Day 2 at Louisville is live.
Paul Chua just put down an assbeating on his undefeated opponent.

>fat chink haxes on first stream match of the day

Here are the standings plus pairings and Pokemon Usage stats:
https://standings.reportworm.com/2027/louisville

how come buta chua has the gay buttsex pedo artist shirt on stream? shouldn't it be brandless?

Reg MC is becoming a comfort meta already.
Jut run whatever you like and know the matchups well. That's why reg MB and even some MA teams are still performing.

>>59656020
???

>>59656055
Massive misplay from Joe. Mence isn't a direct threat to Zard and you need the farig.
Why ignore the Gambit?

>>59656067
Probably thought killing Salamenace would be good enough and underestimated how shit Ancient Power is as a coverage move.

ez for mence

Ugarte got raped by a Mega Mence

fee mythies

>>59656073
Weatherball is a 2HKO into Mence, I just don't get it.

>>59656082
you dont want darkrai bro

To be fair to Aerodactyl, there are still 2 AeroZard teams that could theoretically make Top Cut.

Paul Chua? more like Paul Chud

>>59656088
Yep, dark void's nerf still is favored to put something to sleep.

brutal T1

is Zardslop back? was everyone just fudding Zard so they could win an easy regional?

>>59656109
how hard to understand is new toy syndrome for you?

TPC is personally rigging this tourney hard for zard with all these misses

Bascudeleted

what a match

why did he target a -2 chomp when basculegion couldn't protect? what the fuck?

Wolfey would've destroyed them

>>59656138
my fuarking hero

>>59656136
It mightve survived dragon claw, he hard read attacking the whimsicott so he can kill it next turn with single target eq

>>59656136
hard read
Nick was probably asking that too

Raichu X could potentially make top cut

>>59656136
unbulky chomp still dies to draco at that hp

>>59656141
untrue, min roll still kills a basculegion with about 10 hp which doesn't even exist if it's running scarf
>>59656142
that's a 100% win path, "reading" is plainly wrong
>>59656151
yes but with no fish whims vs -3 zomp wins always

>just wait mence will kill off zard y
>mence died to chomp z instead
they could do the funniest thing and make zard z real as dlc at this point

>>59656156
Nope, it's a 50% roll to kill that basculegion at that hp according to the creator of the team

>>59656156
It's a read because if Nick calls that and protects Chomp then you just fucking lose.

>>59656162
Also if last respects goes into Chomp instead of Whims then you lose as well.

Official broadcast tier slop

>>59656159
Why make shit up? He said he didn't know not the roll percentage

>>59656158
thats what I've been saying but Arceus Z content is over

>>>59655544
Wolfe fights against a version of this teamhere: https://youtu.be/izUtsOgXX9o?si=gvD6HXvHJE_fBfrk&t=522

In my opinion is shit as hell.

is it top 16 or 32?

>>59656183
he's out they said you need 10 wins lmao

>>59656186
Top cut is 16
One more swiss round.

>>59656190
I know. In the last threat someone posted the wat team andpeople were wondering how it worked.
I saw that and found that it worked as expected: shit. Wolfe played like shit and still kicked ass

>>59656183
>never played a pod
figures

What's the point of resistance at this point when they won't even bother with a proper top 16? I get annoyed at how much byes there are lately

Mega Greninja might come on stream!!

>>59656201
What do you mean a proper top 16? Legit question I'm not familiar with tournament structures

>>59656207
i hope i wanna use it

lmao

fun fact base swamp is only 10 points behind in spA from mega swamp it's a goated choice

bro switched out Arch when he was at +1, now he's got in the same situation but weaker

>>59656223
overthinking takes another one

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sovl...

>>59656209
It doesn't matter if your resistance places you in the top 16 if you don't meet the win# cutoff. You won't play at all and the top seed will get a bye instead.

>>59656226
it was a 50/50 kind of but honestly his team can't touch Pod

>>59656231
>honestly his team can't touch Pod
many such cases...

