WEBVTT 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 You 09:00.000 --> 09:10.000 the next video. 09:10.000 --> 09:15.320 Hello everybody and welcome to day number two here at the Pokemon World Championship 09:15.320 --> 09:16.320 2026. 09:16.320 --> 09:20.600 We are here with your pre show for the action gets started. 09:20.600 --> 09:25.240 Of course, I've got some amazing representatives here from every single game being represented 09:25.240 --> 09:28.880 here at this amazing world in San Francisco. 09:58.880 --> 10:03.520 great wins. So I'm going to go one by one and kind of ask you all. First of all, what is your big 10:03.520 --> 10:08.080 takeaway so far now being partly through this event and seeing what's going to come into the 10:08.080 --> 10:14.000 future? So Sierra, what do you see? I mean, first off for the Pokemon video game, the biggest takeaway 10:14.000 --> 10:18.960 from the get-go is this is a really tough tournament. We have had so many of our previous 10:18.960 --> 10:24.240 world champions get knocked out in phase one of the competition, which, I mean, you come to world, 10:24.240 --> 10:28.400 it is the best of the best. Some people have to drop along the wave, but I think we are a really 10:28.400 --> 10:33.040 really hyping up this repeat champion. And we do have a couple of them still in the field, 10:33.040 --> 10:39.000 but it's looking tricky. The other one too, with our current regulation and slash B, it's 10:39.000 --> 10:44.360 all been about this mega Charizard, right? But we have seen that even though it's really 10:44.360 --> 10:49.340 at the top percentages, it's not necessarily all of the top teams. We've gotten to see 10:49.340 --> 10:54.560 mega Dragonite Ieyuya, which has been incredible, Justin Tang with his mega Delphox and mega 10:54.560 --> 10:58.840 of last toys, NJ and Harry Deer, Kono with Megastore Raptor, 10:58.840 --> 11:00.960 and Drychew, just showing that there 11:00.960 --> 11:02.960 is a lot of innovation in different megas that really 11:02.960 --> 11:04.560 could rise at the top. 11:04.560 --> 11:06.600 Yeah, of course, it's so exciting seeing 11:06.600 --> 11:08.640 of course, the new game and all the new formats. 11:08.640 --> 11:10.240 And there's just so many things being changed. 11:10.240 --> 11:11.800 But Emily, how about TCG? 11:11.800 --> 11:12.760 What's the take away? 11:12.760 --> 11:15.240 Well, you can't talk about the Pokemon Trading Card game 11:15.240 --> 11:18.800 without talking about the big bad track of full DX, which, 11:18.800 --> 11:21.200 of course, is here in a full force. 11:21.200 --> 11:23.840 But honestly, not as much as people 11:23.840 --> 11:28.040 would expect at the World 11:28.040 --> 11:30.040 Championship only sitting at 11:30.040 --> 11:32.040 43.2% a lot of players actually 11:32.040 --> 11:34.040 thought that this deck would 11:34.040 --> 11:36.040 actually be above 50% for 11:36.040 --> 11:38.040 this tournament. But all the 11:38.040 --> 11:40.040 way at the top of our fist 11:40.040 --> 11:43.040 Swiss phase one is going to be 11:43.040 --> 11:46.040 Brent Tonneson from Australia 11:46.040 --> 11:48.040 who is currently undefeated 11:48.040 --> 11:50.040 eight. Oh, we're drag a full 11:50.040 --> 11:52.040 crushing hammers. So there's a 11:52.040 --> 11:54.680 but it seems like Breton has actually really locked down 11:54.680 --> 11:56.480 just the most consistent list 11:56.480 --> 11:58.840 and where you really just don't wanna take risks 11:58.840 --> 12:00.720 here in the world championship. 12:00.720 --> 12:02.360 So, you either wanna take no risks 12:02.360 --> 12:03.480 or take every risk right? 12:03.480 --> 12:05.360 It's the chance here. 12:05.360 --> 12:08.080 But of course, with Pokemon Go, how's it feel? 12:08.080 --> 12:08.920 Definitely. 12:08.920 --> 12:11.640 So, a big takeaway here is our two Grand Finals, 12:11.640 --> 12:14.480 Potomac and Pilsboy, are still in the running 12:14.480 --> 12:17.040 to make another Grand Finals of years. 12:17.040 --> 12:18.600 They were top two for a reason 12:18.600 --> 12:20.320 and Pilsboy, reigning World Champion, 12:20.320 --> 12:22.080 We never speak of repeat world champions. 12:22.080 --> 12:25.680 We've never had a world champion VP ever as well in our fifth year. 12:25.680 --> 12:28.840 So it's still early on, but it really might happen this year. 12:28.840 --> 12:33.120 Meanwhile, Harman, the finalist that finished second last year 12:33.120 --> 12:35.960 has gone on five straight championship Sundays 12:35.960 --> 12:39.560 in international world's combined, which is absolutely insane. 12:39.560 --> 12:41.560 Stap line hands. 12:41.560 --> 12:43.440 He's looking to try to make it back to the Grand Final 12:43.440 --> 12:46.480 to find the win that world championship that he's been going for. 12:46.480 --> 12:49.640 So that could be a super exciting one, especially if you get that rematch. 12:49.640 --> 12:52.240 They had a rematch in NAIC that was super close, 12:52.240 --> 12:54.360 and I'm sure it's on the back of both the lines 12:54.360 --> 12:55.800 that they might, based off of Canada, 12:55.800 --> 12:58.480 and KM2, and maybe the new champions of it. 12:58.480 --> 13:00.240 Well, that actually is a great segment to unite 13:00.240 --> 13:02.040 because we've got a lot of players 13:02.040 --> 13:04.000 that are former champions, world champions, 13:04.000 --> 13:05.640 but a lot of them have been eliminated. 13:05.640 --> 13:06.720 You know, they've moved on to other teams. 13:06.720 --> 13:09.040 We've got our previous reigning world champion as well. 13:09.040 --> 13:10.240 That's having a little bit of a tough time, 13:10.240 --> 13:12.360 but the real takeaway here that nobody expected 13:12.360 --> 13:14.320 is people who have never been the world champion, 13:14.320 --> 13:15.160 which is Europe, right? 13:15.160 --> 13:16.240 We've had Japanese champions, 13:16.240 --> 13:17.440 we have American champions, 13:17.440 --> 13:20.240 We've had a Latin champion most recently, 13:20.240 --> 13:22.840 but Europe has qualified with one extra spot 13:22.840 --> 13:25.160 through a kind of a big qualifier at UIC, 13:25.160 --> 13:27.920 and all four of their teams have made it to day number two, 13:27.920 --> 13:30.080 which I believe is the first time that's ever happened, 13:30.080 --> 13:31.920 and they are looking extremely good. 13:31.920 --> 13:34.440 So they've made it a second place at Worlds 13:34.440 --> 13:35.880 and made it to the grand finals before, 13:35.880 --> 13:37.720 but they've never quite been there. 13:37.720 --> 13:38.960 Just been one of those regions. 13:38.960 --> 13:40.040 This might be their year, 13:40.040 --> 13:42.440 so everybody's really looking towards Europe, 13:42.440 --> 13:45.240 but we still have basically every region present 13:45.240 --> 13:46.240 in day number two. 13:46.240 --> 13:49.000 So anything can really happen with Pokemon Unites. 13:49.000 --> 13:49.800 It's gonna be very exciting. 13:49.800 --> 13:52.080 But of course, there have been some amazing moments 13:52.080 --> 13:53.120 that have happened already. 13:53.120 --> 13:54.720 And I think we want to each kind of highlight 13:54.720 --> 13:56.040 one of them that's happened so far. 13:56.040 --> 14:00.000 So, of course, Pokemon Video Game, any big moment. 14:00.000 --> 14:01.680 Oh, I highlighted Tate. 14:01.680 --> 14:02.520 Oh, okay. 14:02.520 --> 14:03.600 And we had to highlight too. 14:03.600 --> 14:05.880 But starting off talking about the fact 14:05.880 --> 14:08.160 that we can have a repeat world champion, 14:08.160 --> 14:10.320 I wanted to highlight for Shogi Kanura's match 14:10.320 --> 14:13.120 her 2023 Pokemon World Champion. 14:13.120 --> 14:14.240 Looking back at this match too, 14:14.240 --> 14:19.360 He was going up against our okay, we got the we got the cliff switch, but we'll start with this one first 14:19.360 --> 14:22.600 So we're switching the points. We're talking about the unique Pokemon 14:22.600 --> 14:24.280 Well, we'll come back to show you in a second 14:24.280 --> 14:29.800 I wanted to highlight Kerry's team and Kerry as a player because Kerry has been someone who has really stepped up throughout this year 14:29.800 --> 14:34.800 He is we're any regional champion and when we're looking at a couple of these unique Megas 14:34.800 --> 14:40.240 He has to with a little star after in the ride too, but it was really this is doing arcanine that sold the show 14:40.240 --> 14:45.100 So this has been a Pokemon that has necessarily picked up on so many teams, but it really 14:45.100 --> 14:46.100 made so much impact. 14:46.100 --> 14:51.780 But this is what I was talking about, Shohei Kimura going up against a Japan national champion 14:51.780 --> 14:56.140 in Hiroshi Onishi, and this was such a great match. 14:56.140 --> 15:01.180 Shohei now sitting at 7-1 record, we had very similar teams with Mega Charizard being 15:01.180 --> 15:06.900 one of the dominant teams going into this tournament, and how Shohei piloted it was 15:06.900 --> 15:13.860 such a we know that he's so skilled but to see it again in such confidence display was really like 15:14.420 --> 15:21.620 wow if this is just a preview of his matches hey he's gonna go all the way it was incredible 15:22.420 --> 15:26.340 so it's such a big stage to be able to show something like that on and uh yeah now since of 15:26.340 --> 15:29.940 course people on video game had two clips now that means you're not getting zero clips unfortunately 15:29.940 --> 15:34.020 and it's taken away i'm sorry that's just how it goes that's just how it goes no uh no we'll have one 15:34.020 --> 15:39.620 later but for the trading card game of course it's a gigantic tournament any moment that you 15:39.620 --> 15:43.780 wanted to kind of show us. Well there's plenty right and I think for a lot of players that may be 15:43.780 --> 15:49.620 tuning into the Pokemon trading card game for the first time they may not know this but we've 15:49.620 --> 15:56.260 had a whole expansion set that has been released in between NAIC and the world championship but of 15:56.260 --> 16:02.500 course it is going to be Brett Thomason on the right piloting that very straightforward very 16:02.500 --> 16:08.500 Dragon Pulse. He even ran out of ways to get Dragon Pulse in the end, and then Dragon Pulse 16:08.500 --> 16:14.180 best friend Monkey Dory coming in with the Mind Ven with that ability Adrenaline, being 16:14.180 --> 16:18.900 able to move three damage counters over and then taking the win from here. But honestly, 16:18.900 --> 16:25.140 this is my favorite moment of yesterday. Matej, who actually got top eight at Worlds last 16:25.140 --> 16:31.980 year with Dragon Pulse, I believe, is piloting Alakazam. Now the most popular stadium that 16:31.980 --> 16:36.020 we actually have in the trading card game these days is Team Rocket's Watchtower. 16:36.020 --> 16:40.780 It shuts off the DUNS sparse, but he actually paired it with Duff Knorr. 16:40.780 --> 16:47.820 So it's definitely a very tricky way to make the deck, but he knows exactly how to trip up the rest of the field. 16:47.820 --> 16:50.460 I don't know, there's two clips. I think you're actually out of clips now. 16:50.460 --> 16:53.260 Yeah, yeah, they're actually, you know, they're not even going to be finished a second. 16:53.260 --> 16:55.660 They're just going to just take me off stage immediately. 16:55.660 --> 16:59.260 No, I want the fact too that when we talk about all these games together, which is not, you know, 16:59.260 --> 17:00.760 You know, moving on to opportunities too. 17:00.760 --> 17:04.140 It just sounds so ridiculous to hear two Pokemon paired together that it's a class that you're like, 17:04.140 --> 17:06.980 Track'n'Pult, and Track'n'Pult's best friend, Monkey Dory, like, 17:06.980 --> 17:09.980 looking at that from other games' perspective, it's like, what? That's wild. 17:09.980 --> 17:12.240 And then you think, like, maybe I should play a training card game, you know? 17:12.240 --> 17:14.140 Prime Rite was good at it for a while. I don't want to play that. 17:14.140 --> 17:16.420 But, uh, of course, we can't ignore Go. 17:16.420 --> 17:18.740 I think they might have taken away your clip, too, because they're just there. 17:18.740 --> 17:20.740 They're so greedy. They're taking the clip! 17:20.740 --> 17:22.860 We'll see if there's a clip or not. 17:22.860 --> 17:25.020 We don't have Monkey Dory in the game yet from Pokemon Go. 17:25.020 --> 17:28.620 You have Track'n'Pult, which someone actually tried to bring last for World Championships, 17:28.620 --> 17:31.540 and quite work decently well. 17:31.540 --> 17:32.860 But we are in our fifth year, 17:32.860 --> 17:34.900 and I feel like the skill level for this game 17:34.900 --> 17:36.940 has gone to an all-time high. 17:36.940 --> 17:37.980 It's going higher and higher, 17:37.980 --> 17:39.340 as this is Emi Rideau, 17:39.340 --> 17:40.900 one of our former world champions, 17:40.900 --> 17:43.180 against a two-time Thailand champion. 17:43.180 --> 17:45.260 In their first matchup on the winners finals, 17:45.260 --> 17:47.300 winner goes state number two on that winners side. 17:47.300 --> 17:49.540 The user might even get knocked out tournament. 17:49.540 --> 17:51.700 But look how close this is down to the wire, 17:51.700 --> 17:54.620 multiple players having like two or three more points left 17:54.620 --> 17:55.900 with red HE bars, 17:55.900 --> 17:59.260 not only a fraction of percentages of health, 17:59.260 --> 18:00.940 and you can see in the very end, 18:00.940 --> 18:04.980 it comes out to the final second, simultaneous knockout, 18:04.980 --> 18:07.140 just really highlights the skill level game too. 18:07.140 --> 18:10.620 That's a half second that they had to tie 18:10.620 --> 18:12.900 on that very moment, and that's exactly what happened. 18:12.900 --> 18:14.860 But we see that in so many of our matches 18:14.860 --> 18:16.620 through the routes, and these players, 18:16.620 --> 18:18.940 like they're so tuned into game that they kind of 18:18.940 --> 18:20.980 are entertaining each other's anticipation, 18:20.980 --> 18:23.940 and that's kind of how it has been this year. 18:23.940 --> 18:27.940 So I say every world champion every year is just better than the previous. 18:27.940 --> 18:32.940 It's so cool, especially with games like, you know, of course I love video game, love TCG, 18:32.940 --> 18:36.940 but you know, I feel like our games are a little bit newer, right, as far as things go competitively. 18:36.940 --> 18:40.940 So it's really cool to see the players level up more and more as time has gone on. 18:40.940 --> 18:44.940 And that's actually what my clip is, which is, if anybody out there is not familiar with Pokemon Unite, 18:44.940 --> 18:49.940 I think this is such a great clip to kind of show how amazing the game is, how strong the movement is. 18:49.940 --> 18:53.940 movement is. This is Haruto, one of the best players in the world coming out of Japan. 18:53.940 --> 18:58.700 Pulling off one of the best Jukes that we have ever seen. They're gonna be on the 18:58.700 --> 19:03.140 Lucario and they're gonna be chased around. So you should be able to see them 19:03.140 --> 19:07.900 kind of in the top right there, juking an entire team. One before. They managed to 19:07.900 --> 19:12.220 go escape into the Kyobu pit. They're escaping the entire team. They 19:12.220 --> 19:16.180 mentioned Telford Fackers using bone rush right here. A huge juke. And they 19:16.180 --> 19:21.700 waste the entire time of Root Vignitas which was considered one of the best teams in the 19:21.700 --> 19:26.020 world looking to win this entire tournament but they actually got eliminated on day number 19:26.020 --> 19:30.300 one in a big upset and a part of it was because of this but there are just too many good teams 19:30.300 --> 19:31.300 so... 19:31.300 --> 19:32.300 Right in this angle and so many. 19:32.300 --> 19:35.980 Yes, yes, oh that was such an amazing dude, this is, that's going to be an amazing clip 19:35.980 --> 19:40.140 for all time so if you ever check that Pokemon Unite that's kind of the move that you can 19:40.140 --> 19:45.660 expect from it so I mean amazing moments already from all of these games it's been such an 19:45.660 --> 19:50.620 amazing half of the event so far, I guess maybe one-third if we're considering Sunday as well, 19:50.620 --> 19:55.660 and of course there's so many amazing things out here in this actual venue. I cannot believe how 19:55.660 --> 20:00.380 huge it is. There's so many things to do. I feel like I've, I don't know, caught like 10% of it. 20:00.380 --> 20:05.100 I feel like, yeah. I tried to go for a wander and I'm like, all right, I'm off for a cup of 20:05.100 --> 20:10.060 round. Surely I can see everything, right? You start getting out to the convention floor and it 20:10.060 --> 20:14.460 just goes as far as the eye can see, and there's still so much more. I looked at a map and I'm 20:14.460 --> 20:16.860 like this doesn't even scratch the surface. 20:16.860 --> 20:20.460 It is just incredible how much love there is for Pokemon, 20:20.460 --> 20:22.940 how much love has been poured into the event, 20:22.940 --> 20:24.620 and so many things going on. 20:24.620 --> 20:26.620 So hopefully we have the opportunity today, 20:26.620 --> 20:29.020 but as the competition ramps up, I don't know. 20:29.020 --> 20:30.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 20:30.700 --> 20:32.220 Honestly, to build on Sierra's point, 20:32.220 --> 20:34.060 I really feel like there's something here 20:34.060 --> 20:36.700 for a Pokemon fan of any level. 20:36.700 --> 20:38.460 If, even if it's your first day, 20:38.460 --> 20:40.380 if you've been with the series for years, 20:40.380 --> 20:42.940 you really can just find something for you. 20:42.940 --> 20:45.180 I know there's musical performances outside. 20:45.180 --> 20:46.940 There's a whole outside stage. 20:46.940 --> 20:49.820 Pokemon XP happening for the first time. 20:49.820 --> 20:52.060 For me, my favorite thing that I've seen so far 20:52.060 --> 20:55.420 is that life-size Venusaur glass toys and charts 20:55.420 --> 20:57.260 are made out of plego. 20:57.260 --> 20:58.540 It's so cool. 20:58.540 --> 20:59.500 Ridiculous, yeah. 20:59.500 --> 21:01.260 I'm trying to get a picture with that. 21:01.260 --> 21:02.300 I've not been able to yet. 21:02.300 --> 21:03.340 Do you have a favorite thing real quick 21:03.340 --> 21:05.020 before we move on to the next thing? 21:05.020 --> 21:07.420 I mean, yeah, I don't think I have a similar to Emily yet. 21:07.420 --> 21:08.460 Probably everyone else here. 21:08.460 --> 21:11.020 Maybe I haven't had the full time to experience all of this. 21:11.020 --> 21:15.820 It's one of all my friends and competitors that wants to spend even after the first stage. 21:15.820 --> 21:17.220 They're like, yeah, I didn't know what to expect. 21:17.220 --> 21:19.820 Pokemon XP side games, fights, all of them. 21:19.820 --> 21:23.420 For everyone, them said it's blue, blown their expectation, right? 21:23.420 --> 21:26.620 And it's just if you're a fan of Pokemon, 21:26.620 --> 21:28.820 you love Pokemon is the perfect place for you. 21:28.820 --> 21:32.320 If you're on the fence about Pokemon, you'll probably fall in love with Pokemon after this weekend. 21:32.320 --> 21:35.220 So, so many great reasons come out to these world championships 21:35.220 --> 21:38.020 and no better way to celebrate it on the end of the day. 21:38.020 --> 21:42.420 absolutely but of course I want to make sure that everybody at home doesn't feel bad as well so of 21:42.420 --> 21:46.420 course there are things that every game is giving out for just for watching which unfortunately I've 21:46.420 --> 21:51.060 been missing because I've been here so I actually haven't had the strings open but we'll talk about 21:51.060 --> 21:55.300 what our games are kind of giving away so let's start with the Pokemon video games there if you 21:55.300 --> 21:59.700 have been anything knowledgeable about what's actually being distributed for Pokemon. We're 21:59.700 --> 22:04.580 giving away so much I don't know which order the graphics are going to fly but we're giving away swag 22:04.580 --> 22:10.340 in game if you want the world championship shirt as well. We got to make sure that your style is 22:10.340 --> 22:16.660 matching your Pokemon. You have the opportunity to pick up the 2026 Worlds in Cinnabar. It's 22:16.660 --> 22:21.940 in the world everywhere now for VGC. It's kind of taken over whether you love or hate in Cinnabar. 22:21.940 --> 22:27.460 It has taken over. It is here. It is one of the strongest Pokemon opportunity to grab that there. 22:27.460 --> 22:33.620 And this is the shirt I was talking about. Enjoy Worlds 26. Again, enjoy Worlds 26. 22:34.580 --> 22:43.380 write it down, take a picture, don't ask a 10 million times in the Twitch chat, enjoy Worlds 26 and you can get that hat and shirt. 22:43.380 --> 22:47.940 Alright, I need a pen, Broch, if you bring a pen so I can write that code down please, or otherwise I'll just ask you a chat later. 22:47.940 --> 22:57.780 And of course, we have so many different things for so many games, I agree, I was like, I don't know what's gonna come up first, but for the trading card game, we'll see what they bring, there we go. 22:57.780 --> 23:04.780 Honestly, you talk about swag in Champions, you can also get your swag in the Pokemon Trading Card Game live as well. 23:04.780 --> 23:09.780 I personally love the jacket. Looks like a half-leather jacket, half-leatherman, which is really sick. 23:09.780 --> 23:13.780 But of course, players love to customize their deck boxes as well. 23:13.780 --> 23:16.780 So you can find all of your World Swag right on your screen. 23:16.780 --> 23:22.780 But the longer you watch the Pokemon Trading Card Game, the more things you actually get unlocked. 23:22.780 --> 23:27.780 So in order to get all of this swag that you see right here, you have to actually watch for 60 minutes. 23:27.780 --> 23:33.780 But if you only have time for 30 minutes today, you can actually get six packs of pitch blacks. 23:33.780 --> 23:37.780 So once again, that is our newest set that we have in the Pokemon Trading Park game. 23:37.780 --> 23:41.780 I personally love watching a regional stream on the sides. 23:41.780 --> 23:45.780 Make sure I'm always opening packs either in person or online. 23:45.780 --> 23:48.780 There's so much stuff here that I genuinely cannot read that text from here. 23:48.780 --> 23:49.780 I'm going to be honest. 23:49.780 --> 23:55.420 So this is a nice giveaway Pokemon go. Let's see what you're giving away. We've got we've got so much stuff 23:55.420 --> 23:58.340 We're gonna do through this. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I'll just quick highlight 23:58.340 --> 24:03.940 Yeah, we charge him super exclusive resource they can get for washing up to 60 minutes also more importantly 24:03.940 --> 24:10.300 You get the world champion from last year feels boys think it's on that he used his stats on the team ton and more importantly 24:10.300 --> 24:16.180 Even gets an exclusive background just on the team tons really cool to have and of course we got the Pokemon 24:16.180 --> 24:20.180 the game. You know, it's 24:20.180 --> 24:22.180 a lot of fun. You know, because 24:22.180 --> 24:24.180 you XP you see and space 24:24.180 --> 24:26.180 outfit as well as the champion 24:26.180 --> 24:27.180 that you're spawning in the 24:27.180 --> 24:28.180 game right now, so you can get 24:28.180 --> 24:29.180 it. You're opening games. 24:29.180 --> 24:32.180 Open the game. Play it's and 24:32.180 --> 24:34.180 you also get a fresh out of 24:34.180 --> 24:35.180 our shirt as well. You can do 24:35.180 --> 24:36.180 ends. No big deal, but I 24:36.180 --> 24:37.180 might have gotten the shiny 24:37.180 --> 24:38.180 because you with the space 24:38.180 --> 24:40.180 you know, costume yesterday, 24:40.180 --> 24:41.180 so you know, but hey, it could 24:41.180 --> 24:42.180 be like me if you just open 24:42.180 --> 24:43.180 up a game and play it. 24:43.180 --> 24:44.180 Everybody up here is breathing 24:44.180 --> 24:48.180 I know, I know. Yeah, you're not of course, it's some really actually amazing things. 24:48.180 --> 24:52.180 I've been how you look on you watch for you can choose a logo sticker for the event or 30 minutes. 24:52.180 --> 24:55.180 You get to an exclusive license over Pikachu, which is very, very cool. 24:55.180 --> 25:00.180 And then you can actually get a license for one of Pokemon from the World Champion team Peru last year. 25:00.180 --> 25:02.180 What they won with if you do watch for 45 minutes. 25:02.180 --> 25:04.180 So some really nice stuff. 25:04.180 --> 25:09.180 And of course, just be sure to watch all of the streams for each of these. 25:09.180 --> 25:18.880 If you want to be able to get some awards at home and I mean just watch all your favorite players play because we are getting so close now to starting day number two. 25:18.880 --> 25:28.680 I know it's been an amazing day one so far and of course it's reminded everybody this is all leading up to a huge championship Sunday in the Chase Center, the arena. 25:28.680 --> 25:37.380 I mean we got a little sneak peek of it. It is incredible. It is going to be a show like I think no Pokemon fans have ever, ever watched. 25:37.380 --> 25:39.940 So, of course, we've got four amazing games. 25:39.940 --> 25:41.820 Be sure to watch all the broadcasts. 25:41.820 --> 25:44.540 We're gonna have a really tough time today, 25:44.540 --> 25:46.820 I think, deciding who we'll be moving on 25:46.820 --> 25:49.860 towards that special championship Sunday. 25:49.860 --> 25:51.700 So, thank you from all of us. 25:51.700 --> 25:53.780 We're gonna be moving on very soon 25:53.780 --> 25:57.100 as we get sending it over to our start 25:57.100 --> 26:00.780 for day number two here at the Pokemon World Championships, 26:00.780 --> 26:02.060 2026. 26:02.060 --> 26:03.780 We'll see you all playing soon. 29:37.380 --> 29:39.940 Watch the stars, everywhere 29:39.940 --> 29:42.500 If you will, I'll overreact 29:42.500 --> 29:45.540 Cause even if we lose our way 29:45.540 --> 29:48.100 You'll always say 29:48.100 --> 29:49.540 Here we go 29:52.100 --> 29:54.900 Here we go again 29:56.420 --> 29:59.140 And even if we're at the next time 29:59.140 --> 30:00.420 Here we go 30:02.500 --> 30:05.780 Here we go again 30:07.380 --> 30:10.380 Let it last in a lifetime 30:10.380 --> 30:13.380 Make me take it all in 30:13.380 --> 30:15.380 With all my heart 30:15.380 --> 30:19.380 Here we go again 30:21.380 --> 30:24.380 We'll crush the leader faces 30:24.380 --> 30:27.380 All of us on the path to the unknown 30:27.380 --> 30:29.380 Still in trouble, yeah, I can't wait to this 30:29.380 --> 30:33.380 See when we're working victory road 30:33.380 --> 30:36.380 And then, we'll kill it all over again 30:36.380 --> 30:42.620 Yeah, cause even if we play the day, we'll always stay 30:44.060 --> 30:45.340 Here we go 30:48.060 --> 30:50.780 Here we go again 30:52.620 --> 30:55.100 Let me blast out of here 30:59.020 --> 31:01.100 Come on, please 31:01.100 --> 31:06.060 Here we go again 31:06.380 --> 31:26.380 Here we go! 31:26.380 --> 31:32.380 Here we go again! 31:32.380 --> 31:36.380 I'll never flash that out of sight 31:36.380 --> 31:41.380 Take a new day to be the way you know my face 31:41.380 --> 31:44.380 Here we go 31:44.380 --> 31:47.380 Here we go 31:47.380 --> 31:53.380 Here we go again 32:02.380 --> 32:18.300 Welcome to day two of the Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP. 32:18.300 --> 32:22.940 We are absolutely delighted you decided to spend your days in the bay enjoying oh so 32:22.940 --> 32:29.740 sunny San Francisco, California. 32:29.740 --> 32:31.540 What a day that we have in store. 32:31.540 --> 32:34.900 I'm Gaby Durden, and after a strong start to yesterday, 32:34.900 --> 32:37.900 I'm back to keep us on track towards Championship Sunday 32:37.900 --> 32:42.580 and the culmination of all the fun surrounding Pokemon XP. 32:43.660 --> 32:45.820 Have you seen the skate park? 32:45.820 --> 32:46.660 You get a chance to? 32:46.660 --> 32:48.900 Yeah, it's cool, right? 32:48.900 --> 32:50.980 Okay, I'm gonna have to go check that out. 32:50.980 --> 32:51.820 It's wild. 32:51.820 --> 32:53.060 You know what else is wild? 32:53.060 --> 32:55.660 The fact that we are going to know our finalists 32:55.660 --> 32:59.900 across all of the divisions by the end of the day, 32:59.900 --> 33:03.020 Some of which will be crowned world champions 33:03.020 --> 33:05.820 when we take over even more of the city 33:05.820 --> 33:09.500 by unleashing the power of Pokemon in the Chase Center. 33:13.220 --> 33:14.980 Today is about our trainers. 33:14.980 --> 33:18.100 Across Pokemon champions, the trading card game, 33:18.100 --> 33:20.580 Pokemon Go and Pokemon Unite, 33:20.580 --> 33:24.700 our incredible competitors are ready to battle for glory. 33:24.700 --> 33:28.740 And I'm curious, who are you cheering for? 33:28.740 --> 33:31.460 Let's see, who did I write down in my notes yesterday? 33:31.460 --> 33:35.700 Oh yeah, and Pokemon VGC trainers Yuya Wakasugi, 33:35.700 --> 33:38.220 Justin Tang and Stefano Greppi, 33:38.220 --> 33:39.900 they look like they have the best shot 33:39.900 --> 33:41.620 at championship Sunday, 33:41.620 --> 33:42.660 but we'll see how things shake out 33:42.660 --> 33:44.700 once we get into top cut. 33:44.700 --> 33:48.940 The Pokemon TCG competition has been unmistakably fierce, 33:48.940 --> 33:52.940 but Brent Tonneson, Henry Chow, and Brune Herrmans, 33:52.940 --> 33:55.780 they really hope to hold onto yesterday's momentum, 33:55.780 --> 33:58.420 and I know a lot of people agree that they can. 33:58.420 --> 34:01.040 and Pokemon go, and they're not gonna lie. 34:01.040 --> 34:02.840 I'm keeping my own Beals of Boy, 34:02.840 --> 34:04.960 as well as Potomac and M.E. Weedle 34:04.960 --> 34:07.320 as they tap their way through the bracket. 34:07.320 --> 34:09.760 And finally, for Pokemon Unite, 34:09.760 --> 34:13.160 we've got Peru Unite, Reject, and KOMI 34:13.160 --> 34:14.840 ready to put up a fight. 34:14.840 --> 34:15.680 Am I right? 34:16.480 --> 34:20.920 Who's gonna shine bright in the Championship Sunday Arena? 34:20.920 --> 34:22.160 Well, I'm stoked to find out. 34:22.160 --> 34:23.000 How about you? 34:26.000 --> 34:27.260 As we've mentioned, 34:27.260 --> 34:30.860 The Pokemon World Championships are only half of the fun we have this weekend. 34:30.860 --> 34:33.660 Pokemon XP is in full swing. 34:33.660 --> 34:38.060 And whether you're tuning in from home or you're here with us in person, there is something 34:38.060 --> 34:39.620 for everyone. 34:39.620 --> 34:44.660 Later on, make sure you check out the Pokemon XP panels featuring Pokemon Go, LEGO, and 34:44.660 --> 34:45.660 Jimmy Paul. 34:45.660 --> 34:48.540 Those will be live on the Pokemon XP channel. 34:48.540 --> 34:53.420 You don't want to miss it, so this would be the time to add that to your schedule. 34:53.420 --> 34:55.580 And while I have your attention, can we take a moment to recognize all the fun we have this 34:55.580 --> 34:56.580 weekend? 34:56.580 --> 35:03.300 recognize all of the people that make an event like this possible. 35:03.300 --> 35:10.260 Join me in thanking the phenomenal staff, judges, production crew, and everyone working 35:10.260 --> 35:15.660 behind the scenes to bring the Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon X Geats to life in 35:15.660 --> 35:20.020 San Francisco, California. 35:20.020 --> 35:40.020 and it's because each and every one of you is part of it okay that's enough for me right now we have a day two of the Pokemon World Championships to get started let's get into it casters take it away. 35:40.020 --> 35:42.020 Chasters, take it away. 35:46.500 --> 35:52.100 Thank you so much, we can all wait to get started here with the 2026 Pokemon World 35:52.100 --> 35:58.260 Championship as we eye up. Who is going to be our next VGC champion? 35:58.260 --> 36:04.740 Sarah, Don and Lea for us on the desk. We're kicking off day two of the action. I cannot wait. 36:04.740 --> 36:10.260 I can't wait. I mean, it was such a great day yesterday, day one of the tournament. 36:10.260 --> 36:14.980 It was remarkable. From start to finish, it was exciting, it was explosive, and we had some 36:15.780 --> 36:20.740 familiar faces. We had some new faces that we're not so familiar with performing extremely well, 36:20.740 --> 36:26.340 and it's just going to continue today, and the journey to getting to our two finalists is 36:26.340 --> 36:29.220 well underway, and we're going to get there very, very soon. 36:29.220 --> 36:35.980 I feel like the title of world champion is the greatest prize of all right. That's what everyone's been chasing 36:36.140 --> 36:38.860 You'll hold on to that title for your life 36:38.860 --> 36:42.420 But of course we want to make sure you're sent home with a variety of goodies 36:42.420 --> 36:48.580 So as well as that title you're gonna be walking home with thirty thousand dollars imagine how many Pokemon plushies 36:48.580 --> 36:56.340 How many Pokemon treating cards that is which is just absolutely incredible and for second place showing up on that championship Sunday 36:56.340 --> 37:00.500 and still walking away with $20,000 and half bad. 37:00.500 --> 37:03.740 It's incredible pricing to think where we were, you know, 37:03.740 --> 37:06.620 when DGC have originally started to where we are now 37:06.620 --> 37:08.260 with this incredible prize pool. 37:08.260 --> 37:12.060 But like you say, Sierra, the prize money is just a portion 37:12.060 --> 37:15.300 of the reward because it is the title going away 37:15.300 --> 37:18.020 as world champion after this weekend is, you know, 37:18.020 --> 37:22.100 the coveted title every trainer goes for is hungry for 37:22.100 --> 37:24.580 and wants to take away with them at the end 37:24.580 --> 37:26.460 of this proceedings. 37:26.460 --> 37:28.860 And I know that there's a lot of new eyes on the broadcast 37:28.860 --> 37:30.220 with all the Twitch, all the goodies 37:30.220 --> 37:33.020 and all the excitement with Pokemon VGC and World. 37:33.020 --> 37:35.100 So to get you up to speed on how the competition 37:35.100 --> 37:37.900 is taking place today, check out this format video. 37:41.540 --> 37:42.980 Whether it's your first time watching 37:42.980 --> 37:44.660 or you just need a quick refresher, 37:44.660 --> 37:47.500 here's an overview of the Pokemon VGC format 37:47.500 --> 37:50.780 at the 2026 World Championships. 37:50.780 --> 37:52.740 The best trainers from around the globe 37:52.740 --> 37:57.460 are here to compete for their share of a $2 million prize pool and the coveted title 37:57.460 --> 37:59.780 of Pokemon World Champion. 37:59.780 --> 38:04.460 The first World Championship played in Pokemon Champions will take place over three days. 38:04.460 --> 38:09.220 Phase 1 consists of Swiss rounds where trainers battle head to head in a best of three format 38:09.220 --> 38:11.020 with open team sheets. 38:11.020 --> 38:15.940 That means critical details about each trainer's Pokemon are available to the opponent. 38:15.940 --> 38:19.540 Trainers advance to Swiss Phase 2 if they gain more match points than their division 38:19.540 --> 38:20.540 threshold. 38:20.540 --> 38:26.300 At the conclusion of Phase 2, the top 8 traders and up to 8 additional trainers tied with a place 38:26.300 --> 38:32.460 will advance into an asymmetrical single elimination bracket until only two finalists remain. 38:32.460 --> 38:39.580 On Championship Sunday, these finalists face off in San Francisco's chase arena for our biggest finals yet. 38:39.580 --> 38:45.660 Two will enter the arena, but only one will walk away as the 2026 Pokemon World Champion. 38:45.660 --> 38:49.180 Who will become the first World Champion of the Pokemon Champions Era? 38:49.180 --> 38:54.180 will dominate the meta. We'll 38:54.180 --> 38:55.180 be here all weekend so you 38:55.180 --> 38:57.180 won't miss a second of the 38:57.180 --> 38:58.180 action. With that, it's time to 38:58.180 --> 38:59.180 get today's matches going. 38:59.180 --> 39:03.180 Castors take it away. Thanks 39:03.180 --> 39:04.180 so much cast voice over 39:04.180 --> 39:05.180 Rosemary. We are almost ready 39:05.180 --> 39:06.180 to get started with the 39:06.180 --> 39:07.180 competition, but of course we 39:07.180 --> 39:08.180 have to talk about a couple of 39:08.180 --> 39:10.180 the great things that you can 39:10.180 --> 39:12.180 earn by watching at home, 39:12.180 --> 39:14.180 whether you're here for VVC 39:14.180 --> 39:17.180 or any of our games. So 39:17.180 --> 39:23.700 So whether it's you know, this shirt, whether it's the Pokemon, whether the training tickets, 39:23.700 --> 39:27.380 there's so much great rewards that you can get by watching along. 39:27.380 --> 39:32.900 Yeah, especially I think 60 minutes on Twitch gets you the Incineroar, which is definitely 39:32.900 --> 39:36.100 something you want to pick up, a competitive ready Pokemon. 39:36.100 --> 39:40.260 You'll be able to use in the upcoming season when it all kicks off again. 39:40.260 --> 39:43.660 Yeah, but looking a little bit back while you earn those Twitch rocks, let's talk about 39:43.660 --> 39:50.800 we saw yesterday as well as we had some fantastic Pokemon VGC gameplay. Talking 39:50.800 --> 39:54.360 about this match here, this one was so much fun because we were expecting so 39:54.360 --> 39:57.720 much Charizard, right? And there is so much Charizard out there. But take it a 39:57.720 --> 40:03.080 moment to pause, breathe, and see some mega Metagross and a Cleaver on the field. 40:03.080 --> 40:08.560 Yeah, it was an incredible match and what a decision by Kloy to bring 40:08.560 --> 40:12.520 those Pokemon into what you say is a top-heavy Charizard format. Then we can 40:12.520 --> 40:18.720 follow up with some action from Kari yesterday against Narwetch as well with that Suey and 40:18.720 --> 40:23.600 Arcanine that just stole the show yesterday for Kari, just doing so much work and making 40:23.600 --> 40:27.440 it difficult for Narwetch to get any sort of momentum. That head smash, although its 40:27.440 --> 40:31.920 accuracy is a little bit shaky, when it connects it really counts. 40:31.920 --> 40:39.000 Really does, and this one also crazy. Megalasekin was not on my list of Pokemon that I would 40:39.000 --> 40:44.120 necessarily anticipate to see at a positive level on a five and one record 40:44.120 --> 40:49.640 heading in Swiss rounds. So that was just absolutely incredible to witness and put in so much work. 40:49.640 --> 40:55.240 But of course we still have to see what Pokemon and what trainers are going to be coming out on top today. 40:55.240 --> 40:59.800 As anyone who did have those six match points does advance to phase two of the competition 40:59.800 --> 41:03.640 and are going to be fighting it out for a chance to make their way to top cut and try and find 41:03.640 --> 41:07.640 themselves at the chase center tomorrow. Yeah well all of the players that have advanced this 41:07.640 --> 41:11.080 the tournament. They've put 41:11.080 --> 41:12.380 themselves in prime position 41:12.380 --> 41:13.880 to go forward and being 41:13.880 --> 41:14.880 contentioned for that 41:14.880 --> 41:15.980 championship title on Sunday. 41:15.980 --> 41:17.780 They've got a bit of a distance 41:17.780 --> 41:19.380 ago. They've got a few matches 41:19.380 --> 41:20.880 to win, but they are on the 41:20.880 --> 41:22.020 right track to doing that. 41:22.020 --> 41:23.020 And here we can have a look at 41:23.020 --> 41:24.020 our first two pairs. There are 41:24.020 --> 41:25.020 only some portion of them here. 41:25.020 --> 41:27.520 You can see you are top and only 41:27.520 --> 41:30.520 undefeated trainer so far in the 41:30.520 --> 41:32.020 tournament. Just a time just in 41:32.020 --> 41:34.020 there behind with Carrie Daytona 41:34.020 --> 41:35.540 as well, who's done extremely 41:35.540 --> 41:37.040 well. And we finished the show 41:37.040 --> 41:41.240 was just incredible. I mean water performance in that really tough 41:41.240 --> 41:46.320 mirror match really showed why they are such a highly good trainer in this 41:46.320 --> 41:50.400 season. And what I love about this list of trainers as well is there has been a 41:50.400 --> 41:53.320 lot of trainers that have really gotten to showcase their dominance throughout 41:53.320 --> 41:58.680 this season but weren't necessarily talked about yesterday as you know these 41:58.680 --> 42:01.600 are the trainers watch it. It's hard there's so many top trainers at the 42:01.600 --> 42:05.760 world championships right but being able to see the likes of Kerry and Zachary 42:05.760 --> 42:07.760 I'm definitely rooting for 42:07.760 --> 42:08.760 them going into today. 42:08.760 --> 42:09.760 Dalway as well. 42:09.760 --> 42:11.760 Someone who has always had such 42:11.760 --> 42:13.760 innovative team building is 42:13.760 --> 42:15.760 incredible to see and I'm so 42:15.760 --> 42:16.760 excited. 42:16.760 --> 42:18.760 And it will be really, it's 42:18.760 --> 42:19.760 going to be a tough competition 42:19.760 --> 42:20.760 today, right? 42:20.760 --> 42:21.760 So it would be awesome to see 42:21.760 --> 42:22.760 this list of trainers here at 42:22.760 --> 42:24.760 the end of the day in our top 42:24.760 --> 42:26.760 cut, but it feels like it 42:26.760 --> 42:27.760 whittled down somehow. 42:27.760 --> 42:28.760 Yeah, I mean, it just goes to 42:28.760 --> 42:29.760 show you look across. 42:29.760 --> 42:30.760 These are all superstars, you 42:30.760 --> 42:32.760 know, of our game and that 42:32.760 --> 42:34.760 quality of these players. 42:34.760 --> 42:39.760 of these players. And this just a snapshot of some of the players that will be in phase 42:39.760 --> 42:43.760 two. There are a lot of others that we aren't featuring right now, but you know, they like 42:43.760 --> 42:48.760 some of the mainly Forbes as well. Great stairs in my opinion that we've ever seen, but then 42:48.760 --> 42:53.760 we've got some other players as well that are kind of rising stars, Nikolai Hoitz, Nielsen, 42:53.760 --> 42:58.760 they're a real great player on the European circuit. It's very innovative with their picks 42:58.760 --> 43:02.760 and I believe they brought something quite interesting this weekend. So hopefully get to 43:02.760 --> 43:07.240 some of them as well as the other trainers that we've got here but former world champion across 43:07.240 --> 43:12.280 the board that are going for that second title as well. It would be incredible in this day at 43:12.280 --> 43:17.080 age of Pokemon to see that repeat title but we do have two trainers still in the competition 43:17.080 --> 43:24.680 and in great form for it. First up Shohei Kumura, 2023 Pokemon world champion. We got to see him 43:24.680 --> 43:31.960 face off against the Japan national champion Hiroshi yesterday in a very, I'm not quite a mirror, 43:31.960 --> 43:33.560 but a very close match. 43:33.560 --> 43:37.160 But the way Shohei played that was just absolutely incredible. 43:37.160 --> 43:40.760 This was one of the strongest team architects heading into the tournament 43:40.760 --> 43:45.560 and to be piloted at such a high level by such a top tier trainer. 43:45.560 --> 43:47.960 Seven in one, you still have to win a few more, 43:47.960 --> 43:51.160 but wow, is he looking great for him to take it all. 43:51.160 --> 43:54.920 Yeah, and I mean, it's all about the micro decisions that Shohei makes 43:54.920 --> 43:56.200 in the team building process. 43:56.200 --> 43:59.240 We saw the differences between Hiroshi's team and Shohei's. 43:59.240 --> 44:00.440 All of the six were the same. 44:00.440 --> 44:07.440 But also the micro decisions in game as well, when to set up the tailwind, when to attack, when to be defensive. 44:07.440 --> 44:11.440 Shohei's got that down to such an art and I love the dedication that Shohei has. 44:11.440 --> 44:14.440 We've seen Shohei appear at European regionals throughout the season. 44:14.440 --> 44:20.440 It's a long journey, but not making one, making a number of trips and all the ICs as well. 44:20.440 --> 44:24.440 And performing to a very consistent level and all that experience throughout the season is just, you know, 44:24.440 --> 44:30.200 you know, growing that back catalog of experience that they've got to make them such a high top 44:30.200 --> 44:32.360 kind of about there. 44:32.360 --> 44:37.560 Not the only world champion still fighting out for another title though, looking Mexico's 44:37.560 --> 44:40.960 now still in at seven and one. 44:40.960 --> 44:47.160 And what I love about Pokemon VGC is first off we just have so many world champions here. 44:47.160 --> 44:52.840 But looking back at, you know, at 2019 that was three, seven years ago now, right? 44:52.840 --> 44:57.320 still looking in such great form and you can see the accomplishment since then I am so excited like 44:57.320 --> 45:02.360 when you have a world top four a world top eight a world champion that's just that was incredible 45:02.360 --> 45:08.680 the resume yeah I mean Niota is just one of those again you would put them in the the highest bracket 45:08.680 --> 45:14.040 of top players that we've got in our circuit you know and coming in this weekend it doesn't always 45:14.040 --> 45:18.920 go the way you want it to but it has been a phenomenal start for Niota and and looking really 45:18.920 --> 45:23.960 good looking really strong coming into this phase two of the tournament and having the experience 45:23.960 --> 45:29.000 of being a world champion previously that is just going to benefit you so much on this go. You know 45:29.000 --> 45:33.320 what to do in this part of the tournament. You know how to approach each and every round. Take it 45:33.320 --> 45:39.720 step by step. Don't get too far ahead of yourself and then see how far you can take your skill and 45:39.720 --> 45:44.600 team which I really do like as well that Charizard, the Aerodactyl. We've seen that have a lot of 45:44.600 --> 45:48.360 success but there's a lot of burst damage there with the Venus Soul especially when you get it 45:48.360 --> 45:50.360 that they've got on their 45:50.460 --> 45:52.360 team. It's just the 45:52.460 --> 45:53.360 consistency for me throughout 45:53.460 --> 45:54.360 all of the years when you 45:54.460 --> 45:56.360 look especially at the world 45:56.460 --> 45:57.360 championships to show that he 45:57.460 --> 45:59.360 has always just been in such a 45:59.460 --> 46:00.360 great form. And for now, 46:00.460 --> 46:02.360 though, again, looking in that 46:02.460 --> 46:04.360 form, I'm excited for that run. 46:04.460 --> 46:06.360 But let's take a look at the 46:06.460 --> 46:08.360 medal. I'm excited for that 46:08.460 --> 46:10.360 run. I'm excited for that run. 46:10.460 --> 46:12.360 I'm excited for that run. I'm 46:12.460 --> 46:14.360 excited for that run. I'm 46:14.460 --> 46:16.360 excited for that run. I'm 46:16.460 --> 46:17.360 excited for that run. I'm 46:17.360 --> 46:22.360 look at the meta as well. Not 46:22.360 --> 46:23.360 just the players so watch but 46:23.360 --> 46:24.360 the Pokemon. No surprise when 46:24.360 --> 46:25.360 we talk about Charizard being 46:25.360 --> 46:26.360 on top for the mega evolution 46:26.360 --> 46:28.360 and King Gambit just such a 46:28.360 --> 46:30.360 strong piece. Seeing it at a 46:30.360 --> 46:35.360 casual 65% it makes sense but 46:35.360 --> 46:37.360 Sylveon at 35% for 32. We saw 46:37.360 --> 46:39.360 so much impact from Sylveon 46:39.360 --> 46:41.360 yesterday and I know it rose 46:41.360 --> 46:43.360 out there like I always knew. 46:43.360 --> 46:44.360 I always knew. 46:44.360 --> 46:45.360 Booting it on yeah and it makes 46:45.360 --> 46:46.360 a lot of sense Sylveon such a 46:46.360 --> 46:50.360 you're great. This is our 46:50.360 --> 46:51.360 Pokemon, you know, can perform 46:51.360 --> 46:52.360 until when they can perform in 46:52.360 --> 46:54.360 trick room. It's got that 46:54.360 --> 46:56.360 spread damage. It's got the big 46:56.360 --> 46:57.360 burst damage in that hyper 46:57.360 --> 46:59.360 hyper beam that we saw yesterday, 46:59.360 --> 47:01.360 Sierra. But yeah, I think no 47:01.360 --> 47:02.360 surprise and it takes advantage 47:02.360 --> 47:03.360 of the very aura that we 47:03.360 --> 47:05.360 commonly see set up by the 47:05.360 --> 47:07.360 mega floor. So it really is a 47:07.360 --> 47:09.360 bit of a kind of double edged 47:09.360 --> 47:10.360 sword in those scenarios. If you 47:10.360 --> 47:12.360 are piloting the mega floor in 47:12.360 --> 47:13.360 your team, the Pokemon as well. 47:13.360 --> 47:15.360 I think Venus was dropped down a 47:15.360 --> 47:19.200 you don't see the sinister now like we did yesterday, which is a surprise to me. 47:19.200 --> 47:23.040 I think sinister has a really big role, but it does have a hard time King gambit 47:23.040 --> 47:26.080 and charged out of the top two Pokemon in the usage charts. 47:26.080 --> 47:31.040 Talking particularly about the mega Pokemon. First off, Mega Star Raptor has been the vein 47:31.040 --> 47:37.040 of my existence on the ranked ladder. I can't hate too much because it is incredibly strong. 47:37.040 --> 47:43.440 It makes sense why a fourth of the field in phase two has this Pokemon, but wow, 47:43.440 --> 47:48.360 It's a bit annoying for me, but looking at the Megas, even though again Charizard does have the more dominant share 47:48.360 --> 47:52.560 It's actually quite spread out even a little bit more than I expected 47:52.560 --> 47:59.060 And I love that when we look at phase two and that lower list of book one that there is still some more interesting picks out there 47:59.060 --> 48:03.440 There's a camera. There's a mega dragon night. Like that's awesome 48:03.520 --> 48:10.080 Yeah, I think those down on the bottom shelf are the ones that we kind of want to keep an eye on as the tournament progresses here 48:10.080 --> 48:14.440 just as a note as well that's Megascot villain and Mega Blast was actually 48:14.440 --> 48:19.480 tied in usage with the the frost last the camera of Dragonite and the Gengor so 48:19.480 --> 48:23.600 they're also on there in about so don't be surprised if you see those as their 48:23.600 --> 48:28.480 tournament progresses but yes Staraptor new onto the scene and former MB and 48:28.480 --> 48:31.520 just an incredible Pokemon and our trainers are really getting to grips 48:31.520 --> 48:36.800 with how this Pokemon can be piloted to be the optimum potential that it's got 48:36.800 --> 48:41.440 and pairing it up nicely as well with that mega right you why which we haven't seen too much of but 48:41.440 --> 48:46.960 there are teams present in the field and hopefully you do get a bit more right you to dig because 48:46.960 --> 48:52.480 it is a very very it's very squishy but it's it's very important when it's putting the right positions 48:52.480 --> 48:57.360 in piloted by our top trainers the the meme that's not fake out chip it's fake out chunk 48:57.360 --> 49:02.720 onto it right I like it but hey it deals so much damage we can't hate too much but we're talking 49:02.720 --> 49:06.960 a little bit about the Twitch drops earlier on. If you weren't paying attention, we'll 49:06.960 --> 49:11.160 talk about it again, and we'll even bring some supporting graphics this time. Of course, 49:11.160 --> 49:16.520 you want to make sure that you are tuning in and get your 60 minutes in so you can get 49:16.520 --> 49:22.160 that world in Cinerar. It's such a strong Pokemon. If you haven't seen it before, I 49:22.160 --> 49:28.640 don't think you're a true VGC fan. It is everywhere. You need one. You need this one. Get it now. 49:28.640 --> 49:33.160 Yeah, definitely pick it up as well as all the quick coupons, the teammate tickets that 49:33.160 --> 49:37.920 are going to be very useful in helping you build those teams going into the 2027 season. 49:37.920 --> 49:40.640 Consider what's going to be used throughout. 49:40.640 --> 49:44.400 Whenever it's available, it's a top, top Pokemon, like Sierra says, if you don't have 49:44.400 --> 49:48.040 one already and you're planning to play next season, definitely make sure you get it picked 49:48.040 --> 49:49.040 up. 49:49.040 --> 49:50.800 Even if you already have one, have six. 49:50.800 --> 49:51.800 It's a good Pokemon. 49:51.800 --> 49:54.280 You need one on every single one of your teams, right? 49:54.280 --> 49:57.120 Yeah, change your stat alignments and all those things. 49:57.120 --> 50:00.040 So you don't need to be wasting resources in game. 50:00.040 --> 50:02.160 Just have separate ones, separate teams. 50:02.160 --> 50:03.480 Exactly. 50:03.480 --> 50:05.360 But we got more for you. 50:05.360 --> 50:06.280 We got more in store. 50:06.280 --> 50:07.800 Enjoy World 26. 50:07.800 --> 50:08.320 That's right. 50:08.320 --> 50:11.880 Enjoy World 26, or anyone asking out there. 50:11.880 --> 50:12.720 We got a shirt. 50:12.720 --> 50:14.160 We got a hat. 50:14.160 --> 50:16.840 And you can enjoy World 26. 50:16.840 --> 50:17.640 You get all of that. 50:17.640 --> 50:20.880 And of course, tuning in to the stream as well. 50:20.880 --> 50:23.480 You can not just enjoy World 26, 50:23.480 --> 50:26.000 but you can get yourself a nice exclusive chat bag. 50:26.000 --> 50:27.160 We're talking about this yesterday. 50:27.160 --> 50:28.800 It is so clean. 50:28.800 --> 50:30.880 I've already seen people in the Twitch chat with it. 50:30.880 --> 50:31.720 It looks so nice. 50:31.720 --> 50:33.360 I really need to get my own something. 50:33.360 --> 50:35.480 Please, at me and remind me later on, 50:35.480 --> 50:37.640 because I will be devastated if I mess out on this. 50:37.640 --> 50:40.120 And you should be too, honestly, because this is nice. 50:40.120 --> 50:41.400 I will remind you, Sarah. 50:41.400 --> 50:42.680 I'll make sure you get this stuff. 50:42.680 --> 50:43.680 Thank you, Promise. 50:43.680 --> 50:44.680 Thank you, Promise. 50:44.680 --> 50:45.160 All right. 50:45.160 --> 50:46.080 And the brakes. 50:46.080 --> 50:48.080 We're getting the chat back. 50:48.080 --> 50:49.160 We're getting the chat back. 50:49.160 --> 50:50.480 We're so back. 50:50.480 --> 50:52.880 But there is so much exciting things in store. 50:52.880 --> 50:54.560 We've got to bring it back to the competition, though, 50:54.560 --> 50:55.480 and look at the standings. 50:55.480 --> 51:01.820 Again, now the big question is who can get enough round wins to put themselves into top cut? 51:01.820 --> 51:08.020 Certainly anyone at 7-1 or 8-0 is in prime position to be able to do so. 51:08.020 --> 51:12.020 Only one undefeated player in the field, Julia. 51:12.020 --> 51:15.620 And so this team, oh my gosh, I'm so excited. 51:15.620 --> 51:16.620 He's been in all of it. 51:16.620 --> 51:18.120 I can't wait. 51:18.120 --> 51:19.120 I can't wait. 51:19.120 --> 51:23.620 I mean, when you look at the team, we'll get into them in a moment, but I think, you know, 51:23.620 --> 51:29.460 incredible accomplishment if we're just looking from this perspective now taking a back step 51:29.460 --> 51:34.580 into the start of day two incredible performance from you yeah really coming in and saying okay 51:34.580 --> 51:40.020 well i'm here and performing to the best level i can can we go much further well no one's been 51:40.020 --> 51:45.700 able to stop them so far and they're looking on track to continuing that as we get further into 51:45.700 --> 51:50.420 this tournament of course all those seven ones below have taken one loss but sometimes taking 51:50.420 --> 51:55.300 the loss is actually the galvanizing effect that you need to be able to kind of push on because it 51:55.300 --> 52:00.660 kind of wakes you up maybe realize that okay well my play was not as sharp as it could have been there 52:00.660 --> 52:05.140 here we go let's push on let's get a bit further and sometimes we know that can be unfortunate 52:05.140 --> 52:08.260 things that happen in game that are out of your control and they're just something you have to 52:08.260 --> 52:12.420 deal with pick yourself up brush yourself on and they're some of the the most accomplished trainers 52:12.420 --> 52:18.420 are able to kind of not let that get them and continue on to push forward and see how they can 52:18.420 --> 52:19.520 you get in the tournament. 52:19.520 --> 52:20.820 It was somebody's sack names here. 52:20.820 --> 52:22.300 You know these matchups are going to be good, 52:22.300 --> 52:25.340 but let's look at our notables and our featured one. 52:25.340 --> 52:26.900 There is a reason I'm freaking out 52:26.900 --> 52:29.980 because we get to see Yuya Wakazuki up next. 52:29.980 --> 52:33.400 Going up against Kari who we saw yesterday. 52:33.400 --> 52:34.720 That second matchup though, 52:34.720 --> 52:37.380 Nato versus Shohei is incredible. 52:37.380 --> 52:38.880 There is feature stations. 52:38.880 --> 52:41.620 There is the sidestreams as well. 52:41.620 --> 52:43.340 You've got to make sure you check out all of the action. 52:43.340 --> 52:46.260 Ian just Joji versus Raghav. 52:46.260 --> 52:47.460 That is... 52:47.460 --> 52:49.460 Yeah, I feel like a mis-stage in the tournament. 52:49.460 --> 52:51.260 Orson Zendenez versus Zachary, I just... 52:51.260 --> 52:52.060 Amazing. 52:52.060 --> 52:52.560 Wow. 52:52.560 --> 52:53.060 Matchups, yeah. 52:53.060 --> 52:55.660 I mean, it's really hard to pick which one we're going to feature, 52:55.660 --> 53:00.060 but we have got Yulia on our only undefeated player in the tournament so far. 53:00.060 --> 53:03.960 We get to feature Kari again, who we got on broadcast yesterday, 53:03.960 --> 53:07.760 which was amazing to see such a dominant performance as well in their game 53:07.760 --> 53:11.160 against a pretty hard matchup in all respect on paper, you think, 53:11.160 --> 53:13.260 wow, the rain mode here feels very difficult. 53:13.260 --> 53:17.160 So they were brave in bringing that to see, and Alcanite in against that rain call 53:17.160 --> 53:19.800 and it performed so, so well. 53:19.800 --> 53:21.000 So well. 53:21.000 --> 53:23.600 I just, the amount of damage the head smashers were doing 53:23.600 --> 53:26.400 and it was a crazy three game set. 53:26.400 --> 53:28.680 So a seven one record, so deserved. 53:28.680 --> 53:31.520 But for you guys, sitting at this eight and O, 53:31.520 --> 53:32.640 let's head down to the stage 53:32.640 --> 53:35.600 to get ever so closer to this match. 53:35.600 --> 53:38.360 Being undefeated after day one 53:38.360 --> 53:40.600 of the Pokemon World Championships, 53:40.600 --> 53:44.840 as one as stacked as this is such a crazy feat. 53:44.840 --> 53:50.680 But to do it with Mega Dragonite is even more impressive. 53:50.680 --> 53:53.240 On the list of Mega Pokemon that could pop off, 53:53.240 --> 53:56.680 this one I don't necessarily think was on anyone's radars, 53:56.680 --> 53:59.440 but to be the only undefeated is a statement. 53:59.440 --> 54:01.440 Yeah, I love this iteration of... 54:01.440 --> 54:04.880 A similar kind of iteration to what you would expect to see with Big Six, 54:04.880 --> 54:06.520 but the Dragonite kind of replacing 54:06.520 --> 54:08.600 what would normally be a Charizard there. 54:08.600 --> 54:10.640 I love it, though. I think it's really good, really smart, 54:10.640 --> 54:14.160 and it's performing obviously extremely well in this tournament here. 54:14.160 --> 54:16.480 can see it is a mega dragonite with that inner focus. 54:16.480 --> 54:18.960 So it's got the immunity to fake out flinches 54:18.960 --> 54:20.480 before it does mega evolve. 54:20.480 --> 54:22.360 And then it would obtain that multi-skinned ability, 54:22.360 --> 54:24.560 which is so, so useful as well. 54:24.560 --> 54:27.240 No setup really on the team. 54:27.240 --> 54:29.280 Just a lot of fast offense. 54:29.280 --> 54:31.520 And that fast speed can be benefited 54:31.520 --> 54:32.600 from that whimsicott as well, 54:32.600 --> 54:34.440 taking advantage of the tailwind there. 54:34.440 --> 54:35.920 And then you've got a sneezer as well. 54:35.920 --> 54:38.280 I really love the inclusion of rock slides. 54:38.280 --> 54:41.200 Just give you a bit of a check against the posing chargers 54:41.200 --> 54:42.920 in particular to allow you in. 54:42.920 --> 54:58.920 you can be useful if you can activate that white herb to get the speed jump on things like Aerodactyl as well, to have that fast rock slide and start shipping away, and you've got the two Megas as well, which are just so, so strong if they're positioned right and you can throw opponents very easily. 54:58.920 --> 55:05.180 I love the inclusion of the mega dragon it because you still do have the coverage of the heat wave, which is what Charizard does, right? 55:05.180 --> 55:12.160 But having things like the Thunderbolt and Dragon pulse to really be able to pressure but not necessarily being reliant on that weather to do that big damage 55:12.160 --> 55:14.280 It's really nice. You don't have to worry about the weather wars 55:14.280 --> 55:20.280 You don't have to worry about boost bringing out the Sun to then make sure your basketball region does less damage, right? 55:20.280 --> 55:24.760 And I think such a unique pick that cannot be just stopped in its tracks is 55:24.760 --> 55:26.760 is incredible. But again, when 55:26.760 --> 55:29.760 we're talking about unique teams and variations, 55:29.760 --> 55:31.760 Gary, there is a reason he was on 55:31.760 --> 55:34.760 the winning streak yesterday and why he was highlighted. 55:34.760 --> 55:37.760 This duo of Mega Star Raptor and this Raichu. 55:37.760 --> 55:39.760 Raichu can be a little bit squishy, 55:39.760 --> 55:41.760 but the coverage it has in a couple of these matchups 55:41.760 --> 55:44.760 is incredible, but I think it's just all eyes on that 55:44.760 --> 55:47.760 Huzoomian arcane. Again, the amount of damage 55:47.760 --> 55:49.760 and the fact that it has that focus actually 55:49.760 --> 55:51.760 can't just take it down in one hit. 55:51.760 --> 55:53.760 It was a really big team point for Nara, 55:53.760 --> 55:55.760 which in their match yesterday. 55:55.760 --> 55:58.760 Yeah, I really like the right you that Carrie's got access to here. 55:58.760 --> 56:02.760 I think it causes all sorts of issues for the audience. 56:02.760 --> 56:05.760 I think because it's a passive speed control with that zap pan, 56:05.760 --> 56:08.760 and if you do mayor evolve and that can be a bit of a dead mission, 56:08.760 --> 56:10.760 you can match tailwinds if you do bring that star up there, 56:10.760 --> 56:13.760 which that intimidates going to be very important for weakening 56:13.760 --> 56:16.760 some of those physical threats on either side. 56:16.760 --> 56:20.760 Starting out our day such an aggressive lead coming out from Carrie 56:20.760 --> 56:37.540 carry with that. He's really in Arkani. We talked so much about and star raptor on the opposing end for you. Yeah, looking to stay undefeated. It's a win to God and a basket legion. So potential to just go for a tailwind and set up a lot of damage. Yeah, that immediate tailwind prankster from the the win to cut is going to put that 56:37.540 --> 56:40.780 to a really good position to go for either target. 56:40.780 --> 56:42.620 It's boosted by the life hold as well. 56:42.620 --> 56:43.460 So the damage there, 56:43.460 --> 56:45.020 it's going to be able to take that. 56:45.020 --> 56:47.060 Kaseyo and Okinawan down to it's stash immediately. 56:47.060 --> 56:48.740 There's some really good damage, 56:48.740 --> 56:51.900 just to soften up that star after the intimidate. 56:51.900 --> 56:53.340 We mentioned it coming into the match. 56:53.340 --> 56:55.460 It's really important just to weaken that attack stat 56:55.460 --> 56:56.620 on the vast agent. 56:56.620 --> 56:58.660 It's probably out of range from picking up a knockout 56:58.660 --> 57:00.740 onto either of these Pokemon right now. 57:00.740 --> 57:03.660 We're not going for a tail in or any sort of set up though. 57:03.660 --> 57:05.740 We're all about that damage. 57:05.740 --> 57:08.860 And it's, there's a dual wing that misses. 57:08.860 --> 57:10.020 That would have been a lot of damage, 57:10.020 --> 57:11.340 just a KO into the women's car, 57:11.340 --> 57:13.380 but now nothing done from the star after. 57:13.380 --> 57:15.180 It's already down to half health, 57:15.180 --> 57:16.020 and it's a fast believe you, 57:16.020 --> 57:16.940 and that can follow up. 57:16.940 --> 57:19.980 Wave brass the double up into that bird, 57:19.980 --> 57:22.540 is enough to claim Yuya the first KO in the match. 57:22.540 --> 57:25.260 Yeah, the dual wing did really unfortunate miss there for Kari. 57:25.260 --> 57:27.060 He would have undoubtedly picked up the knockout 57:27.060 --> 57:27.980 onto the women's car, 57:27.980 --> 57:30.900 and like you said, the intimidating quite crucial here. 57:30.900 --> 57:32.540 Still going for the double up, really smart. 57:32.540 --> 57:34.700 Not going for that tail wing straight to in. 57:34.700 --> 57:39.240 Another Tailwind option has been removed from Terry, and Vaskylyzion fairly hanging on with 57:39.240 --> 57:42.860 one HP from that recoil damage, allowing it another turn. 57:42.860 --> 57:46.580 It's immune to the extreme speed priority that the Arcanine's got in Carrie's side, 57:46.580 --> 57:50.260 and he's going to be able to fire off an Apojet to get one last attack. 57:50.260 --> 57:53.700 But, Carrie knowing that, bringing in the Armour Tail Trigger, I'm going to blow up that. 57:53.700 --> 57:57.540 So you don't have any priority on the turn, but that's still a Vaskylyzion. 57:57.540 --> 58:02.300 If you are looking at a swap out come out later, it would definitely be problematic. 58:02.300 --> 58:06.140 is also still Wimspot that can type a tail in. Yeah, and that's the problem. I think you can go 58:06.140 --> 58:09.500 for the tail in, but we do want to do that in front of the furgrap that's threatening maybe a 58:09.500 --> 58:14.140 trick room here. Have you got enough in the tank to take down that furgrap in and to hit? Probably 58:14.140 --> 58:18.700 not because of that citrus barrier, but because of the intubidate salt. Harry in a position now 58:18.700 --> 58:25.180 where they can set that trick room up, and it really discurs you from going for any sort of 58:25.180 --> 58:29.820 speed control of their own because it would counteract what Harry's trying to do. Protect on 58:29.820 --> 58:33.620 on the Arcanine, so Grigraff's going to be the only one to attack, and it's not a women's 58:33.620 --> 58:37.780 squad attacking into the Grigraff to try and take it down and prevent a trick room, but 58:37.780 --> 58:43.220 instead a double up into the Arcanine. Such a well-timed protect, and Grigraff, we don't 58:43.220 --> 58:47.620 want to go for the trick room yet. Instead, women's squad avoided an attack last turn, 58:47.620 --> 58:50.220 it's time to break that focus hatch now. 58:50.220 --> 58:54.180 That's a really small play from Kari, catching that double attack into the tech. Now he's 58:54.180 --> 58:57.300 getting the psychic damage on the women's squad now, that probably puts it in range 58:57.300 --> 59:01.460 of an extreme speed from the Arcanine to remove it, okay? So that's really great. And then 59:01.460 --> 59:06.420 you can set up your trick room with a Ferradraff this turn, and then potentially if the Arcanine 59:06.420 --> 59:10.740 does go down, your inner petition to bring something you would think like that Sylveon 59:10.740 --> 59:15.220 in the back onto the field to start helping Kiera up and maybe getting closer, maybe taking 59:15.220 --> 59:22.260 game one. Yeah, looking at it, the Arcanine, it hasn't even had its focus ash broken yet. 59:22.260 --> 59:26.540 So even if it goes for the Wimspot, and you can fire off one last pack of the basket 59:26.540 --> 59:31.500 into it. If you only do get one attack without life orbits, it days are numbered. 59:31.500 --> 59:35.620 You wouldn't even be enough to take the arcaneye off down. So it will just be a 59:35.620 --> 59:38.740 switch so you can potentially do some good damage into something else like 59:38.740 --> 59:43.380 that Sylveon. If it is a potential to go up into that spot, it could get tricky. 59:43.380 --> 59:46.960 But instead, often to preserve this Pasculeigen through the turn. 59:46.960 --> 59:50.340 Moon Blast from the Whims of thought will be the first amount of damage into the 59:50.340 --> 59:57.340 This giraffe is faulty, and sticking around means trick room can now be set. 59:57.340 --> 01:00:04.340 Trick room set up, the servant coming in, a really nice healthy space as well, not taking any damage on the incoming studs. 01:00:04.340 --> 01:00:10.340 Here, you're going to be able to go for that hyper hose, you're going to be able to keep both the Basque Legion and the Wintercote you would imagine. 01:00:10.340 --> 01:00:18.340 The Basque Legion can stay and go for an active jet, but of course that armor still is still active, so you're kind of blocked from really getting any value there. 01:00:18.340 --> 01:00:22.620 So if you are you're probably going to see this attack come out, let these two come out 01:00:22.620 --> 01:00:25.140 and then bring in two fresh Pokemon the next turn. 01:00:25.140 --> 01:00:28.500 But no one to give up the Whimsicott just yet. 01:00:28.500 --> 01:00:31.260 Whimsicott protects, helping hand, still beyond. 01:00:31.260 --> 01:00:34.340 There's two targets that have already been damaged in front of you. 01:00:34.340 --> 01:00:35.540 You can only tape down one. 01:00:35.540 --> 01:00:38.740 Basculi Legion stays, they come to an end. 01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:40.540 But with the protect on the Whimsicott it will stick around. 01:00:40.540 --> 01:00:44.220 But there's still so many more turns of this trick room to gas through. 01:00:44.220 --> 01:00:47.740 King Gambit though, we need to start trying to get through that. 01:00:47.740 --> 01:00:52.220 The King Gambit coming in, a really nice response here and the one thing that we saw in the team preview 01:00:52.220 --> 01:00:58.740 Yulia has access to is for attacking Gambit so the coverage, you kind of go after a lot of different things 01:00:58.740 --> 01:01:02.740 and you go after the Perigraph here for super effective damage with the Cactiope, 01:01:02.740 --> 01:01:06.740 go after that Sylvia with an iron head and that's probably where you want to start targeting. 01:01:06.740 --> 01:01:10.740 You don't really worry about the offensive threat from the Perigraph so much now. 01:01:10.740 --> 01:01:14.740 The Sylvia is the target, you want to try and remove that as quick as possible. 01:01:14.740 --> 01:01:20.100 Pergraf took that personally. We're not worried about the offensive threat. Well, that's going to be Pergraf picking up a KO 01:01:20.100 --> 01:01:24.980 When Scott is gone, but targeting down into the Sylveon does even out how 01:01:25.540 --> 01:01:30.660 The momentum each trainer is taking on this third. That's going to be a clean one hit KO 01:01:30.660 --> 01:01:35.500 But now it's Pergraf still around in this trick room and two Pokemon gone for you 01:01:35.500 --> 01:01:38.860 Yeah, flow at the last during the field. Yeah, now the flow is coming in 01:01:38.860 --> 01:01:42.140 And the Arkanaan being preserved very smartly by carriage. 01:01:42.140 --> 01:01:43.980 If we can come in now, like you've mentioned before, 01:01:43.980 --> 01:01:45.020 it's still got the focus flash, 01:01:45.020 --> 01:01:47.700 so we're going to be at least able to take one attack. 01:01:47.700 --> 01:01:49.100 The king gamut has got low pick, 01:01:49.100 --> 01:01:51.260 so that's going to be super effective damage into the Arkanaan. 01:01:51.260 --> 01:01:52.580 Probably take it down to the flash, 01:01:52.580 --> 01:01:56.780 but it does give Arkanaan the ability to fire back in return 01:01:56.780 --> 01:01:58.140 and kind of pick the target. 01:01:58.140 --> 01:01:59.060 Where'd you go? 01:01:59.060 --> 01:02:01.060 Probably safer to go after the king gamut 01:02:01.060 --> 01:02:03.020 because there's no protect there. 01:02:03.020 --> 01:02:04.900 In case that blowout does protect though, 01:02:04.900 --> 01:02:06.300 you don't really want to target into that, 01:02:06.300 --> 01:02:09.740 that is a big offensive threat right now. 01:02:09.740 --> 01:02:12.460 It can't protect, but going with the mega evolution 01:02:12.460 --> 01:02:14.740 says it might just want to go on the offensive 01:02:14.740 --> 01:02:17.540 and not leave that king gambit out to dry. 01:02:17.540 --> 01:02:20.980 Helping Hen, Arcana looking to do the most amount of damage 01:02:20.980 --> 01:02:22.900 where it's going to be targeted to is the question. 01:02:22.900 --> 01:02:24.460 Low kick does a lot. 01:02:24.460 --> 01:02:26.540 Naughty enough to bring it down to that 1% focus 01:02:26.540 --> 01:02:27.660 slash activation. 01:02:27.660 --> 01:02:30.860 Has head trash in return, targeting down the flow. 01:02:30.860 --> 01:02:33.060 If it is protected, it could have been dangerous, 01:02:33.060 --> 01:02:36.940 But instead, one will be down with one fell swoop. 01:02:36.940 --> 01:02:40.060 Yeah, really good catch there from Kerry going after the flowhead, 01:02:40.060 --> 01:02:43.100 saying, OK, well, now I can stall out this trick room 01:02:43.100 --> 01:02:44.820 and then put my arcanine in the position. 01:02:44.820 --> 01:02:46.660 As long as my photograph's still in the field, 01:02:46.660 --> 01:02:48.580 I'm not going to be threatened by this sucker punch. 01:02:48.580 --> 01:02:51.660 But you just say, OK, well, I'm just going to attack here. 01:02:51.660 --> 01:02:53.500 The problem is the King Arcanine right now 01:02:53.500 --> 01:02:56.020 is going to be going before your arcanine, 01:02:56.020 --> 01:02:56.940 being able to take it down. 01:02:56.940 --> 01:02:59.340 And if it's the photograph is the King Arcanine, 01:02:59.340 --> 01:03:01.260 things aren't going to play out very well for you. 01:03:01.260 --> 01:03:02.580 So you've got to preserve the arcanine. 01:03:02.580 --> 01:03:05.380 and that is the way to get through and win this game. 01:03:05.380 --> 01:03:07.740 It'll just be both Pokemon protected 01:03:07.740 --> 01:03:09.380 to make sure the weakening dimensions 01:03:09.380 --> 01:03:12.620 a little bit more suited to carry side of the board 01:03:12.620 --> 01:03:14.580 as only one Pokemon remaining for Yuya. 01:03:14.580 --> 01:03:17.540 It's 100% King Gambit, two Pokemon left 01:03:17.540 --> 01:03:19.220 on the other side though. 01:03:19.220 --> 01:03:20.980 I mean, the Furner app, when you're eyeing up 01:03:20.980 --> 01:03:23.220 what it can do is, well, not much. 01:03:23.220 --> 01:03:25.660 It can only go for these helping hands. 01:03:25.660 --> 01:03:27.780 So it's gonna be the arc nine that has to get the job 01:03:27.780 --> 01:03:29.660 all done by itself. 01:03:29.660 --> 01:03:31.820 Boosting the attack, Clear Blitz is enough 01:03:31.820 --> 01:03:35.820 to take down the King Gambit, and Clint Perry the first game in a set. 01:03:35.820 --> 01:03:44.820 Yeah, extremely well managed there from Perry to get out of that really tough situation from those first two turns as the star after went down. 01:03:44.820 --> 01:03:47.820 Timing the trick room really well, taking advantage of it. 01:03:47.820 --> 01:03:51.820 The King Gambit caused a lot of issues, but managing that end scenario saw well. 01:03:51.820 --> 01:03:54.820 Picking the right choices to go after as well at the right time. 01:03:54.820 --> 01:03:58.820 If you're saying that the easy choice in a lot of scenarios would have been the King Gambit, there's no protect there. 01:03:58.820 --> 01:04:00.640 there. You expect to protect on the 01:04:00.640 --> 01:04:02.600 floor, but no, staying tried true and 01:04:02.600 --> 01:04:04.400 tested to their convictions going after 01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:06.560 the floor at the smarter choice, catching 01:04:06.560 --> 01:04:08.600 no protect on that Pokemon and then 01:04:08.600 --> 01:04:10.440 stalling at the trick room, the armor 01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:12.320 tail pivotal and being able to allow 01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:14.400 carry the action not to close that game 01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:15.960 off. And that's a big call as well 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:17.720 because if you targeted down into that 01:04:17.720 --> 01:04:20.040 flow and it was a protect, you have now 01:04:20.040 --> 01:04:22.240 accomplished nothing for the turd. The 01:04:22.240 --> 01:04:24.440 king gambit targets down into that 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:27.000 arc nine, breaks the sash and all of a 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:32.520 So what that could do a lot of damage or just the King gambit to really be able to even the score with again a program 01:04:32.520 --> 01:04:34.520 Unable to touch that King gambit so 01:04:35.040 --> 01:04:41.980 Big turn a big swing at the end of it but carry up one now in this set one step closer to taking the win 01:04:42.080 --> 01:04:48.640 But heading into game two can you yet bounce back again or only undefeated trainer in the field 01:04:48.640 --> 01:04:54.600 You know you have the potential to win and a little switch up of the leads for Kerry going into game number two 01:04:54.600 --> 01:04:58.980 Here Vasco Ligin coming out and that wins the puck from you here and the 01:04:58.980 --> 01:05:02.580 Sylvian actually a little bit better because you saw the importance of the 01:05:02.580 --> 01:05:05.820 Hissui and Arcanine in that game once. You do want to protect it. The most 01:05:05.820 --> 01:05:09.100 important thing here is getting that intimidate down to Vasco Ligin. It does 01:05:09.100 --> 01:05:12.540 really slow it down. Wish you weren't boosted by that life up. So you can get 01:05:12.540 --> 01:05:16.020 some good damage onto it here. You can even go for a tailwind of your own if you 01:05:16.020 --> 01:05:19.740 suspect that coming out. But I think it's better at this stage to just try and 01:05:19.740 --> 01:05:23.660 leverage the star wrap deck, get it mega evolved and get some damage onto the 01:05:23.660 --> 01:05:25.660 We saw that your wing being significant. 01:05:25.660 --> 01:05:27.660 You let that this turn, that would be huge, 01:05:27.660 --> 01:05:29.660 but not gonna happen to Tech from Wimzicott. 01:05:29.660 --> 01:05:32.660 You got the lucky avoiding game number one, 01:05:32.660 --> 01:05:35.660 but it won't be Kerry Reid attempting to take care of Wimzicott here. 01:05:35.660 --> 01:05:38.660 Instead, setting up Tailwind with the star after. 01:05:38.660 --> 01:05:40.660 Hyper voice to follow up Wimzicott again. 01:05:40.660 --> 01:05:42.660 Will take no damage, but a good way to start 01:05:42.660 --> 01:05:45.660 shunking away at this basket legion. 01:05:45.660 --> 01:05:47.660 Whereas it'll be the only one to attack the wave pass, 01:05:47.660 --> 01:05:49.660 does a lot of damage, 01:05:49.660 --> 01:05:52.660 but not nearly enough into the Sylvion. 01:05:52.660 --> 01:05:58.880 Yeah, it's a really nice play from Kerry here. You do take a lot of damage into your Silvian, but it's kind of done a job, right? 01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:03.200 It's put that basket legion into a position where you can use your star after to go for the dual wing, 01:06:03.200 --> 01:06:05.500 but you can go into that slot this next turn and pick it up. 01:06:05.500 --> 01:06:11.820 Even if the Windsor Goat goes for a tailwing too much to Kerry's, then the star after still has to be that basket legion. 01:06:11.820 --> 01:06:14.980 There's always a threat as well of the Silvian maybe switching out for a giraffe coming in. 01:06:14.980 --> 01:06:19.740 So there's a hesitation about going for elastic aqua jets here to waste it, you know. 01:06:19.740 --> 01:06:21.740 So that's something else to consider. 01:06:21.740 --> 01:06:23.220 Start up, they're going to be removed. 01:06:23.220 --> 01:06:24.580 Save for later on. 01:06:24.580 --> 01:06:25.660 The furgaraf inside. 01:06:25.660 --> 01:06:27.220 This will be the armortale. 01:06:27.220 --> 01:06:29.380 So make sure any priority is stopped. 01:06:29.380 --> 01:06:31.100 And of course, just to swap out, no on-call. 01:06:31.100 --> 01:06:32.580 It works double priority. 01:06:32.580 --> 01:06:35.260 Aqua Jet won't do anything at all. 01:06:35.260 --> 01:06:36.820 And Vasculation goes down. 01:06:36.820 --> 01:06:38.940 Wim's got taking so much damage. 01:06:38.940 --> 01:06:41.220 Fantastic switch coming up from Kari. 01:06:41.220 --> 01:06:42.740 Yeah, amazing play from Kari. 01:06:42.740 --> 01:06:44.740 Really identifying the two threats there. 01:06:44.740 --> 01:06:47.620 The on-call, big threat to lock you into that tailwind 01:06:47.620 --> 01:06:49.620 and then that Aqua Jet as well. 01:06:49.620 --> 01:06:54.440 and completely null and void. Now the flyer comes in, now you've got to think that you 01:06:54.440 --> 01:06:59.680 have to go for the tailwind with the other wings. To put that flyer into a stronger position. 01:06:59.680 --> 01:07:03.440 Thing that Kerry could be smart about, they haven't got too many turns in their own tailwind 01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:08.120 left and if the tailwind comes out from you, they will be elevated above the Pokemon and 01:07:08.120 --> 01:07:11.720 Harry sides. So Kerry could technically go for a trick room a little bit earlier than 01:07:11.720 --> 01:07:14.920 what they're thinking here. Maybe protect the Sylvia on trick room with the burger app 01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:18.120 and then although two tailwinds are set up, you're still going to be under speeding them 01:07:18.120 --> 01:07:21.340 with the trick room in effect going into the next turn. 01:07:21.340 --> 01:07:23.020 Yeah, with these tailwind trick room teams, 01:07:23.020 --> 01:07:24.580 sometimes on that last turn of tailwind, 01:07:24.580 --> 01:07:25.580 we can see the trick room. 01:07:25.580 --> 01:07:29.020 So you can really make the most of any variety of speed 01:07:29.020 --> 01:07:29.820 mode your team has. 01:07:29.820 --> 01:07:32.780 But going for it early, that is a tailwind from Yuyia. 01:07:32.780 --> 01:07:34.780 It'd be evening the score. 01:07:34.780 --> 01:07:36.980 And could be a really good heads-up play. 01:07:36.980 --> 01:07:38.340 Whether he goes for it, though, we'll 01:07:38.340 --> 01:07:39.620 have to see, because you also have 01:07:39.620 --> 01:07:43.340 to worry about the amount of damage Yuyia can do on this turn. 01:07:43.340 --> 01:07:46.260 Floette, mega evolution, and that very aura. 01:07:46.260 --> 01:07:50.920 Quick attack, another way to try and make sure that you are going to be outspeeding and Wim's 01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:54.600 thought already at low health will be taken down so you don't actually even have to worry 01:07:54.600 --> 01:07:56.040 about the tailwind. 01:07:56.040 --> 01:07:59.720 You can just go ahead and play this with your own speed. 01:07:59.720 --> 01:08:05.120 Sylveon does get taken down, but for a giraffe, does an opportunity to attack psychic, well 01:08:05.120 --> 01:08:09.920 that will be stricken off the hit, but still, that's another Pokemon gone from Yuya. 01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:13.680 Yeah, a much bold direct route and I kind of prefer that to be honest as well because 01:08:13.680 --> 01:08:17.060 knowing that probably like the King Gambit in the back if you set the brick 01:08:17.060 --> 01:08:19.980 room up it's going to benefit that whereas now you're in a much stronger 01:08:19.980 --> 01:08:24.020 position where you still got one turn until when left you've denied it and 01:08:24.020 --> 01:08:27.660 now you've got that Hissui and Arcanine in. We know how to help in hand. 01:08:27.660 --> 01:08:30.860 Flaeblitz will get that King Gambit and you're not so worried about what that 01:08:30.860 --> 01:08:34.660 Floette does if you are the Hissui and Arcanine to resist the ferry attacks. 01:08:34.660 --> 01:08:40.620 Helping hand Arcanine again set up for success with two juicy targets in front of it 01:08:40.620 --> 01:08:42.980 And with a king gambit unable to protect, 01:08:42.980 --> 01:08:46.140 the Flurflit is more than enough to claim Gary 01:08:46.140 --> 01:08:48.380 his third KO in the match. 01:08:48.380 --> 01:08:51.060 It is all down to a mega-Flood, 01:08:51.060 --> 01:08:54.660 but too high of a hill to climb off of Dazzling Gleam. 01:08:54.660 --> 01:08:57.340 Not enough damage, Arcanine's only having this fast, 01:08:57.340 --> 01:09:00.140 broken now, this is all but done. 01:09:00.140 --> 01:09:03.100 Yeah, I mean, Gary is in the pieces that tools 01:09:03.100 --> 01:09:05.860 so, so elegantly so well in this match, 01:09:05.860 --> 01:09:07.140 and there we go. 01:09:07.140 --> 01:09:11.140 The commanding game number two, Gary D'Artona. 01:09:11.140 --> 01:09:14.340 To take the victory up here on the stage, 01:09:14.340 --> 01:09:17.020 we saw a great victory yesterday. 01:09:17.020 --> 01:09:20.260 And again, a stronger one here today. 01:09:20.260 --> 01:09:23.260 He is so well-posted when it's all this New Zealand 01:09:23.260 --> 01:09:25.540 arcane that's put in so much work 01:09:25.540 --> 01:09:28.380 and then actually laid out plan. 01:09:28.380 --> 01:09:29.140 Incredible. 01:09:29.140 --> 01:09:32.220 I mean, it just shows how comfortable 01:09:32.220 --> 01:09:35.340 Gary is with the team and the tools they have at the disposal. 01:09:35.340 --> 01:09:37.440 getting everything right in that 01:09:37.440 --> 01:09:39.440 match as well. The timing of the 01:09:39.440 --> 01:09:41.440 PhyroGraf switch in in Game 2 was 01:09:41.440 --> 01:09:43.440 perfect. It allowed then the 01:09:43.440 --> 01:09:45.440 Sylvian to remove the Basque 01:09:45.440 --> 01:09:47.440 Legion before it got any more 01:09:47.440 --> 01:09:49.440 value and really threatened that 01:09:49.440 --> 01:09:51.440 Whimsicott and carry knowing the 01:09:51.440 --> 01:09:53.440 calcs as well there. When that 01:09:53.440 --> 01:09:55.440 Ferry or is active just enough to 01:09:55.440 --> 01:09:57.440 get that quick attack knockout 01:09:57.440 --> 01:09:59.440 onto that Whimsicott to then 01:09:59.440 --> 01:10:01.440 now the tailwind coming out. 01:10:01.440 --> 01:10:03.440 So just yet really well 01:10:03.440 --> 01:10:08.880 the rest of day too. I mean the whimsicott despite the fact it had taken a lot of damage 01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:13.520 it was still i mean still be on with the quick attack quick attack isn't known for the craziest 01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:19.440 amount of damage out there right so it's not only to get those sashes there's one hang ons and things 01:10:19.440 --> 01:10:23.200 like that but that was a considerable amount of damage and it was a whimsicott but still 01:10:23.200 --> 01:10:28.000 you've got to take your hat off to Sylvia and it is doing its best out there it really did it really 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:33.040 really did it. I've gone another way, but it's just still so expertly played like played 01:10:33.040 --> 01:10:37.920 for Kerry again. He's just looking so strong. But for you, yeah, man, it's how we didn't 01:10:37.920 --> 01:10:45.280 get to see the dragon. I I understand why not. But I'm excited to potentially see him 01:10:45.280 --> 01:10:51.560 again later. So such a cool team, such a cool innovative piece of the team building and to 01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:56.080 reach face you undefeated. Sure. Maybe you weren't the victor in this match, but there 01:10:56.080 --> 01:10:59.800 There is only one person undefeated on day one and you will still be able to hold that. 01:10:59.800 --> 01:11:03.040 Yeah, there is that. Like you say, you can see why the Dragonite didn't come. 01:11:03.040 --> 01:11:07.840 It's not going to fare well into a Sylvan that Kerry's going to lean into quite heavily. 01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:12.520 But I'm sure there'll be plenty of other opportunities for you in the rest of the tournament to pilot 01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:17.600 that Dragonite, to use more success because it cuts such a phenomenal start as we can. 01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:22.720 But I think Kerry kind of just going back to how they're playing it when you look at 01:11:22.720 --> 01:11:28.480 games that we've seen with them. They're not really leveraging or using the the mega pokemon as 01:11:28.480 --> 01:11:32.400 their main attacking outlet as their offensive threat. Using it as more of a utility and then 01:11:32.400 --> 01:11:37.120 there's that reliance on the other pokemon like Tissue and Arcanine, like the Sylveon and then the 01:11:37.120 --> 01:11:43.200 support rolls that we've played. Pivotal like that that photograph and how well Kerry knows the 01:11:43.200 --> 01:11:49.280 interactions and yeah it's just just very very well done and very interesting. What I think is 01:11:49.280 --> 01:11:53.040 really interesting with the team is because we always we haven't gotten to see the star actor do 01:11:53.040 --> 01:11:57.760 the craziest amount of impact but that's also because it's the first target to be taken down 01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:02.720 because you can't let it snowball right it is the perfect diversion it gets taken down all the 01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:07.360 other pokemons sweep away the game so I just really love this team and all the pieces to it 01:12:07.360 --> 01:12:12.240 but of course we need to hear from Kerry after that victory let's go catch up with him on the stage 01:12:12.240 --> 01:12:32.240 I'm here with Kerry D'Ortona who is moving on in the competition still in contention for top cut. How does it feel I'm feeling really good right now. I feel very focused. Very good. I got a good night's sleep. Got a good conversation with all my friends and I'm just I'm ready to play ready to do good. 01:12:32.240 --> 01:12:35.200 And I'm just I'm ready to play ready to do good moms 01:12:35.200 --> 01:12:40.120 I mean you were just telling me that backstage prior to this match you're feeling a little nervous 01:12:40.120 --> 01:12:44.960 But then you know the gears started turning and a plan started forming so walk me through that 01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:47.800 I mean when we were talking about that matchup backstage 01:12:48.320 --> 01:12:52.920 I was talking to Evan specifically we were like well this kind of looks like that Charizard flow at team 01:12:52.920 --> 01:12:59.160 But the dragonite in the snooze lure really made it feel different. Oh a hundred percent changes how it completely plays dragonite 01:12:59.160 --> 01:13:05.440 is in a scariest Charizard on paper. I know I have Husri and Arcanine, but it can get kind of awkward versus Charizard if they 01:13:05.440 --> 01:13:08.560 manage to remove it, because then I don't really have the best ways of removing it. 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:12.920 Unless I want to like start eating heat waves and trading damage, which isn't like super nice. 01:13:12.920 --> 01:13:16.180 So Dragonite does make it similar. I was a bit scared of the Sneasler, 01:13:16.180 --> 01:13:20.840 but I figured he would lean more into Basculage and Whimsicott, so I wanted to lean more into Starraptor. 01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:26.160 I was thinking Raichu originally, but I'm like, it's too weak to Basculage and Unlead, and at least with Arcanine and 01:13:26.160 --> 01:13:28.160 I'm able to get multiple plans 01:13:28.160 --> 01:13:30.160 into multiple leads. Yeah, so 01:13:30.160 --> 01:13:31.160 let's go through that game one 01:13:31.160 --> 01:13:33.160 because I know the star after 01:13:33.160 --> 01:13:34.160 did its best. Unfortunately, 01:13:34.160 --> 01:13:36.160 didn't quite work out, but that 01:13:36.160 --> 01:13:38.160 trick room really seemed to bail 01:13:38.160 --> 01:13:40.160 you out of a tough start. So 01:13:40.160 --> 01:13:42.160 yeah, um, the dual wing be so 01:13:42.160 --> 01:13:43.160 it was kind of a call that turn 01:13:43.160 --> 01:13:44.160 because he can either moon blast 01:13:44.160 --> 01:13:46.160 Aqua Jet, the basket lead, the 01:13:46.160 --> 01:13:48.160 parka nine or he can double the 01:13:48.160 --> 01:13:49.160 star after calling like a 01:13:49.160 --> 01:13:51.160 photograph swap or protect. I 01:13:51.160 --> 01:13:52.160 was thinking about it and I'm 01:13:52.160 --> 01:13:53.160 like, I think he's just going to 01:13:53.160 --> 01:13:55.160 double my star after if I remove 01:13:55.160 --> 01:13:56.880 So I removed Windsicott. 01:13:56.880 --> 01:13:58.840 I should be in contention to just close out the game 01:13:58.840 --> 01:14:00.600 because he doesn't have the damage. 01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:02.640 But then the miss happened and I was like, 01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:04.640 oh, that's really bad. 01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:06.840 And so, but I found the one way back in, 01:14:06.840 --> 01:14:08.960 which is to pressure Trick Room to force out the King Gambit 01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:11.240 and then get the 50-50 right on if the full net swings 01:14:11.240 --> 01:14:12.760 are not on that last turn. 01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:14.120 And that Trick Room looks so good. 01:14:14.120 --> 01:14:16.680 I was very surprised you pivoted to Tailwind in game two. 01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:17.520 Was that intentional? 01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:18.680 I mean, obviously it was intentional, 01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:20.080 but what was the thinking behind it? 01:14:20.080 --> 01:14:22.320 So I wanted to adjust to Sylveon in case 01:14:22.320 --> 01:14:24.200 you went to a possible Dragonite change up. 01:14:24.200 --> 01:14:26.720 I also really like leading Sylveon sometimes, 01:14:26.720 --> 01:14:29.080 because you can bait certain things from the opponent, 01:14:29.080 --> 01:14:31.000 and also pressured out the Basque Legion 01:14:31.000 --> 01:14:32.320 to take a lot of damage, 01:14:32.320 --> 01:14:34.160 because the Windicat doesn't really want to set Tailwind 01:14:34.160 --> 01:14:35.760 that turn, because it's at risk of getting 01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:37.920 like, the Wingbeated, Hyper Voice, 01:14:37.920 --> 01:14:40.400 like, or you clicking Tailwind and Hyper Voice, 01:14:40.400 --> 01:14:41.920 so it gets into an awkward position. 01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:44.480 I think the big turn was when I called the Aqua Jet Encore, 01:14:44.480 --> 01:14:46.600 and I just swapped for Rigorak on the Starraptor. 01:14:46.600 --> 01:14:49.120 I was fine if he set Tailwind and swung with Basque 01:14:49.120 --> 01:14:49.960 into my, 01:14:52.240 --> 01:14:53.640 sorry, Sylveon, 01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:55.820 because I knew I could win that trade. 01:14:55.820 --> 01:14:56.860 For sure, for sure. 01:14:56.860 --> 01:15:00.100 So, I mean, all of those decisions, all of those moves 01:15:00.100 --> 01:15:01.940 show that you have a lot of comfort with the team 01:15:01.940 --> 01:15:03.820 and I think that's the kind of comfort you need 01:15:03.820 --> 01:15:05.740 to make it far in this tournament. 01:15:05.740 --> 01:15:07.580 How are you feeling overall? 01:15:07.580 --> 01:15:08.660 I feel really good. 01:15:08.660 --> 01:15:09.940 I really like this team. 01:15:09.940 --> 01:15:13.020 It reminds me a lot of my King Gambit Volcarona team 01:15:13.020 --> 01:15:13.940 back from Reg H. 01:15:13.940 --> 01:15:15.340 It just kind of flows, 01:15:15.340 --> 01:15:17.100 but I also feel like it is a lot of fundamentals 01:15:17.100 --> 01:15:18.660 that I've been learning across the season. 01:15:18.660 --> 01:15:23.060 Like I learned for a graph when I went to Orlando. 01:15:23.060 --> 01:15:25.940 I started learning how to do tailroom back in Portland 01:15:25.940 --> 01:15:26.740 last season. 01:15:26.740 --> 01:15:29.420 So it just kind of combined a lot of the teams 01:15:29.420 --> 01:15:31.860 that I used previously and blended into one nice team 01:15:31.860 --> 01:15:32.940 with a lot of options. 01:15:32.940 --> 01:15:34.300 And do you feel like you're falling back 01:15:34.300 --> 01:15:37.100 on those fundamentals and your matches throughout the weekend? 01:15:37.100 --> 01:15:37.820 Overall, yes. 01:15:37.820 --> 01:15:39.340 But I'm also trying to implement new ones 01:15:39.340 --> 01:15:42.020 to get better and grow stronger because nobody's perfect, 01:15:42.020 --> 01:15:42.340 right? 01:15:42.340 --> 01:15:44.180 You've got to push yourself to be better every day. 01:15:44.180 --> 01:15:46.220 So that's the goal. 01:15:46.220 --> 01:15:48.340 All right, O'Carry, thank you so much for your time. 01:15:48.340 --> 01:15:49.500 I really appreciate it. 01:15:49.500 --> 01:15:51.460 Best of luck throughout the rest of this run. 01:15:51.460 --> 01:15:52.860 Do you have any shout-outs you want to give 01:15:52.860 --> 01:15:56.640 anybody watching at home? So I shouted out a ton of people yesterday of course 01:15:56.640 --> 01:15:59.960 Patrick Caden and then all the others I shout out. I did forget to shout out 01:15:59.960 --> 01:16:03.540 Marcus Hamon. I really want to thank him because he gave me some like great 01:16:03.540 --> 01:16:07.220 advice over the previous weeks in regards to how to approach certain 01:16:07.220 --> 01:16:10.660 matchups and his thoughts on the team so I really want to thank him for that. 01:16:10.660 --> 01:16:14.660 One more story and of course my parents for a live to go here and my aunt 01:16:14.660 --> 01:16:18.380 Jaden and uncle Michael who are in the crowd right now so thank you. Awesome 01:16:18.380 --> 01:16:21.860 well shout out to everybody hello to your aunt and uncle out there and hello 01:16:21.860 --> 01:16:26.020 to you watching at home. I'm sure you'd love to watch us break down that battle. So let's 01:16:26.020 --> 01:16:29.740 go check out Ben's battle breakdown back there in the analyst lounge. 01:16:29.740 --> 01:16:35.820 Thank you so much, Gabby. We've got a battle to break down, but it's going to be moving 01:16:35.820 --> 01:16:41.180 on from the battle that we've just had. It was crazy. It was such a great way to start 01:16:41.180 --> 01:16:44.860 the match. I don't know what it is about the world championships this year and starting 01:16:44.860 --> 01:16:51.100 off with a nice clean two on the stream. But we're here again. We're doing it again for 01:16:51.100 --> 01:16:55.760 Saturday here, but we've got such an amazing feature match here with Liam 01:16:55.760 --> 01:17:01.320 Sierra going through that the other match that we had on our Notables, 01:17:01.320 --> 01:17:05.880 Shohei versus Nalto. This is a world champion, previous world champion 01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:10.280 showdown that we've got here coming up. I was so excited when I saw this on 01:17:10.280 --> 01:17:15.240 Notables. I was I was telling him, you got to go check this out and oh my gosh 01:17:15.240 --> 01:17:18.360 absolutely amazing. Of course, he gets to see a lot of the really strong meta 01:17:18.360 --> 01:17:25.360 teams, but again, there's a reason that they're just everywhere, right? And Shohei has just been so strong and consistent with this. 01:17:25.360 --> 01:17:40.360 Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's probably one of the best players with this six, to be honest. And I think the little microtrans decisions that they've made in putting items where they are, stats where they are, I really make a huge difference when opponents are approaching this. 01:17:40.360 --> 01:17:44.560 from the kind of common trend that they would probably use to be seeing. 01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:48.360 I think that's going to make Strowhead stand out from the rest, you know, on this scenario here. 01:17:48.360 --> 01:17:52.160 Now this has got a nice lead to activate that Sunget, that core ability active, 01:17:52.160 --> 01:17:56.960 and then the Venusaur is going to be threatening to leap out of our attack on Strowhead. 01:17:56.960 --> 01:17:59.160 So, I feel, yes, the Garchomp is threatening the Charizard, 01:17:59.160 --> 01:18:02.960 but pretty easy to protect here from the Charizard, just to free up that Venusaur for a turn. 01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:06.160 Yeah, the trouble is, is if you start protecting the Garchomp, 01:18:06.160 --> 01:18:08.760 you take the pressure away from the Charizard, 01:18:08.760 --> 01:18:13.720 you King Gambit's not looking like it's going to take an attack all too well. And this is what 01:18:13.720 --> 01:18:20.920 we play for sometimes is just that sleep powder avoid there. Charizard though, trained for seeing 01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:27.560 that coming, going down to just 1%. Yeah, the problem here is now, yes, you can go for the 01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:32.280 heat wave, the King Gambit, nice, smart protect from your head. You're going to get a second chance 01:18:32.280 --> 01:18:36.520 at this sleep powder, but the Charizard's days are kind of numbered until that King Gambit is 01:18:36.520 --> 01:18:40.680 removed them. The primary way to remove that King Gamut was always going to be the Charizard, 01:18:40.680 --> 01:18:45.400 so it becomes a little bit more difficult than I'll tell. Can they weave in their own 01:18:45.400 --> 01:18:49.640 Garchomp in this scenario? It's difficult, because if you get caught with their Kautau 01:18:49.640 --> 01:18:55.160 Tive on the switch in, things become increasingly difficult. Yeah, and like, do you even go for 01:18:55.160 --> 01:18:59.960 the sucker punch in this position? Like, you know, both players can see this coming at this point, 01:18:59.960 --> 01:19:04.280 right? That's kind of one of the things, though, is, yes, you can see it coming from a mile out, 01:19:04.280 --> 01:19:11.080 But sometimes when the play is just so obvious, well, you got to think ahead, right? 01:19:11.080 --> 01:19:14.920 If I can just sucker punch the Tarsard and that is just the most obvious play, 01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:18.440 do they actually switch it out? Because if you all of a sudden make the heads up play, 01:19:18.440 --> 01:19:21.000 well, I don't think they'll sucker punch because that's too obvious. 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:25.960 You can get so much mileage, but it looks like not sucker punching was the right call here 01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:30.200 because Tarsard will protect. It's just so clean, so obvious, but Venus are okay. 01:19:30.200 --> 01:19:34.400 Okay, it wasn't a mess, just a well-timed swat from Shohei, 01:19:34.400 --> 01:19:37.720 but Venusaur has not actually accomplished anything, 01:19:37.720 --> 01:19:39.920 which feels really bad in this match. 01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:44.320 I feel like this is, like, Shohei was on round eight yesterday 01:19:44.320 --> 01:19:48.320 in this Charizard flow-out mirror playing up against it. 01:19:48.320 --> 01:19:50.680 You just, you can see how well-practiced he is. 01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:53.160 It's like not just switching the Whimsicott 01:19:53.160 --> 01:19:55.880 into catching the Charizard going for a protect 01:19:55.880 --> 01:19:57.560 and put that on-call pressure on, 01:19:57.560 --> 01:19:59.040 but then also knowing to, like, 01:19:59.040 --> 01:20:06.680 Hey, that's not probably going to be playing passive like let's this is the opportunity to try to get some damage down into the Venusaur and really like try to 01:20:07.520 --> 01:20:12.840 Further the board position rather than like go into the protector not really make any progress 01:20:13.080 --> 01:20:18.920 And now you've got the scenario where it sure has been set up that's ill and got you I'm gonna be ahead of everything 01:20:18.920 --> 01:20:24.200 He's not being so on the sudden just brought a rock slide, which is those forces which is our job coming in here 01:20:24.200 --> 01:20:27.680 the double okay the double 01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:28.980 physics always an interesting 01:20:28.980 --> 01:20:30.480 one because it's nothing really 01:20:30.480 --> 01:20:31.780 gain except for the pivoting 01:20:31.780 --> 01:20:34.280 right but an instant in for that 01:20:34.280 --> 01:20:36.180 intimidate drop is a bit 01:20:36.180 --> 01:20:38.480 tailed in on the other end 01:20:38.480 --> 01:20:39.720 that's going to be a lot of 01:20:39.720 --> 01:20:41.520 damage and a lot of fresher 01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:44.300 and you see how much that 01:20:44.300 --> 01:20:46.860 intimidate pays off but still 01:20:46.860 --> 01:20:48.400 like an earthquake next turn 01:20:48.400 --> 01:20:50.860 can do so much yeah it's like 01:20:50.860 --> 01:20:52.300 and do you want to bring if 01:20:52.300 --> 01:20:53.900 you're now so you're bringing 01:20:53.900 --> 01:20:58.600 the guard chomp in because you kind of need to, right? You're like expecting the rock slide 01:20:58.600 --> 01:21:02.400 because the Charizard is just protected. You're expecting maybe that little bit of 01:21:02.400 --> 01:21:06.480 spread pressure. You want to bring the guard chomp in because that's going to take those 01:21:06.480 --> 01:21:11.120 attacks. But equally, Nalto is like on the uphill battle because you're bringing that 01:21:11.120 --> 01:21:15.200 into a wintercott that could just go for a moon blast on the next turn. And especially 01:21:15.200 --> 01:21:20.520 when the tailwind then gets set up, that's two turns in a row that Shohei hasn't let 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:26.040 now to get away with the defensive plays and has managed to aggressively switch their board 01:21:26.040 --> 01:21:29.320 position up and try to find a little bit more position. 01:21:29.320 --> 01:21:34.640 And you have to take out for the one, but I ended up into the whimsicott instead. 01:21:34.640 --> 01:21:38.760 It's a Garchon that can just go for the attack at earthquake again. 01:21:38.760 --> 01:21:43.600 The activity has just done so much work, but it's Shohei that consistently getting more 01:21:43.600 --> 01:21:48.200 and more momentum if there isn't a big swing from the Garchon from now through here. 01:21:48.200 --> 01:21:57.200 You've got to go onto the dragon core here, it's going to be enough, but I think that the earthquake really smart there from Shohei, to know where you're going to put the opposing Garchomp. 01:21:57.200 --> 01:22:03.200 This is now in range. After that rough skin damage, after the life orb recall there, is it going to be in range of a sucker punch? 01:22:03.200 --> 01:22:09.200 Now you can just bring your king gambit onto the field, sucker punch, get rid of that king gambit, and Sidor has also taken a lot of damage as well. 01:22:09.200 --> 01:22:16.200 It's mainly in range of a moon blast, so it's a pretty easy clean up for you, and you don't have really too much reliance even on the tailwind at this point. 01:22:16.200 --> 01:22:19.960 I'm going to say that the Citrus Berries come to the incident, or just out of ring, 01:22:19.960 --> 01:22:23.320 but still the Garchamp threatened. 01:22:23.320 --> 01:22:27.200 And you've got two calls on the back in the red as well, so they're not going to be able 01:22:27.200 --> 01:22:30.320 to come in and have the impact like you would want them to. 01:22:30.320 --> 01:22:33.440 Can I just call out the earthquake in your self-play? 01:22:33.440 --> 01:22:40.440 I think this is something that's like so much across all of phase one yesterday. 