I Entered a Huge Tournament. It was a Mistake.
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This is the story of the Hartford Regional Championships, an enormous tournament I entered despite the odds being stacked against me.
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Hi Wolfe, can you tell what are the ev spreads on these pokemons?
Who
Why do you say vivillon the way you say it in your match against Toller
@@noctapro6188It’s “French”
Thanks Wolfe for continually doing things to help the community. I don’t know many people who know or care about competitive Pokémon and I still struggle with team building alone sometimes, so this seems like it’ll definitely help
Bro Dillon came through with a 16 page document with calcs and graphs???? The undiscussed MVP of the video
Honestly!! I was looking for this comment. That is a GREAT friend
Man deserves a wage for that.
Underdiscussed* Wolfey definitely made sure to shout out his EV work in critical parts
Now discussed
Sounds like some shit I would do, I love stats
Wolfey would have absolutely won the tournament if his hotel had been stocked on bananas.
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Wolfey- I was the guy that got a picture with you after you came off stage. I felt awkward approaching you, but I know you needed the top 8 finish and it was my first regional event ever. Thank you for taking that time for being the goat with your fans.
classic wolfe W
Wolfe: Lands a third place after winning 14 out of 17 matches.
Wolfe: «I still did, I think… pretty okay»
Without prep 💀
I can hear Steven He's dad
@@edoyuki1030lol
I mean, you’re not a competitive player if you don’t aim for 1st place every time.
My respects to Wolfey for pronouncing vivillion in the most french way possible like 10 times, that truly is comittment on the joke
36:18
hey it's the correct way to say it
could easily stitch it in the other 9 times but that's where the World Champ Diff kicks in babyy
Mad respect to that chad bringing vivillion to a competition lol
@@obi-wan3916 I was thinking that too lol
Wolfey: "This was a mistake..." "I didnt have enough time to prep..."
Also Wolfey: *gets 3rd in a major US regional, loses 3 sets out of 17*
world champ difference baybee
WORLD CHAMP DIFFERENCE BABYYYY
typical clickbait title sadly
Pretty sure it wasn’t clickbait, the mistake was that he entered the tournament and he put himself through mental torture, THAT was why it was a mistake i think.
@@badashe1364 pretty much agree
Wolfe really expected to get a good team idea from 1 of the most chaotic duos I've seen on TH-cam 😂
Roll the Chaos dice. Could be awesome or useless. But Most likely useless 😂
and got the EXACT kind of answer any sane person would expect.
Surprised jaiden didn’t recommend him to make a trebuchet out of pyroars 😭
Imagine if they came up with a serious looking set
Let's ask PM7 what to do? He said to just solo the tournament with Magikarp so I realized I'm surrounded by idiots.
47:44 Can we take a minute to appreciate the fact that Wolfey took notes during most of his games and then sat down for 40 hours to bring us this recreation of all his matches?! :O
I think the 40 hours was for his editor
that was his editor
If it was the editor who recreated all the matches,he needs to be paid more,idc how much he is paid now😂
These long form tournament recaps are easily my favorite Wolfey content. They are amazingly balanced between in-depth and accessible that makes me feel like I am actually learning more about the competitive scene and it can be fun to play along mentally and try to predict the choices that the players make in the games. Also the work that has been put into remaking the match scenes to visualize the voiceover is amazing. The effort is super appreciated as it would be incredibly difficult to follow along with just the voice over.
I couldn't agree more! It was the length of a movie and I still want to see more! For someone who's just getting in to VGC seeing the way he processes decisions and predictions is so incredibly helpful
He’s not remaking the matches, though. He’s just pulling the footage from the stream. Or am I just stupid?
I’m pretty sure he’s just making a voiceover and then taking the games from the stream and editing the footage to match the pace of the voiceover
@@PtylerBeats a few matches are from stream but you can't record your matches so he or his editing team has to recreate them afterwards based on his notes.
It seems like a LOT of work
Wolfe gets a few games from the stream, but most games are not streamed in any given tournament. Wolfe Glick is important, but not so important to get all his games, even day 1 games, onto the stream. If they were all just streamed, he wouldn’t need to be taking the notes he uses to make these videos. Note that the games where he talks about having not taken notes have less granular detail, even though they still have recreations.
