City League Update: 132 events recorded!
Bibarel the best Zard build?!
Moon Hands Lost Box on the up!
Catcher overtaken Belt in lost Tina, many adding Iron Leaves to OHKO Zard
Master Ball proving itself as best Lugia ACE
Champs League will shed more light this weekend!
Incredible to see so many people this weekend enjoying irl Pokemon 🥰
Ultimate meta manipulation by posting my exact 60 on the channel 2 days before the event 🧠
Full report on utube tomoz but the Squids were great fun and going 9-0 day one was special 🙏
T64 Finish at Warsaw. My grandad, who got me into board and card games from a young age, passed away on Friday morning so being surrounded by friends and playing pokemon was the perfect distraction to keep my spirits up ❤️
Deck was alright but who cares it’s tempest time
Open heart surgery is so much harder than the pokemon TCG, higher barrier to entry, seriously punished for misplays, clock manipulation and cheating doesn’t exist and it’s way more rewarding 👨⚕️≠🃏
Latest City League Update *61 Events now recorded*
Lugia w/Cinccino Proving itself quite handy and has been gaining momentum! 🦤🦤
Bibarel still going toe-to-toe with Pidgeot build of Zard, which do you think is mirror favoured? 🪞
City Leagues Scraped!
Which Dragapult build will come out on top and is it the new BDIF? 🚀🚀
Can Ogerpon revive some lower-tier archetypes?🦒
And who else is part of the Munkidori Gang? 🙊🙈
Final Online Result Breakdown before NAIC: ✈️
every 64+ player event is included & broken down by: <128 players = Cup Champ Points >128 players = Reg Champ Points (under 200 players only down to T16 decks with 200+ players T32 is included)
Big Movers are Gholdengo and Thorns!⏫
Week 1 Online Results:
every 64+ player event is included & broken down by:
<128 players = Cup Champ Points
>128 players = Reg Champ Points (under 200 players only down to T16 decks with 200+ players T32 is included)
Japan starting their City Leagues so I'm once again going to be data deep diving **ONLY 5 days in** but here are the top performing decks with League Cup CP Equated to their performances: 🏅
(Moon+Flutter is 1 prizer list)
Slow Start for Future and Raging Bolt, are they flops?
Top8 LAIC. Had a ton of fun in Brazil. Can't ever go all the way in my life. Content with how the list shaped up, pretty straight forward for the most part. All inclusions & omissions worked out well. Ggs
My early Twilight Masquerade lists are now available
I will be updating as I playtest!
'Other Options' in the descriptions for all lists, with cards I'm considering / are frequently in standard builds
what else should I be Building & Testing? 🧪🧪
Breakdown of "CP earnt" in Week 1 of City leagues:
(25 events recorded) 📊
Video coming tonight with more in-depth list discussion on these and more data to delve into
For those of you taking the “we don’t like it but we have to go along with it” mentality to ptcgL: I made a vid about prepping your account before migration with some key take always to maximise ur value
A lot of Cup/Chall & CP progress posts, props to everyone on the grind and starting strong!
but I also want to normalize having a slow/rough start because it's a long season - don't get discouraged!
I've had 6 Worlds Invites and I'm:
1 Chall W
1 Cup T16
3 Cup Flops
I got⌛️ dw
🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏
Prize check during setup is a change that would be universally loved by all players AND resolve some of the issues of our current 50min Bo3 tournament structure ⏳
Update the rules, add a poke-notepad to our ETBs and save us 🙏
Players that argue that prize checking is a skill that has to stay in the game would probably also argue that we should play events one-handed as a skill 😂
There's literally no reason why you shouldn't be able to look at your prizes during your first deck search👍
Japan City League Update, I'm over 1000 lines of decks recorded 😵💫and I've finally found a list with Neo Upper Energy! (Top 4 placement Tinkaton Dundunsparce!)
I want to shake the hand of the pilot of this deck 🤝
28 Events now recorded: final time I'm doing this as most competitors are now making their way to Hawaii and they're locked in and in no way panicking or changing decks this late right? 😇
T16 with Lost Box
Some really close and fun games today, I ID’d the last round for safe 32 but frogged on oppo resistance, thanks to all my opponents 🤡
Still scraping City Leagues! Ranking based on "Championship Points" earned: data is all
POST CHAMPS LEAGUE (Feb 21st-March 4th)
Future Hands has become an established deck after it's strong showing in Fukuoka and Lost Zone decks have been thriving!
Fable format is only just starting but trying to give as much info as possible to those before they begin travelling 🏝️
Will be Updating every few days!
