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Link to the dragapult masterclass?

The mustache is glorious.

Pro players are boring

Great interview and very informative. Just getting into the hobby as a player thanks to TCG Pocket and been absorbing as much as I can, and stuff like this looking at the inner workings of the highest tourneys is really awesome!

taking notes

Love Tim and his channel! he’s my pokemon crush, great video Mellow!

I’m happy my baby boi lugia got a small upgrade,that regigags is huge minus against pault and zard ,I put in 2-2 rat line still and 1 gigas

Love to see Tim on the podcast! He makes very good content that I watch as soon as it comes out, he is a League above any other content creator!

Is there a thing like you use your own dices to mark damages on your pokemons and your opponent his for damage on his ?

Tim channel=amazing

the lake of rage logo in the middle looks like a WHEY, Lake of Rage Whey for Pro TCG players getting their protein inc?! sry lol

A few days ago after seeing Mellow's comments about the Oscar Madsen PultZard guide, I decided to go ahead and also buy it. I was thoroughly impressed with it! First time I ever make a purchase of that kind, and I am very glad I did so. Thank you for putting the guide on my radar Kevin!

I play creuledge palkia and beat dragapult 60% of time, budew will not stop me, by time I attack, budew is knocked out

I think I picked a good time to start playing the TCG and purchase a Gardevoir deck

Always love being on the podcast - Make sure you subscribe to Kevin to improve your moustache game!!!

Love Tim's videos! Huge amount of respect for being the change he wants to see!

Tim staring at me through the camera 👀

Bro your Klawf video is top Tier!!

thanks 🙏🏼

Seismitoad was op because it was a bulky pokemon for its time and could take 2-3 shots on everything with the right modifiers. Budew should be very fair and balanced for the game.

Didn't realize this was from last year until I heard them start talking about giratina vstar and sablezard

I like his point about liking the dial to be an at even number. I have certainly experienced this bias in my own deckbuilding and is something that we should try to avoid.

I’d love to hear more of Will Post in the future. I would love to hear more about the objective versus subjective rulings and it’d be nice to hear more of other Judging like “what would you do in this situation”. Also, I really wanted to hear Rapid Strike questions from Will regardless of being a player or not. We want the Rapid Fire questions!

This is so jokes, we just finished recording our epi yesterday with a judge as well and I'm just seeing this now #STEALFROMLAKEOFRAGE - Aneil

I appreciate the judges, obviously we need them to be able to have big tournaments. But I do think there is a lot of bias amongst a big part of the judges. Idk if it's because there's a friend group that judge and encourage their friends to become judges but there is a big enough group of judges that can't or won't separate their emotion or personal beliefs from rulings. Rulings should be objective, by the book and that is just not what I see. That is my main complaint with judging

I am pokedad and tell my son always appeal to get better understanding.

Always love watching the episodes that aren't all about the gameplay stuff, I find it more fun to learn about the stuff that makes our games work with Will and how he does everything from the judging side of things. Good stuff!

Great episode! Not sure if Will will be in the comments, but I may as well ask...two questions: Do you think judge compensation is where it should be at? Is that playing a roll in experienced judge turn over that you mentioned? And what would be the appropriate penalty/procedure in a situation where one of the prize cards was accidentally flipped over during game set up?

Tables after 500 are the most fun. 😂 You’ll see decks out of this world.

What year was the 'North/South sleeve rule' implemented?

Ayyy a judge special! Will is such a legend and an inspiration

I met will before. He’s a great judge

I’ve been a judge since 2022. This is a great video

I’ve only been a judge since October 2024 and only for events of less than 15 people, so I’m very interested to learn more about this!

Appreciate the podcast and I like the content!

This is awesome, love this channel

Can Pokémon please hire him as a game designer?

Ive been testing gardevoir with quad Jacq and its been working for me even pre budew format and its going to be better in budew format because the game is slower.

One thing that wasn’t discussed is how budew affects matches by slowing down games. Even in this turbo format it can be tricky to finish 3 games in 50, with budew that will become even harder. Seems that budew was designed with Japan rules in mind with rest the world just left to figure it out. Maybe TPCI should make it best of 1 as well so that they are aligned with the game designers.

Budew will not create interesting gameplay. Budew is going to be toxic. But ill be playing pult thorns so i guess pokemon is heading towards more toxic gameplay like yugioh. hopefully it doesnt get to yugiohs level of just being centered around not letting your opponent play

We lose cyllene so infinite strategies will be more difficult. Also tpci has been printing a bunch of supporter based switch effects recently so item lock plus paralysis isn't an auto win strategy. Also we have so much more supporter based search available for essentially everything at this point so if anything budew will cause decks to be built differently.

If playing budew and use 4 cards which cards do you give up? Rhetorical question

5:30 what balance? Basics are broken. Dragapult/Gardevoir are the only stage two that benefit from this mistake. Because they have innate draw power. 7:40 then dusknoir/dusclops was the problem not candy 9:35 Dragapult has gatekept chien Pao since it was released. 11:30 hopefully it's more testing than what the testing they did with dusknoir. 15:30 wise words, intelligent comment from Kevin. That's what will happen. Nobody is playing bibarel because of this. 😢 23:37 it's not players mistake. It's designers mistake, supporters can't be played going first so people prefer to see search items in their opening hand.

Can’t wait to see how budew interacts with Klawf. Not only could I slap a mochi + sneasler and item lock + 80 damage, but I’m also poison donking opponents budew turn one.

Big fan! This deck was so fun I built an irl deck for the first time and have been going to locals and having a blast!

What’s your thoughts on the single prize klink klank? It has emergency evolution ability meaning it can be played straight away. It also hits for weakness and gets poison knock with mochi. Takes a DTE but discards after attack. It’s an easier way of hitting that 310 number and taking a double prize

The judge has to sign a physical slip and get a signature from both players in the case of a double loss so I guess that’s why there’s pens

I have several other western friends who played in the event, idk if I’d call them tpci players though because we all live and play in Japan

Glad to see you cover TPC events! From Fabien's sharing, TPC events in Japan are run quite well. It's not always the the same in the other non-Japan TPC territories. Players are less likely to scoop when losing & might even intentionally play to a double loss, judges sometimes need to call a 2nd or 3rd judge to resolve judge calls and sometimes we only know when events are held less than 2 weeks before they happen. Would be cool to see you cover other lesser-known regions like TPC outside Japan, especially with our difficulty in getting elected to get points /implications of promo cards for Great Balls, Ultra Balls, Premier Ball & Master Ball events!

Nice video! You should get Alberto conti on here. Would be interested to here his transition from yugioh to pokemon