What got you into competitive Pokemon?

This is super important because I feel like the majority of VGC content is geared towards other VGC players. Great way to get more people into the game!

Really appreciate a video like this. I've been watching pokemon on and off for years but a lot of the competitive videos I've checked out go in with a lot of assumptions about everyone's knowledge level. Great work!

I really love this guide. I was already smiling halfway because of how beginner friendly you're wording everything. I love how you directed them towards the resources as well. The don't be afraid of losing and keep practicing part was the most important for me. I got to learn a lot by going against different teams in the ladder. Eventually, you can kinda tell what certain gimmicks the team would feature based on their composition. The VGC community has really expanded because tera is such a great mechanic. And guides like these encourage more people to join in on the fun. Great vid! 💖

Awesome guide! Not new to battling (Singles & 3v3) But new to VGC competitive. But it's styll a great vid to watch! 👌🏾 Great way to bring in new eyes! 👍🏾

I started playing vgc about 5 months ago and I can't get enough lol so much fun

Not a beginner but happy to see this type of content to reground the basics.

Great Guide! As for me? Well... 🤔 I played against friedns when I first played years ago. I stopped after Gen 4, and came back around Pokemon Sw/Sh, figuring I'd just be a casual fan. My friends I played with had long since stopped and I did not follow VGC at all. (For that matter, wasn't even fully aware of VGC!) This stayed apace when I started Pokemon Scarlet. I got REALLY into Tera Raids, and in my search for more info, etc on them, KZfaq started recommending me VGC vids! Got my start with Cybertron and Pokesports, and in turn, that got me brave enough to try! Here I am, and glad I did. The friends and experiences have been *fantastic!*

Excellent guide for beginners. Start here!

Great Guide, can only recommend this for any beginner!

Yippee! I wanna get into comp so badly but it’s just so big and scary :0

Btw bro, can you make an "Advanced/Masters Guide for VGC Players" video next plz?¿‽ 🙏🏾 I think others would agree wit me! Tips for ppl like me, who play VGC, but aren't on Wolfie & Zhang levels yet. Explaining more things like; - When to Tera vs When to hold off. - In-depth EVing. - Flow-charting. - Predicting your opp. Etc...

Nice guide, a big problem that i have as a beginner, is understanding teams and knowing how to lead or analyse the enemies team. Any advice other than watching pros, like online guides for teams?

Could you maybe explain some of the more popular teams/restricted pokemon and how to play them? I'd really like to get into VGC but idk what team would be the best for a beginner to learn the fundamentals without being overwhelmed

Instructions unclear, I now have 100 losses and 0 wins. I'm serious.

good video

So I got a copy of shield that I'm just now about to beat. I'm planning on getting a copy of violet and a couple of the older games at some point. But just with my copy of shield, where do I start for competitive?

So I'm going to break this down for people that are having a hard time digesting First off about the EVS it's 510 points that can go into a single Pokemon but only 250 in a single stat therefore you only want to apply points into the Pokemon's stats that have closer to 250, let's call that talent stats the non-talent stats will be a lot weaker and and more punishing if boosted. There's also adjusters for stats. Feathers berries and vitamins some increase some decrease and some do other wonky stuff. My assumption is that you can actually remove a base starting stats to a negative and use that to create a positive in another stat area. Then there's attitude type stats which can be altered which saves you the time and energy from breeding constantly and not getting the right stat or getting the right attitude or both. And when training in the wild you want to only have one Pokemon on you because this can affect the EV training of your other Pokemon Finally you're probably worried about abilities affects and other stuff right. It's very daunting to and very overwhelming to learn about every single ability and every single stats this will take many years of playing or a long hours of playing so don't worry about it. Think of it like this It's like playing magic a gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh you don't read every single card in your deck no you read as you play so what I'm saying is you draw five cards you read each an individual card in your hand over time you start to learn your deck and over time you start to learn about the gimmicks and the trickery that you can play. And as you get more and more advanced you probably want to build your second team then a third team and then the fourth team and then the 5th and then you'll have a six and then the 17th team eventually you'll have build up 100 different teams so don't worry building teams is the whole point of the game once you learn about all the Pokemon and abilities and stuff you can then probably end up start mixing and matching and playing with Corky things making it unique to you and your own play style I think the Pokemon game and game freak should actually incorporate more gems and more things into the system to help teach people about advanced playing mechanics. With voice acting and talking instead of reading and texting. It'd be kind of interesting to have special limited edition type of Pokemon inside of certain things like or have certain TMS locked away or certain things locked away behind educational type things. But if you previously played a game you can actually instantly unlock these things I think this type of feature would actually greatly help people get into the meta

I am trying make sneasler or lucario work (for sneasler thinking incineroar, ogerpon-wellspring and as restricted either koraidon or dawn-wing necrozma/lunala b but im unsure if i should use miraidon instead and just have electric seed on sneasler) , is it possible without needing something like tornadus, whimsicott, indeedee or type of support pokemon? i dont seem see anyway get those pokemons work without tailwind or trickroom or something else similar. But this is very informative and fun video. Keep doing good job!

This moght be a dumb question but how do you get these downloaded and edited since it seems you play the game itself not like a shogon showdown type thing just curious i know x box and PlayStation have like a live record thing built in but i havent seen with switch im just a noob so not trying to become a content creator but would be nice to know

is Doubles the standard/most played format? Or Singles?

Is this worth getting into if you find the gameplay of the regular game kinda slow and boring? Wanna try comp out but don’t wanna have to beat the game

why is it that not all the pokemon on your teams are lvl 100?

I don’t even know what VGC stands for but I’m good at Pokémon. How do I start? How do I play VGC?

sike *hmmpph*