64+ player events only (Cup points)
<100 players: Top 8 only
100-199 players: Top 16 decks
>200 players: Top 16 (Reg Points)
Cup W with the don
Still greedily not playing a path bounce but I’m hooked on the Ace Spec PokeGear 3.0
R1- Colorless Lugia WW 1-0
R2- Lost Zone Tina WLT 1-0-1
R3- Turbo Lost Box WW 2-0-1
R4- Palkia Pao WW 3-0-1
R5- ID
T4- Kyogre Zama Lost Box WW
Finals- Turbo Lost Box WW
Can't wait to tune in to the World Championships! 🏝️
What's your Expected Winner and Educated Wish?
I'll Start:
Expectation: Regidrago VSTAR 🐲
Educated Wish: Gholdengo ex 💰
Starting to prep for my Post Rotation video, you know the card pool is shrinking when Great Ball is welcomed back with open arms...
does Gardevoir survive or is there not enough air in my Drifloon?🎈
🥳 thanks for all your continued support! 🙏
Myself and Jack are going to have a celebratory stream Q&A very soon so if you have any burning questions for us drop them below. Silly, serious, psychotic or anything in between!
Pokémon tourneys are a celebration of the game, a chance to demonstrate skill, creativity and sportsmanship among friends and poke-fanatics 🥰
Not everyone has Yokohama at the end of the tunnel but the journey can still be sweet 🤗
Y is everyone hating on Zard builds of lost box 😤it’s absolutely a deck, has the room to play vacuums to 10 race in mirror and can go back to playing quad path to booly Lugia mew and gardi, I swear no1 actually plays this game the phrase “in my testing” triggers me they lyin ☠️
UTubers: stop putting 2 Iron Hands in Chien Pao lists plz it’s actually tilting me
He so thicc u never want to lead him: super rod and heavy ball exist and belong in the deck already 🙈
😖 it’s so obvious who tests before posting and who doesn’t 🙄
they just want ur click 👅
What a sensational World Championships in London!
Having the opportunity to commentate this event and masters final is a genuine dream come true,
@thewossy
was an exceptional co caster throughout the weekend and we had a blast both on and off the desk 🤜🤛
Can Thwackey replace Pidgeot to formulate a new control build?
Goldeen is actually a handy energy removal option and clearly you leave less multiprizers on board
Main weakness I can see is a bigger focus on using Penny/Switch to keep unlocking your Thwacks 🥁🥁
first draft:
Out in the 6th round of Day 1 with a very straightforward Lost Zone Tina list, spent my last 2 weeks exploring Japan over overthinking/testing and wouldn’t change a thing 🍜👺🍣
Just had flights cancelled for Bilbo Baggins SPE and no easy alternatives so having to give it a miss 🫠🫠 Had this sleeved up: should have answers to Palk, Mew and Arc mirrors when u flip heads 🤞 hammergobrrrr
7-0-2 in Stuttgart, hopefully we can keep the unbeaten run going!
Had some pretty fortunate games today though and still not sure how good the Lugia MU actually is, should have a few opportunities tomorrow to find out 🤡
Stay tuned for my impact of Paradox Rift video tonight!
tonnes of irl gameplay inbound and the big set review Friday + buy list Sunday, I’m organised and I’m excited!!
All imma say is ppl r doomsdaying about the wrong card 😬
If I’m still involved in pokemon content creation in 25 years time remind me to move to America before their 50th anniversary
They’ve gone above and beyond to treat so many content creators!
I've had poor results this season because I wasted so much time playing Pokemon inefficiently - so I made a framework to help structure my EUIC testing
hopefully it can help you get prepared too!
Self centered trivia: but 2024 will be the first EUIC finals that won’t be casted by myself, we had a good run 😅 looking forward to playing this one though and buzzing for some of my colleagues to get the chance 🎤
Real question is, which was ur favourite final?
Old dog learns new trick: irl tabletop with a quality overhead camera, dual facecams, card pop ups and a turn tracker coming soon 😎
Anything that reduces editing time is clutch to keep the algorithm monster fed
Thinking of doing a tier list, tier list…everyone’s is pretty different! LAIC is so tough to call rn
Even after checking East&West results, our own testing + theory there’s still a lot of ground I didn’t get to cover and like 5% shift of certain decks play rate changes a lot
Great weekend commentating an incredible EUIC! it was everything I could’ve asked for and more,
@thewossy
makes my life so easy at the desk 🥰
I’m pulling my hair out already with where the meta goes from here for the next few regionals in this format 😅😅
But now…we cube 🙏🧊
it's a tight squeeze but these 2 do compliment each other very nicely! Draga sets up damage so well for both Big and little Zard
Kieran could also be a damage buff tool but i'm starting to fear the block😫
Serebii Update: The Streaming schedule for the Pokémon European International Championships has been revealed. VGC, TCG, Pokkén and Pokémon GO to all be streamed on April 22nd - 24th
Details @
#PlayPokemon
Most people hate control...
