Hello everybody and welcome to day number two here at the Pokemon World Championship 2026
We are here with your pre-show before the action gets started
Of course, I've got some amazing representatives here from every single game being represented here at this amazing world in San Francisco
I'm Evan Hashimoto joined by with VGC Sierra Dong with the full new names and then for DCG Emily Borson
And then of course, Caleb Bang is gonna be doing all of my Unite stuff because he knows the game better than me.
But we've got so much action going on here. Actually, a lot of you have done Unite. I made that joke earlier.
But we've got so much action that's happened over the past few days. I mean, of course, players and teams coming from all across the world.
And it's been so exciting to watch. But we're only, I mean, I guess half-ish through the entire tournament already.
We've seen so many upsets and some great wins. So I'm gonna go one by one and kind of ask you all.
First of all, what is your big takeaway so far now being partly through this event and seeing what's going to come into the future?
So, Sierra, what do you see?
I mean, first off, for the Pokemon video game, the biggest takeaway from the get-go is this is a really tough tournament.
We have had so many of our previous world champions getting knocked out in phase one of the competition,
which, I mean, you come to world, it is the best of the best.
Some people have to drop along the way, but I think we are really hyping up this repeat champion.
We do have a couple of them still in the field, but it's looking tricky.
The other one too, with our current regulation and slash B, it's all been about this Mega
Charizard, right?
But we have seen that even though it's really at the top percentages, it's not necessarily
all of the top teams.
We've gotten to see Mega Dragonite Iguia, which has been incredible, Justin Tang with
his Mega Delphos and Mega Blast Toys, NJ and Haridia Rikona with Mega Sir Rafter
and right you just showing that there is a lot of innovation in different
Megas that really could rise to the top.
Yeah, of course, it's so exciting seeing course, the new game and all the new
formats and there's just so many things being changed.
But Emily, how about TCG?
What's the take one?
Well, you can't talk about the Pokemon trading part game without talking
about the big dad track of full DX, which of course is here in a full
force, but honestly, not as much as people would expect at the world
championship, only sitting at 43.2%.
A lot of players actually thought that this deck would actually
be above 50% for this tournament.
But all the way at the top of our Swiss phase one
is going to be Brent Tonneson from Australia,
who is currently undefeated, 8-0,
with Dragapult crushing hammers.
So there's a couple of variants of Dragapult
that can be played.
But it seems like Bretton has actually really locked down
just the most consistent list and where you really just don't want to take risks here in the World Championship.
I don't want to take no risks or think every risk rag is the chance here, but of course with Pokemon Go, how's it going?
Definitely. So a big takeaway here is our two Grand Finals, Potomac and Bealsboy, are still in the running to make another Grand Finals appearance.
They were top two for a reason and because we're a reigning world champion, we've never
taken a repeat world champion, we've never had a world champion repeat ever as well in
our fifth year.
So still early on, but it really might happen this year.
Meanwhile, the finalist that finished second last year has gone on five trade championships
Sundays in international worlds and combined, which is absolutely insane, stat line.
And he's looking to try to make it back to the fair finalist and win that world
championship that he's been going for so that gives me a super exciting one
especially if they get that rematch and how to rematch an NAIC that was super close
and I'm sure it's on the back of both the lines that they might, based off of Canada,
and NAF2 and NAV2, get champions up in the game.
Well that actually is a great segue to Unite because we've got a lot of players that are former champions,
world champions, but a lot of them have been eliminated.
They moved on to other teams, we've got some of our previous reigning world champions as well.
That's having a little bit of a tough time, but the real takeaway here that nobody expected is people
who have never been the world champion, which is Europe, right?
We've had Japanese champions, we've had American champions,
we've had a Latin champion most recently,
but Europe has qualified with one extra spot
through like kind of a big qualifier at EYC,
and all four of their teams have made it to day number two,
which I believe is the first time that's ever happened,
and they're looking extremely good.
So they've made it up to like second place at Worlds,
they've made it to the grand finals before,
but they've never quite been there.
Just been one of those regions.
This might be their year,
so everybody's really looking towards Europe,
But we still have basically every region present in day number two.
So anything can really happen with Pokemon United.
Something very exciting.
But of course, there have been some amazing moments that have happened already.
And I do want to each kind of highlight one of them that's happened so far.
So of course, Pokemon video game, any big moment.
Oh, I highlighted team.
Oh, okay.
We had the highlight team.
But starting off talking about the fact that we can have a repeat world
champion, I wanted to highlight for Shohi Kuguru's match
the world champion. Looking
back at this match, too, he was
going up against our, okay, we
got the, we got the clip
switched, but we'll start with
this one first. So, we're
switching the points. We're
talking about the unique
Pokemon. We'll, we'll come
back to show you in a second. I
wanted to highlight Cary's
team and Cary as a player.
Because Cary has been someone
who has really stepped up
throughout this year. He is
for any regional champion. And
when we're looking at a
couple of these unique
Megas, he has two with the
little Staropter and the
Bride Shoe, but it was
really this Zulian Arcanine
and Arcanine that sold the show.
This has been a Pokemon that hasn't necessarily picked up
on so many teams, but it really made so much impact.
But this is what I was talking about.
Shohei Kimura going up against a Japan national champion
in Hiroshi Onishi.
And this was such a great match.
Shohei now sitting at 7-1 record.
We had very similar teams with Mega Charizard being
one of the dominant teams going into this tournament.
And how Shohei Paili did it was such a,
we know that he's so skilled,
but to see it again in such confidence display
was really like, wow,
if this is just a preview of his matches,
he's gonna go all the way.
It was incredible.
So it's such a big stage to be able to show something
like that on.
And, yeah, now since of course,
Pokemon video game had two clips,
now that means you can not get zero clips,
unfortunately, they took it away.
I'm sorry, that's just how it goes.
That's just how it goes.
So, no, we'll have one later.
But for the trading card game, of course,
this is a gigantic tournament, any moment
that you wanted to kind of tribute us.
Well, there's plenty, right?
And I think for a lot of players that may be tuning
into the Pokemon trading card game for the first time,
they may not know this,
but we've had a whole expansion set
that has been released in between NAIC
and the World Championship.
But of course, it is going to be Brett Thomason
on the right piloting that very straightforward,
very consistent Dragapult. He even ran out of ways to get Dragapult in the end, and then
Dragapult's best friend Monkey Dory coming in with the Mind Bend, with that ability of
Dread of Rage, being able to move three damage counters over, and then taking the win from
here. But honestly, this is my favorite moment of yesterday. The Taish, who actually got
top eight at Worlds last year with Dragapult, I believe, is piloting Alakazam, now the
The most popular stadium that we actually have in the trading card game these days is Team Rocket's Watchtower.
It shuts off the Dunsparse, but he actually paired it with Dusk Noir.
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.
That's another two flips. I think you're actually out of clips now.
Yeah, they're actually going to finish this segment. They're just going to take me off stage immediately.
No, I love the fact too that when we talk about all these games together,
which is not, you know, we don't have any opportunities to,
it just sounds so ridiculous to hear two Pokemon paired together that it's a classic figure like
Jackpolt and Jackpolt's best friend, Monkey Dory, like,
looking at that from other games' perspective, it's like, what? That's wild.
And then you think, like, they've actually played a training card game, you know?
Crying around was good for a while. I want to play that.
But, uh, of course, we can't ignore Go.
I think they might have taken away your clip, too, because they're just there.
They're so greedy. They're so clueless.
Please, you know, we'll see if there's a clip or not.
We don't have a hook story in the game yet,
We do have target pull, which someone actually tried to bring last different world championships
and quite worked decently well, but we are in our fifth year and I feel like the skill
level for this game has gone to an all-time high.
It's going higher and higher, as this is Evie Weedow, one of our former world champions
against the two-time Thailand champion.
In their first matchup on the Winners Finals, Winner Ghost, day number two on the Winners
side, the user might even get knocked out of the tournament, but look at how close
is down to the wire, both players having like 2 or 3.1 left with red HE bars.
Only a fraction of percentages of health and you can see in the very end it comes
out to the final second. Simultaneous knockouts just really highlights the
skill over game 2. That's a half seconds that they had to you know tie on that
very moment and that's exactly what happened but we see that in so many of
our matches through throughout and these players like they're so tuned
It's a game that they kind of are into each other's
anticipation.
And that's kind of how Noah has been this year.
And so I say every world champion every year is just
better than the previous.
It's so cool, especially with games like, of course,
I love video game, most PCG.
But I feel like our game is a little bit newer, right?
As far as things go competitively.
So it's really cool to see the players level up more and
more as time has gone on.
And that's actually what my clip is, which is, if anybody
out there is not familiar with Pokemon Unite, I think
This is such a great clip to show how amazing the game is, how strong the movement is.
This is Haruto, one of the best players in the world coming out of Japan.
Pulling off one of the best juke that we have ever seen.
They're going to be on the Lucario and they're going to be chased around.
So you should be able to see them kind of in the top right there, jukeing an entire
team.
1v4.
They managed to go, escape into the Kyover Pit.
They're escaping the entire team.
They mentioned teleport backwards using bone rush right here a huge to and they waste the entire time of
Root dignitas which was considered
Looking to win this entire tournament
But they actually got eliminated on day number one in a big upset apart of it wasn't because of this but there are just too many
Good teams, so right?
Yes, yes, although it's such an amazing to this is that's gonna be an amazing clip for all time
So have you checked that Pokemon unite? That's kind of the move that you can expect from it
So I mean amazing moments already from all of these games. It's been such an amazing half of the event so far
I guess maybe one third of our incident Sunday as well
And of course, there's so many amazing things out here in this actual venue. I cannot believe how huge it is
There's so many things to do. I feel like I've I don't know probably 10% of it
I feel like yeah, I I tried to go for a wander and I'm like, alright
I'm off for a couple rounds surely I can see everything right you start getting out to the convention floor and it
just goes as far as the eye can see.
And there's still so much more.
I looked at a map and I'm like,
this doesn't even scratch the surface.
And it's just incredible how much love there is for Pokemon,
and how much love has been poured into the event,
and so many things going on.
So hopefully we have the opportunity today,
but as the competition ramps up, I don't know.
Yeah, man.
Honestly, to build on Sierra's point,
I really feel like there's something here
for a Pokemon fan of any level.
Even if it's your first day,
If you've been with the series for years,
you really can just find something for you.
I know there's musical performances outside.
There's a whole outside stage Pokemon XP
happening for the first time.
For me, my favorite thing that I've seen so far
is that life-size of Penisaur,
Blasttoys and Charizard, made out of Clego.
It's so cool.
Ridiculous, yeah.
I'm trying to get a picture with that.
I've not been able to yet.
Do you have a favorite thing real quick
before we move on to the next thing?
I mean, yeah, I don't think I have similar to Emilia.
probably everyone else who maybe haven't had the full time to experience all of it.
It's going to come all my friends and competitors after all of this event.
Even after Four Stage, they're like, yeah, I didn't know what to expect from the Pokemon
XP side things, but all of them, for everyone, they've said it's blown their expectations, right?
And it's just, if you're a fan of Pokemon, you love Pokemon, it's the perfect place for you.
If you're on the fence about Pokemon, you'll probably fall in love with Pokemon after this weekend.
So, so many great reasons to come out to these World of Legends,
and no better way to celebrate it on the 3rd.
Oh, absolutely.
But of course, I want to make sure that everybody at home
doesn't feel bad as well.
So of course, there are things that every game is giving out
for just for watching, which unfortunately,
I've been missing because I've been here,
so I actually haven't had the streams open.
But we'll sort of talk about what our games are kind
of giving away.
So let's start with the Pokemon video games here.
If you have anything knowledgeable
about what's actually being distributed for Pokemon.
We're giving away so much.
I don't know which order the graphics are going to fly,
but we're giving away swag in game
if you want a world championship shirt as well.
We got to make sure that your style is matching your Pokemon.
You have the opportunity to pick up the 2026 worlds
in cinema.
In cinemas everywhere now for VGC,
it's kind of taken over whether you love or hate
in cinema.
It has taken over.
It is here.
It is one of the strongest Pokemon opportunity
to grab that there.
And this is the shirt I was talking about.
Enjoy World 26.
Again, enjoy Worlds 26.
Write it down, take a picture.
Don't ask 10 million times in the Twitch chat.
Enjoy Worlds 26, and you can get that hat and shirt.
All right, I need a pen.
Bruxy, can you bring your pens?
I can write that code down, please.
Or otherwise, I'll just ask you a chat later.
No, I'm just kidding.
And of course, we have so many different things
for so many games.
I agree.
I was like, I don't know what's going to come up first.
But the trading card game, we'll
see what they bring.
There we go.
Honestly, you talk about swag and champions.
You can also get your swag, the Pokemon Trading Card Game,
live as well.
I personally love the jacket.
It looks like a half-leather jacket, half-letterman,
which is really sick.
But of course, players love to customize their deck boxes
as well.
So you can find all of your World Swag right on your screen.
But the longer you watch the Pokemon Trading Card Game,
the more things you actually get unlocked.
So in order to get all of this swag
that you see right here, you
have to actually watch for 60 minutes.
But if you only have time for 30 minutes today,
can actually get six packs of pitch black.
So once again, that is our newest set
that we have in the Pokemon trading port game.
I personally love watching the regional stream
on the side to make sure I'm always opening packs
either in person or online.
There's so much stuff here that I genuinely cannot read
that text from here.
I'm going to be honest, so this is a nice giveaway.
Pokemon Go, let's see what you're giving away.
We've got so much stuff that we've got to zoom through this.
Yeah, definitely.
I'll just quick highlight.
You get a lead charge, you have super exclusive resource that you get for watching up to 60 minutes.
Also more importantly, you get the world champion from Lester Beals voice, Tinkertun that he used, his stats on the Tinkertun.
And more importantly, he even gets an exclusive background just on the Tinkertun.
Really cool to have.
And of course we got the Pokemon Pikachu XP, PCN, Space Outfit as well as the champion.
Pikachu is spawning in the game right now so you can get it if you're opening the game.
open up a game, play it, and you also get a fresh towel
for our shirt as well, you can do it.
And no big deal, but I might have gotten the shiny
if you get you with the space costume yesterday.
But hey, you could be like me
if you just open up a game and play it.
Everybody up here is greeted.
You can bring up the shiny, get you multiple clips.
We have so much good stuff.
What does United got?
I know, I know, yeah, United, of course,
it's some really, actually amazing things.
I've been to how you were going to watch for it.
You get an exclusive logo sticker for the event.
or at 30 minutes you get to an exclusive license
on Pikachu, which is very, very cool.
And then you can actually get a license
for one of the Pokemon from the World Champion team
for WiiU last year, what they won with,
if you do watch for 45 minutes.
So some really nice stuff.
And of course, just be sure to watch all of the streams
for each of these, 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.
I know it's been an amazing day one so far.
And of course, as a reminder to everybody,
this is all leading up to a huge championship Sunday
in the Chase Center, the arena.
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.
So of course, we've got four amazing games.
Be sure to watch all the broadcasts.
We're gonna have a really tough time today,
I think deciding who we'll be moving on
towards that special championship Sunday.
So thank you from all of us.
We're gonna be moving on very soon
as we get sending it over to our start
for day number two here
at the Pokemon World Championships, 2026.
We'll see you all playing soon.
Here we stand at the start of a new day Looking out on a new adventure
No one knows where the road will take us Already said, cause now it's time to go
Maybe we can finally see Who you meant to be
You stop the way, don't you know me?
Every time we show us who we are
Now we've got side to side to glory
Together you and I will touch the stars
And then we'll do it all over again
Cause even if we lose our way
And you always say, here we go
Here we go again
And it's even better than last time, here we go
Here we go again
And memories last at a lot of time
It's a new day, we all wish we'd find
Here we go again
Yeah!
Corrupts and noodle faces
All of us on the path dirty
I know it's gonna throw me into the rain
I'll see you when we're walking victory road
And then, do it all over again
Cause we have to win the day
We'll always say
Here we go
We go again
Let me slash it like that
We all go, we go our ways
We go again
And it's gonna be a good one
Here we go
I'm kidding
Every blast that I might die
It's a new day
We're gonna dance
Here we go
the
Welcome to day two of the Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP.
Yeah, we are absolutely delighted.
You decided to spend your days in the bay enjoying oh so sunny San Francisco, California.
What a day that we have in store.
I'm Gabby Durden and after a strong start to yesterday, I'm back to keep us on track towards Championship Sunday.
and the culmination of all the fun surrounding Pokemon XP.
Have you seen the skate park? You get a chance to? Yeah? It's cool, right?
Okay, I'm gonna have to go check that out. It's wild. You know what else is wild?
The fact that we are going to know our finalists across all of the divisions by the end of the day.
Some of which will be crowned world champions when we take over even more of the city
the city by unleashing the power of Pokemon in the chase center.
Today is about our trainers across Pokemon champions, the trading card game, Pokemon
Go and Pokemon Unite.
Our incredible competitors are ready to battle for glory and I'm curious, who are you cheering
for?
Let's see, who did I write down in my notes yesterday?
Oh, yeah, and Pokemon VGC trainers Yuya Wakasugi,
Justin Tang, and Stefano Greffi.
They look like they have the best shot at championship Sunday,
but we'll see how things shake out once we get into top cut.
The Pokemon TCG competition has been unmistakably fierce,
but Brent Tonneson, Henry Chow, and Rune Herrmans,
they really hope to hold on to yesterday's momentum.
And I know a lot of people agree that they can,
and Pokemon go, they're not gonna lie.
I'm keeping my own Beals of Boy,
as well as Potomac and M.E. Weedle
as they tap their way through the brackets.
And finally, for Pokemon Unite,
we've got Peru Unite, Reject, and KOMI
ready to put up a fight.
Am I right?
Who's gonna shine bright in the championship Sunday arena?
Well, I'm stoked to find out.
How about you?
As we've mentioned,
The Pokemon World Championships are only half of the fun we have this weekend.
Pokemon XP is in full swing.
And whether you're tuning in from home or you're here with us in person, there is something
for everyone.
Later on, make sure you check out the Pokemon XP panels featuring Pokemon Go, LEGO, and
Jimmy Paul.
Those will be live on the Pokemon XP channel.
You don't want to miss it.
So this would be the time to add that to your schedule.
And while I have your attention, can we take a moment to recognize all of the
to all of the people that make an event like this possible.
Join me in thanking the phenomenal staff,
judges, production crew, and everyone working behind the scenes
to bring the Pokemon World Championships
and Pokemon XP to life in San Francisco, California.
See, the Pokemon community truly is something special.
and it's because each and every one of you is part of it.
Okay, that's enough from me right now.
We have a day two of the Pokemon World Championships
to get started.
Let's get into it.
Castors, take it away.
Thank you so much, we cannot wait to get started here.
We're kicking off day number two with our top 32 players and we have a number of reigning
world champions, our previous world champions, I'd say, in the mix as well.
I'm Theo Payne.
I'm Joe with Two of Butters.
How are you feeling this morning?
I'm feeling amazing.
We started with over 300 of the best Pokemon Go Trainers on the planet.
we have 32 but that by the end of the day only two will remain to advance to
tomorrow championships Sunday in chase center that's right yeah and if it is
their first time tuning into a Pokemon Go broadcast let's take a look at the
format she was all about let's dive into the format for Pokemon Go at the
2026 Pokemon World Championships the best trainers from around the globe
are here to compete for their share of a $2 million prize pool
and the coveted title of Pokemon Go World Champion.
The competition takes place over three days,
battling in a double elimination bracket using a great league format.
Only two trainers will remain to compete on Championship Sunday.
Matches are best of three until the end of the bracket.
Winners finals, losers finals and grand finals are all played as a best-of-five series.
Each match follows the bring six pick three format where trainers craft a team of six Pokemon but only bring three into each game.
The trainers are bringing their all to the playtables this weekend and we will soon see who will claim the trophy and title of Pokemon Go World Champion.
Let's get this tournament started.
Now we have 32 players, but as the day progresses, the prizes is what you want to keep your eye on.
Because not only of course the first place prize and becoming the world champion is that 20,000,
but if you get into that 13-16 range, you get the prize money as well.
And then once you start getting into that 9-12 range or that 5-6 range, the prizes just go up exponentially.
That's right and of course beyond the pricing there's a glory. There's a coveted title of becoming the world champion
especially on the 30th anniversary of Pokemon. It doesn't get better than that and we have two players here in the top 32
that are looking for their second world champion title as well. We absolutely do and if you miss day number one
let's look at some of the best action. We of course have these boys. You mentioned that he is our reigning world champion in Pokemon GO
And he was looking like it in day number one making quick work of the competition
He is very familiar with that team composition advantage, and he executed all day number one
I believe he only dropped one single game didn't drop a single match though against his opponent
He was looking locked in it's rare that a previous world champion makes it this far again in the very following year
Because we're only in the fifth year, right?
It's not a knock on the previous world champions,
but Beelzeboy has always shined on the biggest stages.
And of course, we get the biggest stage,
we got Potomac, who speaking of not dropping any series,
he didn't drop a single game.
Our finalist from last year, second place,
and arguably maybe even the best player in the world,
five straight championship Sundays,
all spending throughout the past year and a half
and looking to make another grand finals
here in San Francisco.
We see Dominic throughout, straight off the bat against Kastian Pike.
He has returned to the big stage and speaking of big names, we also have rising stars.
This is H. Sheara.
One of our fellow colleagues as well, a competitor, but also fantastic.
First ever world championship for her and she has started out day number one.
Completely undefeated.
No games lost at all.
No match lost in the most incredible thing here, butters.
And she almost even qualified in the world.
She was the final player to qualify for North America
in that final spot, one last championship point
throughout the entire year, and she wouldn't have made it.
But that just goes to show that anyone could truly win it
when they make it to the World stage.
Literally from the top to the very bottom
of the trainers qualified,
the Isabel Boy, the reigning world champion,
to the 75th trainer to get that qualification
at H-Shiara, both dominant in day number one.
But who are the players to watch here in day number two?
Of course, these boys, Padaman and H. Shearer,
they are the biggest names right now because QBC,
that rematch once again,
probably the prohibitive favorite to win it all here.
It's actually Padaman because he has continued
that dominance into 2026 season.
Of course, these boys did have an awesome 2026 season,
but since becoming the world champion,
he has not gotten a title.
Padaman has an H. Shearer.
It's the underdog story.
It's the story of those trainers just coming in,
just trying to get their ticket.
And now they have that opportunity to make a name for themselves to reach glory and she
had that opportunity today.
That's right.
And let's take a look at some of our predictions as well and how it's shaken up so far as we're
heading into the second day.
I gotta say the dominoes of prediction was pretty clean butters.
I know you and home size Henry had a prediction as well.
That bulky water type is a great neutralizing factor for the very ever popular shadow
cancel night tales.
Well I wasn't positive which water type it would be.
I just wanted to represent the biggest water type possible to represent that
Pokemon that could counter the shadow came to the night tales.
I think that is the most impactful Pokemon in the matter right now,
probably that or take it on.
So having that water type with the water type pressure,
like the waterfall in Dondo's, it'll give you an awesome opportunity to do
well, but might have to face the grass type that last second adjustment from
the world champion, bringing that jump off.
Yeah, jump off.
Great neutralizing factor to those waterside, especially because you have
to go for some larger energy,
outrace, and do any meaningful damage.
And speaking of World Champion,
Beelzeboi with that jump up,
if you're tuning in to broadcast live on the rebroadcast,
you're in the right place at the right time.
Because if you tune in for at least 60 minutes,
you get all these rewards.
You get a lead TM, you get some Pokemon counters,
and more as well as Beelzeboi.
The reigning World Champion's Tengatun.
Not only is it his Tengatun
that he used at World Championships last year,
but also it has a special exclusive background.
You can't get it anywhere else.
So if you're tuning right now,
be sure to sync in your Twitch shops getting.
And if you have friends that aren't tuning in,
shoot a message, get them to tune in to stream as well.
Not only do they get the Twitch shops,
but they'll probably get some great action as well.
It's no better time.
Tickets on is even better than it was last year
at the World Championships where it was Fringe meta.
Now it is hard that it's probably a top two Pokemon
in all of Pokemon Go PvP.
You're going to want this Pokemon.
Let's look at all the other titles.
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Go in the official circuit.
But to kick off day number two, let's take a look at the users of all the players
that made it in this top 32.
We can see the usage has shifted a bit, right?
We had Tinkertown in that top three spot on day number one,
but Calerio and Corsa has risen up to that third spot,
Manti making that fourth spot as well.
You see, no stomp is really around in the top 12,
making Manti even safer in that.
Because Manti, you know, you can at least hit back
against a Husser and Electro,
but against a stomp is it's just nowhere to go.
But in Polion, a great meta read,
I think for a lot of players,
maybe it wasn't there high usage day number one,
but it's crept up to that number six spot.
If you look at it across the meta,
that's playing pretty much everything.
Yeah, one of the risers for sure in day number two.
Of course, the Malamar and Don Dozzo as well.
We weren't expecting that to be eighth and ninth usage.
Malamar is the trickiest one for me
because we saw it a ton on stage.
We even see it from some of the top trainers.
I believe PDP David and Boom,
Boom, sorry that made their teams together.
They're actually great friends.
They both have that.
They have the same birthday too.
They have the same birthday.
Yeah, they have the same team.
They have the same everything,
But they built that team together.
They also have the Malamar.
I think Bezavoy has the Malamar as well.
We're gonna see shortly on stage next,
this Pokemon that you didn't think
has an awesome spot in the meta has really risen.
And I haven't seen it been utilized
through its highest instant yet,
but I can't wait to see how it performs in day two.
It's a dark side that has play into Tinketon,
which is the most crucial thing, right?
Because Devo, yes, a lot of people like it as well,
but you're just completely walled off
against that steel fairy typing.
but Malmour, you can at least throw the neutral superpower,
do some decent damage,
and you can't really fair win down the Malmour,
and a lot of people opt for the non-child Malmour
for additional bulk, but like you said,
our reigning world champion brought it as well,
so he's definitely onto something,
I think a lot of our top 32 players are as well,
but of course, there's plenty of bulk
on even outside the meta that we've seen
on day number one, and speaking of one then,
it is the Hapaldon, the Shadow Hapaldon,
actually, going to be our hero, Mauro's side,
And this is, of course, Beal's the boy.
No need for second introductions here.
It's so well-known in this circuit,
a fourth place in his first ever world.
In his second world, he wins it all.
In his third world, he already made a top 24
at a minimum absolute crazy consistency.
And Hiromaru is definitely gonna be
a huge underdog in this matchup.
But like we said, anyone can take it all
and upsets can happen.
Hiromaru, one of the trainers from the Japan region,
I believe one of eight here in day number two
to make that coveted top 32.
So Japan is doing quite well here at Pokemon Go Worlds,
the face the world champion.
If he's able to win this series and move on,
Japan will be doing awesome.
Beans the boy, obviously, like you said, you know him,
but let's talk about the team.
Let's talk about the picks.
He said he made a last second adjustment the night before.
We didn't get to find out the exact Pokemon that was,
but I have a hunch that it was that jump-up
because you were seeing so many of these more waterfall users
with the Dondozo, also with the Milotic,
which I believe is on the side of Potomac.
So if they ever do have that coveted rematch,
they could have that jump up versus Milotic matchup.
But let's see how it actually fares against the team
of Hiromaru because on his side, he also has a grass type.
He has a Hisouin Electrode.
One of the Pokemon that was on our caster prediction list,
it's really strong in this meta.
if you can avoid the hard counter of that Shadowcantor 9 tails and once again, if you can avoid that counter on Beelzeboy's team, that electrode is looking awesome from Hiromaru.
And even more importantly, it's really safe into everything, right? If you look at Beelzeboy's team, there's nothing that resists electric and grass on his team.
And there's not a lot of Pokemon in the meta that resists both in general.
And because of that, that is why this electric grass type is so relevant.
Even though it might not sweep entire teams, you always have play, you always have a place to put it.
That safety is what gives a lot of players flexibility to just build around creatively with their team and play around the Masters Creativity.
Alignment doesn't matter nearly as much.
And Jellison is on the side of Fira Morrow. We saw Doombug use the Jellison as well.
But it's actually got a hard and abusive voice team because you not only have the Licky Licky, but you also have the Malamar that can pace quite quickly to the foul place.
And you have a grass side in that jump up as well.
So, does that mean you have to lean more on your shadow hip
out on?
Because if you're going to try to play flexibly with that
electrode, you're going to want to protect yourself from that
shadow came to 9 tail.
So, I feel like hero Maru is more forced in some hip
out in play.
So, how does beautiful boy actually deal with that hip
out on?
Will that be the jump off the last second adjustment?
We'll be seeing that out here because otherwise, it
didn't happen.
Hip out on is kind of neutral against a lot of things.
Of course, he doesn't love the man team though.
That's right.
Well, it does have coverage for it.
Unlike Pax, I would love on Aqua tail.
So yeah, flexibility.
Here we go.
Game number one, feels the bovers here tomorrow.
And it's going to be Malamore into the shadow cancel
night.
So it's a pretty neutral matchup for both players.
And the shadow cancel night tail obviously
faces so quickly with just four embers needed
to get to that weather ball fire.
And that's why it's so strong.
And of course, you can get to that energy ball
after just five of those embers as well.
The pacing is quite quick.
Malamore, known for his pacing action,
makes a swap, a huge catch to take this resistant damage
into the shadow came to nine tails and there is no clear answer besides the hip
out on do we see the about on yes the hippo is on the battlefield.
The battle comes in but there was an energy lead for Bealsboy and he's going
straight for the base with the weather ball does here in Maros call this no
going to shield up it is a shadow battle so the energy balls are a lot more
even if it didn't land the big didn't land it's still neutral damage so it's
not the worst of Bealsboy but the speed to get to the weather ball is
So fast with the scan attack and here's one going to throw up his own shields
He does have energy bank up for later. Let's see if he has a chance to get faster timer
He's going to another way wall combo move. I think it's back to his timer and remember he has that energy on the Malamore
Does he swap out combo play? Yes, we do see a swap. We do see the combo play. It's not on charge attack party
But yes, it is this is going to be the weather ball rock
It's not same type attack bonus, but you don't want to let all this energy go to waste
So he's a boy does give up his last protect shield of the battle. There are no protections remaining
Here comes the Tingenton for Beersboy to switch lock.
Yeah, maybe a slight tough position for Beersboy
because he didn't throw the move right away here tomorrow
and that allowed him to get to that weather ball rock
and also bring in the Tingenton locking it into the mouth.
And wow, maybe this place from a rainy world champ
so much anger is completely gone
even though it wouldn't go near as far
but this Tingenton is so healthy.
Beersboy still has a chance to come in
with that 9 tails he says still has a bit of energy residual you can't
bear to win this down we're gonna charge up as much as possible
Asher just wants to throw this right away to get rid of Tinketons so that he
doesn't deal with it later. Well it's going to be a licky licky versus the
world an undercharge here throwing the great it's super effective there is
just one house left on that Tinketons roll out takes it down what an
undercharge from the world champion to get that extra roll out which he
will need in this back line there are no protections remaining this
empanada is trying to reach and now the shadow ball is available
I don't know if this is gonna knock out, it's gonna get so close, Caleb.
He brought on Hasbro, but he takes 20% more damage from the shadow, but he holds on!
It's not enough, and this the last of your march. You get the Earth power off.
This is absolutely huge, because this puts it in a KO range, maybe even for the weather ball from the Natchez.
You see, here, Marl, just going straight away, where Natchez doesn't want to keep looking, looking at any extra edge.
Oh, it feels like he throws the body slam. He knows he doesn't get the shadow ball in time.
He might have a chance to swap out and maybe catch a move.
He gets swapped, he's trying to swap it, he doesn't go for it.
He doesn't go, he strikes the lady, catches the weather ball.
Absolutely huge from the World Champ.
But he's stressed out though because he might be able to get to another weather ball.
Hiromaru does throw the great, but he is just two embers away.
He only needs two of them.
Can he get that before the raw damage as he does it?
Hiromaru is able to take down the World Champion in this game number one.
Wow, what a game from Hiromaru.
And honestly, played that game, I believe, to perfection.
You know, the catch was unfortunate,
but still was able to come up around that.
Two separate catches, actually, right?
On the nine tails in two separate scenarios.
But the Elzaboy, maybe a little slight overstep there.
With the combo play, right?
He didn't combo play right away into the nine tails.
Force of shield, then locked into the Ting-a-tongue.
And on top of that was a super power and a half
over energy, and didn't throw it
before the bold goes came out.
I really like that strategy to bounce in between the dynamic between Malomar and Shadow Cantor-Nintales into this team composition.
I just believe, like you said, maybe he should have thrown the energy into that hip-hound on.
And plus, he let his Shadow Cantor-Nintales get a little too low, because he's trying to bait out the Tinketon with that Malomar, right?
And then you want to try to reverse farm and get some momentum with your Shadow Cantor-Nintales.
But at that point, that Shadow Cantor-Nintales was almost out of the battlefield because it had very low health.
So, how does he adjust in the game number two?
We know this is a position that Bezaboy is extremely familiar with.
We saw in previous international competitions this season that he would often lose the first game of the series and then go reverse sweep.
So, yes, Bezaboy did fumble a bit, but if anyone can pick himself back up, it's him.
Yeah, definitely. And what a matchup for Hiromaru, right?
I mean, you're going against the reigning world champion Bezaboy.
Not only is it a reigning world champion, but he's just always played on point out in these big stages.
I believe I saw your mom tweet last night on X about how he's got to start the thing off against
Gilsaboy, but he's got to be feeling really good after that first game. Once you take a game off
Gilsaboy, you're thinking, you know what? Maybe I could do it again. But Gilsaboy is very comfortable
in these situations down the game. He's come back from the before. Definitely going to have to
rethink some of that game. I'm sure he noticed, you know, maybe he could have done certain
things better as well in the moment. He referred to him as well too. He didn't know that
that he didn't know that it would have been locked into such a hard kind of matchup
but now that he knows it could be a possibility. In my opinion I actually did
like the dynamic with Dean Malamarr and Kanto Naitails but the problem was the
best Pokemon for Hiromaru was the Shadow Hippodon in the Licky Licky
which was the backline Pokemon just didn't have enough play into it so do
you make a change to your backline Pokemon to have a little more play
into the Hippodon as we do see the leads here it's gonna be the Malamarr
the shadow came tonight does and the jump up which could have some back line
playing the same situation swapping in the shadow came tonight does do we try to
see a counter swap no instead the pacing is just so quick this one's like wow I
just already had a weather ball yeah but this is exactly what it wants to see
avoid the night tails on to his jump love and now comes in his own eyes and
I like to play too because it's kind of like a weird you know like licky
licky mirror like if you have more help than the other opposing your
matchup then you could typically win it because you know even if you're
Well, actually, he was behind entry.
It was actually even entry at this point.
Well, Caleb, he effectively does bait out the Kanto Ninetales,
which means Tinketan is just so free in the back line
for Hiromaru because in the back line for Beezaboy,
you have Malamar, you have Jump Up.
This Tinketan is going to be looking awesome.
That was a smart play to try to bait out
the Shadow Kanto Ninetales.
It's not the Beezaboy.
Does he actually shield this?
Does he try to keep a little bit of health
on the Shadow Kanto Ninetales
to do something against the Tinketan?
He needs to get something out of it.
And the top bumper here, Marius,
You can't really come into this 9-tests without having to worry about an energy ball.
So, it's actually not a bad position for the Bealsboy.
And yes, Team Zun does wall off the jump club, and it's really good for Malmour,
but they go into so much by itself, right?
And both of them lose like a hit hard enough.
Even with this, it's quite a bit.
Oh, yes, they get the catch onto the Team Zun.
The pick up move!
This might be what the Bealsboy wants.
If you get to a weather ball, this is absolutely huge.
Can you get there or not?
Because the weather, for the bare wind, it's resistant.
But no, it's just a swap in the jump club instead.
And you want to keep that Malamar around for maybe when you get back to switch
timer remember there are all the protect shields left in play for these trainers.
You probably want to use it here, but if you get baited to be devastating.
No, no bait.
It is the hammer.
He protects shields properly.
That will be your best protection of the battle.
But you might have to deal with a super effective weather ball rock as well.
But I think a hammer would do even more than that.
That's right.
And I think that's a good cheer from Bealsboy.
I mean, it is the craziest bait to throw a triple resistant bulldoze
non-staff had to jump up and if that everyone were to get a shield that's
absolutely wild but here's what making the right shield call decision to
shield in a row shielding both tickets on him and this is where it gets tricky
for King of Time because again you're in a matchup where you wall up all the
charge attacks but the other charges he's going for the great here does he
try to make a swap in the canton nine tails no there's no movement here
comes a head-out on there's two protect shields remaining but you're
getting closer and closer in range of that weather ball rock. Remember these hit sand
attacks are triple resisted from the flying and grass type of the jump club so they're
doing absolutely nothing just one damage per turn. Here comes the next energy ball getting
the last protection of the battlefield out of play. And this is huge reveals the boy
he wants to put this into a power range as soon as possible. There's energy loaded
on the battle. So we're going to wait until Hiramawa throws and moves first. Has
back to back where the ball rocks so let's see how much this first one does is
a second one enough and oh yeah it definitely will be let's see if he goes
or not do we see if that's a catch no there's a boy just want to let it go he
knows that you know what he wants to get his entry so he doesn't get snike when
trying to go for the combo play there's no opportunity for the tickets on the
world champion is on the ropes right now he needs to be able to get to this
foul play before the weather ball rock and he actually throws on charge that
Friday with the superpower is gonna do a lot of damage here but it's not
to be enough to knock out the Hibata on, was it charge tech?
It was charge tech priority.
Beasible is devastated.
He wanted to be able to try to make that swap.
He's already saved GGs because the sand attack is going
to be able to knock out this Kanto Ninjas with just a couple
of sand attacks.
And Beasible goes down.
Here, Omaru is advancing on the winter side of the bracket.
Wow, and what a tough opponent here.
Maura has an upset butt.
Anything is possible here on the world stage.
And even champions can fall.
That's just what does move to the losing bracket.
He's not out of the gets, but his road just got a lot harder,
and he has a lot more bonus out to face.
The shadow has pout on.
That's what makes preparing for this competition so difficult,
not only because of the strength of the trainers,
but the wide infield of available Pokemon
that are relevant, strong, and powerful to be possible,
to be put on your team of six in this competition.
It is so widespread that it's impossible to cover
your team for everything.
I think I talked about this yesterday.
I did an informal questionnaire to trainers asking them,
when you are building your team, how
big a part of preparing for all of these wild card picks
is in your team building process?
And the majority of people said, you
can't build your team to protect it against everything.
You just have to try to do your best.
And unfortunately, sometimes you reach these trainers
with a shadow about on that just a tough matchup
in the world champion fumbles early on.
And what about Kessra here, Maras?
Well, catching that energy ball on the ticket.
I mean, if that was not caught on,
the game probably is over, right?
You get the weather ball off, you chip it down,
one more at the back, we'll do it.
Here, Mara Knight and Batey, they're going straight
against on the hammer into the jump club.
Recognizing that his wing position is indeed
the shadow of him, Poudon,
won the huge shadow of Poudon in the entire world stage,
but he made the right meta read for this one.
Yeah, and I actually thought that was a great
backline adjustment.
He had the Nalimar, he had the Shadow Kanto Naito's,
but again, number one, he had the Licky Licky,
which fell short into the might of the Hapauton,
but in game number two, he brought up a Jump Fluff,
which is much stronger to the Hapauton,
but the strategy from Hiromaru
to bait out the Shadow Kanto Naito's,
so the Tinkatons could be so free in the back line,
and it was either gonna be a Licky Licky
or a Jump Fluff, either way,
that's really strong for the Tinkatons
in amazing strategy so far for the trainers from Japan.
Remember, they do have eight trainers here out of our 32
and day number two at Pokemon Go Worlds.
Yeah, absolutely huge representation from Japan.
And something I'd love to see this year in general
is that all the APEC regions have increased
the amount of worlds competitors.
And I think that's well deserved, right?
I mean, there's always been so much representation
from North America, Latin America, Europe,
and maybe even Oceania proportionally speaking,
but a lot of our top players are in the APEC region
and having more world slots gives them the opportunity
to shine and our past world champions were from APEC.
So obviously a lot of talent in that overall region
and we're seeing here on this big stage.
Let's take a look at the winners bracket here
for day number two.
Our first matchup just happened.
Beezaboy went down 0-2 to hero Maro.
He advances into top eight already.
Up next, we are gonna have Dunebug versus Kento.
We have Hadelman as well.
Some huge names last boom.
PvP David, Marto Gaudet,
some underdogs like H. Sierra and like you mentioned,
a ton of those APAC trainers and Amy Weidle,
a former champion as well.
That's right.
I mean, the chance to have a repeat champion
is totally possible, but so many of our other players,
the other 30 players are looking for their own
personal first ever world championship title.
And I mean, that's crazy, right?
Just one win there and that puts tomorrow in the top eight.
Top eight on the biggest stage is absolutely insane,
But getting the 2-0 against the world champion
will definitely get you there.
FDC, a loaded losers bracket as well.
Be sure to follow along on the challenge bracket
because we might not be able to show everyone these matchups.
So in case some of them do happen off the broadcast,
you can follow along on that.
You can see Bealsboy is awaiting the winner
of, I believe, Ice Kris and Sonal.
I think it's hard to see from here,
but one of our other Japanese players as well too.
So Bealsboy has a long road to get back
to that grand finals, but it is definitely possible.
Yeah, and of course, you can make that run
through the loser side of the bracket.
We have seen it before on the international stage.
We've seen it on the world stage as well with Dancing Rob,
our very first Pokemon Go World Champion
in that Masters Division.
All right, we got Dunebug versus Kinto up next.
Dunebug, another trainer with that jealousant.
Probably one of the best trainers on the planet.
Of course, he is the most decorated trainer
in terms of regional championships,
in terms of regional medals, probably even regional match victories.
But you said it yesterday, he hasn't put his imprint yet on that world stage.
Yeah, I mean, he started this year, right?
First ever day to Topka at a World Championships.
And, you know, again, it's not really a dig at Dunebug.
It's just the hardest stage ever.
And he's always struggled in these moments.
But he did not look like he was struggling yesterday on day number one.
He's looking to continue his path forward.
Meanwhile, another talented player from Japan is here,
sitting across the field from him,
running that Shadow King draw,
which is so potent in the right matchups.
And if you look at DOOM BUFF's team, it's pretty solid.
It's really safe.
Even in the Tinkathon, you have the neutral,
hard-hitting serve.
And if you don't land a Tinkathon hammer,
it's kind of awkward.
Wolder just isn't enough damage with Tinkathon.
And having that Shadow annihilate as well,
that was a Pokemon that I thought
would have a chance to be incredibly strong in the meta,
just because Thievil was a dark-type Pokemon
that you got introduced into the meta late in the stages of preparation.
I thought maybe that could scare off some of the astonished users like the Corsula,
but that wasn't the case.
There is a lot of Corsula, there are a lot of ghost types.
There's even Jealousy that you have to deal with with that Shadow Annihilate.
So we might not have the best matchup in this particular one because there are two
fairies and a ghost type on Dubug's team.
But Shadow Annihilate, if you're able to find a team without those ghost types,
I think it is quite strong in this meta.
And a key thing to know for Kento Sornori's team is that that is a bolt switch fortress.
That's not a bug bite one. It typically is the shadow fortress. It typically is bug bites,
but because it's bolt switch, it gives the people a lot more play for the side dune bug.
Meanwhile, it's a lot worse for the Jellison on the side dune bug. So he has a little bit
of flexibility. It's a lot worse for the Manti too, actually. So the shadow fortress,
that's quite good with that bolt switch into dune bug. Seem better in the tinketon as well.
you know, and like still like there's not a natural attempt like this no matter how you put it and better into fortress
Actually, I really like the bolt switch fortress
It's just matter of doing but but it does give them window opportunity to bring the demo maybe more so than before
I really like Furo into this matchup as well because you just have neutral play across the board even when you're resisted with your wing attack
Fast attack pressure into a Pokemon like Tinketon. You have that super effective drill run
It's a Pokemon you often see in go battle league because you can say swap it and it just has awesome coverage
Really fast pacing and has the potential to be extremely flexible and then day number two
Flexibility is key. You don't want to have all your hopes be
Relying on alignment because if that happens you miss wrong
You could be out of the tournament as these trainers are locked in we got doom boat versus kinto
And we have dark type versus very tight. So that is not great for doom. But let's see if he tries to instantly pivot
There it is into the shadow kids on nine tails. But here's the tricky part right here
You get deep up and then and then swapped out
But because the pacing of the nine tails do but go straight away for the weather ball
You know that he's gonna get up before the deep up comes to and get started
Are you going to let it go does he swap and no going to go to water first before swapping
I believe going to swap to the fewer after that making a little bit tougher
The Firo has so much play into the entire team of June bucks backline.
It's so awkward when you have five pacing and you just get outpaced up by a swap by a four pacing.
But this shadow cantonite still has that energy available.
You'll be throwing it to the Firo, which I love that he's ramping up the energy on this Firo,
giving an opportunity to try to have energy for the backline.
He can get the full form down and look at that.
He is over a drill run or drill pet in the end of half.
Here comes the people.
He's definitely going to get double drill pet into this.
People is a pretty bulky Pokemon though.
Yeah, and there's well three things a little bit for Doombug,
but there is a bold switch for Chers in the back,
so that's not going to be a good time.
And being able to get bold with these all is huge,
because now Doombug not only doesn't have switch advantage,
he also has a shield disadvantage,
which is such a hard position to come back out of.
Does have some energy though on the people,
want to leave with the Ice Wind,
so has something to throw at least into the forges.
Let's see if he makes an entry or not.
You know, going to throw it right away,
see some chip damage, maybe grab a shield
all of the fortress is possible.
As you can't start an army, go ahead and let it go.
Yes, go ahead and let it go.
Those that, the nachos is out of picture,
so there's no reason for you to even spend a shield.
Oh, oh wait, we get formed down though,
we get sucker punched down,
and now you can even reach an attack here,
you can reach the knight slash,
and this is gonna be going into fortress,
and was that a bug bite?
No, it's a bolt switch, yeah.
A bolt switch, yeah.
A bolt switch fortress, you mentioned it before,
and here is that bolt switch.
There is almost always a bug bite fortress,
But this scenario exactly is why you would want that bolt switch
being able to do super effective fast attack pressure,
protect shield on this surf.
You still have a chance here if you're kiddo.
This is tough for Doombug.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, Kethro's almost at two rock tunes at this point,
too.
Ghosts were the next one before the next move is thrown.
And it's a very easy shield for him to throw up,
because it was a Jelson that was not debuffed yet,
but minimized as much damage as possible.
And now, ghost for additional bolt switch damage.
going for the serve. Can he get the second one?
Because this one serve is not enough.
He was at the shadow ball, but decides to go for the serve anyway.
But you need the double, like you said.
Yeah, and one more both switcher to it.
Oh! He transferred the energy, but I don't think he's able to get it off,
as the bolsters will proc the damage before getting the serve off
and catch the Sauronari.
Fantastically well played.
Just put a really strong grasp over Duneboss there.
Maybe a slight mischew, letting the forges get completely farmed down
from the default, but outside of that though, because it was so far ahead, it didn't matter.
Yeah, it didn't matter in the end. He was able to pull it off. And an interesting point here
is that Dunebug was knocked out by that full switch damage. But if you were playing in the
new system of Go Battle League this season, he actually would have held on to be able
to throw that charge attack. So in future competitions, if we do move to that new system
that we've been seeing in Go Battle League, you could be able to throw that attack to get
that knocked out but in this current system the damage does register from the fast attack first.
That's right and you know that's a key point to know as these players are playing on that legacy
system and because that's really what they've been competing all year round right as we see.
Doomite just didn't have a lot of place to go in that match right once he got debuff and he got
completely pecked down from the zero. If you look at the rest side of Doomite's team
what leads the fortress literally nothing right you got people that's kind of neutral
But Kento's already seen 50-1 lead.
So you know that no matter what,
you either have forges, a tinketon, a jelson,
or Nancy in the back.
And a shield advantage, Shadowforger will switch
these all of those bookmarks.
Really well played, really good team reading
from Kento Sarenori.
Yeah, and it was perfect for Kento.
As soon as he saw that safe switch,
Shadow Kento Nytales, he's like,
okay, good.
That means I can avoid this matchup
on my Shadowforgers.
I can save the shields for it in the backline.
And he did exactly that.
He was able to close out that battle.
So it's going to be really hard to deal with that strategy, especially if you bring two answers to the shout out can't deny tales and that shadow fortress
Dunebuck once again a trainer that we are very familiar with just like the other boy is on the ropes here against a trainer from the Japan region
That's right
Let's see if doing button dig deep and find a way to find this crucial winning game to to force that game number three
But this is a uphill battle. I mean shadow fortress with both switch. I don't remember last time seen one
I don't remember last time seeing a full search fortress to begin with, but that's what makes it such a good meta read in DOOMBUCK.
Probably didn't expect to see too much of it, so get him over from there for it.
Yes, had some 9 tails, but that's about it.
As you can see, the fortress is in the back yet again in Tethysaur, and I think he's thinking, I thought I would switch him in, but I'm good, right?
Although Kingdra is probably your main 9 tails answer, and outside that you got the fortress to only, you know, kind of soft lose to that 9 tails.
So let's see if he's going to pivot out here or stay in.
As the first nice Sasha is going to come through.
And you're going to go straight for the swim here.
Actually, maybe letting a sucker punch through.
He didn't love that.
Trying to get the surf energy to get that protection.
And he does.
But the problem is you're just so low health.
You have to pivot out.
And here comes the forges in the pivot.
And there is the jealousy.
That means he left his shadow came to the night tails
for the back line, which can face up against that fortress.
Yeah, great read from Dumbug as well,
expecting that the fortress might be in the back.
He knows he needs to save the night
no matter what just on the chance it is also on top of that night is so strong to
wrestle line of Kevin Sarnari outside of the king grow so now that he's seen the
king draw he knows you got void that right with the night tails I can't
turn on you know going to try to preserve the force as much possible got to
be thinking that there might be a nine tails in the back put a ball on the
optimize timing there thrown the disarm boys after one day when book
maybe just wants to charge with much engine also knowing that you need the
children water and you to deal with the night has later and actually doubles
now uses both of the protections on this forges here now is going to try to go
for the disarmament voice and go for the form down if there's no protection I
don't think this is gonna be enough to knock out but you might get a very one
down if do both does they end does he try to swap out to let not let that
happen or does he get to the surf don't the very one happens no
yet she barely holds off the bullet help remaining to get to that last
parting surf which will get close to knocking out the forges try to very
close yeah try to get a very one down unfortunately can't and do much so
has a shield the question is can you hang out to get the second killing water off
but do bug actually doesn't shield it that's actually pretty big for Tempest
Tornari to do some necessary chip damage into this swaps right over wait hold on
this might be the only thing that Tempest Tornari needs because now you get
some extra energy on the fortress to potentially throw a move at the nine
tails later and this night slash is gonna be coming through he has the
chance to boost we know Doombug has been doing boost in past competitions
not this time you need to get that energy like you mentioned because there is a
protection remaining but you still have to deal with this evil you have no
protection remaining yourself and now suddenly this night side just gonna be
coming through and almost knocking out your fortress yeah absolutely brutal
potential sonari yeah the boosts the boost I don't think it's even necessary
this point do much notes and he gives the emperor down chilled up the king
drop for later and then take it out with a weather ball and that's the
answer not even enough for the entry lead on King Joe is not going to be
either as the bug still has a final shield one of those are two moves they're
just not enough time that's our night just going to not even charge on the
bubble knowing that this game is over gotta go back to drawing board at
doing but finds a way to force a game number three and of course you do need
to throw that charge attack because there's probably not a way they're
gonna ember down into a shadow came here there so the weather ball will
seal it even though it is doubled not very effective and we got a tied
series on our hands between
Dunebug and Kento.
Dunebug, no stranger facing
hard team compositions. He's been
in this circuit for so long, has
so much success with it as well.
And now, he knows, right? What a
great read from him. He's like, you know what?
There's probably fortunate in the back. I need a save.
The Ninth is for it. More importantly, if he brings
the Ninetales into the Fortress,
he not only has to, you know,
it's kind of a weird match, right? Especially with
Chilling Waterbounds. How's the Ninth,
The King Joe can just finish off the Nineties right after the Doombug
avoiding that very disastrous matchup brings in the Jelson and
downstate right grab both shields and still in the serve to put the
gorgeous in just pretty much form down range.
And how about that?
He doubles down with the strategy, right?
He did the exact same thing.
Yeah.
He led the feeble.
He had the Jelson and canton nine tails in the back.
A trainer like Doombug prepares for this opening matchup of the day,
especially on a stage like this.
He knows what his strategy is going to be coming into the match and even though it
faltered in game number one and he lost the lead, he just doubles down game number
two. I know this works. He's probably had dozens maybe even up to 30, 40 scrims just
on this matchup. He knows which Pokemon are going to be strong so he doubled
down. Now does Kento also try to bounce back to his earlier strategy of
trying to maybe catch that evil lead off-door so that you can protect that
fortress from the Ninetales at the back. The real question is how does Kento start an
idea with this now because yes the fortress is strong but it didn't really
bring a lot of really strong answers to the Ninetales. He brought kind of ABB week
to the Ninetales at the back right. I think a better strategy for Kento might
be to bring the fortress and two strong answers to the Ninetales because
you know Ninetales coming every game. Just like a dunebug knows that the
to bring the table. You have to bring the nine tails. The two
ball on the have any remote play into the fortress to neutralize
it just in case you don't catch a perfect lead matchup.
All right. We got it. The size is game number three. Here's
the Firo into that shadow canton nine tails. The exact team
of three for doing both that he has been running the entire
series but it's in a different order. He has that people
and jealous in the back. The Firo is not that threatened
not that threatened from the weather ball, but the shadow Kato Ninjas is gonna
be threatened from a super effective drill run. And I think Dumbuck knows he
needs to maintain switch man. It's a possible because you know that there's
that lurking shadow fortress in the back and one drill on pretty much one
shot KO. Ninjas is a strange word. Dumbuck is gonna outpace the second move.
Let's see if there's gonna be a catch made or not. I mean it's kind of
hard to catch, right? Tetherstar and I just doesn't even bring a Ninjas answer.
There is no real Ninjas answer on his team, which is absolutely wild
because we have the fortress in the back to stall the protects.
Yeah, he doesn't have that King draw like he did in the previous matchup,
but he does have that forges at least I can do super effective chilling water damage.
But looks like Doombug smartly knows that there is a fortress in the back.
I want to keep the shadow came tonight goes around.
And now that this is switch lock,
he can preserve the shadow came tonight kills by keeping him out of this matchup
right after the weather ball and he goes for it.
I don't hate this play from Captain Sorinari for a few reasons,
Mainly because with a shield remaining you have to protect the charge attack with the fortune take out the night
That's when you need energy on it first and a fortune through but that's the gorgeous right where he wants it to be
You have a gorgeous Indra. Justin. Justin's so bulky that you can take this damage. No problem
Oh, it's over a ton get this our night or suspend the shield and this is disastrous because now
Now, the gates are open for a weather ball to land onto a fortress, and watch...
Wait, wait, wait!
No!
Just to throw the move, and Doom Boat gets away with the take of the fortress at almost
a hundred energy out the window for Kenosar Nari.
Kento, two games in a row, getting a little greedy with that gorgeous, and it doesn't
pay off.
Here comes the Kento Night Tales trying to get as much inbound damage out as possible,
but I'm not swapping into that weather ball.
Doom Boat shaking its head.
That was a nice play from Kintos, but will it be enough to bounce back in this battle?
And Doombug, he's locked in, so the sand tier will take out the nineties before you get any additional damage off.
But you got an evil in the back and evil.
It's not the most fair Pokemon. It doesn't hit the hardest, but it could definitely do some damage into the fortress.
Still has the Jellison on top of it, so forcing the energy out.
But no, he's going, oh, trying to go for a shout-ball, but gets the energy instead.
Doomboot, feeling pretty good about it as he is one game away
and joining that top eight at world championships.
The highest finish he's ever had so far is looking for more.
One more circuit, punch through the night session, that'll do it.
They can't even get that boost.
Sports again, just for fun.
Doomboot goes to tier top eight.
Now he's in the higher level.
Fryz and Gideon pumped up about it
as a miracle bounces back to defeat Kento,
where in two straight games he had an opportunity with that floor just versus
jealous in matchup where he could have made a better impact but unfortunately
just felt a little bit short in only that juncture of the game. I feel like
otherwise he played an incredibly clean battle. It was only the floor just
versus jealous in matchup. Yeah definitely and I think the line
competition were a little bit tough right for Kendra Sarnari because
disrespecting the cancel nine kills is one thing right in this meta but
But when you have a shadow fortress that's double weak
to the fire damage of the shadow canceling
I feel it's even more risky.
And you know that DOOM bug is bringing
that shadow canceling I feel it's
but maybe just didn't think that Kingdra
could really put in the work.
That's how it's nearly as much bulk as,
I'm getting not as much bulk as Fero,
but Fero does have a lot of bulk either.
So it's a tough position,
but I think that line call from Kethys
or not, you just put them in a tough position
right off the bats and we saw to the green gear
trying to go for it.
Dumbug just pulls at the serve and that was just pretty much the end of the game.
The moment just moved us strong.
And I think it goes to a little bit of just the mountain of experience that
Dumbug has, right?
The most decorated trainer in championship series in terms of regional
titles and medals.
The fact is, he has played so many series.
And of course, Kento was playing amazing, but I feel like Dumbug was locked in,
prepared, ran the same team of three in all three battles.
Even though he lost game number one,
he never went away from his strategy.
He knew exactly what he was going
to do in multiple iterations against Kento's team.
And it showed there, this is a trainer
that is super talented, locked in,
has the experience, and was able to persevere.
Yeah, that was such a tough match up for Dunebuck, right?
But we've seen him overcome once before that.
And he just danced around it perfectly.
He had a more neutral lead in both the second and third game
and found his wing conditions.
Knew that, you know what?
I need to save that nine-times for the Fortress if I can.
And that's exactly what he did.
Even with the beautiful catch from Kendall Sornari,
Dumbog just put himself so far ahead at that point.
It didn't even matter.
It seemed like almost like we were in the best of five
series already.
Because it already seemed like, OK,
you know what's going to be happening in the back line
for both these trainers.
How do they make those minor adjustments
throughout the battle, knowing there's
a jealous in the back, knowing there's
the shadow fortress in the back how to make sure that you have the right Pokemon to take
advantage in Dunebug was able to do that and look it up next.
I got distracted because I saw probably the prohibited favorite to win Pokemon Worlds.
Patomon is on the stage next.
That's right.
And he is looking to return to another Grand Finals at an international at a Worlds.
he came up just short in the fifth and final game of the frack of reset came down to the wire
but did lose the feels a boy and that's been an absolute tear ever since try to make it back
through that championship Sunday and he has shown time and time again that he is possibly
the greatest Pokemon GO player there is in this entire season and based on accomplishments alone
you can say that's a pretty easy case to make as he's looking for another
high finish at an international event.
He's going against Susan Zeter,
one of our top players from North America.
The younger brother of Nighttime Clash,
one of our most secrated players in North America as well.
But butters, I gotta say, is that your grudge match?
Oh, it is.
Yes, yeah.
So let me, let me give you a quick recap.
So they faced off at NAIC 2025.
This was last season.
And Susan Zeter lost to Potomac, one to two.
That was not maybe not something you just break out. See this season was 2026. If it's off again, you I see this year
Well, well, you know how about it?
Yeah, bottom on takes a 2-0 victory over substance eater and then the last time they faced off was prog in
2026 this after you I see a substance eater actually came out on top
So even though part of my head taken, you know two out of the three victories against us in Cedar
The last time they faced off doesn't hear actually to oh over part of my which it's not something that most real
the world can even say right so that's already a good sign for substance eater
but as soon as you start saying international competitions I knew
the answer was because mr. day number three is almost impossible to beat in day
number two remember even in the world championships last season who won
between the is a boy and Patamon in the winners finals Patamon Patamon with
that team composition disadvantage he was able to defeat this boy I believe
three to one. It was only with a night of preparation and rest that Beezaboy was able
to utilize that team composition advantage in Championship Sunday. So Padamind is day
number, uh, Mr. Day number three for a reason. He is almost impossible to beat in this day
number two, especially as the rounds progress and you have less and less time to prepare
against this trainer because he is, in my opinion, the best trainer on the planet
right now and Pokemon go. Definitely and but you know we've seen upsets happen
already just a couple minutes ago right. Beelzeboy vs Haramaru and you know
Beelzeboy if he's not the best in the world he's obviously in the top three but
anything can happen especially on the big stage and this has been an absolute
huge tournament for us in the theater playing against the best of the best
making it to day number two undefeated in the winner's side and now facing off
again for the fourth time against Potomon. We have two waterfall
You should not both sides and we got two Malomars to Malamars been a bit underwhelming. I'm not gonna lie
Whenever we see it's been really strong in terms of usage
But whenever you see it on the battlefield, it just comes up short
We saw be as a boy come up short with it two times
We saw yesterday in the matchups of Malamar coming up short. Yes Malamar has done really well
It is placed itself in top usage
But when I've seen it on the battlefield, I feel like it's been carried every single time
So we have another Malomar mirror.
Can we have a Malomar moment in Pokemon Worlds?
Well, I think here's a tricky part, right?
Both players have a shadow bug fight fortress,
which absolutely shreds the Malmars.
Malmars double reach with it.
More importantly, Potomac also has a shadow.
So like, that's, you know, bug bites a one-term move,
but it probably looks like it's doing more than that, right?
It's just every turn that goes by into Malmars.
You blink and your Malmars help bar is in the red.
Let's see if there are ones that take that risk or not.
Here we go, game number one, Potomom vs. Cedar.
The start things off, it's going to be the, you know,
a Sunfish for Cedondo, so.
And this is exactly why you use a waterfall user
as your water type to do that super effective damage
into these ground types like the, you know, the Sunfish
or into the fire type of that Shadow Kanto Ninetales.
It actually picks up the early protect shield
into this Sunfish.
It looks like Potomom is just going to play out this matchup.
Does have that Shadow Malamore in the back,
but he wants alignment.
He does not want to face that shadow fortress with a bug bite.
So he has to make sure he wins this matchup
or baits out the fortress.
And Potomac has to back to back this charge
over Vonsetbid, throws right before the next serve is available.
Sussan Deere lets the first discharge go.
Might throw up this shield just to get the serve off.
No, let's go.
Can't the big whale do it?
No, it does go down to the double-disk charge.
Potomac wins switch man's butt,
also has a lot of energy still to move.
But he does have that Corsula in the back to face that fortress.
And you're going to get a lot of chip damage off here.
Yes, you will get that farm down for substance eatery
in his Gillingen Corsula.
But then that's when you bring in the Malamar
to avoid that fortress in the back.
And it's just so hard.
The Stunk Fisk is bulky.
It's threatening even another two more charge attacks.
Going to throw the mud bomb.
Maybe he could have gone for double discharge,
but does that mean that he's also
gonna be able to get to one more parting discharge before it gets knocked out.
I'd like you to arm down from Susten here. Very confident knowing the bulk of the Corsula.
Knowing that even if there's a Malmour on the back, this much energy is going to threaten a KO on the Shadow Malmour.
And here's the thing, you throw both Knight Shade, maybe grab a shield, and then just try to snipe it with the Bug Fights.
And part of my shield is, the Fortress probably coming in in a quick second.
Let's see if he goes for it or not. And no, it's not to let it go.
Fortress might come in. He calls it. He calls it.
But goes to the side row squat.
And here comes Potomac's own Corsola.
And down the shield is no problem for Corsola into this matchup.
Look how much these astonishes are doing.
Susunits Eater is desperately reaching for that rock tomb,
which will drop the attack of this Corsola
and make the match up better for Susunits Eater.
He's going to get to it as soon as possible.
There it is. There's one protection remaining,
but Potomac can be patient.
He does not have to use it yet.
Yeah, but this is still a tough position for Potomac.
He is going to shield up the more likelihood of it being a Rock Tomb.
He wants to present as much health as possible.
This is so annoying because yes, you have the Tiger Vance on the Corsair.
For the bug bite still chunked and more importantly,
Susie here has a shield advantage and his next Rock Tomb
is going to put the Corsair into the red.
And the problem is there is health on the Corsair for Susie in its eater.
So as soon as Susie in its eater wants to come in and try to go for a staunch damage,
he is going to throw one more Rock Tomb.
There's one protection remaining and there's a back-to-back available for Padamon,
but there's still a Prec-Trac shield and he actually uses it here.
Unsurprised, here comes the probably swapping in.
The last Nightshade is baked.
The Malmour comes in to knock into a Charge Attack.
Padamon does have the Nightshade that he can throw right now,
but he's gonna have to be able to knock out the Fortress
before Fortress can get to a Charge Attack.
Sussan's either, he's not, and he thinks he can get to one Sanctum
before the Astonished Damage is gonna take him out.
Can he do it?
It's gonna be close, but the fight is enough
as Sussan's here takes the first game off from Potomani.
Wow, well played from Susan, it's either part of mine.
I felt like you exactly what he was doing.
He knew that Shadow Fortress was gonna be in the back line.
He was gonna save his course love for that back line
and make sure that he won alignment.
But that alignment didn't do too much for him
because of the strength of the opposing course line
in the back.
Malomar just didn't stand a chance.
Once again, Malomar, maybe, oh yeah.
I got a little short in this meta.
This is the most anti-Malomar probably
had if I heard it at quite some time.
But I got to say one word that describes
us in the end of the first game.
Patience, absolute patience.
Let the dandoso go.
Gets a shield, gets hit with two discharge,
doesn't save, doesn't bend a shield.
Comes in Corsola into the somethings.
Gets hit like what?
Two, three month long?
Doesn't matter.
Goes again for the patience,
knowing that you can fendle the engine
because you look at the back line.
What can stop the Corsola without much energy?
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
And on top of that has the fortress later.
There is no cancel knight on the side of Parma.
So the fortress is actually very, very safe once you,
you know, if you have a shield advantage, right?
Cause of course that's probably the best answer to it.
But even with the force on it,
with that shield advantage, you're able to clean up.
Yeah, just because of the debuffs with that rock team,
obviously you have Sansum as well.
It's a really strong Pokemon, a Pokemon
that we thought would be even a little bit higher
in the meta day number one.
Often times these trainers bring that waterfall user
and protect it with the Shadow Fortress.
That is a core duo that we see
on both of these trainers' team.
On Potomont's side, he has the Milotic
and he has the Shadow Fortress.
On Sustenance's side,
he has that Dondozo and the Shadow Fortress.
And Potomont, just as the other top names,
is on the ropes as well.
He is down 0-1 to Sustenance either
and this is a devastating lead.
He has to intimately pivot into the Stuntbis
but with no clear enter,
Here comes the shadow fortress assassin it's either, but more importantly,
there's also no clear answer for substance either for that glaring course.
I think the land course is very safe for both players in this retro game
matchup, especially with the licky, licky on the bench as bottom line is going
to draw out the fortress, but there's no mouth on his side either.
So it doesn't help them out as much as you think.
And with the Budweb variants of the fortress is actually quite good.
There's a lot of ground types in the sand tune is going to come through
super affected and drops the defense of this poor stunt.
This is trying to get to a double discharge and can get the alignment here.
So Suster's Eater has a choice, can let one discharge through, but
Padamon is at the back-to-back.
Does he try to go for the alignment or do they soft lose this matchup?
He has this opportunity to decide right here.
And I think Suster's Eater might just let this go.
No, he decides to throw up the shield at the very last second.
Will have the chance to go for the debuff for later.
So debuffing, getting maybe even the rock jump off will be huge value.
Can he reach it?
God's go for it!
No!
Unfortunately, doesn't get it all.
And so that's actually going to be a huge win for Potomac as he now has the energy lead and the script has been flipped, right?
It sounds like the first can send this time Potomac. It doesn't have the matchup. He won, but has to shield advantage.
Sussniter has residual energy on the course of going to throw the first Knight Shade.
I think we're going to see an instant shield for Potomac.
This is where you need to use your shields. It's going to be super effective Knight Shade.
Here comes the Dondozo, though, to be able to soak up all this energy.
I like that from Sussniter. Get the shield, do a little bit of chip damage.
Then come in with the Dondozo and never shield it.
just try to rely on your Corsula in the back and rely on the bulk that is Dantozo,
a Pokemon that we haven't seen too much in Championship Series, but as you can see,
it has high defense, high HP, is able to take these Charge Tax and Fast Tax no problem
while pacing up to these harder hitting Charge Tax. I mean it indeed is a whale and it is pretty
thick on the battlefield on top of it. As you can see the Water Ball damage adding up to
Susan either goes for another serve and now part of my throat up the final shield trying to get them back to back
Nightshade before throwing just so that he could throw a party night sheet
Let's go put him in a top top position has a final night sheet available
Susan Cedar has this you make do you go for the shield or not?
I don't think it's my word. Oh, he does go so the shield wants to try to maybe get some additional damage off
But as I'm getting taken out by the back to back night she now says leader again on a position
but this time around the script is flipped a bit.
It's Audemann now with the Shadow Fortress
into the Corsula of Sustenite.
Going to get this Night Rage right before the Night Shade Recess.
Huge dent, this debuff will mitigate so much damage
coming in from this next Night Shade.
And remember, there is a bit of health in the back
on that Corsula.
And now that the attack has dropped,
you can take one Astonish.
So that means Audemann can get off two Astonishes
in the back, and he has the Sand Tomb right here.
It all comes down to this Night Shade
for Susan is either. Can Susan's either knock out with this nightshade? It has been debunked.
No, it's not enough. Charges that Friday. No, actually, the Sandy Tomb comes out before
the next nightshade. It is going to be enough to tie up the series for Padamind.
Wow, this is quite a watch match. And it is absolutely delivering here to start things
off on the Winner's Factor of day number two, back and forth between these two players,
Fortress and Corsula. And then Corsula in the Fortress.
I guess you'd rather be in the Fortress.
Yeah, I guess so, I guess so.
And it was actually a great line read from Potomac, right?
Because you're thinking, okay, well, what if he has a leaky leaky in the back?
Then just hard counter.
But the odds of Dustin Skeeter leading a court score
and having a leaky leaky in the back is so low
because there's that shout Malmour.
And you're just way too weak to shout Malmour
if Potomac decides to go for it.
So Potomac goes through the gamble and says,
you know what, I'll protect my court score.
I'm going to expect that he doesn't have the leaky leaky
to hard counter me.
And that is my win condition.
And that's exactly what he found in the end game.
Well, finally, the best case that I've heard
for actually bringing a Malamar to the stage here
is to break up that core, which of course,
Licky Licky was number one in usage by up my old in day number
two.
And the Corsula is one of those late risers in the meta shift.
Corsula is on a lot of these top trainer teams as well.
So if you do have that base pressure
or you could utilize that Pokemon to break up that core,
that is a strong utility to have on your team of six.
That's right.
And this is going to be a tough one, right?
There's so much online winning this,
puts you into top eight at World Championships.
The biggest stage, the moment that all these players
have been fighting for and losing here
will pull you into the losers bracket,
could knock you out straight up into the top 24,
could make your road to that grand finals way, way longer.
You have to face top opponent after top opponent.
There's so much on the line for this third
and final game between these two players.
And if you're just joining us so far in day number two,
a lot of these well-known trainers like the easy boy in dune bug have really been challenged
The easy boy has already gone down to the loser side and now Patomon is one game away from going down to the loser side
But if he wins it, he can get the top eight and there is the key lead
He has his course like the fortress even though fortress has been winning this in the back
You're not gonna win it in the front. So does Susie Cedar just swap out there is the swap the Dundos
We'll try to go for the catch.
I like Potomac's patience because he knows that if
but Sousa Nidia really wanted to throw that he would have.
So expecting the potential catch now has he back to back.
Actually my big one and then might come in with his Stumpas after.
I don't know Stumpas is going to take a lot of super fight game
showing the serve actually goes with that double Knight Shade.
Do we see a shield with Sousa Nidia?
I mean this Stumpas is really safe for Sousa Nidia as well, right?
Doesn't have a lot of options.
Might even just go and swap to the Fortress.
Let's see what Potomac does.
And look, already at the double surf here.
One surf will not be enough to knock out the Corsa,
but the double surf will definitely be enough.
There is no shield from Potomac.
It's the timer up.
Yes, you could try to swap on it,
but instead, trying to go for that nightshade.
No, not even going for the nightshade.
No way that the surf is gonna be coming anyway.
If the said try to go for the form down,
wants to use this energy for the backline
against Sussex Eater.
There could be a financial combo play.
You have to be real tricky.
It's a bug by damage.
We'll add up pretty quickly.
Let's see if Potomac tries to go for a swap.
You can see he's reaching for it.
He knows that the Fortress might come back
and try to snipe away the energy
on the Corsair Force's final shield,
but in comes his own Corsair, and now Potomine,
again, the goal is a reverse.
It's just Fortress versus Corsi line,
Corsi line for Fortress.
And I'm surprised he actually didn't hit it
into the stun fist there,
although he does know the Fortress is out there
and could have that sandtume
to do super effective damage.
This is the matchup that you don't love.
Now you are in a two-protect shield deficit.
If you're Potomine, this is desperate times
For Mr. Day number three, here comes the Rock Tomb.
Will we finally get a protect shield from Sussan and Zeter?
Not yet.
Two full shields remaining, but I think he's feeling confident
that if you look at Potomac's team,
nothing can beat the Fortress, especially up two shields.
He's playing out swing conditions absolutely perfectly.
Here comes a potential combo play,
but Sussan and Zeter just coming in here
and Potomac, oh, he doesn't even shield
a potential Rock Tomb.
Just no shields, a S-S-Santoo.
And we have that energy on the Corselaw,
but you don't want to use it right now
because you have no protect shields remaining
and you'll lose charge attack priority.
So the only way to use that energy
is to make sure that Susanus Eater
does not have energy on his torches.
Right now, he doesn't have enough energy
for back-to-back.
Do we see the attack?
No, he is still banking that for the back-to-back.
Oh!
But he throws it on charge attack priority
that is not what kind of unwanted.
And now all that energy went to waste.
Susanus Eater is able to take out the Corselaw.
Yeah, this is absolutely devastating for Potomac
because he has to get to not only,
he has to get to three moves here to do anything.
The problem is he cannot thunder shot down.
Look at the face on Susie here.
He knows he's got this in the bag.
And yet again, he's able to defeat Potomac after pride.
He doesn't get behind the biggest stage
as Susie makes his top eight finish
at a minimum at world championships.
Doing the impossible, taking out the top trainer
on the planet to advance into top eight.
Tatumon is not eliminated yet.
He is moving down to that loser's side of the bracket,
a place that he is less familiar with,
but Susinitz either pulls it out,
wins that decisive game number three.
