Frankfurt editionPokémon Champions is a free to play online battle simulator available on Switch and mobile. It features ranked, casual and private battles for both singles and doubles, and will be used for VGC tournaments in 2026.>News- Joseph Ugarte has won the 2027 Baltimore Regional Championship- Global Challenge September 25th-28th- Frankfurt Regionals September 26th-27th>Resources and useful linksCommunity Tournaments usage data: https://pikalytics.com/Ladder usage data: https://pokechamdb.com/enDamage Calculatorhttps://nerd-of-now.github.io/NCP-VGC-Damage-Calculator/New Player Guide(NEW PEOPLE READ THIS):https://rentry.org/pcg-guide (now taking suggestions and feedback)Quick FAQ>Do I need my own Pokémon to play?No, the game features a recruitment system, but transferring from Home is recommended to save time and resources.>What makes the game so much more accessible than before?All aspects of a Pokémon are customizable with VP, a currency earned simply by playing the game. IVs are also removed.Ask in the thread if you want any specific Pokémon, and someone will respond.>Is there single player content?No.>Do I need a Nintendo Online subscription?No.>What's the starter pack?US$6.99 one time purchase for 50 training tickets (fully train for free), 30 Teammate Tickets (recruit Pokemon without using VP), 50 extra box space and the LGPE trainer music. Only available on Switch for now.>Is anything locked behind a paywall?So far everything gameplay relevant is also purchasable with VP. Only E-Floette require ZA transfer.>/pcg/ OP pastebin (use this if making new thread): https://pastebin.com/d2FJZdPhOld >>59614047
>>59619476Skipping day 2 so I can play higher elo players on day 3 and get more points. I peaked at #9 lmao
What are you running for the VGC event?
>>59619476Mega Staraptor and Mega Raichu Y beat the fraud allegations!
free mythicals
>>59619481Im just using the event to try out my shitty steely spirit team without tanking my ladder elo more.No I will not practice on showdown or casuals. I need to play against tryhards with real teams or its not good practice.
>>59619516Mythics are different than legendaries because there is only one of each mythical pokemon. But they didnt care when they put eternal floette in so might as well.
>>59619476inb4 tbey make your transfer a ZA heatran to get its mega stone in champions like they did with floette and the three kalos megas
>>59619537It was only for floette and mega delphox.
I would really like it if skrawvgc didn’t do the forced Youtuber voice
>>59619546All ZA Pokémon…
>>59619547I’ve met him IRL and played team tours with him, that’s just how he talks. It’s a New Yorkish accent.
>he didn't farm infinite floettes by trading shitmons into shiny whims and then into legendaries that then get traded into floettes for infinite shiniesskill issue
>>59619566I can gen my own shinies and trade them for Floettes. But I unfortunately can't gen past gen 7.
Don't forget Brisbane regionals is this weekend as well.It's not going to be as meta informative, but then again you can usually expect Europe to just play whatever the best balance teams are.
>>59619569OP here, sorry I forgot.
>>59619570It's good, there's not even stream links up yet, but I'm pretty sure it will be shown on youtube @OCEPokemonVGC channel same as Twitch which is OceaniaVGC.
Yeah gc is just absolutely raping me, hurricane confusions, turn 1 crits, absurd unreadable plays.. How do people do well at these..
A soaked Pokemon gets it's stabs removed?
when i see brown avatars with semi spanish names, i have to try and remember these people are not human so you cant predict what they can do because they just press random buttons
>>596197894th place worlds 2026 was a brazilian anon, you never know.
10-0 so far
>>59619804nigga dont post your items bro
>>59619817Hell, I'll give you the moves too.I'm 7-3. Think I'm done. My wins were front loaded and my losses were 3 in a row. Never pretended to be very good.
>>59619817What are you gonna do, snipe me?
>>59619817theres over 50k people playing in these, statistically impossible youll play that anon
there should be a form toggle in the ev trainer
>>59619817bruh
I don't like Frankfurt. Dirty as shit and they were intimidating me as a smaller Asian man. Germany has made a terrible first impression!
>>59619925who was broalso sorry that happened on behalf of the nation
fuck it gonna test my team on the gc
>>59619925how do you like the shitskins
>>59619925being asian? we dont do that in Germany!
>>59619925It was a bit of a culture shock for us too
>forgot to fix one of my mons' sets before locking in the team>now only have 5 usable pokemon for the challengeffffffffffuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkkk
>Sneasler learns sunny dayFuck, what am I doing with my team dude. Fede is over here 13-0
Is Barbaracle that bad or is it only because it's almost required to have shell smash? Blastoise doesn't seem to have this problem. Or is it because they keep giving rock types tough claws without adding rock punch, rock claw or rock bite. I noticed no one used Falinks either because of no retreat.
>>59620086single target vs spread damageLot of mons output substantial damage and speed without the opportunity cost of using your mega slot.
