon with their abilities too. But in a Single Battle, it's as good as a superior intimidate. Houndstone and Palafin also work nowhere near as well in 4v4 doubles than in 6v6 singles where they're unstoppable.
@@mrex666productions7 might still be interesting to someone to see how the metagame changes.
Im still a fan of competetive singles as it is, about as much as the VGC formats. Sure, people have to make rulesets around it, but it's fun within those rulesets
The biggest example of this I’ve seen is definitely Gliscor. I don’t play singles, but I’ve heard that it’s poison heal ability combined with toxic orb makes (or at least used to make) it a pretty solid mon, but in VGC, I can’t remember the last time it was usable
The fact you recreated the fights is insane. Mad props for putting in the effort to do this!
I was just thinking this. Remembering everything is impressive enough, but recreating is just another level of commitment
@@kahunamed 99% sure they use the publicly available vods to recreate the fights, just to avoid nintendo doing their silly little nintendo content policy activities
@@mudboy5 The vods only showcase a couple of his battles no? Certainly not every one of every player’s rounds, unless there’s an archive for review purposes or something.
Edit: Yeah Wolfey just takes notes while playing, he says it later in the video. He’s included footage from when he’s onscreen in tournaments before
he mentioned taking notes on his battles during the tournament. i think he was just jotting down every move made by each mon, except when he needed to focus harder
@@kahunamed Did they stop doing the battle recorder? Or you cannot save these games?
I didn't realize that a lot of these were recreations made in your own time and not recordings. That's some good dedication and note-taking
The fact that this video released at the same time as the Europe international is going on where seemingly every other game on stream has a team with a Gyarados can only mean Wolfey predicted where the meta would go using his patented World Champ Difference.
r/brandnewsentence
Also Gyarados is probably the best Ting-Lu answer and this tournament in the video didn't have the Ruinous pokemon yet
Gyarados and flying types are simply gonna rise in usage because of fissure ting lu
And since annihilape isn't that common anymore, you don't have to fear giving defiant boosts to it either. And since palafin is at an all time high in usage and often runs close combat, you don't need to worry about gambits much either
In the opening graphic Wolfey shows Gyarados has 58% usage rate, so yes, every other team. There's a big "except this one" pointing at it, you can't miss it
Wolfey preparing: "i don't want to risk the tourney on a coinflip"
Wolfey in the finals: "well good old coin, here we go again"
wolfey really brought a singles team to a VGC tournament huh
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Tink and Shocks are literally two of the best pokemon in UU rn
@@Deadflower019 and the others are good OU mons (and gyara, but ok)
@@thundergamespt99 Gyarados, Sandy Shocks, and sTinkaton are UU. Flutter Mane and Espathra are Ubers. Ceruledge is the only one of them that is OU
@@Skeloperch yeah, i forgot that ubers was a thing.
I forgot how fun it is to just listen to Wolfe talk about Pokemon.
I believe 🙏 you feel that way.
Tinkaton may not be the strongest Pokémon in the world… but the moment you let your guard down, she will make sure to treat you like another Corviknight
The man himself
tinkaton W
RTGAME is here to. Coincidence
Offensively it’s just not good. It’s really really bad. However it has a good amount of support options and can function in a team being a real pain in the ass if played correctly. T Wave, stones, fake out, encore etc
Stinkaton isn't doing squat to Corviknight with 75 base attack. Corviknight's Body Press actually hits harder than anything Tink can do to it.
Honestly it's kind of refreshing to see someone in a competitive field 1) being unabashedly confident in their skills and 2) being right
I was honored to see you play in the Charlotte Reigonals in person and I must say, I was heavily confused when I saw your team but I was rooting for you the whole time in the audience. I remember that prediction into Amoonguss and that was insane. Thanks for coming
I always love pokemon that are used differently in Singles and Doubles. Espathra is a Stored Power setup sweeper in Singles while it's a Lumina Crash support in Doubles.
Best Pokemon narrator in the game. 1 Million and more absolutly deserved.
