No hate towards you, but there is a BUNCH of stolen artwork there, some of which the creators came forth to complain against. Doesn't seem ethical, even though the concept is pretty cool.
@@verdibyrd Disagree. One good deed isn't going to erase something they keep doing wrong. Those are completly unrelated. But i don't wanna turn this response thread into a morality debate that has nothing to do with the video, so i ain't gonna judge if you or anyone else decides to buy one. I just think it's an awful thing.
Wolfe accidentally climbing to the top of the Showdown ladder and causing his team to become popular and well-known is one of the funniest flexes of all time
I just want to break down how absurd this is and reiterate both how strong Wolfeys team building and confidence in it is. Build a team with a uncommon strategy that becomes metagame warping as it leaps up the ladder, have everyone copy said team which then gets counter teams made for it, have the original team notified over time to deal with these counter plays, and then just enter the tourney with effectively the same original team anyway MF pulled without hyperbole a Starcraft Brood War Bisu Revolution for the season
@@Materialist39 tbf it helps that they didn't see how vital Scream Tail and Palafin were. They basically said "So we can make the car faster by making it lighter, right? Well there's this huge piece of junk in the front, I think it's called... the engine? Yeah, get rid of it."
@@Materialist39 Yea the community not seeing *why* Wolfey used Scream Tail Palafin was the biggest dub. They didn't understand what made those choices important to his rise up the ladder.
@@Materialist39 you can copy the strategy but you cant copy the world champ difference (or the hyper specific specialized EVs he calculated to take care of every big threat in the meta which is ,ore towards the teambuilding you mentioned lol)
"Even if my opponents had experience against the team, it wasn't the same as having experience against me." is such a raw and terrifying line to hear from a world champion
"Perish Trap is pretty widely considered the single hardest strategy to use in competitive Pokémon. it's so difficult in fact, that it has only ever won one official Pokémon tournament." "Yep. By me."
I find it hilarious that Wolfey basically said “yes I threw away one of my biggest advantages away on accident but I wasn’t worried since all the people know how to do is fight the copies and simply they ain’t me!”
Imagine being a pokemon, training hard for the greatest battle of your life... only to find yourself trapped in this weird room you can't escape from as Hungrybox and his tall goth gf sing a song so off-key it kills you
he actually didn’t know ashton’s EVs until after the game and thought 252atk arcanine always picked up the KO. ashton was running an unusually bulky gholdengo
ah really? I would honestly be really smug and proud that my team is being used everywhere XD. Everytime i'd fight it, ill tell myself: ha! thats MY team!
@@kefkapalazzo1yeah but not for the tournament you prepare for and want to win with it ❤😂 if they copy it after that it's an honor but if they copy it for this tournament it's annoying as hell
Wolfey going up to number one in the ladder, giving everyone experience against his team, and still going on to win, is the DEFINITION of world champ difference.
@WolfeyVGC I was the kid who after the last match of the day I asked you to sign my bulbasaur and you signed it on the belly (this was in Tennessee in February 2023 near the end of the month) I just wanted to say thank you, I wanted you to sign my bulbasaur because it's number 1 in the pokédex, and your my number 1😊
@loganmak2284 this is true imma go to sanantonio regionals on Christmas break hoping to see wolf and tell him about this comment and show him the funko pop he signed
this is what rappers have said about people copying flows or trends - something like "you can copy me but you can't be me" or "you can copy my style but you don't have your own to stand out" etc etc (probably has happened and keeps happening on other music genres and medias as well - but rappers bring this up in their songs and interviews constantly so its easier to find these types of comments even if you aren't diving deep in)
The editor(?) who went through all the effort of replicating the matchups for our viewing experience is goated, even with Lycanroc having a cosmetic spooky balloon hat ):
Right? For some reason I thought all the matches were recorded. I have so much more respect for Wolfe’s memory of the matches and all the effort of replicating them.
@@Bryanfuel0 to be fair he did say the first round was 800 participants, so it makes sense not all of them were recorded Edit: although this isn’t why they weren’t recorded. It’s the much more logical explanation of preventing people from finding out EV spreads by analysing the footage. (as explained in jetnyan’s reply below)
The editing on this is _absurdly_ high quality, it's one of the best I've ever seen. Being able to keep up with everything and the video not being fifteen hours long is incredible
I loved this tourney, especially when Wolfey said: "Maybe the real world champ difference was the friends we made along the way" and difference'd over his opponents. Truly the difference of all time.
Funny how you changed lots of stuff in your team to counter Torkoal thinking there were gonna be a lot, yet didn't have to play a single one all tournament.
This is a bit of a nostalgia for me, first time I ever watched a Wolfe video was the thing he did with Shady way back when and he had just won a regional with perish trap against Ashton, which incidentally is the first vgc match Ive ever watched. I kinda kept up with the man since, needlessly to say things went relatively well. And a cool little detail, that team Wolf built with Shady originally had jigglypuff, but they had to remove for Politoed it since the team was so weak to Zard Y. It may have needed to go back a few thousand years, but Jigglypuff finally became the star of a Wolfe perish trap team.