Wow.
And this is what Pokemon goes all about, right?
Anyone can rise to the top,
no matter how big the name is.
We talked about it, right?
Billswood, the reigning world camp,
Kamtrakz or Lucid Freckett,
Podamon, probably the best player in the world right now
in this entire season,
maybe even last season combined,
goes down to Susan Zeter,
who hasn't won a trophy,
who hasn't won a medal,
who hasn't won a title,
but he is getting to that point right now.
He's finding a way to find a spot in the top eight,
only a few matches away,
but he's making a grand finals appearance.
Caleb, his best performance ever in a championship series
before this was seventh.
Now he's top eight at the World Championships.
These are the stories that history is made of.
These underdog trainers that come in here,
like Firestar did in 2025, a trainer
that you didn't know as well or a trainer that you know
has done pretty well, but could never
get over that hump, get over that last hurdle
in Susana Deeter.
If he could get over that hurdle in this moment
to make it the championship Sunday.
What a story that would be.
But the story really is the underdog so far.
He is the boy, it goes down.
Padamon goes down.
Two of our favorites coming in to day number one.
It's what?
What time?
It's 10 a.m.
In our in?
An hour in.
Yeah, we're an hour in.
And already two of our favorites
is are on the loser side of the bracket.
Yeah, I mean, we had both of them,
two of them in our players to watch
and both of them have dropped.
I mean, it's a tough deal, right?
And there's not a knock on those talented players.
They've had so much success in the past,
but as they've been climbing the ranks,
players like Susan Seater have been watching,
they've been learning, they've been holding their own crap.
And what a performance from this young player right here,
Susan Seater, who's looking for even more glory.
And hey, this might be his year.
And of course, the younger brother
you mentioned of nighttime posture,
another trainer that had a dominant 20-26 season.
So he has been near that greatness as well,
picked up some tips.
and he is absolutely utilizing it right now.
That's right.
And we have more incredible battles
to come, more of our Japanese players as well,
and Contos coming up next against one of our NA players,
Auburn.
So this is gonna be a real exciting one.
Stay tuned for it,
because the action just does not stop here.
We'll be right back.
Go as you can see we've got the world championship side. We've got the Pokemon XP side. I hear it's absolutely insane in there
Let's go take a look
We got to get me popping out to mine everything that we can let's take a shot of
Hey, how's it going?
Beautiful pieces. Bring it in close here. I want you to take a look at this for
everyone at home. This is a fantastic piece. This is the beautiful save-a-lie we
have right here. Without question, one of the finest we have. Beautiful, sparkly.
We have the EV right next to it and finally the jigglypuff. Very nice
collection.
The official matte. Limit one for customer. But I count as two customers so I
I will take two.
No, King Pikachu.
We have now transitioned from the world championships
to the XP area, space themed, extremely cool,
in my opinion, cooler than the world championship area.
I'm probably not supposed to say that.
Let's do some pop-outs.
Boom, poppin'.
Okay, okay, get a picture of me with the Umbreon.
Here you go.
The World Championship play mat and bag also limit one.
These are different though, so I can take, yes?
Yes, I got a yes.
Place is poppin'.
Beautiful, special, elegant.
One of them's going on a trip.
One of them is blasting off, another one would be in a spaceship.
I think I like Kearley the best.
I have been excited to see this the entire time.
This is the item I've had my eye on more than anything else.
This jacket right here.
It's beautiful.
It's special.
I'm not exactly sure where I can wear it, except everywhere.
And I want it very badly.
I will be back for it.
Because technically I'm not allowed to shop for this right now.
Welcome back Pokemon Trainers to day two of the Pokemon Go World Championship.
here in San Francisco,
California by Miss Home Size Henry
joined on the desk by the one and only
Lou the Pikachu. We've had some
incredible games so far as we make it
through our winners out of the bracket.
The action is only getting better from here.
I didn't know how they were going
to top day one of the competition,
but the upsets that we are having so
far here on date to be else boy down
into the losers bracket.
Panama down into the losers bracket,
not out of contention,
but certainly gives us a lot of other
trainers to root for going forward
into this competition.
and trainers really making a name for themselves here at this tournament because
one thing I mentioned at the end of day one to be the best you've got to be the best
and we've seen some trainers who were considered to be as peals avoid poto man dropping down to losers
but if the European international's taught us anything poto man and losers is still a very very scary sight to behold.
Let's not forget at last year's World Championships he actually came into second place coming into that grand final from the winner's side of the bracket
So maybe the secret to his success is actually to come into those Grand Finals from the loser side of the bracket.
So I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for Padamans who advanced in this competition alongside all of our other incredible trainers.
So we have three trainers who have already moved on to winners round two.
We're going to be continuing as we move down the bracket here in winners round one.
We have a pretty incredible matchup ready down on the stage.
And that is going to be Contono versus Auburn.
Now Auburn is a veteran of the game.
He participated even before we were part of the championship series.
He did a lot of grassroots tournaments.
He is a Wiley veteran.
He has played this game for many years,
and he is a 4-3 record with, but on the other side
of the table, Contono with an incredible anti-meta team.
Shadow Glycefor, Shadow Polytone, Charge Bug, and Pangoro.
So this will be kind of more of a matchup between Auburn
running more traditional meta, running the Pokemon that
are deemed to be the best, versus Contono,
who's trying to kind of counter that meta
with some very interesting picks.
I truly am a lover of these new shadow variants that N'Gothodo is running.
Being able to have that Gliscorps as well for that ground type coverage.
Coming into this meta, we see a lot of the Stumpfisk, and particularly in day 2,
we're seeing a lot of success with trainers running the Shadow Kanto Marowak, for example,
that's on the opposing side on Orban's team.
But actually having that ground typing onto the Gliscorps is a really interesting choice coming into this tournament.
Gliscorps to me feels like a Pokemon where its energy goes everywhere in this matchup.
Gliscorps does have some pretty unfortunate disadvantage states,
Like if it ever gets down to energy then the shadow status can end up kind of hindering it
But if it's ever getting up energy and acrobatics is going to hit for massive damage on almost everything
506 Pokemon and Auburn do not have a resistance of flying and the only one that does which is tinketon
Would take some pretty significant damage from sandtube spam. I think as well
There are still some of the tried and tested
Relievals out there on the field
We've got those licky lickies number one in our usage stats being able to be just so bulky and eat out
a load of those attacks. At the same time, it has some really good coverage into Ghost
Sights, but you're not going to find those on the opposing side on Enkono's team here.
And I think one of the critical things that I want to see is what these leads are going
to be coming out and where the tone is going to be set from the very beginning of this
dominant match.
One thing that I do like to see in this matchup, even though we have the dueling
Licky-Lickies, we don't have course lists, because that can be a very polarizing
matchup for course. I can't really do a lot. Licky-Licky should hopefully be
more of a neutral presence in this matchup, and it looks like the players are ready.
the game is about to begin.
Contono versus Auburn, Game 1 of Winners, Round 1.
And it's going to be Tinketon versus Tinketon.
Look at that.
It's a good old mirror to get things started.
Both these Pokemon have the capabilities
to get those energies up so the Tinketon hammers
can't threaten down.
But against an opposing Tinketon,
you might want to be kicking up all those buttons
for the additional bit of impact.
But we know that Tinketon hammer can just
be so relentless.
Auburn not going to play to the charge stack
every time.
Instead, you want to over farm no shielding Tinketon
hammer that does do some pretty significant damage and he's gonna hit back
hard with the game on hammer of his own that is instantly no shielded by
Contono. I love the fact these tinketons are starting to learn a little bit of
what it feels like to be their opponent. Time to take a hammer, a piece across the
field. Very even Stevens at the moment the bulldoze is now being locked in on
both sides of the field but it is gonna be Contonos that blinks first.
This is actually a nivy dependent survive here and it looks like Auburn may be
running unfortunately not as good of a tinketon he's not able to survive
And that was forced to bring in the man team and this is a pretty rough wing attack down
Contono will be able to make it to a gigaton hammer and despite the steel resistance that does enough damage that Auburn will actually invest to protect shield
I mean we've seen when it's resisted how much this gigaton hammer can do so the shield does come through on all the side of the field
You have so much energy primed up on that man team
You want to be able to unleash that and particularly as the fast attacks are still putting in work
It's not enough to be able to get the full farm down and Contono letting this go if you're Contono
you're ecstatic with how this game has begun. You were able to neutralize the
Tinketon, you got a shield advantage from Manteen. Manteen was unable to farm
down and had to fire up energy as well, but really feels like the stage is set.
Contono is trying to set up that Shadow Glide Score at an advantage state, and
with that shield advantage, that Shadow Glide Score is looking deadly because
there's only a certain amount of acrobatics that you could end up
shielding with only one protect shield remaining. Yeah, Manteen doesn't want
to face down the rollout either, so as soon as that switch time it gave it
capabilities. It's got a little bit of energy up against the Licky Licky and now once again,
we're in a mirror state between these two trainers. Licky Licky just farming up all that energy.
You've got the body slam pressure that can just keep going one, two, three times and start chipping
away at this bulky Pokemon. Even despite the fact that these are exceedingly similar teams,
Tinketon, Licky Licky and a Flyer, Contono is consistently winning charge tech priority
in those mirror matchups. The Licky Licky's winning charge tech priority, the Tinketon
one charge tech priority and that's making life very difficult for Auburn as even though
it is a very neutral matchup suddenly it feels like those neutral matchups are
actually very disadvantageous. It's nice to see the Gliscor join the field now
again it's going for these wing attacks just farming up the energy you have the
utility to do some very decent damage with something like an acrobatics but
first of all you've got to take this body slam. Gliscor able to take that
reasonably well and does manage to get both its charge attacks ready to go.
Gliscor will invest a protect shield Contono trying to set up Gliscor
for the endgame sweep. Body slam perhaps the first protect shield
in his Mantine with a lot of energy at his full setting the acrobatics.
Yeah, I think Mantine may be trying to take up the ground type Charger type instead.
Acrobatics comes its way, utilizes that shield, so Mantine is going to stay safe with all of this beautiful energy
and it threatens with the waterpulse but it looks like the Twister has been locked in.
With the Shadow Glide score having already taken quite a lot of damage from Licky Licky,
even just a non-sim type attack on his Twister may be enough to secure the knockout.
It's going to be kind of close. Although it's a pivot out.
In comes Licky Licky, but the energy will be lost as Twister will secure the knockout.
the knockout. Energy lost on Mountain Cyber. Energy banked onto that Gliscore in the back for
Contono. Like you said, trying to set up the end game so it can be relentless with that pressure.
It's back on the field right now. Santium Acrobatics. It has its choice of charge attacks,
but first of all, we're going to have to see the Twister come through.
And for Contono, even with the Gliscore having the shield advantage, it just needed to do too
much. Man team was always going to require Acrobatics to take the knockout. And the
reason Contono didn't fire off the Acrobatics there was he knew he needed enough residual
energy to outpace the Licky Licky and he just did not have enough. That's the thing you can take
down one Pokemon but if there's another one in the back you don't have the tools to deal with it
then the victory is going to go to your opponent and I think the wisdom and expertise that Orban
has been able to correlate over his years playing competitive Pokemon Go really shone through
in that end game scenario. Whereas feel like that game got out of hand for Contono was when
Auburn brought in the Licky Licky. Contono decided to stay in with the Licky Licky
and ended up firing off a lot of that energy and the energy isn't particularly valuable in the
the licky licky here so he ended up throwing a bunch of energy and then
bringing the Glicecore to the Glicecore with behind a bunch of energy so it was
no longer in that advantageous state so it feels like Contono had a very a very
strong game plan from the start get the shield advantage set up the Glicecore
to sweep but in this end game right here you can never send to but it's a flying
type you have to throw all that acrobatic energy in if you do you're
just getting outpaced by that licky licky so I really like the game plan
there from Contono but unfortunately didn't quite end up producing the
the results he was hoping for.
The different storylines with the flies
were very critical in that match.
We saw a lot of, you know,
the leads with the tinketon in that mirror.
We also, the licky-lickies come up against each other.
But as you mentioned, the fast attacks
on the Glycecore really gonna be null and void
into a water flying type
in the form of that Mantine as well.
So Mantine was able to get the advantage
over its fellow flying type on the opposing side,
gleaning a little bit more on an advantage for its trainer.
One thing that I liked about Auburn
was even though he arguably
was in a very disadvantageous position
pretty early on in that match,
You never really see Auburn get flustered on stage.
Auburn is always calm, cool, and collected,
and that's what you need to be able to turn around
some of these very, very negative board positions there.
And he stayed calm.
He was able to maneuver his Pokemon
in and out of the matchup, banking energy,
and the stored energy on that Mantine,
overwhelming the Gliscor and being able
to take the Naka on Licky.
Licky caused that energy to be lost.
It was honestly just masterful there from Auburn
because about halfway through that game,
he looked to be in dire straits.
It did look a little bit dicey, but that's what I love so much about the twists and turns
that Pokemon Go can offer.
You have the time, you have the shields.
There's so many different ways to get increments of advantage, and swings of momentum can happen
at any point.
These trainers are trying to continue their undefeated run.
We've got an adjustment in the leads.
It's going to be that Shadow Glideball versus the Shadow Ninetales.
The Shadow Ninetales will have a pretty significant pacing advantage here.
Contono does have the charge buggy backball trainers massively over farming, but
it's going to be Ninetales that strikes first with a weather ball and an instant
no shield from Contono.
single time I'm blown away by the pacing off this 9 tails gets that weather ball
that's a huge chunk of damage into that shadow baron in the opposing side and the
adjustment comes through all been going for the tinkerton oh he calls that it's
the acrobatics that's being thrown catches on the tinkerton what a play
from Auburn but that resistance acrobatics still honestly did a pretty
significant amount of damage tinkerton being so fearless that could have been
a sand soon coming through Ben stead can eat up the acrobatics and get all
this beautiful energy up to face down against the charge of bug and
adaptation on Contono side. Perfect charge tack timing there from Auburn
recognizing the fact that Contono would be one turn behind throwing four
fairy winds and the gigaton hammer even though it's resisted that's just how
strong of a move gigaton hammer is you're still gonna be throwing gigaton
hammer into a charge to bug. Exactly charge to bug now has the opportunity
to prove it's worth out here is able to go for this discharge that is a
heavy-dealing electric type attack and of course Tinkitung will fall victim
to it but the embers is a perfect way for nine tails to retaliate I think
it just needed one there to be able to get to the weather ball.
Now Contono has to go for one of these pressure shields
to keep the Chargerbug in the game.
And Contono preserving the Chargerbug
is not what Auburn is hoping to see,
because his final Pokemon in the back
is going to be that man team.
Man team is really going to not like to see
Chargerbug whatsoever.
So for Auburn, this is not great,
because the Switch Timer is up.
Contono can go for the combination play.
In comes Gliscorps, Santu locked and loaded.
And now if Auburn wants to preserve the Ninetales,
that final protect shield has to go.
I really like that adaptation thinking, hey, the Mantine could be in the back.
I need to preserve my charge of luck for later in the game.
It's not going to be able to do well against this Ninetales.
Now, Contarino has to have the option here, bringing us something like the Licky Licky,
maybe going for some of those rollouts, because you want to preserve that charge of luck
if the Mantine shows itself.
There is so much stored energy on the Ninetales, but the Ninetales is at minus one defense.
Courtesy of that sandtume.
In comes Licky Licky Auburn, will fire off the Weatherball.
When does he decide to send in that Mantine?
Weatherball will connect.
No Mantine yet.
He's going to stay in and try and get as much damage as possible.
But Contono still holding onto that final protect shield as Licky Licky more than happy to absorb these hits.
The Sun is beaming down from the sky, though.
Weatherball after weatherball, sponging up all of this energy on the 9-tail side.
And this is the alignment that Charge Bug wanted to see.
The Mantine and Play Charge Bug on the field is still has a shield to protect from this very first twister.
But now Charge Bug in that red zone has to put itself all on the offensive and get these charge attacks down.
I think I can see the idea for Auburn.
Auburn is, oh, nobody's going to get the double up.
Auburn's idea there was to try and force a charge bug to throw ember down with the nine tails and then win charge
That we already over the licky-licky, but Contono with the patience to double up will exit with that discharge loaded
Great counterplay there from Contono not falling for Auburn's trap a big sigh of relief there from Contono
As he stays alive on the winners out of the bracket and forces a game number three
Chargerbug believers, they've got something right for sure.
Being able to see the way Chargerbug was utilized so well in that game, yes it had a few dicey
lineups against Pokemon like the Ninetales, the Embers were herding it really strongly,
but the fact that Contono was able to utilize that Switch timer, get it out safe, you bring
it back in to find the alignment against the 19 and as you said, critically get to
that double discharge to carve out the perfect end game scenario.
A very, very well executed game play there by Contono, recognizing this was a bait
up for the charge of a lot of success with that maintain in game one is
probably in the back I'm actually going to shield the weather ball and then be
able to fire off that discharge pressure away the shield go for the combination
play with the sand and leave the nine tails in a spot where it was had no
protect shields it was a minus one defense and it kind of forced the
Auburn off the field and in doing so was really able to set up that charge
of a to build up to the back to back I like the way as well charge of up
was able to neutralize the tank upon that open still kept from that game
We know how much damage the Gigaton Hammer can do, even into the opposing Tickathon that
was showcased beautifully in Game 1, but seeing the damage be a little more lackluster, it
still had impact, but it was more underwhelming than we've seen before into the charge, but
just meant that its defensive capabilities were supporting its offensive pressure as
well.
I was really impressed by how much damage that resisted, at her back, she scored
the Tickathon, he's like, oh, what a catch, and then it still loses 40% of
its health bar, I mean you caught it, but that still hurt.
But that won't cost.
That did quite a lot of damage.
at what cost, exactly right.
That kind of set up the charge bug,
because from full health,
Tketon hit a charge bug,
Tketon has a surprising amount of play there,
because discharge, it's not a particularly strong charge deck,
but with that tip damage,
that will kind of set up that charge bug
to kind of get rolling there,
and kind of end up steamrolling over that game.
I think the nine tails
were still giving Contono a little bit of difficulty.
Possibly we could see an adaptation
to something like the Polo Toad here.
Having that fast attack mudshot
will apply a little bit of pressure,
and you can retaliate with a weather ball
the water form of your very own. Interesting to see it as you come into this match here facing down against the Tinkertown.
This matchup is a little bit tricky for Auburn. The munch-outs will hit for super effective damage.
Weatherball doesn't do a lot, but this matchup is just a war of attrition.
There are so many weatherballs, so incredibly quickly. You're used to the Kanto 9-Tales facing.
Polytote facing is the exact same.
Exactly, those weatherballs will come through thick and fast, but the Gigaton Hammer is primed.
going unshielded actually into the shadow polytode here so the tinkertone
wanting to try and make swift work considering that that line tells is in
the back. Polytode will look to try and over farm pretty considerably here.
Polytode over farming, playing to the charge type every time, hoping that enough
mudgeot damage has been dealt but this weather ball will secure the knockout.
Yeah it will come through connect onto that vulnerable tinkertone here it does
go down but now Auburn has the utility to switch in a pokeball for back.
Obviously that licky-licky wants to try and farm us an energy with the
rollouts but look at the energy on it that polytode as well gets to
another weather ball is going to start putting a dent in Licky Licky's plans.
Man, this poly-toad is providing Contono with so much value.
Weather ball is going to connect onto the Licky Licky, saving a weather ball for later,
reading the night tails in the back.
That's a terrific play as Licky Licky is brought directly into the mirror.
All of these poke ones actually have some kind of answer for the nine tails,
whether it's a water type attack or a ground type attack.
So you have a way for dealing with it when it reveals itself towards the end of the game.
Right now we've got that slower pace of play.
Both the Licky Licky's going for these rollouts, farming up energy
and resetting that switch timer. It really feels like Contono is at a massive
state of advantage in this mid game. He has the health advantage in the
licky-licky mirror. Polytote still has the weatherfall banks. There's Gliscor in
the back. Kanto Ninetales may be one of the most threatening Pokemon that you
can run in this meta, but in this game it feels very heavily targeted. It can
leave itself vulnerable to its defenses as well being in that shadow form. So
even though it can get up a lot of those weather balls at the shield to
down, it can make things difficult for the Ninetales. Switch coming through
on Contono's side it's gonna be that shadow Glycego. You can see him nodding
he's happy to have found his mark against our nine tails. And he knows at
this point that this game is over. He can just go straight sandtume. It doesn't
really matter where Auburn uses the protect shield. The first sandtume can
be shielded. He can even shield the second sandtume but polytode before
sight to save the weather ball from earlier is going to be what is
checkmate for Auburn. It guarantees the win for Contono. That's the thing
even if he shielded the sandtume debuff will still come through making
this nine tells more and more vulnerable by the minute.
Glasgow again gets to the second charge type open.
Let's just go through, see the writing on the wall.
Contono also seeing the victory in sight, smiling,
laughing across the table,
heavy damage comes through and seals it.
Contono will be advancing into the next day,
still undefeated.
You love to see the emotion from Contono.
And the reason Auburn lets that go
is because of that banked weather ball in the back.
There's just simply three super effective charge stacks.
There's only two protect shields per game
and the map just added up to Contono,
advancing to winners round two.
Love to see this set,
an incredible game from both of our competitors.
Of course, Auburn still in the competition,
just will be dropping down
to the loser's side of the bracket.
But another best of three thriller
that we got to be able to cast over,
it's incredible to see the adaptations come through.
And I love seeing that throughout the tournament
before Contono made the adaptation as well,
you know, bringing in the Glyscore,
bringing in the Polytoad as well,
constantly making adaptations to beat his opponent.
That polytode bringing game number three.
It was an incredible adaptation.
Look at how much value the polyjoke got.
He was able to knock out under the tinketon.
It doubled up on weather balls.
It got good damage on the licky-licky,
allowing him to pin it into the mirror
at a pretty significant health advantage.
And they just have that weather ball stored in the back
saying, if you bring the Kanto Ninetales,
this is my, you don't get to run Ninetales live.
And he read Ninetales,
and they shouldn't get to run Ninetales live.
And that is what allowed Conjuno that perfect read.
Sometimes it's about trying to play strong
to what your opponent's bringing
and that's exactly what he did.
Very well played there by Contono.
A very nice bounce back series there
as all we really asked for on the desk is just game three.
We like game three, so that was a pretty terrific game three
and a great adaptation from Contono.
And let's not forget as well the charge
about putting in some work in that game two as well
and another adaptation coming through
wanting to find its alignment against the opposing man team
and that's exactly the victory he was able to carve out.
So fantastic adaptations,
great to be able to see alignment
that going at one a player's way
but we've got some more epic games coming up.
And first, let's actually go through the winner's side
of the bracket.
Let's see where we are so far.
Hiromaru taking down Beelzeboy.
We had Dunebug versus Hiromaru in top eight.
And then we are going to have Sustenance Eater versus Condono.
So our top eight bracket filling out very quickly here.
And I believe, oh my goodness, if we're going in order,
that means our next game is going
to be between two Titans from Europe.
Boom 20 versus M.E. Weedle.
are two trainers I've had the privilege of being able to cast over throughout this 2026 season and
seeing them now on the world stage having to battle it out a little bit maybe thing is almost
like your locals a little bit you know being able to bring your redols to the international stage
so that is one that you do not want to miss jumping down to the loser side of the bracket though
we can see some of the trainers that we were showcasing earlier today BL's the boy our reigning
world champion also panaman who came second place at last year's world into this losers
bracket trying to carve out a run for redemption to get into those grand finals once again
And for those doing the math at home, it looks like there is an opportunity for Potomac and Beelzevoid to play if they continue to win.
And that would be in Losers Round 5.
So we'll kind of have to keep you up to date with the Losers bracket as it goes.
Because if we get that Worlds Final 3 back, that would be incredible.
Everyone will be tuning in.
I will be tuning in if I'm not in the desk, you know, I will be backstage eagerly watching that game.
Because that Worlds Finals in 2025, one of the best I've ever seen. It was incredible.
it was absolutely electric. Being in the arena for the very first time as well,
seeing history being made, and Panama coming in on the winner side of the bracket,
Beelzeboi had to reset that in a best of five and then do that all over again to get the title.
Honestly, every single twist and turn of that match was electric.
Obviously, Panama coming in second place was not what he wanted.
So this year he's trying to go that one step further.
And Beelzeboi is trying to be the first world champion to run it back and get a second title.
And both of them already off to pretty good starts.
Obviously, not the start to date two that they were hoping,
but you've already made it into top cut.
Dending into the losers' side of the bracket in day two
is a significantly less difficult road
than if you do a pop-up day at DUIC 2026,
which is dropping in like losers' round three of day one,
just in terms of the amount of games
you're gonna have to play.
So the later you can hold off dropping
into the losers' bracket,
the easier road that you're gonna have
to try and make it all the way up to losers' finals
and grand finals from there.
So even though they're down, they are by no means out,
and we know these are two of our best trainers.
So by no means should you ever count them out.
Exactly, they certainly are.
And it's nice to kind of reminisce a little bit
about some of the memories made
at last year's World Championships.
There are memories being made
at the 2026 World Championships as well.
You guys have been getting involved on social media
and sharing some of your messages and pictures with us.
So let's take a closer look at this.
I waited years for this moment, so happy.
I got a chance to come to Pokemon Worlds this year.
Look at that Mariah on that is a flashback
from Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet
on the video game side of things.
But this is such an iconic thing to look at.
that is incredible. I believe I, oh yes, I got to see the other one, the Maraedon. They
actually had it out and about yesterday. Yeah, I saw the Maraedon going around. That was so
cool. That was incredibly cool. And so this is also from Dark Master Spence. Getting to
check out both Maraedon and Karaidon. It's the incredibly cool designs. And to learn that
they were actually functional kind of blew my mind as well. I was not prepared for
that whatsoever. Kind of thought it would be a prof and then they were actually moving.
that you can kind of collect and have memories of this incredible pin rally mission almost
competed just missing the Kaliya pin. These are actually incredible. So many people's
favorite Pokemon there. You've got the Greninja, for example, you've got the tornadoes iconic
Pokemon through competitive history that you can pick up as a pin very exclusive here at the
Pokemon World Championships. I'm going to have to check that out because I am a big fan of a
Greninja. So hearing about a Greninja pin, I know what I'm doing the moment I get off camera.
Alright, next match up here, two of Europe's best and brightest stars, Boom 20 vs. M.E.
Weedle. Boom 20 is a regional champion. He won the first ever regional he attended and his consistency
this season has been second to none. And then there's M.E. Weedle, the 2022 Pokemon Go Seniors
Division World Champion. M.E. Weedle also a European international champion as well. This
This is a heavyweight bout, two of Europe's best, and honestly, two of the world's best.
Honestly, we could be here all day just blisting all of their accolades, champion this, champion
that.
These are two phenomenal trainers.
To be able to see them showcasing it on the world stage is an absolute privilege.
Looking at that matchup though, however, you mentioned you like Greninja.
There's no Greninja here, but there is no shortage of water type hook on either.
We've got Azura, we've got Quagsire on every reedle side, Quagsire, and the
Empolion as well.
I do really like how both Quagsires look in this matchup.
I feel like they have the potential to offer quite a lot of neutral play, so wouldn't be surprised especially if Boom ends up leaning on that Glagsire, as that's a Pokemon that he's very, very familiar with in past regionals, and he's very, very good at using.
Exactly, and taking a look at what their leads are going to be as well, it's going to be critical in this match to gain that momentum, not just in the match, but also in the head of your opponent.
Let's get into it. Our trainers are ready on the stage between Boom and Emmy Weedle. It's going to be that Nintel versus Corsal up.
In this matchup before we've seen Boom actually farm up to 10 at Burrs rather than 7.
Now, oh interesting. This time he ends up going on 7, so not over farming nearly as much at adjustment in play pattern.
The reason why farming up to 10 can be very useful is it makes it very awkward for the Corsula.
But instead, he's gonna go for the switch, predicting Emi-Wido with the Undertap,
but Emi-Wido predicting that switch ended up going for the Nightshade bait.
Moves and countermoves with these mind games.
to the Quagsile now in play to just start farming up that energy,
trying to put a dent into Corsus's defense,
but Corsus actually backs the energy it's able to acquire
and brings the Impoleon into play.
And normally sending Impoleon into a ground type,
now what you're wanting to do with open team sheets
and E-Wheedle knows that this Quagsile does not have mud bomb.
It's on Stone Edge and Aqua Tail,
so Impoleon actually ends up being a very effective way
to neutralize energy from that Quagsile.
Yeah, the Stone Edge, more beneficial into Pokemon flyers
or fire types, for example, but of course,
being that Steel Type, you're not gonna worry about it
on Impoleon's side of the field instead.
you can just go for Hydra Cannon after Hydra Cannon
and start really putting in some work
to get rid of the shield on Boom's side.
Boom is gonna go for the Aqua Tail.
The No Shield from Weedle,
Aqua Tail will fail to take the knockout.
This will force Boom into throwing quite a bit of energy.
He's gonna click the second Aqua Tail as well.
If Weedle puts him on Protect Shield,
Boom does have the potential ability
to switch out to the zoom roll,
but no protection comes out.
Ami Weedle, more than happy just to utilize him
Polion as he damage sponge
and saves his shield advantage
for his final two Pokemon.
I think Quapsar realized that if he can't get the shield,
he might as well take down a Pokemon here.
So manage to get the knockout, but now you have to face down against this Flaugers.
The Flaugers on this side isn't running that trailblaze, however,
so you don't have to worry about that super effective grass type attack.
Instead, you can get this Aquatail down onto your opponent,
but all that energy on Flaugers' side is now banked.
Back in comes the Corsula. Corsula does have a ton of energy from earlier,
but this Corsula is in a range where bubbles are putting it into play rough range.
So for Boom, it's honestly not a terrible spot to be in.
Corsula will be able to reach quite a few nightshades,
but against the bulky Azumoril, Corsula,
It's going to defense the Pokemon and it really can't do a lot of damage and it's going to be Boom looking to pressure away that 1% shield as he clicks play rough.
The zoom rule is just going to hold his nerf, keep going for these play roughs, keep pressuring that Corsula and trying to force these shields through.
That can allow the Ninetales with the quags out to start cleaning up in the back. The Nightshade's are being racked up though as you mentioned here into the zoom rule but it's got the bulk to be able to withstand that.
Boom can protect the shield on the zoom rule side.
Nightshade is going to land onto the zoom rule. Boom does have the play rough. He's going to overfark.
over far. Oh, he gets the catch out of the nine tails and this way he's able to save that
assume real energy because he views that that is going to be more valuable into that
for just exactly and this nine tails is going to be able to eat up that night shade get
some embers off as well. Not enough to be able to get the farm down. However, you are
going to have to go for that weather ball. But critically, you're propping one of
those pressure shields boom through two embers and the move there to try and force
Weedle into shielding. So the astonished would register this is going to set up
a farm down for Weedle. He does exit with energy. The assume real is very
low but it does have a player up player would do a lot of damage of the
forges now boom in a bit of a rough spot here is he gonna be bringing in that
quagsire to try and absorb the energy switch timer is up in comes the quagsire
there's the pivot and for this will hit the field yes so much energy on that
floor just as well there is one shield remaining on a boom side of the field it
is utilized on this quagsire keeping it in the game to try and get some more
damage dealt onto this opposing floor just it is back for later however a
zoomer all comes in it's got that player up it's finally able to unleash
shawnt into its very counter-pull across the field.
The Quagsire did bank some energy.
Weedle looks worried.
Play Rock will land.
Florgis does not get there.
The bubble takes the KO.
Back it comes to Corsula.
It has a charge attack, but it cannot get enough damage
onto the Quagsire.
A zoomerow may fall, but Quagsire will not.
Boom, 20.
Pulls magic out of a hat there.
My goodness, what a game.
And he steals away game number one.
right down to the wires such incredible energy conservation on both sides of the
field but it really came down to that quite there at the end
forcing the course to have unleashed all the energy beforehand quags I could come
in and just clean up that game game one goes to boom
Lou I need to talk about Boom's decision to throw two embers
that was brilliant because by throwing two embers there
the second astonished damage will never land on less
weedle puts up a shield because he would have knocked out
What Boom needed to do was basically force Widow into shielding to clear the ground for Azumul's play rough to knock out the Forges.
So in doing so, by throwing two, Widow says, oh that's kind of an awkward farm down as a fire type and a fairy wind up the Forges, I'm forced to shield.
But the moment he does that, so the Astonish lands, that cleared the path.
The reason he caught back out of the Ninetales was to save that play rough for Forges.
Just an absolute click.
There's this moment right here.
He saves that play rough because he knows that he's the hardest hitting charge stack remaining onto that Forges.
absolutely masterful and game mechanics there by boom, he just keeps getting away with the loop.
Honestly that's teamwork at its finest.
Flaugers is one of the most popular Pokemon because of the bulk that it has on the field.
But we know that Azuma with that play rough takes a while to get to in mind.
So once you put in that effort to store all the energy you want to make sure it is unleashed on the right Pokemon
and that's exactly what Boom was able to carve out here.
Alright, the bannalors are ready.
Game number two, the leads are locked in.
It's going to be a battle of the Fairy Deps.
Florge is for Emmy Weedle into Togekiss for Boom.
Yeah, kind of thinking if Zoom were always for trouble,
we have got another one on the field.
Togekiss coming in with its fairy typing as well.
But interestingly, its move pool is so diverse.
Florge is now not going to go for Shield.
It is going to be able to happily take this Scishok damage.
One thing that's helpful for Boom in this matchup
is the fact that outside of Empolion,
there isn't really a resistance to Scishok.
So he doesn't necessarily have to be worried about a catch.
There isn't Empolion in the back, though.
But if you re-pivot out, he puts the Flag Saur, Flag Saur will be able to outpace your Flag Saur, makes the Aqua Tail, but Evie Weedle reads it and he's going to catch on to that Impoleon.
Yeah, Impoleon coming in, you bank that energy onto that floor just in Impoleon in a position where it just wants to start getting these Hydra Canons down onto the Quipestar, possibly forcing some of Boom Shields to come through.
But you have to, of course, contend with damage coming through. You don't have to worry about Stone Age, the Aqua Tails will come through thick and fast.
Look at all this energy coming up, but again, Hydra Canons are primed.
He's going to fire off the Stoneage. Stoneage does do more, but will not threaten the knockout.
M.E. Weedle will need to fire off back-to-back Hydro Candidges. This is the non-shadowed Wagsire.
It doesn't really do a lot of damage, and also doesn't really take a lot of damage.
Boom will know that M.E. Weedle is doubled up, and he will actually invest the Protect Shield.
He is investing in the Wagsire. The second Hydro Candid has been reached.
Boom has to decide, is he going to double shield? Is he really willing to burn all Protect Shields of the Mass on the Wagsire?
She says yes.
This is nice, not just for the shields, but also to get that switch timer ready to rock again.
You can bring in the Ninetales now, pressuring down against that backside with the energy ball.
You've got rid of the shields on the opposing side, it is going to be vulnerable.
Ninetales, why is he going for a shield that's very own, so he can give himself the wiggle room to get to those energy balls?
Off-rattail number two is going to be in shield number two from M.E. Weedle.
Does Boom look to try and pick it out? He doesn't have any energy on the Togi,
because he's going to bring in the Malamar.
This is the non-shadow Malamar,
Emmy Weedle, farming up as much energy as possible.
He's hoping that an energy ball, plus a weather ball,
will beat up Tanaka. Malamar before can make it to the super power.
Yeah, you can go over this Emmy Weedle,
a couple more embers to get to that weather ball
and just start stacking up as the Malamar
is a lot more vulnerable.
Both of the textures utilized on the Quagsire early on.
This is the arena that the Nine-Tales loves to play in,
just constant pressure, constant charge attacks.
Malamar is hanging on, however,
and it is going to be able to get the foul play off
onto the Empolion.
Nice catch by Emmy Weedle.
Boom is going to go for full under charge.
She does not want to knock out the Epolyon, but even a foul play fully under charge takes the knockout.
Backing comes Nytales. Nytales does get a small energy head start. Backing comes to Quagsire.
This is going to be a charge attack by already dying here.
Quagsire versus Nytales, and it's going to be Nytales winning it.
And boom! His head in his hands. He cannot believe it.
That is going to seal the game.
Quagsire will fall. All that's left is Togikis. It is completely energy dry.
and that 1, 2, 3, 4 pacing of Ninetales is inevitable.
Emmy Weedle gets the equalizer and we're going to a game number three.
This truly is just Ninetales world and we are living in it.
Such incredible energy pressure the whole way through getting to that energy pool.
Yes, we have that charge-track priority moment
but Ninetales was just able to get the edge.
This is exactly what Emmy Weedle needed.
And look, once again, we've got ourselves a game three.
I'm so happy. I love game number threes.
I've got to say, these are two of the best screeners in the entire world
you can see on their faces how worried and nervous they are about this matchup.
They know the stakes. They know the opponent sitting across the table from them.
They know how strong of a player their opponent is.
So they know each moment can be the difference between victory and defeat.
The margin for error in this matchup is non-existent.
Coming into game three now, you have to ask the question where are the adaptations
going to be made. Boone was able to win more victoriously with the Azumaril,
switch it out and brought the Toga kids for example could that adaptation be something he wants to switch back to?
Oh, that's tough. The Toga kids, I honestly feel like even though it's a pretty decent matchup into the Vordis
it really didn't end up providing the results that he was hoping for because he pivoted out of the matchup
and Wiedel's ability to bank energy on that Vordis and then bring the Epolyon to kind of neutralize the Glagsire
made it a very awkward matchup. So I think for any Wiedel
he's always going to be bringing that Epolyon as it is a very effective check to the Glagsire
And I did like that. I did like the Floridus.
I think Empolion Floridus is probably going to be very, very common from Weedle.
Yeah, Floridus looks great here. You don't have to worry about any stealer poison types coming away,
so you are able to withstand a lot of attacks.
It looks like Boom is sticking with that Togikis, however, on the opposing side.
It's the Glaring Corsula here to play.
Boom would love to be able to get a catch out of this matchup,
but Corsula never really under any pressure to throw very early.
He's going to bank a charge back, bring in the Quagsire.
Corsula is going to look to probably try and bank up a bunch of energy here,
and then sending in the Empolion.
gonna bank up to a hundred reach for that night shift before he's able to get there.
That's actually gonna be the Stone Edge coming up from the Quagsire. That's some pretty valuable chip
damage onto the Corsula. Yeah, that's certainly gonna hurt but Corsula's sitting pretty with all
that energy banked into the back. And podium now coming onto the field going through these meta
sounds to get up these Hydrocanas and this is the same state of play which Dean consistently
threw the set utilizing all of that energy and once again Quagsire pressure and with the
Stone Edge. Now the question is, did all that astonished damage mean that the Quagsire
is in Hydro Candid range. If it isn't single Hydro Candid range, that would be a very big
swing for Widow. Gonna have to see if he harbors no shielding. He's hoping Quadsire can hold
on. This is gonna be a close one. Hydro Candid is gonna connect, but the Quadsire barely
able to hang on and will get that Aqua Tail.
This is exactly what the Quadsire needed to do. You know that there's gonna be
two Hydro Candids coming your way. You have to take one of them and it's exactly
what the Quadsire was able to pull through on the Aqua Tail Connect. You bank out
that energy and once again Togokis here to unleash the energy it had stored
earlier in the game.
and any Weedle will always invest the Protect Shield here
because he knows he has 100 Energy on the Glaring Corsula.
So at this point, it's the numbers game.
I need to start crushing away Shields.
If I can get Boom to use the Shield,
then I can pivot into the Corsula
and the Corsula does have those
back-to-back charge stacks locked and loaded.
So he dumps the Corsula,
it is back-to-back Power Gems,
and Boom is in a very rough spot.
He's forced to know Shields
because even if he Shields,
a Power Gem is still gonna connect.
This is the thing,
there's just so much energy up on that Corsula,
one Power Gem down, another one to go,
but you don't even have to utilize it on that Toga,
because you're able to knock it out from the sky.
Now you've got to face down against the side waves
coming through from this Malamar.
But again, you have so much energy,
Nightshade can be dealt across the field.
An ME Weedle, he's nodding,
he's feeling good about his position
because Boom has to try to rely on the Malamar.
But it's going to be the Florgis in the back.
Florgis, a complete wall to energy from the Malamar.
So even as Boom accumulates massive amounts
of Malamar energy, it's just really
not going to go anywhere.
Corser just has to put in some work
against this Malamar and then the Florgis
really start to clean up coming in with those fairy winds particularly with the
vulnerable state of the HP bar that this Malamar is left in at the moment. It has
all the energy but foul play is not going to do too much. We know that the
superpower wouldn't do too much and we then get the debuff so it really looks
like Malamar's back is up against the wall. This is the non-shadow Malamar as
well so there's not even a world in which you can throw a certain amount of
foul plays to threaten the protect shield. The fairy wind damage is
inevitable. M.E. Weedle is inevitable. This Florgis just
completely shutting down this Malamar.
Even a third foul play will be reached,
but this game just completely feels out of reach for Boom.
Malamar is doing everything it can, foul play after foul play,
but there's a shield, there's the bolt,
there's just the offensive pressure
from the ferry winds coming through.
And look at that energy as QuackZack comes out.
Fruits just is there to meet up with a disarming voice.
What a set from M.E. Weedle.
Boom with an outplay of incredible proportions
to steal away games for one.
And for a lot of trainers,
really feels like that could kind of just completely destroy your mental to
the point where you just end up getting O2, but Weedle was able to compose
himself, stay calm, execute his game plan and get the reverse sweep winning
games two and three. He's moving on here in Worlds to winners round two. Again
boom, maybe down but certainly not out at this point in the competition. He'll
just be dropping down into the loser's bracket for M.E. Weedle. What an
incredible showcase of excellence the whole way through that set. We talked
about the nine tails play but in the game three what really was the
critical moment of one him that set. It really felt like his his ability to
neutralize that quadsire with impoleon recognizing the fact that he's on shot
of quadsire even the super effective mud shots are not going to do a whole lot of
damage but not not just sending in the impoleon immediately but farming of
energy on the other Pokemon it was that decision to bank 100 course of
energy saying you know what that totally kids it could get out of hand
I've seen it get out of hand before but if I have two power gems back to
back and then I'm able to get enough astonished damage to put it
very close to Hydro Cannon range.
It's all about the energy management,
setting your Pokemon up in the best position to succeed.
And that's what he was able to do there.
That decision to stay in with the Corsola
and bank the energy and bring it up all the way on.
My jaw dropped when I saw it.
At first, I didn't quite see the vision.
I was like, oh, we're staying in.
What's going on here?
And then he banked the energy and he pivoted.
And you kind of felt that, oh, oh.
I see what's happening now.
Oh no, that Toby Kizzi is in danger.
Very, very smart gameplay there from Emmy Weedle.
He's moving on.
And that series was, honestly, just absolute.
I mean, we see it a lot with the Impoli on right. It's got a reputation for banking, Hydra
Cannon after Hydra Cannon, and then being able to just do them back to back. But we saw that
on the course of a play so beautifully as well with the Power Gems and the Night Shades.
It just meant that you had flexibility, whether you want to be able to hit the Tobrikers,
whether you want to be able to just get some damage down onto the Quagsire. Constantly
having, I want to say that composure to not be tempted to click, hey, I've got
a charged stack ready. Let's get some damage on the board. And being so cognizant
of when you could paste two of them, and when your opponent would know that
you're at them and applying that pressure, forcing them to have the mind game with the
shield was just such a beautiful play.
Any Weedle would an absolutely massive class to behold.
I think a lesser player without a shadow of a doubt would probably throw a Nightshade
into that Quadsire and that's what Boone was hoping for, trying to utilize the Quadsire
to absorb charged stacks that he didn't want the Toys hit to take.
So Weedle's decision to recognize, I don't need to throw a Nightshade, what if I
just throw a bunch of Astonages and then I just bring in the Empolion to walloff
the energy was incredible.
a very good understanding of which Pokemon matter in a game, what energy matters, and
prioritizing that Corsula energy and then using Empolion to make sure that his Quaxire
never really got a significant amount of value in that series.
An amazing series, two of Europe's best.
We can't ask for anything more, I'll be honest.
Honestly, like for me it wasn't even just about the charge attacks, the fast attack
play, very, very technical skill.
You're talking about the two embers that went through making sure that, you know,
a Nightshade was able to connect or not, really these increments of damage and
I think the increment of energy generation as well really did start to swing momentum. So congratulations to both trades
That was absolutely incredible to behold what these series two great competitors and and for those who are a big fan of boom
He's not out by any means he's dropping the delusion side of the bracket, but boom
He has won a lot of games in the championship series
So I definitely would not count them out, but while we wait for the trainers to get on the stage
Let's take a look at our day two meta is there's a Pokemon that I really want to talk about it was all my Casper picks
It's number nine. He's a beautiful whale, Don Dozo.
Now, from a VG background, seeing Don Dozo without Tatsugiri,
probably a little bit weird.
It's a little weird, I'm not going to lie.
I'm like, where is the little fish that needs
for that commander ability to hate the abilities
aren't here in Pokemon Go?
So seeing Don Dozo, actually, we call it kind of solo Dozo
a little bit, is actually so awesome to behold.
And it's just relentless. It stays on the field.
It just doesn't go anywhere.
It's so hard to get rid of.
I think where Don Dozo's strengths lie is its ability
you consistently play zero-sheld matchups. Dondozo doesn't have the fastest pacing ever,
but it's surf and outrage, it's charged attacks both do some pretty significant damage,
waterfall does decent amount of damage as well, and it just has truly monstrous stats.
It can survive, I mean, if you look at number six in Polion, in theory, should wall Dondozo.
I've been to Polion there against Dondozo to go battle him. I had a terrible time. I can't
even count how many drawbacks I threw at that thing, and the Dondozo was still just grinning
at me as it waterfalled down by Polion. So Dondozo's ability, we actually saw
It's fast in its eater to a really good job of that was basically used on dozo as a setup pokemon
Dündoose's bulk allows it to win a lot of zero-shot matchups
And then if you have one of those glass your sweepers in the back using God does his ability to set up switch advantage for that
Sweeper or shield advantage either way can put your super in a really good position for success
There's a really nice flexibility of defensive and offensive pokemon in the matter at the moment
And I like that balance that's coming through dondosa off sleep
We've spoken about how it's just got so much HP for days with licky-licky as well one of the number
one Pokemon. Yes it has that bolt but I really like its flexibility and its moves as well. Having that
shadow board to be able to deal with opposing ghost types as well does allow it to have a lot of
pressure and we have a few other Pokemon flexible move pools. The Malamar for example has such a
wide range. I really like Malamar and speaking of that what a transition. Oh there we go.
We got Malamar on PVP David's team. PVP David I believe this is the same team as Boom if
I'm not mistaken so we unfortunately saw Boom drop to losers. David and Boom very good
I believe they have the exact same birthday they often team built together as well, so he is running that exact same team
But his opponent has the Dondo so it's gonna be Jin's course a lot regular Merawack
Carbink shadow pig yacht this shadow pig yacht is on air cutter and heat wave
So it does have coverage into potential take it on. Don't take it on to be seen on David's side
Yeah, that's really true and the shadow pig you are a really unique pick
But I believe we saw that one on the broadcast yesterday against an adequance
And that was actually the Pokemon going for the heatwave, forcing his opponent to call the shield or not.
And the Pidgeot was able to get the victory over that match.
It was certainly a key Pokemon that's enabled victory.
And I wonder if it's got some play in this particular matchup?
If I take a look across these teams, I think Pidgeot does have play here.
Even though it doesn't have Brabored, Shadow of Ghost hits incredibly hard.
And heatwave is a surprisingly decent move, neutrally.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see Pidgeot here.
here and maybe if you're trying to set up one of those like like glassy sweeper like Pidgeon plus support
What do we have here? Dondozo! Dondozo is very good at playing out zero. So seeing a shadow Pidgeon plus Dondozo
Definitely would not surprise me. Please take a look across this team as long as Dondozo is able to avoid the Azum world
That's it's only really negative magic. Outside of that
I would argue Dondozo is favored in five and six matchups here.
I kind of buy the faraches as well again
It's another really bulky Pokemon as long as you can avoid a Pokemon like the Ninetales
It can sit in a really nice position to start debuffing with the sand tomb and the rock tomb and just keep bugbiting away opponents
Particularly if it can find its line against the opposing Malma
And if you do find yourself up against that line tells at least you can have the partnership of your good buddy
Dondo's to try and wash that Pokemon away
Even if you have a super effective energy ball for the Dondo's or the bulk of Dondo's
Oh, it's just no shielding it's surviving
Crushing you with waterfalls
So I wouldn't be surprised to see David try and lean on a zoom rule in this match up
Because if you're expecting Dondozo plus Pidgeot, arguably your best Pokemon into that duo would be something like the Azumarill.
Azumarill is very slow, but so is Dondozo.
It looks like the battleers are set.
We've got lock-ins. Game number one. Winners round one. Jynx versus PvP David.
It's gonna be that Shadow Pidgeot into Quagsire.
Yeah, Pidgeot up in the skies.
Not gonna be worrying too much about the mudshots that come through, but it does have to watch out for the Stone Age.
So Jynx needs to be confident of when that Stone Age has been reached and make sure to protect the Pidgeot accordingly.
David farms up to the stone edge, goes for the bait, and an instant shield comes out from Jinz.
One thing to know about the Shadow Pidgeot, every time it's on his air cutter, there's a 30% chance at an attack move.
He's going to build up to the back to back. David knows he will always be able to hang on here, but he will actually start investing in protect shields.
Yeah, maybe he wanted to keep the pressure of that quagsire and play against the Pidgeot with something like that stone edge a little bit later on.
Not going to see any buffs that come through here, and again, it's going to be the Sacruchel and not a shield on the Pidgeot though.
That is big for David. Two Aqua Tail Bates, two shields from Jyns. Jyns is grimacing as now the
Quaxire is set to outpace. David can't put up the protect shield. He'll always build outpace to
make the Stone Edge. Now David has to be very careful. He has to make sure that he sees the
dust start to ensure Jyns doesn't wait and try and go for a catch. Exactly. Stone Edge this
time has been locked in. This is perfect timing. You were able to bait away the two
shields. Now this Pidgeot is completely exposed. Stone Edge is going to be able to find its mark.
And considering that there's probably going to be a Dondozo in the back, I would not be surprised to see David actually stay in here.
A lot of players don't want to concede farm downs, but he, no matter what he sees, he knows he's going to have one very hard check to him.
So when Dondozo hits the field, he has to zoom roll. He's always going to be staying in here.
Even if he couldn't make the stone edge, which he can, it's worth conceding the farm down.
This is a rare moment where Dondozo energy will actually be valueless.
That's true actually. You give the energy to the Dondozo, but because there's no shields, you have a window of opportunity to put some dents into the defences of that Dondozo.
Dozo. That's a tongue twister and a half, I have to say. But now as well, losing actually
one Pokemon gives you that free opportunity to bring in Mrs. Umar. They can just start
going for these bubbles. It will come down against the Corsair, but because it was the
KO switch in, you still have the switch opportunity to bring in the Licky-Licky.
And this is just checkmate for Jynz. There is no way out. Jynz is laughing about it.
He knows. The moment he ended up double-shipping the Aqua Tails, he was in trouble. Licky-Licky
just completely shuts down Corsair. There's nothing it can do. And Jynz, it looks
I really like to see that sportsmanship though as well kind of going hey game one is lost, but this is why we play a best of three set. Let me get my pen out. Let me start taking down some notes, seeing how much damage cons into my Pokemon as well and I think I'm going to throw a charge stack.
He's basically just conceding and now he can spend the time making notes. Double checking what he runs for game number one. What were the moments in the game in which this got away from me and what adjustments can I potentially make in game number two?
as well kind of going hey game one is lost but this is why we play a best of three set let me get
my pen out let me start taking down some notes seeing how much damage cons into my pokemon as well
and i think that's a really nice way to start adapting going forward into the set but i say this
time and time again the fourth pokemon is the trainer and pvp david really was just able to dominate
into the mind stance of gins constantly applying pressure with those baits and getting them
correct the double bait was diabolical and it looks like that double bait was required how
had he gotten even one stone and shielded,
Pidgeot could have won the due shield.
I was a little bit surprised when I saw the fair cutter shielded,
but the moment we saw the double bait, the plan was clear.
Double bait, land stone edge,
dictate switch advantage,
and do not let Dondozo align anywhere except that Izumaril.
And that's exactly what happened.
Izumaril was able to find his mark against the Dondozo.
That did put in a valiant effort,
but kind of like you said,
it can be slow to get to those attacks.
And if you have the shields down,
and you have so much energy
on the opposing side of the field,
it can really just start to chip away.
And then once Izumaril was in play,
was not having a good day,
but we're moving into game two.
This is where things can be reset.
Ginza's lineup I think was pretty good.
It might be tempting to kind of run that back again,
but this time be a bit braver with the calls.
At the same time, on PvP David's side,
what if you now just go for those turn-engers?
David was able to basically have,
I would argue, the game plan worked to perfection in game one.
He got the double bait, he got the alignment he needed.
Everything worked exactly the way that he was hoping for,
and he made it look pretty easy.
However, I would still argue that this is a profoundly negative match up for him
I feel like Jinz has a lot of things that he can run and David kind of has to get it perfect to have a chance
Because if don dozo is not on that a zoom rail
Don dozo is a nightmare in this matchup
I think as well if you're Jinz you might want to possibly bench that
Pidgeon even though it was great into you know many of the folk on the opposing side
The fact that you don't want to put yourself in that scenario to have to make the coin flip decisions
can be a little bit of a side relief.
You have bulky Pokemon like Dondozo, Corsula,
and of course the Forresters as well.
It would be nice to be able to see these Pokemon
possibly come to the forefront.
I wanna see Dondozo front and center though.
It'd be great to be able to see that Pokemon out
in the leads.
And for Jins, I think that Dondozo
will always be brawled.
Dondozo is just too good in this matchup,
but now it's about just trying to make the calls.
What can I do to set up better alignment?
Because with a team as polarizing as this,
the name of the game is gonna be playing
for Switching Bandage.
I mean, you have a carbon copy team,
You have a Marillac, you have a bug bite fortress,
so for David, he's almost gonna have to try and play
for alignment, which just seems a little bit antithetical
to how his team is built.
His team is built to try and have as much flexible play
as possible, but for Jyns, he's trying to disrupt that,
and if he can brute force switch advantage
and set up that Dundosa with good alignment,
it's gonna be very tough for David.
You know what, we haven't even really spoken
about the carving.
We speak about all the other fairy types,
the forges and the tinkertons,
but carving is out here as well.
It's actually gonna be out in the lead,
so let's see what it's gonna be able to do
against this Licky Licky.
Oh that is not what David's hoping to see, he's going to save for it into the Izumaril.
Oh a very slow switch from Jynz as he brings in that shadow buff by Fortress.
But that's a buff like these, while David is hydro-punk on the Izumaril to threaten massive damage.
Yeah that hydro-punk, really nice to be able to see, you get that same type of attack bonus as well.
And it can be a really heavy hit.
Contrast to the ice beam that we primarily maybe see on the Izumaril for those dragons and flyers.
Fortress is going to hide behind the shield, there's got lots of energy banked up, you can start to get these debuffs rolling.
And if it's in choice from Jinz, opting for the defense drop of Sansum rather than the attack drop of Rock Tomb.
Sansum not going to do much because Zumro's defense is now going to be lowered.
But Zumro reaching for that Hydro buff, it's still several bubbles away.
Jinz will make the Rock Tomb and with the Zumro's defense debuffed, will this take the knockout?
I think Zumro could hold on here.
Let's have a look at his bulky, but it is debuffed.
The Rock Tomb connects and of course the Zumro hanging on just into the red zone here.
It's attack dropped as well.
So this is going to mean that the Hydro Pump isn't going to be doing as much damage, but it is still such a powerful move.
If this takes the knockout, this could be game-changing Hydropuck land, but it doesn't take the KO.
Catazumeral, get the farm down. It's gonna be close. It does not get the farm down.
Forger is actually bugged by Stout, and that is catastrophic for David.
Yeah, Licky Licky now coming in facing down against the Carving.
This was not the poke when I wanted to see him the lead, and now it's got to face down against.
His nemesis once again, switches out, brings in the Kwantai, and now once again is the Battle of the Water Types.
Gondozo so incredibly bulky. What will dictate this matchup is, is there ever a world
in which the mud shots plus two stone edges could secure the knockout.
David very intentionally stayed into Bank of Shadowball
because potentially there is an ability to play out the matchup long enough
and put into Shadowball range where you can go for a combination play
and then still have the frags are to be difficult for the carving
but it still looks to be a very difficult road ahead for David.
Yeah, it's nice to have that energy as you said
but you want to find a way to get through this Dondozo.
At least you've covered it the shields on that side of the field
but these surfs and the outranges are primed on the Dondozo side.
Once again going to be going for these stone edges. We've seen it put in some work
But the HP bar off that Dondozo is still so healthy. It looks like the stone edge always gonna go for the combination play
He saves the quacksire if the shadow ball knocks out in Jin's lose to the energy
This could be very good for him, but I think the Dondozo can't hold on here
Dondozo does survive the energy is saved and karmic re hits the field
This is another third time as Zicky Licky has found itself down against this carving and carving is so happy to see it
Bombing up all of that energy, Licky Licky in a position, yes he can go for that Shadow Ball, but we know that Carpink is going to be able to withstand it.
Shadow Ball really not going to do much, the name of the game for Jinz now is going to be energy management.
Up to the rock slide, so he's clearly going to try and go for a rock slide into a farm down.
I imagine David will be holding the final protection up for the crab, no he actually doesn't.
He puts up the protection here, and now the crab side is exposed to that energy from that Nantozo.
Yeah, rock slide is ready, but once again Licky Licky gets to this Shadow Ball.
Shadow Ball, the rollout really again, not doing too much damage, but the Shadow Ball is putting in a bit of work.
Shadow Ball is going to connect switch timers up, Quaxire gets brought in here, oh it's a charge attack, priority tie!
He locks it in, that energy is going to be lost, does AquaTill take the knockout, it's super effective,
but Karbing is very bulky, AquaTill connects, Karbing does survive and the Moon Blast is going to land.
Quaxire really forgins there, being able to retaliate with that charge attack, all the energy have been stored up
and it will be able to connect onto the opposing Quaxire here, does take it down into the red,
but cracks are able to, I think, to get one more fast attack here as Dündozo rejoins the field.
And he clicks a surf, surf does less than an outrage, but I think it's going to be a little bit too much for Licky Licky to deal with anyway.
Surf onto Licky Licky is going to land, Licky Licky survives, but the waterfall after should secure the knockout,
and that's going to be a win for Jinz as he still has that carving left alive in the back.
That carving was really dancing around there on the field, constantly finding a mark down against the Licky Licky,
and then right there in the end game being able to unleash that moonblast.
I think things looked a little bit dicey, Pijinsa, though,
when we had the charge type priority event.
And it looks like David may be talking to the judges here
about double checking to make sure
that everything works in that game.
There was a moment in that Azumarill-Fortress matchup
where it looked like there was maybe a bit of a delay
in Azumarill's fast attack.
And I could be what David is asking the judges about
just to ensure, was Fortress supposed
to actually get that farmed out?
That can happen sometimes.
And there's a good reason to check,
make sure our judges can be able to support our trainers.
that's no doubt what they will do is the match is indeed under review. We of
course will get you an update as soon as we can, but it gives us a little bit more
time to step back and look at this incredible matchup. You are hyping up
Dondozo. Dondozo has been great throughout the set, but I want to talk more about
carvings. We didn't get the opportunity to do that before coming into game two.
Talk to us. What is carving doing in this matchup?
Carving is an incredibly efficient neutral answer to Licky Licky. Carving's
matchups are exceedingly polarizing. Basically, if carving is in a neutral
matchup, it's going to win it. If carving is in a bad matchup, it's
to get destroyed. It's not really going to be doing much of anything there. However, what it can do
is by being able to shut down his most neutral Pokemon, it was right here. Let's say look at his
zoom world. It sat there on the screen for a second before doing that bubble. So the question is,
because it sat there, did it catch up in time? Was that bubble supposed to land before that bug
bite? That's what our wonderful judging team is going to have to try and figure out there,
because had the zoom world taken the knockout there, and then suddenly Quagsire is aligned
on to the carving. Yeah. That's what carving does. Is the winds hard or what loses hard? And that would
be catastrophic. There's sort of no way out for the carving. And Licky Licky on D'Andozo is a neutral
enough matchup that that probably would have been a pretty good spot to be in if you're David. So
David, notice that and it is going to be double checking here. But ideally Azumo shouldn't
start this bubble immediately. And it sat there for a second. And a couple of bunt bites landed
there. So it'll be interesting to see what's it supposed to be a simul knockout. Was it
it enough bug bites to where the Azumal actually should have survived because if that switch advantage flipped because of the Azumal just sitting there for a second that's actually very game-impacted.
Yes, it can really swing the momentum if one Pokemon goes down and we've seen how many times this time again having a charge attack ready and even if you're on one HP that dream is still very much alive and it keeps you in contention.
So it's always interesting seeing the fast attacks really slowed down a little bit as well but that's exactly what our judges need to do to be able to get the valuable information to make the right calls.
And that game it honestly was a game of inches there where David was desperately trying to play around that bad alignment
Consistently banking energy desing of the timers going for combination plays. You could see the idea
He went for the combination play there with the shadow ball
He ended up unfortunately not taking the knockout there the aqua till didn't knock out either
So he really tried his best to kind of dance around and play it as flexibly as possible
And it looks like the judges have confirmed that jins did end up winning that game number two exactly
So we will, once again, be going to a game three.
Really great to be able to see the way these trainers were
adapting with their water types of choice.
You talked a lot about the quags.
I talked a lot about the Dondo zone.
But PPP David really utilizing a zoomer well within this team
as well, having that play rough and particularly the hydro pump.
That was not necessarily an option I was expecting a zoomer
well to have coming into this tournament,
but the pressure that it can relent is really impressive.
That hydro pump honestly made that fortress magic very
awkward.
It's normally the bug bite fortress,
single poke by the fairies up typing is very, very good,
but it honestly was a very, very awkward match up there.
And even with the sand dune debuffing the defense into the
rock team that still could not knock out that
bulky Azumarill.
I think now coming into game three,
we have to look at our players.
Jyns had a very rough game one making the wrong decisions
on some of those bait shields, for example,
but had to regroup and then came in victorious in game two.
Pufi David now possibly in that end game situation
knowing the match was within clutching distance,
maybe thinking was there an opportunity there
with the bubble.
Now again has to reset the board today has to come in with a clean slate and approach this game three with composure
Both of these trainers veterans of the competition know that they can do it
How is game three gonna unfold one of them wants to stay undefeated in the tournament the other one?
Will have to drop down to the losers bracket. This is the biggest match that they've played so far today
Staying on that winners out of the bracket. Your day is a lot easier
This is for a top eight at Worlds and it looks like the battlers
We have double lock-ins here. Game number three, David versus Jinz.
It's going to be Licky Licky into the shadow. Pidgeot, that's what David was hoping to see.
Pidgeot is back and it has to face down against these rollouts.
There's going to be Tron and Nocket from the sky from this Licky Licky.
The super effective damage coming through.
But the Pidgeot staying in play right now to farm up as much energy as it can.
And Licky Licky is going to strike first with the body slam.
Body slam doesn't really threaten the Pidgeot right away.
But then in the game for Licky Licky, he's just getting a lot of damage over time.
body slam connects, Pidgeot can survive.
Licky, already at one, one more rollout,
it's at another body slam, and that will start to pressure away the shields from Jinz.
Yeah, one shield coming up, Pidgeot wants to be able to utilize the energy that has
got stored at the moment on those charge attacks.
It's got to the two air cutters, it's almost at that second heatwave as well,
but tries to go on at the offensive here.
Licky, Licky is a little bit more vulnerable, but it has the potential
to go for that shield and keep itself nice and safe.
Now David will invest a protect shield here.
David is gonna throw the body slam. Jin's now at the back to back. What it all comes down to is this shielded body
Sam will do one hit point of damage if Jin stores on alignment one more roll
I will sneak through will the rollout that sneaks through take the knockout Jin's
off to go for the heatwave, but David let's it go. He tries to no shielded air cutter
He wave is the more powerful move and that is gonna cause Licky Licky to fall.
He wave can indeed be devastating and that gets a solid care onto the Licky Licky.
You now have your zoomer and play going for the bubbles trying to farm down this opposing Pidgeot
but Pidgeot has so much energy for days, it is going to be able to release the aircraft onto his humeral.
A nice call from Jinz to go over the heatwave.
That final dust will not land if the three-turn bubble takes the knockout.
And Jinz will bring in Corsola.
This is a match for having Hydro Pump again on his humeral will be very beneficial.
But with the humeral already having taken six hit damage,
can Jinz potentially astonish this into a range where Double Nightshade could threaten to protect shield?
We've seen this before with the
astonishers getting yourself up to the two charge attacks,
just being able to have back to back.
It's only one shield remaining on PvP David's side.
So if you're able to drop that, then you know that the Pokemon on the opposing side are more vulnerable.
Here comes the first night, Shay, but PvP David not often shield.
David is gonna let it go. We'll immediately be able to tell.
If you look like a Zoomerull may barely be able to hold on here.
It's gonna be exceedingly, exceedingly close.
Can the Zoomerull survive? David's not gonna risk it.
He will invest the protection, but this sets up the Zero Shields for Tondozo,
a Pokemon that is notorious for liking the Zero Shield matchup.
In comes Tondozo. The play rough comes through.
and this is looking very difficult for David.
The player of will put in a little bit of work
into returning after Dondoza,
but of course, as you said, Dondoza,
we're happy to just waterfall for days,
particularly seeing the quads that are onto the field as well.
It can go for those serves.
It can just start whittling away at the opposing side,
not having to worry about the stone edges
that come through in retaliation.
What David needs to happen here
is he needs a stone edge
plus an opportunity to take the knockout,
but from a non-shadowed quads there,
I don't know if quads there
has enough damage output to do so.
Here we go, the stone edge.
This is never going to take the knockout, but will it put it into one mudshot plus Aquatail range?
It's going to do its best for sure. The Stone Edge comes through. We've got that one mudshot.
Is this going to be enough, the Aquatail, in order to keep PvP David into the game here?
It's going to have to connect and get the knockout, but is Dondozo and Played Dondozo still on the field?
Dondozo 2 bulky. It survives. One HP and a dream. Surf connects.
Quacksire falls, and now it's a zoom royal versus the world.
Poor zoom royal, it's such an uphill battle for it to climb.
You do have the course let him play, however, it is very energy dry.
He gets there, oh my goodness, a zoom royal, it survives.
Jin's can't believe it, PVP David.
He pulls, I don't even know how he found that win card.
It knocks out, David celebrates.
He's on to winners round two.
Oh my goodness, that endgame situation.
I forgot how little energy was on that course.
I was expecting it to come in and just go for a nightshade
and that would wrap up the game.
But PvP table in that Zoom world, right down to the wire.
Incredible play, a phenomenal match.
What a thriller to enjoy.
Once Don Dozo survived,
if Jinz had instantly pivoted into the course of the,
the Zoom world basically got a bubble for free
because Waterfall does almost no damage there.
Jinz was so far ahead in that endgame,
but by staying in giving Azumeral one bubble of energy,
which is 11 energy for basically taking no damage,
that's what then enabled him to get there.
Had the Corslum been instantly switched in,
then the Corslum may have actually got the Astonished down,
or at the very least, I think worst case for Jyns would be a tie,
but I'm pretty confident that Jyns could have actually farmed down.
I think what was amazing is those increments of damage,
those one HP in the dreams, it's a phrase for a reason,
because from Dozo it was trying its best to live it,
but Azumeral just able to paste so...
Oh, I don't say quickly, but efficiently let's say to the damage that it needed to get rid of this course love
But even then course was so bulky. It can make things really difficult
But my goodness there David it honestly felt like he thought that always lost but he gets the player up
It takes the knockout and you can see the celebration there and he earned it that matchup was a nightmare
How do you deal with the carving there's a shadow pig?
Yeah, that's true the dog does all this you shadow bug by fortress
It felt like Jinz had so many safe mons that he could run and and for David
He kind of just was having to play defensive constantly, but he was able to find a way
That's why we play the games the team advantage
It can favor one player, but it got to actually win those two incredibly well played by David
And he escapes and he's moving on
I believe he is gonna be in winners round two a bit later on today playing against an ME Weedle
Oh my goodness
that's another incredible
European showdown to the whole
to make sure you put that one
in your diary for later. You
do not want to miss any of the
action. That was honestly such
a masterclass to behold. If I
could tailor a perfect script,
that would be exactly what I
would be looking for such
incredible plays on both sides
of the field. The energy
management, the adaptations
as well. No, it's beautiful
showcase of one of your cast
predictions in the form of
D'Ozzo as well. Even though
it wasn't the victor at the
end, I think it's still
putting a lot of work done.
D'Ozzo. It showed its
power that one HP survived
always just absolutely absurd but the action is only getting better here coming
up right after the break we're gonna have Marto Galde a fan of favorite against
King OWT stay tuned because Marto also has Dondo's though.
Marto Galde one of the most accomplished players in the world. I started in
complete Pokemon in 2018 when PBB was first introduced I started playing with
my friend and then some grassroots tournaments.
So my favorite Pokemon is Grookey,
even though I haven't played the Galar Games.
Reminds me of myself of it, so I just love it.
My earliest memory was when I went to a tournament
just to get a melt-on box,
and my friends convinced me to play the tournament,
and after that, it was just emotion
and getting excited for battles.
I couldn't stop.
I think I've learned to be composed.
I think I have a lot of experience in the stage,
so that generally is an advantage against my opponents.
Going to the event, I had a team that I felt kind of comfortable with.
It has some holes and some weaknesses,
but me now in those weaknesses made the opponents seem more predictable.
I think that was the most important key aspect.
The thing I want to improve the most right now is to predict what my opponent is running
and what should I do, because sometimes you need to bait out something
or you need to play a certain strategy
and I feel like I could improve that.
Due to the magnitude of the tournament being international, finals had a bit more pressure.
I started getting nervous and played a bit less confident than I generally do.
Every year I think it's harder to win in Pokemon Go.
Everyone is improving so the competition is getting more fierce and that's why I feel
like I have less chances to win.
This finals was pretty rough and I thought I was going to lose at the end.
I assume I'll survive that with very low HP.
At the end it was crazy.
It's like I still have it.
And Molo has just reached a Super Bowl status,
and he might be the greatest of all time.
It means the world.
I never expected to win it.
It feels surreal.
This win is very important because I sometimes don't myself,
so this helps me a lot.
It hasn't been a crazy season.
It doesn't make sense.
This is the third time I have qualified to world this
season, and I think we're only like two months in.
When I qualified to the Grand Finals,
I started crying and I threw myself into the floor, and it's a moment I will never forget.
I think the most epic finalist to face in Worlds would be Jakai.
Jakai sent me to the Losers bracket right at the end of Worlds.
I think I kind of choked in the last game. I could have won that game, and I'm still a bit sad about that.
That would be epic to have the revenge.
Worlds is always very fun and very fierce, and also I want to go to Disney.
My name is Leo and I'm from Spain. I will be the world-type because it's the type that
It's the Pokémon Seagate, which is my representative Pokémon.
My first time competing was in Liverpool in the 23,
where my dad came with me to Liverpool,
and I also got second place.
And then I won the Grand Rival.
I would love to repeat that and win the next World Championship.
The last play session, I didn't have a gold medal,
but I had a double trophy,
which was the UIC one.
So I'm really proud of that.
Octoman is your 2025 E-UIC International Champion.
It was like a really fun experience
because I saw the finals
and was against a really good friend of mine,
which is T-Shrivels.
And I actually lost the final I've been seeing
in Barcelona in my home city.
So I'm really proud of that.
and I think it's a really memorable moment.
Potomac, he is going for the chuckle crown here.
Basklee, my team, has play support,
which is a really good platform for this meta,
so I think my team is really fun to play.
Three ball flexion, Potomac, he is so on point.
So if I had to say an MVP for this weekend,
I would say Luis Corsula.
I really liked that he was playing for this meta.
it really opened me to this tournament.
Yeah, actually, I was really worried about the Modules
and I had to face a Modules in the Grand Final
so that it wasn't really good for me.
And then maybe Sizer, because I didn't have a real response.
But I think that's all, because my team,
I think it was really safe into a meta.
Execution is just on another level.
So the Grand Final was the most difficult matchup I've had this weekend.
Because of the Maltres and also the Savoy's record player.
So I had to play around that and so his initiative did really good bench pressure.
Because the counters to the Maltres, which are not really counter, got really upplayed by the Selvanite League.
So I had to manage those two, and also Staley, Salah, which were like really good to my team.
And I think I don't really have that much of a player aspect.
I feel good, but also maybe not disappointed, but feeling that I could have done more, but
still I'm really proud of myself and happy with this tournament.
My most memorable moment on this weekend was Saturday when I qualified to the Grand Finals
in the Winstrike because I feel like I have all the momentum I needed and everyone supporting
me really followed me to be in the World Cup and for the next week.
I think that the love I have for Pokemon because I really like playing the game,
Also the community, the families and players that always support me also plan of mine and I appreciate it a lot so that will be the main reason why I did the final interview this year.
You have to be completely focused on the team and never give up, that's the way to achieve your dream and that's what I want to do for the next six years.
It takes love, it takes heart, it takes passion and sometimes there's pain but competitive
Pokemon Go is unlike any other esport in the world and we can't wait to continue our coverage
of day number two at the World Championships here in San Francisco.
I'm Speedius Chief with Amanda Lumberg.
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narrowing down the field day by day we start out with all of the world's competitors.
But by the end of today, there will only be two playing in that chase arena to see who
will be the 2026 world champion.
So much on the line today.
We're going to continue to move through that winner side bracket.
But if you're a big fan of trainers like Potomac that did fall to the loser side,
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Absolutely true. We talked about back. Amanda was also bills. The boy if you're
just tuning in now you've missed some incredible matches. But don't worry. We
have still so many more to go. We are on that winners side of the bracket. Just
giving a quick refresher here of some of the games we've seen. This is the
top 16 of the winners side of the bracket. So that means who won the
first round will continue into the top eight of the winners side. But we
still have a whole loser side to go through as well. I'm so grateful you
mentioned that Amanda. Yeah we have this graphic on screen. We're gonna update
that loser side bracket as it unfolds but from where we're standing from our
vantage point it's kind of hard to read these names. There's a lot of players on
the screen. Let us know who you hope will make their way up to that grand
finals later on today but I just got word from production. Tim says the
players are ready. Let's go down to the stage everybody and see what we
he have in store is going to be,
whoa, we're already at Marta versus King OWT.