But for some it's become a lifestyle choice, a religion. Practicing the art of survival in every single game and to reach a moment of euphoria when an opponent finally announces Pass
New Control is here
@SanderWojcik
what say you?
@FabienPujol_TCG
I don't care about this nuanced intelligent discussion... azul said its bad in a passing comment on uncommon energy so my minds been made up
So energised with Pokemon TCG right now, it’s probably new set hype before we all go back to arc and palk but spent my whole weekend no lifing and still want more 🥰 LOR offers so much to experiment with!
@tablemon
I don’t think many players in the world could have navigated game 1 as well as you did ❤️ it stings now but it’s another insane result to be proud of! ur doing this player, content creator, casting tribrid way too well
My current world championship deck collection, following on from yesterday… if anyone has my gaps from 05/06/07/12 let me know!
Which year do you think has the best representation of their format and if you could add a 5th deck to make them more accurate what would it be?
An incredible weekend casting Stockholm Regionals with the gang 🎤
@XanatuVPR
@BurtsPTCG
@thewossy
Some amazing games on stream across both days! despite being a smaller Regionals somehow still had an IC feel to it!
Congrats to Azul on the Win
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
#playpokemon
Is there a better way for Zard to initiate a prize race into Regidrago than Gouging Fire?
Very hard for T2 👻 as well as everything else
Been trying a Quad Nest Zard 🔥
(+1 fire to support Gouging & the mini Evo package)
Thoughts? 💭
Happy to see latest video was well received, this used to be a common segment back when I streamed more consistently (quite long ago 😵💫)
If you have any other feedback to make the series better: I’m all ears!
We're less than a month away from
#PokemonNAIC
! Are you ready, Trainers? 😱
Now introducing your incredible cast of commentators who will be leading us throughout all the action of the final International Championships broadcast of the 2024 season 👏
Updated the Cubekoga with Post Rotation decks,
includes techs I'm considering for each deck and will be making changes actively before EUIC, might add more lists if I get around to it!
2024:
1st year Casting under the official banner for EU Regionals has been epic & Commentating NAIC was a dream come true! 🥰
Playing wise, I gotta step it up! No worlds this year for the 1st time since 2016 is tough to take, but I'm hungry to come back stronger next season
There's a lot of Change heading into the 2025 Season! 🥳🥳🥳
#PlayPokemon
Initial reaction: Huge wins for both the very competitive and casual-competitive player next season!
feels like the public community discussions have been heard! 🥰
My Complete thoughts later...📽️
The 2025 Pokémon Championship Series season is just around the corner! Learn more about the upcoming changes and check out the first wave of event locations to best prepare for your competitive journey ⬇
📝
Extremely excited to alongside all these talented people! Even if this is the only opportunity I ever get, it's epic
p.s give EU more Regional & Spe's next season
We're thrilled to be joined by such a fantastic collection of experts for the 2022 Pokémon World Championships.
These will be your guides as we see the best Trainers from around the globe go head-to-head across five different games!
Here is your
#PokemonWorlds
talent lineup!
Flying home from Gorgeous Gdańsk ❄️ had a lot of laughs with co casters
@DaoTCG
@MikeEllisPTCG
and
@RabootTCG
and the team
➡️Cup Grind➡️Stuttgart
Meta is chaos and chaos is a ladder 😈
It’s been 1 event, the new best deck performed well. To keep the game evolving and to sell cards, power creep is a necessary evil. Lugia will be the best performer in SWSH-SIT but give the format time before doomsday posting. If the hive mind fails, rotation hits the deck hard
Btw Palk Intel gets farmed by Lugia and gets caught in the crossfire of lightning techs n decks, most tier lists r just bunging palkia in tier 1 and I think that’s kinda lazy and wrong - Joe B on 3 hours sleep to catch a warsaw flight
Making my Worlds 60's public as I test more 🧪
just the expected best decks for now but will add as I go!
Is Bravery Charm in Arven decks Genius or Gimmick 💭
I've got other considerations & my logic behind each 60 in the descriptions!
Not long now🏝️