Tell your editors that the hand-drawn lines and pictures during battles are EXTREMELY helpful for keeping track of your thought process and game states. 100% recommend continuing this practice.
After watching this, (which was pretty difficult mind you considering how often I was jumping out of my seat) I noticed Wolfey seems to have forgotten one thing throughout the tournament, one very important factor to include: He has the World Champ Difference.
"It sautees mushrooms" might be my favorite line of yours 11:27 I also want to say thanks for explaining these in accessible manor - watching your stuff shows me how little I actually know about Pokemon and it's refreshing in a way.
Wolfe looking at Incineroar: You’re right, Incineroar. I’m you. I wanted to reject you, convince myself that you were wrong, but that doesn’t matter right now. I’m going to use you.”
I never noticed this when I first watched this but it is crazy that you/your editors replayed these matches just so we could watch them play out in the video. Awesome stuff!
Hearing you explain the speed stats of Farigaraf and Incineroar is that World Champ Difference, 100%. That was so insightful and advanced than what I'd hear from most other VGC content. And clearly explained! Love it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
46:52 this is a great lesson for anyone at a tournament…if you notice a team sheet error, call the judge over right away. If you wait until after the round they can’t do anything!
Reminds me of a play in the TCG where a player Ultra Ball'd a DCE during grands. It took until the next day for people to watch the vod to spot it. ALWAYS pay attention.
Wolfey’s going to have to do it a third year in a row specifically because his content continues to bring more and more people into VGC, meaning that the “biggest tournament” will continue growing. By being good at his content-creating job, Wolfey is making his VGC job harder. I love it. Haha
I'll be honest, as someone who has all of the mistborn series books, including the side ones, i could not tell. Mine all have a color palette of white, blue, and black.
I'm only an hour in but what the hellthis video is amazing. This is such a detailed documentary. I love how you talked about the training, practice and theory that went into the team and then a walkthrough of matches matchups and progression. This must have taken so much work, thank you for making it
These videos just keep getting better and better. The team building portion was as informative and fun as possible and the match breakdowns felt so tense. Really felt the stakes on every game. Well done
These pokemon tournament videos that are 1hr+ long are always my favorite type of content from you. Keep it up man you're such an impressive competitor and equally impressive story teller.
I read the channel's description of "greatest Pokémon player of all time" and thought Wolfe was sarcastically gassing himself up, but I've watched the video and realized it is a realistic claim. Seriously, this man pulled something utterly badass with his accumulated knowledge and strategy, allowing him to break through and take the title he came for. Bravo.
It's half joking. He does not really think he is the best of all time, but often jokingly makes the joke of the "World champ difference", due to his 2014 win. He thinks the best is Aaron Zeng
As someone who doesn’t play Pokémon but loves watching your videos, you drawing on the screen to show the complexities of the turn is super helpful. Makes it so much easier to understand what the potential moves are with that visualization. Great video and congrats on the win!
This is Nicholas’s arc where he loses to the current champion, he’ll come back after his training arc even stronger. Whether he’s the protagonist or the rival will be seen after.
You’re an inspiration, dude. Your videos never fail to move me after watching them. As a fellow competitor, albeit in a different game, I want to be just like you in terms of improving and competing. I’ve kinda moved past being fans of competitors since I’ve reached the point where competitors, even at the highest level, seem like normal people to me, and I truly believe everyone is beatable, but man am I a fan of yours
Litten's dex entry: If you try too hard to get close to it, it won't open up to you. Even if you do grow close, giving it too much affection is still a no-no. Seeing Wolfe and Incineroar come together like this feels like the Pokedex predicted this. XD
Oh my god that was so good!! So happy you came back with a bang and really support the move of being less out there with ur pokemon. This team was truly peak wolfe with great meta picks and incredible twists on them that keep it fresh and provide incredibly entertaining matches.
On the argument of oysters, they’re either for you or they’re not. There’s really no in between. If you’re ever open to trying them again, get charbroiled with lemon. Sincerely, A New Orleanian
I was literally sweating watching this video. Especially at the end, playing the same opponent for not a second, but a THIRD time is wildly difficult mentally. The opponent in that case has nothing to lose and you have everything to lose. It was so cool seeing it go down to the wire like that. Great content and congratulations Wolfe!