Let's see how this unfolds.
All right, we got that Kanto Ninetales up against the King
here, both looking like they're going to be throwing now.
Energy ball coming through.
No potential use on the side of King OWT.
He's going to pull this hand up like, maybe I should have.
King draw such a unique kick.
And this dragon type matchup is generally
unfavorable for the King draw,
especially at this health range.
He's going to go and throw that Swift.
I think King OWT can swap out and he chooses to do so.
Going ahead to preserving a little bit of that help.
Coming in with the Fero here, Pokemon that is a,
now it doesn't have a lot of bulk to its name.
Wabatrainers like to use some shields on it,
but will King OWT want to use it?
That's exactly what it does.
Well, it just gains a ton of energy already
at a Drill Peck of his own.
Yeah, not a ton of bulk,
but that 10 turn pace into both of his charge attacks
is absolutely lethal.
Here comes another Drill Peck,
and this is going to KO Marco Belde's Altaria,
which has been such a unique pick so far this weekend.
He's gonna have to rely on his other two Pokemon
to close out this game.
Atari Falls from the Skycatcher,
Ninetales comes back in,
and now going for that heavy hitting throw,
and this will do a ton of damage.
Marto knows that throws up his first protect shield
as well once he tried to keep this Ninetales healthy
because this is an energy game at this point.
You can see Marto doing the mental math.
He knew that he was gonna have trouble outpacing,
and then this swap here for King OWT
throws another wrench into his plans.
Very tough for Marto to come back from that.
Worse for the wear there, keep in mind that Firo does have quite a bit of energy.
Not a lot of help left, but you can see King OWC waiting on that switch time before coming in,
throwing another drill run will take that second potential absolutely as Marcos shakes his head.
This is wildly uncomfortable for the trainer from Argentina because the drill runs are not
going to stop coming. Every 10 turns another one's going to fire off. Going to have to go
with the weather ball here to try to break up that pattern and bring down the Firo.
great timing there by Marto doesn't even want to get any more in King OWV shielding this up could
give an indication to Marto of what's in the back catching a brilliant Drupak that onto the Ticket
Ton keeping himself in this matchup. I take it back Drupak what a surprise Marto actually
caught some resistive damage on the Ticket Ton and that keeps him in this matchup but this
Hussuin Electro's typing is so tough for the Ticket Ton to overcome. Going ahead just both of
them charging up energy now. Energy ball would be the attack that doesn't lower the defenses
of the Hissuin electrode. No protection remaining. It's going to go through the hammer is thrown.
I think that Marca probably needs to get an ember down on this Hissuin electrode in order to win
the battle and King of WT is going to debuff himself the wild charge here. He's got to manage
his HP perfectly. Going ahead throwing a second attack. First going for the wild charge which
It's always your own defense when you throw it.
Now going for an energy ball just to have enough to knock out.
But there's still quite a bit of health,
and now no energy really on the Hesu and Electro.
It's all going to come down to timing here.
And trying to catch here on the furrow,
Marko throws energy.
Massive.
Absolutely massive to get those embers.
That's the energy Marko needed for the weather ball fire.
Bringing down the furrow.
Electro's battery's running low.
But it does get to the wild charge.
You see, King OWT can't even believe it.
Wild Charge Energy is met.
Ninetales is knocked out, and this is
Marto Galdas' first loss at Worlds.
You can tell that these trainers' minds are probably
somewhere else right now.
Looks like Marto wasn't that shocked at that loss.
Maybe there was something earlier on in the game
that he thought maybe wasn't quite right.
So we're going to see what our trainers decide on stage.
But man, what a game one to start it.
We jumped right into that.
Talking about these players, we jumped right into the battle.
So let's go ahead and give you guys at home
a little bit of information about these two trainers
that we have on stage.
On that left-hand side, we do have Marto Galdez.
If you were paying attention during that short break,
we had a nice little interview with him
when he was going over his whole championship run
this season.
Now, he had said earlier yesterday
that he didn't get a first-place finish,
which he was really hoping for,
but he did come very close at LAIC
and we have to remember,
he was also in the top four of Worlds previously.
Marto was one of the only trainers
at the LAIC limited meta format
to run Vespa Quinn on his team.
He got all the way up to third place
as you called out Amanda.
And during his interview,
I remember this quote, right?
It stuck with me.
He says, I think I could have won.
If I just would have executed a little bit better,
I think I had an opportunity to do that.
So Marto is a trainer that in hindsight
will look back at his plays and he'll say,
you know what, maybe I could improve on this.
Maybe I could think about this matchup a little differently
or maybe execute a bit better.
He reflects on that a lot.
I think that's something that's very valuable
as you try to be self-critical, but not overly so
and try to improve as you move to the season.
And King OWT on the other hand
is a trainer coming from the UK.
Hasn't played so many tournaments this season
but what he has done has been extremely impressive.
He got fifth place overall in Frankfurt.
He was 17th in Birmingham
and he was also in the top 10 there at EUIC.
To give everyone an update at home
Our review right now is in regards,
I believe to the Altaria Dragon Breaths,
but right now on the screen,
we do have the Kanto Ninetales versus the Firo.
And remember, this was that flurry of drill runs
that the Firo was throwing.
Marks are right there.
You can see the head shake, you can see the reaction.
Maybe just visually,
that didn't look exactly how he hoped it would.
Yeah, we'll have to see, as you can see,
the judges are reviewing it.
It is indeed that moment there
between that Ninetales and the Firo.
Thank you so much for production,
getting that up on screen
everyone can see kind of what the dispute in the match review is about.
I'm telling you Pokemon Go is so fast. A turn is just a half second and these
trainers know if they swap in or swap out. If they're a little bit late they just
have this instinct for it. Maybe right there three embers and I think
Marto thought he should have gotten four. Maybe that is a is the playing question.
I didn't put up a protect shield there. Slowing it down ultra slow so we can see what is
going on we see one two and going for that drill run as the next one goes through.
Hey if everyone is enjoying these slow motion replays where we can actually break down this
footage and analyze it let's get a shout out in the chat to Chucky who's running our replay today
does a fantastic job getting that that like microscopic look right the game is so fast it
can be easy to miss a lot of these small details but those slow motion replays make
a world of difference especially for our viewers at home. Now this is something also sort of
interesting. We had so many players playing in day one. Champions who are coming from all over the
globe, from APEC region, from Latin, from North America, and from Europe. And we didn't even get
a chance to see all the people who were playing on the winners or losers side of the bracket. So
today we're going to see a lot more matches. And I think that's going to be really exciting,
because that's going to really get the storylines going through to see who is going to be
playing on Sunday, which there will only be two. We will be viewing the grand finals in
in that chase arena.
You know, whenever we get to day two at the World Championships,
I think a regional rivalry kind of bubbles out of our fans.
And I think looking at that top cut,
a lot of trainers are saying, oh, well, you know,
which region has the most?
Which region has the most trainers
that have qualified for day number two?
I think Japan alone had eight trainers in our top 32,
which is absolutely outstanding.
I saw a post on socials that said Japan
is playing a completely different version of Pokemon Go
because they are just that good.
I was talking to some of the trainers as well.
I heard that one of the Japanese trainers actually had a registration error, so they had to play it with 5 Pokemon, like Elche did previously in a different world championship.
So 5 Pokemon, he told his opponent, the opponent read his lines correctly, knowing exactly when he was going to lead, what he was going to swap, and what he was going to end with, and he still lost.
So absolutely Japan is just playing out of their mind.
I'm sure that they are very, very happy to be having a larger representation here at Worlds as the top 33 trainers from one of their tournaments were able to be able to play here at the World Championship in San Francisco.
Wow. Zooming back into the match on stream right now. It's important to remember that the Kanto 9 tails only needs 8 turns, which is 4 embers for each of the weather balls.
Whereas we mentioned before, the Fero needs 10 turns or 5 pecs for each of its charge attacks.
So we're talking about just a one-second differential, really.
But when you have Pokemon that are that lightweight
and are dealing so much damage back and forth to each other,
just missing out on a single Ember
just destroys the pacing for something
like the Shadow Kanto Ninetales in that matchup.
So I can see why this is a very important part of the game
to focus on and to try to get right
because it is a critical moment.
I mean, this was late in the game
and whoever controls the Fero versus Kanto Ninetales
matchup ultimately controlled the game.
Not only that, you have to think about the fact
these two trainers are on that winner's side of the bracket. And of course if you are not losing any
matchups, if you are someone like Marco who hasn't lost a single battle so far at Worlds, you don't
want that to end on a potential technicality. So I think that these right to go ahead and raise a
review, that's what we have those wonderful judges and staff for. Thank you so much for taking
their time to do this. But in the meantime, lifter also remember this is a double elimination
tournament so the losers of this best of three will be dropped down to that
loser's side of the bracket they're not out quite yet. I want to emphasize as well
that this is the world championships obviously the biggest tournament of the
entire year everyone's watching lots of eyeballs on this event but even if
you're at a local event even if you're at a regional event if you have a
situation like this or you feel like maybe something went awry with the
battle itself you can talk with the judges I don't want anyone to feel
like they're inconveniencing anybody or that they're being a problem or being
confrontational because this is a very very important part of competitive
integrity and if the judge that you speak with maybe doesn't agree it doesn't
see the the the issue the way that you would describe you can also escalate that
to a head judge as well so we want the best for our players we want a fair
competitive competitive environment no matter what I just want everyone to feel
comfortable whether again you're at your local card shop regional or at the
world championships. So keep in mind this is also the first game between these
two trainers. They're both from different regions so I actually don't know how many
opportunities they've had to play against each other before. A lot of times
trainers already use that game one as a bit of a fact-finding mission. Sure.
Trying to figure out how your opponent likes to play. Are they someone who's
going to go for a bait? Are they someone who's going to try to conserve
energy or shields? So regardless of however this match turns out whether
it is going to be in favor of King OWT or if it's going to be a rematch both of
these trainers are already gathering some valuable information. Oh exactly and the
line reads are so important once you see that first set of three Pokemon you've
got a good idea what your opponent was thinking game plan wise allows you to
make some additional adjustments. Amanda it looks like we're at zero zero you
know what that means. The wipe clean here that match didn't happen and now
we are going into a fresh game one here of winners round one between
Marto Galde and King OWT.
All right, so we don't write into it.
Maybe now we can kind of settle in and get our popcorn
and get our snacks and get ready for an epic series
between these two trainers.
Marto played, I believe, Altaria, Shadow Kento,
Ninetales, and the Tinketon.
Meanwhile, King OWT, Shadow Kingdra,
as well as the Hissuyen, Electrode, and the Fero.
So going into this actual game, number one,
what are you thinking about?
Well, there's a lot of different things
that people can do.
We also have to remember that since they already played once they kind of have an idea of what their opponent wanted to do for game number one
The real question is are they sticking to that original plan since those games were so incredibly close?
Or are they gonna do something completely different now that they see what their opponent had brought that first time?
Absolutely just to confirm we are headed into a fresh game. Let's go ahead and get started everybody
This is the real start to the series
We're going to see the Kanto Ninetales for Martel right headfirst into that ticket time.
Great lead for Martel Galle is using Keaton OWT's shake his head now goes for one swing
at a hammer before going out into that fero but the weather ball is primed and ready to
go and Keaton OWT looks like he is going to let that one go through on the fero.
Charge attack mini game takes about 10 seconds to complete Martel not wanting to displace
the switch timers too heavily because he really did like that Ninetales versus
Ticket time matchup fires with
by the ball goes straight into
Licky Licky. Since that weather
ball did connect, it already
brought that fear of quite low.
Licky Licky coming in now that roll
out damage is going to do quite a bit
and Marta throws that body slam,
which is going to be enough to
take the fear out of this guy.
As King OWT does not use a
protection here and it looks like
he's not also going to be able to
get that alignment that he was looking
for as the ticket time comes back
in now, but just maybe getting a
lot more energy before now facing
that nine tails. Exactly right.
Safe, comfortable, maintains control,
Switch advantage, Martell's got so much health on the Licky, Licky still.
It is nowhere near a fairy wind down.
It is nowhere near a bulldoze and fairy wind down.
He's gonna force King of WT to throw a boatload of energy to KO him.
Going ahead, throwing that gigaton hammer, definitely enough to knock out the Licky, Licky at this stage.
But we saw the beginning of this matchup.
We know exactly what's coming in and you can see King of WT immediately swapping for the King of WT.
And now it's a duel of the dragons.
Swift versus Sky Attack.
Swift is gonna be a lot faster than that Sky Attack
from the Altaria, but the bulk is also a major factor here
because the Altaria is able to withstand that damage,
keep on Dragon Breathing,
and I think it's gonna wear down that Kindra over time.
Sky Attack coming through.
Now Dragon Breath used to do more damage as a faster attack.
Nowadays, it's really the pacing
that makes it such a good attack for these Dragon Camp.
As you can see, Kindra already at number,
so it's going a little bit over,
and this should be enough.
Marta Valdez still has two protect shields left.
To his name, does he want to protect up this Altaria?
No, he can tend to let it go.
Putting it all on the back of that Nintas
that we saw at the very beginning of the matchup.
A little head shake there.
Maybe not pleased with that decision in the moment,
but he's got to make the best of it.
Marta Valdez uses his first protect shield
of the game on the swift versus the shadow King drive.
King drive just going ahead and putting that out here,
but there's a lot of energy now on this canton Nintas
throwing that first fireball
and actually getting the protect shield
off of King Delbertor of T.
We know that the Tinkerton does not want to see the Ninetales.
Does not want to take a weather ball at all.
And now we is out of shields.
Wow, good timing there for Marto to overcharge the energy.
He's going to undercharge this charge attack
and look for a big ember down.
But you saw King of WT look up to the sky
doing the mental math, trying to figure out
where that Ninetales was.
But the bulldozer's ready.
Seems a little bit dangerous to do so if your Marto not
maybe keeping complete track of where the Tinkerton was at
and not shielding up the bulldozer.
It is super effective.
It takes that nine tails down so low
and they simultaneously KO with the Kingdra in the back.
King OWT taking game number one.
What a close end game between these two trainers.
The Kingdra so potent for King OWT
was able to reign in not only that Altaria
but also that Kanto nine tails.
What an insane end game there
as he was able to connect the bulldoze
and eventually win the battle.
And I gotta tell you, man, I gotta be honest.
A big part of that was the fact that Kingdra is going to win the cap tie over Kanto Ninetales.
The Pokemon with that higher attack is going to be able to throw first.
It is going to beat that Kingdra.
I think Marto Galdi knew it at that point when the Tinkertime threw off a charge attack,
recognizing there's not really anything I can do.
I only have one shield left and there are two attacks basically ready to go.
And the error right there might have been the undercharge.
It's really hard to say because he still needed a bit of energy.
just a little bit more on the fire weather ball, one ember for the KO on the
tic-a-ton and then he'd be able to shield up the Kingdra and get to the next
charge attack he needed. So it was actually insanely close. It was very close
there between these two super talented trainers. We said it before the match
review but I guess we can officially say it now. This is Marto Galdes first
game loss of the World Championships which is actually an incredible feat
when you think about how many of these fierce competitors he has had to play against so far.
Keep in mind right, King of WT has already shown two of his teams and in that game one he just
let Tinkerton into Kanto Ninetales and ended up the victor. I know a lot of trainers that Q
into go battle league maybe lead an Altaria to a Passed-on and they swap something like a Swamper
and there's a Razor League victory bell and they say you know what GG's all top left. In the
world championships you fight it out until the very end and King RWT reap the rewards of his persistence.
So I think that that's actually a good point overall to make just because you might be uh
what you think is down you should never give up because it can still go down to the slimmest
of margins there. You know RWT also running a Malaman seem a lot of trainers from that
winners side of the bracket has chosen that Pokemon to be on their team of six. We just
saw boom 20 and pvp david playing with that on that winter side previously pvp
david still staying on that winter side of the bracket and boom knocked down to
the lower side here we go everybody game two between martyl galle and king owt
a nod from king owt he likes this lead quite a bit take a ton again gonna
struggle against the hosuin electrode it's got a few of those wild charges too
wild charges are going to hit heavy but I have to remember that you can
and lower your own defenses after the wild charge is thrown.
So if you do something like this,
which I believe is a charge attack priority tie,
King OWT will have to shield up the electrode
or else it would do a ton of damage to it.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, this gigaton hammer would come down
like a pile of bricks on that weakened Hussain electrode.
The question now becomes, does King OWT look for a swap?
No, straight into the second wild charge.
So much energy actually gets that first protect shield
off of Marco Galday as well.
doesn't want that Tinkerton to get knocked out. Perhaps wants to get another shield off
of the electrode or force the electrode to swap out as the next Tinkerton hammer goes
through. Does King OWT want to let that go down? Or is he going two shields down in
that first part of the matchup? That's exactly what he does.
Wow, doubling down the Hussuin Electro, but he's probably got to bail it out before
the bulldoze is ready. Does he make the swap here? No, he goes on the captie again.
Another wild charge. This is wild charge number three.
This is interesting. If Mardo shields us up, he is at the bulldoze, and this
would be enough with its double deep up to knock out the
steering electrode even at the bulldoze.
So both of these trainers are now going to be completely out
of shields for whatever comes in.
And now the Tinkerton is so low,
it could be a potential farm for the spirit
who gets energy so, so quickly.
This is awful, but Marta knows he can't afford to swap
into the Ninetales or the Altaria
because he gives away control that he fought so hard
to gain in the opening matchup.
Bulldoze might trigger a defense ball, does he get it?
Yes.
While you heard the sounds,
saw those little sprinkles and now comes the nine tails.
I think you know WT is very wary of a catch,
but it's a big two charge attacks on that hero
and pops out of the matchup.
There's also a ton of energy on that canton nine tails here,
but now we're talking about the King draw
and Altaria as a swift number one goes through.
That was so terrifying.
Could have fired the draw run at any second,
but Mark Toe didn't blink.
Gonna go for the side sky attack against the King draw.
I don't think this is quite enough.
He might need a couple more dragon breaths afterwards,
but Altaria will win this matchup.
Going ahead and just getting that King of Soul low
and not able to get to another attack.
Yes, there are two loaded on this Fero.
Doesn't want to waste any time here
as the first one is thrown.
Fero also has a very high attack stat,
higher than that Ninetales.
There is still a drill run loaded
and it's immediately deployed.
Can Kanto Ninetales hang on to this super effective drill
run for one of the most attack-weighted Pokemon
in the entire Medicaid?
It does!
heavy damage, but the question is, is this weather ball enough to knock out the
field? This is going to be so incredibly close as this goes through, knocks them
down to about the similar HP and this fast attacks alone, Marto Gull, they're
taking game number two. Ember sizzles and that is a win on the board for
Marto tying up the series in a very high stakes matchup. This is
winners round one of day number two and these competitors put a lot of
pressure on themselves, but you want to start off day two with a win if
you can manage it.
Oh boy, of course you want to start.
I think all the trainers want to not only start out
with the win, I think they'd like to end with the win
and have wins throughout the entire time,
makes the game play a little bit more simple.
Just win, right?
That's easy.
Just go 2-0, everybody.
Yeah, come on.
Like it's hard.
A nice zoom in here on Marto's team,
a Pokemon we had not seen at all in this series.
Well, actually, two, the Dangozo and the Shadow
Saber Live.
Two of the more unique picks on this squad
and the drain punch is such a fascinating tech on the Saber-Lie as well.
Giving you a little bit of fighting tech pressure to fight back against Pokemon like Licky Licky
or the occasional guns farce.
I mean, I tell you what, I don't doubt the reason why those Pokemon are on the bench.
We've seen King OWT playing the ensuing Electrode, which Dumb Dozo would definitely struggle against.
But Saber-Lie, of course, still has Shadowclaw as its fast step,
doesn't want to face off against Sapphero or even that potential Malouar.
Exactly. Not a lot of room to maneuver.
That's the beauty of show six pick three and kind of pick the tools you need for the opponent that you are facing
Going into game number three
I mean I was freaking out
But I don't think Martin was worried at all that his nine tails would hang on at any ember
Maybe he was a little surprised there, but that's you got to respect the pop-up
Yeah, of course
You always like to see players get excited about the great gameplay that they are doing looks like both of these trainers are
Getting locked in for this decisive game number three winner of this matchup stays in the winter side of the bracket
to the winners top eight.
Let's see, we have a similar to game number two.
We have that tink-tunk in the lead against the Hizuin Electrode.
Again, we'll have to see if these trainers want to play it out
a little bit differently as we take a peek at their back lines.
I think, if I'm not mistaken, this is the first time
we haven't seen the Kanto 9TLs from Marto.
This time he's opting for the Licky Licky and Altaria
back line.
We saw this matchup earlier on,
but the shield initially from Marto in this game number three.
This changes things up a little bit overall.
going ahead now, actually King OWT opting for double wild church.
Markzoo ended up shielding the first month.
Now this elector is super weak and the Tickerton still has a ton of energy.
So we have to see if King OWT wants to get this elector out of there
or put up protect shields like he did game one.
Look at that, no protect shield and down it goes.
Wow, opting for the protect shield advantage.
In comes the Fero and there are so many reasons to be scared.
Markzoo needs to try to even this up.
Pull those bait, pulls the shield.
Wow, it feels horrible if you're King OWT.
The worst would be if he gets a defense drop.
We'll have to listen.
Looks like he did get that as well.
A punishing thing for going for a shield there.
I like this play by King OWT going for the drill pet
at this range.
It's enough to knock out the Tinkerton.
And Marto puts up a shield so he has a little bit more energy.
And if anything swapped into that, could have been OK.
The bait is all the difference, right?
No way.
This is diabolical.
No way.
This is diabolical.
This is unimaginable.
Both shields on bulldoze.
How deflating is that?
and Martial continues to farm.
Can he even reach the hammer here?
Wow, gets it.
Going ahead now, great catch overall,
but this Tinkerton has done a ton of work for Martial Galday
in this decisive game, number three here.
I'll tell you, coming through the skies,
it don't have to take an attack at this point.
And it looks like he won't be able to do,
maybe opting to go for a surface
and Martial staring down that can or saying,
is this it?
Could this be it?
I think he's just having a little bit of fun at this point.
Look into his eyes, Chat.
He knows he has all the leverage in this matchup.
Gonna lose the charge tech party tie to the Fira
as expected, Drillpeck will likely bring this Altaria
down into the red, but it hangs on
and the Sky Attack gets fired back.
Soon, Electrode out of there immediately
by that Gigant Unhammer.
Two baits to get both of the shields.
Fira is down so low and the third Pokemon
isn't even revealed.
No shields, but three Pokemon left on the field.
Marto Galday takes game number three.
Double bulldoze fate.
Digging himself out of a massive hole
against a talented trainer in King OWT.
And when the stage is this bright
and the stakes are this high, those things happen.
People make mistakes.
They're elite, but they're still people.
Wow, absolutely incredible matchups
and such high risky plays by Marto Galday.
going for two not very effective attacks against a flying type Pokemon, but still
managed to get both shields and defense drops. Wow, I mean I think that luck was
really on his side, matched with the skill of him, OWT did everything he could, but
unfortunately will be knocked down to the loser's side of the bracket. The
ingenuity, absolutely crazy. Engineering weighs back into that game, and my
goodness, even getting the Giggits on hammer at the very end, I was like,
Man this Ticket Ton is just unstoppable in the hands of Margeau Galday.
And no Panto Ninetales to be found in that game number three.
Put in such heavy work for Margeau in game two, but in this one this was the Tinkatun show here.
Going through getting full protection of look how little of health it had to to say I don't care.
I'm just gonna keep swinging this hammer. I'm going to work.
Exactly. When you're Ticket Ton everything looks like a nail.
And this Ticket Sun brought down the hammer on two different Pokemon,
or excuse me, three different Pokemon in order to really separate Marto in this matchup.
KOWT had a great catch there on the Gigaton Hammer on the King's River,
but in the end he knew it was just too little, too late.
He saw the riding on the wall, but still incredible plays from him
to be able to get into that winner's side of the bracket round one,
taking a game off of Marto Galday to boot.
I mean catching a gigaton hammer is like avoiding a puddle and then stepping in a different puddle
You know like there's just no way that that turns out good for most trainers even the gigaton hammer versus the man team does about
40% and it's so heavily resisted. It's just an insane community today charge tech and this is a great time
Actually, we're talking a lot about the fairy steel type Pokemon
Excellent time to remind everyone that the drops are a little bit different this year if you claim them
You don't get a ticket time
No, no, no. You get the Elza boys tinketine. You get the tinketine. And the stats are identical.
So play like a world champ and watch games and train like a world champ this weekend.
Not only that, there are going to be some other goodies that you're going to get
throughout by watching. And one of these goodies you can see on the screen next to the Elza
boy is an elite charge TM. So if you are a trainer who, you know, maybe missed the community
today for a Pokemon that you really enjoy playing and don't have that heavy hitting attack
that you would like, you can use that charge team to get moves that you can't get using
a regular charge team.
Exactly, you can use on any Pokemon you like, but that Gigaton Hammer is a good candidate
for the Ticket Ton.
And while we're here, let's talk about a couple other drops.
I know all of our tech-savvy trainers had multiple Twitch tabs open, and that was
a mouthful.
And they're gathering these champions drops as well.
Not only do we look for the video game, we also have them for the card game.
The card game has quite a bundle of things.
If you are watching that stream,
we'll go ahead and throw up the graphics here
because there's going to be some really nice things.
I know that there's also an avatar item.
There's going to be a T-shirt,
but there's also different card collections
that you can be able to enjoy.
No, exactly.
I mean, you get swag,
you get Pokemon cards to play with,
and so much more.
There's a lot of text there on the screen
that I don't have my binoculars,
so you're going to have to read that
off of your TV phone or computer screen
wherever you might be so much fun stuff.
That's just free, it's literally free.
You just watch the channel connect your account
and it's yours.
Absolutely, but of course we are all tuned in for go
and I know that you guys gotta love it
because these have been some very engaging,
very fun matchups.
We're still on that winner's side of the bracket.
We started on the winner's side at top 16.
Top 16 winner's side
and we're gonna get right back into these battles
shortly everybody.
I'm stoked to see the next pairing
because we've got a trainer from Australia and another one from NA and the latter just
barely made the cutoff to qualify for the World Championships.
I'm going to steal that stat from Caleb.
I know he's talking about it backstage, but you know, if we're going to cast her, we might
as well talk about it too.
Yeah, absolutely true.
I managed to get the championship points needed to be able to qualify for the World
Championships at North America International Championships in June.
So that was the very last potential opportunity to do so.
that would have started the bracket, knocking people out left and right.
And we have a she era going to be taking on they love Jai.
And the question with that trainer is always, are they going to run a low
nine tails? The answer, I believe is yes, but the real star of the team so
far for that trainer has been the shadow Corbinite. Honestly, man,
I don't think I've seen a single other shadow Corbinite on any team this
weekend. Shadow Corbinite has a lot of interesting matchups.
And I know that if you're someone who is really well first like they
They love Jai, definitely knowing these matchups can be super helpful in this meta.
Carbonite overall, you would think that maybe it doesn't have the best matchup into Tinkerton,
one of the most used Pokemon in this meta.
However, with using its fast attack, it actually can start wearing it down quite quickly.
Exactly, so many different approaches for these Pokemon.
You've got to keep all that in mind, fast attack pressure, charge attack pressure,
and everything in between.
This is a unique squad from They Love Jai.
on that shadow mylotic charge bug pangaro squad from hgira i'm telling you world is so much fun
because after naic pjcs and torrent these trainers just put the lid on the pot for the next six
weeks and they have been cooking absolutely true and we saw earlier on the top 12 usage of day one
that's probably getting shaken up quite a bit for day number two as everything starts to settle
because look at these not quite as many of the really staple picks i don't think we see that
that canton nine tails on either team with they love dry often for the Alolan nine tails instead exactly we do have some
Licky Lickies you might see a safe swap here or there
There are some hard answers. I mean namely the pangora from H. Shearer, but if you run pangora
You have to contend with a Alolan nine tails a Altaria a sideways
Lapras as well as a Corvik night with air cutter
There's a couple of obstacles there for that pantophone to overcome
But let's go ahead and jump into it everybody. This is game number one
They love dry hailing from Australia and eight she wrote from in a on ahead to start in this match up here
We have the water types up against each other which might take a little bit to get to book
They love guy has stone edge on as a charge attack
So you know now that it needs to be a little bit more wary because that would do a ton of damage
You saw some baits last game
This is a media bait right out of the gate here for game one and eight sure calls it
What an insane call to start at this game
Yes, it took a lot of guts really love dry to do that, but it takes even more for eight shear to say no no no
This is not what's telling I'm not scared of that going ahead throwing that heavier hitting water pulse will need to attack
Regardless to be able to knock out and dry says if you first don't exceed succeed try try again
Get set first protect shield off each year side and now still has a little bit of energy
But it's just gonna go for that twister. Yeah, it's here. You don't see any emotion on her face
She's completely dialed in here knows the pacing is keeping track. She could afford to come up that shield here
Because the man team is still wreaking havoc another charge tech this time
It will be the stone at two stone edges going through getting both protect shields in each year great
Calls for her all the way through they're not shielding up the operative shielding up both stone edges and getting a full farm down on that
Clegg sir die is up a shield
But he is down energy as the Lapras comes in to start soaking it up
I think a key moveset differential here that is a skull bash Lapras. Lapras will stay in this matchup, wants to build up energy.
Sidewave does a lot of neutral damage over time, but getting to the skull bash, getting to those hard-hitting neutral attacks,
especially against other water type Pokémon, is valuable. So H.G.R.O. is looking to fire off...
Excuse me, uh, Dale of Jai is going to fire off the skull bash here.
This was also really smart of H.G.R.O.
Popping out with a Mantid even though it had energy recognizing it doesn't really go so far into Lapras,
Lapras doesn't want to stop swap into the pangoril because then she would be
completely switch lock and guy could have swapped out. Licky Licky is the top
years Pokemon in the meta for a reason. It's safe, it's bulky and it is spammy.
And those rollouts are dealing some super effective damage. They let Jai continue
to farm with the Lapras firing the side waves and the sparkly aria at the
perfect moment. This will be enough to knock that Licky Licky up and it
has gotten that Lapras very very low and in comes that pangoril and in comes
Altaria, but the switch timers are completely misaligned at this point. It's
you're going for a happier hitting close combat. It's going to do, you know, I would
say a fine amount of damage is the better move to throw at the dragon. Not very
effective, but still knocks it down a little bit and an immediate pivot now
into that man team. Yeah, we're probably going to discuss whether or not a
share could have held that energy till later because she does have two
twisters on the man team, but she needed some kind of help for her
water flying type Pokemon to put this Altari within KO range. Final
protection of the battle from they love Jai goes up.
I needed to get some energy down I think on her side overall knowing that Jai still had
another shield left and now he's just getting a lot of energy throwing the sky attack.
No protection of luck on either side but I'm not sure if this is quite enough to knock
out and it looks like it's not a quick pivot back into that lappers and now just charging
up a little bit of energy forced to throw because the switch timers were not up for
each year aside.
And not only that but each year knew exactly where that lappers was.
He knew the Sparkling Arya was almost ready, and she denied it.
But the Altarion might have a base to the Sky Attack.
Question is, super effective damage.
Is this enough?
She thinks it might be.
I think they both are, but they love Jai.
Shakin' her head, guessing, absolutely this is going to do it.
It looks like heavy damage going through.
Pingo goes down, and the Mantis just
doesn't have enough in the tank.
Very close matchup.
Started with that ambitious Aqua Tail bait that went wrong.
But they love Jai.
Right at the ship, got the shield, connected another charge attack later on.
Brought down the Nancy in the very end and just played very well in spite of his initial plan,
not going according to plan.
Yeah, absolutely true and you have to think you're still able to pull it off by the slimmest
of margins there at the end. When you are in this match, you have to remember that the
Stone Edge is the thing that connecting with the Mountain would do a lot of hurt.
Meanwhile, Klaxire doesn't have so much bolt to its name,
So any attacker is thrown as you can see gets it mighty, mighty low.
This ring attack down was vicious, but they left Jai just could not afford to swap into the Lapras and give up control, switch advantage.
If he would have done that, I believe Hsir probably would have responded with the angrow, and this whole game would have gone differently.
So sometimes it can look a little bit strange that trainers will allow their Pokemon to get farmed down like that,
but they've got a bigger goal in mind and they left Jai saw the vision and executed.
It's so hard to tell right here in that very beginning portion of the matchup
You've only seen one Pokemon if you know there's a heavy hitting a tap point through and you have to wonder
Okay, am I going to go ahead and use both protect shields and I'm gonna swap out
I don't know what I would be swapping into and I think that each year came out in a pretty dominating position
Actually at the beginning had both of her shields gone
Yes, but she had so much energy on that man team was able to get that full farm down
But yeah, in the back, it was just too far for the Pengora without shields.
Lapras and Quagsire are very bulky.
Water Dua, let's see if they live dry, brings them back into game number two.
It'll leave the Alolan eintails this time with two Flying Type Pokemon in the back.
Going ahead and just staying in this matchup looks like both of them there, charging up a bit of energy
and H.E.R. immediately throws that body slam.
Nothing able to threaten the knockout or even get too terribly low,
but chip damage is very meaningful over time.
as we've seen some of these matchups going down to the absolute wire.
I really admire Daylif Jai's propensity to bring this Alola Nighttale.
He brings it to every single meta, rain shine, whatever meta game you walk into.
He's going to have Alola Nighttale on his team.
It does chip down that Licky Licky quite a bit, but the swapping to the body
sand catch is very nice.
Vicious, there's the take to the skies as body sand will connect,
but it is not very effective.
Now Shadow Corbinite is a Shadow Tech Pokemon.
We talked about this matchup before it even started.
There's already now a little bit of damage on that shadow Corviknight.
So these gigaton hammers might be putting in a little bit more work,
but as these air cutters continue to connect, there's a potential
that the fast attack damage is going to go up from the Corviknight.
We didn't see it for number one. It looks like Jai might try again fairly soon.
I know all of our video game trainers out there would say,
oh, well, take attention, win this matchup.
That's how it goes in the lore.
Well, see.
But a competitive focalon go.
The sand attacks really add up and this dynamic is flipped.
Another air cutter to your point Amanda if a boost gets triggered here that could be disastrous for that ticket time
Yes, definitely don't want to be shielding up these attacks
They're not doing too much damage
But as you can see not shielding them puts a lot of damage into that tinkered ton and tinkered ton takes a while to be able
To charge up to this give cuton hammer now throwing no protect shield used on this one
But not even close to knocking out needs to throw another attack to be able to do so
I really like the overcharge here. Oh
the patient to throw the payback here.
Hsiehra knows that an air cutter would not be enough to KO.
They love Jai with the payback.
Will pick up the knockout after just,
yeah, one more charge attack.
What a smart play by Jai.
They're recognizing, okay, she might switch out.
I know that the switch timers are misaligned.
Throwing the heavy hitting attack
that doesn't do much damage to a fairy,
but enough to knock out that licky, licky.
Going for the chip damage here.
Another air cutter.
This is like the third or fourth one
from this shadow Corviknight
that just refuses to fall out of the sky.
And then another Pokemon swaps in now.
We're gonna see the Alolan Ninetales versus the Nancy.
Going ahead now, just a ton of energy
as this Alolan Ninetales flips the hair back,
gets the shield, the energy will not connect,
but there's another one right on its way.
Should a cheered not want to throw anything,
but a catch onto this tincton,
great play, keeping all the energy out of the hands
of the thing that will hit it a little bit harder.
Exactly, and no under charts here.
Just wanting to KO the tincton,
feel some powder so damaged
cause it is still neutral in this matchup
and does get you another weather ball.
Oh my goodness, Hsira fails on the charge attack party tie.
Going ahead, just going for a little bit of extra energy.
This weather ball will connect.
It's not enough to knock out,
but that managing is very, very low
and forced to throw an attack.
It feels bad when you think that you could have got
a fast attack farmed down at that point.
All that energy going to waste as now
the Altaria comes in,
notes where the Twister really would have been nice.
That was the vital energy she needed.
the fuel for the twisters that she just didn't have in the end.
Well done by they love Jai to send eight Sheerah down to that loser side bracket.
They love Jai coming out with a two oh sweep.
One of the trainers from Australia that's been doing incredibly well this season.
And actually one of the few that is actually left in the tournament.
Exactly right.
Our trainers from the APEC region are elite, extremely talented.
And again, I just can't get over the fact, right?
It's kind of like Martyn with the guillotine altered form right brings it no matter the meta
No matter who says it's good or bad that a little nine tails always comes out to play
And he was in the thick of it in that series
You know it's really funny that you mentioned Martyn and that
Chateau guillotine because I believe he's also playing in a lowland nine tails. He's on that loser's side of the bracket
So that means there is at least two a lowland nine tails in day two of the world championships here in San Francisco
this go. This meta might be a little bit condense to me, but we see a lot of licky licky's a lot
of canton nine tails, a lot of manateens, a lot of tinker tons, but there's also a potential
to have very diverse play here. Yeah, it's incredible. Let's focus on eight here as
well. I mean, right there at the cutoff for championship points to qualify for the
world championships. She made it into the event. I heard the crowd absolutely erupt
when she made day two yesterday. She's got a lot of fans, a lot of support out
in the stands, and if you're an H.Shiara fan as well, don't forget she's on that loser's
side bracket.
She's going to continue to fight her way through this championship series event.
I mean, if she's not going to give up.
In the meanwhile though, Amanda, why don't we take a look at the meta again, please?
Talk a lot about it, right?
Let's do it here.
This is the top 12 Pokemon usage of day number two, and actually it's changed
quite significantly here than what we had for day number one.
the top portion of the meta as well as that Panto nine tails,
but Corsola has moved its way up into that third spot.
Basically swapping spots with the Tinkerton and
Suin Electro has dropped actually down to 12th where it was in 8th place before.
Leaving opportunity for Dondozo to come into this.
I mean, you never predict exactly what's going to happen.
And we had Feeble get a community day.
The icy wind, Feeble was all the talk for about a week.
And I thought that the evil was going to keep that glaring course off of the meta,
but look at that number three overall in terms of usage.
And I mean, Henry called this out backstage.
Don Dozo in the top 10 is absolute cinema.
Absolute take a snapshot of this because we're going to go ahead and look at
the day one usage just to see how much this has scrambled up.
Usually at regional competitions, you see some things that are a little bit
different, but we have to remember these are all potential world champions
here in San Francisco.
So it doesn't surprise me that a lot of things are fairly similar over all with just a few niche pitches
Making their way up a little bit higher. The evil know where to be found
Well, I mean the the fall off of you know, the Sunfish will also be studied for generations
I believe in that Pokemon was very stubborn very hard to get off the field also very reliable
And I mean given the lack of mud slap and other ground type Pokemon to counter it
Maybe just wasn't finding the targets it needed amongst the elite players
You know what actually really surprises me about that is the fact that
Mantine stayed in that fourth spot and some of Mantine's hardest counters are
those electric type Pokemon. There's not as many of them in day two but there's
still as many Mantine so we're gonna see how the engaging play styles will
work between each other. We just saw them with a share and they love Jai.
A lot of twist or damage into the Altaria but Altaria still managed to take
that and help they love Jai get that 2-0 victory. I would not want to be
in this matter. I mean, you're like a stingray in a thunderstorm. You do not want to be in that environment.
Very unfavorable skies, but these trainers have found ways to keep it out of those negative matchups
and put it in positions where it really shines. And we've seen that especially against other dragon type Pokemon
and against ground type opponents where the twister and water pulse respectively just wreak havoc on those Pokemon.
Now, Licky Licky in that top spot is actually not really a surprise. We've seen it quite a few times
time so far on the winners side of the bracket. It's one of those Pokemon where
it's not doing anything stand out, right? It's not doing anything that's so heavy
hitting. A lot of times you even see a shadow ball being caught onto another
Licky Licky since they're around so often, but it's just consistent and it
adds a little bit of bulk and kind of a Swiss Army knife to your team, especially
with the lack of fighters. It reminds me of the shrugging meme where it's just
like it just shows up and it's like I'm just gonna do my job. I'm here too. We've got a very exciting
matchup here on screen for you. We're gonna see a Shadow of Hapaldon from Hiromaru take on
Dunebug's Jealousy. Now those are two Pokemon that have really stood out for these trainers. I
remember catching up with Dunebug just briefly yesterday. This is his first career day two at
Worlds. He said that Jealousy was the key. Yeah, absolutely. One thing that we also
love to point out about doing bogeys. He's had incredible seasons time and time again. He was
our first person to win two regional championships or two regional championships in a season. Everyone
makes some noise if you're enjoying the Pokemon Go tournament so far. We see a lot of friendly
faces here. Many competitors and also spectators coming along to cheer people along. Exactly right.
So many fans and we appreciate each and every one of you. I cannot wait to get into this
this series because Japan has been an absolute force in this day two of the bracket and it's
not going to slow down anytime soon. This is the biggest challenge yet for Dumbug. As
you said, he said such a strong like seasonal performance each year, but worlds is just
not where he's shined the most. Maybe that changes this weekend.
Look like he was ecstatic to be able to make day two and I know here tomorrow is
also excited to be playing on this main stage, getting a little more opportunity
for some spotlight showing off how great Japan is going to be so far.
We're hopping into game number one.
Great leap right here, Marlere.
We got that licky, licky up against the Jellison.
Very nicely. Instant pivot out from Dunebug into that shadow.
Kanto nine tails again.
Just trying to reset the board,
root the pieces around a little bit
and look at how critical alignment is.
Not only was it licky, licky into Jellison lead,
but if Dunebug loses this matchup,
his feeble might face the Tinkaton.
Going ahead now, just getting all of that damage off on the nine toes.
was 90% of energy at this point too where the balls stored.
First one, no protect shield.
You're more recognizing, okay,
this is not enough to be able to even threatening knockout.
I'm in a fairly safe position.
The one who's swapping into the pow-down
to soak up the rest of this energy
has to put up a shield because there was energy ball energy
from Dunebug.
Yeah, this is actually great news for Dunebug.
He's able to move the pieces around.
His switch timer is about five seconds away.
Not close enough to bail out that Kanto Ninetales,
but it will allow him to send out
the next Pokemon of his choice.
trying to do a bit of team reading here as well.
He sees the Hapaldon, he's seen the lead.
He sends out the Thievil.
What a call from Dunebug.
Dunebug's calls have always been great.
We've seen him time and time again on this main stage.
But here, tomorrow, just going for that heavy hit
in Earth Power, knocks that Thievil down very, very low.
And looks at just continuing to gain up a little bit of energy.
What's to slow this Hapaldon down with an icy wind?
Maybe cool it off a bit.
I think it's going to do more than slow it down a minute.
I think it's going to freeze it in place.
That's a big knockout from the icy wind,
Canadian today, Thiebel, and the pivot into the Jelson.
I like this a lot because it allows
him to switch back into that Thiebel,
in case he's deep up at any point in this battle.
Blink, and you missed the swaps by both of these trainers.
They're a little bit of help left on the Thiebel.
Here, Maro knew exactly what was coming.
Swap immediately back into that licky-licky.
Now, this Jelson is just going to throw
surfs all the way.
Hex and Shadow Ball double-resisted.
Never used those moves in this matchup, trainers.
And then Licky Licky is going to get the final protect shield from Hiro Maru.
Going ahead now throwing that shadow ball and getting the protect shield off of Dunebug.
So Dunebug has some energy left over.
We saw Hiro Maru use that last shield on the serve.
And now Dunebug just going ahead, counting like he does knowing that I'm going to throw
right before that next shadow ball is available.
Hopefully this is enough to get that Licky Licky off the field.
If it's not, that swap out of the Feeble earlier might save him because of switch
timers up.
Oh!
If he wants to get your shadow ball.
No!
instead he feeds the Ticketton for extra fairy wins. Ticketton saying okay
Jellison you and me here we go where's that energy going to go. Ticketton
hammer number one coming through no protect shields left on either side.
Shadow ball loaded on the Licky Licky but Licky Licky normally loses
charge attack priority to the Jellison. Doombug has to be very wary of his
energy and where it's going. Yeah if he doesn't leave this match up with a
a surf in hand that losses practically guaranteed.
And he's got to fire off something
before the Ticket Ton hammer is ready.
Otherwise, the game is over regardless.
So the play right there, making the swapping
into the Thiebel, predicting the Shadow Ball,
and just being met by the Ticket Ton,
that derailed Dumbug's plans.
These reaction times by these trainers
is absolutely insane.
What a great line read, Miramar,
from the beginning to the very end.
Doombug played very, very well.
Quick swaps, knowing where his energy counter at,
knowing where his opponent's energy was,
but when you have a hard counter in the front
and a hard counter in the back,
I'm impressed if you made it even that close.
You want to eliminate the variables
as much as you possibly can.
You want to narrow down your opponent's options
until you can predict with confidence
what they're going to do.
There were two options there for Hiromaru
and he chose option B,
whereas Doombug went for option A.
And look at that replay right on Q.
That was the critical moment.
Giving all of that extra energy to the Tinketon
really helped out here in Maru there
because I've not been able to make it to two Giggits
and Hammers before Dumbug had two surfs loaded,
one for the Tinketon, and then one for that
Licky Licky in the back.
You see here in Maru, I think he might have just
held his breath that entire match up.
A huge exhale as he reached the second Giggits on Hammer
and knew the match was in hand.
But he's going to start sweating again,
because we're heading into game number two,
is no pushover. He's got to make some adjustments though, because that alignment
in game one was just horrendous for him. Yeah, as we talked about before in book
first trainer to win two regional championships in one season. He also
won a regional championship losing round one and dropping down to the losers
bracket. This is a much better lead for him. They're also leaving the
jealous and saying if the person don't succeed, try try again and now
we'll see if we're gonna have any fancy catches or going straight for the
attacks. This energy ball will do a decent amount of damage. This is a shadow
canton nine tails so it's doing 20% more damage with its attacks and that is a
lot on that jealous. I mean heck it might even be within weather ball range
at this point. Trying to catch a shadow ball here. Amaro sends out his normal
type with you. Licky but Dunebug gets wise to it fires the surf instead
and now he can pivot to the evil. The Fox is out of the nest and it's
on the field. Now what is the Fox going to say to this Licky Licky
that already has a bit of energy stored up,
going to have to take a body slam number one,
but can take it definitely on the chin,
skin a ton more energy before throwing either.
Night Slash does have a potential for a boost
for your own attack,
and Ice Wind will automatically lower
your opponent's attack here.
There are both loaded on Doomboats.
Thiebel, he has not thrown an attack yet.
He's taken two body scents,
going for one more, going for that Night Slash.
Yeah, I really like this play a lot.
He weakens at Thiebel,
so it's not gonna be a lot of farm
for the next Pokemon that comes out.
and he banked us Night Slash Plus,
which means he can likely throw a very excuse me,
a icy wind onto his opponent no matter what comes in.
This time he's gonna offer the Night Slash.
Going for the Night Slash is going to do more damage
into that fire type Pokemon of that Phantom Ninjails.
It just knocks it down to the yellow
and immediately put it out into the Hapaldon
to try to get some energy advantage,
but actually Dunebug is just as quick
getting that first shield there with the serve.
Now the question is, does the Shadow Hapaldon
have the bite force necessary to grind up the Jellison before the next surf is ready.
He's only one hex away.
Oh my goodness, I don't know if he's going to get there in time.
A rock weather ball.
Dunebug has to shield if he wants to charge attack, he defers.
Going ahead, letting this knot out his Jellison.
Jellison put in a lot of work that gave him.
Evil is very low health, but when you have a Pokemon with a ground type fast tech,
shadow damage on shadow damage, I think we're going to see very, very quickly how low
this nine tails can go even with two protect shields
the high behind now one as it protects up against
that first rock weather ball.
Yeah, nine tails limbo was not on my bingo car
but it's going to have to play here in San Francisco.
Can you go?
Can he get to the weather balls that he needs
meanwhile the rock type weather balls will fire off
and timing sand attacks in order for a swap
is nearly impossible but Toonbug might need
to pull off the impossible to win this battle.
The miners, the one protect shield left
on hero Mauro's side maybe you will use it here
as his first weather ball is going to go through.
Looks like he does use that last one up.
There's a lot of energy on the side of Boombug.
Tries to go for a catch, and that's exactly what he does.
But there was a ton of energy on that as well.
This weather ball coming through nice and hot.
Yeah, I think that Boombug needs a bit more energy, though.
He might get one or two embers here,
but he risks the charge.
I know the energy ball gets fired off here.
This is going to deal just slightly more damage
in the match up and might trigger defense drop as well.
Now, you might think, what?
A grass type against a fire type.
But there's a lot of potential things
that could go through.
Doombug manages to go through this.
Abba Weatherball already stored tons of energy.
Will it be enough for the Shadowhook
how long to go down?
A hope, a prayer, and a weatherball is all Doombug needs.
Tying up the series one to one.
Winners, round two.
We are going into a decisive game number three.
Cut into game number three.
This is an epic series thus far.
Here tomorrow, great alignment to take control of game number
one.
Doombug committed to the Jellison fights back in battle number two.
So we take a zoomed in look here at the team.
We've seen a lot of Jellison, a lot of Theevil.
But do we get some of the other picks in this battle number three?
Doombug has a team that is a little bit more unique.
Theevil was on a lot of usage for day number one.
It did drop off that top 12 usage.
But I think in the hands of the trainer like Doombug,
we can see how potent Theevil really could be,
especially in that match.
able to take two body slims, put in some damage, but then that really turned into the nine-tail show at the end.
No, exactly. Nine-tail, such a good closer with great typing coverage and potency to match that weather ball was probably just barely enough.
I don't know if the Hapaldon was a little bit healthier, it might have hung on, but he was enough to pick up the KL and tie up the series right down to the wire between these two players.
We'll have to let us know in the chat who are you cheering for?
Are you cheering for a trainer that you've seen do well time and time again?
Are you training for a trainer who you haven't seen play that often, but
has impeccable plays throughout this championship series?
We've got Kiro Maro from Japan on that left hand side and
Dunebug 97 on the right.
We're in winners round two.
These trainers have not lost yet.
Loser of this matchup will be knocked down to the loser side of the bracket.
We have the Hibana against the Ninjails.
It won't end with the show before, it's now starting this next round.
Exactly here that have held on roar forces the nine tails out in it comes the floor just and we've got another
Fairy match up this time the floor just making his first appearance in the series going ahead and trying to chill out this ticket
And chilling water will lower the attack of take a turn
But I tell you what a fairy type Pokemon having a
Unit and hammer doesn't want to take it no matter how low it's being dropped here with all these chilling waters
here tomorrow not using a protection on either one. I think yesterday we saw a
very similar situation even after two chilling waters if here tomorrow full
sends this gigaton hammer it will KO the floor just that's just how powerful
these charge attacks are from the take a ton and it does out comes a Kato 9
tails. The hammer drops in a bulldoze to spare no protection used on the
first one yes it is super effective damage but bulldoze has a potential
to lower the defense as exactly what happens as about on come back in to
start putting in the work with those fast attacks.
Weatherball coming through on the Foudon.
This time it's got two protect shields to hide behind
using that first one now.
Here Amaru, I think losing count there.
Doombug wasn't quite at the energy ball,
but he wants to maintain health on his ground type Pokemon,
which is definitely understandable.
Two protect shields remaining for Doombug.
This is not yet the earth power,
but he still shields this one up.
Going ahead, getting a little bit of bait calls
on both sides now, so you know what?
Shadow damage is nothing to fool around with regardless,
But the Hapaldon is now at that heavy hitting, Earth Power.
Only one protection for Doombug.
He uses it both here.
This is where you want to use it.
That people now has energy galore,
and there's still no really sign of any other charge attack
being able to be thrown.
Yeah, I think the Doombug recognizes well
he could not sucker punch all the way down.
The Hapaldon was closing in on another charge attack.
She's got to take it off the field.
Night Slash does not proc the boost either.
And the ticket's on his weak, but it's still formidable.
He's going to double up on the Night Slashes again
fire off the first. He's hoping this will be enough to knock out. It's not going to be very
effective with this darkness against that very typing, but at Septalos they should not have
gone for that. And first, we'll go, we'll be able to connect. This is sort of a catch,
but this is also going to put that Ninetales down very, very low. Yeah, I wanted to keep
the Thiebel healthy as possible. And out comes a fresh, licky, licky, hot and fresh out
of the oven with full HP. I don't know. This might be too much for Doomboot to overcome.
going for the energy ball. Heavier hitting attack gets that last protection. Will there be a defense
drop? No defense drop for hero Marles Licky Licky coming in with tons of energy, tons of help.
Feeble is going to start putting in some work. A night slash boost might be able to help but
I'm not even sure at this stage if it will be able to do enough. I mean I think he desperately
needed that defense drop. Doesn't get the defense ball on the energy ball. Doesn't get the
the first night slash bruise body Sam coming through and the weight of this
extra extra large Licky Licky is bearing down on the Bevel and everybody
that looks like a wrap number one on the usage for a reason here a model shakes
his fist as he takes down one of our top trainers knocking them down to the
loser side bracket Japan is on a roll here in San Francisco Japan continues to
ascend again some of the most talented trainers in the world are located in
in the TPC region.
Former champions like Gekai and the Elzebois.
We don't see them compete very often.
We don't see huge Hiromaru compete
basically ever on stream.
So if you're watching now, this is definitely a treat.
And I know if you are home slice Henry,
you're probably very excited
because he's been preaching the hell out on gaming.
So being able to see it do so well,
being able to advance onto that winner's round three.
Congratulations to Hiromaru.
Fantastic plays throughout this series.
tough series for Dumbug and losing round one on day two, excuse me, losing round two on day two,
it's probably a tough pill to swallow, but you know anything about him. You alluded to this earlier,
Amanda, back in San Antonio, losing round one and then fighting his way through that
loser side bracket through a grand finals reset, Dumbug eventually trained the title and that
that just lends to the fact that he's got one of the best mental games in the entire
championship series history. Absolutely true. I mean, then he's got to be so excited already
to be able to make it on so far on that winter side of the bracket for worlds
his farthest run that he's made it so far at a world championships and I would
not count good bug he might be down but he is definitely not out of this
competition but he's going to have a much longer run to have to go through
because that I don't know I don't know if you guys remember seeing that loser
side bracket earlier on but there are still a ton of names left in this
tournament and we're gonna show you a lot of really interesting ones
throughout the series. Japan has been very powerful but the ground type Pokemon
they are leveraging are super unique. Let's go ahead and zoom in on another one.
Look at that sting. We're going to and Contano with that Shadow Glyscor.
That's another unique ground type Pokemon and we're gonna give everybody a
little preview of what's coming next. Yeah so don't go anywhere because this
matchup is going to be hype. Don Dozo, Shadow Glyscor after this.
My name is Bade Bump. I go where Bade's a boy. I'm a Bade Bump, and I'm a Bade Bump.
I go where we is the boy and I'm from India.
He is holding his community on his back, his friends, his dreams, and he can do it right now.
My favorite Pokemon starter is Spikotito.
Because that was my first actual starter in Scarlet Invited.
Like most people, I started playing the game in 2016 and it first came out.
When COVID hit, I found out about the battling feature that Pokemon Go had added.
and I just hopped on to the game and I've been playing since.
My friend persuaded me to come to Japan.
I hadn't qualified for the world championship but I really like the game.
He told me to come along.
That was my first international trip.
The atmosphere at Worlds was crazy.
It sucks in one that time.
I thought I would like to compete at Worlds someday.
And I also met Aaron Saibotron-Zeng who's really cool.
Me and my friend persuaded me to come to Japan and meet Saibotron
on those two things that got me into competitive Pokemon there are so many
great players I mean dancing role is definitely one person that you know he's
the trailblazer he's the first world champion like most things it takes a
while to learn and it's not always smooth sailing it's very important to
take a step back sometimes and take a deep breath and lean things over it's
It's best to just drink lots of water and you know, pause.
This is my second in-person tournament.
The first one I got portless.
He is following up his last year's world performance with the exact same dominance.
I really like Mokers.
I caught it on my daily adventure in sense.
When they walked back home, I definitely had to build a team around it.
I have an eyelid for opposing fighters.
I have Lapras, which is the best neutral pick in the game.
I was sure that this is a good team and that I have practiced well enough with it that I can clear on most opposing teams.
The MVP of my team was definitely Lapis.
One of my toughest opponents was Indus Harjeff. His annihilator was really good versus my team because I didn't have a ghost type other than my own annihilator.
And he is a great opponent.
This was my first finals on stream.
I feel like when you're actually battling, you don't really pay a lot of attention to
what is happening around you, you just focus on the battles.
Most of it was the same, but lots of smoke, lots of height, and lots of people's hearing.
Right at the end, when I hit the ice beam on the Corsula, I knew it was done.
The number one challenge that I set for myself this season was to make as little misplays as possible.
I didn't make a few misplays, but I guess it balances out because I won.
It's your 2025, Pokemon Go World Champion!
My most memorable moment on the stage was definitely walking up to the podium with the crowd cheering and then lifting the trophy.
This is the one event where I get to meet a lot of my fans.
The community is very warm and wholesome and very welcoming.
Thank you for all your kindness and I'm very grateful for everything that community has helped me with.
What's my favorite?
My favorite is the one that's got jet black hair.
He's extremely fast.
Limitless.
So cute.
She has a 12 octave vocal range.
She can be calm.
Powerful.
He would improvise on the spot.
He just always finds a way to make it funny.
We both have very fast moves and can change the world using its mind.
Jigglypuff is my favorite.
Jigglypuff!
Every single time you met a new Pokemon, it felt like you met a new part of yourself.
He likes to say, just like me.
I'm like, I don't want to be a little pernaceous.
I'm going to film on this and put it on the camera.
Just like me.
Like other boys and little penises.
Little.
She's got a lot of ways to overcome her opponents.
Goal is she is for girls who love language.
She uses her voice to protect herself.
Only, yeah?
Only.
That's why I love it.
My name is E.T.
My favorite girl is Akanae.
Gengor.
She's pretty powerful.
I got it.
So what's your favorite?
Welcome back trainers to the 2026 Pokemon Go World Championships and we're here in Day
Num 2 still going through that losers bracket in the top 32 and I believe all the players
here that made top 32 are still in it because we haven't gone through any of the losers
side yet so any of them still has a chance to make it to that grand finals.
I'm Daniel Bank, I'm joined with two old butters, how do you feel about the
action so far?
You just saw some of their favorite Pokemon.
What is your favorite Pokemon right now still in the competition?
I'm really feeling the shadow Gliscor,
which we're going to be able to see on stage next from Contono.
Yeah, that is a fantastic one, too.
I'm a big fan of Don Dozo, right?
I haven't played much in Great League,
but ultimately it's an absolute beast.
It's so tanky, and we've seen it
in so many matches already, even in Great League.
It is, I mean, an absolute whale.
It's the best way to describe it,
but it's the water of choice that a lot of these players
have leaned into.
And it's just like a very interesting ball flower.
You can take a lot, you can still dish out a lot of damage.
It's a little bit slow, just moves at times,
but it's good, I don't know.
It's hard because it's not easy to play, in my opinion.
And we got the trainers ready on stage.
We are gonna see that Don Dozzo from Susenitzeter,
who of course took down Potomon earlier in the tournament.
Now he's gonna be facing Contono with these spicy picks.
This is where Rubber meets the road
for this type of trainer,
because his best ever performance has been seventh place.
Now he's sitting in this top 12, at least I believe,
trying to get even further in the biggest stage possible.
But we know he built this team with his brother,
nighttime Clashier.
It is a more popular team,
but it was built more for the top of the meta.
It wasn't prepared as much for the spice
that we're gonna see on stage right now.
And here's the crazy part, right?
Because so many talented players from all around the world,
especially from North America,
Sussins either is the only remaining North American player in the winners bracket, which is absolutely wild right because we have so many
Towns of players in this region, but he's the one that came out on top has the hopes and dreams of the NA fans here
Let's go game number one
Sussins Universe and Contano and it's going to be a fortress intertingent on start things off
Contano is shaking his head
But this is just fine for the fortress as well because you're able to get to that super effective
And once you get that debuff, these bug bites start to add up and in its favor
It's gonna be able to resist because of the steel typing this gigaton hammer and take neutral from that bulldoze as well
Let's take a peek at the back line. We're gonna see those pokemons
We're gonna see that don dozo and the shadow blitz core in this matchup
The shadow blitz core doesn't want to see the don dozo though
Well, let's not forget about the shadow polycode as well
I think the only shadow ball to it in the top 32 won the few maybe the only one in the entire world
championships. It's such a unique pick, but so well caught off from Contano. And we get to the
rock. This is huge. You get with that. You will get a debuff and could do a lot of damage if it
goes unshielded. And Contano is going to spend that first shield. Look, Caleb, look how weak
Contano's team is to D'Andoso. He has that polytode in the back with his coverage attacks.
It's water in ice, which is going to be resisted. And this brown type Pokemon that
threw the sand to him didn't do that much damage, but gets the debuff. It's taking
super effective waterfall damage. This Dondozo could just sit in state and waterfall down but instead
trying to knock out the gliscor so he doesn't have to give up a protect shield from that acrobatics.
Yeah, I like the flavor of Susten Zeter knowing that Contrano did get to the acrobatics,
mitigates so much damage, and now he sees the value of the Dondozo. So much potential here as
he's going to resist all the charge attacks from the polytoad. And the only you don't resist
This is bulldoze and that's such a bad move for the Tignita as well.
So, SustenZeter likely going to try to preserve this as much as possible.
He's still debuffed, but the Outrage is still going to do full damage as possible.
It's going to just no shield to Outrage.
And Outrage is a strong attack.
As you see it land into that polytope, this Fortress is energy-dried, but you don't
want to get knocked out by those bug bites, so you actually have to commit.
It looks like SustenZeter is looking to protect you.
He's holding it.
Last second, he says, I don't need it because I can come in and try to finish
this off with either my dondozo by throwing some waterfalls and soaking this energy and then eventually
poisons thing down. You have two protect shields remaining and a wall of health with that Codfire
in the back. And Codfire doesn't know it's a Codfire yet, but I think we're going to see a real sad face
once he sees it. This bulky poison round type is just unstoppable in the back line. Codfire does
have a lot of energy, but Sustenir still has both shields up and goes for the full dose
baits, the Sustained call, if he calls this, it's pretty much his game over. He has a thing
in through and he does call the Bodo's bait. Absolutely huge. Doesn't get the debuff either.
It is a 50-50 chance here and you're going to find out how these Pokemon that are so bulky
that take a long time to get the charge attacks. They get a little clunky in the end game here.
There are two Protects of Remaining. He lets it go once again on the Bodo's. This time
he did get the coin flip. He's already had another Bodo's but there is one Protects
shield remaining you have to give it up right here if you're Contono and now
Susan it's either has to protect shield all of the remaining charge attacks from
Contono you're getting close to your timer as well and that's the final shield
from Contono though and there's no way you can protect the policy from the
incoming stone edge. Susan here throws up the first shield, policy is that you
can try to go for a catch, I don't even know if there's enough time at this point to help the solo
he tries to go for it but Susan's either head on a scribble is locked in
ready for this matchup even has the earthquake to boot,
spreads up that final shield,
a dominant game one victory for him.
He had so much time to be able to see if that swap would happen.
It is gonna be on that charge stack priority.
We see the good game from Sustenance either who's already taken down Padelman.
Now he is on his way to take down Contono as well as it cleans up that
game one with the both with the Dantoso, the Cossire and the Shadow
Fortress, a great combination that Dantoso and Shadow Fortress.
I mean his team is just a brick wall.
Look at it, you've got the Claude Sire, the D'Andozo,
the Licky Licky, the Corselove,
and even the Fortress and Malmo
are not the most real Pokemon.
They just give him so much flexibility
and room for error if he ever goes down that route,
but there wasn't really any errors in his gameplay either.
The problem is for Contono,
he's pretty weak to D'Andozo.
You have that charger bug,
but because Succesus Eater is one of those few trainers
that have the ground type in Claude Sire,
It's so dominant against Chargerbug that if you match it up,
you're probably gonna lose the battle.
So it's so hard to bring that Chargerbug into this matchup,
but it's gonna be your best interface with Dondozo.
You look at that lineup, you add Ticoton,
which the Dondozo will resist the Ticoton hammer.
You have Blizzcore that takes super effective damage
from Waterfall, and then you have the Polytoad
that can't do any damage with this charge attack.
How is Contano gonna bounce back
and deal with this Dondozo?
We're gonna see if it's on the line of three
from Sustenance either.
There it is in the back.
And this is a great lead for a Compton out.
You can see the ins and swap from Dondo.
So getting right to it.
Here comes Licky, Licky, Licky a decent neutral answer
to Dondo.
So both doing neutral attacks,
but the serve would do a little bit more damage
and then the body steam as Sustenance either reaches
that first charge right first.
I think it's literally best case scenario for Contono
to match up his Licky, Licky into the Dondo.
He still has those two spike strikes,
the Shadow Gliscor, the Shadow Polytone,
but he needs to get this Dondo though out of the arena.
And the best way to do so is with the number one usage
Pokemon, the Licky Licky throws one Shadow Ball.
The second Shadow Ball will not be enough,
but it is gonna be thrown.
And I love the PlayStone trust in you, right?
That's doesn't have the shield of the first Shadow Ball.
Now going to throw the shield,
knowing that he has the bolt to handle this damage.
And now good fight for Switchmanus.
Those are valuable to Dondo, so he is even
and throws his move right in with the body,
send this reach off the note score and let it go.
Letting it go because at this point, even if you get to another charge attack it's just going to be tough to clean up
because you could get that second protect shield from Susten Zeter.
So I like letting it go, trying to get some mudstrap damage into this Dondo, just soak up in outrage.
Actually, no, using one of his protect shields to make sure he maintains some help on his polytose.
Maybe he thinks that polytose could be quite useful in the back.
Here comes the pivot, into the fortress.
Do we see the counter pivot in the Shadow Gliscor? Yes!
And this is not, again, the worst matchup for Susten Zeter.
If you shoot him at the back correctly, and then get the default, it puts him in a huge position.
Does he snuck this out, or think it's a sandtume bait?
Contrino has not been baiting at all.
He doesn't bait again, he lands an acrobatics one shot KO against the Shadow Fortress.
Boom! It is out of there, and Contrino does not miss a round.
Now going for the sandtume, because this Dondozo is such low health,
it should be just about enough to knock out, but Dondozo does have a lot of health.
Does it hang on? No, does knock it out.
Now it's Malabar in the back. Can you get to a sandtel before you get sideways down?
But you get sideways down first. So that's an energy advantage for Malabar coming into the poly-tode.
But poly-tode also has energy remaining. It's going to be so close, Caleb.
It is. Malabar has a little bit more health, but the speed through these charge-tracks is big.
So since they're going to let the first one go, knowing that he can tank one of the moves,
high-speed or weather ball is enough now has back-to-back moves.
You have to take one.
Yes. I like to play from Contra here because the Superhouse might do more damage
and doesn't think that Sousa here will go for Tsubara right off the bat.
Now, Sousa's here, Pipe is going to go for the side way down,
but Kofu-no knows he's at the back, the back, well of all.
One is coming through, he's going to be shielded,
but here comes the next one,
and Kofu-no's going to even up the series one-to-one.
With the best buddy, Shadow Polytones of Pokemon,
no one was expecting that Pokemon Go World
is able to close it out with this dynamic deal.
A partner of the Shadow Flissor.
Japan has its own meta and that is why they have been dominating here in day
number two so far. Contono is already in winners round number two tied up this
series. We just saw hero Maro before takeout, Buzzo Boy and Dunebug. To start
the day we had eight traders from the Japan region coming in to the top 32
and they have been showing up so far. Absolutely. I mean forget about the
polytoed Glasgow core. Polytoed by itself, Glasgow by itself is wild. The
fact that he's even put together this is not even a Japanese man this is a
Contano meta if I've ever seen one and you just bring it into every matchup I
know the don't go to look safe right into everything on the side of Contano but
at the same time I'll do it it's not terrible into Dondo so you're resisting
all that waterfall damage doing neutral mudshot damage the weather boss spam
will add up even into a bulkier Dondo so if you shoot the outrage there's
not the worst case scenario but the problem is you can't bring the
right? It's so strong into the Malamar and into the Dondozo, but the problem is
there's a Klotsayer, there's a Licky Licky, there's a Korsla, and even have
brought him on the fortress. It puts Contono in a top-top position, but he found a way to do number two.
It's a really important point because I feel like Contono got energy against
that Dondozo. Like you mentioned, the Shadow Polydote is not awful against the
Dondozo, and if you can find that window of opportunity to come in, take
some waterfalls, bank up a ton of energy, get back to your switch timer and use that
for the end game just like he did in game number two.
That could be your advantage.
You can take advantage of D'Antonio's bulk by just banking up energy and using it for
the end game.
And it was the best case scenario for Contono.
He was able to match up his Licky Licky versus D'Antonio.
So we'll see in game number three.
We probably know that D'Antonio's coming.
So you probably just want to go as safe and neutral as possible because Winner's
Round number three is on the line here at Pokemon Go World.
Whoever wins this game is advancing,
and there it is, the Don Dozo versus the Pangoro.
Shiny Pangoro, at that, you have the hard-hitting close top.
Assassin's Deater has nothing shielding a lot of these moves,
but Assassin's Deater has nothing bathing either.
You go to base though.
The Assassin's Deater snuff it out.
He has a decision to make.
This could be a hard-hitting close top.
The shields!
Two-fold the shields, and we get the bait.
And the moves!
We get the moves on Assassin's Deater!
You can see on his face and he hasn't been painting the entire tournament and use it for this moment right now
Got the shield got the boost it paid off now these close combat are gonna do so much damage
We know don't don't know is bulky, but I don't even know if it can hang on to this Caleb
I don't know either a substitute or he's got to think this through as he is one crotch away from the next close combat
The close combat has one more in the bank with after one crash up also has the night
chain.
You might try to save the entry once the Clawstar comes in, Clawstar comes in, wanna
think of, no, Ash is gonna, oh wait, comes in the fortress instead.
And maybe is he trying to get the double night slash or is he gonna try to pivot
out.
Here comes the night slash, it gets no protection, it's from Susnance, so he
properly called the charge check here.
Here comes the swap, it's a polyjohn, the polyjohn gets a wetter ball so quickly,
It's just on the road here has to use the flat protection of the battle because of that boots because of that bait
Suspens is so far behind. I'd like to shield from something here
He needs to grab a deep up. He needs to go play in a rock tomb or grab the final shield
He grabs this oh wait
Not gonna shield this and this could be the opening that spots our needs
It has a great match of intro panko and panko doesn't have a lot of health
And Bob doesn't have much way to go for a potential catch on the weather ball
Which is not the ITO wait with this wasn't seen knockout
Can you get double weather ball if Contano can get double weather ball or swap out?
It's gonna be so tough for substance either or will this boys and see knockout before no he gets to the double weather ball
I don't know how substance either is gonna be able to come back from this
Yeah, I think something here trying to just to snipe it down with the boys and stings
But it was only the tag that's involved not the defense and now comes linky-licky a tough matchup typically
But shields down low-health linky-licky should be even close it out
Contano is soaking it in as he knows he is about to close out this game and able
to take down Susan is either all he needs is the charge attacks first there's
gonna be a stone edge but substance either is looking up he knows his fate
right now he is one shadow ball away from losing this battle but here comes
the fortress here comes the first shadow ball excuse me two shadow balls
away from losing this battle yeah console patient on that overbombing
knowing the fortress is in range of shadow but just needs almost two to close it
out. One final shadow ball won't do it in Contano continues his dreams here in
the world championships takes a two one victory over substance here and it's
been the trainers from Japan Contano hero Maru are the first ones moving on
into this winners round number three and day number two taking out the last
North American trainer that was on the winners side of the bracket with
with the shadow, with the shadow Paulito, a bingo with the boost close contact.
And those of you are bulky, not bulky enough.
Yeah, and what the mind game some cops know as well, right?
Going for the hard hitting acrobatics so many times against the matchups, not going for
the base.
And finally in the situation where he needed the most, he based in nice touch perfectly
and the boost, that's got to feel good to get that off as well.
And if I have my information correct, I think this is Contra's first ever world
championship qualified with the ninth place finish, which is pretty high in best
tournaments and you know the only other tournament record that I'm aware of is
he went three and two at EYC this year and that's about it but he is playing
out of his mind and playing at the best players in the world with the coolest
and spiciest team he's doing it his way and it's proven to work. I gotta see
this close combat again I gotta see that damage once it was boosted the
Shiny, Best Buddy, Hengoro able to take out that Dantozo,
and then also being able to hold on
to get to that last Weather Ball was huge
because if you didn't get that chunk damage,
your Licky-a-Licky wouldn't have a good opportunity
to close in the back
because Fortress still had some health remaining.
I love that his Shadow Pokemon
or his Shiny or Flex Pokemon are Best Buddy.
A little bit of the Axon Flare,
but I love to see it on the Spicy Pokemon
because usually Axon has the Metapokemon Best Buddy,
but love it from Tantano.
I mean, if you're winning that much for a shout out to Palito,
I would best study it as well.
What a great performance on him.
And, you know, every little thing he's thought through,
right, he didn't shield the Palito
because he doesn't know what's in back.
It could have been a malware.
Having that shield for the licky, licky was huge there.
And he knew that even if he doesn't shield the Palito,
he has ways to neutralize the closet.
So he's thought everything multiple steps ahead of time.
And that's something that's super impressive
from him on the stage so far.
And you see early on, you have a dondozo problem.
But I feel like as the series progressed,
he figured out that problem.
First, it was the polytote.
Being able to make up all that energy
and then use the energy later
was really effective in that game number two.
And the game number three just goes neutral as possible.
Show Pengoro, show Licky Licky, show Polytote.
The three Pokemon that will have the best neutral chance
against that Dangozo.
And he was able to come out on top
and now he is advancing.
That's right.
And our bracket is just absolutely stacked here.
And you can see Japan leading the way there.
We're going to hear a moral verse.
Kansano in the next one, the two remaining players in Japan on the winter side,
but they're still playing in them on that loose side as well.
NBV, Wido vs. PB, David, I'm sure we've seen before full players from EU.
And then, Moshikawa, they were today's love, Chai.
Chai, they're only remaining Australian player in this top bracket,
but he's having a torment on his life as well.
And if you're just joining us, we started the day with 32 trainers,
But by the end of the day, there will only be two remaining
to advance the championship Sunday at Chase Center.
So that is what they're battling for.
Of course, prizes as well.
And the further you get up that prize chart,
it matters a lot for these trainers,
especially for these trainers
trying to make that losers run.
Yeah, and I believe we haven't played
any of the losers back yet, so there might be a chance
we could play all of them on broadcasts,
which would be absolutely huge.
I mean, we got a long day of battles
and I'm excited for every one of them.
Next up, we have Emmie Weedle versus PBB David.
And here's a really interesting fact.