"Im gonna practice and get good with this team, and I'll have the element of surprise going into this tournament" *5 minutes later:* "Shit, I accidentally made my team meta!" Part-flattered, part-horrified.
Wow. Having to face off against Ashton again with Perish Trap must have been chilling for both of you. It’s like a fated rematch. I love how even though I knew the outcome I was still at the edge of my seat. This is why i love your videos. Congratulations on the win!
8:42 This foreshadowing is so genius and I love it, showing a coin flip and saying you don't want it coming down to luck only for that to be the end of it all is amazing scripting well done Wolfe for another amazing video!
@@trytoo5167 After rewatching it I realize that it’s not so obvious after all. Maybe it’s something I’ve picked up from prev videos but when I watched the coinflips part for the first time I did think that was gonna come back
This might be my favourite wideo you ever made. The turn by turn detail of each fight, the recreation of battles... It's amazing. I wish more people would do this, but it looks like a crazy amount of work. So worth it tho!! This was legit GREAT
It's honestly insane how difficult this tournament was for Wolfe (despite the WCD) - Prior to the tournament, he basically leaked his team, which ruined the major surprise/unfamiliarity factor his team had. (I think he also leaked his team's EV spreads and nature but idk how much info showdown provides on other people's teams) - He had back pain. (Mental energy lost to enduring pain is bad for performance turn-based competitive game) - He had to fight the teams he had lost to in swiss and the only player that was undefeated at that point in the single elim bracket - He had to win two coin flips with Gholdengo damage rolls in the finals (I assume Ashton must've EV'd his Gholdengo as such given that Wolfe's team got a lot of attention prior to the event) This tournament should have been a disaster for Wolfe given these circumstances and yet he still won it all.
You exaggerated with the evs and Ashton preping for wolf's team part. 1. If you accept open sheets you can get the moves item and tera, like in tournament so getting the ev spreads is impossible. 2. BRO WDYM, there's no shot Ashton prepped gholdengo specifically for wolfes team, prob directly towards arxanine but that's also a stretch since its a 50% coin flip so unless we get into a calc and compare every mon we won't know what he was prepping for.
Holy crap. It’s always scary having to leave a match up to a coin flip. But having that same situation in ANY tournament match has to be HEART POUNDING!
I think I remember hearing that Wolfe wasn't aware of the damage roles and assumed it would always KO so in the moment, I imagine, it wouldn't have been that scary - only for that to be a heavy realization once made.
According to what he said in a video he put up shortly after the tournament, he didn't know that the Gholdengo was actually bulky until Ashton told him.
I ran into this team so many times on the ladder and I think only lost to it once. And i dont say that to insinuate i'm awesome, but to say how hard this team is to pilot really well (let alone in an open teamsheet environment!). This was one of my favorite tourney runs to watch due to the sheer amount of skill in pulling it off. Well done Wolfey
some of these plays (from him and his opponents) especially in the final bracket are mind-bending- something underrated about VGC Pokémon that really hit me this video is the life or death weight of every single button you click
"Even if my opponents had experience against the team, that didn't mean they had experience against me" is the most badass 'Final Boss - Protagonist' thing I've ever heard 👏
“having experience against the team wasn’t the same as having experience against me” literally gave me chills. the best in the world, the greatest of all time, the world champ difference
Wolfeys recents collabs the last year and change have seriously increased his charisma in his videos, he used to feel kinda monotone but you can feel his energy and expertise just radiating out of him now, his videos are also better edited overall it's great to see his growth and can't wait for him to reach the big 1 Milli! Great video like always Wolfey!
This was such an incredible and comprehensive video, but one of my favorite parts has got to be the quick drawing at 4:52 of Wolfey's friends! Seeing Markus, the Aarons, and the rest of the squad in such cute fanart for their quick shoutout in the video is so sweet
That tournament was probably the most fun I’ve ever watched, and it was thanks to your team. GG Wolfey, now go and bring home the world title in Japan !!! We’re rooting for you.
The VGC tournaments this year have been really exciting. I started watching competitive during gen 8 so it's nice to finally see a full season of events
Whoever put together the background music should get a medal. Not only SMTV and Gravity Rush music but Ace Attorney music when Wolfe says to bring out his ace... too good 😂
Just so you know, I know nothing about competitive pokemon but I sat through this entire video and fully understood what was going on in the games. You're onto gold here. Please do not stop these kinds of videos
i have to say, its so genuinely impressive to have not only played through these games once during a super stressful event, but to have remembered enough about them and put time and resources into recreating the teams and battles for the video
@@HaVoCbReNgEr I think its just people whining about pkhex or something, when building a full team normally would realistically take months and is not at all reasonable lol
@Jakwq that’s an opinion. However, I have a question: who asked? Who gave you permission to talk? Nobody. In fact, I went through the entire Ultra Space mini game and didn’t find a single person who asked
Wolfe has insane protagonist energy, and the way everything happens and is told in this video only reinforces that! I don't think any VGC player will ever manage to beat him in my heart.