>>59619952Unless you are actually a god at the game or you delusionally believe you are top cutting this somehow, this tournament is actually a great place for practice since you can spam games without hurting your elo.
>>59620086you can do shell smash rock slide memes but uhhh it's gorilla hours
>>59620086Game Freak should make a move called Judo Throw so you can have spread fighting damage.
>>59620090I did top one of these in SS anything can happen
>>59620095>picks up one opponent and throws it at the other opponentI'm surprised there isn't a move like that already
>>59619804>miloticfaggot mon
>>59619480is it too late to signup for this
>>59620090you cant top cut a GC lmao unless your asian, and that means you just move on to another GC lol
>>59620139You can literally sign up right before it ends. It doesn't make much difference unless you want to spend 6 hours doing 45 matches on the last day with all the other procrastinators.
https://silph-scope.com/?comp=ic178714271270xvovwlGC standings are live here
>>59620144How do the points even work? I haven't seen wolfey's name on there since the beginning last night. Would someone like him just have to go to a bunch of other regionals to qualify for worlds? I understand that the guy that won the last regional automatically qualifies. But I don't know about these GCs.
>>59620150How do they know the win percentages and players past 300? In game it only shows you up to the top 300 players and amount of points. There's people lower with 100% win rate but that's only probably because they haven't used all their plays yet but I don't get how the website would know that.
Literally all I fight is sand and I don't understand how to beat it at all. VGC is far, far too complicated and I prefer Smogon singles.
wtf are competitions
>>59620156https://championships.pokemon.com/en-us/about/
It's Altaria
i genuinely wish every perish sleep powder team player to genuinely, die, in this moment, it's so fucking hard to beat if they get lucky with sleep powder turns and/or protect
I swear to god politoed is tournament bait, pelliper is so much better.
>>59620209Electric and Misty terrain setters are going to save the meta
>>59620209I just had a game where I had to sit there and deal with both of my front mons being asleep, but I was still in a winning position so I figured the game was worth waiting. It was followed by the world's luckiest freeze on my Rilla. One Milotic put me down three Pokemon. I think I just got terminal cancer from this game.
>>59620224Pelipper gets that ass banned by Salamence and Rock Slide Sneasler thoughever
>>59620245pelliper and toed both ohko with icebeam, and rocksneedler is rare
>>59620245A rock slide from sneed isn't even a guaranteed 2HKO
>>59620209There's no team preview line up that pressures my selection more than gengar, rillaboom, incineroar, archaludon, politoed and vivillon. You have to be a morally bankrupt soulless sociopath to use that and this is coming from a guy who has a team that Simple Beams toxapex to boost with stockpile and psychs up the boosts with mega slowbro, at least that takes some work, playing around certain stuff and plenty of hax dodging to set it up, it seems even if you have the perfect answers like kingambit, it's still very difficult not to get screwed over by perish bs and not enough people play it so you can't practice like you would a regular team
>>59620292sand team buttfucks this
I wish I knew Global Challenge was Bo1 (thought it was Bo3 like a retard) cuz I would have done my normal Pod team. Instead I'm playing PerishPod.
Any genned floette lying around?
lost a game to arch award
I fought a guy that used raw Mega Abomasnow and Glaceon no trick room and literally every single blizzard hit was a freeze. He got 4 freezes zero thaws. Where do I get these permafrost Pokémon?
>>59620350I feel like you would get traded one from a random naturally. Just take it down and re list it every now and then if no one bites.
>>59620325Game 3, went up a complete counter team. Three ghosts (Gengar, Sinistcha and Froslass) and I can't do jack shit to Arch. They ran rain dance Mega Froslass. Some games you're just not meant to win.
i know its a long shot but anyone got a shiny aggron lying around? bro is my favorite
Fuck Rock slide and everything it stands for, and redditors act like sand is le wholesome chungus honorable weather condition, nah bish that shit is cancer and more uncreative than pelipper + arch cause you niggas always lead ttar + ex and copy and paste teams from jewtube
>>59620389Hey I use mega drill for the element of surprise
I got a Maushold in a love ball and "Maushold the Arrogant" in a normal Pokeball. Which should I keep?
>>59620407Arrogant, apriballs are easier to get
>running EQ in a rillaboom + wide guard meta
Could someone please gen me an efloette or giveaway one you already have?
