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Perhaps the next theorem video could be why move sets (like mix attacking, fast physical, bulky special, etc) are close to everything or the Dragonite theorem
@@swallowmikeuhm6744tera is good defensively, z moves are good status wise, mega evolution is very offensive, and d/g max is very good at buffing/debuffing
Unironically that does fit into the theorem where if you can get bailed out by rng. They might get frozen or flinched by ice fang and your prediction was worked even though your opponent out predicted you
@@pmahcgop6693 basically if all options sucks (switching a defensive mon into a choice spec draco meteor maybe versus staying in and attacking but not KOin) but you outspeed, always go for the flinch, freeze, paralyze, sleep, or whatever chance
“You might know everything I’m going to do, but that’s not going to help you, since I know everything you’re going to do! Strange, isn’t it!? Grrrr!!!” -Legendary words from Sanic
I tried to teach one of my friends competitive pokemon a long time ago. The hardest part was getting them to understand how to predict. I tried to tell them to think "if I was my opponent what would I do?" But they just couldn't get it
I was in my late 20's. My cousin was in his low teens and was just barely was getting into Pokemon. I gave him a unbalanced team of six that he wanted and I took him on with my Rain Dance team. The reason he wiped the floor with me? I kept expecting him to switch in unfavorable matchups. I literally mindgamed myself with the skill diff. Prediction indeed isn't everything. Even a starting trainer can beat a seasoned one if the seasoned trainer is used to higher level play. _NOW IF ONLY HE WASN'T SO BLOODY SMUG ABOUT IT._ Bragged his mouth off and I didn't say anything because him having self confidence was something I wanted to encourage. He never battled me again, so I don't know if I was a positive influence on him or not..... EDIT: Holy crap, this blew up. Okay....I'll try to answer you all out of kindness.
This is why prediction is less about knowing the mechanics/meta and more about knowing the player. You would've probably made a solid comeback if you had realized your bro's stubbornness and noob switching game halfway through, adjusting to play more aggressively by punishing him for staying in. In online matches against randoms this would be much harder, yea, but observing what they do throughout the match and if they're showing any patterns does help.
Recently fought a Trick Room team on ladder. I thought that the Indeedee would be Tera Fairy to dodge Dark Pulse so I used Tera Poison Tera Blast and it DIDNT TERA and I lost
Title of Video: "Why Prediction Isn't Everything" Content in Video: Extensive monologue about how important and decisive being able to make and execute on predictions are.
Im surprised Dracovish wasnt mentioned, since that thing doesnt bother with predicting or being predicted. It just knows one thing. Kill anything without water absord, storm drain, or sturdy
One of my favorite adages from Alpharad is "But what if it worked, though?" I like the man a lot, but he throws away perfectly good games (in multiple different contexts) because sometimes making the ludicrous read would've been more fun to watch if it worked. Which is showmanship over actual competitive strategy, to be sure, but he ain't wrong. Hard reads feel amazing to pull off, and you don't get those by playing too safe.
I never thought my art would wind up in an FSG video, but here I am! Thank you guys for showing it and properly crediting me. For reference, I'm at 10:00.
My normal process for picking an option 1. Thinking about the logical move 2. Thinking about what risky opportunity that i can make 3. Thinking about the safe middleground play 4. Yoloing it with something random that just sprung to my mind 5. Either watch ur enemy lose their face or feel stupid
If you can't make predication because you don't know the player, you should try to slowdown the game so you can learn your opponent. This is one of the reasons why hyper offense is a very high rist and high reward kind of team, and stall being the opposite. Because in hyper offense, you don't have the time to learn your opponent, you have to make dangerous choices.
One time I fought someone with a tyranitar named "plz no lando", so I could instantly tell this was bait for me to send in lando or tusk or whatever ground type I happened to have to block the stone edge only for them to one shot me with ice beam. It was so incredibly obvious. I even said it in the chat. So naturally like a complete idiot I sent in my tusk anyway and it died to ice beam. Idk what's wrong with me. Even when I see something so obvious I get possessed into sabotaging myself.