>>59656230
no fucking way that's so trash, who devises this?

>>59656229
Seeing Tsareena always makes me happy

the kindest person you know is running snarl arch

This is going to take forever.

Paul Chua finally lost a match, to Cary.

>>59656236
VGC got too big so they're doing everything to cut down on matches and save time.

crit drill run

Raichu X has made top cut.

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its over

>>59656248
Yeah but save time on something else not top fucking 16

I feel the Aromatic Mist is the play for the Arch mode, but Swampert is the odd one out.

landorus almost cried when he saw the current state of earth power users

>>59656260
that swamp is keeping arch safe from chomp

Tsareena is just useless besides aromatic mist in this matchup... is it really the right choice?
Never mind side axel was funny. Still I bet Drill run will crit before arch clears pod. Pert needs to support it

>>59656248
I remember when Nintendo tried to mandate all Splatoon tournaments be under 500 participants in some doc a few years ago for official tournaments and I think they just refuse to make regionals bigger, which means its hell to fight just to go to a single one. I have a friend who's into Lorcana and said you're fighting 22k people to get one of 5k seats to a regional there or something.
I remember when you'd have 250 Masters in a regional man, Pokemon VGC getting popular has Monkey Paw'ed in my face

these fuggin crit bro

Now he must pp stall the drill run

>>59656257
I really don't like draco on that arch especially because if you want to boost it with aromatic mist it's very anti synergistic. He will lose for that now

podgod still chunking at +6 def dont even need crits

how can those people use so many double protects? I never got a single one that I tried.

toler is gonna get timed out

Saved by the crit

get on with it

GM what did I miss

>>59656340
Total ZardY comeback and domination

>>59656360
:'( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90Cw4l-8NY

>>59656360
https://youtu.be/BY3Y4HQf_TY

Take all MegaZard users, put them in a room and pump Sleep Powder through the vents

>>59656377
Are you fast enough to do it without the sun?

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Replay feature WHEN???

having far too much fun

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Who're we cheering for?

>>59656402
LONDON
O
N
D
O
N

>>59656402
Zard :)

>>59656402
Caden Croft's team looks based.

>>59656402
there is not a single "cool" team, guess I'd like to see that Froslass mega and ChuX on stream

>>59656402
Tyranibased of course

>>59656402
>raichu x
Dorian it is

>>59656381
Back in 6the gen

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>>59656370
but Zard Y fell off...

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>Zardslop getting bulkier trend
>Adamant M-Emboar outsped

Certified Bruh moment

staraptor must be the laziest mega conceived literally designed to spam exactly 1 move and can't be intimidated OC-tier creation

Brian Hough who is playing Paul Chua now was the 2011 juniors world champion apparently

We wasted all that time watching that while some top 16 matches have already finished.

My goat Xchu in top 8

Caden is cute asf

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>>59656472
They seem to have a boner for changing a baller typing to already well-establsihed Mega-typings (Staraptor->Hawlucha, Golisopod->Scizor, etc) which kinda sucks because Normal/Flying is actually pretty goated & M-Staraptor is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum to differentiate itself from M-Pidgeot

It'd be the same antics, just with an overall better Typing

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Honestly all the megas have been jobbers this tourney
This is the real MVP carrying every team on its back

>>59656485
bro was playing against his friend and other 3 guys

my god stop

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>char char! fuck Palestine!
live on television too??

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>Makes a big show out of retiring from in person tournaments
>Proceeds to enter every regional and flame out of every single one of them
What was his plan?

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>>59656580
he probably is waiting for pokemon to hire him as commentator like they are doing with cybertron. he does not realize that he's more marketable as a player rather than someone yapping in the background

>>59656580
Wouldn't surprise me TPCi pays him to go to events and do his silly meme shit builds.