>>59620253They only ohko a zero hp investment Sally if they've also got spa investment>>596202530hp pelli dies in 2 I thought but I could be wrong (and gets flinch merchant'd) but to be fair Politoed can be flinched too. I just see Poli as way more value because it also has great spread moves and is way beefier due to excellent typing and better stats
>le generic perish trap team>again
>>59620430>foil their turn 1 plans>forfeits
>>59620379ok lets try that again because someone sent me a regular aggron lol
>>59620437>gengar used protect
>>59620430Can't you just double the gengar? Whats the counter to that
>>59620430I've ran into more of the copy paste sand but with none of the confidence to go double mega if it's advantageous
>>59620442>>59620440
Learning to hate the game and not the player is a way to control your anger when bs like freeze, flinch, burn etc happens, like yeah they chose to put hax moves on their mons but if it's in the game, you can't blame the opponent for taking advantage of unfair mechanics
>>59620444So if they make the much less common choice and turn 1 protect, you can then confidently double the gengar next turn or whoever they swap into. But most of the time they'll just instantly perish from my experience If you are nervous of protect, double the partner
Thank you based rillaboom from making me not have to deal with the fish menace every 3 games, thank you le healthy meta monke
>>59620448>double into partner>gengar used perish song>partner had eject button
>Kingambit gets 7 resistances and 4 immunities if you use Trick or Treat on itI love shifting the tides on sneedsler
>>59620461Obviously youre gonna have a counter to everything I say because there is a counter to everything in Pokémon, I'm just saying be bold turn 1 as that's where a ton of their momentum is
https://www.twitch.tv/oceaniavgcBRISBANE REGIONALS IS LIVENo youtube stream.
>>59620448>turn 1>incineroar/rillaboom uses fake out!>gengar uses perish song!the true answer is to lead with double ghosts if you have it or a strong ghost at least. though i had my gengar take a shadow ball from a mega froslass so
>>59620487or following up, lead farig, most people dont do this
>1 turn left of perish>swap out gengar to do parting swap>m-charizard gets an air slash flinch on incinstill managed to win since i predicted they'd do a double swap and i just perished again with politoed lol
>>59620493>Air Slash Zardo i am laffin
>>59620497i went against a rain dance mega froslass too, this global challenge is a fucking meme
>>59620501That's Jap tech from reg MA.Fros was a fast, non priority rain setter and could turn off weather and enable Arch.
>>59620473Bet Luke wishes he had roost on the raptor, tailwind isn't so common with whimsicotts downfall, so that version of speed control isn't as important as last reg
>>59620501Rain dance is literally the 5th most used move on it
>>59620509Was thinking that exact same thing. Roost was needed. These little MS paint mazes for sprites are comfy. Where are our berry competitions to watch at Internats?
>>59620466Post team
>>59620532TF1DR634B9
mega salamence fucking sucks
anyone try Round memes with Salamence, Gard, Sylveon, or Primarina?
>>59620568Very overrated, all it does when I face it is give me a defiant boost or spam hyper voice into wide guard
>>59620568>>59620575Skill issues
Salamence is a high skill, high IQ Pokemon
I was doing poorly until I locked in. I think I finished 11-4.
>>59620426Search by level if you have trouble finding it and take note that it's a level 12 Starmie with a Relaxed nature, last floette req I'll ever do seeing as it only has 2 movesets and I only have one
>>59620439Hey bud I do have several extras if you're in the thread.
>>59620620Okay, I have one for you. Damn, I should ask for a shiny I'm missing in this thread.
>>59620609>>59620613You two might be right, I'm just so used to CharYzard nuking stuff that salamence seems kinda meh compared to the dominant mega of last reg, salamence and rilla are really healthy additions cause they dissuade people from using zard and basc
I fucking hate fakeout + a partner super volatilemon like chuy. Guess wrong = match lost
>>59620631Also I'm glad I don't have to garchomps stupid face every 2 games either, last reg was such cancer in hindsight
>enter competition>continuously lose
>>59620647See garchomps stupid face*
>>59620625extra shinys?
>>59620646this entire game is a guessing game
>>59620652Yeah. Aggron specifically.
>>59620652Do you want net ball or premier?
>>59620631That was both me kek but yea thats why you see mence in higher level plays. And it's also better in ots bo3 formats
Henry Rich is my dude. He brought Giratina to reg I events.
>>59620658>>59620662anything is fine brother
>>59620670Done.
>>59620675tysm brother, appreciate you
What pokemon feels like a 2nd mega on your team? For me it's kingambit
>>59620684sneedler
>>59620684Gholdengo
>>59620684Sylveon. It just puts out so much damage from the pixilate + fairy feather that you barely have to invest in SpAtk and can just spend your points making it physically bulky. My benchmark is +32 Sneed's dire claw, it will survive that 87.5% of the time while the 5 speed investment allows it to outspeed Jolly Chomp under tailwind.It definitely is not as good as it was in the past, but it covers for so many partner mons weaknesses that you can just pressure things to switch or protect.
>>59620684obligatory arch, i feel like its often a mistake sending out swamp or pod instead
>>59619480played two more games and won. im at 14-3. im on a 5 game win streak. im going to wait to play more games later so i can play higher elo opps
>>59620629Thanks a lot
>>59620473it's dead jimhopefully back soon
>>59620473it lives
gliscor is so fucking shit
I'd really appreciate it if someone could share a shiny one with me.
>>59620764That's an annoying one to get, you're much less likely to get the shiny Hisui mons.
>>59620764the hisui mons have to be bred or hunted in PLA, yea very hard to get. use a normal one
I miss Iron Crown, we need a better class of psyspammer.