That shot of Empoleon and Infernape both setting up Stealth Rocks when either one could kill the other is peak common singles behaviour. Sure, rocks are great, but shooting them out at the beginning of a fight isn't always the best idea
"'Predict!' They demand from me. 'You need to predict!' They exclaim. PREDICTING IS SAVED FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT GIFTED BY LADY LUCK HERSELF NOW SIT BACK AND WATCH ME LAND THIS FOCUS BLAST" -Words your team never wants to hear in a Team Tourney (we went 3-1)
are predicts optimal most of the time? no, are they cool, hype and make you feel like a G.O.A.T? yeah, and honestly that's good enough for me, I'm playing this game to have fun after all no need to overthink it
Little did you know that your opponents predicted that you would make outlandish plays and responded with what was seemingly a boring move when in reality they were playing 4D Chess!
Prediction IS everything but predicting everything is impossible. You have to consider all of your opponent's options instead of always doing something to counter one specific option
This video should've been "Why Tiering is Everything" Ubers: everything is broken, but you get to play with pokegod. OU: sweaty tryhards who love the burn UU: sweaty tryhards with some personality RU: tinkering gods who manage to make teams out of situational and dysfunctional mons. NU: OU but the burn is slower and there's a lot more playing than mind gaming. ZU: the true casual mode LC: everything is extremely balanced (it's either a 1HKO or a 10HKO) and you feel like a pokegod when you manage to control the chaos contained within small margins and small numbers.
Gyarados being my favorite Pokémon I’ve been waiting for years for its remake vid, but I am very pleasantly surprised it gets a whole theorem video themed around it!!
@@RestingStitchFace0 I feel you, Gyarados is in my top 10 and power creep was not kind to him. Other than Lopunny and Bellossum (Both which are trash anyway) power creep was harsh too. At least Gothitelle is decent in early VGC formats. Gyarados had some success in early gen 9 VGC play.
I'm not even halfway through and there's already so much useful and well laid-out information for new players, this video is gonna be a banger resource
This is my favourite video that you've done. The historical reviews of various competitive pokemon are always interesting but this felt like far more useful information than "This pokemon was pretty good in gen 5."
I thought for almost two decades that Gyarados was a special attacker. It took me forever to learn that it was a physical attacker. Lance taught it hyper beam. The TV show showed it using hyper beam. I always thought that it was weird how weak its surf and hydro pumps were. Good times.
I had a game not too long ago where my oponent kept thinking I was going to switch, but I kept staying in cuz I was fine with sacking my mons, so I got two free ohkos.
Sometimes I'll be playing on showdown and my opponent keeps perfectly predicting all of my moves, switching in resists... until all of their mons die to the 10-15% chip damage from the resisted attacks. So, yeah, prediction is not all that.
People are talking about predictions and stuff, and how the Miss chance in moves can just happen and you either account for it or just cry about it. But here I am, thinking on the Gyarados vs Infernape dillema part of the video: 'But what if, while I attack or set up dragon dance I get outsped in the first scenario or dont kill him in the second... But what if it burns tho?" Like, the chance is there if they're gutsy enough to risk it ... Remember folks, these predictions and calculation stuff are also being done (probably) by the opponent, be it on a more superficial or a more complex level, but it still is.
It feels amazing when I predict an Ogerpon wellspring switching into my sun boosted Walking Wake expecting a Hydro Steam and I snipe them with Draco Meteor. I chose to not take into account the times they switch in their dragon resist
I was playing 3 vs 3 against a guy who was using legendaries. I thought he was noob but he managed to predict my first two pokemon and I only had one left. Then his mewtwo used a tackle (something equal to tackle) I realised he was a noob. So my greninja beat him 1-0 because I now knew he would not know my techniques.
Fun story, I was playing Stadium with my best friend a few weeks ago, and I had my Charizard out against his Gyarados. I figured that the best play I had was to switch out to my Gengar because the Gyarados I made for the custom format was too centralizing, only to get slammed by Earthquake and lose the game. Later in another game, I kept my Charizard in against his Golem so that I could give my Blastoise a free switch in after I die to Rock Slide, but stayed in as Earthquake did no damage to the fire type Charizard. It turned out his 10000 iq play of using Earthquake on Charizard expecting a switch in weak to it was actually a 0 iq play not knowing that Charmander evolves into a bird
The trick is to make the choice that has the greatest gains with the least amount of risk. Your might ohko the enemy if they switch into a water resist, but if their resist is has low bulk and you have a switch in go for the water move because even at half damage it’s worth it.