This video is fantastic, so well written, the storyline of you using the top mons to take every advantage after using experimental mons for so long is great Raising the bar of pokemon content, nothing unfriendly to the family necessary to do it, Wolfey is 100% my goat and I loved this video For many years wolfeys been my favorite player and an inspiration in the way I play many games, as VGC was my first competitive game. Glad he's killing it content-wise too, thanks Wolfey 💯
Can we acknowledge how masterfully he wrote the narrative and paced this video. Having seen enough of his stuff we know he doesn't always win so the suspense kept me watching this video over multiple days. Well done on the win and the video wolf
Incredible job! I really enjoy these kinds of videos that are play by play analysis stories of your tournament runs! I don't know a ton about competitive pokemon but you present it in a way that is approachable, fun, and engaging! Congrats on the win!
Me and a friend are both competitive players of a game I won't name. We've actually learned that taking a hiatus can actually improve decision making and play so long as proper derusting is done beforehand. We've dubbed this "Break Strats" and even though most people are afraid to do it oftentimes we find ourselves breaking huge barriers after we reach our skill relative to before we left. Always remember it's okay to take breaks and that sometimes it can even benefit you a lot, that I know for a fact applies to every competitive game from Chess to Pokémon.
@rileyackison4495 can be as short as two weeks or as long as a few months. Do it if you feel like trying too hard has left you stuck. You'll generally get back to how good you were before in a week and keep improving at least a little bit from my experience.
i’m not in the pokémon scene outside of my love for the show/games, but i love your channel, and this video really spoke to me. burn out is such a horrible experience, and i’m so glad you spoke on it. it’s so scary because the only way to move past it is to prioritize yourself, which is so scary when it feels like everyone else keeps moving forward. but we can’t compare ourselves/our journeys to those of other people, and we need to do what’s best for each of us. i loved that reminder in your video :)
The amount of thought that goes into team making seriously blows my mind. The thinking about the speed in the early video genuinely made me respect players so much more. I don't think I will be playing at this level but still watching it from the sidelines is so much fun. Respect for all the players and thanks for such a good video wolfe, huge fan.
I really love your video Wolfey. Even I, a dude who only play 1 pokemon game can enjoy your competitive storytelling and understand the up and down in your strategy is wonderful. Congrats champ 🎉🎉🎉
was lowkey at the edge of my seat for this whole video... id never watched competitve pokemon before this and let me say this was INTENSE, but i was so happy when you won in the end. congratulations!!
Wolfe really has become an amazing storyteller. I put this video on expecting to have it in the background while I played a Nuzlocke and I didn't touch my game once in ninety minutes. My heart is racing rn. Great job and congrats on the W Wolfe.
It’s also much more impressive than you think; he has something called aphantasia, which means he *has* no mental image. When you imagine something, you “see” it in your mind’s eye - he straight-up doesn’t. It also means he can’t self-reference when drawing, if you draw something you make a mental image and copy from how that looks. Of course, it doesn’t affect his cognitive skills, clearly, but it very much affects his ability to draw. Those Incineroars were a marked improvement for him (and also explains why the Flutter Manes looked a bit more like rabbits than ghosts)
Even without using "bad pokemon" your teams are still prety revolutionary, of course part of it is meta, but even following the meta, half of your team is pretty unique. And that's probably what makes you win so much, people just don't know how to play against your crazy ideas.
This was a ridiculously good showing. Genuinely world class. It goes to show that a control heavy team that can play with hard reads is the best for you, compared to hyper offense or defense teams. The amount of outplays with armor tail, grassy terrain, trick room and parting shots was off the charts. Also good to see you tackled one of your main weaknesses, not being able to use Urshifu.
@@arininquotes8396 Relatively old speedrunning meme that basically translates to "softlock" or for pokemon battles specifically is akin to "all my friends are dead syndrome" where a pokemon is effectively neutralized and just stuck watching its teammates get double targeted while it can't really do anything but watch.
Really enjoyed how you laid out your thought process with the arrows and the (silly yet accurate) Pokémon drawings. Helped a ton to explain how necessary it is to not just think about the Pokémon on the field, but to think about the Pokémon that could be on the field next turn or the turn after. Appreciate the high level analysis and congrats on the W king!
Just started the vid, excited for this *movie* of a vid. Been playing VGC for such a long time and I'm really happy to see what Wolfey has accomplished with content creation. Kinda wild to come from a time when people only watched TV and all content was made by studios. UA-cam and streaming didn't exist, my family was excited to get a computer in our house. Now I never watch TV, and individuals online create high quality feature length videos about my interests and hobbies that I can watch on UA-cam. Really crazy
First time attending a vgc tournament in general. Did not expect to see wolfey but me and my friend were so stoked and stayed to watch his win. So happy for you man, looking forward to seeing you at worlds
@@zephyrlegion6047okay so I just found the link to the pokepastes page with the stats turns out it's 108 HP meaning he actually left 4 ev unused I guess so if his speed IV were to low he could add the extra evs there to hit that 78 speed?