01:22:40.440 --> 01:22:44.680 It's one of those things that I feel like if you're at home and you're playing on the 01:22:44.680 --> 01:22:48.000 ladder you're thinking like oh I can't earthquake because I've got something 01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:52.320 next to me that I might be damaging like I think Shohei is doing a really great 01:22:52.320 --> 01:22:55.760 job of showcasing why that's so important to actually like hang on a 01:22:55.760 --> 01:23:00.120 second damaging myself not too much of a problem if it gets enough damage on my 01:23:00.120 --> 01:23:03.680 opponent that's exactly it it's like the risks right and earthquake and next to 01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:07.000 the Wim Scott isn't the biggest risk it's gonna take the hit so well but we 01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:12.960 also did get to see the why it could be so dangerous in yesterday's matches but 01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:16.260 so much damage into this Incineroar over time. 01:23:16.260 --> 01:23:19.260 Incineroar is just a bye-bye, Incineroar. 01:23:19.260 --> 01:23:21.260 Yeah, there's just even that bad you think, 01:23:21.260 --> 01:23:23.760 okay, well, Tengan's gonna take the earthquake, 01:23:23.760 --> 01:23:25.460 but it's still all right. 01:23:25.460 --> 01:23:28.060 The Goldchamp's gonna take another take of that recall. 01:23:28.060 --> 01:23:30.460 If it wasn't, if it wasn't Incineroar taking down, 01:23:30.460 --> 01:23:32.460 that would've been Vishpin Garchong TKO 01:23:32.460 --> 01:23:33.960 in its own partner, Pokemon. 01:23:33.960 --> 01:23:36.460 Right, but this is the thing, like, you know, 01:23:36.460 --> 01:23:38.960 Naltown knows that, yeah, we're in, 01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:41.460 we're in Tailwind right now, 01:23:41.460 --> 01:23:47.900 and the likelihood is the Incineroar goes down, but if, yeah, if 01:23:47.900 --> 01:23:52.180 Shohei decided to target into that guard chomp instead, I've played doesn't 01:23:52.180 --> 01:23:56.300 matter, right? Because the guard chomp's gone down and then the Incineroar gets to 01:23:56.300 --> 01:24:00.020 act instead, and so I'm also sort of like holding their ground in that position 01:24:00.020 --> 01:24:05.260 and saying, well, okay, pick one of the KO's, I get some major like damage off 01:24:05.260 --> 01:24:09.660 onto your side of the field, and I know like from there I get to plan my end 01:24:09.660 --> 01:24:13.900 game with whatever I get to achieve on that turn. Yeah and now there's an almost 01:24:13.900 --> 01:24:16.860 pin position. You want to get the Charizard on the field to activate a core 01:24:16.860 --> 01:24:21.180 fill ability so it puts the Venusaur ahead with solo health though. One thing 01:24:21.180 --> 01:24:26.220 you can take advantage of is that sleep powder potentially. Except the Hunts won't engage but while 01:24:26.220 --> 01:24:29.260 there's tailwind there's an effect for at least one more turn, it is going to be 01:24:29.260 --> 01:24:34.580 pressuring a knockout, an easy knockout until that Venusaur, Godchomp's waiting 01:24:34.580 --> 01:24:38.580 the Moonblast coming from the Windsor Claw and then you've got very low health 01:24:38.580 --> 01:24:41.620 the 01:24:41.720 --> 01:24:43.620 back. Yeah, it's looking great 01:24:43.720 --> 01:24:45.220 so much for now. So I don't 01:24:45.320 --> 01:24:47.180 know if there's a way back for 01:24:47.280 --> 01:24:48.280 them right now. You don't 01:24:48.380 --> 01:24:49.960 always see this situation 01:24:50.060 --> 01:24:51.860 where it's like whimsicats kind 01:24:51.960 --> 01:24:52.860 of the most dangerous thing on 01:24:52.960 --> 01:24:55.020 the field now because all of 01:24:55.120 --> 01:24:56.860 all of Nelto's focus what are 01:24:56.960 --> 01:24:58.360 in range of a moon blast, right? 01:24:58.460 --> 01:25:00.100 But also in range of a sucker 01:25:00.200 --> 01:25:01.900 punch that King Gambit is 01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:03.140 boosted by the black glasses as 01:25:03.240 --> 01:25:04.300 well. So it's certainly going 01:25:04.400 --> 01:25:05.800 to take a chunk out of 01:25:05.900 --> 01:25:07.200 anything, but there's not many 01:25:07.200 --> 01:25:12.040 side to take anything out of right? We had a combined 35% through their three 01:25:12.040 --> 01:25:16.240 remaining Pokemon in terms of that health pool but a good protect and 01:25:16.240 --> 01:25:22.560 assumingly a good swamp as well. Cow-tow, no sucker punch. Alright we're down to if we 01:25:22.560 --> 01:25:29.040 have 35% 4 with 34% we're slowly getting there. 01:25:29.040 --> 01:25:35.360 Yeah and you know like any offensive threat from the Venusaur is covered from the 01:25:35.360 --> 01:25:42.360 and I think even a moon blast is going to be enough to take down the Venusaur even though it's resistive. 01:25:42.360 --> 01:25:48.360 So we're quite easily able here just to suck our punch, the Venusaur cover that, even if a sea powder does come out. 01:25:48.360 --> 01:25:52.360 It's only putting your pink amps, even in the following turn after you've put the moon blasts to the barge, 01:25:52.360 --> 01:25:54.360 so we're going to be able to clean up the Venusaur. 01:25:54.360 --> 01:25:56.360 We still don't know what's in the back for Shohei, right? 01:25:56.360 --> 01:25:57.360 Yeah. 01:25:57.360 --> 01:25:59.360 We've only seen the three Pokemon so far. 01:25:59.360 --> 01:26:05.720 tailwind will, you know, take away the pressure that the Venusaur is putting on. 01:26:05.720 --> 01:26:09.520 As will Oncour coming down onto it there, locking it into the protect zone. 01:26:09.520 --> 01:26:11.200 It's the double protect though. 01:26:11.200 --> 01:26:15.480 Double protect, getting it, you know, fair play, but here's the sucker punch into the 01:26:15.480 --> 01:26:16.480 guard jump. 01:26:16.480 --> 01:26:17.480 We know that's in range. 01:26:17.480 --> 01:26:18.480 That's going down. 01:26:18.480 --> 01:26:24.000 King Gambit going down to 7%, but 7% is easily going to be enough for Shohei to lock up this 01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:25.000 game. 01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:31.200 I feel like Nelto played really well against a different opponent in this particular match, right? 01:26:31.200 --> 01:26:38.200 If Shohei hadn't made so many really aggressive reads, really pushing forward in that game, 01:26:38.200 --> 01:26:44.700 like it looks like Shohei just made every read turn after turn, right? 01:26:44.700 --> 01:26:48.300 But these matches can go differently every single time. 01:26:48.300 --> 01:26:54.100 Sticking it out, we get the swap too, so that does give us and Nelto that information 01:26:54.100 --> 01:26:59.100 I feel like it's pretty well to be assumed, but you don't have that going into game two. 01:26:59.100 --> 01:27:03.100 It's not like you wonder how much of that is like a little bit of conditioning. 01:27:03.100 --> 01:27:04.100 Oh, yeah. 01:27:04.100 --> 01:27:07.100 In the mind games like how do you play the mind games, right? 01:27:07.100 --> 01:27:13.100 Do you want to keep your opponent guessing or do you want to say like, hey, by the way, I bought Charizard too, right? 01:27:13.100 --> 01:27:16.100 You've got to be careful of it going into game two. 01:27:16.100 --> 01:27:19.640 I mean, it makes sense for all 01:27:19.640 --> 01:27:22.200 champion. It checks out, but 01:27:22.200 --> 01:27:26.140 game two. Same leads again. So 01:27:26.140 --> 01:27:28.140 you know both of these trains. 01:27:28.140 --> 01:27:29.640 I love going into these game to 01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:31.140 where it's exactly the same 01:27:31.140 --> 01:27:32.180 leads coming out for both 01:27:32.180 --> 01:27:34.180 trainers because like the 01:27:34.180 --> 01:27:36.180 branching parts of the map are 01:27:36.180 --> 01:27:38.180 so so wide, right? What 01:27:38.180 --> 01:27:40.180 decisions do you make? Also 01:27:40.180 --> 01:27:41.180 just asleep out of hit this 01:27:41.180 --> 01:27:43.180 time, right? Yeah, like how 01:27:43.180 --> 01:27:45.180 does the targeting go? So like 01:27:45.180 --> 01:27:48.660 like there's so many there's so many different ways that this can go and 01:27:48.660 --> 01:27:52.100 even though the leads look the same like where we're gonna go from here is 01:27:52.100 --> 01:27:57.120 probably gonna be totally different. We got to see that in Paris match yesterday 01:27:57.120 --> 01:28:01.740 it was three games three identical leads but very very different games and I 01:28:01.740 --> 01:28:05.820 really do love being able to see that run back into this one though I mean if we 01:28:05.820 --> 01:28:08.940 get a connector could be everything but if it's miss targeted into the whims 01:28:08.940 --> 01:28:12.700 of thought we already got that swap and that could also all right so we're just 01:28:12.700 --> 01:28:14.420 not sleep out or anything, that's a turn. 01:28:14.420 --> 01:28:17.340 Okay, it's protection for our Johnson, nothing. 01:28:17.340 --> 01:28:19.020 That seems leaves. 01:28:19.020 --> 01:28:20.660 It's a safer player as well for Garcheum 01:28:20.660 --> 01:28:23.100 to be in a stronger position the next turn. 01:28:23.100 --> 01:28:24.900 You tail end with a point, you get a turn. 01:28:24.900 --> 01:28:26.660 Ooh! 01:28:26.660 --> 01:28:27.500 That's big. 01:28:27.500 --> 01:28:28.340 That's big. 01:28:28.340 --> 01:28:30.420 Gonna be sticking around a turn longer now. 01:28:30.420 --> 01:28:31.260 This, the problem is, 01:28:31.260 --> 01:28:32.940 I don't know if the Garcheum's got enough of an attack 01:28:32.940 --> 01:28:34.700 to be able to remove that finish on one hit, 01:28:34.700 --> 01:28:36.700 so it probably is gonna be able to execute, 01:28:36.700 --> 01:28:38.100 see kind of one more time, 01:28:38.100 --> 01:28:40.060 but it's gonna hit, that's the big question, 01:28:40.060 --> 01:28:43.980 and saw how much of a waste it turned out was for him worn 01:28:43.980 --> 01:28:45.460 when it didn't connect. 01:28:45.460 --> 01:28:47.980 And I wanted just the pyrocyte to get damaged on the board. 01:28:47.980 --> 01:28:50.340 That's a big decision that the chaos in this made here. 01:28:50.340 --> 01:28:52.500 You've got some compounding probabilities as well, right? 01:28:52.500 --> 01:28:54.500 Because the Whimsacock can go for a tailwind. 01:28:54.500 --> 01:28:56.420 It's still got its sash intact. 01:28:56.420 --> 01:29:00.540 And so with a tailwind, and the chance of a rock slide comes out 01:29:00.540 --> 01:29:03.300 and the rock slide gets the chance to flinch for Venusaur, 01:29:03.300 --> 01:29:05.340 and there's the chance of missing the sleep powder, 01:29:05.340 --> 01:29:08.020 like Shohei's sort of compounding those odds 01:29:08.020 --> 01:29:12.820 the potential of those blocks in play. But with the Incineroar coming in, really nice 01:29:12.820 --> 01:29:17.360 play from now, so just making sure like, yeah, that Venusaur does get a few turns to go for 01:29:17.360 --> 01:29:21.460 it. Yeah, but there is still, you know, that Oz of the Flinch does. Incineroar is not stopping 01:29:21.460 --> 01:29:27.620 that, but if you want to talk about Oz, we can always just miss, right? That's, that, 01:29:27.620 --> 01:29:31.500 we got to count for that one as well. So Venusaur, we don't have to worry about the flinch 01:29:31.500 --> 01:29:39.660 at all in the opportunity to go for the sleep powder if you hit it with no another mess. 01:29:39.660 --> 01:29:44.340 This is heartbreaking for now so like and and like let's be clear right you put sleep 01:29:44.340 --> 01:29:48.420 powder on knowing that it can miss like but you still have to commit to it and we've got 01:29:48.420 --> 01:29:53.260 to shout this out right because even though it's not working in this match right it still 01:29:53.260 --> 01:29:57.900 make it it doesn't make it the wrong move to have on the Venus tour right having a power 01:29:57.900 --> 01:30:03.100 instead wouldn't be, you know, better in this particular matchup. So Melto is using the tools and 01:30:03.100 --> 01:30:07.900 using the tools correctly, but just not getting the back up of what's happening in the match. 01:30:07.900 --> 01:30:11.820 It's one of those unlucky components of the current regulation that we're in that some of the 01:30:11.820 --> 01:30:15.820 most powerful moves just have that inherent chance to miss, and that's always the give or take. You 01:30:15.820 --> 01:30:20.540 see trainers sometimes opt into those less powerful moves to not avoid missing, but sleep 01:30:20.540 --> 01:30:24.780 outer, you're kind of stuck with it, right? You just kind of go for it, but to have the sleep 01:30:24.780 --> 01:30:26.900 three powder mist, my heat wave mist. 01:30:26.900 --> 01:30:28.900 That one is just tough. 01:30:28.900 --> 01:30:31.060 And now, Shohei can just, 01:30:31.060 --> 01:30:32.460 we're waiting for the first one again, 01:30:32.460 --> 01:30:34.140 then Sidor again takes the hit, 01:30:34.140 --> 01:30:35.620 but we're just doing the damage over time 01:30:35.620 --> 01:30:36.740 and now Sidor's not really gonna be able 01:30:36.740 --> 01:30:38.740 to accomplish much in this match. 01:30:38.740 --> 01:30:41.180 Not so far, better resource management this time around, 01:30:41.180 --> 01:30:43.100 but really wants to put that girl chomp to sleep 01:30:43.100 --> 01:30:45.180 because that's the first one. 01:30:45.180 --> 01:30:46.620 Great protect from Shohei. 01:30:46.620 --> 01:30:49.140 There was the impending threat of the takeout there, 01:30:49.140 --> 01:30:51.820 so it made sense to just delay things. 01:30:51.820 --> 01:30:54.020 You now got a position where you, 01:30:54.020 --> 01:30:56.780 is the goalie jump gonna get what the sleepgen is now 01:30:56.780 --> 01:30:59.340 till it's gonna start going for some attacks here 01:30:59.340 --> 01:31:00.780 because you've got the opportunity 01:31:00.780 --> 01:31:03.100 and had the opportunity a number of times 01:31:03.100 --> 01:31:06.220 to go after that whimsicott or hold just after the goalie jump 01:31:06.220 --> 01:31:08.420 and start damaging it because at some point 01:31:08.420 --> 01:31:10.340 you're gonna have to get damage onto it. 01:31:10.340 --> 01:31:12.100 You don't want it to sleep, that's great, 01:31:12.100 --> 01:31:14.100 but how many turns of sleep are you gonna get 01:31:14.100 --> 01:31:16.340 and how are you gonna get any value out of it? 01:31:16.340 --> 01:31:18.620 Missing, I think you've gotta change your track 01:31:18.620 --> 01:31:19.460 a little bit. 01:31:19.460 --> 01:31:22.620 I'll wear a tux, get a centerware, six around. 01:31:22.620 --> 01:31:25.460 Do we hit the sleep powder this time? 01:31:25.460 --> 01:31:26.860 Well, you didn't know they're mixed. 01:31:26.860 --> 01:31:27.700 You're still- 01:31:27.700 --> 01:31:29.780 You just saw us not hitting it in attacks, 01:31:29.780 --> 01:31:31.380 but it's not really getting hit either. 01:31:31.380 --> 01:31:34.100 At what point do you just call it fair, right? 01:31:34.100 --> 01:31:36.180 You just saw us just sitting there enjoying the sun. 01:31:36.180 --> 01:31:37.780 Like, it's just having a good time down there. 01:31:37.780 --> 01:31:40.260 You just saw us wins by doing absolutely nothing. 01:31:40.260 --> 01:31:42.460 Hey, finally, we get it. 01:31:42.460 --> 01:31:44.060 Oh, round of applause for Venus. 01:31:44.060 --> 01:31:44.900 We got it. 01:31:44.900 --> 01:31:46.140 We got it. 01:31:46.140 --> 01:31:48.380 give it our castors on the other slider too. 01:31:50.380 --> 01:31:52.220 Is it too late though? 01:31:52.220 --> 01:31:53.420 Well, no. 01:31:53.420 --> 01:31:54.540 Oh, that's all. 01:31:54.540 --> 01:31:57.540 Yeah, I've had the parting shot now into the Garchon, 01:31:57.540 --> 01:31:58.860 while I did. 01:31:58.860 --> 01:32:00.140 And now you get the Charizard back in 01:32:00.140 --> 01:32:01.660 in a really comfortable position. 01:32:01.660 --> 01:32:04.340 Right, and so this is one of the things 01:32:04.340 --> 01:32:05.780 about Sleep Turn Order, right? 01:32:05.780 --> 01:32:07.580 In coming into Pokemon Champions, 01:32:07.580 --> 01:32:08.780 Sleep had a little bit of a nerf, 01:32:08.780 --> 01:32:12.300 it's one turn less, at most, overall, 01:32:12.300 --> 01:32:14.380 but also there, and there's always been that thing, 01:32:14.380 --> 01:32:17.360 like Amungus has been the premier sport Pokemon 01:32:17.360 --> 01:32:20.640 because it puts Pokemon to sleep after the user move. 01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:23.560 You don't get that guaranteed tick until the next turn. 01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:25.360 And this is what's happened with this Godchomp, right? 01:32:25.360 --> 01:32:26.840 It's got to take its guaranteed turn. 01:32:26.840 --> 01:32:29.720 Now Charizard feels really nice coming in. 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:30.920 Hopefully he's put his glasses on 01:32:30.920 --> 01:32:32.400 and maybe can hit a heat wave this time 01:32:32.400 --> 01:32:33.520 onto that Windsor clock, 01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:35.640 take it down to Sash and start doing some stuff. 01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:38.920 But it's Venusaur then now has an opportunity to, 01:32:38.920 --> 01:32:40.960 instead of missing a sleep powder, 01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:43.040 miss a leaf storm instead, 01:32:43.040 --> 01:32:47.520 into this car. Why are we putting this into the universe. You know I don't want to cast 01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:53.440 this car as it but you know we it was it was here waiting for me oh let's see I hope it doesn't 01:32:53.440 --> 01:32:58.960 come to come to guys. It's hot though you have to be worried about that on for right so it's which 01:32:58.960 --> 01:33:02.800 makes so much more sense we don't want to be locked into a move the majority of the time we aren't 01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:09.520 hitting anyways so switch around wins got down to Sash Garchomp we're looking at maybe just even 01:33:09.520 --> 01:33:13.840 taking it out before it can even wake up because a fake out and just another 01:33:13.840 --> 01:33:16.960 seatway will be enough to drop the Pokemon and even just play a double KO 01:33:16.960 --> 01:33:19.520 for now so yeah I'm one of the unfortunate things about those 01:33:19.520 --> 01:33:24.600 continuous sleep power messes and into protectors the timing they are so getting 01:33:24.600 --> 01:33:28.760 the Charizard back on to the food you can see the Sun just faded so if you are 01:33:28.760 --> 01:33:32.120 now so yes you've got the opportunity just go for your heat wave again just 01:33:32.120 --> 01:33:37.160 get rid of the wind you thought and we can get the Charizard out maybe fake out 01:33:37.160 --> 01:33:40.160 I hope that the guard chomps is this week. 01:33:40.160 --> 01:33:45.160 The other option is, could potentially try and get a hunting shot. 01:33:45.160 --> 01:33:47.160 Another one, I mean tonight guard chomps, yeah. 01:33:47.160 --> 01:33:51.160 Expecting a good win to come to be a bit more passive this game. 01:33:51.160 --> 01:33:54.160 Yeah, definitely. It's got the option to protect. 01:33:54.160 --> 01:33:57.160 I think this is yet another read that these players have to make. 01:33:57.160 --> 01:34:00.160 And I feel like we've talked about it quite a lot, 01:34:00.160 --> 01:34:03.160 the reads that you have to make to keep ahead of the game. 01:34:03.160 --> 01:34:09.600 game, especially in these mirrors, the small advantages that you take in these particular 01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:14.520 mirror matches and like when you switch from like this, playing on the offensive to playing 01:34:14.520 --> 01:34:18.480 on the defensive to try and catch your opponent off guard is so, so critical. 01:34:18.480 --> 01:34:24.840 They'll stay sleek past the protectors, so it's going to take a lot of damage, critical 01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:29.920 hit as well, and just another hurting shot, so you're going to walk up like on the next 01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:33.680 And when it does, it's just really nice. 01:34:33.680 --> 01:34:36.480 The cool thing here, though, is that the incineral, like, 01:34:36.480 --> 01:34:39.200 usually it's not a benefit for incineral to be on low health. 01:34:39.200 --> 01:34:41.160 But when you want to reset the sun, 01:34:41.160 --> 01:34:43.920 and the Garchomp's been sleeping for a couple of turns, 01:34:43.920 --> 01:34:44.880 it could be kind of nice. 01:34:44.880 --> 01:34:47.240 You know, you bring the incineral back in, 01:34:47.240 --> 01:34:48.800 it takes the moonblast, it takes the rocks, 01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:51.520 it takes an earthquake, comes back out, 01:34:51.520 --> 01:34:53.360 and you can bring the charizard, set up the sun, 01:34:53.360 --> 01:34:55.600 set up the genus, or start putting yourself 01:34:55.600 --> 01:34:57.080 on the offensive again. 01:34:57.080 --> 01:35:04.080 Even if it does manage to survive the turn on the switch in, you don't mind either because you've got to take out the take advantage off. 01:35:04.080 --> 01:35:10.080 It can give you the room to reposition really well. Things going a lot better on this game. 01:35:10.080 --> 01:35:16.080 With that Venusaur, but like you say Ben, I think the priority here is to try and get that Sunday set up again. 01:35:16.080 --> 01:35:21.080 The Wings of God is going to be susceptible to any sort of attack now because the cards don't protect you. 01:35:21.080 --> 01:35:25.080 So I think now could be a good time to see that Charizard go out like you say the intro. 01:35:25.080 --> 01:35:30.080 Maybe go after that Garjump because that is the offensive threat. 01:35:30.080 --> 01:35:37.080 Even with those intimidation points, it's not going to be a threat. 01:35:37.080 --> 01:35:43.080 Especially if Joe Hayde decides to switch it out and maybe keep it for the last part of the game. 01:35:43.080 --> 01:35:49.860 I wonder what's in the back of the ball, right, because if it's King Gambit and Charizard 01:35:49.860 --> 01:35:55.280 in the back, and Malto is able to preserve Charizard and Guard Chomp, that's a really 01:35:55.280 --> 01:35:58.280 good matchup to have at full HP in the back, right? 01:35:58.280 --> 01:36:03.920 And so, yeah, it's kind of preferred to have your Incineroar come in to take a Rockstar. 01:36:03.920 --> 01:36:06.760 That Guard Chomp is going to be at like minus four by now, right? 01:36:06.760 --> 01:36:08.760 Yeah, minus four, yeah. 01:36:08.760 --> 01:36:16.600 something like that. It's going to be at minus all of it now. It is gone from the field, but 01:36:17.160 --> 01:36:22.280 no flint, Garchomp's gone. You can finally bring in something that can actually do a little bit 01:36:22.280 --> 01:36:27.080 more damage. Wimspot set up a tailwind. Intenar too, notably didn't go down. So yeah, you have the 01:36:27.080 --> 01:36:31.160 active vigor on the turn, but that whole bring it in, let it be KO'd, bring in the charge of the 01:36:31.160 --> 01:36:36.200 tree, set the sun, kind of be able to go, isn't really quite the option there anymore. But it 01:36:36.200 --> 01:36:40.200 But it will be, Shohei did bring the Charizard in match number two. 01:36:40.200 --> 01:36:44.200 Yeah, so maybe that's like, you know, also works for both of these trainers, right? 01:36:44.200 --> 01:36:49.200 Shohei's got the tailwind and the Charizard to put a bunch of pressure on. 01:36:49.200 --> 01:36:55.200 I mean, that's only going to last a few turns and, you know, with the Incineroar coming in and actually surviving that attack, 01:36:55.200 --> 01:37:00.200 the fake-out is in play, it's going to slow down the game a little bit. 01:37:00.200 --> 01:37:05.600 a little bit and again we've got that read whether or not the Windsor cock goes down to. 01:37:05.600 --> 01:37:10.600 The fake out on this turn or if you go for a fake out into the Charizard and just attack 01:37:10.600 --> 01:37:14.600 into the Venusaur truck with the Venusaur and try and get some damage down onto the 01:37:14.600 --> 01:37:15.600 board. 01:37:15.600 --> 01:37:20.560 It's not a bad idea to start like locking into a sludge bomb in this spot to try and get 01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:21.880 some damage down. 01:37:21.880 --> 01:37:25.800 If you're like just a little bit ahead on damage, both of these Charizards have ancient 01:37:25.800 --> 01:37:30.120 power and so when you when you play up against each other, it's like that little bit of 01:37:30.120 --> 01:37:34.840 extra chip really does help yeah it'd be interesting if you just say show hey just 01:37:34.840 --> 01:37:39.000 go for that double protect with the what was impending faker from the incineroar 01:37:39.000 --> 01:37:42.720 that has just switched out now it's gonna mega evolve and then no protects 01:37:42.720 --> 01:37:46.280 coming out just a straight moon blast into the leader so but with a tailwind you 01:37:46.280 --> 01:37:49.400 don't mind mega evolving bringing that sun into there because you're gonna be 01:37:49.400 --> 01:37:54.640 passing the thing so anyway with the Charizard the he wave of Venus or it goes 01:37:54.640 --> 01:38:00.680 down to no sledge bombs, nothing else. And yeah, it could have been the Faco, but trying 01:38:00.680 --> 01:38:06.080 to bring the Charizard in instead. That's a long event on that turn and the Pokemon 01:38:06.080 --> 01:38:07.080 is gone now. 01:38:07.080 --> 01:38:14.440 Yeah, just more, more real reads coming out from Shovei. And like, it's, it's so impressive 01:38:14.440 --> 01:38:20.360 to be quite so accurate so consistently, especially at this level of competition, right? And just, 01:38:20.360 --> 01:38:25.840 just, you know, taking those turns to be like, well, last time I was here, I played on the defensive, this time 01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:33.240 I'm gonna play on the offensive and try and get something done. And hey, like sometimes, sometimes you get punished for those kind of 01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:39.080 reads in the turn, but if you get them right, and especially in this matchup, you get so much advantage 01:38:39.480 --> 01:38:41.160 to be able to come through. 01:38:41.160 --> 01:38:45.760 There's also the plays that you'd make when you're up a game in a set that you would never do when you're down, right? 01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:50.340 If you're up the game in the set, you can play that little bit more aggressive and go for those plays that would 01:38:50.360 --> 01:38:56.280 advanced board stages so much more and call out your opponent trying to find that small window 01:38:56.280 --> 01:39:00.680 of opportunity, right? So being up a game and having that little bit more wiggle room, you can see 01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:05.080 the more aggressiveness coming out and being able to get rid of something like that Venusaur, 01:39:05.080 --> 01:39:08.680 I think just puts you in such a great spot. I mean, you still have to worry about the Gauchomp 01:39:08.680 --> 01:39:13.720 and stuff, but you have that tail when you have a full health Charizard. Yeah, I think here if 01:39:13.720 --> 01:39:18.280 you're, it's a tricky scenario because I think if you're sure, hey, you won't get initial damage 01:39:18.280 --> 01:39:24.280 So when that king down that comes back onto the field, it's going to be grinding a knockout with a sucker punch. 01:39:24.280 --> 01:39:31.280 The Whimsicots are really quite important here. Maybe why Shohei is saying, well, end game is going to be my Whimsicot. 01:39:31.280 --> 01:39:36.280 We do see the Garchomp because of that threat protects here, which might open the door for an ancient power. 01:39:36.280 --> 01:39:39.280 Did we get the boost? That's the question. 01:39:39.280 --> 01:39:41.280 I've never seen the boost. 01:39:41.280 --> 01:39:44.280 Are we about to see the boost? We see the KO. 01:39:44.280 --> 01:39:46.280 I don't think we get the boost. 01:39:46.280 --> 01:39:51.280 for you buddy. I've seen so 01:39:51.280 --> 01:39:52.280 many. Have you ever seen the 01:39:52.280 --> 01:39:53.280 boost? Have you ever seen the 01:39:53.280 --> 01:39:56.280 boost? Not on a stream. I 01:39:56.280 --> 01:39:58.280 haven't game. Does the boost 01:39:58.280 --> 01:40:00.280 even exist? I'm not sure it 01:40:00.280 --> 01:40:01.280 does. I've not seen it in 01:40:01.280 --> 01:40:05.280 champion. So it's. I don't 01:40:05.280 --> 01:40:06.280 know. They've been playing 01:40:06.280 --> 01:40:08.280 show result for a while. They 01:40:08.280 --> 01:40:09.280 must get some time. I've 01:40:09.280 --> 01:40:10.280 never seen it. There was 01:40:10.280 --> 01:40:11.280 watching at home. We have 01:40:11.280 --> 01:40:12.280 three analysts all shrugging 01:40:12.280 --> 01:40:15.280 right now. Hands up, but 01:40:15.280 --> 01:40:19.120 We'll see another one. We'll see another one come through. We're speeding up the end of the match. 01:40:19.120 --> 01:40:25.200 We got more to go with, but it seems just at this point, two ancient powers coming on through a second KO on the board. 01:40:25.520 --> 01:40:33.040 Kind of just a little too much for this Garchomp to be able to do. I mean, he still ends up, but Wimsecot, Wimsecot hits the field and... 01:40:33.720 --> 01:40:37.360 Preservation of the Wimsecot, so important. Now you've got the double up, the Moonblast, the second bench. 01:40:37.360 --> 01:40:42.840 Gonna be enough to lock it up. And this is just, you know, Shohei, knowing the team inside out, knowing their Winkons, 01:40:42.840 --> 01:40:46.880 just making them such a such a great 01:40:46.880 --> 01:40:48.880 that's show. Hey, oh my goodness. 01:40:48.880 --> 01:40:50.880 Yeah, it's like just just completely 01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:52.880 textbook there at the end and just like 01:40:52.880 --> 01:40:54.880 taking advantage of the create 01:40:54.880 --> 01:40:56.880 across the game and then just 01:40:56.880 --> 01:40:59.880 trading is as successful as you can 01:40:59.880 --> 01:41:01.840 like switching where you need to 01:41:01.840 --> 01:41:02.840 preserving the right that right 01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:04.840 but it's just so you can get to the end 01:41:04.840 --> 01:41:06.840 came absolutely textbook. 01:41:06.840 --> 01:41:08.840 He's a world champion for a reason. 01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:11.840 Could be a two time world champion for a reason. 01:41:11.840 --> 01:41:17.400 All right, well, let's see what we've got. We got our next round of Swiss coming right up 01:41:17.400 --> 01:41:20.540 So we're gonna kick it over to the casters to get this championship rolling 01:41:23.400 --> 01:41:30.240 That's right, they are both world champions for a reason and I have to say my record for ancient power boost in one game 01:41:30.240 --> 01:41:32.920 It's who and let me tell you it felt 01:41:33.640 --> 01:41:36.720 Disgusting yeah, you know why we just have like two Charizard at once, right? 01:41:36.720 --> 01:41:39.360 I think I have done the same thing although many many years ago 01:41:39.360 --> 01:41:41.440 So I think in a battle about 20 years ago I hit it. 01:41:41.440 --> 01:41:44.760 So I'm due a game whenever you're ready. 01:41:44.760 --> 01:41:46.000 Whenever you're ready game, 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:47.680 but our players are just about ready 01:41:47.680 --> 01:41:49.600 to hop into our Swiss round 10. 01:41:49.600 --> 01:41:52.320 Let's take a look at the matchup out on the field. 01:41:52.320 --> 01:41:55.800 Of course, we are heading into our win and in round. 01:41:55.800 --> 01:41:58.400 All of these players at eight wins, one loss. 01:41:58.400 --> 01:42:01.240 They just need one more win to qualify 01:42:01.240 --> 01:42:03.040 for the top cut later today. 01:42:03.040 --> 01:42:06.400 And we will be watching two of Europe's strongest trainers 01:42:06.400 --> 01:42:10.560 right now Antonio Sanchez and Giovanni Piscitelli. 01:42:10.560 --> 01:42:12.160 Yeah, these two trainers are among the last two, 01:42:12.160 --> 01:42:13.920 at least have a little bit of slack remaining, 01:42:13.920 --> 01:42:15.920 we're not eliminated by losing this game. 01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:17.440 I really tighten this field now, 01:42:17.440 --> 01:42:19.280 where a majority of the trainers 01:42:19.280 --> 01:42:21.480 are going to need to win out in order to make the top cut. 01:42:21.480 --> 01:42:23.960 Still have a couple more Swiss rounds after this one, 01:42:23.960 --> 01:42:27.280 where you do need to continue to have fewer losses. 01:42:27.280 --> 01:42:29.520 So yeah, it's crunch time now. 01:42:29.520 --> 01:42:32.000 Yeah, there are some impressive elimination matches 01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:33.160 out there in the field. 01:42:33.160 --> 01:42:34.400 I don't know if y'all had time to see. 01:42:34.400 --> 01:42:35.800 At the bottom of that list, 01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:38.440 was Maddie Morgan versus Emilio Forbes, 01:42:38.440 --> 01:42:40.600 two of the strongest competitors 01:42:40.600 --> 01:42:42.680 at the World Championships in general. 01:42:42.680 --> 01:42:44.520 Like multiple top cuts, of course, 01:42:44.520 --> 01:42:46.160 Emilio made it to the finals. 01:42:46.160 --> 01:42:48.040 Both of them are on tournament life right now. 01:42:48.040 --> 01:42:49.480 One of them will be going home. 01:42:49.480 --> 01:42:52.000 One of them will continue for the opportunity 01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:53.240 to compete for the top cut. 01:42:53.240 --> 01:42:54.320 Yeah, just how it is at this point 01:42:54.320 --> 01:42:55.360 in the World Championships, right? 01:42:55.360 --> 01:42:57.080 I think even way back to round one, 01:42:57.080 --> 01:42:57.920 you know, players are kind of commenting, 01:42:57.920 --> 01:42:59.920 man, you know, this is a terrible matchup I've got. 01:42:59.920 --> 01:43:01.120 I think it's this really good opponent. 01:43:01.120 --> 01:43:03.720 But yeah, I mean, it's the best players in every region, right? 01:43:03.720 --> 01:43:05.440 Every round is going to be really challenging. 01:43:05.440 --> 01:43:09.060 And I think even maybe some of the trainers who don't have that sort of accolade on the resume already 01:43:09.220 --> 01:43:15.320 They got here for a reason right and hey, maybe this weekend that trainers even more dangerous than someone who's been historically better 01:43:15.320 --> 01:43:18.480 Right, it's all about being half the right time knowing your team at the right time 01:43:18.480 --> 01:43:20.640 And these trainers have been the best of the weekend so far 01:43:20.640 --> 01:43:25.380 Yeah, this is where your champions legacy begins at the world championships 01:43:25.380 --> 01:43:30.760 And we have two incredible trainers from Europe competing to make it into the top cut here on stage 01:43:30.760 --> 01:43:37.480 Antonio Sanchez from Spain versus Giovanni Piscitelli from Italy and this is an incredible matchup 01:43:37.480 --> 01:43:42.240 I'm excited to see these two teams go up against each other because you have on Giovanni side 01:43:42.240 --> 01:43:45.040 You have the classic big six and then for Antonio 01:43:45.040 --> 01:43:50.000 You have the other style of balance team with Toxpex that has really picked up heading into this tournament 01:43:50.000 --> 01:43:50.120 Yeah 01:43:50.120 --> 01:43:53.880 And I think a tuning stuff part of what was picked up is like you kind of like this matchup, right? 01:43:53.880 --> 01:43:56.760 I don't think it's like super favorite or anything you have some fun tools this matchup 01:43:56.760 --> 01:43:58.480 Sinora is often pretty good. 01:43:58.480 --> 01:44:00.760 Toxic Plexus have opportunity to make some plays here. 01:44:00.760 --> 01:44:03.040 So it would be fun to see how these teams interact. 01:44:03.040 --> 01:44:05.680 Also kind of just a great showcase of this regulation. 01:44:05.680 --> 01:44:06.520 Yeah. 01:44:06.520 --> 01:44:08.000 Even though all 12 of the Pokemon in this game 01:44:08.000 --> 01:44:10.680 were available in regulation MA with the upgrades 01:44:10.680 --> 01:44:13.800 they could have gotten, life war potentially being a big benefit. 01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:15.920 Although actually, I believe only one of the two trainers 01:44:15.920 --> 01:44:16.920 actually has won. 01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:18.880 These teams have kind of been the teams 01:44:18.880 --> 01:44:20.560 to beat in this regulation a lot of ways 01:44:20.560 --> 01:44:23.360 from the perspective of just having the most raw power. 01:44:23.360 --> 01:44:23.920 Absolutely. 01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:26.520 Let's take a look at Antonio's team of first here. 01:44:26.520 --> 01:44:30.640 This is going to be the Toxpex variant of the Charizard team. 01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:32.360 And actually kind of a throwback here, 01:44:32.360 --> 01:44:35.400 we are actually seeing the Solar Beam still on Charizard 01:44:35.400 --> 01:44:37.920 with a lot of players opting to remove Solar Beam 01:44:37.920 --> 01:44:41.200 for the mirror matchup, going for Ancient Power instead. 01:44:41.200 --> 01:44:43.800 Yeah, it's kind of fun where it would be a really strong 01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:45.720 regulation MA throwback, except for this team, 01:44:45.720 --> 01:44:48.160 Arkadip hadn't really been discovered then. 01:44:48.160 --> 01:44:49.840 We kind of wound up on this group of six Pokemon 01:44:49.840 --> 01:44:51.960 because of Wolf's NEAC run, 01:44:51.960 --> 01:44:54.000 which did not involve quite the same team. 01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:55.360 So even though you could have played this back then, 01:44:55.360 --> 01:45:00.480 I wasn't but yeah, I'm so the sword beam on Charizard typically see that removed when Venusaur is present 01:45:00.480 --> 01:45:03.480 So a bit of a throwback there also the twist scarf on guard shop 01:45:04.080 --> 01:45:07.420 Put number of options you could choose but again the thing that's really interesting to me here 01:45:07.420 --> 01:45:12.840 I know life for right kind of one of the big boosts in power that teams got with regulation and be as it opting for 01:45:13.120 --> 01:45:15.520 Different ways to influence the battle through this held items 01:45:15.520 --> 01:45:22.980 Yeah, no life or appear and some really interesting text for some of these more traditional Pokemon Sylveon has dropped hyper beam 01:45:22.980 --> 01:45:28.740 in favor of yawn. So sometimes you see hyper voice and hyper beam with yawn but no quick attack, 01:45:28.740 --> 01:45:34.100 Antonio has opted to keep hyper voice and quick attack and drop hyper beam dropping that huge damage 01:45:34.100 --> 01:45:39.300 in favor of the more supportive yawn. And also you have to shut this out because you have the solar 01:45:39.300 --> 01:45:45.220 beam on Charizard. Venusaur is not carrying a grass type attack instead opting for earth power 01:45:45.220 --> 01:45:50.420 and sludge bomb to potentially help out against Pokemon like King Gambit or even as we've been 01:45:50.420 --> 01:45:52.540 I've been seeing that the Syrian Arkadine. 01:45:52.540 --> 01:45:54.380 Yeah, the Vascular Legion, the other side of the field, 01:45:54.380 --> 01:45:56.140 may have tears in its eyes, but the tears of joy. 01:45:56.140 --> 01:45:58.780 It's like, what do you mean there's no grass moves? 01:45:58.780 --> 01:46:00.220 Interesting way to build this team out. 01:46:00.220 --> 01:46:03.420 So I think it'll be sort of fun to watch how this plays out, 01:46:03.420 --> 01:46:05.100 where players tend to have like really strong 01:46:05.100 --> 01:46:06.860 blowchart to the most common team archetype. 01:46:06.860 --> 01:46:08.900 I think things are just enough different here, 01:46:08.900 --> 01:46:10.900 where maybe it's going to cause his opponent 01:46:10.900 --> 01:46:13.060 to kind of need to think a little bit harder about this one, 01:46:13.060 --> 01:46:15.260 where even though it's a bunch of familiar faces, 01:46:15.260 --> 01:46:17.460 they aren't executed a little bit differently than normal. 01:46:17.460 --> 01:46:25.200 Well, here is Giovanni Piscitelli on your screen here going for the new version of Charizard and Flowette that has the ancient power 01:46:25.200 --> 01:46:32.840 And also going for the three attacks version of Flowette not the calm mind version that was seen early on especially in regulation MA 01:46:33.100 --> 01:46:40.040 Like you mentioned you got to see that life orb on Garchomp the big change for regulation MA giving Garchomp so much more power 01:46:40.120 --> 01:46:42.680 And more offense at the expense of some of itself 01:46:42.680 --> 01:46:47.080 Yeah, I mean, it's just so powerful where we've seen throughout the course that we can how effective it is to 01:46:47.080 --> 01:46:50.300 I can just becomes maybe the most reliable attacker in the format a lot of ways to 01:46:50.360 --> 01:46:55.020 So the racks like cannon will miss but the other moves, you know perfect accuracy lots of damage 01:46:55.020 --> 01:46:58.620 Can't even if you miss a prediction still kind of move forward in the battle in a positive way 01:46:58.620 --> 01:47:01.240 I think if the grass type moves to me or just such a fun story 01:47:01.240 --> 01:47:06.740 But you hear where of course, it's the Charizard that doesn't have the Venus or it has the ancient power attack 01:47:06.740 --> 01:47:12.460 So, you know, maybe again allowing the Pokemon who are weak to water type attack or your grass type decks a little bit better 01:47:12.460 --> 01:47:16.000 But that's one interesting tweak of the taxa flex version of the team 01:47:16.000 --> 01:47:18.460 You don't really want grass type attacks against this team anyway 01:47:18.460 --> 01:47:19.820 There's not a whole lot to do with it 01:47:19.820 --> 01:47:25.820 So I may help the big six in the matchup a little bit here where I'm kind of like checked out of the moves that he doesn't need here 01:47:25.820 --> 01:47:33.540 Anyway, oh here we are getting ready for our first game of this win and end to top cut at the world 01:47:34.700 --> 01:47:38.340 Championships and of course Giovanni will be leading with the classic 01:47:38.340 --> 01:47:41.340 a Garchomp and Charizard lead, 01:47:41.340 --> 01:47:44.700 acing down Incineroar and Charizard from Antonio. 01:47:44.700 --> 01:47:47.660 So getting that intimidate down onto that Light Orb Garchomp 01:47:47.660 --> 01:47:49.660 is huge, but lots of rock type pressure 01:47:49.660 --> 01:47:51.980 against these two Rock Week Pokemon. 01:47:51.980 --> 01:47:53.180 That rocks looking really good here. 01:47:53.180 --> 01:47:54.740 And I saw those two Pokemon, by the way. 01:47:54.740 --> 01:47:56.740 Cut the double, the champion tier there. 01:47:56.740 --> 01:47:57.860 He's been practicing that. 01:47:57.860 --> 01:48:00.180 He's been practicing the game ladder. 01:48:00.180 --> 01:48:01.420 Absolutely, but now you see, 01:48:01.420 --> 01:48:04.580 you have the Garchomp and Charizard able to fire off 01:48:04.580 --> 01:48:07.260 Rockslides, Earthquakes and Ancient Powers. 01:48:07.260 --> 01:48:12.260 This is center or looking pretty pretty spooked out by this and either of the fire type hope 01:48:12.260 --> 01:48:16.340 I'm really gonna be able to do a full lot on Tony side of the field so probably not the lead match 01:48:16.340 --> 01:48:20.620 It's open for but you're never gonna be too shocked when you play a team like this and you end up against 01:48:20.980 --> 01:48:27.060 Charizard a guard shop on turn one one of the most powerful lead combinations you've seen so I'm sure he's a pretty choreographed 01:48:27.060 --> 01:48:30.140 Game time for what to do with this appearance and first and foremost 01:48:30.140 --> 01:48:37.840 It's get Charizard off the field staring down both the Garchomp and Charizard bringing in his own Garchomp is Antonio 01:48:38.040 --> 01:48:43.960 That will allow the choice scarf Garchomp to be faster than both the Charizard and Garchomp from Giovanni 01:48:44.040 --> 01:48:52.900 As Giovanni will go ahead and mega evolve his Charizard there gets the Sun on the field while Garchomp will flinch to the bakeout from Incineroar 01:48:52.900 --> 01:48:59.660 Here is the ancient power Giovanni knows that Antonio is not going to just give up that damage on Charizard instead connects on to the 01:48:59.660 --> 01:49:04.660 Incineroar, down below half which will allow Incineroar to heal up with its citrus berry. 01:49:04.660 --> 01:49:07.660 And he's a bit of damage on the Incineroar though, and I could help out here. 01:49:07.660 --> 01:49:10.660 You know a lot of Pokemon that seem to potentially don't want to be intimidated, so getting that damage down early. 01:49:10.660 --> 01:49:14.660 And also you kind of just know, there's no way I'm going to be allowed to ancient power the opposing power of the card. 01:49:14.660 --> 01:49:17.660 So I might as well take that damage on the Incineroar. 01:49:17.660 --> 01:49:21.660 But now these choice-starts are dropping into the battlefield and seeing what movement locks into these are interesting. 01:49:21.660 --> 01:49:26.660 Certainly the Charizard would love to maybe try to get some sneaky more damage off here if you have maybe, 01:49:26.660 --> 01:49:32.660 But hey, my opponent will also not allow me to get that free rock slide, probably going to go into a dark dragon claw into the opposing card trap. 01:49:32.660 --> 01:49:36.660 So hey, maybe I can just leave Charizard out here. I don't really care that much about the dragon claw. 01:49:36.660 --> 01:49:40.660 Also good to go. Just protect the scout here, which is always kind of the way this would be choice Pokemon. 01:49:40.660 --> 01:49:42.660 But it's difficult to see a switch immediately. 01:49:42.660 --> 01:49:49.660 Bringing in the King Gambit here, a perfect switch in if you expect to be tanking any rock slides from that choice card top. 01:49:49.660 --> 01:49:55.660 Actually going to see all four Pokemon from Antonio now, as it's going to be Toxatex on the field. 01:49:55.660 --> 01:50:01.160 field. Garchomp on Giovanni's side will protect here, has had reduced attack and catches the 01:50:01.160 --> 01:50:06.780 dragon claw. So Antonio locking into dragon claw, Giovanni getting the King Gambit out 01:50:06.780 --> 01:50:09.100 on the field and feeling pretty good about that turn. 01:50:09.100 --> 01:50:12.100 Yeah, I think a lot of great things there. I mean, King Gambit's a great switch, kind 01:50:12.100 --> 01:50:15.260 of no matter what there. If you get it wrong and it is a rock slide, King Gambit's going 01:50:15.260 --> 01:50:18.580 to take that really well too. I guess the only disadvantage is now the best Pokemon 01:50:18.580 --> 01:50:21.620 on your team to switch into the dragon. But unless one of the two fairy type Pokemon are 01:50:21.620 --> 01:50:24.860 in the back, which are relatively unlikely with the sequencing. 01:50:24.860 --> 01:50:27.420 You have to take a dragon with something in that slot, 01:50:27.420 --> 01:50:28.620 but we'll get pretty good now. 01:50:28.620 --> 01:50:29.900 And we also see an interesting combination 01:50:29.900 --> 01:50:31.000 of the TACs effects of the Garchem 01:50:31.000 --> 01:50:32.800 entering the field together for the first time. 01:50:32.800 --> 01:50:34.540 We saw the weakness of the choice graph in that turn, 01:50:34.540 --> 01:50:36.660 where the scouting switch was pretty easy, 01:50:36.660 --> 01:50:38.020 and now it's going to be a predictable turn. 01:50:38.020 --> 01:50:40.660 But potentially the option eventually for TACs effects 01:50:40.660 --> 01:50:41.940 to trap something of infestation, 01:50:41.940 --> 01:50:43.700 which makes it much easier to actually connect 01:50:43.700 --> 01:50:44.980 with a choice of attack. 01:50:44.980 --> 01:50:47.060 Yeah, unfortunately, the King Gambit on the field 01:50:47.060 --> 01:50:50.340 is actually quite happy to see TACs effects on the other side. 01:50:50.340 --> 01:50:52.180 But like you mentioned, nothing really 01:50:52.180 --> 01:50:55.820 wants to tank that Dragon Claw on the switch in. 01:50:55.820 --> 01:50:58.620 The Charizard taking over almost 50% there, 01:50:58.620 --> 01:51:00.380 while Garchomp takes a critical hit, 01:51:00.380 --> 01:51:02.620 KowKow's leave in return. 01:51:02.620 --> 01:51:04.780 By switching out, this Charizard is now 01:51:04.780 --> 01:51:06.700 trapped on the field with Tox effects. 01:51:06.700 --> 01:51:08.220 And if you're the Tox effects player, 01:51:08.220 --> 01:51:11.500 you love trapping your opponent's Charizard on the field. 01:51:11.500 --> 01:51:13.780 Yeah, probably not as excited about that critical hit, 01:51:13.780 --> 01:51:15.820 though, now in danger of potentially knocking 01:51:15.820 --> 01:51:17.300 up some sucker punch on to that Garchomp. 01:51:17.300 --> 01:51:18.860 And he's probably fairly close. 01:51:18.860 --> 01:51:22.980 Another weakness of that choice car, I guess we're kind of talking around it, but if you're not familiar, it's just held at it 01:51:22.980 --> 01:51:25.540 You only have a tech you can't use that attacking it right? 01:51:25.540 --> 01:51:25.700 No 01:51:25.700 --> 01:51:30.700 I'm very difficult to play in sucker punch with that because you're guaranteed to connect if you don't switch that Pokemon out 01:51:30.700 --> 01:51:32.900 So I got your potential is pretty checked here 01:51:32.900 --> 01:51:35.340 I think it's taking just a little bit too much damage to feel safe 01:51:35.340 --> 01:51:41.460 But I talk to practice in the hand looking much better where not to threaten by any of these Pokemon good keep spreading their infestation 01:51:41.460 --> 01:51:44.140 Maybe go for a hot kick or something, but also you know 01:51:44.140 --> 01:51:48.140 Tetsupas works slowly, right, and it's going to be that other slot that's in some danger. 01:51:48.140 --> 01:51:55.140 Absolutely, and the King Gambit showing that it is happy to take swings into any Pokemon on Antonio's side. 01:51:55.140 --> 01:51:59.140 There's the sucker punch. It will be enough to pick up the KO onto Jar Chomp. 01:51:59.140 --> 01:52:04.140 A little bit more chip damage back from the rough skin onto the King Gambit. 01:52:04.140 --> 01:52:07.140 We'll start adding up as there is another Ancient Power. 01:52:07.140 --> 01:52:13.140 There you go, Ben. See the boost on the Ancient Power there, but maybe a little bit too little, too late for this Charizard. 01:52:13.140 --> 01:52:18.620 Charizard it is already at low health and has been invested by the tox effect 01:52:18.620 --> 01:52:23.360 But at the same time if you get to fire off a plus one attack from that Charizard 01:52:23.360 --> 01:52:27.140 You're gonna deal big damage to whatever comes out. Yeah, it's going to be 01:52:27.140 --> 01:52:33.340 You should watch this one where Charizard just healthy enough where it can survive two more terms of infestation still getting attacked off 01:52:33.340 --> 01:52:37.800 So like reasonably likely they could get a single swing and yeah 01:52:37.800 --> 01:52:42.980 I mean Charizard one of the most powerful attackers in this format without all of its stats being boosted by one level 01:52:42.980 --> 01:52:47.820 So even one weather ball could do a lot of damage here, but if they try to find it 01:52:47.820 --> 01:52:51.940 There's those that incinerator in the back who could try to both stall a little bit with these 01:52:52.420 --> 01:52:56.380 Make out to force the charge zone to protect it here. You'll get one more turn at that station damage 01:52:56.580 --> 01:53:02.180 But also, you know if the charge doesn't protect it would do enough damage to positive to survive one return 01:53:02.180 --> 01:53:04.180 However, if you get it coming in here being 01:53:04.820 --> 01:53:09.500 Intimidated not looking so intimidated at all after the defiant poos and I'm not doing enough damage 01:53:09.500 --> 01:53:13.100 At least maybe attack effects is a little uncomfortable with being hit with the counter. 01:53:13.100 --> 01:53:18.460 Yeah, absolutely. And the Charras are getting that speed boost in addition to the special attack 01:53:18.460 --> 01:53:22.380 with of course Ancient Power does have the opportunity to boost all of your stats. 01:53:22.380 --> 01:53:27.180 It makes it so hard for Entomoneo to position here until that Charras art is off the field. 01:53:27.180 --> 01:53:31.260 It can pick up Kaos on basically anything except for the Tox effects at this point. 01:53:31.260 --> 01:53:34.140 Yeah, and the Incinerator is actually kind of an aqueous spot. The takeout is going to Lendo. 01:53:34.140 --> 01:53:38.140 That's actually fairly huge. Yeah, huge make out there. Just the additional damage getting 01:53:38.140 --> 01:53:46.420 additional tip on to the Charizard. The low kick not enough damage to pick up the KO on to Incineroar even after the Defiant boost. 01:53:46.420 --> 01:53:54.460 And there is the double up Toxic on to the Charizard. That plus the fake out plus a turn of infestation should be enough to pick up the KO here. 01:53:54.460 --> 01:54:01.460 It's really close. It might be just like one hit point away actually. I think it's just shy, you know, what nice stuff. 01:54:01.460 --> 01:54:07.820 Just misses. Just misses. I think one thing that's really neat too about the Toxic, but I forget about it, but Toxic is normally not at first with the accurate attack. 01:54:07.820 --> 01:54:11.500 It does always hit from the spectra pack. So you know that you this place fairly safe 01:54:11.500 --> 01:54:16.220 But yeah, Charizard because of the dust face boost from the power just barely able to survive and 01:54:16.500 --> 01:54:22.160 Tension pick up a knockout here. Like very likely you'll see a painful bucking here as talk to press once nothing to do with that 01:54:22.160 --> 01:54:28.000 But the center or I suit cannot protect so that's 13% not looking a real sturdy here 01:54:28.000 --> 01:54:33.900 Yeah, it's a question of do you give up your incinerator or your Charizard at this point if you are Antonio and it has to be the 01:54:33.900 --> 01:54:35.900 Incinerator can protect actually. I'm sorry 01:54:35.900 --> 01:54:41.980 So we only see that on teams with Paris on but you have the option to stall that out. Let the charge that go 01:54:41.980 --> 01:54:45.600 I know adaptation that's pretty interesting. It's gonna miss that during the TV. Yeah 01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:50.560 It does make sense that's the aspect right where if you want to play these four defensive sort of link condition to give you 01:54:50.560 --> 01:54:54.300 I'm not sure you would otherwise have so we'll use that for tactic 01:54:54.300 --> 01:54:57.900 Hey, look at pretty good there for a move. We don't typically see in this composition 01:54:57.900 --> 01:54:58.540 Yeah, absolutely 01:54:58.540 --> 01:55:02.820 That is a KO for the protect and center or by protecting here 01:55:02.820 --> 01:55:06.860 That means that this Charizard is not able to do anything with that ancient power 01:55:07.060 --> 01:55:14.160 The King Gambit also not able to do anything and the King Gambit will take another turn of infestation damage while the Charizard goes down 01:55:14.700 --> 01:55:21.220 The Toxpex is just about back up to full health. Yeah, this is that the horrors of Toxpex right where if you catch the right Pokemon in there 01:55:21.220 --> 01:55:25.040 You know even with the Charizard, you have completely infected there. I did kind of knock out 01:55:25.540 --> 01:55:29.480 I'm not going to knock out, but I guess getting Cynor timed to be not out there 01:55:29.480 --> 01:55:34.440 I just try to draw attention along King Gambit to get that free turn, but I kind of know what, right? 01:55:34.440 --> 01:55:38.680 Where Garchamp is going to get back in for free, and you know, we've got this very weakened Incineroar. 01:55:38.680 --> 01:55:39.960 The Garchamp has already been knocked out. 01:55:39.960 --> 01:55:44.280 So, I mean, Killian is very low on resources, but, you know, looking closer in the Pokemon town. 01:55:44.280 --> 01:55:48.680 Yeah, low on resources, but Giovanni is in a really awkward position here. 01:55:48.680 --> 01:55:54.280 The only way that Giovanni can deal super effective damage to that Tox effect would be via Earthquake. 01:55:54.280 --> 01:55:59.320 It does not have stomping cancer, instead, just Earthquake, which would pick up the KO onto King Gambit, 01:55:59.320 --> 01:56:02.020 and there are no immunities left on the team. 01:56:02.020 --> 01:56:05.820 Also, Tuxpex can always just put wide guard and protect itself. 01:56:05.820 --> 01:56:08.520 Yeah, I think it's probably fairly free of this trail. 01:56:08.520 --> 01:56:11.020 Again, you know, you're really not called a wide guard. 01:56:11.020 --> 01:56:12.820 I think, you know, there's a risk of just getting this turn long, 01:56:12.820 --> 01:56:15.120 getting quick play, kid, really paying for it. 01:56:15.120 --> 01:56:18.020 But I feel like it's fairly safe trying to go for a toxic here 01:56:18.020 --> 01:56:19.320 and start wearing guard jump down. 01:56:19.320 --> 01:56:20.620 It could be pretty effective. 01:56:20.620 --> 01:56:23.420 Okay, well, as Sinnero tried to go for a double protect there, 01:56:23.420 --> 01:56:27.420 Antonio does not want to give up damage on the Charizard in the back. 01:56:27.420 --> 01:56:33.900 Instead, just forcing Garchomp to take that life orb recoil or getting a free turn extra turn with the Incineroar. 01:56:33.900 --> 01:56:41.340 Kautau Klee feels good damage to the Toxic Plex because it does have that attack boost, but there is the Toxic down onto Garchomp. 01:56:41.340 --> 01:56:48.540 That is going to add up so quickly between the life orb recoil and the stacking damage from Toxic. 01:56:48.540 --> 01:56:53.540 FactiFox doing a great job in this game, but it's friends are getting worn down in a hurry here 01:56:53.540 --> 01:56:59.540 to see the final Pokemon coming out under the field gear to support it after the end of these animations. 01:56:59.540 --> 01:57:01.540 There's still a lot of damage left to be done, right? 01:57:01.540 --> 01:57:04.540 You get Garchup who's going to have a very difficult time knocking out tax effects specifically, 01:57:04.540 --> 01:57:09.540 so maybe if you can isolate that 1v1, that kind of just becomes a win condition now. 01:57:09.540 --> 01:57:12.540 Keep in mind as well, the game does still have a boosted level of attack. 01:57:12.540 --> 01:57:16.540 It's found the field for what feels like forever, but several years ago, 01:57:16.540 --> 01:57:19.540 or did get that Intimidate down which was reversed by the Defiant. 01:57:19.540 --> 01:57:22.040 So potentially still pretty threatening, 01:57:22.040 --> 01:57:24.540 but it did a lot of damage to that Couchhawk, please. 01:57:24.540 --> 01:57:26.540 You know, Taksimak's not quite out of dives yet, 01:57:26.540 --> 01:57:30.540 but if this Charizard can help finish off this opposing King Gambit, 01:57:30.540 --> 01:57:32.540 then maybe you're starting to look. 01:57:32.540 --> 01:57:34.540 Yeah, you may start having an opportunity, 01:57:34.540 --> 01:57:38.540 but we also have to notice that Humani has not shown this final Pokemon left. 01:57:38.540 --> 01:57:40.540 And if that is what I think it is, 01:57:40.540 --> 01:57:45.540 that Basque Legion in the back will be so happy to let this Garchomp and King Gambit go down 01:57:45.540 --> 01:57:49.540 and send its last respects off into any Pokemon on the field. 01:57:49.540 --> 01:57:52.540 Absolutely. Yeah, I mean, even the Charizard, you know, 01:57:52.540 --> 01:57:54.540 it's going to, even with wide guards of war, 01:57:54.540 --> 01:57:57.540 which is starting to feel mandatory given the token out of the field here, 01:57:57.540 --> 01:57:59.540 probably going to take some damage in the way down, right? 01:57:59.540 --> 01:58:02.540 I think it's a fairly free Sucker Punch of King Gambit, 01:58:02.540 --> 01:58:04.540 unless, you know, Antoinette's getting real weird here, 01:58:04.540 --> 01:58:07.540 trying to make some big reads and try to get at his energies, 01:58:07.540 --> 01:58:09.540 and maybe starting up right there, he would have protect like, 01:58:09.540 --> 01:58:11.540 please, please, another turn, and yeah, it does dodge it. 01:58:11.540 --> 01:58:14.540 Yeah, got to at least win one turn here with that protect, 01:58:14.540 --> 01:58:19.700 that protects the sucker punch and dragon claw both firing off into the Charizard. 01:58:19.700 --> 01:58:25.300 Hux effect now able to infest the guard chomp as well, but Antonio is going to 01:58:25.300 --> 01:58:29.180 need to get multiple protects from this Charizard to have a whole pivot that 01:58:29.180 --> 01:58:35.780 Vasculigian in the back. However, Antonio has also held the mega evolution on the 01:58:35.780 --> 01:58:39.420 Charizard which would allow it to set the sun and be able to deal super effective 01:58:39.420 --> 01:58:43.820 damage back to the Vasculigian with solar beam. I give you as many terms as 01:58:43.820 --> 01:58:49.340 possible as well as reducing any potential wage crashes. The option though may be irrelevant by the time the Vasco is 01:58:49.340 --> 01:58:53.820 defeated to feel very good. If you can pick up a knockout with last respect why bother. Also keep in mind with 01:58:53.820 --> 01:58:58.300 you know I didn't see a lot of detox effects so far. Unlike maybe what you would see in a single battle there is no 01:58:58.300 --> 01:59:05.340 recover on the detox effect right. So this 53% HP maybe enough but it's kind of like right on the edge of being in danger of a knockout 01:59:05.340 --> 01:59:10.060 from the King Abbot. Char's are going to fail to protect so we may not see Drat at all. Although Dragonclaw is not going to pick up a 01:59:10.060 --> 01:59:14.380 knockout and you see why there was no attacking moves there. Yeah the Dragonclaw is not enough 01:59:14.380 --> 01:59:20.620 to pick up the KO on its own without the sucker punch additional damage. Oxitec resets the 01:59:20.620 --> 01:59:26.940 infestation onto King Gambit which I believe was just let up the last turn and now continuing 01:59:26.940 --> 01:59:32.940 to heal up with leftovers the damage is stacking onto both of these Pokemon. Getting real close 01:59:32.940 --> 01:59:38.780 there Garchomp goes down next turn. Yeah you know I want to pop off for a protective failure. 01:59:38.780 --> 01:59:41.500 I think that's actually a great play by Antonio. 01:59:41.500 --> 01:59:42.940 We probably should have. 01:59:42.940 --> 01:59:45.300 I just saw so many amazing things for Antonio 01:59:45.300 --> 01:59:46.260 side of the field. 01:59:46.260 --> 01:59:48.100 It's kind of weird, like, oh, why does Charizard just 01:59:48.100 --> 01:59:48.740 double protect? 01:59:48.740 --> 01:59:49.740 Why didn't it mega evolve? 01:59:49.740 --> 01:59:50.900 Well, it didn't need to mega evolve. 01:59:50.900 --> 01:59:52.220 It wouldn't really have mattered. 01:59:52.220 --> 01:59:53.780 Now, both these Pokemon can protect. 01:59:53.780 --> 01:59:55.260 They will both succeed, because there 01:59:55.260 --> 01:59:57.140 was no success to protect the previous turn. 01:59:57.140 --> 01:59:59.420 And both of these Pokemon are going to go down to damage 01:59:59.420 --> 02:00:00.380 over time effects. 02:00:00.380 --> 02:00:02.020 Then critically, even if on the next turn, 02:00:02.020 --> 02:00:03.860 that just leaves the Charizard being knocked out, 02:00:03.860 --> 02:00:05.740 they'll potentially have the match turns of draft 02:00:05.740 --> 02:00:07.220 for what little that will likely matter. 02:00:07.220 --> 02:00:09.760 But you know, he's charging some chip on Vaskaligeon. 02:00:09.760 --> 02:00:10.760 That makes a huge difference. 02:00:10.760 --> 02:00:12.800 And then also, the Toxapex, you know, 02:00:12.800 --> 02:00:14.480 even if Charizard were to go down and do nothing, 02:00:14.480 --> 02:00:16.560 which is this was actually fairly unlikely, 02:00:16.560 --> 02:00:18.640 gives you more turns to get those damage over time effects. 02:00:18.640 --> 02:00:20.640 You know, it's often comes down to just a ton. 02:00:20.640 --> 02:00:22.720 We see these Toxapex versus Vaskaligeon end game, 02:00:22.720 --> 02:00:24.520 but I think Antonio has done just enough 02:00:24.520 --> 02:00:27.480 to get Charizard enough ahead to help Toxapex. 02:00:27.480 --> 02:00:29.600 The Toxapex is probably going to win this one. 02:00:29.600 --> 02:00:31.040 If Charizard goes down at all. 02:00:31.040 --> 02:00:31.880 That's my guy. 02:00:31.880 --> 02:00:33.000 I love this little guy. 02:00:33.000 --> 02:00:36.760 Just needs to double protect here to pick up these KO's. 02:00:36.760 --> 02:00:39.220 No damage dealt to Antonio's Pokemon. 02:00:39.220 --> 02:00:43.300 Instead, Tox effects will recover another 6% of health 02:00:43.300 --> 02:00:46.920 with that leftover 4%, 5% rather, 02:00:46.920 --> 02:00:50.200 as the Garchomp and King Gambit go down. 02:00:51.160 --> 02:00:55.080 What a fun ending here where things look really sketchy 02:00:55.080 --> 02:00:56.360 for Antonio for a while there. 02:00:56.360 --> 02:00:58.480 But yeah, ironically, one of the few times we've seen 02:00:58.480 --> 02:01:00.600 where a pale protectorically very beneficial 02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:02.400 for the player who failed it. 02:01:02.400 --> 02:01:04.000 Without that, maybe Charles Lippe was down this turn 02:01:04.000 --> 02:01:05.080 and things get a little bit sketchier 02:01:05.080 --> 02:01:05.920 on the following turn, 02:01:05.920 --> 02:01:08.960 then it does become that Vascular Legion Toxatex 1v1. 02:01:08.960 --> 02:01:11.520 Instead here, Charles is going to get you Mega Evolve, 02:01:11.520 --> 02:01:12.600 probably help out a little bit. 02:01:12.600 --> 02:01:14.800 At worst, you know, absolute worst, 02:01:14.800 --> 02:01:16.840 maybe you get like crit by Aqua Jet or something, 02:01:16.840 --> 02:01:19.720 you're still giving Toxatex a free turn. 02:01:19.720 --> 02:01:22.640 Really great job by Antonio here to pick up those margins 02:01:22.640 --> 02:01:24.560 and get the help that Toxatex needed 02:01:24.560 --> 02:01:26.480 to most likely close out this game one. 02:01:26.480 --> 02:01:28.800 And this is Mystic Water Vascular Legion, 02:01:28.800 --> 02:01:31.280 so the Aqua Jet will be dealing more damage 02:01:31.280 --> 02:01:32.560 than the Citrus Fairy, 02:01:32.560 --> 02:01:35.840 but less than a life-orange variant of the Vascular Legion, 02:01:35.840 --> 02:01:37.720 but like you mentioned, no matter what, 02:01:37.720 --> 02:01:39.880 that water damage is getting reduced 02:01:39.880 --> 02:01:41.920 by the drought that you have to assume. 02:01:41.920 --> 02:01:44.440 Antonio has shown such great restraint 02:01:44.440 --> 02:01:47.000 with this Charizard over the course of the game. 02:01:47.000 --> 02:01:49.960 This is what you have to do with some of these mega-evolutions 02:01:49.960 --> 02:01:53.320 that have immediate on-the-field effects. 02:01:53.320 --> 02:01:54.720 There's the mega-evolution. 02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:58.000 Finally, Charizard Y will set the sun 02:01:58.000 --> 02:02:01.680 and reduce the power of Vasculigent's water-type attacks. 02:02:01.680 --> 02:02:04.360 Without an aqua jet, then this Charizard 02:02:04.360 --> 02:02:08.440 definitely be able to fire off a solar beam here absorbs the light and you can 02:02:08.440 --> 02:02:13.720 see the power of the grass type attack getting damaged. Crucial damage down on 02:02:13.720 --> 02:02:18.760 to the basculigent. That's enough for just one kick of infestation to KO the 02:02:18.760 --> 02:02:22.800 basculigent here but it targets down the tox effects instead. 02:02:22.800 --> 02:02:27.360 Tox effects goes down and Giovanni has found the out here is potentially just 02:02:27.360 --> 02:02:32.240 take out the tox effects here and pray and hope that a crit mystic water 02:02:32.240 --> 02:02:34.880 Aqua Jet in the Sun is enough damage. 02:02:34.880 --> 02:02:38.000 I believe you have a 1 in 24 chance to crit. 02:02:38.000 --> 02:02:40.880 So, not great odds here, but there's more than zero. 02:02:40.880 --> 02:02:42.320 So, let's see what happens on this title. 02:02:42.320 --> 02:02:43.880 Numps, it is none, zero chance. 02:02:43.880 --> 02:02:44.960 There's the Aqua Jet. 02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:47.720 8% health remaining for Charizard 02:02:47.720 --> 02:02:49.440 with the crit, Giovanni would have gotten it, 02:02:49.440 --> 02:02:52.640 but instead, Antonio Sampchez is gonna fire off 02:02:52.640 --> 02:02:55.600 this solar beam and take game one. 02:02:55.600 --> 02:02:57.640 What a wild endgame. 02:02:57.640 --> 02:02:59.800 We've seen a lot of tax-effect end games 02:02:59.800 --> 02:03:01.600 over the course of the past few months 02:03:01.600 --> 02:03:04.600 I don't think we've seen anything quite like that. 02:03:04.600 --> 02:03:07.600 Really a methodical ending, really creative way to end that game. 02:03:07.600 --> 02:03:10.600 And I think that's just what you have to do if you're a Toxic Effect player, 02:03:10.600 --> 02:03:14.600 where players at this level are too good to fall victim to the most obvious lines. 02:03:14.600 --> 02:03:16.600 So I have to be a little bit creative there. 02:03:16.600 --> 02:03:18.600 I was like three or four turns in a row of the charge, 02:03:18.600 --> 02:03:20.600 and once the protector's understanding, like, 02:03:20.600 --> 02:03:22.600 hey, attacking isn't what I need to do here. 02:03:22.600 --> 02:03:26.600 I need to waste the turns of my opponent to start getting closer and closer to the end game. 02:03:26.600 --> 02:03:29.600 And the choice only ended up swinging one time in the entire game, 02:03:29.600 --> 02:03:34.240 game but that one attack was absolutely bold. Twice I guess after the game was already over. 02:03:34.240 --> 02:03:38.880 But yeah you know one big attack that effectively ended it where regardless of what Giovanni 02:03:38.880 --> 02:03:43.360 chose to do on that penultimate turn he didn't get a critical hit he couldn't win the game. 02:03:43.360 --> 02:03:49.280 Absolutely and really well played there from Antonio to see that line and Giovanni felt like 02:03:49.280 --> 02:03:54.720 he was in decent position throughout that entire game but even after getting the ancient power 02:03:54.720 --> 02:03:59.520 boost on Charizard it really felt like things were becoming very awkward for Antonio to position 02:03:59.520 --> 02:04:06.520 around that, but the power of that Toxapex just dealing damage over time, getting that fake out down onto Charizard, 02:04:06.520 --> 02:04:13.520 especially to waste that turn, get another tick of damage, you have to find these little moments where you can sneak in one extra turn. 02:04:13.520 --> 02:04:18.520 Yeah, now, you know, speaking of protects, by the way, I want to go back to that Incineroar protect as well. 02:04:18.520 --> 02:04:21.520 I looked at your kind of strange techs when we first saw it, but it looked really good there. 02:04:21.520 --> 02:04:25.520 And, you know, the synergy of this team just kind of makes a lot of sense, especially, again, you have that choice scarf, 02:04:25.520 --> 02:04:28.520 scarf gar chop there and maybe gives you an opportunity to earthquake but 02:04:28.520 --> 02:04:31.720 otherwise you could not wear this for one turn in center could protect itself 02:04:31.720 --> 02:04:35.160 again you know if we look at these teams about we've seen this combination of 02:04:35.160 --> 02:04:38.520 stick to Pokemon before Scott why are you excited about this well that's why 02:04:38.520 --> 02:04:41.120 right where I think these little optimizations allow you to play the 02:04:41.120 --> 02:04:45.440 team differently and we're gonna see the advantages there as we jump into game 02:04:45.440 --> 02:04:49.240 2 also I think it's sort of a tough spot for Giovanni was okay well how do I 02:04:49.240 --> 02:04:53.360 adjust to this well if Toxa packs is the main reason I lost this game am I 02:04:53.360 --> 02:04:55.600 going to then adjust by bringing water by fairy type 02:04:55.600 --> 02:04:56.440 Pokemon. 02:04:56.440 --> 02:04:58.360 That doesn't seem like what I want. 02:04:58.360 --> 02:04:59.160 Yeah, definitely. 02:04:59.160 --> 02:05:03.080 Toxapex would love to see the Floette or the Whimsicott 02:05:03.080 --> 02:05:04.840 get them trapped on the field with it. 02:05:04.840 --> 02:05:07.680 And actually going to be the Incineroar and Toxapex 02:05:07.680 --> 02:05:10.640 lead immediately from Antonio. 02:05:10.640 --> 02:05:13.080 Getting that Intimidate down onto Garchomp 02:05:13.080 --> 02:05:15.040 and the Toxapex. 02:05:15.040 --> 02:05:17.600 Sometimes with Toxapex, you just need that one extra turn. 02:05:17.600 --> 02:05:20.320 And it really helps if you can start doing that from turn one. 02:05:20.320 --> 02:05:23.160 Yeah, and we saw the previous game just fight 02:05:23.160 --> 02:05:25.920 Tony you're winning in here the first turn definitely did not go for it how you want me 02:05:25.920 --> 02:05:27.320 You had to pivot around a little bit 02:05:27.320 --> 02:05:30.040 But she saw the guard chop coming into battle on the second turn 02:05:30.040 --> 02:05:34.860 Our between during the first turn. Mm-hmm. It's a quick thing out immediately for you. Yeah 02:05:36.360 --> 02:05:38.060 Keep things a little bit confusing early in the morning 02:05:38.060 --> 02:05:42.060 But tax effects now being on the field immediately makes your body easier also immediately get that into the down 02:05:42.060 --> 02:05:45.180 So I sit up for the second game in real looking pretty good on this first turn 02:05:45.180 --> 02:05:50.120 And the guard chop has to be even wearier because they get those spread attacks much more difficult to use in tax effects of the field 02:05:50.120 --> 02:05:53.800 even though probably that feeling is so threatened that you have to use it here. 02:05:53.800 --> 02:05:58.360 Well, immediately forcing the Basculigian out onto the field here, 02:05:58.360 --> 02:06:03.880 both because it has a good matchup in it to the Incineroar, which does not have a dark type attack, 02:06:03.880 --> 02:06:09.560 and also it would allow it to switch out if it were invested. However, Antonio catches the 02:06:09.560 --> 02:06:15.320 Basculigian on the switch in with a Toxic instead. That's going to deal less damage immediately, 02:06:15.320 --> 02:06:21.040 But over time, if Vasco Legion wants to stay on the field, it's going to start stacking up so fast. 02:06:21.040 --> 02:06:24.520 Yeah, kind of a cool call there too, or maybe getting exactly what he expected, you know, 02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:27.240 and fairly unlikely if it can get him, it's going to come to that situation. 02:06:27.240 --> 02:06:29.720 So it's only going to be Charizard or Vasco Legion. 02:06:29.720 --> 02:06:33.800 And yeah, I mean, Vasco Legion early in the game, a very different animal than it was lately. 02:06:33.800 --> 02:06:37.720 You can see how powerful that last aspect was when it was the final poke on the previous game. 02:06:37.720 --> 02:06:41.000 Time to Vex is not nearly so concerned at this time, where, 02:06:41.000 --> 02:06:45.620 Last effect that would do anything here doesn't be more wary of the garchomp though. It has been intimidated and 02:06:45.820 --> 02:06:49.300 It's probably intimidated and out of game sense by the potential of white guard 02:06:49.300 --> 02:06:52.840 But a basket lead you're not gonna want that toxic to add up get down a battle right away 02:06:52.840 --> 02:07:00.060 Yeah, the only options for basket lead is being to deal damage to itself with a wave crash and take ticks of poison toxic damage 02:07:00.300 --> 02:07:05.340 Get out of the field here garchomp goes for the earthquake as Charizard switches in of course 02:07:05.340 --> 02:07:08.380 This is why you pair Garchomp next to Charizard 02:07:08.380 --> 02:07:12.580 with the Intimidate Toxifex is able to take that damage quite handily 02:07:12.580 --> 02:07:16.700 and the Life Orb Recoil will start adding up onto Garchomp. 02:07:16.700 --> 02:07:20.700 This does mean that Toxifex again gets to start spreading toxic. 02:07:20.700 --> 02:07:24.460 The Garchomp now toxic, going to take ticks of poison damage 02:07:24.460 --> 02:07:27.500 in addition to recoil damage every time it attacks. 02:07:27.500 --> 02:07:30.100 Antonio is showing us some other tricks his team has. 02:07:30.100 --> 02:07:32.820 They're getting the protectant, it's literally looking pretty impactful there. 02:07:32.820 --> 02:07:38.960 You know unlike what we just saw in GFIN, you know, there's only one Pokemon for Antonio who's switching to the first place each hour 02:07:38.960 --> 02:07:43.900 That we saw how closely it was about conserving and the previous game to protect and ignore pandimidens and then hey 02:07:43.900 --> 02:07:45.620 This toxic effects may not have to recover 02:07:45.620 --> 02:07:51.120 But maybe why we're seeing toxic and that it would be a station is that I guess have the regenerator ability which healed it 02:07:51.120 --> 02:07:54.740 Which is out of battle and the station drops when toxic effect switches out 02:07:54.740 --> 02:07:59.000 So maybe wouldn't be so effective there that toxic is gonna stick if toxic pecs feels like maybe hey 02:07:59.000 --> 02:08:03.520 I'm going to come back later and give one condition once again. 02:08:03.520 --> 02:08:10.000 Toxics could switch out right now and be back up to just about 100% health after the regenerator. 02:08:10.000 --> 02:08:16.000 It's going to be a Wimzacot adjustment from Giovanni Garchomp now switching out for that 02:08:16.000 --> 02:08:20.520 Wimzacot as Incineroar will switch out for Garchomp on Antonio's side. 02:08:20.520 --> 02:08:26.640 Cars are now finally will go for the mega evolution to get some big boost to its damage 02:08:26.640 --> 02:08:33.240 and set the sun here, but Whimzacot catching the guard top on the switch is a pretty good position for it to be in. 02:08:33.240 --> 02:08:42.840 Additionally, Whimzacot can threaten Encore into this Toxifex and really limit the amount of options that Antonio is going to have moving forward. 02:08:42.840 --> 02:08:49.740 There's the ancient power into guard top, not feeling a little bit of damage, but always an opportunity to fish for those boosts if you have them. 02:08:49.740 --> 02:08:56.240 I didn't get the twice it earlier, I was kind of wondering if after we'd have maybe manifested that, like I'm putting it in half it. 02:08:56.240 --> 02:09:02.840 Hey, you know, and you've already said the field, I know the Iclo, but I don't think you're ever complaining when you swap wins account on the field with Darchep on the same turn. 02:09:02.840 --> 02:09:06.240 Also, kind of a bunch of interesting things are available now. 02:09:06.240 --> 02:09:09.840 Of course, both traders are realizing that, hey, you know, Giovanni doesn't have to do that gamut in the back. 02:09:09.840 --> 02:09:13.040 That's maybe one of the reasons why we didn't see it swap in on that first turn. 02:09:13.040 --> 02:09:14.840 But, you know, you have the tailwind threat. 02:09:14.840 --> 02:09:19.440 We're probably not wanting you to do that tailwind wouldn't heat Darchep's rock sliding in yours. 02:09:19.440 --> 02:09:21.940 So I'm probably going to need a little bit more than that. 02:09:21.940 --> 02:09:24.640 But it was at least somewhat of an offensive threat here though. 02:09:24.640 --> 02:09:28.180 not really a Pokemon you want to get trapped by infestation either so a lot 02:09:28.180 --> 02:09:30.920 to consider on this turn as the Charizard considers defending itself. 02:09:30.920 --> 02:09:34.400 Charizard would like to protect this turn because Garchomp with the choice 02:09:34.400 --> 02:09:39.560 scarf is going to lock into Rock Slide and Whimzacot will dodge it. The Moon 02:09:39.560 --> 02:09:43.820 Blast though firing back on to the Garchomp no tailwind here just offense. 02:09:43.820 --> 02:09:49.840 Garchomp hangs on with 4% health. No encore onto the Toxpex means that 02:09:49.840 --> 02:09:54.620 Whimzacot is now locked onto the field here so if you get tailwind up that's 02:09:54.620 --> 02:09:58.300 It's great, but also it means that Wimzika won't be able to switch out. 02:09:58.300 --> 02:10:00.140 You won't be able to have two offensive threats. 02:10:00.140 --> 02:10:01.420 It'll just be the one. 02:10:01.420 --> 02:10:05.100 Yeah, notice Tailwind's sweeper Wimzika going to have to do its best here, 02:10:05.100 --> 02:10:08.780 which kind of makes it wonder if it was dodging Raksalai's good. 02:10:08.780 --> 02:10:10.540 I mean, certainly not getting flinched was good, 02:10:10.540 --> 02:10:12.700 as that creates a great situation on the next turn, 02:10:12.700 --> 02:10:14.940 where you could just go for a tailwind attack with Raksalai's slide. 02:10:14.940 --> 02:10:17.100 It'd be pretty much guaranteed to get something good. 02:10:17.100 --> 02:10:19.020 But yeah, the talk effects once again is looking good. 02:10:19.020 --> 02:10:21.180 And hey, maybe it doesn't need to switch out and heal up after all. 02:10:21.180 --> 02:10:24.460 Like, unlikely to be targeted here, where it keep wave and needlessly risk. 02:10:24.460 --> 02:10:27.160 or you could miss the guard jump, you could get wide guarded. 02:10:27.160 --> 02:10:29.260 So probably going to see a single target attack on that slot 02:10:29.260 --> 02:10:32.060 as Dux Husky can you add in this damage over time to fix that. 02:10:32.060 --> 02:10:34.260 Yep, and of course, why go for any other attack 02:10:34.260 --> 02:10:36.860 that ain't of power when you only need to deal 4% 02:10:36.860 --> 02:10:39.660 and you can keep fishing for those boos. 02:10:39.660 --> 02:10:40.760 Two games in a row. 02:10:40.760 --> 02:10:43.160 Hey, we said it never happened, and here it is. 02:10:43.160 --> 02:10:46.060 Well, Chara's are now at plus one, plus one, plus one, 02:10:46.060 --> 02:10:48.060 plus one, plus one, plus one, 02:10:48.060 --> 02:10:51.060 but it will take the toxic for its troubles. 02:10:51.060 --> 02:10:59.060 So every Pokemon except for Winsicott is now toxic on Giovanni's side and that does put a timer on the Charizard. 02:10:59.060 --> 02:11:02.060 There is only so much it can do with those boosts. 02:11:02.060 --> 02:11:10.060 Plus one status element as well, which is not great, but what is great is that part of the field otherwise, where Max turns the pale with Ancient Power Boosts. 02:11:10.060 --> 02:11:13.060 Maybe the best offensive Pokemon of the period, Charizard. 02:11:13.060 --> 02:11:17.060 It's feeling great, other than this little bit of poison though, like it probably doesn't have to worry about it. 02:11:17.060 --> 02:11:18.060 Let's just not think about that right now. 02:11:18.060 --> 02:11:20.160 Yeah, of course, the other side of the field, 02:11:20.160 --> 02:11:22.200 not the other side, I guess, it's Parker. 02:11:22.200 --> 02:11:23.860 Less exciting here, where, you know, 02:11:23.860 --> 02:11:26.000 again, the offensive Dynamo wins again. 02:11:26.000 --> 02:11:28.000 Going to have to contribute as much as they can 02:11:28.000 --> 02:11:29.080 offensively here. 02:11:29.080 --> 02:11:30.640 He's at least threatening some encores, 02:11:30.640 --> 02:11:33.040 which just make it harder to stall out the tailwind. 02:11:33.040 --> 02:11:34.440 It's not like it's doing nothing here, 02:11:34.440 --> 02:11:36.480 but Moonlight's not going to be super good. 02:11:36.480 --> 02:11:38.480 He gets most of what's left of this team. 02:11:38.480 --> 02:11:40.280 It's similar to going to be forced to enter the battle here 02:11:40.280 --> 02:11:42.480 to intimidate two special attackers 02:11:42.480 --> 02:11:44.020 and to keep slowing things down. 02:11:44.020 --> 02:11:45.220 It's still a terrible spot, right? 02:11:45.220 --> 02:11:46.620 You're probably going to go for a fake out 02:11:46.620 --> 02:11:47.460 into this counter. 02:11:47.460 --> 02:11:49.460 Why not get rid of a turn of stricterim? 02:11:49.460 --> 02:11:52.460 Again, as we've seen before, both these Pokemon can't protect her. 02:11:52.460 --> 02:11:56.460 Baneful Bunker, Intaxi Vexus K, so maybe you get another turn of detail in that way. 02:11:56.460 --> 02:12:00.460 And hey, you know, it's sort of uniquely great here too, and it's protected. 02:12:00.460 --> 02:12:04.460 Can't be on here, because it's still a dark type Pokemon that isn't easy to prankster. 02:12:04.460 --> 02:12:12.460 Ooh, going for the fake out onto Whimsicott means that Charizard actually gets to swing with this boosted ancient power into Incinarar. 02:12:12.460 --> 02:12:18.660 That feels good damage, brings it below 50%, but again, Incineroar heals back up with that Citrus Berry. 02:12:18.660 --> 02:12:23.460 And now the infestation has trapped the boosted Charizard on the field. 02:12:23.460 --> 02:12:30.260 The Giovanni will not be able to switch that Pokemon out, which means that it is just going to keep taking infestation damage 02:12:30.260 --> 02:12:40.960 and continuing to stack poison damage from the Toxic while being able to pick up a KO on this Incineroar eventually, maybe, depending on how many protects these Pokemon get. 02:12:40.960 --> 02:12:43.360 And this Pokemon, they appear going down pretty quickly. 02:12:43.360 --> 02:12:46.000 I think people kind of think of Toxic Pectis as a small Pokemon. 02:12:46.000 --> 02:12:48.520 And sure, again, maybe in single battles, that's true. 02:12:48.520 --> 02:12:50.840 But this tribe doesn't go down in a hurry, right? 02:12:50.840 --> 02:12:53.360 The Toxic going down before the Infestation is key. 02:12:53.360 --> 02:12:54.800 It does more damage to turn. 02:12:54.800 --> 02:12:57.200 And we've seen, after only a couple of turns, 02:12:57.200 --> 02:12:59.640 Charizard already losing about a third of his health. 02:12:59.640 --> 02:13:02.440 It's going to go down quicker and quicker after that, where 02:13:02.440 --> 02:13:05.000 it is very scary, but I'm telling you, 02:13:05.000 --> 02:13:08.080 it's getting closer and closer to defending that threat. 02:13:08.080 --> 02:13:15.520 Diorvani was able to sneak in that ancient power because Incineroar decided to fake out Wimzacot to prevent any encore shenanigans. 02:13:15.520 --> 02:13:22.820 Antonio deciding that he wants to make sure that the Toxpex can trap that Charizard on the field that turn. 02:13:22.820 --> 02:13:30.940 Finally gets Encore'd here into infestation, but the Ancient Power will connect onto the protect of the Incineroar. 02:13:30.940 --> 02:13:35.940 So this Toxapex is not going to be dealing any real damage anymore, 02:13:35.940 --> 02:13:38.940 at least until the Encore ends or it switches out. 02:13:38.940 --> 02:13:41.940 But all of the damage has already been done. 02:13:41.940 --> 02:13:47.940 This Toxic is adding up so quickly, the Infestation Charizard is already so low. 02:13:47.940 --> 02:13:51.940 There's only a couple more turns remaining for Charizard to be one more for Winsicott. 02:13:51.940 --> 02:13:55.940 And being locked in Infestation is not ideal here, but I don't know if it really matters. 02:13:55.940 --> 02:13:59.840 Yeah, and also worth noting to the doubt expired for now as well 02:13:59.840 --> 02:14:02.660 Of course, you'd assume that there's a Charizard lurking in the back though 02:14:02.660 --> 02:14:07.360 I don't know that it's too likely that Giovanni Charizard is going to be lucky enough to escape and reset its own drought 02:14:07.480 --> 02:14:13.060 Yeah, with the drought ending here Charizard loses access to that super powered weather ball 02:14:13.060 --> 02:14:18.740 Which would be basically the only thing capable of breaking through that proxopex at this point 02:14:18.980 --> 02:14:25.180 Even with the resisted damage aint your power just doesn't have enough damage on its own if it's not a super effective hit 02:14:25.180 --> 02:14:31.260 And yeah, this Tox effects has slowed this entire game down, Antonio just going for the 02:14:31.260 --> 02:14:36.660 double protect option on Incineroar does not get it, but is able to survive another ancient 02:14:36.660 --> 02:14:39.540 power because of that citrus fairy. 02:14:39.540 --> 02:14:43.660 That means that Wimzicop also has to swing at the Incineroar, finally picks up the KO 02:14:43.660 --> 02:14:48.660 there, knocks out the Incineroar as it's going to continue to take that damage over time. 02:14:48.660 --> 02:14:54.340 A little bit of infestation damage onto Wimzicop pushing it even closer with a huge critical 02:14:54.340 --> 02:15:00.340 heads there as Toxatex feels all the way back up. Who needs to switch out and get regenerator 02:15:00.340 --> 02:15:05.140 active? It's already at 98%. And don't forget your rulers to note that the, that technically 02:15:05.140 --> 02:15:10.140 do more damage is a critical hit. But you see the impact of Encore, however, with Windsor 02:15:10.140 --> 02:15:14.020 Cap surviving this turn. The tailwind peter's out and, you know, if that Encore had not 02:15:14.020 --> 02:15:17.780 occurred exactly when it did, the Toxatex almost certainly was going for a toxic into 02:15:17.780 --> 02:15:20.820 the Windsor Cap that burned it. Would have caused it to faint before it could have set 02:15:20.820 --> 02:15:24.580 tailwind. This is still not exactly a great situation on Giovanni side of the 02:15:24.580 --> 02:15:28.220 field where you've got a poison vasculogen in the back and both these 02:15:28.220 --> 02:15:31.700 Pokemon about to be knocked out and a poison vasculogen well actually but at 02:15:31.700 --> 02:15:34.560 least you could get a tailwind to try to close out the game as quickly as 02:15:34.560 --> 02:15:38.460 possible here with a whizzicott and charizard on their last leg. If the 02:15:38.460 --> 02:15:41.420 whizzicott had been knocked out I think this is a much more dire situation for 02:15:41.420 --> 02:15:44.900 Giovanni so great job hitting the anchor exactly when you need to. Yeah this is a 02:15:44.900 --> 02:15:50.140 really awkward position here for Antonio also the whizzicott may be close to 02:15:50.140 --> 02:15:55.020 being released from the infestation, which makes this protect kind of risky here. 02:15:55.020 --> 02:16:00.220 Wimzacot is able to reset the tailwind here, it expiring exactly when Giovanni needed it 02:16:00.220 --> 02:16:01.220 too. 02:16:01.220 --> 02:16:05.900 There is the ancient power, one last attempt from the Charizard as Poxifex trying to get 02:16:05.900 --> 02:16:11.460 a little bit of damage down on to the Wimzacot there with a normal infestation but did not 02:16:11.460 --> 02:16:13.140 get a critical hit. 02:16:13.140 --> 02:16:19.060 The Charizard will go down to the poison here, but this Wimzacot needs to be able to be released 02:16:19.060 --> 02:16:21.380 from the infestation, and it is. 02:16:21.380 --> 02:16:23.620 That was the end of the infestation, 02:16:23.620 --> 02:16:25.940 turns four, Whimzacot, and now Charizard 02:16:25.940 --> 02:16:27.740 can be on board into that protect. 02:16:27.740 --> 02:16:30.060 Yeah, that's not what you typically think of 02:16:30.060 --> 02:16:32.020 as an explosive play, but that could be huge, 02:16:32.020 --> 02:16:33.660 just the two Pokemon remaining. 02:16:33.660 --> 02:16:35.540 I think now, Antonio's probably in a position 02:16:35.540 --> 02:16:38.140 where you have to go for the double protect on Charizard, 02:16:38.140 --> 02:16:41.460 and I hope that Octapax can pick up that big knockout. 02:16:41.460 --> 02:16:42.900 You know, we're kind of missing a lot of that. 02:16:42.900 --> 02:16:44.140 Whimzacot's on foot, but this time, 02:16:44.140 --> 02:16:46.700 it's Octapax who needs to pretend to be a center here 02:16:46.700 --> 02:16:48.340 and try to bail out its friend. 02:16:48.340 --> 02:16:51.040 I don't think we've seen any successful double protect for Antonio so far. 02:16:51.040 --> 02:16:52.040 He's set. 02:16:52.040 --> 02:16:53.040 So he's due. 02:16:53.040 --> 02:16:54.040 So he's due. 02:16:54.040 --> 02:16:55.040 Yeah. 02:16:55.040 --> 02:16:56.040 So that's how it works. 02:16:56.040 --> 02:16:57.040 He would have hit. 02:16:57.040 --> 02:16:58.040 So hey, maybe we'll go in here. 02:16:58.040 --> 02:16:59.040 We'll see it here. 02:16:59.040 --> 02:17:00.960 Although I was caught chopped by Trig to field on the other side. 02:17:00.960 --> 02:17:05.600 I may not matter all that much where Charizard is going to be in trouble either way though. 02:17:05.600 --> 02:17:09.680 You know, a wide guard I guess would help out Mary if Charizard is able to avoid getting 02:17:09.680 --> 02:17:10.680 out for it. 02:17:10.680 --> 02:17:11.680 All right. 02:17:11.680 --> 02:17:12.840 But this is going to be very important. 02:17:12.840 --> 02:17:18.280 And Charizard needs to hit a double protect to avoid getting locked into protect by Encore 02:17:18.280 --> 02:17:19.880 from Winsicott. 02:17:19.880 --> 02:17:22.240 Antonio will need that damage. 02:17:22.240 --> 02:17:24.720 Charizard does not get the double protect. 02:17:24.720 --> 02:17:27.160 No double protect for Antonio. 02:17:27.160 --> 02:17:30.640 And actually going to Encore into the Toxapex instead. 02:17:30.640 --> 02:17:35.040 Giovanni realizing Antonio has to go for the double protect anyway. 02:17:35.040 --> 02:17:38.720 Let me just make sure this Toxapex can't do anything. 02:17:38.720 --> 02:17:40.640 Such smart targeting there from Giovanni. 02:17:40.640 --> 02:18:10.640 risky, but it pays off. And the Dragonclaw kind of clumped there too, kind of covers for a couple of different options. If there's been a wide guard instead, you avoid riffing after kind of like embarrassing locking your opponent into wide guard. But also, hey, you know, with the Dragonclaw, you know, get some safe damage down. The Tri-Guard's still checked, right? You get the risk of missing, and it's not going to be able to do anything for the remainder of the game. And, you know, the fast-allegent now entering the battlefield. These hook one are both on timers, but they're both going to threaten a lot of damage with fast-respecting Dragonclaw and tax-effects. Things are still in the way, but they're still in the way. And, you know, they're still in the way, but they're still in the way, but they're still in the way, but they're still in the way, but they're still in the way, 02:18:10.640 --> 02:18:16.240 not over, but I don't know if it's actually able to pull this one off with that. Perhaps a series of double 02:18:16.880 --> 02:18:18.880 triple... 02:18:18.880 --> 02:18:23.040 Yeah, there are both basket legion and Garchomp are on timers, 02:18:23.040 --> 02:18:26.820 but the timer is still very generous at this stage of the game. 02:18:27.080 --> 02:18:32.360 Although basket legion and Garchomp both do tend to deal damage to themselves when they are attacking. 02:18:32.360 --> 02:18:38.680 Of course, basket legion most likely choosing to lock into the last respects instead keep its timer as long as possible. 02:18:38.680 --> 02:18:41.680 Antonio is going to need to start getting some of those double attacks. 02:18:41.680 --> 02:18:45.680 Yeah, but hey, you know, we've seen it happen before, and that's what's so scary about TAC's effects. 02:18:45.680 --> 02:18:50.680 It doesn't even when things go really wrong, there's still that chance that it's like, hey, you know, 02:18:50.680 --> 02:18:52.680 probably be able to survive one round of attacks. 02:18:52.680 --> 02:18:55.680 Well, you can potentially be able to survive one round of attacks against it, and maybe that's enough. 02:18:55.680 --> 02:19:00.680 A Charizard going to go down immediately here, but that does give TAC's effect a turn to try to make something happen. 02:19:00.680 --> 02:19:05.680 Yep, there goes Charizard and more recoil damage from the Life Orb. 02:19:05.680 --> 02:19:11.600 Here's the last respects, more than 50% damage on to Toxapec, it cannot take another last 02:19:11.600 --> 02:19:14.800 respects and Baskaligeon is still so healthy. 02:19:14.800 --> 02:19:20.520 Of course, having switched out, it reset the Toxa timer on the Baskaligeon, so Toxapec 02:19:20.520 --> 02:19:25.840 needs a lot of turns of baneful bunkers here in order to actually survive through this 02:19:25.840 --> 02:19:27.840 offense from Baskaligeon and Garchomp. 02:19:27.840 --> 02:19:32.080 Yeah, Chet, I'll spare you from the attempt to do the very incorrect math on how many 02:19:32.080 --> 02:19:35.280 baneful bunkers are required, but it's definitely more than two. 02:19:35.280 --> 02:19:40.280 Yeah, we may find out all together, or we may never know. 02:19:40.280 --> 02:19:42.280 It could be impossible to figure out. 02:19:42.280 --> 02:19:46.280 Yeah, maybe the greatest finds in mathematicians in the community can figure this out. 02:19:46.280 --> 02:19:50.280 I think it's four, but I don't like strongly think. 02:19:50.280 --> 02:19:55.280 Yeah, you're not willing to risk it all on four painful bunkers. 02:19:55.280 --> 02:19:58.280 Yeah, I feel like we're probably not going to find out at this one. 02:19:58.280 --> 02:20:00.280 But hey, you know, we've seen Stranger Things. 02:20:00.280 --> 02:20:02.280 We've seen two ancient power boosts in this set. 02:20:02.280 --> 02:20:10.280 I think probably the odds of facts about surviving here are probably higher than that, so you can do the math in that too if you want, but maybe don't tag me. 02:20:10.280 --> 02:20:20.280 Well, if we assume that we are just going to see multiple baneful bunkers here, and if we assume that Giovanni is going to be able to get the win, actually Antonio decides to do it. 02:20:20.280 --> 02:20:21.280 That is something I want to. 02:20:21.280 --> 02:20:31.280 Thank you, Antonio. You have saved me some vamping for the end of this match, and we are going into game three. Giovanni picking that game to very strongly. 02:20:31.280 --> 02:20:33.900 So, I mean, we're talking about the question of the day. 02:20:33.900 --> 02:20:34.900 Encore, right? 02:20:34.900 --> 02:20:35.900 Encore, yes. 02:20:35.900 --> 02:20:38.140 The Winsicott adjustment is huge for Giovanni there. 02:20:38.140 --> 02:20:39.620 So, I think that's interesting, dude. 02:20:39.620 --> 02:20:44.820 We're talking between the games that Winsicott was sort of a difficult Pokémon to bring 02:20:44.820 --> 02:20:48.780 because of the tight matchup, but getting it just to be right at the time there, able 02:20:48.780 --> 02:20:54.980 to be so impactful on this game with Encore, and then really showing also how impactful 02:20:54.980 --> 02:20:56.820 was to get into the battlefield at the right time. 02:20:56.820 --> 02:20:58.140 It got in right as Garchomp did. 02:20:58.140 --> 02:21:00.580 I did dodge that rock slide, which kept me for the time. 02:21:00.580 --> 02:21:02.340 I go, maybe you want Wemsikat to get knocked out. 02:21:02.340 --> 02:21:04.500 I think if that rock side connects that extra damage, 02:21:04.500 --> 02:21:06.620 causes Wemsikat to go down, you don't get the tail in, 02:21:06.620 --> 02:21:07.820 you don't get the encore's later. 02:21:07.820 --> 02:21:09.740 I think it really changes how the end of that battle 02:21:09.740 --> 02:21:10.340 plays out. 02:21:10.340 --> 02:21:14.100 But regardless, really well played on Giovanni's side 02:21:14.100 --> 02:21:16.020 throughout the course of that game, 02:21:16.020 --> 02:21:19.220 doing a nice job of avoiding getting in negative positions, 02:21:19.220 --> 02:21:20.700 limiting tox effects, and impact, 02:21:20.700 --> 02:21:22.660 although certainly still the MVP of that matchup 02:21:22.660 --> 02:21:23.940 for Antonio's side of the field. 02:21:23.940 --> 02:21:24.780 Absolutely. 02:21:24.780 --> 02:21:27.100 Definitely great call out there on the rock slide 02:21:27.100 --> 02:21:28.860 miss of the Whimsicott as well. 02:21:28.860 --> 02:21:31.300 It's something we've been sort of seeing over and over again. 02:21:31.300 --> 02:21:33.820 We talked about it in game one with the bakeout damage 02:21:33.820 --> 02:21:35.060 from the Incineroar. 02:21:35.060 --> 02:21:36.860 Every little piece of chip damage 02:21:36.860 --> 02:21:40.100 matters on a ToxEffects team against their opponent. 02:21:40.100 --> 02:21:42.220 Because you need to keep those turns. 02:21:42.220 --> 02:21:43.860 You need to be able to keep the KO 02:21:43.860 --> 02:21:45.940 before the infestation releases. 02:21:45.940 --> 02:21:49.340 And they can switch out or survive the one extra turn 02:21:49.340 --> 02:21:50.460 they need. 02:21:50.460 --> 02:21:53.060 And missing that rocks like allowed that Whimsicott 02:21:53.060 --> 02:21:55.620 to hang around for probably two or three more turns 02:21:55.620 --> 02:21:56.940 than it would have otherwise. 02:21:56.940 --> 02:21:59.380 Yeah, and I think that's kind of the margins 02:21:59.380 --> 02:22:01.100 that we see for these games here, 02:22:01.100 --> 02:22:03.980 where it's just kind of how it plays out with ToxaFactus. 02:22:03.980 --> 02:22:05.540 You're not going to win or lose by a lot. 02:22:05.540 --> 02:22:08.900 We saw how impactful that critical hit infestation was. 02:22:08.900 --> 02:22:11.500 It did like 4% instead of 3. 02:22:11.500 --> 02:22:13.980 And because of that, you really need 02:22:13.980 --> 02:22:15.900 to get the damage where you can get it, 02:22:15.900 --> 02:22:17.300 if that's going to be your win condition, 02:22:17.300 --> 02:22:18.780 or to avoid it from the other side. 02:22:18.780 --> 02:22:20.300 It's a tiny bit of damage mitigation 02:22:20.300 --> 02:22:23.460 can matter if often come down to one or two turns of damage 02:22:23.460 --> 02:22:25.300 over time, effect one direction or the other. 02:22:25.300 --> 02:22:26.500 Either side could definitely win. 02:22:26.500 --> 02:22:27.840 We see him up over the course of the game, 02:22:27.840 --> 02:22:29.240 but now he's going with his decisive moves. 02:22:29.240 --> 02:22:31.600 Three of those players trying to pick up their ninth game, 02:22:31.600 --> 02:22:33.200 off to see what they've chosen to lead. 02:22:33.200 --> 02:22:35.080 All right, they're going for their ninth win, 02:22:35.080 --> 02:22:38.320 and Antonio has chosen his third lead combination 02:22:38.320 --> 02:22:41.360 while Giovanni is sticking with the tried and true, 02:22:41.360 --> 02:22:43.360 the guard top and Charizard. 02:22:43.360 --> 02:22:45.840 Antonio will continue to lead the incinerator, 02:22:45.840 --> 02:22:49.560 this time paired alongside his own Charizard. 02:22:49.560 --> 02:22:51.520 Yeah, and I, you know, Incinerator looking pretty good again, 02:22:51.520 --> 02:22:56.520 where it's had some interesting paths to these games, 02:22:56.660 --> 02:22:58.220 but Garchomp and Charizard kind of both struggling 02:22:58.220 --> 02:22:59.060 to deal with the Incinor. 02:22:59.060 --> 02:23:00.300 So you like that side of the field. 02:23:00.300 --> 02:23:02.540 Again, Charizard into Garchomp, that's great, 02:23:02.540 --> 02:23:04.580 but with the Intimidate down, 02:23:04.580 --> 02:23:05.860 you would at least survive a rock slide. 02:23:05.860 --> 02:23:07.580 So you have some options though. 02:23:07.580 --> 02:23:09.620 The threat of the Ancient Power making it difficult 02:23:09.620 --> 02:23:10.900 to actually go for one. 02:23:10.900 --> 02:23:13.220 However, and all the previous times we've seen that, 02:23:13.220 --> 02:23:16.140 there's been no attempt to go after Antonio's Charizard, 02:23:16.140 --> 02:23:18.180 the Ancient Power because it's too risky of a player. 02:23:18.180 --> 02:23:20.180 Like, I don't think we've perceived it goes for it, 02:23:20.180 --> 02:23:24.180 We're on TV, we don't want to do anything silly. 02:23:24.180 --> 02:23:26.180 Not going to risk everything there. 02:23:26.180 --> 02:23:28.180 Charizard has to retreat. 02:23:28.180 --> 02:23:32.180 Too much pressure from the Charizard and Garchomp on Giovanni's side. 02:23:32.180 --> 02:23:36.180 It's going to be a mega evolution from Giovanni to immediately set the stun 02:23:36.180 --> 02:23:39.180 and get the stat boost onto Charizard. 02:23:39.180 --> 02:23:42.180 Bakeout onto Garchomp will prevent it from going for an attack here, 02:23:42.180 --> 02:23:45.180 killing a little bit of damage back with the rough skin. 02:23:45.180 --> 02:23:47.180 There is the Ancient Power. 02:23:47.180 --> 02:23:49.180 This time connects onto Garchomp. 02:23:49.180 --> 02:23:56.920 Garchomp Antonio every time a third boost three for three in games here this 02:23:56.920 --> 02:24:02.620 Charizard is pretty scary. The Charizard wants to be world champion it's going to do whatever it takes. 02:24:02.620 --> 02:24:07.460 That's incredible. A great move too also. It's going to be using the perhaps you 02:24:07.460 --> 02:24:10.620 could riskally leave the Charizard in there. We're not have gone well if that 02:24:10.620 --> 02:24:13.900 had occurred there. So Garchomp going to take less damage but either way that 02:24:13.900 --> 02:24:17.380 Gooseboots opposing Charizard pretty scary. The good news is you do have 02:24:17.380 --> 02:24:23.140 Garchop in the center out in the field to help deal with this Charizard, which is probably the combination of two Pokemon that would be ideal. 02:24:23.140 --> 02:24:29.300 But very quickly a threat you're going to need to deal with as now this Charizard has somehow managed to get boosted three games in a row. 02:24:29.300 --> 02:24:35.420 Absolutely, and it's so scary because in addition to the speed and special attack, it also has a defense boost. 02:24:35.420 --> 02:24:39.540 It means it definitely survives this choice scarf Garchomp's rock slide. 02:24:39.540 --> 02:24:47.260 Here it comes. You can see all, but it actually breaks through the boost there. Super effective damage on the Charizard and it's a critical. 02:24:47.260 --> 02:24:54.260 And Antonio's Garchomp wants to be a world champion just as badly as Giovanni's Charizard. 02:24:54.260 --> 02:24:59.260 And now Garchomp is able to fire back a life warp boosted earthquake with the Intimidate Down. 02:24:59.260 --> 02:25:06.260 Both Incineroar and Garchomp are able to survive that handily, while Incineroar is able now to heal up with the Citrus Berry, 02:25:06.260 --> 02:25:13.260 become healthy once again, and finally start pivoting, getting a parting shot down onto that Garchomp, now at minus two. 02:25:13.260 --> 02:25:16.700 Now that's a huge pardon shot and a huge stock out as well. 02:25:16.700 --> 02:25:21.940 We often talk about how important probability management is in the post-match video game championships. 02:25:21.940 --> 02:25:26.940 You can't always have a 100% chance to secure the pack to take the dip to managerize. 02:25:26.940 --> 02:25:28.940 This is the game where this doesn't really what's happened, right? 02:25:28.940 --> 02:25:32.940 We have a very low percentage option causing huge swings in the game. 02:25:32.940 --> 02:25:34.940 First, the ancient power boost, three games in a row. 02:25:34.940 --> 02:25:36.940 I've been completely negated by that critical hit. 02:25:36.940 --> 02:25:39.940 Critically, critical hits do ignore boosts to defensive stats, 02:25:39.940 --> 02:25:45.580 So that Charizard was acting as if it was at neutral defense and then because of that the critical hit enough to knock it out 02:25:45.580 --> 02:25:47.620 I would have actually taken that rock slide pretty well 02:25:47.620 --> 02:25:50.260 We're probably done about half without any critical hit 02:25:50.260 --> 02:25:55.180 But the choice graph also critical there where that really the game wouldn't have been quicker than the Charizard 02:25:55.180 --> 02:26:00.100 To begin with the stuff that speed boost but you get back with both Pokemon having one level of increased speed the naturally faster 02:26:00.100 --> 02:26:04.940 Charge up able to move first get that big knockout and keep Antonio in this game after it was starting to otherwise 02:26:04.940 --> 02:26:12.340 What kind of bleak? Yeah, it was looking extremely bleak, but the critical hit has allowed Antonio to get right back in here and with the 02:26:12.500 --> 02:26:20.620 Toxpex on the field after getting who a tack drop down onto that gar jump feeling pretty good about itself right now 02:26:20.740 --> 02:26:25.180 King Gambit is coming out. So back to game one's plan for Giovanni 02:26:25.180 --> 02:26:28.580 Probably means that that whimsicott has been left back at home 02:26:28.580 --> 02:26:31.980 So Toxpex should feel comfortable to do whatever it wants to here 02:26:31.980 --> 02:26:35.480 Yeah, Toxtapex maybe going to be the focus once again though. 