Pulling off a perfect prediction and pissing off randoms on showdown as they yell at you for being bad and not knowing how the game works has to be one of the greatest feelings 😂
Another concept is "conditioning". The concept is simple: you purposedly make your choices very repeatitive to make your opponent think you'll always be doing the same choice, but you switch it up at the very timing it's going to hurt the most. In Pokemon, there's typically not enough time to condition the opponent, but against a stall team, you will often be confronted with the same choices over and over, and you typically need to do a risky play to KO a Pokemon and create a hole in their team. This is where conditionning comes in place: You keep going for the safe play so that the moment you do the risky play, it's more of a 90% chance to succeed than a coin flip, because they now think you always go for the safe play.
Another part of the theorem with discussing is actually in game rng and not just the random nature of mind games. If you click waterfall on thunder punch jirachi predicting they’ll switch into a ground type cause they’ll predict your switch into heatran even if it doesn’t work you Atleast made progress on that jirachi but could win the game with a lucky flinch which would be the opponent couldn’t even describe as being unfortunate. Opposingly thunder punching with jirachi has a chance to bail you out by getting a para on heatran or any other non ground type switch in, making long term progress with a crippling status.
The way that you consider these things in singles versus doubles is so crazy. I started learning VGC last year and it is so difficult for me to shift my mindset to where I'm willing to make risky plays when I know I could lose half my team in one turn as a result or they might double in on it my switch.
When I'm competing in Showdown Single Battles, I always make a point to predict my opponents as quickly as possible. Examples being: Leading Meowscarada to use Knock Off, Having Zoroark use Substitute immediately whilst disguised as Lucario, and saving Mega Lucario as a last ace.
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Perhaps the next theorem video could be why move sets (like mix attacking, fast physical, bulky special, etc) are close to everything or the Dragonite theorem
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ew tencent games
"if this works I'm a genius, if it doesn't I'm a dumbass"
I think that sums up most curiosity driven experiences.
Qoute me every game.
Ill take those odds , no regrets !
i think that is commonly referred to as "being real" because you arent real if you dont potentially throw for a 5% chance of the most shiest play ever
Unfortunate
Button one: Set up spikes
Button two: Attack
*Presses both*
Hisuian Samurott: 👍
Hisuiamurott: "Pssst! 🫴 It's free real estate. 😏"
*ceaseless edge missed
@@pmahcgop6693😢
@@pmahcgop6693 do it again
*low BST, especially speed enters the chat
- "He's not gonna Tera here. Why would he?"
- _Opponent immediately Teras and either sets up or kills my guy on the spot_
- Great game
Gen 9 in a nutshell
still more balanced than every previous gen metagame lol
@@swallowmikeuhm6744tera is good defensively, z moves are good status wise, mega evolution is very offensive, and d/g max is very good at buffing/debuffing
@@swallowmikeuhm6744ADV OU wants a word
@@swallowmikeuhm6744yeah no
"Blunder with the offical agency gangsign" by kellen was NOT on my today's bingo list
CTC*
"Why Prediction IS Everything - The Sucker Punch Theorem"
YES!
The kingambit theorem would go crazy
@@marcelomelo9977 Why endgames are everything
The Pursuit Theorem
pov: pokemon reborn new world field
The first step to being a Pokémon Master is getting a BA in economics or international relations with a focus on Game Theory models
You can also go for a BA in mathematics because statisticians are secretly masters themselves.
The fact that I'm doing exactly that 💀
you say this but blunder has a degree in business
lmao i'm getting a degree in economics right now
Everybody gangsta until Bulky DD Gyarados Paralyzes you with Bounce.
Unironically that does fit into the theorem where if you can get bailed out by rng. They might get frozen or flinched by ice fang and your prediction was worked even though your opponent out predicted you
Never forget it can learn Thunder Wave
@@pmahcgop6693 basically if all options sucks (switching a defensive mon into a choice spec draco meteor maybe versus staying in and attacking but not KOin) but you outspeed, always go for the flinch, freeze, paralyze, sleep, or whatever chance
“You might know everything I’m going to do, but that’s not going to help you, since I know everything you’re going to do! Strange, isn’t it!? Grrrr!!!”