@@DuelingDexpertsit's because at level 50, if you invest into an even number of stats, you will always end up with 4 points remaining. Normally you could put them into another stat (as the first 4 points are enough to get a stat up) but in this case, there was no stat left that he could invest in (speed was out of the question). So the points were simply a leftover.
I was straight up sobbing at the end. Not ~shed a cute tear~...I was crying. I relate hard to the feeling of burnout* and it was so heartwarming to hear about a moment of clarity where the excitement returns and you go all in and it all pays off in the end and everything is right. I know it's super random, but thanks for giving me this overwhelming feeling of "some things just turn out alright" *(I'm an emergency medicine resident witnessing human suffering and trying to help people struggling within a difficult to navigate (at best) healthcare system and I'm just coming off an overnight shift so this is coming out of a somewhat delirious haze)
Amazing video, the explanations of everything are fantastic and the turn by turn diagrams were fantastic. Every time I watch one of these videos it fires me up to try competitive Pokémon. Keep up the awesome work Wolfe and team!
For any other company this would be horrible and get immediate apologies and dev attention if you couldn't fkn play the game you bought AT THEIR TOURNAMENT but it's pokemon so it's fine ig
That 77 and 78 speed is such a great example of super high level team building and the impact it could have on a tournament run shows me i still have a long way to go building my teams. For a goodstuffs balance team there is an iceberg of depth beneath the surface as to why decisions were made. Wow.
"Trick Room sets up Trick Room" is the high level analysis I come here for.
2012 level commentary
Timestamp?
@@josebaeza482616:08
@@josebaeza4826 16:08 I did notice it too
@@DeadvidDivide thanks
Tell your editors that the hand-drawn lines and pictures during battles are EXTREMELY helpful for keeping track of your thought process and game states. 100% recommend continuing this practice.
Isn't he his own editor?
@@Elite1337-k5r nope! he works with folks
Tornadus cartoon was my favourite
@@Elite1337-k5r nope! he works with folks
@@Elite1337-k5r nope! or at least he has folks for these more polished videos these days. he might do some of the informal videos himself
Naming Urshifu, a bear, Slippery Dawg, and using a clip of an otter as an argument, is another level of Wolfe naming trolls.
Urahiyu is suposey to be an otter
I'm sure Urahiyu is... But let's not forget the topic of our discussion is Urshifu
What is an otter but a slippery dog?
@@SteampunkPringlesI hate that, that makes sense
@@SteampunkPringleshow dare you have great logic
After watching this, (which was pretty difficult mind you considering how often I was jumping out of my seat) I noticed Wolfey seems to have forgotten one thing throughout the tournament, one very important factor to include:
He has the World Champ Difference.
Absolutely glazing
"It sautees mushrooms" might be my favorite line of yours 11:27
I also want to say thanks for explaining these in accessible manor - watching your stuff shows me how little I actually know about Pokemon and it's refreshing in a way.
God you are cringe
I may be 3 months late to this, but *manner, not manor. Manor means a large house lol
Wolfey still hasn't invited me to his manor...
"It's their funeral and I'll be the one carrying their casket" is also a insane line
"Are you Wolfe Glick because you hate Incineroar? Or do you hate Incineroar because you are Wolfe Glick?"
❤
"Stand Proud Wolfey" *Said Incineroar* "You are strong"
Wolfe looking at Incineroar: You’re right, Incineroar. I’m you. I wanted to reject you, convince myself that you were wrong, but that doesn’t matter right now. I’m going to use you.”
Incineroar be like “Nah, I’d win”
AAAAAAAAHHHHH THE BRAINROT FOLLOWS ME EVERYWHERE, WHY JJK WHYYYYYY
Inceneror: "you couldn't live with your failure. Where did that take you wolfe"
*Looks at wolfe*
Incineror: "back to me"
Nahi I'd win.
w comment
Wolfe is going through a character arc with incenaroar, they will learn to love each other on this journey
@@hrideshkumar414Nah I’d Incin.
Bruh…. The mask
Wolfe goingfrom hating incineror to relating with it is the greatest character arc of all time
Real recognize real
That's some true character growth u see right there
Real
So crazy, can't wait for them to make out.
My favorite toxic yaoi
@1:19:46 incredible high level peak Pokémon…content.
Nick’s strategy was incredible. Amazing showing both!!