02:26:35.480 --> 02:26:37.980 I think the enemy is going to get in safely this time. 02:26:37.980 --> 02:26:41.980 Not infested, doesn't have to worry about being toxic as a field type Pokemon. 02:26:41.980 --> 02:26:45.980 So, you know, perhaps if he gets there looking for some damage onto the Scarchomp from his friends, 02:26:45.980 --> 02:26:46.980 they're doing a good spot. 02:26:46.980 --> 02:26:47.980 I can get the weakness of the Scarchomp. 02:26:47.980 --> 02:26:51.480 He's locked in that rock slide, so almost certainly going to lift and leave battle here. 02:26:51.480 --> 02:26:52.980 So, there's an opportunity for Giovanni. 02:26:52.980 --> 02:26:55.980 You know, later on, he's going to need to look for some damage to the Scarchomp. 02:26:55.980 --> 02:26:57.480 It is not yet in Sucker Punch range. 02:26:57.480 --> 02:27:00.000 Well, Garchomp is able to fire off a rock slide, 02:27:00.000 --> 02:27:02.800 getting some chip damage down onto both the Basque Legion 02:27:02.800 --> 02:27:05.880 that has switched in for Giovanni as Garchomp. 02:27:05.880 --> 02:27:07.880 Another crit onto the King Gambit. 02:27:07.880 --> 02:27:08.880 A crit click. 02:27:08.880 --> 02:27:11.000 And a flinch, like I said. 02:27:11.000 --> 02:27:15.600 And Antonio Garchomp wants to be world champion. 02:27:15.600 --> 02:27:18.040 Yeah, it's got like the little Nile-Labe angry thing 02:27:18.040 --> 02:27:19.240 at its forehand where it's like, 02:27:19.240 --> 02:27:20.640 that's enough ancient power boost. 02:27:20.640 --> 02:27:22.240 So take good care of this. 02:27:22.240 --> 02:27:25.240 There's the toxic that lands onto the Basque Legion as well. 02:27:25.240 --> 02:27:33.420 So that is important chip damage onto Vasco legion is an important miss turn from King gambit and now Vasco legion is stacking that toxic damage 02:27:33.640 --> 02:27:36.060 Yeah, that's big too living without the 02:27:36.460 --> 02:27:41.840 Charging of Vasco legion kind of like the next scariest threat on the team, but already taking a bunch of damage and critically 02:27:42.020 --> 02:27:48.000 Not enough of its friends have been knocked out yet only one boost to that last respect and because of it having to flee battle here 02:27:48.000 --> 02:27:50.000 GARCHOP point should come back out. 02:27:50.000 --> 02:27:55.540 Yet another turn where Giovanni is just allowing this choice scarf GARCHOP to fire off ROXLITE 02:27:55.540 --> 02:27:56.540 after ROXLITE. 02:27:56.540 --> 02:28:01.300 Not very effective to both of these Pokemon here but King Gambit is finally able to fire 02:28:01.300 --> 02:28:03.600 back with a Kowtow cleave. 02:28:03.600 --> 02:28:08.640 Not enough to pick up the KO onto GARCHOP on its own that will mean another turn of rough 02:28:08.640 --> 02:28:15.520 skin damage onto that GARCHOP or another turn of ROXLITE chip onto the King Gambit either 02:28:15.520 --> 02:28:20.440 way that is good news for Antonio, but Giovanni has now successfully been able to get that 02:28:20.440 --> 02:28:25.680 Garchomp back in without the Intimidate drops, but now has been infested, still has a clock 02:28:25.680 --> 02:28:26.680 on it. 02:28:26.680 --> 02:28:30.120 It does have the timer, though critically, Fesculigian, avoiding the damage there, of 02:28:30.120 --> 02:28:33.120 course it's like kind of a better Pokemon to invest as it goes, tapping into trapping 02:28:33.120 --> 02:28:35.760 effects, but maybe a great read there as well. 02:28:35.760 --> 02:28:37.400 Garchomp's really done a job here, right? 02:28:37.400 --> 02:28:41.240 I think the duck kind of charges out of loans, like you did it, buddy, great job, but it's 02:28:41.240 --> 02:28:44.160 really continued to whittle down that King Gamma, of course the most difficult Pokemon 02:28:44.160 --> 02:28:46.800 for TAC to deal with because it can't TAC to kick. 02:28:46.800 --> 02:28:48.840 So you would love even more rust and damage 02:28:48.840 --> 02:28:51.480 than effectively removing two turns of infestation 02:28:51.480 --> 02:28:52.600 that would otherwise be required. 02:28:52.600 --> 02:28:54.320 And hey, you know, the rock slide chip 02:28:54.320 --> 02:28:55.440 could batter a little bit too. 02:28:55.440 --> 02:28:58.000 We've seen how big a difference that one percent can make 02:28:58.000 --> 02:28:59.680 when these damage over time effects 02:28:59.680 --> 02:29:00.920 are dealing set amounts of damage. 02:29:00.920 --> 02:29:03.440 So it's also chip and also the potential for king damage 02:29:03.440 --> 02:29:06.000 to flinch every time a rock slide connects. 02:29:06.000 --> 02:29:07.400 Yeah, could be sucker punch here now 02:29:07.400 --> 02:29:09.080 after the couch out please to put it in range, 02:29:09.080 --> 02:29:10.440 but it doesn't have to be right. 02:29:10.440 --> 02:29:11.600 And maybe if you get cheeky, like, hey, 02:29:11.600 --> 02:29:13.080 I don't care that much about rock slide. 02:29:13.080 --> 02:29:14.480 I'm gonna go after Taksa back instead. 02:29:14.480 --> 02:29:15.920 My Garchup, he did a little more damage, yeah. 02:29:15.920 --> 02:29:17.040 Yep, no Sucker Punch here. 02:29:17.040 --> 02:29:18.960 That just means both Garchup and King Gambit 02:29:18.960 --> 02:29:21.520 have to tank these Rock Slides. 02:29:21.520 --> 02:29:22.360 Will there be a Flex? 02:29:22.360 --> 02:29:24.560 There's one on Garchup, two on King Gambit. 02:29:24.560 --> 02:29:27.640 No, but it did target it into the baneful bunker. 02:29:27.640 --> 02:29:31.480 So this Garchup, it can't keep getting away with this. 02:29:31.480 --> 02:29:32.960 Yeah, I mean, this is what happens 02:29:32.960 --> 02:29:34.560 when you ignore choice Garchup, right? 02:29:34.560 --> 02:29:36.240 You know, sometimes it's gonna miss all the Rock Slides 02:29:36.240 --> 02:29:38.320 and do nothing, but often it's just going to stop 02:29:38.320 --> 02:29:40.320 all of your Pokemon from moving forever. 02:29:40.320 --> 02:29:42.160 And that seems to be what's happening here. 02:29:42.160 --> 02:29:47.520 I'm curious what that Garchomp was using to attack where it's like somewhat likely it was a double of the Tox effect 02:29:47.520 --> 02:29:52.960 where the Flix Faye actually had been better to avoid the poison unless he wanted the Garchomp to go down maybe 02:29:52.960 --> 02:29:58.000 which I think is fairly unlikely here, but starting to really run out of HP on Giovanni's side of the field 02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:03.120 only two more turns of infestation tick on that Garchomp, if Tox effect is able to stand in the field though 02:30:03.120 --> 02:30:05.440 again I would expect to double up here now 02:30:05.440 --> 02:30:09.760 however if you double up to try to pick up Tox effect I think you're probably going to post short of anyway 02:30:09.760 --> 02:30:12.000 There's the threat of that rock slide once again. 02:30:12.000 --> 02:30:15.040 Yep, there is always the threat of the rock slide. 02:30:15.040 --> 02:30:20.000 You know, it has 30% chance to flinch if it connects, 90% chance to connect. 02:30:20.000 --> 02:30:26.640 Wide guard coming out from Toxapexo, trying to prevent an earthquake coming out from Giovanni's side. 02:30:26.640 --> 02:30:31.680 Another rock slide, another connect onto both Garchomp and King Gambit. 02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:37.120 Does Giovanni get to move this time? Well, he does, but the wide guard calling it out. 02:30:37.120 --> 02:30:42.000 Rock slide whips into the wide guard and now King Gambit finally launches an attack 02:30:42.000 --> 02:30:47.760 which into the Tox effects with no defiant boost. Tox effect shrugs off that cow tower, please. 02:30:47.760 --> 02:30:52.320 That's just not enough, right? And now Tox effect is going to be able to protect out this 02:30:52.320 --> 02:30:57.120 next turn. Probably can't even more HP back. And we see that both of them are dead already. 02:30:57.120 --> 02:31:04.720 That's a forward as Antonio Sanchez has punched his ticket into the top cut of our world championships 02:31:04.720 --> 02:31:07.840 with some incredible talks of X-Play. 02:31:07.840 --> 02:31:09.240 I think that was just amazing. 02:31:09.240 --> 02:31:11.520 I can't imagine anybody looking to be in the top cut 02:31:11.520 --> 02:31:13.440 is going to want to have to deal with Antonio 02:31:13.440 --> 02:31:15.360 and his big elimination bracket. 02:31:15.360 --> 02:31:18.200 Really brilliant solutions, really to all those games, 02:31:18.200 --> 02:31:19.400 including the one for you, Fosk, 02:31:19.400 --> 02:31:21.680 but especially game one and game three there. 02:31:21.680 --> 02:31:23.000 The tactics just looked so powerful, 02:31:23.000 --> 02:31:24.120 but his positioning was so good 02:31:24.120 --> 02:31:25.520 throughout the entirety of the game. 02:31:25.520 --> 02:31:28.320 And it navigates some really unfamiliar game states, 02:31:28.320 --> 02:31:30.520 I'm sure, with Charleser getting those ancient power boosts 02:31:30.520 --> 02:31:31.360 in all the games. 02:31:31.360 --> 02:31:33.720 Yeah, look at this roller coaster right here. 02:31:33.720 --> 02:31:39.600 We're so back. We're so back. We're so back. And then immediately afterwards, it's so over. It's so over. 02:31:41.520 --> 02:31:44.040 The rocks like crit hurt my heart. 02:31:45.280 --> 02:31:51.040 Charles are two and probably many of its bones as well. But I think that's just how you have to play in this format, right? 02:31:51.040 --> 02:31:55.560 Where we kind of notice the same thing in regulation MA at the North America International Championships. 02:31:55.560 --> 02:31:59.160 But there is a lot of variance in this format, right? Weird stuff is going to happen. 02:31:59.160 --> 02:32:00.600 And if you're going to win this tournament, 02:32:00.600 --> 02:32:02.320 you're just going to have to be able to navigate 02:32:02.320 --> 02:32:03.960 the sea of strangeness that you're in. 02:32:03.960 --> 02:32:05.800 You know, we have a lot of unfamiliar board states. 02:32:05.800 --> 02:32:07.960 And I think you did a great job of kind of not letting things 02:32:07.960 --> 02:32:08.640 get carried away, right? 02:32:08.640 --> 02:32:11.560 I think it's very easy to tilt when not only one of the most 02:32:11.560 --> 02:32:13.640 impactful 10% chances in the game occurs, 02:32:13.640 --> 02:32:15.920 what happens, three games in a row. 02:32:15.920 --> 02:32:17.800 But none of the times that it happened 02:32:17.800 --> 02:32:19.720 it really seemed like it was like that big of a deal. 02:32:19.720 --> 02:32:21.200 I don't think even the game that you lost, 02:32:21.200 --> 02:32:23.680 each and every part wasn't really the reason. 02:32:23.680 --> 02:32:25.560 So I mean, just a great job of controlling it, right? 02:32:25.560 --> 02:32:27.160 Certainly we could have seen that third game go a very 02:32:27.160 --> 02:32:28.360 different way without that critical hit, 02:32:28.360 --> 02:32:31.960 but also would have gone a very different way with the ancient powers you begin with right. 02:32:31.960 --> 02:32:33.840 So you know the game gives and it takes some time. 02:32:33.840 --> 02:32:34.960 I think it was a very exciting set. 02:32:34.960 --> 02:32:36.640 I think both players played really well right. 02:32:36.640 --> 02:32:41.160 I think that must have been a very difficult and stressful game where both players probably like okay in turn one. 02:32:41.160 --> 02:32:43.160 I'm kind of vision for this game. 02:32:43.160 --> 02:32:44.760 You know turn two is going to go this way. 02:32:44.760 --> 02:32:46.160 Turn three is going to go this way. 02:32:46.160 --> 02:32:48.560 And I just got immediately thrown awry all three games. 02:32:48.560 --> 02:32:54.760 So I think props to both of them for kind of staying locked in playing good sets and playing out all the games away where they could have won any. 02:32:54.760 --> 02:32:56.760 Absolutely. When you have a 02:32:56.760 --> 02:32:59.760 meta game like this that has so much variance in it, 02:32:59.760 --> 02:33:03.760 you know, adding ancient power to Charizard adds variance to the game. 02:33:03.760 --> 02:33:07.760 It adds that chance to get those temperate boosts for the ancient power to all of your stats. 02:33:07.760 --> 02:33:12.760 Having Choice Carve Garchomp locked into Rockslide, it adds all that variance. 02:33:12.760 --> 02:33:14.760 You have to be able to improvise. You have to be able to adapt. 02:33:14.760 --> 02:33:18.760 I think you're so right. A lot of players see that ancient power boost on Charizard and think, 02:33:18.760 --> 02:33:23.760 okay, well, this is, it's over. I have now the strongest Pokemon in the game. 02:33:23.760 --> 02:33:27.460 I basically have a mini Zernius on the field, but it's Charizard Y now. 02:33:27.460 --> 02:33:34.760 How do I adapt to it? And Antonio stayed really calm and collected and was able to find an outpour each one of that time for that to happen. 02:33:34.760 --> 02:33:37.760 Yeah, I think another thing I'm kind of lost for thinking about what that said too. 02:33:37.760 --> 02:33:41.760 It is really interesting that the one game that Giovanni was able to win is the one that Whimsicott came, right? 02:33:41.760 --> 02:33:45.760 Yeah. I think the game three adjustment to go back to the game one game plan is really interesting. 02:33:45.760 --> 02:33:50.760 I don't think the game plan is really what caused the outcome, right? It's kind of a twisty and turny match. 02:33:50.760 --> 02:33:53.000 Yeah, you know when they got looking very good in that matchup 02:33:53.000 --> 02:33:56.680 I think you'll be interesting if you see women's effect versus packs effects again later in this tournament to see 02:33:56.680 --> 02:33:59.080 Yeah, whether whims effect comes at all and then coming back cool 02:33:59.080 --> 02:34:02.840 It is because now on course just so devastating that matchup absolutely well 02:34:02.840 --> 02:34:08.520 That was such a fun match for us to watch and I can tell I can see across the way that my friends 02:34:08.520 --> 02:34:12.840 Gabby and Ben are excited to talk about that matchup as well. So let me go ahead and toss it 02:34:13.720 --> 02:34:15.720 Right over to y'all 02:34:15.720 --> 02:34:35.720 I think we got it, Evan, I think we got it first time nailed it. Gabby and Ben here talking about that match and that was, I mean, that was the story of Toxpex, wasn't it? I mean, that was such a well played set by Antonio and I certainly think watching Antonio play in our European circuit. 02:34:35.720 --> 02:34:41.720 I'm not surprised to see him have not just a little bit of a different way to play Toxa 02:34:41.720 --> 02:34:47.080 Pets, but just such a controlled and such a composed way to play it as well. 02:34:47.080 --> 02:34:53.000 Yeah, it felt like he wasn't trying to force Toxa Pets, you know, a lot of times, at least 02:34:53.000 --> 02:34:57.560 when I'm trying to pilot those kind of teams, I feel like you want to flowchart it very aggressively. 02:34:57.560 --> 02:35:01.120 You want to get your Toxa Pets in, you want to get your infestations in, and you want 02:35:01.120 --> 02:35:04.960 to get those in early so you have the turn so that they start to add up. 02:35:04.960 --> 02:35:10.840 You get that set up early on, but he felt like he was very okay with just letting it happen naturally 02:35:10.840 --> 02:35:13.540 And he was okay with getting on toward into that infestation 02:35:13.540 --> 02:35:16.440 He didn't really let it rattle him and I think that really paid off 02:35:16.440 --> 02:35:21.640 Especially going into that game three when it felt like even though the game to game plan didn't quite work out 02:35:21.640 --> 02:35:24.920 He still had it in control. He still knew his win conditions. Definitely 02:35:24.920 --> 02:35:27.520 I think it's like that's the the real key there 02:35:27.520 --> 02:35:31.800 I really like the call out game is like not trying to force it like right from right from the bat 02:35:31.800 --> 02:35:33.720 I mean we saw it in some of the early games 02:35:33.720 --> 02:35:38.720 It did, of course, like Toxic Peck stars, stick around on the field quite a long time. 02:35:38.720 --> 02:35:39.720 Yeah. 02:35:39.720 --> 02:35:42.720 But it was in a good spot for most of those times. 02:35:42.720 --> 02:35:47.720 And I've got a sneaking suspicion that, you know, if it was ever really under that much 02:35:47.720 --> 02:35:50.720 threat that Antonio would have repositioned it. 02:35:50.720 --> 02:35:51.720 Of course. 02:35:51.720 --> 02:35:53.720 And I used his Pokemon really, really effectively. 02:35:53.720 --> 02:35:58.720 So rather than diving into a specific turn in that match, because spoilers, there was 02:35:58.720 --> 02:36:02.720 quite a few of them across the match, we're just going to kick it over to just a little 02:36:02.720 --> 02:36:10.160 just a little bit of a look at the matchup and a little bit of a reminder of some of the open lists we go of these trainers. 02:36:10.160 --> 02:36:17.480 And so, yeah, looking at these, this matchup here, we talked about it already, Toxapex being the real star of the show. 02:36:17.480 --> 02:36:23.080 And I thought we'd take some time to like break down why Toxapex works in a little bit more detail. 02:36:23.080 --> 02:36:30.320 Yeah, I like that. I mean, you know, at face value, I think the concept is pretty simple, you know, damage over time. 02:36:30.320 --> 02:36:43.040 It's this idea that you can get toxic toxic pecs toxic set up onto the opposing Pokemon the damage that it deals onto the opposing Pokemon will increase every single turn it remains on the field. 02:36:43.320 --> 02:36:48.480 It will reset whenever that Pokemon is switch off of the field and set back onto the field. 02:36:48.680 --> 02:36:56.040 Then you pair it with infestation, which as long as the toxic pecs remains on the field and infestation is active, that Pokemon can't switch out. 02:36:56.080 --> 02:36:57.400 So it's very synergistic. 02:36:57.400 --> 02:37:04.020 So completely just making sure those top six rack up their turn after turn sometimes you go for the baneful bunker 02:37:04.020 --> 02:37:10.160 And if a Pokemon uses a contact move on you then you become poisoned and you can be locked in 02:37:10.160 --> 02:37:17.240 I think that one of the cool things about toxic pecs and it's like mega Gengar, but like mini mega Gengar like mega Gengar at home 02:37:17.240 --> 02:37:24.060 Right? Yeah, because if your toxic pecs is sitting in a matchup against King Gambit that hasn't had a defiant boost 02:37:24.060 --> 02:37:29.060 maybe sitting there in front of a flowette, specifically in these sort of matchups. 02:37:29.060 --> 02:37:37.060 Even in this case, a guard chomp has only got earthquake and therefore can be blocked from doing any damage because of wide guard. 02:37:37.060 --> 02:37:43.060 You can sort of trap in those Pokemon. It also traps the Toxopex in as well. 02:37:43.060 --> 02:37:51.060 And like, sometimes a player will switch in a Pokemon, you get the infestation on there and it's like, well, are you locked in here with me or am I locked in here with you, right? 02:37:51.060 --> 02:38:00.420 right? But it's a great way for a control player like Antonio to be able to shut off the options 02:38:00.420 --> 02:38:05.700 that their opponent has to be able to switch because you look at this whole team, it loves 02:38:05.700 --> 02:38:10.980 to be able to switch around, it loves to be able to reposition, it wants to be able to get the 02:38:10.980 --> 02:38:14.660 whimsicott in and out, it wants to be able to get the basquit legion in at the right time, 02:38:14.660 --> 02:38:18.900 wants to be able to reset that sun with the Charizard. There's so many things that this 02:38:18.900 --> 02:38:24.980 team likes to do to switch around and then Toxapex comes up as they're like, nah, we're 02:38:24.980 --> 02:38:25.980 not letting it happen. 02:38:25.980 --> 02:38:30.820 Yeah, and to carry the comparison all the way through, you know, unlike Mega Gengar, 02:38:30.820 --> 02:38:35.220 this isn't your Mega Pokemon, it's a lot more bulkier and it can carry that Leftovers 02:38:35.220 --> 02:38:36.580 recovery item with it. 02:38:36.580 --> 02:38:41.940 So overall, it's there to stay on the field, it's there to enable its partner to deal that 02:38:41.940 --> 02:38:48.300 big damage, and it allows you to play a slower, more control-oriented game, whereas with Mega 02:38:48.300 --> 02:38:50.160 the Gengar and those pair song teams, 02:38:50.160 --> 02:38:52.920 you're really looking for those key three turns. 02:38:52.920 --> 02:38:56.320 And I think that gives players like Antonio 02:38:56.320 --> 02:38:58.160 the ability to run these teams 02:38:58.160 --> 02:39:00.720 that look more like the big six, 02:39:00.720 --> 02:39:04.400 which the number is a little bit bigger than six, if you will. 02:39:04.400 --> 02:39:06.680 I feel like it's getting a little more wishy-washy, 02:39:06.680 --> 02:39:09.800 if you will, as we get through the tournament 02:39:09.800 --> 02:39:12.320 and pair that wish with Toxapex 02:39:12.320 --> 02:39:14.800 and play it in a different, a very different way, 02:39:14.800 --> 02:39:16.640 but still sort of accomplish that same goal 02:39:16.640 --> 02:39:18.640 if you have this Pokemon to deal the big damage 02:39:18.640 --> 02:39:20.840 and Toxapex is there, it's just too dangerous. 02:39:20.840 --> 02:39:22.040 Definitely, and so there's something else 02:39:22.040 --> 02:39:24.960 that Toxapex can enable, and we're just gonna go 02:39:24.960 --> 02:39:28.080 over to Antonio's open team list here. 02:39:28.080 --> 02:39:30.480 I wanna call out the item choice here 02:39:30.480 --> 02:39:35.480 on the Garchomp is going for a choice scarf 02:39:36.840 --> 02:39:41.160 and being able to lock a Pokemon in with Infestation 02:39:41.160 --> 02:39:44.680 and then to be able to then pick your moves 02:39:44.680 --> 02:39:51.000 the choice scarf Pokemon. In this case, Garchomp. Like you can lock a Garchomp in one of the famous 02:39:51.000 --> 02:39:55.640 things like Garchomp versus Garchomp. Dragonclaw is not strong enough to knock out an opposing 02:39:56.200 --> 02:40:02.360 Garchomp. It always lives with just that few percent remaining. And the combination of being 02:40:02.360 --> 02:40:08.600 able to train your Garchomp to be Adamant as a stat alignment instead of Jolly, doing that 02:40:08.600 --> 02:40:14.920 little bit more damage. After 12% at least from infestation going into it, suddenly, 02:40:14.920 --> 02:40:19.880 guard chomp on the opposite side of the field is in KO range and your choice staff guard chomp, 02:40:19.880 --> 02:40:24.440 you don't have to risk the speed tie between these two. Pokemon, you can just go straight on the 02:40:24.440 --> 02:40:31.960 offensive, knock it out and then like looking at the rest of if we go over to, we go over to Giovanni's 02:40:31.960 --> 02:40:37.560 team, it's only the guard chomp that has that earthquake there to be able to do super effective 02:40:37.560 --> 02:40:42.280 damage. Nothing else on the rest of the team is doing super effective damage into Toxpex and that's 02:40:42.280 --> 02:40:48.200 one of, if not one of the multiple reasons that it does so well. Yeah and I think we saw that 02:40:48.200 --> 02:40:51.880 interaction a couple of times in that last set and I'm sure it came up multiple times throughout 02:40:51.880 --> 02:40:55.640 the tournament as Garchomp has been one of the most popular Pokemon here on the field. 02:40:55.640 --> 02:41:01.800 Definitely. And then you know in this going back to this matchup set we saw in game two certainly 02:41:01.800 --> 02:41:07.160 the Whimzacock putting some on-clip pressure to like stop the Toxpex doing what it did. But 02:41:07.160 --> 02:41:12.920 But also big shout outs Giovanni, like I said it during during the previous round 02:41:12.920 --> 02:41:19.620 I've never seen the ancient power acceleration in our stream matches even on the online ladder 02:41:20.120 --> 02:41:23.720 And then the Giovanni's like just hold my drink 02:41:24.680 --> 02:41:30.960 It's just going to get it getting it every single time this charizard charizard getting ancient power boost is it? 02:41:30.960 --> 02:41:33.360 Scott Scott was calling it out on the broadcasts, right? 02:41:33.360 --> 02:41:41.400 it's so so powerful it creates so much of a positive threat but again going back 02:41:41.400 --> 02:41:44.680 to this Toxifex we're gonna we're gonna keep rooting everything back to Toxifex 02:41:44.680 --> 02:41:48.960 right because you know you've got the wide guard but also like with with the 02:41:48.960 --> 02:41:54.400 the fact that this Charizard here it's going for and it's going for 02:41:54.400 --> 02:42:00.200 heatwave and ancient power and weather ball right and so you don't have the 02:42:00.200 --> 02:42:07.320 Super you don't have the solar beam to do like neutral damage. You only have that fire type damage into the tox effects 02:42:07.320 --> 02:42:08.520 and so 02:42:08.520 --> 02:42:12.680 Even if you get the on the boost is not doing as much as you want it to because 02:42:13.120 --> 02:42:19.960 Everything's focused down into that toxic extra trying to keep the game alive and Antonio was so smart that he didn't even mega evolve 02:42:19.960 --> 02:42:23.040 His own Charizard so that he didn't reset the Sun so weather ball 02:42:23.040 --> 02:42:27.720 Yeah, didn't even get that fire typing back in some of those endgame scenarios like the way that he was 02:42:27.720 --> 02:42:33.320 positioning this Toxapex, what even beyond the Toxapex itself, itself, it was so well played. 02:42:33.320 --> 02:42:38.760 Very, very much so. I mean, the game that Giovanni was able to come out victorious, 02:42:38.760 --> 02:42:44.120 the on-call was able to come in really clutch in that situation, but like, it still took the 02:42:44.120 --> 02:42:49.880 combination of Basque and King Gambit, two of the strongest physical attackers in the game, 02:42:49.880 --> 02:42:53.960 going for last respects, which is one of the most powerful moves in the game. 02:42:53.960 --> 02:42:59.800 That wasn't enough to finish it off and then the King Gambit comes in with the Caltau cleave to close the game 02:42:59.800 --> 02:43:04.320 But it's so hard to get into that position because you're not able to switch through the match 02:43:04.320 --> 02:43:07.920 You're not able to get yourself into a good spot 02:43:07.920 --> 02:43:13.280 So I'm really impressed with how both of these players really approach the match up and how 02:43:13.840 --> 02:43:18.840 Both like Antonio was going for the same strategy like pretty consistently overall 02:43:18.840 --> 02:43:27.160 Yeah, but Giovanni was mixing things up and trying to find those little like little holes to prod into to find a way around this talk to face 02:43:27.160 --> 02:43:29.720 He did it really really well. He did yeah 02:43:29.720 --> 02:43:34.160 And I think that just goes to show the caliber of the players we have competing at this point 02:43:34.160 --> 02:43:37.880 that was a win-and-in matchup for our asymmetrical top cut and 02:43:38.680 --> 02:43:43.480 It's only gonna get more difficult from here as we have what one more round of Swiss to go 02:43:43.480 --> 02:43:50.760 So this is going to be the last opportunity these trainers have to prove themselves in the 2026 season as if they don't win this round 02:43:51.560 --> 02:43:55.920 Game over game over. Well, it could be game over for some of these trains 02:43:55.920 --> 02:44:00.720 Probably not for some others. We'll have to see who's gonna be making it into our asymmetrical top cup 02:44:00.720 --> 02:44:07.040 But we're gonna go to a quick break right now and we'll be back with our next round of Swiss here at the Pokemon World Championships 02:44:13.480 --> 02:44:23.480 people come to Pokemon from all walks of life so I'm gonna have a wonder around here at the Pokemon World Championships in San Francisco 02:44:23.480 --> 02:44:25.480 and I'm gonna get some people's stories. 02:44:25.480 --> 02:44:32.480 My both my boys are into Pokemon and it became a family event some time for us to share and bond together 02:44:32.480 --> 02:44:41.480 and so you know I picked it up over time and started getting a little bit better at it and sometimes I have to lean on them for support to help me catch some of them 02:44:41.480 --> 02:44:45.480 but, you know, I'm still learning and enjoying it. 02:44:45.480 --> 02:44:49.480 I originally grew up on Pokemon, you know, so born in 89, 02:44:49.480 --> 02:44:52.480 so big, big Charizard, the original 151. 02:44:52.480 --> 02:44:56.480 What brought me here was about six years ago, 02:44:56.480 --> 02:44:58.480 I got back into playing and collecting. 02:44:58.480 --> 02:45:01.480 Eventually, I went to Pokemon Store and then started to 02:45:01.480 --> 02:45:03.480 sponsor players and play with them, 02:45:03.480 --> 02:45:06.480 and then now I have players that play in Worlds every year. 02:45:06.480 --> 02:45:09.480 Well, it started from when I was really little, 02:45:09.480 --> 02:45:13.480 back when Pokemon cards first started coming out. 02:45:13.480 --> 02:45:17.680 I played with my brother and grew up loving the video games 02:45:17.680 --> 02:45:19.760 as well, so on the original Game Boy too. 02:45:21.000 --> 02:45:24.620 But as far as getting here to hear and everything, 02:45:25.880 --> 02:45:29.240 I first saw worlds on stream about two years ago. 02:45:29.240 --> 02:45:31.880 So back when it was in Hawaii, it looked amazing 02:45:31.880 --> 02:45:33.520 and I made it a mission every year to go 02:45:33.520 --> 02:45:35.720 to every world after that. 02:45:35.720 --> 02:45:38.040 So it's been a dream. 02:45:38.040 --> 02:45:42.440 So now I'm playing the TCG competitively. 02:45:42.440 --> 02:45:45.160 I'm going to make it as a qualifier next year, 02:45:45.160 --> 02:45:48.560 but it's been a dream just to be here as a spectator. 02:45:48.560 --> 02:45:49.960 Well, my grandson plays. 02:45:49.960 --> 02:45:52.400 He's been playing for years. 02:45:52.400 --> 02:45:55.360 Was ranked pretty high in the US, 02:45:55.360 --> 02:45:59.200 but he's been worlds for like this is fifth or sixth worlds. 02:45:59.200 --> 02:46:01.480 This is our third one that we played 02:46:01.480 --> 02:46:04.400 at his grandparents coming for sporting. 02:46:04.400 --> 02:46:06.600 So we're just supporting him. 02:46:06.600 --> 02:46:08.940 And when he's playing and you got a bit of time to yourself, 02:46:08.940 --> 02:46:10.880 what do you find yourself doing? 02:46:10.880 --> 02:46:13.040 Walking around trying to stay busy. 02:46:13.040 --> 02:46:17.760 Because watching the game does me no good. 02:46:17.760 --> 02:46:19.840 Now that we've heard everybody else's stories, 02:46:19.840 --> 02:46:21.920 it's time for you to ask yourself, 02:46:21.920 --> 02:46:25.440 how are you going to get to Worlds next year? 02:46:25.440 --> 02:46:27.880 They say every Pokemon is somebody's favorite. 02:46:27.880 --> 02:46:30.280 We're testing that at the World Championships here 02:46:30.280 --> 02:46:31.480 in San Francisco. 02:46:31.480 --> 02:46:33.000 I'm going to find some players, and I'm 02:46:33.000 --> 02:46:35.720 going to ask them who their favorite is. 02:46:35.720 --> 02:46:42.720 favorite Pokemon is Mewtwo. I think I just liked the way he moved, you know, his style, 02:46:42.720 --> 02:46:48.200 his kind of sleep, and you know, I enjoy playing with him. And actually when I catch one, I'm 02:46:48.200 --> 02:46:49.200 happy and excited. 02:46:49.200 --> 02:46:54.200 I think everyone is happy when they catch a Mewtwo. That is a powerful Pokemon. 02:46:54.200 --> 02:46:58.320 My favorite Pokemon is Milotic. I just think it looks really nice. And I'm a little bit 02:46:58.320 --> 02:47:02.880 sad because when it's printed in cards, it's usually some kind of like walling defensive 02:47:02.880 --> 02:47:06.680 Pokemon and that's not my playstyle but I hope the one day I can play with my 02:47:06.680 --> 02:47:10.720 Lodex. So right now my favorite is actually Greninja I've just loved it's 02:47:10.720 --> 02:47:15.560 in the anime, loved it since I was maybe like ten years old it's just a cool 02:47:15.560 --> 02:47:20.160 ninja Pokemon that's it basically. Have you ever got to play a Greninja deck in 02:47:20.160 --> 02:47:26.520 the TCG? The mega Greninja deck yeah but I chose to play 02:47:26.520 --> 02:47:28.560 festival eat this weekend. 02:47:28.560 --> 02:47:33.760 Drutini, Dragonair and Dragonite grew up on the original 151 and I liked the fact that 02:47:33.760 --> 02:47:37.880 they swim and then eventually could fly and then ice cream too. 02:47:37.880 --> 02:47:43.000 How long did it take you to get your Dragonite fully evolved when you first played the game? 02:47:43.000 --> 02:47:44.000 Before the Elite Four for sure. 02:47:44.000 --> 02:47:47.440 So we're talking about level 60. 02:47:47.440 --> 02:47:49.640 My favorite Pokemon is Drutini. 02:47:49.640 --> 02:47:53.360 I really like the two forms that he has. 02:47:53.360 --> 02:47:59.360 And I like it because I played Lostbox, and it was a very fun deck. 02:47:59.360 --> 02:48:03.360 And the Dua Kina was really good on that time. 02:48:03.360 --> 02:48:09.360 My favorite Pokemon is Mega Manetric, because he has a big hair, 02:48:09.360 --> 02:48:15.360 and he has a matte face when he gets Mega. 02:48:15.360 --> 02:48:17.360 I'm going to be the best answer I've heard all day. 02:48:17.360 --> 02:48:20.360 My favorite Pokemon has got to be Rayquaza. 02:48:20.360 --> 02:48:26.360 I just think the Delta episode is really cool, and I like its dynamic with Geosas. 02:48:26.360 --> 02:48:30.360 My favorite Pokemon is Metagross, and I'm wearing it here today at my first ever world. 02:48:31.360 --> 02:48:38.360 Why Metagross? It's just really cool, isn't it? It's like powerful, it's got a mega, the shiny's really cool. 02:48:38.360 --> 02:48:44.360 I'm actually using it in Champions, which is amazing because in the Trading Card game, you don't always get to use your favorite Pokemon, but now I get to do that. 02:48:44.360 --> 02:48:46.360 So yeah, it's always been my favorite. 02:48:46.360 --> 02:48:52.820 My favorite Pokemon is Speel because I think it's really cute and yeah, I have a whole collection at home. She's all of the cards 02:48:53.220 --> 02:48:54.880 How big a collection we talking? 02:48:54.880 --> 02:49:01.380 She's like all I have one of these and then I'm trying to get people to sign them, but yeah still working on that collection 02:49:02.140 --> 02:49:06.700 My favorite Pokemon is Oranguru and it comes back from a control deck with Pidgeotto 02:49:06.700 --> 02:49:12.100 That was premiered at one of the world championships and I continued to play that after and after and that was until 02:49:12.100 --> 02:49:15.860 until Sort and Shields, where the new turn one rules came out, 02:49:15.860 --> 02:49:18.540 and then that deck sort of went off. 02:49:18.540 --> 02:49:21.180 My favorite Pokemon is Kallili. 02:49:21.180 --> 02:49:24.500 It's because I play Unlimited 20 years ago. 02:49:24.500 --> 02:49:26.100 It's very good. 02:49:26.100 --> 02:49:28.580 I choose this. 02:49:28.580 --> 02:49:30.820 I tried to say Samura instead of Oshawa, 02:49:30.820 --> 02:49:33.820 because I realized not enough people appreciate Samura, 02:49:33.820 --> 02:49:37.300 because he's on all fours. 02:49:37.300 --> 02:49:39.860 I guess that's the whole reason people are like, 02:49:39.860 --> 02:49:46.980 He's the worst of the line. I don't know you haven't played the same rock. You haven't played. You haven't gotten into level 100 at least 02:49:47.500 --> 02:49:48.500 30 different times 02:49:48.500 --> 02:49:54.100 I think you might be the biggest time around I've ever met and I say that with nothing but love. It's actually Zorua 02:49:54.500 --> 02:50:01.540 It is Zorua. So I am cosplaying as Evie because Evie merch is really easy to get a hold of 02:50:01.980 --> 02:50:06.860 Zorua because I really like black and white. It was the era that I grew up playing 02:50:06.860 --> 02:50:10.300 But I really did like the gimmick of like 02:50:10.900 --> 02:50:16.220 Transforming into a different Pokemon and switching out and being able to basically trick your opponent 02:50:16.420 --> 02:50:24.060 My favorite Pokemon is ditto because he is the biggest reminder that you really can be and do anything that you put your mind to 02:50:24.300 --> 02:50:30.900 So there we go. We've met some players. We found their favorite Pokemon and now it's time for you to think who's your favorite? 02:52:06.860 --> 02:52:10.940 Pokemon World Championships in San Francisco, California. 02:52:10.940 --> 02:52:14.700 We are one round away from being at our top cut, 02:52:14.700 --> 02:52:17.580 which is where the best of the best around the world 02:52:17.580 --> 02:52:20.420 will battle it out in that single elimination bracket. 02:52:20.420 --> 02:52:23.660 So let's find out who those camp players are going to be. 02:52:23.660 --> 02:52:25.100 Hi, Aaron, how you doing today? 02:52:25.100 --> 02:52:25.940 I'm doing well. 02:52:25.940 --> 02:52:27.580 Hey guys, Aaron Cybertron-Zeng. 02:52:27.580 --> 02:52:31.100 We're here with another episode of World to Top Cut. 02:52:31.100 --> 02:52:34.380 It's gonna be a banger because we've got Emilio and Rogov, 02:52:34.380 --> 02:52:39.980 two of the greats from North America, actually two Bay Area locals as well with the World 02:52:39.980 --> 02:52:45.220 Championships being in San Francisco. Imagine just how much it would mean to them to be 02:52:45.220 --> 02:52:50.380 able to top good worlds here. Imagine though that you have battled all the way through 02:52:50.380 --> 02:52:54.980 the bracket in the Swiss rounds just to face off against one of your locals. It happens 02:52:54.980 --> 02:52:59.140 sometimes that's the nature of these competitions and just the caliber of the player that we 02:52:59.140 --> 02:53:03.900 have here. But let's take a look at our standings one final time so that you can see who is 02:53:03.900 --> 02:53:06.420 in the running to be a part of that top cut. 02:53:06.420 --> 02:53:07.700 If you were at nine and one, 02:53:07.700 --> 02:53:09.940 you've already locked your spot there. 02:53:09.940 --> 02:53:11.940 You can take a loss and you're going to be there 02:53:11.940 --> 02:53:12.940 no matter what. 02:53:12.940 --> 02:53:16.420 So congratulations to Zachary Weed and Tonio Sanchez, 02:53:16.420 --> 02:53:20.100 Kerry D'Ortona and Shohei Kimura for all making it there. 02:53:20.100 --> 02:53:23.460 But if you're at eight two, this is the final hurdle. 02:53:23.460 --> 02:53:26.020 You've got to win this one and you are in 02:53:26.020 --> 02:53:28.180 to the World Championships top cut. 02:53:28.180 --> 02:53:30.940 Yeah, and it's an unbelievably stacked list of players. 02:53:30.940 --> 02:53:33.020 Even just looking of course at our nine and one 02:53:33.020 --> 02:53:37.620 He's got Joe Haykrimmer, the only remaining world champion, previous world champion looking 02:53:37.620 --> 02:53:40.020 to potentially get a second title. 02:53:40.020 --> 02:53:41.820 He's like absolutely dominant in this tournament, right? 02:53:41.820 --> 02:53:46.540 I feel like there is no one in the world that can pilot the kind of standard compositions 02:53:46.540 --> 02:53:48.060 better than him. 02:53:48.060 --> 02:53:51.620 And I think all eyes are definitely on him, but you know, Kerry Zachary has definitely 02:53:51.620 --> 02:53:54.180 been to a really strong place for North America. 02:53:54.180 --> 02:53:55.860 Zach said an amazing season, right? 02:53:55.860 --> 02:54:00.660 He got second at Regionals, second at UIC, now top in the world championships to have 02:54:00.660 --> 02:54:04.120 that kind of dominance throughout an entire year is really difficult. 02:54:04.120 --> 02:54:08.420 And for Antonio and Kari, these are players that have won regional championships before. 02:54:08.560 --> 02:54:11.360 And now here are at the world's stage. 02:54:11.360 --> 02:54:14.400 And yeah, already punching their ticket, let's feel relieving, you know, 02:54:14.400 --> 02:54:17.640 to have secured a top cut slot before the last round. 02:54:17.940 --> 02:54:20.740 And it's just such a major accomplishment, too, 02:54:20.740 --> 02:54:24.440 that you get to say that you top cut the world championships. 02:54:24.640 --> 02:54:26.180 But the job's not done yet. 02:54:26.180 --> 02:54:29.020 So let's turn our attention to the competitors 02:54:29.020 --> 02:54:33.820 that are going to be facing off against each other in this round to win and in. 02:54:33.820 --> 02:54:39.780 Emilio Forbes versus Raghav Malaviya is going to be the match that we focus on our stream 02:54:39.780 --> 02:54:44.980 here but we are going to be broadcasting some of the other matches on this list on the feature 02:54:44.980 --> 02:54:48.500 streams so make sure that you go check those out as well. 02:54:48.500 --> 02:54:52.900 There are some heavy hitting matches in these winning ends. 02:54:52.900 --> 02:54:55.500 Yeah I mean every single one of them I wish we could watch. 02:54:55.500 --> 02:55:00.000 We had the pleasure of watching both Chloe and Philippe yesterday win on streams with 02:55:00.000 --> 02:55:04.960 some unique picks, whether it be Cleaver, Mega Metagross on Chloe's team or the Mega 02:55:04.960 --> 02:55:07.320 Blaziken and Pre-Marina on Philippe's team. 02:55:07.320 --> 02:55:12.160 So both of them have a chance to take their unique picks into Worlds top cut. 02:55:12.160 --> 02:55:16.400 You also have Hiroshi who of course won the Japanese national championships, came into 02:55:16.400 --> 02:55:18.560 this tournament with a lot of pressure. 02:55:18.560 --> 02:55:20.760 All eyes are always on the Japanese national champion. 02:55:20.760 --> 02:55:25.360 He is one game away from potentially making it to his first Worlds top cut as well. 02:55:25.360 --> 02:55:30.200 of other incredible players there as well. And you know, a lot of North American representation 02:55:30.200 --> 02:55:34.620 actually would just for his world's top cut. Now, Joshi, who got top eight at the World 02:55:34.620 --> 02:55:40.440 Championships in 2024, looking to get his second top cut, just so much representation. 02:55:40.440 --> 02:55:44.720 And I can't wait to see how the results shake up. But it's going to be a really, really 02:55:44.720 --> 02:55:50.400 grueling match for all of these players. Let's get started and take that one step closer 02:55:50.400 --> 02:55:56.000 seeing our final competitors that will make it into the top cup bracket. Emilio Forbes versus 02:55:56.000 --> 02:56:02.160 Raghav Malaviya, we got the mega aerodactyl and Rycheu for Emilio and it's going to be this dual 02:56:02.160 --> 02:56:07.680 weather team from this team building group, the mega Swampert and the mega Charizard. Raghav's 02:56:07.680 --> 02:56:12.160 going to be the strongest soldier left amongst this group. Yeah I think Raghav's team is the team 02:56:12.160 --> 02:56:16.320 that a lot of players expect to see at this tournament but Emilio's team is honestly quite 02:56:16.320 --> 02:56:20.960 different, right? We have, of course, the Serena. That is a Pokemon that has not appeared on the 02:56:20.960 --> 02:56:25.360 World Championships stream yet this year. The really valuable pick, of course, the Blocked 02:56:25.360 --> 02:56:29.360 Makeout from the opposing side and potentially Grimstone's parting shot. In addition, you've 02:56:29.360 --> 02:56:34.960 got the Dual Mega pairing of Aerodactyl and Raichu. And I think Amelia has quietly been one of the 02:56:34.960 --> 02:56:38.400 coolest team builders in North America. Of course, you got second at the World Championships 02:56:38.400 --> 02:56:43.760 many, many years ago using a semi-perish mode with Mega Gengar. And I was expecting him to 02:56:43.760 --> 02:56:45.660 to actually just bring Wimpscott Flow at Charizard 02:56:45.660 --> 02:56:46.500 to this tournament. 02:56:46.500 --> 02:56:48.920 And so when I saw that this was the team he locked in, 02:56:48.920 --> 02:56:50.360 I popped off. 02:56:50.360 --> 02:56:53.520 Well, if you squint a little, 02:56:53.520 --> 02:56:56.120 then maybe like this arena looks like a Wimpscott 02:56:56.120 --> 02:56:58.840 and the Aerodactyl's just a different color Charizard. 02:56:58.840 --> 02:57:00.720 You know, the pieces are kind of all there. 02:57:00.720 --> 02:57:02.760 But if you take a closer look on this team, 02:57:02.760 --> 02:57:05.800 you can kind of see where you still have a similar utility 02:57:05.800 --> 02:57:07.280 to a lot of those Pokemon. 02:57:07.280 --> 02:57:09.320 Got tailwind on this Aerodactyl, 02:57:09.320 --> 02:57:11.520 despite the fact that it can make it evolve, 02:57:11.520 --> 02:57:13.600 you're going to actually take away one of those 02:57:13.600 --> 02:57:18.600 offensive slots like I spanked in favor of having that speed control option. 02:57:18.600 --> 02:57:26.600 Yeah, and Raichu and Aerodactyl as a dual mega pairing is cool because you can bring bold into a battle and just choose not to mega evolve a lot, right? 02:57:26.600 --> 02:57:33.600 Regular Raichu, we've seen a lot of high level players at this tournament bring solely for fake out, a turn of lightning rod potentially, which is really relevant in this matchup. 02:57:33.600 --> 02:57:37.600 Given that there's Archalodon on the opposing side, of course, you also have Focus Blast. 02:57:37.600 --> 02:57:42.200 and Serena here is used as an offensive pick over Phyrigraaff, which is normally used on 02:57:42.200 --> 02:57:45.980 compositions like this to block that fake out. And of course, Serena has a lot of damage 02:57:45.980 --> 02:57:49.360 output here. I mean, we're staring down Omega Swampert on the opposing side. Well, Serena 02:57:49.360 --> 02:57:52.240 says, look, I can just power whip you and get a one hit knockout onto it. 02:57:52.240 --> 02:57:59.720 I think that's why Serena has been that sneaky pocket pick. That grass type offense is something 02:57:59.720 --> 02:58:05.080 that cannot be ignored in a meta like this. You see a lot of Pokemon teams, including 02:58:05.080 --> 02:58:09.020 the game. And it's just been 02:58:09.020 --> 02:58:11.020 so popular this weekend. It 02:58:11.020 --> 02:58:13.020 has. Yeah, and Raghavs team 02:58:13.020 --> 02:58:15.020 seen multiple times on the 02:58:15.020 --> 02:58:17.020 stream. Of course, what makes 02:58:17.020 --> 02:58:19.020 it so powerful is the 02:58:19.020 --> 02:58:21.020 flexibility to use sun as well 02:58:21.020 --> 02:58:23.020 as rain. One of the adaptations 02:58:23.020 --> 02:58:25.020 on this team from when it 02:58:25.020 --> 02:58:27.020 initially debuted is cars are 02:58:27.020 --> 02:58:29.020 now running hurricane and 02:58:29.020 --> 02:58:31.020 megastorm, which is one of the 02:58:31.020 --> 02:58:33.020 most popular teams in the 02:58:33.020 --> 02:58:38.700 now running Hurricane and mega Swampert taking over Vasculation, which was initially on this 02:58:38.700 --> 02:58:42.940 composition. And so you can do a lot of cool things, of course, using Peloper to switch 02:58:42.940 --> 02:58:48.460 in, turn that weather ball into a water type attack, also make Hurricane accurate as well, 02:58:48.460 --> 02:58:52.180 and you can flex between the dual mega picks. Now I think on paper, Swampert actually looks 02:58:52.180 --> 02:58:56.220 insanely powerful here, right? But you do have to beat the Serena. If you're able to 02:58:56.220 --> 02:58:59.460 clear Serena, then Swampert suddenly feels like you can actually potentially get a one 02:58:59.460 --> 02:59:04.540 hit knockout onto any of Emilio's Pokemon, but the Serena having focus Ash 02:59:04.540 --> 02:59:08.580 means that that's a big hurdle to clear. I feel like though we could maybe 02:59:08.580 --> 02:59:13.260 anticipate that Raghav could have that mega charge card but not mega evolve it. 02:59:13.260 --> 02:59:18.180 Just try to go for a hurricane while the Peloponnes on the field and then have 02:59:18.180 --> 02:59:22.020 that Swamper in the back to clean up once you have removed that threat. Yeah 02:59:22.020 --> 02:59:24.460 definitely I think that's one of the interesting things that you can do with 02:59:24.460 --> 02:59:27.300 this team is that both Charizard and Swamper can be brought into the same 02:59:27.300 --> 02:59:30.580 battle. This is one of my favorite things about dual mega teams because I was just saying 02:59:30.580 --> 02:59:35.100 that Emilio could do that with Aerodactyl on Raichu. My big question for Emilio is 02:59:35.100 --> 02:59:38.940 yeah how comfortable do you feel with Aerodactyl because it's very good at the Charizard and 02:59:38.940 --> 02:59:42.620 obviously good at the Venusaur, very bad at the Swamper and our Chalodon. But here we 02:59:42.620 --> 02:59:48.740 go win and in for these two legendary players and the Swamper is going to start off the 02:59:48.740 --> 02:59:52.620 battle immediately as there's no backup on Emilio's new PR. 02:59:52.620 --> 02:59:57.960 But the pullover to set the rain so that swamper once if mega evolves can activate its 02:59:58.060 --> 03:00:02.760 Swift swim get that additional speed boost but the Ciesler and the King Gambit on the other side 03:00:02.760 --> 03:00:07.520 Both have ways to stop that with the priority option from the King Gambit and the fake out from the Ciesler 03:00:07.640 --> 03:00:11.820 Yeah, exactly. I think Ciesler here likely wants to go for a fake out of a swamper. 03:00:11.820 --> 03:00:17.180 Earthquake is just so threatening right now from it. King Gambit may be looking to then get a sword stand spot 03:00:17.180 --> 03:00:22.900 I think for Emilio a lot about this game will likely be and I either just burst down the Swampert 03:00:22.900 --> 03:00:24.860 Especially after we rocked out in the sword stance off 03:00:24.860 --> 03:00:28.180 You know, I wouldn't expect actually a plus two life of sucker punch to get a one big nail 03:00:29.300 --> 03:00:31.820 But maybe after a little bit of fake out chip damage you get there 03:00:31.980 --> 03:00:33.620 Serena is gonna be really important 03:00:33.620 --> 03:00:36.120 But you don't want to switch it in because then the focus session gets broken 03:00:36.860 --> 03:00:41.100 Swampert's going to a mega-bomb on this first turn as it has to eat the fake out 03:00:41.100 --> 03:00:45.300 So that could leave a vulnerable to an additional attack coming through from this King Gambit as 03:00:45.300 --> 03:00:47.800 As Telepter nests the fire off a weather ball. 03:00:47.800 --> 03:00:51.600 Going into the king damage, the rain is going to help boost up the power of that move, 03:00:51.600 --> 03:00:53.800 so Bracelet can give it to a well-haven. 03:00:53.800 --> 03:00:57.300 But a three sword and three sucker punches are about to hurt. 03:00:57.300 --> 03:00:58.800 Yeah, this third is interesting, right? 03:00:58.800 --> 03:01:02.500 The Sneezer also can do a little bit of additional chip damage because it has faith, 03:01:02.500 --> 03:01:05.300 so you can theoretically get the extra trick like you need. 03:01:05.300 --> 03:01:07.300 No for feints of sucker punches, it's a swapper. 03:01:07.300 --> 03:01:09.500 Swapper though, so easily you can just switch out, 03:01:09.500 --> 03:01:10.800 or you can even protect and say, 03:01:10.800 --> 03:01:12.500 okay, you can break my protective cape, 03:01:12.500 --> 03:01:14.600 but your sucker punch still won't be able to go through. 03:01:14.600 --> 03:01:17.940 King Gambit actually crucially taking under 50% from that weather ball. 03:01:17.940 --> 03:01:20.500 Garmel actually expect Pelopters' weather ball to do a little bit more. 03:01:20.500 --> 03:01:23.940 So that's a big deal because it means even if you get the turn ball and you have Swapher, 03:01:23.940 --> 03:01:26.900 Pelopter likely will not get the knockout on King Gambit. 03:01:26.900 --> 03:01:29.940 So Swordsman, Slyphor, King Gambit, one of the biggest threats in the format. 03:01:29.940 --> 03:01:31.940 And immediately we're actually off B4 for tech here. 03:01:31.940 --> 03:01:34.840 So this guard shot, or sorry, does the Swapher just go for an earthquake? 03:01:34.840 --> 03:01:36.840 It does, and Sleezer's just going to fall. 03:01:36.840 --> 03:01:41.340 Yeah, no focus to be able to keep it around since that's going to be held on the Zarina. 03:01:41.340 --> 03:01:44.620 a super effective attack, these are those down 03:01:44.620 --> 03:01:47.340 without another fight in this first game. 03:01:47.340 --> 03:01:49.740 Gonna give an option for Emilio to bring in 03:01:49.740 --> 03:01:52.340 another Pokemon, but I'd like to protect here 03:01:52.340 --> 03:01:55.140 from the King Yama as well, because you have to wonder 03:01:55.140 --> 03:01:57.260 whether or not that our Chaladon is in the back. 03:01:57.260 --> 03:01:59.620 If you add faith into that, then you do have to give 03:01:59.620 --> 03:02:03.420 over a powerful stamina boost to that our Chaladon. 03:02:03.420 --> 03:02:04.860 Yeah, I think that's a really great point. 03:02:04.860 --> 03:02:07.100 And I think Emilio did us the opportunity 03:02:07.100 --> 03:02:08.900 to just go for the fake sucker punch there, right? 03:02:08.900 --> 03:02:11.300 And pretend to try to knock out Slumper. 03:02:11.300 --> 03:02:17.300 Thing is, on these teams, I honestly expect Swamper to be incredibly bulky, so I'm not sure you can get the knockout with that combo, 03:02:17.300 --> 03:02:22.800 but it's then sacrifice that is easier, and now you can see just how much of an offense it's read the mega Swamper poses, right? 03:02:22.800 --> 03:02:26.800 It just can hit everything that Abeliel has brought for super effective damage right now. 03:02:26.800 --> 03:02:33.800 So Ry2 comes in, you do have the ability of course to go for a fake out here, Swamper right now not wanting to fall to a fake out sacrifice combination. 03:02:33.800 --> 03:02:37.800 Group Star is going to switch in, which then of course can set up the buff in the fall with her. 03:02:37.800 --> 03:02:41.240 The Raiju though is going to use this opportunity to make it evolve. 03:02:41.240 --> 03:02:52.760 Going to get that no guard ability so that these attacks can be 100% accurate from Zafcannon and Focus Blast as options here, but the Sucker Punch won't fail as that swap is good. 03:02:52.760 --> 03:03:03.840 Raiju decides not to fake out on this turn, but for the Zafcannon to guarantee one hit knockout onto this Pelipper, this is going to be a final turn of reign for Raga to not reset that in this game one. 03:03:03.840 --> 03:03:10.340 Yeah, so Raga up there gets around the sucker punch, but maybe hoping to see a double up onto that slot does not get an extra attack off with Pelopter. 03:03:10.340 --> 03:03:17.340 Swamper is still posing a really big threat though, Grimstar now has the ability to go for something like that Reflect. 03:03:17.340 --> 03:03:21.840 With Reflect up Swamper, should be able to survive the sucker punch from Kigandit. 03:03:21.840 --> 03:03:30.340 However, you can double up onto Swamper with Focus Blast and the sucker punch, so if you're Raga you might want to protect Swamper instead of Light Green first and Reflect afterwards. 03:03:30.340 --> 03:03:33.340 Sormiel is going to be the last one, actually no Serena in this game. 03:03:33.340 --> 03:03:37.260 Hey, so that's going to reveal all the cards in Emilio's hand 03:03:37.260 --> 03:03:40.140 in terms of the 4 Pokemon that he has brought to this game. 03:03:40.140 --> 03:03:42.420 That King Gamut goes for the Sucker Punch F plus 2 03:03:42.420 --> 03:03:44.500 with a bat sword stance. 03:03:44.500 --> 03:03:46.460 It is not going to be enough to get the knockout 03:03:46.460 --> 03:03:48.220 or the Swapper on this turn. 03:03:48.220 --> 03:03:50.660 Swapper free to go for the Earthquake, 03:03:50.660 --> 03:03:52.540 finish the damage off on the King Gamut, 03:03:52.540 --> 03:03:54.620 and feel the on takes a good chunk too. 03:03:54.620 --> 03:03:58.580 Yeah, over 50%, like this Swapper is just happy 03:03:58.580 --> 03:04:00.500 to click Earthquake after Earthquake, 03:04:00.500 --> 03:04:02.020 and with no air without the orb suing 03:04:02.020 --> 03:04:06.460 being bought into the battle, really, really difficult to have good resistances, but like 03:04:06.460 --> 03:04:11.220 you said, Rosemary, the rain is about to expire because Pelopter had fainted earlier, no ability 03:04:11.220 --> 03:04:15.720 to reset it anymore, so that will give the speed advantage over to Raichu after this 03:04:15.720 --> 03:04:16.720 turn. 03:04:16.720 --> 03:04:20.620 Grimstar will now be pretty easily set up on Light Screen if you want, and Raichu, of 03:04:20.620 --> 03:04:22.120 course, does the ability to go for Fake Ups. 03:04:22.120 --> 03:04:25.260 You can Fake Up Swamper Hyper Voice, but if you think that the Swamper is going to go 03:04:25.260 --> 03:04:29.120 for the Obvious Protect, well, you can then double up onto the Grimstar and actually deny 03:04:29.120 --> 03:04:30.120 a Light Screen. 03:04:30.120 --> 03:04:37.420 So really curious what Rockup's last Pokemon is because I think that Venusaur actually might be a little bit more useful over Archalodon. 03:04:37.420 --> 03:04:41.120 Either way though, this turn, the key decision is who do you fake out with right here. 03:04:41.120 --> 03:04:46.920 Archalodon would have to eat a Focus Blaster. I don't think that that's something that it will be able to do very well. 03:04:46.920 --> 03:04:51.620 Sombra though is going to protect itself in danger of something like a fake out in the wild. 03:04:51.620 --> 03:04:58.120 But Aelia does call it. The fake out into the Grimm style is going to deny a turn of setup from that Pokemon. 03:04:58.120 --> 03:05:02.600 And we've got Goldner who will do this follow-up of the hyper voice coming out from the Sylveon. 03:05:02.600 --> 03:05:07.720 That is a knockout, a great call there and Raghav now down to just two Pokemon left as well. 03:05:07.720 --> 03:05:11.800 And you can see Raghav knew if I just clicked earthquake there that's probably a double knockout 03:05:11.800 --> 03:05:15.880 and that's me going up 1-0 in this set, but that's a really difficult call to go for. 03:05:15.880 --> 03:05:19.960 It is going to be our challenge on in the back as well, so like I said, 03:05:19.960 --> 03:05:23.160 this might not be the perfect Pokemon for you to have in the back of that swamper. 03:05:23.160 --> 03:05:28.120 now committed protect no more rain means that right you can just launch a focus last into it 03:05:28.120 --> 03:05:32.680 my question is will right you do 30% to swamp or if you're not confident that you can quick attack 03:05:32.680 --> 03:05:38.200 with the sovian to ensure that and the actually sovian here does not a quick attack and so you'd 03:05:38.200 --> 03:05:42.440 have to go for a hyper voice instead but either way i think the swampert is the big offensive 03:05:42.440 --> 03:05:46.760 there it goes for the double protect but does not get it so that is what you mean that sovian 03:05:46.760 --> 03:05:51.720 actually can go for the protect here we're not going to see a selected attack on this turn but 03:05:51.720 --> 03:05:58.860 The Ry2 tends to go for the Focus Blast, the KO of the Swampert, and it is enough to get the 30% over the line. 03:05:58.860 --> 03:06:08.980 Archalon still has a chance to move in this final turn, but the Flash Cannon, Fliles, at the protect of the Stilvion, should be a locked game for Emilio in this game one. 03:06:08.980 --> 03:06:16.720 Yeah, it was interesting because it felt like Swampert was just doing so much damage, but Raghav's teammates weren't able to accomplish very much, right? 03:06:16.720 --> 03:06:17.920 And so Focus Blast comes out. 03:06:17.920 --> 03:06:21.760 That alone is just gonna absolutely crush our Chaladon doing 85%. 03:06:21.760 --> 03:06:23.040 A nice protect by Emilio as well. 03:06:23.040 --> 03:06:25.160 I felt like this game was decided by the fake outfall, 03:06:25.160 --> 03:06:26.800 that specific turn. 03:06:26.800 --> 03:06:28.400 Hold on, he's faster than Sylvion, 03:06:28.400 --> 03:06:29.480 so gets a dragon, pulls off, 03:06:29.480 --> 03:06:31.200 and you can see right, she's so bulky actually. 03:06:31.200 --> 03:06:33.680 I mean, you're taking 50% from that, 03:06:33.680 --> 03:06:35.120 and a yawn from Sylvion here, 03:06:35.120 --> 03:06:36.920 just to ensure our Chaladon's gonna fall asleep. 03:06:36.920 --> 03:06:39.440 Yeah, this is just the safest way for you 03:06:39.440 --> 03:06:41.000 to be able to get through this game. 03:06:41.000 --> 03:06:42.760 I think you don't wanna open yourself up 03:06:42.760 --> 03:06:45.080 to a critical hit from the Chaladon. 03:06:45.080 --> 03:06:50.580 So this could be a very easy double protect from the Raiju and the Sylvia and let the Archialodon fall asleep. 03:06:50.580 --> 03:06:52.880 And then you'll be able to finish it off from there. 03:06:52.880 --> 03:06:55.480 Exactly. So this game was really close, right? 03:06:55.480 --> 03:07:00.880 Like that one turn, if Raghav makes the hard call out and clicks Earthquake, I think, you know, that's the game. 03:07:00.880 --> 03:07:07.280 For Raghav, I think there's also a couple of turns, maybe, you know, when the Hellaford just got one shot by the Zapcan and that potential could have been a pivot. 03:07:07.280 --> 03:07:10.480 But Focus Blast is going to come out here, knock out the Archialodon, 03:07:10.480 --> 03:07:13.160 and Emilio forks is going to go up 1-0 03:07:13.160 --> 03:07:15.320 for a 4-0 point that all of the future 03:07:15.320 --> 03:07:16.960 is to reflect the damage from Earthquake 03:07:16.960 --> 03:07:19.240 and still manages to pull off the game. 03:07:19.240 --> 03:07:21.000 That is just so impressive. 03:07:21.000 --> 03:07:23.920 Because you're right, there was just so much pressure 03:07:23.920 --> 03:07:27.000 that that Swalford was exerting turn after turn after turn. 03:07:27.000 --> 03:07:28.840 And the fact that Emilio could sit there 03:07:28.840 --> 03:07:31.680 and really think critically about, 03:07:31.680 --> 03:07:34.520 can I get through this turn while throwing out attacks? 03:07:34.520 --> 03:07:36.160 Do I really need to go for a protect? 03:07:36.160 --> 03:07:38.160 And he always made the protect at the right moment, 03:07:38.160 --> 03:07:40.080 especially with that Filmy on at the end. 03:07:40.080 --> 03:07:42.720 And I think what I really liked about how Emilio 03:07:42.720 --> 03:07:45.160 can maneuver that game is he sacrificed Sneasler 03:07:45.160 --> 03:07:47.120 just kind of to get that initial fake out off, 03:07:47.120 --> 03:07:50.200 but that was enough for the king game to get boosted 03:07:50.200 --> 03:07:51.760 to scare away the Swamper. 03:07:51.760 --> 03:07:53.480 So much about this matchup is 03:07:53.480 --> 03:07:55.320 hitting that your Pokemon out at the right time, right? 03:07:55.320 --> 03:07:56.600 If Swamper is not on the field, 03:07:56.600 --> 03:07:58.000 Raichu is actually incredible. 03:07:58.000 --> 03:07:59.960 It can one shot the Pelopyrus, we saw. 03:07:59.960 --> 03:08:01.360 There's so much damage to our child on. 03:08:01.360 --> 03:08:03.440 The fake out pressure from it is also great, 03:08:03.440 --> 03:08:06.080 but Raichu is really, really bad into Swamper. 03:08:06.080 --> 03:08:06.920 So if you're wrong on you, 03:08:06.920 --> 03:08:08.720 ideally want your Swamper out on the field 03:08:08.720 --> 03:08:10.000 while Raichu is out. 03:08:10.000 --> 03:08:14.520 but the bait out to force swamper out allows Ryche to come in 03:08:14.520 --> 03:08:17.120 and just really dominate for a couple of turns. 03:08:17.120 --> 03:08:19.080 I do wonder if there was an opportunity 03:08:19.080 --> 03:08:22.920 to still bring something like the Mega Charizard to this game. 03:08:22.920 --> 03:08:24.320 Hindsight's always 20-20, 03:08:24.320 --> 03:08:26.520 so after we get a chance to watch the game one-fold, 03:08:26.520 --> 03:08:27.920 it's easy for us to look back 03:08:27.920 --> 03:08:31.120 and notice those small things that could have made a difference. 03:08:31.120 --> 03:08:34.160 But it's tough, because one of Emilio now decides, 03:08:34.160 --> 03:08:36.640 okay, well, you think you're gonna bring Charizard, 03:08:36.640 --> 03:08:38.120 it can just bring Iridactyl. 03:08:38.120 --> 03:08:40.320 Yeah, yeah, there's this awkward tension. 03:08:40.320 --> 03:08:42.880 I think the main thing is Charizard feels very awkward to bring 03:08:42.880 --> 03:08:44.920 because it's like, who do you drop for it? 03:08:44.920 --> 03:08:46.960 I think Raghav probably felt like, well, 03:08:46.960 --> 03:08:48.920 my Pokemon choice is okay in that last one. 03:08:48.920 --> 03:08:50.240 Let's see if there are any mix-up. 03:08:50.240 --> 03:08:52.520 It is just gonna be Pelopter, Swamper once again. 03:08:52.520 --> 03:08:55.920 So I think, yes, Swamper's switching out previously. 03:08:55.920 --> 03:08:56.760 You know, it was a big deal. 03:08:56.760 --> 03:08:58.280 This time it's a complete mix-up though, 03:08:58.280 --> 03:09:00.320 Aerodactyl and Serena. 03:09:00.320 --> 03:09:01.560 Oh, I really like this though, 03:09:01.560 --> 03:09:04.000 because Aerodactyl does have that offensive pressure 03:09:04.000 --> 03:09:05.760 onto something like the Pelopter. 03:09:05.760 --> 03:09:07.200 You can just drop a Rock slide 03:09:07.200 --> 03:09:12.080 or even try to force the Pelopter to go for wide guard so it's not going to go for an attack on this turn, 03:09:12.080 --> 03:09:15.760 which really does keep this Zarina safe to go for a power whip into the Swamper. 03:09:15.760 --> 03:09:19.760 Exactly, yeah, and I think what's so tricky here is if you're wrong, I'm going to use your Swamper, 03:09:19.760 --> 03:09:23.440 well then the Raichu just takes over, right? So one of the questions I also have is did Amelia 03:09:23.440 --> 03:09:27.840 potentially drop Raichu because he's committing to Aerodactyl and was expecting a Charizard mix-up? 03:09:27.840 --> 03:09:32.480 I guess this is going to be regular Aerodactyl's note here with Mega Raichu in the back, but we'll have to see. 03:09:32.480 --> 03:09:38.400 It's going to be a swap out of the Palipa. Preserve the rain for later and it's a double swap. 03:09:38.400 --> 03:09:40.240 Did our Chowdhaw? It is our Chowdhaw. 03:09:40.240 --> 03:09:43.360 That's a great thing to switch into into these physical attacks. 03:09:43.360 --> 03:09:49.520 Absolutely. Erdastl, though, doesn't play into those hands. So that's the tailwind. Just to make 03:09:49.520 --> 03:09:54.480 sure that you could actually get the speed control and the power whip. Those into the 03:09:54.480 --> 03:09:58.400 Grimstone, but misses its target. I was laughing there because I was expecting to go into our Chowdhaw. 03:09:58.400 --> 03:10:05.460 I was like no way but actually Emilio's calling out like the swapper was gonna protect her switch and poor child on 03:10:05.800 --> 03:10:11.760 Unfortunately, she does miss onto a grim snarl so cost some free damage onto that slot a great reposition in my wrong 03:10:11.760 --> 03:10:14.600 I think Emilio probably won the trade in terms of beats here 03:10:14.600 --> 03:10:18.540 And as you saw iron actually did not make up awesome so expecting that right you to be in the basket here 03:10:18.800 --> 03:10:21.880 Hey, right you it's a little risky. I feel like to bring it in 03:10:21.880 --> 03:10:27.560 But as I say that we have to remember that right choose ability for a mega balls is lightning rod 03:10:27.560 --> 03:10:32.180 So while the rain is active, our Chaladon does get a chance to have these one-turn Electro shots, 03:10:32.180 --> 03:10:37.440 but that's not going to be something that's going to be able to land into either of these Pokemon as we see a 03:10:37.440 --> 03:10:39.300 Double Switch come through from Emilio. 03:10:39.300 --> 03:10:43.980 Raghav, though, great call. Joss goes for it, the Dragon Pulse into that slot. 03:10:43.980 --> 03:10:48.620 Yeah, does not get baited into clicking Electro shot there or Flash Cannon even, so really nice call. 03:10:48.620 --> 03:10:53.620 And this time around, actually does over 50% to Raichu with the Dragon Pulse, so looks like it is a roll. 03:10:53.620 --> 03:10:57.860 right you now of course is out on the field has the ability to go for a fake 03:10:57.860 --> 03:11:01.740 out and then the King Gambit can get a sword stance off but I rock up now you 03:11:01.740 --> 03:11:04.700 know already able to get that reflect up it's probably gonna be pretty difficult 03:11:04.700 --> 03:11:07.780 to deny the light screen because even if you take up rims normal King Kambick 03:11:07.780 --> 03:11:11.460 can't follow up with a knockout but rock off recognizing hey fake out pressure is 03:11:11.460 --> 03:11:14.140 online right now this is what I was saying I want to swap it out on the field 03:11:14.140 --> 03:11:17.220 when right you's out on the field why not just switch out right now and it's 03:11:17.220 --> 03:11:20.420 going to be a protective of right you so that it doesn't fall to a double up 03:11:20.420 --> 03:11:22.620 from Disarchalodon the following turn. 03:11:22.620 --> 03:11:24.560 The King Gambit is going to risk it all. 03:11:24.560 --> 03:11:28.340 It goes for the sword stance to make sure it's going to get that sharp attack boost. 03:11:28.340 --> 03:11:30.640 A Electro Shot now comes out. 03:11:30.640 --> 03:11:34.780 I wonder if that Electro Shot was a prediction on Raichu to potentially switch out, 03:11:34.780 --> 03:11:36.720 or saying I don't mind giving you a special attack boost 03:11:36.720 --> 03:11:40.080 because I know I'm going to have the Swamper out on the field the next turn anyway. 03:11:40.080 --> 03:11:45.380 And so, for Charalodon, every special attack boost that it gets is quite scary, right? 03:11:45.380 --> 03:11:49.820 And the King Gambit you're taking advantage of the fact that I can just get a relatively free sword stance off, 03:11:49.820 --> 03:11:53.420 reflect his up on the opposing side though right so the sucker punch is not as 03:11:53.420 --> 03:11:57.980 threatening I don't think focused last plus sucker punch he even gets the knockout on to the 03:11:57.980 --> 03:12:02.940 swamper right now if it does that would be really threatening but I think swamper is quite happy 03:12:02.940 --> 03:12:08.060 about the position that is in because of its full HP it's not reflect up and it of course is in the 03:12:08.060 --> 03:12:13.180 rain up against Ryche shoe. Yeah so even if you wanted to go for that double up that swamper is 03:12:13.180 --> 03:12:17.820 going to be faster than the Ryche shoe here so you actually can't get that guaranteed damage off 03:12:17.820 --> 03:12:19.820 So now what can Emilio do? 03:12:19.820 --> 03:12:24.300 Both competitors have shown all four Pokemon that they have brought to the second game. 03:12:24.300 --> 03:12:30.060 There's an Aerodactyl and a Zarina in the back for Emilio that you could use as defensive switches, 03:12:30.060 --> 03:12:34.940 but either of them feel particularly good to switch into an attack from the Swampert on the other side. 03:12:34.940 --> 03:12:41.260 So we see the commitment of the mega evolution from this Ryze U and Swampert for our competitors respectively. 03:12:41.260 --> 03:12:43.180 So let's see how the rest of this turn plays out. 03:12:43.180 --> 03:12:47.420 And my guess is a double protect here just because there's still one more turn to tail in here on Emilio then. 03:12:47.820 --> 03:12:50.900 but it's not, it's actually just gonna be an attack on both. 03:12:50.900 --> 03:12:52.180 So Focus Blast comes out. 03:12:52.180 --> 03:12:53.020 Wow. 03:12:53.020 --> 03:12:53.860 There's a lot to our Chaladon, 03:12:53.860 --> 03:12:55.140 but it doesn't get the knockout. 03:12:55.140 --> 03:12:57.260 No, it's gonna make it very, very close though, 03:12:57.260 --> 03:12:58.700 but if there's a physical attack coming up 03:12:58.700 --> 03:12:59.540 from this King Gambit, 03:12:59.540 --> 03:13:02.140 then you will see that Samut Abuse activate, 03:13:02.140 --> 03:13:05.980 but the earthquake just attacks the partner as well. 03:13:05.980 --> 03:13:08.900 So, Raga does get the KO onto the ride too, 03:13:08.900 --> 03:13:10.100 very close to the King Gambit, 03:13:10.100 --> 03:13:11.460 thanks to that critical hit, 03:13:11.460 --> 03:13:13.980 but you also knocked out your own partner, our Chaladon. 03:13:13.980 --> 03:13:15.500 Yeah, it's like the first time we've seen 03:13:15.500 --> 03:13:18.940 Ground type Pokemon knocked out its own partner on the screen this weekend. 03:13:18.940 --> 03:13:20.940 Another skill in the game. 03:13:20.940 --> 03:13:21.440 Wow! 03:13:21.440 --> 03:13:23.840 King Gambit trying to call out the double protect there. 03:13:23.840 --> 03:13:26.340 So Raga makes an aggressive play. 03:13:26.340 --> 03:13:27.640 That's a lot of damage off. 03:13:27.640 --> 03:13:32.060 I mean the Swamper obviously, yeah, now is really threatened by this plus four sucker punch, 03:13:32.060 --> 03:13:34.060 but a critical hit there. 03:13:34.060 --> 03:13:35.660 King Gambit showing his bulk, right? 03:13:35.660 --> 03:13:41.260 Even with the critical hit, still able to survive, but it was a really action-paced turn. 03:13:41.260 --> 03:13:44.420 There's still a Pelipper in the back, so we saw the tailwind expire. 03:13:44.420 --> 03:13:50.860 Emilio had the guaranteed speed advantage on that last turn, but that is now gone and that Pelipper is waiting to come back out 03:13:50.860 --> 03:13:56.260 Hopefully once the rain expires you can guarantee the speed control for the Swamper for the rest of the game 03:13:56.260 --> 03:14:02.340 Yeah, and what is so delicate here is the plus four sucker punch from King Gammon into Swamper would reflect up 03:14:02.340 --> 03:14:04.820 I still don't expect it to knock it out to be honest 03:14:04.860 --> 03:14:10.340 So you know obviously still pressure is power with into Swamper Swamper it can protect this turn as Grimmsnare 03:14:10.340 --> 03:14:14.340 just goes for an attack into either of these Pokemon. Both are posing a pretty big threat, right? 03:14:14.340 --> 03:14:18.580 The King Gambit is obviously incredibly boosted. The Serena here also has that Focus Sash, 03:14:18.580 --> 03:14:24.100 and so I want to get the damage into it ideally, but yeah, the main awkward thing for Grimstar here 03:14:24.100 --> 03:14:28.340 is it doesn't really have anything to do, basically, other than make its offensive attack, 03:14:28.340 --> 03:14:33.220 which is going to be that Spirit Break. Yeah, but is Spirit Break actually going to be enough? 03:14:33.220 --> 03:14:37.380 I mean, we're not going to actually see the answer to that. I was wondering if that would be able to 03:14:37.380 --> 03:14:39.720 to get the KO onto the King Gambit, 03:14:39.720 --> 03:14:42.220 but it is just an ice punch into the Zarina, 03:14:42.220 --> 03:14:44.520 ignoring the King Gambit entirely, 03:14:44.520 --> 03:14:45.780 but Zarina is still up, 03:14:45.780 --> 03:14:47.660 so the power whip connects this time around 03:14:47.660 --> 03:14:48.700 into the Grim Snarl, 03:14:48.700 --> 03:14:50.740 but that reflect is going to keep it nice and healthy 03:14:50.740 --> 03:14:52.420 to make that a three hit knockout. 03:14:52.420 --> 03:14:53.900 A double up there from the Grim Snarls, 03:14:53.900 --> 03:14:55.540 it fires up a spear break, 03:14:55.540 --> 03:15:00.140 one who is dead for this Zarina to go into the next turn. 03:15:00.140 --> 03:15:01.500 Really nice call there, 03:15:01.500 --> 03:15:04.340 doubling up onto the Zarina expecting King Gambit 03:15:04.340 --> 03:15:06.020 to either not attack or say, 03:15:06.020 --> 03:15:07.860 Look, I know I'm gonna survive the sucker punch anyway. 03:15:07.860 --> 03:15:09.300 So let me just try to knock you out. 03:15:09.300 --> 03:15:12.060 Emilio, I think, predicts a protect from the Swamper's end. 03:15:12.060 --> 03:15:15.340 So it goes for Power Whip onto Rimsnarl instead. 03:15:15.340 --> 03:15:17.980 Recognizing that there's actually not that much great damage 03:15:17.980 --> 03:15:18.820 in the Grimsnarl, right? 03:15:18.820 --> 03:15:19.660 In the previous game, 03:15:19.660 --> 03:15:20.980 still we almost answered with it. 03:15:20.980 --> 03:15:22.100 It wasn't brought into this game. 03:15:22.100 --> 03:15:24.660 And so Reflect is still up. 03:15:24.660 --> 03:15:27.580 Pelopter now can be brought back in to reset the weather, right? 03:15:27.580 --> 03:15:29.300 So you could switch Grimsnarl out into Pelopter, 03:15:29.300 --> 03:15:30.660 just go for an Earthquake. 03:15:30.660 --> 03:15:31.900 Once again, the big question is, 03:15:31.900 --> 03:15:34.740 is this plus four life warp soccer punch 03:15:34.740 --> 03:15:35.740 able to knock out Swamper? 03:15:35.740 --> 03:15:38.500 but I think the answer to it is no. 03:15:38.500 --> 03:15:39.860 Might have to risk it all though. 03:15:39.860 --> 03:15:41.580 You are one game up, 03:15:41.580 --> 03:15:44.380 so Emilio has a little wiggle room to play around with 03:15:44.380 --> 03:15:45.540 because Pelopter comes back in 03:15:45.540 --> 03:15:48.540 to reset the reign for its partner, Swapard. 03:15:48.540 --> 03:15:49.940 He can even go for the soccer punch. 03:15:49.940 --> 03:15:52.540 Plus four isn't enough to knock it out. 03:15:52.540 --> 03:15:55.100 Even with the life orb to help boost up some of that damage 03:15:55.100 --> 03:15:57.780 and to 20% is all this Swapard needs 03:15:57.780 --> 03:16:01.020 and we're gonna fire back and take another KO. 03:16:01.020 --> 03:16:02.860 1% left here for this Darina 03:16:02.860 --> 03:16:05.980 and that is going to be for sure a knockout. 03:16:05.980 --> 03:16:07.940 One Pokemon left here as Emilio 03:16:07.940 --> 03:16:09.940 has to bring back in the Aerodactyl. 03:16:09.940 --> 03:16:12.260 Yeah, I think Raghav just did an amazing job positioning 03:16:12.260 --> 03:16:13.100 Swampert in this game. 03:16:13.100 --> 03:16:16.260 Emilio recognized, I can't win with Aerodactyl. 03:16:16.260 --> 03:16:18.180 But folks, we're going to a game three. 03:16:18.180 --> 03:16:21.060 I think those Sylveon in that last one, 03:16:21.060 --> 03:16:22.300 plus these are a Met-Led, 03:16:22.300 --> 03:16:24.180 there was a little bit of lack of damage output, 03:16:24.180 --> 03:16:27.180 especially because Aerodactyl just basically couldn't do 03:16:27.180 --> 03:16:28.740 anything in terms of offense in that one. 03:16:28.740 --> 03:16:30.860 It was rotted essentially to set up a tailwind. 03:16:30.860 --> 03:16:36.380 And I think Emilio likely pivoted to Aeridactyl, potentially covering for Charizard, Dinosaur, right? 03:16:36.380 --> 03:16:39.140 Because I think that's a very common adaptation with these teams. 03:16:39.140 --> 03:16:44.300 But this turn is so crucial as you see, the Swamper's just going for Earthquake, King Gambit there. 03:16:44.300 --> 03:16:46.620 Have the opportunity to maybe just go for Sucker Punch. 03:16:46.620 --> 03:16:50.580 Two Sucker Punches likely, you know, would have done a lot into that Swamper's slot. 03:16:50.580 --> 03:16:52.660 But instead, yeah, tries to go for that extra sword stance. 03:16:52.660 --> 03:16:55.660 And you can see how valuable that reflect is with Grimmsnarl. 03:16:55.660 --> 03:17:00.500 By having reflect up the King Gambit, even at plus 4 attack, not able to get that one hit knockout. 03:17:00.500 --> 03:17:04.200 And then if Raghav's making some really aggressive calls in that scene, I think you're going to protect Gambit, 03:17:04.200 --> 03:17:05.400 doubles up on Serena. 03:17:05.400 --> 03:17:07.800 And I think that if you're Emilio, you're probably thinking, 03:17:07.800 --> 03:17:10.300 I don't know if I'd really want that Aerodactyl once again. 03:17:10.300 --> 03:17:12.200 But then if you're Raghav, you could be thinking, 03:17:12.200 --> 03:17:14.800 well, if I just now scared you away from bringing Aerodactyl, 03:17:14.800 --> 03:17:18.200 maybe it opens up the door for something like Charizard Venusaur. 03:17:18.200 --> 03:17:23.300 But realistically, I do think the core of Arch, Grimpelli, and Swampert feel really consistent on Raghav then, 03:17:23.300 --> 03:17:27.300 even in Emilio's win against that core in the first game. 03:17:27.300 --> 03:17:29.860 I felt like Raga's Pokemon weren't necessarily the issue. 03:17:29.860 --> 03:17:32.140 It was more just about how the Swamper was positioned 03:17:32.140 --> 03:17:33.380 throughout the course of the battle. 03:17:33.380 --> 03:17:35.940 And in game two, that was something that Raga fixed. 03:17:35.940 --> 03:17:38.540 So I think that was a really great indication 03:17:38.540 --> 03:17:42.740 that we're going to see a great game three. 03:17:42.740 --> 03:17:45.460 I think the pressure is on, especially for Emilio here. 03:17:45.460 --> 03:17:47.620 Do you just go back to what you had shown in the first game, 03:17:47.620 --> 03:17:47.820 right? 03:17:47.820 --> 03:17:50.100 And for Raga, do you try to mix it up and say, 03:17:50.100 --> 03:17:52.900 I'm going to hard call you out and bring that Charizard Venus 03:17:52.900 --> 03:17:53.060 bar? 03:17:53.060 --> 03:17:54.020 I wouldn't expect it. 03:17:54.020 --> 03:17:56.020 Yeah, it's just going to be a powerful Swamper once again. 03:17:56.020 --> 03:18:01.080 Let's see if Emilio is the one that made the adjustment and it's going to be another one for this third game 03:18:01.080 --> 03:18:06.820 Raichu and Serena as the lead. I like this a lot because you pressure would fake out and power away immediately and 03:18:07.500 --> 03:18:11.540 Here is normally the response into this would be switching in our Chaladon potentially 03:18:11.900 --> 03:18:14.260 In order to get that free stamina boost 03:18:14.260 --> 03:18:17.820 But if you switch in our Chaladon will then focus last from Raichu is just incredibly threatening 03:18:17.820 --> 03:18:24.300 So one play that Rockup might want to consider going for is like protect Swampert switching Grimmsnarr on turn one then turn two Grimmsnarr 03:18:24.300 --> 03:18:28.860 set up a screen as then you can get out the swamper or even stay in with it. But I think for Raga 03:18:29.500 --> 03:18:33.500 so much of this dynamic is conserving the swamper and I think Amelia's lead here is really good 03:18:33.500 --> 03:18:36.700 because now there's so much offensive pressure with both of these both lines. 03:18:36.700 --> 03:18:41.260 And reminder that in game two Zaryn actually missed the first power with it at click. That was 03:18:41.260 --> 03:18:45.740 damage that really could have started to add up on that Grimstall and you have to imagine 03:18:45.740 --> 03:18:51.820 if that had connected does that Grimstall go down to the power in the reflect on the second one. 03:18:51.820 --> 03:19:02.820 But it's not going to be any swaps to start this game, just the mega evolution immediately, as this Ride 2 takes on its new form, and let's see if this Whomper is going to follow as well. 03:19:02.820 --> 03:19:03.820 Yup. 03:19:03.820 --> 03:19:12.820 Yes, and so of course the Pelopter here does not have to protect, right? And so, you expect Swamper to maybe both Pokemon just attack here? 03:19:12.820 --> 03:19:17.820 Swamper, like Ride 2 kind of- Oh my goodness, yeah, Ride 2 doesn't let him go! Doesn't pick up either! 03:19:17.820 --> 03:19:20.620 I think calling out that Swamper was gonna protect her switch 03:19:20.620 --> 03:19:21.940 and that Raichu just goes down. 03:19:21.940 --> 03:19:23.660 I mean, Raghav might just get a double knockout 03:19:23.660 --> 03:19:24.820 to start this game. 03:19:24.820 --> 03:19:26.380 Yeah, I mean, that Kyrgyzl hit 03:19:26.380 --> 03:19:29.060 is not mattering against this Raichu. 03:19:29.060 --> 03:19:31.940 That is just going to be a one-bid knockout. 03:19:31.940 --> 03:19:33.380 Earthquake letting it rip. 03:19:33.380 --> 03:19:34.220 Oh, Kyrgyzl's gonna do this. 03:19:34.220 --> 03:19:35.060 Kyrgyzl's gonna do this. 03:19:35.060 --> 03:19:37.020 Was expecting something like the Archowed 03:19:37.020 --> 03:19:39.100 on a come and switch into that slide. 03:19:39.100 --> 03:19:40.140 And there's the tail end. 03:19:40.140 --> 03:19:42.340 I think this game honestly might just be over 03:19:42.340 --> 03:19:43.180 from that turn one. 03:19:43.180 --> 03:19:46.100 Amelia was saying, big up plus power went into Swamper. 03:19:46.100 --> 03:19:47.840 you're not gonna let me do that, right? 03:19:47.840 --> 03:19:49.360 You're gonna switch in our talent and potential 03:19:49.360 --> 03:19:50.560 either of these slots. 03:19:50.560 --> 03:19:52.200 I used to make a really aggressive prediction, 03:19:52.200 --> 03:19:55.400 but I honestly don't see a great path for him out of this. 03:19:55.400 --> 03:19:57.600 Rockup says, you know what, I am just gonna earthquake. 03:19:57.600 --> 03:19:59.600 I am just gonna tailwind. 03:19:59.600 --> 03:20:02.560 Even if you go for a double up onto the Swamp Red, 03:20:02.560 --> 03:20:03.840 at least get my tail wind up, right? 03:20:03.840 --> 03:20:06.920 But Rockup just says, you kinda have to respect it, 03:20:06.920 --> 03:20:09.600 and Emilio tries to call it out, doesn't get it. 03:20:09.600 --> 03:20:11.440 And she's gonna be such an uphill battle for him. 03:20:11.440 --> 03:20:13.400 Rockup can probably taste Top Cup, 03:20:13.400 --> 03:20:15.760 but he's still gotta get over the finish line. 03:20:15.760 --> 03:20:30.760 Emilio is still going to give it everything that he's got because you have this one final game to see if you can turn it around and achieve that world championship top cut, but another earthquake, a low niche from this swamper is going to bring this can give it down to less than half of its HP. 03:20:30.760 --> 03:20:43.760 Tellerford was hoping to finish off this arena here, but can you have it still that the way where the sword stands? On this up the good turn there's not going to be a reflective play, but we saw that even at plus two this swamper took between like 30 to 50%. 03:20:43.760 --> 03:20:49.760 Yeah, I think the play that you probably want to go for is sucker punch into lapeloper, right, try to one-shot that, and then 03:20:49.760 --> 03:20:54.760 Swampert's ice punch should have knocked out Serena from that range, then you like get a double knockout with Power Whip, but 03:20:54.760 --> 03:21:01.760 if you're Raghav, you can say, look, I'm ahead in the game, I'm willing to trade, or you can say protect Swampert, switch the Rimsthorow in potentially, right? 03:21:01.760 --> 03:21:07.760 And I think the main thing is, yeah, Raghav definitely has so much offensive pressure right now. Question is, is he willing to trade? 03:21:07.760 --> 03:21:13.360 It is going to be the wide guard, so the wide guard gets around Sucker Punch, which then means that Swampert can follow up with an Earthquake. 03:21:13.360 --> 03:21:16.160 And then it's Sucker Punch getting to the Power Purse slot. 03:21:16.160 --> 03:21:23.060 It's going to fail on this one as the Swampert goes for its Earthquake, should be a knockout onto the King Gambit. 03:21:23.060 --> 03:21:28.760 If it's not on this arena, maybe this arena could actually try to get some revenge for its teammate. 03:21:28.760 --> 03:21:34.160 King Gambit, sorry, that swords the edge, just not enough for this third and final game. 03:21:34.160 --> 03:21:41.300 and power with dog connect into this Wofford so a great one hit knockout. It's going to help to start to even up the Pokemon count 03:21:41.300 --> 03:21:46.300 but there's still a lot of work cut out for Emilio to Pokemon remaining. 03:21:46.300 --> 03:21:53.820 Let's see what's in the back here as Rod of still has three to go. Yeah, and with that tailwind pressure as well. 03:21:54.660 --> 03:21:59.820 Expecting Grimstone our child on like that previous one and it is gonna be our child hitting the fields here immediately. 03:21:59.820 --> 03:22:05.180 now with no right shoe. Okay, today's Sneasler, so you do have two things, you know, that offer a lot 03:22:05.180 --> 03:22:11.100 of offense to pressure. However, the thing is that the Sneasler here has faint, and so it normally 03:22:11.100 --> 03:22:15.100 often likes to carry protect, but this set does not have protect. Right now you have fake out open, 03:22:15.100 --> 03:22:19.500 but still one more part of tailing over on Rock Ops end as well. Sneasler actually, I would say, 03:22:19.500 --> 03:22:22.940 is probably the best Pokemon I have here, just because of the Sneed advantage, but 03:22:22.940 --> 03:22:27.020 if you don't fake out the Pelopter, Pelopter just gets a hurricane off into either of these Pokemon, 03:22:27.020 --> 03:22:30.400 right so it feels like you kind of need to fake up the pellet for Serena the 03:22:30.400 --> 03:22:33.880 question is can it survive a dragon pulse potentially at 47% I actually think 03:22:33.880 --> 03:22:36.960 it is quite close our child on a lecture shot should not get a one-handed 03:22:36.960 --> 03:22:41.240 knockout on either of these but still really really tricky here because the 03:22:41.240 --> 03:22:44.080 question is how do you ever deal enough damage to a citrus buried pellet for 03:22:44.080 --> 03:22:47.240 at this point hurricanes just knocked out both of these big protect makes sense 03:22:47.240 --> 03:22:50.640 here try to stall out the tail and maybe it's gonna be a close combat into our 03:22:50.640 --> 03:22:54.480 child on it's gonna just be that faked out make sure you can't hurricane make 03:22:54.480 --> 03:22:56.360 sense, dragon pulse into protect. 03:22:56.360 --> 03:22:59.040 So, he went now at least is stalled out. 03:22:59.040 --> 03:23:01.760 Yeah, that's going to help on this subsequent turn 03:23:01.760 --> 03:23:05.080 for this Sneasler to guarantee some damage 03:23:05.080 --> 03:23:07.280 onto either of your tower on the pelliper 03:23:07.280 --> 03:23:09.120 if there is no protect. 03:23:09.120 --> 03:23:11.280 But I don't know if Sarina's power whip 03:23:11.280 --> 03:23:13.480 can actually deal enough to the pelliper here. 03:23:13.480 --> 03:23:16.520 Yeah, I feel like you probably go for a dire claw power whip. 03:23:16.520 --> 03:23:18.200 I don't even think that's gonna get the knockout, 03:23:18.200 --> 03:23:20.440 but if you get a dire claw status condition 03:23:20.440 --> 03:23:22.320 or a critical hit with either, 03:23:22.320 --> 03:23:23.160 if that's good enough, 03:23:23.160 --> 03:23:26.040 maybe the Pelopter actually just falls to that combination. 03:23:26.040 --> 03:23:29.560 So it still feels so, so, so difficult for Emilia. 03:23:29.560 --> 03:23:32.320 I think that turn one just set him behind so much. 03:23:32.320 --> 03:23:34.720 He's been making the right place to keep himself through this one. 03:23:34.720 --> 03:23:37.200 So this is going to be a really crucial turn. 03:23:37.200 --> 03:23:39.920 I think if Rockoff gains too big of an advantage here, 03:23:39.920 --> 03:23:41.640 it will just be over. 03:23:41.640 --> 03:23:42.680 So let's see. 03:23:42.680 --> 03:23:44.800 You also could have attempted double protect here. 03:23:44.800 --> 03:23:46.360 Pelopter is actually going to switch here 03:23:46.360 --> 03:23:47.840 and it's going to be Venusaur as the last one. 03:23:47.840 --> 03:23:50.000 I think that is a really smart adjustment as well. 03:23:50.000 --> 03:23:51.960 Hey, I mean, you're still going to be able to do a lot though 03:23:51.960 --> 03:23:56.200 with this dire cloth that's gonna take his Venusaur down to less than half but 03:23:56.200 --> 03:24:05.960 the power whip misses its mark. A dire claw will be enough to finish this Venusaur up on the next turn and he does take that Dragon Pulse. 03:24:05.960 --> 03:24:10.680 As you can see Ragov wanting to swap out there, one obviously conserved the Palompa 03:24:10.680 --> 03:24:13.680 Batuu, now you can also reset the rain. I think if Dragon Pulse chaosed the 03:24:13.680 --> 03:24:16.440 Serena there probably this is over but that's what I was saying maybe it's 03:24:16.440 --> 03:24:19.920 bulky enough to survive so Venusaur's a mix-up here actually I think is quite 03:24:19.920 --> 03:24:23.640 powerful because it can switch in a little bit more effectively does pose a 03:24:23.640 --> 03:24:28.080 threat but the thing is now there is the office of threat of close combat 03:24:28.080 --> 03:24:32.760 into the Archalodon slot right and so Karina actually going for a protect here 03:24:32.760 --> 03:24:37.040 right Emilio playing his heart out right now this rock-up go for it is gonna be 03:24:37.040 --> 03:24:40.280 close combat into Archalodon that's gonna do a lot of damage but it does 03:24:40.280 --> 03:24:44.680 crucially survive. It's going to leave this Sniasler pretty vulnerable. This 03:24:44.680 --> 03:24:48.720 Venusaur does not have power which is one of the tech offensive moves we 03:24:48.720 --> 03:24:52.880 sometimes see on this Venusaur and the white Earth is going to cleanse the 03:24:52.880 --> 03:24:57.640 sat changes that come through close combat. This is a turn that Emilio is 03:24:57.640 --> 03:25:01.280 going to get right dragon pulse though into the Sceesler is going to help to 03:25:01.280 --> 03:25:05.280 soften it up a little bit but this arena is gonna stick around for the next turn. 03:25:05.280 --> 03:25:09.400 Yeah I mean Emilio's doing a great job of flying back into it and Rose like you 03:25:09.400 --> 03:25:12.120 called out the Venusaur not having something like that Earth power means 03:25:12.120 --> 03:25:15.280 that it can't do too much in the Sceesler other than going for sleep powder 03:25:15.280 --> 03:25:19.040 there, but Emilio has gotten a good chain of turns here. 03:25:19.040 --> 03:25:21.720 Archaldon protects, like you still have to deal with Pelipper in this end game, 03:25:21.720 --> 03:25:24.180 but Emilio is getting closer and closer right now. 03:25:24.180 --> 03:25:27.740 Yeah, protects though, keeping us Archaldon around in the face and 03:25:27.740 --> 03:25:30.700 throwing out that close pocket, but the triple axel, can it get the three? 03:25:30.700 --> 03:25:33.860 Hits and knock up this beat-a-sort, it only needs two! 03:25:33.860 --> 03:25:40.400 And all of a sudden, Emilio is way back in this 2v2 in this game number three. 03:25:40.400 --> 03:25:43.200 Oh, this is so tense right now. 03:25:43.200 --> 03:25:48.700 Our child on heels back a little bit more with those leftovers there is still this offensive threat of heliport in the back 03:25:48.700 --> 03:25:54.360 I felt like this was always the biggest win condition for rock-off right because hurricane does get a one-hit knockout onto both of these 03:25:54.760 --> 03:26:00.200 But it is feeling so so scary. I think if you're a rocket you probably felt like that game was just over after turn one 03:26:00.640 --> 03:26:05.240 Emilio has made a lot of really great calls to stay in it and now it's gonna be close combat 03:26:05.680 --> 03:26:10.840 Talking on our child on here. We go. Hey, that's one Pokemon down heliport by itself 03:26:10.840 --> 03:26:14.080 still have the ability to get KOs into either. 03:26:14.080 --> 03:26:16.920 These close combat defense drops are going to stick, 03:26:16.920 --> 03:26:19.280 so this Pelper can do some damage here. 03:26:19.280 --> 03:26:20.320 Power with no problems, 03:26:20.320 --> 03:26:22.320 Zarina's gonna have to take it down low enough 03:26:22.320 --> 03:26:24.160 that either the Sneasler or the Zarina 03:26:24.160 --> 03:26:25.880 can finish it off on the next turn. 03:26:25.880 --> 03:26:29.200 Citrus Berry recovering looks like it might actually 03:26:29.200 --> 03:26:31.040 make sure that this Pelper can fall 03:26:31.040 --> 03:26:32.760 to a follow-up on the next one. 03:26:32.760 --> 03:26:34.880 But Hurricane for now takes out the Sneasler 03:26:34.880 --> 03:26:39.280 and it's a very tense 1v1 for the spot 03:26:39.280 --> 03:26:41.880 in the top cut at the World Championships. 03:26:41.880 --> 03:26:44.040 Emilio needs to hit this power whip, 03:26:44.040 --> 03:26:48.000 needs it to do 48% to move on. 03:26:48.000 --> 03:26:50.800 He has fought so hard after that turn. 03:26:50.800 --> 03:26:52.200 Here we go, power whip to next. 03:26:52.200 --> 03:26:53.640 How much does it do? 03:26:53.640 --> 03:26:54.640 It's gonna do enough. 03:26:54.640 --> 03:26:57.320 There it is, Emilio does it. 03:26:57.320 --> 03:27:00.400 A top cut guaranteed for Emilio fourth 03:27:00.400 --> 03:27:04.240 after taking down the final dash of hope for Rogoff. 03:27:04.240 --> 03:27:07.800 Another successful event for Emilio. 03:27:07.800 --> 03:27:12.260 What a show, an epic showdown for a three game set. 03:27:12.260 --> 03:27:15.340 I cannot believe Emilio won that after third one, right? 03:27:15.340 --> 03:27:19.740 Like, that was such a huge deficit that he hits a claw back from, 03:27:19.740 --> 03:27:22.860 but he found the perfect sequencing of events. 03:27:22.860 --> 03:27:25.860 And for Raghav there, opportunity to potentially power whip 03:27:25.860 --> 03:27:30.140 or hurricane into the Serena slot instead of the Sneasler. 03:27:30.140 --> 03:27:32.100 Didn't know if Direclaw would necessarily do enough there. 03:27:32.100 --> 03:27:34.900 Either power whip, of course, just such a powerful attack, 03:27:34.900 --> 03:27:36.940 but it's accuracy, not the highest. 03:27:36.940 --> 03:27:39.300 all smiles to both players there though. 03:27:39.300 --> 03:27:42.140 And I think Emilio must be feeling so relieved 03:27:42.140 --> 03:27:44.380 to have found a way to clutch that one out. 03:27:44.380 --> 03:27:47.300 Absolutely incredible playing from behind, 03:27:47.300 --> 03:27:48.500 showing why you don't give up, 03:27:48.500 --> 03:27:50.340 even in turn one, an aggressive prediction 03:27:50.340 --> 03:27:51.180 doesn't go your way. 03:27:51.180 --> 03:27:53.500 100% because right out the gates, 03:27:53.500 --> 03:27:57.260 that right shoe fell to a one hit knockout 03:27:57.260 --> 03:27:59.540 from that swath pair going through the earthquake, 03:27:59.540 --> 03:28:01.020 connecting onto both. 03:28:01.020 --> 03:28:04.100 Powerwick though, getting some revenge here from the Zarina, 03:28:04.100 --> 03:28:06.500 got Emilio back into this. 03:28:06.500 --> 03:28:12.760 even though this arena ended up missing a power up in this third game as well onto the venus or just some chip damage 03:28:12.760 --> 03:28:18.900 and had that critical survival of the dragon pulse just to give Emilio enough of a fighting chance 03:28:19.140 --> 03:28:21.240 Triple Axel getting those two hits as well 03:28:21.240 --> 03:28:25.040 Does he got this venus or and then all of a sudden it really was just such a 03:28:25.900 --> 03:28:27.260 tense 03:28:27.260 --> 03:28:28.780 Razor's Edge 03:28:28.780 --> 03:28:34.940 Final showdown for these Pokemon. Yeah, the main thing like I think was the switch out from Pelopur 03:28:34.940 --> 03:28:38.220 like maybe there was the opportunity to just stay in. The question I, you know, 03:28:38.220 --> 03:28:40.900 still have is whether or not DireQualt plus Power Width doubling up and the 03:28:40.900 --> 03:28:44.300 Pelican would have gotten a knockout. But either way, I think, like, there were a 03:28:44.300 --> 03:28:47.020 lot of opportunities where Rogoff probably knows how if I just made my 03:28:47.020 --> 03:28:50.860 target into the other slot, I'd probably just win the game. Because, like, he had 03:28:50.860 --> 03:28:53.580 the advantage for so much of that game, right? And, like, there was the 03:28:53.580 --> 03:28:57.060 opportunity when it was Hurricane into Serena on turn two of the game, could have 03:28:57.060 --> 03:29:00.260 been a weather ball potentially, the key gambit, for example. And just, like, yeah, 03:29:00.260 --> 03:29:04.140 for Amelia to have found a path back into that game was absolutely, like, perfect 03:29:04.140 --> 03:29:07.140 defensive play with fake out and protect stall out tailwing right protects 03:29:07.140 --> 03:29:10.940 arena at all the right opportunities knowing like our channel when you don't 03:29:10.940 --> 03:29:14.140 have that special attack boost is not the strongest offensive threat dragon 03:29:14.140 --> 03:29:17.820 pulls not able to do over 50% to so many Pokemon right and so just 03:29:17.820 --> 03:29:21.140 threats the needle and what Sneezer being that final perfect Pokemon getting 03:29:21.140 --> 03:29:24.540 that close combat off into our channels that burst damage that you need and so 03:29:24.540 --> 03:29:27.860 that was that's what the world championships are about like and that 03:29:27.860 --> 03:29:32.420 is why Emilio is such an incredible player of course Raghav honestly played 03:29:32.420 --> 03:29:37.220 incredibly as well. It's just that hard call on turn one. I think that will probably be a game 03:29:37.220 --> 03:29:41.780 that he's going to sit back on and reflect on a good day. It's really it hurts when you get so 03:29:41.780 --> 03:29:47.540 close to the top cut at the World Championships and it felt like it was his but Emilio claws back 03:29:47.540 --> 03:29:51.300 and found honestly I think maybe one of the most incredible comebacks I've seen this season. 03:29:51.300 --> 03:29:56.020 Commiserations though. I mean that just the fact that you are that one run away from the top cut 03:29:56.020 --> 03:30:01.300 is still an incredible accomplishment and so I hope that even though maybe you are going to think 03:30:01.300 --> 03:30:06.340 back on the game that rock off. You're still proud of yourself. This is still a great performance 03:30:06.340 --> 03:30:12.340 and for all of our competitors that were just playing their winning ends. This is going to be 03:30:12.340 --> 03:30:17.860 a world championship that you can hopefully remember and keep as one of this top accomplishments. 03:30:17.860 --> 03:30:23.700 This world has been so hard. You think about the number of competitors that fell at 0 3 1 3 just 03:30:23.700 --> 03:30:29.620 kind of, you know, falling out as we get through that first day to make it this far. I do hope 03:30:29.620 --> 03:30:33.880 that they can see that as a as a great win. Yeah and the margins are so razor 03:30:33.880 --> 03:30:37.180 thin right in the end. Serena did have to land triple axel twice into the 03:30:37.180 --> 03:30:40.580 carbon crates. It's two hits right there and then double power whip into the 03:30:40.580 --> 03:30:45.040 pelliper as well. This Pokemon is really great if it hits all of its moves. It is 03:30:45.040 --> 03:30:48.280 not one of the more consistent Pokemon because power whip and triple axel are both 03:30:48.280 --> 03:30:51.980 such high variance moves and any of those moves miss at any point. Rock 03:30:51.980 --> 03:30:57.140 off to moving on the top cut right and so that is how close things can feel but 03:30:57.140 --> 03:31:00.200 when you're playing for behind you do need things to go right and Serena 03:31:00.200 --> 03:31:03.620 clutched up and showed why it can be a really unique pocket pick in this format 03:31:03.620 --> 03:31:06.460 like you mentioned that power whip damage aren't that many strong physical 03:31:06.460 --> 03:31:09.820 brass type attackers in this format normally we see it for you know its 03:31:09.820 --> 03:31:13.300 ability but the combination of the utility of the ability as well as its 03:31:13.300 --> 03:31:17.220 damage output it's just a lot and to see it clutch up here on stream to advance 03:31:17.220 --> 03:31:21.500 the top cut I mean yeah can that's for anything more what a cool stat we are 03:31:21.500 --> 03:31:24.380 going to take a short break and when we come back we're going to be breaking 03:31:24.380 --> 03:31:29.100 down some of the competitors that have moved on to that top cut. So please don't go anywhere. 03:31:41.500 --> 03:31:48.540 Hello everyone, I'm Kyle Pukasukovic. I'm on the product development team for the TCG at TPCI, 03:31:48.540 --> 03:31:54.060 joined here by Chip and Azul. And today we're going to take a look at some of the cards from the 03:31:54.060 --> 03:31:58.060 classic collection from the 30th celebration expansion. 03:31:58.060 --> 03:32:01.060 One of the first ones we can take a look at is this Magikarp. 03:32:01.060 --> 03:32:06.060 It has a very cool card. I remember when this card initially got revealed during the 03:32:06.060 --> 03:32:10.060 Scarlet and Violet era of the game, just the general excitement around it. 03:32:10.060 --> 03:32:16.060 It's beautiful and seeing it now in this new 30th anniversary style with this 03:32:16.060 --> 03:32:20.060 golden border makes it pop so nicely. 03:32:20.060 --> 03:32:23.060 And I mean, an iconic Pokemon as well in Magic Carp, 03:32:23.060 --> 03:32:24.260 one of the original Pokemon. 03:32:24.260 --> 03:32:26.780 So always love to see that getting some love. 03:32:26.780 --> 03:32:29.500 And very emblematic of one of the innovations 03:32:29.500 --> 03:32:31.300 of the Scarlet and Violet era, 03:32:31.300 --> 03:32:33.420 the introduction of those illustration rare cards. 03:32:33.420 --> 03:32:36.700 This is very much an embodiment of what that new art style 03:32:36.700 --> 03:32:39.940 kind of represents and that new kind of card rarity. 03:32:39.940 --> 03:32:43.220 As well, we also have maybe a throwback of it 03:32:43.220 --> 03:32:46.020 more to the past, maybe two thousands or so 03:32:46.020 --> 03:32:47.700 with this Dark Tarantar. 03:32:47.700 --> 03:32:49.700 Yeah, yeah, the Dark Tarantars are looking 03:32:49.700 --> 03:32:52.460 super good in its new gold border, of course. 03:32:52.460 --> 03:32:55.100 And I think for competitive players, a big throwback 03:32:55.100 --> 03:32:57.260 had a lot of success back in the day. 03:32:57.260 --> 03:32:59.860 Most commonly comes to mind is Ross Cawthon's second place 03:32:59.860 --> 03:33:02.460 at the World Championships in 2005, right? 03:33:02.460 --> 03:33:06.220 So a lot of history in the competitive scene with this one. 03:33:06.220 --> 03:33:09.020 Yeah, Ross Cawthon, only player to qualify 03:33:09.020 --> 03:33:11.260 for every World Championships to date, 03:33:11.260 --> 03:33:13.420 and that's kind of where his legacy began, 03:33:13.420 --> 03:33:15.540 was with this card right here. 03:33:15.540 --> 03:33:17.380 And we'll also bring it to this Lugia 03:33:17.380 --> 03:33:19.420 that's from the Aquopolis expansion, 03:33:19.420 --> 03:33:21.660 and even further into the past. 03:33:21.660 --> 03:33:23.860 You can really see the gold border on this one, 03:33:23.860 --> 03:33:26.900 and it's affectionately referred to as crystal Lugia 03:33:26.900 --> 03:33:29.580 due to its crystal type Hokey body. 03:33:29.580 --> 03:33:31.660 One of the first Pokemon that, 03:33:31.660 --> 03:33:33.820 if you attach different types of energy to it, 03:33:33.820 --> 03:33:35.140 can change types, 03:33:35.140 --> 03:33:38.380 and its attack costs represent the different types 03:33:38.380 --> 03:33:40.180 it can turn into as well. 03:33:40.180 --> 03:33:42.220 And I think just a very iconic card as well, 03:33:42.220 --> 03:33:44.660 very striking artwork. 03:33:44.660 --> 03:33:46.700 And that brings us to one more, 03:33:46.700 --> 03:33:48.700 and we haven't revealed yet. 03:33:48.700 --> 03:33:53.140 So for the first time, we will officially reveal drum roll please. 03:33:57.660 --> 03:34:03.460 They set Pikachu brought back here for the 30th anniversary classic collection. 03:34:04.460 --> 03:34:05.980 I mean, what a callback, right? 03:34:05.980 --> 03:34:10.820 To the very first expansion for the Pokemon TCG artwork done by Arita-san. 03:34:10.820 --> 03:34:13.260 Of course, just totally iconic. 03:34:13.260 --> 03:34:14.740 Love to see it included. 03:34:14.740 --> 03:34:18.660 As well, do you get any memories seeing like the original Pikachu 03:34:18.660 --> 03:34:20.160 artwork for the TCG. 03:34:20.160 --> 03:34:22.860 Yeah, I mean, I remember having the actual original card 03:34:22.860 --> 03:34:23.960 back way back in the day. 03:34:23.960 --> 03:34:26.060 I don't remember how long ago it was now, 03:34:26.060 --> 03:34:28.160 but it is really cool to see it represented once again here 03:34:28.160 --> 03:34:29.860 in the 30th anniversary set. 03:34:29.860 --> 03:34:32.560 Yeah, and once again, these are just a few of the 30 cards 03:34:32.560 --> 03:34:34.760 you'll see in the classic collection 03:34:34.760 --> 03:34:38.560 in the 30th celebration Pokemon TCG expansion. 