>>59620764as a joke ill send you one
>>59620473That mega meowstic team has shown up in one sizeable online tournament where it placed 3rd.
>rain archaludon teamYou didn't really win. You played yourself. You gained no knowledge. You went backwards. You wasted your own time.
Someone give me a double code so I can do 3 battles
>opponent incin throat chops my politoed thinking im going to perish song>i weather balljust that easy
>>59620793This regulation deserves a better class of psyspammer... and I'm gonna give it to them.
I admire that the Japanese abandon old overpowered pokemon in favor of trying new pokemon of questionable power.
>>59620823Is Meowstic a good psyspammer? It's less used than Gardevoir and even Alakazam still.
>>59620868It’s better than megazam because of its base form having competitive, and it’s faster than gardevoir
Lucario being roughly the same size as Umbreon doesn't make a lick of sense to me. Why is he so tiny?
>opponent leads scarf glimmora with rain dancethey need to make ladder open team sheet like tournaments
Anyone got a spare Shiny Alpha Female Sneasler they're willing to part with? Got a Kapanese E-Floette and some shiny Ralts and Bunearies.
>>59620868Only loses to the PsySpam mirror.
finally made it to MB4 at 1691haven't played any GC and probably won'ti'm assuming it's too late once the tournament has started?
>lose to kleavor due to stone axe rocks and tailwind>then to m-camerupt getting a crit earth poweri wish i remembered that this was gonna be bo1 so i could have brought my bo1 final gambit raptor
>>59620983I just beat a guy who lead the usual farig Scarf raptor lead.He bluffed, swapped to politoed, I called the bluff and wasn't trapped by encore. The team was Golis/rain. He actually lost because of TR. My Zard undersped his raptor in the last turn of TR which brought it down to 18% and KOd the Pod.
Frankfurt Regionals is starting in about 45 minutes. This will be the largest regional ever with almost 1200 entrants.Day 1:https://www.youtube.com/live/6Mip5ftYurgLive standings here:https://www.pokedata.ovh/standingsVGC/0000194/masters/
>>59620917We need a Bo3 ots ladder.GF can always put a disclaimer that people should allot 1 hour per match to ensure they have enough time.The competitive Pokemon app should allow people to practice actually competing in a representative fashion.
>>59620961Online torumament? Today should be the deadline for you to participate and it ends tomorrow
A box of 100 is still not enough. Can we get more slots, TPC?
>>59621047pay up piggy
Good luck to everyone playing in person in Frankfurt!
>on a five game winstreak>only winning 12 rating per win>losing 17 rating per lossHow is this even fair?
>>59620961Just start it. These tournaments always give 15 per day but if you start late you just have all the days at once. Right now it's 30/45 then there's a full day after tomorrow when they give 45/45.
Isn't this the guy that just won and guaranteed himself a spot in world championships? Gee leave some winning for everyone else.
>competitors from MENA are not eligible for travel rewards
>>59621110Is he playing Sand again?
grapploct mentioned
>>59621115Espathra Raichu X shit
>>59620445Nah. It's perfect acceptable to hate the player.People can just decide to NOT use cancer. Plenty of people do. But if you act like a nigger you should be treated like a nigger.
>opponent sends out salamence>make a sacrificial play to get rid of it>they don't mega it>in the aftermath, their real mega comes inmore people are doing this and it's fucking with me not just the ttar team that the guy won with but other shit like floette too
rat shills pleased
>>59620684Hisuan Arcanine. Sometimes you just need something that hit like a truck.
>>59621117What's the synergy? Isn't X-chu a phys attacker?
>>59621129MDB successful meta manipulation
It's been half an hour since they started and they haven't shown a single match. Is it always like this?
>>59620684volcarona
>>59621134Espathra has electric seed, Raichu activates it and uses fake out, Espathra calm minds and baton passes to Archaludon. Cts strategy that everyone started using 2 days ago for some reason
i know chu was #1 on the mega graphic but 30% of all teams period is kinda crazy
>>59621139Why not use Rilla with grassy seed instead
>>59621139why not just do this with rilla+grassy sneed and save the mega slot for something else?unburden sneas already has a faster fake out than xchu so it's not like the speed matters here
>>59621142Surprise factor and boost to Archaludons electro shot I guess
>no gardevoirs to be seentrick room psyspam sisters... we're still ladder fodder
I can see why no one watches these
>>59621140my hero landorus would bootyblast this roster
GET ON WITH IT
there was a physical altercation at the front tables and security had to get involved kek how tf you gonna rage over pkm bro
>>59621185me when raichu full para's me on the first turn
>>59621185I knew we were in for some bullshit when the judges started screaming DO NOT UNPLUG THE LAN CABLESNobody can keep their hands to themselves
i've been to tournaments that would have finished the entire top 8 by the time this shit has started game 1
> Million hours of yappin between matches
>>59621142better terrain overriding so you'll never escape fake outelectro shot
put her in the game cowards
>>59621208oh duh i forgot chu delays terrain until after entry, that makes so much sensebasically the ttar megaing version of terrain control
>first game is a mirror matchlmaobased dragonites though
anyone play a stall team? mine is standard toxapex, dragapult with curse, ttar, mega banette with encore+disable, incineroar with snarl, and the 6th one im trying out rillaboom
total gholdengo death
>>59621146Wide Guard shouldn't be spammable.