I never noticed this when I first watched this but it is crazy that you/your editors replayed these matches just so we could watch them play out in the video. Awesome stuff!
1:30:50 "Less thinking, more punching" unfathomably based of the world champion's various strategems
True
i couldnt do anything but smile at this point. this was what let me know he was gonna win. ABSOLUTE GOD LEVEL mentality.
Listening to the incineroar rant made me realize this is Wolfe's heel turn arc where the former face forms a tag team with a villain. I love it
No no this is incineroars face turn
@@kawaiiempoleon8721 Not possible. We cheered for Wolfe here, not Inciniroar here. It's design was still a godawful mistake.
Steve Austin shaking hands with Vince McMahon at the end of Wrestlemania 17 kinda moment
Wolfey: 'I'm *done* with Pokemon that aren't accepted by the mainstream!'
Also Wolfey: 'Incineroar is doing poorly? Well, I love an underdog!'
to be fair he did say he was done with BAD pokemon not non-mainstream ones😂
also, 30% usage still comfortably qualifies as "mainstream". Its just "low" for Incineroar's standards.
undercat
Incin waz ztill meta (and iz even better than in gen 8) juzt not az uzed az you'd expect from the bezt pokemon ever
@@irism4ney bro lost his s key 😭
The entire tournament assistants when Wolfey comes in:
"why do i hear final boss music?"
41:01 😅
I heard final boss music when I checked Wolfe in at Hartford (2023), and I was judging TCG that weekend.
@Ghostrider6A core wolfey lore just dropped
the "B" in "Incineroar" stands for "balanced"
That's hilarious lol 😂
That's smart
But there’s no “B” in incine-…. Ohhhhh
The almighty Bidoof made sure of that
This comment is so underrated, deserve more likes
Hearing you explain the speed stats of Farigaraf and Incineroar is that World Champ Difference, 100%. That was so insightful and advanced than what I'd hear from most other VGC content. And clearly explained! Love it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
My goat
Am I missing something or did he put too many EVs on it?
"Using Raging Bolt as my last Pokemon for now because that gives me twice as many giraffes." This is the classic Wolfe content we know and love, lol.
46:52 this is a great lesson for anyone at a tournament…if you notice a team sheet error, call the judge over right away. If you wait until after the round they can’t do anything!
Also it´s not bad manners following the rules, so blaming him for that doesn´t make sense
Reminds me of a play in the TCG where a player Ultra Ball'd a DCE during grands. It took until the next day for people to watch the vod to spot it. ALWAYS pay attention.
It makes sense to me. Reporting it ASAP means the person won’t lose by default on a later, more pivotal match. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And he won anyway lol
16:26 for anyone who is triying to recreate this spread, attention it is 108 evs on HP, not 188.
Cheers omg I lost my mind when the math wouldn't add up
Wolfey’s going to have to do it a third year in a row specifically because his content continues to bring more and more people into VGC, meaning that the “biggest tournament” will continue growing. By being good at his content-creating job, Wolfey is making his VGC job harder.
I love it. Haha
I didn't even think of that, it is the ultimate feedback loop
Wolfe: 'I won't use bad Pokémons anymore"
Also wolfe: *will use his worst team Circles around registeel*
Registeel is a monster now
Tbf he said he would do it in online tournaments for content only which that was
Registeel is the 2nd best after regigigas
Registeel is actually not that bad, it had some very good results early meta in larger tours. Hippo and Gliscor are the true atrocities
MY GOAT
Glad we're finally getting the most important part of the team breakdown: nicknames with explanations
41:01 wolfe casually dropping the hardest gholdengo edit
Wolfey has an amazing editor❤
it never gets old
It’s just as good a second time!!
Do you know the name of the previous videos with the gholdengo edits?
@@adamismail7795just went searching for myself lol. Both were in his 2-hour world championship vid.
16:19 choosing your bulk to survive specific moves is crazy cool, I didn't even think about that!
Ye! Damage thresholds, if you can survive with less investment it saves evs for other stats
“Rillaboom is a monkey”
That’s the kind of game breaking secrets I subscribe for
Parting Shot into KINGAMBIT was a true Giga-Chad move.
Tungstenium balls there
@@niltondias5976 The fact he called it correctly is the icing on the cake.
Honestly how to you come back from getting read that hard
Most memorable play of the tourney for me
wolfey accepted the king's gambit
Wolfe drawing compilation
Protect 31:21
Tera grass 38:26
Incineroar 44:09
Flutter mane 46:37
Follow me 48:43
Tera fire 48:48
Rilaboom 53:21
Indeedee f 53:24
Helping hands 56:59
Farigiraf 1:12:07
Tera dark 1:16:46
Happy Incineroar 1:17:44
Ogerpon 1:24:13
Tornados 1:30:33
Pin this comment Wolfey
@@brawlemperoryt5773seconded. Thank you, whit.