Wolfey hitting us with the “Did I really think I could? Yes I do” it gave me the most mischievous smile
There are now like 20 comments about 4:30, so to answer:
Gyarados isn't protected by psychic terrain as it is a flying type. Psychic terrain doesn't disable priority, it prevents grounded pokemon from being targeted by priority. Levitate, flying types, and air balloon will all prevent psychic terrain from protecting you.
Since he'd already tera'd his ceruledge, he could not tera out of his flying type to protect Gyarados.
Edit: actually gyara is tera flying, so it was always vulnerable.
What, wait I'm confused how does psychic terrain allow flying types to get attacked by priority. Flying types can't use priority moves in that terrain.
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 it protects the grounded mons, it doesn't do anything to the attacker. A flying type using priority against another flying type would succeed.
@@user-iz2ik3gh2n that's not how psychic terrain works.
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 try to think terrains like this: its the pokemon that are affected by terrain, not the moves. If you stand on terrain (psychic terrain in this case) then you gain the terrains benefit (immunity to priority moves in this case). Flying type ISN'T STANDING in the terrain. Thus flying type doesn't get the protection a grounded pokemon STANDING IN THE TERRAIN would get. Its like... imagine the terrain be a shield. If a pokemon is behind the shield (stands in terrain) they are protected by moves the shield is supposed to cover. But if you hover over the shield then ofc it doesn't protect you.
@Mike 9001 ok ty
Watching this a few months later seeing Flutter Mane, Gyrados and Ceruledge be considered bad is so bizarre
flutter mane was not considered bad, he mentioned that
As a non competitive Pokemon player, who loves using most of these Pokemon, I feel called out 💀
As a competitive pokemon player who loves using most of these pokemon. I feel chosen 🗿
As a competitive pokemon player who has never used most of these mons,I respect wolfe for doing well with them.
If it makes you feel better like half of them are broken or really good in singles
lmao there's nothing quite like the world champ calling your favorite mons garbage (god why'd they have to do aggron dirty)
As a pokemon, i feel represented
As someone that doesn’t play Pokémon but enjoys watching and learning competitive games, wolfed does a great job of fully explaining the reasoning behind his decisions
You losing to a team that you built is really just a testament to how great of a team-builder you are! So good that even you can't beat yourself!
Wolfey, as someone who follows you since you had less than 100k, you being so close to the 1M subs, makes me feel so happy I've been part of this, from the time of daily wideos to today's quality ones. Let's hope your next achievement is Worlds 2023 Championship. 🎉❤
15:14 imagine being this guy and realizing you have to fight the guy who made the team you’re using. terrifying
Wolfey should try a team where the core goal is to hit a defiant weakness policy kingambit with bulldoze.
I don't think you can proc your own defiant, I think your opponent has to drop the stat
Yeah that’s correct, redirection+swords dance kingambit would just be the same but better
yeah same with coalossal steam engine weakness policy but defiant doesnt work that way
The 3rd opponent adapting by just praying to RNGesus was crazy lmao
Kinda crazy how espathra is rarely used, it’s EXTREMELY good. Maybe it’s just easier to deal with in doubles.
Welp, it's good in singles but not in doubles probably
It’s kinda bad in doubles,having the ability to double up on it,kinda ruins it
it's not just good, it's outright *broken* in singles
@@thepurified8386 fr 💀
not in doubles for sure
I love that you did this wolfey. Honestly, Espathra is my favorite pokemon from this Gen. I was disappointed that it wasn't "viable" and I love that you placed as high as you did using it and tinkaton. Great job homie. Keep up the great work.
Honestly, even without holding a champion title it's still really interesting to see the viabilities of other pokemon, especially when facing more common and uncommon matchups. We can't all have wins but you did amazingly with what you gave yourself anyways 💖 Great stuff Wolfey!
The amount of time and effort to go through and recreate each battle just to make a more engaging and visual video is insane.
You are the reason I started playing ranked pokemon and the sole reason I got into competetive pokemon.
Love your content, can’t wait to see and learn more
Amazing video! It was super cool to meet you there! Keep up the amazing work Wolfe!!