-Legendary words from Sanic
What piece of sanic media was that??
@@CatLover-lk9gz first animated movie with metal sonic
@@CatLover-lk9gz Sonic OVA when he clashes with Metal Sonic.
Hell nah, you just have to use your strongest, more inaccurate move as you shout "Agency Agency" and you will be good
Its the only way
Facts
This comment made me chuckle
Damage
Don’t forget the “far more sinister” moment as well
"I'll double switch over to your gf's house" is wild.i'd just apologize
FSG: Came for the Pokemon tips, stayed for the psychological warfare advice
LMAOOOOOO thanks for the shoutout goat
L’agency is now scientifically proven
AGENCY AGENCY
Yo agency never fails
this the CTC theorem
What IS the official agency gangsign?
9:37 Watching this Breloom vs Roserade interaction triggered my Gen 9 brainrot thinking "Wait Roserade can't be Spore'd!"
That's not brainrot, that's called living in your time lol
I tried to teach one of my friends competitive pokemon a long time ago.
The hardest part was getting them to understand how to predict.
I tried to tell them to think "if I was my opponent what would I do?" But they just couldn't get it
Showing actual battles with predictions in them might help
Haydunn is a very good channel, since he explains everything he's gonna do next
I was in my late 20's. My cousin was in his low teens and was just barely was getting into Pokemon. I gave him a unbalanced team of six that he wanted and I took him on with my Rain Dance team.
The reason he wiped the floor with me?
I kept expecting him to switch in unfavorable matchups. I literally mindgamed myself with the skill diff.
Prediction indeed isn't everything. Even a starting trainer can beat a seasoned one if the seasoned trainer is used to higher level play.
_NOW IF ONLY HE WASN'T SO BLOODY SMUG ABOUT IT._ Bragged his mouth off and I didn't say anything because him having self confidence was something I wanted to encourage. He never battled me again, so I don't know if I was a positive influence on him or not.....
EDIT: Holy crap, this blew up. Okay....I'll try to answer you all out of kindness.
This is why playing on lower ladder can be so difficult sometimes
This is why prediction is less about knowing the mechanics/meta and more about knowing the player.
You would've probably made a solid comeback if you had realized your bro's stubbornness and noob switching game halfway through, adjusting to play more aggressively by punishing him for staying in.
In online matches against randoms this would be much harder, yea, but observing what they do throughout the match and if they're showing any patterns does help.
Recently fought a Trick Room team on ladder. I thought that the Indeedee would be Tera Fairy to dodge Dark Pulse so I used Tera Poison Tera Blast and it DIDNT TERA and I lost
Giving him confidence is a good call. But on the other hand have you considered violence?
It often becomes a game of rock, paper, scissors
Title of Video: "Why Prediction Isn't Everything"
Content in Video: Extensive monologue about how important and decisive being able to make and execute on predictions are.
That's something BKC would say, but with Kellen's voice
He made a video on prediction not being everything a while ago.
@@teddyhaines6613 Yeah, that's why i said that
according to the description it was written by BKC so that makes sense
Considering BKC is the primary writer for FSG that makes sense
The 6x moonblast example is literally just his chomp vs 6 heatran example
I'm surprised Pursuit was never brought up in a scenario.
What's Pursuit? I know not of Pursuit. There's no such thing as Pursuit, you're crazy.
Im surprised Dracovish wasnt mentioned, since that thing doesnt bother with predicting or being predicted. It just knows one thing. Kill anything without water absord, storm drain, or sturdy
One of my favorite adages from Alpharad is "But what if it worked, though?" I like the man a lot, but he throws away perfectly good games (in multiple different contexts) because sometimes making the ludicrous read would've been more fun to watch if it worked. Which is showmanship over actual competitive strategy, to be sure, but he ain't wrong. Hard reads feel amazing to pull off, and you don't get those by playing too safe.
Should've called it the Unfortunate Theorum
Unfortunate does not begin to describe…
You can predict all you want, but it won't change the fact you will miss a 95% accuracy move (even with boosted accuracy moves?)