Emmie Weedle just beat Boom.
Boom, I believe, not only is really good friends
with PBB David, but they're also in the same team.
Yes, the same exact team.
So, if anything,
Emmie Weedle has practiced already into the same team,
there wasn't close to one victory though.
So, not really maybe a significant team
come advantage as we see the prize money, the glory,
everything that the players are fighting for,
You know, I think even the boys in prize money who was still played their hearts out just for that title, of course, and on championship Sunday
Exclusive pose that we've had for previous world champions and of course holding up that trophy in an NBA arena in the chase center
But who will make it there? We're still on that winner's side of the bracket in the wheel versus pvp David, which means for Europe
They're gonna have one trainer getting in to that winners round number three as well
and you just mentioned it,
Emmy Weidle was able to take out Boom,
who Boom has the same team as PBB David,
and also a similar play style,
they're very good friends,
so he kind of has the blueprint
to be able to take out PBB David,
but the other key thing is,
you gotta know PBB David and Boom
were probably talking afterwards
and trying to think about what went wrong
in that Boom matchup,
and PBB David is gonna come out
with the exact answers that he think Boom messed up on.
Oh, absolutely. I mean, P.P. David wasn't battling with Boomer's battling, too.
So you could probably bet that he was in the stands cheering on his friend,
watching the battles, analyzing and knowing that, you know what?
If my friend doesn't beat him, it's going to be me off the bench.
And that's exactly what made me the case.
So very excited to see how they play it out.
And also an important factor is just because you have the same team,
doesn't mean you play the same way.
And we see that in many tournaments, right?
Where friends will run their same exact team.
I mean, Dustin's a great example, right?
Maybe ran the same team as his brother, Natsang Klasher.
but he's made such a long way in this tournament.
Sometimes it depends on the matchup,
sometimes it depends on the play style,
what you'd like to lean into.
No, it's a great clarification
because they're playing at the same level
because they're both super talented,
but they could diverge in separate directions.
Absolutely, absolutely.
So very excited to see this head-to-head EU matchup.
I know for the EU fans,
they probably don't want their, you know,
players from the same region facing each other,
but it's bound to happen if you keep winning
in this winners bracket.
Yeah, but I mean, they win no matter what too.
because if you are rooting for that region,
there will be one EU trainer moving on.
Let's look at the teams for these trainers as well.
And we've talked about it before.
Amy Weedle was technically the first ever
Pokemon Go World Champion in the seniors division.
We were there casting that battle.
He was playing against a smaller pool,
but that pool was just as stacked
as the elder division as well.
So he is an extremely talented trainer.
Well, let's not call it elder division.
Oh, okay, sorry.
Well, technically.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, but figuratively.
We are the Masters Division.
Now everyone's the same one.
I mean, PBD, I don't know like a-
It's not like a 65 plus division.
I wasn't saying it was an elder division,
but technically, but technically they are older.
Yes, yes, that's true.
I mean, PBD gave a great example
right up there, young trainer,
and I don't know if he was competing at the time,
but if he was, he would have been
in that Masters Division with Emmie Guido,
and PBD had one of our most accomplished players
in the circuit.
He's at a top cut, I know,
in Honolulu, he went pretty far there as long worlds,
had two regional titles, multiple second place titles.
And so this is gonna be a pretty fun matchup.
As we take a look at the teams,
very similar archetype, both at the quackside,
both at the nine tails,
both have a slightly bulkier walk.
I guess I'm going to stop that bulky.
Both have a fairy of choice.
For this one, it's going to be the toe kiss
for P.P. David and Muguito, going to be the floor choice.
Both of those fairies are much safer
into nine tails than Tinkiton is.
So I think that's why we need to do it for more neutrality,
for more flexibility in some of those matches
so that you don't get hard, you know, countered
when you save small like a tinket or something like that.
And speaking of safety, the water types, right?
The water types, there is only a fire type to counter it,
which is so weird to say, but that fire type
that does have the grass coverage with the energy ball
could be good against the impoleon,
it could be good against the quagsire,
but all the water types that are here,
the impoleon, the quagsire, the azumaril,
and the opposing quagsire from PV David,
I think are extremely safe in this matchup because even though, yes,
you don't want to take those energy balls, but the Ninetales doesn't want to take
the damage from you either.
So I think it's going to be a lot of water Pokemon in the arena really soon.
And that absolutely right.
That actually played a huge role in the Emmy Weed-Overse boom matchup.
In the very end on charge, our party, the Ninetales got the grass
energy ball off against the quads are at the very end to take it out
and win them the game, right?
And it's so weird, but the fire type is the counter
to the water type in this particular meta in this matchup.
And even though Zeruma on the side of BV David,
it's really weird matchup because it's got
a high-trump and play rough.
If you bait a play rough and they don't shield,
you're doing resisted damage.
It's so weird, right?
The water type, it has to go over the hard hitting move,
just even take out or have any play into the nine tails.
And I think because of that,
the Zeruma might be really hard
for BV David to play, in my opinion, right?
Yes, if you get landed, I have to come against like the licky, licky, the gorgeous, the course.
It's great in theory, but it's so much energy, so much time.
And you're also using a three-turn move.
It's so easy to play around if you're Emmy Lido.
Well, a key difference between the Quagsires as well.
Emmy Lido's Quagsire is shadow and running mudbomb.
And PVV David's Quagsire is going to be the non-shadow and running stone edge,
which makes him Polion safer as well.
Because there is no ground coverage from PVV David.
and Polyon is pretty much unchecked into that matchup.
I think it's going to be super safe, super flexible.
And if you're able to get that energy advantage
or shield advantage, you know the pacing is quite quick,
has the community day attack of the Hydra Cannon.
So I'm looking for M.E. Weedle to try to lean on that
and pull in a little bit.
And we are going to be locked into this European battle
between M.E. Weedle and PVP David.
All right, here we go.
It's going to be the Shadow Quagsire for Eni-Wido versus the Licky-Licky.
And this matchup is kind of awkward for the Shadow Quagsire.
It's not here that's focused on non-Shadow One.
Because of that, Licky-Licky still can play pretty well into a despite throwing resistive rollouts.
And once you take this first Shadow Ball, as you're going to see the damage here,
it's not great for the Quagsire.
Because then once the Licky-Licky can start protecting you,
then you start slowly getting into body slam range.
And that is the worry here for Eni-Wido.
But there is no stone edge to worry about.
So no protection from VP David.
And this is why some players run the mud bomb.
It's more energy efficient than the Aqua Tail,
than the Snow Ranch even.
And now we're going to get full off.
It's not going to take out the Licky-Licky,
but it's going to put it pretty low.
And I think, I mean, we don't might be okay
just losing this match.
But knowing that the core score does not
have to deal with this Licky-Licky later.
It doesn't even go for the roll out there.
Just trying to make sure it's not swapped on.
It's going to land that damage and try to pivot
and try to knock it out with his own Quagsire.
Maybe it has to take an Aqua Tail in the process.
Yes, he does have to take an Octane on the process.
That's not great for PPP David, but he does get a significant mud shot advantage
that has energy for the backline Pokemon.
What do you come in with? Probably just a Corsula,
because you don't even know all the energy is resistant from him.
Only on the bulk of the Corsula is going to thrive here.
Yeah, but this sets up PPP David for a Ring Edition
because the 9-Tills up shields or even shields even
can play really well in holding up, given how fast it paces.
So, because I actually thought, and we don't mind if this came in
with the ball, just to absorb some of that energy from the black side, but instead wants to play a little bit safer and wants to come in the course load.
Let's see if he's able to dance around the nine tails though, because B.B. David, he's real pretty comfortable about this.
He still has the licky licky as well, but no, he just bold sends the nine tails.
And this is going to be tough though, because not only do you have to get through this course load,
which didn't mess around and get to the power gym, and just through the ninth shade here, because he knows he could get a protect shield.
Also, he just needs some chip damage for this backline, and the protect shield is huge,
Because now as soon as you can get a hyper cannon off you can win this battle going for debate here technically even though energy ball
It's also gonna be neutral just does do a little bit less damage and you can't get the debuff
So in me we don't instantly let's it through but these inverts are gonna be weighing on him a little bit
That's right. First half again. It's gonna be shielded from PB David. He's running out options
He has a catch potential though and it gets really feisty in these two-term matchups
So as I have of course, I am true both shields. This is actually quite dicey for PB David
And just doesn't go to move expecting
Yeah, he throws the right away because sometimes trainers are patient going for the catch
He just says I'm going it right away and I'm gonna try to win this game with the two protects your flex in the end
Didn't even need to use one of them as impolion is able to take down PBD David
It's kind of a weird situation for PB David
I think he thought Emmy Widow switch timers up,
so I'm looking at it.
He's, look, Emmy Widow's locked into that matchup.
PB Davis had a hundred energy.
So even if he doesn't, he expects, you know,
Emmy Widow's not going to go right away.
He doesn't really get as much out of that matchup either.
But Emmy Widow, he's up two shields, still confident.
He doesn't have to worry about a catch.
Even if it's caught on Licky, Licky,
he can still finish off the nine tiers with a course goal.
I love that, because he played
to every win-condition possible.
PB Davis maybe tried a little fluster,
trying to figure out how to play it out,
but at the end there, he was running out of options
and Emi Rideau up a game against BV Davis,
trying to beat the first ever two time Pokemon Go champion.
And the utility there from a Pokemon
like the Land and Core Slush is be able to come in,
soak all the energy, still win the matchup
and didn't even get a protect shield
in the backline matchup.
That is why it is so useful in the meta right now.
And a key reason, I believe you even said it,
that trainers are bringing Malamar to the meta,
to try to counter that play.
Are we gonna see a Malomar in this game number two
to try to counter that Corsula?
I feel like it could be a decent play
because not only can you deal with the Corsula,
but you know you're seeing Empolion, right?
So you at least have superpowers
to throw super effective damage
into the Empolion as well.
I haven't been a huge fan of Malomar,
but I feel like it might be time to bring it out.
Ha ha ha!
Okay, I swear the last time we casted,
you are the biggest Malomar hater,
But you've done a 180, but it's like, hey, you maybe you're right, right?
It is an answer to the course.
So Licky, Licky court has played into the 9000 black star and the pole down.
You only have to worry about the gorgeous and I mean, we all
hasn't been bringing it.
So it could be so it could be useful.
You know, I don't I don't hate it.
But I was never a Malmau down to to start control butters.
I just count the stats.
Malmau has been taking a lot of knockouts here in San Francisco.
But it looks like these trainers are just about locked into game number
And for P.P. David, if he wants to avenge his friend, boom,
it tried to defeat in me, Guido.
He has the same team as his good friend.
Can he do it here? Can he reverse sweep?
Can he find the formula so far?
It is a decent lead for the Licky Licky.
This is a very neutral matchup.
And we'll get P.P. David's team.
He is not messing around.
He does not want to see this night sales on the field.
And incidentally, I mean, Guido doesn't bring the night sales for this one.
But double water, bust up, rock, fast attack, licky, licky are great neutral answers to that nine tails.
But it's not on the field, and we don't now go over the awkward tail.
Maybe try to go over a triple awkward tail instead from the double mudbump, because that mudbump is not enough.
Also, he's at essentially three awkward tails, which means that he gets perfectly optimized every time
and forced to give you David a throw on that time if David wants to get this blue ball without having to spend a shield.
He got dangerously close to over-optimizing and getting too much energy, but it worked perfectly
because now that is devastating for BV David.
He thought he would throw maybe a mud shot first and he could get that attack off, but he doesn't.
And now these quags are pretty healthy, coming in with the own opposing quags there.
Does he know he wins charge attack priority?
That is going to be called for the swap.
What a beautiful catcher, Hemingwider.
He knows that BV David is going for the charge attack priority to things that he's a winning
and Emi Guido just gonna bank the energy for later,
knowing that he persists all these charge attacks
and Emi Guido's now so far ahead in this matchup.
And it's gonna be Corsula versus a Zoomroll in the back line.
There's gonna be a lot of shields remaining,
going for the Stone Edge here.
Yes, this is not very effective,
but it's gonna do a chunk.
This is not a shadow Cryxire,
so Empolio's gonna be able to take it.
No problem, has all that energy,
has double hypercannon to shield protect those remaining
and he's using wonderful now.
I like that strategy,
because this Cryxire is very healthy.
If you double shield this cryxator right now,
you can come out of this matchup with a lot of help.
I expect a double down shield from David.
He's thinking about, no, actually just let's it go.
Yeah, the problem is this is zero.
Like I said, it's pretty slow to this moves.
Doesn't even have the ice team, the cheaper moves to date with.
And there's still two shields on the side of any Reno.
On top of that, it was just a fantastic neutral match
of ninja zero.
He view David has got to land a high jump somewhere.
He, I think he already called the VT.
There's still five both on the left,
But he's such a talented player and he sees the riding on the wall.
Candy still makes the match captain.
Well, let's do a little table setting right here.
Emil Hito has a protective advantage.
And not only that, he has the Clagsire in the back
with an Aqua Tail loaded as well.
And he's going to use his first protective shield of the battle.
Plus, he has this neutral guard that is going to be able to get
through this zoom roll matchup, no problem.
He's trying to reach for the desperate hydro pump.
He is going to be able to hit it.
Candy, get it through a shield.
No, it is shielded as well.
Absolutely brutal PVV David so much energy unfortunately just gets negated with the shield only one damage goes through
And here comes a nice shape PVV David not going to invest anything into the zero knowing that it's not going to be
As to get to another move with the fact the back night shape loaded here comes five times
You need to land to offer to even have a chance to offer them isn't even enough
And PVV David trying to play it out here, but there's still the opera tail available
but Emile Guido could go for the combo play,
he'd be David might just fall send him to avoid it
and go straight for the stone deck.
I think he's worried about the combo play
because he thinks that Piefy David does win
that charge attack priority.
Maybe he's worried about losing charge attack priority
in wasting that attack.
Now he's waiting until there's not energy left
and then he's gonna throw the combo play
so that it's smart from Emile Guido
and he's able to win it two to zero to advance.
Three ball flex for Emile Guido
as he closes out with a few more mud shots.
He might be the world champion of the senior submission,
but like you said, brothers,
he might be the world champion of the elder vision too.
I mean, he's well on his way.
He could be the first time ever,
two-time Pokemon Go world champion
and he's just a couple of series away
from getting to that coveted winners finals,
but also making it to Chase Center
for Championship Sunday.
Hemi Guido, you know, a big name in the community
ever since his world champion title back in 2022
in London, and he's had so many great performances throughout.
A EYC champion, a regional champion.
I think it's been a few years since he's won a title.
You know, and meanwhile players like P.B. David have been on the rise,
winning two regional titles since then.
And maybe some of you are like, I mean, we don't out of it, but no,
he came back with a vengeance for this world championships in 2026.
And I mean, you know, he beat Boom 2-1,
but even a more dominant victory against P.B. David
with the same team, 2-0, and Magnum Blake throughout,
and he knows he's inside, and he knows he's going
for the octetail on the charge attack party,
makes a perfect edge, and just closes out
with a bulky force block.
He really sprinted ahead in that matchup.
He dominated the opening lead matchup
by completely optimizing his Quagsire,
going on charge attack priority,
and forcing the Licky Licky to go down
while the Quagsire was very healthy,
then that swap.
So he started out with such a lead,
And even though PVP David is an awesome player,
it was so hard for him to climb back and sprint back
into this race.
Amy Weedle started on top, and he ended on top.
He was able to defeat PVP David and boom,
two young phenoms that were running the same exact team.
Yeah, and you know, it was so early in the game
during that third off the tail on charge activity.
Somebody might be wondering,
why not just shield the PVP David?
But he's such a counter play, he knows.
If he shields that off the tail
and gets a shadow off,
He comes away with no energy left and he's just down a shield for no reason, not knowing what's in the back, right?
It's like it's like such a checkmate situation, doomed if you do, doomed if you don't in that situation.
And Hemirido just held onto the pressure all the way throughout and that's why he had that three ball flex in the end.
Well, he optimizes energy and he optimizes his experience, right?
He's been at the championship circuit all the way back in 2022.
Some of these trainers that have that reserve of experience do really well in world competition.
One trainer who's up next is Marto Gaude. He is obviously a well accomplished trainer with
multiple titles, an international title, regional titles as well, special event titles, but he
always shows out at world competitions ever since the first ever one. And now look,
he is in winners round number two with the same opportunity as the two trainers from Japan
and an ending needle just did to advance
into winners round number three.
That's right.
Always rise to the occasion on the big stage.
And if you're tuning in right now for the first time,
be sure to continue watching for so many reasons.
Besides just the battles,
you get all these great twist shops.
You get it for free just for watching.
And if you watch up to 60 minutes for Pokemon Go
and a lot of these other games
that are going on right now
in their respective broadcasts,
you get all these rewards.
They get screenshot if you need to zoom in to see it.
However, Pokemon Go, you get the exclusive ticket on that the reigning world champion of Yusofo Yus.
The same exact team from QYUS, but also it has exclusive world's background after it.
And, you know, but I know we're working in production, but I was watching this backstage as well, too.
I gotta get my Twitch chops.
Oh, you got it. And I want to get a Twitch badge as well, because we have an exclusive Twitch badge that will go right next to your name while chatting.
It is an awesome Fletseer.
It's one of the best weekends of the year to be a Pokemon fan.
Of course, you can get all of these freed items,
and if you're in the venue right now or at Pokemon XP,
there is so much to do in San Francisco.
There are themed baseball games.
There are drone shows at night.
It is just a Pokemon city right now.
That's right.
10 years from now,
you're gonna be dropping this Pikachu batch
in a Twitch chat.
Let me be like, where did you get this?
I was like, well, I tuned in
to Pokemon World Championships in 2026.
Where were you at when that happened?
And you don't wanna be that person, right?
So you wanna be the one that's dropping the emo,
on people. And if you are in the venue and you casually play Pokemon Go, I
encourage you to update that because some cool stuff is happening this weekend.
And another weekend, some other cool stuff is happening because a special night
out EDM concert with special appearances from Marshmallow and
Allison Wonderland. Huge Pokemon fans in itself. It's gonna be an awesome night.
Yeah, it's already sold out in Los Angeles, but if you're in the London
area or want to go out to London, November 10th is going to be that
second concert. All right well I said it before. We got Marzo Gaudet on stage. I
think these trainers are just about ready and it's gonna be against Jai one of
the only Australian trainers that made it into date number two. I believe there
was another trainer that has bounced back between Australia and North America.
Yes exactly but the one trainer that has been in Australia this entire
season and is carrying Oceana on his shoulders has to be Jai.
Devlin won the underrated players, I think, in our circuit, right?
The top part is because here in Oceana, there's not as many torments.
So he has gone to international tournaments before.
This is the second world as well.
But no player is more synonymously well known and associated with Shadow of
Lone Nineteals than Baylor Jai.
Brings it into almost every tournament.
I believe this is his 7th tournament bringing Shadow of the Night Tales out of 9 tournaments.
Both of his 2nd place finishers was with Shadow of the Night Tales
and he finds a way to make it work in every single meta and you can play it in.
Even in a meta where Canthal Night Tales is meta, the hard counter to that variance.
Well if he can find a way to make it work in this matchup, he might be a Pokemon genius
because it has a lot of counters on Mardo Gaudes team.
He has the licky licky that's strong into it the tank in the pond that's dominant into it
He has the don dozo and he has that shadow can't own nine tails
That is the fire type nine tails that will definitely
Counter that ice fairy a lonely night tails
But otherwise there is an Altaria on the side of Marta gata's team
But I feel like that Altaria is so free because you're thinking that there's no way that Jai is
is bringing an Alolan Ninetales into this matchup.
Another Pokemon that feels pretty free
if you can scare off the Altaria,
it's definitely the Dandozo.
I was actually mistaken.
Jai is a three time second place finisher
every time with that Shadow Alolan Ninetales.
Here we go, it's Marco Galvin versus Dave Love-Jai,
Latteyan versus Oceania,
and it's gonna be an Altaria mirror match.
And there can be both points in this matchup.
So let's look at the dragon breath here
to see if you can see if one Altaria
is taking more dragon breath damage
I don't know if I can spot it yet, but here comes the sky attack into the first Altaria
that's going to let it go.
No problem.
The second sky attack is available, but Swap into the Licky Licky, and now you have your
own Licky Licky and a Quaghtier in the back, but deciding to throw his energy a little
chip and dip.
I like to swap from Martial Galli, expecting that there might be a Quaghtier in the
back, and that's exactly what is in the back.
But they look at this smart play from him, goes through the chip, and now comes
in with the Licky Licky because the Licky Licky not only has played into
for Marto Galvez, Altaria, but there's no way he loses
Switch-A-Manage, now that he's through that sky attack
and has brought the HP of the Licky Licky Low.
That was a smart play from Jai,
but it's not devastating for Marto,
just because the Shadow Clats are,
does have Aqua Tail and Stone Edge.
And that matchup can get really awkward
into the Ting-A-Tongue,
even though you resist the Gat-A-Tongue Hammer,
it does so much, and you can only throw Aqua Tails
in return because the Stone Edge is obviously resisted.
Here comes the body set.
Now the timers are available for both these traders.
Do we see another pivot?
And there it is, instantly getting out of the battlefield,
Bargell's going to come back in to soak up a Shadow Ball.
And this is not bad for Dave Elkjai at all.
He just wants to get rid of this Altaria as soon as possible.
So with that, he quacks out, has placed his shine.
It's not like Bargell doesn't have play into it,
but you're doing almost no damage with the Muff shots.
And here comes Shai with another Shadow Ball.
Does Bargell throw up this first shield or just let this go?
I feel like it's going to be tough if you let it go,
but he does let it go.
It's going to be all banking on the hopes
of this Tinkathon in the back.
It's gonna have a tough road ahead of itself
because it's gonna have to finish off this tigaton,
finish off the licky-licky,
and it could have had to finish off that Clive there.
Instead, he comes in with his own licky-licky
to do tigatons work for him.
And Marchicol, they tried to put everything
on the tigaton.
Like you said, it does have a decent matchup
into Clive, despite the tight disadvantage
as Marchicol, they're going for it.
The body slam, knowing that two shields
are still around for Daylove-Chai.
Does Daylove-Chai shield it?
No!
So a huge call from DayloveJai.
But this is risky though because then you start having to shield bulldozers.
The lower you get, it's riskier and riskier.
So here comes that first protect shield from Jai and do you pivot out?
You don't want to get farmed down here.
There goes the pivot.
There is a one protect shield advantage, but there's already two awkward tails loaded
up for Jai.
And because this is the shadow crisis as well, even though it's only a neutral
awkward tail, it will definitely add up, especially with the mod shot to boots.
Let's see if March with Baldy is able to get to kick it on Hammer and land it
go for the paint with the bulldoze, but back to back, Alcatel is available.
Barthegard is going to save one shield just in case, but I'll try to get to Flamethrower
because that's still going to do more damage than Alcatel.
And if Jai misses a swap here and allows this Tingaton to bank extra energy,
that could be the lose condition for Jai. So does he just stay in here with the Cladsar
and force energy and maybe even save his protect shield for the backline?
Here comes that bulldoze. And it's instantly no shielded from Jai.
It's not going to be enough to knock out the Quad Zyre.
And can you get that debuff?
You have the Licky Licky.
You can't swap.
Does he go for the swap?
No, there is no swap.
And no protections remaining.
Mardo Gaudi is running out of options.
I love the play from Chai.
He knows that even if Marder Gaudi goes for the kick
son, Hammer, he can just land a flamethrower from the Altar.
He now goes for the kick, and Hammer.
And Chai calls it perfectly.
Now that it's in Skye's attack range,
Chai knows he has a win condition
unless Marder Gaudi catches the Skye attack
on the Licky Licky.
but it's going really hard as he's both in between a very
win, and that's exactly what he does.
Because it's a two turn fast attack.
It gets a one turn fast attack.
It's so difficult to swap in that position.
The not very effective attack takes out the Tinkett on it.
Now the dragon that should be enough to finish off this
licky, licky here.
And it looks like Jai is going to take game number one.
All right.
What a performance from Dave Love.
Jai on one of the biggest stage,
a very dominant force in Oceania,
but coming to the world stage and taking on a Titan
like, March of Galdi is no easy feat, but he played that so well.
And again, he made the calculation.
Bait or no bait, he could win that game as long as he got the honor shield from March of Galdi.
You can see it, right? He was reactive of the win.
March of Galdi shielded that final up till on his last shield.
He was like, oh, you gave me the win God I need.
I now just need to go to play door and I win this entire game.
And with the MVP on the back side, maybe it was given from March of Galdi either way.
Yeah, and I believe that Marto was the aggressor a little bit with the switch timer.
As soon as the switch timer was coming up, he was pivoting out of it,
but he ended up in a negative situation where he led a Pokemon to go down in,
and there was too many healthy Pokemon in the back,
plus a bad matchup for that Tingatong against the Quagsire in the back.
And even though he played it well, he just couldn't get over that hurdle.
So this matchup so far has seemed really fluid, extremely neutral.
Both trainers running the Altaria and Licky-Licky in the Margo side,
running the Tingatong, Jai side, running that Quagsire.
So both these trainers though they could play out this entire matchup really safe
Marso is one of the best trainers ever in Pokemon go PDP when he won his LAIC title
I called him the go at the time he was at a zoomer all status because in these big
competitions he is an insane force he has been dominant in pretty much every single
world's competition and he's keeping it up in 2026 as well.
That's right.
Margaret Gaulde, first ever worlds in London got a fifth place finish and then in his second ever worlds
He missed the qualification for Yokohama the next world's he gets third place makes it to the winners and losers finals
Gets that trophy though the international or the world's trophy
I should say last year a little bit harder, right?
You came in probably as the best player most decorated, but in some top matchups and this year refocus
Didn't maybe have a split of a regular season right didn't win any performance like the previous season
But he wants a lot less torments, but he is locking him when it counts.
And now he really needs to lock in for the second game, the fourth of Game 3.
Well, it seems that pattern, it's every other year for Bardo, right?
Every other year, good for him right now.
He's on that other year cycle, where he does really well at the World Championships.
But to keep continuing to do well, you'll have to take out Lovejai who,
of course, is holding up the entire continent of Oceania right now.
because he is the last remaining trainer from that region,
and he is just one game away from taking out
one of Pokemon Go's most historic players in Martial Gaudi.
And to do so, he's gonna need to do it
with this double flying team composition
that we've seen from him throughout day number one as well.
The ABA flying, but it makes a lot of sense
as a Corbinite beast at Tingentong,
whereas Altarite loses,
and the Altarite beast at Ninetales,
whereas the Corbinite loses.
We have that bulky water veil that's going to be gone.
Those are making his appearance for the first time
in this matchup in Day of Jai.
Going to shield this up, going straight for the payback,
but went through one sand deck.
So could have gotten a little bit more energy.
You can see him grimace a little bit,
but it's not the worst situation for him.
We'll see if it makes a difference now.
I mean, it's only one sand deck difference
and the damage and the energy.
And a potential advantage for that save life
in the back could be devastating for Jai.
A Pokemon that we haven't seen so much here at Worlds,
but we've seen it do really well in the Go Battle League leaderboard
with multiple top trainers getting first place with that Pokemon on their team composition,
counter swapping into the Licky Licky, and this is hard to deal with.
As soon as you do a chip and dip against a Licky Licky,
it's hard for the other one to win, just like it was with the Licky Tongue matchup back in the day.
I love the adjustment multiple ball day as well.
Bringing in the Dundos, bringing in the Shadow Saber.
Shadow Saber is actually not even that bad with Licky Licky,
but now they see if the neutralized the Licky Licky with his own after that chip damage.
Shadow Saviour can hit usually into everything remaining in Daedalus Shai's line with double fire.
Fortnite does have a little bit extra residual energy, so that's key to note.
Also, key to note is that Daedalus Shai does want Charging Priority in this near-match
that could play in handy for future games, maybe even in this current one.
And Charging Attack Priority in Pokemon Go PDT does go to the Pokemon with a higher attack stat,
and if you see that they are a mirror, that means one of the trainers has that attack stat higher
than the other Licky-Licky when you appraise it.
Now we're gonna come in with that Corbinite, almost at the payback.
Gonna need that payback energy to knock out, but with these sand attacks that are just adding up
and Love Dryan's kind of shaking his head, he doesn't want to have to use his last protector,
it's just a body slam bait, and he uses his shield on that body slam bait!
Yeah, you see, he doesn't like that, but a really smart bait from Margell Galvik,
because he knows Baylor Jai wants to preserve the character.
Yeah, this might be still okay though, if he gets sand attacked down before the next
Can he get to the shadow ball at
time goes for the body slam instead.
This probably won't get over the
problem is it might put the
Fortnite in shadow ball range to
just take it out before you get
the payback call.
Let's see.
Here comes the save line.
I mean, you have to respect it.
It could be.
There's really no reason to
even go for it because you
don't get one move off, but
just goes for it anyway.
You can't get another one
off maybe later on.
We'll see.
But.
multi-gallade in a fantastic position and he's on the save line and has the shield advantage
But there's no way he doesn't shield the sky stack and back to back foul play should close it out and force a team three
He's just so far ahead here because he has that protect. He already has double foul play
He can throw that now and as you remember there was an air cutter thrown and it was protected
So maybe even if there is an air cutter that is reached it won't be enough to knock out this shadow save line
So one more foul play and a couple of shadow calls means that we're going to have a tight series here
Mardo Gaudi is going to be able to win game number two.
All right. We have a series on our hands.
That's called the ball. They go on to the free ball flex and come back with a vengeance in game number two.
Like you said, he performs really well in worlds every other year.
But this is also every other year for Jai. This is the second world.
He didn't do so well in the first one, but he brought his trusty shadow little nine kills this time around.
And he's looking to pay for his own story.
And we're definitely well aware that anything can happen,
especially day number two at a World Championships.
It doesn't matter if you are less known
or if you're one of the heroes of Pokemon Go PDP.
Anyone can do it and make it to that Championship Sunday.
But for Marto Gaude, he has been relying a lot
on that D'Ambozo.
He actually said it's been his MVP Pokemon.
But bringing out that wild card pick of Shadow Saber,
I really liked it.
I mean, it didn't really matter
because he was so far ahead in that battle
that he didn't really get the show what it can do.
But I really like it in this matchup.
And I got an interesting stat line for you.
Shout out to the homie, Henry, home size Henry here,
dropping the facts.
That was Daylove Jai's first game lost this entire tournament.
This is the world, right?
This isn't a small regional.
This is not an international.
This is a world championship.
He's facing off against every World's Combatant
and hasn't even dropped a game until now.
I mean, you can see how comfortable he is.
I've been pretty comfortable too
about him lost to Simu Gret.
That's his first loss.
Mark Zagaldi being the one to do it.
11-0 meeting up to that game.
Absolutely ridiculous.
And you could see him cringe midway through that battle.
He thought he had lost it there.
So maybe his first real mistake in 12 battles
with these bright lights.
Insane from Lovejoy.
And the fact that this is his first battle loss
gives me even more confidence
that he can bounce back here
in advance of winners round number three.
with the Zuso, you have to take out one of the best.
Mardo Kouday is gonna lead,
it is coming out swinging with his signature Pokemon,
the Shadow Alolan Ninetales.
And there's not a clear answer for the Ricky, Ricky.
However, I see this matchup play out,
it's actually not that bad for Shadow Alolan Ninetales.
The extra shadow damage, actually make this matchup
almost favored for the Shadow Alolan Ninetales.
Just see how much this weather ball does
and you'll understand what I'm saying.
And if you get landed, that's going even better.
You're gonna build up to it.
Maltegalde has to respect the potential,
doesn't he?
But he has so many answers.
He's triple strong and for Maltegalde,
it doesn't even matter.
But look, he's one more away.
This next weather ball, Kanko,
the Licky Licky enforces the shield for Maltegalde.
Well that's really good news for Love Drive
because there was nowhere for that Lollin'
Night Shield to go in the back with that Don Dozo
and the Ticket Time.
Now suddenly, Mardo's just trying to get
extra energy on his Licky Licky.
This body slam will be enough to knock out.
Love Drive is thinking about it,
but Licky Licky's almost at the next body slam.
So he says, okay, you did your job.
You've got to be the protector.
Thank you.
My favorite Pokemon ever.
Now I'll bring in another ice type Pokemon, but not yet.
Probably the Corviknight first.
Yeah, actually.
Oh, no.
He actually does bring in Lapras.
The FDL Lapras is still pretty nice, as you have the Skullbast to hit, carve into
everything.
You have perfect coverage, right?
Nothing's going to resist this new set combination.
Going to put everything on the Corviknight instead.
Dude, this is a crazy risky line.
ABA with the Shadow, Canto Knight, just goes for a full sense, the risky line,
Everything on the core neck doesn't shield the Lapras yet again.
The problem is where's that energy and shield of energy is going to go in the back line against Iqiton.
And there is the farm down. You have all the energy. You have even a Skull Bash.
This is a Skull Bash Lapras. That's going to do a lot of damage if you bring in the Dodo here to try to soak up some sparkling Arias.
And instead you take that Skull Bash. Here comes the Skull Bash. No, not yet. It's going to be able to land.
This is exactly what they looked like once shielded, once shielded down, right?
Marshall doesn't want to shield this, but now he's set up the Corbinite for the Tingleton.
And Marshall can't really just fast-back the sound as they look at reaching on Nuts,
Marshall throws right before the surface reach.
And Marshall knows it is just the Spongebob, but this chip damage is absolutely crucial for they look at.
And you can't really even fairy went down, but he's going to try.
He swapped in to try to get that fairy went down.
And now he's shaking his head a little bit because he is on a protect shield disadvantage
against that Shadow Corbinite.
going to go for the early bulldoze trying to get a key deep up.
He has a 50-50 chance to get the defense to drop.
Dan Marto secure it.
Yes!
He gets but the bulldoze, no shield is absolutely
huge for Daedalus Jai as well.
Because even the resistance to Daedalus Jai
can't do quite a bit.
He just has to save one shield for the surf load on Dandos.
I believe Dandos can get the two surfs in the end game.
And because of that, Daedalus Jai feeling pretty comfortable.
Marto called a doubling down on the base
and does get the first shield.
And can he get another debuff here so that the fence has been dropped by two stages? No, one for two.
Here comes the air cutter. There's only one protection remaining. It's not very effective.
Love Dry is also going for a boost himself. Trying to get an attack raise here. It doesn't get it.
No, he comes up empty. There is two water types in the back. They both have really low health.
Here comes the payback. He might think Mardo is going to no shield the air cutter.
He actually throws the payback. Is this going to be enough into the very typing of the tickets on? Yes!
That's absolutely massive.
Dondo has too much work for it to do.
Dayluck trying to nose.
There's no reason not to shield this.
Only a few more sand attacks away from getting to the back to back air cutter.
He also has a catch opportunity.
However, Marshall Galdi should be able to catch this serve in time.
There could be a potential catch though.
This is gonna be super tough.
You can't predict when the catch is happening.
This is your one-shot attack.
Does he get the catch off?
Does he get the serve off?
Wait, it's like it's gonna be so close.
is going to come down to Sidewave versus Waterfall.
Both of this, he just looked up for some luck, for some help.
If the surface is going to be a knockout,
it's Sidewave versus Waterfall, and it looks like Sidewave
is going to be able to do it.
Oh, my god, look at that.
Don Dozo, one HP.
Even Bartle Colvin is absolutely in shock.
And Bartle Colvin, every other year, he is back.
Don Dozo is his MVP for a reason.
In a matchup where you have fast attack versus fast attack,
one's resisted, one is neutral,
Marto can't believe it,
his entire fate in this tournament
just shifted on the back of that giant whale, Dondoso,
as he's able to secure the decisive game number three
to move on.
Pull the rabbit out of a hat and then some,
absolutely wild end game there.
I'm gonna have to see the replay on that
because I'm looking at, I'm like there's no way,
Now three turn move as well into one turn.
You don't even have the priority yet.
He got three waterfalls off at that low of health
against Sidewave.
Mardo is one of the most talented trainers.
Of course, Don Dozos is MVP.
He knows that Pokemon.
He didn't think it could happen either.
Absolutely wild.
Absolutely wild from one of the top players in the world.
I mean, that's just like, even with all the skill
in the world, I don't think most people can pull that off.
But what a crazy, crazy endgame there too.
I mean, I think the problem is, I think the slight miscue
from Dayla Jai, he had the option to potentially
even go Labyrinth, right?
To try to get that sparking aria,
to try to force the energy from the down go,
so at that point,
Martin Galle, they had to just go for the walk-ball down.
You know, and then that's, you know, and-
But he might get nervous, right?
He might get nervous and throw the surf.
And honestly, at this point, we're all thinking,
there's no way-
What is that?
Because the waterfall will take out the Labyrinth
But three waterfalls is insane and it survives nine sideways to
even throw that at that health range. Wow this this was a real deal.
Well Pokemon Go World is where miracles happen and for Marto a miracle did just
happen and he is advancing and he is one step closer to his ultimate dream of
becoming the Pokemon Go World Champion and being in that competition
tomorrow at Chase Center. What of the most exciting matches that I've ever seen in Love Jai who had not dropped a single game the entire tournament just dropped two in a row to Marto Gaudet.
Yeah, heartbreaking loss there for Leo Jai, but he's still in this tournament and Marti Gaudet, a regional champion, an international champion. He's missing the final piece, the world champion, and he's well on his way to do it.
But we got some more Gracie matches up.
We got a head-to-head matchup Japan versus Japan coming up.
And that's going to be a real exciting one.
Stay tuned for that one as we have more incredible action here
in Pokemon Go World Championships.
I'm here with some of the best traders in the world.
world and there are worlds qualified. I know that Arrow you've been battling a lot in the
GO Battle League and a lot of trainers at home they're not able to enjoy the tournament
competitively but maybe they're in GBL. So you know what I want a strong team I want to be
I want to play like my hero Arrow. Arrow what are you currently running in GBL?
Okay so I'm currently running Hussuin Electro, Shadow Quibesire and Shadow Suana. The goal of
the team is to save all your shields for Suana and let it rain terror.
Do you have any move set recommendations on this one? It gets gusts and that's pretty powerful. I would run gusts aqua jet fly on swanna on
Electrode as timthing is swift is I would run
Wild charge and energy ball and you always want stone edge on quag sire. My mom's not a real move set
Thank you so much. I know you've got a match coming up
So I'll see who else we can find and best of luck you next round. Thank you, sweetie. I
I just bumped into out of pocket who I know as the number one quagsire fan and I have to ask him as well
He's one of the best trainers in North America pocket. What are you running in GBL right now?
So I actually hit the legend rank running quagsire GBL
But very recently I've been joining a team that consisted of channel bug by fortress
Dondozo and lucky lucky I like to call the team the rotators because when both fortress and Dondozo user fast-fax
You kind of like twist a little bit like Dondozo is really cool. He just like a
You know, like a little like you charge up a twist to throw the waterfalls and it's a lot of fun
You got to teach me that move after you finish this interview
But I wanted to ask you you mentioned the waterfall done dozo what other movesets would you recommend for this team?
So fortress or just really excels with playing debuffs
So you would bug by fast pressure
It'll either lower their defenses with a sand tomb or lower their attacks that with a rock tomb done dozo
It really likes
The cheapest target possible is going to how slow waterfall is so you run surf and outrage with it and then lucky lucky
You were just run roll out shadow ball body slam awesome pocket any advice for playing the team
Do you have a safe swap? You always go to Licky Licky in that situation in or what?
I'd say like 99% of the time to Licky Licky
I would only really say swap down doze if you're like they do not have an
Electrode or a jump block or something that really shuts it down because on those those extremely good energy
but it's just way more likely to get a really tough match up.
Park, thank you so much.
I know you have a match coming up, so I'll let you run.
Let's see who else we can find.
I'm here with one of North America's rising stars.
This is Sustance Eater who burst onto the stage.
Here's a couple years ago.
He's qualified for Worlds this year as well.
Sustance, I'm so curious because your team this weekend is cool.
But what are you running in Go Battle League?
Yeah, so Go Battle League is a little different from show 6.
right now I'm kind of preferring to use Glaring Weezing, Shadow Glaring Weezing with Sludge and
Brutal Swing. I think it has really great neutral play into a lot of the fairies that people are
leading right now such as the Florgis. Not as great into the Ticketon, but there's always some
neutral play there and then it also is really good into the fighters and it does a lot of
damage to all the other things like Ghosts, Mantine and in the back I use Lucky and
Mantine to bulky flexible Pokemon that always seem to get the job done. I really like Glaring
but the ground weakness is tough to overcome.
So I like that you paired it with Mantine,
because Mantine just dominates those matchups.
If you have any moves or recommendations for Mantine
and for Licky Licky?
Yeah, so Licky, Licky Wise, we're just looking at the standard
rollout, body slam and shadow ball,
and then Mantine's same thing here,
wing attack, twister and water post.
I was playing against a Licky Licky yesterday
and I got hit with an earthquake, which was the first surprise.
But then he threw four more rollouts
and I said, oh yeah, this is a body slam.
It was a shadow ball.
Shadow ball earthquake is also a moveset
that you might see from time to time.
Do you have any advice on playing the team?
Do you lead the man team?
Do you swap a specific Pokemon?
Yeah, so I'm like leading the glare and wheezing.
It feels like we can always do a bunch of fairy winds
and catch out onto one of our Bopi Pokemon,
the wiki wiki or the man team.
And the energy is always gonna be useful later
because whenever we get in a situation
where we're throwing neutral sludges,
those are gonna be hitting for a lot of damage
against things like wiki wiki and man team.
And it feels really good to have that energy
and sweep with it later on.
All right, so since I know you have a match coming up,
so I'll let you run.
Let's get back over to the stream everybody
and let us know how you're doing
in the Go Battle League this weekend.
["DON DOZO FANZONE"]
Welcome back, Pokemon Trainers,
to the Don Dozo Fan Zone,
also known as the 2026 Pokemon Go World Championships.
My name is home slice Henry here on the desk
with the one and only Luda Pikachu.
We just got to watch one of the greatest games
we've seen all weekend,
Marto Galday with one HP and a dream.
The Don Dozo that could.
He's moving on to the winners semi-finals.
That game three was just incredible.
Honestly, Dondozo is truly living the life of a showgirl
right now up there on center stage here
at the Pokemon World Championships.
It was absolutely fearless in the face of those
side wave farm downs and I will now be forever more
a Dondozo believer here in Pokemon Go.
So that brings Marto Galdi up to the winners semi-finals
where Marto Galdi is gonna be battling against M.E.Weedle.
Now on the other side of the bracket,
we have two very talented trainers from Japan
in the other side of the winners semi-finals.
The field on the other winners side
is narrowing quite considerably.
At the top, we have Hiromaru with that incredible
Shadow Hippoudon and Nantono,
who is running the Glice Score,
the Shadow Glice Score and the Pangoro,
and at the bottom we have M.E. Wiedel and Marto Galday.
So all across the board, it really seems like trainers
who have gone more outside the meta with more,
let's say non-conventional picks.
We have the potential for Don Jozo
a winner's finals, a shadow hip-hound on, a shadow Gliscore, people who have thought outside
the box and tried to bring more intimate of Pokemon, it's really paying off at this tournament.
There's a really nice mix of those tried and tested favorites, the Licky Licky, the Ninetales,
the Man Time, for example, that we're seeing, but I think the one thing I like about these more
kind of innovative picks, let's say, are that they're still filling the same roles that a
lot of the count spots are. The Alolan Marrowite, for example, being that tried and tested
ground type, is being replaced by Pokemon Light, the Hip-Hound on, or even the Gliscore,
and at the same way, Glyce Gore fills that double roll, it's your ground type user, but it's also your flyer on your team as well.
So it has a lot of flexibility, all cooped up into one slot, freeing yourself up for some more intimate options like that charge bug.
I'd love to see that.
And here we go, the battle between two of the best players from Japan, Hiromaru vs. Kanto-no.
This matchup is going to be incredible.
On the left, Hiromaru has really relied on the shadow hip-hound on.
with his lightning fast pacing with sand attack, incredible coverage into the flyers with weather ball rock and those hard-hitting earth powers
has been a very strong Pokemon that he's brought to almost every game.
And on the other side, there's Contono who was really favored by Shadow Gliscor, a different kind of ground type,
not necessarily having that rock coverage, but has sandtume which can apply debuffs and really ramp up wing attack damage.
And if you're trying to no-shell sandtume but it's in acrobatics, that's basically going to be one-shotting a lot of Pokemon.
Yeah, that's gonna spell disaster for sure. A Pokemon I've got my eye on however is this Pangoro.
You have the karate chop and the close combat to counter Pokemon like the Lyky Lyky on the opposing side.
And obviously Tingutong not gonna appreciate that too.
The key thing however for me is the same type of tap bonus Night Slash that you've got to be able to apply pressure into that jealousy.
Pangoro does look like it could definitely restrict the lines here for Hiromaru.
Because you wouldn't necessarily look at a Pokemon like Hippowdon and think Hippowdon doesn't like fighters.
However, because the only way to hit fighters for even neutral damage would be in Earth Power, which does take 13th set attacks to get to,
is that in pretty significant pacing disadvantage.
And now when you factor in the fact you have a Jealouson, you have a Licky Licky,
and even the Kanto Ninetales, there's identical pacing there with the Pangoro, but Pangoro wins charge type priority.
Even if you get it on the Fairy type Tickathon, Tickathon's a Fairy Steel type.
Close combat is a lot of damage, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is absolutely right, and this is a very Pangoro intensive set,
because it doesn't really seem like there's a downside to ever bringing the Panda.
Yeah, it does have a lot of flexibility right now,
and as you've said, as long as you can avoid things like the Fairy Wind,
there's a lot of play to be had.
There is a lot of offensive pressure, however, with Pokemon like that, 9-Tels in play.
You have to make sure you're avoiding those embers and not allowing your opponent to get the energies up.
But let's take a look at the lead's Electro versus Glyscore.
This is not what Hiromaru was hoping to see, a immediate save switch into the Kanto 9-Tels.
Kanto 9-Tels will be answered with the Licky-Licky,
but a couple of attacks are thrown there by the Glyscore,
and giving an energy head start to a Pokemon like Shadow of Cancer Ninetales
can really help it get ramped up and potentially try to flip this batch up.
I can certainly help things in the end game right now.
The Licky Licky just happy to absorb the attacks that the Ninetales is throwing its way
and in turn can retaliate with this Shadow Ball nice defensive play
on Hiromaru's side to go for the shield here.
Getting a Shadow Ball shielded is a big swing of momentum over to the Cancer Ninetales
because that is a lot of energy down the drain.
Only one hit point advantage for the shield.
Contono is going to be no shielding once again, but before he's even able to make it with a shadow ball,
that catcher, Ninetales, that energy advantage, going to be able to outpace.
So Contono is just going to cut his losses and settle for the body slam.
Exactly, body slam. Just going to be able to do some good damage into the shadow bearing off the Ninetales.
It goes on shield as well, takes it down into that red zone.
But there's so much energy up on Ninetales, the side of the field is at two of these weather balls.
Licky, licky goes down, there's so much energy to be unleashed!
Wow, what a form down! The bait from here above! What a no shield!
Contono! What a call!
Stone cold, bait call!
Weather ball will do almost nothing!
The energy ball is available, and now Contono puts up the protect shield.
What a dazzling call!
So much pressure from the energy ball that was on the 9 tiles.
It's not even going to be able to find this mark now,
because the shield that was preserved so beautifully on that bait
has been initiated on that polytote.
However, polytote does still have to deal with this electrode on the opposing side.
And this ice beam will be hitting four super effective damage.
This is a shadow polytote.
This is going to do a lot of damage.
Hero Maura with things to the options, puts up the last second Protect Shield, gets the shield call right,
but that's gonna set up the Gliscor on the Shield advantage.
Yeah, last second Shield, but I think that is exactly what the Electro-Gnesis.
Got that energy up, the Gliscor on the opposing side is gonna be vulnerable to the energy coming through.
Huge amount of damage, but once again, farming up on that Gliscor side.
But the Gliscor having this energy advantage, Gliscor should actually be in a pretty good position.
Gonna reach for the Acrobatics, no Protect Shields in play.
This will not pick up the one Hikai-Oh, but this is gonna be a lot of health gone from Licky.
Licky in a split second.
Yeah, that shouted very and boosting up its attack
as well, making it even more formidable.
Licky, Licky does have the opportunity now
to go for one of these body slabs.
There's not a lot of HP remaining on this fly score
and Contono allowing it to go down.
Contono may have to try and go for a much shut down,
but it does not seem like it's possible
that Licky, Licky has too much help to speak of.
And now Contono is in a very difficult position.
You kind of need the farm ground
because you need the energy to be able to outpace
the electrode, but if you can't get the farm down,
This could be danger, force the fire off the weather ball.
This will be game over for the Licky Licky,
but the electrode is still lurking in the back.
That's a good point actually.
The electrode is really the nemesis against this polytode,
being able to hit with electric and grass type coverage
so all the energy being up on Contono's side
is gonna be critical.
There's the ice beam, but it's not able to get to it.
Hiramaru had one thundershot residual.
The charge attack priority tie goes to the electrode
and that's gonna be a game one win for Hiramaru.
Oh my goodness, what an incredible end game
there, the electrode coming in, being able to get the edge and get the KO.
Fantastic play coming through on both sides of the field, but ultimately
Hiromaru able to take game number one in this set.
That bank call by Kanto no was incredible.
The stone cold instant no shield, daring him to throw the energy ball.
And he did not, but Hiromaru was still able to manage energy perfectly,
ensuring that electrode had one residual.
So Kanto no basically had to throw energy against the wiki.
the polytope was not going to be able to hang on to a body slam, so we had to throw in just hope there was not any residual
energy on the electrode, but there was, and that is as close as a game could possibly get.
You can see the damage coming through from these body slams though as well, putting in a huge amount of work,
but at the same time, Ninjails being able to get that bomb down and have all this energy on the board,
even though this was a fantastic no shield, the fact that there was another energy ball,
just able to come through and force that shield to finally be utilised meant the pressure was constantly on from Hiromaru's side.
And for Hiromaru realizing that he could have actually made the back to back energy balls as he was able to survive that much
John a little bit unfortunate for him
But he was still able to get that win
It's a body same pressure way to protect shield just right of a second body same force the weather ball
And then it was a race for much outs away from the game winning ice beam
But fourth under shots away from the game winning wild charge
Electrode has the higher attacks that winning charge tech priority
Wild Charge fails the poly-toad and Hiramaru only one win away from the winners finals
Honestly that line tells us the star of the show for me being able to have so much pressure with all that energy
But also finding a way to navigate against Pokemon light the glidescour on the poly-toad
But it doesn't usually like to get the alignment against now these bannalors making last second adjustments
They know how important this game number two is we've got double lock ins
Contono versus Hiromaru a trip to the winners finals on the line the leads are revealed
But that's not what Hiromaru was hoping to see as it's Licky Licky staring down Pengoro
But the Pangoro is here, it's out in the lead and it is forcing that Licky Licky to retaliate
We're going to be able to see the nine tails in play and once again Pangoro on the offensive
Pangoro will instantly lock in a Night Slash
This does prevent the Kancho Nights deals from getting a full ember sneak Night Slash connects
Contono dances out of the matchup as him comes licky-licky to basically clean up this Ninetales.
Ninetales going for the weather ball here again
We know Licky-licky is going to be able to take this attack. No shield needed to be utilized on Contono's side here
They'll be easily able to sponge that up and can retaliate with the body slam
There's a lot of vulnerability left on this Ninetales though
So it's sure it's really going to invest a shield into the Ninetales
This is going to be tough. No shield comes. No body slam connects. That's going to be the end of that Ninetales
But now Hiromaru does have the potential to try and massively over front with the Licky-licky
Licky-licky into the pangoro is a very negative matchup, but potentially Fiora Maro is able to over form quite a bit
and basically trade hit points in exchange for energy that energy could actually get some critical damage onto the pangoro
and try and set up that his Suni electrode in the back to sweep.
Contono has been able to reset that timer as well, so there is the utility to switch once you've got enough energy up on your Licky-licky on your side of the field
but again, you can just start going for these body slams, chipping away, there's another one ready to go.
go. Another body slams, body slams flying left and right in this licky, licky mirror.
Shiromaru going to look to try and over form and that's exactly what he's going to go for,
over farming, playing to the charge, tech barony type but does not win it. The grimace there
as she was hoping to be able to have the back to back body slams to throw at that pangoro.
But now the licky, licky is deep into the red HP. Yeah, licky, licky does have a reputation
for throwing his weight around here but if we could be here till midnight if we keep seeing
his body's lamp just going left right and center and none of them come through but look at that we're
securing a knockout and Gory joins the field. And unfortunately the electrode is always going to be
behind by a turn. No baits here going straight for the close combat here tomorrow we'll invest
the protect shield. The electrode does get an energy ball head start but it's the Glyce score in
the back and we saw the Glyce score does not get one hit KOed by an energy ball. Exactly
energy ball able to come through as you've said Contorno knowing that this is going to be
you safe doesn't have to use a shield the gliscor was such healthy HP right now
is going to be able to hang on and in a position to get its stantume off against
this electrode the stantume is gonna be no shield of this is gonna be hitting
for neutral damage onto the grass electrotype those shield comes out from
here of our who that doesn't do a lot of damage and the switch timer should be
up momentarily after this energy ball Contano letting the second energy
ball come through however this is going to be able to secure the KO onto
that gliscor so it will go down and now all eyes turn onto this
Pangoro to try and even out the score for its trainer.
And Pangoro could just look to try and fully farm down the Electro,
makes a last second energy ball, but it really just feels like it's too little,
too late. Pangoro even flexing as it puts up the protect shield.
There's a switch into Licky Licky, but the energy is just not going to be enough.
Licky Licky needs to have back-to-back body sands. It is not there.
Pangoro, as long as it clicks this next night slash, should be able to close out the game
and even up the series for Contono.
This is exactly what Contrano needed, be aiming to get this Pangoro down against the Licky Licky
is what we saw in the leaders, what we're seeing in the end game and it's a fantastic way to even
out the scores as this Electro takes the final few shots. Now the Pangoro I don't believe was brought
in game number one, but in game number two we instantly saw why we had identified that
at Team Preview. That Pangoro just felt unstoppable. You switch the Ninetales into it,
bam there's already a Night Slash, after Ninetales has gone in comes Licky Licky
and unlike when there's a full HP 9 Dale so sometimes you get flip licky-licky,
once the Night Sight is landed there's not really a whole lot you can do other than just try and over farm
and it just was never enough.
And the shield preservation was great as well, being able to utilize that on the pankora,
considering that the Electro did have a decent amount of energy stored towards that endgame,
the energy balls would have put it into a bit of a detrimental spot,
but because you could shield it up, you could keep retaliating with the Karate Chop
and then that Night Slash Damage, it just meant the Component was fully in the driving seat.
And I don't even know what adjustments you can really make.
I'm looking across here on Mario's team and I'm trying to find a Pangoro counter and I
just don't see one.
Allegedly Tinkathon, but if you've ever no shielded a close combat on your Tinkathon,
you know that does a serious amount of damage.
It's only two thirds of your health bar gone in a split second.
Taking a look though across, I mean the Karate chops for example, they're not going
to be doing too much of the Jellison, but at the same time Jellison is not looking
super strong into this matchup.
You don't want to have to take the night slashes against the Politoad.
It's going to be a little bit of a wash, so I feel like that poke will still have to stay firmly on the bench
It's tough. It almost like feel like a bit of a desperation bring there of maybe if you can get it aligned on to the Gliscor
But even that Gliscor if it's up energy, you don't really want to take a shadow acrobatics
So I feel like that's what complicates this matchup so much is with the Gliscor and with the pangoro
It's two pokemone that can very easily get out of hand with a shield advantage
So as here tomorrow if you see a lead matchup in which neither one is there
You have to be very particular about how you manage it
You want to try and over farm not get your opponent a free switch in into something like that Glice Gore or if you go down a
Shield for switch advantage switch advantage doesn't really help when you don't really have a counter to pangoro on this team
So I think that the combination of the Glice Gore and the pangoro whether they're brought or not to the game number three
We'll have a pretty significant influence over how hero borrow has to try and play this game
For those who have watched the competitive scene for a couple years if you can remember back to I believe was the North American International
the game was over. Very, very
similar vibes here where you do
not want to give up a protect
shield early because there are
two insane sweepers that
Contono can bring. Another
Pokemon that's been really
coming up in this matter,
particularly in this matchup
is that poly toad. It is
seeing red with that shadow
variant as well, and it's
just so relentless with the
weather balls, but it's going
to be the charge above
versus the nine sales charge
but it's going to get out of
there. The embers are going
to come through and bring
up a shield early because
there are two insane
sweepers that Contono
going to come through and burn itself. So, we've now got Y-Square in play, much better
switching for those 9-tells.
Oh, Hero Maru going to lock in some significantly more damage here as it goes for the Energy
Ball. Energy Ball, no shielded by the Glycegore. Do we see the defense drop? Yes we do, as
Income's Jealousy.
There is the Jealousy in play, however, and if we take a look at the backline, there
is indeed that Pangora. It's just something to bear in mind.
Oh, he's going for the bait. Hero Maru is thinking it through. Calls the bait!
What a call by Hero Maru!
to get that through Jellison, keeping the shields in play, but the Glyscore once again
in this position to fire off one off the charge attack. The sand team coming through is, isn't
our shield coming up? Yes, Hiromaru does go for the shield, keeping Jellison safe.
That was not enough for the acrobatics, but Hiromaru did not want to risk it back
in comes the charge bug, but genuinely Jellison actually gets very good value in this
matchup up a little bit of energy. You're going to see a charge bug, no shields.
Shadowball basically comes close to picking up a two hit KO.
And we know how devastating Shadowball could be and this one has the same type of
attack bonus in contrast to what we see from the Licky, Licky for example.
Charge about now and then carry a spot.
Contono is forced to have to go for a shield to keep it in the game
and apply pressure with the electric type attacks.
Oh, an aggressive pivot out. In comes the nine tails.
Gonna reach for the discharge.
But discharge is not a particularly strong attack.
If QMR lets this go, this could get a little bit tricky.
Discharge is going to be no shielded. It connects.
And now in comes the Pangoro.
But the Pangoro is down a lot of energy.
Pangoro is not gonna get the farm down.
A weather ball is guaranteed to land.
So, Contono is forced to no shield.
Yeah, Ninetales on the other hand right now has that energy that it can pace to so quickly.
That said, Pangoro has managed to get the edge now and finally get a night's touch and play.
But there is that weather we're waiting on the other side.
Iro Moro happy to let all that energy go, though, to bring in one of the Pokemon from the back
while allowing the Pangoro to expunge its energy onto the Ninetales.
And the Ninetales has been very good. The boost comes through.
But it just seems like it's too little, too late.
Pangoro makes the boost in close combat, but Hiromaru was prepared.
a protect shield remains, Tinketon will be preserved and Hiromaru just seems unstoppable.
Honestly, the way this Tinketon with the Faria went through dispatch, fighting, and dark heads
in the form of that Pangoro is just absolutely unforgivable. Being able to get rid of that
Pokemon and now apply pressure to this charge book as well, Tinketon is really in the spot like now.
A both those debuff as well, not necessary, but that's about how the game went.
Hiromaru has done it, winning in our winner semifinals.
Two games to one.
He's moving on to the winners finals of the World Championships.
Absolutely incredible play.
Hiromaru using that tinkertime,
using that jealousy to absolutely tailor a swift victory
into the winners finals.
Absolutely epic, incredible gameplay.
Honestly, I'm on the edge of my seat the whole way through
as if I even had a seat to stand on right now.
Because every single game is coming right down to the wire
and we're getting such masterclass in Pokemon innovation.
The way that these trainers are using the more rogue choices
that they're bringing, the Charger Bug, for example,
the Jealousy, it's great to be able to see
not only how to use them,
but why they deserve to be here at Worlds.
And one very interesting aspect of that series
was kind of the role reversal between games two and three.
We saw in game number two,
if you end up leading weak to that Pangoro
and you're forced to switch out,
Pangoro has the eight turn pacing.
Even if you add the nine tails of eight turn pacing,
switching takes a turn.
You're behind, you can't go for the Charger Tech,
You're chipped, it makes that kind of awkward,
and it was the role reversal in Game 3.
Kanto Ninetales reminding people that it is one of the best Pokemon in this meta for a reason,
and it was all set up by Hiromaru with a bait call.
No shielding the sand dune, shielded the second,
but was genuinely able to get really good value out of that jealousant,
and then the Kanto Ninetales off energy,
calling that it was going to be the Pengoro in the back with very minimal fast attack pressure.
No shielding that is charged,
and he's getting enough damage onto that Pengoro
to allow the Tinketon to clean up, even as Pagoro got that night's last boost.
We did have a couple of questions about the Jellison and kind of its viability in this matchup,
but the fact that I had the partner of the Tinketon and the Ninetales to be able to deal respectively
with the Pagoro or with the Chargerbug just meant that the Jellison was in a prime position
to focus down on the Gliscor, farm off as much energy as it wants and then just Shadowball after Shadowball.
Honestly, once again, teamwork at its absolute finest.
Now the Shadow Appound on unfortunately was not brought to that series against the Gliscor.
score. Glyscore is not the usual flyer on a lot of teams and due to that ground
flying typing, weather ball rock only hits for neutral so it's a pretty negative
matchup. So the hip-hound on which Hiromaru had really favored in previous
matchups stayed on the bench for this one. It wasn't like there was man-teens
that could get overwhelmed by shadow weather ball rocks. It was a Glyscore
so I had to kind of adjust the strategy, really rely on that Cancer 9
Tales in Game 3. Canto 9 Tales proving that it deserves its usage because
it really felt like Cancer 9 Tales just completely ran over that entire
team and that gave me for three. Yeah, it was absolutely great to see and of course if you're just tuning in now, we just have a look at one of the winners semis matches. But we do also have a little preview of our losers bracket as well so you can catch up on how the action is going there.
Some incredible names still in the competition. Oh my goodness, it looks like Caspian Pike has emerged victorious in losers round one. The Indianapolis regional champion in a heavyweight bout out of pocket took down in
So our loses round one has almost concluded there, but even just take a look at all the other names that have made it the losers bracket
This losers bracket is stacked my goodness
Honestly looking at names like sustenance
You know that we saw kick pattern man down into the losers bracket earlier today is now sitting there ready and waiting in losers round four
Doon bug again one of the trainers
I think has so many medals he needs a new shelf at home to be able to keep accommodating those
Jai as well that we got to see to great success on the stream to out today's broadcast and of course PVP David someone who has been so inspiring to watch play still very much in contention for the competition.
And Contono for those who are cheering for him at home. He's all the way over in Losers round six. So for Contono a much deserved break. He is going to be battling much later in the day. We have a lot of Losers matches to get through here.
and once we progress those losers rounds he's gonna be in losers round six so he's already pretty close to the losers finals
I believe it only be two best of three wins to get there
So that's one of the advantages of dropping down to losers later on in the day
He's were able to skip so many losers bracket rounds and that is a very very big head start for now though
We will be sticking on the winners side of the brackets and bringing our second winners semi-final and it's a between two
Incredible trainers. We have got Emmy Weedle and Marto Galday again two trains who almost need no introduction
If you were watching the broadcast earlier
you'll remember a certain Don Dozo and I know Henry for one is so excited to be
able to have this potentially showcase again later on. Marta Galdi and the
Don Dozo has been unstoppable in the competition. Don Dozo is here. Don Dozo,
I believe was out of pocket. He was able to pilot it to a very good finish at
the Indianapolis Regional Championships and then it was XR Vos in one of the
APAC qualifiers. I believe piloted it to a second place finish. So Don Dozo,
It's Fox and God have been rising and Marto Galday now piloting it to amazing success at the world championships
But he's gonna be up against a ferocious competitor in M.E. Weedle M.E. Weedle
I mean the accolades speak for themselves. He is the previous European International champion the 2022 Pokemon Go Seniors division world
Champion this is a battle between two of our best
the world and it's an absolute
joy to get to watch the series
because this is going to be
incredible.
The truly are Pokemon go
folklore stories written about
these two trainers.
They have so many amazing
additions if the history books
of incredible matches,
incredible Pokemon,
incredible memories.
Emmy Weedle, like you said,
has been a world champion
previously in the Seniors
Division back in 2022.
Since then, it's all about
the masters here and he wants
to be able to claim himself
a second world title and be
able to say, hey, I'm the
only player in the world,
owning player in the world who is capable of doing this in two divisions.
Now, that would be a pretty incredible accomplishment, but as we take a look at
his opponent, Marto Galdi, he's no stranger to having his own hardware.
A former Latin American international champion, multi-time regional champion as
well. I believe he had ended up placing in third in a previous world
championship. So he also has probably, I just want a cabinet, right?
Like an entire cabinet full of trophies and medals.
Two of the most decorated traders in our entire game, and this matchup is going to be incredible.
Marto Galle going a bit more anti-Meta with the Shadow Sableye and the Dondozo, and M.E.Wiedl saying M.E.Meta is M.E.Meta for a reason.
M.E.Wiedl, we've seen him on stage a couple times, he's running disarming voice on that gorgeous.
The rest of the moveset's all pretty standard, the battle has exchanged well wishes, we have lock-ins.
Game number one of the winner's semi-finals, coming up.
Let's have a look between Emile Ridle and Martial Galday who is going to be the victor. Moving on to the winners finals, it is going to be a Licky Licky for Emile Riddle and the Ninetales for Martial Galday.
All in all, not a terrible matchup for the Ninetales even though Rola does hit for a super effective damage. Martial has the choice to throw on 7 or 10 is going to opt to throw on 7 here.
Doesn't quite set up the same sequencing as throwing on 10, but what it can do is guarantee that damage lands onto the Licky Licky and potentially set up a catch out.
We have to look at the backlines as well. We've got that Dandozo waiting in the wings.
That's a Pokemon that's just going to be able to absorb a lot of hits.
So Nine tells the thing, putting in some work to deal with some of the bulky opponents on Emmy Weedle's side as well,
that might give Dandozo a run for its money.
And Emmy Weedle chose to throw that charge stack immediately on alignment.
A free Ember did sneak through, but Weedle here is valuing the fact that the Shadow Ball will either guarantee land damage
or get a protect shield to ensure that it does not get caught.
Dandozo finally joins the match here and we are going to be able to see it take this Shadow Ball coming through from Licky Licky,
from Licky Licky, a fantastic poke on to eat up all of that damage, allowing the Ninetales
to safely bank that energy in the back.
This is a genuinely very important bit of damage to land on the Dondozo because Impoleon
typically is not able to pick up a two hit knockout with Drillpack.
You can see the metal sounds basically doing no damage onto the Dondozo and while Dondozo
is walled, an ability to survive two Drillpacks is imperative.
However, with that Shadow Ball landing, as we've seen this Drillpack land, this
Dondozo is getting very close to Drillpack being able to pick up the two hit knockout
And that's very favorable for Widow, as Impoleon does offer a pretty significant pacing advantage in this matchup.
Yeah, Dondozo kind of going metal sounds. I can't hear you. You're actually absolutely null and void in this match, but it's all about these charge attacks. Look at that.
Oh, the perfect overfarm by Widow. He is not letting that surf land. Drillpeck knocks out the Dondozo, and he is up a protect shield and still has a pretty healthy Impoleon.
the Empolion.
Yep, Ninetales comes back in as well, has all of our energy banks who can immediately unleash
one of these weather balls, forcing the shield to come through on Emmy Weedle's side, wanting
to keep the Empolion nice and safe in the game.
Again, Metal Sounds not doing too much for this critically about the energy generation.
It is getting to its water type attack critical shield coming through on Marto Galday's side.
Marto Galday all protect shields down for the remainder of the game.
There's going to be a pivot out, in comes the Quadsire.
He could have stayed in there, but does it put Emmy Weedle?
Oh no!
His Quadsire is on mudbomb.
It is completely walled.
That's the thing, you want to see the Stone Edge in play
when you have a flyer on the opposing side,
but instead the Ground type attack
is really going to be negligible damage into the Altaria
as is the Acrotail for insult to injury.
Whereas Altaria can just keep going
through the Strong-At-Rest bomb up all of the energy
and really put Marta and Galdey in a promising position.
Aqua Tail after Aqua Tail,
it's not going to matter.
The Altaria is just inevitable.
Marto Galdey forms up just shy of 100 energy
and now begins to put the pressure on Quagsire
with these sky attacks. This is a great position here for the Altaria just going down from the sky sky attack
off the sky attack putting on a possible farm down onto the Quagsire there but instead it's going to have to face down against the Empolio
but it has energy for days forcing that shield to come through on any Mido side. And Marto Galday still has energy available on the
Cantor 9 tails the Altaria outside of drill back range
but it's not going to get that chance. In comes the 9 tails sniping down with the Leather Ball. Empolion is going to fall.
any Weedle does still have the Quagsire, but the Quagsire has no hit points.
The Licky Licky has no hit points either, while you can have all the energy in the world and you cannot defeat Altaria.
Marto Galday farms down, fires off the weather ball as Licky Licky, and Marto Galday is going to be taking game number one.
Absolutely incredible. Brilliant to see this 9Tels close out the game, but honestly the torture post department is calling that Quagsire and asking it to sell its story against that Altaria.
It really just was desolation, nowhere for it to go, and Altaria was in such a dominant position.
That Quaxire, knowing that it's mudbomb, that's such a risk to bring into it, Altaria.
And unfortunately, it did not end up working out for Weedle.
Marto's decision, reading the fact that Weedle liked to throw their Shadow Balls on a Lime,
is to try and avoid a catch.
Getting the catch on the Dondozo, baiting out the Embolion, and the reveal.
I don't know if Weedle had ended up bringing that Quaxire too much on stream.
So, Quaxire normally into Altaria with Stonehenge, which the moves that he's seen quite a bit.
It's fine, Stone Edge does a lot of damage,
but it was the Mud Bomb.
Mud Bomb makes this matchup so much better into Pokemon like Ticketon,
but unfortunately it falls flat against Altaria.
I mean, let's step back and speak now about why that Quacksaw is possibly running
the alternative to the Stone Edge.
If you're against Flyers on the opposing side,
what are Emi's Weedle's way of countering it?
So Emi Weedle does have that Licky Licky,
and Licky Licky can do quite well into the Flyers.
Most Flyers, because Altaria isn't typically the Flyer of choice,
more often than on man team and this team is pretty well structured to try and deal with man team
but Altaria does put a bit of unique pressure on the team in terms of Kanto 9 deals has some pretty
decent play into man team. It's not a good matchup but if you're off energy you do have an ability
to threaten you with neutral energy balls but against Altaria it's kind of the Terminator
theory. You're going to need a lot of weather balls and Altaria is still going to have a lot of
HP after you fire off all those weather balls. Particularly with this dragon breath they
stack up so much energy and get so many little increments of damage down even though
by themselves. It's not a big amount of damage. The fact that there's such a fast, fast attack
just means that you can start steamrolling through opponents and it's a great position
to see Altaria in. Coming into this next game, however, Marto Galday won game away from advancing
into our winners finals. Emmy Weedler is going to be doing everything he can to stop him because
he wants to put his name onto that next place in our bracket. Marto Galday was made for moments
like these. You don't win that many regional championships and an international championship
without having that killer instinct, that ability when you're so close to your goal to be able to get
that final win, to be able to secure your place in the winners' finals. Both battlers,
they're taking their time. They're ensuring, they are preparing. They know this is the biggest game
they have played today. Marko knows he's won win away from the winners' finals and that might
be all he needs to secure his place in top three. So looking forward into this next game,
How is Emmy Weedle going to deal with this Altaria better?
Which Pokemon needs to get the alignment?
The Florgis, for example, has the utility off that fairy wind.
That's a great way to deal with opposing dragons,
but is it just too difficult in the face of a potential Tinkertone
on the opposing side that can hit back with that gigatone hammer?
This Florgis is running the disarming voice,
and with disarming voice,
it does have a pretty good ability to deal with the Altaria.
But by not having Trebleys,
suddenly you actually end up being surprisingly weak to Dondozo.
Dondozo is a very big fan of taking neutral charge attacks.
We've seen it time and time again, Dondozo, very okay.
You really need super effective damage into Dondozo.
Otherwise, it's gonna be able to take at least three charge stacks.
So I can see where the pressure of Dondozo
might make him shy away from the Flaugius,
but in doing so, he's really gonna have to rely on that Impoleon.
But the Impoleon ended up getting baited out there,
and then it was kind of tough.
It certainly is.
I think if there was something like the trailblaze of the Flaugius,
you might be in a better position
to start doing some good damage into that Dondozo,
as well as critically getting the attack boost to that Flaugius
that can start steamrolling.
Instead, we're going to the best grass type Pokemon
in the format, which is the Nine Tails right now,
relying on that energy ball to deal with the bulky water
type in the form of that Dondozo.
But at the same time, Dondozo can retaliate so beautifully
with those waterfalls.
They really start stacking up some good damage.
And if you can get some surfs ready to go,
then Nine Tails can be washed away.
And that Dondozo, oh my goodness,
it's ability to survive the energy ball.
And even in that matchup, a lot of the times,
one of the things that I find when you go back
can take a look at a trainer who has won a game.
It's basically about trying to maximize value out of the Pokemon
that you bring.
And that Dundoso for March of Galle,
he got a lot of value.
That was 50 energy gone from a licky-licky.
There was back to that drill pegs having
to be thrown by a Polion.
That's so much energy expended by M.E. Weedle.
Now, obviously, Altaria onto the Quaxire.
There's really nothing Quaxire can do without that Stone Age.
But even so, I feel like I very rarely
see a game in which Dundoso felt value.
Is that incredible amount of bulk and its ability
kind of be used as a tool for repositioning almost, getting that catch, preserving his lead matchup,
can kind of put him in a very good spot. I think it has been a beautiful showcase
by D'Andose throughout this tournament, Marte Galli obviously piloting it to phenomenal success.
A great call by yourself as well Henry, putting that on your cast of predictions, it must be a
joy to see, but as we're waiting for our trainers to get ready, the match will be with you as
soon as possible folks, we're just building the anticipation a little bit more. I think
there's one Pokemon that we have neglected to talk about and I'm curious to hear from
you home slice about whether you think it has any utility in this match is really
our ghost types here you've got the shadow save a lot of gold aside and
you've got the glaring horse on any we decide both trainers opted to not bring
it in this game one is there any utility for the ghost types here I do think the
shadow save like could be quite interesting the shadow save light it's
likely to depend on these specific stats rather than more to has decided to
run do you opt for a more bulk oriented shadow save lie or do you
opt for more of an attack way to shadow save life because if you run
quite a bit of attack on shadow save lie you can actually win charge
top priority over the Polion and because have identical pacing if you're winning charge top
priority then you're just winning that matchup straight up. So whether Marsha decides to bring
it could depend a lot on the staff spread that he has because if you do have that extra investment
in the attack then that could be a bit of a nasty surprise for any Weedle who expects it to be a
good matchup just to find out that it is not. I'll let the coverage on Saberlei as well. Obviously
the Shadowclaw is one of the best fast attacks in the game and can have really nice
positioning against Pokemon like the Corsula. At the same time you have that Dream Punch,
the fighting type, charge attack, that can be great in something like the Licky-Licky,
but trainers, you'd have to wait any longer. We're jumping into game two and the second
winner, Sammy, is that Don Dozo back in action against the Licky-Licky.