03:34:38.560 --> 03:34:40.960 But we also have some more cards to look at as well. 03:34:40.960 --> 03:34:44.860 We'll get a glimpse into what the future of the Pokemon TCG 03:34:44.860 --> 03:34:48.560 might be like with some of these futuristic rare cards. 03:34:48.560 --> 03:34:50.600 illustrated by Yoshiro Optin. 03:34:50.600 --> 03:34:52.720 And we have a couple of different ones here. 03:34:52.720 --> 03:34:56.380 Some you'll find in the 30th Celebration Expansion, 03:34:56.380 --> 03:34:59.320 such as this Mu EX and Mu II EX. 03:34:59.320 --> 03:35:02.760 And some you'll find in an ultra premium collection product, 03:35:02.760 --> 03:35:04.800 such as these Pikachu EX. 03:35:04.800 --> 03:35:05.960 Yeah, I mean, I think there might be 03:35:05.960 --> 03:35:07.160 infinite possibilities for the Mu, 03:35:07.160 --> 03:35:09.120 because of course, it's ability allows it 03:35:09.120 --> 03:35:11.840 to utilize the attacks of any of your benched Pokemon, 03:35:11.840 --> 03:35:13.760 as long as you have the necessary energy required. 03:35:13.760 --> 03:35:15.640 So this is gonna be a card I'm very excited to see 03:35:15.640 --> 03:35:16.760 what the community can come up with 03:35:16.760 --> 03:35:17.600 when they get their hands on it. 03:35:17.600 --> 03:35:21.600 and also a card that like as new cards come out in years to come, 03:35:21.600 --> 03:35:25.040 yeah, it'll be a card that you'll always come back to as a potential option. 03:35:25.040 --> 03:35:28.720 It is so versatile in the ways you could potentially use it. 03:35:28.720 --> 03:35:31.520 Yeah, very fitting for Mew, of course. Over the years, you've seen lots of 03:35:31.520 --> 03:35:35.760 different Mew cards in the TCG being able to use all sorts of different attacks and 03:35:36.320 --> 03:35:39.920 always feels like there's some way to use this kind of card. 03:35:39.920 --> 03:35:43.760 It is on the low end of HP for a Pokemon EX with just 160, 03:35:43.760 --> 03:35:47.280 but being able to use pretty much any of the attacks of any of your Pokemon 03:35:47.600 --> 03:35:50.120 Hey, there's probably a use for that somewhere, right? 03:35:51.320 --> 03:35:56.240 Yep, and then we can also shift our attention to the Mewtwo EX. You know, we have a shift here 03:35:56.560 --> 03:35:58.760 We kind of a split of day and night 03:35:59.000 --> 03:36:04.000 Mew representing the day theme and Mewtwo representing the night theme 03:36:04.840 --> 03:36:09.840 Mewtwo EX has this photon bullets attack chip. What do you see in here? 03:36:09.960 --> 03:36:13.520 Yeah, I mean Mewtwo of course another iconic Pokemon 03:36:13.520 --> 03:36:20.780 spread potential always very good you know targeting down multiple Pokemon 03:36:20.780 --> 03:36:24.880 with just one single attack has a lot of potential softening things up to be 03:36:24.880 --> 03:36:30.120 easier KO'd by a different Pokemon perhaps or using photon bullets turn 03:36:30.120 --> 03:36:34.240 after turn after turn can really build up a lot of damage in play potential 03:36:34.240 --> 03:36:39.880 board wipe scenarios multi prize turns I love cards like this yeah and you can 03:36:39.880 --> 03:36:46.680 see much higher HP than the Mew EX as well. 230 HP. Can you see any potential here for 03:36:46.680 --> 03:36:52.240 Mew 2 EX? Yeah, yeah, I think I might be missing a little bit of energy acceleration for the 03:36:52.240 --> 03:36:58.080 Psychic type right now, but with the spread attack, you never know what you're going to 03:36:58.080 --> 03:37:02.840 be able to combo that with to be able to make things awkward for your opponent for sure. 03:37:02.840 --> 03:37:08.600 Absolutely. You can shift your attention over to these Pikachu EX cards as well. Pikachu, 03:37:08.600 --> 03:37:13.880 of those Pokemon that is frequently featured as a Pokemon EX even though it's not a fully 03:37:13.880 --> 03:37:20.280 evolved Pokemon. We'll start off with the Day Pikachu EX with the Pika Pika Parade 03:37:20.280 --> 03:37:22.580 attack. Chip, what do you see in here? 03:37:22.580 --> 03:37:27.640 Yeah, so a very powerful effect being able to throw a ton of Pokemon into play. Normally 03:37:27.640 --> 03:37:34.760 these call for family style attacks bring out one, two, very rarely three Pokemon. This 03:37:34.760 --> 03:37:38.400 This one allowing you to just fill your board with basic Pokemon. 03:37:38.400 --> 03:37:43.220 We see players utilizing that A-Spec precious trolley currently in the metagame from time 03:37:43.220 --> 03:37:44.520 to time when they want to do that. 03:37:44.520 --> 03:37:49.600 Now if players want to use a different A-Spec in their deck, they have an option to still 03:37:49.600 --> 03:37:51.200 pull a bunch of powerful Pokemon out. 03:37:51.200 --> 03:37:56.200 And there are so many powerful basic Pokemon in the game right now, throwing a mega kengiskan, 03:37:56.200 --> 03:38:00.200 perhaps a Latias EX into play right away doesn't seem too bad. 03:38:00.200 --> 03:38:06.340 Yeah, and as well, we'll take a look at the night Pikachu EX with the Zip Zap frenzy attack. 03:38:06.340 --> 03:38:10.180 You see any fun combos you can pull off with this one? 03:38:10.180 --> 03:38:15.260 Yeah, I mean, this is once again, I feel like similar to the Mew EX, almost limitless potential, 03:38:15.260 --> 03:38:18.580 allowing you to accelerate any number of basic energy into play from your hand. 03:38:18.580 --> 03:38:22.540 We do have the Energy Search Pro A-Spec in the format still, so that'll be a very cool 03:38:22.540 --> 03:38:23.540 combination. 03:38:23.540 --> 03:38:26.860 Similar to the Mew, lots of potential, lots of future potential I think is like the big 03:38:26.860 --> 03:38:27.860 ones for these two. 03:38:27.860 --> 03:38:31.020 It's got an amazing look at these futuristic rare cards. 03:38:31.020 --> 03:38:33.620 And we have 30 years of Pokemon. 03:38:33.620 --> 03:38:36.980 We're celebrating how far we've come, especially 03:38:36.980 --> 03:38:40.380 with the Pokemon TCG, and taking a look towards what 03:38:40.380 --> 03:38:42.020 the future might hold as well, getting 03:38:42.020 --> 03:38:44.980 a little glimpse with these futuristic rare cards. 03:38:44.980 --> 03:38:47.700 And it's exciting to see what we have here. 03:38:47.700 --> 03:38:49.740 And we'll continue to see what the future holds 03:38:49.740 --> 03:38:51.820 for the Pokemon TCG. 03:38:51.820 --> 03:39:16.300 Welcome back trainers here we're at the end of the Swiss of the Pokemon World Championships 03:39:16.300 --> 03:39:22.940 just after round 11. My name's Ben joined by, of course, Rose and Aaron here at the Analyst Desk 03:39:22.940 --> 03:39:29.100 to have a little bit of a, a bit of a reflect on what we've seen so far in the world championships 03:39:29.100 --> 03:39:34.540 coming into our top cut before we start looking forward, of course, to our top cut and whittling 03:39:34.540 --> 03:39:39.740 down those two trainers that are going to be making it all the way into Championship Sunday. 03:39:39.740 --> 03:39:48.220 now that match between between Emilio and Raga was absolutely crazy that game 03:39:48.220 --> 03:39:52.140 three turn one I think we were all we're all in the backstage in the green 03:39:52.140 --> 03:39:55.580 room while you guys were casting and we're like okay we see turn one we're 03:39:55.580 --> 03:40:00.380 thinking okay cool Raga's in top car like that's that's the match over and 03:40:00.380 --> 03:40:05.380 then somehow Emilio found a way to come back from that match what was that like 03:40:05.380 --> 03:40:11.780 to to cost free. Exhilarating. I don't really know if there are better words to describe 03:40:11.780 --> 03:40:17.980 it because I think it really did feel like Raghav was already one turn in but in the 03:40:17.980 --> 03:40:22.500 door of the top cut. But I think it's just the fact that it speaks volumes to Emilio's 03:40:22.500 --> 03:40:27.540 expertise as a player. That's why he's a four time regional champion is because Emilio has 03:40:27.540 --> 03:40:32.060 a way of looking at the game where you can kind of see those small avenues to thread 03:40:32.060 --> 03:40:34.700 the needle enough in order to bring himself back into those spots. 03:40:34.700 --> 03:40:40.900 Yeah, and I want to give Raghav credits to his performance as well, because, you know, I was like, well, it feels like the game is over after turns one and two, 03:40:40.900 --> 03:40:45.000 but I don't think Raghav necessarily made any mistakes after turn two, right? 03:40:45.000 --> 03:40:52.700 He went for plays that were all logical, and I think Raghav was probably thinking, well, I can take these neutral trades because I'm so far ahead in the game, right? 03:40:52.700 --> 03:40:59.200 But the critical survival with the Serena, for example, the Sceasler being able to do so much damage with close combat, like, 03:40:59.200 --> 03:41:03.100 I think Emilio just found the perfect sequence of moves to counter what Raghav was doing, 03:41:03.100 --> 03:41:06.580 But I think every play that Rogoff made after turn two still made plenty of sense 03:41:06.580 --> 03:41:08.060 I think that's a game 03:41:08.060 --> 03:41:14.260 Let's really it's probably gonna be really tough for Rogoff in that he's probably thinking if I just made one aggressive prediction throughout the any course of 03:41:14.260 --> 03:41:18.780 Those turns right when I already had the lead like that that would have just been it whether it be targeting 03:41:18.780 --> 03:41:24.660 Sneasler on the turn Serena protected with Venus or or the turn lat Serena protected when it was pellet per Swamper 03:41:24.660 --> 03:41:32.060 Right, like there's ultimately like protected on a hurricane right and so I think like Emilio's use of defensive playing saying you have to respect the 03:41:32.060 --> 03:41:37.660 offense and my Serena has, Raghav respecting that offense, consistently meant that he was 03:41:37.660 --> 03:41:41.740 able to basically weave in enough attacks, especially with that sneeze or getting those 03:41:41.740 --> 03:41:45.660 close combats off. In the end, our Chowdhawn also had the potential to go for a protect. 03:41:45.660 --> 03:41:50.140 It didn't, but Emilio calls it, targets right into it. I think Raghav was also probably thinking 03:41:50.140 --> 03:41:53.020 about the odds a little bit. We're like, oh, even if I get all of this wrong, well, 03:41:53.020 --> 03:41:57.180 you still have to hit your triple axels and your power waves, but it was the perfect combination 03:41:57.180 --> 03:42:01.660 of things where Emilio finds the right counterplay to the right, once again, Raghav's plays make 03:42:01.660 --> 03:42:13.660 right? But Emilio finds the perfect counter play every turn. But I think like I want to build on your point there are because there's also the conditioning about what like the amount of times that Raghav chose to go into the 03:42:13.660 --> 03:42:18.180 the arena when it went for a protect. There's that conditioning. And even though like, if 03:42:18.180 --> 03:42:22.980 you look at those final turns where this needs of a die club probably doesn't get there on 03:42:22.980 --> 03:42:27.780 the Pelopon from about half health, like if it's just a hurricane into that Serena on 03:42:27.780 --> 03:42:32.740 that turn, but again, you've got to play the odds and Raghav's like, well, this, this Serena 03:42:32.740 --> 03:42:38.820 is played so defensively, Emilio is like respecting the damage that Raghav has and the, the lead 03:42:38.820 --> 03:42:45.540 that he created. And then like, there's the switch and there's like the weave into the game. I 03:42:45.540 --> 03:42:51.300 should say like, you're still going to hit your power reps, right? But you're still in a position 03:42:51.300 --> 03:42:58.260 where Emilio's taken that one little line, but one little sort of sliver of hope to try to make 03:42:58.260 --> 03:43:03.540 it through that match. I want to just also say that it's so easy again in hindsight to take a look 03:43:03.540 --> 03:43:09.540 the game and recognize these small points where a different decision or a different play 03:43:09.540 --> 03:43:14.660 could have swung the favor of the game. And as a competitor, you both have experienced this 03:43:14.660 --> 03:43:21.220 as well in very high pressure intense situations. It's hard to make that decision in 45 seconds. 03:43:21.220 --> 03:43:25.780 That's all you get to think about all of the different possibilities that could happen in this 03:43:25.780 --> 03:43:30.740 one tiny micro universe of this one match. And so I just want to give again credit to both of 03:43:30.740 --> 03:43:33.100 of our competitors, everyone that has competed at the World 03:43:33.100 --> 03:43:36.080 Championship this weekend, and maybe have had those moments 03:43:36.080 --> 03:43:38.220 on stream that are easy to nitpick and call out, 03:43:38.220 --> 03:43:40.260 because it's hard. 03:43:40.260 --> 03:43:41.620 It is so hard, and you're playing 03:43:41.620 --> 03:43:43.900 as the best of the best outworlds. 03:43:43.900 --> 03:43:45.180 But this is the World Championships. 03:43:45.180 --> 03:43:48.060 I mean, this is where those small adaptations, 03:43:48.060 --> 03:43:51.500 this is where all the prep that you put into coming 03:43:51.500 --> 03:43:53.860 into the World Championships, this is where it all matters, 03:43:53.860 --> 03:43:54.460 right? 03:43:54.460 --> 03:43:56.220 You do the rounds, you do the playing 03:43:56.220 --> 03:43:57.780 against these different compositions, 03:43:57.780 --> 03:44:00.060 you're training against friends that you're 03:44:00.060 --> 03:44:02.140 working with towards the world championships. 03:44:02.140 --> 03:44:05.540 And, you know, like those little micro decisions 03:44:05.540 --> 03:44:07.260 are the things that's where the magic is 03:44:07.260 --> 03:44:10.940 in the execution here at this level of competition. 03:44:10.940 --> 03:44:13.020 And we had, you know, a few upsets. 03:44:13.020 --> 03:44:16.260 We've had trainers come in that we were expecting, 03:44:16.260 --> 03:44:19.340 hey, you're likely, you're coming in on an absolute tear. 03:44:19.340 --> 03:44:22.780 This could be your event that have gone home in phase one. 03:44:22.780 --> 03:44:25.140 And that's just what happens when you get to this sort of 03:44:25.140 --> 03:44:27.220 pressure cooker of an event. 03:44:27.220 --> 03:44:39.220 I think the first turn and that game three in particular something that I would really emphasize anyone watching the stream newer viewers to take a look at because I think most people would probably just click the forfeit button right there and say that's it. 03:44:39.220 --> 03:44:49.220 I made a hard read. It didn't work. I'm so far behind. I'm not even going to try. But Emilio just showed if you can find a path to victory, you have to play perfectly. Right. There's just no room for everyone. 03:44:49.220 --> 03:44:55.940 like Emilio string together the perfect sequence of turns turn after turn after turn after turn and also had to you know 03:44:56.140 --> 03:44:58.900 Not get unlucky with the misses with Serena 03:44:58.900 --> 03:45:04.420 But in the end it was enough and so I didn't come back some Pokemon are always some of the most exciting things to watch 03:45:04.420 --> 03:45:09.780 Right and to be able to find a path back into the game and you can slowly feel the tension building 03:45:09.780 --> 03:45:12.260 I think you could see it in Rocko's face that he's probably 03:45:12.500 --> 03:45:15.460 You know I'm saying it was like you're so close but you still have to close it out, right? 03:45:15.460 --> 03:45:17.660 and in the end, I think Raghav slowly realized, 03:45:17.660 --> 03:45:20.660 oh my goodness, wait, like, Emilio's getting turned after turned right. 03:45:20.660 --> 03:45:23.060 Like, this game feels like it's slowly slipping away from me, 03:45:23.060 --> 03:45:24.260 but I still have a chance. 03:45:24.260 --> 03:45:28.160 I still, each turn, it's like, okay, he's like climbing back up the rope a little bit, 03:45:28.160 --> 03:45:30.160 but I still have plenty of room to work with, 03:45:30.160 --> 03:45:31.560 but then it gets to that final turn, 03:45:31.560 --> 03:45:33.260 and I'm sure he's also probably thinking 03:45:33.260 --> 03:45:35.460 I should have maybe just hurricaneed the Serena slot instead 03:45:35.460 --> 03:45:38.360 and taken the Direclaw, but if you're not sure about the damage, 03:45:38.360 --> 03:45:39.560 Calcs, in that situation, you think, 03:45:39.560 --> 03:45:40.860 oh, they're gonna get the knockout, 03:45:40.860 --> 03:45:45.160 then you go for the Sneasler to hope that you can dodge one of the two Power Whips. 03:45:45.160 --> 03:45:46.840 And that doesn't always go right as well. 03:45:46.840 --> 03:45:50.000 Like if you leave the Diaclore open, there's a possibility. 03:45:50.000 --> 03:45:53.240 Well, we know how Diaclore works. 03:45:53.240 --> 03:45:56.240 You know, it's not a guarantee there either. 03:45:56.240 --> 03:45:59.440 So let's move forward. 03:45:59.440 --> 03:46:02.480 Let's look at our top-cut bracket here. 03:46:02.480 --> 03:46:05.040 See who is going to be up against who. 03:46:05.040 --> 03:46:07.560 So we have our three players there in yellow 03:46:07.560 --> 03:46:10.560 that have made it well enough through our tournament 03:46:10.560 --> 03:46:13.120 to have a buy in this top 16 round. 03:46:13.120 --> 03:46:18.560 a reminder this is an asymmetrical top cut. We have 13 competitors overall in this bracket. 03:46:18.560 --> 03:46:24.480 So three of them getting a buy into our top eight. The rest of them are fighting for their place. 03:46:25.520 --> 03:46:30.720 Zachary Weed, second place at the Las Vegas regional championship, second place at EUIC, 03:46:30.720 --> 03:46:35.760 top eight at Worlds. He's had one of the most phenomenal seasons I can remember in North America. 03:46:35.760 --> 03:46:40.800 And I, yeah, I'm not surprised to see him here in top eight. I think he has quickly risen to 03:46:40.800 --> 03:46:43.640 to become one of the stars in North American VGC. 03:46:43.640 --> 03:46:46.760 But yeah, just absolutely dominant as a top three seed here. 03:46:46.760 --> 03:46:49.560 And Antonio Sanchez has gotten top eight 03:46:49.560 --> 03:46:50.800 of the world championships before. 03:46:50.800 --> 03:46:52.840 And so another top cut performance here. 03:46:52.840 --> 03:46:54.560 Of course, one original championship as well. 03:46:54.560 --> 03:46:56.240 We got to see him play on stream. 03:46:56.240 --> 03:46:59.920 And Takuma representing Japan being the third player 03:46:59.920 --> 03:47:01.360 to get it by. 03:47:01.360 --> 03:47:04.680 And Takuma actually got 40th at the Japan Nationals. 03:47:04.680 --> 03:47:07.720 I mean, that tournament is very, very hard. 03:47:07.720 --> 03:47:10.000 And so I think even just saying you get top 64, 03:47:10.000 --> 03:47:12.640 you qualify to the World Championships is very impressive. 03:47:12.640 --> 03:47:14.880 But Takuma comes into this tournament, 03:47:14.880 --> 03:47:18.460 ends up doing very well off the back of that recent success at 03:47:18.460 --> 03:47:21.160 Japan Nats where you get to play Pokemon champions. 03:47:21.160 --> 03:47:23.960 Then you also come in with a really cool team that has 03:47:23.960 --> 03:47:27.800 Dragonite focuses a lot on that mega flow it. 03:47:27.800 --> 03:47:31.160 So I'm really excited to see just how far to take it. 03:47:31.160 --> 03:47:33.320 Then looking at our top 16 bracket, 03:47:33.320 --> 03:47:36.200 I mean, talking about Japan National Championships, 03:47:36.200 --> 03:47:38.920 we have Hiroshi who was able to win this year's 03:47:38.920 --> 03:47:43.720 Japan national championships, showing their caliber of play getting into top 16. 03:47:43.720 --> 03:47:51.680 Versi Namjoo Joshi, a previous top eight at Worlds in 2024, doing really, really well 03:47:51.680 --> 03:47:52.680 in that tournament. 03:47:52.680 --> 03:47:58.880 Carson versus Zhao is looking like a really cool match as well, because Carson's running 03:47:58.880 --> 03:48:02.720 a more Charizard focused team, right? 03:48:02.720 --> 03:48:08.720 And Zhao is running the Lycanroc Frostlass Megasco Villain combination there, one of 03:48:08.720 --> 03:48:14.480 to Zachary Reed, Reed that's been able to make it through to our top cut. 03:48:15.760 --> 03:48:20.520 Yeah, Carson, you know, played in the seniors division over a decade ago 03:48:20.520 --> 03:48:25.120 and took a long break from BGC, came back and actually has been on a tear this season, 03:48:25.520 --> 03:48:27.360 winning a regional championship as well. 03:48:27.360 --> 03:48:31.160 And so really, really great to see them back here. 03:48:31.360 --> 03:48:34.800 Joel, player that I honestly like had not been able to see very much 03:48:34.800 --> 03:48:36.200 on the international stage before. 03:48:36.200 --> 03:48:38.640 And so they think this is a big, big performance for him. 03:48:38.720 --> 03:48:46.160 And this is a player that recently aged up from the seniors division is actually the Sao Paulo original champion from 03:48:46.400 --> 03:48:51.400 2025 in seniors and so the fact that you've recently aged up in the Masters division 03:48:51.400 --> 03:48:54.560 You're getting a top six seed at the world championships 03:48:54.560 --> 03:49:02.000 I think that's a really great player to keep our eyes on and also one that I think a lot of competitors are looking at like these young 03:49:02.560 --> 03:49:08.680 Ups starts this there's always one from every generation that comes up to the Masters division that just comes in 03:49:08.720 --> 03:49:16.720 and stars humbling us old heads, you know, coming in and showing like, you know, they've got, they've got the... 03:49:16.720 --> 03:49:21.720 I see this in like a lot of the circuit where these young players age up and they've just got no fear. 03:49:21.720 --> 03:49:25.720 I think that's like one of the things I really find exciting about watching them. 03:49:25.720 --> 03:49:29.720 Like they used to playing with the Masters both in their like local communities, 03:49:29.720 --> 03:49:34.720 but also like in terms of what we have in our grassroots and online circuits. 03:49:34.720 --> 03:49:40.600 So it's not like a big step up from seniors to masters and even seniors is very very competitive 03:49:40.600 --> 03:49:42.100 They're certainly at the top level 03:49:42.100 --> 03:49:48.300 So if you're able to like take that transition into masters and keep it going like you know the skies the limit 03:49:49.680 --> 03:49:51.480 Absolutely. Yeah, and 03:49:51.480 --> 03:49:55.640 There are some players in that top club where no familiar or very familiar 03:49:55.640 --> 03:50:00.120 I should say with the world championship final stage. Of course, we have a world champion show 03:50:00.120 --> 03:50:12.120 So, uh, Joey Kamera, uh, when we also have Emilio, who just won on the stream, who of course came so close to winning worlds, getting second many, many years ago, uh, he's had multiple top cuts at the world championship stage as well. 03:50:12.120 --> 03:50:16.120 And yeah, just continues to add to his list of impressive accomplishments. 03:50:16.120 --> 03:50:29.120 And I'm sure his heart rate after both that last set and the set before where I think he had misclicked, self targeted his own Pokemon to knock it out by accident and then one by one percent in the end, like to clutch up a game three. 03:50:29.120 --> 03:50:31.120 game three. He's probably at 03:50:31.120 --> 03:50:32.360 multiple points throughout the 03:50:32.360 --> 03:50:33.920 last hour thought, OK, well, 03:50:33.920 --> 03:50:35.320 that's it. Well, it's over, but 03:50:35.840 --> 03:50:37.240 it keeps his dream alive. 03:50:37.560 --> 03:50:39.080 And I feel like, you know, on the 03:50:39.080 --> 03:50:40.080 other side of that coin, like 03:50:40.080 --> 03:50:42.360 Shohei has shown us so 03:50:42.360 --> 03:50:43.920 often over this stream, we've 03:50:43.920 --> 03:50:45.200 got to feature him quite a few 03:50:45.200 --> 03:50:47.400 times on the broadcast and every 03:50:47.400 --> 03:50:50.200 single time, like, I've never 03:50:50.200 --> 03:50:52.680 seen really someone play 03:50:52.680 --> 03:50:54.240 these sort of Charizard flow at 03:50:54.240 --> 03:50:56.840 compositions as impressively, 03:50:56.840 --> 03:50:59.080 like, on the front foot as 03:50:59.120 --> 03:51:04.120 show has been showing us this 03:51:04.120 --> 03:51:05.120 weekend, right? It's like even 03:51:05.120 --> 03:51:07.120 in the mirror, like he played 03:51:07.120 --> 03:51:08.120 the mirror around eight 03:51:08.120 --> 03:51:09.120 yesterday. He played 03:51:09.120 --> 03:51:11.120 effectively a mirror in one of 03:51:11.120 --> 03:51:13.120 the rounds that we had on 03:51:13.120 --> 03:51:15.120 today. And every single time 03:51:15.120 --> 03:51:17.120 he's just positive switch here, 03:51:17.120 --> 03:51:19.120 calling the protect there, like 03:51:19.120 --> 03:51:22.120 not letting any like little bit 03:51:22.120 --> 03:51:24.120 of the position that he's got 03:51:24.120 --> 03:51:26.120 go to waste and really I'm just 03:51:26.120 --> 03:51:28.120 so excited to see how far he 03:51:28.120 --> 03:51:38.120 And we've been talking about this coming in, like there's only one chance for us to get another repeat world champion and Shohei has been showing us that maybe he's got it or got what it takes. 03:51:38.120 --> 03:51:48.120 We'll have to see if that is what's going to be coming to pass or whatever else we could see who could become our next world championship. We'll find out after this break. 03:52:58.120 --> 03:53:05.120 and we'll see you next time. 03:53:05.120 --> 03:53:10.120 Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Pokemon Center here at Worlds 2026 in San Francisco. 03:53:10.120 --> 03:53:15.120 As you can see, we've got the World Championship side. We've got the Pokemon XP side. 03:53:15.120 --> 03:53:20.120 I hear it's absolutely insane in there. Let's go take a look. 03:53:20.120 --> 03:53:25.120 We've got to get me popping out behind everything that we can. Let's take a shot at it. 03:53:25.120 --> 03:53:40.960 Okay, how's it going? 03:53:40.960 --> 03:53:41.960 Beautiful pieces. 03:53:41.960 --> 03:53:42.960 Bring it in close here. 03:53:42.960 --> 03:53:45.680 I want you to take a look at this for everyone at home. 03:53:45.680 --> 03:53:47.280 This is a fantastic piece. 03:53:47.280 --> 03:53:50.640 This is the beautiful sea alive we have right here. 03:53:50.640 --> 03:53:53.200 Without question, one of the finest we have. 03:53:53.200 --> 03:53:54.200 Beautiful. 03:53:54.200 --> 03:53:59.000 We have the Eevee right next to it and finally the Jigglypuff. Very nice collection. 03:54:03.720 --> 03:54:09.560 The official matte, limit one per customer, but I count as two customers so I will take two. No? 03:54:11.480 --> 03:54:13.000 King Piggy Chim. 03:54:24.200 --> 03:54:32.420 We have now transitioned from the world championships to the XP area. 03:54:32.420 --> 03:54:37.040 Space themed, extremely cool, in my opinion, cooler than the world championship area. 03:54:37.040 --> 03:54:38.720 I'm probably not supposed to say that. 03:54:38.720 --> 03:54:39.720 Let's do some pop outs. 03:54:39.720 --> 03:54:40.720 Boom, pop out. 03:54:40.720 --> 03:54:41.720 Okay, okay. 03:54:41.720 --> 03:54:42.720 Get a picture of me with the Umbreon. 03:54:42.720 --> 03:54:43.720 There you go. 03:54:43.720 --> 03:54:46.720 Okay, okay, get a picture of me with the Umbreon. 03:54:48.720 --> 03:54:49.720 There you go. 03:54:51.720 --> 03:54:54.720 The World Championship play mat and bag also limit one. 03:54:54.720 --> 03:54:56.720 These are different though, so I can take them. 03:54:56.720 --> 03:54:58.720 Yes? Yes, I got a yes. 03:54:58.720 --> 03:55:00.720 Place is poppin'. 03:55:01.720 --> 03:55:03.720 Beautiful, special, elegant. 03:55:03.720 --> 03:55:06.720 One of them's going on a trip, one of them's blasting off, 03:55:06.720 --> 03:55:08.720 another one would be in a spaceship. 03:55:09.720 --> 03:55:11.720 I think I like Curely the best. 03:55:11.720 --> 03:55:14.120 I have been excited to see this the entire time. 03:55:14.120 --> 03:55:17.120 This is the item I have had my eye on more than anything else. 03:55:17.120 --> 03:55:19.120 This jacket right here. 03:55:20.320 --> 03:55:23.120 It's beautiful. It's special. 03:55:23.120 --> 03:55:26.920 I'm not exactly sure where I can wear it, except everywhere, 03:55:26.920 --> 03:55:28.520 and I want it very bad. 03:55:28.520 --> 03:55:29.720 I will be back for it. 03:55:29.720 --> 03:55:32.120 Because secondly, I'm not allowed to shop for this right now. 03:55:34.920 --> 03:55:36.520 Hey, Pokemon Trainers. 03:55:36.520 --> 03:55:39.320 Welcome to Pokemon Championships History, 03:55:39.320 --> 03:55:44.120 a series where we showcase important moments throughout the history of competitive Pokémon. 03:55:44.120 --> 03:55:49.000 I'm Jake Muller and I'd love to take you back to the world championships in 2015, 03:55:49.000 --> 03:55:54.440 the year MegaKangaskhan claimed her biggest victory. But first, we need to go back one more 03:55:54.440 --> 03:56:01.240 year to 2014. Pokémon X and Pokémon Y introduced Mega Evolutions to competitive Pokémon, 03:56:01.240 --> 03:56:06.360 and MegaKangaskhan dominated the metagame throughout the entire season. However, when the 03:56:06.360 --> 03:56:11.560 the 2014 World Championships ruled around, MegaKangaskhan fell to the wayside, failing 03:56:11.560 --> 03:56:17.240 to make a single appearance in Top 8. Although MegaKangaskhan surged back into the metagame 03:56:17.240 --> 03:56:22.740 as we moved into the 2015 season, its place at the top became crowded, thanks to the introduction 03:56:22.740 --> 03:56:29.620 of even more Mega Evolutions from Pokemon Omega Ruby and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. 03:56:29.620 --> 03:56:34.340 As the World Championships loomed, the community wondered whether MegaKangaskhan would once 03:56:34.340 --> 03:56:39.460 again be pushed out of the minigame by a high presence of Pokemon that could counter it. 03:56:39.460 --> 03:56:44.620 Anticipating this, many players from Europe and North America opted not to include Mega 03:56:44.620 --> 03:56:48.420 Kinggiscon on their teams, fearing history would repeat itself. 03:56:48.420 --> 03:56:51.380 Japan, however, had something else in mind. 03:56:51.380 --> 03:56:56.940 Just two months prior at the Japan National Championships, Shoma Honani claimed first place 03:56:56.940 --> 03:57:01.140 with an early version of a team structure that would come to be known as Chalk, which 03:57:01.140 --> 03:57:08.860 featured Criselya, Hitran, Amungus, Landrasterian, and Mega-Kangaskhan. 03:57:08.860 --> 03:57:14.460 This team composition boasted an unmatched combination of power and flexibility, leading 03:57:14.460 --> 03:57:21.300 Shoma and many other Japanese players to ride the Mega-Kangaskhan wave all the way to Boston. 03:57:21.300 --> 03:57:26.300 As the 2015 World Championships progressed, it became clear that Chalk was the team to 03:57:26.300 --> 03:57:27.300 beat. 03:57:27.300 --> 03:57:31.540 know the competition was full of teams with outside mega evolution picks like 03:57:31.540 --> 03:57:37.920 mega mawile mega charizard x go for the flare blitz here on the thunderous 03:57:37.920 --> 03:57:43.120 mega salamence the hyper voice and mega charizard y go for the flame glory 03:57:43.120 --> 03:57:48.440 here six of the top eight players used teams that followed the chalk guidelines 03:57:48.440 --> 03:57:53.480 including shoma honami himself while the extraordinary success of this team 03:57:53.480 --> 03:57:58.200 composition at the biggest event of the season was astounding. Even more interesting was the 03:57:58.200 --> 03:58:04.040 variation seen within Chalk just inside this top eight. While all six teams had both Mega 03:58:04.040 --> 03:58:09.480 Kankaskhan and Landerous Therian, many players opted for some alternate options for the remaining 03:58:09.480 --> 03:58:15.240 Pokemon. Heatran was substituted for a different fire type Pokemon on two occasions, with one 03:58:15.240 --> 03:58:21.640 player using Entei and one choosing Volcarona. The sixth Pokemon on the team ranged from Thundaris 03:58:21.640 --> 03:58:24.920 to Age of Slash, to Taranitar, to Scrafty. 03:58:24.920 --> 03:58:29.960 Silvion made an appearance in place of Criselia in one instance, and one player even gave 03:58:29.960 --> 03:58:33.480 up Amungus to run both Age of Slash and Thunderous. 03:58:33.480 --> 03:58:39.080 The two teams in top eight at the World Championships that did not make use of MegaKangaskhan were 03:58:39.080 --> 03:58:43.940 both defeated in the quarterfinals, meaning that MegaKangaskhan was guaranteed to have 03:58:43.940 --> 03:58:44.940 her day in the sun. 03:58:44.940 --> 03:58:47.580 Players shake hands knowing that the game is over, 03:58:47.580 --> 03:58:49.680 growth time wash falls and the crowd reacts. 03:58:49.680 --> 03:58:52.020 Ladies and gentlemen, Yusuke Advancing, we've seen him. 03:58:52.020 --> 03:58:54.880 This is the second time on stream playing incredibly, 03:58:54.880 --> 03:58:56.420 incredibly well. 03:58:56.420 --> 03:58:59.800 After taking down Naoto Mizobushi in top four, 03:58:59.800 --> 03:59:02.100 Shoma Honami would be met in the finals 03:59:02.100 --> 03:59:05.200 by fellow Japanese player Hidiyuki Taita, 03:59:05.200 --> 03:59:08.500 whose Volcarona set him apart from the rest of the field. 03:59:08.500 --> 03:59:10.500 Oh, my God. 03:59:10.500 --> 03:59:11.500 He's done. 03:59:11.500 --> 03:59:14.000 We're gonna met him in the field. 03:59:14.000 --> 03:59:16.800 The championship match was a back-and-forth affair. 03:59:16.800 --> 03:59:25.100 Shoma 1 game 1, thanks to consistent damage output from his lander's theory and clever use of disruptive attacks, like Thunder Wave and Swagger. 03:59:25.100 --> 03:59:30.600 And here we go, will it be able to hit through confusion? Is the question, no, it hits itself! Huge! Shoma very excited! 03:59:30.600 --> 03:59:37.800 But Hideyuki turns the tides, and even the score at 1 game all, after his Pokemon broke through confusion on crucial turns. 03:59:37.800 --> 03:59:45.600 A lot on the line for these two trainers, almost $20,000 in prizing here as it hits through with a big shadow sneak. 03:59:45.600 --> 03:59:48.300 I think that will pick up the faint here on the Thunderous. 03:59:48.300 --> 03:59:54.000 It is definitely at this point looking like a huge taking it to a game three in the deciding game. 03:59:54.400 --> 04:00:02.920 Shoma made expert use of he trans defensive utility and offensive power proving that the original chalk fire type Pokemon was still number one. 04:00:02.920 --> 04:00:08.240 should do a ton here. Oh my gosh, picking up the fate on Hideyuki's Pokemon as well 04:00:08.240 --> 04:00:13.080 as catching the burn, activating the weakness policy there, but the burn is absolutely huge 04:00:13.080 --> 04:00:15.680 and it's only a matter of protect before this one is over. 04:00:15.680 --> 04:00:20.440 Fittingly, MegaKangaskhan re-entered the field right before Hideyuki conceded defeat, 04:00:20.440 --> 04:00:25.640 shown this decision to stay true to his run to the Japan Nationals title with the original 04:00:25.640 --> 04:00:32.600 components of the Chak team composition paid off as he became the 2015 Pokemon World Champion. 04:00:40.280 --> 04:00:45.560 Thank you for watching and let us know some of your favorite moments in VGC history by using the 04:00:45.560 --> 04:00:47.560 Hashtag Play Pokemon. 04:00:47.560 --> 04:00:54.560 Welcome back everyone to the Pokemon World Championship. 04:01:17.560 --> 04:01:20.560 here in beautiful San Francisco. 04:01:20.560 --> 04:01:25.560 In addition, we've got Pokemon XP happening right outside these doors as well. 04:01:25.560 --> 04:01:32.560 And I love that we just got to see how Shoma Honami became a world champion back in 2015 04:01:32.560 --> 04:01:37.560 because it's time to get ready to crown a new world champion here in San Francisco. 04:01:37.560 --> 04:01:40.560 Format gets real simple from here. If you don't win, you're done. 04:01:40.560 --> 04:01:45.560 Exactly. Every player in the bracket, this is a single elimination bracket. 04:01:45.560 --> 04:01:49.960 bracket win, you get to keep playing, lose, and you go home. 04:01:49.960 --> 04:01:53.320 Go home as a top cut competitor at the world championship, 04:01:53.320 --> 04:01:55.640 so pretty good, but at this point, 04:01:55.640 --> 04:01:58.320 each and every one of our players knows 04:01:58.320 --> 04:02:00.600 that they have a shot at being the world champion. 04:02:00.600 --> 04:02:02.160 Exactly, Evan, I think we're kind of at that point 04:02:02.160 --> 04:02:03.880 in the tournament where, hey, a few weeks for now, 04:02:03.880 --> 04:02:05.640 I think everyone who's gotten to this point 04:02:05.640 --> 04:02:06.480 in the tournament is gonna think, 04:02:06.480 --> 04:02:08.360 I had a great run, I had a great world championship, 04:02:08.360 --> 04:02:09.520 I'm proud of myself. 04:02:09.520 --> 04:02:11.000 Right now, it's a little bit different, right? 04:02:11.000 --> 04:02:12.600 Where you don't know when you're gonna get a chance 04:02:12.600 --> 04:02:14.600 to do this again, making the top cut of world championship 04:02:14.600 --> 04:02:18.420 is so difficult and you can't waste this opportunity, right? Everyone kind of 04:02:18.420 --> 04:02:22.040 realize, okay, I've gotten this point. I could do it. Like this is no longer just 04:02:22.040 --> 04:02:25.740 a dream. It's achievable and it's really important to pass it in. One of these 04:02:25.740 --> 04:02:29.840 trainers is going to. Absolutely. And we are going to be playing our first round 04:02:29.840 --> 04:02:34.720 of the play in rounds of top cut to make it to our top eight, which means that the 04:02:34.720 --> 04:02:39.880 players who are competing in this round only need to win what? Four more rounds 04:02:39.880 --> 04:02:46.840 to be the world champion of the Pokemon first champions world champion that's wild they've 04:02:46.840 --> 04:02:52.440 already played 11 sets of Pokemon so far what's four more yeah and you think about it you link 04:02:52.440 --> 04:02:56.600 guys these players have probably literally played thousands of games to practice over the course of 04:02:56.600 --> 04:03:00.840 the season they think it's all now going to come down to you know just four rounds would be a dozen 04:03:00.840 --> 04:03:05.240 games to be the world champion it's so close from where they started at the beginning of the year 04:03:05.240 --> 04:03:09.240 incredible achievement by all these trainers to get to this point but you know it'd be a shame to 04:03:09.240 --> 04:03:15.000 lose now. Absolutely and I am so excited for all of our competitors who have made it to this top cut 04:03:15.000 --> 04:03:19.960 stage of the tournament both because I know that it feels great for them to have that opportunity 04:03:19.960 --> 04:03:24.920 but also because I am excited to see what these competitors can do when you know the pressure is 04:03:24.920 --> 04:03:31.800 on it's make or break moments this is the time where you stamp your name in the history books and 04:03:31.800 --> 04:03:36.840 we've got some incredible competitors to watch out for. Absolutely I'm very excited for all of 04:03:36.840 --> 04:03:41.880 of these trainers where they, maybe particularly our next match should be really fun. But everyone 04:03:41.880 --> 04:03:45.360 who gets this point in the tournament, right? I mean, they've proven themselves to be a 04:03:45.360 --> 04:03:47.240 player to watch for seasons to come. 04:03:47.240 --> 04:03:52.000 Absolutely. And we're going to be watching our first match up here. What I'm so excited 04:03:52.000 --> 04:03:57.560 about this tournament is that it is a truly international tournament. This is the world 04:03:57.560 --> 04:04:02.660 championships for a reason. We have people from so many different regions here competing 04:04:02.660 --> 04:04:05.420 at the World Championships, regions that, you know, 04:04:05.420 --> 04:04:07.980 when we first started doing this 13 years ago, 04:04:07.980 --> 04:04:09.460 people had written off as saying, 04:04:09.460 --> 04:04:12.020 well, well, there's really just North America and Japan. 04:04:12.020 --> 04:04:14.380 And honestly, there's really just Japan 04:04:14.380 --> 04:04:16.140 and Ray Rizzo at that point. 04:04:16.140 --> 04:04:18.980 So it's so exciting to see the growth of the game 04:04:18.980 --> 04:04:21.100 and see how many opportunities 04:04:21.100 --> 04:04:22.660 some of these regions have been able to get. 04:04:22.660 --> 04:04:24.740 And I'm personally extremely excited 04:04:24.740 --> 04:04:26.420 to see our Latin American competitors, 04:04:26.420 --> 04:04:29.060 especially because we are going to be able to see them 04:04:29.060 --> 04:04:30.780 follow their journey next season 04:04:30.780 --> 04:04:32.580 as part of the official stream broadcast. 04:04:32.580 --> 04:04:35.920 Exactly. Yeah. I think I'm really excited to get more tape on some of these players, right? 04:04:35.920 --> 04:04:39.420 We're really excited to get to see the American players we do have in top cut. 04:04:39.420 --> 04:04:42.660 You're trying to join. You know, Paul Ruiz is a world champion from that region. 04:04:43.260 --> 04:04:46.160 But yeah, I mean, it's like we always read about their accomplishments, right? 04:04:46.160 --> 04:04:47.260 We don't get to see it as much. 04:04:47.260 --> 04:04:49.300 So I think tuning in next season will be really fun. 04:04:49.300 --> 04:04:52.060 You kind of get to see more from what those players are doing. 04:04:52.060 --> 04:04:54.200 And yeah, I mean, I'd argue going into this tournament, too, 04:04:54.200 --> 04:04:56.840 it wasn't Japan, North America, but I think it seemed like a lot of first 04:04:56.840 --> 04:04:59.500 felt like it was like Japan and Europe were the only regions even this year. 04:04:59.500 --> 04:05:00.640 Porto, Canada and Italy. 04:05:00.640 --> 04:05:03.100 Yeah, right. And yeah, top cut bracket look a little bit different, right? 04:05:03.100 --> 04:05:07.840 Kind of proving that, hey, we shouldn't have written off some of the trainers that we did. 04:05:07.840 --> 04:05:09.400 And I think it's going to make this really fun, right? 04:05:09.400 --> 04:05:10.940 A lot of just like them. 04:05:10.940 --> 04:05:13.640 Really nice mix of teams in top cut as well. 04:05:13.640 --> 04:05:15.340 You know, mostly expected poke. 04:05:15.340 --> 04:05:17.440 One of those some really cool surprises as well. 04:05:17.440 --> 04:05:19.240 But it's the way these teams are piloted. 04:05:19.240 --> 04:05:20.640 I think it's really going to make the difference. 04:05:20.640 --> 04:05:23.840 And everyone who's gotten this point is just absolute master of their own team. 04:05:23.840 --> 04:05:27.340 Yeah. And that's what's been so exciting about watching this tournament is, 04:05:27.340 --> 04:05:31.160 You know, the meta game has some very much top tier threats, 04:05:31.160 --> 04:05:34.800 you know, top teams that everyone should have practiced against going into it. 04:05:34.800 --> 04:05:37.260 But it's not the same meta where it's like, 04:05:37.260 --> 04:05:40.760 okay, I know exactly what my lines are in every single team. 04:05:40.760 --> 04:05:42.680 We're like, if I'm going to play against Big Six, 04:05:42.680 --> 04:05:45.540 I know exactly the flow chart that I'm going to go in for. 04:05:45.540 --> 04:05:46.920 There is a lot of variance in this, 04:05:46.920 --> 04:05:49.860 but it's also just such razor thin margins. 04:05:49.860 --> 04:05:53.040 I don't know if there are that many teams that feel like they have 04:05:53.040 --> 04:05:58.640 of overwhelmingly winning matchup against the other teams in the meta right now. 04:05:58.640 --> 04:06:00.340 And a lot of trainers have been kind of a little frustrated, right? 04:06:00.340 --> 04:06:03.740 Because they're kind of used to, oh, my prep, maybe I can just like team dip people a little bit. 04:06:03.740 --> 04:06:06.040 But just out of this year of playing out, right? 04:06:06.040 --> 04:06:11.540 Where you kind of just have to be really locked in every game, navigate some really difficult conditions of each matchup. 04:06:11.540 --> 04:06:14.340 And especially, I mean, like there's little training differences, right? 04:06:14.340 --> 04:06:16.340 You know, oh, I'm a little stature a little bit different. 04:06:16.340 --> 04:06:17.840 Oh, I've changed the move. I've changed the item. 04:06:17.840 --> 04:06:20.840 But it's hard for that to be the difference between winning and losing a match. 04:06:20.840 --> 04:06:23.480 So these trainers are doing very stressed so far 04:06:23.480 --> 04:06:25.720 and we're entering the most stressful part of a tournament now. 04:06:25.720 --> 04:06:27.880 Absolutely, and let's take a look at those competitors 04:06:27.880 --> 04:06:31.240 who have qualified for our top cup bracket. 04:06:31.240 --> 04:06:33.360 Of course, you can see there are three players 04:06:33.360 --> 04:06:36.840 who by virtue of their record and strength of schedule 04:06:36.840 --> 04:06:39.880 have qualified for the top eight already. 04:06:39.880 --> 04:06:43.000 And they are two players that we have seen on stream 04:06:43.000 --> 04:06:46.880 a few times already, Antonio Sanchez and Zachary Weed. 04:06:46.880 --> 04:06:49.680 But also Takuma Yamazaki from Japan 04:06:49.680 --> 04:06:52.400 has also advanced to the top eight. 04:06:52.400 --> 04:06:56.360 They're close three players are guaranteed a spot in the top eight 04:06:56.360 --> 04:07:00.320 and the remaining competitors are fighting for the opportunity to join them. 04:07:00.320 --> 04:07:02.720 All these players finished with two losses or fewer, 04:07:02.720 --> 04:07:04.600 but the very top trainers with the fewest losses 04:07:04.600 --> 04:07:06.480 that were the best opponent records are the ones 04:07:06.480 --> 04:07:09.920 who are able to get those buys to move on as everyone else works to join them here. 04:07:09.920 --> 04:07:12.600 A lot of big names that we have on this side of the field 04:07:12.600 --> 04:07:16.720 where any of these players could very feasibly become the world champion. 04:07:16.720 --> 04:07:18.800 We've got to see a number of them on stream before. 04:07:18.800 --> 04:07:21.200 And there's some pretty exciting achievements to the side. 04:07:21.200 --> 04:07:23.920 We have a former world champion, and Joe Hayekimura, 04:07:23.920 --> 04:07:26.240 a former world's runner up in Emilio, right? 04:07:26.240 --> 04:07:28.560 Where I think both these trainers probably, 04:07:28.560 --> 04:07:29.720 really adding to a legacy story, 04:07:29.720 --> 04:07:32.000 and getting into like greatest of all time conversation 04:07:32.000 --> 04:07:33.400 if they're able to win this one. 04:07:33.400 --> 04:07:36.000 Yet no one has ever been able to replicate 04:07:36.000 --> 04:07:38.320 what Ray Rizzo did in 2011, 04:07:38.320 --> 04:07:41.400 which is winning a second world championship, 04:07:41.400 --> 04:07:44.240 let alone back to back like Ray Rizzo did back then. 04:07:44.240 --> 04:07:47.440 However, the competition is just so much more fierce now 04:07:47.440 --> 04:07:49.960 here in 2026 that, you know, 04:07:49.960 --> 04:07:52.720 if Shohei Komar is able to make it all the way, 04:07:52.720 --> 04:07:55.000 he is our last remaining world champion chasing 04:07:55.000 --> 04:07:56.120 that second crown here, 04:07:56.120 --> 04:07:58.280 but you would have to consider him 04:07:58.280 --> 04:08:00.040 as one of the greatest of all time 04:08:00.040 --> 04:08:03.240 if he is able to accomplish a second world championship. 04:08:03.240 --> 04:08:04.360 But like we mentioned, 04:08:04.360 --> 04:08:07.720 so many great competitors from across the world here. 04:08:07.720 --> 04:08:10.280 I'm really excited that we have Brazilian representation, 04:08:10.280 --> 04:08:12.200 we have Canadian representation. 04:08:12.200 --> 04:08:14.520 We have so many incredible competitors here. 04:08:14.520 --> 04:08:17.120 It is a world championship. 04:08:17.120 --> 04:08:19.580 Well, it's not leaving you waiting too much longer. 04:08:19.580 --> 04:08:22.620 Got a match ready, and I couldn't be more excited for this one. 04:08:22.620 --> 04:08:26.580 Yeah, this is a matchup that Scott has been bragging about calling 04:08:26.580 --> 04:08:29.380 from before the World Championships, 04:08:29.380 --> 04:08:31.420 not necessarily that they would be facing each other, 04:08:31.420 --> 04:08:34.380 but two of your players that you are most excited to see here 04:08:34.380 --> 04:08:35.020 at the World Championship. 04:08:35.020 --> 04:08:37.260 Absolutely, yeah, they cast her by a school for me, 04:08:37.260 --> 04:08:41.260 where, you know, like, it's gonna be a lot of fun to watch. 04:08:41.260 --> 04:08:42.540 I always tell you I'm excited. 04:08:42.540 --> 04:08:44.940 That's my job, but this time I'm telling you the truth. 04:08:44.940 --> 04:08:46.900 I think two really exciting players here. 04:08:46.900 --> 04:08:50.580 I just really love watching Carson in our domestic circuit here in North America. 04:08:50.580 --> 04:08:52.620 I just think he's so scary to play against. 04:08:52.620 --> 04:08:55.780 I think if you hook him on VGC, when you get to a point where you're good enough, 04:08:55.780 --> 04:08:57.660 it kind of just feels different watching you play. 04:08:57.660 --> 04:09:02.100 Kind of just exert pressure by virtue of being so good at capitalizing on your advantage, 04:09:02.100 --> 04:09:04.380 just so good at creating advantageous forward positions. 04:09:04.380 --> 04:09:07.700 And I think of the more offensively oriented players in North America. 04:09:07.700 --> 04:09:09.740 This year to me, there was nobody better than Carson. 04:09:09.740 --> 04:09:13.180 And with the way this format's playing out, where players couldn't quite figure out defense, 04:09:13.180 --> 04:09:15.820 where every game at smaller margins, you kind of have to make reads. 04:09:15.820 --> 04:09:17.820 To me it seems like of all the North American players, 04:09:17.820 --> 04:09:20.820 Carson could be the best suited to that sort of tournament. 04:09:20.820 --> 04:09:24.820 Absolutely, and you can see Carson's accomplishments there on your screen. 04:09:24.820 --> 04:09:27.820 Very accomplished back in the senior division. 04:09:27.820 --> 04:09:31.820 The age up into the master division competed through 2018, took a break, 04:09:31.820 --> 04:09:36.820 and came back with a vengeance starting at the end of Starlet and Violet. 04:09:36.820 --> 04:09:41.820 It's our current Seattle regional champion, just proving that the skills don't go away. 04:09:41.820 --> 04:09:43.820 They're just always there waiting for you to come back to them. 04:09:43.820 --> 04:09:47.740 back to him. I think he's been incredible for the long break as well, where he just immediately 04:09:47.740 --> 04:09:50.820 is like, Oh, well, why don't you just immediately be the scariest player in the world? Very 04:09:50.820 --> 04:09:54.700 awesome. I'm really excited to watch. I haven't got to see as much footage of him, but I'm 04:09:54.700 --> 04:09:57.380 thinking with someone that players should have been a little bit more afraid of coming 04:09:57.380 --> 04:10:00.580 into this tournament. Look, he was eighth in championship points in Latin America, but 04:10:00.580 --> 04:10:04.580 he'd really been grinding the online tournaments coming up to this event. I think we've kind 04:10:04.580 --> 04:10:07.820 of mentioned repeatedly throughout the course of this weekend where since you've seen 04:10:07.820 --> 04:10:11.940 two people really in this format, it's very important to know your team and its lines well. 04:10:11.940 --> 04:10:16.540 He's been playing this team a lot, I believe, two weeks ago in the last Western Online Gratchers 04:10:16.540 --> 04:10:17.540 tournament. 04:10:17.540 --> 04:10:18.740 He gets second place using the same team. 04:10:18.740 --> 04:10:23.340 So he's played high stakes matches with this team already, and I don't think anyone's 04:10:23.340 --> 04:10:25.460 maybe too excited to play against either of these traders. 04:10:25.460 --> 04:10:29.260 So not surprised to see both of them in the top cut, I think we should get a really exciting 04:10:29.260 --> 04:10:30.260 match here. 04:10:30.260 --> 04:10:36.460 Yeah, let's take a look at Carson St. Dennis' team here, a very familiar grouping of six 04:10:36.460 --> 04:10:40.740 Pokemon, but you always have to look at these small differences here. 04:10:40.740 --> 04:10:45.500 I see a team like this. I always look at the king gambit to see which one it is. It's triple and four attacks 04:10:45.500 --> 04:10:48.780 I look at the Charizard. There's the solar beam over the ancient power 04:10:48.900 --> 04:10:55.020 But also you have to look for the things you weren't expecting to see different and I see that rock tomb on Sneasler 04:10:55.020 --> 04:10:57.180 Yeah, I love it and there's not a whole lot of changes here, right? 04:10:57.180 --> 04:10:59.700 I'm like, you know, don't change the things that aren't broken 04:10:59.700 --> 04:11:04.260 But I love rock to the hands of a player like this one right where you just have to think about board states a little bit differently 04:11:04.260 --> 04:11:08.100 I notice that you're pretty impactful rock tech damage where it makes it much more effective 04:11:08.100 --> 04:11:10.380 they can say like Charizard or Pelopter or whatever, 04:11:10.380 --> 04:11:12.040 you get a super effective attack. 04:11:12.040 --> 04:11:14.580 But also the speed drop on it is really impactful. 04:11:14.580 --> 04:11:16.040 Always drop speed by one level. 04:11:16.040 --> 04:11:18.020 So, you know, if players are kind of just playing around 04:11:18.020 --> 04:11:19.480 checking certain end game situations, 04:11:19.480 --> 04:11:21.620 like, oh, I know this Pokemon is faster than that one, 04:11:21.620 --> 04:11:23.740 so I can just preserve that to have them finished off. 04:11:23.740 --> 04:11:26.020 Even if Sneasler can't knock out the opponent, 04:11:26.020 --> 04:11:27.880 being able to lower its speed potentially allows 04:11:27.880 --> 04:11:30.060 one of its friends to flip an end game situation. 04:11:30.060 --> 04:11:31.740 I think it's really cool, especially for a player 04:11:31.740 --> 04:11:34.420 if it's proven to be as good at navigating matches 04:11:34.420 --> 04:11:35.740 and kind of creating bad situations 04:11:35.740 --> 04:11:37.020 for his opponents as Carson has. 04:11:37.020 --> 04:11:44.020 Absolutely. And having that as a secondary speed control option alongside the tailwind on Winsiccott gives him so much flexibility. 04:11:44.020 --> 04:12:03.020 He is going to need it. Going up against Joel Felipe Leitcher here from Brazil. Running the Scovillian and Frostlast dual mega team that also has that lichenrock which is a big part of this team and is designed to be matched up so well into Charizard teams. 04:12:03.020 --> 04:12:05.720 Yeah, I mean, we'll get to see that like and rock almost for sure this matchup. 04:12:05.720 --> 04:12:08.320 I think players are always a little surprised when they see like and rock. 04:12:08.320 --> 04:12:10.520 If you haven't really been following this year's video game championships, 04:12:10.620 --> 04:12:13.920 not traditionally a Pokemon that we see in this level of competition, 04:12:14.020 --> 04:12:15.020 but it's so uniquely good, right? 04:12:15.020 --> 04:12:18.520 The only Pokemon capable of using that increased priority rock type move. 04:12:18.520 --> 04:12:22.120 But no matter what speed control is happening, I'm going to dunk that Charizard. 04:12:22.120 --> 04:12:23.820 If you leave it unprotected against like and rock. 04:12:23.820 --> 04:12:25.320 So what are you going to do about it? 04:12:25.320 --> 04:12:27.020 Like the rest of the team is pretty fun too. 04:12:27.220 --> 04:12:30.720 We start seeing it the week before the North America International Championships in Turin. 04:12:30.720 --> 04:12:36.180 It really hasn't changed at all in regulation and be just a team that a lumber players have found a lot of comfort on like 04:12:36.180 --> 04:12:39.720 Hey, you know, maybe I don't have anything new for this format, but I'm gonna play it really well 04:12:39.720 --> 04:12:41.720 I think I have the tools to beat every matchup 04:12:41.720 --> 04:12:47.860 The one big change being that life warp held item wasn't available before I was previously usually citrus berry on that vasculage 04:12:47.860 --> 04:12:51.200 And instead life warp here for Joao, so they're gonna be a little bit more offensive 04:12:51.200 --> 04:12:55.040 Maybe not as bulky as it used to be that was kind of a fun synergy with you Aurora veil from cross laugh 04:12:55.040 --> 04:13:00.400 But it just had a lot of damage compared to what we saw in regulation and well here we go game 04:13:00.400 --> 04:13:05.740 Game 1 of our first top cut match here at the World Championships. 04:13:05.740 --> 04:13:13.360 Dwel will be leading Frostlast next to that Lycanroc and immediately catching the Charizard and King Gambit. 04:13:13.360 --> 04:13:19.120 And immediately you see why Lycanroc has a place in this meta against these teams, 04:13:19.120 --> 04:13:24.840 threatening super effective, flawed super effective damage against both Pokemon on Carson's side. 04:13:24.840 --> 04:13:27.240 Yeah, Lycanroc immediately terrifying here. 04:13:27.240 --> 04:13:32.140 That only does have the Accelerac or the Rackfly to try to take out the Charizard and look at it for team damage as well. 04:13:32.140 --> 04:13:34.640 And it also covers a lot of the switches pretty well, right? 04:13:34.640 --> 04:13:38.740 Where there are any Pokemon, other than Sneezler, who's going to be too excited about taking out those attacks. 04:13:38.740 --> 04:13:40.140 That will focus you to backbutchers. 04:13:40.140 --> 04:13:43.640 Sneezler is immediately switching out of battle here, bringing the Sneezler in. 04:13:43.640 --> 04:13:51.040 Sneezler coming in, Frostlass is a little bit concerned about staring down Charizard and losing the weather war from the jump. 04:13:51.040 --> 04:13:55.340 But that Sneezler coming in will threaten Facebook to pick out pressure 04:13:55.340 --> 04:13:59.340 as the Xcelerock connects on to Whimzacot on the switch in. 04:13:59.340 --> 04:14:02.940 Ironhead from the King Gambit will be able to connect on to Lycanroc 04:14:02.940 --> 04:14:05.340 and bring it down to its focus set. 04:14:05.340 --> 04:14:08.620 And now you have, again, a Pokemon for Joelle 04:14:08.620 --> 04:14:11.500 that threatens Wad's super effective damage 04:14:11.500 --> 04:14:13.180 on both Pokemon on Carson's side. 04:14:13.180 --> 04:14:15.260 Yeah, the type chart not working super well for Carson here, 04:14:15.260 --> 04:14:17.260 but I don't think he's going to be too upset about the trade. 04:14:17.260 --> 04:14:19.980 Funding out to both sides, switching out their Mega Evolve, 04:14:19.980 --> 04:14:22.380 being Pokemon there, not Mega Evolve yet, 04:14:22.380 --> 04:14:24.380 because the weather war is a little bit difficult 04:14:24.380 --> 04:14:29.800 He's not just right where typically you kind of want to be the one who is megaable second in order to get that advantage there 04:14:30.180 --> 04:14:33.260 Frostlast typically naturally quicker, but both sides go lang for now 04:14:33.260 --> 04:14:36.140 Like it rock having to escape to preserve itself as a win tradition later 04:14:36.140 --> 04:14:38.740 Don't want to let that go down while Charizard is still at full health 04:14:39.020 --> 04:14:43.580 Free sucker punch there would mean that Charizard could start running over this team 04:14:44.020 --> 04:14:47.140 Especially after whimsicott is able to get the tailwind up 04:14:47.300 --> 04:14:54.340 There's the chouful fairy activating to reduce the power of that close combat just enough to allow King Gambit 04:14:54.340 --> 04:14:57.460 to hang on with 9% health. 04:14:57.460 --> 04:15:00.220 That is going to drop the defenses of Sneasler, 04:15:00.220 --> 04:15:03.380 but immediately regain them with the White Herb 04:15:03.380 --> 04:15:06.780 and activate the Unburden, allowing that Sneasler 04:15:06.780 --> 04:15:09.740 to be able to match the speed boost from the tailwind 04:15:09.740 --> 04:15:11.180 on the Whimsicott. 04:15:11.180 --> 04:15:13.620 Of course, King Gambit is happy to tank an Iron Head 04:15:13.620 --> 04:15:14.660 on the switch. 04:15:14.660 --> 04:15:16.100 Yeah, nice switch there from Julio. 04:15:16.100 --> 04:15:18.100 Not taking too much damage from the Iron Head 04:15:18.100 --> 04:15:19.940 and his King Gambit, and also creating a situation 04:15:19.940 --> 04:15:21.060 for the opposing King Gambit. 04:15:21.060 --> 04:15:22.700 We're now just have to worry about the Sneasler now, 04:15:22.700 --> 04:15:24.780 but if it locks into anything other than sucker punch, 04:15:24.780 --> 04:15:26.980 it's a danger of being a sucker punch itself 04:15:26.980 --> 04:15:28.580 and knocked up before it can do anything. 04:15:28.580 --> 04:15:29.820 I'm not gonna do a whole lot of damage 04:15:29.820 --> 04:15:31.060 in the battle between the King Gamma, 04:15:31.060 --> 04:15:33.340 but when you only have 9% HP, 04:15:33.340 --> 04:15:34.180 you're kind of checked there, 04:15:34.180 --> 04:15:35.780 which really reduces the impact of his tail, right? 04:15:35.780 --> 04:15:37.460 Sneasler's still the fastest poke on the field 04:15:37.460 --> 04:15:40.100 after Inverton, King Gamma checked by his opposite numbers, 04:15:40.100 --> 04:15:41.300 so nice job by Chihuahua there. 04:15:41.300 --> 04:15:42.460 Does it have the speed advantage 04:15:42.460 --> 04:15:43.860 from a speed control perspective, 04:15:43.860 --> 04:15:46.580 but with the reality of how these poke on can act, he does, 04:15:46.580 --> 04:15:48.020 so Carson's still on the back foot, 04:15:48.020 --> 04:15:49.940 getting a little bit more maneuvering 04:15:49.940 --> 04:15:52.460 to really get an advantage onto the battle field here. 04:15:52.460 --> 04:15:59.460 King Gambit will retreat, again not trying to give up any Pokemon for free here as Garchomp will switch in. 04:15:59.460 --> 04:16:05.460 No priority coming out from Jawao and Wimzikon is still faster than the Unburdened Sneasler in Tailwind. 04:16:05.460 --> 04:16:10.460 That close combat now connects on to the Garchomp on the switch and does a lot of damage. 04:16:10.460 --> 04:16:15.460 A double up into that slot, likely to pick up the Garchomp on the switch in here. 04:16:15.460 --> 04:16:20.460 There's the Kautau Kleed coming out from King Gambit, connects on to Garchomp and it is enough. 04:16:20.460 --> 04:16:23.660 Person loses garch up immediately on the switch. 04:16:23.660 --> 04:16:24.860 That's a big knockout too. 04:16:24.860 --> 04:16:26.760 You know, Pokemon that could otherwise have really helped out 04:16:26.760 --> 04:16:28.760 with Elune with that like-and-rock in the back later. 04:16:28.760 --> 04:16:31.060 So, so I know it's pretty good for J'wow there. 04:16:31.060 --> 04:16:32.160 Charizard going to come in now. 04:16:32.160 --> 04:16:34.460 Doesn't have to worry about the like-and-rock immediately. 04:16:34.460 --> 04:16:36.060 And then you're kind of looking at this in person side. 04:16:36.060 --> 04:16:38.560 It feels like, hey, like I almost have to send out Charizard. 04:16:38.560 --> 04:16:41.660 Otherwise, it's going to be checked and useless later in the matchup. 04:16:41.660 --> 04:16:44.060 So some important progress here from J'wow. 04:16:44.060 --> 04:16:45.560 And then also important to keep in mind, 04:16:45.560 --> 04:16:47.060 just to help us now to introduce him. 04:16:47.060 --> 04:16:49.560 It's like it is the fastest Pokemon to fill in with Tailwind. 04:16:49.560 --> 04:16:54.880 it is in range of being knocked up by that moon blast now so potentially you know there is a better situation for cards now 04:16:54.880 --> 04:16:58.720 He had to lose a Pokemon to do it but when the catch at the sneaker and Charizard checking King Gambit 04:16:58.720 --> 04:17:03.280 So now what will Joao do in response to being threatened with a double knockout exactly right here 04:17:03.520 --> 04:17:07.040 Usually expecting to get more damage out of a life warp guard top 04:17:07.040 --> 04:17:10.920 But getting this Charizard in position may just be enough 04:17:11.280 --> 04:17:18.120 Still holding on to the mega evolution on a Charizard does not want to give up the weather war right away 04:17:18.120 --> 04:17:30.120 Wimsacott will be able to pick up the KO onto Caesar with a second moon blast. King Gambit just trying to protect itself so it can still threaten some damage on priority sucker punch. 04:17:30.120 --> 04:17:33.120 Here comes Lichenrock, immediately needs to check that Charizard. 04:17:33.120 --> 04:17:43.120 Zero hesitation there, just says the Lichenrock out immediately, but this is a very interesting situation, right, where you'd love just to slam that Xcelerock into Charizard, deal with it right away, but Lichenrock's only at a single hit point, right? 04:17:43.120 --> 04:17:48.140 Right and Wimzacot fastest Pokemon in the field and certainly not in range of a sucker punch from here as a fairy type 04:17:48.140 --> 04:17:50.440 You over this that jock's attack. So what will happen? 04:17:50.440 --> 04:17:53.960 We'll charge our protect will like in rock protect the trainers are gonna have to make a read here 04:17:53.960 --> 04:17:59.560 potentially a lot of ground to be gained but I think if either of those Pokemon go down here without doing anything it could be a 04:17:59.560 --> 04:18:03.560 huge advantage for the opposing trainer and that Wimzacot is threatened maybe by a 04:18:03.680 --> 04:18:08.440 Double priority target there the Acceleron had dealt a lot of damage previously 04:18:08.440 --> 04:18:14.800 And that is Black Glass' king gambit giving it maybe just enough to get over the hurdle 04:18:14.800 --> 04:18:20.720 of the type resistance, but Charizard is ready to just go on the offensive, protecting Whimsicott 04:18:20.720 --> 04:18:23.160 from any attacks coming out from Jawao. 04:18:23.160 --> 04:18:27.800 That is the Accelerot into Whimsicott, not targeting down the Charizard that they double 04:18:27.800 --> 04:18:29.000 target into Whimsicott. 04:18:29.000 --> 04:18:34.640 Carson calls it correctly, perfectly launches a heat wave back and picks up a double KO. 04:18:34.640 --> 04:18:39.160 Huge double from Carson there and that's what we saw for them all season in North America 04:18:39.160 --> 04:18:44.540 For a very precarious position there, but reads just like you did. Hey, that could be a double on the Windsor cut 04:18:44.540 --> 04:18:48.280 It's too obvious for me to not protect my Charizard. So he just lets it attack 04:18:48.280 --> 04:18:51.400 And that's gonna make a double knockout and immediately picks up that first game 04:18:51.400 --> 04:18:57.080 He's now a game away from moving on to the top eight. That is the power of a perfect play 04:18:57.600 --> 04:19:00.860 Person st. Dennis making the exact read he needed 04:19:00.860 --> 04:19:05.560 getting both of those KOs the only two Pokemon remaining that could check that 04:19:05.560 --> 04:19:11.300 Charizard and Joao knew immediately this game is over I have to go to game 04:19:11.300 --> 04:19:14.300 two. That really great job by Karsten throughout the course of that match. 04:19:14.300 --> 04:19:17.460 Sacrificing the guard chop when he needed to in order to get back into 04:19:17.460 --> 04:19:21.060 the adventation position, getting that hill went up and getting enough damage in 04:19:21.060 --> 04:19:24.620 the lichenrock. It's so important with those Charizard teams to sash the lichenrock. 04:19:24.620 --> 04:19:28.340 It's a very frail Pokemon but you still always keep the hit twice because of 04:19:28.340 --> 04:19:32.680 that Focus Sash item. Didn't really have to give anything up on that first turn to Sash the Lichenrock. 04:19:32.680 --> 04:19:36.220 I mean to me, as much as the Reef, that was also the other decisive turn in that game. 04:19:36.220 --> 04:19:40.280 Just too much to give up for too little and a really great job by Carson there. 04:19:40.280 --> 04:19:43.280 I think, you know, the early positioning kind of seemed like it wasn't to his advantage, 04:19:43.280 --> 04:19:48.040 but he did a great job of picking exactly the spots he needed and got himself a great win in that first game. 04:19:48.040 --> 04:19:54.740 And I had to point out every time Joao had the extremely effective damage on both of Carson's Pokemon. 04:19:54.740 --> 04:20:04.740 At any moment, if Carson had gotten a read incorrect, his Pokemon were taking massive damage and he had to play that so perfectly from the jump to avoid all of that. 04:20:04.740 --> 04:20:13.740 It's like he can read his opponent's mind. He's been so good at this. Why was so excited to watch him? Carson always just seems to play these sort of teams that are kind of very small margin for error. 04:20:13.740 --> 04:20:19.740 And again, that's just kind of this whole format now where I think he was a little ahead of the curve playing that way back in Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet. 04:20:19.740 --> 04:20:21.980 And now that everyone has to play his game, 04:20:21.980 --> 04:20:22.980 he's got a little advantage. 04:20:22.980 --> 04:20:24.580 I think it would have been so easy for him 04:20:24.580 --> 04:20:25.580 to make a big mistake there. 04:20:25.580 --> 04:20:26.580 Kind of just looks silly. 04:20:26.580 --> 04:20:28.020 Maybe he could have blown out in the first game, 04:20:28.020 --> 04:20:29.520 but he gets every read right. 04:20:29.520 --> 04:20:31.120 And this is a terrible position to be in, 04:20:31.120 --> 04:20:32.580 I feel like, if you're Joao. 04:20:32.580 --> 04:20:34.220 You know, where the snatch up, you know, 04:20:34.220 --> 04:20:35.620 it's a fresh game in game two, 04:20:35.620 --> 04:20:37.460 but I think with Carson being a player 04:20:37.460 --> 04:20:38.820 who's still good at making those reads, 04:20:38.820 --> 04:20:41.660 now he gets two chances to do it again to move on. 04:20:41.660 --> 04:20:42.500 Absolutely. 04:20:42.500 --> 04:20:45.500 And that is such a scary place to be if you are Joao. 04:20:45.500 --> 04:20:47.340 However, like you mentioned, 04:20:47.340 --> 04:20:50.040 This is a team that Joao has been grinding. 04:20:50.040 --> 04:20:51.640 He understands the lines, 04:20:51.640 --> 04:20:54.800 and just because he got them wrong in game one, 04:20:54.800 --> 04:20:58.160 doesn't mean that he cannot come back here in game two. 04:20:58.160 --> 04:21:00.520 This is a team that has a good matchup 04:21:00.520 --> 04:21:03.040 into the style of Charizard teams, 04:21:03.040 --> 04:21:06.560 and Carson had to play out of his mind to get there. 04:21:06.560 --> 04:21:08.320 Can he do it again? 04:21:08.320 --> 04:21:09.400 Here is the King Gambit, 04:21:09.400 --> 04:21:12.040 and Charizard led for Carson and Joao. 04:21:12.040 --> 04:21:14.880 Again, the Frostlass and the Lycan Rock. 04:21:14.880 --> 04:21:16.880 You have the conditioning of game one. 04:21:16.880 --> 04:21:18.880 Okay, well, I know what my opponent did last time. 04:21:18.880 --> 04:21:19.880 Will they do the same thing? 04:21:19.880 --> 04:21:20.880 Or will they mix it up? 04:21:20.880 --> 04:21:22.880 Now, again, like it rocks threatening a ton of damage 04:21:22.880 --> 04:21:23.880 on either of these Pokemon. 04:21:23.880 --> 04:21:25.880 A close combat on the King Gambit could be huge 04:21:25.880 --> 04:21:27.880 if he gets the same play as last time. 04:21:27.880 --> 04:21:28.880 But maybe he won't. 04:21:28.880 --> 04:21:30.880 So far, Frostlast switching out just like it did in the first game. 04:21:30.880 --> 04:21:32.880 These are coming back in for the Frostlast, 04:21:32.880 --> 04:21:34.880 just like in the first game. 04:21:34.880 --> 04:21:37.880 But this time, Carson is switching it up. 04:21:37.880 --> 04:21:39.880 Instead of switching out the Charizard, 04:21:39.880 --> 04:21:41.880 instead going to the other team. 04:21:41.880 --> 04:21:50.040 Instead of switching out the Charizard instead going to mega evolve the Charizard opting for an offensive move here 04:21:50.040 --> 04:21:54.720 That is going to set the drought and it will go for a protect one of the rare 04:21:55.040 --> 04:22:00.400 Opportunities where it does make sense to mega evolve and protect and this time he gets it right 04:22:00.720 --> 04:22:09.080 Another turn where Carson gets it right the acceleros into the protect and the iron head breaks like in Rocks focus at once again 04:22:09.080 --> 04:22:13.680 And once again in that very scary spot, but I think this is an interesting situation 04:22:13.680 --> 04:22:15.000 again in this subsequent split. 04:22:15.000 --> 04:22:18.640 Charger won't be able to protect his vulnerable to that Xcelerox with a lot of 04:22:18.640 --> 04:22:20.080 attention to switch it out of battle. 04:22:20.080 --> 04:22:23.360 However, King Gambit is a pretty important both among this matchup, especially if he 04:22:23.360 --> 04:22:27.440 isn't able to get that kill wind up and needs it's increased priority to help out a little 04:22:27.440 --> 04:22:28.440 bit. 04:22:28.440 --> 04:22:31.320 And you know, this variant of King Gambit, it's a little bit weaker on the defense 04:22:31.320 --> 04:22:35.880 side than what we see from some others, unlike his opponent's King Gambit, not able to protect 04:22:35.880 --> 04:22:38.160 critically while facing the threat of two different close 04:22:38.160 --> 04:22:41.000 combat in this turn, or a fake out in a close combat if you 04:22:41.000 --> 04:22:43.120 want to dodge a potential sucker punch into the like and rock 04:22:43.120 --> 04:22:43.400 slot. 04:22:43.800 --> 04:22:46.840 And of course, with Charizard staying on the field and 04:22:46.840 --> 04:22:50.480 protecting, it is not protected from the ability to dodge the 04:22:50.480 --> 04:22:54.880 fake out or an Acceleron as a result, Carson is forced to 04:22:54.880 --> 04:22:58.120 switch that Pokemon out, bringing in the Garchomp once 04:22:58.160 --> 04:23:02.600 again. There is the Acceleron now connecting on to the Garchomp 04:23:02.600 --> 04:23:06.360 and the rock skin finishing off the light and rock. 04:23:06.360 --> 04:23:09.360 There's perfect switch in there to get the damage 04:23:09.360 --> 04:23:12.960 that you needed and a sucker punch connects onto Sneasler. 04:23:12.960 --> 04:23:14.920 That's gonna deal just a little bit of damage 04:23:14.920 --> 04:23:18.760 and open up the close combat here into the King Gambit. 04:23:18.760 --> 04:23:21.640 All right, so we'll go ahead and hunt on that total berry 04:23:21.640 --> 04:23:24.600 to reduce the damage in King Gambit again, 04:23:24.600 --> 04:23:27.400 barely hanging on thanks to that resist berry. 04:23:27.400 --> 04:23:28.600 And really nicely done there. 04:23:28.600 --> 04:23:30.480 King Gambit also kind of safely getting some damage. 04:23:30.480 --> 04:23:32.720 wanted to make sure to get some damage on Sneasler. 04:23:32.720 --> 04:23:36.480 Even with a double target there, it would have been guaranteed to at least weaken it a little bit. 04:23:36.480 --> 04:23:39.360 And I want a huge play switching to Garchep in there, right? 04:23:39.360 --> 04:23:42.240 Rough skin looking real good over the course of this event so far. 04:23:42.240 --> 04:23:43.600 But I think you have a knockout. 04:23:43.600 --> 04:23:46.960 And once again, that Pokemon that's supposed to counter Charizard going down for nothing. 04:23:46.960 --> 04:23:48.080 You know, and I think at this point, 04:23:48.080 --> 04:23:52.320 Garchep could be very careful to make sure he manages enough resources to still have a chance against Charizard. 04:23:52.320 --> 04:23:53.920 Frostlet's not going to be able to do it on its own. 04:23:53.920 --> 04:23:55.200 So Sneasler now switching out. 04:23:55.200 --> 04:23:57.760 And we see Fasci Legion as the final Pokemon as well. 04:23:57.760 --> 04:24:01.920 Okay, Basque Legion out on the field, no switch coming out from Carson. 04:24:01.920 --> 04:24:07.600 That means that Frostlass is able to mega evolve, is able to set the snow. 04:24:07.600 --> 04:24:12.080 Frostlass now has temporarily taken control of the weather. 04:24:12.080 --> 04:24:15.920 And it's going to force Garchomp to protect so it doesn't take an extremely effective 04:24:15.920 --> 04:24:17.360 wizard for its troubles. 04:24:17.360 --> 04:24:22.320 And the sucker punch into the Schiesler slot instead whips into or potentially into the 04:24:22.320 --> 04:24:22.880 Frostlass. 04:24:22.880 --> 04:24:28.880 There comes the Aurora Veil to make Joao's team even bulkier and more difficult to break through. 04:24:28.880 --> 04:24:32.880 Huge read from Joao, right? I think almost certainly a Sucker Punch into the Frost Slash slot that's big. 04:24:32.880 --> 04:24:35.880 But it's attacking with a ton of damage running the edge of the 1-8 knockout. 04:24:35.880 --> 04:24:40.880 Instead, there's a free Aurora Veil up. It's good to pump both of these Pokemon, take a Sucker Punch better from this King Gamma. 04:24:40.880 --> 04:24:42.880 They critically help through the remainder of the game. 04:24:42.880 --> 04:24:49.880 It's going to be difficult to deal with this Charizard skill, so I think every bit of defensive stat helps to be allowing some of these Pokemon to survive one more attack 04:24:49.880 --> 04:24:53.680 and also have that Blizzard now threatening the guard chop relatively safely where 04:24:54.320 --> 04:24:59.280 But not so safely as Charizard comes in we see the value of mega loving Charizard earlier in the game 04:24:59.520 --> 04:25:05.480 Since it's that regular Charizard just changed the weather and Frostless barely survives barely survives. Thanks to the Aurora veil 04:25:05.480 --> 04:25:10.600 There's the blizzard connects with both Pokemon outside of the snow King Gambit goes down 04:25:10.600 --> 04:25:17.120 Charizard takes a third of its health on the switch in but of course that would have been all of the guard chomps health 04:25:17.120 --> 04:25:22.620 Here comes Vasco Elysian. No Pokemon have been knocked out, or just one Pokemon was knocked out, 04:25:22.620 --> 04:25:25.620 and that is enough to pick up the KO on the Charizard. 04:25:25.620 --> 04:25:29.620 That means that Joao is now in such a huge position here. 04:25:29.620 --> 04:25:32.620 Very strong to have that weather setter off the field. 04:25:32.620 --> 04:25:37.120 Yeah, that is really big, about critically hitting the Blizzard on both Pokemon in the sun, 04:25:37.120 --> 04:25:40.120 much less accurate that way than this really improves the position. 04:25:40.120 --> 04:25:44.620 Able to just pick up that knockout and Charizard, if the Blizzard had missed that flight, would have survived. 04:25:44.620 --> 04:25:49.180 I've been able to at least have a much better chance at the game probably Whimzacot would have come in be able to set 04:25:49.180 --> 04:25:53.340 Kale went up and we have a good a very different game stage and set Garchomp facing down this boss less now and 04:25:53.340 --> 04:25:56.180 I may be able to pick it up with the help of Whimzacot here 04:25:56.180 --> 04:26:00.260 But it's going to get out of battle for now and Garchomp's got a lot of work to do 04:26:00.260 --> 04:26:03.660 Yeah, Garchomp has a lot of work to do and not a lot of time 04:26:03.900 --> 04:26:09.740 Going to spend this one turn protecting itself so it does not risk getting hit by another Blizzard 04:26:09.740 --> 04:26:15.980 Here's the moves last this time going to connect onto the basket lead and just dealing a little bit of damage to that Pokemon 04:26:16.380 --> 04:26:19.740 Texas exit protects the guard top from that last respects 04:26:19.740 --> 04:26:26.020 But that just means that Sneasler and Sneasler's big doubt pressure gets in for free. Yeah, it's an incredibly important site 04:26:26.020 --> 04:26:28.340 Alaska it was car sitting there is this something to wow and now 04:26:28.660 --> 04:26:31.380 Gush of probably he's hit a double protect this day in this game 04:26:31.620 --> 04:26:35.260 Double up in that slot would be very devastating if it did not get out directly be very close 04:26:35.260 --> 04:26:36.640 with that life on the territory. 04:26:36.640 --> 04:26:39.840 It fails to double protect went for it, but doesn't get it. 04:26:39.840 --> 04:26:43.400 We are not seeing a lot of double protects here at the world 04:26:43.400 --> 04:26:47.100 championships, but while even those for the fake out onto 04:26:47.100 --> 04:26:50.360 Whimsicott recognizing that Garchomp had to go for that, 04:26:50.360 --> 04:26:52.280 instead it goes down. 04:26:52.280 --> 04:26:54.680 Vasco Legion picks up another KO. 04:26:54.680 --> 04:26:57.560 It is just Whimsicott remaining and yes, 04:26:57.560 --> 04:27:01.080 we get a game three in top cut. 04:27:01.080 --> 04:27:04.360 So easily can go either way while showing why he's one 04:27:04.360 --> 04:27:09.200 of the best players in the Latin America region doing a great job of locking that one in and 04:27:09.200 --> 04:27:12.580 I wouldn't impress a victory as well. You know, it kind of seemed like he gave up that 04:27:12.580 --> 04:27:17.200 like attractive ability to do easily, but no, he had a plan for this one able to come away 04:27:17.200 --> 04:27:21.480 with the win despite losing the Charizard counter. Maybe in Carson's side, the other 04:27:21.480 --> 04:27:24.360 way, you know, just couldn't stay in a position where he could really take advantage of the 04:27:24.360 --> 04:27:27.280 Charizard at all, right? Like, it seemed like it was so big and maybe it would have been 04:27:27.280 --> 04:27:31.760 if the Sun was able to cause that lizard to miss, but Frost last clutching up able to 04:27:31.760 --> 04:27:33.620 to get that extra damage in and out of his Charizard. 04:27:33.620 --> 04:27:35.520 And because of that, with King Gaman and Charizard 04:27:35.520 --> 04:27:36.600 going down to that turn, 04:27:36.600 --> 04:27:38.840 creating the advantage for Joao to finish out the game. 04:27:38.840 --> 04:27:41.400 Yeah, without any of those additional resources, 04:27:41.400 --> 04:27:45.000 Carson just could not lawn his way back into that game. 04:27:45.000 --> 04:27:46.600 And Joao, like you mentioned, 04:27:46.600 --> 04:27:49.680 just proving how easily it can go the other way. 04:27:49.680 --> 04:27:52.040 When you have these close matches, 04:27:52.040 --> 04:27:54.240 these bead heavy matches, 04:27:54.240 --> 04:27:56.240 it can really turn on a dime. 04:27:56.240 --> 04:28:00.240 And that makes this game three so exhilarating. 04:28:00.240 --> 04:28:04.000 Even if it looks exactly the same from the Pokemon choices, 04:28:04.000 --> 04:28:06.400 the different choices that the different lines 04:28:06.400 --> 04:28:09.520 that are going through these players' heads are immense. 04:28:09.520 --> 04:28:11.160 I'll be really excited to see if we see once again 04:28:11.160 --> 04:28:12.320 kind of the same league combination. 04:28:12.320 --> 04:28:14.520 They should have mind game each other at this level. 04:28:14.520 --> 04:28:16.480 I do think with these two key matchups in particular, 04:28:16.480 --> 04:28:18.600 I mean, I'm sure it's transferred so much time 04:28:18.600 --> 04:28:19.720 before this tournament thinking about 04:28:19.720 --> 04:28:21.200 what they want to do in this matchup. 04:28:21.200 --> 04:28:22.520 If you played a little bit differently 04:28:22.520 --> 04:28:23.760 because of the tweaks your opponent's have made 04:28:23.760 --> 04:28:25.160 or like who your opponent is, 04:28:25.160 --> 04:28:27.120 but you know, they probably played this match 04:28:27.120 --> 04:28:29.520 in their heads for weeks before this tournament. 04:28:29.520 --> 04:28:34.960 Scovillain spicy on the field next to the like and rock and the 04:28:34.960 --> 04:28:40.160 Sceasler up against the Charizard so Scovillain changed up from Joao 04:28:40.160 --> 04:28:44.160 bringing that Pokemon as the Mega and most likely leaving Frostlast behind. 04:28:44.160 --> 04:28:47.720 Now Frostlast looked really good in that last game but had to get pretty lucky to do it right. 04:28:47.720 --> 04:28:49.640 Or were they all potentially being impactful enough? 04:28:49.640 --> 04:28:52.560 Wouldn't it really not matter because that double hit Blizzard wanted to be so big. 04:28:52.560 --> 04:28:54.320 But maybe we're not talking all right now. 04:28:54.320 --> 04:28:56.520 Maybe we're talking about the interview with the Blizzard issue. 04:28:56.520 --> 04:28:58.080 So, often for the Scovillean in 7, 04:28:58.080 --> 04:29:00.560 for this very physical Pokemon heavy lineup 04:29:00.560 --> 04:29:01.880 that Carson has been bringing, 04:29:01.880 --> 04:29:03.560 so don't get pretty impactful here, you know. 04:29:03.560 --> 04:29:06.240 Any Pokemon that hits a Mega Scovillain will be burned, 04:29:06.240 --> 04:29:08.760 and everything but Charizard can be pretty upset by that. 04:29:08.760 --> 04:29:10.080 And hey, there's a Pokemon in the team 04:29:10.080 --> 04:29:11.760 whose job it is to knock out Charizard, 04:29:11.760 --> 04:29:13.240 so like in Rock the Handle Charizard, 04:29:13.240 --> 04:29:14.880 Scovillean can handle everyone else. 04:29:14.880 --> 04:29:16.040 It's a pretty positive team, see, right? 04:29:16.040 --> 04:29:17.280 That's why this team is supposed to be 04:29:17.280 --> 04:29:18.360 favorite of the Charizard. 04:29:18.360 --> 04:29:20.600 Absolutely, and Vasculi just coming out, 04:29:20.600 --> 04:29:23.240 Joao is going to protect the Lichenrock, 04:29:23.240 --> 04:29:25.680 not going to let that focus act be broken 04:29:25.680 --> 04:29:32.680 immediately. There is a double protect. So while it's fishing for a good moody boost 04:29:32.680 --> 04:29:38.920 onto the Scovillain, first moody will increase the special defense and drop its speed. That 04:29:38.920 --> 04:29:43.400 special defense you probably rather have defense, but that's one of those too that you consider 04:29:43.400 --> 04:29:44.400 a jackpot. 04:29:44.400 --> 04:29:47.240 Yeah, I think that's going pretty good about it, right? It's going to make it much easier 04:29:47.240 --> 04:29:50.800 to deal with the Chargent, Ladder, Strix, Scovillain survived that long. Again, defensively 04:29:50.800 --> 04:29:53.400 better. You want to make sure you burn both of these pokemons you can, but like, are you 04:29:53.400 --> 04:30:01.400 I'm really willing to get both of these Pokemon burned to take out Scoville, I'd argue that's probably a losing gameplay preference, so he's got to figure out how to deal with this one. 04:30:01.400 --> 04:30:07.400 He'd really prefer your special attacking Pokemon to deal with Scoville in order to get rid of those burns, but not really going to be an option here. 04:30:07.400 --> 04:30:12.400 And Lycan Rock's going to switch out like, hey, you know, I think that's looking so good for you, I'll be able to save this character later. 04:30:12.400 --> 04:30:18.400 I don't see King Gambit or Charizard, so Lycan Rock has no business being on the field right now. 04:30:18.400 --> 04:30:21.720 What does have business is the Mega Scovillain. 04:30:21.720 --> 04:30:26.080 Like you mentioned, any physical attackers that, or any attackers that hit into Scovillain 04:30:26.080 --> 04:30:29.400 at all will be burnt by its spicy spray. 04:30:29.400 --> 04:30:32.640 You can see that's why Vasco Legion is protecting. 04:30:32.640 --> 04:30:35.840 The Direfly is not enough damage to pick up the KO onto Scovillain. 04:30:35.840 --> 04:30:40.640 Asking a paralysis, Sneasler will be burnt for its troubles. 04:30:40.640 --> 04:30:46.120 The Parsons plan here is to just stall out and only have one Pokemon over two turns that 04:30:46.120 --> 04:30:48.120 and take out the Skow villain. 04:30:48.120 --> 04:30:51.120 Skow would definitely be the best Pokemon to get burned if you stick somebody. 04:30:51.120 --> 04:30:52.120 Still useful if it's burned, right? 04:30:52.120 --> 04:30:55.120 Not going to deal as much damage, burn half of the Pokemon physical damage, 04:30:55.120 --> 04:30:56.120 but it does allow it. 04:30:56.120 --> 04:30:57.120 You still use fake out. 04:30:57.120 --> 04:30:59.120 You can still get a status effect from Dire Claw. 04:30:59.120 --> 04:31:00.120 You know, it's doing more than nothing. 04:31:00.120 --> 04:31:02.120 One of these other Pokemon with their job is just damage. 04:31:02.120 --> 04:31:03.120 That's so exciting here. 04:31:03.120 --> 04:31:06.120 However, the best region you pose is potentially a decent spot here. 04:31:06.120 --> 04:31:10.120 I'm feeling the awkwardness of having to figure out which cast to Legion is faster now. 04:31:10.120 --> 04:31:13.120 But at least Skow villain almost dealt with. 04:31:13.120 --> 04:31:21.120 Scovillain almost dealt with but also kind of scary to have Scovillain dealt with on this team because now the close combat picking up the 04:31:21.120 --> 04:31:29.120 Scovillain that is just powering up Joao's last respects which would be able to pick up a KO into the opposing Basque Legion. 04:31:29.120 --> 04:31:38.120 There is the White Herb activating to fix off all of the drops from the close combat as one Basque Legion's last respects without any 04:31:38.120 --> 04:31:43.120 painted partners is not enough to pick up the KO, but that Y4 Fasca Legion with one 04:31:43.120 --> 04:31:47.120 painted partner have so equally dense. 04:31:47.120 --> 04:31:50.120 I'm going to take some recoil damage here as well so that Fasca Legion at best 04:31:50.120 --> 04:31:54.120 won't be able to attack twice more, but twice could be enough in this situation. 04:31:54.120 --> 04:31:58.120 Even though it's the Pokemon talent, the Carson still has mega evolve Pokemon, which is helpful here, 04:31:58.120 --> 04:32:01.120 but we're kind of running out of resources in Carson's out of cover. 04:32:01.120 --> 04:32:05.120 You get the porn, Steelers can have some problems here, Charizard starts to wear, 04:32:05.120 --> 04:32:12.520 And Lycanroc, who does call the Charizard switch coming into battle, and now this is looking like a pretty advantageous situation, which is, wow, once again, you know, acceleration. 04:32:12.520 --> 04:32:21.120 And the Charizard's a lot of taxkeesler with Fetalus Collegian, so don't worry about Lycanroc potentially getting smashed here, which I do really love to avoid, but pretty advantageous position. 04:32:21.120 --> 04:32:28.120 So, Jaroslav, can you get this read right? I think both sides are trying to feel like, hey, you know, if I get one big one right, I'm really close to moving on to the tapping. 04:32:28.120 --> 04:32:34.120 This is definitely a moment where there could be a big lead one way or the other. 04:32:34.120 --> 04:32:35.920 Tarzard retreats. 04:32:35.920 --> 04:32:41.920 Person is not ready to put all of it on Tarzard right now instead bringing in the Wimzika. 04:32:41.920 --> 04:32:46.420 Joao also not willing to put it all on like it was on Protects, but that is protecting 04:32:46.420 --> 04:32:49.420 in front of a Wimzika on the Switch. 04:32:49.420 --> 04:32:54.520 Will dodge the close combat this time around, but that Sneezer now goes down to the last 04:32:54.520 --> 04:32:55.920 respect because of it. 04:32:55.920 --> 04:33:00.660 This basket legion, like you said, it only gets to swing twice, but that might just be enough. 04:33:01.360 --> 04:33:02.660 Yeah, that's a big knockout. 04:33:02.660 --> 04:33:07.900 Charizard number one be forced back onto the battlefield and things are getting really dicey for Carson. 04:33:08.400 --> 04:33:12.400 You know, Windsor Kai, maybe if it had, or if maybe he's, excuse us, able to knock out the basket legion, 04:33:12.400 --> 04:33:15.980 he could try to catch Lycanroc a little bit more easily with an Angu or something, 04:33:15.980 --> 04:33:20.280 but there's still a Pokemon remaining on the left side of the field, so it makes it much more difficult to deal with. 04:33:20.280 --> 04:33:22.220 Charizard probably only has to protect here. 04:33:22.220 --> 04:33:25.180 Interesting terrain. Lycanroc is going to flee for an hour, try to have more flexibility, 04:33:25.180 --> 04:33:28.180 He's not going to leave himself vulnerable this turn. 04:33:28.180 --> 04:33:32.180 Okay, well, King Gambit is switching in for the like and rock. 04:33:32.180 --> 04:33:37.180 That means that Karzard is able to now mega-evolve his Karzard line. 04:33:37.180 --> 04:33:40.180 Karzard now out on the field sets the sun, 04:33:40.180 --> 04:33:44.180 going to make sure that its fire-type attacks are even more powerful. 04:33:44.180 --> 04:33:49.180 Askelidion goes for a protect, does not want to paint this turn. 04:33:49.180 --> 04:33:54.180 Winsicott not going for an encore instead, a moon blast into the protect. 04:33:54.180 --> 04:33:57.220 And the weather ball catches King Gambit on the switch, 04:33:57.220 --> 04:34:00.980 and that does mean that Lincoln Rock gets to come in for free 04:34:00.980 --> 04:34:04.380 and without the risk of being on for the degree match. 04:34:04.380 --> 04:34:06.020 Yeah, so now, where is it probably going 04:34:06.020 --> 04:34:07.580 for you to go on offense? 04:34:07.580 --> 04:34:10.220 Appropriately, this game could all come down to a read. 04:34:10.220 --> 04:34:12.740 If there isn't a missile that came into the charge on the spot, 04:34:12.740 --> 04:34:14.180 maybe it can do some big damage here 04:34:14.180 --> 04:34:15.580 and start flipping this game around. 04:34:15.580 --> 04:34:17.940 But, you know, otherwise, charge is still 04:34:17.940 --> 04:34:19.300 being threatened by this Lycanot. 04:34:19.300 --> 04:34:21.380 A double in the Winsor's attack map, so great either. 04:34:21.380 --> 04:34:22.980 Fast Collision somewhat being checked by, 04:34:22.980 --> 04:34:26.980 Wimzacot will be quicker of it either Lycanroc or Vascular Legion so really 04:34:26.980 --> 04:34:31.140 precarious position, who's the traitor? It's so close. This is so tense and that 04:34:31.140 --> 04:34:36.260 Vascular Legion just protected so it may not have an opportunity to go for it 04:34:36.260 --> 04:34:40.180 to protect this time around it would have to go for a double also risking 04:34:40.180 --> 04:34:44.260 being on board or just being picked up by a KO from the Wimzacot and a Moonblast 04:34:44.260 --> 04:34:49.980 here but can Lycanroc beat both of these Pokemon? Now Lycanroc is going to have to 04:34:49.980 --> 04:34:51.980 We know basketball league you can't run at this level of house. 04:34:51.980 --> 04:34:52.980 That's a tailwind. 04:34:52.980 --> 04:34:53.980 You'll get that tailwind out. 04:34:53.980 --> 04:34:56.980 I was so happy about that tailwind and no protect. 04:34:56.980 --> 04:34:59.980 That's because the Xcelo Rock connects onto Chorazard. 04:34:59.980 --> 04:35:01.980 One, two, three, oh! 04:35:01.980 --> 04:35:05.980 And with that, Joao has defeated the major offense of pressure 04:35:05.980 --> 04:35:07.980 that person has remaining. 04:35:07.980 --> 04:35:09.980 And with the last respects connecting onto Whimsacott, 04:35:09.980 --> 04:35:12.980 brings it down to focus as but that is it. 04:35:12.980 --> 04:35:16.980 Joao, belief Linky is moving on to our top eight. 04:35:16.980 --> 04:35:17.980 What an incredible performance. 04:35:17.980 --> 04:35:20.060 Florence, your Carson have been so many great reads 04:35:20.060 --> 04:35:21.400 over the course of the season, 04:35:21.400 --> 04:35:24.340 but when it came down to a draw able to represent Brazil 04:35:24.340 --> 04:35:26.780 on the top eight by making the read when he needed to, 04:35:26.780 --> 04:35:28.580 eliminating Carson and moving on here, 04:35:28.580 --> 04:35:30.980 what an incredible match by both of these trainers. 04:35:30.980 --> 04:35:35.140 Wow, that is just what this meta is like right now. 04:35:35.140 --> 04:35:38.380 Everything is, the margins are so thin. 04:35:38.380 --> 04:35:41.060 It all comes down to these individual moments 04:35:41.060 --> 04:35:43.380 where you can get the read correct. 04:35:43.380 --> 04:35:45.340 None of those were wrong plays. 04:35:45.340 --> 04:35:47.140 They were just one competitor, 04:35:47.140 --> 04:35:49.980 making an understanding the board say 04:35:49.980 --> 04:35:52.420 and understanding their opponent a little bit better. 04:35:52.420 --> 04:35:54.780 What great poise by Joao throughout the course of this set. 04:35:54.780 --> 04:35:56.020 You know, again, you're like in Rock. 04:35:56.020 --> 04:35:57.580 It's supposed to have some advantage against Charizard, 04:35:57.580 --> 04:35:58.480 but it's not so easy, right? 04:35:58.480 --> 04:35:59.720 You kind of see that in the first game 04:35:59.720 --> 04:36:01.660 where you really get some theoretical advantages. 04:36:01.660 --> 04:36:02.820 You still have to get the positioning. 04:36:02.820 --> 04:36:05.020 And Carson is so good at making it difficult 04:36:05.020 --> 04:36:06.580 to push those advantages. 04:36:06.580 --> 04:36:09.220 It would have been very easy to fall behind for the first game 04:36:09.220 --> 04:36:10.900 and kind of just make a mistake in getting knocked out 04:36:10.900 --> 04:36:12.580 of this one, but Joao really locked in. 04:36:12.580 --> 04:36:15.860 Did a great job of avoiding making any game losing mistakes 04:36:15.860 --> 04:36:16.660 in the subsequent games. 04:36:16.660 --> 04:36:22.300 Exactly enough resources, right that basket legion just barely surviving as long as it needed to that final attack 04:36:22.300 --> 04:36:25.220 Pinching the win looking really great there and then hey 04:36:25.220 --> 04:36:29.500 You know like in rock finally was able to survive the game right went down so early in game one and game two 04:36:29.500 --> 04:36:34.020 But in that third game finally that end game win position that you dream of it being gets charged out 04:36:34.020 --> 04:36:40.580 Hey, you know this team might be looking a little long in the tooth after being you've created so early at regulation MA 04:36:40.580 --> 04:36:45.980 But here we are at the world championships the end of regulation and be and it's moving on to the top eight 04:36:45.980 --> 04:36:52.500 absolutely and I am so thrilled for Joao to have advanced to the top eight this 04:36:52.500 --> 04:36:57.260 is his first season in the Masters division having aged up from the seniors 04:36:57.260 --> 04:37:02.540 division and let me tell you my first season I was nowhere close to the top 04:37:02.540 --> 04:37:06.380 eight at the World Championships in the Masters division so congratulations 04:37:06.380 --> 04:37:10.860 Joao incredible play extremely well-deserved. Yeah incredible play he's 04:37:10.860 --> 04:37:13.700 an incredible season to you I think he's really put the work in again you've been 04:37:13.700 --> 04:37:20.560 I think a lot of trainers found this format to be very challenging and it sounded to me like maybe a number of trainers 04:37:20.560 --> 04:37:23.900 Maybe I didn't put the prep and they would have liked to because it was hard 04:37:23.900 --> 04:37:27.460 And you know to push through he did what he had to do to make sure he'd be ready for this tournament 04:37:27.460 --> 04:37:32.200 He's getting his just rewards. Congratulations to Cross as well. I think it's an incredible season 04:37:32.260 --> 04:37:37.060 You know, sometimes you play another really great opponent now that everybody can win but really excited for Joao 04:37:37.060 --> 04:37:41.660 I think it's always fun to kind of receive a youth in the competitive circuit started moving up and kind of 04:37:41.660 --> 04:37:45.540 establishing their name in this top age division and excited for Brazil to write 04:37:45.540 --> 04:37:49.220 you know it's not too often we get a player from Brazil this deep in the 04:37:49.220 --> 04:37:51.380 tournament so hey you know maybe we'll get our Brazilian world champion this 04:37:51.380 --> 04:37:55.300 year absolutely that would be our first Brazilian world champion the second from 04:37:55.300 --> 04:38:01.140 the Latin American region and incredible play there from Joao to make it into the 04:38:01.140 --> 04:38:05.140 top eight you know we have a new generation of Pokemon this is the first 04:38:05.140 --> 04:38:09.620 world championships on Pokemon champions and it's these moments where 04:38:09.620 --> 04:38:14.220 sort of the next generation of legends and competitors that people start seeing their 04:38:14.220 --> 04:38:20.500 names on the match slip and say, oh, no, I'm intimidated by the idea that I have to play 04:38:20.500 --> 04:38:26.180 against Joao who just got to top eight in the world championships, incredible, and I'm 04:38:26.180 --> 04:38:27.180 so excited for it. 04:38:27.180 --> 04:38:28.180 The kids are all right, right? 04:38:28.180 --> 04:38:31.420 You know, we've seen a few times every year now since these graduating seniors are just 04:38:31.420 --> 04:38:34.580 so powerful and Joao may be the most powerful yet. 04:38:34.580 --> 04:38:35.580 Absolutely. 04:38:35.580 --> 04:38:43.620 The powerful is down on stage and ready for an interview to tell us about how it feels to be in the top eight of the world championships 04:38:45.740 --> 04:38:52.940 Thank you so much. I'm here with your first top eight finalists of the 2026 world championships throughout the league 04:38:54.140 --> 04:38:55.380 Congratulations 04:38:55.380 --> 04:38:56.580 Thank you 04:38:56.580 --> 04:39:02.780 So we have not seen you yet this weekend. You have an incredible run in Swiss 04:39:02.780 --> 04:39:07.740 Please tell us about it. What has been your experience been like here at the world championships? I 04:39:08.460 --> 04:39:13.900 Love being the world championships. It's an awesome experience. My Swiss rounds were very tough 04:39:13.900 --> 04:39:19.460 I started out with a loss and I had to like come back after that, but I managed to do it 04:39:19.460 --> 04:39:21.220 I'm really happy 04:39:21.220 --> 04:39:26.580 Evan just called you Joe out of the powerful and if you started with a loss and came all the way into top eight 04:39:26.580 --> 04:39:28.340 I can't help but agree 04:39:28.340 --> 04:39:34.200 You ran your team with Megascovillain and Megafrost last so powerfully throughout that matchup 04:39:34.200 --> 04:39:36.200 What made you decide to bring these Pokemon? 04:39:36.980 --> 04:39:40.260 It was a team that like I've been using for quite a while 04:39:40.260 --> 04:39:45.720 So I had a lot of comfort with it even though I'm not sure it was the best team in the tournament 04:39:45.720 --> 04:39:50.080 I'm very happy to play with it because it's a team I've been playing for a long time 04:39:50.080 --> 04:39:55.180 So I feel like I'm good with it. It felt very comfortable to you, right? Yeah for sure 04:39:55.180 --> 04:39:58.500 And do you think that comfort allowed you to make some of those plays? 04:39:58.500 --> 04:40:02.340 I mean you brought Megasco Villain in that final battle. What was your thinking behind that? 04:40:02.620 --> 04:40:09.980 Yeah, I was thinking like he was leading a Charizard and King Gambit and if I managed to like 04:40:10.420 --> 04:40:15.300 Get a burn onto the King Gambit and like a Scylerock the Charizard that would put me in a great position 04:40:15.420 --> 04:40:19.280 and I was kind of expecting a change of leads but 04:40:19.280 --> 04:40:29.780 But Scovilleon is generally good into his Pokemon because he has a lot of physical attackers and the only one that really can KO it easily is Charizard. 04:40:29.780 --> 04:40:33.780 So I think it was a good Pokemon to bring in Game 3. 04:40:33.780 --> 04:40:40.280 It was a great Pokemon. I mean it got you here to top 8 as well as some amazing friends and family I'm sure. 04:40:40.280 --> 04:40:42.780 Do you have any shoutouts you want to give to anybody at home? 04:40:42.780 --> 04:40:47.780 I have a lot of shoutouts. I have shoutouts for the people from Brazil watching. 04:40:47.780 --> 04:41:07.780 shout out people from my school, people from my prep group, Dorian, Andrew, Austin, a lot of people and yeah, I just don't know, I couldn't make, I couldn't have made it here without the help of a lot of people, so it feels really good. 04:41:07.780 --> 04:41:11.620 Congratulations once again, Joao, on making top eight here at the World Championships. 04:41:11.620 --> 04:41:13.460 Best of luck in your next match. 04:41:13.460 --> 04:41:16.980 And we're going to go ahead and head over to Ben's Battle Breakdown 04:41:16.980 --> 04:41:19.700 to see what we have coming up next in our tournament. 04:41:25.700 --> 04:41:29.620 Thank you so much, Gabby. Congratulations to Joao, right? 04:41:29.620 --> 04:41:32.500 I mean, that was an absolutely crazy game. 04:41:32.500 --> 04:41:36.820 And using a team that, as you said, Scott, before, 04:41:36.820 --> 04:41:56.720 like we saw it like at the end of MA really come into its own and you're in. And then since then it's just it's just never really stopped. Right. It's always been there. Even the grass roots tournaments. You see it like getting this consistent like top 16 top 8 top fours at various events in the run up to the world championships. 04:41:56.720 --> 04:41:59.000 And here it is again, it's twice in the top eight. 04:41:59.000 --> 04:42:03.480 I really like it, where I think it's like the sort of thing you normally, in most years 04:42:03.480 --> 04:42:06.160 I feel like that kind of like wouldn't be the right way to approach the world championship. 04:42:06.160 --> 04:42:08.000 Because this format's been so much about comfort, right? 04:42:08.000 --> 04:42:11.400 Like, I don't know if this team was ever like the strongest team in the format, but it always 04:42:11.400 --> 04:42:14.040 seemed like the people who liked it really liked it. 04:42:14.040 --> 04:42:18.000 And like, kind of from the moment that they tried it after Turin, like, oh man, like, I'm 04:42:18.000 --> 04:42:19.240 the strongest soldier of this team. 04:42:19.240 --> 04:42:20.960 I don't want to play anything else ever again. 04:42:20.960 --> 04:42:24.960 And we could be in, you know, regulation MZ and they may still be playing this. 04:42:24.960 --> 04:42:30.420 It's like the right format for that sort of thing right where you know come for you so important and hey 04:42:30.420 --> 04:42:34.320 You like I know you know what this does, but like that's great beat me on it. It's not so easy 04:42:34.400 --> 04:42:40.040 Yes, that's what's really surprising to me about it is because I expected people to have figured out how to beat it by now 04:42:40.040 --> 04:42:43.680 There is no beating it. I'm really I'm calling that out now 04:42:43.680 --> 04:42:50.500 Like I think like it's the perfect combination of everything right like the like and rock covers the Charizard the Sneezer that covers the 04:42:50.500 --> 04:43:00.320 the two most powerful Pokemon in the format. I like the way that I look at it is, uh, Frostlass and Scovillain as the two 04:43:00.320 --> 04:43:06.220 makers, kind of like everything else. Uh, maybe when you were the exception of King Gambit, like a little bit, but Scovillain 04:43:06.220 --> 04:43:09.480 does a little bit of column A and Frostlass does a little bit of column B. 04:43:09.520 --> 04:43:14.220 Yeah, I think what to me is really cool about is like the team is chemistry that I feel like other teams don't, right? I mean, like, 04:43:14.220 --> 04:43:19.620 yeah, I think like, uh, it has some really great abilities to kind of counter the strongest Pokemon in the game. And then with 04:43:19.620 --> 04:43:26.300 Let's let they get it all just plays really nicely together. I think one thing that trainers were kind of finding difficult about preparing for this year's world championships 04:43:26.300 --> 04:43:28.340 It's like you just seem like every team had something wrong with it, right? 