"I predicted that I'd miss, this is why I ran blunder policy on my pokemon"
@@tomrejor4842tfw it always hit and you basically get to use zap cannon for free
@@tomrejor4842 only way to hit 8 Inferno in a row
I never thought my art would wind up in an FSG video, but here I am! Thank you guys for showing it and properly crediting me. For reference, I'm at 10:00.
My normal process for picking an option
1. Thinking about the logical move
2. Thinking about what risky opportunity that i can make
3. Thinking about the safe middleground play
4. Yoloing it with something random that just sprung to my mind
5. Either watch ur enemy lose their face or feel stupid
Can't wait for: Battles aren't everything, The Zigzagoon Theorem
Me yoinking items off the ground
Rider Willie enters the chat
*Bibarel theorum
“You may know everything I’m going to do, but that’s not going to help you, because I know everything you’re going to do!
Strange, isn’t it?!”
...Wait a minute, I thought the Gyarados Theorem was about dual types not always being better than monotypes!
Oh, no. That’s the Aggron Theorem.
BKC plugging his own videos into FSG. Amazing work.
Similar principal to fighting games; sometimes you gotta make the crazy read that will blow up your opponent if its right.
And sometimes you do the splits IRL.
0:30 BKC jumpscare
If you can't make predication because you don't know the player, you should try to slowdown the game so you can learn your opponent. This is one of the reasons why hyper offense is a very high rist and high reward kind of team, and stall being the opposite. Because in hyper offense, you don't have the time to learn your opponent, you have to make dangerous choices.
Exclusively run Metronome on everything. Your enemy will never know your next move.
You can't get predicted if not even you know what your next move will be!
One time I fought someone with a tyranitar named "plz no lando", so I could instantly tell this was bait for me to send in lando or tusk or whatever ground type I happened to have to block the stone edge only for them to one shot me with ice beam. It was so incredibly obvious. I even said it in the chat. So naturally like a complete idiot I sent in my tusk anyway and it died to ice beam. Idk what's wrong with me. Even when I see something so obvious I get possessed into sabotaging myself.
😂😂
Me 80% of the time:" f*ck it we ball!"
My opponent:" wow he must be a genius to outsmart me like that"
That shot of Empoleon and Infernape both setting up Stealth Rocks when either one could kill the other is peak common singles behaviour. Sure, rocks are great, but shooting them out at the beginning of a fight isn't always the best idea
"'Predict!' They demand from me. 'You need to predict!' They exclaim. PREDICTING IS SAVED FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT GIFTED BY LADY LUCK HERSELF NOW SIT BACK AND WATCH ME LAND THIS FOCUS BLAST" -Words your team never wants to hear in a Team Tourney (we went 3-1)
We’ve all had that moment where we’ve had Joey’s inner thought process in the Duelist Kingdom final vs Yugi when it comes to prediction
Nah, predicting my opponent would switch out into Gyarados against my Alolan Marowak into my Thunder Punch was euphoric.
are predicts optimal most of the time? no, are they cool, hype and make you feel like a G.O.A.T? yeah, and honestly that's good enough for me, I'm playing this game to have fun after all no need to overthink it
L take
Little did you know that your opponents predicted that you would make outlandish plays and responded with what was seemingly a boring move when in reality they were playing 4D Chess!
This is the Lavos theory
Gyarados: "Should I attack or DD?"
Dynamax Moxie Gyarados: "Why not both?"
Nah I’d make a hard read
(I lost to a crit regardless)
Aight when is, “Why luck is everything”? Jirachi gotta be the poster pokemon with para-flinch
Prediction IS everything but predicting everything is impossible. You have to consider all of your opponent's options instead of always doing something to counter one specific option
0:10 I have met people who didn't and were flabbergasted at the idea of prediction
"I don't like your playstyle, stop switching"
- Guy I fought one time
Defensive pokemon betrayed by their movepool idea...
Like Hannibal Barca crossing the Swiss Alps in the dead of winter, the line between tactical genius and suicidal idiocy is extremely thin.
Alternative Title: The Sucker Punch Theorem.
“Why the HOW GOOD WAS (POKEMON) ACTUALLY? series isn’t everything”
This video should've been "Why Tiering is Everything"
Ubers: everything is broken, but you get to play with pokegod.