Bro won the Junior World Championship in 2011 and then never won again anything. Jeez

>>59656608
child prodigy syndrome

>>59656595
wouldnt they show him more often on stream then? they only streamed a single loss before he got cut

>>59656580
>guy playing with literally 5 pokemon got top 8
>wolfe couldnt top cut
kek

dragonite's fat ass blocking the screen

>Knock Off doesn't negate focus sash

This game was meant to instill suffering.

X-Chu is so trash

>>59656622
>>guy playing with literally 5 pokemon got top 8
what do you mean

>>59656649
he has a team sheet error so he cant bring his incineroar

>>59656648
Feint is not good, surely it gets ice punch right?

>>59656608
That's not uncommon. Wolfe is an outlier with the amount of tourneys he has won.

Charizard said
I'M NOT LOSING AGAIN

Never doubt 'zard

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>don't bring flinchslop
>lose

>>59656650
well he's the fucking goat

After 2026 Worlds, Zardy is technically now considered an underdog. Will he finally take the crown on SG Worlds 2027?

>>59656697
Guess it depends on what Reg ME is.

>>59656697
It's going too be mega venasaur, calling it now

charizard y would be a nothing burger without his butt buddy venusaur traveling at light speed to bodyguard him from anything threatening

>>59656706
his butt buddy garchomp*

Damn, Sierra gained some serious weight

>>59656709
true scarf chomp is the other third of his polycule

>>59656705
Heatran would still decimate it.

I think americans are unable to learn new teams in a short time so they fell back to zard y. EuroGODs, masters of creativity and fecund of ideas, were able to show what Chomp Z can do but they cannot replicate it

stop saying dividends

>rough skin to trigger emergency exit
that really paid dividends

>gunk miss
lmao

g2 was dirty

I get that it ohkos the meta fairies but it's barely more accurate than focus miss

>>59656751
It was messy because there was too much pivoting, but Andrew's consistent strategy was just unga bunga offense
ignore threats
just attack

>>59656755
grimm at 1 hp was disgusting. he had to make calls because of that pivoting bullshit and he got them, got punished by rng

no ychu in top kek

>>59656763
There's a reason why there's so much Scarfchomp on this tourney.

Raichu X placed higher than all Ys and could still win it

I'm cheering for Toler since I need Chomp Z to win again.

>>59656773
anon...

It's all up to megamence now

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Remember when we did this? Finally got everything except the GRAPP, so kommo-o is a temporary replacement. Looks fun so far, feels like electric surge confuses people and they aren't sure what to do. Not using blastoise much and I feel like I want fire attack at least somewhere. Switched some items around too, kind of want u-turn on monke and thinking on how to upgrade it further in general

>get mence killed for no reason
congratulations to zard

nick navarre is the only team in top cut with 3 or more physical attackers and no members with competitive/defiant

he is 8-0 though so I guess there's a way to make it work

>>59656795
Mence is not actually good into Zard.

>>59656800
Nick went 9-3, didn't make top cut.
Did you start the stream over?
Look at the standings to catch up.

>>59656807
fug I guess the website I checked is outdated, I just woke up

>>59656800
even then, incineroar only barely counts as a physical attacker since he just clicks fake out and parting shot 75% of the time

>>59656795
nvm we are so back

>>59656595
He'll be Pokemon's Charles Marinet

>>59656712
Pics?

>phase 1
mega stone is garchomp's mega stone
>phase 2
life orb is garchomp's real mega stone
>phase 3
garchompite z is garchomp's real mega stone
>phase 4 (you are here)
choice scarf is garchomp's real mega stone

damn it's over, fageon hyper voices his whole team

>>59656825
As soon as Sneedler goes anyway.

I need to prep for when the new games come out next year as Switch 2 genning won't be happening for a very long time.
What are some good ones to stock up on besides E Floette, Raging bolt, walking wake and iron leaves?
And what would be an easy trade for shiny and non shiny mythicals?

Ugarte played the third game very well

Zard status?

mencesissies....

