“I have a perfect counter to Miradon!” Doesn’t encounter a single miraidon the whole tournament.

1:05 In a video about entering a tournament with raichu, it takes 65 seconds for incineror to appear

"Fulfills the prophecy you can't ride your bike here" low key goes hard

No lie, the visual of Raichu running through the dematerialization gate from portal and losing its event move is genius. These editors man

Icicle Crash Flinch Icicle Crash Flinch Icicle Crash Flinch into Icicle Crash Miss is the biggest RNG roller coaster ride I’ve ever been on

Hi guys, I was Wolfey's top 16 opponent in this wideo :) First off, I wanna say I'm super grateful to have played Wolfey and was very happy to have had a good showing regardless of the loss. I have been playing VGC since 2015, and Wolfey has been a huge inspiration to me, so playing against him was super special! For anyone that is interested, I wanted to present some of my thoughts and perspective on the set to show off what the opponents side was thinking: **FULL RANT THAT IS WAY TOO LONG AHEAD** My full team was Calyrex-Ice, Gholdengo, Amoonguss, Incineroar, Pelipper, and Raging Bolt Game 1: My plan was to get a Nasty Plot off on Gholdengo, and try to protect it the entire game. Gholdengo was one of my best answers against Zamazenta and I didn't want to lose it. On turn 1, I honestly wasn't expecting him to Fake Out + Nasty Plot because I could have just went for Nasty Plot as well, I also wanted to weaken Incineroar so that it didn't do too much damage to Gholdengo, so I went for Parting Shot. I don't have too much else to say about game 1, I played well, but was caught completely off guard by how much damage metal coat Gholdengo did, knocking out my Amoonguss and setting up a KO onto Gholdengo from Incineroar. The game 1 plan was flawed because even though Gholdengo is good into Zamazenta, he also has two dark types and a lot of ways to deal with it. Game 2: My game 2 plan was perfect. I expected him to lead the same, and I countered with Pelipper and Calyrex-Ice. My plan was to set up Trick Room and ruin Wolfey's momentum by dealing a lot of damage and removing threats, before bringing in Gholdengo to KO Zamazenta in the end game. One thing that happened was me getting the KO onto Gholdengo with Weather Ball, I was expecting that because my Pelipper was max special attack. The biggest highlight of this game was me getting a crit confuse onto Zamazenta with Hurricane, and to be completely honest I didn't want the confusion because I wanted to have Amoonguss + Gholdengo in after Trick Room ended. In the end the crit confuse didn't even matter. He hit himself once, when I double protected, and the crit didn't matter because I was able to set up a Zamazenta 1v1 against my Gholdengo. Game 3: My game plan was decent, but had flaws, and my execution was horrible. I predicted him to lead Chien Pao, which was right, so at least I got that, and turn 1 went fair enough. But the turn where I went for Parting Shot was such a misplay because Wolfe didn't even have to switch into Gholdengo, he could have just protected Chien Pao and would have OHKO'd my Incineroar. After that play, I had little chance of winning because I didn't have much of a way to deal with Gholdengo and the rest of his team was too much without my Incineroar. Looking back on game 3, I think I should have left Gholdengo behind, and brought the Pelipper again, knowing that it was such a driving force in game 2. Anyways anyone who actually read this until the end is awesome, and you should definitely sub to Wolfey if you haven't already :)

28:46 “Imma just go to Chien Pao, I’ll figure it out later” World Champion btw

As someone who has to include Kanto Raichu on every team, I appreciate seeing the GOAT bring back the GOAT. 👍

As soon as I heard that Miraidon was dominating a few weeks after reg G started, I immediately thought "why don't people just bring back Raichu? It's already proven itself several times through VGC's history as an amazing mon to stop an Electric sweeper from going out of control" and, now, here we are. Neat

Pokemon is the only game where you get to beat up raging fire cat wrestlers with electric rats competitively. I love it for that.

