I’m Still Trynna Figure Out Why Tf He Used Surging Strikes On Amoongus ??! 😂

@@melvondrewhite2674 rage powder?

​@@melvondrewhite2674He needed the chip damage to kill Amoonguss with dragapult Tera Blast Ghost. With Chien Pao on the field that would be enough but Shohei played it very well and switched Chien-Pao out to Urshifu and Amoonguss survived. That was Top Level VGC from both.

@@melvondrewhite2674 Would have killed if shohei didn't switch out his chien-pao

@@angovgc2371 Guys Look At @20:35 If He Ice-Punches Amoongus & Choice Band Tera Ghost With Dragapult That Would’ve Taken It Out . Chien-pao Has NOTHING To Do With That . 😂

I mean with this meta Farigiraf was the only unconventional Pokémon but still some pretty unique choices. Dragapult actually won NAIC if I remember correctly so it was a good call

sorry but its spell michael

@@pokeflirt so it is!

@@TehWhiteTiger excuse me for being like that but yeh

yeah we saw where german pride leads, better you stay humble after losing.

@@BatmanPooping lol. lmao even.

​@@BatmanPoopingwhat is even wrong with you? touch grass buddy

@@BatmanPoopingStfu and go back to pooping….what a ridiculous comment. People that did fight in world wars would have whooped your pooping device by now if they’d hear you talk.

​@@BatmanPoopingI highly doubt anyone will take "Batman Pooping" seriously. Might as well stop while you're ahead.

I saw that as well, weird visual glitch I guess

I was confused as to how he spores a supposedly sleeping Pokémon

That and background structures kept popping in and out, sometimes it showed the wrong trainers. Worlds looked patched together this year

It's a very well known bug (at least in my bubble). It's there since the release of the games! If a Pkmn is going to sleep at the end of the turn you're able to see it after everyone choses their moves.

Gotcha. I don't actually have the game unfortunately, I just watch the occasional match, so I didn't know. Thanks@@Leuler89

Almans stick together 🤝🏻💪🏻

Or just add sleepy status from pla

Or just remove spore from Amoongus. That op move should've stayed with Parasect and Breloom. Should've never been put on a tanky mon because that's where it is oppresive. Hell, not even Darkrai, who has an ability that makes enemy pokemon lose HP if they're asleep, has a 100% acc move (I know it can target both in vgc).

@@TheTriforcekeeper i mean looking at the move pool loss I can see gen 10 ammongus loosing spore lmfao

Isn’t that what electric surge is for tho , but you’re right if helping hand could wake up sleeping Pokémon that be good , or add a move called jump start making a sleeping Pokémon move first and uses a random move

There's a million counters against sleep. But everyone uses the exact same builds, so it appears as though Spore is the most impactful move with no answers.

Probably the only good thing about a meta with Miraidon

Chien Pao will be more meta then because of Ice Spinner, which gets rid of any terrain

its honestly something im excited for, its the only reason violet paradox mons aren't dominanting rn its because it's the only electric terrain setter

@@stonefacecollin what about my boy pincurchin

When are we getting that meta exactly?

I still don't know what they were thinking when they decided to give Amoonguss Pollen Puff of all things.

Unova Pokemon are amazing at VGC to be honest if you take a look.

@@lionel1189 Yeah true the genies too are so good. Are there any others from Unova?

@@ShivJ16 Gothitelle, Conkeldurr, Hydreigon, Whimsicott, Keookodile all have won world championships

Not against me hehe. All of my teams in my now 10-season career have anti-status. Safeguard, Misty Terrain, Fini obv during the SM era. Speaking of which my Safeguard boys are finally returning in DLC #2 :D .

I’m Still Trynna Figure Out Why Tf He Used Surging Strikes On Amoongus ??! 😂

He probably would have lost match one if icicle crash didnt flinch rilla. 2nd he clearly lost, a third one would have been great. Anyways, gz to Japan.

@@felixgohler3533 Yep EASY💯

He needed the chip damage to kill Amoonguss with dragapult Tera Blast Ghost. With Chien Pao on the field that would be enough but Shohei played it very well and switched Chien-Pao out to Urshifu and Amoonguss survived. That was Top Level VGC from both.

It's even in the first game, where Dragapult uses Dragon Darts.

Thought the same

Yeah, Heatran and Rillaboom to lead would cover for water Terra amoongus and chien pow

Well the opponent had urshifu, lando n iron hands which all do well vs heatran as well as chien pao to threaten tera grass heatran. Probably didn't want to waste his tera on heatran

​@@Kiyotaka_Ishigaminahh incineroar is coming back in the 2nd dlc and it wants its 4th win. Why use any other fake out pokemon than it?

One safety goggles…

There is no chance he got up to this point in the tournament (while only dropping a single game) without facing Amoongus at least a couple of times, so it's safe to assume he just cracked under the pressure of this set. I mean imagine playing your first finals at the World Championships lol

Agree. I think Michael's biggest mistake in game 2 was to not put Rillaboom in the four.

This was just him getting unlucky game 1 and cracking under the pressure game 2, no one is going 14-1 without being able to play around amoonguss, very ignorant comments

@El_Kanto I'm aware of that he would have had to have beaten it many times, we just didn't see it. Maybe he had many tools to beat it but played poorly? I just didn't want to say it. I would say, at best he had some mons that were 50/50 against it but he had no mons that completely pressured it. It was just hard to watch him being completely dominated by 1 pokemon.

The game probably calculates the outcome of the turn instantly upon all the moves being locked in, so the game already knew Urshifu was going to sleep. I guess it's just a bug that the game starts showing the ZZZ effect as soon as it calculates that, rather than waiting until the turn is actually played out in real time for the player.