2:55 so funny as well
55:32 heeheehee
Missed one at 1:21:00
The Fluttermane mechanics at 34:55 feel like something straight out of the anime and I'm loving it!
Lmao yeah I could totally see something like this in JJK with some binding vow shenanigans
Those drawings during the fights to show your thought process made things so much more engaging. Please keep doing that
Those fights with Nick were epic, like two rivals just constantly trying to one-up each other.
"I realize they must not have ogerpon in the back"
"They send out the last Pokemon and it's ..ogerpon" lmaoo
Please never let go of that gholdengo bit. It's too funny not to keep using imo
100% agree
Damn that string cheese man
I love it so much haha I’m trying to find it again in this video, i forget the time stamp
@@jamesdaoud4090
It’s at 41:00 :P
@@jamesdaoud4090 41:01
Wolfe: “Reading the entirety of One Piece.” *is holding Mistborn*
Me: “I see you are also a man of good taste.”
Yo Wolfie is based as fuck
He thought we’d not notice
He’s also a Stormlight fan
@@eravar2831 Also WoT?
I'll be honest, as someone who has all of the mistborn series books, including the side ones, i could not tell. Mine all have a color palette of white, blue, and black.
I'm only an hour in but what the hellthis video is amazing. This is such a detailed documentary.
I love how you talked about the training, practice and theory that went into the team and then a walkthrough of matches matchups and progression.
This must have taken so much work, thank you for making it
These videos just keep getting better and better. The team building portion was as informative and fun as possible and the match breakdowns felt so tense. Really felt the stakes on every game. Well done
The reveal of the Ogerpon and the opponent forfeiting immediately afterwards was so funny
I wonder if bro forgot he brought it LOL
28:00 did not expect "gay baby jail" to be in this video lmao
It caught me so off guard I actually had a coughing fit from laughing lmao
@@JACandQuill master of Pokemon and of old Twitter memes, was only half paying attention and I had to rewind to confirm lol
SIMPLEFLIPS REFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!
it was a W narrative tho lmao, i came to the comments to see how many ppl got offended
Shoutouts to Simpleflips
Charlotte regionals was actually my first ever Pokémon tournament. Seeing Wolfe play in person is definitely cooler than watching him play on stream 😂
How well did you do?
@@pokedude720 3-3 win loss. Pretty good considering Charlotte was my first ever VGC event lol. I played in the senior division btw
What did u register ur name as? So I can see?
@@Accountthatexists I think it was Saturn11
@@AccountthatexistsI think it was Saturn11
These pokemon tournament videos that are 1hr+ long are always my favorite type of content from you. Keep it up man you're such an impressive competitor and equally impressive story teller.
I read the channel's description of "greatest Pokémon player of all time" and thought Wolfe was sarcastically gassing himself up, but I've watched the video and realized it is a realistic claim. Seriously, this man pulled something utterly badass with his accumulated knowledge and strategy, allowing him to break through and take the title he came for. Bravo.
It's half joking. He does not really think he is the best of all time, but often jokingly makes the joke of the "World champ difference", due to his 2014 win. He thinks the best is Aaron Zeng
When you have the competitive history he has you earn the right to make such a claim, joke or not.
He is definitely one of the best players, but probably not the best ever, ever.
@@otozinclus3593Idk, I personally have never seen Wolfe miss Will-o-Wisp
the guy’s at least top 2 all time, and much better currently than his only competition.
1:17:05 the part where he says "Kingambit survives" always gets me 😂
for some reason it reminds me of the gru plan meme
@@Cyberpunkninja92I think that’s the joke
As someone who doesn’t play Pokémon but loves watching your videos, you drawing on the screen to show the complexities of the turn is super helpful. Makes it so much easier to understand what the potential moves are with that visualization. Great video and congrats on the win!
Nicholas donnaldey is bros rival at this 3 times in one tournament is insane 💀
This is Nicholas’s arc where he loses to the current champion, he’ll come back after his training arc even stronger. Whether he’s the protagonist or the rival will be seen after.