We've got the battle of the bulk in game number two, Don Dozo versus the Licky-Licky. Licky-Licky
will have the pacing advantage, but waterfall does significantly more damage than rollout.
It's going to be Licky-Licky striking first as it looks to land the Shadow Wall.
Of course we know Don Dozo can basically shrug this attack off at this point,
just able to take that and keep the shields in play while being able to retaliate with a surf.
Licky Licky of course has notorious bulk as well so is going to be able to take this and
eat up the energy on the opposing side. But both these trainers it's really going to come to where
the switch happens to when the momentum case is going to change. Could Enny Wiedel potentially
look for a catch? No. He's going to stay on the field, wait the turn and fire off that
shadow ball in the middle of the waterfall animation to ensure they will land on its
intended target. This is why you have to ask a question. It's putting the donnozzo down
into the right zone. You do not have the position to go for another surf and critically I
I think Dondozo, yes, also Galday might be putting it in a very vulnerable position, but
you've also returned the favor to that licky-licky and secured the KO.
Oh, he brings in the Impoli on the save switch, Altaria, but there's the Forges!
The adjustment!
Emmy Weedle baited him into switching.
He did not want to concede the farm down.
He sent in the Altaria, but Emmy Weedle came prepared.
The Forges is here, and with this arming voice, it's going to be able to inflict
some pretty massive damage onto that Altaria.
This is what I'm talking about.
The Forges finds his mark against the Altaria.
This is the exact count of who is needed to bet the Altaria that was such a thorn in
Emmy Weedle's side in that previous game, particularly considering the fact that Hazardous
Disarming Boys with same type of tag bones, the Altaria going on shield that is going
to have to take the tag.
It's not enough to get the knockout though, Altaria stays in the sky.
That is a little bit unfortunate for Emmy Weedle, over farmed to the max, playing
the charge type already, but the Altaria two bolts, even a super effective Disarming
Boys could not knock it out of the sky.
Forges will get that farmed down, but honestly not the worst outcome for
Marzo Galdes.
Yeah, you have a lot of energy up onto the floges, but now the tables really have turned you have the tinketon
That isn't gonna worry about the charge attack that the floges are sending its way
And at the same time you can start getting that gigaton ready to fly
But it comes the Empolion Empolion has a lot of energy the tinketon is debuffed
And it looks like it could be a position from which Margeau Galway cannot fly his way back
He really wants to reset the attack drop, but in doing so there's a dontozo that has basically no energy
And all it would do is just give a bunch of farm over to the Empolion
That's the thing, you can go through the school though, that's all you want.
Emmy Weedle just saying, bring it on, you're debuffed at this point in time
while Empolion isn't going to worry taking that.
You do get the drop however and the Tinkerton is ready to follow up,
but there is still that shield.
Emmy Weedle saying, we're going to protect it though,
we're going to let Empolion stand its ground.
Even despite the debuff, oh, we're going to see the pin it out.
In comes the Dondozo.
These waterfalls are actually adding up onto the Empolion.
Hold on a second.
He scores the fire off energy.
Marzo Galle not at 1 HP.
If he puts up the shield, the waterfall would take the knockout.
The biggest call he makes today.
He lets it go, D'Ozzo will fall and it's going to be all up to Tinketon.
That was so close, D'Ozzo nearly being able to get the farm down.
Instead, that shield prepared for this Tinketon, keeping it in play,
forcing the Empoli on to utilize all the energy on the Hydra kind of it.
There's the switch. Flaugius in play.
Flaugius has so much energy.
Flaugius is going to need the back-to-back chilling waters here.
Marto Galday desperately needs to get there.
This is going to be close. He needs to get to the Gigaton hammer,
Florida still has the protect shield and that's just not going to be enough
Me weedle gets his equalizer
Florida's knocks out one of its worst matchups in tinketon and we're going to a game number three
That victory has got to taste so sweet for the floor just being able to be in the best position against the Altaria
And like you said holding its own against the tinketon as well
I think Mato gal they bring in that tinketon was great coming into this matchup
You're able to find a way to deal with that floor just if the Altaria does find itself falling victim to it
but Emi-Wido just seemed constantly one step ahead.
That game honestly felt like a roller coaster.
You could see Marto's idea, get the debuffs, send in the Dondozo, find a way,
but Emi-Wido, intentionally over-farming enough to the back-to-back,
allowed him to be able to pressure away that final protect shot from the Tinketon,
incredibly good energy management there from Emi-Wido,
and he's proving why he's made it all the way to the winners' semi-finals.
At the beginning of this game, we saw this kind of stay on my going-off between the Licky, Licky and the Dondozo,
And I have to ask the question did not a girl they keep the John dozo in a little bit too long against the licky-licky meaning in a kind of
Utilize its last results the don't go there wasn't really able to utilize too much in the later stages
Imagine a couple more waterfalls could that have made a difference or maybe even considering the fact that instead of knocking out that
Licky-licky
Holding on to that that those are energy and then pivoting out because it really felt like once don dozo knocked out the licky-licky
I think you have it sometimes in DPC where sometimes knocking out a Pokemon is actually a liability
It almost felt like knocking out the licky-licky was a liability for Marco because then the dondo was basically more or less a sitting duck
It had no energy
He tried to make lightning strike by debuffing it and then bringing the dondo so but even that was not enough
He's M. E. Weedle with the foresight to double up on the Hydro Ganons basically made it impossible for Marto
Well coming into this game three and once again we have a game three
I love to see things come right down to the wire like this
They're battling out for a place in our winners final
looking at what these Pokemon Trainers can bring are we going to see some bold
adjustments or is it going to be really about utilizing energy management and
switch stronger? I really hope that we get to see that Dondozo one final time I
think that the Dondozo just with slightly different management there just a
slightly different play style because it was very very good in that first game
but maybe not as a lead maybe it does need to be in the back like it was in
that game number one utilizes more of a damage sponge and not necessarily
playing out those even matchups, but one trainer has locked in the other, making last second adjustments here.
This is going to be an incredible, incredible battle, and the players feel it, the spectators feel it, you at home feel it, the anticipation, they exchange well wishes.
We've got double lock-ins. Game number three, winner of semi-finals. It's going to be the Shadow Quagsire into the Shadow Canto Night Tales.
The purple flames are on the stage as both these trainers going for these fast attacks, farming of as much energy as possible.
Of course, energy ball in a prime position to do some damage into that quag-style, but Nytals gets out there,
Cremes air gets out there, it's the battle of the water types.
Margeau golly tries for the catch, Emmy Weedle does not let it happen,
but this is not the Dundos one Pollyon matchup that we have seen before.
This is a full health Dundoso.
As the first Drill Peck connects, you will notice this does well under 50% of its total health bar.
Emmy Weedle is going to need three Drill Pecks if he wants to secure a knockout,
But Dandozo is getting dangerously close to the back-to-back serves.
Yeah, Dandozo is pretty comfortable to keep taking a couple of these drill packs,
and as you've said, the waterfall stacking up, getting these serves in the position
to start overwhelming the penguin on the opposing side of the field.
You can see another one coming through forcing Ami-Mido to utilize a pressure shield,
head in his hands a little bit, thinking that these are the critical moments of the game.
And this exact scenario is what a lot of the Bollyond players end up feeling
is suddenly the Dandozo matchup, which on paper should be pretty good,
good. It suddenly feels kind of awkward. Look at this next drill pack. It's not going to enable a
farm down. MEWETAL is going to need to either pivot out or fire off even more energy. And at the same
time these waterfalls getting you to Annalisir, the Hydro Cannon is primed as well. So the Emporion
does manage to get the edge. Marto Galbi going on shielded here. Marto Galbi saying Dandozo has
done its job. It has effectively neutralized the Emporion. Emporion does have the Hydro
Cannon banked. In comes the nine tails. Marto will look to try and go for a farm down.
But can M.E. Weedle risk sending in the Quagsire out of fear of the Altaria?
He does. He says it's no Altaria. That is an incredibly bold call.
So dominant coming through on M.E. Weedle, switching into that Quagsire.
They already have the energy bank. The shield comes up on Ninetales' side.
Ninetales, the one that really wants to be ferocious at the moment.
Not going for the energy ball, but is M.E. Weedle going to call it?
M.E. Weedle, he puts up the protect shield.
It is going to be the weather ball bait.
And now it's going to be a race. Energy ball versus the Aqua Tail.
Marto switches one early. In comes that Licky Licky.
but this is where a charge attack like mud bomb will allow emi wedle to get some pretty nice damage.
He's gonna go for the aquatail first, but if he does, if he's able to land the mud bomb,
mud bomb will do considerably more damage.
Aquatail just chipping away the licky-licky as licky-licky starts farming off as much energy as possible.
It can just start going through with these shadowballs, but the Quax out is also ready to meet it.
Being able to unleash another aquatail critically, it wants to try and get that pressure with the mud bombs when it can.
Are we gonna pivot out? Switch diapers off! He gets the catch!
onto the Embolion! That is not what Marto needed to have happened, but he's unable to roll out down, so he would have had to throw energy anyway.
That's at least one way to clear a Pokemon from the board, but look at the health positioning of the Flaugers and this Kragxire on Emi-Wheedle's side of things.
It's going to take a lot of effort coming through. At least you got rid of the Shields on one side, now you've got the Shadow Ball coming through into the Shadow Kragxire.
And the Shadow Ball, it's not going to do much. Emi-Wheedle, he ends up waiting a turn there, trying to go for a charge attack by already dying.
But Martial Galday was one off either way Aqua Tail is going to be securing the knockout back in comes the nine tails
Nine tails needs a move. It does not have it and emmy we know he cannot believe it
Honestly the back-to-back Aqua tails we've seen this time and time again the energy management heavy damage going down into the opposing Pokemon
Here nine tails is going to be able to retaliate, but there is I believe a full health forges in the back for emmy Weedle
M.E. Weedle, he cannot believe it, head in his hands, just a few fairy winds from Gorgias.
He gets the farmed out and M.E. Weedle moves on to the winners' finals of the World Championship.
Absolute cinema, incredible games, M.E. Weedle can't believe it, but what an incredible game
3 taking us right down to that moment, Quadsire, reigning supreme in the meta right now.
Congratulations M.E. Weedle, what a match home slice.
incredible gameplay there. M. E.
Weedle. He stayed with the Quagsire.
It ended up on Altaria, but he trusted in it.
What it mattered the most and that incredibly bold call of game three,
risking the fact that it could be the Altaria in the back,
but he trusted his gut. He said there's no Altaria.
And if there's no Altaria,
pivoting back into Quagsire would put a ton of pressure on De'Varto.
Varto wanted the fear of the Altaria to keep Quagsire away from me,
So we could get a bunch of energy up in eintails, but Emmy Weedle, that might be the play of the tournaments right there.
That call, that god read.
I mean that's what separates champions from the rest of us.
Emmy Weedle onto top three, what a series.
Marto played incredibly well, but Emmy Weedle just one step ahead.
Emmy Weedle almost didn't need his third and final Pokemon in this game three.
It was all about the impolion and Quaxxire.
What a duo, working diligently against the three
on Marta's side of things.
I think Dondozo, it's not quite as invincible
as we thought it was.
Looks like it's got some competition
for that water type throw, but any weedle in this moment,
being able to get that second ankle tail,
big damage onto the opposing Ninetales
to swung the momentum so strongly in his favor.
And how many times have we seen
Kanto Ninetales knock out water types today?
It was the revenge of the water types.
That's true.
Quaxxire actually taken the knockout,
And it honestly just, oh my goodness.
You can feel the emotion from M.E. Weedle.
He could not believe it.
He was so worried until the very end,
but he did it, he's onto top three.
Our winners' finals have been set.
On the top we have, oh my goodness,
Hiromaru from Japan.
Now M.E. Weedle from Switzerland.
And our winners' side of the bracket
for now is complete.
We still have those two in the winners' finals.
That is true.
So we still have so many games
to go on the losers' side of the bracket
because with the winners' finals is set,
we need to progress a lot of losers' rounds
to get to the losers' finals.
So many trainers who we've seen fall
onto the winners' side of the bracket,
they're still alive, they haven't played yet,
they're on the losers' side of the bracket.
So now, our attention turns
to that losers' side of the bracket.
We've seen some incredible world champions
born out of losers' side of the bracket,
dancing Rob as well.
That is very true.
But it sounds like we actually get to hear
from the man of the hour, M.E. Weedle.
We have Tomahawk down on the floor with M.E. Weedle.
win. I'm joined by any
Weedle. I don't need to say
anything. What's going through
your mind right now? I didn't
know that. I just. Just pure
excitement, happiness. Every
positive emotion you can
really think of, and I love
we love watching the emotions
going through your your face
your body. Everything when
you win those matches. Can
you remotely describe how it
feels when you know that you
have that victory? Not
really. You know, you need
to play to the end. You
need to play to the end.
not really, you know, you need to play to the end. You need to make sure you haven't accidentally made, you know, a crucial mistake in your, you know, playing out the rest of the game in your head, but it just feels, it just feels great and, yeah, when the win finally comes through, it's just amazing.
And what an incredible Pokemon Go journey you've had. From senior world champion, you played season in, season out, and you are now in the winners' finals of the 2026 World Championships. What does that mean to you?
I mean it means so much to me because I've had you know I've had a few rough tournaments
I'm not as consistent as players like had a man be as a boy
But the fact that I can you know make make a run like this and it proves to myself like more than to other people that I've you
Know I can still play this game pretty well
Very very well now talk us through some of the moments in that match because I know you're very meticulous with your play
And there are a few moments there where you did need to make some critical decisions
Are there any reflections you have in the moment?
Yeah, I mean, the game one was obviously not ideal with mudbump or quagsire on
Altaria at the end, but then in game three, I just needed to make the prediction that it wasn't an Altaria
I think if I gave him too much energy on the nine tails, he was gonna sweet me with that anyways
So I just had to make the call and you know, it worked out of course, but
Yeah, not necessarily gonna be as easy in the next games or if I have to face Marto again
Now when you started today knowing that you were in today, too
What were your expectations and if you were to speak now to yourself earlier this morning? How would you be feeling?
I mean amazing obviously, but I didn't expect her to be boom. He's an amazing play
I did technically have a slightly positive matchup in my eyes and I think he'd agree to
But yeah, I was lucky to make it past there and just to make it this far now is it's yeah once again
It's just it's just amazing right next up you're against Hiromaru in those winners finals
Have you been watching him play? How are you thinking about feeling for that match?
I think it's pretty bad for me because the hippocopumus and the electrode are pretty safe into me in general.
So I might have to get some line calls right. I might have to play better than I already have.
But yeah, I'll see how that goes.
It's a tough ask, but before you go away and prepare for that, are there any shoutouts you'd like to give?
My mum is here, of course. My dad at home as well.
All of tea and pizza, they've been amazing.
Everybody who's helped me scrim
in the build-up to this tournament, who helped me practice,
who discussed the day one, I'd say the day two fast match up against BOOM.
Just everybody who's supported me along the way. Thank you, thank you so much.
Really well done, Max.
I cannot wait to see if you can go all the way this weekend.
Lou, Henry, take it away.
It's always great to be able to hear some words of wisdom from our competitors.
Congratulations, Emmy Weedle, again on a fantastic victory.
I'm looking forward to seeing you in winners' finals.
What an incredible moment.
I know his family watching has to be ecstatic as well, getting to play at your absolute
best on the biggest stage.
And now he will get some time to hopefully get a little bit of food, get a little bit
of rest, a little bit of practice in ahead of this incredible winners' finals matchup.
Our winners finals bracket has been set.
We started with 16 players on Winner's side, we're down to 2.
Now that means all those players who dropped are now in the losers side of the bracket.
We also had 16 trainers coming in from the losers side of the bracket.
So now we start progressing these losers rounds, we get closer and closer.
Now the stakes are even higher.
Not only are like on the winners side you just drop the losers, if you lose you're
out.
Exactly it is a dumb elimination bracket after all.
I think one of the most amazing things over the storylines that can really be
from the loser side of the bracket.
If we take a look at our next match,
Mi Chang versus Spartan.
Now Spartan, you'll remember from day one of the broadcast,
actually lost to Firestar very early on in the tournament,
but later was able to get the redemption
at the end of day one, facing down against Firestar
once again and actually knocking him out of the tournament.
Whereas Mi Chang, I also believe,
went down very early doors.
Mi Chang ended up dropping very early in the tournament,
but just because you're down doesn't mean you're out
and his procedure is win after win after win.
win after win. Mi Cheng's team features Shadow Fortress, Nalimar, Dunsparse, a Pokemon we haven't
seen too often so far this weekend, Togikis, but honestly it feels like the Starly Show so far,
Dondozo and Delarian Corsola. I was wondering how long it was going to take you to mention the
Dondozo. You haven't seen enough of this Pokemon yet, so let's take a look at the matchup it's
going to potentially have. We're wondering if it's going to come out in the lead. The
Train is already, we've got the Flaugers versus Fortress. And this is the Bug bite Fortress,
even though bug bites are resisted, Fortress heavily favorite in this matchup.
Fortress does have a pacing advantage and can debuff a chilly water,
but Fortress has the ability to get those debuffs right back,
and those bug bites really don't look very resistant as they add up very quickly onto that Fortress.
Yeah, they're still typing when the Fortress is well-helping out against the very wind.
You do take the attack drop, but I think the critical thing Fortress is about is the debuffs
itself, so it can now go through this rock tube and start whittling away at the attack of
that Fortress too.
Another reason to run the Shadowbug by Fortress is even as floor-disapplies with debuffs,
you don't ever really reduce the amount of bug bite damage.
Napoleon Safer is from Spartan, answered with the Dandozo.
Traditionally, this would be seen as the match that Impoleon wants to switch into,
but Mi Chang knows Dandozo is surprisingly effective answer to the Impoleon.
Hey, taking notes from our last match, we've got Dandozo and Impoleon once again facing down against each other.
Dandozo, really not worried about the metal sounds coming this way,
it's utilizing the opportunity to get the Serfs ready to go.
A surf comes out from Dondozo, Spartan is going to be letting that through.
Surf does do a pretty respectable amount of damage.
Spartan is going to throw four metal sounds here.
He does get the double up on drill packs.
Dondozo now has that surf but we'll lose the charge security tie to the Epolyon.
Exactly, Dondozo.
Allowing this drill pack to come through does do a little bit of damage but you still
have that surf that you can unleash and force a potential shield to come through
on the Epolyon Spartan's backline.
It does have a lot of notorious bolts so it doesn't necessarily need to utilize
shield whereas Empolion wants to stay in play and make sure he can use some anti-energy and is
diligently farmed up. Empolion going to over from Spartan building up to the back to back,
gonna be going for the drill pack, going for a bit of an under charge here, he actually doesn't
want to knock up the dondo so he wants a little bit of extra farm. The under charge is gonna pay
off, the B-Champ pivots out, Fortress hits the field and Spartan will immediately fire off
that drill pack to look to pressure away and protect shield. Yeah, Fortress really not gonna
worry too much about this but Doug goes to the shield to make sure he can stop bug biting and
and applying that debuff pressure.
Fhorchers, however, comes out to meet it
and says, I can debuff to you with this Chilling Water.
No shield from Mi Chang, and Chilling Water
would fail to take the knockout.
Fortress able to survive.
Fortress shouldn't even be able to take the knockout here.
They sand kill him.
But not going to throw in.
It's just going to let this go.
And now it's going to potentially try and just
look for farm for Togekiss.
A complete undercharge, though, coming through.
Fhorchers hoping that it can maybe
get a little bit of chip there, but no.
Instead, Fhorchers goes straight down,
and now it's the Battle of the Fairy Tides,
Togikis takes to the stage.
Togikis, a fairy type, is going to be aligned into Mandebus,
the dark type of the end game.
But without Daftling Gleam, Mandebus
can actually put up a pretty significant fight here.
The energy advantage that Togikis has
will be to its advantage, but as this horse here connects,
you're going to notice this really
does not do a lot of damage off to the very bulky
Mandebus.
This is one of the things I love about the Togikis.
There is the coverage it has with all of its moves.
It can only be solved by one Pokemon typing alone
on the opposing side.
Mandebus is able to shrug that off as well thanks
to its defensive capabilities.
and it can now retaliate with this shot-up ball into the shield.
Now one potential area for concern is the fact
that Napoleon still has some HP remaining.
The Dondozo is basically in Metal Sound Dow range.
I don't believe the Dondozo.
It's going to be very tough if it's able to make a move or not there.
Martin's just going to compute a farm,
wanting to try and watch for a catch.
No catch come through.
His status is going to be yours here.
The Spartan has to pull up a protect shield here,
or may the buzz is going to be lost.
Yeah, Dondozo and Napoleon on the back on their last legs
to be honest when they come back in it's going to be for a short time only.
Shadowful however is once again ready on this Nanda Bus.
There's so much HP remaining on this Togokiz though it is going to take a wall of attacks to break through it.
Takes it down into that Yellow Zone but Togokiz pacing as quickly as it can to a charge attack instead of Dozo jumping in.
Oh my goodness, Mi-Cheng what a catch!
He waits the turn, catches a foul play and that could be the opening he needs.
This is perfect, Togokiz banking up that energy bringing in the Dozo,
They're letting it drop and then it comes back.
One more fast attack and now it's ready with this Aura Spear.
Aura Spear will connect.
Mandibuzz will fall.
All that's left is the Impoleon.
And Impoleon making it to a charge attack.
It's going to be close.
No, it cannot.
Impoleon falls.
Mi Chang celebrates as he takes game number one.
That was a beautiful dance between the Togokis
and the Dondozo.
Togokis hasn't quite got to the charge attack.
It needed a little bit more room to maneuver.
And Mi Chang perfectly identified the Spartans
at the charge attack that was going to come through instead.
Swapping in the Dondo's are saying, eat this up, you can drop, and then once all that energy
has been expunged from the opposing side, Togikis could be what it wanted and get to the aura
sphere.
Now at first glance, viewers might be a little bit confused why it was so important to catch
a resisted foul play.
The reason being, even though foul play would not have knocked out the Togikis, the
Impoleon was still very much alive in the back, so Impoleon, even if it landed
one or two metal sounds after that foul play connected, it could have farmed down
that Togikis and got the win, and that is why that check mattered.
Yeah, let's take a look at this replay the foul play coming through going straight into the dog
No, so this was the critical moment that enabled this to because to have the extra HP in play to be able to get this
Oris very often critically as you said be there ready for the impolio when it came back on to set
What crazy is even with the toky has been up the energy
Mandibus was actually going to win that end game barring that cat
It shows the power at the bulk of mandibus and the reason why Spartan brought it on his team
Manda Buzkin win matchups, it has no business winning.
Looks like our trainers are ready and baring to go though in this match.
We're gonna get into game two.
It's gonna be the Polarion Corsola versus Fludgers now.
This is not where you want to be as the Fludgers.
Even though Fludgers does have a big pacing advantage, the astonishment is so much damage.
If you ever go for the chill of water, it debuffs, but it does basically no damage.
The starving voice, which Spartan goes for, does do a bit more damage,
but with no debuff, that means that Fludgers is very vulnerable
and taking considerable damage from the Corsola.
There's a lot of energy up on this Corsola though,
but the licky-licky comes in,
Fartress comes out to meet it.
Incredible patience, they're not letting the catch happen.
Spartan is going to go for the body set,
May Chang will fall aboard, puts up the Protect Shield,
so a bit of a good momentum there for Spartan,
but May Chang being able to hold onto the Corsal Energy
that does look very valuable in the back.
Let's not forget, May Chang is on an absolute tear
through this Losers bracket in this calmness
and composure is what is enabled him to get here.
We're going to see the Rock Team come through
on the forrest just weakening up the attack off that opposing licky licky lets it go through
the defensive capabilities keeping licky licky strong and enabling it to go for the shadow ball
if forrest is able to get a full bug bite farm down here that would be exactly what new chang is
hoping for even if a body slam is reached body slam not really a problem it's debuff it wouldn't
do a lot of damage oh not even on body slam those bug bites are relentless yeah we're not even
gonna see licky licky get to retaliate here forrest the show is yours and you're up against
the fairy type on the opposing side of this gorgeous but forrest can go for this chilling
Water drop the attack a little bit on the fortress meaning his bug bites are not going to be doing it too much
But critically it gets to the rock team is less about the damage and more about lowering the damage capability of your opponent here
The fortress one HP remaining makes it to the rock doom rock doom
But for this deep into the low HP and it's a simultaneous switch Tokyo's in Rapoli on this charge separately die is very
Stat-dependent in poly on rocket for right away not revealing any information
But this charge step already died could decide the game does me chang or a Spartan decide to risk it here on this second charge
That but in contrast to the don dozo these metal sounds are putting in some work against the toga kiss
It's in a very vulnerable spot
We're now gonna see the hydro cannon comes through to get does have both to be able to hang on
But can it get their attaliation it needs? Oh, actually it's gone
Toby just did get knocked out and that was me chang not wanting to risk that toga
Here's some Polyon charts that already tied. It is stat dependent. If he shielded and lost charts that priority it basically would have instantly lost in the game
So instead he's trying to play for a potentially safer route
He does have back-to-back night shades, but importantly in Polyon is out of night shade range. It cannot be astonished down
Yeah, Tograk is dropping has enabled the energy to come through from these night shades
It was at two of them first one went through into the shield second one coming through no shields remaining on sparking side
So the impolion will be vulnerable to take this tack
Now, Spartan has to be very, very careful.
The Hydro Cannon cannot be caught.
Waits the turn, but Lightning does not strike twice.
Meachan fails to catch, and Spartan will get his equalizer
as this course will up.
Well, it may barely hold on here.
If it does, it's basically going to have only one hit
point remaining.
Let's see how much it does.
Takes it down into the red, but there's no energy
remaining on this course, where the medal sounds
are just going to be able to farm away.
And Spartan evenings the score.
Both trainers one game away from staying in the competition.
This is a nulla incredible best of three set love seeing everything come down to these title moments the fortress
Trying to get that catch pretty stead the metal sound taking it down and me chang
He was put in a very difficult position because Spartan
Intentionally over from and did not reveal who won charge priority in that impoli on togey his matchup that is within the realm of potentially
Stat dependent a charge I've already died and if you shield and play to that and lose it as the togey
because the game is instantly over.
So Mi Chang played to the safer outcome,
which was just trying to have Corsola do things,
and then go for the catch.
He was able to get the game when he kept you game on,
but a game number two, Spartan was ready.
He said, you may have gotten the catch on me once.
It is not happening again.
I love that though, looking at what your opponent did
to capitalize on their position
and not allowing them to make the same adjustments twice.
Speaking of adjustments, however,
the Glaring Corsola we got to see
come in for Mi Chang in that second game.
But my question, Henry,
are we gonna see the Dondo's back again?
I would love to see D'Andozo.
Every time I see D'Andozo, there's a smile on my face.
D'Andozo, one of my favorite Pokemon.
Oh, it looks like we have Larkin's game number three.
It's win or go home.
Mi Chang versus Spartan.
And it's Licky Licky into Corsula,
a disaster for Mi Chang.
Absolutely everything on the line here.
The Corsula staying in for a thing,
one astonished there, then gets out of their fortress,
finds his mark down, and gets the Licky Licky.
But of course, the energy advantage
is on the Licky Licky side.
Spartan not gonna go for the bait this time.
Full sense of shadowball, Mi Cheng will put up the protect shield.
Spartan should look to pit it out here.
Open he doesn't, he actually stays on the field.
Getting damage on this licky-licky, exceedingly important for Mi Cheng.
What Mi Cheng doesn't know, is there's another engine to the Corsula in the back.
If Spartan is able to get alignment here, the mandibles would also shut down that Corsula.
That's great to be able to have that backline position with the Mandy buzz in play.
We're going to see them wholly enjoying the field, however, just again going for no-unvoiced metal sound,
but critically getting to these hard to-canons to put on some pressure.
Spartan able to save the charge deck on that licky-licky.
Gonna fire off Hyper Cannon, no shield from Mi Chang.
Mi Chang barely able to hold on here, will clip the sand tomb,
but now is in very real danger of getting metals out of down.
The switch timer is off, Mi Chang will have the ability to pivot out.
Spartan puts up a protect shield, Corsola will hit the field once again.
Yeah, wanting to keep the impoli on healthy, possibly for that potential metals sound farm down,
but instead you're gonna deal with the astonishers coming through on the Corsola.
Corsola very funky, very happy to take a hydrocan of these metals sounds.
sound we'll get into a second one of these very soon. Hydro Cannon is gonna connect
Corsola not too worried about the first but these Astonishes onto the debuff
defense do add up quite a bit and Spartan just gonna lock in Gav into the
Hydro Cannon. Mi Chang no shields this will not take the knockout. Could Spartan
look to pivot out here? The emboleon losing health rapidly and there is a
pivot out in comes the MandeBos but it looks like Corsola it's gonna be very
close if it can make it to the second power gem. And this has gone for the
power gem here. Spartan wondering whether this usual as shield does in
the final seconds they're not going to be able to take that rock type attack but as you said one more
astonished locks in the second one to come through and this time there's no shield to raining on
Spartan side. Glaring Corsair does not have a particularly high attack stat but super vector
power gem will add up and that chip damage he's going to help as Dondozo hits the field
there is still energy stored on the licky licky for Spartan if something will have to
keep an eye on for the end game but it's made of those Shadow Balls. Shadow Balls an incredibly
efficient attack, but this is a Dandozo. Dandozo just an absolute wall shrugging off that
shadow wall as his waterfalls get the mandibuzz lower and lower.
Honestly, not only is it a wall, but you have that shield as well for an extra layer of
support. It just makes it so difficult to get through. A foul play comes through, does
take it down into the yellow, but look at the energy. Outrage has been locked in.
No particular shield is remaining. The mandibuzz is not going to appreciate this damage.
desperately trying to hold on Outrage Connect, it is able to hang on and make the Shadow Ball.
Shadow Ball will not knock out the Dondozo, but it should do less than in Licky Licky Shadow Ball,
and that's why Mi Cheng opts to No Shield.
Yeah, keeping it into the red with the energy kind of waterfall get to it.
No switches out, back to the energy and forages comes to meet.
It's Steel Type, counts par on the opposing side.
Bug Bite farms down, gets some energy up, and now sparking with two Pokemon in the red zone.
How's the choice to make?
There's almost no health remaining on Spartan's side.
These Bug Bites are unresisted.
It comes like a lucky lucky lucky lucky will fire off the body slam the shield comes out from Michang
Michang just desperately needs to be able to form down here
That's one hit point God can he get the farm down can he make the sand to me does make the sand to him on charge
That priority the mandibus still around in the back, but it is so incredibly low
This is not lucky lucky state the sand to will come through and absolutely wipe it from the stage
As the mandibus does it's valley and effort gets down onto that fortress and again
There's basically no HP remaining, the Vortifull gets it, Dondozo reigns supreme, Mi Chang still in the competition!
Dondozo is the wall! Oh my goodness, it was in a sample knockout, it survived the snarl, what can't a Dondozo survive?
Mi Chang takes an incredible series, two games to one, I mean that's all you can really ask for right, please in that series the back and forth, the switches, the catches, the energy management,
that was incredible.
All the Pokemon, it was that endgame,
we're on tiny, tiny increments of HP
and it really came down to those fast attacks,
being able to get the edge,
whether it was Metal Sound or Waterfall,
we knew that we were in for a treat.
And honestly, I think I'm still shaking after that.
Seeing the Tondozo come in,
wondering if it was going to be able to hang on.
Why was I doubting it?
Of course, it's a Tondozo.
But the Shadow Bug bite fortress
got so much value in that game,
being able to get the resistance of Bug bite
down at the Apollion,
winning the charge stack by already tying
into the licky-licky that endgame was so incredibly close and Spartan tried to
get the farm down with the Eboleon but Mi Chang able to save the D'on Gozo
bringing the fortress, fortress, got the farm down to see Mi Chang's reaction. Mi Chang knew
he's barely able to get the sand tomb just a shot that's as close as it can
get and Mandebus able to stall down one Pokemon but the bug bite that it had to
take to do so meant that it was not going to be enough to hang on against
D'on Gozo's waterfall. Honestly the bulk though in these lines is
absolutely incredible. We've got the course to look at on Gozo, the foragers, the licky-licky as well.
It's almost like these Pokemon have been trying to withstand attacks since 1989 or something.
There was just so much defensive capabilities in play. And that's why that game, you know,
even though there was a lot of damage coming through, whether it was the shadow balls coming
through or even just the bug bite stacking up, the fact that they were able to hang on onto
those Chinese to live the HP did swing the momentum one way or the other.
And what I really liked is both those players chose to play very aggressively.
Yeah. They were consistently dancing in and out of matchups, never really conceding
farm bounce and that kind of aggressive play style is what helped M.E. Weedle actually make
it to the winners finals was trusting, I don't think it's the Altaria, I'm gonna play aggressive,
I don't want to give you any extra energy because energy advantage could have flipped these matchups.
So choosing to stay on the field, well not stay on the field, actually I stay corrected,
pivot out, get a new Pokemon on the field, so just try and not give your opponent
any little bit of momentum.
Incredible series between two great players, both played incredibly well but at the
the end of the day, only one trainer can stay alive in the tournament and that is Ricci.
That is very very true and of course the action in the loser's bracket is going to continue.
We're going to take a short break but when we come back we are going to have Ice Kris
versus Senna Axe Gal, so don't go anywhere.
Hi everyone, I'm here with Jesper Eriksson who won the World Championships as a senior
right here in San Francisco 10 years ago in 2016.
How are we feeling being back?
It feels amazing. After we were told two years ago that we would go back to San Francisco,
I immediately had that goose bump feeling of, wait, I get to go back again? And with this
being 10 years after, maybe the perfect circle can have a closing.
Maybe. What would it mean to you to win the world championships here in 2026?
We haven't had a repeat champion in both seniors and masters. We've seen Jason
Klasinski win three times all of them in Masters. We haven't had that from seniors to Masters yet
and I always hope that can be the first although it's just incredible being here and
regardless of my result I'm gonna be happy I'm gonna go here have a lot of fun like I always
want to do at tournaments. We love to hear it I mean what more could we want but a bit of fun
so obviously you have moved from seniors to Masters divisions what has that journey been
like for you. Well, I've gotten older. I'm a grown up now, right? Going from 15 now, turned 25
recently, right? It's a whole journey enough itself, moving a bit from being this all-out player to a
caster and the coach in the game as well. It's just giving me much more context and much more
perspective in the game and it's giving me the experience. So I feel like when I sit down and I
play against players that I have that bit of an edge that you want when you have 19 years
of experience as I have so it's just an incredible experience and a journey that I wouldn't have been
the same without. Coming from being a seniors champion would you have any advice for the seniors
who are leveling up to masters soon? Don't put too much pressure on yourself maybe regardless of
your results in seniors. Masters is a new breath of life, it's a new chapter right and the regionals
they're a bit longer it's a bit more waiting time sometimes between the rounds but just more
people to play against and have fun with. And I think if you go in and take the route off,
let's have fun at this tournament regardless of the size of it, whether that be an IC,
a regional championship, or here at Worlds even. If you have fun with it, you would automatically
perform better. If I'm with it, go watch the stream this weekend and hopefully I will be there
in the Chase Center Sunday. That is a true dream of mine since we started the whole arena
experience. But yeah, thank you to my family, my girlfriend and Limitless for everything they've
Thank you so much. Yes, but very good luck this weekend. It could be a full circle championship
Sunday for Jesper, but we have plenty of other competitors. You're going to have to battle
through to get there. So with that, make sure you stay tuned in all weekend for all of
the action. I'll see you next time.
Inadequance going to Championship Sunday.
There you have it, Inadequence.
You can see the emotions.
He cannot believe it.
I think the Pokemon type that I would be would be fire,
because I like to play a little bit more aggressive
to try and confuse my opponents with some of the play
styles that I do and try to get in there and have a little bit.
But in comes Giratino.
Inadequence says, no, no, no.
I started playing PvP when the Go Valley came out.
But as soon as Play Pokemon included Go
In the competitive circuit, I immediately started playing as well.
The closest one was the 2022 Europe International Championship.
And that's where I joined.
There were about 100 competitors and I got to the top eight there.
It was the first time I played in this format.
After that, I went 0-2 in Lio unfortunately, but I never gave up.
And at some point I just stopped with almost every single tournament that I played.
The King of ULTRAC wants to be the King of World Championships.
And that's a top three at least finish for Inadequates.
My favorite memory is winning the U2 Special Event.
It wins the MVP!
Mata is your Special Event Champion!
And also just playing the World Championship,
it's very comparable to the support that I have.
Hearing the crowd go wild when I do something good.
And it looks like Inadequates is going to take this series to zero.
The player that I admire the most is the previous World Champion.
His accent is a very humble and very nice guy and out of all that he started making
content creation after gaining fame with winning the world championships and it
has been very helpful to many new players.
You have trial and error, just playing a lot and you know eventually you'll get
hang of it.
Something that I've learned since I've started competing is that you should never give up.
Never give up playing in any battle.
Obviously when your guiratina is on the baton it's probably over but any other
scenarios I have won battles that I thought I could never win but just keeping my head up and seeing
if my opponent could slip just a little bit and I can still take the victory that is something I
will always remember in any belt I play.
the world championships. And
let me tell you something. The
battles have been absolutely
intense on fire, and you're not
going to want to miss any of
them. I'm Amanda, also known as
Lumberger here alongside speed
is chief to and what a crazy
battles that we've seen the
last couple times. Battles
are insane, and they're
only going to get the
and they're only going to get better for me everybody.
We've made our way down to that loser side bracket where we see
trainers, like you said, putting everything on the field
because this is their last chance to stay in the World
Championship in our double elimination format.
There's, I guess, one chance really to lose a match
and stay in it, and then it's time to go home.
There's been so many competitors in this that we
haven't even been able to show a lot of them that made it
today too so it's really nice that we actually get to see some of these people from the losers side
of the bracket and the players are already ready on the stage so we're going to go ahead
swoop down there get you guys right into the action while we take up against ice chris which is
against what was the senile axe gal that's a new name let me tell you about senile axe gal
they got knocked down to the losers bracket in round one by maro say that again round one
lost. Beat seven players including previous EYC champion Tauntauntautus to make it
two day number two and now we are here in losers round one playing against a
pretty well-known trainer Ice Kris. Ice Kris more standardized team but my
goodness these trainers are so talented. I want to hear it in the crowd Amanda
come on a round one loss all the way to day number two let's hear it in the
the crowd for our trainers on stage.
Look at the cheers going everybody.
I see you out there.
The players for go, the competition is intense
and these are going to be very good battles
where they put it all on the line
because in a double elimination tournament,
the loser of this matchup is knocked out of the competitions
and their hopes for being a world champion
is going to be put on hold for one more year.
We have few moments before our trainers are locked in.
Ice Kris's team is pretty standard, but Senno Axe Gal with Dantoso, Hussuin Electro-Carbink,
Shadow Typhlosion, Shadow Pidgeot, and Shadow Primate.
What a spicy squad about to face off here against Ice Kris and his more standardized units.
What do you think Amanda?
Is there any Pokemon that just jumps off the screen to you?
Well immediately something that we haven't seen very often, at least in this tournament,
is that Shadow Typhlosion running incinerate as its fast attack.
It does face very quickly to moves,
but it is overall a fairly squishy Pokemon.
We might see it in action
as these two trainers are hopping right into battle.
Number one, we have a great lead for Seno Axe Gal
with that carpet up against Altaria.
Let's see how Icecrest wants to respond.
Coming in with the Flaugers,
and also the carpet is staying in for a little bit.
Maybe hoping to take an attack before swapping out,
storing up quite a bit of energy.
My goodness, what a dominant lead from Seno Axe Gal.
And I think you're right, Amanda.
Chilling Water will connect here. That's a great time to swap into Don Dozo and
that's what Senno Axe Scout decides to do.
You've seen Don Dozo so much doing so well in his past few battles. Will Senno Axe Scout be able to continue that momentum with that big old fish?
He has to take one Disarming Boys first, knocking it down to fairly almost half health, still building up a little bit of energy of its own.
I was gonna say the lack of trailblaze should make this match up a little bit safer, but due to that energy advantage and the same type of attack bonus on the Disarming Boys,
This Dandozo is getting absolutely chunked away.
Here comes the surf.
Throwing the surf here into this very tight Pokemon.
It is very low health at this moment.
Still, Icecrest puts up a shield, gaining up a little bit more energy here,
knowing that the Fastcats aren't going to be able to knock it out
and at least threatening another shield or a knockout of his own.
Drow's on alignment.
Icecrest wants to control a switch advantage
and you've got to understand why he led his Altarion to a car peak.
But Senna Axe Gal is not going to give it to them.
Here comes another waterfall and a KO.
securing switch advantage in the mid game.
Look at that help left barely anything but Don Dozo has done its job.
Not only that has an outrage to boot.
Now if you're ice-crushed you saw that immediate movement into the
carbon earlier on knows that even though this is super effective
the baby Altaria doesn't have a lot of usage in this matchup.
Don Dozo putting an absolute overtime here in San Francisco.
Suin Electro versus the Epolyon here, only one shield on each side, but Epolyon does have a slight energy advantage.
Icecrest is doing the mental math, he's projecting forward, he says, there's no way I can catch up and beat this Suin Electro.
Going ahead, just trying to get as much energy off as possible.
The Drillpeck will be able to connect, as it all acts out, doesn't even use a shield at this moment.
Still has a lot of energy on the hook. Suin Electro, for themselves, now going for that heavy hitting Wild Charge,
but has to use this protection first as the Emporion gets to its move.
Yeah, this is going to be a close dynamic between these two Pokemon.
They do have very similar attack, but that Historino Electro
will be able to fire for a while charge after the protection goes up.
And it's just made a swap, and it's going to be checkmate,
as they like to say in chess, when that Carpink eats at Altaria once again.
Well, back to where we started Altaria up against Carpink.
Carpink has energy now, but it doesn't really matter
because anything that Altaria would throw would not really do much damage at all.
So Axe-Gal having a great read on that first situation.
They're getting that lead, getting that end game,
and getting game number one.
And this has to be one of the keys to their success so far,
right?
You said all those rounds won in the loser side bracket.
Running into a team of ice criss with Kanto Marowak,
Impoleon, and Chillingwater Florges,
and they decide to lead a car bink of all things.
Are you kidding me?
Wow, takes a lot of nerves, especially
to be playing up here on the big stage,
and also showing why they've been able to make it
so far in the tournament with such a unique team.
I don't think any of these Pokemon,
besides that Hussuin Electrode,
is in that top 12 usage for day number two competitors.
Opening up the Spice Rack, it's a clearance sale.
Axel Senkow decided to do exactly that.
Going into game number two,
Ice Kris needs to find some adjustments
to get himself back into it.
Let's take a look back
had a previous replay from early on today.
There's been so much going on.
Those are just little hints of previous battles going on before,
but in the here and now, this next battle could be it.
So now Axe-Galp just needs one more win
to be able to continue their streak to win eight games
in a row, coming in from around one loss against Amaro.
Well, not even eight games, eight cents, right?
Absolutely.
Which is even more impressive if you ask me,
but one of our trainers has already locked in.
Ice Chris realizes this is his last chance,
needs two games in a row in order to move on
to losers round two.
If he loses this next battle,
this next three and a half minutes
are gonna decide if Ice Chris moves on
or if his World Championship dreams are coming to an end.
Now that first game was just so instrumental
of realizing the different nuances
within Pokemon Go playing
because sometimes you don't need switch advantage
but having such a great lead
and winning by just the narrow submergence
that make him not allowing much farm
was the perfect opportunity for some AXEL
to be able to take that game quite handedly.
But Icecrest is no stranger
to the competitive Pokemon Go circuit.
It wouldn't surprise me to see him step back,
analyze a little bit and come back even stronger
for this game number two.
We were talking about core breakers
before the series began.
Typhlosion looks pretty hot,
but check out that shadow priming.
It's got Ice Punch, it's got Rage Fist,
it's got Karate Chop,
So many different opportunities to hit hard against this team.
Let's check out what we get in game number two, though.
It's going to be Pidgeot and Empolion.
Now, this time here, it looks like Icecrest
is a little bit more in favor as that steel typing
for the Empolion is going to be able to not take much
damage at all from the fast attacks of the Pidgeot,
already charging up a ton of energy,
forcing that first protect shield from Sentinel Axe-Gal.
This Pidgeot is air cutter and heat wave,
and that heat wave is definitely
going to threaten the Empolion.
If you're watching day one, you
This is a very precarious matchup for the Impoleon and Ice Kris needs to be careful, he calls it great ball!
Wow, cool as eyes taken that first one there, Senno Axel trying to go for a catch on a not very effective attack
and now we have two bulky Pokemon that we've seen quite a bit in this World Championship so far as the Corsula with the sunglasses comes on to counter this Dandozo.
I'm telling you it's not easy to harpoon a whale, they wrote a whole book about that and this Dandozo is almost impossible.
It was almost impossible to rain in.
You have to find creative ways to do exactly that.
Here comes a surf from the Don Dojo,
and this glaring course lead will probably no shield.
Gohersula as cool as his trainer there with those glasses
on saying no need to worry about this being in the spotlight.
I know exactly what to do, not even
bother to shield up the second one as the second serve
connects, still gaining a ton more energy
before he's going to throw another attack,
getting it as low as possible for a power gem.
Yeah, I think that's a great play.
In case the swap occurs, right?
Because at that point, Senna will act scout.
Could have pivoted back to the Pidgeot.
Aware, as always, Ice Criss throws the safe attack
and leaves Minimal Farm.
He's actually tapping on the Impoleon.
Might pivot out immediately.
I don't know if that's the best idea, though,
because he's going to run into an Electro, right?
Well, you're so low on that, it
seems like you fought quite hard for a switch.
But at the same point, this energy lead
is going to be great.
You're either going to strip that last shield,
or you're going to force your opponent to let
a Pokemon go down.
but in comes the Electrode.
Now, no Protections left on the side of Senna Axel
orc to take his Drillpeck, but getting up on up energy.
Oh my goodness, this is going to be wild
because the Drillpeck connects
and then his Senna Electrode only gets shaken down
to half HP.
It's got so much energy go around.
Outcomes the Florgis,
but still two Protections for Ice Cris.
This is actually not,
I'm not gonna say comfortable for Ice Cris,
but the Wildtrip,
even either one of these attacks
is enough to knock out the Pokemon.
still wants to keep it as healthy as possible puts up a first protection and
now is forced to make decision do I want to use both protections in this moment
absolutely does as what was to is now zero and the gorgeous is gonna come out
to play well Senna Axe got realized the switch timer was not there but now it
is swaps into a disarming voice this is actually not ideal because this is
the healthiest Pokemon remaining on their team that Pidgeot does hang on
and clutch up the air cutter.
Wow, big plays there by Senua Outskill,
but the big question is, are they going to be big enough?
This is just an air cutter knocking
the florgas down to about half health,
but it's got more energy than that electro does.
It knows it as well as Icecrest,
just the ploys, this disarming voice.
A road too far to travel, tiptoeing
through the tulips florgas with the disarming voice,
Chaos Hissuin Electro.
It takes game number two for Ice-Kris tying up the series
in this loser's round one.
Great series on our hands, everybody.
Spicy team from Sennilaxe gal,
and a more conventional team from Ice-Kris,
but he's able to balance himself in that battle.
Number two, not lose sight of his win conditions
and honestly, he gained a lot of leverage at key points.
I mean, there was that point where there was very,
very little help on the personal release
on immediately pivot out into the employer.
A lot of trainers would go ahead
and let that Pokemon go down, but he didn't want to get any extra energy, any extra opportunity
to his opponent. He wanted to really dictate how the switch was going to go, put himself
in the driver's seat, and that's what helped him gain game number two.
Now to correct myself here, I looked at the team sheets and Senna Axe Gal's Shadow
Pranave is actually running Rage Fist Cross Chop, which might explain why we're not
seeing it in this series. I think Ice Punch would provide a lot more coverage,
but that cross chop is a bit faster
and gives you that same type attack bonus stab fighting
pressure.
I think with Licky, Licky being the number one
Pokemon used in this meta is not surprising
to see a fighting type Pokemon that actually
uses a fighting type attack.
Sometimes we've seen them with a fighting type fast attack,
but more of a coverage attacks in their charges.
That's not as helpful against the Licky, Licky.
However, a cross chop is going to do a lot of damage.
And it's so much more consistent
something like a pangoro that needs a close combat to deal that hard-hitting
fighting type damage and it debuffs itself by two stages in the process.
Well, trainers we're almost ready to go into game number three.
One of our competitors is locked in. This is match point. Loser goes home.
You see Icecrest looking at that camera realizing this could be my big moment.
I need to win this game and he's starting off with that Altaria
up against that primate we just talked about that doesn't have an ice punch to really
fight back, Primate forced to be throwing the rage fist, boosting its own attack.
The longer this matchup goes on and the more Shields invested, the better it gets for the
Shadow, Primate, but it's going to lose a lot of HP in the process due to all that
Dragon Breath pressure.
So I would not be surprised to see Senno-Axical swap out.
Going ahead now, going for that Sky Attack, this would definitely be enough to knock
out the Primate at that stage.
Senno-Axical putting up that first protect Shield in time and seeing how much more energy
they can get off as the second Rage Fish goes aboard and this
primate is boosting up. Second Rage Fish connects.
Altaria now down to the red, not really threatened by the cross drops, but this
third Rage Fish is on charge attack priority. Ready to go.
This will provide a KO and I don't know if Ice Kris can afford to let this
Altaria faint? Yes, he is going to let it go. Go ahead, letting that go down,
choosing to keep a shield advantage in comes first. Now we see an immediate
It doesn't matter if it's boosted or not, it doesn't want to see that fairy Pokemon.
And it looks like Ice Kris staying in for a little bit could have opted to go for
Tombwater first to lower the attack of the Dandozo, but actually going for the heavier
hitting same type of tech bonus and trying to get this Dandozo as low as possible.
You heard the sound of the trumpet, it was more like a raspberry, but the swap
into the Emboleon to catch this serve is very good and it's going to keep
Ice Kris in this matchup and keep his floor just healthy.
An employee on that so far managed to avoid that primary which is great for ice kiss just getting up a little more energy
And now it's only one silver on
Seminole Axe gal's team. It gets a little more dangerous the more energy this
Employee on hits because a drill that would definitely be enough to knock out that primary exactly
And I think ice Chris wants to carry energy over into the next matchup no matter what that's why you see him double up here
Throwing the first drill peck to likely secure KO, but it's gonna be super close if I'm being honest
D'Orzo just so thick!
Yeah, and then finally getting through the plumber
and Paul Leon picks up a knockout.
Does have energy to spare, but it's not going to like the fast attacks
that are about to come its way.
Keep in mind, Icecrest has two shields left in this.
You need to pivot out that.
Climate came in, now the Hsu and Electro
is here to soak up the damage,
but there's only one protect shield to hide behind
and Paul just has two knocking down Hsu and Electro,
to an electrode to about half health going for another charge attack now.
Yeah, I really like Ice Chris throwing right now.
He doesn't want to lock himself into charge attack priority
tied against the electrode if he can help it.
Does pull away that final shield still to protect those fries, Chris?
I don't know, Amanda.
He might have this one in the bag.
Going ahead, going for charge attack.
They're already even here.
This number three disarming voice is disarming this ensuing electrode.
There's no shields to hide behind.
Down it goes. In comes the Primate with not enough gas in the tank to get through this Pokemon.
Icecrest with the reverse sweep.
The power of floor just compels Icecrest to Losers Round 2 over an extremely talented trainer
from Japan. An epic Losers Bracket Run comes to an end.
A Sennilax Scal has been eliminated.
Icecrest taking it a little bit further. One step at a time. Stay in this tournament.
World champion dreams still alive, but everyone needs to give it a percentile ax go and the
Amazing run that they had so far at the world championships
Losing in round one and having to play that many matches being able to get that far knocking out free
But this you know international champions. Oh, yeah, no small feet
I want to highlight one Pokemon in particular
It was the star of the show or should I say the bouquet that was the floor just from ice Chris
the disarming voice is very good in the Malamar matchup in particular. I think that's the main
reason why a lot of trainers opt in for that instead of Trailblaze, but it looks really powerful in
neutral matchups as well. Like the Dandozo matchup, two disarming voices plus a few fairy winds
seem to secure that knockout more often than not, and I think that Florgis looks more like a
neutral beast in that series than a Malamar specialist. Florgis in the past couple
tournaments has more often been using Trailblaze, which boosts its own attack, but disarming
voice. I tell you what there's been definitely a case where we've seen all of these talented
trainers use it here in the world championships and I think that maybe this could be it going
forward. Very fun team there from Icecrest. He does, I guess, progress his way through
the bracket still and a couple of question marks, right? Like we talk about the Fairy
Type Pokemon pretty often, the Ticket Town, the Florgis. He's also running Altaria,
which we saw in Marto Galdes' team and he's done pretty well for himself too. Again,
A lot of the times, if you see all these Pokemon being picked over and over and over again,
it can dissuade the casual player from saying, oh, well, maybe I can't bring the one I'm
most comfortable with because it's probably going to get hard countered.
But there are still targets for those Pokemon.
Just so much of competitive Pokemon go comes down to alignment, team reading, and prediction.
A lot of it is skill, obviously.
They have to be very talented trainers to be able to make it here to the main
stage.
But in this double elimination tournament, and since we are on the loser's side
of the bracket. That does mean our field is going to continue to narrow. We
already have two people on that winter side waiting to slog it out in the
winners finals but we have a lot more to go on that loser side to see who's
gonna be up playing against them. It's been a wonderful weekend so far but we
want to see what you're seeing at home. Let's see what our friends are
posting on socials. We got some stamp rally action here from Shea Monero.
Oh my legs hurt mine too. I was walking around trying to find as many
of the stamp rallies of sites around San Francisco as possible. Once you collect that stamp, you get
the Pikachu with the astronaut helmet on. Very cool. Mine actually has the San Francisco bridge
background behind it, and it's, I don't want to brag guys, but it is shiny. I like how, I like how
you bragged a little bit, and then you double down, and you're like, by the way, the background,
the background costume XP Pikachu is also shiny. And look at this as well. We do have
our plush I guess plushy parade you call it around the XP center that Pikachu
looks absolutely incredible and slow poke is there I heard some other Pokemon
are also appearing like Mimikyu. Yeah looking mighty royal out there and as a
Pokemon says the real reason to go to Pokemon worlds check out this XP
stage there's so much going on here in San Francisco we have the tournament
battles going on we have things going around all around San Francisco so make
to keep tuning in to the different streams as well.
Not only are you gonna get cool Twitch drops,
you're gonna see some great battles
and you're also gonna get to see a lot of fun events.
I mean, no offense, Amanda,
but if you were trying to talk to me
and there was Pikachu's dancing on stage behind you,
I don't think I'd hear a word of what you were saying.
I tell you what, there must be Pikachu's
dancing behind me always,
because I swear we'll never hear a word
of what I am saying.
You don't see them?
Oh, they're there.
They're there, right, Chad?
Help me out, Chad.
Come on, come on, all right.
But our next set of trainers are getting set up on stage,
and that is 100% real.
Cannot wait to see this next pairing,
because we are going to, I guess,
witness a trainer from NA versus another trainer from APAC.
This is going to be Auburn versus Yodana 30.
We have seen Auburn play yesterday.
We've got to cast some of his matches.
Once again, this is that loser side of bracket.
We will continue on on this side until we let you know.
That means that in this loser's round two,
Once again, this is the elimination portion of a double elimination tournament.
Amanda, you see it, right?
I do.
You see it on the T-Sheet?
I do.
What does she see, Chat?
What does she see?
We see the Regidrago.
Ooh, we saw Rayquaza yesterday.
Let's keep the dragon starting with R, rolling Regidrago for Yo-Dada.
It's going to be a fascinating pick.
And again, we were talking about Pokemon that might not succeed in Ticketton and forges met us.
This thing has no hope of fighting back against any Tinketon with Wrap and Dragon Energy as
it's likely Charge Attack, so, or excuse me, Fist Grip and Dragon Energy, different normal
attacks.
So going ahead, it will charge up rather quickly with those Dragon Breasts.
Dragon Energy will do a nice chunk of damage Fist Grip for, you know, some just regular
type matches, but you're absolutely right.
With Tinketon being in that top three usage, I'm really excited to see if that's
going to come into play and how Yodara is going to be able to just maneuver around.
So I'm going to make an assumption here.
If you look at the teams, Yodara does have a slight Tinketun weakness, I'd argue, but
they, I guess, short up that weakness with the Hasuin Electrode with the Glaring Corsula.
Shadow and Polyon, which is likely a bit more punishing with those enhanced metal sounds.
And I would venture to say the Tinketun for Yodara is probably a little bit attack
weighted.
I also want to point out one thing about that Shadow and Polyon.
It is not on Metal Sound, it is on Waterfall as it's Vast Attack, making it a little bit
better into those Tinketon matchups, so perhaps this is the answer that he could be looking
for.
I mean, a little bit better, not only to Tinketon, but you want Waterfall if you're up against
the Kento Ninetales or a Shadow Kento Marowak, so if Auburn is expecting one Pokemon
to come out in every battle, he's got to bet it will be that Shadow Impoleon from
Yo-Data.
process of elimination you say okay well how can you protect that in pulling out
what is it weak to on my team what is he likely to pair with it
go ahead and take a look at these two teams sorry we have one trainer all
ready locked into this battle another one just taking a bit longer to do so
making sure that they're analyzing their team compositions I think a lot of
trainers at this stage when they're picking their three they're already
going through a mindset of okay I'm gonna leave this Pokemon and if my
opponent leads X I'm going to do this if they leave this I'm gonna do
this and this is kind of a matrix style that you can go through to be able to make
sure that you're putting your safest foot forward. Exactly. You want to game
plan for every possible situation. Hold that information in your mind and
respond in real time. Let's go right down to the stage everybody. This is battle
number one in losers round two Auburn versus Yodetta. Going ahead with that
shadow canto Marouette uppercase record. We thought maybe we wouldn't see it
because it has such a glaring ticker ton weakness. Yodetta says,
He'll watch me as he brings it in in the lead not scared at all trying to get up a ton of energy
Auburn now swaps into his licky licky
You're able to start soaking some damage and start throwing off some body slams across all competitive Pokemon dragon typing has historically been one of the
strongest and the dragon energy
Rips away an enormous amount of HP from that licky licky outcome shadow waterfall a polly on the shadow balls also ready as a response
Shadow Ball going to be able to connect as Yodara doesn't put up a potential here as you can see that there's quite a bit of damage
Remembering that this is a shadow type Pokemon a body slam now coming through if Yodara is counting recognizing
It's not going to do that much damage, but getting it desperately desperately low
I think what he's hoping is he's gonna have enough for a waterfall to be able to throw, but he recognizes
He wouldn't be able to and is forced to throw on this low health Licky Licky
Yeah, a great way to salvage situation there from Auburn able to expend the energy that would have been very very
very harmful to the rest of his team.
Merrill Wack does get the mudslap down.
Reggie Drago and Manteen.
This is a great opportunity to bring out the Manteen,
but if he does, he's going to corner himself
against the Tinkertun later.
But the real question is, does Nodada predict
that is the Tinkertun in the back?
Looks like he does, as he comes back in
with that Reggie Drago,
has to put up a protect shield here
as the Pinto Merrill Wack already has some energy loaded
and this phone club wall wouldn't necessarily
threaten the knockout, would get very low.
In comes that Tinkertun, and in comes that Manteen.
It's going to be a little tricky.
the Odada tapping right on that water pulse.
Just as soon as his water flying type Pokemon hit the field,
Digitun Hammer will connect no shield
on the first charge stack here from Auburn.
Again, swinging the hammer down,
look how much damage that does
for a not very effective attack.
Already now at the water pulse on the side of the Odada,
throwing it here, getting the protect shield
from the Digitun on the side of Auburn,
because it just wants to continue to ramp up energy.
Digitun, it's all gonna be about this Pokemon
for the rest of the time.
The teams have been revealed, the Regidrago is on the field.
This next guvitan hammer is going through.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, think about it, right?
In terms of relative damage, Tinkitun doesn't need to shield anything from the Regidrago.
It's either a double-resistant dragon energy or a single-resistant vise grip.
So Auburn just can go on autopilot and say, I'm just going to shield up all these water
pulses instead.
Outcomes the Regidrago and struggle as it may, it's likely to be able to make
much headway at all versus the Tinkitun.
But Agatha has a lot of energy on this Pokemon.
Once Agatha tries to chip away as much as possible,
but neither one of these attacks are going to be doing very much at all.
There's still a protection left on the side of Mantis,
but such low health, this bull goes going through not enough to knock out,
but enough to get Auburn a little bit more fast attack energy
as the form goes down swinging.
Absolute insanity here, Auburn tamed the dragon in game number one.
great job by him to take the victory and the Ticket Ton had to be the key.
Also, I mean, great read in the mid game from Yodara,
because that could have ended up, you know,
Ticket Ton versus Regis Drago a lot earlier,
but he called it, set out the Regis Drago against the Mero Wack,
and at least gave himself a chance.
I think the big problem for Yodara in that mid matchup was,
he saw the Mero Wack at the beginning,
and as an employee,
and he don't want to take any of those fast attack damage,
and already taking a shadow ball, put it down quite low.
I think he was hoping to get that licky, licky out of the way
and then be able to throw a hydro cannon
and at least threaten a shield.
Unfortunately, wasn't able to do so.
Licky Licky was able to hang on a little bit too long
and all of the energy got forced out
on a very low health Pokemon.
No, you nailed it.
I think that was also a critical moment
in that battle, number one.
Going to game number two,
I think answering the take a tiny
is the number one objective here for you.
That impoleon seems like one of the better answers.
Man team also can kind of wiggle its way through that matchup over time.
I don't know.
I mean, if you bring your Goliar and Corsola as your dad,
you might run into a Malamar or a Licky Licky.
It's like you're kind of limited.
I wouldn't be surprised, honestly, to see the Hesuin Electro cannot here.
You just forgot to find the Ticotun counters right for that team,
because if you think about those man team was there in that last matchup,
it was matched up against the Ticotun and even still the Ticotun,
you know, in the hands of a great candidate like Auburn
with two protect shields to hide behind,
just played that massively and took that endgame quite
decisively.
Yeah, I really appreciate how he just showed it up,
those water pulses in the end as well,
recognizing that relatively speaking,
those would be the hardest hitting charges
tax left in the game.
A lot of trainers adopt that mindset as well,
especially once they approach the endgame
and identify their win cons.
They say, well, is this going to hurt the most
out of anything my opponent can throw at me?
If so, that's an easy call for a shield.
And now these two trainers really
have to think about what they want to do for this next game.
If Auburn is able to take this, he will continue into Losers
Round 3 while Yodagata, our trainer from Taiwan,
who we don't see play so often, but has played so well
throughout this championship circuit, will be going home.
Will he be able to reverse sweep like we saw in the last round?
We'll find out as we get into game number two here.
We have that Shadow and Fully On with Waterfall up
against the Malamar on the side of Auburn.
Now with Metal Sound, this would be even pacing
and a Fully On would win the charge stack priority.
But because it is a waterfall in Polyon, it's going to be a little bit slower.
Your data needs to call out, is this a super power that would one shot my Polyon?
Or is it a foul play? He shields regardless.
It's so hard to call, right? Because a super power at that range would be enough to knock out the Pokemon.
And Malamark could immediately swap out to clear the debuff, giving up the texture back.
And find is at least a good thing for him as the Malamark protects up that first Hydra Cannon.
Already at another super power, going over a little bit over.
And this time, Auburn is going to throw the heavy-hitting attack.
Will Yoder got to go down two shields at the beginning matchup?
No, he lets the Empoleon go.
Malomar has deep-up itself severely.
It really goes into that Hussain Electrode, but Auburn wants more.
He's going to go ahead and force the foul play from the Malomar as well.
And at this rate, I mean, you might get thunder-shocked down.
I don't know if Auburn needs to switch.
The big thing about throwing the Superpower is not only is your defense lower, but your attack is lower, too.
doesn't surprise me that we didn't see the protect shield there however now
Yodergada has two wild charges loaded for Kikutan is at that Kikutan hammer
throwing the first one here, Auburn puts up the protection of
Ford and now immediately a pivot from Yodergada into that man team.
Now into the man team Auburn there looks pretty stoic I don't think he's too
flustered by this pick coming out kind of expected it to be there
Kikutan hammer number one does connect only one shield remaining in
this game and it's on the right side of your screen
Water pulse is ready but the Gigaton Hammer comes first.
This could change things a little bit while Auburn had two shields in this matchup before.
Now he has none to protect himself up against those water pulses and he's going to have to take
one because the switch timer is not quite up yet. He could come back in with that Malamar but it
is very low health or he could show his third Pokemon which he has on PC immediately. Click
for that licky licky comment and try to get some energy and Yododara goes for another water pulse.
Yeah, we're seeing kind of a cascade, right?
Every 10 second interval that the Switch member should display
allows Auburn to bring in a different Pokemon,
get some energy on it.
He's doing that right now with Licky Licky.
Allows in the case of the body stand.
This is doing the lecture on what probably would stand this.
But it'd be so weak, you might not guarantee
you'd more than one charge stack.
They've not taken any chances.
They're charging up a little bit extra energy.
You know he's counting precisely.
It actually goes for the heavy-hitting voucher.
This is the last Pokemon he has,
which means it's going to be deep up
for the rest of this matchup and it is enough.
Wow, Licky, Licky goes down.
I don't think the switch timer is ready for Auburn,
but he's gonna wait out every precious second
that he can to try to get back to it.
He might need to catch a wild charge here
to win this game.
He does have his timer, but he doesn't catch.
He's gonna force the energy out.
I apologize.
This is a mistake.
I didn't even see that there's a little bit
of that Lanty Lush.
The Gilderdotter definitely has a little bit
of play that switch timer is up at this point.
The Chica Dunn comes back in.
Will he be able to make it?
He barely makes it to the wild charge.
Yo, Dada with a knowing nod.
He says, this wild charge is all the charge I need.
Bring down the Ticket Ton and evening up the series.
A wild, wild gameplay for game number two.
There are three wild charges deployed.
My goodness, this man knows how to play.
I mean, a wild game for your wild charges.
You got it.
I don't.
Oh, yeah.
Two or not.
Going to game number three, the question, again,
becomes adjustments. Reggie Drago in battle number one got walled out by Tick-A-Ton, this
time opting for a more flexible trio in the right column there of Napoleon, Mantine and
Tick-A-Ton, I believe. Oh, excuse me, in the Hussain Electrode, you know, Data found
his way. So going into game number three, I think the Napoleon is a staple. I don't
think that pick is going anywhere. I think Mantine is also pretty necessary for him
to win this series, but the third Pokémon, it's up for debate.
I mean, also for Auburn, right?
I mean, both of these matches have been so incredibly close.
It could be flipping either way.
Auburn had a great call with a Jimputon.
I believe Tinketun, if you're talking about Pokémon,
they're going to be there every single game.
We're going to see them pulling on,
but we're definitely going to see that Pokémon
as well on the side of Auburn.
Oh yeah, no, absolutely.
Tinketun has been instrumental thus far in the event
for Auburn, not just in this series, but in series
past, and then Pokémon is so powerful.
If anything, you need to bring it just in case Godadda tries to pull the Regidrago card one more time.
That was a bold call at the beginning, and you know what? While it didn't pay off for him in game number one,
it does make your opponent think a little bit, right? Okay, I can't just have Tinkertown and perhaps
the rest of my Pokemon week to that Regidrago, because if it comes back in, I could be in trouble if the alignment is not in my favor.
for these trainers. We have a lock in by both of them. If you guys are ready, we're
going to kick it now to the game. Game three everyone. Match point. Shadow Kanto
Nintel sees a very tasty target in that Hussain Electro in need of pivot into
Waterfall Employment Match by that Shadow Kanto Marowak. I think this looks
pretty good for Auburn. This is damage on damage as well though because look
how much those waterfalls are chunking but at the same breath putting up
this prediction Auburn can be able to just start mud slapping away the
I'm pulling on here, coming out with a ton of energy of his own.
Waterfalls looking pretty refreshing for the Kanto Marowak as it wins that matchup and maintains control.
Such a fantastic outcome to see an electrode.
Rock slide to the boot.
This is going to pile on some very valuable chip damage.
You know, I love it when trainers prove you're wrong.
Tipton just proving so strong for Auburn in game number one and being so low for game number two.
Not even here, playing mind games with the Otodata in game number three.
which I'm sure he thinks that it's lurking in the back.
The fact that this Marowak has been able to knock through one Pokemon and almost two
is so, so impressive.
An excruciating farm down, being double-resisted, those Thunder Shocks finally get the better
of the Kanto Marowak.
Two wild charges ready to go.
I do think Kanto Ninjas can tank at least one.
Auburn only has one protection left, so he allows it through.
Go ahead, letting that one go and now coming in with the magic.
Auburn knows it, look at that.
He knows immediately.
He was at the energy poor both doesn't even winch immediately throws that energy balsing
I know that third's gonna be that man team gets the defense drop even more
Oh my goodness you see yoda dada wins as his licky licky comes in it's time to roll out as my friend ludo once said here
Comes a water poles. This is probably gonna connect into the licky licky
But Auburn decides to let it connect anyway. He can take one more
You might get a little precarious if this man team decides to twister fate, but that's a long road to travel.
Going ahead and fling this body slam here, no protection abuse on the side of Yoder Dada.
As a reminder, there is another wild turn, so we're not even able to get to the attackers.
The roll out damage goes through and looks like Yoder Dada is basically conceding this matchup,
not throwing any energy setting down his phone.
Auburn's clicking all the buttons and taking game number three.
Auburn survives his encounter with Reggie Drago and Yodara from Taiwan.
Incredibly well done by him to advance the losers round too.
As you can see the pure elation on his face.
Yodara is one of the few trainers left I believe from North America in this tournament.
He is on that loser side of the bracket where I believe they all are now four left.
So it's gonna be very interesting to see which region is going to be able to take home the title again.
title again as a reminder we started out the date with eight trainers from japan which is absolutely
incredible plenty of trainers from europe from north america and also from the latin region and
they love jive who's playing absolutely phenomenally representing oceania i mean are you kidding me right top
32 and a quarter of them are from japan my goodness such incredibly talented trainers and such a treat
to see them play on the world stage, but you're right.
Harvard, one of the few candles in the night
for North America as a region,
and he's going to look to continue his winning ways.
Yodara, unfortunately, eliminated from the competition.
But what an impressive series we got to witness there.
Bring that rich draw, though.
I really like in game one, Yodara just taking the chance.
Right? It's your signature Pokemon.
Your opponent, things that are prepared for it.
Why not? Just leave it all in the line.
That's exactly what I did.
Look at this loser's bracket.
look how many more games we have to go. We started on that winter side. Plenty of them have been
knocked down earlier today. Go ahead take a screenshot if you want because this is going to
change very quickly but a lot of these trainers are already out of the tournament including
the Honolulu finalists in Attiquents who won two regional competitions this season
with your Tina Altered. Brought it to Worlds as well was able to make it
to the winner's finals,
yet not come to the loser's finals,
but unfortunately knocked out round one by out of pocket.
Let's zoom in a little bit further to the top eight.
As we put these trainers under a bit of a microscope,
and it's been an incredible journey,
but Hiromaru and M.E. Wido are in the winners finals
right now from Japan and from, I believe.
He's from Switzerland.
Switzerland, those are our two trainers there.
And they're just kind of waiting, right?
They're waiting in the wings,
reviewing their matchups, probably stretching and getting a snack, is there
just gonna be a little bit of time before they take the stage again. What's
really cool about both of these trainers is here tomorrow we haven't got an
opportunity to see so much gameplay from them, being a trainer coming from
Japan, knocking down one of his fellow people from, I believe it was, who was
you playing as well? Yeah, Contono. Yeah, Contono. Contono being able to knock him down to that
lunar side of the bracket. If he is able to take this, he'll be the first
Japanese trainer to be our world champion or be in the world championship finals.
M.E. Wiedel is our only senior division world champion as a so I mean I think that he has
a world championship title already to his name. Will you said earlier on that you don't think
we're ever going to get a repeat world champion do you count the senior division
in this? Do you think M.E. Wiedel still got a shot? That's the twist I didn't expect and
And whenever you call me out like that, you're like,
you said one time.
You said this once and now it's on broadcast.
Play the clip.
Oh, no.
I'm in trouble.
Chuckie doesn't have that clip.
Come on, right?
That's lost to the wins.
But I don't know.
It's definitely a possibility.
And he's shown that he took down
some of the best trainers in the world
to get to this point.
Emmy Weidle has looked practically unstoppable here
on out.
So I don't know.
I mean, I might have to eat my words.
Is that what you want to hear?
Well, I would love that.
While we are down to that main stage,
You can take a peek at the trainers who are down there.
We have Potomac, a trainer from Spain, arguably one of the best trainers that we have this
season.
And he is playing against the staple of North America out of pocket.
Both of these two are international champions, Pocket winning North America and Potomac
winning EUSC two years in a row.
A big thing about this is Pocket knocked out the Honolulu finalist in adquence.
to knock out last year's finalist, Tataman, because if so, he could have a reputation start
here.
Oh my goodness, these trainers getting warmed up for their Pokemon Go matches.
I mean, that's essentially what the foil's down to, right?
Yeah, a little bit of Rock, Paper, Scissors actually going on on stage.
Do you want to play back here too?
Uh, yeah.
Do you go on three or do you go and go?
Let's go on one, two, three, go.
All right, ready?
One, two, three, go.
Oh, sorry.
Let the record show everybody, but this is gonna be a fascinating matchup.
Potta Man again, losing ground three of EUIC this year, fighting his way through 13 sets to get to the grand finals and then two additional best of fives after that in order to claim the crown.