49:12 "What am I Chappell Roan? Cuz I didn't quite think this through babyy"

Miridon: I am inevitable. Tera-Fairy lightning rod Raichu: I’m about to end this Mon’s whole career.

"This is an investment for later." *paralysis* "This is an investment for now"😂 Absolutely killed me 😂

It's genuinely so cute seeing him say "I missed you, my friend" to Raichu

Bad RNG happens to Wolfe: *All around me are familiar faces* Good RNG happens to Wolfe: *YEA-HYEAAAAAH!*

Fulfill the prophecy “You cannot ride your bike here” made me laugh out loud 🤣 great dry delivery

Dude I'm so stoked to see Zamazenta slay in a format where its not overshadowed by sword dog. I love that big dinner plate face

Fun fact, I won this tournament with Helping Hand Koraidon, and was the guy using it on stream at NAIC. (I sadly didnt get to face Wolfey tho)

Body Press is coded weirdly. It is calced based on the pokémon's unmodified defence stat, rather than its attack, and defence stat boosts or drops, rather than boosts or drops to attack. In all other ways it is treated like an ordinary physical attack: it's affected by any modifiers to "attack", e.g. it's raised by holding a choice band or having huge power, it's reduced by burn or tablets of ruin, and it's *not* affected by holding an eviolite or any modifier to defence. Very scuffed move, but not the first time this has happened (foul play's damage is reduced if the user is burned, for example).

The Endeavor reveal is top tier, I had to rewind it because I was so caught off guard

Wolfe mid game talking is the anime protagonist thinking their going to lose then pull through from the power of friendship.

This team may have been designed to take on Miraidon, but it really is the Terapagos destroyer with body press, double fake out, and wide guard

Prof oak "you cannot drive your bike here" was so unexpected and absolutely the funniest Pokemon joke ever written

It’s so interesting they way miraidon made its way into the meta by being an unaccounted for threat, and now raichu rising to counter it. The meta is ever-shifting.

Nerd here. If I had to take a guess as to how body press works, this is my two cents. This is just a theory so take this with a grain of salt. Short explanation: Body Press is weird and ignores certain abilities that affect stats. Long explanation: It's 2018, and Sword/Shield is in development. They've come up with a smashing new idea for a move: Body Press. It flips the entire combat system on its head by using the Pokémon's Defense stat as if it were its attack. But the Pokémon Company doesn't want to rebuild their entire combat system from the ground up to factor in defensive stats as offensive ones, so they take the lazy route: the move simply substitutes stats when calculating Body Press. That is, it looks at the user's Defense stat, and just makes it the attack stat for that attack, and then resets it, which is much simpler than recoding the combat system to use defense stats as attacks when it would only be useful for one move on a few Pokémon. However, The Pokémon Company immediately notices a problem with this: Huge/Pure Power. Your Defense stat shouldn't affected by huge power in theory, but in practice, substituting the Defense stat into the Attack stat onto a pokemon with Huge/Pure Power would incorrectly double the attacking stat of that Pokémon. So, their simple solution is just to have Body Press ignore abilities that passively affect stats. In Gen 8, that's only Gorilla Tactics, Solar Power, Battery, Power Spot, Flower Gift, and Huge/Pure Power, none of which affect the Defense stat, so it works. In Gen 9, the Ruinous abilities come into existence and GameFreak doesn't factor this in, so it creates weird jank. If you want to prove it for yourself, Protosynthesis is an ability which passively boosts your stats. Body Press ignores Protosynthesis as well.

The king is back (Raichu that is).

I LOVE these long videos! The mix of general narration, ingame battles with commentary, just overall funny bits and nice editing are so enjoyable to have on while I'm doing mindless tasks (e.g. breeding for shinies).

Original Thumbnail time! I’ll need to keep a bank of each of the iterations. V1 - Little Miraidon overtaken by large, imposing Raichu I’ll keep the lost updated to the best of my ability.