They don't do that anymore... 😔 We never will have epic music again it seems

These are dark times.

With the Indigo Disk DLC reintroducing all the Gen 5 music, perhaps there's a tiny chance we get a remix of the finals music, which was first introduced in Gen 5. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

Japanese players always win no matter what country their in because this game originates in their home country and they play a lot. At least that’s how it seems to me based on videos I’ve watched and things I’ve read.

​@@suekitty1335 Japan has 4 masters division worlds wins and the US also has 4 3 of which were Ray Rizzo

Isn't sleep clause only a fan rule?

@@sirmel11 sleep clause originates from the ancient official RBY tournaments

Oh really? I didn't know that. Thank you. @@zak0917

Did you not see game 1? He was going to most likely win without the flinch

Even if the Heatran had tera grass, Michael probably did not feel comfortable with bringing Heatran up against Landorus, Urshifu, and Iron Hands altogether. Terrastralizing Heatran only makes it more vulnerable to Chien-Pao as well.

The flinch really mattered in G1 as it instantly went from being in Michael's favor to Shohei's, but that's part of the game. Michael had a 30% chance to lose the game and it happened.

O thought that too but then again he somehow got through Day 1 and 2 and probably faced a bunch of them and beat them.

The Heatran likely had tera grass, but against Landorus, Urshifu, Iron Hands, and Chien-Pao altogether, I don't think he felt comfortable bringing Heatran. Even though Michael lost G1 to the flinch, I honestly think his biggest mistake was not bringing Rillaboom in G2, but sometimes these luck factors can drastically affect your mental state during a set. Had Micheal maintained his composure and figured out how not to play G2 tilted, we probably would have had a G3 tbh.

Sleep clause doesn't exit in all doubles

Yes.

i wanna see jirachi in vgc tbh, it has an absurd support move pool and theres also serene grace

nah, incineroar

@@Kiyotaka_Ishigamibecause of the leak sadly

I agree with not bringing Rillaboom as a mistake on Michael's end, but I actually agree with him not bringing Heatran. Against Landorus, Iron Hands, and water Urshifu altogether, I wouldn't have felt comfortable bringing in Heatran if I were in his shoes. Plus, if the Heatran were Tera grass, it gets more vulnerable to Chien-Pao and knowing how well Shohei supports it, bringing in Heatran would have been way too risky in my book.

@@seta_souji I see what you're saying but I think it would've really changed the dynamic because the threat of a Heatran tera puts immense pressure on Shohei to play extremely sharply. Heatran/Rillaboom basically invalidates amoongus (assuming tera grass) and iron hands, urshifu, chien pao still have to correctly call if heatran will tera or not (t-grass beats hands or urshifu, and chien-po has to use ice move assuming heatran will tera or a neutral move assuming heatran will NOT tera). There's just a good mix of counterplay, offensive pressure, and mind games (and most importantly you're no longer in the position of amoongus just rolling through your team). In any case, it's so much easier to say in hindsight. He played amazingly

I think he tried to predict a switch

@@tobysceptiman7058 Sucker Punch doesn't work on Pokemon that are switched in.

He was just trying to flex

@@sdtrawick yes, but what if it was for the Pokémon that didn’t switch

stream production has been medciore this worlds surprisingly

Yup, this I agree with 100%. Had Michael 1) maintained his composure and not be tilted, and 2) brought Rillaboom, we probably would have had a G3. Adding on the mental aspect, I think he was afraid of the same thing happening to his Rillaboom during G1 which is likely why he didn't bring it for G2, but it was overall a really good pick for the match up. I hope Michael learns from this and puts on a consistent performance in the future. Him coming from Smogon singles with this season as his first is already a big deal, and using a slightly more unconventional team means he has a lot of knowledge of beating highly used mons.

Michael has always been very emotional

@@tobias9790Examples?

I don't use it because it has a dumb face... Yeah i,m a simple guy with a simple mind. Beat that opinion Mr.I Use Meta Because Everyone Does.

@@ManDyter are u a competitive player?

@@comotelevu6958 For that exact reason i just mentioned im not.

@@ManDyter fair enough, it's fun using explosion in double battles next to a ghost ally though.

How do you mean? How did shohei cheat, maybe just a translation thing, but how did he cheat. The tournament had very strict checks for all pokemon even for gen pokemon, people were quickly dq'ed

⁠@@Rey-zd4polate reply, but shohei’s amoonguss was hacked and has 0 attack iv while it shouldve had 18 ivs

Abilities are always allowed

This is only the second time Lando has won worlds

Among uss

Maybe because there wasn't any viable/legal mon with those abilities

Welcome to VGC. We have Amoongus, Urshifu, Lando-T and Flutter Mane at your disposal. Expect Incineroar, Smeargle and Xerneas in the future.

Just ban spore, most stupid move in the entire game

there are answers to the amoongus. just that 1 player played extremely poorly. amoongus is usually the slowest thing on the field. heattran can 1 hit KO it teras@@tommasopenati9635

@@tommasopenati9635 Spore becomes less relevant with the return of Whim and Meowstic in DLC 2. Though against me, it was always irrelevant since I ran anti-status teams. lol

Yeah... just watched this one back to back with last year's VGC masters finals and it's night and day. No in-game music, an awful and underdeveloped format which made the plays uninteresting to watch, and the casters were so much better last year too, not to disrespect these casters, they did fine.

@@nyromath2195 yeah clearly some room to grow in the viewing experience side of VGC. They definitely have the capital to do it right.