>>59621238this cheese country boy
incineroarrillaboomsneasler
>Finally get to MB3>Rock Slide Flinched Spam 3 games in a rowFucking gay ass timeline.
what are you guys watching
>>59621249would you prefer mushroom and whatever shade of bear?
>>59621245just click a single target move bro
>>59621253bear joins that lineup anyway
the fuck these niggas have the exact same team
>nasty plotting in front of opposing ghold and incinson...
>>59621268that's how you know he's a real gholdengo player
>>59621252>>59621030
you just know Emanuele has a big thick cock. hopefully he doesn't jobb. I'll follow him and Carson now
>membership ends>some of the pokemon are locked out because the roster is over 100>the relevant one includedDamn this is annoying
>>59621268I can't imagine a worse play in a mirror match. Surely either Shadow Ball (praying you win the speed tie) or Protect are better
honestly the commentators are so much more chill that they make the American ones look like spergs they respect the game like it's chess instead of treating it as a spectator sport like you would Baseball or Football
>>59621302always been like that. the euro streams are chill asf
>>59621301Brother Emanuele's Ghold was modest while opp's was Timid. He just read him like a book
>1 match per hour of yapslopI can't do this shit man I'm sleepy
>>59621312I don't think they love to yap that much, it's more like there are 500 matches played at the same time
>>59621312I'm at the event itself in person and it's also a snoozefest.
silence absolfags we watching pod in here
>>59621327actually we watching pokemon go now apparently
uhh
Shit meta desu
he cute
cute white boy on the left
any cool teams?
Why are so many of y'all here gay
>>59621030>This will be the largest regional ever with almost 1200 entrants.louisville has 1200 entrants. bascially every regional will be "the largest of all time" baltimore was the largest before frankfurt kek. it comes down to venue size, if a venue can hold 1500 VGC players, we will get a regional with 1500
>>59621047bro just pay the 5 bucks, its not that much. if your a serious player, you use those slots anyways
>>59621338/vp/ has the highest amount of fags out of all the broads
>>59621339The point is that in the previous years they couldn't find so many people to sign up for tournaments. It's a fancy way to say that the esport is still growing
twitch chat always wants to see the shitmons and its funny when they dont get picked. we do not want to see mega absol z and drampa, we want to see the top players play and thats exactly why they get voted in.
>11-4 at 15 games>maybe just a few more quick ones>11-7 at 18 gamesShould have quit while I was ahead.
>>59621343if that's true why don't I have a boyfriend
>>59621347The twitch chat votes get manipulated by the big co-streamers anyways
>>59621349your favorite mon is gaydead
>>59621347yeah let's see a team that will probably be featured in the next rounds and already has won the last regional instead of a unique one. I swear your faggots are cancer
>>59621355what's wrong with liking cofagrigus?
>>59621347EU has the community choice so we see some of the off meta picks sometimes, for NA, the casters just pick themselves. however, EU has been picking top players more, also spanish players bot the votes anytime a spanish player appears on the ballot so they do it less often now
>>59621360hes dead jim
>>59621361>EU has the community choice so we see some of the off meta picks sometimes, for NA, the casters just pick themselvesvery telling lol
cute white boy won btw
both these guys kida look retarded...
why the fuck do they say MegaR instead of Mega? Are they esls?
>>59621369The dutch guy really does
>>59621374 (me)Fuck I wanted to say german
>>59621369German guy is a autistic and Spanish one is a turbomutt. CHADmanuele set the bar too high
>>59621365theres extreme poltics in NA VGC. the casters just pick their freinds, all the top players are freinds with eachother, they all prep and teambuild together etc.
>sucker punch set on pod with an indeedee teamwhat did he mean by this
>>59621377>top players are freinds with eachotherlol
>>59621377>all the top players are freinds with eachother,this is the case for every esport...
Frankfurt day 1 usage
Not a big fan of the Indeede switch, it's obvious Rillaboom wasn't going for Fake Out
>>59621384it's a milotard, what did you expect?
why are they saying Mega Revolution I swear it's making me go nuts
>>59621384I think it he went indeedee to prevent grassy glide, but surprisingly rilla was faster with wood hammer anyway
>>59621389>surprisingly
pod is getting cooked every stream
Am I stupid or does Santiago's team struggle a lot dealing with Primarina?
buge
Was he predicting a switch on raptor's slot
>>59621378I did the same thing initially, fucked myself with it like twice before I dropped it. I've wondered how situational it could be if I kept it
>>59621396pod
Why would you fake out such obvious deedee switch?