So he's no stranger to being in this position that requires such grit and such fortitude in the loser's side bracket.
back in the wild out of pocket like you pointed out international champion yes but
doesn't seem like he has that success that often at the regional level I mean
this season he lost in the grand finals of Seattle to stone collection another
trainer from EU and if I had to boil down that series my my hot take is that
pocket just didn't take enough chances he had his all the nine tails he had
some good matchups but was just too concerned about being hard touted so
personally what I want to see from Pocket is confidence and picking the
Pokemon that he thinks will succeed and kind of maneuvering around the obstacles
that you need to in order to get there. Well you know what would you mention that
I know that you interviewed him earlier on asking him about Pokemon that he
could be using in the Go Battle League and I see the three Pokemon that he
said that he uses in the Go Battle League on his team of six so maybe he
has been practicing with this recognizing his win conditions against
the whole meta of Pokemon so he knows exactly what he's doing when he's on this
world stage maybe ready to not even have to take risks because he knows those
matchups inside and out. Well staking up those go-battle league Pokemon that
translate over to the show 6-pick 3 format. If Pocket wins I'm gonna need to
see him do that Dandozo dance. He's got a twist right when the fin comes up
I'll see if he can do that. Now one thing to point out with that Shadow Fortress
that he has on his team. It's really gone back and forth all season of whether people
are using Bolt Switch as a fast attack for it or Bugbite. His is going to be using Bugbite
and when you have a course slot on the other team doesn't look as great, but when you also have a
Malamar and a Shadow on it that like Potomans starting to look better and better. So that's
what these two trainers are doing when they're taking a look at each other's teams recognizing,
Okay, there are some Pokemon on them that I maybe need to avoid and I say to the front out of pocket the bathroom
And you can go ahead and flip that as well because I see the exact same Pokemon on their team
There are those three Pokemon that are the same and then other Pokemon that have similar utilities
But a little bit different with that don dozo and also with that Maload on the side of Pat on that
I'd love to see some of the spicier picks also excel of course the don does it for out of pocket
is pretty fun, but we do have Popsiman's CELIO, and we're having so much fun in the venue everybody.
It's been a great time thus far.
I wonder who he was cheering for with that giant duck in the air.
I wonder, right?
Lots of Popsiman fans out here in the stands, but that's CELIO.
I think that is a fascinating pick, and I thought it would perform better than it
has this weekend.
So Popsiman can pilot that Pokemon to success.
You might speak volumes of near my instincts as well.
Now you see Pocket taking a deep breath at that moment,
analyzing as he's continuing to decide what he wants to lock in for his team.
Captain Man looking pretty cool and collected here, making some notes,
but he has locked in.
He's made the decision of what he wants to do for this game number one,
that we're going to get started very, very soon.
Well, you know the rules of dodge ball, right?
You can dodge a brick, you can dodge a ball.
Duck, hit, dive, duck, and dodge.
Here comes Potomac versus Out-of-Pocket.
We're gonna get the Celio lead from Potomac
into that Bugfight Shadow Fortress pocket.
Again, Steven, old Bugfight,
which we're not gonna do as much damage,
an immediate pivot to a very safe swap
if you take a look at these teams of the Porcelain.
I guess Potomac just figured that the Out-of-Pocket
did not bring that Licky, Licky at all
because when I say safe, it's not as safe
when that Licky, Licky could come in
to negate all of that fast attack
and one of the charge attack energy.
Yeah, you're exactly right.
What a risky safe swap, but it's hanging off really well.
Pocket needs to set himself up to start to counter
that Galarian Corsula, connects the Rock Tomb there,
then pivots into his own Galarian Corsula.
And I will point out as well
that both of these ghost type Pokemon
are best buddy and have the rhythm.
Going ahead now, throwing its first Nightshade here.
Now the Rock Tomb was able to connect
with Poperman's Corsula, which means this attack,
even though it's super effective,
is not gonna be doing as much damage,
but he did use up that Switch Timer,
Now swapping into this CELIO, putting up the first protection
because if that was a bargain, we would do it just a little more damage.
Oh yeah, super effective damage as CELIO does not want to tank.
But this is a very bulky, blubbery Pokemon that can absorb a lot of damage over time.
Surge does not hit that hard, but out of pocket wants to keep his glaring Corsula in the match.
He's going to shield it here.
And that's a big thing about the CELIO.
Yes it paces quickly, but those body slams aren't going to be doing too much
damage at all to the Corsula.
has to go for the heavier hitting and a little more energy attack with that sort of two shields
used by Paciman in this matchup against the Forcefula. And you talk about blover will, we have another
blovery Pokemon hitting the field here but this sealio already has a bit of energy. We're going
to go ahead and kill off the body slam. Yeah, this is going to be a pretty long matchup if
Paci decides to stay in here. Excuse me, if Paciman decides to stay in, he does have the
potential to swap over to his fortress and move the pieces around. Outrage will connect
because there are no protect shields up in this game.
Absolutely, Andrew, this Dondozo is,
as this is able to connect, knock on that CELIO down quite low,
but not out.
Our plan goes for one more fast tackle
for going for another body slam,
but we saw how the first one didn't do quite enough.
I think he's hoping to be able to get to one more forward.
He has knocked out, you see that quick pivot
into the fortress to just start bug-biting.
Yeah, thanks to Energy, honor to CELIO,
which is going to be really nice in the endgame.
Surf coming through here,
and this Pokemon is so huge
that the graphics are covering the screen this Don Dozo washes over that shadow
fortress and out comes the mirror match up. Look at how far apart the man is ahead.
Able to get to him. The real question is will he be able to get a full farm down?
Absolutely not. Pocket shake in his head. Yes and he's able to get to an attack
knocking out this fortress putting himself in a very advantageous position
with very little left on the Corsola and very little left on the CLEO.
How comes the Don Dozo once more and there it is the Don Dozo tail whip
picks up the KO and he gets another one.
Dandozo is feasting in San Francisco.
You say you want to see the twist?
Pocket shows you the twist as he's able to knock out
Potemann's Pokemon, taking him game number one
in this loser's round two.
Such a gutsy call out to swap that Galarian Corsair, right?
My goodness, Potemann took a risk there,
kind of stumbled in the mid game.
Take a little zoomed in look at out of pocket scheme.
We've probably seen his team on stream earlier today,
but just wanted to give you a closer insight
with some of the movesets here.
Out of Pocket, playing at Clotsire,
which a lot of people thought there
would be more of in this tournament,
but I haven't seen too many of them.
A lot of trainers hear the ground-type Pokemon
that could potentially be there,
but turns out there's not as many of them
as expected, and it could be
why Pocket is doing so well in this tournament.
As a reminder, Clotsire is on Poison Sting
as a fast attack, Stone Edge,
for the flying type of Pokemon and Earthquake to help for a big, you know, neutral coverage.
Of course, Glonsire's got great coverage and great ball, but in this series, the Don Dozo was the real finisher.
I don't know, everybody. You might want to stay out of the bay. I heard there are Don Dozo's looking around San Francisco today.
One had taken game number one. If Out-of-Pocket is able to secure game number two as well,
as well. He's knocked out from the finalist and also last year's Anaheim
finalist, Kajaman. The pressure is on the pocket.
Let's jump right into battle number two everybody. We're gonna get a glaring
force lead from out of pocket into that shadow bug by fortune from
Kajaman. Well actually going for one bug by then immediately moving into the
logan stonkis and looks like pocket is content to stay in this matchup and
throw its first nightshade, getting a nice chunk of damage often because you know when
somethings has no protection you'll be used on the side of Pothaman.
Two bulky Pokemon in a very neutral matchup, Switch Timer continues to take down for Pothaman
and if Out of Pocket wants to make a swap he's got to do it pretty soon, but as you
pointed out, just based on his body language and his play style he doesn't seem too concerned.
Senara, yep I know I can take it, he's done everything here, he knows the damage
calculations of his Pokemon. He knows if his Pokemon actually even swapped in, so we have a little bit
of an energy advantage. Taking mudball number two, knocking that fortress left down into the yellow
and going for it this next nightshade. Now, the real question is, is the nightshade enough to knock
out the Noven Simpsons at this low health? It's going to be super close. I don't think it's
quite enough. One more astonishment is needed, but that, you know, that stuff, this does
fail out. Now in the Fortress gear matchup, I feel like Potomac's Fortress is losing health
little bit faster than I just seen things. Well, it did start at the very beginning. It could take a
fast captain before swapping, I believe, but even still a little bit of energy advantage and helping
to make a bigger advantage as well as this first sentin goes through lowering the defense
of the Pokemon entire. Pocket says, you know what? That looked like a good idea. I want to do it too.
You know, Pocket looks so confident. I'm beginning to wonder if he called
that Glary Corsa as the third Pokemon and he knows as Licky Licky would be able to handle
I wonder if he saw that far ahead Rock 2 will pick up the knockout here and out of pocket wants to keep his fortune
Surround some new shields and not not gonna happen
I may be a little bit defense buff, but I'm gonna do everything possible. Okay. He was swaying
He was ready and now he is
Happy because he understands that this is his moment
Absolutely locked in pocket made a prediction that glaring Corsa now staring down the licky-licky two shields to pop the man's name
Yes, and to Pokemon he can potentially swap to but the shadow balls are not going to stop
There's got to be a barrage of ghost type attacks headed his way
Oh, no
Wreckly shielding up that shadow ball is a huge for pato man getting up a ton of energy himself
There's no potential club on out-of-pocket side
So all of this energy all of this charge attack damage is going to be able to hit full front only one potential
Left on the side of pato man here
He's going to throw his next Power Gem, getting that Licky Licky a little bit closer down, but definitely not out.
Potsamann fans, you better hold on, because if he's going to win this game, it's going to come down to the wire!
And the Rollercoaster already started great catch on the Shadow Ball onto his Fortress.
While Pocket was set up with such attention to this, recognizing he had a great win condition,
Potsamann starts to even up the score at these low-hulled Pokemon come in taking attacks,
Throwing out their own and getting this Licky Licky down as low as possible.
Reaching up through the grave, you know if it's done, this tries its best.
Out comes Potomans going of course up, but he's so far ahead on energy.
There's still a protect shield for Potomans though.
Nightshade coming through. This has to take that final shield that it does.
Going ahead, using that last protect shield and this is getting down to the absolute
wire out of pocket. Has three Pokemon left, two Pokemon left now as they are both very low
Licky, Licky comes in, hits the shadow ball at the exact time.
He's making sure that he's clicking all the bubbles.
Pato Man's waiting to see, could this not be enough potentially?
Pocket takes off his head and he realizes he's won this game.
He's going on to losers round three.
Buzzer, beater, shadow ball on charge of tight priority time.
Out of pocket, the finalist Slayer takes down Pato Man.
Out of pocket playing out of his mind in this tournament.
each matchup that he has played.
He's recognized his win conditions.
Recognizing could be that force there in the back.
If Batman used it game one as a safe swap
and I was not there to punish it,
I'm gonna make sure that I'm doing that for game number two.
I'm telling you, he made the call out.
He could see it mid game.
The vision was right there.
He imagined himself facing off
against that glaring course that
licky, licky bearing down.
And Pokemon fought as hard as possible.
he scratched and clawed to try to get himself back into that game.
Honestly, one fast side different, and that Licky Licky would not have been able to reach
that cap tie and win it against the Glarecorsi.
It was still very close.
Those were incredibly close matchups indeed, and Potomac has had truly one of the best
seasons I think of any Pokemon Go player.
I think all the trainers across the globe recognize that name, fear that name when
and they see that they could potentially be up against him,
winning the European international championships
back to back, top cutting multiple international championships.
The pocket says, I can do it too.
Well, just not top cutting, right?
Let's make sure to give Potts and Man his flowers
because this season did just officially come to an end.
But he spent an entire revolution around the sun
being top four at every IC he attended,
including last year's World Championships.
There's simply no one like Potomac in the world and
Out-of-Pocket proved that he's got everything it takes to hang with the best.
I love these plays by Out-of-Pocket.
You know, talking a little bit earlier on, he was twisted.
His chair was twisted just like those rollouts, just like the Don Dozo.
And then he sat up straight when he saw that that Corsola was coming in,
recognizing, I think I can win this.
If I play correctly, this game could be mine,
even though Potomac did everything he could.
He got that licky, licky low.
He got that shadow ball caught onto his fortress.
It just wasn't enough as Pocket was
able to take this game with one roll out and a shadow ball.
Hanging onto that astonish, too, was absolutely diabolical.
But that beefy, licky, licky held in there for its trainer.
And everyone knows what it means when a gamer sits
forward in their seat.
That means they are locked in.
And Pocket was exactly that.
Now, out of Pocket as a trainer,
that we known for quite a long time is very, very good.
We haven't seen him play so much on screen.
We got to see him play this matchup,
but we also want to hear from the man himself.
I'm here, we're here, with Aiden out of pocket,
who has just taken down the best player arguably
in the tournament.
Perhaps not say more, how are you feeling?
Feel really good.
When I saw that I was set to play the loser
of Harry and Leo, I was really excited
because no matter what I was gonna play someone
that I knew of, I've known for a long time,
I was not as excited to play against Harry,
just because I feel like the mirror matchup
would be a little bit unfun.
It would just be kind of like trying to cheese each other
every game.
But against Pato, I felt like the matchup was pretty good.
I feel like I had a few good playbooks, a few good plays
to go off of.
And Harry was really helpful for giving me
some tips and tricks.
But the wiki idea was like super frowned on by him.
But I just knew like, man, this guy
keeps on staying such a nice horse on getting away with it.
I was like, I need to stop this right now.
And I was just so excited.
I saw this opportunity to play as a good friend,
give my give back from LAIC.
Now you're obviously against a great player,
you're a great player yourself.
What's it like?
Do you go into that match a little bit nervous
or do you relish these kinds of matches?
I mean, it's hard not to go nervous.
I go nervous in my first round of a regional.
It's like, I definitely was a little bit more nervous
about facing Leo.
I know how good he is.
I mean, it's undeniably like probably top three,
top two in the world, maybe even one.
But, you know, I hear more about the match-up sometimes.
I try not to underestimate my opponents, so if I'm like, oh man, this match is difficult.
It doesn't matter if that's Pato or someone their first tournament across the screen for me, right?
So that's kind of how I see it.
Now, Harry had obviously played against Pato already, and as you said, you're running the same teams your team built together.
What was it like preparing for this match against Pato?
Knowing Harry had already played against him and won.
So, after I won my matchup against Martyn and I saw that I was assigned for stream, I knew
that because of how long the queue was that I could just leave and have some time to myself
and with my friends and we got defeated together and he kind of just gave me the rundown of
like his prep with our friends.
I was kind of just trying to ignore it last night even though I knew I could be
facing Pazzo just because I wanted to focus on my first matchup the one I knew I was
going to be playing. And just that like small rundown, seeing like kind of getting unexplained
to what he was doing, what lines he was playing was more than enough for me.
I know you've got lots of people that support you, but also friends that you do perform
well with and you do practice with. Any shout outs?
Absolutely. I love the shout out. Steiner. I love the shout out. Maxwell and Jaco.
People that I talk to and stream with like almost daily leading to this tournament,
especially near the final days.
The people I'm staying with, Jai, Harry, Eric, John,
and also Tom, who flew all the way here.
He just suspected and hang out with us.
Really, really appreciative of you guys.
Thank you guys so much.
Now, Adam, I'm going to ask you one more question.
What is the chance that you win the World Championships
this weekend?
100%!
Thanks very much, out of pocket.
Good luck with the rest of this weekend.
Now, we have so much more action still
Come check out this teaser to work the appetite
If you leave the door cracked open elite it's gonna kick it wide open
My name is elite and I'm from Napa, California
If I was a book one time again, I'd be a fire type. I like the the spirit of the fire type
It started with GBL the go-bar league
I was playing it like the Max Biles I could every day and then eventually it evolved into
like show six formats like grass-free tournaments and
I was getting better and better and then I was eventually getting on the leaderboards and then Pokemon Go came to the competitive circuit
I will never forget it the first time I went to a tournament. There were so many people that I knew online
But I never met them before. I think something I learned about myself. I learned to become like more humble
because when I used to like lose at anything I would let it like control me
but I've learned over time to like handle it and accept either defeat or
victory. My strategy for San Antonio was a little bit funny. It hit midnight the
Saturday of the actual tournament and there was a rocket balloon it was with
Cliff and he had the shadow of Kanto Meriwak so I caught it I instantly
powered it up I did a second move and like came up with a team for it
during the night there was both a Pokemon and a player that I was
considering about and this player had that Pokemon that player was out of
pocket and he had the blaring Corsola I was going through the losers bracket the
whole day I've done it before while I start in the losers bracket and then
win I felt like confident enough and Baltimore my opponent was Bedoc who
is an incredible battler I was one game away from winning the first set of the
grand finals and then the second set of grand finals as well so just
I felt like my mindset was very similar to San Antonio when I played Ryze.
I had a little bit more confidence in myself.
This time, I felt like I had a bit more of a drive to really want to win.
I was just overthinking the whole match, every single possible thing that could happen
when I saw Ryze on the other side just put down his head to already be a motion starter to come through.
Elite, your 20-25 San Antonio regional champion.
I feel incredible. I did not think I was going to win.
gonna win. Winning San Antonio qualified me for world championships.
World is right by where I live so I'm very excited for it. I think winning worlds
would honestly be like a accumulation of all the work that I put into bookmark
and also outside of bookmark everything just like coming together like into
winning the world championship. No matter how many achievements you have
anyone should be considered like a threat and like I'm one of those
as well.
It's Aksin says I'm back here in Portland.
My name is Peyton Bingham and I'm from Logan, Utah.
I first got into competitive Pokemon back when there was the whole pandemic and thankfully
I saw that Play Pokemon was adding Pokemon Go to the circuit and I thought you know I
might as well go somewhere.
I've been locked indoors so long might as well give something a try.
And because of that I was able to put myself out there go to the Indianapolis Regional
Championship.
everyone in North America for Pokemon go and then I ended up going to NAIC that
same year because of how much fun it was the first time and I ended up winning the
North American International Championship in 2022. Earlier in this season when I
was kind of in the low when I just went off to EUIC and went one and two
traveling all the way across the seas just to come up really short that was
definitely low for me in the season but I had really good friends around me
people like Junebug my family as well that were able to it was convinced me
to keep on going and fortunately finally at the very end at the last second of this season
here I was able to win the final regional. I think that all the prep that I put in to
this regional and making sure that you know I didn't take anything for granted every single
match you play at one at a time. Ever since I won the world championship I've wanted
to win something else and I finally was able to do it.
It's Aksin, it's inevitable. Your champion returns to the stage here in Portland and
wins it all.
The team that I ended up bringing here I think was one of the better medicals
I've had recently. I brought Tinkertown a new addition to the game, one of the best core breakers out there.
Digress B as well, just such a bulky monster. Lapras, it's hard to go wrong with that thing.
Shadow Jump as well has been proven time and time again to be one of the best Pokémon in the game.
I think that the biggest pick that I brought though was Blastoise.
This pick is something that not a lot of people saw. I mean there are some matchups that I played.
People didn't have a single answer for it. It was a Pokémon that really just stuck out to me when I was doing some play testing.
And because it's ability to tank charge was a little bit better than other Pokémon in the meta,
and it's so spammy it has great rock type coverage and normal type coverage
it just felt like it was right pick and it definitely was.
It's accent does it again and he does it in style and fashion with his shiny best buddy Blastoise.
When I won Worlds in 2023 it was something that wasn't even on my radar it was always a dream of
mine always a goal but being able to actually do it was just the dream come true. I could ever
win another world championship I don't even know what that would feel like at this point
it's uncharted territory for Pokemon Go to have a two-time world champion of any kind so
being able to trailblaze new ground.
I think that would be breathtaking.
Well, his accent will not have that opportunity,
but M.E. Lidl can be that trailblazer
to be a two-time Pokemon Go Worlds champion.
We are back and we are going through
the loser's side of the bracket.
I am 2-0 butters joined by Caleb Pang.
And he's absolutely right.
It is absolutely on-charge here
to be a two-time world champion,
but he was also the first time
two-time international champion.
That was under our territories, so he did it.
So anything is possible as we get further,
further along this bracket.
We are now in the losers' bracket.
We're excited to see this one.
And quite familiar faces.
We got Pokimichu coming up,
a previous world's qualified player
that played in previous world championships.
And Caspian Pike coming up here,
as you can see on the bracket.
were at the losers round number three,
Casting Pipe, first season competing.
Yes.
First ever tournament wasn't even in the count,
it was in this count here.
Not even the start of the season, last calendar year,
it was February of Seattle,
and May day number two in his first ever appearance,
and then Wednesday all in Indianapolis,
in the final regional of the North America circuits.
Also fellow local mind, I know pretty well actually,
and he's usually kicking my butt
in all the local tournaments.
Well, technically, he is our reigning North America regional champion here,
coming into the World Championships.
And some North American trainers have dropped off here.
So can he hold on hope for North America?
And to do so, he'll have to be Pokimichi, an outstanding trainer in himself.
And he has that shadow annihilate.
He has the Thievl as well in pretty standard meta from Caspian Pike.
But one of those trainers that made that Don Dozo adjustment,
You've seen it from out of pocket.
You've seen it from so many trainers.
Don Dozo, Marto Galdave holding on against the sideways.
Don Dozo has been a force in the Bay Area.
And there's a number of players that have always talked
about how strong Don Dozo is, especially in the Go Battle
League, a few even use it in that Indianapolis regional
that Casting Pike won.
But ever since this meta shift with cancel nine
just being so relevant, it has become even more
of a stable pick.
And here I say, even a meta pick now,
especially in this top 32.
Well, I believe it was either eighth or ninth in top usage
here in day number two.
So if it's top 10, you've got to kind of consider it meta
for sure.
And we have these trainers just about locked in.
Caspian Pike versus Pokimichi.
This is Loser's round number three.
Both of their tournament dreams
are on the line in this series.
If you get eliminated on that loser side,
you are eliminated from the tournament.
Here it is, that Shadow Kanto Ninetales
versus the Shadow Nihilate.
And no second life, just like you said.
This is a counter-shadow Nile.
It charge the energy much slower than the locate variant,
but you can see the fast-sack pressure
is some men's as the Ninetales are already down
to about two-thirds of its HP
before getting the first weather ball off.
And the pacing is just so fast here.
Can you take this rage fist and hold on
and either get a protect shield
or some energy off with that weather ball,
deciding not to risk it to use that protect shield
on the rage fist.
You have another attack going for the weather ball here.
Even though energy ball will do a little bit more damage,
you can maybe pace to the triple weather ball.
Here comes the protect shields from that shadow Nile.
Poke Mitchie is without protect shields
already early in this battle.
I love the play though for Poke Mitchie
to go for the two shield counter down.
Cast the fight, not going to give him that opportunity
force now to come into some of this
because he doesn't have the mancy in the back.
So everything's going to take a lot of damage
from this Nile.
Poke Mitchie go to pivot that out
and now comes the full key Glaring Corsula.
A Pokemon that we've seen on so many teams
due to its flexibility
as long as it's not matched up against a Lycian Lycian.
Caspian Pry trying to optimize his energy,
getting near 100 energy,
which is the maximum amount of Pokemon can hold
in Pokemon Go PvP.
You will see those charge attacks exert,
bubbled up, lighting up,
knowing that you are at that energy cap,
but he is at this back-to-back mudbomb here.
He's probably not gonna throw the second one
straight away in no swapping action
to the Dondozo to try to maybe catch an attack.
He's not feeling happy about it,
but Dondozo is happy,
taking pretty much any charge attack.
Yeah, I mean, I guess at the end of the day, too,
he's going to get hit by a nightshade regardless, right?
Maybe expecting Pokemon issue to go for a simul swap
or something.
I'm not really sure.
You know, you can tell more especially,
he wasn't happy with this particular matchup.
But Dundos are going to take a lot of this damage away
now that Shilder down on all sides,
but this gives the opening for Dundos
to get to the surf before the discharge reads.
It's going to do them decent to reflect the damage.
It's something we rarely see a super effective surf
from a Dundos that doesn't have the highest attacks
but does a dent into that you know the stun fist here you're gonna be at the double discharge right before the surf is available
There's no protect shields remaining on the battlefield
And now you have that energy banked not only on the stump this but that course law has energy as well
And the annihilate was pretty healthy here comes captain pike did not throw a charge attack
So now he has to take this mud ball and wants to think of a chance
You maybe want didn't want rich the truck truck priority, but this is going to do some super baby damage
However, there's no role where you get double shot down wait hold on
I feel like he could have over-fronted a little bit more.
He could have. That's why he's shaking his head.
Yeah, like you can't really gun-shock this down.
That's, you know, triple resisted damage,
especially with something that's so much HP,
and now maybe it's right over two of the nine-tips.
They get the red ball, it does not get there.
Goes down on the final counter of the Shadow Annihilate.
A few more counters will do it
as PokeMitchie closes out with the same leap.
PokeMitchie double protects you to that Shadow Annihilate,
and he was able to close with it in the back,
just with that fast attack pressure.
Counter is worse than it used to be because you generate less energy, but it still does a decent amount of damage
Especially in the hands of a shadow Pokemon shadow Pokemon in Pokemon go pp do 20% more damage
But also take 20% more damage
So it is risky, but when you can line it up with a Pokemon like annihilate it can really pop off
That's right. And that's the thing right counter was nerfed
I believe it was almost two years ago now September of 2024
but with the racer's guaranteeing the buff every time you use it, it makes Pokemon especially a shadow annihilate,
particularly Bowen, even though it's pacing as much slower than it used to be.
And the problem with Tasman's Pipe is, he doesn't only have an answer to the shadow annihilate, except for the Mantine.
Does he dare bring the Mantine though, because you know Stump is not Pokemon Mischie's side, very strong into it.
You can see Bowen Mischie, not there to bring it, because why wouldn't you bring it?
There's no real answer to you know Stump is on the side of the casting pipe,
because that you're going to see it every time and just risking the man to be in that terrible matchup is so disastrous to cast your fight.
This is exactly why I put Shadow Annihilate on my caster predictions.
Because if you have a team competition that is missing that goes tight like the Galarian Corsula,
or you only have Mantine as your number one answer, Shadow Annihilate can really go off.
So does that force you to run that Mantine to have something against that Annihilate?
because you know you are probably seeing it.
And as we saw in game number one,
Pokimichi is just happy to invest it in it.
They are locked in to game number two.
We got Caskey Pike versus Pokimichi,
and it's going to be that Shadow Kanto Ninetales lead
once again, but it's to be facing that Galarian Corsola.
And Caskey Pike, he's so scared of the Shadow Ninelid,
doesn't even bring the licky licky,
making this Galarian Corsola absolutely free
for Pokimichi.
Just has such a good team composition.
And to this, doesn't bring the Shadow Ninelid,
But yes, so much flexibility.
It doesn't even matter.
And we're going to see how powerful Shadowcanto Nysdale's
can be with its pacing.
But it just doesn't do enough damage,
and it will take super effective damage.
So trying to swap on a Power Gen maybe,
instead getting a waterfall through,
but taking that night shape.
And again, Casting Bike, using this Dandoza
as a damage sponge.
Pokemon Mishis doesn't have a great answer to the Dandoza,
which is a big reason why it's so safe.
It's not going to Pokemon Mishis team, right?
Unless you have the Mantine,
It's not really good for any of his Pokemon.
So it's going to stay again, throw some more chip damage.
He has plenty of reason, answers to that cancel nine kill.
So might just stay in here all the way
and force the enemies run down there.
So almost a double serve, and finally
going to throw the whole thing,
and she throws on charge attack card.
Will he shield the force, shield off the cast?
He's like, no, we're going to let it go.
You saw that in game number one,
he didn't over form on his stun fist, right?
This time he over form through on charge attack
card to ensure that he has this serve to throw into the
opposing stun fist here.
So an adjustment from Tassan Pike.
No protect shield.
The super effective damage is gonna land.
The Stumpfist takes about half of its health.
Hit it in the night out.
It doesn't go for a combo play.
There's four protect shields remaining.
Do we see a bait?
No, he is sending it.
He is going straight for the energy ball.
Poke Mitchie might think it's a weather ball.
Doesn't he just let it go?
No last second protect shield.
A huge shield on Poke Mitchie.
I'm surprised to even let that surf go.
But maybe just saving it for the super effective energy ball.
Defense is dropped.
Those are closing in on the weather ball range.
It's still not enough.
The TASCEN pike is also one away from the next edge
but goes for it.
But here comes the evil to clear the debuff
and also do some pretty decent damage
with the sucker punches.
But it's going to have to take two weather balls
or a weather ball and an energy ball on its way out.
Do you have your timer available?
No, you are still locked in here.
So yes, actually the back to back weather ball
but this does mean your timer is back available.
You can hold on to the Shadowcanto nine tails
if TASCEN pike wants to pivot out of there.
There comes the pivot into the stumpfist
but it's going to get dampened by this icy wind
that's gonna be super effective so you get the last protect shield of the game.
Casting Bite predicting the super effective icing when it would make sense too
because it's not only super effective, it also goes for a debuff.
But I don't know if this debuff is that relevant for Pokedmitchy because Casting Bite,
he can still take out the opposing sub is even debuff.
There's just way too much health remaining.
But it might allow him to get to a 9 shape.
So 9 Slushers, a swatts out, banks it for later,
tries to draw the NG away from the stomp base.
However, again, Pokemon Machine needs at least two, maybe even three Mudbombs to take out for the opposing stomp.
And there are five Pokemon remaining on the battlefield, but three of them have almost zero health, and now four of them as well.
As this Mudbomb did go through, the opposing Mudbomb from Pokemon Machine is going to be super effective, but he's going to need another one.
Here comes the Dungonzo trying to waterfall down, but does he give him the smark?
And then it's under shock. Does not go through. You're not going to have the opportunity.
Oh, actually does fake that but there's two Pokemon remaining so here comes the nine sales to take the night slash
Yeah, really good play from cast like knowing that looking at you have to throw no matter what to keep this evil around for the problem
Is you are not in one circuit one drink one thunder chocolate you as past it's like evens up this series
It is tied up here with both of these trainers their tournament is on the line
We are double elimination in Pokemon go
There is one loss on the board for IR these trainers, but whoever does succeed in this next game will be moving on and
How about Pokimichi?
Pokimichi in the game number two does sit that shadow annihilate, but keeps
Sorry, excuse me fast. You have pike keeps all of his Pokemon around it really low health almost give him the opportunity
When he swapped in with that Don Dozo if he did get that thundershot down
Maybe he would have got those two protect shields in the back
But evil I think you mentioned it where the ice you in just doesn't really do that much in the end game there
I think evil wasn't really carrying its weight there at the very end definitely not and I think you know the shower night
I played more favor of our pokemanship
I wouldn't be surprised to try spring back again because again casting like he's so scared to bring that man team because of the
How bad that matchup is for the stump this and it's such a gamble for him
If he doesn't get it on tonight like and you saw on game number two program mission might not even bring
No, nightly so such a gamble and hasn't like just trying to play as mutually as possible in this matchup
I think Volkan Mitchie has so much more flexibility with this team competition and he could go again with that two shield shadow annihilates matchup and you know try to counter down throw
Raitius and stuff to grab the shield back from Tassan Pipe. Tassan Pipe back against the wall found the way to find that win and again this is in the loser's bracket. Loser will be eliminated from the tournament and end their world championship run.
Winner continues their dream to get to that grand finals on day number three.
Number three. Well, Kayla, what does Mantian not want to see from Caspian Pike's side?
He doesn't want to see that stun fist, and he also doesn't want to see Corsula.
Because Corsula is a pretty devastating matchup too, because it is so bulky and has that
super effective power gem. What has Pukimichu been showing?
He's been showing stun fist and Corsula. I would actually expect him to come back
with that shadow annihilate in this decisive game number three, because he is effectively
scaring off that Mantian. But Caspian Pike, although this is his first time
championship series this calendar year. He is extremely talented. He is a regional champion.
He might be thinking that as well that the opposing trainer is going to try to rely on
that Shadow Annihilate. So I'm going to bring that Mantine. We're going to find out right now
as we have our leads. We have the Shadow Kanto Ninetales versus Yunova Stumpfist.
In the back there is a Shadow Annihilate, but there is no Mantine on Captain Fight Side.
Yeah, it knows respect for the Shadow Annihilate, but more importantly probably too much respect
for the, you know, the stomp this. I like this play a lot for Pokemonichi. If you know shield this,
you can just two shield the Shadow Knight. Does he throw the shield? Oh, he actually is going to
throw the shield. Instead, now gets the mark on all, probably gets a shield back from Casting
Light. On one shield a piece, the Shadow Knight link is much more susceptible being taken down
when it's only at one shield. Incombed the Shadow Knight link, but now you only have one
shield to hide behind. And if you can get the second shield here, then maybe you actually
you just come in with Dondozo because you can take double
rage this and still get to the surf.
I think you're going to see a pivot into Dondozo here
or actually catch a pike that's just going to stay in here,
try to absorb this energy, maybe let this out of him.
No, he's actually doubling down.
He's trying to get to that energy ball
or that weather ball to do some choke damage.
But the thing is, it doesn't have the reach.
It's not going to be enough to knock out this annihilate.
And Hokeyman, she didn't throw the rations right away.
So might be missing a little bit of damage
as the counters were not boosted until just now.
Engineball doesn't take out the Nile and Dope,
but we get to the Mets drop,
and that might be just enough to avoid
getting hit by the boosted Rage-Tis.
Shields are down, Waterfall,
one engine, one fall, advantage is there.
Pokemon, she might go for the Discharge
and then swap over to the Corsair.
Tries to go for the catch.
Casting Fyke doesn't fall for it.
Now has a lot of energy,
but you know, something's also not quite a bit.
Casting Fyke starts full health.
You know, something's back,
oh wait, go to the Outrage,
He said it's her outrage is a strong attack even though it's not same type attack bonus
Maybe double outrage will do it at this help and double surf won't do it
I actually like what pokey Mitch did there just like we saw with a shadow polytote and earlier matchups
You can bank a bunch of energy on don dozo and use that for the back line here comes a nice shade is not nearly enough to
Knock out of don dozo. There is a switch available for caskin pike
He is at the charge deck throwing on charge attack party once again, but he has a surf bank now
Do we see a blind swap? Because we know the sumptuous will win charge attack priority into the Dundoto
But he can swap out of it and he know he actually just throws the surf and there was no charge attack registered for Pokemon
It's he's gonna take the super effective damage. This is huge and this should be just the game as it was
Oh, but you know stuff is it's pretty pokey as well and typically lose track of priority in a lot of situations
Absolutely brutal for Pokemon itchy if you see cast if I keep it shocked that it will charge that party
That's just a laugh as you can see.
Full health, you know, something is not going to even matter
in this matchup.
As Kokenishi acknowledged the bonus, shows us his respect as well.
As Tassie Pipe continues his streams in this World Championship.
What a season from Tassie and Pipe in his debut year
for Championship Series, only having his first ever tournament
just about five months ago.
Now, he has advanced on this losers round number four just after coming off winning the last North American regional that is an insane ascension from a trainer.
Absolutely wild. And again, one of those players that barely even qualified for Worlds.
He went into Indianapolis knowing he couldn't go to NAIC and saying,
this is my last chance to qualify. I need to do pretty well this tournament to guarantee my spot at World Championship 10.
He won it all so we did get that guarantee spot and now he's made it further and further into that day two bracket
Looking for even more as one alone. We want a few remaining representatives of NA. Well, my takeaway is ladies and gentlemen
We're learning a lot about Don Dozo
I did not think that Don Dozo would win a charge attack priority because it has so much stat product
And when you have so much stat product that means that your attack is usually lower
But you know with Stumpfist also has great stat product
I thought maybe he was gonna try to go for a blind swap, but no.
Dantoso wins the charge attack priority.
He wins the battle versus Sywin.
What can it not do?
Yeah, it's quite the pulse mark for sure,
and definitely one that everyone should start building for the Inventory.
As you know, there's still a few days left in this Go Battle League season
if you want to use it.
But big aggressive passing pipe,
and a great run from Pokimichi who I don't believe fall by the World Championships last year
or maybe Honglu after out which of the years,
but did make the World qualification of past Worlds.
and it's great to see him back on the stage.
Still made a very deep run into day number two better
than most of the trainers here in the tournament.
Look forward to seeing him in the future world too.
Yeah, the region of Japan has been doing awesome here
in day number two.
Of course, we have a winner's finalist from Japan,
even though Hoki Michi was eliminated.
The trainer that eliminated him, let's hear from him.
Take it away, Tomahawk.
Thanks very much, both.
I am joined by Caspian Pipe with a brilliant victory there over Pokimichi.
How are you feeling?
Elated. I was so happy to even make Day 2, even to win a match.
I came in thinking I know anybody in the world can go out too,
so to make it this far, just a dream come true.
It was a great performance and you're actually playing your first season
of Pokémon Go in the Championship Series.
You actually got gold very recently in Indianapolis.
What kind of expectations did that give you coming to the World Championships?
Yeah, six months ago, I drove two and a half hours to my first ever local tournament.
So Seattle wasn't my first in person tournament.
And to be here now, I had no expectations in Indianapolis.
I was just trying to qualify for Worlds.
Coming here was the gift, so I really didn't want to get my upset.
Unbelievable.
I mean, you've been playing brilliantly.
Now, if we took a look at your team and the teams that you've been running this season,
obviously we've got a small data sample, but I've noticed you really like your double water pairing.
Is that something that you consciously go for when you're building teams?
Uh, I think water types are just so good that often the good minds like there's been multiple of them.
Uh, yeah, I really thought I was cooking something special with Dandojo, but everyone else got to know that too.
But I really enjoyed Dandojo. Uh, yeah, I really wanted to answer Tink. I think Tink's really hard to bring into me.
I don't even care about saying that because it's just really bad into me. So it's like,
I think that's very fair and you've also got your you know been stunfisk your shadow fortress and your licky-licky
But I think you've been popularizing as well over the last few months
Are they Pokemon that you've just really got a lot of comfort with now?
Yeah, I think I tried to drop licky-licky as couldn't do it
And I had to go for the triple fish, you know cast me in pike. I run fish sometimes on stream
I I had to do triple fish
Amazing now you've got lots of fans in the audience. Is there anyone you'd like to shout out?
So many big shout out to my family who's watching and my brother knows nothing about Pokemon
But he came here to support me my girlfriend. It was her birthday on Wednesday, and she still came up
And all my relatives watching at home my faction the brave nerds especially Kurt Goldsilver has been giving great
Advice and really massive shout out to motiques. He's been like my rock throughout this entire journey
He talked me out of running King Gambit multiple times
So he's really the reason I'm here. He was screaming me for two hours this morning. Love that guy
I love to hear that and you're a great inspiration for all of our newer players into the championship series as well
Castus bring us back to the action
Thank you Tom Hawk for that fantastic interview and to add on to the story of casting pike
He said six six months. Oh six and a half month. So he went to his first local
And then he went to Seattle and funny enough. I live in the same area as him
I didn't go to that local. So when I saw his run in Seattle, no seeding at all first ever tournament
I was like, who is this guy?
I didn't see my friend Drake, also local, so count.
And he's like, oh, dude, this cast and fight guy,
he was killing it in this past local.
You just didn't go.
You don't even know who he is, but he's actually really good.
And sure enough, six months later,
he definitely is quite good at this game.
Awesome to see he has such a huge supportive network here,
both in person and I'm sure at home too.
Well, the thing is, if you are thinking
about taking that plunge into competitive Pokemon Go
If you start now, you'll actually have a head start on the next year's World
Championships, then even Caspian piked in on this year's World Championships.
And what a great way to get the Tinketon from Beasley Boy from last year's World
Championships. Of course, at a lead charge CM, you're one-third on your way to a
really strong team. All you got to do is participate in the Twitch drops in
Caspian piked the Fisherman trainer just scoring big here in the Bay Area.
Yeah, definitely. I mean he was ready for the Tinketon and that's how
and it is in this meta so definitely get your push ups if you can and also
another great reason to go out to your local tournaments great way to practice
in the actual meta and get points to get your qualifications for world
championships we get world championships we got another match on our hands
let's get into it's substance eater vs. King OWT substance eater on an
absolute generational run for him a breakout season he's looking for more
But he's going to be going against King OWT and it's going to be a top one to see who comes out on top again
We are on the loser side. So winner of this will be the non-loser will be ending the journey soon
Well, if you didn't see his performance earlier on he was able to take down Potterland
Who has unfortunately been eliminated from the world championships
Which is a shocker to everyone but sus and its eater a trainer that has gone at seventh place two times
9th place a couple times as well really did have an awesome season in terms of
getting it to day number two but then that is where he faltered a little bit so
now he's on that loser side of the bracket can he keep continuing his
journey of growth and move on to defeat another European trainer in King
OWT which has a really unique take on the meta of course has a Hissui an
Electro has the Fero has that shadow King draw a very different team than
Susunus Eater was facing earlier on.
Definitely, and a lot of the Pokemon on King OWT's team
are kind of blast cannons, right?
The Hissun Electro, it's really hard
with the Wild Charge Bureau.
Very high attack stat.
Charges the moves very fast in 10 turns
for the Drowpeck and the Drowrun,
and then Shadow King Drow.
The speed, the attack damage is pretty immense,
and also a great check to that Donso's note.
Let's go.
Game number one, Susun Eater into King OWT.
It's gonna be licky, licky into Bureau.
a bad matchup for our hero, but not the worst as to drop that World Threater KO.
And if you promptly protect shield on a Shadow Ball here,
this Kingdra matchup with the Surf could be really strong.
That's not a Surf, that is a Swift that's going to be landing in the Sustenance Eater.
So now suddenly, and it's also going to be, and there it is, that Shadow Ball.
And it's a no shield on that Shadow Ball into the Shadow Kingdra.
So now comfortably this Licky Licky can get to another Charger that,
or pivot out into that Corsula.
I like this play. Just come in, soak the energy, and fast attack down.
I love this too because the force of the King Ogre is used to go through the serve.
He does get through it though, and it's definitely a better move though if you don't throw one.
So ends up working out for him, but the land force of the Wukonga can tank quite a bit.
However, this allows King Ogre to farm down with the fear, but instead comes in with the
ensuing electro, which is kind of curious to me, right?
Because I feel like the fear would have been much better in this situation
where double resisting the spawnish damage.
Yeah, you would have to protect shield so that is one small factor there.
Maybe now he switches. No, he just stays in.
He wants to get this Corsola out of here,
but look at the chunk that it did into this Electrode.
It's just as interesting about it.
Is he just really weak to that in the back?
No, he actually knows because that Fero was in the lead.
The Fero is in the back.
He saved two protect shields for it,
but there is that Malmour coming in counter swap
and now you're down energy, but just slightly.
Yeah, and this Malmour is going to reach that foul play before the drill back is reached.
The substance eater, I believe his switch timer is up,
so can just swap straight to Licky Licky if you'd like to.
And yes, that's exactly what he does when he soak up this damage
and gets to roll out through absolutely huge resistance eater.
Kingo WT is shaking his head because that is not what he wants to see.
He doesn't want to let that full roll out through.
That is a three turn fast attack that just gives all that energy to that Licky Licky
to get up to these body slams.
And he could have avoided that, but he threw at the improper timing.
The roll out does come through and it could be punishing.
Last protection of the battle is down now.
The timer is ticking closer and closer.
After this drill peck, he will have his timer available.
Maybe he can make a crucial swap into his Electro,
but his Electro is really low.
And Susan Zeter wants to get the Spice in ball,
but the catch is available.
And here comes the optimized catch from King OWT.
Gets the Thunder Shot through as well.
Can he get to an Endure Ball to close out this matchup
against the Licky Licky, but Susan Zeter,
he's not giving me the chance.
He's going for the Side Wave down.
And he silenced down the Electropec before it gets to the move.
Only a few more silenced to get the foul play.
It's on Georgiax priority.
Licky, Licky can't try to go for the roll down before the next
Drop-Nexus reach.
Can King OWT's zero hang on to get one foul throwback?
No, it's actually not even up to get the Malomar.
I completely forgot.
That's why Susan Cedar was shaking his head.
It's not the Shadow Malomar, it's just the normal.
He can take that Drop-Nexus and he can take the battle.
All right, I got to ask you punters.
You were a Malamar hater this morning.
You're kind of a Malamar believer in the afternoon.
What about right now?
You know, I'm not a hater.
I'm just saying Malamar wasn't doing much earlier on.
There, we saw some success with it.
And the reason we saw success with it
is because he was able to swap it in early
and then swap it out, making some awesome catches
and getting ahead on energy.
That is the way that you want to use that Malamar
in this meta to pull it off.
So right there, Malamar looked pretty good.
So what you're telling me is, it's the driver, not the car.
You know, it can be.
It has, this car's pretty good.
But the thing is, there's also about 25 other cars
that are really good in the Open Grade League meta
in the Pokemon Go World Championships right now.
But it just so happens to be that Malamar
was one of the last second additions
to a lot of these trainers that made it into day number two.
That's why it was doing so well in the top usage.
It hasn't found its footing yet.
But if you're gonna find your footing,
No better time than the end of day number two.
What I'm hearing is there's 25 atchers to your assessment of Malabar,
but a great re-performed game from Susten.
You're just staying in control to match up all the way through,
getting extra energy to sneak through.
And here we go, match point versus Susten.
You're can King OWC, find a way to force a game number three.
It's gonna be Licky Licky into the more frail shadow Kingdra.
And the shadow Kingdra can win this matchup in the one protect shield situation.
pretty dominantly. It's actually weird because Licky and Licky is a really good neutral Pokemon
in that one protection situation, but for some reason, Kingdra can pull it off. Now it's just
going to be going for that surf damage here. That surf is going to do a big chunk into this
Licky-Licky. And now once he takes the surf, he will be in range of Swift. So do we see that
before the next charge attack? Perfect plays from King OWT to maybe force a protection
from Susan at theater if he shows this there could be a catch on the shadow ball the shadow ball is ready
that's king only if you go for it or not goes for the shadow ball but he doesn't swap for it
and now the shadow ball is going to do a cycle amount damage into the king truck won't be a
video but it'll be closed here come stronger trust me they're trying to go to the side with
them what king over there to get exactly what he wants take a ton into the Malamore
because i have a little quiet a bit of the image of susan leader building up the double
the battle. That's bad because
the back to back, but this
going to knock out so you
won't get the back to back
off unless you use your last
protection of the battle.
thinking about it. Do I
really need the superpower
energy? I don't think it's
really going anywhere at
this point. So just let the
come in with the fortress,
but Fortress is also going to
struggle to be able to knock
out this thing. It's on a
fantastic line. You're
because he also has you're
in the back. And if
in the back and if Susten here shields this,
he's gonna shield us against the Fero,
but maybe predicts that that might be the case.
Saves it for later, could be, oh he's shooting electro,
could be the Fero, indeed it is the Fero,
as he's gonna try to build up
and throws the Susten right before the bulldozer's reach.
He smells the wing condition here.
Two drill effects will do,
or maybe even the pack damage might just be enough.
Susten here still has a catch opportunity here,
come to Fero, does he go for the bait?
I think he has go for the watch,
he just reduced the damage.
He does have timing, does go over the sand tube,
but I think the peg game is just a little bit too much.
He's thinking about it.
He's thinking, no, he actually does protect you last second.
What if he called that sand tube that would be double,
not very effective?
But the thing is, he's thinking about how much energy
they've got, like he didn't even matter,
because he was able to just wing attack down.
And now he has two charge attacks
for Susie and his either shadow fortress.
And we got a tied series.
King of the Chief finds a way to force this game,
that series is not over for him and his tournament run is not over as well.
Completely floating the script on that one, a great line read from him. Bring that
Tinketon in the right situation. I like this line a lot more because I think the
last one, this is what, Kingdra, Zero, it's an electrode. There's no bulk
anywhere, right? And you only have two shields. If you spend it on a Fairbulk
mind, your other Fairbulk on back don't have near as much play. Bring in
the bulkier, Tinketon with the superior typing into a Malmour, gives him a
fighting chance. Also, if you don't bring the Tinketon, the Malamar just completely unchecked.
Yeah, and that's the thing that he adjusted to, right?
That Malamar was bouncing around the battlefield in that game number one.
So he brought that Tinketon to check that Malamar, and as soon as it came in the battlefield,
he had the Tinketon and he wasted a lot of energy from that Malamar and kept healthy enough
that he was able to do so much damage to the remaining Pokemon from Susten and Teter.
So it's actually pretty hard to bring that Malamar in the middle matchup
If you are expecting a Tinketon to be in the back,
but with King OWT's team, he has so much flexibility.
It's really hard to predict exactly
what it's gonna be bringing into the matchup.
And both players, they're getting ready
for one final battle in this series.
The biggest matchup, arguably, in both of their careers.
And you don't know how hard it is
to not only get to World Safe,
but to make it this far into the tournament.
It might be forever before they get to the same spot
trying to make them most of it. Here we go.
Game number three, Sustance Eater vs. King OWG.
And a beautiful lead for OWG.
That is not what Sustance Eater wants to see.
And he's actually going to stay in this.
Maybe he's going to go for the superpower
and then swap out.
But what does he swap out into?
Does he go into the Corsair?
Neither one of those Pokemon in the back
really want to take the Gigaton hammer.
Is he going to try to call a big bulldoze bait?
He is thinking about it.
But no last second.
He is holding on to that protector.
Then he implements it.
A big shield for Sustance Eater.
But the problem is how do you chip down
to make an arrangement where the rest of the team can handle it.
Horsesuit, that isn't even the best match for Tinnitus,
and the Lick-a-Lick loses that one as well.
King Odoji actually shields the super power,
but this allows Sousa to either throw another one
and maybe even swap out.
Go for another one, this will be some cruiser chip damage.
Sousa either might just let the scope,
or also might just go straight into the Lick-a-Lick.
Well, that backline matchup up glaring Horsesuit
into maybe the Fero could be good for the Fero,
but if protect shields are down,
you can land that super effective power gem
Jim to do pretty well in that zero protect shield matchup. Here comes the gigaton hammer.
It just says so much neutral damage and it comes the Kingdra. Now the Kingdra is pretty
much putting this Licky Licky in swift range. There is so much over farming going on. Susin
Eater is thinking I can't waste all of that energy. He has to use the protect shield.
Yeah. Very interesting over farm by I mean both trainers really but really susin Eater
because he's not going to win charge attack party goes for the bison but I love this
He's called him King of the G, he got the final shield,
he's in a commanding position, now here comes the second
by sim, this is also still good for a substance eater,
because one shadow wouldn't have been enough,
it can't really roll out down before the next swift
comes through, so now gets almost a Gatorage,
even then it's not enough, but the astonishment was huge,
however, there is the arrow in the back,
it's going to double resist all of this ghost fast
that pressure from the force of love.
King of WT and his trusty Fero has an opportunity
to full, so weak, the three Pokemon on Sustenance Eater's side.
All he has to do is lay a double drill peck into this Corsula,
but somehow have enough energy for the third drill peck
into the Malamar.
This is a bait on a double resisted nightshade,
but it doesn't matter because it's close in energy.
Also, Sustenance Eater is switch lock.
You just need to bank as much energy as possible
before the Power Gym.
Perfect timing by King OWT.
Sustenance Eater trapped in this position.
Kornott swat bounce had Kornott get the catch off.
The Malmar is still around.
Is Malmar the truth or is it just going to be the downfall for
substance eater in this matchup?
There's still the tinkering down the back as well.
But you have a lot of energy.
Kink over the catch doesn't get it off.
And King OWT gets the trail back.
There's only a licking lick in the back but it doesn't have much health left.
And more importantly it doesn't have much energy to get it off.
And substance eater bought down Lee, had a such a great torment.
But King OWT will be the winner of the series and be moving forward.
And there is three for King OWT and his Fero able to full sweep that back line
and take it two to one to advance in this tournament and keep his dreams alive.
Wow, what a series between the two of them there too.
And King OWT after a very talk first game found a way to find the win conditions there.
And what a performance of substance here as well, right?
He had such great tournament.
He also, you know, he beat so many top players,
even being Potomac on that winner's side,
but it was just a little bit too much in the end there.
And, you know, a great team that he builds, a great run.
And like I said, the best seasons he's had,
but the best season he's had so far.
And I'm sure a lot of you are looking forward
to his performance in future seasons.
And it's a game of inches of milliseconds.
We saw that Susse Zeter was reaching for that swap.
He just barely didn't get that off.
that would have effectively swapped on that drill pack.
And then he would have had the foul play
and maybe he would have had a chance,
but this is how close the games can be,
especially in the end games.
And I'll just echo what you said.
What a run from this trainer
that joined the championship series last season.
But this season has definitely been
his standout performance.
And what better way to stamp out your season
but to be this far in the day number two
in the most stacked Pokemon Go tournament ever.
Yeah, I believe it's doesn't Cedars first season
last season he did make that world's qualification in his first run but maybe
didn't have you know the best performance there still getting into the
competitive scene but this year he has just gone in multiple levels up in his
gameplay but King OWT he has something to say about that one and the Fero came
to play in this final matchup and unfortunately Sustin Deeter just
didn't have the time to swap out to make the catch to make the fancy
place to pull it off.
And he, Sussex Theater, has been eliminated.
We said it before, this is on the loser's side of the bracket.
But that does mean King OWT is getting closer and closer
to getting higher and higher in that pricing.
And who knows, any one of these trainers on the loser's side
of the bracket could make a historic run
to make it all the way to the losers' finals
and then eventually make it to grand finals
on Championship Sunday.
And more importantly, someone will
and we're going to be facing
someone in that which finals
you have a chance to make that
grand finals and a lot of our
players in this bracket are
going forward. I'm very curious
here how King O W T feels
about that. We either use the
L. A. P. Was breathe. Take it
away. I'm joined by King W T
also known as Jack, who's just
sealed his place in the top
eight in the San Francisco
World Championships. Jack,
how are you feeling? I'm
feeling absolutely amazing. I
think this is far too far
I'm not going to say that I'm
going to be in a position.
Going into the day and losing
my first round in winners,
especially to games. Maybe I
could have won. Unfortunately
calls. Unlucky deboss. But
since then, I feel I've gone
amendment my mental back three
games on the bounce. Taking
stop a feeling good from a
mentality perspective. You've
obviously prepared last night
for today. You mentioned that
you lose that first match.
What does it take to really
pull things together and get
the string of victories that
the next one. And I think
it's just one match. So if
you lose one, don't affect the
next one. And you someone that
looks at the name of your
opponent and you draw
conclusions from who you're
up against or do you just take
everything as it comes? I try
to take everything as it comes.
Obviously there's some names
that you tend to be more
scared of. That's only
doesn't compete as much as
other people. I saw people
out there multiple, like
Medals multiple wins and
maybe not statistically up there
with them, but to be up
here and competing with
them. It makes you feel
that level. Now you've not
had a medal before, but you are
so so close to a trophy. What
would that mean to you? It would
mean the world like a trophy
before medal. I don't think I
would have ever believed it. But
like taking one game at a time.
What I think about that just
yet. Is there anyone that you'd
like to call out for their
support in this journey? First
we'll show someone team
Thanks guys. Awesome white fellow British friends, Max and Aaron. You guys are amazing.
And all my friends at home who maybe aren't even into Pokemon as much, but they always watch the stream, still support me.
I appreciate you guys so much.
Amazing, Jack. Keep it up. Congratulations again. You are top eight in the world. That was King OWT.
Still so many more matches still to come. Castors, back to you.
Well, the Pokemon World
Championships is where the
impossible happens and he is
well on his journey. Jack or
King O. W. T. Has an awesome
chance to be in that losers
finals. Just needs to win a
couple more matchups. We are
sticking on that loser side of
the bracket up next. We do have
Caspian Pike, who you just
saw. He's back on stage facing
Dunebug. I believe these are
the only two remaining and
oh no, there's pocket two out
of pockets here and then we
got casting pike for
And only one of them can continue moving it forward.
And this is kind of a crazy matchup there
because you got DOOMBUG, the most decorated,
most winning in terms of titles player in the circuit.
Tywin, I believe, L and DS are Jeff.
And then you got Casper and Pike.
First season started only six months ago competing
and going against a Titan in the circuits.
But Casper and Pike has proven
that he could do it before he could do it potentially again.
Now, Dotto though, doesn't look nearly as good in this matchup
as Jellison is going to really put a hurt in
in that head-to-head water matchup.
You know he has done it before,
because I'm going to show you where he left off
in his regional championship to get to the finals.
He beat out of pocket,
and then beat S. James P,
who is one of the best trainers in all of North America.
And to finish it off,
he was able to defeat Nighttime Clashier.
So he took out Titan after Titan after Titan.
So he can pick off where he dropped it off
and he can beat Dunebug as well.
He has that capability.
And as you've seen, it is the story of underdogs
so far in the world.
Some of our heavy hitters have been knocked out,
but can Dunebug be one of those last ones standing?
Like you said, has the Jellison
a really unusual pick in this meta
and can cast me in pipe.
The fisherman reel that Pokemon in.
Like you said, the Dondozo doesn't want to see it,
But at least it does have that, you know,
the stun fist and that licky, licky,
because otherwise, jealousy is really strong against this team.
And speaking of matchup, that casting fight
has fought, you know, top place he fought against.
There's one play he hasn't fought against in the NA circuit.
That's quite that great.
It is the man sitting across from him right now.
And casting play, as a reminder,
this is his fourth ever tournament,
including this one, his fourth ever tournament.
Dunebug now has more than four tournament wins.
He's gone to more than four world championships.
So it's a real true David vs. Goliath situation.
Here we go, game number one,
Dunebug vs. Casting Fight.
It's going to be the floor just
into the mansion to kick things off.
Let's take a look at that backline.
You do see the jealousy in the back for Dunebug,
and it's going to be faced against that,
you know, with Sunfish or Licky Licky.
So actually, you don't have a lot of maneuverability
for that jealousy in the backline for Dunebug.
Are we going to see it swap into this frontline
as the disarming voice does come in?
Do you try to make a cheeky swap into a water pulse?
No, the water pulse is going to be coming off for Casting and Pipe.
It could be a tricky timing situation, but more importantly,
Dumbuck has to be afraid of the potential Licky-Licky matchup in the back.
So, going to protect this water pulse, that actually puts Dumbuck in a pretty good situation
because now he shields a more engine-intensive move
and can outpace Casting Pipe to the double-summing voice.
And here comes the next water pulse that's going to do a decent amount of damage
into the floor just here. There is one protect shield remaining, of course, for Dumbuck.
You'll be able to throw that chilling water into this Licky Licky.
Does have the Feeble in the back.
You really don't want to see this matchup with the Jelton.
Here comes that Feeble.
Gonna try to make up as much energy as possible
to maybe have some sort of effect in the back line for Kastman Fight.
Yeah, I don't really love this play from Kastman Fight.
You see, not only D-Buff, he takes chip damage now.
D-Buff can really dictate the switch advantage.
You can see Bodice is not doing enough.
Also gives D-Buff a lot of opportunities
to even boost on the nice stats for D-Buff.
He's not afraid of overbombing.
And he loves some extra energy here as he's building up to almost a hundred before throwing
the first Night Slash.
And the body slam goes through, Bevel has all the energy in the world and Night Slash
will be just enough I believe or maybe actually could be just short into the bulkiness of
Licky Licky.
It is just short.
Here comes the swap into the man team trying to soak up all this energy but he's
going to bank up to the double Night Slash to ensure that he gets a Night Slash
for even an icy wind on that backline you know the sun fist.
And Junebug County is impeccable here because he's not only through right before the charge of priority,
it's passing by Shields.
He can throw another nice dash again to put the Mantine Outer Commission.
And this puts Casting Flag again in such a difficult position.
He has one pot of Pokemon left and is about to get debuffed with the icy wind.
And no opportunity to peekaboo in that situation, but you do have that Pokemon sitting in the back
to clear this debuff, which you can in just about 15 seconds ago.
Here comes that Fortress, another chilling water, another attack there.
Through the Geno, the Stumpfist, you're probably going to want to swap out at some point to clear this double debuff.
But if you swap out, you can skip the Fortress, even more energy as Casting Plank want to throw the first discharge.
I think too much. Just want to let this go, knowing that there's still the Licky Licky in the back.
You don't want to get hit by a Shadow Ball. You don't want to get hit by a full damage discharge.
And Licky Licky, uh, Jelson should be able to tank this next discharge. No problem.
Casting Plank has that catch opportunity now still on the Licky Licky butts.
Caleb, does, does Caspian Fights Licky Licky have enough health to actually get to a charge
attack while it's double resisting Hexes?
It is going to be a close one, but I think Dunebug is pretty on point with his count,
so he wouldn't give Caspian Fights the opportunity to even go for it, we'll probably do the
serve beforehand.
But Caspian Fights, drawing and pardon discharge first, but your double debuff, it doesn't
even do enough, and he gets Caspian Fights going for it.
Oh, he tries to go for the catch, but he gets sniped down with a sucker punch.
And the sucker punch eliminates all of that energy from the Licky Licky.
Yes, you did get the Thunder Shock down, but will you get to the double discharge before the double Surf is available?
I don't even think a discharge is enough damage to knock out the Jellison. It's super effective, but Jellison is quite bulky.
Absolutely. It is not enough, as you can see. The Jellison does reach the back-to-back Surf.
The next one is going to be thrown on Charge Jack priority. Even if Jellison lost, that discharge won't be enough.
But Jellison ain't going to lose no Charge Jack priority as Doomblood posted it out with the Jellison to start it off 1-0.
And Casper Pike is really wishing that his first discharge was not double dropped in attack.
He threw that first one while he had his attack two stages lower.
If he was able to throw that discharge later when it was at a normal level,
maybe the double discharge would have been able to do it.
But either way, great plays by Doombug.
He's one of the best for the reason.
And the fact is he has this huge experience advantage in moments like this
When he looks really locked in, he is almost unstoppable to beat.
And more importantly, if you got T-Buff and Goose all around your Pokemon,
it's going to be hard to beat him in general.
That was at least three different T-Buffs, two chilling water,
and Ice Twin, maybe I'm forgetting one as well.
And Casting Bite, he might have Bulk on a Seam,
he might have Super Effective Moves,
but none of them were doing enough damage for Doombug Squad.
And this is an incredibly unique strategy.
Having the Florges, having the Jellison, having the Feeble,
We haven't really seen that trio, but how many times have we seen that trio from Dunebug?
So he has his own unique take on the meta, and it's working.
A talented driver also having an awesome team composition faced against Caspian Pike.
A newer trainer on this circuit, but we know the talent that he has.
But if he wants to move on in this tournament, he has to reverse sweep.
And the problem for Caspian Pike is he had the best answers possible for Jelisa in that backline.
He had the stuff is he had the licky-licky, but he still wasn't able to close it out and
We've talked about how don do so a great meta read from a lot of our top players such our game number two plays our top cup players
But even better meta read in my opinion is you go a step forward or further
Don't those are the anti meta
Jelson is the anti anti meta and because of how strong don doze is you expect is free
But it is not free into do much seems here. We go game number two do bug on match point by
itself a slightly tough lead but still has a super effective chilling water to
do some heavy damage into this nine tails. Caspian Pike decided to sit that
Licky Licky for this game number two. Still has that you know the stonkness in
the back line. Gonna throw this weather ball that's gonna be neutral but
we'll be see him pivot out maybe even into a man team and no actually just
gonna stay in gonna have to deal with this super effective chilling water
which will drop the attack by one stage into this shadow Kanto nine tails.
And you know dropping the liquid liquid makes you really really susceptible for that jealousy and I don't know
I think casting pike might have been spooked a little bit from that first game right getting deep off thinking that liquid liquid
There's not much value. I think the more bigger problem was that the liquid liquid was deep off
And that's why I didn't have value but now this just in the back is so free for doombug
That's played into absolutely everything on the team of casting a fight with the problem for casting a pike is doombug
but keeps continuing to make Caskinpike throw debuff attacks.
He did the same thing with that Kanto Nintel
throwing a debuff weather ball
and now he's already landed the icy wind.
So all of these attacks from the Mantine are debuffed as well.
Deciding to throw off the protect shield though,
because he knows these wing attacks
aren't doing that much pressure.
He can't bane some energy here,
but I don't know if you have the reach
even with Night Slash.
I'm not sure if there's enough to knock out.
So he swaps, tries to catch that water pulse,
but now suddenly Caskinpike has to throw the twister,
but he's getting closer to his timer.
And more importantly, he has to throw another D-Buff,
non-Sap twister.
D-Buff doesn't even mind that at all.
Saves all the NG in cases,
and licking, licking in the back,
but there's nuts.
It's a stumpness, which he has way more play into.
And let's not forget how much NG has
on the D-Buff in the back.
I believe it's at least two nice slides worth.
And yes, Kassel Mike is going to shield up
the Super Fector Surge,
going to do a lot more damage
than most of the attacks remaining.
Get to the first Fist Charge.
He's still in this one,
but D-Buff's feeling confident
he has another Surf ready.
He's just going in with different package of attacks,
different package of moves.
He is just looking unstoppable here.
He's already forced Caspian Pike to throw four attacks
that were debuff.
It now just got two Protect Shields with this Jealousy.
He has very low health on all of his Pokemon though,
and Caspian Pike still has a lot of health remaining,
but has to throw the discharge
before the Surf is available,
deciding to Protect Shield it for Doombug,
knowing that he doesn't want to waste his energy.
I love this play from Doombug.
You throw the serve, you combo play with Icewind, but Casting Bug eats nothing!
No!
Catches the resistance to serve on the Mantine!
That is huge for Caspian Pipe here, able to reel in that water damage that's going to be not very effective,
but still knocks out the Mantine here.
And now, actually, Doombug is not even reaching for a pivot here.
He's just staying in with his Jeltsuit.
Maybe he's expecting the Kanto Ninetales to come in,
and thinking that maybe he can get to an attack.
There comes the somethings.
Here comes the Florgis, but the Florgis is in range of Mudbomb.
I don't know how Doombug is going to get out of this.
Casting Bug maybe could have thrown maybe one more Thunder Shock, but I don't think it's Bobbomb is actually enough to KO even when it's not D-Bug.
This allows Dumbug to get that kill.
Wow, no! The Thunder Shock's just enough!
And Casting Bug all of a sudden back against the wall has the icy wind, but you know something's won the boat.
This Bobbomb and this Meda can take this no problem and only a few more Thunder Shocks away.
Dumbug getting away out of the timer here and now comes the Bobbomb. Casting Bug finding life in this pivotal game and might just force a game number three.
Gelsin does have a little bit of energy, but does he have the health here?
I don't think so.
Can he? No, he doesn't have nearly enough energy that his Caspian mic is gonna be able to tie up the series.
Wow, what a series. What a beautiful cast from Caspian.
But he knew Dumbug had to serve.
He knew Dumbug wanted to get that off.
And his only win condition was catching that resistive serve on the man team.
And Dumbug, he's been waiting in and out.
We spawned Blue Spug, but today he's Deepbub.
Go ahead.
Never mind.
Let's go.
OK.
Scrap that joke.
Don't hurt it.
Right.
Oh my god.
I know.
I know where you're going.
Today, Drew Bupk is debuffing his opponent.
Let's go with that.
Yeah, he has.
Because Caspian Pike threw at least five charge attacks
that were debuffing.
But I really like the adjustment from Caspian Pike
to keep that Yunova Stunfist in the back.
Because Yunova Stunfist is going
to be throwing super effective energy into four out
of the six Pokemon for Doombusters.
The only debuffers are the ones
that are going to be neutral for the Stunfist.
But if you're able to keep Pokemon around,
clear that debuff in the end,
I think you know what's going to be in the back
is the best solution for casting a fight.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, he did bench the licky licky.
I don't think licky licky is really a problem for him.
It's just, licky licky doesn't really hit the hardest.
You know, especially if you don't have a super
effective shuffle throughout the licky,
the Jelson matchup.
And once you're debuff, it's just,
you're kind of a meat shield,
but you're not really doing much in return.
So, I think that was why he benched it.
And maybe it was the right call.
But I do think licky licky is still quite safe
for passing like if you could get it
into the right matchup.
You can force shields, right?
Especially with a debuff Pokemon like people and forces.
You could get their first shield right off the bat,
no shield yourself, swap out, clear it out.
Let's see if he goes for that.
Or he goes for a similar strategy with that nine tails,
with the, you know, some of it's with the Manti.
Manti was really something he leaned into.
And without any electrified downside,
Doombug, it is very safe.
So I do like that he is bringing it into it.
But here we go.
Matt's point.
Casting him fight for Doombug 97
when it will continue their road in this World Championship.
and it's going to the Nineteen goes into the Chelsea and a pretty
awkward matchup for both Pokemon.
Well, Chelsea is one of those few water types that can hang on to an energy
ball that's going to be super effective.
So can really win this matchup versus shadow came to night.
There's a huge reason that Dunebug brought it to the tournament already
got the protection from that shadow came to night.
There's a shadow came tonight.
There's will be able to get to double energy ball just waiting,
just making sure that he doesn't get caught on.
This is super effective.
Jealousy can take it.
Let's see what Dunebug does.
He decides to let it go.
Casting my corner land, this has the next move.
Expect a potential serve.
He wasn't sure if Dumbug's going to go for the optimization
or not, so he just went straight through it.
But as safe as the manciness, even
if he doesn't have to move, it's not the worst for him.
And now, coming in with the twister,
does Dumbug go for the shield.
He's lost two shields remaining,
and pulls up the shield, and shields the bait
from the twister.
Smart adjustment from Casting Pike.
Knowing that Dumbug is going to be going for the deep
up attacks, which he's doing right now with the ice bin.
So he went for that twister knowing that he's going to get that first protection
because he's been showing waterfalls time after time.
This time going for that twister and said,
and now he's going to show that water pulse because there's only one protection remaining.
No way DOOMBOOK doubles down in this situation.
The timer is going to be up really soon for both these traders.
Kaspyen has his timer right now.
He could swap, but instead he's probably just going to let this maintenance go down to the Night Slash.
DOOMBOOK going to throw one right before the twister in case Kaspyen
try to catch right when he got there.
Try to make it a little bit less predictable.
Doombug has a little bit of energy remaining,
but CastingBike is going to throw this one ball first.
There's still the serve loaded on the gel scene,
so Doombug won't let this go.
And CastingBike has to know this ready,
but the problem is,
the serve is still so effective on Holt remaining.
Holt, go on.
He hasn't even seen the four just yet,
but I guess the, you know,
some of this has also not been shown.
And CastingBike, because he landed the edge ball earlier,
can now just go straight with the ball against Doombug.
Doombug might be caught in a opposition,
because there's a lot of energy on the night sails.
And he has to by going through on bad timing
just to get this off before Doobuck gets to the serve.
Well, he could have tried to throw this weather ball
earlier on, but it doesn't matter,
because he got the shield anyway.
Do you try to swap?
And there is that swap.
Trying to go for the Thundershock.
It actually stuck in that hex.
Oh, my God.
Was able to get that off.
Doobuck doesn't look face,
but it looked like he was almost getting knocked out
from the Thundershock here.
Instead, here comes the Florgis.
The Florgis is gonna take the first mud bomb
before he can land that debuff,
land the chilling water into the Stunk Fist.
This is actually kind of a dicey situation on Doombug,
mainly because he could possibly lose charge of priority
in the end on the Jelson inter-90s,
so that Serpi Bint might not be as valuable as his scenes.
But first, Deepbop is going to come through the scrum point,
passing right in the situation where he needs to go for two moves,
and if he could pivot out, maybe even land a weather ball
on the forges, he could still win it
because you couldn't have two Serps bent on this Jelson.
Timers are coming up soon.
You can see Doombug trying to reach for it,
throws the Chilling Water right before it is reached.
But it's not enough.
It's not enough, and the move is ready on the 9-6.
Do we see a Simon Swarff on both players?
Let's see how they play it out.
And you see Kasper and Pike reaching for the mud bomb.
And this might be Czech Mates.
Do buggy, he has a serve, but there's still two
for the mud loaded, and the Thunder Trunks won't take it out.
If you don't throw it, but if you don't throw the move,
the 9-6 can make sure all player tries to go for one final hit,
but he won't do it.
And the underdog short continues as Kasper and Pike
takes the final victory.
Kasper and Pike, continuing his ascension,
taking down some of the top names in Pokemon Go PvP.
He started at the Indianapolis regionals,
taking out out of pocket night time class here at SJ.
Now at the World Championships,
able to take down Doombug as well,
getting to losers, round number five,
just an incredible journey
from a new trainer in championship series,
giving hope to all those trainers out there
that they can do it too.
They can sign up, they can join
and they can beat some of the best.
You just need a little practice, patience and talent.
And Caspian Pike has all of those.
And go to your local as well.
That's where the journey started for Caspian Pike.
What a series between these two.
And you can see the great sportsman
from Dumbuck as well.
You know, maybe not the run he was hoping for,
but at the same time, his best run so far
in his fifth world, he made a top cut.
He kind of, you know, finally broke the curse
that he's had at world championships.
And I'm sure this won't be his last top cut in worlds
looking forward to see him perform even further.
But Casting Fight, keeping the underdog dream alive,
as you can see, that was a crucial catch on the man team
game number two, the fourth is game number three.
And this match was so fun to watch.
He gives us so neutral all the way throughout.
Every footballer has played no football or hard walls.
And both players just playing with precision,
trying to overthink the other person.
Do much, expecting this little, just safe,
serve-related, knowing he needs it.
But you know, something a little too bulky,
So little too much for the forces in the handle
and more importantly, Kaspi with a quick swap
gave him the entry lead to need to close it out.
And even though he threw a lot of attacks with a debuff,
I feel like he bounced back beautifully.
In that first game, number one,
he really fell behind to Dumbug,
who was bouncing around the battlefield.
Even in game number two,
Dumbug just seemed at top peak level.
And when he's at that level,
he is an unstoppable force,
but Kaspi and Pipe knew he hasn't even
over-stunned this in the back.
It is unchecked against the opposing team.
I just need to keep it healthy enough and long,
around long enough that I can clear debuffs
and close it out.
And that's what he did in two straight games
and he reversed sweep.
And now he is alive in this tournament.
It's just incredible stuff from a new trainer.
Absolutely.
What amazing battles we've had so far.
We got more exciting battles to come.
The final Oceania player in this Topka.
They love Jai will be going against one of the top players
from North America out of pockets.
We got some more Don Dose Action.
We got some last place Don Dose Action.
We know that was pretty crazy earlier.
And I don't think they love to,
I want to relive that one just out of pocket.
But only one way to find out
as we'll head to that match right after a break.
Welcome guys.
We're here at Pokemon XP out in the garden.
I know they let us go outside.
I'm with Fareed and Gabby.
Of course, my name's Amy.
We're gonna take you round some of the activities
everyone can enjoy it.
So in the Alola region,
trainers can work part-time to rescue Pukimuku
by trucking them back in the ocean after they wash ashore.
But here at the World Championships,
we can have a little bit of a fun competition
by trying to chuck them back into the ocean
just to see who's, you know, a better Pukimuku trucker.
So, Amy, Farid, I think you two need to have
a little bit of a friendly competition to see who's better.
What do you think?
I think you're gonna do it.
I'm ready.
We see Gabby up here gonna save that Yukimuku real good. She didn't do it, but you know what?
They both worked really hard for Reid's gonna get that bonus for working in on Lola.