04:43:28.620 --> 04:43:31.100 Especially if you're working with a really high power Pokemon 04:43:31.100 --> 04:43:34.820 There just isn't like a perfect mix of them that doesn't have any weaknesses in this team 04:43:34.820 --> 04:43:38.940 I think maybe you're dropping a little bit in raw power or I don't think anyone's coming his terms 04:43:38.940 --> 04:43:43.740 Yes, I believe the two strongest mega of all Pokemon are frost lessons go villain, right? That's a crazy take 04:43:43.980 --> 04:43:47.140 But it doesn't matter necessarily because they play their role on the team 04:43:47.140 --> 04:43:54.100 They enable these other Pokemon where maybe you do have three of the strongest non mega evolving Pokemon the team and also like and rock is there to do its job 04:43:55.220 --> 04:43:59.560 He's like and King Gambit's that to fulfill the the role of the mega Pokemon 04:43:59.560 --> 04:44:03.540 Yeah, right. Yeah, the mega Pokemon is they're all along. He just got his shark. Yeah. Yeah, yeah 04:44:03.540 --> 04:44:07.420 Yeah, he's like those just in glasses instead. I think that's just so brilliant, right? 04:44:07.420 --> 04:44:13.560 Where I mean we get too caught up in like the idea of like power outside of a vacuum and these are all Pokemon that make each other better 04:44:13.560 --> 04:44:17.600 the team. It's like, you know, 04:44:17.600 --> 04:44:19.200 it's definitely better. 04:44:19.200 --> 04:44:21.200 Definitely like the sum of the 04:44:21.200 --> 04:44:23.200 parts make the team rather than 04:44:23.200 --> 04:44:25.200 just the individual components 04:44:25.200 --> 04:44:27.200 being the Pokemon with like the 04:44:27.200 --> 04:44:28.200 most stats overall. One thing I 04:44:28.200 --> 04:44:29.200 wanted to touch it. I'll take a 04:44:29.200 --> 04:44:31.200 couple clips from the match is 04:44:31.200 --> 04:44:33.200 like how important this like and 04:44:33.200 --> 04:44:35.200 rock is across the set. How 04:44:35.200 --> 04:44:37.200 many reads that both of our 04:44:37.200 --> 04:44:39.200 players were making in those 04:44:39.200 --> 04:44:41.200 moments because like. The next 04:44:41.200 --> 04:44:43.200 round that Joe is going to have 04:44:43.200 --> 04:44:55.200 So this is a position from game one where we've already seen a the like and rock go for an Xcelerock into the Charizard and the question is like do you Xcelerock again right? 04:44:55.200 --> 04:45:12.200 And you get these positions pretty often but the key thing here I think was that the King Gambit on King Gambit's on Carson side has the iron head can take this like and rock down to one HP and put it into a position where like 04:45:12.200 --> 04:45:19.560 like it doesn't matter what attack hits it any attack going into this like and rock is going to be able to finish it off and 04:45:19.680 --> 04:45:24.520 Once it's done like this team really does struggle with Jara's art, right? 04:45:24.520 --> 04:45:29.080 This is the the like and rock is the key linchpin of being able to actually deal with it 04:45:29.240 --> 04:45:35.760 You've invested an entire Pokemon and dealing with the Charizard and saying like I don't have a matchup into Charizard 04:45:35.760 --> 04:45:42.160 But I have this one Pokemon and that is exactly what it's for is to have a priority rock type attack to knock out Charizard 04:45:42.200 --> 04:45:45.560 Regardless of the speed control. Yeah, I think it's like you kind of look at this team, right? 04:45:45.560 --> 04:45:49.100 You know we see garsh up on almost every team you can spiculously absent here, right? 04:45:49.100 --> 04:45:53.560 You know there's like kind of those secondary checks for Charizard and I well we found I think impressive 04:45:53.880 --> 04:45:55.880 Maybe the most thing the thing was most impressive 04:45:55.880 --> 04:46:00.200 But the size of Joe managed to win a game well like and rock did not help really at all dealing with Charizard 04:46:00.440 --> 04:46:01.720 It just yeah, I think again 04:46:01.720 --> 04:46:05.440 It's so critical because the rest of his team beats up Charizard's friends really well, right? 04:46:05.440 --> 04:46:09.840 And that's sort of the point but keeping like and rock in front of Charizard the right turns is really difficult 04:46:09.840 --> 04:46:13.480 That's why we don't see more of this team and it kind of requires those players like okay 04:46:13.480 --> 04:46:18.480 I've decided to one-trick this team until the end of time because there's a lot of finesse needed even though 04:46:18.480 --> 04:46:21.980 If you actually get the 1v1, it's so easy. I'm talking about finesse 04:46:21.980 --> 04:46:27.380 I mean, let's let let's let this clip roll out right because this was the turn where the whimsicott goes for the protect 04:46:27.380 --> 04:46:32.420 And then there's the double up of the sucker punch in the excel rock thinking that maybe Carson was gonna go on the defensive 04:46:32.420 --> 04:46:34.160 And you got to call out this play from Carson, right? 04:46:34.160 --> 04:46:40.000 This is game winning turn on the spot there as soon as as soon as the protect gets locked in on the Whimsicott 04:46:40.000 --> 04:46:46.800 This Charizard just gets to go absolutely crazy here and just go straight on the offensive go for his mega evolution 04:46:47.080 --> 04:46:51.800 And go for the heat wave there if my buttons are doing the do the business here is 04:46:52.560 --> 04:46:55.640 Yeah, why this game went in Carson's favor 04:46:55.640 --> 04:46:59.160 This is this is the turn that basically confirmed to me 04:46:59.160 --> 04:47:05.120 I could never play either of these teams in this matchup because the moment like I just realized oh wait 04:47:05.120 --> 04:47:07.980 Which one do I protect do I protect when the cut do I protect Charizard? 04:47:07.980 --> 04:47:12.360 I have no idea which one do I protect and I know I lose if I get the wrong one right? 04:47:12.360 --> 04:47:14.360 It's important to call out here that 04:47:14.800 --> 04:47:18.720 Never have our players really have any idea exactly how this turn is gonna go right because 04:47:19.240 --> 04:47:23.720 Yeah, Wim Jocot can go for maybe an encore into the lichenrock 04:47:23.720 --> 04:47:26.480 But maybe a little bit later right that still blocks the sucker punch 04:47:26.480 --> 04:47:33.040 You need to suck a bunch and the Excel rock to be able to knock out the the whims are caught in that turn right? 04:47:33.040 --> 04:47:35.380 And so it gets really dicey here 04:47:35.540 --> 04:47:37.540 The game the game is a forfeit 04:47:37.840 --> 04:47:40.680 Straight away on the top because the big parts of 04:47:41.240 --> 04:47:47.720 Shows team are really taking care of and I think that's really important to call out like in this matchup 04:47:47.720 --> 04:47:53.240 Like even if you have a Pokemon like like a rock and so good against the Charizard like you still got a you still got to get 04:47:53.240 --> 04:47:55.080 The turns right when they matter 04:47:55.080 --> 04:48:00.680 Because maybe one of those difficult teams to do it with right where like in rock, you know about as bad as you can get on the 04:48:00.840 --> 04:48:06.160 Defensive side, you know the absolute poster child for the focus sash held item and you can see here that first 04:48:06.160 --> 04:48:11.160 How easy it is for things to go wrong and like even though you have like the hardest counter for Charizard theoretically in the game 04:48:11.600 --> 04:48:13.100 You know 04:48:13.100 --> 04:48:16.600 You have one of the best players of like and rock still it goes wrong sometimes 04:48:17.120 --> 04:48:21.080 Definitely moving on to game two right where we have this this situation again 04:48:21.080 --> 04:48:24.120 We're coming into it after the first Excel rock, right? 04:48:24.120 --> 04:48:27.760 I mean, it's like one of the key key through lines through this match 04:48:27.760 --> 04:48:30.640 It's like can you get Excel rock off or not in the first two games? 04:48:30.640 --> 04:48:35.920 It was a distinct not as it turns out and like after this Charizard 04:48:35.920 --> 04:48:38.960 It's already burn its protect so it cannot protect itself 04:48:39.560 --> 04:48:45.400 Reliably at least on this turn you've got the the sneeze of the friendly or close combat into here 04:48:45.400 --> 04:48:47.880 There's a post combat coming into the King gambit as well 04:48:47.880 --> 04:48:51.920 There's the Excel rock pressure on the Charizard that's just gone for the protect 04:48:51.920 --> 04:48:58.680 But also you've got the like almost safe play of just going for a fake out into the 04:48:59.040 --> 04:49:05.780 King gambit we stop that from moving then the Excel rock goes into the Charizard it looks like a 04:49:06.320 --> 04:49:07.540 lovely 04:49:07.540 --> 04:49:14.180 Objective play in this situation, and I love how Carson was able to deal with this and just being able to like hey 04:49:14.180 --> 04:49:17.040 Hang on a second. I'm just gonna switch the Charizard out 04:49:17.880 --> 04:49:23.580 And like the Excel rock, yeah, it's an upside that it's got its tough claws as an ability, right? 04:49:23.580 --> 04:49:29.880 A few more damage to be able to knock out these Charizards, a little bit of a downside when there's a rock, a rough skin on the other side. 04:49:29.880 --> 04:49:32.180 Yeah, yeah, it's got tough claws, but the skin was even tougher. 04:49:32.180 --> 04:49:34.280 And, you know, I can think about the play again, too. 04:49:34.280 --> 04:49:35.580 I kind of missed it in a moment. 04:49:35.580 --> 04:49:40.480 I wonder a little bit if perhaps that draw was conditioned by what happened in that turn you called out from game one, right? 04:49:40.480 --> 04:49:43.880 I was like, oh, like, Charizard kind of got me by attacking in a turn where I thought he wouldn't. 04:49:43.880 --> 04:49:46.880 So I want to make sure I Excel rock and I don't lose in the same way again. 04:49:46.880 --> 04:49:52.200 that just caused him to lose like and rock in a different way. Yeah. Yeah. And there's here is the switch into gargoyle 04:49:52.200 --> 04:49:57.960 Here the rough skin gonna be activating knocking out that like and rock from 1% 04:49:57.960 --> 04:50:01.600 But I think the really key thing here and where this was a little bit of a 04:50:02.840 --> 04:50:04.640 Great switch up for 04:50:04.640 --> 04:50:07.360 Joe is you know when we go a little bit further 04:50:07.360 --> 04:50:08.720 We haven't got a time stamp on it 04:50:08.720 --> 04:50:13.200 But when we got a little bit further and there's the basque legion in the back and that adaptation 04:50:13.200 --> 04:50:21.080 I think was the the best thing that job did in this whole game was like identifying it with the life orb even after 04:50:21.200 --> 04:50:26.720 Just one Pokemon gets knocked out. I have the Basque legions. Yeah, that's good. He just come in for you 04:50:27.120 --> 04:50:31.340 Vasco legion was so important in that game just having that immense offensive pressure 04:50:31.960 --> 04:50:33.960 outside or in the Sun 04:50:34.360 --> 04:50:37.460 Have with the ghost type last respects there after one KO 04:50:37.460 --> 04:50:43.940 You're fine letting your like and rock go down because you had a second option to start blowing up the Pokemon on Parsons 04:50:43.940 --> 04:50:47.100 Yeah, I think it's really big too because we are kind of talking before okay 04:50:47.100 --> 04:50:50.260 You know, maybe one of the weaknesses team is have as much raw power as some others 04:50:50.260 --> 04:50:52.220 But I think you can make a pretty good argument. Okay 04:50:52.220 --> 04:50:57.620 I want the most offense I can possibly get from two non mega evolving Pokemon what two Pokemon 04:50:57.620 --> 04:50:59.340 Should I pick and what item should I give them? 04:50:59.340 --> 04:51:03.140 I think giving a life orb to Basquiel Legion rather than to something like guard sharp or King Gambit 04:51:03.140 --> 04:51:09.140 giving King Gambit those black glasses which is nearly as good but it's like uniquely good for King Gambit because it can get by without coverage. 04:51:09.140 --> 04:51:16.140 Yeah. I think that's probably actually the best you can do with two Pokemon. And we kind of really saw that throughout the course of the the two games that drew out one where 04:51:16.140 --> 04:51:22.140 basketball legend was horrifying even with like one knockout and the team last reflex is kind of just mowing down everything. Yeah, exactly. 04:51:22.140 --> 04:51:28.140 that leads us into our Game 3 here and this is after the Scovillain goes down, right? 04:51:28.140 --> 04:51:34.300 The Sneasel goes for the Diaclore into the Scovillain, gets the poison, but takes a burn 04:51:34.300 --> 04:51:39.780 for its troubles. And this is a really cool turn here, where Zhao brings the Lycanroc in 04:51:39.780 --> 04:51:46.500 after the Scovillain goes down. The Basquilligians trading last respects, but even if it was 04:51:46.500 --> 04:51:52.100 the speed ties while still was able to make it through the last respects at base power is not 04:51:52.100 --> 04:51:59.140 enough. It's kind of the cool Pokemon like just from a little side note like from a design choice 04:51:59.140 --> 04:52:04.260 it's like it's the most powerful thing but just just wait for it like eventually it's eventually 04:52:04.260 --> 04:52:10.340 like there's a nice little balance there um but now of course you've got the excel rock again 04:52:10.340 --> 04:52:15.300 threatening down this charizard whether it protects or not but I think the key thing here is getting 04:52:15.300 --> 04:52:17.300 that. I mean, you know, 04:52:17.300 --> 04:52:19.300 you know, you know, you know, 04:52:19.300 --> 04:52:21.300 you know, you know, you know, 04:52:21.300 --> 04:52:23.300 you're getting the burn on the 04:52:23.300 --> 04:52:25.300 Sneasler. Now the diet floor, 04:52:25.300 --> 04:52:27.300 which is resist resisted into the 04:52:27.300 --> 04:52:29.300 Basque legion. 14% isn't much. 04:52:29.300 --> 04:52:31.300 But like it's on the edge. It's 04:52:31.300 --> 04:52:33.300 not that point where you're like, 04:52:33.300 --> 04:52:35.300 Hey, hang on a second. Does 04:52:35.300 --> 04:52:37.300 this KO and then you you're 04:52:37.300 --> 04:52:39.300 like it looks to me. I was 04:52:39.300 --> 04:52:41.300 thinking watching the match like. 04:52:41.300 --> 04:52:42.300 Does this last respects just go 04:52:42.300 --> 04:52:44.300 into here and the like and rock 04:52:44.300 --> 04:52:50.300 Yeah, it's unclear to me, and it was such a really interesting sequence of events that led us here. 04:52:50.300 --> 04:52:56.300 Both I think Carson making the right calls on only targeting the Scovillain with the Sneasler. 04:52:56.300 --> 04:53:05.300 But the way that Joel was able to then capitalize on the Scovillain going down by making sure that Sneasler had to double target it. 04:53:05.300 --> 04:53:11.620 Yeah, boosted the last respects allowed it to pick up the KO on the basket lead and proper on Carson side 04:53:11.700 --> 04:53:15.860 Which then allowed the like and rock to come in on the switch for free 04:53:16.340 --> 04:53:20.700 Really clever sequencing of events there. Yeah, I thought both players just so smart the way they played this one 04:53:20.700 --> 04:53:24.740 They both seem to prepared in this line. I feel like we say this sort of thing a lot like oh both players are so great 04:53:26.460 --> 04:53:30.820 But this time I really mean it right where I think it was like exactly the right way to play that were Carson 04:53:30.820 --> 04:53:34.580 especially given the moody boost it's govillain got, but I was ready for it, right? 04:53:34.580 --> 04:53:38.500 I think they're both just so practice, so experience, then you had to play that line so well and 04:53:39.140 --> 04:53:45.100 It's easy to see how both the trainers got to this point in the tournament. Yeah, 100%. It was like and that game free was just 04:53:45.340 --> 04:53:46.740 the main difference, right? 04:53:46.740 --> 04:53:49.740 That made it like so far in Drow's favor is 04:53:50.220 --> 04:53:56.180 Lichenrock still got its sash, you know, and that's such a difficult thing to get through making that last call on the 04:53:56.180 --> 04:54:00.140 Excel Rock into the Charizard like it's like well, I've tried it five times before 04:54:00.820 --> 04:54:08.900 this time. Yeah, just like a 04:54:08.900 --> 04:54:10.800 really great example of how 04:54:10.800 --> 04:54:12.800 this team functions into 04:54:12.800 --> 04:54:14.800 Charizard, and especially a 04:54:14.800 --> 04:54:16.800 great example for what's 04:54:16.800 --> 04:54:18.800 coming up where Giovanni is 04:54:18.800 --> 04:54:19.800 playing a Charizard the all of 04:54:19.800 --> 04:54:20.800 these things that we've been 04:54:20.800 --> 04:54:22.800 talking about will matter for 04:54:22.800 --> 04:54:24.800 that top eight match and just a 04:54:24.800 --> 04:54:25.800 little reminder to everyone at 04:54:25.800 --> 04:54:26.800 home that we will be able to 04:54:26.800 --> 04:54:28.800 feature all of our top eight 04:54:28.800 --> 04:54:30.800 matches. But not only that, of 04:54:30.800 --> 04:54:37.280 here at the World Championships going into Championship Sunday. So, yeah, it's a really 04:54:37.280 --> 04:54:42.000 exciting point of the tournament. We've got down to eight players. Without further ado, 04:54:42.000 --> 04:54:45.440 let's head it over to our casters and get our top eight going. 04:56:00.800 --> 04:56:12.360 We have the eight best Pokemon trainers in the entire world kicked out and with each 04:56:12.360 --> 04:56:18.480 match we get closer and closer to determining who is going to be our next Pokemon World 04:56:18.480 --> 04:56:19.480 Champion. 04:56:19.480 --> 04:56:20.480 Welcome back everyone. 04:56:20.480 --> 04:56:25.480 Sierra Dawn, we provost on the desk to get started with top eight of our competition. 04:56:25.480 --> 04:56:27.880 Oh my gosh, we're here already. 04:56:27.880 --> 04:56:29.400 Only eight trainers left. 04:56:29.400 --> 04:56:31.760 I know, I can't believe we're at this stage. 04:56:31.760 --> 04:56:33.240 Yeah, yeah. 16, look at that. 04:56:33.240 --> 04:56:35.040 16. Top 8. 04:56:35.040 --> 04:56:37.480 But yes, getting into the top 8 itself, you know, 04:56:37.480 --> 04:56:40.840 it's just such an incredible accomplishment. 04:56:40.840 --> 04:56:44.640 And it's very exciting to be at this really crucial point 04:56:44.640 --> 04:56:47.320 of the tournament to see who will be progressing on. 04:56:47.320 --> 04:56:49.000 Obviously, Scott mentioned it earlier. 04:56:49.000 --> 04:56:50.880 If you lose at this stage, that is it. 04:56:50.880 --> 04:56:52.120 Your tournament runners are over, 04:56:52.120 --> 04:56:56.080 but if you win, you are on a road to hopefully get 04:56:56.080 --> 04:56:58.800 a little bit closer to Championship Sunday. 04:56:58.800 --> 04:57:02.100 And it is the top eight trainers, quick math once again, 04:57:02.100 --> 04:57:05.940 but for the trainers to make their way to this point 04:57:05.940 --> 04:57:07.680 has just been absolutely incredible. 04:57:07.680 --> 04:57:10.640 And with only a few match wins away 04:57:10.640 --> 04:57:13.040 from finding yourself in that championship Sunday 04:57:13.040 --> 04:57:16.520 or potentially with that World Championship title, 04:57:16.520 --> 04:57:18.480 they've all won a few matches of Pokemon before. 04:57:18.480 --> 04:57:19.820 It's why they're here at this point. 04:57:19.820 --> 04:57:22.080 And any of them can be our next world champion. 04:57:22.080 --> 04:57:24.300 This is an incredible list as well. 04:57:24.300 --> 04:57:28.400 There's so many different storylines coming to light. 04:57:28.400 --> 04:57:37.480 Yeah, and lots of different team comps as well, which I think really shows the innovation skill level of these trainers to kind of go with different options as well. 04:57:37.480 --> 04:57:43.120 And those talked about it time and time again, those micro decisions that make all the difference on the battlefield. 04:57:43.120 --> 04:57:49.800 And that's what it will come down to a lot of the time, how comfortable are these trainers with these teams that they put all of their confidence into. 04:57:50.000 --> 04:57:54.960 And it's been, like you say, amazing to see and witness a lot of the journeys we've had so far. 04:57:54.960 --> 04:57:59.400 But for a number of these trainers, the journey's still got to continue. 04:57:59.400 --> 04:58:03.840 We've got another chapter to complete until we get to that final one tomorrow. 04:58:03.840 --> 04:58:06.720 And these matches are just getting closer and closer. 04:58:06.720 --> 04:58:10.400 Of course, when you have the caliber of player that we have, well, 04:58:10.400 --> 04:58:12.840 to be expected, but it's been so exciting. 04:58:12.840 --> 04:58:17.360 But let's get started with our first top eight match. 04:58:17.360 --> 04:58:19.280 This is going to be a fun one, everyone. 04:58:19.280 --> 04:58:24.240 We have Antonio Sanchez going up against Hiroshi Onishi. 04:58:24.240 --> 04:58:32.120 And looking at two teams that just were so well positioned going into the event and two trainers with very fantastic accomplishments. 04:58:32.120 --> 04:58:39.240 Yeah, well, we know Horishi is the current Japan national champion from earlier this year, incredible accomplishment. 04:58:39.240 --> 04:58:43.440 And then continuing that form into the world championships, into the top of the tournament. 04:58:43.440 --> 04:58:46.440 But Antonio, no stranger, we had them on stream earlier. 04:58:46.440 --> 04:58:51.040 Antonio obviously winning that regional in Liverpool in the 2024 season. 04:58:51.040 --> 04:58:53.760 Since then, it's been very consistent with the results. 04:58:53.760 --> 04:58:58.640 getting into day two consistently, getting into top eight and just an incredible player. 04:58:58.640 --> 04:59:02.720 He's never had that huge win outside of a region or one of the major events. 04:59:02.720 --> 04:59:05.920 Could this be the one? Antonio definitely capable of it. 04:59:05.920 --> 04:59:09.600 Incredibly skilled trainer, but got a tough task ahead of them. 04:59:09.600 --> 04:59:15.840 And not the first world's top cut when you look back at 24 with that top 16 at Honolulu, 04:59:15.840 --> 04:59:21.200 but now having already won up that being here in top eight, you know that he's got to be hungry. 04:59:21.200 --> 04:59:26.480 to take that even one step further now that you've been afforded that opportunity once again. 04:59:26.480 --> 04:59:32.480 But of course for Hiroshi to win the Japan national championships, go into the world of 04:59:32.480 --> 04:59:38.080 championships with that title and be able to accomplish this type of run with that national 04:59:38.080 --> 04:59:42.800 champion above. It would just be incredible to be able to see him go all the way. It would be 04:59:42.800 --> 04:59:48.640 yeah either trainer would be a joy to see lifting that trophy on Sunday. But of course one has to 04:59:48.640 --> 04:59:50.640 other before we get close to 04:59:50.640 --> 04:59:52.640 that and both have very similar 04:59:52.640 --> 04:59:54.640 teams on the face of it, but there 04:59:54.640 --> 04:59:56.640 are some big differences that are going to play a huge 04:59:56.640 --> 04:59:58.640 part in this match in Google. 04:59:58.640 --> 05:00:00.640 Be able to come out on top of course 05:00:00.640 --> 05:00:02.640 and start with Antonio's team here. 05:00:02.640 --> 05:00:04.640 Toxapex was star of the short earlier 05:00:04.640 --> 05:00:06.640 is the big difference really between 05:00:06.640 --> 05:00:08.640 the two teams and can be the difference maker 05:00:08.640 --> 05:00:10.640 for Antonio in general. 05:00:10.640 --> 05:00:12.640 It's a Pokemon that we saw really pop off 05:00:12.640 --> 05:00:14.640 at NAIC and 05:00:14.640 --> 05:00:16.640 the amount of mileage you can get from it 05:00:16.640 --> 05:00:24.380 it and just how careful your opponent has to be. Of course, it is just so bulky. It can be a real pest to deal with. But if you're also over 05:00:24.380 --> 05:00:31.520 compensating for the toxic facts and trying to throw too much into that, there's so much offensive powerhouse pieces on this team that can really make the 05:00:31.520 --> 05:00:37.600 difference. Sylveon, I feel like, has been the star of the tournament. And of course, you can't discount the others as well. And even 05:00:37.600 --> 05:00:44.480 Venusaur, this set having that sleep outer variety, if you lend one of those to the powders, that has the opportunity to completely turn to the 05:00:44.480 --> 05:00:50.560 of the match? Yeah, especially if the Charizard from where she comes out, it sets the sun that 05:00:50.560 --> 05:00:54.880 chlorophyll is activated, that Venusaur is then enabled. That Sleep Powder, if it does hit like 05:00:54.880 --> 05:01:00.160 you see it, can be the difference maker. This Choice Golf on the Godchump as well does create a few 05:01:00.160 --> 05:01:04.000 issues for Horosha where they're going to have to really lean into their Wintercourt, 05:01:04.000 --> 05:01:08.960 their speed control option to get ahead of that. So they do go down a Charizard route, 05:01:08.960 --> 05:01:12.000 then it needs to be able to supersede that. 05:01:12.000 --> 05:01:13.520 Do you bring the flowette here? 05:01:13.520 --> 05:01:16.560 You mentioned the Venusole that Antonio got access to. 05:01:16.560 --> 05:01:18.760 What's another great Pokemon that can sit in front of it, 05:01:18.760 --> 05:01:21.040 way more comfortable than other options 05:01:21.040 --> 05:01:24.200 and can threaten back with that sludge bomb damage? 05:01:24.200 --> 05:01:25.840 Looking over at Hero, she's team, 05:01:25.840 --> 05:01:27.480 we had called up some of the similarities 05:01:27.480 --> 05:01:31.000 when we are looking at a megacharizard, right? 05:01:31.000 --> 05:01:33.920 But this one just has a lot more offense across the board, 05:01:33.920 --> 05:01:35.720 paired up with this Gwimsacott, 05:01:35.720 --> 05:01:38.160 and being able to pressure something like an encourt 05:01:38.160 --> 05:01:43.120 or even just out speeding for a lot of these for your pieces can just completely push the 05:01:43.120 --> 05:01:47.760 momentum in your favor. But it's what mega you want to go with as well as you do have 05:01:47.760 --> 05:01:50.680 the Charizard or the flow. I feel like the Charizard could be a really strong one in 05:01:50.680 --> 05:01:55.680 this match, but still you have options. You do have options. I think the pivotal piece 05:01:55.680 --> 05:02:00.280 is going to be that wins the cup because it can help disrupt what is a big thorn in Hiroshi 05:02:00.280 --> 05:02:04.200 side in the toxic pecs. If you can hopefully lock it into something like a white guard, 05:02:04.200 --> 05:02:07.680 then it really becomes a bit of dead weight for Antonio and then gives you the 05:02:07.680 --> 05:02:11.520 rune to maybe leverage some of these big pieces. Like you say the Charizard there 05:02:11.520 --> 05:02:15.160 it has got ancient power that's an advantage it or she has over Antonio so 05:02:15.160 --> 05:02:19.000 even in front of an opposing Mega Charizard you can threaten with that 05:02:19.000 --> 05:02:22.680 attack for some perfected damage. Then you look at the Float as well it's got that 05:02:22.680 --> 05:02:26.640 burst damage in light of rune and it can support the Windsor Cut as well but 05:02:26.640 --> 05:02:30.240 there are some big threats and a couple of poison types they don't want to see. 05:02:30.240 --> 05:02:38.240 to two very capable trainers but only one to move on to top four between Antonio Sanchez and Neroji Onishi. 05:02:38.240 --> 05:02:44.240 Let's get into it and find out who's very aggressive lead from Neroji, but Antonio has well. 05:02:44.240 --> 05:02:48.240 Garchomp and King Ambit on the one side, the Innocent and Charizard for the other. 05:02:48.240 --> 05:02:51.240 You've got to be careful if you are Antonio with that Garchomp. 05:02:51.240 --> 05:02:55.240 Obviously there is the rock slide right there if you use it down the field and mega evolve, 05:02:55.240 --> 05:02:59.240 but you can go up to protect, just get the Sun in place and then take advantage like you mentioned 05:02:59.240 --> 05:03:03.080 in the overview of that sleep powder you can cut the bar chump to sleep and then the freeze of the 05:03:03.080 --> 05:03:08.120 Charizard to help deal with the King Gambit. The King Gambit on Hiroshi's side has not 05:03:08.120 --> 05:03:12.840 gotten perfect so right now sitting in front of this Charizard is his friend so if you see the 05:03:12.840 --> 05:03:18.920 play of Charizard Megavolve being able to put that bar chump to sleep then the Charizard can go 05:03:18.920 --> 05:03:23.080 straight after that King Gambit. The one thing you would say the King Gambit has in its back 05:03:23.080 --> 05:03:27.720 pocket is an Hockaberry it will give it at least one extra turn in front of this Charizard to get 05:03:27.720 --> 05:03:33.720 Make a solution with the Charizard to go ahead and get her on this turn and of course bring the Sun about. 05:03:33.720 --> 05:03:41.720 The Leaf Powder, Garchomp for Hiroshi won't do anything on this turn as it has to take a meditory turn of sleep. 05:03:41.720 --> 05:03:50.720 75% of the time it is a great move, but King Gambit, Aucaberry will definitely help it take this hit just down to below half. 05:03:50.720 --> 05:03:52.720 And look how Garchomp is able to shrug it off. 05:03:52.720 --> 05:03:55.760 Now to just be up to King Gamut to be dealing the damage, 05:03:55.760 --> 05:03:58.720 trying to equalize just a little bit and it'll be a pow-tow 05:03:58.720 --> 05:04:02.320 cleave into the Charizard. A lot of damage into it. 05:04:02.320 --> 05:04:04.720 Yeah, it's nice damage into the Charizard. 05:04:04.720 --> 05:04:07.360 Used to be Ocoberry and she's off of that Charizard up. 05:04:07.360 --> 05:04:08.960 Is it in range of the Succulent? 05:04:08.960 --> 05:04:10.960 She's probably saying not after that pow-tow, 05:04:10.960 --> 05:04:12.000 key damage. 05:04:12.000 --> 05:04:14.720 The Venusaur as well is straining into King Gamut with it. 05:04:14.720 --> 05:04:18.400 Powering this Godchomp is going to be really... 05:04:18.400 --> 05:04:19.600 Is it going to wake up this thing? 05:04:19.600 --> 05:04:21.840 If it can wake up, it can threaten this Charizard. 05:04:21.840 --> 05:04:28.240 But do you leave that King Gamma in a vulnerable spot now where it's potentially threatened by ball-packed Charizard pounded before? 05:04:28.240 --> 05:04:33.440 And if you go for the switch, potentially Venus will put Paterson's thing if you take that King Gamma out on Blink. 05:04:33.940 --> 05:04:42.140 Not wanting to potentially get Sucker Punch Charizard to swap out as no Sucker Punch said King Gamma could just eat up this Earth Power 05:04:42.140 --> 05:04:45.140 as Venus or two claim the first kill in the match. 05:04:45.140 --> 05:04:48.940 King Gamma goes down, poor Garchomp, time to see if it will wake up. 05:04:48.940 --> 05:04:53.420 No, another turn of sleep, no damage coming out from Hiroshi's end of the board. 05:04:53.420 --> 05:04:57.180 Yeah, it's a nice play from Antonio, taking advantage of the board position there, same way. 05:04:57.180 --> 05:05:00.140 If you don't switch that king down, I'm going to take it down. 05:05:00.140 --> 05:05:03.580 Thankfully for Antonio, the Garchomp save is sleeping out. 05:05:03.580 --> 05:05:06.220 Haspending turn has got a chance to wake up this next turn, 05:05:06.220 --> 05:05:08.380 but you've got your Garchomp on the field for free. 05:05:08.380 --> 05:05:12.140 It'll be interesting to see which Pokemon comes in for Hiroshi, 05:05:12.140 --> 05:05:15.420 which Mega if they went for, they need more swords at the right. 05:05:15.420 --> 05:05:17.660 That's going to have issues against that Venus soul. 05:05:17.660 --> 05:05:22.660 And if it is the Charizard, that is going to have to deal with the Charizard on Fish, hopefully enemy number one. 05:05:22.660 --> 05:05:31.160 Yeah, especially with that Shui Surf over on the Garjonshire, you're giving up a little bit of damage for that, but you're just oh so speedy. 05:05:31.160 --> 05:05:34.160 Coming into the map to the Pasca region instead of trying to pressure. 05:05:34.160 --> 05:05:41.160 Of course, with these Pudder Tape attacks, they won't be doing quite as much damage, so feeling like a lack of specs isn't fully good to be yet high either. 05:05:41.160 --> 05:05:44.660 And both Pokemon Ontario's end up bored at full health. 05:05:44.660 --> 05:05:53.000 Yeah, the one thing he would say in normal situations is the Venus will withdraw in that Basque Legion, but it doesn't have a blast-type attack, it's just got the Earthrider and the Sludge Bomb. 05:05:53.000 --> 05:06:10.020 So, Basque Legion is in a bit more of a preferable state right now, it's not really gonna be just right in the fight and knockout from that Venus, though, because of its speed boost from the stun, so if you can get an attack off onto one of these Garchomp ulti Venus, though, it will help suffer a little bit, but you just gotta hold the your own Garchomp and there you go. 05:06:10.020 --> 05:06:18.860 Will it be for tax for the basket legion to not get put to sleep as Venusaur attempts to fire off another one for the Garchomp though 05:06:18.860 --> 05:06:25.800 It will be Antonio is moving first and all Eddie himself intimate guard chomp for her oh she goes down 05:06:26.780 --> 05:06:32.120 Turn for Antonio and you can see that maybe the bus station trying to get the payday drawing those attacks 05:06:32.700 --> 05:06:38.100 Into the double protects maybe but no Antonio no phones were going straight after the target in the Garchomp 05:06:38.100 --> 05:06:39.700 There was a bit of a scene up there. 05:06:39.700 --> 05:06:42.260 Now the Charizard is forced out into the field. 05:06:42.260 --> 05:06:44.420 Golloch-Humper is locked into the Dragon core though, 05:06:44.420 --> 05:06:46.420 so there is no threat of that rock slide, 05:06:46.420 --> 05:06:48.820 but still these Dragon cores are gonna be hitting pretty hard. 05:06:48.820 --> 05:06:50.900 And you've still got that threat to the Sleep Powder. 05:06:50.900 --> 05:06:51.940 Is it gonna go into the basket, 05:06:51.940 --> 05:06:52.940 even if it's just protected, 05:06:52.940 --> 05:06:54.500 it needs to start to go after? 05:06:54.500 --> 05:06:55.340 And you've got the focus, 05:06:55.340 --> 05:06:57.580 that she's a little bit of security for that being so, 05:06:57.580 --> 05:06:59.260 it would go after the Charizard, 05:06:59.260 --> 05:07:01.220 with just that Dragon core. 05:07:01.220 --> 05:07:02.860 Try to double up it into it, 05:07:02.860 --> 05:07:05.300 but again, with how fast this dinosaur is, 05:07:05.300 --> 05:07:06.660 thanks to the sun, 05:07:06.660 --> 05:07:10.660 A sleep powder connecting can just completely stop her O.T. side of the board. 05:07:10.660 --> 05:07:11.660 It's trapped. 05:07:11.660 --> 05:07:16.660 A little bit of a swaparoo though, instead of her to join the fray in place of that garchomp. 05:07:16.660 --> 05:07:21.660 So an opportunity to count that move, reset, become, attack, it's mega-evolution. 05:07:21.660 --> 05:07:23.660 So lay into all of it. 05:07:23.660 --> 05:07:28.660 Make sure you get the most momentum out of this Charizard, because it definitely has to make some of. 05:07:28.660 --> 05:07:31.660 No sleep powder though, instead just full offensive. 05:07:31.660 --> 05:07:44.940 It's a perfect Pokemon in the back for Antonio again that all important intimidate on to 05:07:44.940 --> 05:07:45.940 the basket. 05:07:45.940 --> 05:07:46.940 What? 05:07:46.940 --> 05:07:50.180 And the burn coming out onto the Venusaur it's not going to stick around one in this 05:07:50.180 --> 05:07:54.180 turn it will go down the last respect's coming out and not going to be that effective 05:07:54.180 --> 05:07:57.180 into the Incinero Grades switch there losing the Venusaur though. 05:07:57.180 --> 05:08:00.860 I don't know if Antonio minds this too much because it gets that goal jump back out onto 05:08:00.860 --> 05:08:04.500 the field right and now it's going to be able to lock in with the Rocks like it 05:08:04.500 --> 05:08:08.060 will potentially be able to get rid of the Turzard, do good damage to that 05:08:08.060 --> 05:08:12.060 Basque Legion as well but have you got an attack to be able to take down the 05:08:12.060 --> 05:08:15.980 Basque Legion? The Incineroar on Antonio's side does not have a 05:08:15.980 --> 05:08:21.420 non-attack to take advantage of. Thanks for nothing Focus Ash, is all I'll say. Venus 05:08:21.420 --> 05:08:25.380 we're going down which you wouldn't maybe wanted to do that push ball damage that 05:08:25.380 --> 05:08:28.900 second hit into the Turzard to try and take it down or even just a sweet powder 05:08:28.900 --> 05:08:32.500 At least Garchomp coming back out, we hit that same dilemma as last time. 05:08:32.500 --> 05:08:35.940 You have the Twix, but if you walk into a move, what is it going to be? 05:08:35.940 --> 05:08:38.900 Because something like the Throck Slide trying to pick off this Charizard, 05:08:38.900 --> 05:08:41.900 but it's basically just still sitting out a lot of health. 05:08:41.900 --> 05:08:46.700 Yeah, it's going to be really conflicted about what it goes for next. 05:08:46.700 --> 05:08:48.900 I mean, the last respect to me doing a lot of damage, 05:08:48.900 --> 05:08:51.100 there's only one turn of the Sunlight as well. 05:08:51.100 --> 05:08:55.700 The Incinerator's have a breakout, so cancel that Charizard damage to turn. 05:08:55.700 --> 05:09:04.040 After that though, it probably will be a case of get through this protector and see what this guard chump locks into and then approach that next turn respectfully. 05:09:04.040 --> 05:09:13.040 Maybe without the sun, the Vascular Legion becomes a little bit more threatening, especially with that little crash, the actual just really can't have access to trying to get rid of that and see what happens. 05:09:13.040 --> 05:09:15.780 This is Swaperoo for the guard chump, no luck yet! 05:09:15.780 --> 05:09:19.060 Charizard instead for Enchodio coming back out. 05:09:19.060 --> 05:09:22.100 And this is a great way too to maybe just burn some protectors. 05:09:22.100 --> 05:09:23.660 So you now get your Charizard in. 05:09:23.660 --> 05:09:24.740 Oh, not for free! 05:09:24.740 --> 05:09:28.780 Vakulitian goes on the offensive, so the swap and Charizard goes down. 05:09:28.780 --> 05:09:31.700 Yeah, you might not see an important shot here from this. 05:09:31.700 --> 05:09:35.420 Incineroar and Vaskalitian to lie that attack parry even further. 05:09:35.420 --> 05:09:37.260 And then you can drop another Intimidate, 05:09:37.260 --> 05:09:38.900 and then you've got that active fake out. 05:09:38.900 --> 05:09:40.620 It's probably a smart play from Antonio. 05:09:40.620 --> 05:09:43.780 Hiroshi pulling themselves really back into the game so well. 05:09:43.780 --> 05:09:47.740 But now you're going to have that fake out onto what was just a protective Charizard. 05:09:47.740 --> 05:09:49.380 You can stop that and extract, 05:09:49.380 --> 05:09:56.380 Concentrate all of your efforts down onto this vasculature, but you can declare that you've been to now, even if you don't want to sense the field. 05:09:56.380 --> 05:10:03.380 Now Garchomp re-hits the field and center comes out, and as you said, that attack for the vasculator is even lower. 05:10:03.380 --> 05:10:11.380 And now since the Charizard has burned for tech, do you go for the double, or potentially fail it? Or do you just go for the attack? 05:10:11.380 --> 05:10:18.380 Because both options are tough. At least if Garchomp does lock into something like that rock side, there is always that opportunity for the miss, right? 05:10:18.380 --> 05:10:23.500 But the odds weren't necessarily in your favor for that, so do you risk a snatch on that moment? 05:10:23.500 --> 05:10:31.060 Yeah, I think it's a really tough call here. I think it's a good call to make more sense to if you get it, then it works out really well for you. 05:10:31.060 --> 05:10:36.580 Now, the basket leaves into the biggest problem for Antonio to deal with right now, because Rockside's just not having the impact he wanted. 05:10:36.580 --> 05:10:39.740 Does land on the Charizard, no fake out as well. 05:10:39.740 --> 05:10:45.060 Because Antonio's going to maybe cycle another party shot into the basket leaves into China, we can even fair that. 05:10:45.060 --> 05:10:49.060 First off, we get to see the last respects into the Garjob! 05:10:49.060 --> 05:10:53.060 And you can wait until all you want when the critical hit comes through! 05:10:53.060 --> 05:10:56.060 The Garjob won't be able to survive! 05:10:56.060 --> 05:10:59.060 Vasculage and brought down to 45% health. 05:10:59.060 --> 05:11:02.060 Being Cynor, Slaver Blade's not necessarily too effective. 05:11:02.060 --> 05:11:04.060 It's not quite doing enough. 05:11:04.060 --> 05:11:09.060 We have to run this one back, but it's only going to be these two Pokemon. 05:11:09.060 --> 05:11:12.060 Yeah, and I think that Cynor will probably just be able to close it up. 05:11:12.060 --> 05:11:15.820 about that. Fleeblit spam, if you do steam, is going to be enough to get the knockout here. 05:11:15.820 --> 05:11:20.220 You've got to consider as well the life of recall. Although the last respect has been 05:11:20.220 --> 05:11:24.300 powered up to the maximum. Nothing to be able to do, but is this wave crash? 05:11:24.300 --> 05:11:29.100 A couple of rounds of Intimidate, but wave crash coming on through into the incinerator. 05:11:29.100 --> 05:11:36.780 Is enough damage. Vasilijin wins the 1v1 and Hiroshi to take the first game in this set. 05:11:36.780 --> 05:11:41.740 Yeah, another parting shot. The plays that there's an intricate getting in and out was just 05:11:41.740 --> 05:11:46.220 not enough to weaken that Vaskalige to the point where he's able to be overcome by the incinerator 05:11:46.220 --> 05:11:51.260 there and you know I think really well played from Hiroshi, Antonio managed the field very well 05:11:51.260 --> 05:11:55.420 in a lot of scenarios especially that early game of the sleep powders getting rid of the King Gambit 05:11:55.420 --> 05:11:59.820 but didn't really have the answers to that Vaskalige when it hit the field unfortunately I think 05:11:59.820 --> 05:12:05.020 a little bit of a real awkward Pokemon to deal with when you've got enough grass type attack on 05:12:05.020 --> 05:12:10.300 your Venus or you've got no way to change moves on your Garchomp as well. It really made it difficult 05:12:10.300 --> 05:12:12.020 to land anything into that 05:12:12.020 --> 05:12:13.060 basculage and I think the 05:12:13.060 --> 05:12:14.260 Charizard as well was probably 05:12:14.260 --> 05:12:15.500 the best method to deal with 05:12:15.500 --> 05:12:16.900 the basculage and it has got 05:12:16.900 --> 05:12:18.900 solar beam, but we saw it 05:12:18.900 --> 05:12:20.200 coming in, getting caught on 05:12:20.200 --> 05:12:21.100 the switch with that last 05:12:21.100 --> 05:12:23.100 respects really just left 05:12:23.100 --> 05:12:26.100 Antonio with very few resources 05:12:26.100 --> 05:12:27.900 to kind of come back and clean 05:12:27.900 --> 05:12:29.300 up the game. 05:12:29.300 --> 05:12:30.600 And the amount of damage at the 05:12:30.600 --> 05:12:32.100 end, the last respects critical 05:12:32.100 --> 05:12:33.800 hit into Garchon's gotta feel 05:12:33.800 --> 05:12:35.100 good and then still having 05:12:35.100 --> 05:12:36.800 enough momentum to take down 05:12:36.800 --> 05:12:38.100 the incinerator. 05:12:38.100 --> 05:12:40.200 Now for Antonio, where do we 05:12:40.200 --> 05:12:45.560 switch it up for game number two. The Venusaur, it was nice when you landed the sleep power, 05:12:45.560 --> 05:12:49.720 it was nice with the earth power, but a couple of options may be likely to try and take care 05:12:49.720 --> 05:12:53.960 of that Vasculita that ran away with the end game. Maybe something to prioritize a little 05:12:53.960 --> 05:12:59.720 bit sooner, but let's find out as we head into game number two here. Garchon banking gamut, 05:12:59.720 --> 05:13:04.760 once again, for Hiroshi and on the opposing end, we'll run back to Charizard, but now with Incineroar. 05:13:04.760 --> 05:13:09.240 No better a switch up that early intubative, going to be good in one respect to the vehicles 05:13:09.240 --> 05:13:13.400 in dollchamp but not only to that King Gamma that's the finality activating so it's going 05:13:13.400 --> 05:13:14.840 to be a little bit more threatening. 05:13:14.840 --> 05:13:18.920 You've got to get through this next turn, just leave the King Gamma doesn't have to 05:13:18.920 --> 05:13:24.000 protect so it is a nice easy target for that Faker to slow down here but you probably want 05:13:24.000 --> 05:13:28.480 to go after the dollchamp that is threatening bigger damage onto Charizard with potential 05:13:28.480 --> 05:13:33.960 Rock Slide as well so choices are do you keep that Charizard on the field and maybe just 05:13:33.960 --> 05:13:36.760 leverage your fake out here to get something in a little bit more 05:13:36.760 --> 05:13:39.880 desirable. Not seeing that much, right, Horace? 05:13:39.880 --> 05:13:43.960 And no switch. Well, Charizard's here. We're going to make the most of it. 05:13:43.960 --> 05:13:47.240 First off with the Mega Evolution. And again, bringing around the throat 05:13:47.240 --> 05:13:51.160 and the sunshine off the sea, though, because Garchomp on the opposing end 05:13:51.160 --> 05:13:53.960 can be a very scary threat. But one that will be 05:13:53.960 --> 05:13:57.880 making stuff for now. But thanks of that fake out, Garchomp can't 05:13:57.880 --> 05:14:01.400 act in heatwave. There is going to be a... Okay, it's going to be... 05:14:01.400 --> 05:14:07.560 There is going to be an Akabari, but it will be a double connect. King Gambit is going to survive this hit. 05:14:07.560 --> 05:14:12.280 Now with an opportunity to respond to Kautau's lead into something like this Charizard, 05:14:12.280 --> 05:14:16.920 could be a great way to do some damage, but low kick into Incineroar does even more, 05:14:16.920 --> 05:14:18.920 bringing it down to just a bit. 05:14:18.920 --> 05:14:22.040 It's a nice low kick, and the Akabari is a good use there. 05:14:22.040 --> 05:14:26.120 Just something that Incineroar now is going to be susceptible to going down to a potential. 05:14:26.120 --> 05:14:34.860 Earthquake, if that's what you're choosing, from that GollChomp, you would have to in that scenario switch out the King Gamma if you're Horoshee, and kind of Coco, the booster you've got. 05:14:34.860 --> 05:14:37.940 Charizard's still sitting in not a terrible position though. 05:14:37.940 --> 05:14:44.060 I'm wondering has Antonio brought the Toxotex this game though, because that is something that you could maybe give it into here. 05:14:44.060 --> 05:14:52.660 You're not expecting an Earthquake, your GollChomp is minus one as well, so you've got to try and get it on the field, it's not as possible if it is there, but we'll have to wait and see. 05:14:52.660 --> 05:14:56.660 Chargers are not in the greatest spot right now in front of you. 05:14:56.660 --> 05:15:02.660 It certainly is not, which applied for tech from Antonio to keep it safe past this turn. 05:15:02.660 --> 05:15:05.660 It's already taken a lot of damage as well, so you just don't want it to be taken asucker. 05:15:05.660 --> 05:15:09.660 It hasn't taken any damage. You don't want to take any with that sucker pun. 05:15:09.660 --> 05:15:15.660 Now, with follow-up, Rockslide Incineroar is going to be quite good through this turn, 05:15:15.660 --> 05:15:18.660 but are we going to see it act? Yes, Blair Blitz. 05:15:18.660 --> 05:15:21.660 Try and take care of the threat of the king gambit while you can. 05:15:21.660 --> 05:15:25.660 Yeah, it's good trades here too. You know, if you use it to stop that party, 05:15:25.660 --> 05:15:26.660 you should have this as a guard jump right away, 05:15:26.660 --> 05:15:27.660 you can do that a little bit further. 05:15:27.660 --> 05:15:32.660 But removing threats, picking down there, is very valuable here. 05:15:32.660 --> 05:15:34.660 And the incident was still sticking around as well, 05:15:34.660 --> 05:15:36.660 so there is potential to swap that out. 05:15:36.660 --> 05:15:39.660 In fact, it's going to be later on if you want to. 05:15:39.660 --> 05:15:41.660 You've got to be careful as well if you are in 20 or not, 05:15:41.660 --> 05:15:43.660 because there's two rock threats in the field. 05:15:43.660 --> 05:15:45.660 You've got Karachi, Charizard, a bit Megavoz, 05:15:45.660 --> 05:15:48.660 it's got that Intune Power, and then you do have the Rock Slide as well. 05:15:48.660 --> 05:15:52.120 The Rockslide is pretty straightforward here, we'll pick up the knockout on him soon, 05:15:52.120 --> 05:15:55.780 or because of the damage he's taken in that Charizard will be in range, 05:15:55.780 --> 05:15:59.420 depends on the speed, interactions as well, which Charizard is going to go first, 05:15:59.420 --> 05:16:04.580 or she just does surpass, Antonio's can get that, and you power up with the Rockslide. 05:16:04.580 --> 05:16:09.020 So, Antonio's Charizard not in again, the best of positions right now. 05:16:09.020 --> 05:16:14.340 There's always just that little bit of variation with the walk, with the speeds of the Pokemon, 05:16:14.340 --> 05:16:18.380 so it's time to see if potentially there's a ski tie, or who is going to move first, 05:16:18.380 --> 05:16:23.380 But the switch out is another way to preserve instead of playing any sort of those VTai games 05:16:23.380 --> 05:16:28.380 Go ahead and threaten with not just one, but two Pokemon switching out. 05:16:28.380 --> 05:16:32.380 Talk to Bex. It's gonna be a switch up here in game number two. 05:16:32.380 --> 05:16:35.380 Yeah, and then we're gonna get to the negative relationship of the chosen one. 05:16:35.380 --> 05:16:40.380 We'll see if it is the Ancient Power. There's also a chance that comes out of the boost, which would be a huge help to her. 05:16:40.380 --> 05:16:46.380 She's a defensive prize. We're gonna see the Dragonclaw is caught on the switch in. Great call there. 05:16:46.380 --> 05:16:49.380 and there's it going to be followed up by the angel car. 05:16:49.380 --> 05:16:51.880 A decent amount of damage with the dragon claw, 05:16:51.880 --> 05:16:55.880 but it'll be a heatwave instead hit into both of these targets 05:16:55.880 --> 05:16:58.880 and bring Garchon and Florentownio down to just a bit. 05:16:58.880 --> 05:17:01.380 Burn onto the Toxic Packs as well. 05:17:01.380 --> 05:17:05.380 That's not what you'd want to see when you're relying on this Pokémon 05:17:05.380 --> 05:17:07.880 to be sticking around for so long. 05:17:07.880 --> 05:17:12.880 This is going to negate the amount, like, the leftover recovery that you're trying to get. 05:17:12.880 --> 05:17:15.380 Yeah, that makes it very difficult to utilize the Toxic Packs 05:17:15.380 --> 05:17:19.980 effects in the way that you want to set in the field, kind of just tip away and disrupt. 05:17:19.980 --> 05:17:24.660 Now it is going to be pretty much staying where it is and every bit of damage will count now, 05:17:24.660 --> 05:17:27.140 so really fortunate for Horoji. 05:17:27.140 --> 05:17:31.060 They do have access to why I got this turn, or do you start getting things on the time 05:17:31.060 --> 05:17:32.560 as you go full the trap? 05:17:32.560 --> 05:17:33.560 Do you go for the Toxic? 05:17:33.560 --> 05:17:34.560 On the field, a certain field. 05:17:34.560 --> 05:17:39.220 You can go Toxic pretty comfortably here, you know that King Gamma, the only immunity 05:17:39.220 --> 05:17:44.860 on Horoji's side, has fallen, so when you go after and it lands it will take effect. 05:17:44.860 --> 05:17:49.060 The garchomp now on Antonio's side as well is Skull, has the access to go for the Dragon 05:17:49.060 --> 05:17:52.220 clone to the opposing garchomp, for we will be enough to pick up the knockout there. 05:17:52.220 --> 05:17:58.700 Or do you choose to go after this to charge it if you have, you're going into a protect. 05:17:58.700 --> 05:18:04.500 Protect on the turn, stay good past this rock slide and just pick up a little bit more into 05:18:04.500 --> 05:18:05.980 the garchomp on the opposing end. 05:18:05.980 --> 05:18:10.860 A flinch would always be nice to try and make sure this archspec isn't taking any more damage, 05:18:10.860 --> 05:18:13.520 but instead just this earthquake. 05:18:13.520 --> 05:18:19.760 hit into both of the Pokemon onto Antonyo's end. Something that Toxicpex does not appreciate at all 05:18:19.760 --> 05:18:26.080 and Garchomp does not have a way to get through. Wow, that's quick there. Really bold decision by 05:18:26.080 --> 05:18:30.800 Hiroshi, knowing that why God is an option, but saying if you don't go for it, I'm going to really 05:18:30.800 --> 05:18:36.240 reap some rewards. You see the Toxic come out onto Garchomp, but I think a turn too late and so much 05:18:36.240 --> 05:18:41.840 damage as well with that critical hit and the Toxicpex is here in real heat because now any 05:18:41.840 --> 05:18:49.840 will probably be enough to pick it up, and it's not utilizing any sort of role that we've used to seeing, and how much you're dealing with it so, so well. 05:18:49.840 --> 05:19:00.840 There is always the potential to try and swap it out against recovery, out of the way, but when the pieces on your team are kind of dwindling away and you've taken so much damage into something like that in the center already, 05:19:00.840 --> 05:19:08.500 already that's also a difficult one because you know that the Pokemon you send in for the talks effect might just be taken down and then you're left with only 05:19:08.500 --> 05:19:15.520 two options left and I'm telling you definitely in a very tricky situation yeah and now you can bring in the 05:19:15.520 --> 05:19:22.400 Incinerate here and it's given so much damage so far but you will be able to at least drop the weathering today onto the Garchomp 05:19:22.400 --> 05:19:30.240 you can utilize that make out onto either the Charizard or the Garchomp you probably want to go for the Charizard though and more than anything 05:19:30.240 --> 05:19:34.300 If you go after the Garchomp, the rough skin residue will probably take you down, but you 05:19:34.300 --> 05:19:38.820 are in a real pinch here where a Heatwave is going to be enough to clear the top specks 05:19:38.820 --> 05:19:39.820 and incinerate it. 05:19:39.820 --> 05:19:45.420 That isn't a chosen target, and even a Rockslide, which is an easy choice for Garchomp, um... 05:19:45.420 --> 05:19:50.980 I mean, even at this point, you're talking about Rockslide, Heatwave, you do have to 05:19:50.980 --> 05:19:53.980 be careful on the top specks with the Wideguard, right? 05:19:53.980 --> 05:19:58.380 But then, Proji, you go and see that the health bars on the other Pokemon are so low, you 05:19:58.380 --> 05:20:00.380 You can even just pick them off with a single target. 05:20:00.380 --> 05:20:01.780 It's at your worry. 05:20:01.780 --> 05:20:03.620 Double in for the one slot. 05:20:03.620 --> 05:20:06.340 Talkspecs will take the opportunity to switch out 05:20:06.340 --> 05:20:07.860 and get some recovery. 05:20:07.860 --> 05:20:09.780 But with Charizard coming back in, 05:20:09.780 --> 05:20:12.180 could potentially just get hit. 05:20:12.180 --> 05:20:14.140 Incineroar with Protect is only the fun 05:20:14.140 --> 05:20:15.540 little team building thing. 05:20:15.540 --> 05:20:17.980 An Earthquake coming up from Hiroshi 05:20:17.980 --> 05:20:19.380 will do nothing to Incineroar. 05:20:19.380 --> 05:20:21.740 And Charizard Swap looks like it's going to be good. 05:20:21.740 --> 05:20:23.180 It'll be the follow-up, though, 05:20:23.180 --> 05:20:24.020 from the opposing end. 05:20:24.020 --> 05:20:24.860 Oh, it's folding. 05:20:24.860 --> 05:20:28.340 And Ancient Power into Antonio's Charizard. 05:20:28.340 --> 05:20:33.260 is going to bring it oh so low yeah what a great call from Horosian that move 05:20:33.260 --> 05:20:37.300 along pretty much locks up the game and makes it very difficult for Antonio to 05:20:37.300 --> 05:20:40.900 get back into this in any sort of way she performed now you've got the situation 05:20:40.900 --> 05:20:45.060 where that fake up's burnt there's no why God supports protect against the 05:20:45.060 --> 05:20:48.020 income and want at their rock slide and that is going to be enough to take both 05:20:48.020 --> 05:20:52.020 these Pokemon down if they leave themselves vulnerable in this position 05:20:52.020 --> 05:20:56.060 the last one. We're going to 05:20:56.060 --> 05:20:59.100 see the last one. The rock 05:20:59.100 --> 05:21:01.100 side. All the ball. Come on, 05:21:01.100 --> 05:21:02.700 Bransonio are so low again. If 05:21:02.700 --> 05:21:04.300 you're worried about the accuracy 05:21:04.300 --> 05:21:05.900 and just go for a single 05:21:05.900 --> 05:21:07.500 target and center is going to 05:21:07.500 --> 05:21:09.740 swap out. Postex comes back in 05:21:09.740 --> 05:21:11.740 with a little bit of a new lease 05:21:11.740 --> 05:21:13.740 on life with a little bit of 05:21:13.740 --> 05:21:15.580 recovery, but you got to play so 05:21:15.580 --> 05:21:18.180 carefully here in Hiroshi has 05:21:18.180 --> 05:21:20.780 such a deep earthquake talks 05:21:20.780 --> 05:21:28.780 It's not going to be enough things to how much work this Incineroar has put in, but it's still in a tough spot. 05:21:28.780 --> 05:21:33.780 Yeah, it's really helping out there against, well, it's close to pecs here, but you can see. 05:21:33.780 --> 05:21:39.780 In one respect, it is taking a little bit of recovery, but that is undone by that burn that was so impactful. 05:21:39.780 --> 05:21:44.780 And the guard jump is on the timer as well, so it's not got many turns left before that poison tick does take it down. 05:21:44.780 --> 05:21:49.260 take it down, but this combination of earthquake to kind of cover anything that is in Charizard, 05:21:49.260 --> 05:21:53.660 like Incineroar is so good and then you combine that with that ancient power from the Charizard 05:21:53.660 --> 05:21:57.020 as well, which is covering the opposing Charizard and any potential switch. 05:21:57.020 --> 05:22:00.700 The Incineroar, if it decides to come back onto the field, did further weaken that, that 05:22:00.700 --> 05:22:01.700 charge from. 05:22:01.700 --> 05:22:04.700 It's a real difficult situation for Antonio to find themselves in, but they're doing 05:22:04.700 --> 05:22:07.420 everything in their power to try and get back into it. 05:22:07.420 --> 05:22:12.460 And it'll start with that protect Charizard, yet again the double protect and top specs 05:22:12.460 --> 05:22:17.560 with the baneful bunker so no damage will come out onto Antonio's side of the board. 05:22:17.560 --> 05:22:23.560 The Garchomp doesn't accomplish anything, neither will Hiroshi's Charizard and the Toxis. 05:22:23.560 --> 05:22:28.040 We've seen them stack up onto the Garchomp turn after turn. 05:22:28.040 --> 05:22:32.800 Its health is dwindling, but it's not enough to take it down. 05:22:32.800 --> 05:22:36.040 If you want these two Pokemon to stick around, you're gonna have to rely on the triple on 05:22:36.040 --> 05:22:37.540 the Charizard and the double for Toxpex. 05:22:37.540 --> 05:22:43.540 Yeah, now do you go for the wide guard here expecting potentially an earthquake, an engine power combination that we've seen so much? 05:22:43.540 --> 05:22:50.540 The thing is that Hiroshi could go for it, just go Dragon Claw, engine power into that Toxic Effect slot, you know how to protect it. 05:22:50.540 --> 05:22:55.540 No triple, the attempt charged won't anything, and neither will the Toxic Effects, both fail! 05:22:55.540 --> 05:23:02.540 These Pokemon are going to get hit and taken down, first off Dragon Claw for going for the single target attacks. 05:23:02.540 --> 05:23:08.140 to cover for the potential of that wide guard and that's not good. That's gonna be one KO 05:23:08.140 --> 05:23:13.260 on the turn. Toxic effects thankfully does get the leftovers recovery before any sort 05:23:13.260 --> 05:23:19.740 of that damage kicks in. But of course Garchomp or Hiboroshi has overstayed its welcome. Toxic 05:23:19.740 --> 05:23:24.540 will take it down. Yeah the Garchomp getting some real value out of it for Oshii. She's using it 05:23:24.540 --> 05:23:29.180 right down to the last minute there. The Toxic's kicking it over but the Basculage in the perfect 05:23:29.180 --> 05:23:32.720 Pokemon to bring in against what is going to be Incineroa and Toxic Pecs. 05:23:32.720 --> 05:23:35.220 You feel that last respect pretty powered up, right? 05:23:35.220 --> 05:23:37.940 You've got Ancient Power as well, you can hit that Incineroa with. 05:23:37.940 --> 05:23:41.500 And Pokemon Antonio's side, so, so, so long. 05:23:41.500 --> 05:23:43.900 Anything that hits them is going to knock them out. 05:23:43.900 --> 05:23:45.140 That's exactly it. 05:23:45.140 --> 05:23:48.140 Sure, the last Excuses, sure, you can do a lot of damage. 05:23:48.140 --> 05:23:51.240 You don't need to do a lot of damage in this state. 05:23:51.240 --> 05:23:55.680 Pokemon on Antonio's side have been whittled down turn after turn. 05:23:55.680 --> 05:23:59.080 And we're gonna go out in our own way. 05:23:59.080 --> 05:24:00.640 They go to the side, Hicks, 05:24:00.640 --> 05:24:04.120 Vasulitin with the Aqua Jet to take the final KO. 05:24:04.120 --> 05:24:09.120 And it's gonna be Hiroshi Onishi to take the set 2-0, 05:24:09.120 --> 05:24:13.960 making his way to Top 4 here at the 2026 Pokemon World 05:24:13.960 --> 05:24:15.200 Championships. 05:24:15.200 --> 05:24:17.840 Coming into this event as the national champion, 05:24:17.840 --> 05:24:21.520 it'll all prove that he has proved a lot so far. 05:24:21.520 --> 05:24:24.640 Yeah, what a convincing victory and such a strong performance 05:24:24.640 --> 05:24:28.600 from Horoshi where you go into this match thinking how are you going to deal with this 05:24:28.600 --> 05:24:32.840 Toxapex with that wide guard that blocks all of these spread attacks that you're going 05:24:32.840 --> 05:24:35.480 to need for the Toxapex but you didn't need it. 05:24:35.480 --> 05:24:40.080 Didn't need it, had a plan and laid it out perfectly and really was just elegant in the 05:24:40.080 --> 05:24:42.280 way that they set up from start to finish. 05:24:42.280 --> 05:24:46.440 Taking advantage in game two in particular of that King Gama, the Incinerole lead there 05:24:46.440 --> 05:24:48.200 and utilizing the Okcaberry. 05:24:48.200 --> 05:24:52.400 Maybe it didn't get a knockout itself but it's softened things up and put things in 05:24:52.400 --> 05:24:56.960 place to be close to getting knocked out later on in the game which made it a lot more difficult 05:24:56.960 --> 05:25:01.940 for Antonio. The big turning point here was that burn onto the Toxalpex. If that hadn't 05:25:01.940 --> 05:25:06.560 happened it might have made it a little bit easier for Antonio to kind of utilize that 05:25:06.560 --> 05:25:10.280 Pokemon and leverage it a little bit more like we've seen him do time and time again, 05:25:10.280 --> 05:25:14.720 but unfortunately that burn, just undoing the left overs recovered each and every turn. 05:25:14.720 --> 05:25:20.280 The use of Ancient Power catching that Charizard on the switch, brilliantly done, but it just 05:25:20.280 --> 05:25:23.880 the game. It was also because 05:25:23.880 --> 05:25:24.880 of constantly just having just 05:25:24.880 --> 05:25:26.480 being on the back foot within 05:25:26.480 --> 05:25:27.880 this match. Roshi just had so 05:25:27.880 --> 05:25:29.280 much pressure on the board when 05:25:29.280 --> 05:25:31.080 it's an arch on that's 05:25:31.080 --> 05:25:32.080 Earthquaking turn after turn 05:25:32.080 --> 05:25:33.680 and being allowed to put that 05:25:33.680 --> 05:25:35.080 much pressure out on Antonio 05:25:35.080 --> 05:25:36.280 constantly having to pivot out. 05:25:36.280 --> 05:25:37.480 You call one of these walks get 05:25:37.480 --> 05:25:38.680 good damage in. You're just so 05:25:38.680 --> 05:25:40.280 far ahead and the amount of 05:25:40.280 --> 05:25:41.280 time to found ourselves in the 05:25:41.280 --> 05:25:42.680 position. Hiroshi just had such 05:25:42.680 --> 05:25:44.280 a strong start to the match was 05:25:44.280 --> 05:25:45.880 able to constantly get in those 05:25:45.880 --> 05:25:47.680 good calls. So we're going to 05:25:47.680 --> 05:25:52.520 match was able to constantly get in those good calls, get that momentum over time. 05:25:52.520 --> 05:25:57.680 And when all of his Pokemon are faster and they put out so much pressure, there was nothing else that Antonio could do. 05:25:57.680 --> 05:26:02.080 You had to make the switches and hope that Horoshis isn't going to call you or miss up along the way. 05:26:02.080 --> 05:26:07.480 Yeah, exactly that. And I think as well, some of the kind of advantage items that you've got on your side, 05:26:07.480 --> 05:26:13.320 if you're Antonio, like a choice golf, Garchamp kind of came back to be a little bit of a hindrance more than 05:26:13.320 --> 05:26:18.840 an advantage in that set in particular and that that's testament to Hiroshi and how they identified 05:26:18.840 --> 05:26:23.640 that as a threat and then took advantage and flipped the tables and said you know well yeah 05:26:23.640 --> 05:26:28.600 you might be in a good position right now but what I'm going to do next is going to make it a real 05:26:28.600 --> 05:26:34.040 detriment to your game plan and yeah just so so well done. It was just an incredible match and big 05:26:34.040 --> 05:26:40.680 congratulations to Antonio to making it to this point for Hiroshi. Wanna step closer now to be in 05:26:40.680 --> 05:26:46.680 not finals or being our champion. Yeah, one step closer and yeah familiar with this 05:26:46.680 --> 05:26:53.320 old environment. She did it very recently in a different champions format in MA at the Japan 05:26:53.320 --> 05:26:59.400 Nationals but yeah gonna take that experience and hopefully push them on to getting one step 05:26:59.400 --> 05:27:05.480 closer to championship Sunday. I mean top four is an incredible achievement. We have to go here 05:27:05.480 --> 05:27:08.480 from him as Hiroshi is on the stage now for our interview. 05:27:13.320 --> 05:27:14.680 Thank you so much, Sarah. 05:27:14.680 --> 05:27:19.240 I'm here with your first top four player of the 2026 World 05:27:19.240 --> 05:27:21.400 Championships, Hiroshi Anishi. 05:27:27.880 --> 05:27:30.840 Hiroshi, congratulations on making top four. 05:27:30.840 --> 05:27:35.160 You are also the reigning champion of the PJCS, 05:27:35.160 --> 05:27:41.160 the Japan Championship Series, what does it feel now to be here in top four at Worlds? 05:28:35.160 --> 05:28:39.160 Did you choose this team of six Pokemon to compete with this weekend? 05:28:39.160 --> 05:28:49.160 I brought a strong team, not only good luck, but also the team's choice, so please tell us a little bit about it. 05:28:49.160 --> 05:28:59.160 The team's choice has a lot of strong teams now, and there was a place where I was very lost, but I was especially aware of where I was. 05:28:59.160 --> 05:29:02.160 I brought six teams this time. 05:29:09.160 --> 05:29:12.160 the best fit me to bring to the tournament. 05:29:12.160 --> 05:29:20.160 Very nice. Going into this battle, I think Toxapex was one of the biggest threats on the opposing side of the field. 05:29:20.160 --> 05:29:25.160 What was your strategy to defeat Toxapex, especially in that game too? 05:29:39.160 --> 05:29:52.360 In the end, the most powerful strategy was to defeat it with the power of life. 05:29:52.360 --> 05:29:54.660 So I made a plan to do that. 05:29:54.660 --> 05:29:59.160 In the end, I got hit by the explosion, but it didn't really matter. 05:30:09.160 --> 05:30:11.040 But in the end, I got a critical hit, 05:30:11.040 --> 05:30:13.540 and it really didn't make that much of a difference. 05:30:14.840 --> 05:30:17.240 Those critical hits can help out indeed. 05:30:17.240 --> 05:30:18.440 Thank you so much, Hiroshi. 05:30:18.440 --> 05:30:20.540 Do you have any shout outs to any family or friends 05:30:20.540 --> 05:30:22.200 who might be watching at home? 05:30:22.200 --> 05:30:27.200 I have a message for my family and friends. 05:30:29.200 --> 05:30:31.080 Thank you, everyone here, 05:30:31.080 --> 05:30:35.920 for supporting SNS. 05:30:35.920 --> 05:30:37.840 Thank you, everyone. 05:30:37.840 --> 05:30:40.840 So for everybody here and everybody out on social media 05:30:40.840 --> 05:30:42.480 has been cheering me on. 05:30:42.480 --> 05:30:44.080 That really gives me a lot of power. 05:30:44.080 --> 05:30:46.200 So thank you so much. 05:30:46.200 --> 05:30:48.000 Congratulations Hiroshi once again 05:30:48.000 --> 05:30:51.440 on making it into top floor here at the World Championships. 05:30:51.440 --> 05:30:54.600 Let's go ahead and take it over to Ben's battle breakdown 05:30:54.600 --> 05:30:56.200 to, well, break it down. 05:30:59.040 --> 05:31:01.360 Certainly a lot of power in that last match. 05:31:01.360 --> 05:31:05.000 Hiroshi doing so, so well there. 05:31:05.000 --> 05:31:08.200 But wow, we're in top eight here at the World Championships. 05:31:08.200 --> 05:31:09.160 That was our first one. 05:31:09.160 --> 05:31:13.400 We know our first player that has made it into our top four. 05:31:13.400 --> 05:31:14.880 And let's go over to the standings 05:31:14.880 --> 05:31:17.440 and just keep this moving along 05:31:17.440 --> 05:31:20.960 and see who's next that we are gonna be able to feature here. 05:31:20.960 --> 05:31:21.800 As a reminder to players, 05:31:21.800 --> 05:31:25.160 we are gonna be featuring all of our top eight. 05:31:25.160 --> 05:31:28.320 And our next match is Xiao versus Giovanni. 05:31:28.320 --> 05:31:32.080 And I'm really looking forward to seeing what they've got. 05:31:32.080 --> 05:31:38.080 Especially to, yeah, like looking at Drow and what he's been able to accomplish, not just world championships, 05:31:38.080 --> 05:31:45.080 but in this last year as a player and even previously, I think the globe has just been so impressive. 05:31:45.080 --> 05:31:48.080 And to be able to see him make a run like this through the bracket is incredible. 05:31:48.080 --> 05:31:50.080 And Lee, for Giovanni. 05:31:50.080 --> 05:31:55.080 Yeah, I mean, Giovanni is just an incredible player in general. 05:31:55.080 --> 05:31:59.320 line down. Coming out really, probably not one of the favorite Italians coming into this event, 05:31:59.320 --> 05:32:04.760 but it's really done. They're region-trialled, getting to top in. I'm sure they are not done yet. 05:32:04.760 --> 05:32:09.160 Now we saw them on stream earlier and they were very close in taking a victory. They took a 05:32:09.160 --> 05:32:13.560 right down to the wire, just not enough to take another line in the end, but they've got themselves 05:32:13.560 --> 05:32:18.120 into top eight and they're going to be going again and that's the main thing. Picking up going again, 05:32:18.120 --> 05:32:21.720 we saw how they had all the advantage with those ancient power boosts. 05:32:21.720 --> 05:32:30.560 Yeah, I can harness that energy and take it into the top it and beyond and of course to Fano as well also from Italy Italy 05:32:30.800 --> 05:32:32.800 Definitely one of the strongest 05:32:33.440 --> 05:32:37.400 Set of players that we have in the game right now Stefano really came 05:32:38.480 --> 05:32:44.080 By no means out of nowhere, but really came to the floor after he won his first regional championships and still 05:32:44.720 --> 05:32:46.720 Continuing that consistency 05:32:46.720 --> 05:32:50.880 Especially like seeing when he won it with an icy wind Chen pal 05:32:50.880 --> 05:32:57.320 Which at the time was like it was a meta team that he was using for that one little change that one little adaptation 05:32:57.320 --> 05:33:01.240 That really took him to his team and his play to the next level 05:33:01.240 --> 05:33:06.480 I want to call it Japan on this graph because we just got to see Hiroshi win on broadcast 05:33:06.480 --> 05:33:10.720 And he still have two more Japanese players fighting through top eight 05:33:11.400 --> 05:33:15.540 Takuma going up against the bottom who are calling out and then you get as well 05:33:15.540 --> 05:33:22.340 this was our mega dragonite player that dragonite we didn't get to see what's such a cool team. 05:33:22.340 --> 05:33:28.020 I'm really excited to see how that's going to fare up against Zachary who is I mean one of his best 05:33:28.020 --> 05:33:35.300 as evident by his season and his run here at Worlds. Yeah 100% I mean it's calling out as well that 05:33:35.300 --> 05:33:40.420 two out of three of the Japanese players are running mega dragonite instead of mega Charizard. 05:33:40.420 --> 05:33:42.420 that we have left from Japan 05:33:42.520 --> 05:33:44.420 that's still sticking with the Charizard 05:33:44.520 --> 05:33:47.320 bandwagon that we've kind of all been on as well. 05:33:47.420 --> 05:33:49.820 But seeing that sort of consistency coming out, 05:33:49.920 --> 05:33:52.320 those two other teams that both have Mega Dragonite 05:33:52.420 --> 05:33:54.320 have two different Pokemon, 05:33:54.420 --> 05:33:55.820 Whimzacot compared to Garchomp, 05:33:55.920 --> 05:33:59.320 on the same overall five Pokemon otherwise composition. 05:33:59.420 --> 05:34:00.820 And so, like, you know, 05:34:00.920 --> 05:34:02.820 it's still some slightly different approaches, 05:34:02.920 --> 05:34:05.820 but that commonality there with what they've been using. 05:34:05.920 --> 05:34:07.820 Yeah, it's always really interesting 05:34:07.820 --> 05:34:11.420 been using. Yeah, it's always really interesting in that lead up to worlds, 05:34:11.420 --> 05:34:15.060 especially when we have a break as long as we have between our last official 05:34:15.060 --> 05:34:19.820 event and as he into now is all the meta development per region, right? 05:34:20.020 --> 05:34:22.780 Especially the per region because you'll get team building groups. 05:34:22.980 --> 05:34:25.740 We also do have scenes that have those different grassroots scenes. 05:34:25.740 --> 05:34:29.260 And Japan is definitely known for having a really strong grassroots scene. 05:34:29.500 --> 05:34:30.740 It put a lot of preparation in. 05:34:30.740 --> 05:34:35.100 And when you have those different sub regions, you can really get more 05:34:35.100 --> 05:34:36.460 pushed out of a meta, right? 05:34:36.460 --> 05:34:38.500 that's why after a bit of time, 05:34:38.500 --> 05:34:40.420 we will see these really cool picks come out. 05:34:40.420 --> 05:34:43.460 And to see that that is what is coming out 05:34:43.460 --> 05:34:45.980 is this mega dragonite out of all things. 05:34:45.980 --> 05:34:47.660 I think it's just so exciting. 05:34:47.660 --> 05:34:50.460 It's not just all mega Charizard out here. 05:34:50.460 --> 05:34:52.300 We get some really cool team building. 05:34:52.300 --> 05:34:55.460 Definitely, mega dragonite was definitely something 05:34:55.460 --> 05:34:58.940 that we're gonna be seeing a great deal of in our top cup. 05:34:58.940 --> 05:35:00.940 And let's have a little look at the two players 05:35:00.940 --> 05:35:03.580 that we're gonna be seeing in our next round. 05:35:03.580 --> 05:35:06.180 We've got a breakdown of trials. 05:35:06.180 --> 05:35:11.620 run through our Swiss. This is phase one. He said in his interview that he lost round one and sort 05:35:11.620 --> 05:35:17.700 of had to come back from there, but also taking a loss in round seven against former world champion 05:35:17.700 --> 05:35:24.180 Schoenke Kimura, but still being able to, since then, win out every single one of his rounds to 05:35:24.180 --> 05:35:29.220 make it here to the top eight. It's an incredible performance. Even when you go back to that lost 05:35:29.220 --> 05:35:35.060 round one, it is a similar mirror. We don't know the intricate details of each team, but you're 05:35:35.060 --> 05:35:38.500 you're assuming that they're very, very similar options 05:35:38.500 --> 05:35:39.420 of both sides of the field. 05:35:39.420 --> 05:35:40.860 And they can always be difficult, right? 05:35:40.860 --> 05:35:42.180 You can get one wrong move, 05:35:42.180 --> 05:35:45.220 but then you need to kind of let that go 05:35:45.220 --> 05:35:46.780 and then pick themselves up again 05:35:46.780 --> 05:35:49.340 and continue on such a strong run after that. 05:35:49.340 --> 05:35:51.060 I want to take them down by show here. 05:35:51.060 --> 05:35:52.820 And you can see the variety of teams as well 05:35:52.820 --> 05:35:54.820 that they've had to come up against. 05:35:54.820 --> 05:35:56.940 So just the same archetypes over and over again, 05:35:56.940 --> 05:35:59.260 this team is built so well, it can kind of match up 05:35:59.260 --> 05:36:01.740 even to some of the newer, more popular MV teams 05:36:01.740 --> 05:36:03.260 that we've seen come to the floor. 05:36:03.260 --> 05:36:06.860 the right to there. We've got 05:36:06.860 --> 05:36:08.860 the star actor, the gold angle 05:36:08.860 --> 05:36:10.860 as well. So it handles itself 05:36:10.860 --> 05:36:12.860 very well and now you see very, 05:36:12.860 --> 05:36:14.860 very well accomplished with it 05:36:14.860 --> 05:36:16.860 to have to bounce back from that 05:36:16.860 --> 05:36:18.860 round one loss and then going up 05:36:18.860 --> 05:36:20.860 against Oh, and then taking the 05:36:20.860 --> 05:36:22.860 win. You just had the craziest 05:36:22.860 --> 05:36:24.860 180 of all time to put yourself 05:36:24.860 --> 05:36:26.860 on a winning way. And I feel like 05:36:26.860 --> 05:36:28.860 that just works so much confidence 05:36:28.860 --> 05:36:30.860 for yourself going on forward 05:36:30.860 --> 05:36:34.800 the game. You know, you know, 05:36:34.800 --> 05:36:36.500 you're not going to be able to 05:36:36.500 --> 05:36:38.500 go into phase two out of six and 05:36:38.500 --> 05:36:40.000 two record. You made it, which 05:36:40.000 --> 05:36:40.940 is it's going to be difficult, 05:36:40.940 --> 05:36:42.940 but to be able to win out since 05:36:42.940 --> 05:36:46.180 then is just incredible and 05:36:46.180 --> 05:36:48.620 looking at the date. It comes 05:36:48.620 --> 05:36:50.780 up and I'm immediately like 05:36:50.780 --> 05:36:52.820 wow. Just in time. Carson's and 05:36:52.820 --> 05:36:54.860 dead is what fabulous 05:36:54.860 --> 05:36:56.460 opponents as well. Not to 05:36:56.460 --> 05:36:58.460 mention Alexander to like all 05:36:58.460 --> 05:37:00.460 of these names are so so crazy 05:37:00.460 --> 05:37:02.460 you carry on winning, right? 05:37:02.460 --> 05:37:04.460 It gets harder and harder and 05:37:04.460 --> 05:37:06.460 harder. That is just an incredible 05:37:06.460 --> 05:37:08.460 list, especially to again at the 05:37:08.460 --> 05:37:10.460 X and two going into phase two, 05:37:10.460 --> 05:37:12.460 so you just knocked it. That's not 05:37:12.460 --> 05:37:14.460 like, oh, we're going up against 05:37:14.460 --> 05:37:16.460 these people and it's fun match. 05:37:16.460 --> 05:37:18.460 No, you just knocked out this list 05:37:18.460 --> 05:37:20.460 of individuals from the World 05:37:20.460 --> 05:37:22.460 Championship. That is incredible. 05:37:22.460 --> 05:37:24.460 It's been completely auditory this 05:37:24.460 --> 05:37:26.460 weekend and to see that from such 05:37:26.460 --> 05:37:28.460 a young, brave player is truly 05:37:28.460 --> 05:37:32.820 It's one of those stories that we tune in, we watch, we're here, we're present for the 05:37:32.820 --> 05:37:37.260 World Championships and why we love it, as these younger players coming in and just making 05:37:37.260 --> 05:37:42.100 and putting their stamp on these events and saying, I'm a serious contender, I've got 05:37:42.100 --> 05:37:46.940 to take, set up, take note and we'll see where the journey continues after this, I'm sure 05:37:46.940 --> 05:37:51.820 it's going to be great, but it's not finished yet, so until the story's still a lot of action 05:37:51.820 --> 05:37:52.820 to come. 05:37:52.820 --> 05:37:57.740 Well let's look at our other competitor here in the top age, Giovanni Piscitelli, hailing 05:37:57.740 --> 05:38:03.380 from Italy playing a little bit more of a standard composition that we were expecting coming 05:38:03.380 --> 05:38:09.740 in to make a big, big splash here that Mega Charizard Y, Mega Flowette. But again, another 05:38:09.740 --> 05:38:15.660 player taking a loss in round one, bouncing back and making it all the way through here 05:38:15.660 --> 05:38:16.660 to the top eight. 05:38:16.660 --> 05:38:23.060 Let's feel confident in his Mega Swampert matchup considering he's taken around. Um, well, you 05:38:23.060 --> 05:38:29.060 you lose one so then you take 05:38:29.060 --> 05:38:31.060 down every, uh, Swampert past 05:38:31.060 --> 05:38:33.060 that. Okay. Maybe that's just 05:38:33.060 --> 05:38:35.060 the way to do it. You lose 05:38:35.060 --> 05:38:37.060 around one and it gives you the 05:38:37.060 --> 05:38:39.060 energy to all around. You know 05:38:39.060 --> 05:38:41.060 what, Lee? I'll let you test 05:38:41.060 --> 05:38:42.060 that one out next time. But one 05:38:42.060 --> 05:38:43.060 of the things that's actually I 05:38:43.060 --> 05:38:45.060 think quite quite interesting 05:38:45.060 --> 05:38:47.060 to see coming into this 05:38:47.060 --> 05:38:48.060 particular matches that I give 05:38:48.060 --> 05:38:50.060 on it playing against Claudio 05:38:50.060 --> 05:38:51.060 using the same composition that 05:38:51.060 --> 05:38:56.260 this matchup and he was able to be victorious in this matchup. It's a match where, yeah, 05:38:56.260 --> 05:39:01.820 usually the, uh, Megasco Villain, uh, Mega Frostlass kind of composition usually gives 05:39:01.820 --> 05:39:06.420 this more, uh, I'm going to call it standard team, but, uh, you know, tried and tested 05:39:06.420 --> 05:39:10.460 team of the Charizard flow. It usually gives it a hard time, right? And, uh, Giovanni's 05:39:10.460 --> 05:39:13.860 already shown in this tournament that he's able to overcome it. 05:39:13.860 --> 05:39:17.260 That's one of the things, and it's something we'd like to see at NAAC as well, is that 05:39:17.260 --> 05:39:21.100 But this variation of team that he's going up against with this Lycan Rock, it is very 05:39:21.100 --> 05:39:22.700 strong in these Charizard teams. 05:39:22.700 --> 05:39:23.860 That cannot be doubted. 05:39:23.860 --> 05:39:26.540 But when you have such a strong pick into it, you've got to figure out your answers, 05:39:26.540 --> 05:39:28.740 you've got to figure out your game plan into it. 05:39:28.740 --> 05:39:32.220 And if you can take down a piece like the Lycan Rock early on, or your opponent doesn't 05:39:32.220 --> 05:39:35.940 preserve it quite correctly, you can exploit that team and be able to take the win. 05:39:35.940 --> 05:39:37.940 That's why Charizard is still so successful. 05:39:37.940 --> 05:39:40.220 Why it still has such a high usage. 05:39:40.220 --> 05:39:43.900 So Lycan Rocks haven't eliminated the Charizard, it's not even close yet. 05:39:43.900 --> 05:39:50.520 Yeah, there's still there's still a few left of them kicking but we're gonna be kicking it over to a short break now 05:39:50.520 --> 05:39:55.140 Well, we get our next top eight round set up. So stay tuned. We'll be right back very soon 05:41:13.900 --> 05:41:18.700 back to the 2026 Pokemon World Championships in San Francisco, California. 05:41:18.900 --> 05:41:24.740 The day has been an exciting one as we have already started our journey through 05:41:24.940 --> 05:41:27.220 the top cut single elimination bracket. 05:41:27.420 --> 05:41:30.940 My name is Rosemary Kelly and I'm joined by Aaron Zing and we're so stoked to be 05:41:31.140 --> 05:41:33.580 here to bring you through our next top eight match. 05:41:33.780 --> 05:41:35.980 First of all, congratulations to King Gambit. 05:41:36.180 --> 05:41:40.300 You are now officially a world champion as it is on all the remaining teams here 05:41:40.500 --> 05:41:41.780 at the world championships. 05:41:41.780 --> 05:41:50.780 The only team that it wasn't on top. It was Antonio who just got eliminated. And so if you played this format at all, you probably know how good King Gambit is. 05:41:50.780 --> 05:41:57.780 It really kind of feels like a Swiss Army knife in that it can flex onto so many different teams. It has incredible overall stats. 05:41:57.780 --> 05:42:02.780 But what's interesting is we've seen a lot of variations of King Gambit, right? We've seen focusash popping up as an item. 05:42:02.780 --> 05:42:10.780 The type resist barriers like Aukabary as well as Stropelberry, Black glasses and Life form in particular was a really big set coming into the World Championships. 05:42:10.780 --> 05:42:14.860 You can run four attacks on it, you can run for tech, sword stance, and no coverage moves 05:42:14.860 --> 05:42:19.180 other than Cal-Town Sucker Punch, and so this Pokemon has just been really, really dominant, 05:42:19.180 --> 05:42:22.060 so I'm not surprised to see it win the World Championships, but I didn't think we'd be 05:42:22.060 --> 05:42:23.660 crowning it this early on. 05:42:23.660 --> 05:42:29.180 Yeah, I mean, just adding on to that, I can't believe we also saw some Supreme Overlord 05:42:29.180 --> 05:42:34.940 stuff for a little while there when Incineroar was sleeping behind the wheel, but we are 05:42:34.940 --> 05:42:44.580 ready to go for our next top eight bad congratulations to our King King gambit and let's now see who will also move on to the top four. 05:42:44.700 --> 05:42:48.340 We've got Joao Felipe Lecce versus Giovanni DiCicchia. 05:42:48.820 --> 05:42:50.460 An exciting one, Joao. 05:42:50.940 --> 05:42:54.500 Phenomenon graduating from the seniors division. 05:42:55.060 --> 05:43:03.540 If the youngest player in our remaining top eight here and saw him pull really great comeback after being down the game in that previous top 16 match. 05:43:03.540 --> 05:43:08.100 course he is running what a lot of players actually call it Italian ice. This was a team that was developed by 05:43:08.980 --> 05:43:12.100 Italian players before the North American international championships 05:43:12.340 --> 05:43:18.020 Because South Korea is being about to have that life or bombast religion for Joao. This is a dream run 05:43:18.100 --> 05:43:20.100 You can see his accomplishments on the screen 05:43:20.660 --> 05:43:24.820 Concealers had some pretty good success won a regional championship top eight at laic 05:43:24.900 --> 05:43:30.820 But here he is in the masters division matches his best finish as a top eight finish in masters, but it's at world 05:43:30.900 --> 05:43:32.660 It's not reasonable 05:43:32.660 --> 05:43:35.660 that. Yeah, it's just so 05:43:35.660 --> 05:43:37.260 impressive. Sometimes you 05:43:37.260 --> 05:43:39.260 always have that question mark 05:43:39.260 --> 05:43:40.260 of was the seniors run 05:43:40.260 --> 05:43:41.860 something where maybe the 05:43:41.860 --> 05:43:43.660 power level of seniors was 05:43:43.660 --> 05:43:45.260 not the same as what you might 05:43:45.260 --> 05:43:46.860 experience in the master's 05:43:46.860 --> 05:43:48.460 division and Joao proving 05:43:48.460 --> 05:43:50.460 that no, this is not a fluke. 05:43:50.460 --> 05:43:52.460 This is his moment within this 05:43:52.460 --> 05:43:53.660 top cut on the flip side of 05:43:53.660 --> 05:43:55.460 things. You do have Giovanni 05:43:55.460 --> 05:43:56.460 because you tell me you're 05:43:56.460 --> 05:43:58.460 talking about how this Italian 05:43:58.460 --> 05:44:00.460 ice archetype of Joao is one 05:44:00.460 --> 05:44:02.460 that you would imagine Giovanni 05:44:02.460 --> 05:44:06.740 that he is an Italian player and has performed against a lot of the top 05:44:06.740 --> 05:44:11.100 competitors that also had that Italian ice archetype. Our analysts did such a 05:44:11.100 --> 05:44:14.060 great job as well of breaking down some of the runs that both of our 05:44:14.060 --> 05:44:18.980 competitors have had and Giovanni's actually beaten this six already earlier 05:44:18.980 --> 05:44:25.100 on in the tournament whereas Duas has lost to this quote-unquote big six 05:44:25.100 --> 05:44:28.860 archetype that we have seen competitors use. Yeah what's interesting is both of 05:44:28.860 --> 05:44:33.980 these players surely have grinded the respective matchup so much coming into 05:44:33.980 --> 05:44:37.540 this tournament because these were two of the top teams but doesn't matter how 05:44:37.540 --> 05:44:40.780 much practice you put in sometimes the execution can play out very differently 05:44:40.780 --> 05:44:43.540 and when you're playing at the absolute highest level your opponents might take 05:44:43.540 --> 05:44:46.540 lines that you just did not see in practice when you were grinding in 05:44:46.540 --> 05:44:50.660 because they kind of hyper optimize the matchup right so take a look at Joao's 05:44:50.660 --> 05:44:54.660 team here of course the unique cool mega feature of mega Frostlast as well as 05:44:54.660 --> 05:44:58.340 mega Scoville and Frostlast being able to provide a lot of offense with that 05:44:58.340 --> 05:45:02.260 Blizzard, which really checks Star Chop, a Pokemon that otherwise can hit Sneaseler, 05:45:02.260 --> 05:45:06.420 King Gambit, Lycan Rock for a lot of damage. Skovill on the other hand gives you a little 05:45:06.420 --> 05:45:10.580 bit more defensive capabilities with Redirection, being able to burn a lot of those key physical 05:45:10.580 --> 05:45:15.780 attackers. When Joao played against the T-Modes, very similar to Giovanni's in top 16, I actually 05:45:15.780 --> 05:45:19.860 saw him flex between both of them, and so I think both are very viable here, but of course, 05:45:19.860 --> 05:45:23.300 the key Pokemon to pay attention to, in my opinion, is going to be that Lycan Rock, 05:45:23.300 --> 05:45:27.940 if you're expecting Charizard from the opposing end. Lycan Rock exists on this team to be a huge 05:45:27.940 --> 05:45:32.900 checkmate into Charizard, but for how Joao into the top 8 be able to excel a rock in opposing 05:45:32.900 --> 05:45:38.100 Charizard and the threat of it is so so big and as the Charizard player, if you're going to bring 05:45:38.100 --> 05:45:42.500 Charizard into the matchup, it is this constant dance of when do I actually have my Charizard on 05:45:42.500 --> 05:45:46.660 the field and attack. And it can be really hard to take out this like in rock because you look at 05:45:46.660 --> 05:45:51.940 Pokemon on Giovanni's team like the Garchomp, maybe even the Bastille Legion to be able to pick 05:45:51.940 --> 05:45:57.140 off this Pokemon, but the focus dash makes it tough to invest just one attack you require 05:45:57.140 --> 05:46:04.140 So let's take a deeper look at Giovanni's team. This is, again, kind of looking at that Charizard with a more updated move set. 05:46:04.140 --> 05:46:12.140 You've got ancient power for opposing Mega Charizards instead of something like the Solar Beam that we saw be popular at the beginning of the format. 05:46:12.140 --> 05:46:17.140 Yeah, and this is a really good call-out because the lack of Solar Beam means that Lycanroc actually becomes even more difficult to deal with, right? 05:46:17.140 --> 05:46:23.140 Sometimes when you're using a team like this, if you have Solar Beam, you predict the Lycanroc to switch in. You can nail it with a Solar Beam, 05:46:23.140 --> 05:46:27.540 solar beam but here you're not gonna do that much damage with any of your attacks. King 05:46:27.540 --> 05:46:31.380 Gambit's one of the key Pokemon I'm actually looking at on Giovanni's end because it is 05:46:31.380 --> 05:46:35.500 the Chopal Berry 4 Attack King Gambit which means that this Pokemon has incredible coverage 05:46:35.500 --> 05:46:39.820 into Joao's team right. You're able to hit Frostlast King Gambit like in Rock, Paskin 05:46:39.820 --> 05:46:44.540 Legion for super effective damage but the King Gambit also has to be a little bit scared 05:46:44.540 --> 05:46:47.780 because of course there's the sneeze around the opposing end, two close combat as well 05:46:47.780 --> 05:46:51.980 as the Skow Villain so here we go we're jumping into game one there's so many different variations 05:46:51.980 --> 05:46:54.860 a Pokemon that both players can bring and it's going to be a flow egg here. 05:46:54.860 --> 05:46:57.420 Charizard dropped out of respect for the Lakinrock. 05:46:57.420 --> 05:47:01.580 Well that's coming to the battle means that we are likely going to see the mega evolution 05:47:01.580 --> 05:47:03.060 invested into this Pokemon. 05:47:03.060 --> 05:47:07.280 Could be that there's a Charizard in the back there but it would not have the ability to 05:47:07.280 --> 05:47:10.900 mega evolve if you select it for the flowette on this turn. 05:47:10.900 --> 05:47:14.100 Looking across the way we've got the Lakinrock Stovillian for Juaul. 05:47:14.100 --> 05:47:17.820 Yeah I think what's interesting in this batch of us a lot of times players still end up 05:47:17.820 --> 05:47:21.260 bringing Charizard despite the fact there's a Lakinrock on the opposing team because the 05:47:21.260 --> 05:47:23.260 the idea of what I knock out like in Rockwood, then 05:47:23.260 --> 05:47:24.420 the party version is clear, right? 05:47:24.420 --> 05:47:26.500 But often really difficult to accomplish that. 05:47:26.500 --> 05:47:28.340 So the skull villain, defensively, 05:47:28.340 --> 05:47:29.740 is actually quite great in the flow. 05:47:29.740 --> 05:47:31.780 It won't do that much damage, but can burn it, right? 05:47:31.780 --> 05:47:33.180 And so it's going to be a mega evolution 05:47:33.180 --> 05:47:34.940 to immediately start off the game here. 05:47:34.940 --> 05:47:37.340 The burn is just going to help to get that residual damage 05:47:37.340 --> 05:47:38.260 at the end of the turn. 05:47:38.260 --> 05:47:40.060 But since the flow is that special attacker, 05:47:40.060 --> 05:47:43.860 it doesn't actually stop that negative effect 05:47:43.860 --> 05:47:46.260 of having its damage halved. 05:47:46.260 --> 05:47:48.460 And you see the whips that go for the protect, though, 05:47:48.460 --> 05:47:50.980 as both the skull villain and the flowet 05:47:50.980 --> 05:47:53.280 end up investing the mega evolution. 05:47:53.280 --> 05:47:55.320 Lightning Rock, still one of the fastest Pokémon 05:47:55.320 --> 05:47:58.240 on the field, gets to fire off a rock slide. 05:47:58.240 --> 05:48:01.440 Maybe it can flinch this Floette in its tracks. 05:48:01.440 --> 05:48:04.440 And that is what happens on the first turn of the game. 05:48:04.440 --> 05:48:06.920 Overheat now, connecting from the Skull Villain. 05:48:06.920 --> 05:48:08.520 You're going to drop your special attack, 05:48:08.520 --> 05:48:11.200 but you basically just drop this Floette, too. 05:48:11.200 --> 05:48:13.160 A great trade of your stats. 05:48:13.160 --> 05:48:15.320 Yeah, I mean, that would have been a huge dancing 05:48:15.320 --> 05:48:16.240 lean to get off, right? 05:48:16.240 --> 05:48:20.000 Like we bring Lightning Rock down to the focus sash there. 05:48:20.000 --> 05:48:29.000 The fast rock slides feel like they've really defined this format, whether it be Lycanroc, Garchomp, or Aerodacto, so showcasing why this move is so unbelievably powerful. 05:48:29.000 --> 05:48:38.000 Would have done a fair amount of damage from the Floette, and if you are going for that Dazzling Gleeve, it just really gets the Lycanroc quite low. 05:48:38.000 --> 05:48:43.000 So not the trend that Giovanni wanted to see. Now you risk Lycanroc just going for something like that as Xceleroc, right? 05:48:43.000 --> 05:48:47.160 like when stuck in tailwind but then pull up with no pain so Giovanni maybe you want to consider 05:48:47.160 --> 05:48:51.320 protecting the flow out or just switching out in a King Gambit or Garchomp. You have to switch out 05:48:51.320 --> 05:48:55.720 here. That flow let's so important to have that damage for later and it's gonna be the Garchomp 05:48:55.720 --> 05:49:01.000 that ends up taking its place. Moose the kite with the move blast. Set us setting up something like 05:49:01.000 --> 05:49:05.880 the tailwind because you know that that like and rock damage is important. Like and rock those still 05:49:05.880 --> 05:49:12.280 around to deliver another set of rock slides as the skill building has yet to move. Another 05:49:12.280 --> 05:49:17.380 Overheat. Duck Whimsykott has already taken a lot of damage and at minus two it's still good for the knockout. 05:49:17.380 --> 05:49:22.120 Yeah, what a lights out start here, especially given that it wasn't even Charizard on the opposing end. 05:49:22.120 --> 05:49:25.060 Lichenrock showcasing how they can't put in a lot of work. 05:49:25.580 --> 05:49:30.860 Even if it's not staring down that Charizard and no tailwind crucially set up from the opposing end as well. 05:49:30.860 --> 05:49:34.580 So, feel like Joao has built up a really big early lead here. 05:49:34.580 --> 05:49:39.020 Floette comes back. Once again, though, still dreaded by that Lichenrock. 05:49:39.020 --> 05:49:43.060 Of course, well, like you're quick protect and then guard jump an angle for an earthquake, for example 05:49:43.740 --> 05:49:46.100 but if you earthquake you're going to be 05:49:46.820 --> 05:49:52.480 Attacking the skill villain, which is going to bring you for the remainder of the game. Yeah, so it's a really difficult position here 05:49:52.480 --> 05:49:55.180 I think especially given that you're all still as two Pokemon in the back 05:49:56.180 --> 05:50:03.080 The fast legion and Caesar feel like the most likely the black class and sword stance King Gambit set generally doesn't feel very powerful in this matchup 05:50:03.180 --> 05:50:06.180 Especially when you stare down and opposing King Gambit and Charizard and so 05:50:06.180 --> 05:50:11.180 So, you know, blinking back to Legion also such an immense threat, but for Joao right now, 05:50:11.180 --> 05:50:12.180 definitely has to leave. 05:50:12.180 --> 05:50:14.180 What is Giovanni going to do with this flow? 05:50:14.180 --> 05:50:16.180 I think it's going to be the protect. 05:50:16.180 --> 05:50:19.180 Hoping that that's going to negate a priority Excel rock. 05:50:19.180 --> 05:50:25.180 But the Garchomp is able to strike first, not to pale onto the Lycan rock, 05:50:25.180 --> 05:50:30.180 but low enough that you maybe get a chance to flinch it and stop it from moving 05:50:30.180 --> 05:50:33.180 after some of this luck has already gone against you. 05:50:33.180 --> 05:50:35.180 You'll have to get burned for your troubles. 05:50:35.180 --> 05:50:39.660 So, kinda helps to even the scale a little bit. 05:50:39.660 --> 05:50:44.060 Yeah, and with this GoVillain being at minus 4 special attack, there's very minimal damage 05:50:44.060 --> 05:50:45.060 at this point. 05:50:45.060 --> 05:50:48.140 But I think getting the fur on Garchup is still a really big deal, right? 05:50:48.140 --> 05:50:51.540 Because now, the Floette is still threatened by an Exal Rock. 05:50:51.540 --> 05:50:54.420 It was a rock slide coming out here instead of the Earthquake trying to get some super 05:50:54.420 --> 05:50:56.540 effective damage on this GoVillain. 05:50:56.540 --> 05:50:58.900 But as a result, the Light Crock does not end up fainting. 05:50:58.900 --> 05:51:02.300 So now, Floette in a precarious position is going to switch out, expecting Gambit to 05:51:02.300 --> 05:51:04.300 come here and ban it into the case. 05:51:04.300 --> 05:51:10.740 in a vulnerable position with the Skull Villain now leaving the field is going to help this 05:51:10.740 --> 05:51:14.820 King Gambit out so it's not going to end up getting burned if it attacks into this slot 05:51:14.820 --> 05:51:15.820 right now. 05:51:15.820 --> 05:51:20.420 It does take the Excel Rock so Poet getting out of dodge with that one retreating back 05:51:20.420 --> 05:51:21.420 into its hook of all. 05:51:21.420 --> 05:51:26.740 But the guard chop connects the second Rock slide to finally knock this Lycan Rock out 05:51:26.740 --> 05:51:27.740 once and for all. 05:51:27.740 --> 05:51:31.140 Yeah and Joao actually reveals there is King Gambit in the back. 05:51:31.140 --> 05:51:35.420 The main reason you potentially want to bring in this matchup is to kind of checkmate Vasco Legion, 05:51:35.420 --> 05:51:38.580 but there's no Vasco Legion from Giovanni's end this time around. 05:51:38.580 --> 05:51:43.900 And so I think the Gambit ends up feeling a little bit worse, although of course the Sneasler is the final pick here. 05:51:43.900 --> 05:51:48.260 So now you actually thread in with close combat onto Sneasler, sucker punch into Garchomp, 05:51:48.260 --> 05:51:52.340 and that little bit of damage on a King Gambit actually can go a long way, right? 05:51:52.340 --> 05:51:55.260 It is going to be the Chouple Berry, but when you get the little bit of chip, 05:51:55.260 --> 05:51:58.140 that often is enough for you to just get the knockout with close combat. 05:51:58.140 --> 05:52:01.980 And so I think Joao in a really strong offensive position right now. 05:52:01.980 --> 05:52:04.460 Sneasler just such a great final poke month to have. 05:52:04.460 --> 05:52:09.980 And yeah, I think now it is on Giovanni to either respond, but it's so difficult when the flow is so low. 05:52:09.980 --> 05:52:13.980 The King Gambit has that priority damage and with a burn on bar chop, 05:52:13.980 --> 05:52:17.020 you won't even be able to get a knockout, even if you get an attack off. 05:52:17.020 --> 05:52:21.820 Yeah, you would love to be able to get that spread first place damage into both of these targets, 05:52:21.820 --> 05:52:26.860 but you also have to be able to protect your own King Gambit, which does not have protect. 05:52:26.860 --> 05:52:28.500 So you can't even go for that. 05:52:28.500 --> 05:52:34.100 I think King Gambit from Giovanni also hoped to land a low kick into the opposing King Gambit. 05:52:34.100 --> 05:52:36.000 He had me a pretty neutral turn. 05:52:36.000 --> 05:52:39.840 A little bit better though for Joao, is Garchomp continues to take burn damage. 05:52:39.840 --> 05:52:40.840 Yeah, exactly. 05:52:40.840 --> 05:52:45.360 Like, I think that's always a safe play in that you get a little bit more burn damage 05:52:45.360 --> 05:52:50.260 and then the Garchomp now is an even higher probability of getting knocked out by a Stugger Punch by the King Gambit, right? 05:52:50.260 --> 05:52:52.160 So I think Stugger Punch plus combat still a play. 05:52:52.160 --> 05:52:55.680 My question is, sometimes with these teams, the Sneezers won't actually have that much 05:52:55.680 --> 05:52:59.400 offense for the best man, so if that is the case, can the King Gambit, with the Trouple 05:52:59.400 --> 05:53:02.680 Berry on the opposing side, actually survive that close combat even after a little bit 05:53:02.680 --> 05:53:03.680 of chip damage? 05:53:03.680 --> 05:53:07.480 So, once again, I think Joel's play here is, I can, Sucker Punch, Dark Jump, I can close 05:53:07.480 --> 05:53:10.080 combat in a King Gambit, how does Giovanni respond? 05:53:10.080 --> 05:53:12.360 And the answer is going to be switching out that King Gambit. 05:53:12.360 --> 05:53:17.280 So, if you could flow back, to come back and take its place, you could end up taking something 05:53:17.280 --> 05:53:22.120 like that Sucker Punch, it will fail, so that is one attack that has been mitigated. 05:53:22.120 --> 05:53:25.960 and the close combat heads in that direction as well. 05:53:25.960 --> 05:53:27.880 And so while that goes down first troubles, 05:53:27.880 --> 05:53:30.360 but did this actually give an opening for Giovanni 05:53:30.360 --> 05:53:33.880 to actually land critical super effective damage 05:53:33.880 --> 05:53:35.960 into either of these Pokemon? 05:53:35.960 --> 05:53:37.720 See the waiter consumer from the Sneezer 05:53:37.720 --> 05:53:39.200 so he can't actually re- 05:53:39.200 --> 05:53:41.560 Oh, what a play by Giovanni! 05:53:41.560 --> 05:53:42.880 There's the earthquake. 05:53:42.880 --> 05:53:45.000 The burn though is going to keep the Sneezer around 05:53:45.000 --> 05:53:45.840 for the next turn. 05:53:45.840 --> 05:53:46.680 It will, yeah. 05:53:46.680 --> 05:53:49.280 I think that was like the one play Giovanni could do 05:53:49.280 --> 05:53:50.360 to keep himself in the game. 05:53:50.360 --> 05:53:51.200 And so I wanna explain that 05:53:51.200 --> 05:53:54.120 because sure, many of you were just expecting Sucker Punch to go to Garchomp, 05:53:54.120 --> 05:53:57.440 but like I said, sometimes with these Sneezers, you don't have that much attack investment, 05:53:57.440 --> 05:53:59.000 so Joel was worried, but saying, 05:53:59.000 --> 05:54:02.040 you have Choblberry, I might not KO you in close combat because of that, 05:54:02.040 --> 05:54:05.040 even with the chip damage, so I'm gonna double up into your King Gambit. 05:54:05.040 --> 05:54:06.440 Giovanni recognizing that says, 05:54:06.440 --> 05:54:08.920 well, I'm gonna switch Outflow, you have to double up into it, 05:54:08.920 --> 05:54:11.080 and I'm gonna get a huge earthquake off. 05:54:11.080 --> 05:54:12.480 To your point, though, there's the burn. 05:54:12.480 --> 05:54:14.160 Is it enough right now is the big question, 05:54:14.160 --> 05:54:16.840 because Sneezer still is pressuring with close combat. 05:54:16.840 --> 05:54:21.160 My question is, can King Gambit on the opposing side knock out Sneezer with a Sucker Punch? 05:54:21.160 --> 05:54:25.240 I would not expect it to. The Spieslers on these teams normally have a lot of physical ball. 05:54:25.240 --> 05:54:28.840 And so these are actually just going for a protect here. We've talked about going for these 05:54:28.840 --> 05:54:32.760 protect to just get more burn damage out. Also baits out a protect from the opposing Bar Chomp 05:54:32.760 --> 05:54:36.760 potentially, but it's not going to be a protective Chomper. It's a double protect here 05:54:36.760 --> 05:54:42.120 for Zhuo, just to get us out. What do you want to want to lock into for these attacks? I want to 05:54:42.120 --> 05:54:46.920 see Yvonne want to actually try to get through this endgame after giving him a second chance 05:54:46.920 --> 05:54:50.360 and a second flight, Garchomp continues to get low 05:54:50.360 --> 05:54:52.640 as that burn damage is stacked up over time. 05:54:52.640 --> 05:54:54.160 So if we were wondering whether or not 05:54:54.160 --> 05:54:56.040 the Sucker Punch from Joao's King Gambit 05:54:56.040 --> 05:54:58.680 would get the knockout, it definitely will now. 05:54:58.680 --> 05:55:01.560 Yeah, I think Joao probably wants to just go 05:55:01.560 --> 05:55:03.400 for the double up honestly opposing King Gambit. 05:55:03.400 --> 05:55:05.560 Although the opposing Gambit is faster 05:55:05.560 --> 05:55:07.040 than Sucker Punch first, right? 05:55:07.040 --> 05:55:10.040 And so as a result, Joao doesn't want to take any risks. 05:55:10.040 --> 05:55:12.680 Actually switches out, which makes a lot of sense. 05:55:12.680 --> 05:55:13.840 Aids out to protect from Garchomp. 05:55:13.840 --> 05:55:16.320 This Garchomp is on a timer from that burn. 05:55:16.320 --> 05:55:20.240 And it is the soccer punch here, some nice call by Joao. 05:55:20.240 --> 05:55:22.480 Yeah, but it's a sucker punch from the other side too, 05:55:22.480 --> 05:55:24.760 and some of them are going to fail. 05:55:24.760 --> 05:55:26.720 But now that you have this scovillain on the board, 05:55:26.720 --> 05:55:29.440 you actually can help to keep your own King Gambit safe 05:55:29.440 --> 05:55:31.280 for something like an opposing low-key spot. 05:55:31.280 --> 05:55:32.120 Rage powder can be like that. 05:55:32.120 --> 05:55:32.800 Exactly. 05:55:32.800 --> 05:55:34.240 Rage powder plus soccer punch here 05:55:34.240 --> 05:55:36.120 should just be game over. 05:55:36.120 --> 05:55:38.360 Mega scovillain was honestly quite incredible in this game. 05:55:38.360 --> 05:55:39.800 You can see how that burn on Garchoff 05:55:39.800 --> 05:55:41.600 just completely neutralized it. 05:55:41.600 --> 05:55:43.640 It's actually gonna be the protect coming out from scovillain. 05:55:43.640 --> 05:55:45.040 I think it also makes sense at this point 05:55:45.040 --> 05:55:47.800 with the burn ticking down on Garchomp. 05:55:47.800 --> 05:55:49.880 It has done a significant amount of damage, right? 05:55:49.880 --> 05:55:51.280 Just saying, okay, now you're just one turn away 05:55:51.280 --> 05:55:54.000 from fainting, but to me, this game feels over. 05:55:54.000 --> 05:55:55.800 Mega-Snowbillen was absolutely incredible 05:55:55.800 --> 05:55:57.840 in neutralizing the number one threading Garchomp. 