As time goes on, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the world champ difference is simply giving Wolfey psychic powers. 33:04
Love the different between espathra in doubles and singles, in doubles it doesn't have alot of usage but in singles it's kinda like the main baton passer
Espathra was also just the setup sweeper, no need to pass anything the bird is very threatening by itself
@@stealthy9156 tbh I actually never got in too much trouble with espathra because shadow sneak gallade 2HKO it
@@Caspercab why would 2HKO help when it just OHKOs ur mon? also commonly uses sub lol
@@stealthy9156 what would you put with it tho?
@@GadielVaStar uhhhh what are you asking me exactly? Good partners espathra can baton pass to or what
Just after seeing it I made a note in my VGC doc reading 'check out wolfey's substitute flutter mane. That shit looks sick.' And now I am absolutely glad to get more info on it. It's *really* sick.
I love new eyeliner-magneton so much. He's so edgy and awkward
-- Maggy, what's this on your face?
-- It's fashion, and call me Sandy Shocks, MOM
8:31 I love that RT indirectly gets a shoutout here with Tinkaton being the drift queen. He's probably the number 1 Tinkaton believer
This is why I just use metronome teams after a hard day of work at crazy ass Walmart.
just now noticed, 4:40 for the reenactment, you lit a candle on kingambit's bladed head. top comedy.
I really like recreating the games for background footage, gotta be a lot of work both for you taking notes at the tournament and your editor/whoever is recreating them, but it makes it so much easier to follow/entertaining
CONGRATS on the very deserved 1M subs Wolfey! It was about time you got there with all the effort you're putting into your channel.
I had to go look up the AV Ceruledge set I made a couple weeks ago just to see if the EV spreads were the same. We invested the same amount into hp/def just a little differently. This makes me happy
I just wanna say CONGRATULATIONS ON 1 MILLION SUBS! I’ve been a Pokémon fan my entire life and have played it since I was 6, although I never was that interested in competitive. That was until back in 2022 when I stumbled upon your channel, though despite knowing a lot more about it I never thought it was something I’d be good enough to do.
You inspired me to dip my toes into competitive Pokémon, and while I’m not the best at it so far I think that I’ll get my footing in due time
The fact that wolfey brought these pokemon to a tournament and made a content out of it is just awesome.
I haven’t played Pokémon seriously since Sun & Moon era, but I still love your videos Wolfey. You doing commentary on your own tournaments is interesting and fun with the jokes and details mixed. Keep it up World Champ!
Tinkaton and Ceruledge are my favorite pokemon from this generation so its really cool to see them atleast get that far competitively.
4:29 "All I have to do is to predic when Kingambit Sucker Punches." Psychic Terrain lol, thats the world champ difference Babeeyyyyyyyy!
unfortunately, wolfeys pokemon also had the "not touching the ground difference" that made them unaffected by psychic terrain. :p
Thinks like this make wolfey a top player he's always on the edge an tryies to improve his own abilities in the long run. He always has a methodical approach and still challenges himself constantly. That's an elit, peak performance mindset.
Omg! Grats on 1m subs! You absolutely deserve this. Thanks for making competitive pokemon accessible for people and helping grow the scene!
Love u wolf hope u get that million soon you’ve worked so hard for it
Wolfe gives such a deep insight into competive Pokémon! As an outsider, I'm both fascinated and scared by the amount of skill and nerves it takes to play in these tournaments
"Man, Wolfey, you got some very unlucky pairings."
Wolfe: Indeed-dee I did.
Glorious editing and thanks for recreating the battle, I liked every second of it! Also the music choices? *chef kiss* So much effort poured into this video, thanks again!
Wolfey already has the title of having the most nationals ever. Now my man just doing side quests
"As great tusk attacks with protect 5:18
Ironically, espathra is considered an UBER, (too strong for OU, the standard competitive format) in singles. So it can only be played with pokemon like flutter mane, iron bundle, koraidon, and miraidon
You have to consider that single battles is more of a pokemon fan game. It's not real, it doesn't really count.