Unlike raichu, watching your recent content isn’t a big endeavor at all. I miss the YouTubist stuff but I love how striking and well edited the content is now. Watching hour-thirty minute long videos seem really easy with how easily they get me hooked. Thanks for partially curing my brainrot wolfey

Wolfey: makes a video on how strong Miraidon is Also Wolfey: immediately makes another video showing off how to counter it with a mouse 😂

Wolfy should do a tournament with slither wing, its suprisingly good, first impression, close combat, u turn and earthquake are really strong and its a good way to catch people off guard :3

The reason that sword of ruin doesn’t reduce body press damage is that, other than direct modifiers like you get from swords dance and iron defense, Body Press is affected by attack stuff, not defense stuff. So, like, it’s boosted by choice band but not fur coat.

Bros got more sidequests than legends arceus💀

Prof oak "you cannot drive your bike here" was so unexpected and absolutely the funniest Pokemon joke ever written 😂

Finally,a tournament video It's been 9000 years

Ive rarely played VGC, but man I had fun with Raichu recently, entering T500 in showdown VGC with barely any experience outside watching it. And Raichu was huge for it. Used ur WC Raichu as inspiration, nice to see that you used it again. Fake out, helping hand, nuzzle and Encore (for protect / calm mind users like terapagos) is what I used. Max speed hp and with a sash. Rest of my team : Tera Fairy Kyogre (counters raging bolt and miraidon w Raichus Helping Hand and Ice Beam, same as ur tera idea) Rillaboom (Average AV Tera Water set) Moltres Galar (Black Glasses Sucker Punch one hits Caly S with max speed and hp + Tailwind is nice, hurricane in rain is nice too, black glasses +1 fiery wrath in tailwind next to Kyogre waterspout sweeped teams and poison is also a great tera with synergy to dark) Farigiraf (trick room control if need + fake out block helps) Urshifu Rapid Strike (Scarf Tera Water with Kyogre rain cooked)

Every time Raichu does anything Wolfe: 😂😂😂😂

52:57 lmao after all those flinches

Wolfe laughing maniacally because of para is so funny omg

Seeing Raichu (my favorite Pokémon) get so much love and climbing back up in competitive makes me so happy

I love how Wolfe continues to underestimate Zamazenta, a legendary, and be surprised when they take over half damage.

I did not expect the Chappel Roan reference out of Wolfe, but I'm happy to hear it :) xD

Haven’t watched one of these long-form videos for a while so I didn’t realise just how much better the commentary is! I’ve always loved the commentary style anyway but the confidence and the delivery has obviously been worked on and honed. Nice!

“What am I? Chappell Roan? Cause I quite didn’t think it through” good taste from world champ!

Fun fact: everybody commenting hasn't finished the video yet edit: They should have finished by now.

you know its a good day when wolfey uploads a 2 hour video. Its the world champ difference afterall

Ooh I was waiting for this to be turned into a short video!

I came back to this video for the third time now. I really love your tournament videos. They are so much fun to watch!

Tournament viiiidddeeeooooo Sidenote I love these videos esp the part where he explains the team and their roles

When I saw that you chose Zamazenta as your restricted pokemon, I cheered out loud. I'm so happy that one of my favorite pokemon ever is now one of the top pokemon after being completely humiliated in sword and shield. THANK YOU WOLFEY

Thanks for the many hours that go into such high quality vids. Hope to see Pokeon Vgc continue to thrive!

wolf's game announcer voice and chatting makes watching these tourne videos so fun

Wolfy: "oooh noo, I used this Pokemon to become a world champion. But it had a special move it couldn't learn.😫😫😭😭" Also wolfy:"Well anyways now it can🤫🧏‍♂️"

0:01 IS THAT FINLAND!? SUOMI MAINITTU!!!

7 months away from generation 10 announcement trailer, so excite. Goodluck at the world championship!