@@Endershock1678 wolfe is Nicholas's Ray Rizzo fr
Once u lose to the same guy 3 times in one tournament you gotta take the L 😭
Going 0-3 against the same person isn’t much of a rivalry 😬
@@martinrios3546 neither is losing to ray Rizzo In the world finals 2 years in a row
You’re an inspiration, dude. Your videos never fail to move me after watching them. As a fellow competitor, albeit in a different game, I want to be just like you in terms of improving and competing. I’ve kinda moved past being fans of competitors since I’ve reached the point where competitors, even at the highest level, seem like normal people to me, and I truly believe everyone is beatable, but man am I a fan of yours
My dreams of worlds have fallen off as i stopped playing competitively, but watching your videos lets me live vicariously. Thank you wolfy :)
moral of the story.
*OYSTERS GIVE YOU POWER*
He really had the oyster buff
+10 intuition
Litten's dex entry: If you try too hard to get close to it, it won't open up to you. Even if you do grow close, giving it too much affection is still a no-no.
Seeing Wolfe and Incineroar come together like this feels like the Pokedex predicted this. XD
I have been timing wolfe to see how fast he mentions the world champ difference.
74 seconds. 1:14
Oh my god that was so good!! So happy you came back with a bang and really support the move of being less out there with ur pokemon. This team was truly peak wolfe with great meta picks and incredible twists on them that keep it fresh and provide incredibly entertaining matches.
This whole video was a massive experience. I was so tense the whole time! Loved the video and congrats on the win!!!!!
Oh GOD, even Wolfey's making Lobotomy Kaisen memes
Lobotomy Kaisen infected Wolfe
That's not lobotomy kaisen that's just JJK
ah yes my anti meta technique, i havent used this since the world champion diff era
Wolfe: Nah I'd win
(He actually won, *cough* Go/Jo)
@@HarmandeepSingh-fy5ztEasy there manga reader, anime onlys aren't ready for that yet
On the argument of oysters, they’re either for you or they’re not. There’s really no in between. If you’re ever open to trying them again, get charbroiled with lemon.
Sincerely,
A New Orleanian
I think he's never gonna eat Cloysters again, unfortunatly
I feel they can grow on you, buts it’s strange. I think tolerance of texture is a big part of it.
I’ve never had, but I love mussels. Are they similar? Never had a raw mussel btw
@@kefkapalazzo1
Not at all. Mussels are a lot more firm and a lot less slimy. Oysters are also more fishy in flavor.
@@Endershock1678 gotcha
Incineroar returns:
Wolfey:
The greatest.
What do I gotta pay for the dlc for this joke?
@@alwaysjordan7032did you not play the previous games ?
Live wolfey reaction: 55:33
28:00 Wait wait you're keeping the chi-yu WHERE
Like where’s that come from???
What does he mean by that lol
I'm a little late but ok. At the beginning of the video he said that the battles are recreations and are not completely accurate.
Luka looked so stressed like "I just avoided the boss music. Why is it back so soon?" His facial expressions are hilarious!
I love the drawings when you're describing your predictions they genuinely make it a lot easier to follow and they're just cute
everyone gangsta till wolfey decides to run meta
Dude is so good he's playing circles around himself and choking the lead
That's the world champ difference
Wolfey reading Mistborn, the absolute GOAT
Yooo someone else noticed
Mistborn is the catalyst to the cosmere, he is in for an amazing ride
What reference did he make? Or did he just say it and I missed it?
Real youtubists
Go to tourneys
This tourney
Features a funny giraffe
41:00 was the funniest thing I've ever witnessed 🤣🤣🤣 Props to your editor and your scrip Wolfey because that had me DYING 🤣
“I’ve been a big farigaraf believer” as a giraffe lover it makes me happy that a world champ likes the giraffe Pokémon
You know it won worlds right?
@@Fail_Inc I thought it came in second. Whoops! Welp the more you know
I was literally sweating watching this video. Especially at the end, playing the same opponent for not a second, but a THIRD time is wildly difficult mentally. The opponent in that case has nothing to lose and you have everything to lose. It was so cool seeing it go down to the wire like that. Great content and congratulations Wolfe!
This video is fantastic, so well written, the storyline of you using the top mons to take every advantage after using experimental mons for so long is great
Raising the bar of pokemon content, nothing unfriendly to the family necessary to do it, Wolfey is 100% my goat and I loved this video
For many years wolfeys been my favorite player and an inspiration in the way I play many games, as VGC was my first competitive game. Glad he's killing it content-wise too, thanks Wolfey 💯
Can we acknowledge how masterfully he wrote the narrative and paced this video. Having seen enough of his stuff we know he doesn't always win so the suspense kept me watching this video over multiple days. Well done on the win and the video wolf
Incredible job! I really enjoy these kinds of videos that are play by play analysis stories of your tournament runs! I don't know a ton about competitive pokemon but you present it in a way that is approachable, fun, and engaging! Congrats on the win!