Good job everyone. Saving the Pukimuku. Okay trainers, we are outside at the pin rally
station and what pin have we just got ourselves? We got the roll call! Beautiful little
for off one pins. One available to everyone that's out here and there's a queue for them but there's
another one that we'd like to get so stay tuned because we'll be back.
Hi guys I'm here at the Furfrew hair salon and Misty is helping me out with a new look.
We're getting some cute braids and they've got loads of different styles you can pick from
The things we do for Pokemon.
Glam. Listen Glam.
Hey everybody, I'm here with Kevin at the bee dome and Kevin why don't you tell us what's going on here today?
Hi, thank you so much for having me. Well, this is for Planet Bee. We talk about science education and bee conservation for schools around the Bay Area.
We're here making seed balls because bees are the most important pollinator
Did you know that there are 20,000 types of species of bees around the world?
I actually did not um no girl
All right. Well tell me what's the seed ball? Yeah, so it's just a little bit of clay
We put some poppy seeds in there kids can just toss it out
And then we just help the bees because bees are very important to our ecosystem and environment
Any particular reason why you're using poppy seeds poppy seeds are native to, California
We love California. Welcome to San Francisco.
And we just want to support more local bees here in the San Francisco Bay area.
We've had our eyes done. We've had our hair done.
We've got new pins. There's so much to do at the Yerba Buena Gardens.
Make sure to check it out. But from us, that's a wrap.
The action is only heating up here at the Pokemon Go World Championships here in San Francisco,
California.
My name is home size Henry joined on the desk by Lou the Pikachu.
We are filling out our loser side of the bracket.
We already have six of our trainers in the top eight, two more top eight spots on the
line.
And my goodness, the slate of matches we have coming up next is absolutely stacked.
We're getting down to the final stages of the competition here at the 2026 Pokemon World
Championships.
And you said it, Henry, we have a stacked amount of competition here in the Muzza side
of the bracket.
Some incredible contenders, Jai, and Out of Pocket, Out of Pocket, taking down Panaman
previously as well.
He may have been the king of my heart, but Out of Pocket is now who I am rooting
for in this competition, as well as PvP table and our reigning champion, the
Alzaboy.
Out of Pocket said he's pretty incredible.
the losers run taking down
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in a match out of pocket though playing so confidently really locked in and making fantastic predictions
on what his opponent is bringing could that be the same story being told in this match now out of
pocket has a Pokemon that we've seen having credible success so far with that don dozo however
with Jai having a lapras running scolbash lapras is a pretty rough matchup for don dozo so that
could dissuade pocket from bringing don dozo and instead try and opt for safer picks because
if we do see the battle between those two water types that's going to be a pretty difficult
matchup for Dandozo. I think it's interesting seeing the Lapras though and like you said it does have
that big powerhouse attack in the form of the Skullbash. Side wave as well we definitely know
can put in some work. We've seen that on a few different Pokemon choices but for now let's jump
into the leads here coming out front and center. Licky Licky versus Corsola. That's not the
start Pocket wanted but he's picking out he's safe switching into the Malamar. Jai gonna stay
in able to outpace with that nine turn pacing with Licky Licky out of pocket. Shrugs
as he no shields as a body Sam really doesn't do a lot of damage onto that Malamar.
Yeah Malamar not going to worry about that at all and said happy to reap the rewards of all of that energy being farmed up trying to get to two foul plays
unleashes the first one now onto this unassuming Corviknight.
We've seen Shadow Corviknight output some insane amounts of damage.
Foul play will come very close to picking up the two hit KO.
Out of pocket going to fire off foul play number two Jai will invest to protect shield
and as the matchup goes on as the sand attack damage continues to add up
Now the market's closer and closer to shadow air cutter range.
Corviknight has a lot of pressure in this game, so Jai wants to keep it in play.
Like I say, the sand attacks re-stacking up and it's getting to these damaging charge attacks too.
Switch timer is up pocket, Pivots out and in comes Clawtire.
Clawtire not the fastest to its charge attacks.
Clawtire now going to be met with an air cutter bait, but out of pocket!
It's no cold bait call! He doesn't buy it for a minute!
He's reading minds once again out of pocket, knowing exactly how to play this Clawtire,
by keeping it in the game, now able to threaten
with a devastating Stone Edge.
However, Corviknight is going to be able to blink first here,
going for the air cutter.
I don't know if I've ever seen Jai shadow Corviknight get
an air cutter boost.
Will this be the time?
No!
Corviknight refuses to boost up its attack.
It's a 30% chance, but it appears that the luck
not with Jai on this day.
Yes, Stone Edge will connect as well
and seal the deal for that Corviknight.
It does give Jai the opportunity
to bring in this Altaria from the back.
The Dragon Brand's going to be stacking up some energy,
but you can see it's really not doing much at all
to that clawtire that once again can threaten the flyer in the sky.
Clawtire does have a pretty good match up into the Altaria,
but due to the fact that that Licky Licky is still exceedingly healthy,
that is a bit of a problem for Pocket.
Because even if he's able to neutralize the Altaria,
that's not only the problem Pokemon here,
he needs damage on the Licky Licky,
otherwise Corsula is going to feel pretty helpless in the endgame.
Altaria can use these Sky Attacks here to try and burn through the shields
on Out-of-Pocket side.
There's one down, one more to go, though,
to make things a little bit easier for Licky Licky,
considering that Out-of-Pocket still has a Pokemon advantage.
It does have not a lot of HP remaining though, so you want to be able to keep Licky Licky in the game when it comes in later.
Out of pocket, he's not going to switch. He's gonna stay on the field with the Clawdiere.
He could consider potentially letting this go, because then he can bring in the Corsola.
If Jai ends up switchlocking that Licky Licky, then he can pivot into the Malamar.
But he's not gonna pivot into the Malamar just yet, because this is not super power range.
He's gonna stay in with the Corsola and look to connect with the Power Gem.
Jai always needs to have quite a lot of energy in reserve,
because Jai needs an ability to throw charge stacks at the Malamar to try and prevent it from making it to that deathly superpower.
I mean, Licky Licky's in a prime position right now. It has that Shadow Ball. It has found its mark down onto the Glaring Claw.
So being a Ghost-Tabber is going to have that weakness out of pocket, though, letting this one go through.
We know the bulk is going to be able to hold on, and it's banged. That Malamar is now back in play, but look at the energy Licky Licky gets to the Body Slam.
Licky Licky Body Slam would easily take the knockout pocket, thinking through his options, easily going to invest the protection of Noh.
He has sacrificed an Amalemar, he's saying win or lose.
This game for one, Corsalarm is all up to you.
There is still that one shield remaining on Pocket Side as well,
so one Shadowball cannon to be protected,
but we're gonna see the body slam bait come through.
Out of Pocket goes for the shield though.
That does save one rollout for Jai.
Out of Pocket, now out of Protect Shields.
His energy management needs to be exquisite.
He fires off the Power Gem right away.
This should be enough to knock out the Licky Licky,
but how much energy is available to that Altaria?
Let's have a look, Licky-Licky goes down, Altaria regroups on the field,
but there's not a lot of energy in play.
It's going for the Stranglefest, trying to get there,
but Corsola also able to get to the nightshade.
Altaria, however, gets the edge.
Oh my goodness, as close as it can get,
Altaria on the 12-cycle charge attack priority.
Corsola will fall.
Pocket made it as close as he could,
but Jai gets game number one.
I really like the claw type play on out-of-pocket side.
Almost masquerading a little bit like a Jondozo.
It stayed on the field out of pocket very content to keep it in play and just constantly applying pressure with the
Stone edge to the two flyers that Jai brought in the form of the Altaria and the Corvik Knight.
But the way that Jai was able to play around with that Licky-Licky was absolutely masterful to this win.
I need to talk about that body slam bait.
It really felt like that almost spooked pocket into throwing that power jam early.
If he's able to correct Leisha of the Shadow Ball, there's a very good chance that he can end up throwing one more
Astonish way to turn and then outpace the Altaria.
So Jai understanding the moment there and might do this.
How many times have we seen this Corbin?
I throw an air cutter before it finally gets a boost.
I think every time it gets a no, it's getting closer to a yes.
So hopefully, hopefully you're going to see that Corbin.
I read the rewards for all of its efforts, but critically as well.
It was once again a master skill of teamwork,
seeing this licky-leaky come in, being able to apply pressure to the Corsola,
but Altaria putting in some work too.
Looks like, however, the trainers aren't messing around,
but jumping into game two is going to be the Ninetales versus Malamar.
The Shadow Ninetales, the signature Pokemon for they love Jai.
Jai just gonna look to over form here. So is pocket pocket not gonna fire off energy
That's actually gonna be Jai building up past the dazzling gleam going for the weather ball baits pocket falls for it and invests early protect shield
Yeah, one shield going up and I like the alone and nine tails and play here
You do threaten with that super effective dazzling gleam as well on to the opposing Malamar
The Malamar has a trick up its sleeve as well
It can retaliate with the superpower doing a significant amount of damage into that opposing and nine tails now switching out to
Reset the debuffs that it would have got out of pocket trying to take the knockout with the rollout
but the Shadow of the Nine Tails did not get KO'd.
The Weatherball will be reached.
That's critical damage onto that Licky Licky,
and Jai brings out the Altaria,
but this is what Pocket's hoping to see done.
Those are just not like that Altaria matchup.
Yeah, the follow-up with the Dragon Breath
really trying to put the pressure onto the Licky Licky here.
Of course, Altaria easily able to take one of these body suns,
but there's a lot of energy to be reached here from Altaria
onto that Licky Licky.
Look at it, over farming, trying to get possibly to two Sky Attacks.
This will not be a ring for Sky Attack.
will take the knockout and pocket nose an instant no shield he knows his licky
licky will be able to hang on here and still connect with the charge stacks it
is very low on health he's able to reach the back-to-back body slams two body
slams not gonna be enough to knock out the Altaria but will put it very very
low to potentially set up a farm down for one of his other Pokemon this is a
nice display of the defensive capabilities of Altaria though you
know you can take that one body slam and Jai also refusing to shield on
this second one as well proving that Altaria is gonna have that longevity
on the field. Altaria able to survive back to back in the Malamore but can't get the farm down.
Altaria the bulk is incredible able to get to that sky attack. Out of pocket gonna let it go
but that's a bottom HP lost on Malamore. Malamore they're trying to get the momentum with something
like the foul plays here getting the damage down gets to it and now trying to get a little bit
of threatening damage onto this opposing Corviknight but there's two shields remaining on
dry side not utilizing on Corviknight now knowing it's easily able to take the foul play
and it allows Corviknight to just try and farm down with these sand attacks, but look, Malahar's getting speedy.
That's a really nice sequence from Jai, calling that the first to be developed by shielding the harder-hitting superpower,
getting the full sand attack down. Corviknight pays a very heavy price, but has quite a lot of energy, but in the back,
it's Dottozo, a notoriously very bulky Pokémon. Jai full sends the payback. Shadow payback can be deadly,
but this is the Dottozo we're talking about.
Yeah, this is one of the adjustments Pocket has made coming into this game to benching that claw to understand bringing the don dozo to be its defensive wall
Digging against this Corviknight that is being relentless with the air cutters coming through
But is it going to get the boost finally Henry air cutter is gonna be no shielded
No, no, no through this Corviknight will refuse to get boosted
Don Dozo is able to get the full farm down quite a lot of energy available in comes Altaria back to back serfs are available
Dondozo is very low should not get knocked up by the mixed dragon breath
So pocket should have access to the back-to-back serfs here
Let's see this come through the shield up on the Altaria trying to get down to the Dondozo
But no we're gonna see the licky-licky switch very well played by out-of-pocket nine tails takes the KO
But the surf is available Dondozo hits the field out-of-pocket gets the equalizer
And we're gonna be moving on to a game number three once again
Dondozo proving why it is the talk of the town here at the Pokemon World at championships
Coming in as the adjustment for out of pocket and securing that victory evening the school pocket is still in this tournament
Sometimes when your back is against the wall you're facing tournament elimination
You have to get a little bit risky that lapras on a dondo so would be catastrophic
But if it doesn't end up on the lapras the dondo is a decent amount of play and being able to bait out that
Altaria with the licking league save switch ended up working out perfectly as suddenly dondo so felt incredibly strong
Unfortunately for Jai
Imagine a world in which his Corviknight knew how to air cutter boost. We can have a very different series here
But it cannot boost we're going to a game number three and we've got immediate lock-ins from both players
I mean call it what you want is unfortunate for that Corviknight, but who knows this could be the game
Let's jump into the leads. It's that 9 tails versus Tom Dozo. Oh, that is not the lead. Jai was hoping to see
Jai gonna stay in the matchup. Move to try and play it out for now
He does have access to dazzling gleam which will hit for some pretty significant damage
This is a shadow alone in nine tails, but pocket knows even if it's a lot of chip damage here
Don Dozo is never really in any danger of getting farms down
Yeah, don't those are taking a huge amount of damage though for its troubles as a taria comes in don doze switches out the rollout
It's coming across from the Licky Licky on out of pocket side to try and get some pressure down on this Altaria
I really like the decision by pocket to save that energy
It almost feels like throwing the outrage into the Altaria may have been a bit of a waste
But by preserving that energy trusting that if Gai stayed in to it alone in nine tails versus don Dozo match up
The Dungozo energy will have value in the back.
Pocket understands that, saves the energy, brings in the Licky Licky, and Licky Licky
should still be outside of Double Sky Attack range.
It might be nice to try and unleash that outrage energy a little bit later on once
the shield is down on Jai's side of the field.
Jai however now has the utility with this Altaria to go for one of the Sky Attacks.
Licky Licky letting this go and shielded is going to get some significant damage
on the board.
But once again the rollout is something Altaria has to contend with the energy
is up on Licky Licky's side.
No shield from Jai, he is going to be sacrificing Altaria.
Altaria may barely be able to hang on here. It's going to be very, very close.
Altaria hangs on, aggressive pivot into the Malamar, but that's going to be answered with the Alolan Ninetales.
Yeah, Altaria not able to paste with a charge attack instead.
You've got to bring that Ninetales back into the game that does manage to get to that weather ball.
Of course, now Malamar has the decision to use one of those pressure shields.
Yes, you do, because Out of Pocket wants to use these sideways to try and get as much damage on the board.
These sideways do quite a lot of damage, and Pocket has intentionally over farmed.
He farmed until the foul play will take the knockout.
Jai no shielding, maybe hoping against hope that Ninetales can hold on here, Valplay is
going to land, oh the Ninetales survived, oh no, but the side wave takes the KO, that
energy has been lost.
On the thinnest of margins, Ninetales goes down, that is not what Jai wanted to see,
time to regroup and bring in that trusty Corviknight however, trying to use these
sand attacks to get damage down on the Malamar, but Malamar is ready, it has so much energy
on the board.
Losing that charge attack is catastrophic for Jai because out of pocket still is the
energy banked on that Dondozo.
Malomar putting so much pressure on the Corbinite, the Malomar still outside of Shadow Air Cutter
range as well.
Jai ends up no shielding, he knows that the Dondozo Surf will do more damage, but this
situation still looks very, very perilous.
Yeah, exactly.
Malomar in such a prime position, Dondozo back in the game as well, but now the Corbinite
can try and get damage on the board.
Oh my goodness, was that a charge attack priority saxwap?
Let's see it.
It was!
What a play!
He finally gets the boost. That is one of the best possible plays out of pocket could have made.
He would want to throw the payback at the Dondozo. He catches the air cutter, gets the charge attack
priority tie. Absolute perfection from out of pocket. Dondozo survives. The surf has been
reached and out of pockets moving on to losers round five. Absolutely incredible plays Dondozo
showcasing once again why it is so formidable in this meta, Malomar coming in, going for
the sideways, but there's nothing Jai could do. Out-of-pocket advances.
This is the out-of-pocket we are used to seeing on an international stage. The out-of-pocket
who took home the North American international championships in years past, I have seen him
locked in on that occasion, and I feel a little bit of deja vu here. Pocket in top
That gameplay, the charge attack priority, CMP's x-wap, was absolutely dazzling.
Beautiful plays, masterful images across the game.
And I absolutely love to be able to see out of pocket at the top of his game.
As well as seeing the love story develop a little bit more between Henry and Don Dozo.
You've got to be happy to see that Pokemon advancing.
Oh, Don Dozo advancing in the world championships.
I couldn't ask for anything more than that.
It has been a fantastic day here at Worlds.
world. The gameplay has been incredible. The competition has been ferocious. And Dondozo continues to show that it is a world's caliber Pokemon. Time and time again, Jive finally got the air cutter boost. Maybe there was a hope that it could farm down. But it's a Dondozo. You're never farming down a Dondozo.
Yeah, my heart to break a little bit for the Corbin I a little bit too little too late
However, you did get the air cutter boost but already it's the spelling disaster as out of pocket was just in such command
The nine tails putting in some really good efforts though with the weather ball
But I think losing all of that energy in that turn
You know was able to get off the charge attack was really where the momentum swung to out of pocket
Savor not having to deal with that second weather ball was so strong in distance the moment right here
He farms up, he switches one turn before the air cutter to get the catch and lock him into the air cutter and on the cmp time
And it's one of the most difficult plays you can possibly make in the championship series
He was actually able to see the air cutter boost because of how large the don dozo is the camera angles go a little bit crazy
But look at this don dozo
Refusing to get farmed down the fist pump there from out of pocket
He is feeling it here and he's moving on to top eight at the world championships
Don D'Ozzo truly did drive the getaway car to victory there for out of hockey and phenomenal place to be able to behold
But of course the popcorn action does just keep going
We still have some more incredible battles in the loser side of the bracket to contend with in fact coming up next
We have PVP David versus the Elzeboi our reigning world champion
Wow David a multi-time regional champion feels the boy our reigning world champion
I feel like I keep saying this but it keeps being true the level of competition at this world is staggering the amount of talent and just the place we're seeing absolutely unbelievable.
It almost feels like a crime that we can only have one trainer left standing at the end of Sunday, but it's an absolute privilege you have to be here and watch these players play at their absolute best.
Let's take a look at these teams.
Yes, a little bit of a recap we've got.
Once again, some familiar faces with the Licky Licky
and the Nine Tails apiece.
Also the Malamar on both sides of the field,
but there are a few changes,
particularly with the Flyers on the side.
We've got the Toga Kiss on PVP David's side,
and we've got that Mantine on the Elzaboy side.
The Elzaboy also has that jump bluff,
and jump bluff can be a bit of a problem for this team.
A zoom reel, it can outpace and hit
for super effective damage.
Even though Ice Beam hits for double super effective
onto jump bluff,
nice beam actually does not pick up the one they KOed her. This is the non shadow jump love.
So as long as the jump love has its health intact, you should be able to hang on there.
And it ends up being a surprisingly decent matchup where the lightning fast pacing of
jump love can kind of make a zoom real feel a little bit outdated and slow.
Yeah, exactly. It can be quite slow to pace to these attacks as well. And the critical
thing for me with the jump love, it has great play into Pokemon like the Malamar
being able to go for those fairy winds. And at the same time, the energy ball.
A zoom real is not appreciating that quacks. I certainly is not appreciating an energy
ball to the face. So I think if you can get the alignment right on the jump
for possibly utilizing your shields in the right way.
It can be a really critical piece of the puzzle for Beelzeboi.
Now, one very interesting thing that I've noticed about trainers who play against Beelzeboi's team
is very frequently they will run the Kanto Ninetales into him,
because oftentimes there's not a lot of jump-fluff checks available.
Even something like a Togekiss, which in theory you would think,
okay, I have a flyer, it's a graph type, this should be pretty good.
They're not running thousand leaves, they're running PsyShock.
And jump-fluff is so bulky that even though the Paxifers are perfective,
Syshark doesn't really do a lot of damage, and Acrobatics does actually do a significant amount on Togikis.
So in this matchup, he might have to rely a bit more on Pokemon like the Licky Licky, like that Cancer Ninjails, because if the jump bluff is broad, there's quite a few targets on David's team.
Now we mentioned the ice beam previously as well going into something like the jump bluff, but PvP David's actually running a really unique zoomerall here.
It's not running the ice beam, it's running the Hydra pump.
Oh my goodness.
has the utility against the jump off leaving it a little bit more vulnerable
but critically I think it gives it a lot more play into Pokemon like the Nine Tails for example.
Oh, not having Ice Beam means the jump off is even safer.
Because at the very least you can get some damage onto that jump off that would be kind of nice.
But play rough, I mean if you throw a player up at a jump off, jump off can take two of those so comfortably.
Your bubbles do nothing. That's really going to constrict the lines that David can run.
I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to build around basically Licky, Licky, Kanto, Nine Tails.
maybe putting a toga kiss on the field as well because outside of that
if this jump up is brought that's gonna be very very difficult to deal with yeah
jump off looking really strong you want to just try and avoid obviously the
fiery flames off that shouting nine tails ember weatherball we know how
quickly the nine tails can case to that and that can make things very
difficult for the jump off but at the same time on the other boys side you
do have Pokemon that have the utility to deal with that nine tails as well
the quag sire is a bit of an interesting shout because normally quag sire
is a pretty good bring to the Flyers, but a Pokemon like Mantine doesn't have that one-shot pressure into a jump-fluff.
If you throw a Stone Edge at a jump-fluff, it's just gonna no shield and throw a bunch of energy balls at you,
and you're always getting that one hit KO, whereas the Mantine, for example, Water Pulse, that's really fine with the Quagsire.
Quagsire can survive that very comfortably, so the dynamic of having the jump-fluff as well as the Mantine does complicate things a little bit,
because as we've seen both David and Boom run this exact same team, they really like running that Quagsire,
even if they do run it here, it's going to have to be supported with Pokemon that have better play into that jump off.
Yeah, that's true. You've got kind of two grass type coverages in a way. You've got the jump off that actually runs grass type moves because it is a grass type Pokemon.
And then you have the nine tails with that energy ball as well. So as long as the quacks I can kind of pivot around those two Pokemon and have the utility to deal with it elsewhere, then it possibly could be a prime choice.
looks like a train is however starting to look in at the end of the day. There is one match between advancing of the competition and being sent home packing.
Another interesting thing that I've noticed about players playing into the David slash boom team is the fact that opposing trainers will very frequently run the Empolion.
And that's because normally, why would you want to steal type into a ground type? There's the quag sire, but this quag sire is opted for opposite stone edge, which means that the energy is actually walled by the Empolion.
So in a very similar way to how we've seen trainers let let's say a man team get an energy head start and then bring it a
Polyon or vice versa
You can let a class are get a pretty significant energy head start bringing the appoleon and then that defensive typing that water steel typing
Makes life really awkward for that flag sire. I'm interested to see potential coming through from Malamar as well because Malamar
We know can farm up loss and nice energy with the side wave
You have the utility for something like the foul play to just do some very consistent damage
But super power I think is critical when you're dealing with faulty Pokemon like the licky licky if you can get the
energy lined up and then leash that onto an unshielded Licky Licky. It's a great way to
start breaking through that bulky Pokemon. And Malamar because it is the non-shadow Malamar
does actually have a winning matchup into the Shadow Canto Ninetales. The Shadow Malamar
actually ends up losing the two protect shield scenario just because the embers and the
weather ball end up just being enough to take the knock out there. But as the non-shadow
Malamar, even if you end up no shielding a charge attack, you're never really getting
ember down, so it does end up being a bit safer into those Canto Ninetales teams.
Well, the trainers are locked in and ready to go.
Give it up for PvP David and the Elzeboi as they jump into game one of this loser's round of four.
The leads are out front and center. It's going to be Quasar versus Malamar.
This is an exceedingly neutral matchup.
David could all opt out. He's going to save switch into the Togegiz.
Elzeboi doesn't really have a strong answer to this energy.
Stays it for the Malamar. Goes for the foul play.
But David, more than happy to no shield here because this is a non shadow resistant foul play.
Togikis, not the tankiest Pokemon around, but this couldn't incentivize Beelzeboid to look to try and stay in here
because Beelzeboid really doesn't want to take the Oresphere on either two of his Fighting Week Pokemon in the back.
Yeah, in contrast, no Togikis can go for the Oresphere into the Amalama, get a significant amount of damage on the board,
pushing it down into the rep of both of these fast attacks on either side, actually putting in a ton of work,
and then a fire play ready to go, David lets it go.
Can he potentially get an Ember down here?
If he's able to secure the knockout in five embers, that could be massive.
of the Ninetales, he's not gonna find out.
Pitted out by Billsboy, sending out the Licky-Licky energy
is banked, in comes the Quaxire.
That energy could be a big problem for Billsboy later in the match,
especially if protection shields are preserved for that Ninetales.
Yeah, Ninetales keeping the energy saved up for later.
Quaxire now in place to start farming up on its own
and putting in some work against the Licky-Licky
as the switch climbers start to reset.
Licky-Licky, of course, able to apply pressure of its very own
with something like that shadow ball,
but it looks like Quaxire has energy for days.
And the non-shadow quacks are one of the matchups that it's actually attacking for is this licky-licky matchup.
You'll notice that the Shadow actually is in kind of an awkward position where two Shadow Balls can just go and pick up the knockout.
The non-shadow quacks that can survive two Shadow Balls, that's why Beelzeboot after firing off the Shadow Ball,
is forced to go for a double body slam instead.
Keeping an eye on these timers as well, it looks like Beelzeboot has the utility to switch after this charge attack comes through from the quackside.
The question is, are you going to use the shield? No.
allowing Licky Licky and his bulb to be able to take this, put it in the red and allow the switch for that Malamar.
In comes Malamar, he'll be getting a little bit of damage down onto them, onto that Quagsire.
The Quagsire very quickly make it into the opposite, and Quagsire will pressure away a shield.
David's going to pin it out, he brings in the Ninetales, but Ninetales cannot get the farm down.
Malamar hangs on, and Malanis is going to pressure David to have to put up a protect shield.
Exactly, you want to keep your Ninetales in the game right now.
The Superpower as well will put the DevOps onto the opposing Malamar,
Even though it was a low HP as well, it does just give a little bit more of a
confidence boost, let's say, to that 9-tiles with the Ember to finish it off.
But now David wants to be able to rack up that energy and start dealing with
Pokemon like the Empolion. You're at the Weather Ball already.
Can you get through to this Empolion?
David has so much energy on this 9-tiles.
Billsboy forced the Doe shield to first,
Weather Ball just under 50%, but with the Embers,
it should come very close to picking up the 2 KO.
David ends up playing to the charge tap very tight.
He has to put up the shield.
That Hydra Cannon would secure the knockout,
But he has locked into a weather ball that should just about knock out the Empolion at that Ember damage.
Looks like they're both playing the same game, however, energy on energy.
This one, Weatherfall, will come through, Vialta Boy letting it go through, but you know that there's another one primed and ready to go on that Ninetales.
That's gonna try and get on the Licky Licky.
The Licky Licky gets the advantage. No shields remaining on PvP Davidside to the Shadow Ball will connect.
Will this Shadow Ball take the knockout Ninetales should hold on?
Oh, hold on! Oh!
In comes the Quaxire. Can Quaxire get the farm down here?
Yes, it can.
Quaxire farms down the licky-licky.
David survives and takes game number one.
Not only taking game number one,
but also going one step closer
to knocking out the reigning world champion
from at the competition.
Ooh, things got very close there.
Between the 9-tiles and the Quaxire,
fantastic plays once again.
I feel like I have a lot of Beelzeboi sets so far today.
We've seen him drop that first game,
but it almost feels like he's the king of adjustments,
where you can take one game off Beelzeboi,
but that was the hard part.
You have to win a second game.
Beals the boy has routinely been down but managed to find a way back and get the reverse sweep.
So if you're David, you know you're so close to making it to the top eight.
But getting another win off the reigning world champion is no easy task.
That's the thing. You've got to take the disappointment and learning from that previous game.
Shake it off and advance into the next match with a clear slate ahead of the game.
PPP David's not out of the woods yet either as well.
You are playing a best of three set.
And if you're growing up against the reigning world champion, you know,
So as you said, Henry with box against the wall, he's going to come out swinging.
And that was as close as it could have gotten there, the nine tails with the one HP survived.
But he hit it out into the quacksire at these blood shots, doing enough to get that farm
down, deny licky-licky inability to make it to a charge stack.
It came to a nine tails, it actually did survive with that one hit point remaining
with a charge stack loaded.
So even if the quacksire couldn't finish the job, nine tails was ready.
So either way, David had options there, but it's only fitting.
It kind of feels like Quaxire has been the signature Pokemon for this team.
So it's kind of fitting that Quaxire was the one who was able to secure that final knockout.
Do you know who I want to see though?
Because there's a Pokemon that can deal really well with Quaxire.
Is that Jumpluff?
Do you think the Ninetales is leaving it scared though?
Ninetales is always a bit of a worry, but if you can kind of surround it with bodyguards.
So like run the Jumpluff with two anti-Ninetales Pokemon,
you're kind of hedging your bets that if the Ninetales is brought,
then Jumpluff should hopefully be able to avoid that matchup.
And if it can avoid that matchup, it looks really, really good here.
Well, FBL's a boy does want to make that adaptation and bring in the jump off.
It is going to leave the Kwanzaa quaking in its little boots because one of those devastating energy pools
will be able to completely wipe Kwanzaa off the map.
But of course, the alignment is going to be key and both of these trainers are well versed in thinking,
turns ahead, trying to see where their opponent is going to go.
Looks like however, we're going into game number two.
The lead to out, it's going to be the Malamar versus Malamar mirror.
Here we go with the perfect mirror match.
This matchup is heavily determined by who wins charge step priority.
Typically in this matchup, two foul plays will come very close to spin the dog out,
but should barely miss the dog out unless there is more sideway damage.
So usually, as you see this first foul play connect,
this Malamar should survive this just into the green 8p.
Oh, but it looks like Bill's a boy.
Might not be running as high of a rank of Malamar as some might be.
He ends up in the yellow.
Yeah, it is able to retaliate with a foul play of its own though.
also taking down the yellow there onto the opposing Malomar.
But look at the energy just being farmed out.
The backline's interesting too.
There is a crackdown, and there is the jump up.
He's going for the harder leading super power.
He's going to try and take the knock out of here.
Beelzeboi has to make a call.
He lets it go.
The super power connects.
Put the Malomar hangs on as low as it can get.
In comes Licky Licky reading that Tobi can switch in.
Malomar gets out of there, but that energy
is banked for later on Beelzeboi's side.
Now once again, you've got Licky Licky versus the Tobi
because the rollouts can start strapping up some damage,
but we know that the aura sphere is the utility
move on the toga kiss to apply pressure to licky-licky in return. If the togi
his can be removed from the field of play that would clear a path for jump
off to be able to sweep. Body slam bait comes out from deals avoid David is gonna
let it go. Very nice big ball from him and now he has access to net or sphere.
Thing is with the body slam connecting it's doing exactly what the
other boy needs to do to this toga kiss. Constantly trying to remove a
play to make things easier for this jump up. You don't want to have to take
those parts. The more damage the more work that the licky-licky can do
right now the better for that jump up later on. But he ends up double
shielding he's heavily investing in the licky-licky. This means that all protect
shield turned out down and that could set the stage for that Glagsard to
actually land two stone edges into the jump flop and aggressive pivot out. He gets jump
flop on the field. Jump flop is behind on energy but with that insane pacing
it's not even really gonna end up missing being a little bit behind on
energy here. The stone edge will do quite a lot but he should be able to
double up on these energy balls momentarily. Jump flop is desperately
trying to catch up here. As you said once stone edge comes through there's a huge amount of
damage with our second that energy ball is ready to go there are two shields up on
PvP Davis side however so even if you utilize these against both of the energy
drills on the opposing side it looks like the jump flap is still going to be
vulnerable. Are we over farms? He plays to the charge separatity tie. This is going to be
incredibly close if the jump flap hangs on here it would be with fractional
HP remaining. Beelzeboi crosses his fingers but it takes that knockout
and the energy has been lost. That is not what the reigning world champ
wants to see jump fluff goes down the pressure of the second energy ball
removing a shield or a Pokemon from play is gone.
Now everything rests on this Licky Licky.
He committed to the Licky Licky,
putting both protect shields on it,
but unfortunately that left the jump
plus vulnerable shadow ball.
That's just not something Quaxire has to worry about.
It's Quaxire gets closer and closer
to the back to back Aqua Tails.
That's the thing, you get one Aqua Tail through,
you get another one through,
you also have a shield for good measure
to keep your defensive capabilities in play.
The Malamar on the back of the Elzaboy though,
I believe does have a lot of energy,
but it has very little HP remaining.
And that is going to do it.
The charge attack priority win for the Quaxire.
Licky, Licky will fall.
In comes the Malamore.
Malamore falls as well.
And the world champion goes down.
PVP David, he's top eight here at San Francisco.
David does quite literally take down Goliath here
in this match.
PVP David advancing, knocking out the reigning world
champion in this tournament.
Congratulations.
Incredible play, Quaxire.
Once again proving why on this team bill between David and boom, it is one to watch in the competition. What an incredible series
They're brilliant gameplay by David
Everyone in the arena collectively held their breath to see what jump bluff hang on there
That was about the exact hit points where it could have been maybe a one hit point survive or a knockout
But the jump bluff didn't have what it took it got knocked out and with that energy lost
It just felt like David was just unbeatable at that point.
Yeah, the momentum completely dropped away.
You could see the method in the madness as well, getting the two energy balls,
trying to get that pressure onto the Faxi and remove the shields from play.
But I think faking all the shields on the Licky-Licky,
the return of the investment was just not there in terms for the Elzavoy.
And unfortunately, once the Jumpluff went down, that really spelt disaster.
And right there, you could see it on his face, he knew the moment Jumpluff fell,
all was lost because the Faxi was just too far ahead.
ahead. He had energy stored on the Valomor, energy stored on the Licky Licky. He had a
game plan there that he was going to try and play to you where if he can get that shield
down, trap David into the charts authority tight and survive that on one hit point,
then maybe with all the energy there's actually an opportunity to win the game, but unfortunately
it just did not have the hit points there. We saw from the first tonage landing, it
was as close as it could get there, even just the extra mud shot that David did
there, because every fast move has to do at least one damage, even if it is triple
So even just the extra mud shot that David did before,
it could have been the difference between a knockout and a survival.
Honestly, PvP David has got to be feeling on at Cloud9 right now,
so I think it's time to go hear words from the man himself with an interview with Fareed.
David, you're into the top eight of the World Championships,
and it's not the first time that you've been into the top eight,
because two years ago, you played against Fieldsboy and he knocked you out,
and you've just done the same to him. How does that feel?
Yeah, it feels quite nice to get some, I guess, revenge a bit from Hawaii and, yeah, top eight feels amazing, yeah.
Now, you're going to be going up against Out-of-Pocket next. You played already this weekend and you won.
What are your thoughts going into that matchup for a second time?
Not much too... I haven't really thought about it that much, but I'm just looking forward to the match.
Aiden is a good friend of mine, so I'll just take one game at a time, I think.
And now, taking a step back, obviously Worlds last year didn't go as well as you wanted it to.
This year you've really locked in, you started team building with Boon, you've had a good season already, you've got a title.
What were your expectations coming into this weekend after that prep?
Coming into this Worlds, I wasn't feeling like super great, but always the support around me has kept me going and
sheared me on and given me some motivation for this tournament, yeah I would say so.
Especially my dad, yeah.
You've always been someone who's had a very calm demeanour,
but I feel like this season you've really focused lockdown
and you've got a level of composure that has elevated your gameplay.
Is there something that you do to try and improve that mentality year on year?
Definitely, yeah. Like each year that goes by,
you have to really not only focus on your gameplay,
but also the mentality going to different types of game.
You have to always lock in and stay focused and stay calm
even if you have a pretty bad situation ahead of you.
Now you mentioned your father already. I know there's a lot of people supporting you from friends and family.
Who would you like to give a shout out to?
Obviously, Boom and my dad are staying with me and all the team pizza crew as well.
And my friends at home and my family at home.
Now, we heard the pocket earlier. He said that the chances of him winning this weekend are 100%.
How do you feel about that?
Well, I would say a thousand percent for me.
I love to hear that BBB David. Best of luck in the rest of your matches.
Castors, back to you.
Thank you so much for Reed. Good to hear a young trainer with confidence on the stage there.
David, he said 100%. I got a thousand percent for you. So now our top eight is set.
And we're going to be moving into these top eight matches.
If you win, you move to top six, and then you end up playing some of these trainers
these trainers who ended up dropping to losers from the winners semi-finals. They
have been waiting quite a few hours while the losers bracket progressed to get
there but the action only getting better as the day goes on here in San Francisco.
And with every victory they're getting closer and closer not only to the title
but also to more prizes to the coveted trophy as well. There's so many
amazing things up for grabs for these players alongside the glory and
memories they make along the way. And day two has been such an intense day
of competition. You mentioned as well you know how these trainers some of
have had very long breaks since their last game and it's quite hard to sometimes keep up that momentum in
the adrenaline, but at the same time some of them I think will appreciate a little bit of rest and
recovery. Whereas for the trainers who have started in the losers bracket and have made these deep runs
they probably have a lot of momentum as they've won a lot of games in a row but
they also probably haven't had a lot of time off because if you win you keep going you keep
playing and we've been progressing straight through these losers rounds so something we've
We've got the players ready on stage top eight here in San Francisco and we've got Caspian Pike versus King OWT
Now start your timers. How long is it gonna take Henry to mention one Pacific Pokemon?
There we go. That was like half a second on the clock one count in Pokemon Go
I mean Dondozo is what definitely one of the key Pokemon to talk about but on the opposing side
There's actually the nemesis of Dondozo
I want to talk about the Hissui and Electrode having Thunder Shot while charging energy ball
That's one way to counter the dominant force that is Dondozo, right?
Shadow Kingra also could be a pretty significant problem.
If shields are down for Dondozo in Outrage Lands, works out pretty well,
but you would have to always guarantee that you get the shields down scenario,
so I don't think this is actually a particularly strong matchup for Dondozo.
So Caspian may have to rely on his other picks, and a lot of the other Pokémon on his team,
specifically the Fortress, the Licky Licky and the Stunfish, were actually kind of the core
that he was able to build his team around in Indianapolis.
So he's very familiar with these Pokémon. Even if Dondozo isn't bringable here,
here. He should have an ability to still utilize his other Pokemon and craft the line that can set him up for success.
It's a good job this five other Pokemon in the team.
To be able to carry the ship the Casting Pike a trainer who won a regional right at the very end of the regional season here in
2026 and has come in as a hot favorite to the world championships
But King OWT also a incredibly strong contender and ready for this match the leads are out front and center for a trainers
Give it up for Fero and for foratris. That is the lead King OWT was hoping to see
Just safe switch into the licky-licky. Does Caspian consider throwing an alignment here?
No, he does not and that's gonna actually give a free drill peck over to the Fero. No shield comes out from Caspian pike
He would rather take the damage here than anywhere else
But since the licky-licky has taken a lot of damage now suddenly Shadow of Kingdra will have a significantly easier time getting rid of it
The shields I think you're gonna be critical here
You've got three Pokemon on Kingo WT side that are slightly on that fray less side as well
So making sure you utilize the shields is gonna be critical big damage coming down onto the Kingdra
But once again, these Dragon Breaths stacking up.
The issue is the fast pacing of this Licky Licky.
Back to back, no shields for King OWT.
Shadow Kingbra now into the red HP,
but should be able to over-harmed quite significantly.
The rollouts are getting it pretty low,
but he will be able to fire off energy
right before the body set has reached.
Caspian will actually invest a protection.
He wants the energy on this Licky Licky.
Looks like the Kingbra just is hanging on in the game.
It does manage to get to the Swift though,
before it is felled by those rollouts.
So a shield coming up on Caspian right side.
Keep the lucky lucky in the game a shake of the head though. Caspian pike feels the heat
Caspian pike that is not what he was hoping to see he desperately needed that rollout to seek of an arc out
In comes a stewing electrode. The stunner shots are adding up Caspian shaking his head
He does not like his positioning in this game. He won't go for the shadow ball shield comes up
Does he have the body slam here as well?
He does so he will get guaranteed damage onto the electrode
Yeah, I like you're just gonna roll around and take this damage here in play
You're going to be able to absorb it quite nicely and start using it attacks to stop farming up the last little bit on that
Licky-licky possibly trying to put it into a good position against something in the back
You know, do you've got that far just the energy is back down here
I find it's marked down onto the forest just once for all these pecs can stop putting in some work
Thanks a lot of energy. He brings in the stunfish
I really love the decision-making here by King order beauty to not throw the wild charge first
He throws the wild charge and telegraphs to pivot out and Caspian could then read back at the zero turn switch
to stunfisk and then outpace the feral but by not doing the wild charge right away
he doesn't telegraph when he switches and that gives feral the one peck head start
that it's going to need to be able to outpace the stunfisk and reach the
double drill run before double discharge it truly is an information game out
there so really great play on casting fight side to preserve that
information fero however once again being ferocious going for a knowledge
real run this is something that is going to be able to do a huge amount
of damage to the stomp is one cast me by side and actually remove it from
play. Back in comes the Fortress but Fortress is in danger. This is about to be a charge
attack barrage from King OWT. Here is the drill pack. This will not take the knockout
but there's the wombo combo. In comes Electro. There is the wild charge. Fortress has no
hope of withstanding this wild charge as King OWT takes game number one. I love the contrast
here. The wild charge kind of preserved on the Stunfish side whereas the Electro
just able to unleash absolute chaos there to close out game one, giving King
OWT one step closer to staying in the competition. That was an incredibly
well-executed endgame from King OWT. Slight miscalculation from Caspian in the mid
game as Caspian did not want to have to burn the second protect shield, but the
Shadow Kingdra held on, barely clinging to life there with a tiny
little bit of its HP bar, but it made the second switch. It got shields down
and then again I can't stress enough how important it was to not throw the
the wild charge, don't telegraph your switching, get the fear on the field, Caspian cannot
hope to react in time, he ends up staying in and begging energy but it still just was
not enough.
I really love the way these Pokemon made work through that Licky Licky that was able to
you know apply a lot of pressure to the rollouts, farm out a lot of energy but just
the constant pressure coming through on King or WT side particularly from Pokemon like
that Fero just stacked up and up and up and then once that Licky Licky was down
the alignment was really on King or WT side.
Caspian Pikes last opportunity to win the game was when he tried to go for a drill pet catch, but King OWT
He knew he just had to keep farming at that point and as long as he kept farming
He still had a protect shield so even if he stayed in his retard stack as long as you just keep farming
I mean, I feel like it's kind of a common saying in our community where they can't catch if you don't throw
He just doesn't throw the drill back. Caspian tries to the catch. He does not get it and now Caspian facing
elimination at the World Championships. He's going to have to dig deep and craft the perfect
line to mount this comeback and win game number two.
Let's see if there's any adjustments from either trainers coming into game number two.
It is looking like a run back. We've got Fero and Forrest once again.
It feels like deja vu, the exact matchups that we saw before. In comes Licky, Licky.
Licky, Licky. He looked to fire off the bison. An instant adjustment from Caspian.
He wants damage on the Fero to potentially, if there's ever a world in which he can
bug bite it down with that 4 translator on, landing that damage actually very, very important.
Yeah, Fero does have a lot of energy up on the board, but we know Licky Licky is easily going to be able to take this.
Fero able to unleash some of that with the drill pet, getting the edge of the same type of attack bonus onto Licky Licky.
This time going to bring out the Electrode. Oh my goodness, making the read that it's not actually the Stumpfist from the back.
Now King Grain the Stumpfist, still not a good matchup for the Stumpfist.
We've seen Shadow Serp's connect. That damage is deadly, but it is better than the Electro back up.
So for Caspian, not out of the woods yet by any means, KOWT will have to be very precise for this over farms.
Now we saw in Game 1, Caspian quite preserved the Licky Licky with a shield at kind of a very similar point in time.
This time, preserving those shields, letting the Licky Licky go down to the discharge and releasing all that energy on the Electro's side.
Electro, however, has another wild charge ready to go. His defenses are dropped, but it means that the Fortress is forced to go for that shield.
shield. Is Fortress ever able to get a bug bite down on the electrode, bug bite
down on the Fero and then get debuffs onto the Kingdra? I think that might be the
win condition here as Caspian just looks to farm up. There comes the drill pack.
Caspian has to decide he's worth the protect shield. He says yes but he will
WT will have the ability to pivot out if he thinks that he cannot survive
the barrage. Bug bite. That bug bite farm down is a torn order but while the
things have happened here the Pokemon go well the championships.
Now in a position where it can go for this rock doom and just start getting some of the debuff rolling on King
OWT side.
Caspian is really hoping that with the attack drop, he will be able to survive that shadow serve.
Surf does a lot of damage, but even the Dragon Brass are hitting so incredibly hard.
King OWT has to really hope this does take the knockout here.
Surf connects, Fortress able to hang on with enough hit points remaining to make it to a sand tomb.
It does manage to connect through on that sand tomb that is once you're remaining on King OWT side.
You can see him calculating does he want to preserve this king very yes
He does keeping it in the game. It will be lowering his defenses though in comes the stun fist
This end game is going to involve incredibly precise energy management. King. Oh WT gets the shadow serve this does a lot of damage
It is debuffed cast Ian has to perfectly manage this end game
And he needs the charge attack to land on the King draw that shot itself putting in some work
It's fear it takes the skies it is going to have to withstand some of the damage for the stun fist is there and he gets the
double of King or WT tried for the catch, but Caspian Pike with the patience, he gets the back
to back discharges, Kingra not anywhere near the swift and despite an exact run back of lines,
Caspian Pike, the master of adjustments plays differently, gets the equalizer, we're going to
game number three. Oh my goodness, you called it perfectly where it was going to come down to
the finest of margins with that energy and the way that the Stumpfist got to the double
Discharge just meant there was so much momentum on Caspian Pike's side that there was nothing King OWT could do
I'm honestly at a bit of a loss for words
I don't think I've been at a loss for words much during these world championships the plays have been incredible
But that is the perfect demonstration of the insane level of skill these players have
You have identical matchups quite literally Pokemon for Pokemon the exact same
How do you make the difference there and Caspian Pike it all started by throwing the body same as the fear to get a little bit of
Chip damage even then potentially set up a bug bite down
Wt through back to back while turn is actually limit the form of that fortress to try and get himself farmed out faster
But it still didn't matter that shadow fortress so incredibly impressive at the end game there
King of WT has left out was a cat to take on a bureau
But the patience of Caspian Pike does not let the catch happen doubles up on discharge
And now it's a winner take all game number three. This is top eight at the world championships
This is win or go home
The shadow forages is well put in so much work with the debuff rock team
Sound team you have your choice of one if you want to lower the attack or defense and that gives yourself the trainer so much
Flexibility Catholic high playing so beautifully in this game for coming into a game three
Do we predict any adjustments?
One interesting thing to note about the Shadow Kingdra on Kingow WT side is because it is the Shadow Kingdra, it actually gets what's called a Dragon Breath Breakpoint into Mantine.
So Caspian ends up adjusting to Mantine, because it is Shadow, each Dragon Breath does one extra damage onto the Mantine, meaning that what's normally a pretty rough matchup for Kingdra, if it's an on Shadow Kingdra, is a pretty okay matchup which shields up for the Shadow.
Exactly and it looks like our trainers are ready. Give it up one more time for
King or WP and Caspian Pike. We're going to see a change. The steel types are on the
field. It is tinker tongue of Forrest. Even though the bug bites are resisted, the
aggressor in this matchup is definitely the Shadow Bug Bite Forrest. Caspian Pike
reaching for the sand to not quite able to get their King OWT full set for
Gantt on Hammer. This is going to hurt. This is going to be a significant
amount of damage landing onto that Shadow Bug Bite Forrest. That is a
swing and a connect of damage onto the Forrest. But Forrest does have a
retaliation of its own being able to go with the sand team going on shielded into
King of WT's Tinkertong does super effective damage but in contrast that
gigaton hammer is so underwhelming. In comes the nine tails a bit of a slow
counter switch there from Caspian bite and if you give even an inch of wiggle
room to that shallow Kendra nine tails it can put it to devastating effect.
Mantine hits the field but Mantine is already at a pacing deficit now when
you give that Kendra nine tails an energy head start Caspian feels like he's
behind. He's going to the Twister Bane. King of WT calls it! He no shields it! What a play!
This Ninetales doing what it does best, farming up the energy and taking names in this game.
Being able to not have that shield, energy ball is primed and ready to go. Going to be
retaliating with some good offensive pressure. This energy ball will not take the knockout
out of the vantian and Caspian Pike knows it. He is not going to be putting up the
protect shield. Can he potentially get the double up here? No, he cannot. That's
where the energy advantage on the Ninetales is such a problem. Despite the fact that
but this is allegedly a bad adventure for the Ninetales.
Ninetales basically removed the entire man team
and there's almost no residual energy.
Twisted Cups through does felt the Ninetales
but now the Kingdra is in play,
going for these Dragon Breaths,
farming up energy and putting in some work
against that opposing Licky Licky.
Kingdra, in that Sharday form as well,
will be able to deal additional damage with this Surf.
We've seen how these can stack up
even into a Pokemon like Licky Licky.
This Surf is gonna be no-shoulded,
Licky Licky now approaching a perilous health range.
Kaspin Pike, he built up past the Shadow Ball,
he based with a bodice M,
KING-O-WT has to make a call, he will put up a protect shield, he caught one bait but this
time ends up shielding it.
Once again we're just going to see these shadowballs come through, this is a great coverage move
that the Licky Licky has, able to deal that additional bit of damage particularly into
a shadowbarry like the King Grit, does a huge amount but does not secure a knockout.
KING-O-WT shaking his head though, banks that energy, Tinkertown comes back in just
trying to get down these fairies went into Licky Licky.
But Tinkertown could not get the farm down, Licky Licky will make the shadowball.
WT puts up the protect shield, but now Caspian Pike can hit it out. It comes to Fortress,
Fortress getting ever closer to the Sand Tomb. There's still two protect shields to hide behind.
It just seems there is no path for King OWT.
Those left of Sand Tomb will come through onto the supposing Tingatone. Is it going to be
enough at this point to get the KO? No, Tingatone still in play. It does have a bulldoze
of its own. In fact, I think it's got two of them.
There is a lot of energy still on that King draw that bulldoze, Miss Minoc out.
Caspian is going to force out energy here, but the problem is, even if you're
able to get all protect shields down. There's still fast attack pressure available into the
Kingdra. There's the Mantine, there's still the Licky-Licky. Caspian having all three
Pokemon alive is a little bit tough here. In comes the Kingdra, goes for the Surf, but
the pressure is, can Kingdra actually get his last move farm down?
The thing is Caspian fights Pokemon are so low on HP, can the Dragon Breath do it?
Dragon Breath does do extra damage here. Caspian, he's going to fall! Hold on a moment!
This could be turning! In comes the Licky-Licky! Licky-Licky gets to farm down. This
He's gonna be close, does one very with, take the knockout here.
He survives, he gets the far down, a miracle win, King OWT.
If you're gonna come for the King OWT, you better not miss.
And Caspian Pike misses the mark.
King OWT remains in the Pokemon Go World Championships.
That game looked over, how did he do that?
Sensational, you can see the emotion there for
King OWT, all books lost, but that's why you stay calm under pressure.
You do not give up.
He finds a way.
He had no hit points on any of those Pokemon, and he's able to take all three
knockouts, and that extra break point you get from being the Shadow King
Girl farming down the man team, that made the difference.
My heart is absolutely racing.
We were full on jumping around backstage here because that was such
an electric race to the finish line and that Shadow King is just able to hit
Caspian Pike to the post. The Dragon Breath, we've spoken a lot about how it
could be so relentless, constantly farming away and the HP deficit Caspian Pike had
was just not enough to keep him in the game. Caspian Pike was so far ahead
that entire game it felt like it was like a 99% win probability there but
that's why it's not a hundred because King OWT, those Dragon Breaths hit so
the man team got the farm down there.
Licky, Licky got the farm down,
but the Tinketon wasn't at one HP.
No, it survives the rollout and King
OWT couldn't believe it.
He was at a complete loss.
What a magical game there.
Incredible run by Caspian make it as
a top eight, but it's King OWT
moving on to top six.
My heart does go out to Caspian
Pike is that was such a beautifully
played game, but unfortunately when
you're going up against someone like
WT who has his eyes set on the next stage of the competition.
It can just be too much of a mountain to climb.
I really do need a little bit of a break after that one.
That one was intense.
But again, showing the high caliber of play from our trainers.
The end of the day, this is the World Championships.
We've put the best of the best into this competition
and we're whittling it down to just our remaining contenders
vying for that World Champion title
at the end of Championship Sunday tomorrow.
That match was absolutely incredible.
That's the gameplay we expect at the World Championship.
We've been seeing it all weekend, it's absolutely unreal
and the action doesn't stop here.
We're gonna be taking a quick break,
but coming up on deck,
we are gonna have a high octane matchup
between PvP David and Out-of-Pocket.
PvP David, an incredible regional champion from Sweden,
Out-of-Pocket, a former international champion
from the United States.
Don't go anywhere.
These battles are going to be incredible.
Welcome to the stage, your Pokemon Go finalist, your champion from Spain, back to home!
My name is Flio and I'm from Spain.
I will be the other side, not because it's the fight, but it's the Pokemon Cypher,
which is my representative Pokemon.
My first time competing was in Liverpool, in 2003, where my dad came with me to Liverpool
And I also got second place and then I won the Grand Regional.
I would love to repeat that and win the next World Championship.
So actually this season I didn't have a gold medal, but I had a gold trophy, which was the UIC one.
So I'm really proud of that.
Pato Man is your 2025 EUIC International Champion!
It was like a really fun experience because also the finals was against a really good friend
of mine, which is T-Shrivels, and I actually lost a final against him in Barcelona in
my home city, so I'm really proud of that and I think it's a really memorable moment.
He is going for the triple crown here.
Basically, my team has play support, which is a really good
Pokemon for this meta, so I think my team is really fun to play.
Three ball flex on Potomac, he is so on point.
So if I had to say an MVP for this weekend, I would say it was Corsula.
I really liked that it was tight for this meta.
He really helped me to get this far in the tournament.
Yeah, actually I was really worried about the Maltres and I had to face the Maltres in the Grand Finals
so that it wasn't really good for me.
And then maybe Sizer, because I didn't have a real response.
But I think that's all, because my team, I think it was really safe into a meta.
Execution is just on another level.
So the Grand Final was the most difficult matchup I had this weekend.
because of the Maltres and also the Stubborn is a really good player
so I had to play around that, also his initiative did really good bench professional
because the counters to the Maltres, which are not really counter
got really upplayed by the San Juan Italy
so I had to manage those two and also still it's a lap which were like really good to my team
I think I can really catch that much of play I think.
I feel good, but also maybe not disappointed, but feeling that I have done more, but still
I really proud of myself and happy with this tournament.
My most memorable moment from this weekend was Saturday when I qualified for the World
I'm not in the wings right now because I feel like I have all the momentum I needed
and everyone supporting me really helped me to be more confident for the next week.
I think that the low-pitcher for Pokemon was very, I really liked the internet
and also the community, the players that always supported me
and also a friend of mine and I appreciate a lot
So that will be the main reason why I keep covering to be 7.
You have to be completely hopeful.
I believe I never give up.
That's the way to continue doing and that's what I want to do for the next season.
Hello everybody and welcome to the Pokemon Center here at Worlds 2026 in San Francisco.
As you can see, we've got the World Championship side.
We've got the Pokemon XP side.
I hear it's absolutely insane in there.
Let's go take a look.
We got to get me popping out behind everything that we can.
Let's take a shot of it.
Oh!
Hey, how's it going?
Beautiful pieces. Bring it in close here. I want you to take a look at this for
everyone at home. This is a fantastic piece. This is the beautiful Sableye we
have right here. Without question, one of the finest we have. Beautiful, sparkly.
We have the Eevee right next to it and finally the Jigglypuff. Very nice
collection.
The official matte. Limit one per customer. But I count as two customers so I
I will take two.
No.
King Pikachu.
We have now transitioned from the world championships to the XP area.
Space themed, extremely cool, in my opinion, cooler than the world championship area.
I'm probably not supposed to say that.
Let's do some pop-outs.
Boom, pop it.
Okay, okay.
Get a picture of me with the Umbreon.
There you go.
The World Championship play mat and bag also limit one.
These are different though, so I can take them.
Yes?
Yes, I got a yes.
Place is poppin'.
Beautiful, special, elegant.
One of them's going on a trip.
One of them is blasting off, another one would be in a spaceship.
I think I like Kearley the best.
I have been excited to see this the entire time.
This is the item I've had my eye on more than anything else.
This jacket right here.
It's beautiful, it's special.
I'm not exactly sure where I can wear it, except everywhere.
And I want it very badly.
I will be back for it.
Because secondly, I'm not allowed to shop for this right now.
Welcome back, Trainers to the 2026 Pokemon Go World Championships.
You just got a little preview of the Pokemon Center and we're going to have a little sprattened
Spriggles pop out onto the cast.
Welcome back, everybody.
Speediest YouTube with Amanda Lumberg.
I thought the only one that can do pop outs here at the World Championships, but
But it was a great look through the Pokemon Center.
So much stuff going on here.
And so happy to be with you guys
as we're completely narrowing down the field
to our top performers here at the
2026 San Francisco World Championships.
Man, I realize I need to get my Twitch Watchman is in
so I can claim Beelzebois at take a time.
So I was looking at the chat.
There's over 25,000 people watching right now.
What is now in the chat if you claimed your drops yet?
Oh, and speaking of, you're going to want to make sure
that you are because Beelzebub has actually been knocked out of this tournament, but you
can still get the ticket time that he won last year with.
And speaking of, we're going to go swoop down to the stage because those players are ready
and one of them was the person who did knock out the champion.
Let's sit down to the floor everybody.
This is going to be out of pocket taking on PDP David on stage.
Out of pocket has made some of the most insane plays I have seen him make in his
entire career.
mainly it was that swap in charge tech priority tie with his Don Dozo hit it with the Dozo
as I say, and he was able to win a close series doing insane things like that.
Bill is always saying that.
Now he's got to do even more crazy things if he wants to get past PvP dating.
Now listen, out of pocket, he was the trainer who knocked out two worlds finalists being
both inadequate and also now the slipping on my pocket man here.
But, PvP David knocking out the actual world champion, facing off against each other in this
Loser's Ground 5.
We're hopping right to that floor.
One of our trainers is already locked in.
This is Loser's Round 5 everybody.
Again, all these matches are such high stakes because if you lose this, your tournament is
over and I know you like battles.
And what do we have for them Amanda?
We've got battles.
Let's hop into it.
Game number one.
PvP David leads Malamar and so does out of pocket.
everyone's friend Malamar onto the floor here is that both start to charge up a little bit of energy.
There's a lot of important things that maybe these trainers know about each other already if they've
ever scrimmed against each other. Such valuable information has who wins charge attack priority.
The Malamar with the higher attack will be the one who gets to drill first. We didn't see
it on the first one as out of pocket through before PvP David who is now throwing now no
protection of use on either side. And we don't know which one is going to win that charge
check party tie right a lot of traders who are confident in their attack throw
their attack first and see a little bit of hesitancy so far out in this mirror
matchup super power though is going to hurt will out of pocket sustain and he
does powerful there we'll see a squint swap out into his room all time go for
his night now that just as quickly by out of pockets or so all of these
Pokemon very bulky taking a bit of time to charge up but all ready that
course look throwing some shade at the zoomer in this mid game matchup what I've
been so impressed with pocket on it has been his team of predictions excuse me
he actually set out that glaring course like in season rule he's keeping that
clock sir in the back which means he's calling that it's not quack sorry for
PvP David as the third Pokemon and I think that his call is gonna pay off
again going ahead getting that first protection off the side of out of
He just did it again.
He just switched in a Pokemon, threw a charge attack, on charge attack priority, and even
if user mode would have hung on, would have wasted its entire Hydra Pump out of pocket,
playing out of his mind.
He just switched in a Pokémon through a charge attack, on charge attack priority,
and even if the user mode would have hung on, it would have wasted its entire hydro pump out of pocket,
playing out of his mind.
Yeetsera, go on ahead and just come in now with that claw-tire.
But PvP David's token just already has a bit of an energy advantage,
and these side-shocks are going to do a lot of damage to another bulky Pokémon
that has taken a big look at that super effective damage,
almost bringing that claw-tire down to half.
This is tricky, right?
because it's only 10 turns to each of the size shocks
for that Toad to kiss.
Meanwhile, 776 for the Stone Edges on the clawed sire.
Toad to kiss has a clear pacing advantage,
but it's got to respect these Stone Edges
because it would do way more damage
than a side shock in kind.
Pacing advantage, energy advantage,
and shield advantage.
PVP David looks in a good position
though out of pocket was able to negate
all that energy that the Zoomer was building here.
Stone edge is already ready on the side of out of pocket.
Does it get the last protect shield from PVP David?
Does he want to keep this totes in game?
Content to let it go down.
Took his balls from the sky.
And now we've got that Malamar coming back in.
Yeah, Poison is weak to psychic,
and the Malamar looking to melt the quag sire out of pocket.
Bails it out, sends out his Galarian Corsula now,
but the foul plays are also going to hurt.
This Malamar has perfect coverage
for the remaining two Pokemon on Pocket's team.
If you keep David recognizing that even though
that Malamar is a bit low in health,
it can start putting in some heavy work
using that last protect shield to shield up
the Nightshade thrown from the Corsula. We might see a side wave down to have some energy
to throw at that Clotsire that's coming back in. You see a shake of the head out of pocket
as the next Charger Tech is reached. Betrayed by its pacing, Clotsire. Such a mighty Pokemon,
but just so slow. In this meta game that's full of Pokemon like Malamar, like Kanto
Ninetales and Toadkiss, it's very difficult for Clotsire to find an edge unless it's
already built up a head start taking game number one off of the last North American trainer left in the
2026 World Championships he just needs one more game to continue on to losers round six if this team
looks familiar it's probably because you've seen it play quite a few times so far on stream both
by pvp david and another trainer who he built the team with whom 20 made it into day number two
but was knocked out of the tournament by P.B.P. from the can.
Such an incredible run so far from P.B.P. David.
I remember last year at the World Championships,
we saw P.B.P. David and immediately dubbed him a rising star.
The next generation of P.B.P. trainers
in the Pokemon Go competitive community,
he's showing that he's still got what it takes.
He doesn't take a quick look back at that game number one
and our trainers get ready for game number two.
I mean, I tell you what, it's in the name, right?
He's not just David.
He is PvP David. He knows how to play this game and this first game against the North American in and out of champion is a good way to show your prowess
Out of pocket already locked in his trio again if out of pocket loses this next game
His tournament is over and the last trainer from NA as you pointed out Amanda is
Eliminated if he David wants to get everything right though. He's mulling over his options just a little while longer
You didn't see a couple of Pokemon in that game number one.
You didn't see the Quaxire or the Nightail.
So, P2P David could reach for some of those
and Pocket needs to adjust.
Both Pocket takes a deep breath
as both of these trainers lock in,
getting ready for game number two here in losers round five.
We have that Licky, Licky in the lead
up against the Quaxire.
This is a regular Quaxire, not a Shadow,
which we've seen many times in the past,
and one out of Pocket's actual favorite Pokemon.
So maybe a little bit of a betrayal here on the screen.
That's a big stone edge to start as well.
That takes about 35% or so of that Licky Licky's HP pool,
but the Shadow Ball is going to be fired off in return.
This will probably take about an equivalent amount
in this matchup.
Going ahead and not using the tech shield,
either one of these opponents just continuing
to charge up energy.
Magsire will be able to throw its attack first
should it choose stupid PV to P David.
Recognizing you can tank a bottle of same goes ahead
and just charges up a little bit more
that he can actually threaten the knockout
with his next charge attack,
should there not be a shield used by out-of-pocket,
Stone Edge going up,
and Pocket uses his first protection.
Yeah, Stone Edge number two,
and it's looking like a bit of a rocky road for Pocket
to start off this game, number two.
He throws the body,
so I mean it gets caught on the Azumaroll,
but that's actually very valuable information.
That's the first time Pocket has seen Azumaroll
in this matchup,
and now he can adjust accordingly.
Gonna go ahead and stay in with Licky and Licky though,
because he realizes he needs some chip damage
to get the job done.
last game out of pocket ended up
getting all of the energy that was
put on to that Izumo with his Malamar.
No Malamar to be found this game,
but now Izumo with quite a bit of energy,
not playing nice at all,
playing rough into this Dandozo,
hitting it as it connects.
And now just a little bit of water
on water damage, which takes a while
to get you neither one of the
targets of the Dandozo is going to
really hurt the Izumo with its
very typing as well as water.
Exactly. Water is one of the most
prominent typings in all competitive Pokemon go and it's been that way since
the very beginning so flexible so versatile a lot of the neutral picks
like consumer and dondozo are able to hang with the best of them even in a
typing disadvantage also pocket keeping that quadside in the back maybe he's
calling that tokyo kiss again in game 2. Going ahead and charging up a lot of
energy a zoomer pace is quite slowly here but even so you see out of pocket
shake his head a little bit and see that so much energy on this dondozo
Even though it wouldn't threaten knockout quite yet. He doesn't want to lose it all throwing out that first into the zoom
Oh, no protection used by PvP David one of the rare moments when you lose counts out of pocket such talented player
But it is late in the day and he's been battling since the early morning great catch by David as well to absorb this surf
At least it neutralizes one of his Pokemon up the board for out of pocket
You can see out of pocket and that's perfectly fine
Let's get that quags are off of the board. Show me what else is in this and now the total kiss comes in
It's very dangerous for out of pocket a very low-health
Licky with a lot of energy behind its name, but the plots are with no shields into a total kiss
We saw that last game and didn't look too pretty. Yeah
This might not be easy for out of pocket to come back from that second shield does not get used here
PPP David still has not even seen the
Claw outside from out of pocket and we
talked about pacing that cost are super
far behind and look at this because
it's already got seven eight nine ten
pecs to its name going ahead just
charging up a bit of extra energy you
see really top trainers do this even
though they have energy they're not
throwing it right away they're
building up even more they're making
sure that they're gonna be able to
throw PPP David knew he was gonna
when charge attack we're already
throwing right before that stone edge
was available for pocket well honestly
pocket line needs to just poison sting down. I don't know if there's any other
win condition. Out comes the Azumaroll. Doesn't have the energy for the charge
attack yet, but the bubbles are super effective. So Nex will deal one damage
even though the shield comes up. Can out of pocket poison sting one more time
and get the KO. No he can't! Azumaroll play rough pushes it up.
Play rough coming through here. No protectional slap on out of pocket side.
That clawed sire was so bulky, but it is going down. Now comes in.
That's Lincoln Lincoln trying to get as much damage off as possible wants to get able to get to one more so we can get to a body slam.
Will he be enough?
Oh my goodness, out of pocket, can't do it.
PVP David stays alive in the loser side bracket, round five.
All of these games down to the wire there.
If Pocket was able to reach that body slam, he might have been singing a different story,
but PVP David calm and collected, recognizing what he needed to do.
2-0 sweeping to stay alive going to losers round six.
What a run from out of pocket.
He showed us the best he had to offer in these last few rounds,
but the road finally came to an end.
Meanwhile, PDB David looking to carry that torch forward
as he advances, I believe Amanda, into like top six.
I mean, we're getting pretty high up there.
We are slowly narrowing it down to see who will be performing
tomorrow on Championship Sunday on the main channel.
So don't forget, that's where you can be watching these battles.
But you're absolutely right.
Out of pocket had a wonderful tournament run.
I hope he's so proud of how well he did,
because he started today on that loser's side
of the bracket, which means he came in yesterday
from that he's been playing so many games,
able to make it to losers round five,
losing to a very talented trainer from the EU.
And unfortunately for North America,
The dreams of maybe another world champion from the region has come to an end.
I mean not once but twice.
Taking that one turn switch, throwing that Pokemon out and using the charge attack on
the cap tie to win it and get off that damage.
I mean out of pocket, mechanically one of the best in the world and he proved it here
in the world stage.
I agree with you Amanda.
I think that a lot of the trainers maybe they think if they don't win then it's
a disappointment, right?
The standards are so high especially for someone like out of pocket who has won regional
competitions who has won NAIC, I feel like there's a risk that you think it's a failure
that you made it this far. But it's absolutely not. It's a massive accomplishment.
It's a massive accomplishment. Let's go ahead and take a look at that accomplishment because
there's been so many trainers and a lot of them we actually didn't get to feature online just
because there were so many trainers still in this, but throughout the day, little by little,
it's getting narrowed down to this. We are in losers round six. The winners of this will
I'll continue on to that loser's semi-finals.
It's gonna be so exciting.
Only a few matches left, everybody.
And I'm telling you, if you've been following
our storylines, first of all, thank you so much.
But if you have been, you definitely want to tune in
tomorrow on the main channel to watch the grand finals
and figure out which trainer takes it all.
Can't talk about grand finals without the winners'
finals first, right?
We're going through there.
We've got hero Mario coming in,
playing up against M.E.
are only senior world champion.
Can he do it again on the main stage?
Or we'll have to see, and you guys will have to find out.
Don't go anywhere.
A few more matches today, though,
and we're not gonna slow down anytime soon.
Next up, we're gonna see Marto Galday
taking on King OWT if I'm not mistaken.
That's gonna be a really high match as well.
Very talented trainers.
We've seen them throughout the day.
Marto Galday, one of the most,
I would say acclaimed players that we've had
in Pokemon Go.
No stranger to the main stage especially at the world championships and international championships getting top placements at those
But King
OWT has only competed in a few tournaments this season and has done extremely well at all of them
Proving how good he is knocking out so many good players left and right and that clutch win
He just had during Henry and Lou's commentary down to the line
Oh my goodness guys after this live stream is done
and you gotta go back and watch the Vaude and check out that series.
It was insane.
Let's see if we can do it again though, because as you pointed out,
Marto's been on the big stage.
He's been there, done that.
Can he continue his winning ways in Losers round five,
or excuse me, Losers round six?
We are very deep into this bottom side bracket.
As the winner of this matchup will continue on to the Loser semifinals,
they are getting ready to go.
So let's go ahead and take a little peek at the teams.
As you can see, not a lot of crossover between the two of them.
The only ones really that we can focus on that are the same
is that Shadow Panto, Ninetales, and the Tinketon,
which has been quite prevalent not only in day one,
but also day two here in San Francisco.
Absolutely, and the question is,
can these trainers find a fit for their signature Pokemon?
And lucky for us, both of them are flying types.
That Altaria from Marta O'Galladay
and the Fero from King OT,
striking beer into the hearts of everyone that he came up against.
The studio lecturer has also been pretty good for him thus far.
I think that, yeah, absolutely. Both of these trainers have been
piloting their Pokemon to great success. It's not like they're just relying on
three of them to do the job every single time. They're really digging deep into that utility
about to see which ones are the best for these actual matchups.
What's fascinating as well is that I thought this matchup looked familiar.
Amanda, when we started today,
Marto took on King OWT in round one.
His Altaria conquer that Shadow Kingdra.
This is a rematch, everybody,
and it's all the way in Losers' round six.
So this is what we like to call a grudge match,
since this is a double elimination tournament.
If you're on that winner's side with the bracket,
losing your first best of three
will knock you down to that loser's side.
Now that they are both in this loser's side bracket,
will King OWT have the wherewithal,
recognizing what he didn't do,
didn't do maybe correctly in those first games,
maybe a miss call that could really secure him
into those losers' semifinals.
Last time these trainers competed,
we saw a lot of the suing electrode,
Shadow Kento Ninetales and Fiero for King OWT,
and I believe Marto also brought his Shadow Kento Ninetales,
but he also paired it with his Altaria and Licky Licky.
So there's a lot of background to this match,
and I think that changes the dynamics quite a bit.
I'm sure that when these trainers saw each other
on the bracket, they started to game plan almost immediately.
They said, OK, recall back.
What were the lines?
What were the tendencies?
How often did they bait?
What did they shield?
What did they swap?
All these questions need to be recalled.
And again, as we get later in the day,
it's already 6 o'clock here in California.
These trainers have been battling since the early hours
of the morning.
Keep in mind, too, the last time
that these two battled, those battles were extremely close.
So you're going to want to keep your eyes on the screen
here as we're jumping into battle number one,
because these are gonna be fantastic.
Leading up, we have that Altaria up against the Malamar
on the side of King OWT.
Neutral matchup to start us off.
Malamar with a slight energy-casing advantage.
Only 10 turns to each of the foul play.
Meanwhile, Altaria's got a muster of 14 dragon breaths
for a Sky Attack.
As foul plays as you know, this part very different.
Not going to be doing too much damage,
but actually still threatens a decent chunk
for the Side Waves coming afterwards.
Altaria going for his first Sky Attack.
He didn't use a shield on the side of Marko Galde and King OWT puts up a shield for the first time.
You can see Malomar likely fire back pretty soon here.
And as this side wave damage adds up, the foul play will start to threaten, but Marko Galde trusts his Altaria.
He knows his Pokemon can hang on through this next charge attack, and it absolutely does.
Do we see a swap that's a catch charge attack?
He throws the blade over just in case of the swap.
I really like that play.
Go ahead, Jim. Just a bit more damage.
damage and he knows that there's not a lot of help left on Altaria either.
Doesn't want to leave a lot of farm work for whatever comes in and
it's able to fast attack down being one turn attacks.
In comes the Ticket Time for that first Hammer Swing.
Very tough for KOWT to lose shield and switch advantage early on in the battle.
Now we get the Ticket Time year match, Barthol Galday and KOWT.
Very close in terms of energy.
The Ticket Time Hammer is going to get fired off by King first.
going ahead, he did have one of fast turn advantage there,
but Martel Valde has a shield of energy.
You see him nodding as he correctly shielded up
that first gigatron hammer, now throwing his own.
They look a little, but they are pretty tough.
Now, Martel probably remembers that Fero
is a key part of King OWT's team last time they battled.
It's probably really tough to throw the bulldoze here,
because if you get caught on, you
waste a full load of energy.
Another gigatron hammer getting fired off.
That bait is great when it lends a shield,
but horrible when it's not very effective
against a Pokemon.
Mato Calderd looks like it's not going to take that risk.
No protection left remaining on King OWT's side.
Going to have to take this full course
as it's hand or slams down, knocking that Ticketton
down into the red.
Both Fairy-type Pokemon, definitely weak with the bulldoze
and that one fairy-winning advantage
is going to get King OWT the leg up here.
That bulldoze pulls away the final shield,
Mato investing in the Ticketton.
What does Kikotun and BT decide to do?
He goes right to the Fero.
Going in through Fero, there is a ton of energy
on that Kikotun, so we have to remember that
even though the defenses are lower,
this will do a major chunk of damage
and we see Marto immediately come into that licky,
licky pull that roll out damage to finish off the Fero
and almost finish off game one.
I don't know, Amanda.
When that Kikotun hammer hit the Fero, it hurt me.