OU: sweaty tryhards who love the burn
UU: sweaty tryhards with some personality
RU: tinkering gods who manage to make teams out of situational and dysfunctional mons.
NU: OU but the burn is slower and there's a lot more playing than mind gaming.
ZU: the true casual mode
LC: everything is extremely balanced (it's either a 1HKO or a 10HKO) and you feel like a pokegod when you manage to control the chaos contained within small margins and small numbers.
Gyarados being my favorite Pokémon I’ve been waiting for years for its remake vid, but I am very pleasantly surprised it gets a whole theorem video themed around it!!
Same, brother. Though I may cry when we get to Gen IX.
@@RestingStitchFace0 I feel you, Gyarados is in my top 10 and power creep was not kind to him. Other than Lopunny and Bellossum (Both which are trash anyway) power creep was harsh too. At least Gothitelle is decent in early VGC formats. Gyarados had some success in early gen 9 VGC play.
@@RestingStitchFace0 Gyarados needs SOMETHING like Liquidiation or Wave Crash. I do not want to live to see the day it drops to PU….
@@beebobber546 Give it a decent Flying STAB, or make it Dragon type, or Flip Turn.
Imagining a Sexy Jutsu from Naruto in Ultimate Ninja 2 and instead he goes for a Rasengan instead to knock you out! LOL
Prediction in Pokemon is the gateway to a gambling addiction
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I feel like this comment is so right and so wrong at the same time
Archaludon is a good example of this. You know exactly what it’s going to do but can’t stop it.
Probably the most informative Pokemon video you’ve ever made. Thanks!
I'm not even halfway through and there's already so much useful and well laid-out information for new players, this video is gonna be a banger resource
I watch every video, but have barely played myself. This feels like the single best explanation you have of how this game is ACTUALLY played! Love it!
First is the confirmation of my new job. Now a new False Swipe Theorem.
Today is a great day.
Congradulations!
Blunder's perfect move is sacking the featured mon (100% success rate)
Underrated comment 😂
This is my favourite video that you've done. The historical reviews of various competitive pokemon are always interesting but this felt like far more useful information than "This pokemon was pretty good in gen 5."
Let's be honest, THIS is the most relatable video they have ever dropped amd ever will drop
I thought for almost two decades that Gyarados was a special attacker. It took me forever to learn that it was a physical attacker. Lance taught it hyper beam. The TV show showed it using hyper beam. I always thought that it was weird how weak its surf and hydro pumps were. Good times.
When Kingambit is last Pokémon and you don’t know if you should SD or attack
This is one of the best explanations I've ever seen of the psychology of this game
Blunder finally getting the feature
I liked this theorem a lot, it even applies to fighting games as well. Shoutout to the Evo 2013 roll read clip you snuck in there
"You may know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, because I know everything YOU're going to do. STRANGE, ISN'T IT?"
I had a game not too long ago where my oponent kept thinking I was going to switch, but I kept staying in cuz I was fine with sacking my mons, so I got two free ohkos.
One of the most well thought out and informative theorem vids yet. Keep up the great work fellas!
Sometimes I'll be playing on showdown and my opponent keeps perfectly predicting all of my moves, switching in resists... until all of their mons die to the 10-15% chip damage from the resisted attacks. So, yeah, prediction is not all that.
People are talking about predictions and stuff, and how the Miss chance in moves can just happen and you either account for it or just cry about it.
But here I am, thinking on the Gyarados vs Infernape dillema part of the video: 'But what if, while I attack or set up dragon dance I get outsped in the first scenario or dont kill him in the second... But what if it burns tho?" Like, the chance is there if they're gutsy enough to risk it
... Remember folks, these predictions and calculation stuff are also being done (probably) by the opponent, be it on a more superficial or a more complex level, but it still is.
Unless your opponent is 100% desperate, they will not stay in hoping that they can get a burn in that scenario. The odds for them are too low.
This might be the most important theorem video so far.
It feels amazing when I predict an Ogerpon wellspring switching into my sun boosted Walking Wake expecting a Hydro Steam and I snipe them with Draco Meteor.
I chose to not take into account the times they switch in their dragon resist
Possibly the greatest thumbnail I've ever seen, I've been laughing for a solid 5 minutes straight
Outlandish soul reads in randbats is so, chefs kiss. And similarly with insane bluffs.