They're a close second to my favorite content. Which are the insane Kaizo's. The pressure and payoff/losses are just so entertaining.
24:26 the post match interview/review might be my newer favorite thing you've done. It allows for a break between matches and doesn't mesh everything together. Love your work man!
hard agree- it adds a lot to the pacing :)
Cant believe Wolfey asked people who he taught competitive pokemon to, to make him a team for a massive tournament. Was it really worth a try
To be fair, Jaiden is actually a good Pokemon player. Jacob's also proven that he's capable of good plays, he just doesn't enjoy stressing about them. Also, they're roommates... so they probably both saw the message, had a conversation that went something like "do we trust ourselves to do this? absolutely not," and Jacob came up with a joking reply to say no to Wolfe in a chill manner.
@@jdk2535 They sure as hell were not gonna be able to make a consistent team for tournament
Sports world champions have coaches. Chess Grandmasters have a team helping them prepare. These are 2 examples, but in the end, you go nowhere alone. In things such as pokemon team building, the help of someone that has a different point of view is something valuable, whatever is the level of each individual
@gwennaneliezer8490 yea I know that, but why Jaiden and Alpha first, he chose the best player last.
Since when were they roommates?
Thanks for a great round 1! It meant a lot to me as a newer player that you were so welcoming and treated me with respect as an opponent. I’ll catch up to you in the finals one of these days! 🎮
I love your confidence and I really hope to see you on stream in the future years
Wolfe analyzing hotel breakfest as part of the team building process is the greatest thing
Bananas are important
@@HonkHonkGoose776 true that I once ate an apple instead of a banana before a race… biggest mistake of my life
@@c14nonyt85agreed, huge difference. Ate an apple on the way to football practice one day because i woke up too late to make eggs and toast, i was definitely thinking about how i shouldve grabbed some peanuts and a banana instead when i was throwing up after just the warmup sprints 😂😂
These oranges are way too weak against Chi-Yu and sun teams, you should probably have a counter like bananas
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500yea but the longevity of grapes give it an edge
Wolfey plays Wingspan? Lets gooooo bird game
it’s you 😦
It’s so good
I just started playing that game with my friends occasionally and we are having tons of fun with it. I still haven't bought the Asian expansion though. We all think the other two expansions helped the game a lot though (especially with the new improved boards in the Oceania, those are amazing).
Ikr
How did it feel when you 3-stocked TCNick3?
"If you're thinking to use fissure Ting-lu, don't" ~Wolfey the Legend, Hartford Regionals
“Nah, Fissure Ting-Lu is based. Bathe in your opponents tears.” ~ Sun Tzu - The Art of War.
I like how the story of finding a team for the tournament isn't about Wolfe staring at the Pokédex for 100 hours but instead bouncing ideas off his friends and fellow competitive players. After all, isn't that-the bonds of friendship and teamwork-the core of the Pokémon story?
Not just that, but knowing what he had to ask from anyone to get the best results.
Going Jaden and Alpharad to seek a off meta pick, PM7 to seek a strong pick on the meta, THE DUDE WHO MADE A WHOLE PHD ABOUT THE IV SPREADS OF ONE POKEMON IN A NIGHT...
Knowing helpful people is a gift, knowing what any of those people does best is a talent.
You know times are desperate when you have to ask Jacob alpharad for a competitive pokemon team 😂
“If you’re at the bottom of the well, you can’t fall any lower, can you?”
Alpharad, probably
@@davialmeida4442 he would start to dig deeper
Well he IS the Nuzlocke King
I think alpha actually does play VGC from time to time.
@@rhysofsneezingdragon1758but compare to Wolfey who starts in Gen 4-5 times,It’s a Huge difference in Experience and Adapting into the Battle
Every time he said “Vivillion” like that I giggled. It was GREAT.
17:15 dillon was asked for Stats Spread man handed Wolfe a Stats Spreadsheet what a legend
Novel* 16 pages lmao
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507More like a stat spread short story but that works too lmao
While others recommend using OHKO moves. You see who the real friends are unintentionally in this story.