>>59656835
he baited the gambit by giving it a free boost and enticing it to attack zard while he needed it for sylveon

>>59656837
picked up the crown from the gutter

>>59656831
I'm so sad that Champions will die with gen X, I don't want to go back to sh*wd*wn...

>>59656847
Source? Champions is literally the turnbased preservation

This is upcoming battle is Mence's last shot. Up against Swampert Rain with a Staraptor mode too.

sylveon has trans colors

you know GF's favorite on top when it's 75% of semifinals

the mystery meat caster with blue eye contacts looks so fucking weird

mence teams need to fix the arch matchup

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i think charizard SUCS

most based round ever seen
fuck gholdengo, fuck starrapuor, fuck archaludon

kingambit is OP debtate me

>>59656899
A plush of every pokemon was the best thing they ever did.

>>59656902
desu it is but so are most of the things it counters so it ends up being healthy for the meta

>>59656905
yeah grabbed a Magnemite and a Magnezone when I visited Tokyo. should have bought three more Magnemites because I think they did not make a Magneton plush
the clerk at the counter even said "wow you must really like Magnemite"

>>59656910
Magneton has a plush but buy three Mites and sitting them together sounds cooler.

>>59656794
Kommo-o isn't too slow for your team?

Mega ampharos might be the best charYzard check in the game, it's actually not that bad, kingambit still feels like the mega on my team though but 165 SpA and 90/105/110 bulk is nothing to scoff at

>>59656927
I was actually trying to make mega ampharos work one regulation ago before chomp Z released. now I might need to calc if ampharos can even survive a dragon pulse and KO in return

When are we going to switch to a new gimmick? Mega evos are getting boring.

Slowest Floette on the planet goddamn

Swampert lives to fight another day

mence is so washed bros

the mence teams people make all just suck ass vs steel need to go back to the lab for this one

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>>59656937
They're not even done releasing them lmao, & even then it'll become a retarded Legendary wanksesh long before they even THINK about Z-Moves/DynaMax/Tera/WWgimmick

Also calling it now, they'll only release Heavy Duty Boots the day before EoS

>>59656937
only Tera is better

>>59656932
It does if you run it standard max HP in trick room, doesn't live a draco tho, but just pair it with a fairy or steel, also very good into non HH rillaboom and doesn't need to worry about using electric moves when the opponent has a raichu cause of Mold Breaker

is it me or there's barely any weather / terrain war going on?
is sand that bad?

>>59656965
If i see a rillaboom on the other side, I may bring indeedee to help a teammate set up trick room or do it itself but won't bring hatterene for psyspam

>>59656925
it kind of is, but pinchirin becomes a magnet for damage after 2 curses, so it gives room to set up clang

>>59656964
I was trying it with whimsicott tailwind support actually, not sure how viable it is now

I like this jj dude
>>59656965
Sand doesn't have the same benefits or number of mons that can take advantage.
A sand team is basically just Ttar and Excadrill. Sand is actually really good mind you, (mega) Ttar can always maintain weather control T1 which cannot be said about others.

casters are getting tired

>now proceeding with zard vs zard in top 4
>>59656927
very interesting, I ran Altaria mega which is probably even better because even in base form it shuts down every zardy besides ancient power variant due to cloud nine. it doesn't offensively beat it but locks it down with perish song in the endgame

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so this... is the power of regulation m-c's varied meta

Thinking of a Role Play gimmick for a M Delphox team. What's a synergetic partner who has an ability Delphox could copy and take advantage of?

>>59657027
thank you genies

>crit that mattered into double heat wave miss
skill based game btw

>>59657050
he also hit both sleep powders, I mean all three

>>59657052
and the fucking poison lmao
cursed RNG seeds are real I swear it

>>59657031
water absorb
intimidate
adaptability

>>59657055
Wasn't there a time early in SV where battle rng was bugged to give you the same seed so crits would happen reliably?
That sounds familiar

at least they're having fun

>>59656831
>shiny and non shiny mythicals
you can't trade for those actually. also once the new games come out floette and raging bolt stocks are gonna fall. samething happened with Kubfu and Ogerpon over time. GO could have another snowflake form like "roaming gimmighoul" which also drops the vaule faster

Are Wolfe fans this annoying or are people trolling by constantly bringing him up in youtube chat?