>>59621400It's okay but it doesn't one hit
>>59621393rilla and milo are actually quite close in natural speed
>>59621406Yes but milo is a setup set and rilla is fake out utility
Zap Cannon is such a nasty move
How bulky is rouge?
kek that trick room was nice
total chu death
It's over
volc matchup is just that badcolin knows pod can't exist on the field with that thing and correctly protecting it at all costs
>>59621416milosisters, podsisters... it's over, the better water and bug types prevailed
wait that was game 3?what even happened in game 2
>>59621419He brought Shitraptor instead of GODchu
>Raichu X with fake out and encoreI can see the strategy. You're guaranteed fake out unless the opponent is Farigiraf. You can't switch in or lead with Indeedee. Then unless you outspeed you get encore protect. Pretty degenerate strategy.
why does he keep switching from english to german? just stick with one language
>>59621425Why not just do this with Y chu
>>59621426I thought germanic people spoke good english, why does he need a translator
>>59621427ychu doesn't delete psychic terrain upon megaing
>>59621428he looks to be from some absolute barbaric hole in the middle of nowhere given the phenotype
>>59621427It replaces psychic terrain. Mega Raichu X is the only surge mega so it works like Mega weather and gets the last say.
well?
>>59621428depends on where you went to school.
>>59621439Depends on the situation honestly, they are all good
>>59621439i dont eat anything in the veune while im playing. i had an Oreo churro at baltimore and it tasted kinda nasty... i threw the second one away
>before it Mega Revolveswhat? did a planet get a mega form?
grapploctGODS
too bad Grapploct got such a bad matchup here I wanted to see it coming out
Are all the Europe streams like this? The pacing is insufferable. So much fucking prattling. They spent the first hour literally just filling time. Then they barely shown any fucking matches the following 2 hours. Just commentate over some matches that already happened in the meantime holy fucking shit. Over 3 hours so far and we've seen absolutely fuck all.
>>59621449Side streams are kind of a new thing and probably are budget dependent. But yeah this makes it feel much slower
>>59621449swiss format means they have to wait for every player to finish their matches before calculating the next round, which takes forever with this many people guaranteeing a fuckup or two is bound to happen and slow things down
How is steel a balanced type? And why does ice only resist itself?
>dnite floette incin sneas ghold rilla again
>>59621458steel is a top 3 type but the main reason it's not as stupidly broken as it looks on paper is that the 3 types that hit it for super effective are all really good and common attacking types it's also not offensively that good for much besides deleting fairies
>>59621460the pretty boy chad literally built this team, granted it's a derivative of the Worlds winning one
bridge love
why is his archaludon a manlet
>>59621427Y Chu loses to Psychic Terrain.
didn't bring sneedler award
so his Ghold is>slower than bulky arch>drops to crunch from kanga at 65%where did he invest his evs? attack?
>AIEEEEEEEEEE TRsissies... we lost again
Can we bring back Zard Y to kill all dengo
Sad I was hoping the trick room team would win
TR yearns for ursaluna
>>59621505didn't know bibi posted on /vp/
>>59621513I don't get the reference
>the frenchman didnt know grapplocts name>almost called it octopus>>59621454NA streams get side streams now, seems like EU doesnt get them yet
>>59621509Trick room is missing that physical abuser right now. Tailroom is also missing Ursaluna heavily right now. Ursaluna Salamence tailroom will feed families
Oh I didn't realize Incineroar has taunt. Explains why he didn't go for trick room while Mawile was out. Going for the Pelipper switch was too obvious too.
wake me up when game
They really need to fix this in future streams. This is so fucking boring.
>>59621537The NA stream plays side stream matches during the downtime, they had side stream matches at Turin, unsure why they don’t put them on the broadcast
>>59621539I can understand not having side streams because time zone problems and finding vetted commentators but they should at least record some other matches and play those in the mean time. Just commentate over 2x speed footage because the result is already determined if it's not enough time to commentate over the full matches.
Zomp
I wonder if they were instructed to not say Absol and Garchomp "zed"
>Mega Absol Z, Espathra and Hisuian GoodraWow
>>59621560i knew goodra was good for something this reg
abzol was so close to beating the allegations
>>59620773>>59620775Oh, I didn't know since I don't have a Switch. That sucks. I guess I'm stuck with my 3DS shinies...>>59620821Thank you, I like the Moon Ball more than the shiny to be honest.
WHY IS EVERY CASTER SAYING "MEGA REVOLUTION" AND "MEGA REVOLVING" ARE THEY RETARDED?
meger evolve
Baton pass into Goodra, it's time
>>59621598this shit actually won wtf
>>59621610on a second thought if he evolved bird he wouldve won easily
>>59621613I think he was scared of a Lumina Crash one shot
>>59621613Yup, not sure why he went for mega ttar here when bird dealt with Goodra and Rillaboom.