55:34 , My man is just chilling while Wolfey is like staring down the computer , Nick mustve been Hella comfortable during that round 😂😂
That's just the World Champ diff of mindsets
NGL, Seeing nick so comfy and posing for the camera makes me feel like he is trying to and succeeding in rizzing up the stream
The annotations over the moves are phenomenal! Hope we see more of this style of editing! Especially the Incineroar drawing every time.
Me and a friend are both competitive players of a game I won't name. We've actually learned that taking a hiatus can actually improve decision making and play so long as proper derusting is done beforehand.
We've dubbed this "Break Strats" and even though most people are afraid to do it oftentimes we find ourselves breaking huge barriers after we reach our skill relative to before we left.
Always remember it's okay to take breaks and that sometimes it can even benefit you a lot, that I know for a fact applies to every competitive game from Chess to Pokémon.
Let me guess LOL?
@@Gravity_Ws_only No lmao I wish I had prize pools that large
How long of breaks do you often take?
@@avena7506 dang idk really know then,can you give a hint
@rileyackison4495 can be as short as two weeks or as long as a few months. Do it if you feel like trying too hard has left you stuck. You'll generally get back to how good you were before in a week and keep improving at least a little bit from my experience.
i’m not in the pokémon scene outside of my love for the show/games, but i love your channel, and this video really spoke to me. burn out is such a horrible experience, and i’m so glad you spoke on it. it’s so scary because the only way to move past it is to prioritize yourself, which is so scary when it feels like everyone else keeps moving forward. but we can’t compare ourselves/our journeys to those of other people, and we need to do what’s best for each of us. i loved that reminder in your video :)
I loved the part where Wolfey said "It's Incineroaring time" and proceeded to World Champ Difference all over the place.
The amount of thought that goes into team making seriously blows my mind. The thinking about the speed in the early video genuinely made me respect players so much more. I don't think I will be playing at this level but still watching it from the sidelines is so much fun. Respect for all the players and thanks for such a good video wolfe, huge fan.
"The King is back!" I love hearing that after Wolfey's win and I'm so glad the video included it. It wouldn't have felt right without it.
39:00 lmao idk why this part had me laughing hard asf 😂. the ogerpon was just sitting in the back lmao.
I really love your video Wolfey. Even I, a dude who only play 1 pokemon game can enjoy your competitive storytelling and understand the up and down in your strategy is wonderful. Congrats champ 🎉🎉🎉
was lowkey at the edge of my seat for this whole video... id never watched competitve pokemon before this and let me say this was INTENSE, but i was so happy when you won in the end. congratulations!!
Wolfe really has become an amazing storyteller. I put this video on expecting to have it in the background while I played a Nuzlocke and I didn't touch my game once in ninety minutes. My heart is racing rn. Great job and congrats on the W Wolfe.
8:40 This is such a raw line lol
can we just appreciate Wolfe's drawings? especially his Incineroar is actually really good, which I guess is a testament to his PTSD ig
It’s also much more impressive than you think; he has something called aphantasia, which means he *has* no mental image. When you imagine something, you “see” it in your mind’s eye - he straight-up doesn’t.
It also means he can’t self-reference when drawing, if you draw something you make a mental image and copy from how that looks.
Of course, it doesn’t affect his cognitive skills, clearly, but it very much affects his ability to draw. Those Incineroars were a marked improvement for him (and also explains why the Flutter Manes looked a bit more like rabbits than ghosts)
My editor Whit made all the drawings for the diagrams! He’s very talented
@@WolfeyVGC You two make a powerful combo then! Like a Torkal and a Walking Wake, really lets your already-great stats shine and boosts your moves!
@WolfeyVGC radical red 4.1 is near, any intentions to do another playthrough?
@@WolfeyVGCI seen you in mobile game ad
Even without using "bad pokemon" your teams are still prety revolutionary, of course part of it is meta, but even following the meta, half of your team is pretty unique. And that's probably what makes you win so much, people just don't know how to play against your crazy ideas.
3:59 “rilla - av wh fo gg u-t tera fire” I know it’s just abbreviating a common rillaboom set but it’s still really funny to me
This was a ridiculously good showing. Genuinely world class. It goes to show that a control heavy team that can play with hard reads is the best for you, compared to hyper offense or defense teams. The amount of outplays with armor tail, grassy terrain, trick room and parting shots was off the charts.