>>59657074
where's wolfe

>>59657074
both

>>59657074
just trolling at this point

SKILL SLIDE

Flinch for the win! That's my VGC.

unbelievable hax going on lol

these vgc players still win with rock slide flinch the old-fashioned way

g2 was just filthy. this time andrew deserved it

>>59657091
Without the sun Arch would have probably won

ice beam didn't kill garchomp? how weak is this guys politoed?

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Get that Fake Dragon outta here!

>>59657101
-1 from snarl

>>59657101
Should've run perish song

>>59657105
Zard is Chomp's best buddy.

>>59657108
oh durr
also apparently doing the calc modest 32spatk toed isn't even a guaranteed ohko anyway, wtf

>wolfe glazing as he's flying back home

>>59657117
these are the same interviews as always maybe

no wolfe not a real tourney

welcome back M-B

>farigiraf
>basculegion
>dondozo
>ursaluna

what is it with the past era and them making a bunch of mons with absurdly high HP stats?

You know it's dire when the 4th mon doesn't even show up.

>charizard or starraptor will win
hitler vs stalin ass matchup

Joe is HIM

the rng in this tournament is cursed as hell and all rigged for zard teams

Based cat putting the bird down.

inciniGOD

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>>59657151
you forgot one

If every tournament is just going to be this guy sweeping through everything with slop teams I'm not watching the next one

>>59657177
At least it doesn't have that anymore.

>>59657180
Very true. Still 110, which is insane

>>59657179
Build a better one and beat him.

In retrospect, was t-bolt + heatwave not a better move? Obviously he didn't know Peli would switch in, but even vs gold, it would put down some good damage and assuming the pelipper switches in, makes the heatwave single target

my chosen mega is so good
Zard has won the regional

>regular swamper goes before zard
holy crap that is one slow fat fuck lizard

Aura farm him. Click Hyper Beam

>>59657192
The death of hArcanine's usage has made the lizards bold again.

lads called my boy swampert washed but he's in top 3 and rilla isn't

joe got the luckier end of the stick. mir miss on farig was game losing and burn on raptor was also pretty bad

>>59657196
Neither are several other megas that you think would be good.
No Mence, no Raichu Y, no GarchompZ.

Seems like a nice kid but definitely on the spectrum

>>59657208
nah that's just your typical nerd kid

venue is desolated damn

which zardslop do we want to win

>>59657212
idk joe is definitely the more likeable guy here, but overall who doesn't bring v*nusaur

Regulation M-C?

>KILL THE VENUSAUR!!
>I CAN'T

rng is really dictating joe today gets the 2nd regional in a row

challenge
come up with a lead that beats both zard venusaur and zard scarf chomp

>>59657231
incin aero. it's time to go back to the past

that was bs, like a crit eq is extremely more valuable than that side tantrum bs

Even cheating with Luck,Joe was unable to win agfainst skill

>>59657231
abomasnow and stab rock slider

Andrew has played extremely aggressive the entire tournament.
You cannot expect that you actually have a turn to double tantrum's power.

Turns out everyone was just sleeping on screens

RNG giveth RNG taketh

>>59657060
1.0 patch. it was fixed before the ranked ladder launched, but those first few weeks of unranked you could have guaranteed Sheer Cold setups for first turn.

>>59657245
it's weird how effective it is because every time I've tried to play it grimm feels like a bum

>>59657251
just build him to survive fairy hyper voice so he's usable vs psyspam

I think you just go for the Pelipper here

Joe has the luck of Gods. How can he never miss anything?

