Len Deuel
@AlakaPKMN
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staff engineer working on augmented reality at snapchat and longtime competitive pokemon commentator and player, Regs champ x2 t8 NA x3 🏳️🌈 he/him
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Ended 11-3 and unfortunately bubbled out at 9th. Still very happy with the run and marks t16 at five straight regionals, all with Ttar / Corv / Garchomp
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Double checking team sheet for tomorrow and learned my Caly Shadow I’ve used at every local in reg G and earned 150 CP with was 252 atk 0 spatk — hard mode worlds qualifying 😭😭😭
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Today marks 15 years since my first VGC tournament so I thought I’d share a thread on what competing was like back in 2009.
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Finished my worlds invite at an MSS today, see you in Hawaii!
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Had a blast casting the Pittsburgh Regional Championship this weekend. Having my welcome to the stream be such incredible matches from such strong players was more than I could have asked for, and it was joy to talk through them.
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Made it! Five straight regional day 2s with Ttar / Garchomp / Corv
6-2, have the win and in next round in Knox. Fun to be back playing this weekend!
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What’s lost to time feels modern. My runner-up team from 2010 Nats led Kyogre / Abomasnow to overwrite my own weather and spam Blizzard
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That Follow Me from
@tsltang0508
to prevent Rocky Helmet recoil on opposing Urshifu in game 3 has to be one of the biggest brain plays I’ve ever seen, and to clinch worlds cut is crazy
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VGC 2012 sub lefties Garchomp v paralyzed Cresselia in sand end game win % analysis based on health entering the 1 v 1.
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I’ll be using a 14 year old team for San Diego Regionals this weekend.
Good Luck and have fun to all the other competitors!
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Typed Sand Veil instead of Sand Stream for Tyranitar, game loss and Pokémon loss at 3-0. Feels really harsh.
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@vgccorner
@TracySNelson
For anyone who wants to try this, evs are generally close enough, but ttar is 252 hp / 252 spdef / 4 def Careful
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I earned all of my CP this season with SubLefties on the team, shout out to the GOAT item
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10 years ago today I made my mom drive me to my first VGC tournament in Arlington, Texas. I’m so grateful to have been part of this community that has meant so much to me all this time since and thanks to everyone who has been part of that.
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Won a cup in France over the weekend. It was fun to get to compete while abroad and meet new players. Everyone was very welcoming and accommodating for my lack of French 😅
Voici les résultats de nos League Cup et Challenge de Mandelieu qui ont eu lieu Samedi 27 Juillet 2024🙂
Merci et bravo à tous les participants !😃
Félicitations à
@AlakaPKMN
qui remporte le League Cup et à
@wilfire70
qui remporte le League Challenge !
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That’s the most consistent stretch of my time playing Pokémon, and I never would have believed it would happen in the 2020s or continue after going back to primarily casting. Some mindset changes have really helped and I’m looking forwards to playing more events
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Finished top 8 at Portland Regionals today. Definitely made mistakes that cost me the last match, but still happy with the run overall. Hoping to get another shot at top cut in one of my last two regionals this season.
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Won the San Diego Premier Challenge today and earned my worlds invite. It’s the first full season I’ve played since 2015 and really happy to see it through, see y’all in Yokohama!
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We’re up and ready for day 2 in Knoxville. Hoping to make a deep run with the crew
#PlayPokemon
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10-2 so far, won 7 in a row since being 3-2 yesterday and feeling good
We’re up and ready for day 2 in Knoxville. Hoping to make a deep run with the crew
#PlayPokemon
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@rk9labs
@PengyTwitch
@CamikasaVGC
I would say players rushing to input 6 Pokémon before every tournament is the _only_ workflow that matters here and should be all you’re optimizing for. The other flow you have in mind just doesn’t really happen for 99% of players.
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@WolfeyGlick
@MoxieBoosted
Woah I feel like this is revisionist, Follow Me was considered one of the strongest moves from the beginning. We’d had years with strong redirection like Amoonguss in 11. I feel like one of the primary complaints about 14 was the lack of redirection in that particular format.
