NJ11

What a whirlwind week! I came into this competition with very limited preparation as a result of long work hours. I’m happy I was able to identify Regieleki, Lando-I, and Calyrex Ice Rider as a potent core that works and adapts well in such a volatile format. Overall it was a blast working on this team and several adaptations of it over the last few months with @BaarsKaasVGC and @JamesWBaek! Thanks to Team Canada for all the support this weekend as well as @MattieMooVGC and the amazing people I met from the Irish VGC community. Also big shoutouts to @TheKingVillager @vgccorner @JoeUX9, @Izzy22x1, @slushi2k, and @PqlarBear for their support during the tournament! It was wonderful meeting people and friends from all around the world, I hope you enjoyed the tournament and Honolulu and I wish everyone safe travels home! 😊

@ProfHockeyYT Torturing fans with horrible line up decisions and deployment until someone steps and “earns the ice time”. Warsofsky putting on a tactical masterclass down the stretch 💀

Did I blink and miss a couple years of Sharks hockey? “For four years”? 70% of that 23-24 team was washed up veterans who aren’t even in the NHL anymore, I must have missed the young guys who were just handed ice time.

@unironicpanda I’ve been waiting for a “How to Sleep Powder Tutorial”. You and Joe should do one together 🙂

do yall still want a team report lmao

@BattleRoom Cooked with the bear 🐻

Top 4 at the Seattle Regionals! I’m really sad I couldn’t go all the way but I am so proud of how I played throughout the tour and the team. Im so glad I was able to get a medal with my favorites of Cresselia 🌙 and Ursaluna 🐻. I’m glad my hard work finally paid off!

Seattle: pokepast.es/4df2cc03aa7d83… This team is pretty fast paced,it uses the pressure Jolly Band Single Strike Urshifu applies in conjunction with Iron Crown and Landorus to pin annoying Tera Fairy options. The trio generally works well together although sometimes missing attacks can be dicey. Rain Dance over Icy Wind is an option worth exploring. Helping Hand + Tera Dark Wicked Blow has some really fun Calcs. I think this type of team was well positioned going into Seattle unfortunately didn’t hit many mirrors and didn’t play any hard trick room 😅

Toronto: pokepast.es/3d7c8da6641d60… EUIC: pokepast.es/0fbc1b19a712e6… The specs flutter here is slower than Jolly Dozo. I adjusted that and went with some changes for EUIC so I would at the very least run 148/156 timid on the Flutter if you decide to run this team. The Cresselia and Ursaluna spreads as well the Incineroar are also just up to personal preference and how you choose to play the 6. I found having at least 140 speed Urshifu on this team to be quite strong it functions well with both of the speed control options. I also think Physically defensive Amoonguss is the best option in terms of complimenting the AV Incineroar and the rest of the mons. The team can be as fast or slow/bulky as you need it to be, playing with Icy Wind and TR respectively.

9-3 for a 41st finish at Seattle. Lost a set to Flutter Mane Thunder Wave shenanigans being in a completely winning position and played a set poorly double missing Bleakwind and Sandsear along the way for good measure. Lost in D2 in a close but pretty solid set overall so no complaints about that. It’s another middling performance this season after back to back 24th places and a horrendous EUIC there’s a lot of things to improve across the board. I haven’t felt consistent enough to earn a deeper run which is frustrating. Hopefully things go better at LA. This also ends my Regulation F thankfully. I’ll drop the teams I’ve worked on below if you’d like to use them for Houston.

Cress just provides a few different options compared to P2 for utility. The levitate for immediate pressure with Ursa’s EQ. The typing is nice to take on Psy Spam. Lunar Blessing in a format full of status spam is useful. Icy wind to invalidate speed boosters but also to help set board states where Urshifu and Flutter can win is nice. Being able to threaten Lando-I with icy wind but also wall it with Steel Tera is also useful for a team like this. Lastly having the ability to sit in front of Amoonguss and also stifle Spore Smeargle is great.