That was so much damage on the board
and the shadow ball for Marto
is gonna seal this up nicely.
That's game one, going to Marto from Argentina.
The hammer went down and the floor shook
and even the feral felt it in the sky.
You know, I would say the hammer went down
and the feathers flew up because that was absolutely
devastating.
Marto recognizing the pressure point of the matchup,
shielding his tinketon, keeping it in the battle.
In spite of that one fairy wind disadvantage,
he was able to outpace, get to that tinketon hammer.
Very well played.
I mean, like you said, the first time
these trainers battled, it was right down to the wire,
every single game. That was the cleanest game between these two that we've seen so far.
Well let's go ahead and take another look at it as we see how much this Gigatron
animal actually does to a Fero almost knocking it out. Licky, Licky going for
a little tag team effort there securing the game for Marto Galday. Keep in mind
this is the losers portion of the Double Elimination Tournament. Marto Galday
is one game away from going to that losers semi-finals. So tricky for
King OWT, there's so much bulk on Marto's team. Deceptively, a lot of bulk.
He's got to figure out a way to get past it. And keep in mind, in that game number one,
we just saw that Licky, Licky came out basically fresh when King OWT was barely limping along.
That was really tough in terms of matchup pacing.
It didn't feel like there was a realistic window for him to win.
But Amanda, he must be competent because King OWT has already selected his team and locked in.
I mean, sometimes trainers end up trying to go for a little bit of an energy advantage, right?
Sometimes that extra very win or two from the Tinkerton
could actually completely change a match up being ahead.
However, Marto still had two shields to hide behind
by King OwT only having one.
And with such a heavy impact move like the Tinkerton hammer,
just throwing one after another was too much to overcome.
The suing electrode was very helpful
in their previous series.
King OwT could opt to start bringing that Pokemon,
try to break some of these shields
and gained some leverage early on,
but let's see what he's decided to do.
Game number two, coming at you, everybody.
Hopping right into it here, it looks like we have a great lead
for Martial Galdi as King, oh, everybody puts his head
into his hands, he's going to do a quick pivot out
into that fero, and Martial Galdi's
singing for a little bit longer, gathering some energy,
and wants to chip the fero that came in,
or perhaps dipping himself, or even staying in this matchup
since he has shields to hide behind.
Disaster strikes early, and the pivot out now
into the licky-licky.
This is very, very tough for King of WT.
There's got a lot of pressure being applied across the board.
Drill Peck comes through, but Licky Licky
is bulky enough to take at least two of these.
Digging out its tongue at the fear of sin.
All right, come at me.
Took it down game number one.
And already another Drill Peck coming through,
actually forcing that first shield from Marco Galdi here,
as he doesn't want to get any more HP loss
on that Licky Licky, especially as he started gaining up
so much energy.
One more roll out on a body slam.
There aren't many things faster than Peck to Drill Peck,
but roll out to body slam is just by one turn
and the pacing war is gonna be won by that Licky Licky.
The longer this battle goes on,
looks like another body slam coming through
to secure the KL and maintain control switch.
You see Kino WT, he's thinking here.
You know, he's still nodding his,
this is not over for him.
Yes, that was a horrible lead,
but what we saw before,
if Tinkerton has a little bit of an energy advantage,
it can really go a long way
and throwing right for the Licky Licky
even got off a shadow ball
It's great for him because this is going to mean that he doesn't have to take any extra HP damage from that Licky Licky.
I mean that's a small loss for a huge upside right? The Licky Licky was already weak.
Now to get the dragons on the field, Kingdra and Altaria.
We've seen this matchup a couple times before that Kingdra being a shadow variant.
We'll take a bit more damage from the opposing dragon press, but the swifts are much faster than Skytex too.
This is likely going to be a very even matchup.
the duel of the dragons.
One of them is from the skies
and one of them is from the water
and one of them has just taken the last shield of King OWT
as he protects up that King Drift so close to another swift
and so far away from the other sky attack
on the side of Margeau Galvane.
King Drift is the key.
Margeau has his side.
Do I shield and try to farm down a little bit more
to make it easier for my Ticket Tart
or excuse me, easier for my Ninetales
or do I save the shield?
He chooses the latter.
Outcomes the Kanto Ninetales,
needing to make some energy
and definitely shield this surf.
It's all on that nine tails for Margell at this point.
Going ahead, actually going for the heavy hitting surf,
recognizing that maybe it's not even good
to do a bait at this point,
but trying to force Margell Valdez
to actually throw some energy
to map that Kingdor out himself.
The weather ball, normally Kingdor doesn't have to fear,
but there aren't any protect shields
and we have a tinket on in the back.
Margell needs two weather balls
before Kingdor WT can get to the one bulldoze.
He's got both charge attacks loaded.
This might be it.
going for number one here.
He is cooking as this first one goes through.
First one connects and here is number two.
Martial Galdes advancing to losers round seven
at the World Championships
and King OWT's run comes to an end.
King OWT takes the crown off his head,
puts it on Martial Galdes as he continues on
into the losers semifinals.
Martial looking calm, looking confident,
able to take King OWT completely
out of the tournament as this is the person who came out of WT,
was not even losing bracket two originally.
Think back, everybody.
Think back to what Marto said about LAIC.
He finished third overall.
A lot of trainers would have been content.
They would have been happy.
But he said, you know what?
I could have done better.
I could have played differently, more cleanly,
made less mistakes at the World Championships.
I'm sure that's his number one goal,
to make the fewest amount of stakes possible,
and to fight as hard as he possibly can.
Because he believes he's capable of winning it all.
He is about to knock on the door being in the loser semis
He's been a title champion, but he has never been able to beat that world champion getting so close and run a Lulu being
So close time and time again
I think a lot of eyes are on him
See if he will be able to do so because I also believe he's the last Latin America
Trainer in this tournament in Latin America is the only region that has not gotten the trophy yet
carrying the torch for an entire region all the pressure on his back King LVT very
impressive run so much to be proud of as well trainer from the UK I mean that
fero I don't think it was on anyone's predictions but it really exceeded all
expectations I think many trainers had learned to fear the fero after they saw
it in the hands of a trainer like King LWT making it so far in the tournament
into Loser's round six, but of course in this double elimination,
two weather balls were enough to seal the deal for Marto as he continues on.
You see the clap, the rise in the handshake there, great sportsmanship as usual in competitive Pokemon Go.
We're kind of known for that kind of thing, but what an incredible performance by both players.
Sadly, King of WT will not be returning to the stage.
Just turn them in his over, but Marto battles on.
And he will be in that Loser semifinals. We're still in Loser's round six.
We just saw PPP David play a little bit earlier on he will be now up again blinking. It's like he's
You go to you to go take a bathroom break you go to make some pop over and come back and you're like
Is this still the same match? It's funny right because the way our tournament bracket set up
maybe you played the first round of the day and
Unfortunately, you might not win it
So he falls that loser side bracket and you have to wait several hours until you go on
but as we narrow down the field and the air gets thinner in that loser side bracket you battle more and more and more often and
You're right, beauty David had a long break that breaks over Dave you gotta get back on the stage
So let's kind of go over the people who are still left in the tournament PvP David is one of them
He was knocked down to that loser side of the bracket by M. E. Weedle
Who is in the winners side who's gonna be competing in the winners finals?
They can see remote and I tell you what there's two UK people or two people from Europe still left
There are two people from Japan still left as well as Marto Balde
That is incredible. A lot of trainers that have been watching our broadcast so far recognize that fellow on the left
That's Contano the trainer with that shadow Goliath score, which honestly I gotta say that's a fan favorite Pokemon
I think everyone's been loving his gameplay with that and if that wasn't cool enough
He's got a shadow poly toad paired next to it
I mean you talk about spicy teams being able to make it so far and you can hear the crowd cheering for him as he
He takes the stage, he's rubbing his hands, he's getting ready to play with arguably probably
the most spicy interesting team that's left in this tournament.
It's so funny the personalities of these trainers, we're going to see those on display as well.
Somebody called Katy Perry because we've got hot and cold here, you can see a lot of
expressions from Contono.
I really, really enjoy seeing him wears emotions on his sleeve.
Meanwhile, PvP David, I mean, he's unshakable.
I don't think he ever goes above 60 BPM on his heart rate.
Yeah, cool as a cucumber there, ready to be able to play.
Grinning at the camera, he knows that he's doing quite well.
And I hope he's extremely proud of this.
Only a Zoomerrill that's been definitely
been making it so far.
And a Zoomer running hydro pump at that.
Well, Zoomerrill's got to watch out for some electricity,
because that charge bug has been inching along
all the way to Loser's round six.
It was a little slow, but luckily it caught up.
And I think that Pokemon could spell trouble for this team from PvP David.
I tell you what, Charge Bug, yes, is a decent Izumeral counter.
And of course, Tinket Town, we've seen how much a Tinket Town hammer can do.
Licky, licky, you know, it's a slow pacing game,
and it's slightly favors that licky, licky.
But that Polygon, the Gliscor, and the Pengaro,
don't want to face that Izumeral at all.
Well, you're right.
So it kind of forces Konto-no to bring that Charge Bug,
at least bring a harder answer because otherwise he's totally exposed to one of these staples of
great league pvp ever since the very beginning. So going ahead both of these trainers getting ready
getting locked in their exchanging team sheets of course in pokemon go it is open team sheets so
the trainers get to see which charge attacks are on each team and giving them a little bit of time
to you know mow it over decide what they want to bring into this battle number one. Well
So everybody, let's see if we get some Charged Bug action.
I want that Shadow Gliscor to hit the field at least once.
The PvP David has been leaning a lot on the Malamar.
He's very technically talented and his timing is perfect.
It's likely going to bring that Pokemon as well.
In spite of the obstacles, sometimes you just
need to rely on the Pokemon.
You know the best and you play the best.
Now Charged Bug is something that you've called out
and does really well against that Tograkis
on the side of PvP David.
It can hit back for the Zoomerall as well as some
the charge attacks to the Malamar, but with a quadsire on the team, does that also maybe
make you pause and decide if you want to bring it or not? Because yes, it is a water typing,
but with that ground typing as well, it indicates a lot of that fast attack damage.
I'm so glad you mentioned that. I think a lot of times you see an obvious pick, you say,
oh, this one Pokemon I have is strong into four out of six or five out of six, or
maybe all six. And you say, okay, well, I'm going to leave that Pokemon. Well,
then it kind of becomes obvious to your opponent what they can expect. And then
you fall into a hard-catter situation. So there is a lot of prediction and reading your
opponent and I think Henry said it really well backstage. He says some players play the team
and some players play the player. And we'll have to see what these players want to do.
A come to know is someone that we haven't seen so often before this tournament play
but I think a lot of people will be recognizing and remembering his name after this doing
so well. This was the first year that more players from Japan got to compete in
the World Championships and at the beginning of this day, number two, there were eight trainers
from that region showing absolute dominance, still two left.
We are almost locked in, everybody.
PVP David already selecting his trio, Contano rubs the hands together and locks in as well.
Let's jump right into it.
Loser's round six.
Let's hear it for our PVP David fans and Contano fans in the stands.
As we get ready to hop into the battles here, we have a tinkertun against a quad
at the very beginning of the game,
David actually often bought an 88 water team.
So, maybe do a little bit of spam,
trying to find specific targets,
and now it's definitely going to out-haste that Tinkerton
and fill this first octotail.
Finding the charge stack priority there was finding a needle.
It was like finding a needle and a hay stack.
What an odd tie for both of these players to throw
with that Tinkerton hammer,
although it's not going to be super effective,
it is going to deal a lot of damage to that Glagsire.
This is the problem with the Tuka Ton.
Even though it's not very effective, it still does so much damage as a super effective play rough.
Can you imagine how much damage it does to something that is weak to the Gigaton Hammer?
Wow, great swap out by Contanello sending out his Poly Toad to absorb this Aqua Tail for the Klaxseid.
Definitely going to catch some resistive damage here and maybe get ahead on energy, but a counter swap into a zoomerall.
to a zoomerall. This is the best answer to that auto and you see Contano not
in a set recognizing okay this is going to be a bit of a problem as neither one
of the target attacks nor the fast attack does that much damage to the
zoomerall. The only thing Contano has really going from in this part of the
matchup is maybe wearing down that switch timer because the zoomerall
paces so slowly to its attacks. I think a lot of trainers focus on the
big sweeping super effective attacks the one-hit knockouts and that
kind of thing, but if you're patient, if you pace yourself and you deal neutral damage
or even resistive damage long enough, eventually you will wear down your opponent.
Polytoe is not dealing a lot of damage, but it's running circles in terms of pacing around
this zoom roll.
And now you look at that, so much energy, think of one away from two leather balls.
This Tinkerton swapping back in, both switch timers are up.
PPP David letting this go through, knowing it's not quite enough to knock out and
continuing back to that quacksire hoping to outpace or at least farm down give him a pair of boots and a plow this quacks are as a farmer
It looks tough from a type of perspective for Contono because he does have the shadow twice for which does not want to take any damage from the opposing quacksire
So his poly toad needs to help his buddy out and take down this quacksire for him
I don't doubt that the PPP David wanted to use a shield here not because the quacks are it does so well against that
but because he's got so much energy here going two shields down in this match if
you see him shaking his head no saying all that's not really where I wanted to
spend that energy. Contano's now coming out with a shield advantage but down goes
that polylone. Exactly there might be a gap in the armor here that Contano can
exploit. Suddenly he's up one protect shield to zero and he's got a matchup
where he can deal a ton of damage with this shadow glide score. Weatherball
fire coming through here. No protection. Hold on to that for the final moment.
Stolen ahead and just continuing to farm up a little bit of energy.
Sand-tube acrobatics going for the heavier-hitting acrobatics because there's no protection of
swipe and all the bubbles getting that fire typing out of there.
Contano just saluted that nine tails as he KO'd it with acrobatics. Pure aura on the stage here
and now he's going to outpace the Clagsire. And this Shadow Flower score might just sweep.
PPB David in game one.
This is getting very close.
PPB David came back in.
He wanted that Gliscor to expel some energy
because Azumarul is in, but there's just not a lot of help.
But he's got to go for a complete bumble down.
And he's not able to do so before that Gliscor takes out
the team.
Ring attack, Acrobat, shallow Gliscor,
claiming that battle number one for Contono.
Very impressive.
And the guy got to be honest with me.
And looking at the teams of three
when they first appeared, I thought Contono
Was that a huge disadvantage?
I mean, I tell you what, this player has made it so far for a reason.
These picks might seem a little unique,
but in the hands of a trainer like him, they seem perfect for this meta.
Even getting a polygote stuck on an Azuma, not that bad of a thing.
He came out of that matchup with so much energy.
Exactly.
Patience pays off.
We saw that time and time again throughout this matchup.
Even when it looks pretty dire, Contano wasn't focused on what was going wrong.
He said, how can I make this matchup go right?
How can I gain leverage and gain an advantage and build some distance between myself and
PvP David, and over time, he was able to accomplish that.
Even though PvP David have a very dominating point of the matchup,
he's able to knock out the voids of that quality to be able to get both of those shields off of PvP David's side.
But we're going to hop right into game number two.
keeping me day, but can he do it?
Can he pull back and what we call a reverse sweep?
Contono just needs one more battle
to be able to continue on to the loser semifinals.
Probably gonna shield this one up here.
Foul play with the O'Clyde,
but it damaged the shadow of Glycegaard.
It was his MVP in game number one,
but Contono choosing a different route here
in game number two,
builds to the acrobatics,
throws the sand tomb and gets the shields.
We've seen sand tomb on Fortress
and now on Glycegaard.
It is an automatic debuff of the opponent's HP there.
And look, it's still able to make another foul play.
But at what cost?
It's such a small help left on that guy.
Sorry, guys, just claps his little claws and says, no problem.
Well, the problem here now is that Constanon
has to farm down this ball of art somehow,
get rid of it before it beats any more havoc on his team.
It's already killed his first Pokemon
and taken about 15% of his poly toad.
Where the ball's not enough either,
Peter P. David is confident.
Well, keep in mind that as now
had its defenses dropped a little bit.
So while that wasn't quiet enough,
it's getting pretty close.
Does Contano want to end up using his protection?
Here's his Malamar is putting in a ton of work.
Absolutely he does.
Down was the Malamar, but it definitely did its job.
And the zoomer comes in to just start cleaning up
all of this water or ice.
Yeah, such a clutch foul play there.
I think that's going to be crucial when we look back
at this game number two, weather ball from the polytope.
Polytope put in work last game,
But it's got a long road to travel against this healthy Azumaroll.
And it's to take a peek at the back line.
Is that Licky Licky versus the Clagsire?
Doesn't really give either trainer a typing advantage.
Even though the PvP David had to use that foul point
on a very low helpless board, at the same point
it put him in a really good position
to line up the Azumaroll against that collar dope.
As they both give it out now to keep that match up for later,
Clagsire coming in against that Licky Licky.
Boom for the heavy hitting Stone Edge right away.
Stone edge connecting into the licky-licky.
Stone edge plus Aqua tail is not quite enough.
You two stone edges or a stone edge
and two Aqua tails in this matchup
gonna fire up the shadow ball in kind.
And this is one of the benefits
of running regular quacksire.
You need every single bit of the two shadow balls.
Pick up the knockout here.
You can take it says PvP David.
That's why I'm running the regular version.
Those rollouts aren't doing too much at all
relying solely on the charge attacks.
Still surviving in the red to be able to
now through all his own heavy hitting attack.
This is also a thing with the French,
could it be a bait or is this the real thing?
This is the last protect shield.
Oh, I think the question as well is,
do I try to farm down the quack?
Sorry, no instant pivot out into the zoom roll.
This is a real question.
Can this polychode outpace the zoom roll one more time
and secure a game two victory for Contano?
Well, I'm just keep in mind there was a really quick
link in the miss it moment where that Licky Licky
did not get knocked out.
They both pivoted into this.
So as the switch time goes as you keep throwing these water weather balls,
it still might end up being enough to maybe catch a squab.
I don't know, at this point it's getting pretty dire for a come-to-know.
Pollyton hangs on by the tip of its tongue.
Maybe he had one more water ball, water weather ball out,
and it does against the Azumaroll.
That is valuable chip, but like you said Amanda, that Wiki-Likis around,
but it is so weak.
It's around, but let me tell you now it's going down.
not even able to make it to that bodies then PVP David tying up the series saying I don't want to be counted out so quickly here
I want to be going to those losers semi-finals what goes around comes around that lost a game one for PVP David
He returns it back to Continental in game two
We're headed to decisive game three everybody in losers around six, which means two supremely talented trainers
If anyone's looking for a team that they want to play at their next regional competition
or maybe just cute when they go battle league, snag three of these Pokemon and lock those
in.
Three of our most popular Pokemon are on the teams but it's kind of spread out.
We have that Tinker Turn and that Licky Licky on the side of Konto Noh and we also have
that Night Tales and Licky Licky on the side of Pee Pee David.
This middle matchup got very close but actually going for the Stone Edge are getting that
that licky lick nice and low and getting what he wanted to do with that polytote onto the
zoomer hole is what really helps secure it for PDP David.
There's been so much water, especially on the side of PDP David, and you know what we
haven't seen in a single time?
What?
Charge above.
No charge above action from Kanto-no.
Maybe he feels like it's too obvious to bring that Pokemon to this matchup, but
eventually he's going to need to answer for the zoomer hole.
He got creative and he did it in game one, game two he fell short.
What do these trainers decide to do in the most important games of their careers?
This is a big moment for these trainers.
This is the go big or go home.
Whoever wins this, best of three, continues on in the tournament, but since this is on
the loser side of the bracket, it will be the end of the road for one of the trainers
and their champion dreams will have to be put on hold.
So much on the line, honestly, this is nerve-wracking to watch, but we're heading
to game three.
already locked in already decided and set the course hopefully it's the right one
the Contano is taking just a few more moments making some final adjustments and
trying to figure out what the right read is he's trying to read the waves here
man to read the seas find his North Star figure out how we can win this series
yeah water water everywhere but definitely not a drop to drink I would
like to actually get them off of the field for hopping right into game
Number three decisive game number three. This is the water type Pokemon that Contano is actually hoping to do
Baseball because these weather balls are going to be doing much more damage to that quag side than it would to use the mural
And on top of that the polytodes pacing is way faster than that stone edge to the quag sire and the polytodes going to win that
Charged type party tie when it does occur
So this is definitely where Contano wants to see the quag sire match up
especially with his shadowed Y-score in the back.
Long ahead, not using the first potential very early on,
correctly shielding up the Stonehenge.
In matches like this, it's very hard to bait.
When you know that if the bait fails,
it's not going to do very much damage at all.
Continental actually building up to the ice game
is heavier hitting, but guaranteed the knockout
does PvP David recognize that he does not, as it connects.
And actually, the Black Star goes down.
Holy Toad's still looking mighty healthy,
but a zoom out coming in to sop up all that damage.
Ice, ice, baby. That was a big knockout from Contanel.
I think that's the first ice beam he's throwing all weekend,
and it was a big one.
Water ball, excuse me, I keep saying water ball.
Water weather ball is going to connect into the zero now.
Go on ahead and just make it a splash here.
Waiting a second, making sure this isn't going to be caught
on something where it wouldn't be very effective.
This play rough will connect.
This polytope will go down, but it has done a lot of damage.
Actually, not even going down.
Just now coming in with a gliscore.
And let me tell you, Will, it's not often
that you see a Gliscor coming in to an Azumaroll matchup.
I mean, my doll's on the floor.
I'm not exactly sure what Comptonough is cooking,
but let's let him cook everybody,
sand-tune into the Azumaroll.
Does it park the defense drop?
Yes, it does.
Well, keep in mind, this Azumaroll is not running ice cream,
which is actually the attack that is super effective
and scary to that Gliscor.
Comptonough not even bothering to shield up.
He's got two very low health Pokemon,
but he's able to just go ahead,
get a little bit of extra energy,
And now double debuff, the Zoomerl here,
as PvP David doesn't want to use a shield at this time.
Excellent mechanical awareness for tubing attacks
and the sand tube, getting just a bit more damage.
They don't want to make all the difference,
but out comes the Kanto Ninetales.
And Kanto knows, been used to running circles around
his opponent with pacing.
This Kanto Ninetales though is way too fast.
Licky, Licky does a great job into that Kanto Ninetales
because both of the attacks
are going to really chip away quite quickly.
But PVP David has two shields to hide behind.
And he's using that first one as Contano actually
goes for the heavy hitting shadow ball, the one that
takes more energy and time to get to.
Because that's why he's got that weather ball here,
getting that last shield from PVP David.
Oh my goodness.
And the ember's not enough either.
Polytope putting in so much work for Contano.
He's got a second water weather ball.
He's going to fire that one off.
This is super effective damage.
You can see in his face he says, OK,
I can't miss a moment of this.
I have to play so precise as this Azumaroll comes back
and not even able to take another weatherfall here.
Does the Licky Licky have it or does PvP David?
There's still a shield in play, but he doesn't even need it.
Katsuno taking game three over PvP David
and Japan continues to ascend.
As he crans here, he takes off and somebody shakes
his opponent's hand and he continues on
into those losers semifinals.
Two Japanese players still left in this tournament.
What dominance they are showing here at the World Championships here in San Francisco?
If you would have told me at 6.30 at night on day two of the World Championships
that a Shadow Glide Score Shadow Polytope team would be this deep in the bracket,
I wouldn't have believed you.
Not on my bingo card.
Contano is making us all believers here as PVP David exits the stage.
His tournament run is over, but what an impressive performance it was.
Absolutely.
BPP David is one of those trainers where you don't hear so much from him, but when you see him play, you recognize that this is a trainer to be feared.
This is a trainer with so much skill behind his name. He's done incredible throughout this season. He's a great team builder.
He knows his matchups in and out, but in the end, knocked down to that loser side of the bracket by Emmy Riedel and knocked out by this ice beam and Contono.
That was the ice beam that started the avalanche.
Just after that, a cascade of charge attacks, swaps, and plays
is what elevated Contano above the PPP David there.
What an impressive series of events.
My goodness, that weather ball water,
such an effective charge attack.
Doesn't look that potent in terms of energy cost,
but it hits hard.
Going ahead now, it's saving that shield
for literally a rainy day, and that's exactly
what he needed it for.
PPP David had that energy on the play rough,
almost at a hydropump.
But when there's a shield to hide behind and a Zoomerrill's bubbles are just going so slow,
it wasn't enough quick-paced energy.
Come to know taking it on to that loser's Sunday finals.
What a day it's been.
Again, this is just day two of the World Championships.
We have Championship Sunday tomorrow on the main channel in the Chase Center.
It is going to be absolutely epic, Amanda.
We've covered some pretty insane battles, but there are still more battles to come.
You know who's up next?
Tell me.
Marto Galdes returning to the stage and he is taking on Contano so you don't want to miss it
They say every Pokemon is somebody's favorite. We're testing that on the world championships here in San Francisco
I'm gonna find some players. I'm gonna ask him who that favorite is
Favorite pokemon is new to
Um, I I think I just liked the way he moved, uh, you know his style is kind of sleek and
And I enjoy playing with them.
And actually, when I catch one, I'm happy in the fight.
I think everyone is happy when they catch a Muti.
That is a powerful Pokemon.
My favorite Pokemon is Milotic.
I just think it looks really nice.
And I'm a little bit sad, because when it's printed in
cards, it's usually some kind of walling, defensive
Pokemon.
And that's not my play style.
But I hope the one day I can play with Milotic.
So right now, my favorite is actually Greninja.
I've just loved it in the anime,
loved it since I was maybe like 10 years old it's just a cool ninja Pokemon that's it basically.
Have you ever got to play a Grinninger deck in the TCG?
The mega Grinninger deck yeah but I chose to play
festival this weekend. Drutini, Dragonair and Dragonite grew up on the original 151
and I liked the fact that they swam and then eventually applied in the ice cream too.
How long did it take you to get your Dragonite fully evolved when you first played the game?
Before the Elite Four for sure.
So we're talking about Level 60.
My favorite Pokemon is Juratinum.
I really like the two forms that he has.
And I like it because I played Lostbox and it was a very fun deck.
And the Juratinum was really good on that thing.
My favorite Pokemon is Mega Manectrix.
Because he has a big hair and he has a met face when he got that mega
I'm over the best dance we've heard all day. My favorite Pokemon. He's got to be Rayquaza
I just think the Delta episode is really cool. And I like it's
Dynamic with the oxes
My favorite Pokemon is Metagross and I'm wearing it here today at my first ever world
Why Metagross?
It's just really cool isn't it? It's like powerful, it's smart, it's got a mega, the shiny is really cool
I'm actually using it in champions, which is amazing because in the trading car game
You don't always get to use your favorite Pokemon, but now I get to do that. So yeah, it's always been my favorite
My favorite Pokemon is Speel because I think it's really cute and yeah, I have a whole collection at home
She's all the cards. How big a collection we talking?
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
My favorite Pokemon is Oranguru, and it comes back from a control deck with Bijouro that
was premiered at one of the World Championships, and I continued to play that after and after.
And that was until Sword and Shield, where the new turn 1 rules came out, and then that
deck sort of went off.
My favorite Pokemon is Kairili, it's because I play Unlimited 20 years ago, it's very
good, I choose this.
I started to say Samurai instead of Oshawa, because I realized not enough people appreciate Samurai, because he's on all fours.
I guess that's the whole reason people are like, oh, he's the worst of the line. I don't know.
If you haven't played with Samurai, you haven't played, you haven't gotten into level 100 at least 30 different times.
I think you might be the biggest Samurai player I've ever met, and I say that with nothing but love.
It's actually Zorua.
It is Zorua, so I am cosplained as Eevee
because Eevee Merch is really easy to get a hold of.
Zorua, because I really liked black and white.
It was the era that I grew up playing,
but I really did like the gimmick
of like transforming into a different Pokemon
and switching out and being able
to basically trick your opponent.
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.
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?
There were thousands of players this season competing
to get a chance at the World Championships.
Over 300 competed and we're down to the final four.
It's a 2026 Pokemon World Championships and we have three matches left.
I'm Taylor Bank.
I'm Joe A'Chul and we're here to close out day number two to find our top two players for Championship Sunday.
Over these next 90 minutes, we're going to find out who is going to be in the chase arena tomorrow on Championship Sunday.
We have two trainers from Japan remaining, one trainer from Europe and one trainer from Latin.
First off, we have the Loser Semis,
Marto Gaudet versus Contono.
Contono with the Spice Picks,
the Shadow Glace Score,
and the Shadow Polytoad,
making it all the way to the end.
Of course, against Marto Gaudet,
a five-time champion,
an international champion,
a fifth-place world placement,
and a third place as well.
Can he go from fifth to third?
Now the first here at 2026 Pokemon Goat World.
They're ready on stage, so let's get these losers semi-started.
Let's go.
Contano in his first ever World Championship
has made it into at least a top four finish.
I want to say he's a rookie,
but is at least his first time on the stage,
on the World Stage this week,
against a veteran in March of Galdi.
But Contano has been no changer of creating the upsets.
All tournaments, long.
and has to go through Marcho Valdez to have a chance to make that Lucius final.
And remember to get to this point, he actually had to go through a Dondozo.
And that Dondozo was protected by Claude Zyra.
Claude Zyra, excuse me. Now it's not. So maybe we could see some more charge about.
Yes, of course, there is that Shadow Kanto Ninetales.
And that there is the Ataria on the side of Marto Gowday.
But there is no clear protection for that Dondozo like there was in that first matchup.
but Tontoso once again looks really strong against Contrano's game.
And Contrano actually ran the same exact team in PJCS,
a tournament that qualified him for World Championships last year,
only went three and three, but also brought the polytode.
Probably one of his favorite Pokemon as you see the blush on the desk,
and he's found a way to make it work.
A Pokemon that I don't think anyone else in the tournament
has really decided to even think it was even better relevant.
He might be the only one in the tournament
to have even used the polytode,
But it has shined in so many moments
when other water Pokemon have altered.
And it really has been the story of those water Pokemon, right?
To be able to counter that Shadowcantor Night Tales
just like Dondozo has been doing all tournament long.
Dondozo has been one of the heroes.
It's definitely been the MVP and hero for Marto Gaudi.
Remember that moment where he was faced against Alapras
and he was able to out fast attack Alapras
using a neutral side wave with a resisted waterfall
getting three of them off.
Marto Gaudi could not believe it.
He couldn't believe that he's still in the tournament.
And now he has taken advantage of that opportunity.
He's made it all the way to the Loser semis,
an area that he has been before,
because he has been a third place finisher.
But can he get into that coveted top two?
And Martial Galdes, 20-22, he got fifth place,
one spot away from a trophy in that top four.
Goes into 20-24, his second ever world thing.
You know what? I just won a trophy.
I won one of the trophies.
He gets that third place trophy, but this time around, you know, he's raised it more.
He wants more than just the third place trophy.
He wants more than just the fourth place trophy.
He wants to win it all.
And there's only so few chances that a lot of players have in their career.
So he even gets to this point.
And Martin Gaulley has made three separate top 5s in world changes.
Absolutely incredible consistency on the biggest stage.
No shy, no stranger to distress to the situation where he has to raise
rise himself to the occasion, but Katsuno, the Dark Horse, the big that probably most of you would
need to expect to make it this far. One of many wall buyers from Japan, but he has proven that
he is much different than any other competitor here, and he's running it with the spiky team of
ShadowPolytox, ShadowPolytox. I mean everything I've seen in Spike, pretty much except for the
tickets on the wiki wiki. Well there's not that it just has the spice on this team.
How many times does he have that ShadowPolytox and ShadowPolytox in his team of three? So how
How is Marto Galdi gonna be able to deal with that?
But it looks like we're getting these losers semis started
between Marto Galdi and Contono.
We got the leads.
It is gonna be a shadow save line,
which has that dark subtyping versus the Tinketon.
You don't love that matchup.
So say swap into Dondozo.
No clear answer.
So Contono is just staying in the matchup.
Michael for a championship might take a serve
versus only neutral damage.
Estonso is going to throw the kicker on Hammer.
Resistance damage still hits quite hard.
That's Marcho Galdi respecting and saying, you know what?
Maybe he didn't bring the charge of walking in.
It's not charged like in the back.
He has played into everything.
Cosimo tries to go for the catch, ends up Marcho Galdi
starting being patient.
They're getting through right away.
Doesn't allow Cosimo to just get the free roll out there.
Cosimo now coming in with the ball.
Hey, Lakey, Lakey.
Caleb, did he just get the shield against a Don D'Ozzo?
Yeah.
A gigaton hammer, which is resisted into the water typing.
That is shocking from Marcho Galdi,
because we know Zonzozo is so bulky.
He wanted to keep it healthy enough, I believe.
And there's a slump, and it is a slump on the shadow ball.
That is gonna be double not very effective
for Mordo Gowday as it tickles Licky Licky.
A lot of energy completely wasted.
Even Klotzbel has to give the respect nod
to Marshall Gawday.
What a beautiful gesture from Marshall Gawday.
And yes, it might be a weird shield
to shield the resistance against on Hammer,
but that's how good against on Hammer is.
And we see so many of our rough, competitive shields that resist and move in so many situations.
Now comes the swap.
I don't know if Kondo gets the matches he wants.
Digging the hammer straight, be close enough to go for a KO and drop this first year along the Shadow Ball.
And it looked like he was trying to swap on that body slam, but no dice there.
He's going to be able to get that Shadow Ball, but cut off from the gigs on Hammer.
No, actually Kondo, it's just going to save that energy, endure the Shadow Ball and try to bank some extra energy.
Do you have the swap available?
Here's the swap.
There is no combo play available.
But I believe you can easily waterfall down.
You're gonna be able to take this resisted meteor map.
And does Contono have his switch available?
Switch is not available yet.
This time, those are going to get a lot of value.
Almost at the serve.
Go to it, but the gigaton hammer is reached.
And Marshall probably just for the tank,
two gigatomber, the gigaton hammer
drawing a lot of energy away from the tinketon.
And now, maybe in a farmed down range,
but Contono has the switch available.
Trying to go for the positive.
The only Pokemon he has left,
his signature Pokemon.
Can it do it into the save while in the half help making like a here comes a bike
It is ahead on energy floods the weather ball is coming before the train punch is there before the boosted defense
It's possible. That's my children's garlic side shows
You know what it is
But at this point wants to preserve the health on the statewide and that's so useful for those four fast attack users
That are able to get to a charge that because he was a half a turn ahead
Marzal was because of that swap, but then he came in and cut that off with that
weather ball. Here comes the three punch, which does raise the defense from that
shadow save like he used the first protect shield in order to take less damage on
this weather ball right here. Let's see how much damage it does to remaining health.
The next weather ball we'll be able to knock off. There is one protection
remaining and that one is down for Contono.
And Copsano going to shield us up, trying to preserve his final ball. He
does two separate catch opportunities. He does try to go for one.
There is still the licky licky in the back, but even Margell that catches the weather ball,
it's still a decent solid situation with Compton being, but no, Compton throws it against the save line.
Let's save our handle, handle it. No, does not income the licky licky, but there's no help left
on the remaining Pokemon Constable. And he was trying to swap out to maybe transfer that damage
and keep that weather ball. He was unable to, there are two Pokemon remaining. The energy
drive, he's able to be reached, and it's probably not gonna be enough to knock out Margell,
But it's gonna be so close here.
Bardo needs to knock out both Pokemon.
He's gonna do one more run.
No, he actually already has the double body slam, and that's gonna be enough.
Contrino doesn't have to pull those yet.
Maybe hoping that the body slam is not there for the back to back.
But I think she knows that's what the Goldie gets one more win.
One more win will bring him to his highest finish ever at world top three.
But you know he is hungry for more.
seems like fate is on his side every two years at the world championships he
just gets better and better in 2022 he was fifth in 2024 he was third VR now in
2026 if he continues that trajectory he will be our world champion but of course
he has to get through Contono first and remember he is also on the loser side
of the bracket so he needs to win this next matchup to ensure he gets to
that loser's finals, which will be a best of five series and that would be quite
the storyline if he does make that every other year every you know a true
jump in placement that is just a fantasy almost a fairy tale even that
players can't even dream of but that is the reality that Walter Galday possibly
lives in. He knows how much pressure is on the line but a player
with his team building is not going to go down without a fight.
And remember before he had issues with the Dandozo in game number one and went down,
but then he made his adjustments.
He was able to land his shadow polypone into the Dandozo, bank up energy and close with that Pokemon.
You said it's his signature Pokemon.
I agree with you in this tournament because oftentimes he is closing with that Pokemon.
You have seen it in so many series where he's able to bank extra energy
Or keep that in the back with either an energy advantage or a shield advantage.
Can he use that MVP Pokemon against Marto here?
You even have the Ice Beam that's double super effective against the Altaria.
It's an incredibly safe Pokemon against Marto's team.
So it could be the story of the water types.
In game number one, it was Marto, but in game number two, it could be that Shadow Polytote.
And Marto Galdi, he knows there's a lot on the line as well too.
Well, too, if he loses this game,
momentum has completely stopped and shipped
there over to Consulno.
Can he win this game?
Match point for Maltry Baldey,
and it's going to be the tickets
on into the stable yet again.
And this is not a great matchup,
but he doesn't have the gondoso like he had before.
And instead of safe swapping gondoso,
he safe swaps into a shadow Kanto Ninetales,
but it is met by a Licky Licky,
which is one of the better neutral answers
to that shadow Kanto Ninetales
in almost all of the shield scenarios
that are neutral.
Licky Licky does come out on top.
And you're going to land the first end ball,
meaning that the next one can threaten a knockout.
Good force, Contano in a shield position.
But you see so many Licky Licky players not even shield this,
knowing that so much value is there with energy lead
and shield advantage.
March dolly farming up even more,
doesn't even throw a move before the second shovel.
He's dropping both shields on the Shadow Ninjas,
trying to do everything he can to flip switch advantage.
And he got the extra ember there as well,
because Contano was just trying to get that damage off
before having to use the Protect Shield.
Now, he's just gonna use both of his Protect Shields
in the back line, maybe for his signature Pokemon
in that Shadow Polytote.
Will we see the Shadow Polytote come in?
Yes, it is the Polytote, but there is double energy both
and he's making such a risky thing.
Oh, it's no shield!
It's not on the ball, see?
He instantly no shields and it's not very effective.
The biggest no shield of Contra, no career,
and Mark of Call, they both said that again!
No way!
It's not on the ball, see?
Nerves of steel for Contoto as he lets two fighter attacks through and Marshall was expecting
the protect shields instead he swaps out into the same line.
I don't think he can believe it.
Ice in his veins is Contra though as he lands a weather ball doing half the health off
the same line.
In this release, allows Contra to leave with a weather ball now comes in with a dominant
matchup of Team Dutton.
I'm going to go for a fair winddown.
There's still the matchup in the back and the licks believe that hasn't been shown
yet.
he has to be absolutely devastated as we've seen how strong it is.
And if you let another big bunch go desperate through a lot of damage,
so, Thompson don't want to throw the bulldoze,
he doesn't get nearly as much health remaining,
but he knows Ninjails has energy.
He knows they're still a third ball far in the back,
so you have to do everything you can to keep this Ninjails healthy.
He just didn't want to get that Tickets on low enough to get inbred down,
so that's smart to throw the bulldoze there.
And now giving up a protection to have, no,
you actually can't get back to your switch timer,
so going to throw this bulldoze, there is no swap.
Yes, the last second 12 and a full rollout comes through.
Maybe that is the last pitch effort for Mardo that he needs.
He is behind in this battle.
Can he avoid a debuff?
No, he does get debuffed.
That debuff is huge because this kick is on Heron, Mike,
Brett and a KO.
Marshall Calde doesn't get the body slam off.
Let's see how much he's going to do.
It's going to bring the Richie-Litchie very low on HP.
But it hangs out for a split second and gets the body
him off. Katsuno, again, no shielding, saving the energy for the polytote to clean up and
force a potential game three.
He was maybe expecting to swap there into the polytote. There was no swap and now the polytote
does have energy. There is no potential remaining for Marto and Katsuno is able to tie up this
series.
Locked into this game. Katsuno down a point, one game away from remission and no
two potential energy balls on the poly-tilt, the confidence,
the guts, that's what it takes to make it into the top four of worlds.
And that's what's gonna need to take to make it to Chase Center on Champion Sunday
plays like that because if those were energy balls,
he could be eliminated right now.
Cossin O, giving a little stretch, knowing that this could be his final game
of the tournament, but he's not acting like it.
He's saying, you know what, I got more in the tank,
I'm ready for that.
Lucius Finals, I'm ready for the Upsets.
The Martial Call Day, he's been in so many illumination
matches in his career.
He is not face-diving.
Well, the story of this series so far
has been the safe swap Pokemon.
In game number one, Dantosu was so effective as that safe swap.
Game number two, Shadow Kento Naito was the safe swap,
but he gave up both of the protect shields
against the opposing Licky Licky.
And with that Shadow Palatone in the back
and also calling all the bates as you can see right
Here it just wasn't enough he didn't get as much value in that game number two with that safe walk with that bold strategy
Is he would have hoped for so does he make it a drunken now it works in game number one the safe swap
It didn't work in game number two now
Does he go back to don't know though or maybe he's gonna try to catch his first lead and constant. Oh, wow
We are thinking about this right and mark of all day. He had two chances land at energy ball two chances
to go straight into a top three.
And part of it is gotta sit with you.
It might mess with you as well as you know you are just two buttons away from making it.
But the guts from Contano to prevent that from happening can keep a man awake at night.
Marshall Galway doesn't wanna make that mistake again for this third and final game.
Let me hear it.
Both is going to be the final match between Marshall Galway and Contano.
And here comes the shiny pay goal.
It is dark type on dark type here one has a fighting sub type the other has a both sub type
So this is kind of a neutral matchup
But you will take super effective damage from this drain punch here here comes the night slash in to this shadow save
Why I don't expect the protection actually gas protects you early on showing that maybe he's gonna try to invest
Into this shadow save a lot and gets the drain control this super effective damage
But you can't really shadow fall down absolute
They be scared that it's going to be a close combat dip.
But instead that's not the case.
Shadowclaws are trying to add up.
And Thompson on building up to a close combat.
Muck Galick does not expend two shields.
Wait, throws up really weird time.
Inexpect Thompson to throw a wide away.
And now Muck Galick calls a tough position.
Going to have to let this move go without having
spent two shields right on the back.
From bad to worse here, this is not very effective.
You can't hang on.
But it was charge attack priority, as you mentioned.
At least the save-alike is boosted up.
It has plus two on its defense right now.
Because of those two drain punches,
Here comes the Licky Licky. At least you are going to get to a foul play.
You probably want to throw the foul play. That's a smart play for Mardo Galei,
knowing that one foul play does more damage than a drain punch,
even though the drain punch is super effective.
And boosting defense at this point doesn't look too much as you're close in on K-O range
no matter what's at this health.
It comes to the formula as much as possible.
Gets the catch on the nose and gets the waterfall through as well.
A good solid position for most of all the S.
He can still save the save on Marquette and maybe a play later.
But he bates out polytones. That was the strategy right there.
He knew he had to pivot eventually to bait out that shadow polytones.
He is down a protect shield.
Here comes the outrage into two protect shields.
It's the shields.
Contraville making all the shield decisions correctly in this matchup.
But Montagalli, he resists all this entry.
Not out of it yet.
Belinda outrage could have been massive.
And if he can get that second protect shield and get this polytones in range of energy ball,
He can close it out with that shadow came tonight.
So remember he does have that third Pokemon for a sacrificial swap available as well in that shadow save light
It's not very effective
It will take two weather balls at least from this range to take out this
Gondo so you do have the switch available doesn't try to make it to the same like no
It is right before the outrage there is the perfect timing and actually he protects you on this weather ball to try to hit
The outrage but Contono could switch into his link. Look. He's there
He's got a huge blade from Marshall Galvin, banking the energy for Vader and Cosmo trying
to make the comp way.
Not going to get it yet.
He's still shield though on Cosmo's side.
It's kind of tough.
However, any damage from Licky Licky is fairly inconsequential because the weather ball
is what you really need to watch out for.
And here comes the shadow ball, Marshall Galvin.
He's not feeling this one.
He doesn't think he's in a good position, but he can still overrun with Patrick
and get energy for the Pogno for later.
remember he does have that attack bank in the back and there is a protection
remaining that was on charge attack priority. The problem for Marto on throwing charge attack
priority is it means if you protect shielded Contono you're gonna be able
to register this attack and knock out the night sails and there's no way
Don Dozo can knock out both Pokemon. It just doesn't have the reach. And do you believe in the underdog stories?
Champions can fall in what they can win.
How much energy does Polito have?
What if he gets to a surf?
Can surf be enough?
Does Polito have enough energy?
How much energy is left on the Polito?
What is it?
Oh, much job of doing.
Cosimo coming back down one, takes the two-one victory
over Marshall Galdi to find a top three finish
in his first ever world championship.
The real first sweep, just as he did earlier on
in the tournament, he went down to Don Sozo in game number one, but then battled back
to come up on top and now he is advancing to the Loser's finals.
He is top three here at 2026 Pokemon Go World, but I believe there is something going on.
I don't know if Marto is trying to point out something to the judging staff that might
have occurred in that decisive game number three.
I believe the request is there was a one-turn lag when he came in with nine tails
So that could be crucial right because I think he had back-to-back leather ball
So Cosno did shield not allowing him to throw both of them right because he was behind a term because of that
We'll take a look and it was a judge will take a look and make official ruling on that
But either way what a close back and forth and what a series between these two and because it's so close
I completely understand trying to go to the judging staff here because I saw that moment of frustration from
on Marto as well.
It was when that Licky Licky was able to get
to that Shadow Ball energy a little bit before,
then Marto thought it would be possible
if he didn't come in a turn late.
And then we do know that Marto did throw on Charge Attack
priority as well into that Licky Licky.
Maybe he could have had another Charge Attack
in the back there.
It was just so close in the end game.
Literally just one turn away from the surf as well.
So it was a game of inches.
We're going to see exactly what happened.
the infraction was, but what a series so far.
What a series.
And again, that game too was absolutely wild.
The no shield calls from Consonial.
Yes, he had two shields remaining,
but two shielding done could not sweep
the entire remaining three Pokemon.
Oh, come on, some Galdi, but he just called it.
All right, let's take a look right here.
So at the point at which he might have lost a turn,
solid order C on the slow motion.
I'm gonna have to use a little assistance from you.
Let me put on my glasses.
Hold on one second.
Professor Bottas is in town.
All right, let's see here.
Yeah, I think at record speed, it's actually
a little bit easier to see.
And it's a little bit hard to see actually here.
But all right, in comes the nine tails.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
That's the moment of frustration for Mornzel there.
That's for sure.
Two, three, four, five, six.
I put on my glasses.
Yes, yes.
What is your, what's the information
that you deduce from this replay?
You know, I was spending too much time
counting the nine tails.
Can we run it one more time
so I can now flip to counting the licky-licky?
Run it one back one more time.
All right, so now let's get out the licky licky how many rollouts does the licky licky get off
All right, so the licky licky gets one
two
Three
Four right
Or did I did I double count you got the slow motion? No, it was okay. I mean Contro ends up throwing up bad time
Right, like that's essentially what happens. Okay, so ember comes through
I I mean I'm not a judge yes, yes, and obviously no one at home is either well, actually maybe some of you are home
But yeah, but I mean this ember ends up sneaking through which is correct because he threw on bad timing right to get the
Yeah, but shouldn't you sneak through and get your seventh?
Because four times three four rollouts. Yes at a three turn fast attack four times three is 12
Yes, plus one for the charge that exactly and then on the other side
there is a two turn fast attack which is Ember time six which is also 12 so he
should have been sure got he should have been at his 12th you're right the same
time as the licky licky's 12th and then when you throw at the same timing a
fast attack goes through which would give him his 7th so maybe that is
exactly what's happening there he got six embers where he should have got
seven all right put a glasses away now all right all right
and Gastic Math there from Professor 2O Butters.
As we see the judges are explaining the situation,
we'll keep you all updated on this.
I mean, most importantly too,
doesn't make a difference in the outcome.
It's the most important question,
even if there were any lost turns.
That was a really close one,
so potentially that could be the case,
but we will all keep you updated.
All right, well, I wouldn't be too upset
if we saw another one of these.
It has been absolutely epic.
I actually wanna go back to that moment
that you're talking about a little bit earlier
on those no shields,
because I don't hate the play from Mardo
because I believe a shadow polytode
is a pretty bulky Pokemon.
It could take one energy ball.
So you need to throw two charge attacks
to duck it out anyway.
So you might as well go for the bait on the weather ball
because you're gonna also need to have to land
an energy ball.
And then once he didn't shield it,
you're thinking, okay, there's no way
he doubled those shields
because he's in energy ball range now.
But then he did it.
So I don't blame the play from Mardo.
I think that is a pretty reasonable action.
It's just crazy that Contono called it.
Yeah, I mean, and also like,
I think that's a great bait too, right?
Your opponent's got two shields.
Yeah, it's a great bait.
And even if you're right, it might not one-shot KO,
but it's not, you know, it's not a mudboy,
it's not water-ground, it's not double-weak to it,
but it's still a shadow water type,
and it's still going to do a lot of damage,
and that's a lot of damage mitigated
if the no shields came through.
As it looks like the judges are explaining things
to the players, we'll keep you all updated
on the final result here,
It looks like players are still discussing a little bit, but yeah, what a series so far
What a what a torment run from bull players?
And I don't want to understate how much is on the line here
Right in terms of prizing also in terms of having the opportunity to move on to the losers finals
And then potentially to the grand finals to be able to participate in the finals at the center
Yes, and
Eventually could be the world champions still because we have seen multiple times the world champion come in on that loser side
the bracket reverse we got low replay here reset the bracket and then able to win it all so yes we
are going back to see what exactly happened here I mean they're looking it over because there are
so much optionality in a Pokemon go in game that any little difference in energy generation
can change so many things and you really have to try to theoretically think of
what could be those alternate scenarios there's multiple Pokemon around there's
There's multiple energy pools around.
There's different health amounts.
It is really complicated.
That's why it's so hard to play at this top level,
because you have to react and think
about all the possibilities in split seconds.
Definitely.
And we counted it.
Well, I counted again.
And that was indeed 6th Ember, just like you said earlier.
And 12 should have been the 7th Ember,
especially when Contino decided to throw that shot of ball.
And I think the most important thing is does it make a difference.
and we have the head judge on the floor as well,
just make sure everything's going correctly.
I mean, this is one of the closest matches,
one of the most important matches as well.
I mean, every match is more, but on this level,
there's so much at stake here.
We want to make sure every call is done correctly.
All right, well, remember, they are tied one-to-one.
That was the decisive game number three.
So whoever does win that, which of course,
the only possibility is it's either Contono winning
the game or there's a rematch.
So it's either going to be Contono moving on to the Losers finals or they will rematch that decisive game number three.
I mean, we we've said it so many times about what's on the line here, but I just want to go back to their journey.
Once again, we focused a lot on Mato Gaudi, of course, having when the year ends in an even number.
He is dominant at the World Championships, but I just want to give out a shout out to Contono, getting this far in potentially even third place
with an insane team composition of a Shadow Guy score,
a Shadow Polytoad, a Charger Bug, and a Shiny Pangoro.
That is no small feat.
Even in a widespread meta like we have at Pokemon Go Worlds,
to do this at the top level against the best trainers in the world
is absolutely incredible.
All right. Well, we'll have an update for you all very, very soon.
And like you said, what a performance.
Really from both trainers as well, right?
like Martin Galdi one of the best players in the world.
But even the best players in the world can be beaten.
And we've seen that in so many of these,
so many matches throughout this week.
And Martin Galdi has really stood above the other players,
the other previous champions,
the other international champions
to make it three separate times into the top five.
I, there is no player that's ever done that before.
There really isn't.
I was gonna say there might be,
but I just thought of there really isn't.
And in five years, make top five at Worlds,
three out of the five of them is absolutely wild.
And he didn't even play in the second Worlds.
So that's three out of the four Worlds he went to.
He's got a top five, absolutely wild.
And he didn't even have a team before this,
until the day before he's had to copy someone else's team.
And I'm genuinely not trying to pat myself
on the back here by picking Mardo,
or my most likely trainer, to make day number two.
But there are those trainers that live up to the moment.
In Mardos, one of them, three out of four world championships
with dominant performances.
Abyssalboy's on that list.
I know he got eliminated on the loser's side,
but what a run he had against the top 300 trainers
on the planet, and he is the reigning champion,
and then the year before he got fourth place.
So that is just ridiculous.
I'll actually even give a shout out
to a trainer that's not at this year's world,
but Lurgen Rocket is actually one of those trainers
in my books too.
He always performs well in the world championships.
That's right.
And I mean, yeah, in this way, again, our reigning world champion
obviously won't be the world champion this year,
but three years straight only, he's already gone to three worlds,
made top cut in all three, made day two.
And again, top four finishers and two of them,
obviously one of them being his world championship title
is absolutely huge.
And Mark Tocall, they definitely in the conversation
of one of the greatest players of all time in our circuit.
And that just adds even more emphasis
on how impressive a run Contano is to be go toe to toe
against someone that impressive in his first ever world
championship.
It is truly incredible.
And also shout out to the Japan region as well.
Had eight trainers coming into day number two out of 32,
and now out of the top four, there are two standing.
So 50% left are from that region of Japan
and still with the opportunity
to have a Japan versus Japan grand finals tomorrow.
That is all a possibility.
And that would be absolutely wild.
before this even the I think the highest finishing player from Japan ever was
Preston Angels back in 2022 and now both Consonno and Hiromaru have done that
have the clips that you did right and and one of them will definitely clips
well no actually I shouldn't say that that's actually not true right that
might not be the case but they both have well one of them at least has tied
that right and Consonno might be able to tie that as well or go even further
Alright, well we're still waiting to find out what the decision is but I just saw
Marto get up and shake hands with Contono so that likely means that our
winner and Contono just joined the top three at Pokemon Go Worlds.
Alright and the final conclusion there is it was inconclusive the one
losing that one tray was inconclusive to the end game so the
can still finish off the night just I think even if the term was also we saw
there too right so again that's a really important factor even though the turn
sauce doesn't impact the end game and we had the drugs review the bridge
extensively and that was a conclusion so a great matchup and a great run from
Walter Goldie one of the greatest another top five finish at World
Championships but it's all about Casano and his first ever World Championships
as he has clawed in that top three finish,
which means that at least one of these remaining Japanese players
will eclipse Crescent Angels' run back in 2022
and get at least a top two,
maybe even becoming the next world champion.
And Contono does advance. Congratulations.
One of the spiciest teams ever to advance this far
in a Pokemon Go World Championships.
He is making history as we celebrate history.
30 years of Pokemon 10 years of Pokemon go and now in our fifth Pokemon co-world
championships it is just absolutely incredible what he is doing to be able to
bring this team to that level and I want to shout out Marto once again he is
always making trophy moves at the world championships and he did it once again
and he locked in another world trophy.
What an impressive beat from Martel Galte.
And you know what, these battles have been incredible butters.
Best of threes are greats,
but you know what's better than a best of three?
Best of five, that's what we have the rest of the way.
Yes, we have a best of five for the winner's finals
and then we'll have a best of five for the loser's finals.
So we have hero Maru in the finals,
winner's finals against M.E. Guido,
Emmy Weedle going for his second ever World Championship title.
The first in the planet you ever possibly achieve that if possible.
But here tomorrow, also in his first ever World Championship,
looking to pave his own legacy.
And of course, Contano, waiting in the wings,
waiting to lose the finals with the Shadow Polychode,
with the Shadow Clyde score.
You know, he's not scared and he's gonna be watching this.
We're just trying to see any strategy to get picked up
as he awaits to see who he's gonna face off.
And Emmy Weedle is one of those rare selective few
in Pokemon Go Championship series that has that trifecta,
has a world championships,
has an international championship
and has a regional championship as well.
And he's on a similar every two year trajectory
that Marto Gaude was on
because he was the world champion
in the seniors division in 2022.
Then he was the European international champion in 2024.
Now, 2026, he has the chance to become a two-time Pokemon Go
world champion.
That's right.
He also had a regional win in 2023.
So very impressive run, especially once the senior division
was essentially a day combined in.
He still won a regional right away in the master division.
And you said small company, right?
To have a regional title, international title,
and world title.
There's only one other person in the world that has that.
And that is his accident, our former world champion
from Yokohama and also a two-time international champion
and Emmy Weidle trying to pave his way
to becoming the first ever double world champion title.
But Hiromaru, our fans has declared so well
throughout this tournament, even besting Beelzeboy
to start things off, the reigning world champion
in the first match of his day.
And here tomorrow, again, just like Contano,
first ever World Championship,
it has already made it into a guaranteed top three.
And we mentioned it before,
but there was an increase in the amount of trainers
that could qualify for the World Championships
from the Japan region,
and also some other APAC regions as well.
But I'm so glad that that happened,
because without that,
maybe we wouldn't have this moment.
A top three with two trainers from that Japan region,
I feel like this was one of the most feared regions
coming into the tournament because they did have the most amount of trainers from
APAC region and I was doing that unofficial questionnaire and asking
some trainers many of them mentioned that it's really hard to know what is
coming out of the Japan region because you don't have as many statistics you
don't have that data of what they're using and what they're bringing they're
playing in a whole different atmosphere and what they're bringing to the
Pokemon Go World Championships is legit. And we know a lot about any
but let me give you the limited information we know about Hiromaru.
He has attended BJCS, which is the final tournament of Japan every year to get your qualification.
And for the last three years, last year, he came in 17th place, the top 16 making the Worlds.
He was the 17th player, one spot away from making World Championships.
And the year before that, he came in 41st.
So last year was as close as he's got.
This year he makes it onto the world stage and we're ready to see right now what he can
do if he makes it to this final stage.
What a performance, what a run, what a year for here tomorrow.
Well we buried the lead a little bit because whoever wins this winners finals punches their
ticket to championships Sunday on the winners side of the bracket tomorrow at Chase Center.
He was one win away from qualifying in previous competitions.
Now, he is only one series victory away from coming in the best position possible, going
into those grand finals in another trainer with some more spice.
He has the shadow hip hop on.
He has the jealous it and he has the last remaining, his sueyan electrode.
His sueyan electrode is looking very safe and neutral versus all of him in Wiedel's
team besides that pesky shadow cantonine tails.
That's why you have the hip hop on and that is why you also have the jealous it and you have the lick-a-lick as well a mere matchup
There's a lot of answers to the cancel night this we see emi Rito play a two perfection in this tournament
But he hasn't seen a shadow hip hop on yet, but here we go the winners finals we can hear more
Of course emi Rito, it's gonna be a fantastic lead for her tomorrow
It is is going to be that electro the grass side in comes the cancel night there's but here comes the shadow hip hop
down. And it is that trio right there with the Hissui intellectual. The shadow
about on in the jealousy in the back and he actually does use a protect shield on
that weather ball because if it was a super effective energy ball that would
do a lot of damage into a shadow hip out on. So you have to respect it and you
get a protect shield back and it wasn't the earth power. So he used less
energy here. Let's take a look at the pacing. He will be out case though to
the next energy ball. Let's see if you're most going to shield us up or
Ground rock coverage has perfect coverage and nothing is going to resist all
the way on the side of any video shields the harder-hitting and well gets a deep
off easy and you're getting a little excited here as look at the sand attack
there's almost putting the cancel night goes into the red he's going for he's
going to try to get to the actual maybe getting a weather ball off with a
deep off might be huge can he get to it and he is going to throw the
weather ball is enough to pay all the shadow about on it's going to be so
close here it is going to be neutral but remember the defense did drop it
So does the hip-hound on and now you have an awkward situation because I don't think you can hex down before an energy ball is reached
You have to kid do you try to go for a swap does he try to swap it to be like
A beautiful swap dog here Maru and now and we read oh is in a slightly weird position because does he want to come in?
To a lecture with energy with his waxer no, but now he has a league you make it which what's the answer to the
Well, he's getting so close to the shadow ball range.
This is so risky here because a shadow ball landing at this
house is incredibly close than knocking out a Hissui and
Electro.
He didn't want to go for the wild charge.
He didn't want to drop his defense by two stages.
Instead, he went for the energy ball.
There's a swap!
On a wild charge!
What plays the bump of these trainers in the winner's
titles?
Emileo catching the resistant wild charge.
She's excited about that one.
But, Yermou can still catch the energy ball.
I mean, we are not going to let it happen.
Throws the neutral, muh-bump, and this is huge.
Look at this. He is bumped up as he's trying to get his first win right off the bat in the set.
What a beautiful play.
I believe you need a pause, even, to get that catch off.
Well, what a risky play.
If he was wrong and it was that energy ball, it would have been a one-hit knockout.
But instead, this Quagsire is around to take the serve.
The serve doesn't quite knock out.
Can you get to another charge attack?
And yes, you do get to one parting Aqua Tail.
That would do a little bit of chip damage.
into the jealousy now it's gonna come down to the back line matchup we do have
the jealousy versus the licky licky but is now
this jealousy in range of one shadow ball it's gonna be so close but i think
jealousy might be able to hang on the aqua tail was crucial it puts it in
potential range shorter than shadow ball but now i end up can't get there
with the body sam though and emi rideau he's right giving the fist bump he
knows that this will be enough what an amazing
guess from Emi Rideau, recognizing every win condition possible to pull up such a disastrous
lead.
We see the brilliant swap from Hero Maru to take that resisted energy ball from the
shadow Kanto Naito into the Haseulian Electrode.
The previous world champion says, I can do that too.
Instead of getting one hit knocked out, I will take a resisted wild charge and win
game number one.
And remember we said it before, this is a best of five.
So either one of these traders needs to get three game victories on the board to move on
the championship Sunday.
And it might be a best of five, but a win in game number two for Enri Guido will play
here tomorrow in such a bad position.
Four seasons ago for a reverse sweep, three in a row against one of the best players in
the world.
As you see, the amazing test from here tomorrow.
But what you can do, I can do better is what Enri Guido says as the Enri
ball lands, does he go for the push? He pauses there, expecting the optimized timing from Hero
Moral, and what a brilliant catch from him to secure the victory.
Usually when you are using a pre-turned fast attack, a trainer will use their two-turned
fast attack and throw their charge attack right before the damage registers from
your fast attack. I know that's a mouthful, but that is the standard in Pokemon Go
P.V.T. M.E. Weedle was able to pause for those two turns, let the thundershocks through,
and then swap, call out that it's going to be a wild charge and take game number one.
And now we're locked into game number two, and it's Hiromoru who calls the lead with his shadow
Ibana. It's the same team of three for both of these trainers. And M.E. Weedle trying to
figure out how to play this one out as rock weather ball is going to come through, going to
to have to shield us up. It is the less effective movement earth power play. If you land the rock
weather ball, it's where you're going to do so much damage that you can potentially just pass that
down. Goes for the bait yet again. Mr. Murl called us and he knows losing this game could put him in
such a bad position. Does he expect it? He throws on the shield on the last second and then
indeed it's just the weather ball baits and now trying to reach for it. Does he try to go
over and throws the rock weather ball yet again before? I mean we don't go to the next move.
And it's so hard because you really don't want to swap out of this matchup because you don't
You don't want to take a super effective weather ball on your electrode, and you don't want to take that energy ball onto your jealousy.
Here comes the weather ball. I don't think this one's going to be able to knock out because there was no debuff from the energy ball.
And it is no shielding by Hiromaru. And now suddenly you can get to that weather ball yourself, but you get cut off in the same situation where you're going to have a hard time farming down with your jealousy.
So maybe he's going to try to make the same thought, but this time he has the protection advantage.
It's the same three Pokemon, but in a slightly different order.
And more importantly, yes, you lose the Switcher Man,
right here tomorrow, but if you don't let this go,
he lets it go, he expects it.
Licky Licky, what a great call,
because now the Quack Center has no way to go
into his back line.
You come in, Electrode, he has to come in,
the Licky Licky to neutralize the grass type Pokemon.
And that gives the Jelts down a lot more play in the back.
And here comes the Licky Licky,
Emmi Rideau, doesn't have anywhere to go,
just wants to try to take out this Electrode
as much as possible.
But now the quacks are, I should put that play
into the gel so I would say in this help range.
Well the thing is, you have to get through
this licky-licky, you have that protect shield advantage.
Luckily, double energy ball can do it.
You don't wanna debuff yourself with that wild charge.
To drop your defense by two stages.
And here comes the body slam bait.
And it is effectively protected by Tiro Maru.
And now there's the swap.
He tried to do it once again,
but he knows it's over now.
Because now he can just throw a charge attack priority
into that mudbump, wanting to knock out
and bake the charge attack in the back,
which is a wild charge.
It's gonna be back to back charge attack
and back to back knockouts for this Hesilion Electro
as Hero Maru was able to tie up the series.
And this is an Electro,
but Lightning does not strike twice
as Emileo tries to catch the resistance to wild charge,
but Hero Maru's not gonna ballboard again,
evens up the series one to one.
Now we have a best of three on our hands.
This is what best of five is all about the little micro adjustments.
We saw the same team of three from both of those trainers in game number one and
game number two in different orders.
But Hiromaro was able to get another protect shield for that back line use that same
electrode.
But instead of getting swapped on, he was patient, had the protect shield and
closed it out when we got a tied series.
Wow.
What a series we have between our two players.
And Hiromaro, he's here for a reason.
He might be facing off against a multi-title champion,
a former world champion,
but he came here to play, and play he certainly is.
And you're gonna see that team of three,
I think from here on, a lot of times.
I'm actually more curious if M.E. Beatles
reaches something up,
because you do have some flexibility
with some neutral picks.
I'm looking at you, Galarian Corsula.
You have some opportunity to come into this battle
and maybe soak up some energy
and go for some key farm downs
with a fast attack as well.
I don't see a reason for Hero Mario to switch it up,
but Amy Rideau has now seen the same look twice.
Does he double think what he's gonna be bringing
into this battle?
I think he might adjust a little bit.
Let's see how they're gonna make the adjustments here.
A win here is crucial as that puts them on match points.
Amy Rideau feeling poised.
He knows that the electrode is still a pain from him,
forcing him to bring that nine-times
and so we match ups, but that just makes your Mars match up
a little bit easier, bring that hip out on in so many matches,
bring the jealous in enough to take the edge ball
in some of these match ups.
And I think there might be a chance both players
like in the same three Pokemon yet again on both sides.
And remember, this is the best of five.
So the winner will not advance.
The winner will just have a two next to their name
and have that advantage.
This is the jealous it versus the shadow packs.
All right, it is the same team of three from hero
and it's the same team of three once again for M.E.Weedle.
Let's see, M.E.Weedle.
The Clagsar is not amazing into Jelsson,
but it's still a decently neutral matchup,
especially the Mup Bomb being able to do some effective damage
a little bit better and more consistent than the Stolen Edge, I would say.
And here comes the catch, gets the roll up through,
but it's still the right move, so it's not too bad.
Good have been a shadow ball, but here Malt throws the neutral serve,
and now we get the Licky Licky out of the way,
and here comes the Houdon.
and the half-hound on is baited out.
That is maybe what Emmy Weedon was looking for.
He was trying to bait out that hip-hound on
so he could have that Shadow Kanto Ninetales
for the backline of the Hissuin Electrode.
He did effectively do that,
so I don't know if Hero Moro Maru
just fell into the trap of Emmy Weedon,
but I think it is a slight advantage
that you now have that Shadow Kanto Ninetales
for the backline.
Yeah, this is a really great payoff from Emmy Weedon.
How do you deal with the Shadow Ninetales?
It is the story of worlds.
It is the story of this tournament
and it may be the story of Emmy Rito's historic run
to go back to the grand finals after four years
and try to become a repeat world champion
for most of the earth power.
Emmy Rito might just not feel this.
He knows that the Nineteals are so strong
and he doesn't drawing all this energy away
and now comes the Nineteals.
One, three, can he do it?
As the Emberos are adding up
but the sand's actually showing so much damage
on top of it.
Possibly the strongest Pokemon in the current open great league meta has an opportunity
To full sweep the back line of hero Marvel
But first it's gonna have to land an energy ball it gets protection
I believe a search is already available
But the key thing is as soon as this nine tails gets in range of a wild charge that is also risky
Here comes the last protection of the battle, but how much can you over form here?
I know that electro doesn't get knocked out by one single weather ball. That's absolutely right
Maybe go and go for the charge attack priority though goes right before the serve is reached
It's about as much energy as he can possibly get against the gel sit here amongst
Not to catch with them trust also keep that in mind as this is going to be two-turn two-turn and we read
Oh great on the pause mechanic tried put potentially go for that pause
But let's see if you're most going to go for now because a failed pause could also give any little all the energy
He needs to close this out.
It all comes down to this.
Can electrode endure to reach a wild charge?
It's super effective, but not effective enough.
And Hiromaru is able to reach the wild charge
and take day number two.
Hiromaru smiling aside relief, going up
to the one against Emmi Rideau,
putting him on match point.
And history is in the making for Hiromaru
for the Japan region and for the entire circuits.
And let's see if Emmy Rito can withstand
and force a pivotal game number five,
or will he drop through the loser's bracket
and have to do it all over again?
Look, when Emmy Rito was preparing for this tournament,
he wasn't thinking that he was gonna have to deal
with the trio of Jealousy, Shadow,
Hip-Hodron, and Hercelion and Lectured.
But now he is here and it's the only trio he is seeing.
He has seen that in the first three battles.
I'm gonna say it again.
I think Emmy Weedle is the one trainer
that could change up the formula,
change the strategy a little bit
because so far, I feel like here tomorrow,
those having that Hesuin electrode in the back,
having the pressure from the jealousy
and shadowing the pow-down is just enough.
I wanna see if Emmy Weedle brings out
some more neutrality, bulky picks
to try to make some plays
the outside opponent to move on the grand finals.
Maramaru could potentially be locking in a final line.
Everyone knows how powerful it is to go into Championship Sunday
with the winner's bracket on your side,
only one more set away to becoming the champion.
And Hariramaru needs one more win to do it.
And here comes the Glank course of the first time.
Ami Rideau brings it out,
but it could be absolutely pivotal
as there's no true answer for it on the side of Hiromaru.
And there it is, the adjustment from Amy Riedel
has two of the three same Pokemon,
but God Declarion Coastline that has a ton of neutral play,
he is facing the same three Pokemon once again
for the fourth game in a row,
throwing the energy ball for Hiromaru
so he doesn't drop his defense
so he can take this nightshade, no problem.
And it looks like Electrode can win
this zero protection situation pretty confidently
with the wild charge.
Absolutely wild as well, because Blanc Horses
won the focus Pokemon in this meta,
but here in Mara is going to be at the Wayne switch advantage,
which is absolutely here.
Actually, the Horses are not going to do it,
and here in Mara Horses are going to swap right away,
but now, come to Quackside.
This is everything Emilio needs to get back into this game.
And look at the backline matchup for Weld as well.
It's going to be the jealousie into the licky-licky,
the ghost type into the normal type.
Here comes the protector, but it's on a bait.
It is going to be on the resisted attack of Weatherball Rock.
And here comes the back to back Aqua Tail.
Is already reached.
Do you give out both of your protectors in this situation?
I feel like you have to keep this at Paldon around.
At Paldon, I'm trying to do everything
here in Marlton will it to do as Emilito
goes for another Aqua Tail.
And we must God to suspect that there could be a swap
of catch happening as the timers are coming up
to for here in Marlton.
And does Emilito stay in?
Does he throw the Aqua Tail?
He tries to throw it, but the Earth power comes through.
And then Mimiro makes the correct shield call.
Here, Maul has the catch for Ventral on the Electro.
That would be absolutely huge.
Even the Jets would be okay.
He might go for it.
No, he doesn't actually go for the awkward tail here.
This is gonna let this Hupadon go down.
But the thing is, there's enough health on this Electro
to possibly get to a Charge Attack.
A Charge Attack could be so useful.
The Mud Shot might not be enough damage
to knock out before he gets to his own attack.
Does he come in, get some Thunder Sharks,
and then swap on the opposite.
He's going to try to get to the opposite.
He's going to fight!
He's getting dressed in on the Jellisons!
Exactly what he needs.
But now, Emmie Weedle has the switch advantage.
Ken Lott, the licky baton in, and the licky licky in.
But more importantly, he can even form up extra energy.
He can leave with the opposite.
But later, that's exactly what he's going to do.
But he's going to lose charge attack priority
if Electro somehow does get to an attack in the back line.
But it's all about getting into your timer right now.
If you are hero Mario, you're
going to be able to throw this serve.
One surf is not going to be enough.
Two surfs is not going to be enough.
I believe you need three surfs in this matchup to win it.
In the meantime, you are in danger of getting
knocked out by a shadow ball.
But I believe he's slightly out of range.
And I think Emilio trying to get out to double shadow ball,
trying to put in a situation where the electrode has
to absolutely throw the move.
You have a chance.
I think he has a body stand remaining.
And you can't thundershock the sound.
You can't get your back-to-back moves.
Jellison does indeed end up with one more rollout.
We're doing actually Emilio.
I'd like to play taking it out if the combo I came through he takes out the electrode
But either way the electrode has to throw the energy and M.E.
Widow is going to force a game number five in this winter's finals if we wouldn't want it any other way
We are tied up two to two the winner of this next battle will advance to compete for the world
Championships in Shay's Center in NBA arena
it's gonna be one of the most epic Pokemon experiences ever.
And there's so much on the line for bowl players
for so many different reasons.
And we realize, see on your screen,
a world champion looking to do it yet again,
looking to be the first person ever
to raise that trophy twice in a lifetime.
And that's something that players
can't even imagine to do once.
And here tomorrow, putting so much pressure on himself
to have the performance of lifetime itself,
to also put Japan back in the map
and in contention from being one of the best regions
in the world already getting,
tying the potential and the max speed
that Crescent Angels set four years ago
for the grand finals
and a potential world champion title on the line
would be historic.
And a quick salute to Hiro Maru
for running the exact team composition
for four straight battles in a winner's finals,
knowing that the Hussain Electro shadowed him,
powered on, and jealous is so strong
versus Emil Riedel's team.
But now with everything on the line,
does he second guess himself?
Does he make that last second adjustment?
We know at this point,
Emil Riedel is expecting those four,
and it doesn't even matter
because he knows how to play around it now.
So do you give him a little bit of a different look,
Or do you know, I think I believe in this team.
I can get it signed.
We're gonna find out right now.
The winner advances the championship Sunday.
What a lead for Hiro Maru with the electric grass side
into that mudboy.
Here comes the swamp in the channel.
Can't deny this.
Here's a man by the Licky Licky, the adjustment.
The adjustment is huge, but there's a Licky Licky
nine kills matchup on the first and in the back as well.
The electron has so much play into the remaining team
and game of the real right away is massive as you're all is going to straight for the
shadow ball I think he feels calm that even if he doesn't want to switch against he could
potentially do something as we see energy lead on the night.