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@chefVGC
I was so confused after initially saying this on stream so I went and tested it and had been more confused since. I love this
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The final was actually one of the least interesting matches of the day, and against a player who had no ongoing presence in VGC, but it’s the only one I have on video if you want to see some 2009 VGC live
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Went 7-2 today in Milwaukee to move on to day 2 my third consecutive regional. Really happy with the consistency of my play this season, feels great to be playing something I’m comfortable with.
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Dallas Regionals 2009. I won with a Garchomp that knew Sandstorm because Tyranitar wasn’t legal that year.
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This tournament laid the foundation for me for the community I’ve found in VGC in the years since, and I’m looking forwards to the years to come as a caster, player, and part of that community.
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Finished 10-4 for 10th place in Vancouver this weekend.
@komvgc
had my number beating me both days. Tournament was a ton of fun, ggs to everyone I played!
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Went 5-2 in Vancouver today, was fun to play a tournament again and see so many familiar faces. Hopefully it’s less than 2 years before the next one
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Here was my team. Only 4 Pokémon because there was no team preview so you locked in leads and which 4 for all day.
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@TBFUnreality
It was better when we just concatenated the names of the two most important Pokémon, give me TopOgre, ZapChomp, or LieLoom over these acronyms any day
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@TBFUnreality
I’ve actually created a performance art piece I call “clicking geomancy” preforming my work without authorization will be a violation of my intellectual property, please refrain
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6-2, have the win and in next round in Knox. Fun to be back playing this weekend!
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There wasn’t a readily available online ladder so finding practice could be tricky. I had “VGC” on highlight on IRC and would ask anyone who mentioned it for a match.
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Went 4-1 today to finish 12th. Pretty happy with this regional and looking forward to Fresno next week
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Finally finished the Kanto shiny dex in GO! This has been a fun project with lots of help from my friends with trades at Pokemon events over the last couple years.
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I’ve used this Ttar exclusively since 2012. It’s probably my favorite competitive Pokémon and I’m really glad I got to show it off this weekend, such a tank.
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I’m glad they’re cutting back some in SwSh. Hopefully this means they won’t have to spend an entire in game city giving out mirrors and flowers and washing machines and stone plates and hard drives and orbs and...
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The Regionals were best of 1, single elimination, closed team sheet, no team preview. They were also capped at 128 players so when triple that showed up to my regional there was a lottery for who would get to play. Trust me, we’ve come a long way.
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@ragimali
@WolfeyGlick
That gameplan vs Ben was so smart, I would have got stuck doing nothing with Incin
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Going on stream for round 13 in Knox, a win would do a lot for making cut!
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It’s classic DisQuake
* Sandstorm would reset Rain while KOing Rain setters like Jolteon and Electrode that had been left at sash by turn 1 EQ
* With no Fairy type, Sludge Bomb was unusual, but I liked it for Ludicolo and Abomasnow since it would OHKO either with roll or poison
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In t16 I would play Imawario who was wearing his 2006 finalist Tshirt making him intimidating for a competitive Pokemon first timer like myself — even then there was an old guard
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I also organized a weekly tournament series that had 6-16 players. That’s smaller than many PCs now but represented a large portion of the whole online interest in VGC at the time.
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Settled on Inteleon and it was definitely the MVP of the day. Also, if you’ve ever wanted to see the light and play max spdef Ttar, now is your chance.
If anyone has suggestions for 2020’s spread attacking, pin creating, win condition mon please let me know
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* Lum / Taunt Gengar shows the fear of Dark Void Smeargle of all forms
* Remember that Gengar has Levitate in Gen 4 so Garchomp is free to EQ
* Mamoswine was to answer ZapChomp which was very meta
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@rushanshekar
@Xeminan
@Nekkra
252+ SpA Calyrex-Shadow Astral Barrage vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Tyranitar: 36-43 (17.3 - 20.7%) -- possible 5HKO
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I met one of my best friends, Tyler Hagan, at this tournament (and dodged playing him via the “friend rule”) and would go on to meet more of my closest friends like Huy, Duy, and Paul at Nationals a month later.