I don't play Pokemon that much but your storytelling kept me hooked and you informed me enough for me to know what is happening allowing me to understand what I am watching.
SEMI SPOILERS The final matchup being the same as the first time you won with this team was iconic, what a great video Wolfe, you definitely deserved this win 🙌
Something hilarious and great about the way that Wolfe says some of the highest ego (in a good way) stuff like “just because they had experience against the team, they still don’t have experience against me” so earnestly and in a non-boastful way. Love it
I really enjoy this style of video that breaks down a strategy/meta for a tournament (or set of battles) and then has you explain each decision during a battle.
I was so amazed when Wolfe won. There's a lot of really talented new players coming in and this just goes to show that despite focusing on content, Wolfe's still with it when it comes to high level play. That's the world champ difference.
Knowing from the comments that the match footage wasn’t recorded but was actually recreated based off Wolfe’s memory, that edit makes so much more sense! I was so confused when I first saw that lol.
You know what I love about these videos ? Is that they fully explain the massive skill it takes to be the best while highlighting the excitement and risks of it all. I have been playing pokemon since red and blue came out, but these make it as epic as they feel in my head. Great work.
Dang, this video was incredible. Everything from accidentally climbing to top of showdown to that insane ending. Time flew by so fast I didn't even realize the video was almost an hour long!
The fact that other competitive players saw how good your team was, tried to copy it and didn't like it, and then adjusted your team getting rid of the two Pokémon that made it unique is pretty funny imo.
Wolfe, I love you so much man. Your creativity and humble yet hard won achievements and even failures never cease to impress, entertain, and teach me. I hope you read this because I'd like you to know you're not just a content creator to me, but honestly a benchmark of a well rounded person in my mind. That probably sounds exaggerated since I don't actually know you but I think I can pick up what you put down enough to say I look up to you and aspire to be like you in a number of ways, regardless of the fact that our medium for connecting is a game largely intended for kids. I look forward to seeing more of you and your genius brother. Peace and love.
I gotta say, these videos are some of the best pieces of competitive Pokémon content I have ever seen, you can truly tell the amount of effort and passion that is put into these videos, I genuinely believe I speak for everyone when I say that we are honoured to have you Wolfe, VGC would not be the same without you, I can't wait to see you hit that 1M
Winning the finals against Ashton a second time with the same strategy from 8 years ago is such an anime moment. I am now convinced that Wolfe is secretly an anime protagonist.
however it does set up for an underdog anime-twist win where this happens a third time and ashton wins. or, rather, the alternate universe where he won the gholdengo-arcanine 50/50.
i love how wolfey didn't seem jaealous, mad, or literally really anything that people stole his team. he's jus basically like "yea but they cant do it like me" to the whole competitive pokemon community.
Man. Wolfey, your delivery in these videos has seriously improved. In the start of the scripted video era of your channel compared to now it is lightyears better. I can tell you're so much more comfortable with something more structured and scripted and with narration and you just generally seem so much more confident and charismatic with it, a lot like your unscripted videos. I'm so happy at how much you improved your videos and how much I feel like you put your heart and soul in to these. Keep it up man!
Really love that you still compete and are doing so well. Many "pro players" stop competing after making it big with content creation on youtube or twitch (shroud, xqc etc.).
Something I just realized: Despite the whole "world champ difference" thing, and the fact he knows how good he is, he's humble. He admits his mistakes, and respects all his opponents. Maybe that is the *true* world champ difference
I like how low-key he called out all the people who copied his team, claiming it as their own. May be able to copy a team but can't copy the world champ difference, baby!
I absolutely love seeing people use things that aren't "meta" in any competitive way. Modern gaming has been ruined by people only using the "highest potential" options in every situation because they can't think too hard for themselves, and it just reduces the number of innovations and advances in gameplay. I love when Wolfe does well with interesting choices, congrats on the win!
I went to Orlando and it was amazing seeing you in the final, again huge congrats on this and all of the achievements you have earned so far and I repeat you what I said when we took a picture “we are not even at half of the year”, I now the rest of the year will be amazing for you 👌
Yeah.Palafin was on the underrated list because people in doubles think taking a whole turn to transform instead of damaging or applying pressure is unfavorable. And I've heard Palafin was broken in singles lol.
Hey GOAT, thanks for using Pokken Tournament music in this video. Pokken is really underrated and deserves a sequel to improve upon the solid base they created.
the circle composed storytelling with the coin flip being something you want to avoid with sing, and then it being a coin flip with the flare blitz is amazing
I didn't know the team had become so well-known before the tournament! That's a cool dynamic. Round 8 must've hurt, though, losing the mirror to a "copy".
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No hate towards you, but there is a BUNCH of stolen artwork there, some of which the creators came forth to complain against. Doesn't seem ethical, even though the concept is pretty cool.
