papaneth

Hey look ish me

Thanks for all the support once again. After researching and organizing my thoughts, I am posting my official entire experience at this tournament, proposing rule changes for the future, and looking over the current state of judging as a whole. docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ…

@NicholasBorghi truth nuke

@bobmcdoogal one thing I really like to do is look at old limitless data for megas to remind myself what their comps used to be like limitlessvgc.com/pokemon/chariz… There’s a lot of similarities to 2018 in this format, but our format is a bit weaker which is cool

@papa_neth Been trying Zard X and I’m probably bad but it feels worse than Zard Y. I miss my Rotom Wash.

Anyone have tips on team building for VGC? I feel so lost

@KingesqueKing Loud and wrong here’s your engagement

You can call the ruling stupid and unfair all you want but the judges gave Firestar multiple warnings not to do what he did so idk what else you want

@bobmcdoogal And that helps with all 3, but even still you’d want a more offensive partner to apply pressure, like sneasler who can fake out a threat while zard dragon dances and creates a nasty pin of fire/fighting or dragon/poison which is hard to resist all of the options together.

@bobmcdoogal Invalidate the support, so this is a situation where it will likely take multiple pokemon to deal with that. A sinistcha with coba Berry could deal with chomp + aerodactyl, but you might be better off doing something like clefable, who can run ice beam + dazzling gleam + redirect

@bobmcdoogal So to kinda close, use team planners like #champions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">richi3f.github.io/pokemon-team-p… or Marilland team builder. They help visualize this process and make it easier to understand. Also, put pre-existing teams into those builders so you can see how they function with each other. Welcome to vgc gamer!

@bobmcdoogal So for this example, if you had a mega meganium, you need a partner who is removing flying and poison and fire types. This is where aerodactyl would be good, as it threatens those types and also creates some nice synergy of having flying/rock + fire/fairy as an offensive pin. 3/?

Stop spending hundreds of dollars to go to regionals for a company that is quite literally using you as free advertisement for their game. If it wasn’t clear before, pokemon cares more about their image more than your experience.

acab includes playpokemon judges

These guys will do anything but admit when they are wrong lmao

@ApollousaBear @The_Egman This is not vibe coded, egman has been around and has made multiple valuable resources for other games.

@The_Egman More vibe coded team builders? I swear a new one pops up every other day. If you are making a team builder, even be vibe coding it, at least make it unique from what already exists.

Team Builder: deckbuilder.egmanevents.com/champions Introducing Egman Event's Pokemon Champions Team Builder! This is a lightweight builder that ONLY uses stats/data/moves from Pokemon Champions. This is our first "non-card game" builder so please let us know any feedback/errors/etc. when using the site. Big shout out to @imChipy for such a quick turnaround on this as well! Let us know what you think!

If you can’t make content without generative AI, don’t make it. Nobody is forcing you to make anything & nobody needs computer generated garbage shoved in their faces. If it’s not worth learning how to do it yourself why is it worth my time to look at it?

PSA: Don't use AI slop tools to help analyze VGC they will feed you a ton of misinformation and actively make you a worse player

What’s up with this trend of vgc players making stat websites with Claude?? I get the concept but you can usually tell it’s an AI website when like 70% of the “buttons” lead nowhere but look really clean. at least make sure it’s functional before you post ts

@vgccorner Guess I’m Mach Punching my mega scov with conk :/

@papa_neth Any attack

IDK IF THIS TEAM IS GOOD....but it got me to 1996 rating in Pokemon Champions. Spicy Spray is Mega Scovillain's exclusive ability, which burns all pokemon that damage Mega Scovillain. This halves their Physical Damage output for the rest of the game. The basic strategy is set up Light Screen and Reflect and Burn/Leech Seed everything then play to an offensive endgame. My current favorite offensive end-game is Scarf Garchomp next to an Earthquake immunity. "Plan B" mode is to Spicy Extract Daragapult, Tyranitar, or Corviknight. This raises their Attack by 2 stages and lowers their Defense by 2 stages. Dragapult is immune to the Defense Drop thanks to its ability, Clear Body. Corviknight is technically immune to this too but I think you bounce your lowered defense back to Scovillain so be careful! You can also do this next to Garchomp and Tyranitar as a hail-mary. Click the thread to see how the Pokemon are trained. Bookmark for later. 🔽🔖