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First player of the day to get a trophy, thanks to everyone who made it possible.
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If Urshifu goes down there and Cornerstone comes in to Follow Me support Calyrex then Victor probably wins, instead the play forced a Calyrex switch the next turn
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@WolfeyGlick
I’ll counter with a self-Smack Down on my Iron Ball Empoleon while it uses Roost in Gravity for the least ground immune Pokémon of all time
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In t4 I played NestW who I’d actually just played and lost to the night before in one of those small weekly tournaments I mentioned. This time Sandstorm turned off Hail to break a Froslass Focus Sash and let Garchomp dodge a Blizzard.
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There’s some exciting improvements to scripting in
@SnapAR
Lens Studio 5.0.2 which released today that I want to highlight.
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Excited to be commentating the SoCal Regional this weekend. I’ve really enjoyed all the VGC 2018 I’ve watched so far and can’t wait to see what cool teams will show up. We’ll start Saturday morning with a pregame show so tune into and check it out!
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In t8 I would play Wesley Morioka and beat his Rain team using my Sandstorm tech to KO Jolteon and reset Rain. I’d go on to beat Wesley again in t8 at a Regional in 2010 but he got the last laugh beating me in the 2010 Nationals finals.
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@DaWoblefet
Does Stellar Tera boost each type weather ball becomes or does it only boost weather ball once?
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A flight attendant just tried to kick me out of the exit row for not being 15+
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7-1 and I move onto tomorrow. Worlds invite feels like a real possibility.
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@SoulSurVGC
I see this and immediately get the urge to send out Tyranitar and click Rock Slide
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@komvgc
I would say the only exception to this is the brief periods where the most meta defining mon was a weather sweeper getting +2 speed, therefore: 3 Excadrill
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Angel was a smart, kind, and passionate part of this community for so much of its history. It won’t be the same without him.
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That two turn sequence from Togedamaru is one of my favorite things I’ve seen in a VGC match, so impressive.
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Goals for VGC 2020:
Cast three tournaments
Play three tournaments
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Had a lot of fun streaming Vancouver with
@TapuKimo
can't wait to do it again. Thanks to everyone who tuned in
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Really fun match with
@NailsOU
round 9. I know that’s such a rough way to lose and I would have enjoyed playing the game 3. Focused on keeping it going tomorrow now.
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4-1 with the win over Makoto T from Japan. Onto real worlds tomorrow.
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I was curious so I counted it out, here are my Regionals+ level tournament entries over 11 seasons.
2009 - 3
2010 - 4
2011 - 4
2012 - 4
2013 - 3
2014 - 9
2015 - 5
2016 - 0
2017 - 2
2018 - 3
2019 - 0
Mostly uniform outside of GS cup and 2014. How many are others doing each year?
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Thanks to everyone who watched this weekend, it was a really fun stream. If you missed any of the games check the YouTube day 1 is up now, day 2 should be up tonight or tomorrow.
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Really excited to cast my first Sun series tournament in a couple weeks, what do you hope to see on stream?
See you all in Portland on October 27th/28th! Join
@AlakaPKMN
@GabbySnyder
@rejigglypuff
and
@NBDwee
by tuning in to for a spooktacular Regional Championships!
#PlayPokemon
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Won my first round at nats. I put in a focused effort for this tournament and I’m feeling good so far
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After walking my Mareep more than 200 miles I finally have Ampharos, which along with Unown at Go Fest, completes the non-regional go dex!
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@DaWoblefet
Between games. At 09 worlds I had both resistance berries for Meta and would swap in the more impactful one after game 1. At 2010 Nats I circumvented item clause that way and would use Chople on Dialga or Blissey never playing both, instead having a Lum for Smeargle matchups
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Everyone on the cast and in production was so welcoming, thanks
@GabbySnyder
@sierradawnx3
@Xeminan
@skatieb
@NBplaid
and everyone else backstage for the great weekend.
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