@@LeRodz They plant a tree for each sale, so the moral balance is restored
@@verdibyrd Disagree. One good deed isn't going to erase something they keep doing wrong. Those are completly unrelated. But i don't wanna turn this response thread into a morality debate that has nothing to do with the video, so i ain't gonna judge if you or anyone else decides to buy one. I just think it's an awful thing.
would'nt arena trap work to
Wolfe accidentally climbing to the top of the Showdown ladder and causing his team to become popular and well-known is one of the funniest flexes of all time
I just want to break down how absurd this is and reiterate both how strong Wolfeys team building and confidence in it is.
Build a team with a uncommon strategy that becomes metagame warping as it leaps up the ladder, have everyone copy said team which then gets counter teams made for it, have the original team notified over time to deal with these counter plays, and then just enter the tourney with effectively the same original team anyway
MF pulled without hyperbole a Starcraft Brood War Bisu Revolution for the season
@@Materialist39 tbf it helps that they didn't see how vital Scream Tail and Palafin were.
They basically said "So we can make the car faster by making it lighter, right? Well there's this huge piece of junk in the front, I think it's called... the engine? Yeah, get rid of it."
That’s the world champ difference 😂
@@Materialist39 Yea the community not seeing *why* Wolfey used Scream Tail Palafin was the biggest dub. They didn't understand what made those choices important to his rise up the ladder.
@@Materialist39 you can copy the strategy but you cant copy the world champ difference
(or the hyper specific specialized EVs he calculated to take care of every big threat in the meta which is ,ore towards the teambuilding you mentioned lol)
“Even if my opponents had experience against the team, it wasn’t the same as having experience against me” - The real world champ difference
@@jakwq8994how tell
@@jakwq8994 The world champ difference allows him to cheat
@@jakwq8994 he is not you dummy
@@jakwq8994 🤓
@@jakwq8994 Sure buddy.
"Even if my opponents had experience against the team, it wasn't the same as having experience against me." is such a raw and terrifying line to hear from a world champion
RAWWW
Rawer than Tatsugiri sashimi
It's the world camp difference
Facts. I thought the same thing when i heard it.
I finally understand why Wolfey's catchphrase is world champ difference 😂
"Perish Trap is pretty widely considered the single hardest strategy to use in competitive Pokémon. it's so difficult in fact, that it has only ever won one official Pokémon tournament."
"Yep. By me."
humongous flex
Yeah a lot of subtle brags in here but this guy has earned it so it’s cool
Truly the World Champ Difference
*Insert Obama meme here*
@@sirus0s frfr
I find it hilarious that Wolfey basically said “yes I threw away one of my biggest advantages away on accident but I wasn’t worried since all the people know how to do is fight the copies and simply they ain’t me!”
“Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!”
and he was right
Imagine being a pokemon, training hard for the greatest battle of your life... only to find yourself trapped in this weird room you can't escape from as Hungrybox and his tall goth gf sing a song so off-key it kills you
What is this gem comment in this sea of comments? 😂
i dont think ive ever seen a funnier comment tbh, this is great
goated comment
may i have the permission to use this analogy whenever i talk about this strat
😂😂😂😂
Wolfey preping: "i don't want to risk the tourney on a coinflip"
Wolfey in the finals: "well good old coin, here we go again"
he actually didn’t know ashton’s EVs until after the game and thought 252atk arcanine always picked up the KO. ashton was running an unusually bulky gholdengo
@@itsukizy tbh bulky gholdengo always feels like a bad idea, it worked here but almost every other mon would ko it.
Set up and pay-off
Pokemon is a game of skewing chance in your favor.
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 Nah Screens Lefties Gholdengo with Amoongus is OP.
You're a better man than me. I'd be so salty if everyone started copying my team LMAO.
Same bro
Same I get so annoyed why when a good team is built everyone copies them because they can't use there own team they built.
ah really? I would honestly be really smug and proud that my team is being used everywhere XD. Everytime i'd fight it, ill tell myself: ha! thats MY team!
I’d feel great. My innovation influencing so many people? Dope shit
@@kefkapalazzo1yeah but not for the tournament you prepare for and want to win with it ❤😂 if they copy it after that it's an honor but if they copy it for this tournament it's annoying as hell
Wolfey going up to number one in the ladder, giving everyone experience against his team, and still going on to win, is the DEFINITION of world champ difference.
@WolfeyVGC I was the kid who after the last match of the day I asked you to sign my bulbasaur and you signed it on the belly (this was in Tennessee in February 2023 near the end of the month) I just wanted to say thank you, I wanted you to sign my bulbasaur because it's number 1 in the pokédex, and your my number 1😊
This is so wholesome!
@@delibird3505 yeah it’s nice to see good things on the internet
This is so cute, I'm gonna die.
Even if this isn't true, it is very wholesome. Any confirmation wolfey? Did a kid actually do this?