@IsAStarter @Clipperz1235 What was the reasoning for choosing cresselia over p2?

24th at Toronto. Back to back 24th place finishes at regionals is a bit disappointing. For this event I felt like I could have played a little better in my losses, the team was a lot of fun to build and run with @Clipperz1235. Hope I can perform better at EUIC.

@Clipperz1235 Safe to say the team was a success. Glad it bailed us both out 😅 Congrats again big dawg 🔥

Top 8 at Toronto! So close to another medal but Paul played incredibly. Very happy with this result! Shoutout team z and momo, and big shoutout @IsAStarter for the team idea and prepping together.

24th at Las Vegas Regionals. I thought I played well overall but lost the win and in to a bad match up. I could have closed out my other losses a lot better and there was room for improvement across the board. Still lots to work on but for my only in person Reg H event, this finish was ok. Covert Cloak Blursa and Sneasler were the MVPs but I’m glad to be done with Reg H. Can’t wait to slog through Reg F next at Toronto 🙃

@SeaSoilVGC In Gambito we trust 🫡

14/709 at Milwaukee Regionals! As much as I truly wish I could have gone further, I went into this weekend debating whether I even wanted to play and ultimately deciding to expecting to 0-3 drop. Coming out of that with a stream match and a performance that I can genuinely (1/5)

I will be managing the Kyoto Kingambits with Howkings and @IsAStarter for the first edition of APS! Let's get this crown👑⚔️ @Ssteccaa @MichaelderBeste @miraii1__ @NMDanetty @MattyiVGC @PaghyVG @Kyogrus24 @KeterVGC @SDifelix @_Puracheena @ChuggleVGC @TeKaVGC

@TheKingVillager Keep it up man, if you keep competing and building like that won’t be long before you’re back on that stage again! 🫡

This past week has been an absolute whirlwind of emotions. To think it’d happen where my first World Championships was 7 years ago. I’m so happy to see how much I’ve grown since then. As a player, and as a Person. Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 2nd in the World. :)

@JamesWBaek @gazemilyy @Mihrab_ @Galahad1994 I’m so proud of you bro! Glad I could help even if it was only a little bit. Regieleki is definitely a gamer 🔥

Shoutouts to @IsAStarter my main practice partner and Regieleki inspirer, @gazemilyy for helping finalize the team & helping with matchup prep, @Mihrab_ who ran a prototype at NAIC and @Galahad1994 who let me stay at his hotel after my flight got delayed 12 hours 💕

Finished 10th Place at the 2025 Pokémon VGC World Championship. Got to do what I love the most in this game which was facing many strong opponents and having intense high-level sets all weekend 🥰

@BaarsKaasVGC Congratulations! 🎉

This vgc season I have not been very active, but outside of vgc a lot of things have changed for me. I'm very happy to share that in the last year we bought a house, we got a puppy, I got a new job and most importantly, as of today, we are engaged!!! Super happy :)

@PqlarBear The Cheesecake diff

20th Place at NAIC! Bittersweet end to my tournament run, but content to Top Cut 3/3 NA Reg I tournaments. With this performance, I secured 5th in North America this season, as well as Travel Awards to both the World Championships and LAIC 2026. See you at Worlds in Anaheim!

@Platypusferri Sorry about that RD3, I really hoped they would have handled it better. Regardless still great to play against you and wishing you the best for worlds!

5-3 at NAIC. Team was so good! Lost G1 of R3 due to a disconnect in a winning position, then lost the win-and-in to the worst possible matchup. Also lost my lucky charm (a black pendant) between R5 & R6. Definitely not my day 😭🤣 See you at worlds.

@JoeUX9 Always the best place to go there either pre or post tournament! 🔥

Went to the Japanese Gardens and International Rose Garden in Portland before heading to the airport, it was very beautiful and serene!

@AldrichYan Brother I’m just trying to beat the washed allegations 😭

@IsAStarter Regional winning tweet