I am a little surprised he didn't try to land a 50% hurricane into Zard.

That Parting Shot was smart

aiiieee I started losing spam rock slide flinch now!

Has he missed a single sleep powder

Game freak I need rock flinches and guaranteed sleep powders

>>59657280
No. Cheater.
His moves have 100% accuracy

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>no Zchomp or Mence
>Zard vs Zard finals
Regulation D will be better

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>enters
>calls you a nigger before you can do anything
>leaves

>>59657287
regulate deez nuts chomp is still going to gape heatran

zzz

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since when does Venusaur learn Dark Void?

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>sleep powder
>sleep powder
>sleep powder
>yawn
>sleep powder
>sleep powder

sound based moves should wake you up from sleeping
would be soulful flavor and a deserved nerf (yes i know it's already nerfed but fuck sleep)

>Never missed sleep powder
>Crit killed Arch
What is this luck

And the crit for the cherry on top.

>guaranteed sleep powders
>rock flinches
>frequent crits
was it rigged

Wolfe doesnt rely on sleep powder as a crutch, this is why he is the goat

i was rooting for joe but damn I hate shit powder so much, it's filthy

So does he get 2 Worlds invites now?

maaaaaybe he should've brought his own venusaur instead of letting it play benchwarmer.

Oh, if you cheat you win.
Wonderful.
Shit game

archaludon has protect
he needed to use it on occasion

>>59657308
he just wanted to parting shot, light screen, parting shot, light screen

>>59657307
he gets to invite a butt buddy

sleep powder accuracy nerf now?
rock slide flinch chance nerf now?

>>59657302
Yes.

>>59657316
if they nerfed sleep powder accuracy joes venusaur would have just hit them anyway because he's god apparently

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Louisville Regional Top 8.

>Not a single new pokemon from M-C in the final
Dread it, run from it, Zard slop arrives all the same

compared to frankfurt this was a defeat for reg c as a whole, we lost all progress made from distancing from zard and, god forbid, vomitsaur

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Free my nigga

Add safety goggles
Add a viable Ground type that not weak to archa stabs (Ursaluna)

Doesn't Zomp stomp Zard in theory
Is it because of Venu sleep spam

>>59657324
Imagine if they release amoongus without safety goggles.

gen 1 still dominates

>>59657327
yes and scarf chomp

>>59657327
Zard has partners that are too dangerous to ignore.
It's not like these teams didn't face several Raichus and Garchomps.

just add sleep clause back, pokemon stadium had it

>>59657320
>3 zards
>2 mence
>2 zomp
>Xchu
could be worse

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>>59657320
>1 incin
>wins

it's just that easy

>>59657067
I dont think e floette stocks are ever going down. It's literally the easiest to gen /clone in-game and you wont ever get screwed for it because it's a permanent unique OT. I guess the best move would be to stock up on a lot of pretty shinies. Which ones do you think people would always trade for?

>>59657320
No Raichu Y?

>>59657358
Venu chomp zard incin eats that

No one on twitter cares Joe one. Everyone is calling for sleep to be nerf again and for safety goggles to be added

like every team in the top 16 was metaslop. so boring.

>>59657372
>na metaslop - hyper offense verison
>eu metaslop - balance version

>>59657371
hard not to call it a fraud win when half the matches he was shown in had some insane rolls not just sleeps

Zard sun rain has won Brisbane, VR tournament, and now Louisville within the span of a week. Same exact team but an item changed on chomp (scarf z mega stone)

ironically priority and disruption beats zard venu, but all of the psyspam on ladder probably discouraged people from building around it
and then psy terrain did all of jack shit in the actual tournament lol

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We need them back NOW

>>59657299
Just run uproar?

Why is Garchomp Z being used more lately?

Joseph Ugarte is really good. But you just know he'll get smoked again by nips in Worlds.

>>59657445
2 in 1 zard mence counter but that didnt work out