@@Quislvl Wolfy deserved it after bringing hypnosis that's just as cheap to a tournament lol
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507by that logic, practically everyone using Amoonguss should be considered cheap since spore is basically always on the Pokemon, and a massive chunk of players are definitely using Amoonguss
After playing in Milwaukee, and only making it 6 rounds before dropping, I can definitely tell you how exhausting a long tournament is. Wolfe has the world champ difference though, and what a trooper he is. Such an amazing player 👏
wolfe: i need help
dillon: ( writes a iron hands stats spreds thesis)
He deserves a phd in Iron hands
This comment and reply is so underrated and that is a crime.
I really like how most of Wolfey's team building videos really highlight the friends that helped him along the way. He's my champion lol.
1:01:25 "as they terastallize to grass" and then it's just a flower bouquet PNG on top of Iron Hands' head. It legit made me cackle. 😂
Lmao he did that with knigambjt before. Just put a tiny flame on dudes head
Wolf. Your videos are sick. It’s like a documentary. I’m an old school gamer and have to say this was enjoyable with how you present. Would be cool to shake your hand and meet you someday. You deserve all your popularity. Stay cool bud.
Wow Aaron and Brendan. What a suggestion Iron Hands was. Their veteran knowledge and intuition cannot be overstated
Seriously. Hands + Amoonguss were clearly MVPs. I figured Flutter Mane or Chi-Yu would run away with this tournament but Hands was definitely the best.
And pm7
THE PM7 GUARANTEEEEE
Iron Hands is a messed pokemon, why did they give it drain punch lol
@@Lucarioguild7 I'm pretty sure drain punch is the only thing keeping it viable. Without it I'm pretty sure iron hands is borderline useless as an offensive threat
Can we take some time to appreciate that although he was probably tired and sleep deprived, he actually went and played like dozens of games to visualize it for us because you can’t record games in VGC
it was his editor though
I love how he went from asking Alpharad and Jaiden was bad to asking Markus and Aaron Traylor when the situation got worse xDDD
He just decided he liked a team of OHKO pokemon so much he's going to save that team for the World Championships. For anyone else it would be a stupidly inconsistent team, but that's world champ difference, baby.
I always saw you as a really cocky person but this video completely changed my mind. Sometimes it's hard to realize some words are actually true when they are something like "I am just too good at the game", but in true fashion I have to acknowledge that... You absolutely are! I'm subscribing and congratulations on your 3rd place!
Not very often does Wolfey call entering a tournament a mistake… Can’t wait to see how this goes!
This is the first comment
😐
this comment gonna blew up for some reason?
Well turns out it was just clickbait but I can’t blame him
@@BBG07endlessI mean ig. The tournament process is pretty intensive though, as you saw.
Love how Alpharad/Jaiden's first thought was OHKO moves immediately
I honestly like the recreated battles because it really is just "I don't get paid enough for this vibes" and it's perfect because it's like yeah fair we can have some scuffed recreations in exchange for an hour long recap video on why Iron Hands is a really cool mon.
And it's an easy shiny, funny enough.
59:24 that Amoongus fainting animation with Wolfe saying he forfeits hits me deep in the feels
love the battle re-enactments, such a smart idea to start doing. i’m sure it’s tons of work though so ty editor 😂
I just LOVE how you point out reads or potential missplays you make before showing the results, makes it so much more tense.
Who was the genius who decided Championship Points should be called "CP"
Imagine if it got in the news "world champ champ got 780 cp."
same one who called power points "PP"
@@billystorm5347Why would that be an issue? Cerebral palsy?
@@albaniaalbanchild pornography? 🤷♂️🤣 it's dumb because there are various meanings to "CP"
I took it as Chris Paul, we all know championships aren't exactly his thing
The "ViViLLoN" made me laugh so much the first time, and the unexpected fact you just kept it going made it even funnier
“I don’t like it, and I don’t respect it”
-Wolfey on Fissure Ting-Lu
That was the joke. Jaiden and Jacob suggesting a team with every Pokémon having a 1 hit KO move.