@loganmak2284 this is true imma go to sanantonio regionals on Christmas break hoping to see wolf and tell him about this comment and show him the funko pop he signed
wolfey really said “sure, you can copy my team. but you cant copy *me”*
Yfdsb
Oh yeah pokehex
this is what rappers have said about people copying flows or trends - something like "you can copy me but you can't be me" or "you can copy my style but you don't have your own to stand out" etc etc (probably has happened and keeps happening on other music genres and medias as well - but rappers bring this up in their songs and interviews constantly so its easier to find these types of comments even if you aren't diving deep in)
@@samamies88 will the real Wolfey Glick please stand up?
Someone should make an edit of Wolfie with this phrase lmao
The editor(?) who went through all the effort of replicating the matchups for our viewing experience is goated, even with Lycanroc having a cosmetic spooky balloon hat ):
Right? For some reason I thought all the matches were recorded. I have so much more respect for Wolfe’s memory of the matches and all the effort of replicating them.
Thats quality entertainment, thanks wolfey and his editor l.
@@Bryanfuel0 to be fair he did say the first round was 800 participants, so it makes sense not all of them were recorded
Edit: although this isn’t why they weren’t recorded. It’s the much more logical explanation of preventing people from finding out EV spreads by analysing the footage. (as explained in jetnyan’s reply below)
Lycanroc with spooky balloon hat? I don't see what you mean. :(
That explains the Thunder Shock on Rotom at 26:37
The editing on this is _absurdly_ high quality, it's one of the best I've ever seen. Being able to keep up with everything and the video not being fifteen hours long is incredible
It's _good,_ no doubt. But (no offense) if it's one of the best you've ever seen, i think you should broaden your viewing habits a bit.
@@Just.Kiddingyou should broaden your social awareness
Goat. Super deserved million subs soon and fantastic performance
real recognise real 🤝
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Imagine being alex here.not only do you end up second again, not only did you lose to the same guy again. but he beat you the same damn way again
He's never not putting perish counters on his team again
I loved this tourney, especially when Wolfey said: "Maybe the real world champ difference was the friends we made along the way" and difference'd over his opponents. Truly the difference of all time.
I loved when Screm Tail screamed: "AHHHHHHHHHH" . Truly the scream of all time.
@@jakwq8994 elaborate
@@jakwq8994 Your girlfriend cheated
@@jakwq8994 according to the creator of pkhex, so are about half of the people who have competed in regional this year 😁
@@monk2780 Don't worry, my friend. You will find the right person one day.
Funny how you changed lots of stuff in your team to counter Torkoal thinking there were gonna be a lot, yet didn't have to play a single one all tournament.
The irony is Torkoal got reduce in play because people starting to pick up his team right before the event.
@@KhoiNguyen-xv4jd that’s how regionals often play out. You never know what your match-ups will bring meta or rogue.
Yeah, I bet some teams had Torkoal just no one who has it fought him
This is a bit of a nostalgia for me, first time I ever watched a Wolfe video was the thing he did with Shady way back when and he had just won a regional with perish trap against Ashton, which incidentally is the first vgc match Ive ever watched. I kinda kept up with the man since, needlessly to say things went relatively well.
And a cool little detail, that team Wolf built with Shady originally had jigglypuff, but they had to remove for Politoed it since the team was so weak to Zard Y. It may have needed to go back a few thousand years, but Jigglypuff finally became the star of a Wolfe perish trap team.
That was the first time I saw Wolfe in a video too!
this is a beautiful articulate comment
🙏
so what is this the last one you're gonna watch?
@@jackwoody270lol
"Im gonna practice and get good with this team, and I'll have the element of surprise going into this tournament"
*5 minutes later:* "Shit, I accidentally made my team meta!"
Part-flattered, part-horrified.
24 likes and no comments now that’s wack
Now it’s 25
@@rinabegum-xh3wqGood Job! You can read!
@@buisnessman1237 great job you know what sarcasm is
@@rinabegum-xh3wq Good Job! You can think!
Wow. Having to face off against Ashton again with Perish Trap must have been chilling for both of you. It’s like a fated rematch. I love how even though I knew the outcome I was still at the edge of my seat. This is why i love your videos. Congratulations on the win!
only wolfey can just casually drop that he accidentally got to number one on the pokemon showdown ladder, and then just move on
"Whoops! I'm too OP! Now everyone knows about this team!"
Imagine being so far in the lab you don't even realize how far you got.
Bro so good the world spoiled his entire team while training
I can't believe Karen from Gen 2 was right this whole time, real champs win with their favourites
It helps when your favorites are good
Real trainer lose with their favorite :)
My favourite is metapod with harden
Hi patterrz
What if my favorite pokemon is Landorus-Therian
8:42 This foreshadowing is so genius and I love it, showing a coin flip and saying you don't want it coming down to luck only for that to be the end of it all is amazing scripting well done Wolfe for another amazing video!
That felt kinda obvious
@@samael5552🥰😀🤭🤭hmm? It was obvious?🤭🥰😁
@@samael5552 Was it really? I thought it was nice.