I love these kind of videos!! I love to watch you play the game competitively. I hope to see more! Oh I also love the who’s the best in each type. Keep it up.

49:09 peak recognizes peak 😌

Wolfe really out here making a counter to a pokemon he put into the meta 💀

These are so addicting to watch lol good story telling

Love the content!! The breakdown for each pokemon and its moves, ability, IVs/EVs, and items are so awesome. Love to learn from the master!!

Wolfey: best player in the world by far and does Pokémon for a living Also wolfey: “archaludon has eyes?”

hey wolfe i just wanted to say thank you for the content output recently. i've not been doing well mentally but every time you post a video it's like a break from everything i have going on and it's a big help. i appreciate all the effort you put in. keep it up

Ahahahah! That Prof Oak joke absolutely sent me, well played sir!

this thumbnail is everything, I love it

Despite playing pokemon all my life, I didn't ever try competitive until sword and shield. One of my favorite pokemon has always been Raichu and I had someone with knowledge help me build a team and it had Raichu on it with lightning rod, fake out, focus sash etc. This was when Kyogre was king. That little mouse shut down so many teams and helped get me into Masters. So cool years later to see the little guy back in action!

4:16 how does a warning not to use a bike sounds so ominous

These type of videos are my comfort food type of video. So cozy, so fun, you just wanna gobble it up.

The quality of these videos is just at an insane level right now. I got served a Covid time wideo yesterday and it’s hard to believe this is the same channel lol

So youre why i see this on ladder already, after 2 hours.

It takes 1:05 for incineroar to appear in the raichu video

I'm so happy to see a video about Raichu :)

“What am I, Chappel Roan? ‘Cuz I didn’t quite think this through, baby!” 💀

Good thumbnail with Raichu, hope the artist gets linked in the description (:

7:34 it's because the damage is calculated like: zam's def turns into atk, THEN sword of ruin applies after

I really like these long ahh videos. Very fun to see you using mons you don't use as often.

Shoutcasting while playing at a high level. Excellent video!

Your videos are a breath of fresh air, always enjoy watching

Algorithm Boost

I love Wolfey’s video. I not only learn things I didn’t before, he’s just entertaining with his comments, editing, and personality. Sometimes I use it as background noise as it’s perfect for my ears.

Always love seeing Wolfey's interesting choices for tourneys

finally a wolfie video! I’ve been browsing this channel for what feels like everyday

Your channel is like the irl hall of fame 😂 documenting your battles and such 😮

i loved the chappell roan reference 😭🩷

Finally, someone who appreciates nuzzle’s 100% accurate paralyze

Love the editing on this video :)

Just wanted to say thank you for all these amazing videos, if it wasn't for you I never would of gotten into competitive pokemon and it's been such a fun experience

49:12 The random Chappell Roan stannings okayyy we see u wolfey

You're on a legendary run with those fire videos

Kirby squeak squad music used, I love you

I watched the entire video already, good stuff 👍🏻

KZfaq wont stop recommending, fine I’ll watch

The way you basically commentate your own gameplay like a shout caster is the secret sauce. I know nothing about competitive Pokemon but I am never confused and makes it so easy to follow along with the intricacy.

Thanks for the early Saturday video. Perfect for getting the day started, cheers from the west coast 👍

watching the zamazenta section with that ominous sound in background at 3 am is definitely an experience

My favorite thing about competitive pokémon is that it's really just one layer of reality away, if pokémon were real almost nothing would change in how people talk about VGC and I find that fascinating and very funny

"am i chappel roan cuz i didn't quite think it through" was unexpected but lovely

That "You can't ride your bike here" at 3:53 freaking sent me and gave me flashbacks 😂😂😂

4:16 was low key the worst joke i heard in a while and i loved it hahaha

The fart noise on the fourth paralysis got me

Just as I get on a train for an hour. Your timing is perfect. ❤