Just some context for anyone that doesn’t get the joke there😅
Didn't expect that a Team Wolfey threw together in only 5 days would win against everything, except one specific team :O
What's the usual day that needed to be prepared for this kind of tournament for avaragr competitive player?
This actually might be one of my fav uploads so far, seeing the process from literally ground 0 was very interesting
this is the wolfey content i love the most. high quality, in depth tournament recaps that are easy to follow. i especially love the teambuilding part, that’s been my favourite part of your videos since the eternatus one!
Wolfe: First round matchups are always scary for me, because you never know who or what you're going to face.
Me: Yeah, you could get matched up into a player with the World Champ Difference
I love how Wolfey asked Jaiden and Jacob... you know the two people who weren't even considered poketubers until a few years ago 😂 But hey, it was worth a shot
Team building is 100% the reason competitive Pokemon isn't very accessible even if you are good at Pokemon battling alone
You can just copy the team of somebody else
@@toastbrotL1i think the problem is more breeding fo iv and ev training
@@oke5403 bottle caps make breeding pointless now tbh, its just a matter of finding low iv attack/speed when appropriate honestly. ev training a whole team is also trivial w/ sandwiches and bands too.
Sad but true
@@beepees there's no reason why they couldn't have included resetting ev's though
A wonderful video and a great reflection on your performance. Even under such conditions, you landed 3rd place and that's a testament to your ability.
I enjoy these long videos detailing your experiences at events and I look forward to the uploads. They make the long shifts at work a bit easier to get through at the end of the day.I haven't been to any events in a long time, but I always enjoy spectating. I'll be rooting for that World Champ Difference at NAIC and Yokohama!
This video felt like an action movie ngl, the entire three act story building, excellent narration and visuals too! Congratulations on your amazing season so far!
Honestly yeah wolfey's script writer and editor went wild here. The Smogon prep games with the customized backgrounds, the recreated games, tying in the footage from the broadcast, etc. The only problem I'd have is the fake drama in the title, "It was a mistake." I'd rather have them stage the story around creating the perfect team and pushing through exhaustion.
Wolfe
-makes team in basically 2 days
-gets 3rd place...
Truly the world champ difference
Wolfe, you're insane for doing that well with that kind of preparation, massive props to you man
I like the live Wolfe reactions! It really feels like it breaks up the pacing and builds the story more. I enjoyed this one a ton! I hope you get tons of sleep and have more time for relaxing and team building next time though, much love
Brother, I gotta say, you are ALWAYS on that grind. A comprehensive, 80 minute video on team building, battles, and meta discussion??
Ur my hero
Thank you for this! I love these types of videos that I can watch over the course of a couple days. Competitive pokemon seems so fun!
I tried to do it years ago and it was just too time consuming for me to want to play competitively, but its nice to have someone explain the thought processes and all the mons
I would say even if the white herb “didn’t do it’s job” (and only popped once) it still did it’s job by totally deterring the use of taunt on the amoongus. Sure you don’t get the wasted turn bc they know it’s there but that still means you never have a taunted amoongus.
Honestly for real! I would assume some if not many of the players had taunt and wanted to use it against amoonguss but their knowledge of the herb stopped them from even bothering to use it. Instead of preventing one use of taunt it stopped most usage of taunt overall which gives it significantly more value than it first appears. definitely wasn't a waste to have.
how did they know his amoongus had herb?
@@soupstoreclothing Open team sheets I'm pretty sure, as he does talk about open team sheets, and what held items his opponents had on their pokemon.
41:40 now that I think about it… No one has ever seen Wolfe and Taylor in the same place at the same time!😮
I love that showdown skin and its so good that recording clips now take less time!
Congrats!
I don’t got enough free time to commit to competitive Pokémon so I love getting to live through the thrill in your videos. Keep it up, I see all the effort you put into these videos and I love it so much!!
This is genuinely some of the best storytelling i have ever seen. Wolfey keeps blowing me away with his content
Props to Wolfe for “winging it” (by his standards) on team building. Throwing the awesome looking Iron Hands on was a great call.
20:00
You know these events are horribly underfunded when they still use a display of the Tapus half a year into Gen9....