05:55:57.840 --> 05:55:59.440 Really unfortunate for him to start the game, 05:55:59.440 --> 05:56:01.760 but I didn't get to do any damage in this game. 05:56:01.760 --> 05:56:03.720 And, yeah, Wimms ago, I didn't really get to accomplish 05:56:03.720 --> 05:56:04.960 very much either. 05:56:04.960 --> 05:56:06.440 Equivalent at one, Moonblast, 05:56:06.440 --> 05:56:09.920 and then got knocked out by an attack 05:56:09.920 --> 05:56:11.360 on a subsequent turn. 05:56:11.360 --> 05:56:13.080 And you have to wonder whether or not 05:56:13.080 --> 05:56:14.760 this game would have looked a little bit differently, 05:56:14.760 --> 05:56:18.920 had that full Wicked on the dmg, or had one stop and be able to set up something like a tailwind. 05:56:18.920 --> 05:56:22.280 I really like how patiently Joann has played this game. I was talking about just going for 05:56:22.280 --> 05:56:26.280 Sucker Punch close combat, but in that situation you might not know how fast your King Gambit is 05:56:26.280 --> 05:56:30.760 relative to the opposing King Gambit. You can get crit, Sucker Punch now cleans up the Garchomp, 05:56:30.760 --> 05:56:35.480 and Scovillain loves seeing opposing King Gambit. Like these are the two absolute best 05:56:35.480 --> 05:56:38.600 Pokemon I think for Scovillain to go up against. It's just going to be over if you're coming out 05:56:38.600 --> 05:56:43.240 there. No need for rage powder, and it obliterates King Gambit, because Scovillain puts on a 05:56:43.240 --> 05:56:45.240 the most powerful mega evolutions 05:56:45.240 --> 05:56:47.240 in the format being Tarsar flow 05:56:47.240 --> 05:56:49.240 way. We've seen a lot of really 05:56:49.240 --> 05:56:51.240 cool ones, but let's not forget 05:56:51.240 --> 05:56:53.240 that skill filling has been at the 05:56:53.240 --> 05:56:55.240 top of a lot of people's radars 05:56:55.240 --> 05:56:56.240 that they can slide under a 05:56:56.240 --> 05:56:57.240 heading into this tournament. 05:56:57.240 --> 05:56:58.240 Absolutely. Yeah. And I think 05:56:58.240 --> 05:56:59.240 you know, what's interesting is 05:56:59.240 --> 05:57:00.240 normally we think about the skill 05:57:00.240 --> 05:57:01.240 blown as a defensive towards 05:57:01.240 --> 05:57:03.240 once again, you know, replaying 05:57:03.240 --> 05:57:04.240 here. Some flinches. I think at 05:57:04.240 --> 05:57:05.240 this point there was the 05:57:05.240 --> 05:57:06.240 opportunity for guard jump to 05:57:06.240 --> 05:57:08.240 potentially her plague, right? 05:57:08.240 --> 05:57:09.240 But I think it's a great 05:57:09.240 --> 05:57:10.240 opportunity for the players to 05:57:10.240 --> 05:57:13.040 There was the opportunity for Garchomp to potentially Earthquake, right? 05:57:13.040 --> 05:57:15.360 By Broxiding, and actually doesn't kill the Liking Rock, 05:57:15.360 --> 05:57:17.760 and the Liking Rock then has pressure into the Floette, 05:57:17.760 --> 05:57:19.360 so I'm kind of forcing a switch. 05:57:19.360 --> 05:57:20.960 And, Sucker Punch here, failing. 05:57:20.960 --> 05:57:22.720 I think this was a really nice play by Giovanni 05:57:22.720 --> 05:57:23.920 to try to keep himself in the game. 05:57:23.920 --> 05:57:26.320 The reality is he was already immensely far behind, 05:57:26.320 --> 05:57:28.560 and in terms of the Pokemon choice, right, 05:57:28.560 --> 05:57:30.320 with Floette going down so quickly, 05:57:30.320 --> 05:57:32.880 Garchomp and King Gambit often just don't have enough firepower, 05:57:32.880 --> 05:57:35.280 and the way Joao conserved this Skowvillain was brilliant. 05:57:35.280 --> 05:57:36.880 So, one of the things about Skowvillain 05:57:36.880 --> 05:57:38.560 is it doesn't like going against Charizard, 05:57:38.560 --> 05:57:40.000 and actually does no damage into it. 05:57:40.000 --> 05:57:44.040 the game. It's just like, you 05:57:44.040 --> 05:57:44.640 know, it's just like, you know, 05:57:44.640 --> 05:57:45.840 you're not going to get a lot 05:57:45.840 --> 05:57:47.080 of good HRs or can kind of 05:57:47.080 --> 05:57:48.080 obliterate it. But with 05:57:48.080 --> 05:57:49.640 Flauette being the commit here, 05:57:49.640 --> 05:57:50.440 the scobal and actually had a 05:57:50.440 --> 05:57:51.840 really great time and the point 05:57:51.840 --> 05:57:53.040 I wanted to make to you, 05:57:53.040 --> 05:57:53.920 Rosemary was talking about 05:57:53.920 --> 05:57:55.080 scobal and as like a defensive 05:57:55.080 --> 05:57:56.080 tool for rage powder and burns, 05:57:56.080 --> 05:57:57.720 but we saw over key click what 05:57:57.720 --> 05:57:59.520 three different times in that 05:57:59.520 --> 05:58:00.120 game. It mainly just Yeah, it 05:58:00.120 --> 05:58:01.160 didn't even really go for 05:58:01.160 --> 05:58:02.160 redirection. It was like, All 05:58:02.160 --> 05:58:02.760 right, let me get chip off the 05:58:02.760 --> 05:58:03.320 flow. Let me knock up the 05:58:03.320 --> 05:58:06.160 whimsicott. Let me knock out 05:58:06.160 --> 05:58:07.600 King. Yeah, man. You have to 05:58:07.600 --> 05:58:09.160 respect it, especially if 05:58:09.160 --> 05:58:11.280 to go off the rails very quickly. 05:58:11.280 --> 05:58:14.320 The as we enter into game two is Zwoow out one game. 05:58:14.320 --> 05:58:16.000 We're all going to see a bit of an adjustment 05:58:16.000 --> 05:58:18.720 coming out from Zwoow, Siesler and King Gambit 05:58:18.720 --> 05:58:21.560 in front of Lipsy got Floette as a run back for Geoani. 05:58:21.560 --> 05:58:23.280 Yeah, so Geoani, kind of just saying, 05:58:23.280 --> 05:58:24.720 I'm going to stick to the Floette. 05:58:24.720 --> 05:58:26.280 I think Charizard is a big here, 05:58:26.280 --> 05:58:28.000 because once again, you have the lagging rock 05:58:28.000 --> 05:58:30.560 and I don't want to play this guessing game 05:58:30.560 --> 05:58:32.200 of having my charge out against it. 05:58:32.200 --> 05:58:36.280 So King Gambit here is the last to score stand set. 05:58:36.280 --> 05:58:38.160 And so you're not going to do a lot of damage right now, right? 05:58:38.160 --> 05:58:40.080 You could go for something like a sword stance, 05:58:40.080 --> 05:58:42.440 but I think right now I favor Giovanni's position 05:58:42.440 --> 05:58:43.720 just because the Flood is exerting 05:58:43.720 --> 05:58:45.040 a lot of offensive pressure. 05:58:45.040 --> 05:58:45.880 The Sneasler right now, 05:58:45.880 --> 05:58:48.160 but of course those have access to that fake out. 05:58:48.160 --> 05:58:50.560 And what you look at is, it's not a mega, 05:58:50.560 --> 05:58:52.560 that makes me think Charizard's in the back. 05:58:52.560 --> 05:58:53.560 Very possible. 05:58:53.560 --> 05:58:56.600 The line is actually just going to use a light of ruin. 05:58:56.600 --> 05:58:58.880 The journey is going to go one shot onto the Sneasler. 05:58:58.880 --> 05:59:00.560 Oh, it is so obvious, 05:59:00.560 --> 05:59:02.680 but it's just not quite enough 05:59:02.680 --> 05:59:06.240 that the Sneasler is able to fire back a dire clock 05:59:06.240 --> 05:59:11.240 And that's going to eliminate the flow-in after it took so much recourse from the Light of Ruin. 05:59:11.240 --> 05:59:18.740 What a cool adjustment in not mega-volving, but this is the bolt that the Spazer sometimes have survived for Light of Ruin outside of Mega Evolution. 05:59:18.740 --> 05:59:21.740 Gambit gets that sword stance off, that's really scary. 05:59:21.740 --> 05:59:23.740 Now Jorah, of course, has the ability to go for fake out there. 05:59:23.740 --> 05:59:26.740 For faking out in front of a Wimskall with Oncour is always really scary. 05:59:26.740 --> 05:59:30.240 However, it is going to be the King Gambit coming in from the opposing side. 05:59:30.240 --> 05:59:32.240 So it's going to be a pretty strong Pokemon, right? 05:59:32.240 --> 05:59:37.240 At this point, Giovanni has brought three Pokemon that resist the dark type attacks from King Gambit. 05:59:37.240 --> 05:59:42.000 So I think that's smart. I also think the lack of a mega evolution there makes surely it's got to be Charizard in the back, right? 05:59:42.000 --> 05:59:44.520 You don't want to bring Charizard into a boosted King Gambit. 05:59:44.520 --> 05:59:51.680 So I think Giovanni's goal right now, I really is to knock out the King Gambit and get it out of the way so that Charizard can hit the field. 05:59:51.680 --> 05:59:53.440 And for Joao, maybe you consider reserving it. 05:59:53.440 --> 05:59:55.920 I mean, if there's a Scoville in the back, you can protect King Gambit. 05:59:55.920 --> 06:00:00.000 Sacrifice Sneasler gets Scoville in him, and that combination was really scary. 06:00:00.000 --> 06:00:03.000 It's going to be a swamp here and it's going to be a Scovillian, okay? 06:00:04.000 --> 06:00:09.000 These are so low, it's not going to be able to contribute a lot to this turd. 06:00:09.000 --> 06:00:11.000 So you're going to get it out in favor of that Scovillian. 06:00:11.000 --> 06:00:16.000 And Charizard does make it appear as Giovanni's forest Pokemon in this game too. 06:00:16.000 --> 06:00:19.000 A Protect on the King Gambit is going to keep its face, 06:00:19.000 --> 06:00:23.000 but the women's decod is actually targeting its move blast into the partner. 06:00:23.000 --> 06:00:27.000 So nice little bit of chip damage there onto the Scovillian that even from this Charizard 06:00:27.000 --> 06:00:29.200 should be able to clutch up on the next one. 06:00:29.200 --> 06:00:31.640 A defense boost at special defense. 06:00:31.640 --> 06:00:33.520 Balls from the moody boost. 06:00:33.520 --> 06:00:35.160 Gonna make it even more vulnerable 06:00:35.160 --> 06:00:37.360 to these two special attackers on the other side. 06:00:37.360 --> 06:00:39.720 My big question for you, Rosemary, 06:00:39.720 --> 06:00:42.240 is does this suffer punch knock down Charizard? 06:00:42.240 --> 06:00:45.840 Charizard runs all kinds of different spreads in the format. 06:00:45.840 --> 06:00:48.360 We've seen players train their Charizard 06:00:48.360 --> 06:00:50.440 to even survive life form plus two suffer punch. 06:00:50.440 --> 06:00:52.400 That's like a ton of HP defensive medicine, 06:00:52.400 --> 06:00:54.400 basically max, max, or close to it. 06:00:54.400 --> 06:01:03.000 So, if the Charizard can hang on even with the sliver of HP, that heat wave will get a double knockout like we, especially with that special defense drop on the Skullbillet. 06:01:03.000 --> 06:01:09.400 If it faints, that's game over. Here we go. Isn't just gonna be suffer punch, and it's so. Does Charizard survive? 06:01:09.400 --> 06:01:16.200 With this feed advantage and Giovanni's favor, you have to imagine the one way around this would be for going for that priority suffer punch. 06:01:16.200 --> 06:01:20.400 Before we get there, we do see the mega evolution as Skullvillet protects itself. 06:01:20.400 --> 06:01:23.640 So, Ken and King Gambit get away with a huge knockout. 06:01:23.640 --> 06:01:25.140 What's Jessica gonna do? 06:01:25.140 --> 06:01:26.140 Take this! 06:01:26.140 --> 06:01:31.080 And with just enough to be able to get an attack off on this turn, 06:01:31.080 --> 06:01:32.580 Moon Blossom will fail. 06:01:32.580 --> 06:01:33.880 Heatwave comes out. 06:01:33.880 --> 06:01:36.220 Protect is going to help this go villain first, 06:01:36.220 --> 06:01:38.220 and it connects into the King Gambit. 06:01:38.860 --> 06:01:41.260 King Gambit won't go down, but I think it's your chill out. 06:01:41.260 --> 06:01:42.660 You're pretty happy about that, right? 06:01:42.660 --> 06:01:44.660 If you look at the 4-4-4-4 Geobon and Prott, 06:01:44.660 --> 06:01:46.860 you don't really need to sucker punch or watch the sucker punch 06:01:46.860 --> 06:01:48.260 any of the other Pokemon. 06:01:48.260 --> 06:02:05.260 Getting that one big one into Charizard often is the big, big attack, so big lead I think still over to Joao, what is going to come in right now, right, because the Charizard is really, really low, it'll faint at really any priority attack, a big attack, a solid rocket off with that, right. 06:02:05.260 --> 06:02:09.360 I think if you draw, you also have to consider, while I know that there's still that King Gambit in the back, 06:02:09.360 --> 06:02:14.260 and I probably want to conserve my skill-villain, but the skill-villain and Vasco Legion is what looks really tough right now. 06:02:14.260 --> 06:02:18.560 Of course, the Whimsical has Encore Pressure into skill-villains. You can Encore skill-villain, 06:02:18.560 --> 06:02:24.260 and then Vasco Legion is attacking Awkwaja into Charizard, so then you can potentially switch Charizard into King Gambit, 06:02:24.260 --> 06:02:27.260 and go for Encore onto it in the subsequent turn, so... 06:02:27.260 --> 06:02:30.260 If your body's not out of it yet, I think Encore is such a big tool, 06:02:30.260 --> 06:02:33.260 it's one of the main reasons why Whimsical just brought out this matchup, 06:02:33.260 --> 06:02:35.260 But Charizard keeping up that much damage 06:02:35.260 --> 06:02:38.260 to always getting closer and closer to the semifinals. 06:02:38.260 --> 06:02:40.260 One more turn of tailwind left. 06:02:40.260 --> 06:02:44.260 So does Giovanni actually want to try to leverage that with the Charizard 06:02:44.260 --> 06:02:45.260 while you have a chance? 06:02:45.260 --> 06:02:47.260 Maybe you do want to flirt with Fire 06:02:47.260 --> 06:02:50.260 if that backs the lead and is not going to go for a priority attack. 06:02:50.260 --> 06:02:51.260 But things better of it. 06:02:51.260 --> 06:02:56.260 In Gambit it comes out, so Villain tries to shed some of the 06:02:56.260 --> 06:03:00.260 unlucky moody roles that it has gotten in this match. 06:03:00.260 --> 06:03:02.260 That's also going to help redirect away 06:03:03.620 --> 06:03:05.140 Last respect comes out 06:03:05.140 --> 06:03:11.900 You're bringing one to cut down to that focus dash and that's a great move selection to lock into knowing that that's right of 06:03:11.900 --> 06:03:13.620 Encore is on the other side exactly 06:03:13.620 --> 06:03:20.020 Yeah, Joao gets another great play there and I think for Giovanni that play like even it also makes a lot of sense if Joao makes the 06:03:20.020 --> 06:03:25.820 Mistake there and stays in with the skull villain and it gets locked in well suddenly you actually completely turn the tides 06:03:25.820 --> 06:03:30.820 That could have been an attack just to knock out the Sneezler, but the Bastion Legion gets so much damage in a whimse spot. 06:03:31.820 --> 06:03:34.820 Once again, the King Gambit on the opposing side also can't protect right now, right? 06:03:34.820 --> 06:03:37.820 You can always launch the fake out into that slot if you wanted. 06:03:37.820 --> 06:03:42.820 You also could just go for close combat that anyone has expired, although you risked some suffering from the King Gambit. 06:03:42.820 --> 06:03:44.820 And to either Pokemon right now. 06:03:44.820 --> 06:03:46.820 But a big turn for Joao. 06:03:46.820 --> 06:03:53.820 What's really, really important though is making sure that you can serve the Bastion Legion ideally to get that Awkwaja to finish off Charizard. 06:03:53.820 --> 06:03:56.460 But that's the Legion 8's going to retreat for now. 06:03:56.460 --> 06:03:58.340 Exactly how you called it, you go villain, 06:03:58.340 --> 06:04:00.460 it's to make a reappearance. 06:04:00.460 --> 06:04:01.820 Is it really under threat right now 06:04:01.820 --> 06:04:04.620 getting knocked out to the Lipsap or the King Gambit here 06:04:04.620 --> 06:04:06.660 so you can bring that Pokemon in safely 06:04:06.660 --> 06:04:08.220 before considering a mega evolution? 06:04:08.220 --> 06:04:11.340 And Sneasler, does it fall for the protect? 06:04:11.340 --> 06:04:13.380 Sidesome fake out this King Gambit 06:04:13.380 --> 06:04:14.900 so I cannot get an attack off. 06:04:14.900 --> 06:04:17.420 And we're gonna see a special attack drop here 06:04:17.420 --> 06:04:19.500 on the Skow Villain, and that's a moody boost 06:04:19.500 --> 06:04:20.700 you like to see. 06:04:20.700 --> 06:04:22.460 I was gonna say, okay, overheat is just, 06:04:22.460 --> 06:04:25.900 I mean, I think it was going to one shot everything from the range that they were now, but even more so. 06:04:25.900 --> 06:04:27.740 Now for sure. 06:04:27.740 --> 06:04:32.940 So, I mean, another great play, I think, by Joe out here, as Skilville manages to come in so free. 06:04:32.940 --> 06:04:38.980 Right now, there is, once again, all more pressure into the Ski'sler, but King Gambit is going to be the one swapping out. 06:04:38.980 --> 06:04:43.860 Great play by Giovanni, I think Giovanni recognizes that he can serve this ideally to beat the basket-eachers, 06:04:43.860 --> 06:04:49.180 but how do you deal with Skilville? And at this point, the Overheater's looking so threatening. 06:04:49.180 --> 06:04:55.180 Going to mega evolve now after biting its sweet time with this special attack boost. 06:04:55.180 --> 06:04:59.180 Going to see the skill building to go all out on the offense. 06:04:59.180 --> 06:05:00.180 He's going to protect himself. 06:05:00.180 --> 06:05:03.180 He's going to keep it safe from the move blast. 06:05:03.180 --> 06:05:05.180 Maybe a missed opportunity for damage there. 06:05:05.180 --> 06:05:07.180 Into the skill deal and as the gigatrain is going to help, 06:05:07.180 --> 06:05:11.180 finish off this Wimps abroad, give a little bit of HP recovery back, 06:05:11.180 --> 06:05:14.180 and set the skill building up for success in the endgame. 06:05:14.180 --> 06:05:16.180 Yeah, and this game feels wrapped up at this point. 06:05:16.180 --> 06:05:21.540 point once it goes down, King Gambit is going to come in in the back, but once again you have to 06:05:21.540 --> 06:05:25.140 steer down this Go-Villain. I think he's probably the scope to something like the Rage-Potter with 06:05:25.140 --> 06:05:28.820 Go-Villain and then go for a dire bond to Charizard, right? The King Gambit is kind of 06:05:28.820 --> 06:05:33.700 checkmated by this Go-Villain. Can't protect. If you go for Rage-Potter, we'll go into it. So 06:05:33.700 --> 06:05:37.380 firing some really weird speed interactions for Charizard is faster than the Sneasler. I think 06:05:37.380 --> 06:05:42.500 that Joao should be able to advance to the top four. So honestly, I've been playing, I would say, 06:05:42.500 --> 06:05:47.500 and has made Megascope look like an absolute beast of a Pokemon. 06:05:47.500 --> 06:05:52.500 Juaul lost to this team from Shulkai Kimura earlier on in the tournament, 06:05:52.500 --> 06:05:57.500 but has clearly learned a couple of things to apply to this match versus Juaul Bani. 06:05:57.500 --> 06:06:01.500 There's still a basket legion in the back for Juaul to depend upon 06:06:01.500 --> 06:06:07.500 to finish off this game in style, but there's this game gambit and Charizard that Juaul Bani has 06:06:07.500 --> 06:06:12.500 He has that maybe will help him keep the dream alive. 06:06:13.140 --> 06:06:16.660 Scovillain, rage powders, draws away the attention 06:06:16.660 --> 06:06:20.700 as Spielberg is going for close combat into the King Gambit. 06:06:20.700 --> 06:06:22.980 Doppelberry is going to activate to help us 06:06:22.980 --> 06:06:25.340 make this close combat survivable. 06:06:25.340 --> 06:06:27.820 And so King Gambit hands the arm of the sliver. 06:06:27.820 --> 06:06:29.340 The wire is gone already, 06:06:29.340 --> 06:06:31.380 so there isn't going to be a pleasantly stash drop. 06:06:31.380 --> 06:06:32.980 Okay, I was thinking about game two. 06:06:32.980 --> 06:06:35.860 That's gonna help actually to get this unburden activated. 06:06:35.860 --> 06:06:40.680 He with connects double onto these Pokemon, but Scoville and actually survives that 06:06:40.900 --> 06:06:44.260 So this battle to survive doesn't have been dire upon a Charizard 06:06:44.260 --> 06:06:48.660 But I think because of the burn that will now come out you can see a Jermany shaking his head 06:06:48.660 --> 06:06:50.400 Scoville won't finish will be a double knockout 06:06:50.400 --> 06:06:54.740 But that King Yamban now will paint from burn not after this term of the following one 06:06:55.140 --> 06:06:59.260 As the Asian comes in you protect and as you called that rosemary in the beginning of this 06:06:59.380 --> 06:07:01.420 There's no solar beam on that Charizard 06:07:01.420 --> 06:07:04.420 So you cannot even hit that Vasco Legion for very much damage. 06:07:04.420 --> 06:07:07.900 So all Joannis to do now is bring out Vasco Legion, protect King Gambit, 06:07:07.900 --> 06:07:13.260 thanks Aqua Jet KO Charizard, and he is moving on to the top four, the 16-year-old Prodigy. 06:07:13.260 --> 06:07:16.300 Great timing if the sun expired on that last turn. 06:07:17.100 --> 06:07:20.300 Vasco Legion does get to close this one out for Joao. 06:07:20.300 --> 06:07:23.740 An impressive run for Joao in this 2026 season. 06:07:24.380 --> 06:07:30.300 The freshly aging up from the senior division goes on to the top four of the Pokémon World 06:07:30.300 --> 06:07:35.180 champions protect now so King Gambit will fall to the burn damage and then 06:07:35.180 --> 06:07:37.980 charge up will fall in the next turn. 06:07:37.980 --> 06:07:42.140 Sucker Punch will paint ancient power coming out of it. 06:07:42.140 --> 06:07:51.140 One last ancient power for the road here for GeoVadi. No boost coming out. He got a lot of those in one of the previous top cut matches. 06:07:51.140 --> 06:07:56.820 He knows this one is all but over. I'd love the adjustment to Winston on Floette and not Mega Bulbink. 06:07:56.820 --> 06:08:02.320 I think that's one of the big things with this team, but Joao is going to be moving on to the top four. 06:08:02.320 --> 06:08:04.320 He looked really good in that set. 06:08:04.320 --> 06:08:09.320 Wow, absolutely, lights out there for this young Brazilian player. 06:08:09.320 --> 06:08:16.820 What a commanding performance and just a dominant one throughout these stages of the World Championships. 06:08:16.820 --> 06:08:22.820 Now on to the top four. Just how far can you truly take this miraculous run? 06:08:22.820 --> 06:08:28.460 That was so fun to watch and I think it made such a good argument for Megascobellum, right? 06:08:28.980 --> 06:08:35.220 This team came together initially when the team that Giovanni was using was really rising in the meta game 06:08:35.220 --> 06:08:38.140 And you could see all the tools that Joao had to deal with it, right? 06:08:38.140 --> 06:08:42.180 I think the King Gambit actually coming in I thought he made really effective use of it 06:08:42.180 --> 06:08:44.140 It is not an easy Pokemon to use in this matchup 06:08:44.140 --> 06:08:46.500 Which is why on paper you often consider dropping it, right? 06:08:46.500 --> 06:08:51.220 But managed to get that plus two sucker punch off into Charizard and while it does not get the knockout 06:08:51.220 --> 06:08:54.720 Brings it so low that basically one other move will finish it off, right? 06:08:54.720 --> 06:08:58.920 So finding the perfect angle for King Gambit just flawlessly done here 06:08:58.920 --> 06:09:01.680 And even though the Charizard managed to survive at this point 06:09:01.680 --> 06:09:06.920 I feel like the main downside is that Whimsycop was just never providing any real value other than going for Encore 06:09:06.920 --> 06:09:10.000 But Joao really never let himself get Encore as a result 06:09:10.000 --> 06:09:15.180 Whimsycop actually often feels like dead weight and in this end game Joao saying look even if you attack with Charizard 06:09:15.180 --> 06:09:18.580 Doesn't matter because I know I'm gonna get close combat guaranteed into King Gambit 06:09:18.580 --> 06:09:21.220 And if you target me, I'll get the burn as well, right? 06:09:21.220 --> 06:09:23.180 And so really smart targeting there. 06:09:23.180 --> 06:09:25.180 Like I think, yeah, could have targeted Charizard as well, 06:09:25.180 --> 06:09:26.860 but the Gambit with the inability to protect these, 06:09:26.860 --> 06:09:28.140 you guarantee that damage. 06:09:28.140 --> 06:09:30.020 He knew basically just gonna close out the game 06:09:30.020 --> 06:09:31.940 against these Pokemon. 06:09:31.940 --> 06:09:34.780 And so the fact that Lacky Rock didn't come out, 06:09:34.780 --> 06:09:37.060 Charizard did come out and Joel still won 06:09:37.060 --> 06:09:39.060 is a testament to the amount of flexibility 06:09:39.060 --> 06:09:40.020 that his team has. 06:09:40.020 --> 06:09:40.860 Right. 06:09:40.860 --> 06:09:43.140 I mean, just having anything that has that priority damage 06:09:43.140 --> 06:09:45.260 at the end, the Aqua Jet or the Sucker Punch 06:09:45.260 --> 06:09:46.460 would have been enough. 06:09:46.460 --> 06:09:49.020 That's really what these teams are designed for. 06:09:49.020 --> 06:09:51.260 You have these cleanup crews that can come in 06:09:51.260 --> 06:09:54.220 after your other Pokemon have done so much damage 06:09:54.220 --> 06:09:55.860 that get a chance to actually finish 06:09:55.860 --> 06:09:57.540 and secure those knockouts. 06:09:57.540 --> 06:09:59.700 And Joao really putting on a master class 06:09:59.700 --> 06:10:02.620 and why this team and this archetype 06:10:02.620 --> 06:10:06.140 has been super dominant in these last couple of months. 06:10:06.140 --> 06:10:06.980 Yeah, and Rose, you know, 06:10:06.980 --> 06:10:08.860 you and I were talking before we got on the broadcast, 06:10:08.860 --> 06:10:10.860 but we were saying like in this matchup, 06:10:10.860 --> 06:10:13.260 there's just so much that both players can do, right? 06:10:13.260 --> 06:10:15.860 You can lean into either mega evolution 06:10:15.860 --> 06:10:19.180 And for Giovanni, as we saw, you could actually bring both mech evolutions as well. 06:10:19.180 --> 06:10:24.440 And so part of what makes his team so powerful in the metagame is it's the amount of different modes that you can go with. 06:10:24.440 --> 06:10:30.660 But let's hear a little bit more from Joao, who is now advancing to the top four and throw it down through an interview. 06:10:33.740 --> 06:10:35.060 Big congratulations. 06:10:35.060 --> 06:10:38.300 Can we give it up for everyone for quarter finalists here in VGC? 06:10:38.300 --> 06:10:39.340 Joao! 06:10:39.340 --> 06:10:50.340 You're now talk for of the Pokemon World Championships there is a crowd out there cheering for you your friends and family here. How are you feeling? 06:10:50.340 --> 06:10:59.340 It feels amazing. I don't know what to say, but I'm just glad to be here and I'm very happy to have made it this far. 06:10:59.340 --> 06:11:03.780 this far. Yeah. This has been 06:11:03.780 --> 06:11:05.720 an incredible run for yourself. 06:11:05.720 --> 06:11:07.280 And I want to talk about earlier 06:11:07.280 --> 06:11:08.820 today when we saw you and going 06:11:08.820 --> 06:11:10.860 into the weekend. Did you feel 06:11:10.860 --> 06:11:12.260 that confidence that you could 06:11:12.260 --> 06:11:14.160 be here in this spot at top four? 06:11:14.760 --> 06:11:16.760 Yeah, my goal when I started 06:11:16.760 --> 06:11:18.800 playing was like always to be 06:11:18.800 --> 06:11:20.860 the best. Sometimes I think I 06:11:21.200 --> 06:11:22.960 can't do it, but at the end it 06:11:22.960 --> 06:11:24.760 always works out. So yeah. 06:11:26.200 --> 06:11:27.640 Regardless of what happens from 06:11:27.640 --> 06:11:33.040 here on out, the conversation amongst the players, the fans, the analysts and everything 06:11:33.040 --> 06:11:37.760 has been of how good you are, this prodigy, how amazing you are at Pokemon. 06:11:37.760 --> 06:11:41.320 Like, do you feel like this is your year just upcoming? 06:11:41.320 --> 06:11:45.480 Because you're so young, you just say something to Masters, but you're so good, like how does 06:11:45.480 --> 06:11:46.480 it make you feel? 06:11:46.480 --> 06:11:49.640 Well, I don't know if this is my year, but I hope it is. 06:11:49.640 --> 06:11:56.520 I'm going to try my best to make it to finals in the next match and win it all. 06:11:56.520 --> 06:11:59.400 You've certainly made a statement so far, and I want to make sure you can get rested 06:11:59.400 --> 06:12:00.400 up for that. 06:12:00.400 --> 06:12:03.400 But I want to give you the opportunity while you're here on this stage yet again, if you 06:12:03.400 --> 06:12:07.600 had any words before your top four match or anyone else that you still want to give shout-outs 06:12:07.600 --> 06:12:08.600 to. 06:12:08.600 --> 06:12:12.280 I want to shout out to my dad, which I forgot to shout out on the last interview when he 06:12:12.280 --> 06:12:16.760 was like the most important person like for me to be here. 06:12:16.760 --> 06:12:22.160 And I also want to shout out my brother, Cisco, who's doing well at juniors, very well at 06:12:22.160 --> 06:12:23.520 juniors as well. 06:12:23.520 --> 06:12:25.240 And I'm rooting for him. 06:12:25.240 --> 06:12:26.240 And yeah. 06:12:26.240 --> 06:12:30.840 the family congratulations it's been an honor to be able to see you play here 06:12:30.840 --> 06:12:37.000 and best of luck going on into your next match as for us we have two of four 06:12:37.000 --> 06:12:40.760 of our quarter finalists let's head back over to our casters in front of her 06:12:40.760 --> 06:12:43.720 next two are gonna be. 06:12:44.240 --> 06:12:50.160 Very much here right yes you are really showing us how aging up into the Masters 06:12:50.160 --> 06:12:55.120 division isn't necessarily as daunting as it could be on the biggest stage we 06:12:55.120 --> 06:12:59.120 We have in competition making it all the way to the top four. 06:12:59.120 --> 06:13:02.120 Thank you, Raku, here with the wonderful lead provost. 06:13:02.120 --> 06:13:08.120 Have a little bit of a deeper dive into a couple of those moments that we had with Joao, 06:13:08.120 --> 06:13:14.120 stamping their ticket into the top four before we look at our next top eight match here at the World Championship. 06:13:14.120 --> 06:13:20.120 Yeah, you know, for how young Joao is, they're so composed when they're in game in the battlefield, 06:13:20.120 --> 06:13:24.800 they're really locked in and you know it really shows through in the matches and 06:13:24.800 --> 06:13:29.000 how commanding and dominant they are and then the lines and understanding they've 06:13:29.000 --> 06:13:32.960 got of the team as well just to overcome multiple opponents now that 06:13:32.960 --> 06:13:37.520 we've seen and yeah just incredible to see what an achievement it's up for but 06:13:37.520 --> 06:13:43.240 not done yet not done yet one more to get a step closer to championship Sunday 06:13:43.240 --> 06:13:48.720 but doing all the right things and just so so impressed yeah rooting that they 06:13:48.720 --> 06:13:51.760 can carry that on into the rest of the tournament. 06:13:51.760 --> 06:13:56.320 Definitely. Oh, I got a little clip here for Game 1. 06:13:56.320 --> 06:14:02.680 I think one of the most difficult moments that we had in that Game 1 of, like, how do 06:14:02.680 --> 06:14:05.760 you secure this endgame, right? 06:14:05.760 --> 06:14:13.640 So we had the early game where the Lycanroc was able to get a little bit of positive pressure 06:14:13.640 --> 06:14:18.280 going down onto Giovanni's team, but then wasn't able to stick around very long. 06:14:18.280 --> 06:14:21.480 It's a like and rock. That's not a surprise to anyone at all. 06:14:21.480 --> 06:14:26.600 And Giovanni was able to deal with that, not bringing the Chara's articles to this matchup. 06:14:26.600 --> 06:14:32.280 We know in this position that the Floette was sitting in the back on a pretty low HD percentage. 06:14:33.160 --> 06:14:40.520 And the question mark here is whether or not you can just go for the close combat 06:14:40.520 --> 06:14:45.800 into the king gambit, the sucker punch from the king gambit into the guard jump. The guard 06:14:45.800 --> 06:14:51.080 jump is burned, of course. It's not like putting on loads of offensive pressure, but it's still 06:14:51.080 --> 06:14:57.080 present in the game. You still have to respect it. But the big thing, and Aaron called this out 06:14:57.080 --> 06:15:03.720 during the round, is these Sneaslers here, they're pretty bulky and they're pretty low 06:15:03.720 --> 06:15:09.240 in terms of their offensive output. So even though the king gambit is on just 89%, 06:15:09.240 --> 06:15:14.400 percent and usually if you've got a pretty invested Sneasler that will be a clean KO 06:15:15.120 --> 06:15:19.320 That's not necessarily guaranteed in the board state that we've got here 06:15:19.400 --> 06:15:24.760 No, and I think that's one of the understandings of Jowl probably gets with that Sneasler 06:15:24.760 --> 06:15:29.600 Is it going to be enough although the King Amit has taken that small margin of chip damage there? 06:15:29.600 --> 06:15:32.880 Is it good the question is at this stage of the tournament as well? 06:15:32.880 --> 06:15:37.520 It's a big call to make yeah, that's going to be enough because of missing to it like you say the garchomb 06:15:37.520 --> 06:15:43.520 It's not gonna be hitting as hard as what we normally regularly used to seeing it's still got the life or but still gonna have that boot 06:15:43.520 --> 06:15:46.940 Yeah, and the cross combat will are those defenses? 06:15:46.940 --> 06:15:51.500 Yes, and so you might activate the white herbule and do those and get the speed boost 06:15:51.500 --> 06:15:57.520 But you can put yourself at a detrimental position if that king gamut does switch out to come back in and then suck a punch later 06:15:57.520 --> 06:16:00.720 You know definitely because this is the other thing right is that hey 06:16:00.760 --> 06:16:04.560 maybe the eighty nine percent is just like a little bit too much 06:16:04.560 --> 06:16:07.560 you're not comfortable and we 06:16:07.560 --> 06:16:08.560 don't know at this point in the 06:16:08.560 --> 06:16:11.560 game like overall is it this way 06:16:11.560 --> 06:16:13.560 round in terms of the speed order 06:16:13.560 --> 06:16:15.560 like does this this king gambit 06:16:15.560 --> 06:16:17.560 go for a sucker punch first or is 06:16:17.560 --> 06:16:19.560 it in this order right and you 06:16:19.560 --> 06:16:22.560 go you try to fail a try to go 06:16:22.560 --> 06:16:23.560 for a sucker punch and fail it 06:16:23.560 --> 06:16:25.560 and so there's this big 06:16:25.560 --> 06:16:27.560 temptation then to go like hey I 06:16:27.560 --> 06:16:29.560 need to suck a punch into this 06:16:29.560 --> 06:16:31.560 king gambit then close combat 06:16:31.560 --> 06:16:33.560 into the king gambit just to 06:16:33.560 --> 06:16:40.280 that's going to be the K. O here and just playing the this, uh, this clip 06:16:40.280 --> 06:16:45.480 along, right? This is the call that Giovanni made so so well, right? Where 06:16:45.480 --> 06:16:51.480 he decides to try to keep himself in the match and try to be able to, um, you 06:16:51.480 --> 06:16:58.040 know, uh, make sure that King gambits, uh, therefore a potential end game, 06:16:58.040 --> 06:17:02.840 switching it out into the flow at calling the sucker punch. But then also the 06:17:02.840 --> 06:17:08.120 The flow it goes down the way her back to base and we saw that kind of back to square one where this guy jump is getting like 06:17:08.400 --> 06:17:10.400 closer and closer to being 06:17:10.880 --> 06:17:14.240 100% in sucker punch range. Yeah, and it's a good sacrifice 06:17:14.240 --> 06:17:21.360 I think if you are Giovanni to bring in that fight at the right time because you don't really want to mess around at this stage of the game as well with 06:17:21.360 --> 06:17:24.600 Those guessing games especially when you don't know the speed interaction with the sucker punch 06:17:24.600 --> 06:17:29.080 So flow it comes in takes that and then you've got like you say you're in a 06:17:29.080 --> 06:17:40.080 But you're back in the same situation, but you're in a worse situation as well at the same point because the goal-chomp now taking that tick of a chip and you're not really any further along in the battle yet there. 06:17:40.080 --> 06:17:53.080 It's great here, but yeah, it doesn't really progress you any further, but maybe that's just down to how well Jow manages these situations rather than falling traps and going for the sucker punch in that scenario. 06:17:53.080 --> 06:17:58.080 I think there's a big example of the way that I was been playing in this tournament 06:17:58.080 --> 06:18:03.080 of like showing so much patience in the way that he's going about his games. 06:18:03.080 --> 06:18:06.080 Wrapping up the second game was like, 06:18:06.080 --> 06:18:11.080 well, just going for a protect every other turn and letting the burn kind of do its thing 06:18:11.080 --> 06:18:15.080 and just using that residual damage to put himself in a really good position. 06:18:15.080 --> 06:18:19.080 And that's so important when you're playing at this level of competition. 06:18:19.080 --> 06:18:22.080 We're not saying like, hey, don't make a read, don't make a call, 06:18:22.080 --> 06:18:24.920 you know, it's not like you 06:18:25.020 --> 06:18:26.720 don't make a call, but also 06:18:26.820 --> 06:18:28.420 be the right time. Exactly 06:18:28.520 --> 06:18:30.020 that. You couldn't say it 06:18:30.120 --> 06:18:31.820 better myself. Like this is 06:18:31.920 --> 06:18:33.820 this is the time where you've 06:18:33.920 --> 06:18:35.420 got to keep your composure. 06:18:35.520 --> 06:18:36.920 It's still only six Pokemon 06:18:37.020 --> 06:18:38.460 that you're having to go up 06:18:38.560 --> 06:18:39.620 against and yeah, okay, the 06:18:39.720 --> 06:18:40.660 handle by some of the best in 06:18:40.760 --> 06:18:42.260 the world are playing 06:18:42.360 --> 06:18:44.360 absolutely on form, right? So 06:18:44.460 --> 06:18:46.460 not necessarily as easy as 06:18:46.560 --> 06:18:48.460 that, but giving us such a 06:18:48.560 --> 06:18:50.460 great, great show. Let's have a 06:18:50.460 --> 06:18:55.380 two players that are going to be making it to the top four, Hiroshi and Drow, 06:18:55.380 --> 06:18:56.580 punching their tickets there. 06:18:56.580 --> 06:19:00.980 They're going to be playing up against each other in our semi-finals, 06:19:00.980 --> 06:19:04.620 but the next match that we're going to be seeing is Takuma versus Stefano. 06:19:04.620 --> 06:19:08.900 Yeah, and this one in particular going to be another absolutely fantastic 06:19:08.900 --> 06:19:13.900 top eight game to decide who our next top four opponent will be. 06:19:13.900 --> 06:19:16.740 No, and we've already got one top four match lined up, 06:19:16.740 --> 06:19:18.100 and that one is going to be incredible, 06:19:18.100 --> 06:19:21.860 but before then we've got two more sets to determine 06:19:21.860 --> 06:19:24.980 those remaining top four players and what a way to do it. 06:19:24.980 --> 06:19:27.540 You know, we've got Giovanni and Giao 06:19:27.540 --> 06:19:29.940 that have just set the stage, set the standard, 06:19:29.940 --> 06:19:33.180 so I'm sure our next players will be meeting those 06:19:33.180 --> 06:19:35.380 and probably exceeding expectations. 06:19:35.380 --> 06:19:36.500 And of course, after that match, 06:19:36.500 --> 06:19:39.500 we're gonna have Yuya as well versus Zachary Weed, 06:19:39.500 --> 06:19:40.900 and that I'm really excited about. 06:19:40.900 --> 06:19:44.180 Zachary's been on an absolute tear during the season, but... 06:19:44.180 --> 06:19:47.340 Representing that Frost Lassen Lycan Rock team, another player. 06:19:47.340 --> 06:19:54.340 I'm not going to say it was on my cast of predictions for a reason, but you've got to turn up when you're playing that team. 06:19:54.340 --> 06:20:00.340 It's not the easiest, maybe not the most intuitive team. It's not the biggest collection of stats. 06:20:00.340 --> 06:20:06.340 It's a team that really works with its synergies as well. 06:20:06.340 --> 06:20:13.340 We've got a little bit of a player run though, Lee, to set us up for our next top eight match here in the World Championship. 06:20:13.340 --> 06:20:16.340 So let's have a look at Takuma's run through the tournament. 06:20:16.340 --> 06:20:27.100 Yeah, we can see that they started the day one proceedings against a former regional champion here winning one of the first regional events in the European season against Emanuele and 06:20:27.600 --> 06:20:32.580 Yeah, coming out of that convincingly well, especially against a hybrid rain 06:20:33.060 --> 06:20:39.100 What looks like a parish trap sort of scene that we've seen throughout this weekend overcoming that with no problem at all 06:20:39.100 --> 06:20:42.980 I love a tacky as dragonite choice as well 06:20:42.980 --> 06:20:46.980 We talked about this briefly when we last on the analyst desk about that integration 06:20:46.980 --> 06:20:50.820 for going to Charizard and saying Mega Dragonite's the way to go, but then yeah 06:20:50.820 --> 06:20:54.720 We can take a look at D2 as well and not getting off to the best start 06:20:55.500 --> 06:21:00.980 opponent first in the day Stefano and taking a lost ever since then has been able to 06:21:01.580 --> 06:21:05.100 Win out against the double mega star actors that they faced 06:21:05.100 --> 06:21:11.420 I'd love to have seen what happened in that match against Stefano because yeah, we see it time and time again like 06:21:11.420 --> 06:21:16.420 like, players playing in the 06:21:16.420 --> 06:21:17.420 Swiss and then coming up into 06:21:17.420 --> 06:21:18.420 top car and the records get 06:21:18.420 --> 06:21:19.420 reversed, right? And so, you 06:21:19.420 --> 06:21:23.420 know, even though Takumi is 06:21:23.420 --> 06:21:26.420 going up against Takumi, sorry, 06:21:26.420 --> 06:21:27.420 is going up against 06:21:27.420 --> 06:21:31.420 Stefano again, will the result 06:21:31.420 --> 06:21:33.420 be the same? Like, after every 06:21:33.420 --> 06:21:35.420 time that you play a particular 06:21:35.420 --> 06:21:36.420 matchup and certainly a 06:21:36.420 --> 06:21:38.420 particular play-up, you go when 06:21:38.420 --> 06:21:39.420 you're not on the winning side, 06:21:39.420 --> 06:21:40.420 you walk away from that 06:21:40.420 --> 06:21:45.380 that match in the game, you know, what could I have done differently against 06:21:45.380 --> 06:21:49.140 Stefano and maybe that will come to pass in our top eight. 06:21:49.140 --> 06:21:52.940 You can see the incredibly tough run that Stefano's had in day one, in 06:21:52.940 --> 06:21:56.420 particular, it's a progress to day two. You've got some big, big things there. 06:21:56.420 --> 06:22:00.300 Wolf Glick named me around four. They were able to overcome and then, you know, 06:22:00.300 --> 06:22:04.740 continue that time. The early as well, last round of the day, just incredible. 06:22:04.740 --> 06:22:08.660 All of these players are very accomplished, but what a run Stefano had, kind of 06:22:08.660 --> 06:22:12.340 losing round one and then going on the bounce undefeated to finish off the day 06:22:12.340 --> 06:22:18.100 then coming in to day two here. Takuma was their first opponent we've already 06:22:18.100 --> 06:22:22.180 seen will be their top eight opponent and I think like getting back to your point 06:22:22.180 --> 06:22:27.340 then Stefano's gonna feel very confident whereas Takuma probably not that 06:22:27.340 --> 06:22:30.740 confident that's not a bad thing because you can learn a lot from a defeat 06:22:30.740 --> 06:22:34.460 sometimes more from a defeat than you can from a victory so you know these 06:22:34.460 --> 06:22:38.420 players will be familiar with each other's teams but as we've seen time 06:22:38.420 --> 06:22:42.500 and some again over this weekend. It's micro decisions, the micro changes throughout a game 06:22:42.500 --> 06:22:46.340 that can make all the difference. And it goes both ways as well, right? The thing that was put 06:22:46.340 --> 06:22:51.940 coming out to me on the second part of, and Stefano's run is that they took a loss to Zachary 06:22:51.940 --> 06:22:58.500 Weed, who is also on their side of the bracket. So if Zachary is able to win their top, top eight 06:22:58.500 --> 06:23:04.020 match as well as Stefano, then there's going to be a rematch after a rematch there going into 06:23:04.020 --> 06:23:09.700 the top four and whether or not either of our players are able to flip the script on exactly 06:23:09.700 --> 06:23:15.540 what went down in the previous times that they went up against each other and went especially 06:23:15.540 --> 06:23:20.100 in the same tournament like it's it's different to when you've played a player like tournament 06:23:20.100 --> 06:23:24.340 after tournament right and maybe you're using different teams maybe you're coming at it from 06:23:24.340 --> 06:23:29.460 a different place but this is this is the same team this is the same tournament all these players 06:23:29.460 --> 06:23:35.620 are on some of the runs of their lives right now and to see like how they adjust to those sort of 06:23:35.620 --> 06:23:40.820 matchups, the repeat matchups is so so exciting. Exactly that and I think it's great to be able 06:23:40.820 --> 06:23:45.540 to kind of point out that these players have faced each other before because it changes 06:23:45.540 --> 06:23:50.740 the dynamic of the game. Normally we'd see that game one where players are over cautious sometimes 06:23:50.740 --> 06:23:55.060 where they're trying to fish out information, trying to judge those speed interactions a lot 06:23:55.060 --> 06:23:58.900 well. A lot of those might have already been worked out so that's something that we can 06:23:58.900 --> 06:24:04.340 take into this game and know a little bit more about why some decisions have been made over others 06:24:04.980 --> 06:24:11.220 as things play out. This is getting so excitingly so we're going to get to a quick break while we 06:24:11.220 --> 06:24:28.740 get our third top eight match sorted so stay tuned we'll be back very soon. 06:25:28.900 --> 06:25:35.900 Welcome back everyone to the 06:25:35.900 --> 06:25:39.900 2026 Pokemon World Championships. 06:25:39.900 --> 06:25:41.900 Here in beautiful San Francisco, 06:25:41.900 --> 06:25:42.900 California. 06:25:42.900 --> 06:25:45.900 My name is Evan Lat and I am here 06:25:45.900 --> 06:25:47.900 for the bottom half of our top 06:25:47.900 --> 06:25:49.900 eight with my good friend Scott 06:25:49.900 --> 06:25:50.900 Glauza. 06:25:50.900 --> 06:25:51.900 Scott, we have already identified 06:25:51.900 --> 06:25:53.900 who our first two semi-finalists 06:25:53.900 --> 06:25:55.900 are going to be. 06:25:55.900 --> 06:25:56.900 Now it's time to find out who 06:25:56.900 --> 06:25:57.900 the next ones are. 06:25:57.900 --> 06:26:03.220 very excited for yet another fantastic match and excited to see which teams make it to I think that this being the 06:26:03.460 --> 06:26:06.260 first Pokemon champion world championships 06:26:06.260 --> 06:26:08.420 I think both the humans and the Pokemon kind of 06:26:08.740 --> 06:26:10.380 Try to make it in for themselves, right? 06:26:10.380 --> 06:26:14.260 I think it'll be pretty interesting kind of maybe impact things as they move forward 06:26:14.260 --> 06:26:19.500 And I think both these teams are kind of interesting in different ways as it kind of like pertains to being represented 06:26:19.500 --> 06:26:26.180 So this meta game absolutely you can see our top eight competitors here are Takuma Yamazaki and Stefano Greppy 06:26:26.180 --> 06:26:30.020 Both of these players are running some very interesting teams. 06:26:30.020 --> 06:26:34.020 Takuma, of course, is running basically the Big Six team, 06:26:34.020 --> 06:26:38.460 but has replaced the Charizard with Dragonite instead. 06:26:38.460 --> 06:26:41.180 While Stefano is running a variant of the same team 06:26:41.180 --> 06:26:43.820 that we saw at the North American International Championship, 06:26:43.820 --> 06:26:46.020 the same six Pokemon that Eric Rios brought 06:26:46.020 --> 06:26:47.820 to become a finalist at that tournament. 06:26:47.820 --> 06:26:49.820 That team was very popular for a while afterwards, 06:26:49.820 --> 06:26:51.380 still really strong. 06:26:51.380 --> 06:26:55.420 Tens of struggle with a couple variants of the Charizard team, 06:26:55.420 --> 06:26:59.560 But doesn't have to worry about it here. We get that dragonite instead and I'm pretty excited to see 06:26:59.560 --> 06:27:02.320 We've had a ton of the mega dragonite variants of this team on stream 06:27:02.320 --> 06:27:04.780 And I think it probably comes to a surprise of some players 06:27:04.780 --> 06:27:06.820 I think a lot of trainers kind of want to take him to seriously 06:27:06.820 --> 06:27:08.860 I know when I was asking around trying to prep this room 06:27:08.860 --> 06:27:12.420 It's a K you know like mega dragonite is this the thing that we're gonna see is the thing that we're not gonna see 06:27:12.420 --> 06:27:14.420 I mostly get a lot of not 06:27:14.700 --> 06:27:15.940 Worry about that 06:27:15.940 --> 06:27:19.300 But a joke said not here is a game away from the semi-finals 06:27:19.300 --> 06:27:24.660 Yeah top eight actually two mega dragonite here in the top eight at this bottom half of the top eight bracket here 06:27:24.660 --> 06:27:32.540 It's it is a really interesting adaptation because you see a lot of players who are dealing with the Charizard mode of the big 06:27:32.740 --> 06:27:35.660 16 by just putting rock slide on something 06:27:35.660 --> 06:27:42.220 You know put it using guard chop as a way to check it using like in rock as we've already seen at the top half of the bracket 06:27:42.620 --> 06:27:47.120 That works really well against Charizard that is extremely weak to rock typing 06:27:47.300 --> 06:27:52.240 Let's go against dragonite, especially with multi-scale active. Yeah, like it does a lot of the same stuff 06:27:52.240 --> 06:27:56.580 You still get like the heat wave if you need it, kind of similar defensive profile, though again, you know 06:27:56.900 --> 06:28:00.780 Enough not weak to the same thing, but it messes up a lot of people's counter play 06:28:00.780 --> 06:28:04.060 And I think there's a lot of other fun stuff on this variant of the team as well 06:28:04.220 --> 06:28:08.940 To me the most interesting thing is that faint on snazler, which opens up a lot of stuff on other Pokemon 06:28:09.380 --> 06:28:14.940 Typically, Steve, they're not going to make room for this, of course, you're giving a protect forward or like put guard like you'd see on the setup teams 06:28:14.940 --> 06:28:17.980 But I think for this team, I'm particularly interested because of all the priority 06:28:17.980 --> 06:28:22.140 priority, also the choice scarf on Garchop and even kind of with both last 06:28:22.140 --> 06:28:24.980 respect and light of ruin on flight. You get a lot of situations where one slot 06:28:24.980 --> 06:28:28.220 needs to protect because they can't survive and fate takes that away or you 06:28:28.220 --> 06:28:30.980 almost guarantee you're going to get a knockout unless you miss an attack or 06:28:30.980 --> 06:28:33.980 something because you're threatening so much unavoidable power into a slot. I 06:28:33.980 --> 06:28:37.060 think it's really cool that the team like this one let you play kind of like 06:28:37.060 --> 06:28:40.580 with more safe aggression other teams where in this read heavy format you can 06:28:40.580 --> 06:28:44.180 kind of get some guarantees that other teams can't get. Yeah it's a fascinating 06:28:44.180 --> 06:28:49.880 attack that hits through, protect, and breaks protect for a Pokemon trying to avoid damage 06:28:49.880 --> 06:28:51.780 from another attack on the field. 06:28:51.780 --> 06:28:56.880 And it is a very strong attack that most Pokemon that get access to it just don't have room 06:28:56.880 --> 06:28:57.880 for. 06:28:57.880 --> 06:29:01.180 They need every other attack that's available for them. 06:29:01.180 --> 06:29:06.500 Sneasler is one of the Pokemon that does sometimes have that 4 slot as rotating. 06:29:06.500 --> 06:29:10.260 See coaching, rock slide, protect, quick guard, and now faint as well. 06:29:10.260 --> 06:29:12.020 So it makes a lot of sense that we'll be seeing that, 06:29:12.020 --> 06:29:14.420 but it could run into some problems here 06:29:14.420 --> 06:29:17.780 because of that for Rigorath over here on Stefanos, do you? 06:29:17.780 --> 06:29:19.660 Yeah, and that quite as fun in this match as you normally be. 06:29:19.660 --> 06:29:21.740 I think it's going to create some really great mind games 06:29:21.740 --> 06:29:22.940 between the two players, 06:29:22.940 --> 06:29:24.820 that Armortale going to block faint, 06:29:24.820 --> 06:29:25.940 which not only stops the damage, 06:29:25.940 --> 06:29:28.100 but of course also the protect to penetration. 06:29:28.100 --> 06:29:28.940 And I think because of that, 06:29:28.940 --> 06:29:30.900 both sides kind of going to have to guess a little bit more 06:29:30.900 --> 06:29:32.260 where they'll lose that safety. 06:29:32.260 --> 06:29:34.060 Like, hey, you know, an open team share, 06:29:34.060 --> 06:29:35.620 I think it's fun that they both know 06:29:35.620 --> 06:29:37.020 that each other has this thing 06:29:37.020 --> 06:29:38.500 where they attempt Sneezers in the field, 06:29:38.500 --> 06:29:40.920 You have to be afraid, well, is it safe to protect here 06:29:40.920 --> 06:29:42.960 if I don't want to switch my frig wrap in? 06:29:42.960 --> 06:29:44.240 But then on the other side, it feels like, well, 06:29:44.240 --> 06:29:47.440 is it safe to fin here when frig wrap potentially could come in? 06:29:47.440 --> 06:29:49.000 I think it makes it a lot of fun. 06:29:49.000 --> 06:29:51.720 I've seen a lot of very difficult, complicated turns 06:29:51.720 --> 06:29:53.000 with these trainers over the course of the weekend. 06:29:53.000 --> 06:29:54.800 I think the interaction between these two Pokemon 06:29:54.800 --> 06:29:56.520 are going to keep them both guessing 06:29:56.520 --> 06:29:57.680 throughout the course of this match. 06:29:57.680 --> 06:30:01.160 And you also have to shout out on this version of Stefano's team, 06:30:01.160 --> 06:30:05.160 the Rock Tomb on Garchomp, giving Stefano access 06:30:05.160 --> 06:30:07.520 to single target rock type damage 06:30:07.520 --> 06:30:10.560 also lowers the speed of the Pokemon impacted. 06:30:10.560 --> 06:30:13.840 So you usually tend to use Rock Tomb when you need that extra oomph 06:30:13.840 --> 06:30:18.640 because you don't want the reduction in damage from the spread type of rock slide. 06:30:19.280 --> 06:30:22.640 Rock Tomb, of course, may be a little bit more useful here with the Dragonite, 06:30:22.640 --> 06:30:24.400 not trying to get those Kaos like that. 06:30:24.400 --> 06:30:26.160 Yeah, I think professionally fashion is not your thing. 06:30:26.160 --> 06:30:28.320 You know, kind of like pairs well with the Frigaraff, 06:30:28.320 --> 06:30:29.280 or you can lower something speed, 06:30:29.280 --> 06:30:30.960 but you can't use priority to get over it, 06:30:30.960 --> 06:30:34.400 which is the solution that you'd really want to use for as a point there. 06:30:34.400 --> 06:30:36.400 So a pretty fun combination of tricks. 06:30:36.400 --> 06:30:38.400 I forgot, would you see that Sneasler in turn one? 06:30:38.400 --> 06:30:40.880 Though, probably not going to need to faint for gear 06:30:40.880 --> 06:30:44.480 and then the Aerodactyl and Sylveon facing down. 06:30:44.480 --> 06:30:47.800 Yeah, so Tailwind mode is what's being threatened by Stefano 06:30:47.800 --> 06:30:50.720 right now, leading with Aerodactyl and Sylveon. 06:30:50.720 --> 06:30:53.600 Does have access to the Mega Stone on Aerodactyl, 06:30:53.600 --> 06:30:55.680 so can go ahead and boost the power. 06:30:55.680 --> 06:30:59.080 Also has access to Ice Thing to threaten that Gartomp 06:30:59.080 --> 06:31:00.000 immediately. 06:31:00.000 --> 06:31:02.240 However, Gartomp does have the Choice Scarf here, 06:31:02.240 --> 06:31:03.960 so it will be able to outsteep. 06:31:03.960 --> 06:31:06.160 Yeah, then it wins the card, so we'll go quickly. 06:31:06.160 --> 06:31:10.240 Pretty fun the other direction as well where hey, you know if you focus too much on the aridactyl 06:31:10.240 --> 06:31:14.400 You do have to worry about Sylveon, but they got going to stop a potential devastating hyper voice here 06:31:14.400 --> 06:31:20.400 No hyper voice coming out from the Sylveon, but a rock slide will connect onto both aridactyl and Sylveon 06:31:20.400 --> 06:31:23.760 No mega evolution, but a flinch on aridactyl 06:31:23.760 --> 06:31:27.360 The rock slides are a common for you Stefano 06:31:27.360 --> 06:31:33.680 If you don't have access to priority you are at risk of flinching every turn. That is devastating turn one 06:31:33.680 --> 06:31:37.640 Eric Dactyl is a pretty decisive Pokemon of the North America international 06:31:37.640 --> 06:31:41.960 championships. Kind of being the flincher, but here it has become the flinchy now in 06:31:41.960 --> 06:31:45.280 range of being knocked out from another rock slide. And Sylvia is in danger now from the 06:31:45.280 --> 06:31:49.400 Spleasler. So, and Stefano immediately, way on the back, boy, could have to make some 06:31:49.400 --> 06:31:55.120 difficult pivots here. And it's a tough spot. Yeah, talking about absolutely in the driver's 06:31:55.120 --> 06:32:00.320 seat here, Stefano has to figure out a way to claw his way back into this game. Now, 06:32:00.320 --> 06:32:05.360 Because the guard chop is choice scarf, Stefano knows that he can switch in his own guard 06:32:05.360 --> 06:32:08.800 chop here safely to tank this rock slide. 06:32:08.800 --> 06:32:13.680 The protect comes out from the Sylveon making sure it does not take any damage this time 06:32:13.680 --> 06:32:18.280 and guard chop only takes a little bit of chip damage from that rock slide while the 06:32:18.280 --> 06:32:20.440 direclaw will whip into the protect. 06:32:20.440 --> 06:32:24.880 A great defensive switch there, able to stabilize that turn but probably not quite out of the 06:32:24.880 --> 06:32:25.880 water yet. 06:32:25.880 --> 06:32:29.360 Still Sylveon kind of being pinned by the Sneasler so maybe having to make one more 06:32:29.360 --> 06:32:32.120 switch and I mean the complicated situation okay well what can I switch 06:32:32.120 --> 06:32:36.520 in they can potentially still take a rock slide and a dire claw into that slot 06:32:36.520 --> 06:32:39.680 of course the guard shot may be threatening a dragon claw to his 06:32:39.680 --> 06:32:42.600 opposite number there with the choice scarfed guard shot on a little switch 06:32:42.600 --> 06:32:46.840 so on the side or I just wish I miss which attacks somewhat likely to switch 06:32:46.840 --> 06:32:49.920 Pokemon if it doesn't want to risk taking that dragon ball in return so 06:32:49.920 --> 06:32:53.520 interesting options available for both trainers one thing to keep in mind too is 06:32:53.520 --> 06:32:55.960 that air deck will doesn't have the ability to protect or wide guard it's a 06:32:55.960 --> 06:32:58.440 I dropped a step there with three attacks and it didn't feel right. 06:32:58.440 --> 06:33:03.960 Well, there is Sylveon switching out for that Aerodactyl back out on the field. 06:33:03.960 --> 06:33:08.760 So, Stefano, hoping that the pressure from Garchomp is enough, but no. 06:33:08.760 --> 06:33:14.840 Just continuing to fire off Rock Slide after Rock Slide, and Aerodactyl will go down. 06:33:14.840 --> 06:33:19.400 Connects onto both Pokemon, the Aerodactyl, and the Garchomp here, and talk them up. 06:33:19.400 --> 06:33:23.560 There's always a shot that you can get a flinch with this Choice Scarf Garchomp, 06:33:23.560 --> 06:33:27.860 Plus the Direclaw connects and gets the paralysis even worse. 06:33:27.860 --> 06:33:34.160 Now there's even less chance that Garchomp is going to be able to break through the splint and the paralysis, but it does. 06:33:34.160 --> 06:33:42.160 Spiesler goes down because the rough skin broke the focus at, and now Garchomp is finally taking some damage here, just above 50%. 06:33:42.160 --> 06:33:49.160 That's a big knockout for Stefano there, and I think the game was in danger of getting away from him, but still a pretty impactful situation there. 06:33:49.160 --> 06:33:52.280 Not gonna spew so straight, you want to see that and you can be opposing Garchek. 06:33:52.280 --> 06:33:57.400 But I think one thing to keep in mind there, the Nerdactyl's holding Aerodactylite, but you chose not to Mega Evolve, right? 06:33:57.400 --> 06:34:01.160 Not really any reason to do that unless there is a Pokemon in the back that... 06:34:01.160 --> 06:34:05.160 Ah, Pratt wants to use that Mega Student's Ted, which is some critical information from Takama, right? 06:34:05.160 --> 06:34:10.360 Where you can basically be assured that Charizard is in the back, so preserving that Garchek and that Rockslight is big, 06:34:10.360 --> 06:34:14.280 but also really limits the f***ing actions, right? Like, well, either I can switch in a Charizard, 06:34:14.280 --> 06:34:17.560 where I already know my opponent has Choice Rockslight on the field, 06:34:17.560 --> 06:34:20.200 Well, I can bring in Sylvion, which is a little bit predictable here, 06:34:20.200 --> 06:34:23.640 and probably something my opponent's going to try to check with his replacement Pokemon, 06:34:23.640 --> 06:34:24.920 and here he is, it's Fluet. 06:34:24.920 --> 06:34:29.240 And this is kind of a not great replacement Pokemon here, though. 06:34:29.240 --> 06:34:34.360 Fluet does not want to mega evolve here, because that fairy aura could just continue to boost 06:34:34.360 --> 06:34:37.560 Sylvion's quick attack into that Garchomp. 06:34:37.560 --> 06:34:39.960 Yeah, as long as it doesn't knock you out, you're probably good. 06:34:39.960 --> 06:34:40.840 You can't assume it's okay. 06:34:40.840 --> 06:34:45.560 We've got to deal with a paralyzed Garchomp, Sylvion itself, and Charizard. 06:34:45.560 --> 06:34:51.120 And so as long as you can survive a single quick attack and then finish it off with like maybe a rock slide and dazzling beam or something 06:34:51.120 --> 06:34:52.240 You're probably good 06:34:52.240 --> 06:34:54.120 However, yeah, that's a way to throw the games ago 06:34:54.120 --> 06:34:57.640 You get you boost quick attack and you go like print or something and things certainly 06:34:58.040 --> 06:35:00.080 Look very bad from a very good position 06:35:00.080 --> 06:35:03.560 But this is a huge leap we're talking about looking very close to kind of closing out this first one 06:35:03.560 --> 06:35:08.920 Well, here comes the mega evolution from the flow at so we'll be able to boost its own stats 06:35:08.920 --> 06:35:13.440 It also boosts the power of all fairy type attacks on the field 06:35:13.440 --> 06:35:20.440 Now mega flowette, the fairy aura is radiating and Sylveon is just going to choose to protect for this turn. 06:35:20.440 --> 06:35:24.440 Not trying to risk anything as Garchomp goes for another rock slide. 06:35:24.440 --> 06:35:28.440 Of course, it cannot choose any other attacks until it switches out. 06:35:28.440 --> 06:35:31.440 It's just going to deal a little bit of damage to the Garchomp. 06:35:31.440 --> 06:35:34.440 But of course, there's the clinch chance, there's the paralysis chance, 06:35:34.440 --> 06:35:38.440 but even more, there is the faint chance to this deathline. 06:35:38.440 --> 06:35:44.440 100% faint chance there as Garchomp goes down. 06:35:44.440 --> 06:35:46.440 And not too much, that's what the finals could do there. 06:35:46.440 --> 06:35:47.440 I wouldn't have to bring that final post. 06:35:47.440 --> 06:35:48.440 And to give it his charge, 06:35:48.440 --> 06:35:51.440 I'd definitely just bank in either a critical quick attack 06:35:51.440 --> 06:35:53.440 or a rock slide missed to stay in this game. 06:35:53.440 --> 06:35:56.440 It's been a very strong early game to talk about here. 06:35:56.440 --> 06:35:58.440 And it is the Charizard for Stefano, 06:35:58.440 --> 06:36:02.440 the final Pokemon that he has available in game one here. 06:36:02.440 --> 06:36:06.440 Of course, immediately threatened by the choice scarf Garchomp. 06:36:06.440 --> 06:36:13.440 Most Charizard can end up surviving a single rock slide from a choice scarf garchomp, especially, 06:36:13.440 --> 06:36:18.440 but needs a lot more, would love to have full health after the rock slide. 06:36:18.440 --> 06:36:21.440 Yeah, because the policy is to survive both a rock slide and a dazzling thing, 06:36:21.440 --> 06:36:23.440 because you still have to knock these Pokemon out. 06:36:23.440 --> 06:36:26.440 Like, you know, Floette's especially bulky enough, you wouldn't think a single attack would knock it out, 06:36:26.440 --> 06:36:29.440 especially because you still have to deal with Star Chop as well, you know. 06:36:29.440 --> 06:36:32.440 I mean, it's like the world's biggest heatwave, maybe, to get through that one. 06:36:32.440 --> 06:36:35.440 So, perhaps a rock slide miss most of all what you need here. 06:36:35.440 --> 06:36:36.440 here. 06:36:36.440 --> 06:36:38.880 Charles are going to protect plus you at least avoid that rock slide for now. 06:36:38.880 --> 06:36:43.280 Yeah, at least hope that it gets to avoid a rock slide will not have to even try to 06:36:43.280 --> 06:36:46.720 hope for it to avoid there as it will connect on to Sylveon. 06:36:46.720 --> 06:36:51.200 There was no quick attack that came out, so Sylveon is trying to survive this dazzling 06:36:51.200 --> 06:36:56.120 gleam and fire off a hyper voice to pick up the KO, dazzling gleam connects and that 06:36:56.120 --> 06:37:03.120 is plenty of damage to knock out the Sylveon and now all Stefano can hope for is to miss 06:37:03.120 --> 06:37:06.840 on the Rockslight to at least stay in the game a little bit. 06:37:06.840 --> 06:37:09.160 So a lot to deal with too, so an unrevealed Pokemon 06:37:09.160 --> 06:37:11.000 on Takumi-Sata's feel as well. 06:37:11.000 --> 06:37:12.800 Like it's relatively good chance that's 06:37:12.800 --> 06:37:14.840 Vasculation, which you can get real problem here as well. 06:37:14.840 --> 06:37:16.200 But hey, Chazza's not giving up. 06:37:16.200 --> 06:37:17.520 It's going to do everything he's getting here. 06:37:17.520 --> 06:37:19.160 It's going to try to dodge a Rockslight, 06:37:19.160 --> 06:37:20.920 pick up some big damage on these Pokemon, 06:37:20.920 --> 06:37:22.560 and hope that that final Pokemon is something 06:37:22.560 --> 06:37:23.280 we can handle. 06:37:23.280 --> 06:37:26.200 Yeah, this is the top eight of the world championships. 06:37:26.200 --> 06:37:29.400 If your odds are not zero, you're going to keep trying. 06:37:29.400 --> 06:37:32.360 Of course, with the Rockslight connecting with no spread, 06:37:32.360 --> 06:37:35.200 the targets available, Tarzard will go down 06:37:35.200 --> 06:37:38.880 and Takuma Yamazaki will take game one. 06:37:38.880 --> 06:37:41.880 Now, that looks very strong for Takuma 06:37:41.880 --> 06:37:44.480 because of that first turn Flint 06:37:44.480 --> 06:37:47.560 really preventing Stefano from getting anything going. 06:37:47.560 --> 06:37:48.920 Yeah, I mean, it really couldn't have gone better 06:37:48.920 --> 06:37:49.760 for Takuma there, 06:37:49.760 --> 06:37:51.200 because there's two critical instances in the block, right? 06:37:51.200 --> 06:37:52.600 You both get that Flintcha turn one, 06:37:52.600 --> 06:37:54.800 which I bet a lot of me have made that game unplayable. 06:37:54.800 --> 06:37:56.960 The Direclaw for Alice is kind of big too, 06:37:56.960 --> 06:37:59.320 not just because it kind of finished the game off, 06:37:59.320 --> 06:38:01.120 but also avoid losing some information 06:38:01.120 --> 06:38:03.920 You might have wanted to know where Garchoppe with hat with its speed reduced 06:38:04.240 --> 06:38:09.520 Definitely going to be slower than for instance the opposing mega flow out where you don't learn anything about either of your training 06:38:09.520 --> 06:38:11.880 Which you know you can probably make an assumption there 06:38:11.880 --> 06:38:14.840 Which now you're expecting this book and one to be trained especially at this point the tournament 06:38:14.840 --> 06:38:18.120 You know, maybe get some vodka review from previous matches from your opponent 06:38:18.120 --> 06:38:24.080 But never really in that one because of the RNG and that makes the second game very interesting to prepare for right? 06:38:24.080 --> 06:38:26.120 It's like hey, you know, I think I played the right line 06:38:26.120 --> 06:38:28.800 I just need to get luckier or do you really mix things up? 06:38:28.800 --> 06:38:31.800 like hey you know I don't want to risk getting eliminated in a situation like 06:38:31.800 --> 06:38:35.400 that one where I didn't have too much control over my own fate. Yeah no easy 06:38:35.400 --> 06:38:38.360 ways to deal with this and you know it's kind of the sword that both sides are 06:38:38.360 --> 06:38:40.560 choosing to live and die by right you know it's an aridactyl versus the 06:38:40.560 --> 06:38:43.240 choice scarf guard job. You're not locking these Pokemon in because you're 06:38:43.240 --> 06:38:47.800 afraid to click rocks on. Yeah absolutely that is actually the primary reason you 06:38:47.800 --> 06:38:51.800 would choose to use those Pokemon especially the aridactyl over a 06:38:51.800 --> 06:38:57.160 whimsical that gives you much more regular access to the tailwind and you 06:38:57.160 --> 06:39:04.020 There is an argument to be made for that there. It's only 27% of the time that the game goes the way that it went in game 06:39:04.020 --> 06:39:05.440 One absolutely 06:39:05.440 --> 06:39:08.280 You know, I think there's also other deviations you could make too certainly 06:39:08.280 --> 06:39:10.160 You know you can mix it makes up your Pokemon a little bit more 06:39:10.320 --> 06:39:16.120 You know the double mega approach is like super great there where maybe you consider leaving one of the two of them home 06:39:16.120 --> 06:39:19.500 And I think also unfortunate for the final there. I think I think you can guess 06:39:20.120 --> 06:39:23.480 Relatively accurately basket legion with the Pokemon we never saw like 06:39:23.480 --> 06:39:28.680 I love you have gotten that information confirmed just to get some more information about how Takuma is approaching this match out there 06:39:28.680 --> 06:39:31.560 Still a bit different playing the Dragonite version of this team than the Charizard 06:39:31.560 --> 06:39:36.680 I think just for comfort in game planning with these games or your Stefano can no longer afford to drop a single game 06:39:36.800 --> 06:39:40.080 Just to kind of figure out how your opponent viewing things not to get surprised by it 06:39:40.440 --> 06:39:47.600 Okay, well slight adjustment here from Stefano bringing the King Gambit alongside of the Aerodactyl 06:39:47.600 --> 06:39:51.920 All is the Sneasler and the Garchomp once again for Takuma 06:39:51.920 --> 06:39:58.920 So still the option for Garchomp to just lock into Choice Scarf Rock slide and see if you get that 27% again. 06:39:58.920 --> 06:40:01.920 Yeah, I mean, why not, right? I mean, so, uh, decisive it could be last time. 06:40:01.920 --> 06:40:05.920 Uh, series are kind of making this even more complicated too, where, uh, now that he's Pokemon, 06:40:05.920 --> 06:40:08.920 really want to be hit with a close combat and you're threatening takeout as well. 06:40:08.920 --> 06:40:12.920 Um, I think, you know, attempting not to takeout here, since you both have to worry with the photograph, 06:40:12.920 --> 06:40:15.920 but also in close combat, potentially like really good at either of these Pokemon. 06:40:15.920 --> 06:40:19.920 So, uh, not like a huge incentive to try to make that read. 06:40:19.920 --> 06:40:26.920 Yeah, absolutely. And have to wonder if there is going to be a mega evolution from aridactyl this time around. 06:40:26.920 --> 06:40:32.920 Last time, Stefano wanted to bring both of his Megazin. Here is another major adjustment. 06:40:32.920 --> 06:40:39.920 The trick room mode and the priority blocking mode of Rigorab. Here is the mega evolution immediately. 06:40:39.920 --> 06:40:45.920 This will allow this mega aridactyl, potentially to be able to pick up a KO onto the Sneasler. 06:40:45.920 --> 06:40:52.720 It has to survive. This rock slide has to not flinch here. However, that is a connection and another 06:40:53.640 --> 06:40:58.480 2 for 2 on turn one followed up with the close combat and 06:40:58.960 --> 06:41:00.960 disaster strikes for Stefano. 06:41:01.480 --> 06:41:03.960 Aerodactyl goes down immediately. 06:41:03.960 --> 06:41:08.960 It's been absolutely brutal for Stefano, so once again, just doesn't get to execute his game plan. 06:41:08.960 --> 06:41:12.520 And yeah, that flicker-lap switch is completely whipping. There doesn't go for the fake. 06:41:12.520 --> 06:41:17.440 Okay, the close combat just looks so juicy there with those two Pokemon out. I just don't think the bait was strong enough 06:41:17.860 --> 06:41:19.800 Also worth seeing that you know that mega evolution 06:41:19.800 --> 06:41:23.100 You think it was Charizard that's probably the one that was replaced with Prygrap here 06:41:23.100 --> 06:41:26.740 And it's going to be really difficult for Stefan to get back in this one 06:41:26.740 --> 06:41:31.840 You know the mega evolution could have created some variants there or protected him from some variants like all at least 06:41:31.840 --> 06:41:34.120 You would need more than two rocks slides to pick up the back out 06:41:34.120 --> 06:41:38.040 But you know sneeze are taking care of that and we see Sylvia entering the battle 06:41:38.040 --> 06:41:43.680 Yes, it does confirm the Pokemon that Defano is selected at this time and boy, this Sylvian's got a lot of work to do. 06:41:43.680 --> 06:41:47.900 I guess at this point you're probably hoping that maybe Sylvian goes for attack, you successfully get a trick from him up. 06:41:48.120 --> 06:41:53.080 At least don't flinch this time and then maybe Sylvian and Trick Room could sweep through the mostly quicker Pokemon. 06:41:53.080 --> 06:41:58.240 Yeah, at this point you are really hoping that Virigoraph can get the trick room down. 06:41:58.560 --> 06:42:05.720 You need to be able to survive close combat and rock slide, which Virigoraph should be able to do quite easily with that citrus fairy. 06:42:05.720 --> 06:42:12.460 But knowing that you then also have to survive a rock slide and a dire claw which couldn't put you to sleep or paralyze again 06:42:12.460 --> 06:42:21.460 However, it looks like talk about is not opting into that instead switching garchomp out for the king gambit to prepare himself for this trick room 06:42:21.700 --> 06:42:29.020 Sylveon will go for the protect sneeze are keeping Stefano honest there with the dire claw making sure that Stefano is not able to 06:42:29.020 --> 06:42:33.140 Sneak something in here as trick room will go up. I mean Stefano gets the trick room up 06:42:33.140 --> 06:42:34.540 I think that's the right thing to do here. 06:42:34.540 --> 06:42:40.640 However, one of the reasons why we don't tend to see a lot of trick room in these early formats of Pokemon champions is exactly what you just saw. 06:42:40.640 --> 06:42:43.240 Oh, it's the very obvious, very telegraphed trick room. 06:42:43.240 --> 06:42:44.940 I'm going to pin the other Pokemon down. 06:42:44.940 --> 06:42:46.540 I'm going to bring in King Gambit. 06:42:46.540 --> 06:42:49.840 A Pokemon that, while he isn't like a trick room sweeper in a traditional sense, 06:42:49.840 --> 06:42:52.540 because he's like probably the single best Pokemon in this regulation, 06:42:52.540 --> 06:42:55.640 he is very slow and very good against most Pokemon trick room teams. 06:42:55.640 --> 06:42:58.540 He is super effective because either of his Pokemon, he's going after Phyrogram first. 06:42:58.540 --> 06:42:59.860 but does not get it. 06:42:59.860 --> 06:43:03.740 Phyrograp is able to hang on with that citrus berry healing 06:43:03.740 --> 06:43:06.460 right back up to 38%. 06:43:06.460 --> 06:43:09.060 Phyrograp is able to fire off the psychic into Sneasler, 06:43:09.060 --> 06:43:11.260 which activates the focus sash. 06:43:11.260 --> 06:43:14.140 So Sneasler now is able to stick around. 06:43:14.140 --> 06:43:16.220 Stefano will need to use Hyper Voice 06:43:16.220 --> 06:43:18.140 to pick up the KO onto that Sneasler, 06:43:18.140 --> 06:43:20.620 but instead opting for the Hyper Beam. 06:43:20.620 --> 06:43:22.860 This is headed straight for King Gambit. 06:43:22.860 --> 06:43:25.260 It connects, and that is not enough. 06:43:25.260 --> 06:43:28.140 King Gambit has been trained to survive a Hyper Beam 06:43:28.140 --> 06:43:33.580 from that Sylvion, which means a Sneasler gets to pick up the KO and return with Direclaw. 06:43:33.580 --> 06:43:35.900 There is nothing Stefano could do there. 06:43:35.900 --> 06:43:38.300 Oh, that's a huge trade. 06:43:38.300 --> 06:43:40.700 Hyper beams kind of counter to that counter, right? 06:43:40.700 --> 06:43:44.780 Like, oh, you know, there's the top Pokemon, so I'll just pay what it takes to get rid of it, 06:43:44.780 --> 06:43:46.460 but not quite enough damage there. 06:43:46.460 --> 06:43:48.780 And you need a full extra from Thunderbolt or something. 06:43:48.780 --> 06:43:52.940 With that playing out, you'll always be king Gamma to still really scary. 06:43:52.940 --> 06:43:54.780 Also, a lot of priority talks in this team, right? 06:43:54.780 --> 06:44:00.880 And even if perhaps you're able to get little advantage on Stefano's side for what it means in his threat room losing the Armortale could be fake. 06:44:00.880 --> 06:44:05.340 But if his own King Gambit is that final Pokemon and hey, you know, at least you're still in a fairly good position here. 06:44:05.340 --> 06:44:09.880 Maybe four-graph could target King Gambit. King Gambit could target Sneasler. At least you can even up the Pokemon score. 06:44:09.880 --> 06:44:16.100 Now a very interesting and tense moment here, especially not having gotten information from game one. 06:44:16.340 --> 06:44:20.380 We do not know how these King Gambit are going to match up under Trick Room. 06:44:20.380 --> 06:44:27.380 For us, their alignment is both adamant, so they're both showing the same information on their team sheet for each other. 06:44:27.380 --> 06:44:36.380 But as for Rigorap, wasn't able to survive that kowtow cleave, there is the shot that could hang on for a little bit longer if King Gambits decide to go after each other instead. 06:44:36.380 --> 06:44:40.380 Or someone can sneak in a sucker punch, or a Stepano jab. 06:44:40.380 --> 06:44:47.380 Instead, the King Gambit will be switching out for the Garchomp to avoid that sucker punch from Stefano. 06:44:47.380 --> 06:44:52.380 While Muriger will now finally clean up this measler with a second sidekick. 06:44:52.380 --> 06:44:58.380 So it's a big knockout as you get one, and the nice thing about Garchomp is that at least it's a little bit more predictable here where it can't protect, 06:44:58.380 --> 06:45:06.380 but it's still very healthy, and neither of these Pokemon have a super effective attack against it, so even a double up is going to be pretty close. 06:45:06.380 --> 06:45:08.720 You can't double up both Pokemon, right? 06:45:08.720 --> 06:45:11.220 I certainly guess that you need to double up King Gambit, I guess, 06:45:11.220 --> 06:45:13.220 but I don't think two attacks is good enough. 06:45:13.220 --> 06:45:16.220 You really need at least three to pick up both of these Pokemon, 06:45:16.220 --> 06:45:18.520 so at least one more attack going to go the other way. 06:45:18.520 --> 06:45:20.620 And there is still another Pokemon 06:45:20.620 --> 06:45:22.720 that is in the back for Takuma. 06:45:22.720 --> 06:45:27.420 We have only seen the Ciesler, the King Gambit, and the Garchomp. 06:45:27.420 --> 06:45:29.220 If there's going to be the Floette, 06:45:29.220 --> 06:45:31.280 there's only two turns left of Trick Room 06:45:31.280 --> 06:45:32.820 that Takuma has to stall out 06:45:32.820 --> 06:45:35.980 before this Grigoraph and King Gambit are sitting ducks. 06:45:35.980 --> 06:45:40.140 Yeah, it's like giving really close. I mean, I think it's a great show about this really get wet 06:45:40.140 --> 06:45:43.820 We see these sucker punch go down pick up King Gambit. So two to two Pokemon count now 06:45:43.820 --> 06:45:48.940 But now what? Yeah King Gambit goes down to that sucker punch the bono able to pick up that KO 06:45:49.420 --> 06:45:53.100 Perigrap now firing off a psychic into guard chomper that is 06:45:53.660 --> 06:45:59.100 Well with this special defense drop that comes close to a two hit KO if it can survive this earthquake 06:45:59.420 --> 06:46:03.420 Both King Gambit and perigrap will survive the earthquake here 06:46:03.420 --> 06:46:08.260 The choice card not having the full power of something like a life or been here 06:46:08.260 --> 06:46:11.740 It is the dragonite is the final choice for Takuma 06:46:11.740 --> 06:46:15.020 Oh, this is really interesting. So things are getting a little bit spare here 06:46:15.020 --> 06:46:17.420 You is psychic enough to pick up the star shop now 06:46:17.420 --> 06:46:20.260 But it's special defense is the Lord can be fairly close at that point 06:46:20.260 --> 06:46:24.100 Well, he's got a two against one but dragonites not going to be one shot from this position for sure 06:46:24.100 --> 06:46:28.780 That's going to pick up a Pokemon immediately here and then get the damage from the trick or mix firing 06:46:28.780 --> 06:46:32.540 Also, a heatwave maybe puts up both Pokemon if you're Dragonite and hit both, but do your 06:46:32.540 --> 06:46:33.540 wrist keep wave missing? 06:46:33.540 --> 06:46:38.340 You do have to hit both of them if you are going to go for that option. 06:46:38.340 --> 06:46:41.740 There is the mega evolution coming out from Dragonite. 06:46:41.740 --> 06:46:44.180 Mega Dragonite now on the field. 06:46:44.180 --> 06:46:47.420 One turn potentially away from making it into the semi-finals. 06:46:47.420 --> 06:46:48.900 The psychic is not enough. 06:46:48.900 --> 06:46:51.540 Garchomp hangs on with 10% of its health. 06:46:51.540 --> 06:46:55.420 Well, King Gambit targets down the Dragonite hoping for the psychic to be enough. 06:46:55.420 --> 06:47:01.500 It's a flinch on the Dragonite, but Earthquake from Garchomp is enough to clean up both of 06:47:01.500 --> 06:47:07.260 Stefano's final remaining Pokemon, and Takuma Yamazaki is headed to our semi-finals. 06:47:07.260 --> 06:47:10.940 Yeah, it's just that clean right there where there's not much that more Stefano could do. 06:47:10.940 --> 06:47:12.220 I think he played a really nice set. 06:47:12.220 --> 06:47:16.780 You get the right things to try to battle back there, but Erdactyl just never got to play the game, right? 06:47:16.780 --> 06:47:21.020 When you get flinched at the beginning of each game, you're trying to use a tailwind based strategy, 06:47:21.020 --> 06:47:24.940 or even a rock slide based strategy, the second game where maybe Erdactyl is just going for it. 06:47:24.940 --> 06:47:27.520 trying to pick the guard jump up or something and then go to the trick 06:47:27.520 --> 06:47:30.980 remote anyway regardless and we never really get to find out because the 06:47:30.980 --> 06:47:33.540 bottom really never get to show us what he's doing tough way to lose the top 06:47:33.540 --> 06:47:36.860 eight set but congratulations to his opponent who played that exactly the 06:47:36.860 --> 06:47:40.780 way he should have. Yeah absolutely when you are faced with that turn one if you 06:47:40.780 --> 06:47:45.280 are talking about that is exactly what you do you go for the rock slide you 06:47:45.280 --> 06:47:49.540 try to get the flinches if you can because if you do you might just win 06:47:49.540 --> 06:47:54.820 the game immediately and credit where it's due. Stefano really clawed back in 06:47:54.820 --> 06:48:00.740 that game too. The trick room mode gave him so much more of an opportunity than the, you know, 06:48:00.740 --> 06:48:04.660 faster mode with the life form Garchomp and with the Charizard of game one. 06:48:04.660 --> 06:48:08.180 Yeah, I mean, you almost see it work. You see why this team is so powerful or having the option 06:48:08.180 --> 06:48:12.340 to go faster, the air dactyl on the tailwind or slow would be a progress Sylvia and modus are 06:48:12.340 --> 06:48:15.940 powerful. But you know, King Yambit is there to counter this. You know, the first Pokemon we 06:48:15.940 --> 06:48:19.780 know is going to be a Masters Division World Champion was on all of the remaining teams. And 06:48:19.780 --> 06:48:23.220 I think critically had to use Sylvia and all the early to finish things off. You know, the last 06:48:23.220 --> 06:48:27.360 two Pokemon on document side or both dragon type Pokemon you'd love to have had Sylvia 06:48:27.360 --> 06:48:33.180 and available for that but King Gambit forcing his opponent to give up that Sylvia on and 06:48:33.180 --> 06:48:35.980 that just kind of puts him in a situation where there just wasn't a way for the pieces 06:48:35.980 --> 06:48:36.980 to work. 06:48:36.980 --> 06:48:40.780 Yeah and you have to really credit the training on that King Gambit as well to survive the 06:48:40.780 --> 06:48:44.940 hyper beam that came out from the Sylvia on that is absolutely something that Sylvia 06:48:44.940 --> 06:48:49.740 on players have been using to defeat King Gambit in trick room like that it's supposed 06:48:49.740 --> 06:48:55.420 the counter the king gambit. It's an all-in strategy because you need to get the KO, otherwise 06:48:55.420 --> 06:48:59.500 you're literally a sitting down. Yeah, and of course you had KOed, right? I mean, there's 06:48:59.500 --> 06:49:03.020 some problems there. You can't attack the turn after using Hyper Beam, so somewhat likely 06:49:03.020 --> 06:49:06.220 you still have an extra in any way, and your trick room gets stalled out a little bit more, 06:49:06.220 --> 06:49:10.300 but because we certainly would have been better than what happened where even though I think 06:49:10.300 --> 06:49:14.060 Staphon did a nice job of getting us close to the hood. I mean, I just had a huge deficit to try 06:49:14.060 --> 06:49:18.140 to make up after the mega-evolve. Pokemon went down so easily. It's a tough break. You know, 06:49:18.140 --> 06:49:22.340 It's been a very rock slide centric format and hey, you know, I think that's kind of the job of these trainers, right? 06:49:22.340 --> 06:49:25.820 Hey, what's the best way to attack these regulations of these tournaments around you? 06:49:25.820 --> 06:49:29.620 A lot of moves get some sort of balance adjustment with Pokemon champions rock slide did not right 06:49:29.620 --> 06:49:32.560 It's the same move that we've known since the early days of video game championships 06:49:32.560 --> 06:49:35.180 It's been feared for years and years and we see why here, right? 06:49:35.180 --> 06:49:38.540 Where this is exactly rock slide rolls your way it can win you games 06:49:38.740 --> 06:49:41.180 All right. Well speaking of winning games 06:49:41.180 --> 06:49:47.300 It was Takuma who won our last game and is now a semi-finalist here at the world championships 06:49:47.300 --> 06:49:50.300 Let's hear what he has to say about that match. 06:49:53.300 --> 06:49:59.300 Thank you so much. Let's give it up one more time now into Top 4. It's Sakuma! 06:50:04.300 --> 06:50:10.300 Thank you. Congratulations. How do you feel going into that match? How do you feel now that you've won that match when you're in Top 4? 06:50:17.300 --> 06:50:24.340 I couldn't believe it, even with the current situation, 06:50:24.340 --> 06:50:32.540 but I'm really happy to be able to win the title for the second time this year. 06:50:32.540 --> 06:50:35.140 I already can't believe that I'm here, 06:50:35.140 --> 06:50:38.440 and even that game a lot of lucky things happened, 06:50:38.440 --> 06:50:40.600 so I'm really happy to be able to win that match. 06:50:40.600 --> 06:50:43.960 I want to talk about this team in the Mega Dragonite, 06:50:43.960 --> 06:50:46.140 because that was a really cool pick into the weekend. 06:50:46.140 --> 06:50:50.140 Why Mega Dragonite that you thought it would win the world champion, Japs? 06:50:50.140 --> 06:50:53.140 Why did you choose Mega Kaiju? 06:50:53.140 --> 06:50:59.140 Mega Kaiju is a team that is strong in many ways. 06:50:59.140 --> 06:51:07.140 I used it as a team member and as a team member. 06:51:07.140 --> 06:51:10.140 That's why I chose it. 06:51:10.140 --> 06:51:16.660 So I think so mega dragonite is very strong against mega charizard, which is very popular in the meta 06:51:16.660 --> 06:51:20.780 And I came up with the idea of working with my friend. So I copied his 06:51:21.940 --> 06:51:26.460 Idea and it managed to get me here in great choice coming into the event 06:51:26.740 --> 06:51:31.380 Now you've made it to top four. How do you feel going into this top four match? 06:51:31.380 --> 06:51:34.620 Do you feel confident about potentially being in the finals? 06:51:40.140 --> 06:51:45.140 I'm happy to be able to fight in a game like this. 06:51:45.140 --> 06:51:53.140 I want to fight in order to be able to fight in the next game. 06:51:53.140 --> 06:51:56.140 It's already in order to be able to play these matches at this level. 06:51:56.140 --> 06:52:02.140 So I want to keep on winning this, the next one, and one more possible, and keep on doing my best. 06:52:02.140 --> 06:52:04.140 Good luck, certainly, because it's been a treat. 06:52:04.140 --> 06:52:09.140 Before I let you go and prepare, do you have any final words or shout-outs to those supporting out in the crowd? 06:52:09.140 --> 06:52:12.140 What message do you have for the people who are cheering for you? 06:52:12.140 --> 06:52:25.140 Well, I've never been able to overcome this alone, so I'd like to thank the people who have been with me. 06:52:25.140 --> 06:52:35.140 I definitely would have made it without everyone's help, so I really appreciate the people who came up with ideas with me, helped me out, and big thank you to everyone. 06:52:35.140 --> 06:52:39.380 Congratulations once again, best of luck in your next match. 06:52:39.380 --> 06:52:42.860 Wonderful time, finding three of our four trainers 06:52:42.860 --> 06:52:44.260 making their way to top four. 06:52:44.260 --> 06:52:47.180 Time to send it back over to our analysts as we gear up 06:52:47.180 --> 06:52:48.940 for our final top eight match. 06:52:51.100 --> 06:52:54.100 It's certainly a community that brings us all together 06:52:54.100 --> 06:52:56.860 and allows us to have these deep, deep runs. 06:52:56.860 --> 06:52:59.060 It's very rare that we see players 06:52:59.060 --> 06:53:00.820 that don't have a shout out for players 06:53:00.820 --> 06:53:02.820 that have helped them along the way. 06:53:02.820 --> 06:53:06.060 you've been able to show us 06:53:06.160 --> 06:53:06.960 here in top eight. 06:53:07.060 --> 06:53:08.460 Congratulations again on 06:53:08.560 --> 06:53:10.060 making it to top four. 06:53:10.160 --> 06:53:11.360 And we're going to keep 06:53:11.460 --> 06:53:12.360 things moving. 06:53:12.460 --> 06:53:14.400 We've got our last top eight 06:53:14.500 --> 06:53:16.800 that we're going to be moving 06:53:16.900 --> 06:53:19.100 into very, very soon. 06:53:19.200 --> 06:53:20.900 And it's so exciting to see 06:53:21.000 --> 06:53:22.700 how this bracket is shaping up. 06:53:22.800 --> 06:53:24.900 We've got three out of four of 06:53:25.000 --> 06:53:27.100 our top four players already. 06:53:27.200 --> 06:53:29.120 Yeah, and one more last top eight 06:53:29.220 --> 06:53:30.120 match to go on. 06:53:30.220 --> 06:53:31.320 This one's going to be just as 06:53:31.320 --> 06:53:36.920 as exciting as the rest of them because we've got Yuya who came into day two. The undefeated 06:53:36.920 --> 06:53:42.840 player managed to overcome some bumps along the road and got themselves into the top eight 06:53:42.840 --> 06:53:48.120 here going up against a formidable opponent who's been in hot streak this whole weekend. 06:53:48.120 --> 06:53:53.640 Exactly, we've been playing that for us last like an hot team extremely well going very difficult 06:53:53.640 --> 06:53:58.360 for Yuya but the other player that has got that mega dragonite as well so very exciting interaction 06:53:58.360 --> 06:54:02.680 between these two teams and how they dynamically go against each other? 06:54:02.680 --> 06:54:05.800 Yeah, Yu-Gi and Takuma, if they weren't working together, 06:54:05.800 --> 06:54:09.080 had a sort of similar inspiration for the teams that they're running. 06:54:09.080 --> 06:54:12.840 Only one Pokemon different in their six Pokemon teams, 06:54:12.840 --> 06:54:16.360 but one Pokemon can make all the difference in the way that that plays. 06:54:16.360 --> 06:54:20.760 And Yu-Gi are definitely showing us why they're here in the top eight. 06:54:20.760 --> 06:54:24.440 Zachary as well. I do want to call out Zachary as being a player 06:54:24.440 --> 06:54:35.440 I really enjoyed both watching in this season, but certainly in this tournament as well and listening to his interview I was earlier today or yesterday. 06:54:35.440 --> 06:54:46.440 My mind's blanking on which one it was, but when he just looked so calm and collected and the way that he was talking about the game, the mentality is just, you know, it's okay. 06:54:46.440 --> 06:54:52.440 If things get a little bit hard, right, just keep on going, keep on, keep on trucking away, so to speak. 06:54:52.440 --> 06:55:01.440 You know, you can overcome those things and it's about the enjoyment of the game as well as just the competitive elements that go along with it. 06:55:01.440 --> 06:55:08.440 Yeah, and I think you saw that composure from Zachary at EUIC, you know, early this season came so close to getting that title. 06:55:08.440 --> 06:55:14.760 Unfortunately, not getting over the line there, but I mean, replicating the run here would be a dream for Zachary, 06:55:14.760 --> 06:55:20.680 hopefully to get themselves into that position on Sunday, where they've got a chance of taking the title more than capable of it. 06:55:20.680 --> 06:55:25.640 I think in that calm and composed nature that they bring in the approach to the game that they go about, 06:55:25.640 --> 06:55:32.120 I think it can just really help them in their stead to try and achieve the championship title. 06:55:32.120 --> 06:55:34.920 And it wouldn't surprise me to see Zachary win it. 06:55:34.920 --> 06:55:37.160 and I think they've had such a great season, 06:55:37.160 --> 06:55:39.600 the accomplishments that they've been able to get 06:55:39.600 --> 06:55:41.840 throughout this year, which is so tough. 06:55:41.840 --> 06:55:44.800 Season in VG is so, so long. 06:55:44.800 --> 06:55:46.840 So to have that consistency over and over 06:55:46.840 --> 06:55:49.040 and time and time again, different formats, 06:55:49.040 --> 06:55:51.480 different games now, I think it's just, 06:55:52.480 --> 06:55:56.000 it's a huge accomplishment, it's really something too. 06:55:57.240 --> 06:56:00.600 Just, yeah, I'm wax lyrical about Zachary. 06:56:00.600 --> 06:56:01.440 I am. 06:56:01.440 --> 06:56:04.440 We know Lee, we're 100% because that's what it's all about. 06:56:04.440 --> 06:56:11.240 Let's take a look at you as run across this because you is coming in here with the Mega Dragonite. 06:56:11.240 --> 06:56:14.920 We've been talking about it so, so much across the season. 06:56:14.920 --> 06:56:20.160 There is the undefeated Sea of Green there across all eight rounds. 06:56:20.400 --> 06:56:25.920 And I've been loving looking at all of these records that our players coming into the top eight 06:56:25.920 --> 06:56:31.000 have been able to go up against because, contrary to what we might have thought going in, 06:56:31.000 --> 06:56:34.160 There's been such a variation out there in the field. 06:56:34.160 --> 06:56:36.000 We've seen a lot of that on stream. 06:56:36.000 --> 06:56:38.360 And none of these players that have made it into top eight 06:56:38.360 --> 06:56:41.440 have done it by just playing up against Charizard Floette 06:56:41.440 --> 06:56:43.040 round after round after round. 06:56:43.040 --> 06:56:45.280 You see so much variation. 06:56:45.280 --> 06:56:46.800 And look at some of the names there. 06:56:46.800 --> 06:56:50.920 I mean, Marco Silva, Stefan Mark, Darwy C, Justin Ta... 06:56:50.920 --> 06:56:52.960 Oh, well, I could say all of them. 06:56:52.960 --> 06:56:56.760 But, you know, it's such a fantastic set of accomplishments 06:56:56.760 --> 06:57:00.440 to be able to overcome all of these trainers. 06:57:00.440 --> 06:57:06.440 Yeah, exactly that. And I think the diversity of teams as well that they've come up against, like you say, it isn't just the same 06:57:06.440 --> 06:57:10.440 two, three, four teams that they've come up against. There's so much diversity, so much 06:57:10.440 --> 06:57:16.440 differentiation in the tactical approach from each and every player that they've had to adapt on the fly 06:57:16.440 --> 06:57:20.440 and really know the ins and outs of their teams to overcome their opponents. 06:57:20.440 --> 06:57:24.440 This is the run going into day two, which has led to them getting into the top eight. 06:57:24.440 --> 06:57:29.800 the best start today, but against really tough opponents, but able to bounce back in rounds 06:57:29.800 --> 06:57:34.880 11 and then that top 16 match against the New York Forks as well to make their way into 06:57:34.880 --> 06:57:35.880 top 8. 06:57:35.880 --> 06:57:42.440 It's such a nice comfort blanket going into phase 2 at 8 I know, knowing that like one 06:57:42.440 --> 06:57:48.040 for three, if you take any of the players that have played here at the World Championships 06:57:48.040 --> 06:57:53.440 and you said hey, you've got to win one out of three of the next three matches that you're 06:57:53.440 --> 06:57:58.300 you can play and you can say 06:57:58.440 --> 06:58:00.300 odds on to be able to make it 06:58:00.440 --> 06:58:02.300 there and get that top car pretty 06:58:02.440 --> 06:58:04.300 unlikely. It can happen, of course, 06:58:04.440 --> 06:58:06.300 like you've still got to be on your 06:58:06.440 --> 06:58:08.300 guard. You've got to be playing a 06:58:08.440 --> 06:58:10.300 game, right? But as long as you're 06:58:10.440 --> 06:58:12.300 on form, you know, you're showing 06:58:12.440 --> 06:58:14.300 this that they can come back and 06:58:14.440 --> 06:58:16.300 of course been undefeated since 06:58:16.440 --> 06:58:18.300 then. We're in the knockout stages 06:58:18.440 --> 06:58:20.300 of the event having to play in 06:58:20.440 --> 06:58:22.300 our asymmetrical top 16 and then 06:58:22.300 --> 06:58:25.900 and go straight into our top eight. 06:58:25.900 --> 06:58:32.300 So has also had an opportunity to have a little bit of a breather, 11-1 instead of 10-2. 06:58:32.300 --> 06:58:37.300 It's an incredible record really on the face of it and this is the one schedule. 06:58:37.300 --> 06:58:42.300 Again, you know, we'll go through the names, the top players right the way through. 06:58:42.300 --> 06:58:46.300 We actually had the feature match to be able to get Zachary on stream round three against Portia. 06:58:46.300 --> 06:58:52.860 and that was a very warm side of the event as we had the repeat from the EUIC finals there. 06:58:52.860 --> 06:58:57.980 So it's actually showing on stream how strong they could be given a bit of a showcase of what 06:58:57.980 --> 06:59:02.540 they had in store for the rest of the floor this weekend. But continuing that on, did have a little 06:59:02.540 --> 06:59:07.340 hiccup along the way in round five, but didn't let that get to them. And that's their last loss. 06:59:07.340 --> 06:59:12.460 From here they've been on an absolute storm. And again, it's facing off against a variety of 06:59:12.460 --> 06:59:18.140 different teams as well. But you know, I think the one thing I would say about Zachary bringing 06:59:18.140 --> 06:59:22.700 this team and there's a quality team that are more established in the format. It is 06:59:22.700 --> 06:59:26.460 something that your opponent is going to be prepared for. They've had time to practice 06:59:26.460 --> 06:59:31.500 against this team. So I think it just gives even more credit to Zachary's performance as we can 06:59:31.500 --> 06:59:37.100 using something that is very widely known by the player base. But also like one of those teams 06:59:37.100 --> 06:59:42.300 where you can make some different decisions as well. And I think there's been going into 06:59:42.300 --> 06:59:47.260 this tournament I would have expected Sneasler with Dunkshot to be the Sneasler of choice and I 06:59:47.260 --> 06:59:54.220 believe Zachary and various others have taken the taking Diplore as like hey I just just want to hit 06:59:54.220 --> 06:59:59.900 those moves and that consistency then shines through with that big win streak there overcoming 06:59:59.900 --> 07:00:08.460 Carson overcoming Stefano overcoming Shohei they're going into our top eight now about to face off 07:00:08.460 --> 07:00:24.460 So this is a really great example of like why comfort is so so good because even if you have a little blip along the road as Zachary did in round five of the event, let's call it what it is. 07:00:24.460 --> 07:00:25.460 It was a blip. 07:00:25.460 --> 07:00:26.460 Just a tiny blip. 07:00:26.460 --> 07:00:31.460 It seems like it and hopefully that's all it was because Zachary now going to be going into top eight. 07:00:31.460 --> 07:00:35.460 We'll be looking closely at an iron top four to progress on from there. 07:00:35.460 --> 07:00:39.380 But of course, got a little bit of a new challenge with that Dragonite. 07:00:39.380 --> 07:00:40.820 Not expecting that team. 07:00:40.820 --> 07:00:43.940 That's probably an unexpected team that you would think to face 07:00:43.940 --> 07:00:45.380 coming into the World Championships, 07:00:45.380 --> 07:00:46.980 but it's one that's presented in front of you. 07:00:46.980 --> 07:00:49.380 Can they overcome it? That's a question. 07:00:49.380 --> 07:00:51.260 It's going to be really exciting to find out, 07:00:51.260 --> 07:00:53.620 so I guess, Lee, should we find out? 07:00:53.620 --> 07:00:55.180 Find out. 07:02:05.460 --> 07:02:15.460 the next round. 07:02:15.460 --> 07:02:17.460 Hello, everybody, and welcome 07:02:17.460 --> 07:02:20.460 back to the 2026 Pokemon World 07:02:20.460 --> 07:02:22.460 Championships in San Francisco, 07:02:22.460 --> 07:02:24.460 California. My name is Rosemary 07:02:24.460 --> 07:02:26.460 Kelly, and I'm joined once again 07:02:26.460 --> 07:02:28.460 by Aaron Zang, and we're here to 07:02:28.460 --> 07:02:30.460 bring you through our final top 07:02:30.460 --> 07:02:32.460 eight match, which four trainers 07:02:32.460 --> 07:02:34.460 will stand above the rest to 07:02:34.460 --> 07:02:36.300 because I want a little bit more. 07:02:36.300 --> 07:02:37.140 I want more Rock Slot. 07:02:37.140 --> 07:02:37.700 You do? 07:02:37.700 --> 07:02:38.900 Yeah. 07:02:38.900 --> 07:02:41.540 OK, I'm going to have you keep that opinion. 07:02:41.540 --> 07:02:42.300 OK. 07:02:42.300 --> 07:02:45.780 I'm not going to share that one. 07:02:45.780 --> 07:02:46.580 But yeah, you're right. 07:02:46.580 --> 07:02:49.060 We're definitely going to be in for just a little bit more. 07:02:49.060 --> 07:02:50.780 But I do feel like it's kind of the nature 07:02:50.780 --> 07:02:52.420 of this particular meta game. 07:02:52.420 --> 07:02:54.260 You have to kind of think about what 07:02:54.260 --> 07:02:55.820 is that small edge that I might be 07:02:55.820 --> 07:02:57.260 able to take within these matches. 07:02:57.260 --> 07:02:59.220 And unfortunately, sometimes that actually 07:02:59.220 --> 07:03:02.100 is in the RNG realm. 07:03:02.100 --> 07:03:05.140 You know, I was trying to think, like, Rock Slide, 07:03:05.140 --> 07:03:07.500 I feel like I've seen it flinched so many times 07:03:07.500 --> 07:03:09.300 and just used so many times throughout the course 07:03:09.300 --> 07:03:12.140 of both this event and the NAIC Top Cut. 07:03:12.140 --> 07:03:16.420 We've got yet another Rock Slide Pokemon in this next one. 07:03:16.420 --> 07:03:17.940 Trying to think, do we have one or two? 07:03:17.940 --> 07:03:19.020 I mean, it's actually only one. 07:03:19.020 --> 07:03:19.860 No Garchomp here. 07:03:19.860 --> 07:03:20.420 Only one. 07:03:20.420 --> 07:03:22.460 Just Lichenrock, but today is going 07:03:22.460 --> 07:03:25.620 to be another one of the Frost Slash Scoville 07:03:25.620 --> 07:03:27.220 and teams with Lichenrock. 07:03:27.220 --> 07:03:30.060 We just saw it have a very, very dominant performance. 07:03:30.060 --> 07:03:31.300 Now there's one in the top four. 07:03:31.300 --> 07:03:33.620 We'll see if two of these teams are going to be able to advance. 07:03:33.620 --> 07:03:37.340 Once again, this team came out at the end of the regulation MA format. 07:03:37.660 --> 07:03:41.020 Zachary Weed here is piloting it, trying to bring it to a top four finish 07:03:41.020 --> 07:03:42.100 at the World Championships. 07:03:42.100 --> 07:03:45.700 He is up against Yuyya, who does not have Charizard. 07:03:45.700 --> 07:03:48.180 You look at Yuyya's team and normally you'd expect to see a Charizard over 07:03:48.180 --> 07:03:50.580 Dragonite, but it's going to be Mega Dragonite on that composition. 07:03:50.780 --> 07:03:53.660 It's really exciting to see that because I think Dragonite is one of those. 07:03:53.660 --> 07:03:57.820 We've seen it sometimes jammed onto these rain teams because you do get those 07:03:57.820 --> 07:04:00.980 100% accurate hurricanes when the rain is active. 07:04:00.980 --> 07:04:04.980 But this one is going to be a move set of Dragon Fouls, Heat Wave, and Thunderbolt. 07:04:04.980 --> 07:04:11.980 Dragonite just has such amazing coverage options that it really does feel like it has a nice place on this team. 07:04:11.980 --> 07:04:16.980 Exactly. Used for its immense bulk and ability to just have really good coverage across the board. 07:04:16.980 --> 07:04:22.980 Set has inner focus as well before mega-volvings. Used to get around potential fake-dots. 07:04:22.980 --> 07:04:27.980 And it is just a very bulky mega-evolution, although it is staring down a ice-type Pokemon. 07:04:27.980 --> 07:04:32.980 That's generally going to be the number one threat to the Mega Dragon, of course, in the Mega Frost last year. 07:04:32.980 --> 07:04:38.980 Saw the players' accomplishments there. Zachary has been one of the most outstanding players in North America this season. 07:04:38.980 --> 07:04:43.980 Hated to the finals of a regionals and an international championships. Here he is at Top 8 at Worlds. 07:04:43.980 --> 07:04:49.980 And for Yuya, it's a big opportunity for him. Best Finish was Top 32 after Japanese national championships. 07:04:49.980 --> 07:04:52.980 Here he is, trying to go all the way at Worlds. 07:04:52.980 --> 07:04:54.980 And with a team that is 07:04:54.980 --> 07:04:56.980 otherwise relatively very 07:04:56.980 --> 07:04:58.980 familiar outside of that mega 07:04:58.980 --> 07:05:00.980 dragonite, you do have the mega 07:05:00.980 --> 07:05:02.980 flowette that's going to have 07:05:02.980 --> 07:05:04.980 three different fairy tech 07:05:04.980 --> 07:05:06.980 options to take advantage of 07:05:06.980 --> 07:05:08.980 that fairy aura ability it gets 07:05:08.980 --> 07:05:10.980 when a mega evolves, but then of 07:05:10.980 --> 07:05:12.980 course you have the usual 07:05:12.980 --> 07:05:14.980 suspect of this regulation with 07:05:14.980 --> 07:05:16.980 the basculage and kingia, but 07:05:16.980 --> 07:05:18.980 Sneasler and whimsicott. 07:05:18.980 --> 07:05:20.980 Rosemary, I lied. You know how I 07:05:20.980 --> 07:05:22.980 We're going to be using the 07:05:22.980 --> 07:05:24.980 Sniasler, Sniasler running the 07:05:24.980 --> 07:05:26.980 Umberd instead, but with fake 07:05:26.980 --> 07:05:28.980 Out close combat direclaw and 07:05:28.980 --> 07:05:30.980 of course, rock slide. Now rock 07:05:30.980 --> 07:05:32.980 slide often used on Sniasler, 07:05:32.980 --> 07:05:34.980 mainly to help out against 07:05:34.980 --> 07:05:36.980 opposing Charizard. But also 07:05:36.980 --> 07:05:38.980 it's just a move like to get you 07:05:38.980 --> 07:05:39.980 out of a pickle and give you 07:05:39.980 --> 07:05:40.980 some additional coverage right 07:05:40.980 --> 07:05:41.980 actually into frost class close 07:05:41.980 --> 07:05:42.980 combat and direclaw both 07:05:42.980 --> 07:05:44.980 quite poor, but rock side 07:05:44.980 --> 07:05:45.980 allows you to hit it for super 07:05:45.980 --> 07:05:46.980 effective damage. But he think 07:05:46.980 --> 07:05:48.980 once again for us team is the 07:05:48.980 --> 07:05:55.220 feels okay into these cross last govillain teams but there's a good bit of defense and you also 07:05:55.220 --> 07:05:58.100 have to worry about skill villain right because skill villain just resists all the fairy type 07:05:58.100 --> 07:06:04.980 damage we saw it being led in the quarter finals against a mega flowette and just sustain and also 07:06:04.980 --> 07:06:11.460 burn the opposing flowette so taking a look at Zach's team here no major surprises this is generally 07:06:11.460 --> 07:06:16.020 a little what you expect we've seen some adaptations on Sneasler sometimes with direclaw but this one 07:06:16.020 --> 07:06:21.860 is running that gunk shot. It could be a really good attack, but of course not the most reliable at 80% accuracy. 