DIED TO SAND
its GOOVER
>he keeps revolving ttarwe saw how it went two times before
>>59621625who would've thought lol. how did this guy snatch 4-0 is beyond me
>>59621620WE ARE SO GOOBACK
It was basically a 4v3 while also ruining his strat, and he still lost because he wasn't able to stop Floette from setting up
i dont like floette
What happened to Froslass?In theory it should have good matchup into all the Mence
>>59621656incin is back in action
>>59621656You're gambling with a speed tie. Literally anything with ice beam and can tank a weak flying spread move or draco meteor can 1 hit KO.
Going by the matches of note next round is going to be a snoozefest no matter which match up they end up showing
get on with ittttttt
Bro still playing the same team since june
Kinda crazy to run a MB team, no changes.
Man, this Louis is a scrub.. Although rockslide is busted
>>59621685yeah it's not equipped for a fast sneasler fight off the bat at all
>flinch>heat miss>critsThat's Pokémon for you
I've just been playing singles with my team from the games, recommend me a funny doubles team. Like Dry Skin+Surf or Klutz+Entrainment
>>59621712I used chomp + eelektross mega to eq = discharge
>barely make it to 1700 after a week of bullshit>back to 1640 because I keep getting paired against H-ArcanineIma kms
megaRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
the europeans play so much balance slop, it's boring to watch
>>59621439Fruit but I'm afraid of getting my hands dirty
>yeah, he won NAIC way back in 2026
>doing the cross sign before the game starts
>>59621749He's Italian, he's Catholic.They sign the cross before the brush their teeth in the morning.
Howdy there, sugarcube.
>>59621752Being italian doesn't mean much in that regard nowadays. But the fact that his name is Francesco (patron saint of Italy), his second name is Pio (means pius and it's the name of another super famous saint) makes me think he's from a very reiligious family. Just an hunch
Thinking about making a Ttar giveaway. Just gen a bunch of normals and shinies and give them away freely here or Wonder Box them away.
>>59620208It's a Jigglypuff as seen from above
>>59621753This girl can get it
Ain't no way he went for clangorous soul in front of a +2 Goldhengo
Pio Pero wins.Zard had to weatherball the Raichu
Italians be like>my name is pio pero
Was Chomp that much of a Y-chu check?
>>59621792...Yeah? One hits him with any ground move, while Raichu can never OHKO him
>>59621792Yes.Rillaboom killed Chomp's time in the sun.
>>59621791netherland klinefelter dude got run over kek
>>59621800i wish the dutch were erased
has anyone told europeans they can speak english without a silly accent?
>>59621797What's stopping Chomp from using stomping tantrum instead of earthquake
>>59621818>t. mega Revolution EFL
>>59621826they do now but it's not as scary
Is arch rare in this tournament BECAUSE arch is so popular and people know exactly what to do ot counter it?The mon is absolutely fucking broken and has to be a top 5 non mega.
>>59621844we are still in new toy syndrome. speaking of that, Lucario Z on stream
>>59621844Y-Chu onetaps it with Focus Blast and it's the most popular mega right now
>>59621844arch needs a lot of babysitting that doesn't really fit in a lot of teams + gets mogged by shit like ychu
>>59621849>>59621852I guess its way worse in open sheet too, you can see the line for the set up kill much easier. I don't see THAT Much chuy at 1600 elo
they just drone on and oncan we strat round 8 now?
>>59621859Arch was 2nd at Baltimore.It's tough to deal with in open and closed sheet.
Some of these euros are looking rough man…
This guy is a moron
What does Lucario even do man
>>59621936Try to setup then die.Its most dangerous set is next to scarfed Indeedee(M) and using copycat expanding force.
>>59621940what a joke kek. it just lacks power
>bax team almost identical to minerip
what mons kill volcarona for the upcoming fotm
>>59621962Hisuian Arcanine OHKOs and can't get burned by flame body
>>59621962Garchomp@Life Orb with Power Gem.
>>59621962
Pio Perro's team there is the only interesting one. The balance slop sucks to watch.
we like mence here
>>59622006well yeah, europe likes balance slop
Teams have finally been updated for Frankfurt.>>59621030>>59621030
Oh shit a Basculegion
EU not beating the balance allegations
they're inciting zomp on zomp violence
FREE THEM
one of the biggest team archetypes has FOUR fake out users and compfags will still say the move isn't overcentralizing
>and here are some stats about the set we just watchedwho thought this was a good idea? if it was across sets it could actually be somewhat insightful
>>59622087Just use farig hello
Can't tell if I've gotten worse as a player or the meta has just shifted in a way that has been especially unkind to the shitmons I'm trying to push through ranked.
>>59621555You can see updated usage stats.Compare which mons made it to day 2 with a positive or negative conversion rate.Raichu Y is +2.4% Salamence is -4.6%Garchomp is +7.6%Charizard Y is +3.5%Golisopod is -1.2%Floette is +3%Staraptor is -1.2%Tyranitar is -1.9%https://standings.reportworm.com/2027/frankfurt/usage
>>59622096The support mons have gotten way better. Terrains and seeds bully out a lot of weaker mons.
the pokemon with 150 spatk and speed and legendary BST is.... le good???