I’m glad you make these commentaries and critiques on your own gameplay. It’s very entertaining and I truly think it’s part of the reason your such a good player. Since you get to analyze your own games maybe a little more than most players I believe makes your strategies that much greater. Your strategy and knowledge are what put you above and up into the level of Pokémon player you are. Thanks Wolfey been watching you on and off for a few years now and your content and editing has really gotten excellent. The drawn up prompto intros were hilarious btw
Can we just take some time to appreciate the care this guy puts into our balls ❤
Wtf?
huh?
No.
Ayo 🤔📸
He sure does Pokè them
Please more tourni Videos. To hear your thought process shows just how much you are commited to the game and I respect that! I can't imagine playing on this level
Jacob and Jaiden recommending OHKO moves on every mon was 100% a canon event
I love this video. It’s blends the new and old in my favorite ways, thank you for making it! If it had chapters then it would be perfect haha
Between Wolfe's last push for 1M and that OHKO segment, I've never respected a man more
This dude has some AMAZING friends!
BIRD GAME! Probably the only person in the world who wants a Wolfe Glick Wingspan channel but no revolution starts without one mad man to begin it
Looking forward to seeing how you do at NAIC next weekend. I know you’re gonna be trying as hard as possible to get that Day 2 Invite!
Awesome to see Wolfe rocking the Annihilape hairstyle to the tournament 😂
I used this team in a local and came third and got my first CP this season, I know its late in the season but it made me really happy :)
i could see a variant of the team winning NAIC to close the season, it would be funny having palafin balance win EUIC and then gyarados balance winning NAIC. regulation C has really been defined by strong balance teams just being piloted well by good players.
Damn I love Cp.
@@richardcope5066
you got your first WHAT?
Thanks for making videos like this. I know absolutely nothing about competitive Pokémon but you explain things in such a gripping and educational way that I'm on the edge of my seat cheering you on for the whole duration of the video. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos
Ask Alpharad for advise in the team building was... Bold 😂
This is some absolutely legendary storytelling. Big ups for prioritizing spending time with your friend over prepping more! No matter what your finish was, you were going to remember and appreciate the time you spent with him. And in the end, it was the help of your buds that I’m sure you’ve prioritized in other situations that came through to help you push through that extra bit.
The fact that Wolfey can make a team in under a week and get 3rd place is wild that all the *_Vivillon_* wished they ran Safeguard!
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The fact that he had a whole crew of great and knowledgeable friends was the real salvation.
Good Lord, it is easy for casuals like me to take for granted just how much work goes into team building.
@@expo_pkmn😭
I like how I don’t have to look at the screen to know what’s going on, it’s really good for a background video while I work
Lmao I love the “ViVioN” pronunciations 37:19
The biggest takeaway here that I have of what gives Wolfey the "world champion difference" is that Wolfey is really good at looking at a matchup, and identifying his win-condition, and playing to that win-condition. This is different from beginning VGC players who look at battles from a turn by turn basis of "what is the best position I can be in next turn" whereas Wolfey is thinking about "what is the position I want to try to get to in 5 turns?" This win-condition is typically some game state where the opponent has certain things on the field that cannot beat Wolfey's things on the field. Specifically we can see that Wolfey doesn't lose a single game against Dondozo-Tatsugiri because as soon as he sets up with terra grass iron hands + amoongus on the field against powered Dondozo, the opponent has gone all in, and Wolfey can just follow a flowchart and win the game.
I think in the game against dondozo with a glimmora, the win con for the opponent was probably to make sure iron hands was poisoned before pulling out Dondozo. This is why the turn where Wolfey brings out Amoongus to absorb toxic spikes was so crucial.
The team comp where Wolfey lost 3 times to definitely doesn't seem unbeatable at all, and I think Wolfey is absolutely right in that if he had more prep to explicitly study that matchup, he'd probably be able to at least lower the amount of variance that he ultimately have. In Wolfey's analysis, I think the "wincon" for that matchup is a lot more nebulous, or at least he still doesn't understand it (although honestly pretty much 99% of the viewers won't be able to figure it out either without extensive testing)
I'm on the team building process for NAIC. I feel like I've dented my head from pounding it on the wall.