Also good to see you tackled one of your main weaknesses, not being able to use Urshifu.
28:01 "I used the fake out to keep the Chi-Yu in gay baby jail"
Him saying that caught me so off guard. I died.
@@Battlefield2021 I had to rewind to make sure I heard him right lmao
@@arininquotes8396its an old meme
@@arininquotes8396 Relatively old speedrunning meme that basically translates to "softlock" or for pokemon battles specifically is akin to "all my friends are dead syndrome" where a pokemon is effectively neutralized and just stuck watching its teammates get double targeted while it can't really do anything but watch.
Wining 3 - 0 in a best of 2 tournament is a new level of skill.
now THAT'S the world champ difference
Really enjoyed how you laid out your thought process with the arrows and the (silly yet accurate) Pokémon drawings. Helped a ton to explain how necessary it is to not just think about the Pokémon on the field, but to think about the Pokémon that could be on the field next turn or the turn after. Appreciate the high level analysis and congrats on the W king!
he chill like that
16:10 Trick room sets up Trick room 🤯🤯🤯
I paused the video to write a comment, and I happened to pause it when it was at 69 players. Skill or luck? Yes.
So what was the original comment
@@notafish8229this comment
@@notafish8229 “Yes! I love these videos to watch in the background as I edit. The way you present things makes it soooooo nice to listen to!”
Cringe comment? Yes.
@@xdferocious6016 Yes it is!
Wolfe did some crazy calculations regarding speed in this tournament, its very impressive
41:01 this is the greatest part of any video I’ve ever seen
this is quite possibly the best video you’ve ever made my man. keep up the hard work it’s showing !!
I have not been so emotionally invested in something as this video in years. YOU ROCK!!!!
Just started the vid, excited for this *movie* of a vid.
Been playing VGC for such a long time and I'm really happy to see what Wolfey has accomplished with content creation.
Kinda wild to come from a time when people only watched TV and all content was made by studios. UA-cam and streaming didn't exist, my family was excited to get a computer in our house. Now I never watch TV, and individuals online create high quality feature length videos about my interests and hobbies that I can watch on UA-cam. Really crazy
Television is all propaganda and brainwashing these days anyway.
First time attending a vgc tournament in general. Did not expect to see wolfey but me and my friend were so stoked and stayed to watch his win. So happy for you man, looking forward to seeing you at worlds
16:24 Damn Wolfy's so good he unlocked the secret 584 ev cap
The world champ difference
do you know what the EV's actually were?
@@zephyrlegion6047that's what *I* wanna know lol
@@zephyrlegion6047okay so I just found the link to the pokepastes page with the stats turns out it's 108 HP meaning he actually left 4 ev unused I guess so if his speed IV were to low he could add the extra evs there to hit that 78 speed?
@@DuelingDexpertsit's because at level 50, if you invest into an even number of stats, you will always end up with 4 points remaining. Normally you could put them into another stat (as the first 4 points are enough to get a stat up) but in this case, there was no stat left that he could invest in (speed was out of the question). So the points were simply a leftover.
I was straight up sobbing at the end. Not ~shed a cute tear~...I was crying. I relate hard to the feeling of burnout* and it was so heartwarming to hear about a moment of clarity where the excitement returns and you go all in and it all pays off in the end and everything is right. I know it's super random, but thanks for giving me this overwhelming feeling of "some things just turn out alright"
*(I'm an emergency medicine resident witnessing human suffering and trying to help people struggling within a difficult to navigate (at best) healthcare system and I'm just coming off an overnight shift so this is coming out of a somewhat delirious haze)
Amazing video, the explanations of everything are fantastic and the turn by turn diagrams were fantastic. Every time I watch one of these videos it fires me up to try competitive Pokémon. Keep up the awesome work Wolfe and team!
49:20 i say this with the most venom i can possibly muster. How incredibly embarassing for Game Freak.
For any other company this would be horrible and get immediate apologies and dev attention if you couldn't fkn play the game you bought AT THEIR TOURNAMENT but it's pokemon so it's fine ig
the gholdengo edits with the music "come and get that music - baseboosted" never fails to make me laugh XD
That 77 and 78 speed is such a great example of super high level team building and the impact it could have on a tournament run shows me i still have a long way to go building my teams. For a goodstuffs balance team there is an iceberg of depth beneath the surface as to why decisions were made. Wow.
Nick: “let’s go against Wolfey!”
“Err aw dang it”
“Err aw dang it”
“Err aw dang it”
I like the pause and red pen explanation of the move possibilities/internal monologue! Very useful to see what’s going on