>>59622128mega lucario z sucks tho
Metagross has a -2.5% conversion rate.There are only 3 of them that made Day 2 lmao
>>59622140what is killing them off now instead of zard?
>>59622148themselves
>>59622148Ghold, volc I guess
>the two undefeateds are the EUIC finalists>rematch tomorrowKino
>>59622163It's NAIC, but yes
>>59622165Right
>>59622163Unbelievably kino
what's the best set for calm mind m-garde?
>>59622121Mega shit cfumshot bros... It's podover
>all 3 8-0 players have Volcarona on their teamis it finally her time?
>>59622265>less aereodactyl>less garchomp>grassy terrain is back for a free defense boost (which goes great with quiver dance)Volcarona is in a great position right now
>>59622265Volcarona had a +7.7% usage rate from day 1 to day 2. It actually just edged out GarchompZ for most conversions among Pokemon that started with more than 100 entries.Venusaur also had a high positive usage rate, but there were only 36 of those from the beginning.Meowstic was #1 if we ignore the initial number of entries. All 3 Meowstic teams made Day2. 100% conversion rate.
>lose a bunch of games with my shitty spirit team>Have terrible score>Start encountering people doing their first games to day>Beat them and make them lose 20 points on their first game Fucking lmao. Having shit BP is so troll in this.
>try to read the enemy>does the most ass backwards stupid niggerfaggot unreadable play of all time>losehow do people stay sane playing Bo1 closed sheet slop?
>>59622326By knowing it's a coinflip most of the time and just grind as many battles as possible
why dont people run Coil + Blizzard
>>59622326Once you feel you have enough foundational knowledge, then you move to practical knowledge which just comes from seeing a lot of shit.The other thing to try is to position yourself such that you keep constant pressure on your opponent, so leads make or break how you'll fare.
>>59622326dont do a 50/50 if one of the outcomes is explosive diarrhea
the EU players in the regional are so much more handsome than the NA players...
>>59622344Yeah, a lot of times there are calls you can make where if you get them right you're just slightly ahead of where you were, but if you got it wrong doing that then you basically auto lose.Usually the safer play is the one that probably puts you slightly behind, but you don't lose immediately. Remember that your opponent can screw up the obvious play too.
>>59622345did you see the greek guy?that's also gay nigga
>>59619476I hope someone makes a video about how terribly this event has been run. If any of you guys went today, you'll know exactly what I mean. Terrible staff, shit security, and pathetic treatment of non-competitors.
>>59622345depends on the host location. if it's the uk, then its always mid to ugly players
>>59622345I saw a lot of really handsome older men today but most of them were there with their wives. Men over 40 are so casually sexy
>>59622381Tell us more.I think most Pokemon events are way over capacity these days because it was meant for tournament sizes 5 years ago.
>>59622395It was just a clown show.>half of the venue space is closed and everyone had to go around to the back entrance>way overcrowded>embarassing token effort for parents having only a few shitty tables>tiny video games section>only three merchants>security screaming at people who went to try and find the second food place at the rearIt was just a horribly planned event. By far the worst I've been to. All the empty space could have been used to help with the crowding problems at the front
>>59622402That is really weird.The crowding problem there sounds self imposed. In the US some venues are literally at capacity for fire code reasons so player counts are limited by that.
Guys never pis off an autist, I can't get this guy to get off my dick because I dared say "Mega Sharpedo getting fishous rend wouldn't make it OP, just usable"Now he's trying to spam me with counter example damage calcs and dumb things like "Well if rilla can solve it how he getting in! He dies to rend on swap"Gee I don't know, fucking don't be a retard and swap him into the other slot?
>>59622409What kind of bot is this?
>>59622424Not really a bot, it was just champions related and I was annoyed.
>>59622402sounds like a shitty experience
>Finally release Heavy-Duty Boots>Singles players actually having to think because of Item Clause
>>59622432is boots even used in BSS
>>59622432I'm still surprised smogon bans so many mons, strategies, and abilities, yet it doesn't have item clause.
>>59622402sounds about right for a european event desu you guys have issues with organizing
Watching this live without 2x and fast forwarding is insufferable. I'm not making that mistake for day 2.
>>59622479Just watch later on that one channel that uploads the individual matches so you don't even have to go clicking through the vod looking for them.
wyrdeer + milotic or kingambit is a neat combo
every time i think about adding a new mon to my team it's weak to h-arcanine, god i hate that thingbtw how is volcarona doing so well with it everywhere
New>>59622614
>>59622087It's centralizing in a good way, like Protect. It slows down the game and adds defensive options. It also makes for entertaining 50/50s; "do I call he's not going to Fake Out and attack or do I Protect and hope he doesn't reposition."
Could someone please send me a dupe of yet another support pokemon with 4mss?