@@SunniestAutumn do you know what the word ironically implies?
I'm so glad you finally got to a million subscribers ^^
I've been watching this channel since 2015 (I'm the guy who made that Steelix drawing some years ago) and I've always enjoyed your content so much. Thanks for everything! :D
"Known as the Drift Queen back in College" Sir, i am DYING laughing. That was entirely out of nowhere and i thank you for it. Truly, the World Champ difference.
The RTGame nod was my favorite thing about the team
@@phycin5942 I didn't even notice it at first. I was working on something and happened to look up at my screeen at that moment and did a double take and had to rewind.
I always love seeing somebody bring spice to what people consider a "figured out meta". Cheers Wolfe, you deserved better but should be proud and were entertaining to boot.
Man I've missed Wolfey🥺
Good that he's back. It was too long of a spell without new videos 😢 (he spoilt us with a ton of content when the new games dropped)
Now I want a new video everyday 😂
Wolfe, just wanted to say:
Congratulations on the 1m subs, it’s insane how far you’ve become since you first started 10 years ago and now you’re the spearhead of the vgc community and one of the rare few that no one hates. Cheers to you.
9:22 Wolfey: Great Tusk doesn't even do 50% to Flutter mane
Great Tusk: does 51% to Flutter mane
I love when you take your time in the first minutes to explain and talk about the team, really missed it. Video was awesome as allways
31:00 the presence of mind to realise that going to time was better than taking a shot at an opponent’s last Pokémon that has 1HP left is nuts
The editing and jokes are incredible, this is super good!
That “It was not over” gif was fantastic.
ah yes doubles vs singles
in smogon espartha’s chilling in ubers and ceruldege is ou
My first exposure to Wolf was him using mega gengar to time stall in gen 6. And I thought that he was a scummy player for the cheap tactic. After some time has passed now and I started watching his content in the last 6ish months, bro obviously has the skill to be able to do such a tactic and back it up with gameplay that is beyond solid. You're an incredible player Wolfey, I might not be that important but you certainly earned my respect with your skills and knowledge.
It’s amazing seeing that world champ difference. The original ideas are amazing.
This content is so damn good man, good gameplay, concise commentary, solid editing, it feels like im at a poke tourney
Moral of the story is “Just because top players say a Pokémon is “bad” doesn’t mean it’s unusable, you just need to get creative”
Don't use "bad" Pokemon unless you're cracked at Pokemon is the real moral here
I won a competition in my county with a Swadloon back in the days of ORAS. The girl that lives next to me is still pissed that she lost to that cute bundle of joy.
CONGRATS WOLFEY!! HERES TO A MILLION MORE ❤️
I dont know why gyarados had such a low usage rate. Ive been using it since release and the variety of sets it can run and typing has made it a beast in my opinion
I think its just a case of where gyarados can do alot of things really well theres just alot more pokemon nowadays that can fill a specific role PERFECTLY, so the more generalist options become less popular even if theyre still quite strong. There are tankier tanks and faster/stronger sweepers, so in cases where you have to keep the same pokemon and movesets why run gyarados set when its versatility gets removed and you can just run something else that already is hyper specialized for the role you wanted the gyarados to fill?
Not saying i think gyarados is a bad pick or anything just trying to explain the thought process on why people in official tournament settings *tend* to be more inclined to use a pokemon thats seen as a S rank for its role vs one thats B or A rank in many roles
Though as wolfey demonstrates often and as youve seen for yourself theres no need to adhere to the meta to be successful and have fun, its just that alot of people also find hyper optimization fun as well and those are the type of people who are *usually* more competitive and go out of their way to be in tournaments so it just leads to most tournament participants trying to follow the meta as a correlated byproduct even if non-meta teams are sometimes harder to deal with because theyre less predictable
@JubioHDX I agree with this. I noticed myself while using it that despite how well it worked on my specific team I did think of other mons to fill its role better in one way but the versatility alone made it work. Of course that's with my team in mind where I'd have to replace two mons to cover everything it does for me
@@orchid685 don't worry gyaradoa now on top 12 on usage. It is really good counter to ting Lu and with t wave + waterfall you can lock out your opponent from moving. And it also got taunt so it stop spore as well.