07:06:21.860 --> 07:06:27.780 But if it does hit the pull-off, that is a one-hit knockout. So that's a really great eject button that this 07:06:27.780 --> 07:06:32.980 Kneesler can use to get one of the biggest threats in this matchup out of the way. Zachary Weed, 07:06:32.980 --> 07:06:38.580 the last hope of the United States to make it further into the top cut of the world championships 07:06:38.580 --> 07:06:42.980 and potentially even take home the whole thing. That is going to be a Pokemon that I think we 07:06:42.980 --> 07:06:44.500 We have to keep our eyes on there's that 07:06:44.500 --> 07:06:46.620 Troubleberry King Gambit on the other side 07:06:46.620 --> 07:06:48.260 that does have a lot of different attacks 07:06:48.260 --> 07:06:50.380 that will be able to hit Zach's team 07:06:50.380 --> 07:06:51.780 for super effective damage. 07:06:51.780 --> 07:06:52.740 Really great points. 07:06:52.740 --> 07:06:55.100 And I think one of the big questions I have is, 07:06:55.100 --> 07:06:57.020 if you're Yuya, do you think about that Dragonite? 07:06:57.020 --> 07:06:59.060 Because let's say Frostlass doesn't come out 07:06:59.060 --> 07:07:00.780 and it's gonna be a Skowill in command. 07:07:00.780 --> 07:07:02.740 Dragonite suddenly becomes a lot more powerful 07:07:02.740 --> 07:07:05.340 but Dragonite's just so weak into that Frostlass. 07:07:05.340 --> 07:07:07.580 So it's gonna be a big, interesting dynamic here 07:07:07.580 --> 07:07:08.420 between the both players 07:07:08.420 --> 07:07:09.380 and it's gonna be Skowill in here 07:07:09.380 --> 07:07:12.260 so maybe Frostlass has just been dropped. 07:07:12.260 --> 07:07:16.640 So villain might be a Pokemon that can survive on its own merit. 07:07:16.640 --> 07:07:20.820 We saw some moody boost come through that did make that skill done a bit more of a threat. 07:07:20.820 --> 07:07:24.540 But you do have to imagine that this is a Pokemon that doesn't want to be on the field 07:07:24.540 --> 07:07:26.380 without utilizing mega evolution. 07:07:26.380 --> 07:07:27.380 Absolutely, yeah. 07:07:27.380 --> 07:07:31.740 And a mega evolution really threatening because then you can thread in the basket region with 07:07:31.740 --> 07:07:32.740 a bird, right? 07:07:32.740 --> 07:07:38.220 And so I am already really curious if Uia has that dragon I think about right now. 07:07:38.220 --> 07:07:42.420 Sakri has a lot of offense coming out from the Lycan Rock with Rock's light skill. 07:07:42.420 --> 07:07:44.420 Rona obviously can pressure with an over-heated as well. 07:07:44.420 --> 07:07:50.220 Baskin-Legion Wave Trash is also really quite threatening, but he won't necessarily get a once-in-a-nock out of him either 07:07:50.220 --> 07:07:52.220 because of focus after the Lycan Rock. 07:07:52.220 --> 07:07:56.720 Winsicca here could choose to go for Moonblast. He wanted to double up onto the Lycan Rock, right? 07:07:56.720 --> 07:07:58.720 He could also go for a potential attack. 07:07:58.720 --> 07:08:01.720 Rona's not going to mega-ball, so going to start off with that attack. 07:08:01.720 --> 07:08:07.220 Let's just scout out for a moody boost here at the end of the turn as Winsicca is going to fail to get Danix down 07:08:07.220 --> 07:08:09.540 down into that skill ability because of the protect. 07:08:09.540 --> 07:08:10.980 And if the Rockside comes out, 07:08:10.980 --> 07:08:13.260 that's one of the downsides of running this move 07:08:13.260 --> 07:08:14.420 is you can miss. 07:08:14.420 --> 07:08:17.420 So it misses the back deletion with some critical damage, 07:08:17.420 --> 07:08:19.460 but it does connect onto the Winston Cod. 07:08:19.460 --> 07:08:21.620 That was a double up of damage into the skill build, 07:08:21.620 --> 07:08:23.180 goes to a great protect, 07:08:23.180 --> 07:08:26.580 as for the Hootie-Boost, Hootie has special attack drop. 07:08:26.580 --> 07:08:27.420 Ouch. 07:08:27.420 --> 07:08:29.500 Yeah, so Skodo actually opting to protect 07:08:29.500 --> 07:08:32.180 and ends up being a good turn for Zag, 07:08:32.180 --> 07:08:34.580 the Rockside dodge, obviously not ideal, 07:08:34.580 --> 07:08:37.060 but Skodo in there should be able to last 07:08:37.060 --> 07:08:38.580 and wave crash combination. 07:08:38.580 --> 07:08:41.260 You guys saying, look, I'm willing to get my bullpaw 07:08:41.260 --> 07:08:43.260 burned if it means knocking out your mega evolution 07:08:43.260 --> 07:08:43.760 immediately. 07:08:43.760 --> 07:08:45.220 So now, when it's got, obviously, 07:08:45.220 --> 07:08:47.220 an on-court pressure on, so still going, 07:08:47.220 --> 07:08:49.260 still going, sitter switching out. 07:08:49.260 --> 07:08:51.900 Or you can maybe just go for mega evolution, rage powder, 07:08:51.900 --> 07:08:54.380 redirect the wave across the way, right? 07:08:54.380 --> 07:08:56.500 So we didn't see the mega, so now I'm curious, 07:08:56.500 --> 07:08:57.620 is there any chance it's actually 07:08:57.620 --> 07:08:59.140 a mega frost loss in the back? 07:08:59.140 --> 07:09:01.300 Still going to switch out here, so does not 07:09:01.300 --> 07:09:03.420 want to get on-court, fast eletion, 07:09:03.420 --> 07:09:05.300 ready to stay switching away. 07:09:05.300 --> 07:09:08.540 It is waiting to be cracked a little bit better as it's going to be with the copper 07:09:08.540 --> 07:09:10.100 testing itself this time around. 07:09:11.100 --> 07:09:14.000 Like a rock, throw down another rock slide. 07:09:14.100 --> 07:09:15.300 You wanted to see it, Aaron. 07:09:15.300 --> 07:09:20.100 So I hope that you are excited about the wish that you're having come true. 07:09:20.400 --> 07:09:21.800 And that's the Legion question. 07:09:21.800 --> 07:09:23.400 Aaron, I blame you for that one. 07:09:23.800 --> 07:09:26.100 It's regulation and me, baby. 07:09:26.100 --> 07:09:30.300 Rock slide disconnects on the basket legion and a flinch comes out. 07:09:30.300 --> 07:09:32.300 Does what rock slide does best. 07:09:32.300 --> 07:09:34.300 The basket legion gets to coming for three. 07:09:34.300 --> 07:09:39.300 Now, of course, Lycan Rock and Vascular Legion both are flying a good amount of offensive pressure. 07:09:39.300 --> 07:09:42.800 This focus has a huge pain for you to deal with. 07:09:42.800 --> 07:09:47.800 If you're a Vascular Legion, if you consider a double, if I'm to Lycan Rock with something like a Mule Blast and an Off-Waget, 07:09:47.800 --> 07:09:52.300 Lycan Rock, though, could just go for the tech, and then the opposing Vascular Legion could ride it with last respects. 07:09:52.300 --> 07:09:57.800 Often, I think players protect in front of the Winston Rock and then switch out afterwards to get around all four, right? 07:09:57.800 --> 07:10:02.300 And so, I think Zac finds a good position to bring that Vascular Legion in, and here's the Off-Waget that I was talking about. 07:10:02.300 --> 07:10:06.460 Wow, we're gonna bring that Lycan Rock all the way down to a focus act. 07:10:06.460 --> 07:10:11.140 As Aqua Deck can still be very powerful, trying to get through some of this speed. 07:10:11.140 --> 07:10:14.940 Michael Breesquare will of course come through and then we get to see the rest of this turn play out. 07:10:14.940 --> 07:10:19.820 As Moon Scott goes for the Moon Blast, that's where he can burn the KO onto the Lycan Rock, 07:10:19.820 --> 07:10:25.740 so now that's no longer going to be a direct hit, that Dragonite is creeping in the back for Yuya. 07:10:25.740 --> 07:10:32.140 But the back legion for Zachery has now gotten a power stack to that last defense. 07:10:32.140 --> 07:10:36.700 This is like a rock ally just take it out and that's going to even up the Pokemon town 07:10:36.700 --> 07:10:41.720 Yeah, really good call out there about the like and rock painting because I think that is one of the primary best of Dragonite 07:10:41.720 --> 07:10:48.100 Unless the Zach actually has cross-bosses before what I'm still curious about that also curious that you did commit to the dragon 07:10:48.100 --> 07:10:51.220 I ran anything to do my property dragon. Oh, yeah 07:10:51.980 --> 07:10:53.980 Go editing the field here. And so 07:10:53.980 --> 07:11:16.980 I feel like being one step ahead of the folks on choices in this first game. Absolutely. I mean, that's the right Pokemon that you want to see on the other side, but you got to worry a little bit now. Just as easily try to take out your foot, you want to try to actually play around that potential threat and you worry at all that this 07:11:16.980 --> 07:11:21.980 and all that this boost up might switch in and on course use learn to take out 07:11:21.980 --> 07:11:25.980 Yeah, I feel like you're a little bit faster than this interaction here because it's fast, it's just faster. 07:11:25.980 --> 07:11:27.980 You can just go for jump shot loud next year, right? 07:11:27.980 --> 07:11:31.980 So maybe that also works just to make sure that you, you know, cover for a jump shot this. 07:11:31.980 --> 07:11:33.980 And off-roger comes out, so Yuya may be saying, 07:11:33.980 --> 07:11:36.980 Look, I don't think I'm going to be faster, I'm just going to give up my basket legion here. 07:11:36.980 --> 07:11:38.980 Yeah, this is going to be another off-roget. 07:11:38.980 --> 07:11:45.980 And then as basket legion fires off the last of his fast, that's two KO's for exact basket legion 07:11:45.980 --> 07:11:48.300 as we have to break in that score 07:11:48.300 --> 07:11:50.260 with the final Pokemon for first game. 07:11:50.260 --> 07:11:52.580 What is it going to be though? 07:11:52.580 --> 07:11:55.060 Because I think if it's King Gambit, 07:11:55.060 --> 07:11:56.500 it's going to feel really tricky. 07:11:56.500 --> 07:11:59.100 You can't get around Sneasler just going for a dump shot, right? 07:11:59.100 --> 07:12:00.500 So, okay, this is going to be the Sneasler 07:12:00.500 --> 07:12:02.900 and you've got to do your best bet here. 07:12:02.900 --> 07:12:04.260 Fakeout now active on it. 07:12:04.260 --> 07:12:06.900 You can't go from fakeout into Zach Sneasler. 07:12:06.900 --> 07:12:08.540 Zach Sneasler is your go set for Kev, 07:12:08.540 --> 07:12:10.580 so if you're Zach, you can consider just going 07:12:10.580 --> 07:12:12.500 for the double protect potentially. 07:12:12.500 --> 07:12:13.940 One thing that Zach might also be thinking about 07:12:13.940 --> 07:12:15.580 is how can I potentially get Skogun 07:12:15.580 --> 07:12:18.900 on the field and have three directions for it later on in this game. But yours 30 07:12:18.900 --> 07:12:22.500 down a bullet with 1000 Queen of course that's gonna be a mental positive for us. 07:12:22.500 --> 07:12:28.060 So, Skipler in the back for Yuya gives him a lifeline. Now of course, right in the 07:12:28.060 --> 07:12:35.700 obvious takeout. You don't have to worry about the takeout affecting the 07:12:35.700 --> 07:12:40.500 battling at the very least. It goes side but you don't still fire off and 07:12:40.500 --> 07:12:47.220 attack with that pokemons and you can actually get through something like a defensive protect 07:12:47.220 --> 07:12:53.300 from Yuiya, but it is just the double protect anyway. That way you can see this mega evolution 07:12:53.300 --> 07:12:56.740 come out and you know that that fake out is for sure off the board now. 07:12:56.740 --> 07:13:01.100 Fake out and light a brood here aiming to this ideally not double acutely attack, but 07:13:01.100 --> 07:13:04.820 Zac goes double protect. So now this next turn, you know, Sneasler is bringing gunk 07:13:04.820 --> 07:13:10.180 shot onto the flowette, right, which is obviously really scary. So you protect the flowette, 07:13:10.180 --> 07:13:12.880 But the opposing Sneasler doesn't even do enough damage, I think. 07:13:12.880 --> 07:13:15.380 And so I feel like I really favor his accuracy position right now. 07:13:15.380 --> 07:13:18.180 And that's the Rock Slide! That's the only way out of this! 07:13:18.180 --> 07:13:21.080 UDF Sneasler does go first! Do we see a flinch? 07:13:21.080 --> 07:13:22.680 30% chance to do it! 07:13:22.680 --> 07:13:25.280 It's going to be a sneasler to have you here in the play! 07:13:25.280 --> 07:13:26.980 Or the zone shot! It connects! 07:13:26.980 --> 07:13:30.980 A one-hit dog out onto the blow edge and take out this mega evolution! 07:13:30.980 --> 07:13:34.980 You guys put them on last year for UDF's first game in the Sneasler! 07:13:34.980 --> 07:13:36.680 But that's a legion, Flinches! 07:13:36.680 --> 07:13:38.880 You can take out one out of the Rock Slide. 07:13:38.880 --> 07:13:44.240 got one, but I don't think that is the right one. It's a 3v1, Uia recognizes this game is over, 07:13:44.240 --> 07:13:49.760 and Zac is going to take this very first game. Honestly, really, really clinical. 07:13:50.320 --> 07:13:54.080 Crucially, that was a really big turn, right? Being able to land that gum shot. Gum shot 07:13:54.080 --> 07:13:57.200 already is a high variance move. You factory and rocks like the winch chance as well, 07:13:57.200 --> 07:14:02.000 and it just becomes so, so scary, right? It's like just slightly in your favor. And so that, 07:14:02.000 --> 07:14:06.240 however, is why you use gum shots easily. Be able to just thread in basically all flowettes 07:14:06.240 --> 07:14:10.400 to the floor might even physically defensive ones with a knockout. And to me, what was a big deal 07:14:10.400 --> 07:14:14.240 was Dragonite was dropped in this one. Once again, it's not the most intuitive Pokemon to bring 07:14:14.240 --> 07:14:18.720 into a matchup with Frostlast, but Zac, I feel like was one step ahead in Team Preview saying, 07:14:18.720 --> 07:14:23.520 I'm going to bring Scoville in and I'm going to make a call, right? And so if you're probably 07:14:23.520 --> 07:14:27.280 thinking, wow, okay, well it really didn't feel very good there. It got absolutely trapped against 07:14:27.280 --> 07:14:30.960 Sneasler in this end game. So in terms of adjustments, maybe you start looking towards that 07:14:30.960 --> 07:14:34.880 Dragonite, but if you're Zac, then you say, well, okay, I think you're going to give it to Dragonite 07:14:34.880 --> 07:14:36.340 right now. I'm going frostlass. 07:14:36.340 --> 07:14:38.000 Now frostlass would be a really 07:14:38.000 --> 07:14:39.880 great counter call if you do 07:14:39.880 --> 07:14:41.600 decide to bring that dragonate, 07:14:41.600 --> 07:14:43.400 but I feel like even still I 07:14:43.400 --> 07:14:45.280 like this go villain in that game. 07:14:45.280 --> 07:14:47.220 Just even being able to have a rage 07:14:47.220 --> 07:14:49.200 powder for later on you have to 07:14:49.200 --> 07:14:50.840 worry about the trust that there 07:14:50.840 --> 07:14:52.500 are three very powerful physical 07:14:52.500 --> 07:14:54.040 attackers on you decide that it 07:14:54.040 --> 07:14:55.840 still feels good to bring this 07:14:55.840 --> 07:14:57.840 go villain. I think that's a great 07:14:57.840 --> 07:14:59.400 point. Yeah, and we've seen school 07:14:59.400 --> 07:15:01.000 and like rock being led consistently 07:15:01.000 --> 07:15:02.400 into these teams with wins. 07:15:02.400 --> 07:15:04.040 Right? Even with no Charizard that 07:15:04.040 --> 07:15:06.040 I think Yuya has two things to consider. 07:15:06.040 --> 07:15:08.040 One, how do I just beat Lycan Rock's GoVillain? 07:15:08.040 --> 07:15:11.040 And two, okay, could Zac actually mix things up 07:15:11.040 --> 07:15:13.040 and go with Frostlass because he's one game ahead. 07:15:13.040 --> 07:15:15.040 And so I think there's a lot of scary things to consider. 07:15:15.040 --> 07:15:18.040 And to your point, yeah, I don't see the easiest response 07:15:18.040 --> 07:15:19.040 to Lycan Rock and GoVillain. 07:15:19.040 --> 07:15:21.040 It seems like a pretty safe consistent lead 07:15:21.040 --> 07:15:24.040 because of how physically oriented Yuya's team is. 07:15:24.040 --> 07:15:26.040 Yeah, and you could even consider maybe trying to set up 07:15:26.040 --> 07:15:28.040 a tailwind with the Wimsacott this time around 07:15:28.040 --> 07:15:30.040 that it did feel like the Wimsacott was stuck 07:15:30.040 --> 07:15:31.040 in a really good position. 07:15:31.040 --> 07:15:36.160 this time around but if you'll like the Whipsacott was stuck in a really difficult position and maybe 07:15:36.160 --> 07:15:40.640 even more so because you see King Gambit and Scovillain on the other side with that Whipsacott 07:15:40.640 --> 07:15:45.840 Vascovillian. Yeah so King Gambit comes out now, Reddins Vascovillian immediately and this is what 07:15:45.840 --> 07:15:49.680 makes Whipsacott so awkward in the matchup. It doesn't really do damage. You're going to move last 07:15:49.680 --> 07:15:54.640 for a little bit on Scovillain and a little bit on King Gambit but right now King Gambit's like 07:15:54.640 --> 07:16:00.080 hey I've got soccer punch on your Vascovillian. I'm black glasses right and so I think Yuya 07:16:00.080 --> 07:16:02.660 already starting behind in this match, 07:16:02.660 --> 07:16:04.120 committing to the same lead as the previous one. 07:16:04.120 --> 07:16:05.860 Does Vascolegean switch out? He does. 07:16:05.860 --> 07:16:07.520 Does not want to take a sucker punch. 07:16:07.520 --> 07:16:08.960 Zack, you get a pretty big lead here 07:16:08.960 --> 07:16:10.560 by just going straight for sword stance. 07:16:10.560 --> 07:16:13.160 Yeah, that would really threaten a ton of damage 07:16:13.160 --> 07:16:14.560 on anything that's in this backhand. 07:16:14.560 --> 07:16:16.320 And if you were curious whether or not 07:16:16.320 --> 07:16:18.600 last and sucker punch with one hit, knockout, 07:16:18.600 --> 07:16:21.400 Vascolegean out plus two, it definitely will. 07:16:21.400 --> 07:16:24.000 Skovillain does not wait any time 07:16:24.000 --> 07:16:26.600 to go for the mega evolution this time around. 07:16:26.600 --> 07:16:28.640 He's going to do that right away. 07:16:28.640 --> 07:16:33.120 It does land a move blast into the game and it actually does a lot. 07:16:33.120 --> 07:16:34.720 That was a critical hit. 07:16:34.720 --> 07:16:37.280 So that would help the special attack drop. 07:16:37.280 --> 07:16:41.680 Minns back in game and it's going to get a plus two to five boost. 07:16:41.680 --> 07:16:43.960 Oh, really great play by Yuya there though. 07:16:43.960 --> 07:16:48.120 Manages to bait the slot into Vasculage and Zach tries to play aggressively. 07:16:48.120 --> 07:16:52.000 He says, you know, I think you're going to expect the sucker punch to be so obvious. 07:16:52.000 --> 07:16:53.440 You're going to expect me to sword stance. 07:16:53.440 --> 07:16:54.480 I'm just going to go for it. 07:16:54.480 --> 07:16:56.840 But Yuya ends up getting the better end of it. 07:16:56.840 --> 07:17:02.840 And, you know, Wimps got into this, it doesn't do that much damage, but when you get a critical hit, that's pretty darn good. 07:17:02.840 --> 07:17:08.840 And every time I see Moonblast being clicked into King Yama, I always get a little bit nervous because of the fact that the Defiant can't activate. 07:17:08.840 --> 07:17:11.840 So, you're probably not really stoked about that, right? 07:17:11.840 --> 07:17:14.840 The good thing is, at least for Pokemon viewers, this is super fun right now. 07:17:14.840 --> 07:17:19.840 But, Skobilan is actually putting on a lot of offensive pressure into this duo right now. 07:17:19.840 --> 07:17:23.840 Sneasler, of course, can go for a direclaw though, due to significant damage into it. 07:17:23.840 --> 07:17:29.500 still have to worry about the spicy spray that will not help with this measler's 07:17:29.500 --> 07:17:33.620 damage output but this govillain is going to say good bye for now as Vasty 07:17:33.620 --> 07:17:38.220 Leading comes out to take its place. A lot of information now about what Zach 07:17:38.220 --> 07:17:40.660 has actually brought to this match and we're going to see this can Yammer 07:17:40.660 --> 07:17:44.060 protect itself knowing that there is a fake out on the other side and even a 07:17:44.060 --> 07:17:48.020 close combat if this measler wanted it. Really safe play there by Zach. Wanted to 07:17:48.020 --> 07:17:51.420 cover for a dire claw into the Scoville inside and also says okay well if you 07:17:51.420 --> 07:17:55.020 attack at worst it's going to be something like direclaw and boom blasts right so king 07:17:55.020 --> 07:17:58.460 amber right now still exerting a lot of offensive pressure with sucker punch one thing to note 07:17:58.460 --> 07:18:03.660 about yuya's team is that on the sneezer there is no protect or any non-attack moves you can 07:18:03.660 --> 07:18:07.260 always sucker punch that slot if you wanted to right now for example you pressure with 07:18:07.260 --> 07:18:11.500 sucker punch an awkward deck it's either slot and with that boost on king yandere to perform 07:18:11.500 --> 07:18:18.620 it's not okay maybe you can knock it out that would be a wild house to take the true action 07:18:18.620 --> 07:18:25.340 Oh man would that be crazy to see it really would and that would completely turn the tides into Zach's favor 07:18:25.780 --> 07:18:32.420 We're gonna see the flow at mega evolve first as fast the legion protects next so what's the follow here from this game 07:18:32.420 --> 07:18:34.140 But is it going to be the sucker punch there? 07:18:34.140 --> 07:18:37.060 And it is if the flow at actually does take a significant amount 07:18:37.060 --> 07:18:44.200 But that is going to still be a pretty healthy survival so it can go for the jazzling dream on this following turn now that the theory or is 07:18:44.200 --> 07:18:46.440 It's activated and it can give it, it also take it on. 07:18:46.440 --> 07:18:47.280 Oh, man. 07:18:47.280 --> 07:18:48.880 I thought Daisy that could dock out, 07:18:48.880 --> 07:18:50.400 but that is a survival. 07:18:50.400 --> 07:18:51.800 It survives. 07:18:51.800 --> 07:18:53.840 It's interesting because obviously you can just 07:18:53.840 --> 07:18:55.760 Aqua Jet slot that slot now, right? 07:18:55.760 --> 07:18:58.080 But Masculation, like I said, yeah, 07:18:58.080 --> 07:19:00.560 maybe Slytherin Bunch Aqua Jet gets there 38%. 07:19:00.560 --> 07:19:02.200 Not crazy to think that a life form 07:19:02.200 --> 07:19:04.040 Aqua Jet can finish it off and Zag might be like, 07:19:04.040 --> 07:19:05.480 well, I don't know what your defense is spread is, 07:19:05.480 --> 07:19:07.240 so let me just get a good sense of it. 07:19:07.240 --> 07:19:09.480 There is a lot of offensive pressure right now 07:19:09.480 --> 07:19:10.840 from Yuya's side, right? 07:19:10.840 --> 07:19:12.280 The Flood, of course, also personally 07:19:12.280 --> 07:19:13.960 has that light of room, which we talked previously, 07:19:13.960 --> 07:19:16.200 you can use to kind of nuke the basket region. 07:19:16.200 --> 07:19:17.320 So right now, your basket region is 07:19:17.320 --> 07:19:18.600 bringing off which end of the king gambit. 07:19:18.600 --> 07:19:19.720 If you're Zach, maybe you consider 07:19:19.720 --> 07:19:21.160 protecting your king gambit. 07:19:21.160 --> 07:19:23.440 But if you do, you also risk the basket 07:19:23.440 --> 07:19:25.040 reach on your side just aggressively getting 07:19:25.040 --> 07:19:26.840 targeted down and faking, right? 07:19:26.840 --> 07:19:30.240 But yeah, that boom blast activating that divide 07:19:30.240 --> 07:19:30.880 is so strong. 07:19:30.880 --> 07:19:31.400 Going to be offered. 07:19:31.400 --> 07:19:32.400 It doesn't finish off Lowett. 07:19:32.400 --> 07:19:33.400 Wow. 07:19:33.400 --> 07:19:36.200 Just a knockout there onto the mega evolution. 07:19:36.200 --> 07:19:37.120 Lowett is down. 07:19:37.120 --> 07:19:40.960 It cannot contribute any more damage into the second game. 07:19:40.960 --> 07:19:43.760 And so that is a big knockout, a trade. 07:19:43.760 --> 07:19:51.060 Blow for blow with these Aqua Jets, but for Moonsikian Gambit, that's a five boost now, no longer a threat in this second game. 07:19:51.060 --> 07:19:57.940 I feel like Sakurai has good control of this game though, right? Able to eliminate a huge mega threat in that collect. 07:19:57.940 --> 07:20:04.700 Still got Skobo and Wimpska is going to come back in once again, but plus not doing that much, other than maybe going for Moon Blast and Encore. 07:20:04.700 --> 07:20:07.100 You're right in tailing right now, which is nice. 07:20:07.100 --> 07:20:12.100 And Skobo actually has a pretty nice offensive matchup in both of these, with Overgy as well as Gigadrain. 07:20:12.100 --> 07:20:17.660 And so, when it's a guy here, can render the Basque Legion somewhat useless by going for an all-for-on slash loss? 07:20:17.660 --> 07:20:21.700 GoVillain can't redirect it. Basque Legion can protect or even switch out potentially. 07:20:22.200 --> 07:20:25.840 You, if you're a Zachary, though, also have to respect something like Moon Blast plus Wavecrash. 07:20:25.840 --> 07:20:28.740 Double up into a GoVillain, right? And just try to eliminate that immediately. 07:20:28.740 --> 07:20:30.840 Because I think right now, you're just probably thinking, 07:20:30.840 --> 07:20:33.340 Oh man, like I gotta knock out GoVillain at some point. 07:20:33.340 --> 07:20:35.540 You know there's a Sneasler with Direclaw on the back, which is awful. 07:20:35.540 --> 07:20:40.340 But it's just so scary because the GoVillain protects Basque Legion so nicely here. 07:20:40.340 --> 07:20:45.780 Oh, it's going to be a rage powder to redirect away the attack so that Vasculation is free and clear to go for something else. 07:20:45.780 --> 07:20:46.280 Is Lipsicott? 07:20:46.280 --> 07:20:47.440 Yeah, there's the Oncour. 07:20:47.440 --> 07:20:49.120 He had Doug land the Oncour. 07:20:49.120 --> 07:20:53.860 Because it's a brass sight, that Oncour is not going to get redirected away by the rage powder. 07:20:53.860 --> 07:20:58.660 So Vasculation has no choice except to continue to go for Aqua Jet while it is on the field. 07:20:58.660 --> 07:21:02.740 I think in that position, Zac's saying, well, the Oncour's so obvious, I switch out so often on Oncour. 07:21:02.740 --> 07:21:06.100 You're going to double up onto my Vasculation or onto my Skowdill, and I should say. 07:21:06.100 --> 07:21:09.420 Wavecrash comes out and you could see Skowdill in trains 07:21:09.420 --> 07:21:13.500 to be able to survive that, but I do think the tides turn a little bit more in Yuya's 07:21:13.500 --> 07:21:17.740 favors now, right? Because you have locked the Basque Legion into Onquijet. That's not 07:21:17.740 --> 07:21:21.340 going to be a very powerful attack. Your Wimspot breadends a potential knockout 07:21:21.340 --> 07:21:25.660 onto Skogul and with the Moonblast, you can last respects the Basque Legion slot as well. 07:21:25.660 --> 07:21:29.500 So big turn for Yuya there, is that? Saying, you know what, I'm up a game and if I get this 07:21:29.500 --> 07:21:33.820 turn right, I can see the win right in front of me, but Yuya goes for the safe Onquir play 07:21:33.820 --> 07:21:38.460 and it rewards him really, really heavily. I think the thing about Onquir is if you get it right, 07:21:38.460 --> 07:21:43.980 It actually gives you a huge advantage because it negates the turn and then the following turn you have to play around it as well, right? 07:21:43.980 --> 07:21:45.980 And like deal with the consequences of it. 07:21:45.980 --> 07:21:49.100 And so for Zack right now, the question is, do you actually switch out? 07:21:49.100 --> 07:21:53.820 Like maybe you're actually content just staying in with your Baskin-Legion and Octogening because you know the switch is so obvious. 07:21:54.540 --> 07:21:57.100 And what is that fourth and final in the back? 07:21:57.260 --> 07:22:01.340 It hasn't been revealed yet, so it's possible it could be the Slazer or the Lycan Brock. 07:22:01.580 --> 07:22:07.260 Those are the two that make the most sense since that mega evolution was invested into the Skow Villain, but there's no switch. 07:22:07.260 --> 07:22:10.860 It's just another Aqua Jet into the opposing Vasco Legion. 07:22:10.860 --> 07:22:14.140 Asco Villain protects itself so it doesn't get knocked out on this turn. 07:22:14.140 --> 07:22:16.140 That's going to get one attack. 07:22:16.140 --> 07:22:19.100 The Moon Blast from the Linskroc cannot land on its target. 07:22:19.100 --> 07:22:20.940 But the last respects comes out. 07:22:20.940 --> 07:22:23.420 It is a knockout despite the burn. 07:22:23.420 --> 07:22:25.740 And so there's a free switch here for Zast. 07:22:25.740 --> 07:22:27.740 But is it too little too late? 07:22:27.740 --> 07:22:29.260 Yeah, let's see. 07:22:29.260 --> 07:22:31.340 Like I mentioned, staying in with Aqua Jet saying, 07:22:31.340 --> 07:22:34.700 look, I don't want to switch something in and eat up too much damage. 07:22:34.700 --> 07:22:39.500 Also a testament just how powerful Vasco Legion is that your burn still gets knocked out is going to be at the 07:22:39.620 --> 07:22:41.980 Sleezler coming out right now though. So 07:22:42.540 --> 07:22:48.640 This is looking quite scary. I think for Zach in that, you know, the Vasco Legion here to get another attack off 07:22:49.140 --> 07:22:54.740 I mean you can thread in a moon blast into the school building for example if Vasco Legion is somehow able to get a last 07:22:54.740 --> 07:22:56.540 Exist or wave crush in the Sleezler 07:22:56.540 --> 07:22:57.740 That would be huge 07:22:57.740 --> 07:23:00.500 Sleezler right now of course does have fake out pressure online though 07:23:00.500 --> 07:23:07.860 the basket will faint after one more tick of life or also burns obviously I think yeah getting the awkward turn right makes me you know 07:23:08.180 --> 07:23:12.540 Fever you you up more big still is really close right now. Okay, what's that going for the protect? 07:23:13.060 --> 07:23:17.020 Does that mean that maybe we see some damage come out from the seasoner into the basket legion? 07:23:17.020 --> 07:23:25.220 So your rage part of the scovilla into guarantee that this easler is safe from an attack from the basket legion as the aqua jet comes through to pick it off 07:23:25.220 --> 07:23:30.860 That's burn damage though and the life orb recoil at the end of the turn so is that going to add up to be enough? 07:23:30.860 --> 07:23:33.180 And it looks like it will once the burn comes through at the end 07:23:33.380 --> 07:23:41.060 But Sneasler tried to use for the dump shot and whips it off that has protected itself can Sneasler clutch out a 1v2 07:23:41.580 --> 07:23:47.020 Think the answer is just gonna be no right you get to bring out the Sneasler now on Yuyazen 07:23:47.020 --> 07:23:51.420 And you can go for fake out into a tailwind then start launching close combat at moon glass 07:23:51.420 --> 07:23:57.280 It's just because of the 2v1, like Winscott being able to get a single Moon Blast off into Sneasler and be able to set up 07:23:57.280 --> 07:24:01.220 Tailwind should allow Yuya to take us to a game 3. So here we go. Fakeout comes out. 07:24:01.220 --> 07:24:03.240 You can't really protect because then you get on board, right? 07:24:03.240 --> 07:24:05.240 So then you also get up to chip damage from that. 07:24:05.240 --> 07:24:10.860 So Fakeout going to stop the Sneasler and extract, and Winscott just confirms some damage, and on the next turn, 07:24:10.860 --> 07:24:13.360 and looks like this is going to be wrapped up. 07:24:13.360 --> 07:24:18.680 Yuya, evening up the game count, and we get to go to a game 3 to see who will move on to the top 4. 07:24:18.680 --> 07:24:22.920 Yeah, and it was a mix-up right here in terms of the lead adjustments from Zach, 07:24:22.920 --> 07:24:27.640 the team gambit, Brett is Vasculation out, but I think a couple calls went in Uya's favorite here. 07:24:27.640 --> 07:24:31.960 What's got actually off him just to go for a three-patch right now as Sneasler will move first, 07:24:31.960 --> 07:24:35.800 get that close combat off, and feel us enough to bring us to game three. 07:24:36.920 --> 07:24:42.760 Important information there as well, to actually be able to see that Uya Sneasler did get the 07:24:42.760 --> 07:24:47.640 close combat off first yeah instant yeah and so a lot to consider heading into a 07:24:47.640 --> 07:24:53.480 very critical game three only one of them could move on to the top four of the world championships 07:24:53.480 --> 07:24:57.000 I think if you're exact you're probably thinking I had a couple of opportunities in that one things 07:24:57.000 --> 07:25:01.560 just didn't go my way on specific turns this was nice obviously and getting the boost uh with the 07:25:01.560 --> 07:25:05.800 deviant but I think one thing that you did really effectively was bring multiple Pokemon I didn't 07:25:05.800 --> 07:25:09.640 really care that much about the sucker punch damage this turn was huge by the way because I was 07:25:09.640 --> 07:25:11.920 I was talking about Sucker Punch, Aqua Jet, maybe just K-Wing Flood. 07:25:11.920 --> 07:25:14.200 As we saw later, Aqua Jet did knock it out, right? 07:25:14.200 --> 07:25:18.420 So had the double up went up there, then the King Gambit would have been healthier 07:25:18.420 --> 07:25:21.440 instead of being at just 2%, which allowed it to faint from Aqua Jet. 07:25:21.440 --> 07:25:25.760 But to me, I think the on-core was kind of the key deciding factor in this end game 07:25:25.760 --> 07:25:30.200 where that got on-core blocked, and then it put Basque Allegiant in a really compromising position. 07:25:30.200 --> 07:25:32.640 Yeah, you saw the theory though, right? 07:25:32.640 --> 07:25:34.400 Because you do have the Skull Villain. 07:25:34.400 --> 07:25:38.560 At least the Rage Powder can help to redirect away the attacks from the Basque Allegiant. 07:25:38.560 --> 07:25:41.860 But it can't help you against this grass type on core. 07:25:41.860 --> 07:25:46.000 And so that is unfortunate, but a call you have to make 07:25:46.000 --> 07:25:47.360 when you're in a position like that. 07:25:47.360 --> 07:25:50.200 So heading into this game three, do we see a mix-up? 07:25:50.200 --> 07:25:52.340 Is there actually going to be an appearance 07:25:52.340 --> 07:25:55.080 of the Mega Dragonite for Yuya and the Mega Frog Slash 07:25:55.080 --> 07:25:56.200 for Zack? 07:25:56.200 --> 07:25:57.040 I don't know. 07:25:57.040 --> 07:25:58.480 I was hoping to see it in the last game. 07:25:58.480 --> 07:26:00.760 I think Yuya might say, I think this is just the best line 07:26:00.760 --> 07:26:01.600 that I have to take. 07:26:01.600 --> 07:26:04.440 Like when Scott Baskileysh exerts a lot of offensive pressure. 07:26:04.440 --> 07:26:06.440 If you're a Zack, right, you could be King Gambit, 07:26:06.440 --> 07:26:14.440 It kind of feels like a gamble, right, because you got multiple turns wrong against the Basque Legion, and with all the resistances, it didn't do very much. 07:26:14.440 --> 07:26:21.440 So let's see if he brings it back. It's not going to be the Lightning Rock, which I feel like is more consistent, because Brock's like those 30 to 40% consistently against everything. 07:26:21.440 --> 07:26:27.440 And it's going to be the run back of the Basque Legion and the Wimps the Cod. And so there's a lot of off-and-ten both sides. 07:26:27.440 --> 07:26:33.440 So what is interesting here is, what do you just go for Moonblast Wavecrasher to Skowvillian again, right? Skowvillian, protect the last time. 07:26:33.440 --> 07:26:36.760 the last time let's say you predict that well you can moon glass awkward at the 07:26:36.760 --> 07:26:40.480 opposing life in rock and so even though we've seen the exact same leaves I 07:26:40.480 --> 07:26:45.600 think turn one and really give whoever gains the you know advantage against the 07:26:45.600 --> 07:26:49.240 turn right really just allows it to snowball and so let's see okay so 07:26:49.240 --> 07:26:51.680 villain is going to stay in it is just gonna mega ball 07:26:51.680 --> 07:26:57.080 my evolution is going to help the skill villain to have that spicy extract for 07:26:57.080 --> 07:27:01.200 the physical attacker of this fast religion we'll see what actually happens 07:27:01.200 --> 07:27:04.400 on this turn, it's going to go for the protect first. 07:27:04.400 --> 07:27:06.860 Make sure I can keep that focus dash intact as fast 07:27:06.860 --> 07:27:09.600 deletion is also going to go for a protect. 07:27:09.600 --> 07:27:12.800 Now, you have the information that this Scoville and Jid 07:27:12.800 --> 07:27:15.280 end up committing that mega evolution, 07:27:15.280 --> 07:27:18.360 and like in Rock, cannot hit those rock slides to connect. 07:27:18.360 --> 07:27:20.600 Yeah, so going for the double protect, just to say, look, 07:27:20.600 --> 07:27:23.080 I want to just scout for what you do this time around. 07:27:23.080 --> 07:27:25.240 And whatever you click, while now I have 07:27:25.240 --> 07:27:26.920 on-court pressure to either slot next turn. 07:27:26.920 --> 07:27:29.240 So it ends up being a little bit safe, right? 07:27:29.240 --> 07:27:35.120 And now you do pressure on for it until a Lycan Rock in the rock slide or into Skull Villain for gigatree, right? 07:27:35.120 --> 07:27:40.240 And so same play exists where I talked about earlier, which is Moon Blast plus Aqua Jet into Lycan Rock. 07:27:40.240 --> 07:27:45.120 That seems kind of unlikely, right? Because Skull Villain could go for a Rage Powder potentially. 07:27:45.120 --> 07:27:48.240 What it is? And yeah, no Rage Powder! 07:27:48.240 --> 07:27:54.160 No Rage Powder to just draw the attention away so Lycan Rock gets brought down to its focus by that Aqua Jet. 07:27:54.160 --> 07:27:58.240 So there's another follow-up here from the Wings of Claw. It's like a Rock, it's just going to go down. 07:27:58.240 --> 07:28:03.040 The conducts govillain make up enough of the deficit as Whipsicott's Moonblast lands. 07:28:03.040 --> 07:28:05.840 Lichenrock is now out of this third game. 07:28:05.840 --> 07:28:10.320 Govillain has the pressure here. Overseas super effective into the Whipsicott. 07:28:10.320 --> 07:28:12.960 Has the giga drain forced the Vascular Legion as well. 07:28:12.960 --> 07:28:17.040 The Vascular Legion does not get felled by that one giga drain. 07:28:17.760 --> 07:28:19.520 Not the worst trade I think at the end of the day. 07:28:19.520 --> 07:28:23.280 Lichenrock going down without getting any damage on does not feel great if you're Zack. 07:28:23.280 --> 07:28:26.080 But I think Zack was saying you're not going to go for Moonblast off with that. 07:28:26.080 --> 07:28:30.560 I can ragefire with that Aqua Jet away and so Yuya, like I said, that is a potential play to make 07:28:30.560 --> 07:28:34.320 and the question is whether or not Zack's gonna want to cover for him. Skogilin still gets a lot though. 07:28:34.320 --> 07:28:38.960 Basket Legion and safely from his end, so now you've threaded Aqua Jet into the Basket Legion on Yuya's end 07:28:38.960 --> 07:28:43.600 and it's just an overkeep potentially into a win to come, right? So I think Zack's position is actually 07:28:43.600 --> 07:28:47.920 still fine even though Leica Rock can get any damage off it. Once again, on-court, this is why 07:28:47.920 --> 07:28:52.960 Winner's Cut is such a valuable tool in this matchup that Skogilin now is going to be locked into Giga 3. 07:28:52.960 --> 07:28:56.040 But this Aqua Jet's going to pick off the Baskin-Legion. 07:28:56.040 --> 07:29:00.880 And so too, the Pokemon down for Yuya as that Baskin-Legion 07:29:00.880 --> 07:29:03.520 was a pretty terrible piece of the puzzle. 07:29:03.520 --> 07:29:06.400 At least it was able to take up the Light Rock before it was self. 07:29:06.400 --> 07:29:09.920 But now the Wintekon has its focus as broken by this fulfilling. 07:29:09.920 --> 07:29:10.960 And that was 30%. 07:29:10.960 --> 07:29:11.460 30%? 07:29:11.460 --> 07:29:12.560 Yeah, that's not bad. 07:29:12.560 --> 07:29:16.120 Skovillian's offense actually really putting in a lot of work. 07:29:16.120 --> 07:29:18.240 Now we know Skovillian, however, is lost in the Giga Drain. 07:29:18.240 --> 07:29:19.960 And then of course, if you argue, you 07:29:19.960 --> 07:29:22.680 can thread an Encore into the Baskin-Legion as well, right? 07:29:22.680 --> 07:29:24.780 and force that into Aqua Jet. 07:29:24.780 --> 07:29:27.480 So, what do you do now if you're Zachary? 07:29:27.480 --> 07:29:30.280 Because the Flood isn't a really strong position, right? 07:29:30.280 --> 07:29:32.780 I would expect Sneasler to be Zachary's more Pokemon. 07:29:32.780 --> 07:29:34.280 You really don't want to switch Sneasler in 07:29:34.280 --> 07:29:38.180 and you'd have way too much Mary-type damage, especially if you do make an aggressive prediction 07:29:38.180 --> 07:29:39.880 and you go to something like the Dazzling Wing, 07:29:39.880 --> 07:29:41.380 you can last double up and smash locks. 07:29:41.380 --> 07:29:42.780 These are a face. It's a disaster. 07:29:42.780 --> 07:29:45.280 And so, you can see the power of Encore here. 07:29:45.280 --> 07:29:48.280 And I think Riga has a safe Encore into the Vasco Legion. 07:29:48.280 --> 07:29:50.780 Zachary maybe protect Vasco Legions, which is still going out. 07:29:50.780 --> 07:29:53.980 or even protect Vaskylician and get a gigatron off of Skovill and saying, 07:29:53.980 --> 07:29:56.700 look, you have two fairies out right now, you're not going to do much damage into me. 07:29:56.700 --> 07:29:59.420 I'm fine being lost in the gigatron. I'm just going to keep gigatroning your filet. 07:29:59.980 --> 07:30:04.380 All of that damage ends up adding up eventually, so I think you have to worry a little bit about 07:30:04.380 --> 07:30:09.340 that Skovill and getting too much damage. And gigatron is going to heal you at the end of the 07:30:09.340 --> 07:30:13.900 turn if you actually have had some damage taken. So Skovill is going to have to be dealt with 07:30:13.900 --> 07:30:19.180 at some point or another. Vaskylician first to protect itself and then Skovill gets to attack. 07:30:19.180 --> 07:30:22.940 As a fast healer, he keeps himself safe from the move blast from this one, Sakha. 07:30:22.940 --> 07:30:27.260 And now, Flobby, with the dash, we need to do some chip through the Skowill, but again, 07:30:27.260 --> 07:30:31.900 is this going to be just a light tickle that the Skowill can heal off with a gigatrain? 07:30:31.900 --> 07:30:36.140 Yeah, I think the answer is yes, and this is why I kept saying maybe Dragonite, maybe Dragonite, 07:30:36.140 --> 07:30:39.180 right? I think Dragonite's offense would have been a little bit better in this position. 07:30:39.180 --> 07:30:43.340 That is not a bad trade if you're Skowill, right? Skowill, it's like, hey, thanks for the damage. 07:30:43.340 --> 07:30:47.100 I'm going to heal back up and enjoy your burn on the way out as well, right? And so, 07:30:47.100 --> 07:30:52.460 It's a really good trade here once again though. There is the threat of on-core now into the basket 07:30:52.460 --> 07:30:57.180 Legion slot. So you would think maybe basket Legion wants to switch out. If you switch out into that 07:30:57.180 --> 07:31:00.940 Sneasler and you eat up a Moonblast and Dazzling Lee and hey that might just be a knockout. So 07:31:00.940 --> 07:31:03.820 Sneasler comes in, feel like Yuya built for on-core here. 07:31:04.540 --> 07:31:10.700 On-core is selected and so Sneasler will make sure that that fails. A Foulette ends up following 07:31:10.700 --> 07:31:15.580 up with a Moonblast that's still a lot of damage that Sneasler's going to eat but it's a round for 07:31:15.580 --> 07:31:19.580 for the next turn as Govillain gets off another impressive giga drain. 07:31:19.580 --> 07:31:22.580 One more and this Floette is going to get knocked out. 07:31:22.580 --> 07:31:26.580 Can we just point out that two turns ago we had Max HP Floette, Max HP Scovillain 07:31:26.580 --> 07:31:29.580 and now we have Max HP Scovillain, 27% Floette. 07:31:29.580 --> 07:31:32.580 Like that Floette has really gotten shipped away. 07:31:32.580 --> 07:31:34.580 The Scovillain's office has actually been really impressive. 07:31:34.580 --> 07:31:37.580 And yes, these are touching up to survive that Moonblast. 07:31:37.580 --> 07:31:41.580 Like I said, Yuya could have doubled up in that position going for Moonblast with his Whimsicott. 07:31:41.580 --> 07:31:46.080 tries to on-court the basket region does not get it out of fear of awkward jet 07:31:46.560 --> 07:31:50.480 Coming out and finishing blolet so big momentum swing over to Zach now 07:31:50.800 --> 07:31:55.200 Sneasler of course out on the field does have the ability to just go for a takeout 07:31:55.440 --> 07:31:58.960 As always if you take out then you have to worry about getting on court potentially afterwards 07:31:58.960 --> 07:32:03.980 But it is something like a mutualized either side by the way, I still don't see an answer to snow villain right now 07:32:04.600 --> 07:32:07.360 I don't either gotta be the sneasler in the back, right? 07:32:07.360 --> 07:32:08.920 but you gotta get it out eventually. 07:32:08.920 --> 07:32:11.400 And so, for now, it's gonna be a Wimpscot protect. 07:32:11.400 --> 07:32:13.560 Govillain can start to knock out under this blowout 07:32:13.560 --> 07:32:15.200 with just a single giga-drain. 07:32:15.200 --> 07:32:16.700 And then you also have overheat 07:32:16.700 --> 07:32:18.400 to try to knock out this Wimpscot. 07:32:18.400 --> 07:32:21.440 Either way, I see this Govillain being the big winner here. 07:32:21.440 --> 07:32:23.340 Even though Sneasler doesn't get a chance 07:32:23.340 --> 07:32:24.680 to fake out the Wimpscot, 07:32:24.680 --> 07:32:27.080 and gets knocked out with that Dazzling Glee, 07:32:27.080 --> 07:32:30.320 if Govillain attacks this blowout, which it does, 07:32:30.320 --> 07:32:32.480 that's another Pokemon down. 07:32:32.480 --> 07:32:35.620 And it's the only Wimpscot that stands in Zack's way 07:32:35.620 --> 07:32:39.020 of moving on to the top four of the World Championship. 07:32:39.020 --> 07:32:40.820 You've got one more in the back, right? 07:32:40.820 --> 07:32:41.580 One. 07:32:41.580 --> 07:32:42.980 There's a Sneasler coming in, I think. 07:32:42.980 --> 07:32:44.700 Maybe it's a Sneasler, but I'm just saying, 07:32:44.700 --> 07:32:47.980 like at this fast collision, you have to worry about it. 07:32:47.980 --> 07:32:48.900 It's sitting back there. 07:32:48.900 --> 07:32:51.260 Maybe it's the King Gamma, and it keeps you in this. 07:32:51.260 --> 07:32:52.060 It's a Sneasler. 07:32:52.060 --> 07:32:52.820 OK. 07:32:52.820 --> 07:32:55.020 So Sneasler here, probably the best Pokemon. 07:32:55.020 --> 07:32:56.660 If it's King Gamma, they're a regular Dragonite, 07:32:56.660 --> 07:32:58.340 I would have thought the game was over. 07:32:58.340 --> 07:33:00.820 I mean, this still looks really dire, to be honest. 07:33:00.820 --> 07:33:03.900 I'm trying to think, like, you can't double protect, 07:33:03.900 --> 07:33:07.420 right because if you double protect then of course you lose to an all four you 07:33:07.420 --> 07:33:10.300 have to really be mindful of all four right now but Sneasler can just go for 07:33:10.300 --> 07:33:14.260 an immediate direct on the Stovillian like I think Zack's in a really commanding 07:33:14.260 --> 07:33:18.500 position given the offensive match of Stovillian at Vascular Legion just needs to find the right 07:33:18.500 --> 07:33:22.340 sequencing here and make sure you do not lose to all four. Here we go it's just 07:33:22.340 --> 07:33:27.740 going to be offense coming up move last into Vascular Legion 90 down to 51 that did 39% 07:33:27.740 --> 07:33:29.740 And these are the best lines! 07:33:29.740 --> 07:33:32.740 All the faculty and leaders on this track have done it! 07:33:32.740 --> 07:33:35.740 It wasn't the whimsical you had to worry about. 07:33:35.740 --> 07:33:37.740 It's going to be that frog slide. 07:33:37.740 --> 07:33:39.740 Blasters, backs, whips, and connings down. 07:33:39.740 --> 07:33:41.740 These lords left on an island. 07:33:41.740 --> 07:33:45.740 And now we are one Pokemon away from Zack moving on to the top four. 07:33:45.740 --> 07:33:47.740 Overheat connects. 07:33:47.740 --> 07:33:50.740 Skullvillain's going to lose some special attack stats, 07:33:50.740 --> 07:33:52.740 but at this point, the damage is gone. 07:33:52.740 --> 07:33:54.740 Sneezles at 33%. 07:33:54.740 --> 07:33:56.740 And the fork, it comes through. 07:33:56.740 --> 07:34:01.380 that we move on to the top four of the small championships. 07:34:01.380 --> 07:34:03.620 Well, Chris Berry, when we started this, I told you, 07:34:03.620 --> 07:34:06.980 I wanted to see Rock Slide, and boy, did we see Rock Slide. 07:34:06.980 --> 07:34:10.500 We saw Rock Slide in every one of its forms. 07:34:10.500 --> 07:34:12.660 Forgive it, and it take it away. 07:34:12.660 --> 07:34:16.460 That move can be powerful, or it can let you down. 07:34:16.460 --> 07:34:20.460 And that double miss, heavily unfortunate for that 07:34:20.460 --> 07:34:22.140 to seal up the game for you, yeah. 07:34:22.140 --> 07:34:24.780 Yeah, to be honest, I think even if you get the double flinch 07:34:24.780 --> 07:34:29.540 like Zach still gets another turn to play with right and so it was very very 07:34:29.540 --> 07:34:34.740 heavily favored in Zach's yeah it's in that final turn but the rocks like you 07:34:34.740 --> 07:34:37.780 know you always go for it as like a last-ditch effort get some damage also 07:34:37.780 --> 07:34:41.060 go for a flinch but to me the main defining factor in game three was once 07:34:41.060 --> 07:34:44.020 again mega scovillain came out mega flow that came out on the opposing side and 07:34:44.020 --> 07:34:48.940 at the flow it just traded terribly into the scovillain right so that's all we 07:34:48.940 --> 07:34:52.300 kept saying dragonite dragonite dragonite maybe dragonite baby dragonite and if it 07:34:52.300 --> 07:34:55.300 were a dragon I did that end game and actually is pretty bulky right you've 07:34:55.300 --> 07:34:58.980 got decent damage with the dragon pulse you've got keep waving thunderbolt as 07:34:58.980 --> 07:35:02.260 well pretty good coverage across the board but you are just sticking to flow 07:35:02.260 --> 07:35:05.880 out in the end and I think Zach making the adjustment back into like the rock 07:35:05.880 --> 07:35:09.740 dropping that King Gambit and does not get flinched here in the end and Zachary 07:35:09.740 --> 07:35:14.500 is gonna get a trophy here moving on to the semi-finals. Still an impressive 07:35:14.500 --> 07:35:20.540 performance there by Yuya coming out of the Japan national tournament right 07:35:20.540 --> 07:35:23.540 to be a top three to result. 07:35:23.540 --> 07:35:25.540 Gus. Hey, top eight of the 07:35:25.540 --> 07:35:26.540 world championships is an 07:35:26.540 --> 07:35:28.540 impressive achievement. It's 07:35:28.540 --> 07:35:30.540 pretty good. Yeah. And I just 07:35:30.540 --> 07:35:31.540 wish we could have seen mega 07:35:31.540 --> 07:35:32.540 dragonite because I think you 07:35:32.540 --> 07:35:33.540 know, he was one of the 07:35:33.540 --> 07:35:34.540 premier mega dragonite 07:35:34.540 --> 07:35:35.540 players just coming out of 07:35:35.540 --> 07:35:36.540 day one. It's not a Pokemon 07:35:36.540 --> 07:35:37.540 that's made a ton of 07:35:37.540 --> 07:35:39.540 appearances on stream. We had 07:35:39.540 --> 07:35:41.540 a couple of mega dragonites in 07:35:41.540 --> 07:35:43.540 day two here. Yeah, basically 07:35:43.540 --> 07:35:44.540 one of the best pilots of it 07:35:44.540 --> 07:35:46.540 throughout the tournament, but 07:35:46.540 --> 07:35:47.540 definitely an amazing run 07:35:47.540 --> 07:35:49.540 throughout the course. And man, 07:35:49.540 --> 07:35:51.860 I got to say, like seeing Rockslight on a Sneasler just 07:35:51.860 --> 07:35:53.260 instills so much fear in my heart, 07:35:53.260 --> 07:35:55.660 knowing how fast it is and the ability to get points just 07:35:55.660 --> 07:35:56.340 across the board. 07:35:56.340 --> 07:36:01.240 But in the end, it is not the most reliable there in that end 07:36:01.240 --> 07:36:01.740 game. 07:36:01.740 --> 07:36:02.860 And once again, I think like Zach was 07:36:02.860 --> 07:36:04.980 in a really favorable position given the bulk of basketball 07:36:04.980 --> 07:36:05.900 region and Scobolin. 07:36:05.900 --> 07:36:07.420 And he spoke in one of our training ways 07:36:07.420 --> 07:36:09.700 to guarantee that you can survive one big attack normally, 07:36:09.700 --> 07:36:10.200 right? 07:36:10.200 --> 07:36:13.260 And so I thought Scobolin has looked so impressive 07:36:13.260 --> 07:36:14.820 in this top eight. 07:36:14.820 --> 07:36:16.780 That's why I was seeing in the future here. 07:36:16.780 --> 07:36:18.460 And I was like, Sneasler is not going 07:36:18.460 --> 07:36:19.460 I'm just kidding. 07:36:19.460 --> 07:36:22.460 But yeah, I think it's just been an amazing performance. 07:36:22.460 --> 07:36:23.460 Let's hear from Zach. 07:36:23.460 --> 07:36:28.460 He must be elated that he's moving on to the top four. 07:36:28.460 --> 07:36:29.460 Thank you so much. 07:36:29.460 --> 07:36:30.460 I'm here with Zachary. 07:36:30.460 --> 07:36:34.460 Weed your final top four player here at the 2026 World 07:36:34.460 --> 07:36:35.460 Championships. 07:36:35.460 --> 07:36:36.460 Let's hear it up. 07:36:36.460 --> 07:36:40.460 Zachary, I know it's been a crazy season for you. 07:36:40.460 --> 07:36:43.460 What does it mean to be here on the top four? 07:36:43.460 --> 07:36:50.420 Zachary I know it's been a crazy season for you. What does it mean to be here on the stage knowing that you've walked in a 07:36:50.900 --> 07:36:52.900 Trophy here at the world championships 07:36:53.740 --> 07:36:59.340 I am kind of in disbelief to say the least I was messaging all my friends the week before this event 07:36:59.340 --> 07:37:03.080 I was saying oh my god. I can't wait to go 4-4 at this tournament and 07:37:03.620 --> 07:37:09.500 Well, this is a lot better than 4-4 I'd say I mean there's still a 4 in the number. So you got that part, right? 07:37:10.100 --> 07:37:12.100 Yeah 07:37:12.100 --> 07:37:18.320 All right, let's talk about that last match because it was looking pretty dicey there for a while, especially with you as whips a cot 07:37:18.320 --> 07:37:23.660 I mean, what was your strategy playing around those on course, especially when it looked like that whips a cock could have locked you into 07:37:23.660 --> 07:37:25.660 Protect or aqua jet a lot of those turns 07:37:26.040 --> 07:37:33.820 Yeah, the whips a cot was very scary for sure, especially because it could set tailwind allow the basket legion to pretty much sweep my team 07:37:33.820 --> 07:37:36.620 If I didn't play well, but I realized that 07:37:36.620 --> 07:37:39.340 that even though it can click on core 07:37:39.340 --> 07:37:41.180 or in a clean click tailwind, 07:37:41.180 --> 07:37:43.380 it's not really offering much of a damage threat 07:37:43.380 --> 07:37:44.500 most of the time. 07:37:44.500 --> 07:37:47.340 So with my skill villain on the field, 07:37:47.340 --> 07:37:51.820 I can just say I'm fine getting on court into gigadream 07:37:51.820 --> 07:37:53.500 because you're getting trapped, 07:37:53.500 --> 07:37:55.660 basically trapped on the field with a Pokemon 07:37:55.660 --> 07:38:00.380 that's doing maybe 10 to 20% onto my skill villain at max. 07:38:00.380 --> 07:38:03.460 So I was fine with taking the on core 07:38:03.460 --> 07:38:06.300 as if it meant I was just able to keep doing damage 07:38:06.300 --> 07:38:11.260 some sort. I mean not only just doing damage but healing damage. We saw your 07:38:11.260 --> 07:38:16.460 Scovillain heal up half the damage it took every single turn it felt like. It 07:38:16.460 --> 07:38:21.300 seemed like it that's your MVP of that battle. For sure I when I used to play 07:38:21.300 --> 07:38:25.820 this matchup I tend to lean towards Frost last more but the more I've played 07:38:25.820 --> 07:38:29.500 with the team the more I've realized how good Scovillain is because most of that 07:38:29.500 --> 07:38:34.980 team just cannot deal with the fire typing and the burn at all and combined 07:38:34.980 --> 07:38:37.780 with some gigadrain or overheat chip. 07:38:37.780 --> 07:38:40.080 It means that a lot of their Pokemon 07:38:40.080 --> 07:38:41.940 get shipped down very quickly 07:38:41.940 --> 07:38:45.020 in range of all your priority tax. 07:38:45.020 --> 07:38:47.760 So out of curiosity, in that game number three, 07:38:47.760 --> 07:38:50.860 when Lycanroc went down early with that double KO, 07:38:50.860 --> 07:38:52.520 did you really have to pivot your game plan 07:38:52.520 --> 07:38:54.460 to be focused more around the Scobellon, 07:38:54.460 --> 07:38:58.060 or was that your plan from the start? 07:38:58.060 --> 07:39:00.360 Going into that turn, I knew that he was gonna double up 07:39:00.360 --> 07:39:02.100 in KO something. 07:39:02.100 --> 07:39:09.820 I was fine with it being the Lichenrock because it meant that Skowillian could just stay around and be an absolute wall for him and 07:39:11.100 --> 07:39:16.620 Honestly, once the Basque Legion is gone, there's not much stopping Skowillian from completely taking over the game 07:39:18.780 --> 07:39:20.400 Maybe could have 07:39:20.400 --> 07:39:23.340 played a little bit more aggressive and tried to call out a 07:39:23.900 --> 07:39:28.900 Aqua Jet Moonblast, but ultimately I was fine giving up the Lichenrock for basically nothing knowing that 07:39:28.900 --> 07:39:32.180 that my position was still completely fine. 07:39:33.300 --> 07:39:36.340 Well, Zachary, congratulations again on making top four. 07:39:36.340 --> 07:39:37.460 Are there any shout outs you want to give 07:39:37.460 --> 07:39:39.580 to anybody watching at home? 07:39:39.580 --> 07:39:43.900 Shout out to my family, my mom here in the audience with us. 07:39:45.180 --> 07:39:50.020 My, all my friends watching, my local scene, 07:39:50.020 --> 07:39:52.940 and just everyone who helped me this weekend. 07:39:52.940 --> 07:39:53.860 I love everyone. 07:39:54.900 --> 07:39:56.940 Congratulations again on making top four. 07:39:56.940 --> 07:40:01.940 for Zachary and all of our top four finalists here in San Francisco one more time. 07:40:03.940 --> 07:40:07.940 And now let's go ahead and talk to Ben about our finalists. 07:40:07.940 --> 07:40:11.940 We have some incredible top four matches coming up and I can't wait to hear him break it down. 07:40:13.940 --> 07:40:19.940 Yeah, you're still cheering but keep on cheering because Zachary's done so, so well to make it into our top four. 07:40:19.940 --> 07:40:24.880 top four Ben Scott here to have a little bit of a rundown of that last top eight 07:40:24.880 --> 07:40:29.300 matching them. Well we've been talking about that's go villain a little while 07:40:29.300 --> 07:40:34.580 but we haven't really seen it pop off in the way that Zachary made it pop off in 07:40:34.580 --> 07:40:37.700 that match have we. Yeah I mean I think it looks like a very different Pokemon 07:40:37.700 --> 07:40:40.140 that match and pretty much every other time we've seen it right where they're 07:40:40.140 --> 07:40:42.660 typically used basically just for an ability right when it's broken. Hey you 07:40:42.660 --> 07:40:46.300 know all rage powder I'll get you know some burns out there I'll support the 07:40:46.300 --> 07:40:51.500 team and I'll kind of go on my merry way where he was as go sweeping in that one because 07:40:51.500 --> 07:40:54.940 yeah, I just wasn't gonna have a good way to deal with it. And you know, the special 07:40:54.940 --> 07:40:58.540 tax down that Pokemon isn't bad, right? I switch to that giga drain where you're not 07:40:58.540 --> 07:41:03.460 just like immediately nuking your own stats. And yeah, I mean, it's not what I was expecting 07:41:03.460 --> 07:41:07.060 to see in top eight, but maybe we're seeing more and more of why this team keeps surviving. 07:41:07.060 --> 07:41:10.340 Right? So a little more flexible than maybe it appears. Yeah, it's like, you know, it's 07:41:10.340 --> 07:41:14.660 not just also you get those moody boosts that we saw. And like, sometimes they work for 07:41:14.660 --> 07:41:17.900 you sometimes they don't work 07:41:17.900 --> 07:41:18.700 for you. We saw a sco villain 07:41:18.700 --> 07:41:20.300 get a two plus personal attack 07:41:20.300 --> 07:41:22.300 boost at some point today. I 07:41:22.300 --> 07:41:24.340 like. Oh, that's a that's a 07:41:24.340 --> 07:41:26.340 sco villain. We gotta look out 07:41:26.340 --> 07:41:27.940 for. But in that match, and 07:41:27.940 --> 07:41:29.940 especially in game three where 07:41:29.940 --> 07:41:30.940 playing up against a mega flow. 07:41:30.940 --> 07:41:32.940 I mean, that's like one of the 07:41:32.940 --> 07:41:34.940 reasons that sco villain is 07:41:34.940 --> 07:41:36.540 really part of this team is to 07:41:36.540 --> 07:41:37.940 just sort of like be sco chilling 07:41:37.940 --> 07:41:39.380 against a mega flow. It's an 07:41:39.380 --> 07:41:41.380 any other fairy type damage like 07:41:41.380 --> 07:41:42.580 from the whims a cop in front 07:41:42.580 --> 07:41:44.580 of it and just like, Hey, uh, 07:41:44.580 --> 07:41:46.580 I'll just keep recovering all of my health. 07:41:46.580 --> 07:41:47.580 Yeah, I think it's a lot of fun, too. 07:41:47.580 --> 07:41:49.580 You get, like, to forget that element of the matchup 07:41:49.580 --> 07:41:50.580 sometimes with you. 07:41:50.580 --> 07:41:52.580 Obviously, the like-and-rocks there for Charizard. 07:41:52.580 --> 07:41:55.580 There's Covillain's a big jerk to most of the physical attackers 07:41:55.580 --> 07:41:57.580 in the team, but it does have the type-matchup advantage 07:41:57.580 --> 07:41:58.580 you can flow out to, right? 07:41:58.580 --> 07:42:00.580 As we saw in that match, it's not going to knock it out 07:42:00.580 --> 07:42:03.580 in a hurry or anything, but you look at there eventually, 07:42:03.580 --> 07:42:05.580 and more critically, you know, Flovers are really doing 07:42:05.580 --> 07:42:08.580 anything to it back, where, yeah, it's definitely, you know, 07:42:08.580 --> 07:42:11.580 you're trapped in here with me sort of situation. 07:42:11.580 --> 07:42:13.580 And looking at this matchup as well, I mean, 07:42:13.580 --> 07:42:30.080 This is not something that I feel like Zachary would have prepared for specifically, like a lot of players don't come to this sort of archetype the way that Yuya and Takuma, most importantly, now being the match that we're going to see after this with Zachary versus Takuma and Tom 4. 07:42:30.080 --> 07:42:39.080 And say, hey, this Charizard just ain't pulling its way. Let's put a dragonite there instead, which, to be fair, is a strong Pokemon. It's got lots of stats. 07:42:39.080 --> 07:42:45.080 it's got multi-scale, which is probably one of, if not the most strong abilities in the game. 07:42:45.080 --> 07:42:49.640 But I think that what's really interesting about this matchup here is like, if you focus on the 07:42:49.640 --> 07:42:56.040 Scovillain, if you're Zachary, where it's like, hey, Dragonite looks really cool, you've got like, 07:42:56.040 --> 07:43:01.160 a little bit of cover with the Basculidian as well. We saw how much those life or wave crashes 07:43:01.880 --> 07:43:06.840 do, but also you've got a little bit of pressure from that Windsor cop with the Encore that really 07:43:06.840 --> 07:43:13.760 changes the way that this Pokemon goes, but if you bring those three Pokemon and then instead 07:43:14.680 --> 07:43:20.820 Zachary decides hey, you know what? I'm going for the frostlass right this changes the matchup and flips it on his head 07:43:21.060 --> 07:43:24.200 Yeah, I thought it was pretty interesting too because I think if you look at this matchups 07:43:24.200 --> 07:43:26.160 It's a dragonite there. I think for a lot of players 07:43:26.160 --> 07:43:31.600 It's like a glowing beacon on frostlass and your own team people like oh, I have to yeah, this is my chance 07:43:31.600 --> 07:43:32.760 There's a four times weakness 07:43:32.760 --> 07:43:38.260 I'm going to get them and that you really wouldn't have been the right way to approach this matchup and yeah 07:43:38.260 --> 07:43:39.420 I think it's neat because again 07:43:39.420 --> 07:43:44.640 Yeah, I think probably both of these mega Pokemon are a little bit underappreciated right where they kind of a lose the 07:43:44.640 --> 07:43:46.280 Spotlight to the supporting cast here 07:43:46.280 --> 07:43:48.640 But there's just so much that they can do in this matchup 07:43:48.640 --> 07:43:53.400 And I think also kind of just showing a willingness to bring out their mega Pokemon also makes it so much more difficult to play against 07:43:53.400 --> 07:43:59.040 Where it's like a really deceptively difficult team preview. Yeah, there's like there's so many different branching past here 07:43:59.040 --> 07:44:01.040 And he's most notably important. 07:44:01.040 --> 07:44:05.040 He's here for the Zachary's got to face basically like this matchup again. 07:44:05.040 --> 07:44:07.040 But instead of the women's cup on 07:44:08.040 --> 07:44:11.040 You year's team that he's decided to go for Takumo's got a guard job. 07:44:11.040 --> 07:44:16.040 And so none of the encore pressure is going to be present in Zachary's top four, 07:44:16.040 --> 07:44:19.040 which was like overall a little bit problematic. 07:44:19.040 --> 07:44:23.040 Maybe we're going to see a little bit more rock slide going on with the guard job. 07:44:23.040 --> 07:44:26.680 that's really like swing the 07:44:26.680 --> 07:44:28.680 match up in a different way and 07:44:28.680 --> 07:44:30.680 have a Zachary like even though 07:44:30.680 --> 07:44:32.680 five of the Pokemon and the same 07:44:32.680 --> 07:44:34.680 like what you do against it 07:44:34.680 --> 07:44:36.680 changes so dramatically. Yeah, 07:44:36.680 --> 07:44:38.680 absolutely. And I think for us, 07:44:38.680 --> 07:44:40.680 maybe even more tempting in that 07:44:40.680 --> 07:44:42.680 situation where you get the 07:44:42.680 --> 07:44:44.680 dream of all I got. This is 07:44:44.680 --> 07:44:46.680 out there. This too. Yeah, 07:44:46.680 --> 07:44:48.680 brother. You flying Blizzard. I 07:44:48.680 --> 07:44:50.680 am. I'm not sure what you're 07:44:50.680 --> 07:44:54.460 You know brother you flying blizzard. I am pretty much in the comic in the old days 07:44:54.460 --> 07:44:58.500 But yeah, I think it's interesting to begin you have the option of bringing you have the option not bringing 07:44:58.500 --> 07:45:03.780 They guys go villains so pretty good against both of those Pokemon also where you know that rock sides gonna hurt a lot the first time 07:45:03.780 --> 07:45:08.520 But after that, which the choice craft our job become much more of a flinch bot than a real offensive threat 07:45:08.520 --> 07:45:11.620 So, you know, maybe you just kind of like play the odds in that one a little bit 07:45:11.620 --> 07:45:15.100 I think it's just it's fun in that regard right where it's so 07:45:15.900 --> 07:45:18.020 Complicated to play against kind of in both directions 07:45:18.020 --> 07:45:24.000 And I think it'll be really fun to watch that as a three game set where either of them could very feasibly bring any of their Pokemon 07:45:24.000 --> 07:45:26.000 I think is always the most fun match to watch 07:45:26.240 --> 07:45:31.200 Definitely, especially when you get to the stage of the tournament like all of our players are playing so so well 07:45:31.200 --> 07:45:38.960 And I know it brings me on to a point in game free that we saw where this is this is pretty early in the game, right? 07:45:38.960 --> 07:45:40.960 And so we have the 07:45:42.080 --> 07:45:45.040 The in game one we had 07:45:45.040 --> 07:45:48.640 I think it was one where the 07:45:48.640 --> 07:45:50.640 Lycan Rock goes for the rock 07:45:50.640 --> 07:45:52.640 slide and not the Excel rock 07:45:52.640 --> 07:45:54.640 most notably and the Basque 07:45:54.640 --> 07:45:56.640 Legion goes for an Acquijet here 07:45:56.640 --> 07:45:58.640 and a moon, uh, Windsor Coat 07:45:58.640 --> 07:46:00.640 goes for a moon glass here. 07:46:00.640 --> 07:46:02.640 K over Lycan Rock and leave the 07:46:02.640 --> 07:46:04.640 Scoville and kind of ready to 07:46:04.640 --> 07:46:06.640 have to fend for itself in the 07:46:06.640 --> 07:46:08.640 rest of the game, right? And so 07:46:08.640 --> 07:46:10.640 in this turn, you've got this 07:46:10.640 --> 07:46:12.640 situation where both players 07:46:12.640 --> 07:46:14.640 are like, well, okay, I've seen 07:46:14.640 --> 07:46:28.640 I know I know what can happen in this particular scenario, but I wanted to call out specifically like the mental resolve that both of these players had to actually sit in this turn and just like say, Hang on a second, right? 07:46:28.640 --> 07:46:38.640 We're in this position yet again. Do we do the same thing again while my opponent makes a read or do I try to make a read on top of a read? 07:46:38.640 --> 07:46:46.240 I think it's particularly interesting at this point in a tournament where it's a little bit different than playing a Swiss round where they've known their opponent for probably a couple of hours at this point. 07:46:46.320 --> 07:46:53.840 They've done some prep knowing the matchup and they know what they think the best line is matchup is right. I mean, well, how much you improvise versus how much you kind of trust it before the game. 07:46:54.000 --> 07:46:59.800 I believe this is the right thing to do. Both players kind of just choosing to stick to their guns here and make the same moves that they made the first time. 07:46:59.800 --> 07:47:02.680 Yeah, it's like and here you see like the lichenrock was 07:47:03.820 --> 07:47:07.560 Zachary and he said it this interview is willing to risk that lichenrock going down 07:47:08.060 --> 07:47:14.040 Because that scovillain was in such a good position and here it is going down to that double up yet again 07:47:14.300 --> 07:47:16.300 But I think unlike in game one 07:47:16.300 --> 07:47:22.580 We saw that we see the giga drain coming out here into the Basque legion and I want to pause it here as well 07:47:22.740 --> 07:47:28.480 Just to like highlight how much HP this Basque legion has left just 07:47:28.480 --> 07:47:32.520 and when you're playing 07:47:32.580 --> 07:47:34.020 against Basque Legion, especially 07:47:34.080 --> 07:47:35.780 when they're both carrying the 07:47:35.860 --> 07:47:37.520 life orb, like, you're happy if 07:47:37.580 --> 07:47:39.360 you're Zachary to make that trade 07:47:39.420 --> 07:47:40.960 and holding that line is like, 07:47:41.020 --> 07:47:42.400 well, you say, I'm going to rock 07:47:42.460 --> 07:47:44.720 slide. If it goes well, great. 07:47:44.800 --> 07:47:46.860 Thumbs up. We're making some progress 07:47:46.940 --> 07:47:49.360 in the match. If it doesn't, what I'm 07:47:49.440 --> 07:47:51.300 getting is a lot of damage on a life 07:47:51.360 --> 07:47:53.000 orb, Basque Legion, and actually I can 07:47:53.080 --> 07:47:55.180 use Aquajet to just start picking out 07:47:55.240 --> 07:47:55.980 the pieces. 07:47:56.040 --> 07:47:57.480 Yeah, I think we're playing as a 07:47:57.480 --> 07:48:02.560 It's so exciting to get to make that trade where the best legion probably the format's greatest late game sweeper 07:48:02.560 --> 07:48:05.440 But getting it this low this early kind of insurers of well 07:48:05.440 --> 07:48:08.440 It's probably not going to switch out at this point where it's kind of committed itself 07:48:08.440 --> 07:48:13.420 But even if it does, you know, there's no like series of late game last respects. I have to worry about right 07:48:13.420 --> 07:48:19.000 I think it's just such a nice way to get this set up where you know a potential threat where it actually could just you know 07:48:19.000 --> 07:48:24.600 Wax scovillain from full health and a perfect scenario. It's just never gonna occur in a game like this one exactly 07:48:24.600 --> 07:48:49.600 And then when you've got the in this situation, you know that we don't know this yet, but you, you know this that they've got the flow in the back and that like you're wondering how in this at this point, he was really thinking like how am I actually going to deal so much damage to this mega slow villain to get it down and like, yeah, okay, if you if you go for the on core and you try to lock the slow villain into very far to say or not offensive move. 07:48:49.600 --> 07:49:12.760 is gone for giga drain already, right? So like that's the the worst case scenario. It's not going to be locked into to overheat as well. And but in that situation, you're only like slowing down the progress of the match. You're not actually like making any progress of your own. I think that's something that Zachary did set up so so well in like holding firm, making that trade keeping calm under the pressure. 07:49:12.760 --> 07:49:15.200 Yeah, I think it's a real mastery of the team show there too, right? 07:49:15.200 --> 07:49:18.760 We're getting, I think a lot of players just kind of view it as a spicy spray bot. 07:49:18.760 --> 07:49:25.200 And understanding, no, like in this situation, I can use Go-Dill in a different way than most people think of when they think of this team. 07:49:25.200 --> 07:49:31.480 Allow it to pick up multiple KO's in that game that, you know, set a couple of Pokemon's health bars worth of damage. 07:49:31.480 --> 07:49:34.440 You know, it's supportive until it needs to do something else, right? 07:49:34.440 --> 07:49:36.040 And I think it's just really smart. 07:49:36.040 --> 07:49:41.880 Hey, you know, like every Pokemon has a bunch of attributes and like it has a theoretical role on the team, but situation can change. 07:49:41.880 --> 07:49:43.880 You see what he says at the strong season, right? 07:49:43.880 --> 07:49:45.880 Again, not a player that was on, you know, 07:49:45.880 --> 07:49:47.880 the players to watch graphics, but they just pulled it. 07:49:47.880 --> 07:49:49.880 He did two really impressive second place finishes this year 07:49:49.880 --> 07:49:52.880 at both level event, and he's only a single round away 07:49:52.880 --> 07:49:54.880 from getting to a finals yet again. 07:49:54.880 --> 07:49:57.880 Yeah, you called this out beforehand. 07:49:57.880 --> 07:50:00.880 Yeah, as we come back to the standings of the match, 07:50:00.880 --> 07:50:04.880 see all four of our top competitors here 07:50:04.880 --> 07:50:06.880 ready to go into our semifinals. 07:50:06.880 --> 07:50:10.880 Zachary has made it to the finals multiple times, 07:50:10.880 --> 07:50:15.520 But hasn't quite gotten over that line. We've been talking about it already in Sula Victor Medina 07:50:15.840 --> 07:50:22.160 Two trainers in particular that we usually call out on the broadcast there Zachary potentially in in the 07:50:22.720 --> 07:50:23.600 threatening to 07:50:23.600 --> 07:50:28.880 Yeah, get to that sort of same level of credentials, but maybe he can take it all the way. Yeah 07:50:28.880 --> 07:50:31.440 Yeah, no, I think we always feel a little bad for those trainers 07:50:31.440 --> 07:50:34.800 You always seem to just be so consistent, but you can't quite get over that hump 07:50:34.800 --> 07:50:36.240 We'll have to see if that happens for him 07:50:36.240 --> 07:50:39.080 but four very deserving trainers in these semi-finals. 07:50:39.080 --> 07:50:40.960 And I can't wait to see which of them make it 07:50:40.960 --> 07:50:43.680 to the exciting finals in the big arena tomorrow. 07:50:43.680 --> 07:50:46.160 Well, let's get ourselves set up for our top four. 07:50:46.160 --> 07:50:48.440 We're going to go to a short break right now. 07:50:48.440 --> 07:50:50.320 But stay tuned. You won't want to miss this 07:50:50.320 --> 07:50:51.800 here at the World Championship. 07:51:06.240 --> 07:51:08.240 I 07:52:06.240 --> 07:52:16.280 It is time to get started with the top four here at Pokemon World Championships for VGC. 07:52:16.280 --> 07:52:21.240 But only two will make their way out and play at the Chase Center for the chance to earn 07:52:21.240 --> 07:52:23.720 that World Championship title. 07:52:23.720 --> 07:52:26.320 I'm Sarah Dawn, joined here by Lee Rovos. 07:52:26.320 --> 07:52:30.920 We only have four trainers left, the best of the best. 07:52:30.920 --> 07:52:35.720 Yeah, it's really coming down to the few remaining trainers. 07:52:35.720 --> 07:52:40.360 of these trainers will be moving into championship Sunday to tend themselves 07:52:40.360 --> 07:52:45.520 for that title. The other will have done an incredible job. Which one will it be? 07:52:45.520 --> 07:52:50.000 Well they're gonna give it everything in this next match. Both of these players have been incredible. 07:52:50.000 --> 07:52:53.920 All of our top four players have been incredible to get to where they are in this tournament. 07:52:53.920 --> 07:52:58.400 We know the level of competition and they've had to come up against time and time again 07:52:58.400 --> 07:53:02.240 each and every round to get to this stage. It's just a phenomenal achievement. 07:53:02.240 --> 07:53:08.960 It has been incredible to watch the bullets head over to the stage and introduce our first top four match 07:53:09.720 --> 07:53:16.680 What an incredible one two very different stories. We got Hiroshi Onishi going up against you while the VP 07:53:16.680 --> 07:53:20.040 Lady and this is just incredible for Hiroshi 07:53:20.080 --> 07:53:22.840 We saw him just a few months ago 07:53:23.200 --> 07:53:25.200 Paid down the Japan national 07:53:25.200 --> 07:53:26.200 national championships. 07:53:26.200 --> 07:53:31.440 Such an accomplishment and going on a run here that a couple have managed to do before 07:53:31.440 --> 07:53:36.920 him going from that national champion to that world champion and he is so close to making 07:53:36.920 --> 07:53:37.920 that a reality. 07:53:37.920 --> 07:53:45.160 But for Jarl, this season has been amazing for him and it's his first season here in 07:53:45.160 --> 07:53:50.800 the Masters Division to already put that much of a statement on the game is incredible. 07:53:50.800 --> 07:53:54.200 We've gotten to see the achievements he's had within seniors looking at the regional 07:53:54.200 --> 07:53:58.720 championships looking at the runs he's made at internationals but now on the 07:53:58.720 --> 07:54:04.140 biggest stage incredible this could be the opportunity the first year to become 07:54:04.140 --> 07:54:10.200 world champion for such a young trainer a potential prodigy in the game yeah 07:54:10.200 --> 07:54:14.160 it's an incredible thought isn't it both stories are remarkable let's see which 07:54:14.160 --> 07:54:18.400 one plays out we'll start with a quick overview of Horoshi's team same six 07:54:18.400 --> 07:54:22.280 Pokemon that they used to success to take that Japanese national championship 07:54:22.280 --> 07:54:24.840 So it's some alterations coming into this tournament, 07:54:24.840 --> 07:54:29.040 but it is that strong Charizard and Mega Flower combination. 07:54:29.040 --> 07:54:31.440 They're going to be supported with that Whimsicott 07:54:31.440 --> 07:54:34.400 that provides the speed control, the disruption with that on-call, 07:54:34.400 --> 07:54:37.160 and then you've got the balance guard jump there to come in 07:54:37.160 --> 07:54:39.680 and just get that physical damage out 07:54:39.680 --> 07:54:40.960 and it's the fields when needed. 07:54:40.960 --> 07:54:44.160 But the two cleaner Pokemon and disruptors as well, 07:54:44.160 --> 07:54:46.720 that King Gambit, four attacks there, 07:54:46.720 --> 07:54:49.520 the Ocarberry to give room against the opposing Charizots, 07:54:49.520 --> 07:54:51.680 and then that's Vast Allegiant. 07:54:51.680 --> 07:54:58.640 Mega Charizard sometimes or sometimes not paired with the mega flow at have been the dominant megas here for Pokemon champions 07:54:58.720 --> 07:55:05.140 But well his team is a team male to bring that down and a team that he's very familiar 07:55:05.520 --> 07:55:09.220 Facing up against some variation of mega Charizard throughout the tournament 07:55:09.220 --> 07:55:13.780 He has taken down seven of them looking for that eight and if you can preserve 07:55:14.360 --> 07:55:18.360 Pieces like that like and rock well then can be a very easy task 07:55:18.360 --> 07:55:21.380 But of course you have to be so careful with every single piece of the puzzle here 07:55:21.380 --> 07:55:28.200 Yeah, this is a big test for Horshee because this team in particular like you say Sierra is made to go up against these 07:55:28.520 --> 07:55:30.520 Charizard mega pull-out team 07:55:31.240 --> 07:55:33.040 Enable us is gonna be that like and rock 07:55:33.040 --> 07:55:34.600 But like you say gonna be very careful with it 07:55:34.600 --> 07:55:40.080 You do have a bit of security because of the focus such this two hits are gonna have to go into that to remove it from play 07:55:40.080 --> 07:55:45.880 But if you can take advantage of it and utilize it to get rid of the opposing Charizard 07:55:45.880 --> 07:55:49.080 and then freeze up the mega choice on Jou's side of the field. 07:55:49.080 --> 07:55:50.720 That cross-lites all of the Scovillain. 07:55:50.720 --> 07:55:52.720 They can do so much damage to a lot of them. 07:55:52.720 --> 07:55:56.480 And with these two teams and very capable trainers 07:55:56.480 --> 07:55:58.920 with very different paths, it's time to get started. 07:55:58.920 --> 07:56:00.680 Here, Wim talk for it. 07:56:00.680 --> 07:56:03.480 Sherman, who is gonna be our first finalist 07:56:03.480 --> 07:56:05.280 on Championship Sunday? 07:56:05.280 --> 07:56:08.280 Fast Collision and Wim's got in the lead for Hiroshi 07:56:08.280 --> 07:56:09.120 on the opposing end. 07:56:09.120 --> 07:56:10.920 That like and rock right away, making it here. 07:56:10.920 --> 07:56:12.160 It's next to Scovillain. 07:56:12.160 --> 07:56:15.480 Yeah, the Scovillain coming out now is really nice for Jou. 07:56:15.480 --> 07:56:21.060 They're gonna have to keep the pressure on to that vasculation and also the fact that they can mega evolve in it. 07:56:21.060 --> 07:56:25.640 That vasculation attacks into them, it's impacted, it's pulled into them by the rage part of them, 07:56:25.640 --> 07:56:29.000 it's gonna burn and that's so valuable going deeper into the game. 07:56:29.000 --> 07:56:33.440 The Lycra Rope does have to be a bit careful, you don't want to give up that sash too early on in this game 07:56:33.440 --> 07:56:36.700 and you're not really gonna get the damage onto the vasculation or it'll limit the cost. 07:56:36.700 --> 07:56:41.080 So this is gonna be very impactful. The one thing you could say if you wanna break the sash in the game, 07:56:41.080 --> 07:56:47.080 You can probably do that now if you want to get some damage there, but like I've seen, switching out, 07:56:47.080 --> 07:56:50.080 want to be positive for later when my Char is up, probably be an issue with Spirit. 07:56:50.080 --> 07:56:56.080 You've got to keep that like and rock so safe, but keeping the focus dash safe on it as well provides so much threat later on. 07:56:56.080 --> 07:57:01.080 So let's walk out and make so much sense, as well as mega evolution for this Provillain. 07:57:01.080 --> 07:57:04.080 Make sure you get your ability on play. 07:57:04.080 --> 07:57:08.080 Moon Blast though, right away we're going on the Ascension for Hiroshi. 07:57:08.080 --> 07:57:16.320 First attack, not necessarily the most amount of damage in that spicy spray will be damaged over time with that burn. 07:57:16.320 --> 07:57:23.920 Following up though with the Vascular Legion wave crash, all our offensive, the double up will be enough to take Skorvillain down. 07:57:23.920 --> 07:57:29.920 It's a huge big knockout there and makes the difference with that life form to take that Pokemon down. 07:57:29.920 --> 07:57:34.800 But at the cost you are burning that Vascular Legion, so it's not going to have that much impact going forward in this match. 07:57:34.800 --> 07:57:37.040 It's that what the score villain was used for. 07:57:37.040 --> 07:57:39.800 Maybe we'll see how things play out and shout failure. 07:57:39.800 --> 07:57:41.360 But that was a sneeze on to the field. 07:57:41.360 --> 07:57:42.760 Now I'm going to have active bakeout. 07:57:42.760 --> 07:57:44.240 Can go after that whimsy cut. 07:57:44.240 --> 07:57:45.480 So prevent the tailwind. 07:57:45.480 --> 07:57:48.720 This next turn as the King Gamma comes into a prime position 07:57:48.720 --> 07:57:51.600 and is going to be going after that basculature now. 07:57:51.600 --> 07:57:53.720 And it is in range of a sucker punch. 07:57:53.720 --> 07:57:55.440 Easy sucker punch while a sneeze 07:57:55.440 --> 07:57:57.240 that can deal with that whimsy cut. 07:57:57.240 --> 07:57:59.160 And if you're scared about something like that takeout, 07:57:59.160 --> 07:58:01.960 you can go ahead and just click that protect button 07:58:01.960 --> 07:58:04.440 on the whim spot and be so good through the turn. 07:58:04.440 --> 07:58:09.920 and Vasculation as well, but the King Gambit over for the outside of the board does have 07:58:09.920 --> 07:58:10.920 that source in. 07:58:10.920 --> 07:58:14.880 If you all of a sudden catch here, as we make it a passive play, you can go ahead and set 07:58:14.880 --> 07:58:18.480 up, which could help this King Gambit not just get through the Vasculation, it doesn't 07:58:18.480 --> 07:58:22.560 need help for the Vasculation, but it could set it up for a prime position for all down 07:58:22.560 --> 07:58:24.080 the rest of the match. 07:58:24.080 --> 07:58:26.960 No protects though, but also no fake out. 07:58:26.960 --> 07:58:30.080 It's just going to be a tailwind in a follow up wave crash. 07:58:30.080 --> 07:58:34.240 Burn definitely showing up here in the amount of damage, but King Gambit down to almost about 07:58:34.240 --> 07:58:36.880 half is decently respectable. 07:58:36.880 --> 07:58:39.280 You can see the follow up from the Seasler though. 07:58:39.280 --> 07:58:45.680 Close combat into the Winds of God is not necessarily the damage you would have wanted. 07:58:45.680 --> 07:58:50.880 But when you do get that stat drop, the special defense, it'll activate the White Herb. 07:58:50.880 --> 07:58:54.720 All those disappear and you'll be extra speedy from here on out. 07:58:54.720 --> 07:58:57.840 If you can get it, you wait the end of the year and have to wait for a passenger. 07:58:57.840 --> 07:59:01.520 Sword stance right now makes it to King Amit extra scary. 07:59:01.520 --> 07:59:06.080 Yeah, and it's a really smart play from Jao here going for the close combat to activate that wide hurt. 07:59:06.080 --> 07:59:12.160 Keep pace with the opposing team as we see Hiroshi set that tail end up and now take the opportunity when it's there. 07:59:12.160 --> 07:59:15.680 The Basque Legion is not as much of a threat when it's burned, so you get that soul stance. 07:59:15.680 --> 07:59:18.400 You can come a huge threat going forward in this match. 07:59:18.400 --> 07:59:22.560 Now you can dispatch, you can go for the Sucker Punch into the Basque Legion, 07:59:22.560 --> 07:59:26.160 but you just go for the Catapult Leap to find, guarantee getting it, 07:59:26.160 --> 07:59:31.360 not waste the Sucker Punch maybe as an acquisition to come out as some last-ditch damage from the Basque Legion. 07:59:31.360 --> 07:59:33.360 and go for the Whimsicott again. 07:59:33.360 --> 07:59:35.360 The Whimsicott's hands right now on call into this move, 07:59:35.360 --> 07:59:37.360 but it could kind of put the stoppers on, 07:59:37.360 --> 07:59:40.360 maybe going for preferred attacks into the back, 07:59:40.360 --> 07:59:42.360 when something else which is in for it, 07:59:42.360 --> 07:59:45.360 but knowing the damage it seems from that close-comer already, 07:59:45.360 --> 07:59:46.360 that's the worst scenario. 07:59:46.360 --> 07:59:48.360 King Gallant, it got its boost, 07:59:48.360 --> 07:59:51.360 and it wants to make sure it can keep them and stick around, 07:59:51.360 --> 07:59:54.360 but on-court, a Whimsicott in to the Sneasler. 07:59:54.360 --> 07:59:56.360 You're locking it into an attacking move, 07:59:56.360 --> 07:59:59.360 but it's a close call, but that doesn't do much into the Whimsicott, 07:59:59.360 --> 08:00:10.360 Not for you to enter Vasco Legion, target of choice Vasco Legion did try and target down but with the encore it does mean that the targeting switches up a little bit and Vasco Legion is not affected at all. 08:00:10.360 --> 08:00:23.360 Yeah it's there, wouldn't be the worst scenario but if it's into the Vasco Legion and I chose from what was selected on cold then it is the worst because that Vasco Legion gets another chance to stick around and get some more really important damage onto the outside of the field. 08:00:23.360 --> 08:00:27.920 of the field now. They're not taking real use of these tailwinds. I don't think Chow minds 08:00:27.920 --> 08:00:32.160 that too much. You want to try and stall out these tailwinds then all the remaining 08:00:32.160 --> 08:00:35.520 stones in this game. As soon as that's gone, you can deal with the winter caught in the 08:00:35.520 --> 08:00:39.840 meantime as well. Then that is fine because we're not going to see any more of it, depending 08:00:39.840 --> 08:00:44.080 on what is in the basket coming in. We know the liking of all of those Pokemon, so it can 08:00:44.080 --> 08:00:47.440 come in and really take advantage of the half of speed stat that it's got. 08:00:47.440 --> 08:00:51.760 With these two Pokemon though, oh, it will be a sucker punch landing into the basket 08:00:51.760 --> 08:00:55.680 Legion that's one way to try and play around call out the King Gambit but 08:00:55.680 --> 08:01:00.840 comfortable to try and go for the attack will go down follow up though maybe 08:01:00.840 --> 08:01:06.520 oh this trade but King Gambit will hold on not enough even with that critical 08:01:06.520 --> 08:01:10.480 hit follow up close combat from Ciazo you're locked into it we've got it 08:01:10.480 --> 08:01:15.560 already taken so much damage though even only so with the burn turn after turn 08:01:15.560 --> 08:01:18.560 So who, Pokemon go down? 08:01:18.560 --> 08:01:26.560 Now, it's going to be interesting to see which Pokemon are in the back for her or she's got so much value out of that backspinning even despite it being burned. 08:01:26.560 --> 08:01:30.560 Has she been able to get damage on the ball, pick up a knockout along the way? 08:01:30.560 --> 08:01:33.560 No one's got Has, that's her where they've been very disruptive. 08:01:33.560 --> 08:01:36.560 For instance, locking the sneeze around on course. 08:01:36.560 --> 08:01:39.560 That's the cross-combat. Is that going to play in the end? 08:01:39.560 --> 08:01:43.560 Now, we're going to see Pokemon have to make their learn to heal. 08:01:43.560 --> 08:01:48.000 That's going to be the big question, losing two Pokemon on the same turn, you're having 08:01:48.000 --> 08:01:53.400 to rely with the last few is going to be a tough one, but when you have a Pokemon like 08:01:53.400 --> 08:01:58.800 Fulwet making an appearance, and next to the Garchomp, it definitely feels a lot better. 08:01:58.800 --> 08:02:01.960 You have one turn of the tailwind to play around with as well, of course that doesn't 08:02:01.960 --> 08:02:05.760 necessarily help you up against something like that, Sacrifice, but it means you have 08:02:05.760 --> 08:02:10.520 to call your turn very, very carefully to try and eliminate this plus two King Gambit. 08:02:10.520 --> 08:02:15.520 also not falling back into a scissor that still can hit some easy really powerful combat. 08:02:15.520 --> 08:02:19.520 It can hit the close combat's flow, it's not going to mind taking a lot too much, 08:02:19.520 --> 08:02:24.520 but like you say, that sucker punch it is plus two, the black glasses are boosting the attack power of that as well. 08:02:24.520 --> 08:02:28.520 So you can't just ignore that, you have to respect that threat there with the flow. 08:02:28.520 --> 08:02:33.520 You can make a revolt if you have access to dust, and you will do respectable damage into the smasler, 08:02:33.520 --> 08:02:37.520 and it will get rid of that kind of damage in the way for that liking of the committee. 08:02:37.520 --> 08:02:42.840 to me. Do you want to prioritize the flowette? All the guard chomp. You probably see the guard 08:02:42.840 --> 08:02:47.320 chomp one second down before guard chomping, you can deal with us and we'll find a light 08:02:47.320 --> 08:02:51.200 and look in the back. And with the last turn of tailwind as well, of course, you can have 08:02:51.200 --> 08:02:55.840 to see a goal on the offensive. Try and take advantage of it, but we could also see as well 08:02:55.840 --> 08:03:00.440 just go on a little bit more of a defensive play, but it'll be guard chopper testing and 08:03:00.440 --> 08:03:04.760 only flowette trying to attack on the turn. Try to call out that potential sucker punch, 08:03:04.760 --> 08:03:08.360 But it goes into Follett instead and there's still a lot of damage. 08:03:08.360 --> 08:03:10.760 Close combat trying to split that difference. 08:03:10.760 --> 08:03:13.960 Now we just get close with this dazzling gleam. 08:03:13.960 --> 08:03:16.960 So much damage though, King Abbot goes down, 08:03:16.960 --> 08:03:19.960 but Sneezer hangs on by just the threat. 08:03:19.960 --> 08:03:21.560 It's a huge survival for the Sneezer, 08:03:21.560 --> 08:03:24.160 just showing how well it's been trained defensively 08:03:24.160 --> 08:03:27.160 compared to the normal kind of just attack hand, speed, 08:03:27.160 --> 08:03:28.360 or engage one. 08:03:28.360 --> 08:03:29.960 It's really useful for the survival there 08:03:29.960 --> 08:03:32.360 because now you're going to get another chance at that close combat. 08:03:32.360 --> 08:03:33.960 If you can go into the guard jump, 08:03:33.960 --> 08:03:37.320 There is the possibility, post-combat, post-combat, 08:03:37.320 --> 08:03:38.920 might be enough to pick up the knockout there. 08:03:38.920 --> 08:03:39.920 You've got to worry about that, 08:03:39.920 --> 08:03:41.880 sit for a period of the guard jump has access to you. 08:03:41.880 --> 08:03:44.040 You don't want to activate that and then miss the knockout 08:03:44.040 --> 08:03:46.040 and allow the guard jump just to earthquake. 08:03:46.040 --> 08:03:47.520 But of course you can't earthquake 08:03:47.520 --> 08:03:49.920 when the flowhead isn't protecting. 08:03:49.920 --> 08:03:51.520 Flowhead can't take the earthquake. 08:03:51.520 --> 08:03:53.360 So you've got to make some big decisions here. 08:03:53.360 --> 08:03:56.280 The guard jump has to go from attack to turn off. 08:03:56.280 --> 08:03:57.720 And Sneasler feeling confident, 08:03:57.720 --> 08:04:00.080 not having to go for one will protect us. 08:04:00.080 --> 08:04:03.120 Just the double protect comes out from Zorao's end. 08:04:03.120 --> 08:04:07.920 The both Pokemon seem safe, and now just a gargoyle with the Earthquake. 08:04:07.920 --> 08:04:10.720 One Pokemon protects, two Pokemon protects. 08:04:10.720 --> 08:04:12.880 Guess what didn't go on the field? 08:04:12.880 --> 08:04:19.840 Your own Floette brought down to just East Liver as the closing moments of this match. 08:04:19.840 --> 08:04:22.480 You are just in such a commanding position. 08:04:22.480 --> 08:04:24.160 Yeah, that's not terrible. 08:04:24.160 --> 08:04:26.800 I mean, the Floette, you don't really want to take in that damage, 08:04:26.800 --> 08:04:29.200 but now you're in the scenario where you can protect the Floette, 08:04:29.200 --> 08:04:31.440 and both Pokemon on the opposing side, 08:04:31.440 --> 08:04:37.780 Well, they kind of have to attack. They can go for double protect, but it's risky, you could say, to take an Earthquake damage. 08:04:37.780 --> 08:04:43.860 The problem is, again, can the Garchomp take a double up from this close combat. That's the big question, y'know. 08:04:43.860 --> 08:04:46.940 We're gonna see that here. Did Direclaw fish you for status, maybe? 08:04:46.940 --> 08:04:52.780 Direclaw first, into the Garchomp, isn't quite too much, and Rocklaw's made enough way to throw him in the locker, 08:04:52.780 --> 08:04:58.560 which he would have thought, as he will go down Earthquake. The question is going to be, though. 08:04:58.560 --> 08:05:01.640 Oh, that's just so, feel so bad for wet. 08:05:01.640 --> 08:05:03.940 Goes down to the guard jump. 08:05:03.940 --> 08:05:06.480 Now we need the Lagerhawk to show up big. 08:05:06.480 --> 08:05:07.640 Taking so much damage, 08:05:07.640 --> 08:05:09.740 brought down into its focus act. 08:05:09.740 --> 08:05:14.340 Can it do enough into the guard jump to win it out? 08:05:14.340 --> 08:05:16.220 What? That's gonna be the hit, 08:05:16.220 --> 08:05:19.020 but in rough skin, Lagerhawk gets K-Yod 08:05:19.020 --> 08:05:22.660 in her rushy to take the first game in the set. 08:05:23.620 --> 08:05:25.820 Yeah, incredibly well done there from Hiroshi. 08:05:25.820 --> 08:05:27.320 Really composed throughout, 08:05:27.320 --> 08:05:33.000 and just coming through with the guard jump at the perfect time, despite getting that early burn 08:05:33.000 --> 08:05:37.560 onto the Basque legion, which you feel would have put them further behind than they looked like 08:05:37.560 --> 08:05:41.960 they were really making the most out of the blimsy cot and the Basque legion and that's not 08:05:41.960 --> 08:05:47.560 just the softening of the team on Jowside and really take advantage of them, but there's pieces, 08:05:47.560 --> 08:05:52.760 there's final pieces, the Floette and the guard jump in a great position when they finally get the 08:05:52.760 --> 08:05:59.080 feel. I will never disrespect Garchomp in the amount of hits it can take ever again getting into 08:05:59.080 --> 08:06:04.280 the end game the amount of pressure that I was able to put on with things like this Sneasler 08:06:04.920 --> 08:06:10.280 I thought it looked a little bit stronger but Garchomp even feeling so confident in not just 08:06:10.280 --> 08:06:16.120 doing a lot of damage but hey yoing that flowette in favor of getting all the damage on the opposing 08:06:16.120 --> 08:06:21.800 end of the board paid off huge. Always trust in Garchomp in a game number two, Black to see if 08:06:21.800 --> 08:06:26.800 to make the balance back here as Legend Rock and Charizard in the lead. 08:06:26.800 --> 08:06:29.800 Going up against it, quick jump Charizard and Garchomp. 08:06:29.800 --> 08:06:33.800 Yeah, the Legend Rock like seeing that Charizard. 08:06:33.800 --> 08:06:36.800 So how are you going to have to be very careful with that Pokemon in particular? 08:06:36.800 --> 08:06:41.800 Garchomp also not really a big fan of the Skullvillain because if you go for that earthquake, 08:06:41.800 --> 08:06:45.800 yes, you're not hitting the Charizard, but you will activate that spicy spray 08:06:45.800 --> 08:06:49.800 if you beat the Skullvillain at a negative hold and that's likely to happen. 08:06:49.800 --> 08:06:54.960 Although Charizard can also kind of check that Skullvillain, but this is the beauty of 08:06:54.960 --> 08:06:59.680 how the Lycanocs, you've got that sash, you've got the enable of the Mint, go after that 08:06:59.680 --> 08:07:03.960 Charizard, check it within the cellar rock, please, take your Skullvillain this turn and 08:07:03.960 --> 08:07:07.560 hopefully get that burn onto the dodge, I'll pick up the sides to go down the route of 08:07:07.560 --> 08:07:08.560 attacking. 08:07:08.560 --> 08:07:15.040 Be also careful with this Charizard, Mega Evolution though, if you are taking a hit from 08:07:15.040 --> 08:07:19.720 this, Lichenrock, it can spell this faster for this mega Pokemon. 08:07:19.720 --> 08:07:22.360 But looks like we're gonna make the call and we're gonna go for it. 08:07:22.360 --> 08:07:25.440 It's not one, but both trainers are gonna mega evolve. 08:07:25.440 --> 08:07:29.280 When we talk about the necessity of the Skogeliz and getting that spacey spray, 08:07:29.280 --> 08:07:31.360 you need to mega evolve for that. 08:07:31.360 --> 08:07:32.880 Now to see where the damage is coming out. 08:07:32.880 --> 08:07:36.520 Lichenrock will protect the Call of Charizard. 08:07:36.520 --> 08:07:41.640 Does not have to worry about taking a Rock-type attack, and instead can go on the offensive. 08:07:41.640 --> 08:07:44.520 First one to attack though is gonna be that Garchomp. 08:07:44.520 --> 08:07:47.120 and we'll hit into the skill villain. 08:07:47.120 --> 08:07:49.600 Enough to start squishing it up, get some damage, 08:07:49.600 --> 08:07:51.720 but you do take a burn for that. 08:07:51.720 --> 08:07:54.440 Pop, you see how the technical doc is later on. 08:07:54.440 --> 08:07:55.960 But now the follow up stars are, 08:07:55.960 --> 08:07:57.720 we're going for the accuracy. 08:07:57.720 --> 08:08:02.000 We're going for the KO to eliminate the skill villain. 08:08:02.000 --> 08:08:02.840 From Zwei. 08:08:02.840 --> 08:08:04.440 Yeah, such a great play from Horashi, 08:08:04.440 --> 08:08:06.400 knowing that there's so much pressure on that, 08:08:06.400 --> 08:08:07.600 turns out from the lighting, 08:08:07.600 --> 08:08:09.040 all you're gonna protect is, 08:08:09.040 --> 08:08:10.040 well, I'm gonna stand down, 08:08:10.040 --> 08:08:10.880 I'm gonna pull your bluff, 08:08:10.880 --> 08:08:13.960 and it's gonna get to the whole world for that now. 08:08:13.960 --> 08:08:20.360 The mega has fallen, the Garchomp has taken turn, but it's still in a decent place where it can't destroy constant airquakes. 08:08:20.360 --> 08:08:26.120 All you gotta think about is breaking the sash on that life, and I feel free free to go for the protection of Charizard here. 08:08:26.120 --> 08:08:31.960 The one thing that I would say, protecting against King Gambit, playing passive against it, that's where players can fall off prey. 08:08:31.960 --> 08:08:39.560 If you allow this King Gambit on the opposite side, etc., and soul stuns, then we know how that can go, that can go down health pretty quickly. 08:08:39.560 --> 08:08:47.560 The fact that the Garchomp is burned definitely feels just a little bit better in this boarder state, with the Sasha still being attacked on the Lichenrock with the Protect last turn. 08:08:47.560 --> 08:08:57.560 So, to double up here, if the Lichenrock does attack, it could be scary, but Lichenrock, again, calling that we're not seeing something oh so offensive as Scezler comes out. 08:08:57.560 --> 08:09:00.560 If this is just a double up, this could be disastrous. 08:09:00.560 --> 08:09:05.560 Earthquake, Earth, Burden is Burden, which is going to limit the amount of damage, but 08:09:05.560 --> 08:09:08.560 Schiezler is still taking a significant chunk. 08:09:08.560 --> 08:09:11.560 He waves, following up in the sun into both targets. 08:09:11.560 --> 08:09:15.560 Isn't that Hiroshi to get the double KO? 08:09:15.560 --> 08:09:19.560 Conditioning here has just been placed in perfected by Hiroshi. 08:09:19.560 --> 08:09:22.560 Not wanting to commit with that like and rock as the opponent for Jiao, 08:09:22.560 --> 08:09:26.560 and now that Chara's are taking full advantage of the freedom. 08:09:26.560 --> 08:09:29.560 Two turns and with that, Hiroshi, oh, it's a good one. 08:09:29.560 --> 08:09:34.360 Hiroshi Onishi moves on to Championship Sunday. 08:09:34.360 --> 08:09:41.800 Your Japan National Champion one step closer to maybe becoming a world champion, 08:09:41.800 --> 08:09:48.040 joining those four in history with such a commanding game too. 08:09:48.040 --> 08:09:53.480 Yeah, and a risky play as well, but I mean it paid off for Hiroshi and you've got to give them huge credit 08:09:53.480 --> 08:09:59.400 because it takes bravery to make those decisions. It's such a high stakes game to keep that Charizard 08:09:59.400 --> 08:10:03.320 in front of the Lycan Rock and say I think you're going to think I'm going to protect. 08:10:03.320 --> 08:10:07.080 So I'm not going to protect and I'm going to take advantage, get rid of the Skull Villain 08:10:07.080 --> 08:10:10.440 while it's on the field, take advantage of my Gorge. I might not mind it being burned because 08:10:10.440 --> 08:10:15.640 all I'm doing is getting the softening these Pokemon up, the damage that I need for the Charizard 08:10:15.640 --> 08:10:21.160 to clean up after that and that's exactly what we saw and Jau just couldn't get that handle of 08:10:21.160 --> 08:10:25.080 getting the Lycan Rock attacking into the Charizard. It's such a hard decision to make because if 08:10:25.080 --> 08:10:28.680 you get it wrong. Sasha's broken and you were in a real detrimental place. 08:10:28.680 --> 08:10:34.000 That's the thing, again, when it's a play that seems so telegraphed, you have to think 08:10:34.000 --> 08:10:38.360 about K's. Like, surely, surely my opponent is not going to let me just take the Charizard 08:10:38.360 --> 08:10:43.520 here, right? So we talk about the zoning game, but it's Hiroshi just making these really, 08:10:43.520 --> 08:10:49.200 really bold plays. And Joao, find out, since those 50-50s in Pokemon VGC that make the 08:10:49.200 --> 08:10:54.480 game oh so exciting, and when somebody can get them right too, it turns in a row, it 08:10:54.480 --> 08:10:56.040 can be the difference maker in a match. 08:10:56.040 --> 08:10:58.440 And it's also those two turns that, 08:10:58.440 --> 08:11:01.440 if that Lichenrock did attack and Joao was just, 08:11:01.440 --> 08:11:03.840 like, it's not Joao, if Hiroshi was just 08:11:03.840 --> 08:11:05.360 careless with the Charizard, 08:11:05.360 --> 08:11:07.320 well, we could just be talking about a game free right now. 08:11:07.320 --> 08:11:10.160 Those are such tough decisions to make, 08:11:10.160 --> 08:11:12.840 but I mean, really big kudos to both of our trainers. 08:11:12.840 --> 08:11:15.160 Oh yeah, huge congratulations to Joao, 08:11:15.160 --> 08:11:18.280 who managed to get to top four, you know, we've mentioned. 08:11:18.280 --> 08:11:20.200 They've just aged up into Masters, 08:11:20.200 --> 08:11:21.440 coming into the World Championships 08:11:21.440 --> 08:11:24.460 and having such an incredible performance this weekend. 08:11:24.460 --> 08:11:27.820 With with a very very familiar team to a lot of players 08:11:27.820 --> 08:11:33.780 I think that's just incredible to see and I'm sure they've got a very very price to your head in but to Horoshi 08:11:33.860 --> 08:11:39.180 They have made it possible to repeat what some of the other region 08:11:39.700 --> 08:11:45.720 Players have done in the past going and winning Japan Nationals and in the same year winning the world championships 08:11:45.720 --> 08:11:52.540 They are cementing their place in championships on day giving themselves a shot of lifting that tile at the end of the event 08:11:52.540 --> 08:12:05.540 We saw in 2015 we saw it in 2017 and we have a chance to repeat history here, which is so exciting and the matches that we've gotten to see coming out from grocery. 08:12:05.540 --> 08:12:14.540 I don't feel like there's any reason why it couldn't be him, but even just the opportunity again to be playing in the arena tomorrow is going to be unlike anything else. 08:12:14.540 --> 08:12:16.540 The biggest congratulations to him. 08:12:16.540 --> 08:12:21.140 trainers that chased that stage that opportunity for a lifetime and to be so 08:12:21.140 --> 08:12:26.780 close to getting that world championship title so well deserved yeah so so well 08:12:26.780 --> 08:12:31.660 deserved and using the same six Pokemon that that's that them so well at the 08:12:31.660 --> 08:12:35.340 Japan national championships mentioned throughout the stream that there have 08:12:35.340 --> 08:12:41.380 been alterations changes and updates made between the AB and a MA format and 08:12:41.380 --> 08:12:45.380 but I think it just goes testament to show how comfortable they are with their 08:12:45.380 --> 08:12:53.380 and they know their lines and know the ins and outs of how to go up against even teams that are built to counteract what they're bringing into the tournament. 