@@trytoo5167 After rewatching it I realize that it’s not so obvious after all. Maybe it’s something I’ve picked up from prev videos but when I watched the coinflips part for the first time I did think that was gonna come back
@@samael5552I thought the Arcanine double protect was going to be the coin flip, but he lost it.
Wolfe explaining his team choices is some of my favorite content on TH-cam.
This might be my favourite wideo you ever made. The turn by turn detail of each fight, the recreation of battles... It's amazing. I wish more people would do this, but it looks like a crazy amount of work. So worth it tho!! This was legit GREAT
It's honestly insane how difficult this tournament was for Wolfe (despite the WCD)
- Prior to the tournament, he basically leaked his team, which ruined the major surprise/unfamiliarity factor his team had. (I think he also leaked his team's EV spreads and nature but idk how much info showdown provides on other people's teams)
- He had back pain. (Mental energy lost to enduring pain is bad for performance turn-based competitive game)
- He had to fight the teams he had lost to in swiss and the only player that was undefeated at that point in the single elim bracket
- He had to win two coin flips with Gholdengo damage rolls in the finals (I assume Ashton must've EV'd his Gholdengo as such given that Wolfe's team got a lot of attention prior to the event)
This tournament should have been a disaster for Wolfe given these circumstances and yet he still won it all.
You exaggerated with the evs and Ashton preping for wolf's team part.
1. If you accept open sheets you can get the moves item and tera, like in tournament so getting the ev spreads is impossible.
2. BRO WDYM, there's no shot Ashton prepped gholdengo specifically for wolfes team, prob directly towards arxanine but that's also a stretch since its a 50% coin flip so unless we get into a calc and compare every mon we won't know what he was prepping for.
WORLD CHAMP DIFFERENCE
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 he meant when the team was leaked on showdown not the team sheets
Holy crap. It’s always scary having to leave a match up to a coin flip. But having that same situation in ANY tournament match has to be HEART POUNDING!
It's also pretty funny that he didn't bring sing to avoid a coin flip scenario, but in the end it all came down to a coin flip.
I think I remember hearing that Wolfe wasn't aware of the damage roles and assumed it would always KO so in the moment, I imagine, it wouldn't have been that scary - only for that to be a heavy realization once made.
According to what he said in a video he put up shortly after the tournament, he didn't know that the Gholdengo was actually bulky until Ashton told him.
Can someone explain why it was 50% chance that Flare Blitz would KO Goldengo? I didn’t understand that part.
@@Gaby4440 Ii believe it was a damage roll, where half the damage rolls killed, half didn't.
I ran into this team so many times on the ladder and I think only lost to it once. And i dont say that to insinuate i'm awesome, but to say how hard this team is to pilot really well (let alone in an open teamsheet environment!). This was one of my favorite tourney runs to watch due to the sheer amount of skill in pulling it off. Well done Wolfey
some of these plays (from him and his opponents) especially in the final bracket are mind-bending- something underrated about VGC Pokémon that really hit me this video is the life or death weight of every single button you click
@@Materialist39 The entire thing turns into a "you know that he knows that you know that he knows that you know..."
@@Londronable but they don't know we know they know we know!
Whoever edits these videos, hats off. Insane amount of work.
His team's one weakness was not torkoal, but instead it was back pain.
"Even if my opponents had experience against the team, that didn't mean they had experience against me" is the most badass 'Final Boss - Protagonist' thing I've ever heard 👏
I mean if you spend hours with a team dedicated to scouting teams and practicing and getting pokemon in odd ways then yeah.
“having experience against the team wasn’t the same as having experience against me” literally gave me chills. the best in the world, the greatest of all time, the world champ difference
Wolfeys recents collabs the last year and change have seriously increased his charisma in his videos, he used to feel kinda monotone but you can feel his energy and expertise just radiating out of him now, his videos are also better edited overall it's great to see his growth and can't wait for him to reach the big 1 Milli! Great video like always Wolfey!
This was such an incredible and comprehensive video, but one of my favorite parts has got to be the quick drawing at 4:52 of Wolfey's friends! Seeing Markus, the Aarons, and the rest of the squad in such cute fanart for their quick shoutout in the video is so sweet
That tournament was probably the most fun I’ve ever watched, and it was thanks to your team. GG Wolfey, now go and bring home the world title in Japan !!! We’re rooting for you.
Huge congrats Wolfey! Truly a WCD moment.
The VGC tournaments this year have been really exciting. I started watching competitive during gen 8 so it's nice to finally see a full season of events
Whoever put together the background music should get a medal. Not only SMTV and Gravity Rush music but Ace Attorney music when Wolfe says to bring out his ace... too good 😂
And Pizza Tower at 34:32
I heard danganronpa too somewhere
Persona 5 as well.
the bit about everyone copying your team was hilarious! you’re such a protagonist, it’s amazing!