WTAF WOLFE WHEN DID YOU HIT A MIL?! Congrats man, i know thats been a major thing for you for as long as i can remember!
I swear you were at 500k a couple months ago? Can't think of a more deserving fella though :)
Edit: wow and Social Blade real time sub count says you just hit EIGHTY one million, you really have been busy 😳
8:36 I’m not super into competitive Pokémon but I’ve been running bullet seed ammoonguss to do the exact same thing, but I only used ammoongus for rage powder support, seeing this makes me realized that mouse hole will be the best option for my fun goofy team.
Maushold is definitely good, but honestly I think you could consider the amoonguss for a bit longer. When someone leads Annihipale Maushold I think "They're beating up Annihilape," but when someone leads Annihilape Amoonguss I definitely do not think "They're bullet seeding Annihilape." Having a surprise factor like that is honestly super powerful
that does sound pretty good but i think the fact that it takes amoonguss needs 224 speed ev with a speed boosting nature to outspeed min speed ape hurts the strategy a lot, since the mushroom loses a lot of its bulk due to that much speed investment and the monkey can easily be outsped and ko’ed before it could land its rage fist
@crarlo just get the quick Claw proc everytime u bullet seed e z skill issue
Wolf was really rocking the mad scientist look for the tourny lol.
Opponent: “I haven’t dropped a game” Wolf: “that’s neat”.
*A few moments later*
GG and wolf runs his hand through his hair as his opponent is left crying and in the fetal position. 🤣
These tournament videos are so great! We get to feel your tension as you fought through the sets, it’s awesome!
Dude, I'm 30 minutes in and this vid is amazing. Super good editing your ability to tell the story is amazing. Congrats on this vid, hoping you won the tournament :)
Opponent: "y'know I've been X-0 the whole day"
Wolfe: "Wow, you're saving your first time for me? Bet"
I didnt know Wolfe was a Swiftie now I love him even more.
i love him sm for this😭
Great video, only thing I wish was added was at the end if making third place got him to the goal of being able to skip day 1 of worlds. I assume so because he said he needed to finish 8th or higher.
I cant believe Championship points are still called "CP"💀
I dont know why this got put in front of me by TH-cam, but it was really interesting to see a full picture of a top player goes through for a tournament including the team building (even if it is rushed).
WOLFEY NO!!
WOLFEY DON'T ABBREVIATE CHAMPION POINTS AS CP!!!
WOLFEY!!!
That's what you get for trying to ask Jaiden and Alpha for a team.
Lol you seemed so dominant when I watched the stream on the Pokémon channel it’s hard to imagine all this was going on behind the scenes … you’re the reason I watch regionals keep up the great content!!
1:05:37 I love Wolfey's reaction when his Ting-Lu survived LOL
Man I usually don't watch super long videos on TH-cam but I watched this all the way through. Great video Wolfey. Your content has so much effort put into it.
Am I missing something tho, Wolfey wanted to place at least 8th then got 3rd it seems like? What a humble dude, and very impressive especially considering how it started!
It was only a mistake cause he missed the T swift concert 😂
1:52
Damn, the Pokémon Company is giving out CP?
Somebody needs to call the cops
Given his track record, the effort he put into pronouncing vivillon is appreciated
Hey I also signed up for a VGC regional and then spent the week before panicking because I had no team(In my case it was because I'm new to the format so the team I had been spending all that time on I decided was completely unsalvageable and threw it out to start from scratch). And funny enough part of my solution was also to slap on Choice Specs Flutter Mane with max speed so that I could always bet on being faster in the mirror match.
Wolfey stop earning cp thats illegal
@wolfeyVGC I don't care what you play but your work is great. Great explanations, great narration of the matches. Man .... I am glad I got to find you on TH-cam. Keep up the good work
I think it would be a cool video to transfer in your 2016 Worlds Pokemon through Bank and Home into Scarlet and Violet once Cover Legendaries are allowed in VGC and to get Rank 1 with them. Everyone except Hitmontop is in Scarlet and Violet