I can’t believe you beat TatsuDozo by timerstalling, that’s not how TatsuDozo is supposed to work
Love to see every time original ideas by you
I missed your vids so much! Really happy to see such a cool team find at least some success. Expertly piloted, as well.
GUYS GUYS GUYS WOLFEY'S AT 1 MILLION! WE'VE DONE IT, WOLFE PACK! WE'VE DONE IT!!!
So proud and happy to see you hit 1 million Wolfey! So deserved.
“Strong Pokémon, weak Pokémon, that is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites.” -Karen
Worst quote of all time
@@GravityIsFalling "Being able to lie really well is a fantastic trait" -You
@@GravityIsFalling cope
Wolfe, I've been following you since a little bit before 150K.
...It has been nice to watch the road to one million, and will be nice to watch further.
You're an amazing creator.
That timer stall to avoid the dice roll was actually genius
I gotta love the ace attorney music so much , I heard phoenix wright , apollo justice , and even the great ace attorney music all over the video.
And I love a good mix of two of my fav games on wolfey's video.
Question: How did you paralyze Gholdengo with Thunder Wave? It has Good as Gold
Tinkaton has the ability Mold Breaker, which ignores abilities
In the second match Wolfie would have won since the gambit was in psychic terrain and couldn't sucker punch. I think?
Normally not a fan of time wins, but using it to dodge getting screwed by a random accuracy drop is pretty based.
The quality of the editing is amazing! Nice one!
You lost so I will not see who sponsored the video and I will not continue further.
😂
I really like the idea behind this because just seeing meta staples in a mirror match gets boring real quick, and it also proves you can do well using knowledge.
Between you and Tang, I've finally decided to dip my toes into the competitive pool.
Especially that last match at FW regionals with Tang and Ugarte. It was my first time at regionals, and the hype in the crowd was amazing, and imagining myself beating out the competition with an unorthodox team and making it into the top players just made me more excited to get into competitive.
I'm currently hunting and breeding for a shiny living dex, but I'm also looking for competitive viable pokemon at the same time. at the end of the day, I'm excited to debut into the competitive scene in 2024, and I can't wait to see the meta then compared to FW 2023.
The paradox Pokemon in comp has been so wild. Can't wait for dlc and legendaries start entering the picture.
On a completely separate note, the ace attorney (specifically the great ace attorney) ost was so fire near the end. its one of my fav games and I love that its amazing ost is getting more recognition :D
Hearing his begging for those last 4,000 subscribers was absolutely HYSTERICAL, and it will live rent-free in my head forever 😂
I kinda want a "how to make bad pokemon more competitve" video. Not forcing it, just an idea if you want to. Your current content is absolutely fantastic and I literally drop whatever I'm doing when I get the notification that you posted a new video to watch it. Thanks for being such a great content creator and congrats on 1 mil!
Half these pokemon are/were meta at some point. Ceruledge, Espartha, Misdreavus
This explains a lot I personally play Vgc on showdown and saw a lot of the gravity strategy on showdown and this explains it also great video congratulations and on 1 million too!!!!
10:20 kingambit stalemated in a winning position 💀
Wow wolfey's first opponent haxxed the shit out of him. How incredibly close those games were while Wolfey's team was off meta and hax wasn't on his side is a testament to how great at this game he is.
My only gripe with the first match was "I'm gonna double protect both pokemon against the single kingambit". Like why not just double attack while it was that low? Am I missing something?
I love the little comedy blips you wrote for like everything when showing the move or the ‘mon. Keep it up! 🤙🏼
Take a shot everytime "Indeedee And Armarouge" gets said
4:26 "All I need to do is predict the sucker punches" on psychic terrain, I don't think they will ever come XD
-Espathra
-bad
My smogon brain can't handle this
10 months late, but you can look at it like that.
Espathra needs a few turns to unlock its final form - but it won't *get* those turns in double battles due to everything dishing out the pain left and right.