Just so you know, I know nothing about competitive pokemon but I sat through this entire video and fully understood what was going on in the games. You're onto gold here. Please do not stop these kinds of videos
i have to say, its so genuinely impressive to have not only played through these games once during a super stressful event, but to have remembered enough about them and put time and resources into recreating the teams and battles for the video
Truly one of the world champ differences of all time.
@@jakwq8994 Are you ever going to elaborate or are you just gonna say he cheats on every comment
@@HaVoCbReNgEr I think its just people whining about pkhex or something, when building a full team normally would realistically take months and is not at all reasonable lol
Probably a heat of the moment thing but Ashton couldn’t use Fake Out that last game because you had Extreme Speed on Arcanine to pick Tatsugiri off.
@@jakwq8994 everyone does who cares
@Jakwq that’s an opinion. However, I have a question: who asked? Who gave you permission to talk? Nobody. In fact, I went through the entire Ultra Space mini game and didn’t find a single person who asked
Wolfe has insane protagonist energy, and the way everything happens and is told in this video only reinforces that!
I don't think any VGC player will ever manage to beat him in my heart.
Dude literally just said "fuck the meta, I'm winning with my fave!" and accidentally created a new meta.
I like how your videos are explained in details and very friendly to those non-competitive casuals like me. Got me interested in vgc! Congrats again!
I don't play Pokemon that much but your storytelling kept me hooked and you informed me enough for me to know what is happening allowing me to understand what I am watching.
SEMI SPOILERS
The final matchup being the same as the first time you won with this team was iconic, what a great video Wolfe, you definitely deserved this win 🙌
That performance single handedly brought me back into playing and not just spectating. OG strategy new application. Brilliant, brother. 💪🏽
Something hilarious and great about the way that Wolfe says some of the highest ego (in a good way) stuff like “just because they had experience against the team, they still don’t have experience against me” so earnestly and in a non-boastful way. Love it
It's so cool that both times Wolfe won with Perish trap, he had to face Ashton Cox to do it.
(Congrats to Ashton too, he is also a phenomenal player)
I really enjoy this style of video that breaks down a strategy/meta for a tournament (or set of battles) and then has you explain each decision during a battle.
I was so amazed when Wolfe won. There's a lot of really talented new players coming in and this just goes to show that despite focusing on content, Wolfe's still with it when it comes to high level play. That's the world champ difference.
26:53 this "tera" ghost is hilarious! Great editing job and awesome storytelling as always
i didnt even catch that lol
Knowing from the comments that the match footage wasn’t recorded but was actually recreated based off Wolfe’s memory, that edit makes so much more sense! I was so confused when I first saw that lol.
He proved that the meta isn't dead, Wolfey really the goat
Fire spin and magma storm wreaks this team. I'm the Goat 🐐
Who actually runs those moves, though? Why would you run Fire Spin over, say, Heat Wave? Just to catch 1 specific team?
@@LitPinata you do know you can run to fire moves on the same set dummy 🤭
@@LitPinata I run those moves and I shatter meta teams
@@LitPinata I also run clear smog to just catch one specific team which is Dondozo. Bozo 🤡
Imagine being so good, everyone just copies you and tries to perfect your strats only to get slapped by the original. Poetic.
I love these long form analysis style videos. They're always so I formative and gripping. Huge W Wolfey, thanks for all the content!
You know what I love about these videos ? Is that they fully explain the massive skill it takes to be the best while highlighting the excitement and risks of it all. I have been playing pokemon since red and blue came out, but these make it as epic as they feel in my head. Great work.
Dang, this video was incredible. Everything from accidentally climbing to top of showdown to that insane ending. Time flew by so fast I didn't even realize the video was almost an hour long!
The fact that other competitive players saw how good your team was, tried to copy it and didn't like it, and then adjusted your team getting rid of the two Pokémon that made it unique is pretty funny imo.
Wolfe, I love you so much man. Your creativity and humble yet hard won achievements and even failures never cease to impress, entertain, and teach me. I hope you read this because I'd like you to know you're not just a content creator to me, but honestly a benchmark of a well rounded person in my mind. That probably sounds exaggerated since I don't actually know you but I think I can pick up what you put down enough to say I look up to you and aspire to be like you in a number of ways, regardless of the fact that our medium for connecting is a game largely intended for kids. I look forward to seeing more of you and your genius brother. Peace and love.
I love this video format! Watching your teambuilding process first makes the tournament battles even more enjoyable. Keep going !
I loved the part where Wolfey said “It’s World Champ Difference Time” and proceeded to World Champ Difference all over his opponents
I gotta say, these videos are some of the best pieces of competitive Pokémon content I have ever seen, you can truly tell the amount of effort and passion that is put into these videos, I genuinely believe I speak for everyone when I say that we are honoured to have you Wolfe, VGC would not be the same without you, I can't wait to see you hit that 1M
Wolfey’s so good, he accidentally became number one on showdown.
Mad props for the effort it must be to remember and recreate these sets. Congrats Wolfey!
Winning the finals against Ashton a second time with the same strategy from 8 years ago is such an anime moment. I am now convinced that Wolfe is secretly an anime protagonist.