08:12:53.380 --> 08:13:04.380 I'm just still thinking back to that game number two in those first two turns and if those are the type of plays that Hiroshi is making tomorrow or even if it's not his opponent is going to have a rough time trying to prectinate 08:13:04.380 --> 08:13:12.380 because then how do you prep against someone who's just so so confident because again you get that wrong the other way you lose on the spot. 08:13:12.380 --> 08:13:16.380 Yeah, I think if we saw the Accelerator into the Jorazart in one 08:13:17.140 --> 08:13:21.340 It's a completely different story because then the guard shown gets burnt and then yeah 08:13:21.340 --> 08:13:25.740 Where's your big offense coming because then the flow it's not in the back like you know 08:13:25.740 --> 08:13:28.900 We saw her or she leaning to in game one 08:13:30.100 --> 08:13:33.260 So yeah, it is this very fine margins 50 50s 08:13:33.460 --> 08:13:39.340 And it's just making the right one at the right time. Unfortunately for Jao it was just yeah 08:13:39.340 --> 08:13:43.800 And you can understand why if you get that wrong then like when one falls and then the Charles 08:13:43.800 --> 08:13:46.860 I was kind of freed up to just do what it kind of did there anyway 08:13:47.020 --> 08:13:53.580 Those 50-50s are so tough to make but for Hiroshi our first finalist here at the world championships 08:13:53.580 --> 08:13:56.620 It's time to go here from head as we head over to the stage 08:13:59.380 --> 08:14:04.160 Thank you so much may I introduce you to your first finalist of the 08:14:04.860 --> 08:14:07.700 2026 world championships in the video game 08:14:09.340 --> 08:14:22.340 Congratulations Hiroshi you had a very tough matchup in that round especially in game 2. 08:14:22.340 --> 08:14:28.580 Your mega Charizard especially in those first couple of turns what were you thinking in that 08:14:28.580 --> 08:14:33.580 First of all, congratulations on the final scene use of the new shoot. 08:14:33.580 --> 08:14:40.580 I think that the matchup was very difficult, especially in the second round. 08:14:40.580 --> 08:14:45.580 Especially the one with the mega-lizard was a little difficult. 08:14:45.580 --> 08:14:51.580 When I saw that kind of matchup, what kind of feeling did you have? 08:14:51.580 --> 08:14:55.580 Thank you very much. 08:14:55.580 --> 08:15:05.580 Regarding the second round, it was a bad thing that Lugalgan and Deserton had to face each other, 08:15:05.580 --> 08:15:11.580 but by taking the first round, I think there's still a chance for the next round. 08:15:11.580 --> 08:15:17.020 If the opponent were to come up with a jiu-waki or yong-ga style, 08:15:17.020 --> 08:15:19.580 this would have been a good pattern even in the practice, 08:15:19.580 --> 08:15:25.220 so I think we could have moved this to a stronger position and got a good atman position. 08:15:26.940 --> 08:15:28.020 Yeah, thank you so much. 08:15:28.020 --> 08:15:32.260 So I knew especially going into that second matchup and facing down that like and rock, 08:15:32.260 --> 08:15:34.180 that was a really bad situation for me. 08:15:34.180 --> 08:15:38.180 But I knew that the opponent would want to take advantage of that or like try and, 08:15:38.180 --> 08:15:42.580 You know, recombine his configuration into something a bit more advantageous for him. 08:15:42.580 --> 08:15:46.580 So I took advantage of, you know, I took that read, made that the big play, 08:15:46.580 --> 08:15:48.780 managed to turn around in the end. 08:15:48.780 --> 08:15:54.380 You made a big play in game number one as well when you didn't protect your flow at. 08:15:54.380 --> 08:15:59.980 Were those big plays what got you all the way here to the finals of the World Championships? 08:16:38.180 --> 08:16:43.180 Yes, I was able to make a lot of good plays, make a lot of good reads, and I was able to get this far on that. 08:16:43.180 --> 08:16:47.180 What gives you the confidence to make those big plays? 08:16:47.180 --> 08:16:59.180 Do you have confidence that you can read those good plays? 08:16:59.180 --> 08:17:03.180 Well, how about it? 08:17:03.180 --> 08:17:10.180 I'm aware that it's not as hard as the big stage, 08:17:10.180 --> 08:17:18.180 but I think it's more about trying to remember my skills. 08:17:18.180 --> 08:17:23.180 Yeah, it's kind of hard to say, but I try not to play too rigidly 08:17:23.180 --> 08:17:27.180 and just go with the moves and the playing style that I really like. 08:17:27.180 --> 08:17:29.980 and I think that's worked out really well for me. 08:17:29.980 --> 08:17:32.460 Congratulations on making it into the finals 08:17:32.460 --> 08:17:35.460 and good luck competing tomorrow on Championship Sunday. 08:17:35.460 --> 08:17:37.620 It takes a village to get this far 08:17:37.620 --> 08:17:39.260 at the World Championships. 08:17:39.260 --> 08:17:41.620 Are there any family and friends you'd like to thank 08:17:41.620 --> 08:17:45.060 who helped you get here and helped you along your journey? 08:17:45.060 --> 08:17:52.060 Thank you for the last question. Do you have any thoughts or messages for your family or friends? 08:17:54.060 --> 08:18:00.060 It was the same as in the Top 8 interview, but I got a lot of support and I'm really grateful. 08:18:01.060 --> 08:18:09.060 I'm also grateful for the support of my friends who came to join me. 08:18:09.060 --> 08:18:11.060 Thank you very much. 08:18:39.060 --> 08:18:44.060 to Ben in the Analyst Lounge to break down what's coming up next. 08:18:46.660 --> 08:18:47.620 Thanks so much, Gabby. 08:18:47.620 --> 08:18:48.900 Yeah, wow. 08:18:48.900 --> 08:18:53.340 One finalist that we know who is gonna be playing tomorrow 08:18:53.340 --> 08:18:55.700 on Championship Sunday. 08:18:55.700 --> 08:18:57.780 Hiroshi, congratulations. 08:18:57.780 --> 08:19:00.580 Not only winning Japan national championships, 08:19:00.580 --> 08:19:03.620 but also then going the distance here 08:19:03.620 --> 08:19:04.700 at the World Championship. 08:19:04.700 --> 08:19:08.100 Just one match away from becoming the world champion. 08:19:08.100 --> 08:19:10.660 And after that performance, holy moly, 08:19:10.660 --> 08:19:12.660 if I'm on the other side of the bracket, 08:19:12.660 --> 08:19:15.180 I'm quaking in my boots over here. 08:19:15.180 --> 08:19:16.180 100%. 08:19:16.180 --> 08:19:17.740 We were talking before we went on here, 08:19:17.740 --> 08:19:20.860 like the biggest predictor is what you said, 08:19:20.860 --> 08:19:23.060 like the biggest predictor of success 08:19:23.060 --> 08:19:25.980 for the World Championships has been historically 08:19:25.980 --> 08:19:27.420 the Japan National Championships. 08:19:27.420 --> 08:19:30.500 And we would have to go back and just double check 08:19:30.500 --> 08:19:33.900 all of our Japanese winners of the World Championships 08:19:33.900 --> 08:19:35.860 to make sure, but like, if not all, 08:19:35.860 --> 08:19:40.500 most of them have also won the Japan National Championships that year. 08:19:40.500 --> 08:19:44.220 And so if it's going to happen, if there was any sort of predictions, 08:19:44.220 --> 08:19:48.220 if there's any sort of smart money on this going into championship Sunday, 08:19:48.220 --> 08:19:52.740 Hiroshi has proved that he is capable of taking it all the way. 08:19:52.940 --> 08:19:56.340 Yeah, I would always feel comfortable saying that I think the winner of the 08:19:56.340 --> 08:20:00.060 Japanese National Championships is a favorite to win the entire tournament at 08:20:00.060 --> 08:20:03.820 the World Championships. And Hiroshi proving exactly why that is just 08:20:03.820 --> 08:20:07.860 I mean, it's like, you know, 08:20:07.860 --> 08:20:09.860 it's like. Unmitigated 08:20:09.860 --> 08:20:11.860 aggression and confidence 08:20:11.860 --> 08:20:13.860 coming out from that player 08:20:13.860 --> 08:20:15.860 in incredible set. I really 08:20:15.860 --> 08:20:16.860 enjoyed watching. I can't 08:20:16.860 --> 08:20:18.860 wait to see what he brings to 08:20:18.860 --> 08:20:19.860 the chase center tomorrow. 08:20:19.860 --> 08:20:21.860 Can you imagine those plays 08:20:21.860 --> 08:20:23.860 at the chase center? Like I 08:20:23.860 --> 08:20:25.860 mean, it's one thing doing it 08:20:25.860 --> 08:20:27.860 on the world stage. It's one 08:20:27.860 --> 08:20:29.860 thing doing it in top four, but 08:20:29.860 --> 08:20:31.860 in front of that live audience 08:20:31.860 --> 08:20:38.600 But that's the beauty of these, seeing these players come as far as they have. 08:20:38.600 --> 08:20:43.560 You know that they've got the nerve, you know that they've got the bottle to take it all the way. 08:20:43.560 --> 08:20:47.260 And it just makes me more and more excited. 08:20:47.260 --> 08:20:51.460 Yeah, I'm so excited. I'm so thrilled for Hiroshi too as a competitor. 08:20:51.460 --> 08:20:56.260 This is a player who has been grinding it out once Pokemon Champions came out. 08:20:56.260 --> 08:21:04.260 was one of the people who set the meta in regulation MA through his performances on the online ladder and through other tournaments 08:21:04.260 --> 08:21:10.260 and obviously winning the Japanese national championships absolutely deserve for him to make it to the final stage tomorrow. 08:21:10.260 --> 08:21:18.260 And using a similar composition to what he's using in the world championships right now, I mean this has been such a story of this format as a whole 08:21:18.260 --> 08:21:23.060 I think the best team for 08:21:23.160 --> 08:21:24.700 you to be able to play. And I 08:21:24.800 --> 08:21:26.260 think Hiroshi's hit on this 08:21:26.360 --> 08:21:28.240 like maybe both because, you 08:21:28.340 --> 08:21:29.860 know, this is the strongest 08:21:29.960 --> 08:21:31.940 he's got the most stats of 08:21:32.040 --> 08:21:33.140 Eddie team pretty much in the 08:21:33.240 --> 08:21:34.740 format. It's got it's just one 08:21:34.840 --> 08:21:36.240 of the most powerful but also 08:21:36.340 --> 08:21:37.740 one of the most bulky teams. 08:21:37.840 --> 08:21:39.240 It's got the speed on its side 08:21:39.340 --> 08:21:41.240 as well in many situations. 08:21:41.340 --> 08:21:42.740 Got the ability to set itself 08:21:42.840 --> 08:21:44.660 up and set some positions. 08:21:44.760 --> 08:21:46.260 So I think that's one of the 08:21:46.260 --> 08:21:48.500 to set itself up and set some positions, 08:21:48.500 --> 08:21:50.780 not relying on things like sleep powder 08:21:50.780 --> 08:21:53.460 to try to get an advantage. 08:21:53.460 --> 08:21:56.820 So it's got a little bit of a consistency advantage 08:21:56.820 --> 08:21:57.860 in the way that he's playing. 08:21:57.860 --> 08:22:02.300 That's allowing the skill of Hiroshi to shine through 08:22:02.300 --> 08:22:03.820 and shine through this whole event. 08:22:03.820 --> 08:22:04.660 Yeah, absolutely. 08:22:04.660 --> 08:22:06.380 And the thing that we've been talking about 08:22:06.380 --> 08:22:08.620 in the run up to the World Championships is, 08:22:08.620 --> 08:22:11.860 do you want to be like the 15th or 20th best big six player 08:22:11.860 --> 08:22:12.700 in the field? 08:22:12.700 --> 08:22:15.420 Or do you want to be the best pilot of the team 08:22:15.420 --> 08:22:19.260 you were the best that you were bringing to this tournament and you know what turns out is being 08:22:19.260 --> 08:22:24.700 really good is to be the best pilot of the best team in the format right now and Hiroshi made 08:22:24.700 --> 08:22:29.580 it to the finals for exactly that reason. It sounds so easy like just just just do that like 08:22:29.580 --> 08:22:35.100 but it's it's a completely different story and the way that Hiroshi played that match 08:22:36.060 --> 08:22:41.340 definitely worth talking about not necessarily some of the turns that we had but we have got a 08:22:41.340 --> 08:22:48.340 a couple of little parts of that match that I want to go back to and just think about like the macro, the game at large. 08:22:48.340 --> 08:22:49.340 Yeah, 100%. 08:22:49.340 --> 08:22:55.840 Because the way that Hiroshi played this game one, this is a few turns into game one, right? 08:22:55.840 --> 08:23:04.640 So we saw in the early stage that the Megasco Villain got taken down to a combination of Moonblast, just doing that little bit of a chip, 08:23:04.640 --> 08:23:07.880 to be able to take a wave 08:23:07.880 --> 08:23:09.680 crash from a life or basquely 08:23:09.680 --> 08:23:10.880 gin and not after moon glass, 08:23:10.880 --> 08:23:12.520 right? And so, uh, you know, 08:23:12.520 --> 08:23:14.280 this this go villain going down 08:23:14.280 --> 08:23:16.720 is a really big deal. Now in a 08:23:16.720 --> 08:23:19.320 lot of these matchups. You get 08:23:19.320 --> 08:23:20.320 to this position. You're like, 08:23:20.320 --> 08:23:22.320 Oh, basquely, Jen's like the 08:23:22.320 --> 08:23:23.880 most powerful. What are the 08:23:23.880 --> 08:23:25.320 most powerful? That's the 08:23:25.320 --> 08:23:26.760 ace in the hole. The end game 08:23:26.760 --> 08:23:28.760 like the final part of the 08:23:28.760 --> 08:23:30.360 puzzle that you want to be 08:23:30.360 --> 08:23:33.200 trying to win the game with, 08:23:33.200 --> 08:23:38.600 game with, right? But the way that Hiroshi, like, played this game, it seemed like the 08:23:38.600 --> 08:23:44.320 Basque Legion was like a means to an end, right? And so in this situation, and we're 08:23:44.320 --> 08:23:48.840 not going to go through the turn, but I'm just going to circle this guard chomp here, 08:23:48.840 --> 08:23:55.600 right? Because this guard chomp is the key to the matchup. When you look on Jou's side, 08:23:55.600 --> 08:24:00.040 you've got the King Gambit, you've got the Sneasler, right? You've got the Lycan Rock. 08:24:00.040 --> 08:24:07.640 of those Pokemon like taking up. Yeah, they quite dislike it very much. Dislike it very much. And so 08:24:07.640 --> 08:24:13.480 what we've seen time and again with this matchup is like, hey, the Scovillean comes in, the Garchomp 08:24:13.480 --> 08:24:20.200 gets burned, and then the Garchomp can't do the fun ground shaky thing that it really likes to do 08:24:20.200 --> 08:24:25.640 in these situations and put loads of pressure on the field. But as it happens, you know, if we do 08:24:25.640 --> 08:24:28.680 a little bit of fast forwarding through the match. 08:24:28.680 --> 08:24:30.640 Oh, wait, there we go, nailed it. 08:24:30.640 --> 08:24:31.880 Right there. 08:24:31.880 --> 08:24:35.920 The god jump is coming in, and it's coming in on 100%. 08:24:35.920 --> 08:24:37.280 And not burnt at all. 08:24:37.280 --> 08:24:38.720 Not burnt at all. 08:24:38.720 --> 08:24:41.960 And there's just not enough damage here or here 08:24:41.960 --> 08:24:44.480 with the King Gambit, like on low HP. 08:24:44.480 --> 08:24:46.240 There's still the flowet that you've 08:24:46.240 --> 08:24:48.240 got to be able to consider. 08:24:48.240 --> 08:24:52.240 And so one of the ways that you beat a King Gambit, 08:24:52.240 --> 08:24:57.440 I give it too many things to target at the same time and this sort of set up this this 08:24:58.160 --> 08:25:02.080 Playing something that looks like a downside at the front end of the game 08:25:02.220 --> 08:25:07.960 But actually turns out to be an upside at the end of the game was so so clever from Hiroshi 08:25:07.960 --> 08:25:15.960 Yeah, absolutely and managing that Scoville and is such an important part of this matchup because outside of the flow at and to a point 08:25:15.960 --> 08:25:17.400 The wins a cot 08:25:17.400 --> 08:25:22.400 You know with the four Pokemon that Hiroshi brought for this matchup. Skow villain is 08:25:23.120 --> 08:25:29.080 Enemy number one if your physical attackers are getting burnt by the skow villain then you're on the back foot 08:25:29.080 --> 08:25:32.440 But you have to make choose which poison you want, right? 08:25:32.440 --> 08:25:36.880 Yeah, and by picking the basculation and sacrificing that piece to knock out the skow villain 08:25:36.880 --> 08:25:37.840 You're totally right 08:25:37.840 --> 08:25:44.720 It completely opens up the only Pokemon remaining are all weak to earthquake and it doesn't even matter what's next to the gar chop 08:25:44.720 --> 08:25:46.720 It's just gonna keep quaking the earth 08:25:46.720 --> 08:25:48.720 I mean, it's like, you know, 08:25:48.720 --> 08:25:50.720 even if it starts to get attacked, 08:25:50.720 --> 08:25:51.720 it's going to have a snack. 08:25:51.720 --> 08:25:53.720 Like it's going to be able to just hang on. 08:25:53.720 --> 08:25:55.720 And again, this choice of item, 08:25:55.720 --> 08:25:57.720 we talked about the consistency a minute ago 08:25:57.720 --> 08:26:00.720 of the team at large. 08:26:00.720 --> 08:26:02.720 You see the choices. 08:26:02.720 --> 08:26:04.720 A lot of the time it's a life orb, 08:26:04.720 --> 08:26:05.720 as it got introduced, like guard jump, 08:26:05.720 --> 08:26:07.720 one of the best Pokemon in the format. 08:26:07.720 --> 08:26:09.720 What happens if it's 30% stronger, right? 08:26:09.720 --> 08:26:10.720 We love that. 08:26:10.720 --> 08:26:12.720 Pretty good as it turns out, 08:26:12.720 --> 08:26:14.720 but actually, like, this has been a trend 08:26:14.720 --> 08:26:20.400 a trend in the meta game like Garchomp wanting to go a little bit bulkier so you can go toe-to-toe with 08:26:20.400 --> 08:26:25.840 those life or Garchomp's but actually try to come out on top. Yeah what if Garchomp actually had 25% 08:26:25.840 --> 08:26:30.880 more health? Yeah, yeah. It's a good thing it doesn't have both of the same size. Yeah, I would like that. 08:26:30.880 --> 08:26:37.040 I mean that's kind of like mega Garchomp but that's a whole other conversation buddy. We're not getting 08:26:37.040 --> 08:26:47.160 into so then Hiroshi a game up right and going into a game a game to where in fact let me 08:26:47.160 --> 08:26:53.360 just get to it because this game to was absolutely crazy right and so we had 08:26:53.360 --> 08:27:01.600 hmm not sure where we are you know what oh yeah right so turn one here and we've 08:27:01.600 --> 08:27:08.600 got Charizard on the field in front of his enemy Lycan Rock, right? 08:27:08.600 --> 08:27:15.200 You're smiling, and I don't know why you're smiling, because this is exactly what we're 08:27:15.200 --> 08:27:17.760 all coming here to see like this matchup. 08:27:17.760 --> 08:27:23.160 This is what the Lycan Rock is for, and the Scovillain is foot-burning the Garchomp, right? 08:27:23.160 --> 08:27:27.320 So this looks like an unbelievable position for Jow, right? 08:27:27.320 --> 08:27:28.320 Yeah. 08:27:28.320 --> 08:27:32.440 I feel so happy about this lead matchup. I have all of the pressure right now 08:27:32.440 --> 08:27:39.960 I could pick up a KO onto that Charizard whenever I choose to and I can burn that Garchomp and make it so weak for the rest of 08:27:39.960 --> 08:27:43.680 The game. I feel great. This is exactly what I hoped for unless 08:27:44.400 --> 08:27:49.140 Unless unless I'm playing the Japanese national champion who decides to make the most ridiculous 08:27:49.880 --> 08:27:54.620 Call-out the kind of call out you can only make when you're already up one game in a set 08:27:54.620 --> 08:27:56.620 I mean, this is, I think this 08:27:56.620 --> 08:27:58.620 is the most important part of 08:27:58.620 --> 08:28:00.620 this turn, right? And the next 08:28:00.620 --> 08:28:02.620 turn, which is the only two 08:28:02.620 --> 08:28:04.620 turns of the match up winners. If 08:28:04.620 --> 08:28:06.620 you've just joined us. Just 08:28:06.620 --> 08:28:08.620 having the game advantage and 08:28:08.620 --> 08:28:10.620 being in a situation that you 08:28:10.620 --> 08:28:12.620 like, well, okay, if this goes 08:28:12.620 --> 08:28:14.620 wrong, regardless of which way 08:28:14.620 --> 08:28:16.620 it goes wrong, I'm on the back 08:28:16.620 --> 08:28:18.620 foot. I'm probably not getting 08:28:18.620 --> 08:28:20.620 out of this game feeling good 08:28:20.620 --> 08:28:22.620 about myself. Like I don't want 08:28:22.620 --> 08:28:27.460 trying to figure out these reads again and again and again. 08:28:27.460 --> 08:28:29.780 And so do you know what? 08:28:29.780 --> 08:28:33.100 I'm either going to take the loss later, 08:28:33.100 --> 08:28:35.780 or I could take a risk now. 08:28:35.780 --> 08:28:37.540 If I lose on the spot, fine. 08:28:37.540 --> 08:28:38.260 No problem. 08:28:38.260 --> 08:28:39.500 Hold your hands up. 08:28:39.500 --> 08:28:41.500 And so I made a call. 08:28:41.500 --> 08:28:42.380 It didn't work out. 08:28:42.380 --> 08:28:43.300 We'll try again. 08:28:43.300 --> 08:28:44.620 We'll try again, right? 08:28:44.620 --> 08:28:46.700 But now, the schooling goes down. 08:28:46.700 --> 08:28:47.660 It's not even a heat wave. 08:28:47.660 --> 08:28:49.540 It goes by the weather. 08:28:49.540 --> 08:28:51.100 It's not calling it as well. 08:28:51.100 --> 08:28:55.100 is this is committing to the 08:28:55.100 --> 08:28:57.100 to the prediction. Yeah 100% 08:28:57.100 --> 08:28:59.100 accurate weather ball you are 08:28:59.100 --> 08:29:01.100 you are losing to the 08:29:01.100 --> 08:29:03.100 Accelerot would you are 100% 08:29:03.100 --> 08:29:04.100 knocking out that Scoville and 08:29:04.100 --> 08:29:05.100 if like and rock does what it 08:29:05.100 --> 08:29:07.100 does there and protects because 08:29:07.100 --> 08:29:08.100 Charles like there's no way I 08:29:08.100 --> 08:29:10.100 get this Charizard for free 08:29:10.100 --> 08:29:11.100 and Hiroshi's like you're 08:29:11.100 --> 08:29:12.100 right there isn't because I'm 08:29:12.100 --> 08:29:13.100 going to knock out your 08:29:13.100 --> 08:29:15.100 Pokemon right now exactly and 08:29:15.100 --> 08:29:19.100 then and like our players have 08:29:19.100 --> 08:29:20.100 reset right the only 08:29:20.100 --> 08:29:26.420 it's less likely that it's going to protect again. What does that mean? It's more likely 08:29:26.420 --> 08:29:31.460 to go on the offensive. And Hiroshi's like, I'm not sure what's going through his head 08:29:31.460 --> 08:29:36.860 at this point. And I'm wondering if it's like, I got away with it once. Am I going to get 08:29:36.860 --> 08:29:42.180 away with it again? But it's still a difficult position, depending on what Pokemon are in 08:29:42.180 --> 08:29:48.460 the back. And so, like, Shao's, like, rightly saying, like, hey, surely, surely he's not 08:29:48.460 --> 08:29:51.740 I'm going to let me go for this again. 08:29:51.740 --> 08:29:53.680 Switching out into the Sneasler, 08:29:53.680 --> 08:29:56.460 Godchomp even burned doing what it does best. 08:29:56.460 --> 08:29:58.060 Here's the heat wave. 08:29:58.060 --> 08:30:00.700 Two KO's, only one Pokemon left for Giles, 08:30:00.700 --> 08:30:03.620 and there's nothing left for him to come back to. 08:30:03.620 --> 08:30:06.500 Yeah, the most fitting use of that double KO graphic 08:30:06.500 --> 08:30:08.220 I think we've ever seen here. 08:30:08.220 --> 08:30:11.020 Incredible call out there again. 08:30:11.020 --> 08:30:13.260 Because Giles on the back foot at that point, 08:30:13.260 --> 08:30:14.980 he needs to make something happen. 08:30:14.980 --> 08:30:17.820 He needs to find some way to get momentum back, 08:30:17.820 --> 08:30:20.460 And you don't do that by, you know, 08:30:20.460 --> 08:30:23.120 just going, like going for an Accelerak into a protect 08:30:23.120 --> 08:30:24.460 and losing your momentum again. 08:30:24.460 --> 08:30:26.100 So he's trying to reposition. 08:30:26.100 --> 08:30:28.700 He's trying to say that, oh, great. 08:30:28.700 --> 08:30:30.340 I know that I'm in the lead right now. 08:30:30.340 --> 08:30:32.940 I need to get even further in the lead. 08:30:32.940 --> 08:30:35.020 I need to make sure I have the advantage 08:30:35.020 --> 08:30:37.500 on the Pokemon sense in this current moment. 08:30:37.500 --> 08:30:39.940 I need to get further ahead to the next turn. 08:30:39.940 --> 08:30:43.220 And Hiroshi says, okay, but what if I just click 08:30:43.220 --> 08:30:44.940 keep waving earthquake instead? 08:30:44.940 --> 08:30:46.540 I said, like, it seems obvious, right? 08:30:46.540 --> 08:31:03.540 like, I mean, just going for any sort of defensive play, but yeah, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but it's coming back to like the game one, game one up. And on this stage, like it's, it's such a, I think a mark of respect on both players, the way that that 08:31:03.540 --> 08:31:07.540 the other one has at their 08:31:07.540 --> 08:31:09.540 disposal right and and so this 08:31:09.540 --> 08:31:11.540 repositioning could have ended 08:31:11.540 --> 08:31:13.540 up pretty bad for Hiroshi and 08:31:13.540 --> 08:31:15.540 Hiroshi is respecting that by 08:31:15.540 --> 08:31:17.540 actually like calling the bluff 08:31:17.540 --> 08:31:18.540 and saying like I'm just going to 08:31:18.540 --> 08:31:19.540 go for it. I'm going to go 08:31:19.540 --> 08:31:21.540 straight on the offensive and 08:31:21.540 --> 08:31:23.540 not saying like. Do you know 08:31:23.540 --> 08:31:24.540 what like this is a tough 08:31:24.540 --> 08:31:25.540 situation. I'm going to play 08:31:25.540 --> 08:31:27.540 negative like no I still have a 08:31:27.540 --> 08:31:29.540 way to have an explosive game 08:31:29.540 --> 08:31:33.540 I still have a way to have an explosive game. 08:31:33.540 --> 08:31:34.820 Yeah, that's absolutely correct. 08:31:34.820 --> 08:31:37.300 And it's a great point to make that both of these players 08:31:37.300 --> 08:31:40.700 were absolutely respecting each other's options here. 08:31:40.700 --> 08:31:44.060 You make that play game one or turn one of game two, 08:31:44.060 --> 08:31:47.100 because you understand that you have no moment 08:31:47.100 --> 08:31:49.460 if you're a hero, because you have no shot here. 08:31:49.460 --> 08:31:51.940 Like, oh, my Pokemon match up so poorly 08:31:51.940 --> 08:31:53.820 against the Pokemon out on your field 08:31:53.820 --> 08:31:55.060 that I have to switch. 08:31:55.060 --> 08:31:57.420 And because I have to switch, and I know that you know 08:31:57.420 --> 08:31:59.660 that I have to switch, I won't switch, 08:31:59.660 --> 08:32:01.420 and instead I'm gonna start picking up the KO's. 08:32:01.420 --> 08:32:02.620 And the same the next turn around, 08:32:02.620 --> 08:32:06.540 it's like, okay, I recognize that you're feeling behind 08:32:06.540 --> 08:32:08.900 and you're all still threatening again, 08:32:08.900 --> 08:32:11.220 and you want to try to pick something up, 08:32:11.220 --> 08:32:13.660 but if you whiff into the protect, 08:32:13.660 --> 08:32:15.460 you're already so far behind 08:32:15.460 --> 08:32:17.380 that you're not gonna be able to come back into the game. 08:32:17.380 --> 08:32:19.700 So I know you have to make a play, 08:32:19.700 --> 08:32:21.260 because I'm going to respect the play 08:32:21.260 --> 08:32:22.380 that I know you have to make, 08:32:22.380 --> 08:32:24.500 because you understand what's going on here, 08:32:24.500 --> 08:32:25.540 and I'm gonna punish you for it. 08:32:25.540 --> 08:32:29.580 I love it. I love it. I love 08:32:29.580 --> 08:32:31.580 it. I love it. It was beautiful 08:32:31.580 --> 08:32:34.580 play and for two for two games 08:32:34.580 --> 08:32:37.620 set her to game match game to 08:32:37.620 --> 08:32:39.620 turn game incredibly beautiful. 08:32:39.620 --> 08:32:41.620 I love watching that so so 08:32:41.620 --> 08:32:43.620 brilliant. I can't wait to see 08:32:43.620 --> 08:32:45.620 what her she has in store for 08:32:45.620 --> 08:32:47.620 us in the finals tomorrow. But 08:32:47.620 --> 08:32:49.620 Evan, are you ready to find out 08:32:49.620 --> 08:32:51.620 who are final finalists? He's 08:32:51.620 --> 08:32:53.620 going to be here at the World 08:32:53.620 --> 08:32:54.620 Championships. I can't wait. I 08:32:54.620 --> 08:32:57.120 I can't wait to see who's going to join Hiroshi and Chase. 08:32:57.120 --> 08:32:59.420 Well, without further ado, let's take it away. 08:32:59.420 --> 08:33:00.620 I will see you, Custards. 08:33:03.920 --> 08:33:06.120 Thank you so much for the final time today. 08:33:06.120 --> 08:33:10.320 Aaron and I are here to walk you through this finals top four. 08:33:10.320 --> 08:33:14.120 Aaron, Hiroshi, Onishi, waiting there in the finals. 08:33:14.120 --> 08:33:16.120 Who's it going to be that's going to join him? 08:33:16.120 --> 08:33:18.120 It's going to be an intense battle. 08:33:18.120 --> 08:33:21.620 Of course, on one side, you have Zachary Wee. 08:33:21.620 --> 08:33:26.900 Zack has made it to the finals of a regional championship, an international championship. 08:33:26.900 --> 08:33:31.540 Now he's one game away from potentially making it to his first world championship finals. 08:33:31.540 --> 08:33:36.020 Do you imagine your first world finals being in Chase Center? 08:33:36.020 --> 08:33:40.100 I could not even fathom what that feeling would be like. 08:33:40.100 --> 08:33:45.540 And for Takuma, Yamazaki, that is also an accomplishment that he is greatly looking forward to. 08:33:45.540 --> 08:33:47.780 But they both stand in each other's paths. 08:33:47.780 --> 08:33:54.340 Fakuma coming off of the top 64 at Japan Nationals this year to make it to the world championships. 08:33:54.340 --> 08:33:59.460 But Zack, as you said, has had an impressive 20-26 season. 08:33:59.460 --> 08:34:04.820 And the fact that he gets to end it off with at least a top four here, Worlds is so cool. 08:34:04.820 --> 08:34:08.180 And he's staring down a team that looks very familiar to the team, 08:34:08.180 --> 08:34:11.140 that he actually just defeated in order to make it to the semifinals. 08:34:11.140 --> 08:34:14.740 The only difference is a ToyScarf garchomp over Wim Sakat. 08:34:14.740 --> 08:34:18.340 So Zack has some experience playing against this archetype. 08:34:18.340 --> 08:34:21.300 This is kind of this new duel of Mega Dragonite, Mega Floette. 08:34:21.300 --> 08:34:23.540 The rest of the Pokemon are what we generally 08:34:23.540 --> 08:34:24.820 see throughout the course of the event. 08:34:24.820 --> 08:34:27.460 But I do think the inclusion of ToyScarf Garchomp 08:34:27.460 --> 08:34:30.340 as well as Mega Dragonite as the duo here 08:34:30.340 --> 08:34:32.180 can be threatening to Zack's team. 08:34:32.180 --> 08:34:34.500 Previously when Zack fought against the composition, 08:34:34.500 --> 08:34:36.820 it was Mega Floette that was really prioritized, right? 08:34:36.820 --> 08:34:39.780 And so trying to get as much damage off with Mega Floette, 08:34:39.780 --> 08:34:41.220 you've got this dual Mega Flex. 08:34:41.220 --> 08:34:43.140 Dragonite strong enough to be brought actually, 08:34:43.140 --> 08:34:49.140 even as a non-Mega evolution, but Floette often being the heavy damage jeweler West Dragonite is a little bit bulkier. 08:34:49.140 --> 08:34:54.140 And you also have no protect on the Sneasler, the King Gambit, or the Garchop. 08:34:54.140 --> 08:34:56.140 Sneasler here are actually opting for these fates. 08:34:56.140 --> 08:35:06.140 I'm actually wondering if the moveset adjustment on this particular Mega Dragonite versus the one that Zack faced in Top 8 is actually enough to bring in, as you said. 08:35:06.140 --> 08:35:08.900 You've got Dragonfall, Skeletor, and Extreme Speed. 08:35:08.900 --> 08:35:11.940 Extreme Speed, very powerful as a priority option 08:35:11.940 --> 08:35:13.420 to help get around something 08:35:13.420 --> 08:35:16.020 where Zack does have a couple of faster pieces. 08:35:16.020 --> 08:35:18.500 Absolutely, yeah, so once again, 08:35:18.500 --> 08:35:20.580 I think I would love to see Becky Dragonite here 08:35:20.580 --> 08:35:21.820 on the world stage, right? 08:35:21.820 --> 08:35:25.140 I think that actually in the top eight match, 08:35:25.140 --> 08:35:28.100 Zack had constantly dropped the Mega Frostlass. 08:35:28.100 --> 08:35:30.060 Of course, Mega Frostlass is probably the number one 08:35:30.060 --> 08:35:31.500 best Pokemon you can have in the format 08:35:31.500 --> 08:35:33.660 against the Dragonite and the Guard Shop 08:35:33.660 --> 08:35:34.980 on the opposing side here, 08:35:34.980 --> 08:35:37.300 But once again, taking a look at Zach's team, 08:35:37.300 --> 08:35:40.500 it is that dual mega pairing of Frostlass and Skow Villain. 08:35:40.500 --> 08:35:44.420 Skow Villain being so frequently led with this team. 08:35:44.420 --> 08:35:46.780 And I think the number one takeaway I've seen 08:35:46.780 --> 08:35:48.340 from the top players using Skow Villain 08:35:48.340 --> 08:35:50.000 is how effective they are in being able 08:35:50.000 --> 08:35:51.780 to deal actual damage with it. 08:35:51.780 --> 08:35:54.140 We saw it basically kind of solo through a mega flow 08:35:54.140 --> 08:35:55.820 at in the quarterfinals. 08:35:55.820 --> 08:35:57.740 We've seen it dish out massive amounts of damage 08:35:57.740 --> 08:35:59.220 with Overheal as well. 08:35:59.220 --> 08:36:02.140 Do not discount this Pokemon as a damage dealer. 08:36:02.140 --> 08:36:03.740 Also be able to of course, 08:36:03.740 --> 08:36:05.060 burn so many key Pokemon, 08:36:05.060 --> 08:36:06.060 Vasculation, King Epic, 08:36:06.060 --> 08:36:07.260 Garchomp, Sneasler. 08:36:07.260 --> 08:36:09.020 Those are basically the best physical attackers 08:36:09.020 --> 08:36:09.860 that exist in the game. 08:36:09.860 --> 08:36:10.940 And part of the reason why Scoville 08:36:10.940 --> 08:36:13.900 and Exist is to be able to neutralize their damage. 08:36:13.900 --> 08:36:17.100 I also wonder whether or not the addition of gunk shot 08:36:17.100 --> 08:36:18.660 on the Sneasler is something else 08:36:18.660 --> 08:36:23.500 that might push the cards towards that mega dragonite there 08:36:23.500 --> 08:36:24.340 for Takuma. 08:36:24.340 --> 08:36:27.380 We saw that gunk shot be a one hit knockout 08:36:27.380 --> 08:36:29.460 on that Floette in the quarter finals. 08:36:29.460 --> 08:36:31.940 And so you have to wonder if that's going to be something 08:36:31.940 --> 08:36:33.340 going through Takuma's head. 08:36:33.340 --> 08:36:37.580 Yeah, I think if you're a ham, you're probably really trying to cover for leads around the 08:36:37.580 --> 08:36:38.580 Megasco villain, right? 08:36:38.580 --> 08:36:39.580 Megasco villain, like it. 08:36:39.580 --> 08:36:40.580 Megasco villain, King Gambit. 08:36:40.580 --> 08:36:41.580 So for Zac, you know we see a mix up here. 08:36:41.580 --> 08:36:42.580 I'd love to see Dragonite making a period. 08:36:42.580 --> 08:36:43.580 And there's Frostlass with no Skow villain saying, look, you're going to respect your 08:36:43.580 --> 08:36:44.580 Dragonite. 08:36:44.580 --> 08:36:45.580 No, Dragonite. 08:36:45.580 --> 08:36:56.580 I got a Vasculation for Takuma and for Zac it is good for Frostlass and the Sneasler. 08:36:56.580 --> 08:37:00.340 Frostlass is not one of those Pokemon that we generally end up seeing brought to a battle 08:37:00.340 --> 08:37:03.220 unless you are ready and willing to mega evolve it. 08:37:03.220 --> 08:37:07.060 Yeah, and so Frostlass here, in a pretty decent position. 08:37:07.060 --> 08:37:09.100 I mean, hey, it threatens super effective damage 08:37:09.100 --> 08:37:11.940 both onto Dragonite as well as the Vascular Legion. 08:37:11.940 --> 08:37:15.140 Zack, of course, also has the fake out on the Sneezer. 08:37:15.140 --> 08:37:17.900 Sneezer won't do very much damage to Gumshot or close combat, 08:37:17.900 --> 08:37:19.620 but you can read in, for example, 08:37:19.620 --> 08:37:22.820 fake out into Dragonite or Gumshot into Blizzard immediately. 08:37:22.820 --> 08:37:24.380 Vascular Legion, I would expect a potential 08:37:24.380 --> 08:37:26.900 to survive a Shadow Ball from the Frostlass, 08:37:26.900 --> 08:37:28.940 but if you're a Zack, you can play really aggressively, 08:37:28.940 --> 08:37:30.300 double up onto either slot, 08:37:30.300 --> 08:37:32.380 or just say, hey, I'm gonna set up a three of Roarville 08:37:32.380 --> 08:37:36.220 right now. That's going to be the seasoners out for the like and rock. 08:37:36.380 --> 08:37:38.860 So that's going to make it a period to help threaten the dragon like that. 08:37:38.860 --> 08:37:41.340 And that's maybe evolving on this first turn. 08:37:41.700 --> 08:37:45.940 They're going to have that multi-scale intact as you are still at full HP. 08:37:45.940 --> 08:37:50.060 And there's no fake out on the other side that can help to get around that. 08:37:50.060 --> 08:37:51.860 Crosslash protects itself. 08:37:51.860 --> 08:37:53.940 Winter into the next steps of this turn. 08:37:53.940 --> 08:37:55.860 And Blastilligen does the same. 08:37:55.860 --> 08:37:59.580 So can dragonite get away with some free damage onto the like and rock 08:37:59.580 --> 08:38:00.780 that's just switched in. 08:38:00.780 --> 08:38:04.580 Heatwave comes out, it can't connect from this Lichenrock and break its focusash. 08:38:04.580 --> 08:38:10.060 Yeah, so Dragonite attacking in front of the threat of the Frostlast and says, 08:38:10.060 --> 08:38:12.780 look I've got the multi-stale even if you Glizard being not the end of the world. 08:38:12.780 --> 08:38:15.140 I think Lacanrock is probably pretty happy about that turn, right? 08:38:15.140 --> 08:38:16.700 You don't really take any damage. 08:38:16.700 --> 08:38:19.860 Lichenrock comes in, but now it is vulnerable to eating up an Aquajet. 08:38:19.860 --> 08:38:24.260 Of course, Dragonite now is vulnerable to eating up something like an Accelerock plus a Glizard combination 08:38:24.260 --> 08:38:25.940 or just Glizard Rockside for example. 08:38:25.940 --> 08:38:29.980 But if you click Rockside and you get Aquajet in, well then Lacanrock doesn't really accomplish anything, right? 08:38:29.980 --> 08:38:32.100 So I think the basketball region right now 08:38:32.100 --> 08:38:34.380 still looking really powerful offensively. 08:38:34.380 --> 08:38:36.900 And while Frostlass is really good into this duel, 08:38:36.900 --> 08:38:38.580 the fact that they both can potentially survive 08:38:38.580 --> 08:38:40.740 one big attack is quite a big deal. 08:38:40.740 --> 08:38:43.540 So I think the main interesting dynamic this turn is, 08:38:43.540 --> 08:38:45.900 is there gonna be an awkward jet into the 08:38:45.900 --> 08:38:46.940 like and rock spot. 08:38:46.940 --> 08:38:49.180 Gambit's switching here, perfect to deal with this duel, 08:38:49.180 --> 08:38:51.260 unless it's a close combat into Dragonite. 08:38:51.260 --> 08:38:53.900 Could also be a protect that comes out from this 08:38:53.900 --> 08:38:54.740 like and rock. 08:38:54.740 --> 08:38:57.260 You've got to get around something like the awkward jet. 08:38:57.260 --> 08:38:59.300 But Frostlass is going to take the opportunity 08:38:59.300 --> 08:39:04.020 the mega ball, set the snow, and maybe even set something like a roar avail. 08:39:04.020 --> 08:39:08.140 First up, we see the X-all Rock, which is going to connect into the King Jambon that 08:39:08.140 --> 08:39:12.020 would have grown from the multi-skill on the Dragonite, as Vascular Legion does, and 08:39:12.020 --> 08:39:13.020 get the Aqua Jet. 08:39:13.020 --> 08:39:16.540 So that's all there like to rock, is going to contribute to this first game. 08:39:16.540 --> 08:39:21.060 The Froslass still gets a chance to attack as we see the life orb recoil come through 08:39:21.060 --> 08:39:22.060 for the Vascular Legion. 08:39:22.060 --> 08:39:24.060 If it's a Shadow Ball, that would be pretty big. 08:39:24.060 --> 08:39:28.060 But it's got the Blizzard to connect Jambon to us as both, but it's going to be very 08:39:28.060 --> 08:39:29.060 effective. 08:39:29.060 --> 08:39:35.060 There are frees here though. Okay every time the blizzard animation comes out. My heart skips would be exactly but 08:39:35.220 --> 08:39:41.260 Takuma going for the perfect bait there with the dragonite sink. I think you kind of need to respect this right because dragonite is actually quite good 08:39:41.260 --> 08:39:46.540 It's everything that's not the frost last and now just secure knock it up to lack of ruffle not taking very much damage 08:39:46.660 --> 08:39:52.700 After life or a shadow boss from frost last I think very they have been a knockout onto that fast Legion right so a really 08:39:52.700 --> 08:39:57.500 favorable turn for Tacoma there. Sleezer now however does come out and once again the King 08:39:57.500 --> 08:40:02.860 Gambit on Tacoma's team here just not happy with the fact and so it is extremely vulnerable right 08:40:02.860 --> 08:40:07.820 now. You can just go for something like a close combat into that slot. Shadow ball. The question here 08:40:07.820 --> 08:40:12.700 is yeah are you fearing the sucker punch and so you could go for an Aurora but imagine just 08:40:12.700 --> 08:40:16.620 Blizzard in here. Yeah I mean Garchomp is going to switch in which takes up things like the close 08:40:16.620 --> 08:40:21.660 combat a little bit more effectively but it's just a fake out and so fake out as a Garchomp 08:40:21.660 --> 08:40:25.420 does some chips, Neasler though with a rough skin recoil is going to have to take something 08:40:25.420 --> 08:40:31.820 referred as Frostlabs cannot land that shadow ball. An opportunity to have gone for another 08:40:31.820 --> 08:40:35.820 blizzard there but really ineffective in front of that King Gambit basket legion. 08:40:35.820 --> 08:40:39.260 Exactly. I would have to be a hard read that there was going to be a switch out there and so 08:40:39.820 --> 08:40:43.740 it's not every day you see a guard chop willingly switch in against a mega Frostlabs but as a 08:40:43.740 --> 08:40:48.780 reminder this is going to be the choice star of the guard chop and so right now it is posing a huge 08:40:48.780 --> 08:40:53.900 offensive threat. For example, you could go for a tech with Basque Legion, go for an earthquake with 08:40:53.900 --> 08:40:59.100 Garchomp, still have the OTC Wacom on Dragon as well. So, Sneezer does not want to take that earthquake, 08:40:59.100 --> 08:41:02.940 going to pick it in Basque Legion here. Zack's got to start dealing some damage with the Stross 08:41:02.940 --> 08:41:07.580 last. It's going to be stopping Tantrum, no protects, no switches. So, if Garchomp goes first, 08:41:07.580 --> 08:41:12.060 Koi's going to lock it into the stopping Tantrum as long as it stays on the field, 08:41:12.060 --> 08:41:16.220 as Basque Legion gets taken down by that Shadow Ball that we would have liked to connect in the 08:41:16.220 --> 08:41:21.820 a turn prior so that's going to be another knockout 3v3 here as Takuma and 08:41:21.820 --> 08:41:25.820 Zachary have to think about what's coming next. I think Zach's probably pretty 08:41:25.820 --> 08:41:29.220 happy about that turn at the end of the day right managed to get a key knockout 08:41:29.220 --> 08:41:33.820 and also conserve Frostlass's HP because we take any damage there and so I think 08:41:33.820 --> 08:41:37.000 what is really scary about this Frostlass is his offensive spread into the 08:41:37.000 --> 08:41:40.540 Garchomp the Dragonite and the Masqueradion right Blizzard just destroys the 08:41:40.540 --> 08:41:44.860 dual dragon. So King Gambit now really the perfect poke want to switch in go 08:41:44.860 --> 08:41:48.160 spreading with Sucker Punch, but that can play around that Sucker Punch 08:41:48.160 --> 08:41:52.480 potentially by going for it in Aqua Jet. King Gambit's Sucker Punch extremely 08:41:52.480 --> 08:41:55.560 threatening into both of them here. Zack would always potentially go for 08:41:55.560 --> 08:41:58.840 something like a protect and then pick it out in a steeper as well. 08:41:58.840 --> 08:42:01.720 Frostless does have a roarville, has not clicked it so far in the game, but that's 08:42:01.720 --> 08:42:05.560 another way to get around Sucker Punch. So right now the Sucker Punch mind game is 08:42:05.560 --> 08:42:09.960 real, right? Does Takuma go for a Sucker Punch and feel it? Does Zachary hard call 08:42:09.960 --> 08:42:12.400 out and say, look I think you're actually going to couse out who you need. 08:42:12.400 --> 08:42:15.600 And if this King Gambit is a toppleberry, 08:42:15.600 --> 08:42:19.700 it's the likelihood that a sucker punch is actually going to knock out the Frostlass here. 08:42:19.700 --> 08:42:23.000 Not gonna get that question answered, but it is going to be a protect. 08:42:23.000 --> 08:42:27.800 I can't even go for the pressure punch in the back lane and instead, no Aqua Jet, no damage! 08:42:27.800 --> 08:42:31.700 Just a KO, and that is now two Pokemon here for Sapp. 08:42:31.700 --> 08:42:33.300 A Sneasler has to come back out. 08:42:33.300 --> 08:42:35.500 The hard call out there, this is what I was saying. 08:42:35.500 --> 08:42:39.000 Basketleague could flick Aqua Jet again around that, could have switched into Sneasler, 08:42:39.000 --> 08:42:44.040 but the perfect burn for Uncle Mai here, and the Sceasler will come in. 08:42:44.040 --> 08:42:46.680 Dammit, once again, still doesn't have Protect available, right? 08:42:46.680 --> 08:42:50.520 So right now, you're threading with something like Fakeout plus a Blizzard, 08:42:50.520 --> 08:42:53.240 but it's looking quite scary. 08:42:53.240 --> 08:42:54.840 Conserving the Garchomp will be nice, right? 08:42:54.840 --> 08:42:56.680 So the question here is, you can actually switch it out. 08:42:56.680 --> 08:42:59.800 Do you think you're going to eat Fakeout plus Blizzard into the Garchomp slot? 08:42:59.800 --> 08:43:01.960 If so, you still got that Dragonite in the back. 08:43:01.960 --> 08:43:03.800 The snow is slowly about to expire as well, 08:43:03.800 --> 08:43:07.240 so you can land just a little bit of damage in the Frost Slash with the Sucker Punch. 08:43:07.240 --> 08:43:13.480 It switches out and comes back in maybe conclude things out with an earthquake right, but maybe if you are 08:43:13.960 --> 08:43:19.000 How come while you make that read maybe protect frost last post combat in the King Dan bit right this turn 08:43:19.000 --> 08:43:22.500 I'm question. I had this. What does that do? It is gonna switch. Just after we call this 08:43:22.500 --> 08:43:27.520 Hey, well if the dragon it comes in a fake out into that slot plus the blizzard would take out 08:43:29.360 --> 08:43:34.040 Just going to fail so that means that this process ended up using a roar on this turn 08:43:34.040 --> 08:43:39.480 So 15 damage does not get any damage down can Sneasler do something astronomical here 08:43:42.600 --> 08:43:46.480 Very activates to soften the flow, but 15 game 08:43:48.000 --> 08:43:54.160 An absolutely amazing play to instantly get back into this one had that just been stuck in cancer in a ski 08:43:54.160 --> 08:43:55.960 Soar counts out please I think that's game over 08:43:55.960 --> 08:44:02.000 But that's a really hard play to make when you're staring down to make up plus blizzard and so an amazing turn there 08:44:02.000 --> 08:44:06.800 Snezler's wider back to make so now it is fast as well with that on burden. No snow though. 08:44:06.800 --> 08:44:10.760 So that means these blizzards Rosemary can miss only 70% accurate. 08:44:10.760 --> 08:44:16.000 Barchoff will be able to come back in though. Of course reset its move but it's perfectly time to roar reveal. 08:44:16.000 --> 08:44:22.640 And an amazing turn by Zafry there. Just phenomenal play. This really feels like both players are just trading blow-for-blow. 08:44:22.640 --> 08:44:24.440 Very, very high level. 08:44:24.440 --> 08:44:28.760 This is the world championships. You've got to be confident to make these reasons. 08:44:28.760 --> 08:44:32.120 sometimes that's going to be the little bit of a difference that makes a big 08:44:32.120 --> 08:44:36.200 difference in your game. This guard talk has to come back out so now if you're 08:44:36.200 --> 08:44:39.560 talking about what do you lock into with this choice that is the question yet 08:44:39.560 --> 08:44:42.880 do you go for earthquake which of course will deal a lot of damage with the 08:44:42.880 --> 08:44:47.720 speed order will be Sceesler first right you got a big attack off. The other 08:44:47.720 --> 08:44:50.680 question here is the Sceesler considered protecting right and Frost less than 08:44:50.680 --> 08:44:55.800 it could just go for a blizzard wiki of Roarville. You also could say well if I 08:44:55.800 --> 08:44:58.600 don't feel like earthquake is the right move to lock in I'm just gonna hedge my 08:44:58.600 --> 08:45:01.840 bet on Rockside and look for a flinch. If I get the flinch on Frostlust actually 08:45:01.840 --> 08:45:07.320 that might be enough for me to still win the battle so it still feels so tense 08:45:07.320 --> 08:45:11.000 here. Give the advantage to Zachary. Skisler is going to go for the protect so 08:45:11.000 --> 08:45:13.360 is it a Rockside right now or is it just Earthquake? 08:45:13.360 --> 08:45:16.360 Lots of 30%! 08:45:16.360 --> 08:45:20.840 Come down for the guard chop that's what's gonna be the move that it lost into by the choice guard. 08:45:20.840 --> 08:45:24.360 The Frostlust owner is taking end of this but can this 30% come true? 08:45:24.360 --> 08:45:27.360 We're gonna cross last really close up for Zack here. 08:45:27.360 --> 08:45:31.640 Now a miss on the guard top, but it connects onto the Dragonite. 08:45:31.640 --> 08:45:34.540 And the Hokey Scale does not keep it that healthy. 08:45:34.540 --> 08:45:35.740 So much damage here. 08:45:35.740 --> 08:45:38.240 Dragonite probably gonna follow up with a Heat Wave. 08:45:38.240 --> 08:45:39.640 Expect that to knock down Frost Slash. 08:45:39.640 --> 08:45:41.580 I think it's still in Zack's favor here though, right? 08:45:41.580 --> 08:45:43.080 Because you can just knock out the Dragonite. 08:45:43.080 --> 08:45:44.740 And okay, no Frost Slash. 08:45:44.740 --> 08:45:47.180 Kings on very healthily with that Auroraville. 08:45:47.180 --> 08:45:51.760 And so, I mean, Sceesler now will once again be able to move first. 08:45:51.760 --> 08:45:58.800 being able to land blizzard through rocks like so so scary right now it is a big miss on garchomp ready connector 08:45:58.800 --> 08:46:01.320 I think would have just immediately ends the game and so 08:46:01.720 --> 08:46:09.040 Zach now gets another chance you go for a close combat into the garchomp flat or you can just try to die or fall finish off 08:46:09.040 --> 08:46:12.360 Dragonite and then blizzard to finish off bar shop garchomp here 08:46:12.680 --> 08:46:14.560 Ask the rocks like right with dragonite 08:46:14.560 --> 08:46:19.300 You can either decide to protect or maybe go for another key way, but it is so tense right now 08:46:19.300 --> 08:46:27.300 So many attacks here at moves and secondary probabilities that can activate with this final 2v2 for the first game. 08:46:27.300 --> 08:46:30.300 And it really does come down to this. 08:46:30.300 --> 08:46:32.300 Can the Robb's Light connect onto the broadslash? 08:46:32.300 --> 08:46:36.300 Oh, there's a 1st quick double shot, and that's going to be a connection. 08:46:36.300 --> 08:46:39.300 Dragonite goes down, and now it's a 2v1. 08:46:39.300 --> 08:46:40.300 This is Garchomp. 08:46:40.300 --> 08:46:42.300 Dude, would be impossible to take the both out. 08:46:42.300 --> 08:46:44.300 both out, Rockslide connects, 08:46:44.300 --> 08:46:46.540 Rockslash now, down for the count, 08:46:46.540 --> 08:46:50.020 and so 1v1 between this Sneasler and this Garchomp. 08:46:50.020 --> 08:46:50.940 Yeah, but commercially, 08:46:50.940 --> 08:46:53.300 Sneasler having had that a burden activate, 08:46:53.300 --> 08:46:55.020 he'll just be able to outspeed Garchomp. 08:46:55.020 --> 08:46:57.460 This is a choice guard Garchomp locked into Rockslide, 08:46:57.460 --> 08:47:01.020 and I think we're gonna see Zachary take this first game. 08:47:01.020 --> 08:47:02.820 Close combat comes out, 08:47:02.820 --> 08:47:05.580 didn't get the knockout, but it does a hefty amount. 08:47:05.580 --> 08:47:08.060 And if I were to say, if Garchomp were faster here, 08:47:08.060 --> 08:47:09.060 the Rockslide, you know, 08:47:09.060 --> 08:47:10.580 you get the flinch chance, the defense drop, 08:47:10.580 --> 08:47:12.380 We can actually add up with Auroraville up here, 08:47:12.380 --> 08:47:13.580 Rockside doesn't do enough, 08:47:13.580 --> 08:47:16.260 and another close combat will bring us the game to you here. 08:47:16.260 --> 08:47:17.260 Whoo! 08:47:17.260 --> 08:47:20.900 A lot of variables in the final moments of this game, one, 08:47:20.900 --> 08:47:23.540 and we still have a second game to play out here. 08:47:23.540 --> 08:47:27.100 Zack is one close combat away from being able to lock this up 08:47:27.100 --> 08:47:29.540 and bring us into the beginning of the next one. 08:47:29.540 --> 08:47:31.620 There you go, Garchomp's down. 08:47:31.620 --> 08:47:33.420 Let's think about game two. 08:47:33.420 --> 08:47:35.140 I can't express how much of a momentum 08:47:35.140 --> 08:47:37.980 between it was from that one turn of Auroraville, 08:47:37.980 --> 08:47:40.180 dodging the sucker punch, close combat, 08:47:40.180 --> 08:47:41.840 knocking out the gambit. 08:47:41.840 --> 08:47:45.640 It felt like it was a really dire situation at that point, 08:47:45.640 --> 08:47:48.360 but that one play instantly swings the momentum back 08:47:48.360 --> 08:47:49.800 into Zachary's favor. 08:47:49.800 --> 08:47:51.080 Really incredible play. 08:47:51.080 --> 08:47:52.560 And this is what we were previewing about this year, 08:47:52.560 --> 08:47:53.400 right? 08:47:53.400 --> 08:47:54.400 We said, okay, well, Zach played against something 08:47:54.400 --> 08:47:55.720 that was similar in top eight, 08:47:55.720 --> 08:47:57.240 but there is a choice for our Garchomp. 08:47:57.240 --> 08:47:59.040 And I think one of the key learnings 08:47:59.040 --> 08:48:01.320 that Huckumma may have had watching Zach's top eight 08:48:01.320 --> 08:48:02.720 was like, wait, hold on, I feel like Dragonite 08:48:02.720 --> 08:48:03.760 is really good in the skill bill, 08:48:03.760 --> 08:48:05.000 and let me bring Dragonite. 08:48:05.000 --> 08:48:07.320 But instead, the Frostlass ends up getting picked, 08:48:07.320 --> 08:48:09.320 and it is so good into this 08:48:09.320 --> 08:48:10.320 dual dragon combination. 08:48:10.320 --> 08:48:12.320 And so you can see how valuable 08:48:12.320 --> 08:48:13.320 that Auroraville is, allowing 08:48:13.320 --> 08:48:15.320 Frostlass to survive Rockside 08:48:15.320 --> 08:48:16.320 and Heatwave. 08:48:16.320 --> 08:48:18.320 Wow, just such an intense 08:48:18.320 --> 08:48:19.320 first game there. 08:48:19.320 --> 08:48:21.320 And then the gunk shot connects. 08:48:21.320 --> 08:48:23.320 That is really important. 08:48:23.320 --> 08:48:26.320 Heatwave too, under the Frostlass. 08:48:26.320 --> 08:48:28.320 My guess was Zach was going to go 08:48:28.320 --> 08:48:29.320 for a gunk shot and Shadow Ball 08:48:29.320 --> 08:48:30.320 there in a Dragonite, because at 08:48:30.320 --> 08:48:31.320 that point the Garchomp is not 08:48:31.320 --> 08:48:32.320 a factor in the Sleezer. 08:48:32.320 --> 08:48:33.320 You just need to knock out the 08:48:33.320 --> 08:48:34.320 Dragonite. 08:48:34.320 --> 08:48:36.320 Once Dragonite gains the Sleezer, 08:48:36.320 --> 08:48:41.280 that one you won against guard shop but still yeah exactly I mean anytime you see late game 08:48:41.280 --> 08:48:47.160 scarf rock slide just so so scary but frost last does manage to attack through it outside 08:48:47.160 --> 08:48:51.160 of snow into dragonite so going into game two you know one of the questions is okay are 08:48:51.160 --> 08:48:54.160 we going to see dragonite again because it honestly did not accomplish very much in that 08:48:54.160 --> 08:48:58.240 last game partially because of the threat of frost last so you could consider adjusting 08:48:58.240 --> 08:49:02.840 to the mega flow at instead what if that goes to mega sco villain instead right say okay 08:49:02.840 --> 08:49:03.900 I think you're going to drop 08:49:03.900 --> 08:49:04.400 Dragonite now. 08:49:04.400 --> 08:49:05.700 So it is this kind of rock, 08:49:05.700 --> 08:49:07.000 paper, scissors between the 08:49:07.000 --> 08:49:09.600 mega evolution, but Zach is up 08:49:09.600 --> 08:49:10.640 one game. 08:49:10.640 --> 08:49:12.840 He just looked so good into this 08:49:12.840 --> 08:49:14.040 kind of team composition. 08:49:14.040 --> 08:49:15.140 Let's see if there's a mix up 08:49:15.140 --> 08:49:16.400 from either players. 08:49:16.400 --> 08:49:18.140 Takuma spent a lot of time in 08:49:18.140 --> 08:49:19.600 that first game repositioning 08:49:19.600 --> 08:49:20.640 to play around the front. 08:49:20.640 --> 08:49:22.040 So it's going to play. 08:49:22.040 --> 08:49:23.740 We've come to the second game. 08:49:23.740 --> 08:49:25.200 It's the Bachelorette's goal. 08:49:25.200 --> 08:49:26.100 It's 10. 08:49:26.100 --> 08:49:27.640 The Bachelorette should blow it 08:49:27.640 --> 08:49:28.400 for Takuma. 08:49:28.400 --> 08:49:29.500 Yeah, these are the adjustments 08:49:29.500 --> 08:49:30.440 I was talking about, and I 08:49:30.440 --> 08:49:32.400 would say it generally favors 08:49:32.400 --> 08:49:36.180 more right because the skill villain is just such a nuisance and being able to 08:49:36.180 --> 08:49:40.460 burn these we saw how effective it was and handling even just flowette in the 08:49:40.460 --> 08:49:44.740 top eight however if you are in top them on you do have a lot of offensive 08:49:44.740 --> 08:49:48.180 pressure right something like a mega evolution dazzling plus way fresh there's 08:49:48.180 --> 08:49:51.940 a lot that great to go for something like mega ball with the skill villain just 08:49:51.940 --> 08:49:56.700 actually protect it and then just made trashed into how come was flowette you 08:49:56.700 --> 08:49:59.420 have to be very careful I think right now it's the life we're basically just 08:49:59.420 --> 08:50:02.420 exerts so much offensive pressure into each other. 08:50:02.420 --> 08:50:04.220 You also have to respect Floette potentially saying, 08:50:04.220 --> 08:50:06.340 you know what, I'm going to call out a Protector's Skogulon 08:50:06.340 --> 08:50:09.060 and I'm just going to click my light of ruin. 08:50:09.060 --> 08:50:11.260 Big difference, though, in between the last time 08:50:11.260 --> 08:50:13.260 we saw these Pokemon face off against each other 08:50:13.260 --> 08:50:15.740 is that there's no winch across that can threaten an Encore 08:50:15.740 --> 08:50:16.780 in either slot. 08:50:16.780 --> 08:50:18.500 She's going to have to worry about whether or not 08:50:18.500 --> 08:50:20.300 Rage Powder is going to function. 08:50:20.300 --> 08:50:22.220 If you're worrying to get locked into something 08:50:22.220 --> 08:50:26.300 like an Aqua Jet that may be a little bit unreliable. 08:50:26.300 --> 08:50:28.540 But we will see the Floette and Mega evolve 08:50:28.540 --> 08:50:30.540 as well as the Skull Villain to match. 08:50:30.540 --> 08:50:33.940 So both mega evolutions extended in this second game. 08:50:33.940 --> 08:50:36.060 But now what do these bastards think you can do? 08:50:36.060 --> 08:50:36.820 Let's see. 08:50:36.820 --> 08:50:39.860 First of all, is it going to be a rage powder here? 08:50:39.860 --> 08:50:42.740 Protect on the Vascular Legion, OK? 08:50:42.740 --> 08:50:44.980 That's a good start for this Vascular Legion, 08:50:44.980 --> 08:50:46.980 but the Skull Villain is still vulnerable. 08:50:46.980 --> 08:50:48.740 A Daglingling comes out. 08:50:48.740 --> 08:50:50.820 It's just going to connect into Skull Villain 08:50:50.820 --> 08:50:53.900 that's going to result in a burn to the Floette, which 08:50:53.900 --> 08:50:56.500 will start to stack up that damage over time. 08:50:56.500 --> 08:50:59.920 But back to Legion for Takuma still gets a chance to attack here. 08:50:59.920 --> 08:51:05.160 And it is the last for a special drive to call out this back to Legion on Zachary's side attacking. 08:51:05.160 --> 08:51:07.760 How Skulldyn will get to fire off an Overheat. 08:51:07.760 --> 08:51:12.680 That's going to be a nice stack of damage now between the burn as well as that Overheat damage. 08:51:12.680 --> 08:51:15.200 Yeah, I think great turn for Zachary there, right? 08:51:15.200 --> 08:51:17.440 That's already a lot of damage on a Floette. 08:51:17.440 --> 08:51:20.960 If you go for a Protect with the, you know, Skullvillain, I mean, 08:51:20.960 --> 08:51:23.600 right now I think Floette maybe can survive awkwardly. 08:51:23.600 --> 08:51:28.820 Vasculage is such a strong buff on here, like, if LVL doesn't have any bulk, I could see it potentially fading to it. 08:51:28.820 --> 08:51:34.780 Either way, though, talk about having the potential to double up on Skogul in there, immediately go for the knockout onto it, right? 08:51:34.780 --> 08:51:42.060 Go for Dazzling Glean and Wavecrash, but it doesn't end up coming out there, and now, Zachary gets a lot of key damage and media line to LVL. 08:51:42.060 --> 08:51:48.620 However, now Skogul and his damage output is obviously greatly reduced, you can't just go for a Rage Power once again to kind of protect your Vasculage in, 08:51:48.620 --> 08:51:53.100 but if it's Dazzling Gling coming out, well, then the Vast Fusion still keeps up a ton of damage. 08:51:53.100 --> 08:51:57.100 So, let's see if Zachary can advance his position after that strong third one. 08:51:57.100 --> 08:52:05.260 The Vast Fusion is going to protect, because another thing I saw on the pre-eval was something like an Aqua-Jet into Tacoma's Vast Fusion followed up by a Gigafreak. 08:52:05.260 --> 08:52:11.500 But this Govillain isn't minus two, and it's going to be a more blast into the Vast Fusion on the other side. 08:52:11.500 --> 08:52:13.820 Not if one hit knockout, so we could see. 08:52:13.820 --> 08:52:17.260 Oh my god, but that's not going to land. 08:52:17.260 --> 08:52:21.860 The Master Specs tried to hit the opposing Baskilligen and will fail. 08:52:21.860 --> 08:52:25.740 I really feel like we are just watching a boxing match between these two and 08:52:25.740 --> 08:52:28.340 they are truly trading blow for blow. 08:52:28.340 --> 08:52:30.900 As in this case, Zachary gets the advantage on turn one, but 08:52:30.900 --> 08:52:33.580 then Takamaw makes an amazing play on the second turn. 08:52:33.580 --> 08:52:36.460 I mean, moon blasting there in front of Baskilligen when Skobillian could just go 08:52:36.460 --> 08:52:38.820 for a rage powder seems pretty wild, right? 08:52:38.820 --> 08:52:41.980 But the expectation is for Skobillian to protect there and so 08:52:41.980 --> 08:52:44.440 Lots of damage onto that Vasculation given now. 08:52:44.440 --> 08:52:47.120 Of course, there still is no burn on the opposing Vasculation either, 08:52:47.120 --> 08:52:48.320 so it is very threatening. 08:52:48.320 --> 08:52:51.440 Something like Dazzling Gleam and Wave Crash right now is quite scary. 08:52:51.440 --> 08:52:53.060 Awkwitek comes up, goes to get the knockout! 08:52:53.060 --> 08:52:55.060 It survived by a base! 08:52:55.060 --> 08:52:59.920 No way for when a 1% can still fire off another attack here, 08:52:59.920 --> 08:53:02.420 and the Dazzling Gleam is good to connect it to both. 08:53:02.420 --> 08:53:04.720 Vasculation took so much trip from the life warp 08:53:04.720 --> 08:53:08.780 that that final tickle is going to send it back into its pokeball. 08:53:08.780 --> 08:53:11.560 But now Vasculation can go with the Wave Crash. 08:53:11.560 --> 08:53:15.780 That is going to be two knockouts for Takamaw in the second game. 08:53:15.780 --> 08:53:23.980 A vacillation finally gets burned, but both Skullvillians and Vascularians are out here for exactly about two Pokémon left to even bring in. 08:53:23.980 --> 08:53:31.440 Yeah, my big question is what is in the back, right? If it's something like Sneezler and King Gambit, you do pressure with something like Bakeout and Swords Dance, right? 08:53:31.440 --> 08:53:39.720 Takamaw may want to switch in that choice from Garchomp, but if you bring in Garchomp and there is Sneezler, Gambit on the opposing side, you risk Bakeout into Garchomp, King Gambit, Swords Dance, right? 08:53:39.720 --> 08:53:44.440 And so the big question is what do both players have in the back to get vantage. 08:53:44.480 --> 08:53:46.280 Definitely over to Pokemon right now. 08:53:46.520 --> 08:53:50.560 But Zachary with that King Gambit that sword dance that black glasses that is 08:53:50.560 --> 08:53:54.080 always a Pokemon you cannot count out in these end games like Rock also obviously 08:53:54.080 --> 08:53:54.840 has Rock slide. 08:53:55.160 --> 08:53:56.320 It is going to be Gargjum coming in. 08:53:56.320 --> 08:53:58.280 So is it's these are gambit on the opposing side. 08:53:58.280 --> 08:53:59.280 There's the King Gambit. 08:53:59.640 --> 08:54:00.360 What's next to it? 08:54:00.360 --> 08:54:01.120 You're too. 08:54:01.120 --> 08:54:03.120 I mean, you just have to worry about that. 08:54:03.120 --> 08:54:05.880 You have to give you some good damage into what's in the basket. 08:54:05.880 --> 08:54:08.360 Yeah, exactly as you call it, Aaron. 08:54:08.360 --> 08:54:12.940 So I think this is really interesting because you look at guard shop, and you think well, okay 08:54:12.940 --> 08:54:17.580 Earthquake is now just incredibly powerful and everything right, but it's we're gonna be a dragonite in the back 08:54:17.580 --> 08:54:21.300 Probably not and so you don't really want to click that earthquake because you don't want to be damaging yourself 08:54:21.380 --> 08:54:25.060 Garchup, of course, does have the stomping cantron here as well 08:54:25.060 --> 08:54:30.140 An interesting thing if you fake out into that garch on within the stopping cantron thread into one head knocked out onto either slot 08:54:30.140 --> 08:54:35.780 The following turn basket legion right now can still go through a wave crash deal decent damage and plus these are but that burn 08:54:35.780 --> 08:54:39.780 it's a really big deal. So the question for Zachary right now is, yeah, do you go for the sword stance? 08:54:39.780 --> 08:54:43.460 I think they got into Garchomp sword stance with King Gambit kind of feels like the safe obvious play. 08:54:43.460 --> 08:54:47.020 And then my other question is, what is the Ford Pokemon in the backboard pocket? 08:54:47.620 --> 08:54:52.700 It's so tough because right at this moment this Garchomp does at the speed advantage against you. 08:54:52.700 --> 08:54:54.700 So unless the Snezler is able to 08:54:55.700 --> 08:55:03.180 consume its wider, activate the unburden, and then you do get that sword stance sucker punch to have that priority action against the Garchomp, 08:55:03.180 --> 08:55:06.780 then this is going to be an advantage over to Tachymon. 08:55:06.780 --> 08:55:08.880 But you do see the wave crash come through. 08:55:08.880 --> 08:55:10.380 These are taking a lot of damage, 08:55:10.380 --> 08:55:12.780 but can Gambit does get the sword stance off? 08:55:12.780 --> 08:55:15.380 So can it be enough to actually get the knockout 08:55:15.380 --> 08:55:17.580 onto the guard chop on the subsequent turn? 08:55:17.580 --> 08:55:19.980 Yeah, yeah, I think right now, I'm Zachary. 08:55:19.980 --> 08:55:21.180 I'm thinking I'm gonna protect Sneasler. 08:55:21.180 --> 08:55:22.580 I'm gonna sucker punch your guard chop. 08:55:22.580 --> 08:55:24.180 Your basketball game is learned. It's not gonna do much. 08:55:24.180 --> 08:55:25.580 And if I'm in Tachymon's shoes, 08:55:25.580 --> 08:55:27.980 I would consider Aqua-getting the Sneasler 08:55:27.980 --> 08:55:29.580 and just going through the stomping hand 08:55:29.580 --> 08:55:30.780 from in a king gambit. 08:55:30.780 --> 08:55:31.780 You could also make the read 08:55:31.780 --> 08:55:34.660 that it's going to be Sucker Punch coming out and just saying, you know what, I'm going to swap 08:55:34.660 --> 08:55:38.500 Darchomp out into my final Pokemon. That final Pokemon likely is going to be King Gambit or 08:55:38.500 --> 08:55:42.100 Sneasler. Both of those have a fighting type attack which can just get a one hit knockout 08:55:42.100 --> 08:55:46.260 until you're posing King Gambit. So, I still very much favor talking about this position right now. 08:55:46.260 --> 08:55:49.300 Zachary gets the sword, stands off, I think that is the one cool that kind of keeps himself 08:55:49.300 --> 08:55:53.380 in it but that wave crush still did so much damage, right? And so, my other question is, 08:55:53.380 --> 08:55:57.140 Sneasler potentially survived a life or boss which is, okay, no switches, no protection. 08:55:57.140 --> 08:56:01.460 Oh, it doesn't, Sneasler goes no. And that should just be it. I think even with the Sucker Punch 08:56:01.460 --> 08:56:10.460 coming out here. Yeah, if it's a sucker punch into the Garchomp, it's not going to pick up the knockout, but it is not going to be enough. 08:56:10.460 --> 08:56:19.460 That is unfortunate, and will send us into a game three. That is the stopping catcher to finish off the King Gambit, and we've got a tie series. 08:56:19.460 --> 08:56:28.460 Wow, and when the leads came out, it was like, oh, mega-flow on one end, it's the mega-scoville on the other. I feel like this should favor Zachary, but the offense that comes out from this blow-up 08:56:28.460 --> 08:56:33.080 the left, Vasculation duo is just so strong, and with no frost last, Garchomp is able to 08:56:33.080 --> 08:56:36.400 come in and threaten with so much damage in this endgame. 08:56:36.400 --> 08:56:39.480 At endgame, by the way, also highlights why some players have moved on to Light Orb on 08:56:39.480 --> 08:56:40.480 King Gambit. 08:56:40.480 --> 08:56:44.560 It doesn't work on this team because you need it on Vasculation, but this clutch survival 08:56:44.560 --> 08:56:45.560 as well, 1%. 08:56:45.560 --> 08:56:48.560 Like I was saying, I'm like, Floette's around that range where it might be. 08:56:48.560 --> 08:56:52.920 The initial overkeep was nice, but just has enough to hang on, retaliate back with the 08:56:52.920 --> 08:56:53.920 damage output as well. 08:56:53.920 --> 08:56:57.880 And so, Floette, Vasculation looked quite solid there, and the thing is, I think that 08:56:57.880 --> 08:57:03.960 is actually still pretty good into a frost last adjustment as well right and so if you're Zachary you want to cover for the 08:57:03.960 --> 08:57:07.480 Float and Basculation King Gambit can threaten Basculation as a lead immediately 08:57:08.000 --> 08:57:13.040 The hard thing about using King Gambit in this matchup is that there are just so many resistances to it right like you've got the 08:57:13.040 --> 08:57:17.400 Float you've got the King Gambit you've got the sneezing on the other end right and I feel like we saw that in top 8 08:57:17.400 --> 08:57:21.160 What Zachary is while we brought Gambit didn't really work out super well right so the question is 08:57:21.840 --> 08:57:22.840 See it once again 08:57:22.840 --> 08:57:26.120 It's not the easiest one to use, but checkmates the basket 08:57:26.120 --> 08:57:28.360 legion on the opposing side so effectively. 08:57:28.360 --> 08:57:31.480 It is a lot tougher when this King Gambit only had access to 08:57:31.480 --> 08:57:32.760 this dark type attack. 08:57:32.760 --> 08:57:35.400 I think that's really where you look at Takuma's having a bit 08:57:35.400 --> 08:57:38.520 of the advantage there, and a lot more coverage with the fact 08:57:38.520 --> 08:57:40.680 you still have Iron Head and Low Kick. 08:57:40.680 --> 08:57:44.280 So I don't, I don't know, it's a really, really tough call. 08:57:44.280 --> 08:57:46.040 You know that it's a tense situation. 08:57:46.040 --> 08:57:47.560 You're in the top four. 08:57:47.560 --> 08:57:49.720 Grand finals is right in front of you. 08:57:49.720 --> 08:57:51.360 you can taste it. 08:57:51.360 --> 08:57:53.840 And both of these competitors have one game. 08:57:53.840 --> 08:57:56.960 You can feel the tension and the stress. 08:57:56.960 --> 08:58:01.000 And once again, just this dynamic of which mega evolution 08:58:01.000 --> 08:58:02.240 do you go with, right, Floette? 08:58:02.240 --> 08:58:05.160 Overall, do you just feel better in that one? 08:58:05.160 --> 08:58:06.240 You stare down a school building, 08:58:06.240 --> 08:58:08.360 which normally is not the mega that you would like to see, 08:58:08.360 --> 08:58:10.680 I think, but it still just did a lot of damage, right? 08:58:10.680 --> 08:58:12.800 So I think talk about, might say, you know what? 08:58:12.800 --> 08:58:14.040 Even if you go back to Frostlass, 08:58:14.040 --> 08:58:15.680 I'm still okay going with Floette. 08:58:15.680 --> 08:58:17.360 I would love to see Dragonite make an appearance again, 08:58:17.360 --> 08:58:18.360 but that's just my guess. 08:58:18.360 --> 08:58:22.040 for Zack could see a run back of maybe King Gambit gets dropped but here we go. It's going to be 08:58:22.040 --> 08:58:29.160 another lease. He's learned basket legion. Thinking that these are might not be too bad. Yeah. You 08:58:29.160 --> 08:58:34.040 have fake out in this situation. It's also perfect because you see a flowette on the other side and 08:58:34.040 --> 08:58:39.160 hit it with a gunshot. Exactly. Yeah. I think this is a lead that covers for what Tuckamon went 08:58:39.160 --> 08:58:43.720 for in the previous game and he does run it back here. And so right now you have pressure like he 08:58:43.720 --> 08:58:47.800 said with that fake out or that gunshot. There's a lot of offense from Zack's side as well. If 08:58:47.800 --> 08:58:52.800 You are Zach, you could make an aggressive prediction here and say, you know what, there's no way you're going to ever let me target Floette. 08:58:52.800 --> 08:58:56.800 I'm going to double up on your basket legion with something like a gumshot and a last respects immediately. 08:58:56.800 --> 08:59:01.800 My question then is whether or not that even gets the knockout, but I think it'll definitely come really close. 08:59:01.800 --> 08:59:10.800 Yeah, I mean, I would love to see that come to fruition, but I also feel like there's a way to play around that and that's just with protecting the basket legion here. 08:59:10.800 --> 08:59:16.560 You can even just go for a double protect, just for the safety, so I can help to at least stall out for the safe. 08:59:16.560 --> 08:59:21.760 But that's actually gonna take a fight for now, as Garchon now comes out to take its place. 08:59:21.760 --> 08:59:26.560 That is a Pokemon that will have a lot better resistances to a gunshot that could come out from the season. 08:59:26.560 --> 08:59:28.400 But it protects itself on this turn. 08:59:28.400 --> 08:59:30.720 Holy hell, see the last respect come out? 08:59:30.720 --> 08:59:31.600 Oh my goodness! 08:59:31.600 --> 08:59:34.960 Sarely misses the knockout of the Takamaw's Valkylician. 08:59:34.960 --> 08:59:38.800 Life form, very powerful, but not enough to get it over the line for this one. 08:59:38.800 --> 08:59:39.300 Wow! 08:59:39.300 --> 08:59:40.300 That's going to fire! 08:59:40.300 --> 08:59:41.800 That's all I respect! 08:59:41.800 --> 08:59:43.800 You're going to both knock each other out! 08:59:43.800 --> 08:59:45.800 That's not a bad trade at the end of the day 08:59:45.800 --> 08:59:47.300 because now you get your Garchomp in 08:59:47.300 --> 08:59:49.300 and the Sneasel are just protected 08:59:49.300 --> 08:59:50.800 so it is incredibly vulnerable 08:59:50.800 --> 08:59:53.300 to an earthquake we're stopping answering right now. 08:59:53.300 --> 08:59:57.300 Oh my goodness, is this just such a fast pace set? 08:59:57.300 --> 08:59:59.300 The big question I have for you, Rosemary, 08:59:59.300 --> 09:00:01.300 is is there that frost last in the back, right? 09:00:01.300 --> 09:00:03.300 Because if so, well, that's really good 09:00:03.300 --> 09:00:04.800 into the Garchomp. 09:00:04.800 --> 09:00:08.300 So, what do both trainers bring in right now? 09:00:08.300 --> 09:00:13.260 really, really intense first turn though. Last respects, even with those stacks, 09:00:13.260 --> 09:00:17.500 adaptability and life force is pretty good. And there's Frostlass coming out, so that is the 09:00:17.500 --> 09:00:22.620 adaptation we talked about, as well as makes a return here. I think that's a great call though, 09:00:22.620 --> 09:00:26.780 I mean you still have to worry a little bit about the fact that Scar Tromp is faster than you with 09:00:26.780 --> 09:00:32.620 that choice, Scar. But Frostlass can help to make sure that the Sneezer doesn't get taken out by a 09:00:32.620 --> 09:00:36.780 stopping character, and got the Aurora reveal as a potential here. A lot of different paths 09:00:36.780 --> 09:00:38.260 You could walk down on this turn. 09:00:38.260 --> 09:00:40.100 Yeah, I mean, guard chop is exerting pressure 09:00:40.100 --> 09:00:42.140 with stopping hands for more earthquake right now, right? 09:00:42.140 --> 09:00:44.260 And so you would think, well, I want to knock out the Sneasler. 09:00:44.260 --> 09:00:45.100 You just protect it. 09:00:45.100 --> 09:00:47.060 I don't want you to get a bump shot off into me. 09:00:47.060 --> 09:00:48.580 Sneasler could just say, hey, you know what? 09:00:48.580 --> 09:00:49.500 I'm going to switch out. 09:00:49.500 --> 09:00:50.700 Process is going to mega vault. 09:00:50.700 --> 09:00:51.900 I'm going to one shot your guard chop. 09:00:51.900 --> 09:00:53.220 And once guard chop makes, Sneasler 09:00:53.220 --> 09:00:54.860 is in a phenomenal position in the end game. 09:00:54.860 --> 09:00:57.460 So I actually think this is a really key turn. 09:00:57.460 --> 09:00:59.220 And the main dynamic to pay attention to 09:00:59.220 --> 09:01:01.260 is guard chop versus Sneasler, who 09:01:01.260 --> 09:01:02.940 will make it out of the turn. 09:01:02.940 --> 09:01:05.380 And if your guard chop, you say, you know what? 09:01:05.380 --> 09:01:06.660 I don't feel comfortable with any option. 09:01:06.660 --> 09:01:09.540 could just click rock slide that is always kind of a get out of jail part but 09:01:09.540 --> 09:01:13.900 it's gonna be the pivot here instead expecting a switch. Let's Akari switch out 09:01:13.900 --> 09:01:20.260 the Sceesler here. He does! Okay. Oh this is so intense. You want to be able to see that 09:01:20.260 --> 09:01:24.220 epic showdown but it's gonna be the King Gambit switch in for Chocomot and the 09:01:24.220 --> 09:01:31.780 Lycan Rock for Zack at Mega Evolution. Finds out again on this cross slide. Could be a big turn. 09:01:31.780 --> 09:01:36.580 Okay, so I think trying to fade out the guard shot, I would think, and just, you know, go 09:01:36.580 --> 09:01:37.580 through the Blizzard. 09:01:37.580 --> 09:01:41.980 In fact, it's the case, this is a very favorable turn for Pokemon, right? 09:01:41.980 --> 09:01:44.980 Like, here he was risking the game, gunk shot, into that slot. 09:01:44.980 --> 09:01:48.420 Zack said, okay, I'm gonna switch out because surely you're gonna respect that, right? 09:01:48.420 --> 09:01:49.420 Here we go, it's gonna be Blizzard. 09:01:49.420 --> 09:01:54.540 So the main scary thing here is it can freeze right now, does okay damage on a flow-in, 33%. 09:01:54.540 --> 09:01:56.020 Is there a freeze onto either? 09:01:56.020 --> 09:01:57.020 There is not! 09:01:57.020 --> 09:02:00.820 And it's gonna be a huge move last in return, into the cross-slash slot. 09:02:00.820 --> 09:02:06.100 Wow, it's going to take it down to 23% and so that is a lot of damage traded. 09:02:06.100 --> 09:02:11.620 I don't know if the Blizzard is actually going to have added up to enough. 09:02:11.620 --> 09:02:15.100 Now this Lycanroc did get in spot 3 with a Doku Sassan Tact. 09:02:15.100 --> 09:02:16.100 It did, exactly. 09:02:16.100 --> 09:02:19.500 And right now King Gambit would love to sucker punch either of these. 09:02:19.500 --> 09:02:23.540 The Lycanroc can just excel rock to get around it, move before the sucker punch, and Frost 09:02:23.540 --> 09:02:24.940 Lash can Aurora Veil. 09:02:24.940 --> 09:02:29.140 However, let's say you hover for those, well then what if Frost Lash just goes for Blizzard 09:02:29.140 --> 09:02:31.540 and Lichenrock goes for close combat, right? 09:02:31.540 --> 09:02:33.480 There also could just be rocks like Lizard potentially 09:02:33.480 --> 09:02:34.320 trying to knock out Floette, 09:02:34.320 --> 09:02:36.020 or Accel Rock plus Lizard into Floette. 09:02:36.020 --> 09:02:38.020 So, lots of options right now. 09:02:38.020 --> 09:02:40.180 King Gambit does exert a lot of pressure here. 09:02:40.180 --> 09:02:42.580 Lichenrock's going starting off with a protect. 09:02:43.580 --> 09:02:46.020 Focus Ash is a very valuable resource in this game. 09:02:46.020 --> 09:02:47.980 He doesn't know how to win the zucker punch line games, 09:02:47.980 --> 09:02:49.380 but the zucker punch works! 09:02:49.380 --> 09:02:51.220 From the Tuckabooz King Gambit, 09:02:51.220 --> 09:02:52.620 crosslice is down, 09:02:52.620 --> 09:02:56.380 and now it's just the Sneasler and the Lichenrock left. 09:02:56.380 --> 09:03:02.780 As Foe-Ed goes for another attack with the Dazzling Gleek to protect good to keep this like a rocket Foe-ed deep. 09:03:02.780 --> 09:03:06.780 But can Sneasler, why can Rock close this out? 09:03:06.780 --> 09:03:10.180 Oh my gosh, this is so tense because we know there's a guard chop in the back. 09:03:10.180 --> 09:03:12.780 We know that guard chop of course can't just play earthquake. 09:03:12.780 --> 09:03:17.980 If Sneasler is able to get that unburdened to activate though with closed combat before guard chop hits the field, 09:03:17.980 --> 09:03:19.880 you'll get the speed advantage which will be a big deal. 09:03:19.880 --> 09:03:23.880 I think actually if that does not happen, you're gonna be in a really difficult position here. 09:03:23.880 --> 09:03:28.780 And so Zach is down to his final two Pokemon does have a lot of offensive pressure, 09:03:28.780 --> 09:03:31.080 but also still has to respect the flow at here. 09:03:31.480 --> 09:03:33.520 Spiegel would love to close combat King Gambit. 09:03:33.520 --> 09:03:37.420 Lichenrock would probably love to get a rock side here, maybe fish for a flinch as well. 09:03:37.820 --> 09:03:41.880 So tense, especially with that choice of bar chop leading as a final boss here. 09:03:41.880 --> 09:03:44.360 And don't forget, there is still that focus action Lichenrock as well. 09:03:44.820 --> 09:03:46.360 If you sucker punch the Lichenrock, right? 09:03:46.360 --> 09:03:47.660 It's got ready misses! 09:03:47.660 --> 09:03:49.660 The misses! 09:03:49.660 --> 09:03:52.660 So that's one way that this game can be taken from you 09:03:52.660 --> 09:03:56.580 at the gunk shot cannot knock out the bullet on the third. 09:03:56.580 --> 09:03:59.060 Toppa Berry actually can't take this king gambler either, 09:03:59.060 --> 09:04:02.220 so you do get away with one Pokemon Gale, 09:04:02.220 --> 09:04:04.300 but you're gonna drop your defense this year 09:04:04.300 --> 09:04:05.300 on the Lycan Rock, 09:04:05.300 --> 09:04:07.180 and if you still close this out, 09:04:07.180 --> 09:04:09.940 with that Toyscarp Gartron winging in the wings, 09:04:09.940 --> 09:04:12.580 definitely now breaks that focus dash 09:04:12.580 --> 09:04:14.900 as you get brought all the way down to one, 09:04:14.900 --> 09:04:17.460 and Sneezer takes a lot of damage too. 09:04:17.460 --> 09:04:19.980 And that should just be it, right, gunk shot. 09:04:19.980 --> 09:04:22.200 That is the gamble that you take. 09:04:22.200 --> 09:04:24.660 Toyskarve Garchomp now hits the field, 09:04:24.660 --> 09:04:27.120 and Sneezer's unburden has not been activated, 09:04:27.120 --> 09:04:30.180 so Earthquake now will just be able to finish things off. 09:04:30.180 --> 09:04:33.520 Oh, and this is what makes Gungshot such a high variance 09:04:33.520 --> 09:04:34.980 move on the Sneezer. 09:04:34.980 --> 09:04:36.300 I mean, had that connected, that would have been 09:04:36.300 --> 09:04:37.140 a double knockout. 09:04:37.140 --> 09:04:37.980 It would have been Sneezer, 09:04:37.980 --> 09:04:39.820 plus like rocking a Toyskarve Garchomp. 09:04:39.820 --> 09:04:40.660 I think in that position, 09:04:40.660 --> 09:04:43.160 Toyskarve Garchomp actually still looks okay as well. 09:04:43.160 --> 09:04:44.820 I also wasn't sure if the close combat 09:04:44.820 --> 09:04:46.660 was gonna knock out King Gambit, to be honest. 09:04:46.660 --> 09:04:48.140 I'm curious on what the damage roll is there, 09:04:48.140 --> 09:04:53.140 but for Takuma, I think you can see J-Center in his future. 09:04:53.540 --> 09:04:55.780 So going to be a protector from the Stanciler of those 09:04:55.780 --> 09:04:59.020 so you can figure out what is Garchomp is going to walk into 09:04:59.020 --> 09:05:02.020 as the flow-wet is going to protect himself as well. 09:05:02.020 --> 09:05:03.540 Like a rock does go for the Accelerant, 09:05:03.540 --> 09:05:05.500 hoping maybe that that wouldn't have been enough damage 09:05:05.500 --> 09:05:07.500 to actually get the flow-out out from here, 09:05:07.500 --> 09:05:09.420 but Garchomp has not got the help into Earthquake 09:05:09.420 --> 09:05:11.780 and I think that is game set, match. 09:05:11.780 --> 09:05:13.940 Takuma going to move on to the finals 09:05:13.940 --> 09:05:16.140 of the World Championships. 09:05:16.140 --> 09:05:23.340 Zachary, the last hope of the U.S., the Sneaselers just cannot finish this 1v2. 09:05:23.340 --> 09:05:27.660 Cannot, and to bring Garchomp into a matchup with Frostyre, 09:05:27.660 --> 09:05:31.660 Revire's excellent positioning defines the perfect ball. 09:05:31.660 --> 09:05:35.020 The key turn in this one was when it was Garchomp out against Sneaselers, 09:05:35.020 --> 09:05:36.700 and Sneaselers switches. 09:05:36.700 --> 09:05:40.540 Blood up for a double, but not really going to matter here as Garchomp's earthquake 09:05:40.540 --> 09:05:42.620 is going to deliver the finishing blow, 09:05:42.620 --> 09:05:47.620 And Takamon will be moving on to the finals here at the Pokemon World Championships. 09:05:49.620 --> 09:05:54.620 Amazing effort there by Zack in the top four, but it's going to see Japan versus Japan. 09:05:54.620 --> 09:05:57.620 And we look forward to the grand final tomorrow. 09:05:57.620 --> 09:06:04.620 And you can see the emotion of what it means to him to be able to play in J-Center tomorrow. 09:06:04.620 --> 09:06:11.620 An amazing performance by Zackery once again who has had one of the most dominant seasons I've ever seen in North America. 09:06:11.620 --> 09:06:15.860 second at Las Vegas Regionals, second at EUIC, top four at the World Championships. 09:06:15.860 --> 09:06:21.100 He has gotten a medal and trophy at all of those events, has easily become one of the 09:06:21.100 --> 09:06:25.380 best players in North America, and is super-starred to watch out for in the upcoming seasons, but 09:06:25.380 --> 09:06:27.820 his season will end here. 09:06:27.820 --> 09:06:29.940 And what a game-three this was. 09:06:29.940 --> 09:06:33.540 This whole set truly just felt like two masters going back and forth. 09:06:33.540 --> 09:06:36.620 Every time it felt like one player would get an advantage, then the next turn the other 09:06:36.620 --> 09:06:40.020 player would kind of pull things back and reel things back in, and it was just a tug 09:06:40.020 --> 09:06:46.180 of war slowly and surely throughout this entire set and just so fun to be able to wash rows 09:06:46.180 --> 09:06:51.660 right out the gates in that third game you see the fast religion trade their eighties 09:06:51.660 --> 09:06:57.940 against each other you know life or recoil make that last respect to KO and then the 09:06:57.940 --> 09:07:03.540 fast religion knocking itself out of his own life or three coil and then these next couple 09:07:03.540 --> 09:07:07.900 of turns there was a lot of damage I think that was left on the board but you have to 09:07:07.900 --> 09:07:11.020 to make those tough calls. Are you going into protecting here? Do you expect a 09:07:11.020 --> 09:07:15.500 switch? Do you really want to try to play and do that trap card? Yeah, I, you know, 09:07:15.500 --> 09:07:18.180 would have loved to see how this game would have played out had the gunshot 09:07:18.180 --> 09:07:21.660 hit because I think it would still be this situation where it's full HP 09:07:21.660 --> 09:07:25.060 Garchomp against Sneasler plus Lycan Rock, right? And the Garchomp should just 09:07:25.060 --> 09:07:27.820 be able to clean up things pretty easily with earthquake in that position. So 09:07:27.820 --> 09:07:31.100 that's what I was saying. Like maybe the other play to go for is go for close 09:07:31.100 --> 09:07:35.420 combat on Slaking Gambit, rock side into the Flo-Wed slot instead. But Garchomp 09:07:35.420 --> 09:07:38.860 It's so strong that endgame where I think even if the burden boost is active on Sneasler, 09:07:38.860 --> 09:07:39.860 it's probably still not enough. 09:07:39.860 --> 09:07:42.180 Maybe it opens the door for like a critical hit close combat. 09:07:42.180 --> 09:07:43.180 That's true. 09:07:43.180 --> 09:07:46.360 Yeah, but the perfect conservation of that scarf garbchomp, and once again, it was that 09:07:46.360 --> 09:07:50.940 one turn where you have garbchomp and you have the Sneasler, and garbchomp switches 09:07:50.940 --> 09:07:54.860 out, baits out the Blizzard, baits it out perfectly, and Floette's Dacin' Gleam just 09:07:54.860 --> 09:07:56.060 does so much damage. 09:07:56.060 --> 09:08:00.220 There's a reason why when this Pokemon got introduced, everyone was saying it is so good. 09:08:00.220 --> 09:08:05.060 It turns out, yeah, when you have really good base special attack and you are one of the 09:08:05.060 --> 09:08:08.180 really strong special attackers and you have an ability to boost your special 09:08:08.180 --> 09:08:12.540 attack or fairy damage pretty good adds up quite quickly and even against a team 09:08:12.540 --> 09:08:16.160 that has a lot of bulk I mean dazzling gleam able to do over 50% so 09:08:16.160 --> 09:08:21.380 frequently to all of these people yeah and what a difference just one Pokemon 09:08:21.380 --> 09:08:24.940 even made in this matchup you saw Zach play this out in the top eight that 09:08:24.940 --> 09:08:30.260 whimsicott really big deal but something that Zach was able to effort 09:08:30.260 --> 09:08:36.340 it slay navigate. And then now you get to this top four and that choice for Garchomp actually taking 09:08:36.340 --> 09:08:42.420 that whimsicott spot completely shifted the dynamic of the matchup. The tale is all this time Garchomp 09:08:42.420 --> 09:08:48.100 has been dominant in competitive BGC ever since it was introduced in Pokemon Diamond and Furl. 09:08:48.100 --> 09:08:52.580 Back in the day you had choice Garchomp paired with Zapdos with Discharge and as 09:08:52.580 --> 09:08:56.420 metagames moved on as generations moved on it was Garchomp that always 09:08:56.420 --> 09:09:02.420 Stuck around Landry's theory and stole its thunder for actually quite a while saying, hey, I'm stronger 09:09:02.420 --> 09:09:07.020 I also have a really great ability to intimidate but no landry is in the game 09:09:07.020 --> 09:09:13.700 Garchomp comes back in full force and reminds us of why it's been one of the all-time historic Pokemon in a PC 09:09:14.260 --> 09:09:17.620 Well, this may be the conclusion of the match the day is not done yet 09:09:17.620 --> 09:09:21.300 Let's hear from our second finalist on the stage 09:09:21.300 --> 09:09:31.300 Let's give a big congratulation to our second world finalist, Takuma Yamazaki! 09:09:31.300 --> 09:09:40.300 Takuma, congratulations on making it to the finals of the 2026 World Championships. 09:09:40.300 --> 09:09:41.300 How does it feel? 09:09:41.300 --> 09:09:45.300 Congratulations on making it to the finals. 09:09:45.300 --> 09:09:50.300 I feel like I'm a newbie. 09:09:50.300 --> 09:09:51.300 I feel like I'm a newbie. 09:09:51.300 --> 09:09:52.300 I feel like I'm a newbie. 09:09:52.300 --> 09:09:56.300 It's completely unbelievable. I'm so happy. 09:09:56.300 --> 09:10:03.300 Your last performance at the Japan National Championships was not quite as high of a finish. 09:10:03.300 --> 09:10:06.300 So I imagine, does this come as a surprise? 09:10:06.300 --> 09:10:15.300 I couldn't go to the final at the P.J.C.S. last time, so I was surprised to be able to get to the final this time. 09:10:15.300 --> 09:10:23.300 Yes, in Japan's preliminary match, we were aiming to win the WCS. 09:10:23.300 --> 09:10:30.300 We weren't aiming to win the WCS at all. 09:10:30.300 --> 09:10:32.300 We were aiming to win the WCS. 09:10:32.300 --> 09:10:35.300 So we had to do that. 09:10:35.300 --> 09:10:43.300 We were aiming to win the WCS. 09:10:43.300 --> 09:10:49.500 So, yeah, you know, at the Japan National Championships, I didn't make it quite as far. 09:10:49.500 --> 09:10:54.320 To be honest, my goal was just to make it here to Worlds and be able to stand here on 09:10:54.320 --> 09:10:55.320 stage. 09:10:55.320 --> 09:11:00.200 And so I wasn't thinking about, like, aiming for the championship or anything like that. 09:11:00.200 --> 09:11:05.320 So it's completely unbelievable that now I do have this chance to compete for the championship. 09:11:05.320 --> 09:11:09.120 Well, the stage only gets bigger and more amazing from here. 09:11:09.120 --> 09:11:12.320 So we'll see you tomorrow on Championship Sunday in the Chase Arena. 09:11:12.320 --> 09:11:18.200 But for now, I want to talk to you about your top four match, as you brought that choice 09:11:18.200 --> 09:11:23.400 scarf guard chomp into a matchup against Omega Frostlast, which on paper doesn't look that 09:11:23.400 --> 09:11:24.400 great. 09:11:24.400 --> 09:11:25.400 So what was your strategy? 09:11:25.400 --> 09:11:26.400 What were you thinking? 09:11:26.400 --> 09:11:39.120 I think the enemy team is a bit weak against the enemy team, but what is the strategy against the enemy team? 09:11:39.120 --> 09:11:47.320 My team has a good team of Kai and Gamirius, so I think the first one is very hard. 09:11:47.320 --> 09:11:55.320 I thought that the first one would be Skobiran, so I decided to use Kai, but the opponent team did a good job. 09:11:55.320 --> 09:11:58.000 It was in the second round, so we had to take the first round. 09:11:58.000 --> 09:12:00.760 And then, we were able to take the second round with Asukovira, 09:12:00.760 --> 09:12:03.520 so we were doing well in the first round. 09:12:03.520 --> 09:12:05.560 But we were able to pass the first round well, 09:12:05.560 --> 09:12:08.320 and we won the third round. 09:12:08.320 --> 09:12:09.920 That's right. 09:12:09.920 --> 09:12:14.840 We won the game with the game of Yuki Meropo and the game of High Play. 09:12:16.400 --> 09:12:18.960 Yeah, Omega for us is a really tough matchup 09:12:18.960 --> 09:12:22.000 when you're bringing Mega Dragonite and Garchomp. 09:12:22.000 --> 09:12:26.000 So, you know, the first match was a little rough. 09:12:26.000 --> 09:12:30.520 And then the second match, honestly, like I read that my opponent would bring 09:12:30.520 --> 09:12:34.000 school villain instead, and that match went well for me. 09:12:34.000 --> 09:12:39.920 And then in the third match, you know, they brought a kick across last 09:12:39.920 --> 09:12:44.480 when I had full left, and I reached for the final two games, and that worked out, 09:12:44.480 --> 09:12:46.200 and I was a little win. 09:12:46.200 --> 09:12:48.320 Well, congratulations on your win, Tecumbe. 09:12:48.320 --> 09:12:51.720 Do you have any shout-outs you want to give to anybody who may be washing at home 09:12:51.720 --> 09:12:54.480 or anybody who supported you on your journey to the finals? 09:13:21.720 --> 09:13:27.720 I think. Yeah, so I practiced with so many different people and you know it's 09:13:27.720 --> 09:13:32.160 it's really because of all the help that I've gotten all the support from people 09:13:32.160 --> 09:13:35.960 around me and advice that I've received that I was able to get here so very 09:13:35.960 --> 09:13:40.560 thankful. Well thank you Takuma so much for your time and let's hear it one more 09:13:40.560 --> 09:13:45.080 time for our second finalist Takuma Yamazaki. 09:13:46.840 --> 09:13:51.000 So make sure to tune in tomorrow on Championship Sunday where you'll see 09:13:51.000 --> 09:13:56.760 Hiroshi Onishi and Takamori Yamazaki face off in our grand finals in the chase arena. 09:13:56.760 --> 09:14:01.560 But of course, that's not everything that's been going on here at the World Championships. 09:14:01.560 --> 09:14:07.480 And of course, at Pokemon XP, there's been some incredible experiences at this event that you 09:14:07.480 --> 09:14:12.520 probably would not want to miss. But fortunately, we have a lovely recap for you to see. So let's check it out. 09:14:51.000 --> 09:14:55.000 sense the excitement to compete. 09:14:55.000 --> 09:15:11.000 More than 2000 trainers have descended upon San Francisco to test their skills. 09:15:21.000 --> 09:15:31.000 and fight with all their might to become the next Pokemon World Champion. 09:15:37.000 --> 09:15:41.000 Every time I think it's going to be different and every time it's exactly the same. 09:15:41.000 --> 09:15:46.000 We look back at the replay of all of the things that have been going on in this World Championships 09:15:46.000 --> 09:15:52.000 world championships. And you 09:15:52.000 --> 09:15:54.000 think at the start of the event. 09:15:54.000 --> 09:15:56.000 Wow, all of that to look forward 09:15:56.000 --> 09:15:58.000 to at the end of it was like how 09:15:58.000 --> 09:16:00.000 did we get here so quickly? It 09:16:00.000 --> 09:16:02.000 seems like only a moment ago, 09:16:02.000 --> 09:16:04.000 but what a world championships 09:16:04.000 --> 09:16:07.000 it has been. We've now got our 09:16:07.000 --> 09:16:09.000 finalist here, both players from 09:16:09.000 --> 09:16:12.000 Japan, making it all the way to 09:16:12.000 --> 09:16:14.000 championship Sunday. Um in what 09:16:14.000 --> 09:16:19.200 their sets. Of course Hiroshi had a quick 2-0 victory and made some incredible callouts 09:16:19.200 --> 09:16:24.240 while I think Aaron explained it best in this last matchup where Takuma and Zachary were 09:16:24.240 --> 09:16:30.400 going blow for blow like two champion prize fighters in the ring, back and forth and back 09:16:30.400 --> 09:16:33.760 and forth. I can't wait to see what both those competitors have for us tomorrow. 09:16:33.760 --> 09:16:37.280 You know, and in some ways this feels appropriate to me too that we're ending with two Japanese 09:16:37.280 --> 09:16:40.920 players in the finals. I feel like the players from Japan have done so much to innovate this 09:16:40.920 --> 09:16:45.240 better game of Pokemon champion so far. It makes sense, hey, you're a tournament where it's mostly 09:16:45.240 --> 09:16:48.760 teams that we're a little familiar with from the past, that the players from the region, 09:16:48.760 --> 09:16:51.560 that most of those teams that originated from were able to come out on top. 09:16:51.560 --> 09:16:56.520 Yeah, 100%. And then, you know, it's how you execute those things in the moment, 09:16:56.520 --> 09:17:01.560 like, especially Takuma was saying, like, in that matchup, maybe not something that he was 09:17:01.560 --> 09:17:07.400 necessarily prepared for, but not necessarily expecting to make it to this stage of the tournament, 09:17:07.400 --> 09:17:14.840 but still holding his head high and showing like even in those situations you can still make a read you can do something different you can 09:17:15.000 --> 09:17:21.240 Find a way through your opponent once you've gone blow for blow and yeah figure out exactly how you're gonna make it to an end game 09:17:21.240 --> 09:17:25.880 Yeah, and I think that's what's so beautiful about our game and watching this tournament 09:17:26.040 --> 09:17:33.100 Especially is to seeing the level of play that everyone brings to every single round. I mean we started round one 09:17:33.100 --> 09:17:38.860 yesterday with two incredible matches and we didn't stop like it was all gas no 09:17:38.860 --> 09:17:43.220 breaks from the jump at this tournament and it's no surprise that we have two 09:17:43.220 --> 09:17:47.500 incredible players to duke it out for the title of champion the first champion 09:17:47.500 --> 09:17:52.260 of champions here in San Francisco. I think maybe one of the most stressful 09:17:52.260 --> 09:17:55.900 tournaments to compete in ever two where there's no easy matches in this whole 09:17:55.900 --> 09:17:58.860 tournament. I wouldn't want to do it. Yeah every match is so close every match is so 09:17:58.860 --> 09:18:02.380 many situations you have to get calls right you know you can't display passively 09:18:02.380 --> 09:18:05.580 and kind of kind of grind out matches the way you can in some other formats. 09:18:05.580 --> 09:18:09.580 You have real movies in here to help players just pivot into different situations all game. 09:18:09.580 --> 09:18:13.020 You got to make those reads. You kind of saw that with nearly every top cut match. 09:18:13.020 --> 09:18:15.820 So I'm really impressed by all the players able to make it to this point. 09:18:15.820 --> 09:18:18.540 And I think the players who what keeps you really be proud of themselves 09:18:18.540 --> 09:18:20.540 where what a crazy tournament this has been. 09:18:32.380 --> 09:18:34.440 you 09:19:02.380 --> 09:19:04.440 you 09:19:32.380 --> 09:19:34.440 you 09:20:02.380 --> 09:20:04.440 you 09:20:32.380 --> 09:20:34.440 you 09:21:02.380 --> 09:21:04.440 you 09:21:32.380 --> 09:21:47.300 I really want to shout out this team that Takuma is using here with the Dragonite over 09:21:47.300 --> 09:21:50.460 Charizard on the more traditional big six core. 09:21:50.460 --> 09:21:52.340 It dominated day one. 09:21:52.340 --> 09:21:56.900 This is a similar team that Yuya used to go undefeated in day one and of course, Takuma 09:21:56.900 --> 09:22:02.180 only dropped the one match in day one and has now made it all the way to the finals. 09:22:02.180 --> 09:22:08.740 is an adaptation of one of those small changes, one Pokemon change that has obviously completely 09:22:08.740 --> 09:22:14.340 changed how opponents play into that lineup. And it definitely paid off on day one for both 09:22:14.340 --> 09:22:19.220 Yuya and Takamo. And now Takamo is at the finals using this variation. And I think it's going to be 09:22:19.220 --> 09:22:24.820 really exciting to see how this new version of Big Six that drops the Charizard for Dragonite 09:22:24.820 --> 09:22:28.980 matches up against Big Six Classic. Yeah, I don't think we can ask for something 09:22:28.980 --> 09:22:49.980 really like, um, it's not quite new school against old school, right? But it's like the, the, the adaptations to the formats and the changes and how that swings the match up. And certainly Dragonite puts, I think, quite a few spanners in the works for a lot of teams that we've seen in the format. We've seen two of them make it all the way to pretty much this, this stage of the competition for a reason. 09:22:49.980 --> 09:22:54.620 Yeah, you made it to the top cut as well with the same team, so something's working here. 09:22:54.620 --> 09:22:58.060 Just a very appropriate final boss, right? Hey, was this the right adaptation? Well, 09:22:58.060 --> 09:23:00.940 here you are, our last round of the tournament. Let's meet the team that everyone thought was the 09:23:00.940 --> 09:23:04.220 strongest coming in to prove that your team is actually the strongest. 09:23:04.220 --> 09:23:12.140 Yeah, 100%. I kind of wait to get to Championship Sunday in the chase arena as well. In the meantime, 09:23:12.140 --> 09:23:15.980 if you've been following us or if you're going to be following us tomorrow as well, 09:23:15.980 --> 09:23:21.560 We've got the twitch drops that we've been going on needing a little bit of watch time only 30 minutes 09:23:21.560 --> 09:23:25.260 If you haven't already done that and that was a great opportunity on the 09:23:25.580 --> 09:23:29.200 Restream or of course put it in your diary for tomorrow to be able to 09:23:29.520 --> 09:23:33.940 Make sure that you get those quick coupons the teammate tickets and the training tickets 09:23:34.020 --> 09:23:38.740 Yeah saving the the best for last year with those training tickets for watching tomorrow 09:23:38.740 --> 09:23:42.920 I definitely have made use of I go through my training tickets pretty quickly 09:23:42.920 --> 09:23:47.920 I don't have too many left either and a great thing if you see a team maybe the you thought was a lot of fun watching this 09:23:47.920 --> 09:23:51.320 You want to try it out yourself. I could pretty much just wipe out the VP costs if you pick this up 09:23:51.320 --> 09:23:54.840 So I definitely make sure to tune in and don't forget to get the incinerator as well 09:23:54.840 --> 09:23:59.840 His conversion rate could have been a little bit better from day one to day two, but still a very powerful Pokemon 09:23:59.840 --> 09:24:01.840 I'm sure you'll find so used for it 09:24:02.360 --> 09:24:09.920 Yeah, like you know and if you want to just have a little bit of extra spree cred going into your online matches in both one championships 09:24:09.920 --> 09:24:11.360 enjoy worlds 09:24:11.360 --> 09:24:16.120 26 getting that really great swag t-shirt and the cap as well 09:24:16.480 --> 09:24:21.360 So when you go up on ladder, it's like hey, you are watching the world championships 09:24:21.360 --> 09:24:23.360 You're watching what hang on a second? 09:24:23.600 --> 09:24:29.080 Watching the world champion this week championships this weekend because they're wearing the white hat where they were competing in the world 09:24:31.080 --> 09:24:37.380 Also, don't forget those those are actually zero so in zero y was zero worlds 09:24:37.380 --> 09:24:44.660 26. It rolls off the time, right? I mean, I have to travel to any game course. Evan and I have some history with Red Worlds t-shirts 09:24:44.660 --> 09:24:51.460 So I'm struggling here, but I hope they play a little better in it than I did. They'll put a blazer in and then we'll be set 09:24:52.700 --> 09:24:59.060 But if you're not set up to all of that then we also have our drops for the Pokemon trading card game 09:24:59.140 --> 09:25:03.580 Pokemon Go and Pokemon Unite so much there that you can get a hold of 09:25:03.580 --> 09:25:15.580 So do make sure you tune in to all of the broadcast tomorrow because championship Sunday we get to crown our finalists and our winners in each of our games. 09:25:15.580 --> 09:25:21.580 Pokemon Unite followed by Pokemon Go followed by Pokemon Trading Card Game and of course champions at the end. 09:25:21.580 --> 09:25:24.580 I think you don't know how to make sure you've got your account linked. 09:25:24.580 --> 09:25:28.580 Here's a little bit of an instruction to make sure that you get that going. 09:25:28.580 --> 09:25:33.580 going. It's also in the Twitch chat as well. While you're watching, you can get some extra 09:25:33.580 --> 09:25:36.860 as well. Make sure you actually get all of our goodies. 09:25:36.860 --> 09:25:41.300 Yeah, you did the work. You watched the stream. Make sure you get your goodies. 09:25:41.300 --> 09:25:47.860 Definitely. So we're going to be kicking things off tomorrow at 9 o'clock Pacific. And I said 09:25:47.860 --> 09:25:53.500 this last yesterday at the end of yesterday, I'm not to be trusted with any time conversions. 09:25:53.500 --> 09:25:58.060 You know what time you're in, but 9 o'clock Pacific, the same start time that we've had 09:25:58.060 --> 09:26:03.380 both yesterday and today will be kicking things off with Pokemon Unite on Championship Sunday. 09:26:03.380 --> 09:26:10.340 So make sure you tune in, you set your alarms, and make sure in the meantime that you are following all the channels 09:26:10.340 --> 09:26:13.740 Pokemon.com forward slash broadcast. 09:26:13.740 --> 09:26:18.460 And of course, follow us on all the channels as well, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, 09:26:18.460 --> 09:26:24.020 you name it, hashtag play Pokemon or play Pokemon in most places as well. 09:26:24.020 --> 09:26:28.860 Thank you to everybody that's been watching along the stream today. We've 09:26:28.860 --> 09:26:33.780 had an absolute blast. We've got our championship Sunday ready to go. So we're 09:26:33.780 --> 09:26:38.820 going to sign things off here and get ready for that. We cannot wait to see 09:26:38.820 --> 09:26:43.860 who will be our 2026 World Championship. So from us, thank you very much and we 09:26:43.860 --> 09:26:46.940 will see you tomorrow.