chef / Ben

Here’s the team I used to go 10-5 at the World Championships this weekend! It was an incredible experience, and I’m going to put some of my thoughts in this thread…

@Not_heKtikVGC @supahsanti 🤨

@supahsanti After the San Juan Mickey Mouse event no one could ever downplay someone's win ever

I don't really care about the "did terapagos win/not win a major" discourse, but if someone tried to tell me that my major win didn't count because there were less than 100 players in attendance, I'd be on the damn news

when more team info is open the best players are happy because they will win more, then the casual players are also happy because they are worried their opponent at table 467 scouted their camerupt’s nature. and then everyone in between is a cheesy gimmick loving schmuck

@TTTvgc goat

@chefVGC never let them find out about the random band urshifu-dark that trick room teams used in SV

the amount of likes on this comment is lowkey the best proof I’ve seen that vgc is growing a ton right now.

Turn 1: double protect (without using mega, in case they don’t mega) Turn 2: Ttar mega, uses rock slide. But be careful! Aerodactyl has to tailwind rather than attack, in case the opposing charizard protects this turn (and saves mega again)

Congrats to the many who got the solution, which is in the reply. More coming soon! Open to feedback on the design here, this was my first time creating them in game rather than showdown.

Pokemon Champions Ads in Times Square. What a time to be a competitive pokemon player/fan.

@HishiroSV I make the puzzles, I decide if you miss or not.

@chefVGC > guaranteed win > assume no miss That's not it bro

Pokemon Puzzle - Champions edition The rules are simple - find the guaranteed win based on the situation and information below! Make sure you include the full sequence required to win! A little warm up puzzle here for the return of Megas…

@anxious__twink I thought it’s pretty clear what that means? For the purpose of the puzzle assume rock slide will hit?

@chefVGC @JacobSkraw “Assume no moves miss” and rock slide is in the moveset. Huh?

I know a lot of new players have been trying out vgc recently, and I think this one is at an accessible difficulty level! If you’re looking for more of a challenge, stay tuned… 🫡

@DynamoTwentyTwo yep that’s why I said 6 years. actually crazy

@chefVGC I started* at the tail end of Galar and I’ll say there was still a magic button that got you out of dying to an incoming super effective attack most of the time. (Well I did play competitive Pokemon prior to that but not VGC)

it’s actually a crazy breath of fresh air to go back to playing pokemon where there’s no magic button to get out of dying to an incoming super effective attack for the first time in 6 years

Now that they’ve fixed the ability to click fake out after the first turn, they should really remove being able to side attack your own pokemon. What if a new player accidentally has their Kartana use sacred sword on their own Stakataka that just switched in?

Hot take, but I like the lack of items in Pokemon Champions. It was already flexing my teambuilding muscles when I couldn't default to putting some combination of AV, Clam, Cloak, and LOrb on every team. I wouldn't mind a few regulations without Clam and Cloak.

Genuinely who is this game for cuz it sure ain't for us idk

vgc tryhards stop complaining, not everything is for you. this is who pokemon champions is for