Oh man wolfey don't mess around with back pain, if it hurts you gotta stop and rest or it takes even longer to fix. Hope it's doing better now
Oh boy you just know Wolfey is gonna keep bringing this up for the next 5 years 😂💀🫠
Deservedly so
As he should. It's a huge achievement.
The fact that you fought against Asthon at grand finals using perish team twice and won both of them is somehow feels like a destiny
however it does set up for an underdog anime-twist win where this happens a third time and ashton wins. or, rather, the alternate universe where he won the gholdengo-arcanine 50/50.
i love how wolfey didn't seem jaealous, mad, or literally really anything that people stole his team. he's jus basically like "yea but they cant do it like me" to the whole competitive pokemon community.
Man. Wolfey, your delivery in these videos has seriously improved. In the start of the scripted video era of your channel compared to now it is lightyears better. I can tell you're so much more comfortable with something more structured and scripted and with narration and you just generally seem so much more confident and charismatic with it, a lot like your unscripted videos. I'm so happy at how much you improved your videos and how much I feel like you put your heart and soul in to these. Keep it up man!
Really love that you still compete and are doing so well. Many "pro players" stop competing after making it big with content creation on youtube or twitch (shroud, xqc etc.).
I've never played actual pvp pokemon but I appreciate the time spent explaining each turn of combat
I've never thought this strat would make a comeback. Congrats on beating the meta!
Seeing this after Politoed with Perish song won him his 10th regional
Something I just realized:
Despite the whole "world champ difference" thing, and the fact he knows how good he is, he's humble. He admits his mistakes, and respects all his opponents. Maybe that is the *true* world champ difference
That’s why I think he should admit to his cheating allegations, admit and be humble
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xdwhy would someone admit to allegations if they’re baseless lies?
This was such a blast to watch live! I wish there were some regionals near my area in the midwest. Maybe some year!
@@jakwq8994 shut up
@@jakwq8994 like ur mum
@@jakwq8994 who asked?
your command of a good story alongside your world champ diff gameplay always makes a great watch.
I like how low-key he called out all the people who copied his team, claiming it as their own.
May be able to copy a team but can't copy the world champ difference, baby!
The best part about wolfey is he doesn't just use what everyone else uses, he makes his teams and that's why I respect him
I absolutely love seeing people use things that aren't "meta" in any competitive way. Modern gaming has been ruined by people only using the "highest potential" options in every situation because they can't think too hard for themselves, and it just reduces the number of innovations and advances in gameplay. I love when Wolfe does well with interesting choices, congrats on the win!
I went to Orlando and it was amazing seeing you in the final, again huge congrats on this and all of the achievements you have earned so far and I repeat you what I said when we took a picture “we are not even at half of the year”, I now the rest of the year will be amazing for you 👌
Crazy how good valiant is in singles but is apparently “useless” in doubles lol
Thanks to being frail iirc and not able to hit that hard enough. It has to take two attacks and survive.
Yeah.Palafin was on the underrated list because people in doubles think taking a whole turn to transform instead of damaging or applying pressure is unfavorable. And I've heard Palafin was broken in singles lol.
Wolfe the effort going into your recent videos have been staggering! Absolute madman keep it up!!!!
Wolf glick goated, literally showed his hand and still beat everyone down to a pulp with barley any offensive pokemon, just wild
Hey GOAT, thanks for using Pokken Tournament music in this video. Pokken is really underrated and deserves a sequel to improve upon the solid base they created.
I was at the event, didn't have time to meet you because you were too busy winning lol world champ difference baybeeeeee! Congrats on being the goat
The persona 5 music that starts at 9:48 is just perfection. Fits in with what wolfey’s saying and just adds hype, great vid 👌🏻👌🏻
Having experience against my team wasn't the same as having experience against *me*
was coooolld bruh🥶🥶🥶
Wolfy at 17:30 being like.
“Suffering from success” and “What have they done to my boi.”
I’m so glad he got to use this title. Good for him.
@@monk2780 just shut up
@@monk2780 proof?
@@monk2780 Sorry, legendaries are banned, and strategies aren't cheating.
WolfeyVGC: best perish trap player in the world
Emelio Forbes getting 2nd at 2018 Worlds with perish trap:
the circle composed storytelling with the coin flip being something you want to avoid with sing, and then it being a coin flip with the flare blitz is amazing
I didn't know the team had become so well-known before the tournament! That's a cool dynamic. Round 8 must've hurt, though, losing the mirror to a "copy".
This is your best video. Can't wait for you to hit 1MM subs. Also, this team and your performance were both insane. Keep on being amazing.
16:43 to 16:52 gave me chills, especially with the drop
Imagine losing twice to the same person using the same plan
Can't wait for "How I Won the Biggest Pokemon Tournament Ever Again"
18:00 -18:10 oof bro, chillllss chillls done everyone spine. Now that's a statement right there 🤩🤩
Yes! I’m so glad this video got made. It’s the world champ difference that made the strategy viable