I feel like this theorem for Draft League could easily go over 2 hours
I was playing 3 vs 3 against a guy who was using legendaries. I thought he was noob but he managed to predict my first two pokemon and I only had one left. Then his mewtwo used a tackle (something equal to tackle) I realised he was a noob. So my greninja beat him 1-0 because I now knew he would not know my techniques.
As a wise sage once said. "But here's the thing, they're never gonna expect me to do it again."
Big kyurem stocks on its way to convince you that prediction is overrated and that the kyurem is choice locked
That double switch bit was a real agwncy move
Sometimes you feel the game is conspiring against you and that the CPU *knows* the move you're going to click.
as Ron Nasty of the Rutles once sang:
“I know you know what you know, but you should know by now that you’re not me”
Fun story, I was playing Stadium with my best friend a few weeks ago, and I had my Charizard out against his Gyarados. I figured that the best play I had was to switch out to my Gengar because the Gyarados I made for the custom format was too centralizing, only to get slammed by Earthquake and lose the game. Later in another game, I kept my Charizard in against his Golem so that I could give my Blastoise a free switch in after I die to Rock Slide, but stayed in as Earthquake did no damage to the fire type Charizard.
It turned out his 10000 iq play of using Earthquake on Charizard expecting a switch in weak to it was actually a 0 iq play not knowing that Charmander evolves into a bird
The trick is to make the choice that has the greatest gains with the least amount of risk. Your might ohko the enemy if they switch into a water resist, but if their resist is has low bulk and you have a switch in go for the water move because even at half damage it’s worth it.
This was just like listening to BKC's regular channel. I feel like every other video he breaks into a tangent about finding the middle ground
Two words, Ally Switch.
Pursuit.
@@JaelinBezel Oh yeah, Pursuit: The move that was removed from the games.
…not how it works…
In this era of OTS, I put Ally Switch on my mon, and then never click it once
Competitive Pokemon is so oddly specific. But then again, any competitive scene have oddly specific alienating cheese.
YOU EVER KICK BALL THROUGH BRICK WALL?
JA GENERAL
Did you know, low accuracy moves have their accuracy buffed by 50% when holding a blunder policy.
BKC! Like wolfe said, it's all positional. Wolfe did a video where he tells his opponent what he is going to do and STILL wins
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA TH-cam interrupted your sponsored segment with an ad hahahahahahaha
Im impressed with this vid false swipe. I have the feeling you would make an excellemt pokemon professor/teacher.
lmao, whoever does the Thumbnails for this channel needs a raise
Pulling off a perfect prediction and pissing off randoms on showdown as they yell at you for being bad and not knowing how the game works has to be one of the greatest feelings 😂
Another concept is "conditioning". The concept is simple: you purposedly make your choices very repeatitive to make your opponent think you'll always be doing the same choice, but you switch it up at the very timing it's going to hurt the most. In Pokemon, there's typically not enough time to condition the opponent, but against a stall team, you will often be confronted with the same choices over and over, and you typically need to do a risky play to KO a Pokemon and create a hole in their team. This is where conditionning comes in place: You keep going for the safe play so that the moment you do the risky play, it's more of a 90% chance to succeed than a coin flip, because they now think you always go for the safe play.
Another part of the theorem with discussing is actually in game rng and not just the random nature of mind games. If you click waterfall on thunder punch jirachi predicting they’ll switch into a ground type cause they’ll predict your switch into heatran even if it doesn’t work you Atleast made progress on that jirachi but could win the game with a lucky flinch which would be the opponent couldn’t even describe as being unfortunate. Opposingly thunder punching with jirachi has a chance to bail you out by getting a para on heatran or any other non ground type switch in, making long term progress with a crippling status.
The way that you consider these things in singles versus doubles is so crazy. I started learning VGC last year and it is so difficult for me to shift my mindset to where I'm willing to make risky plays when I know I could lose half my team in one turn as a result or they might double in on it my switch.
When I'm competing in Showdown Single Battles, I always make a point to predict my opponents as quickly as possible. Examples being: Leading Meowscarada to use Knock Off, Having Zoroark use Substitute immediately whilst disguised as Lucario, and saving Mega Lucario as a last ace.
It works like a triangle
No predicting