It’s not official circuit, but nobody should forget that Wolfe predicted his opponent would use trick room to take down his trick room so he used trick room taking down his own trick room, and making it so his opponent would take set up a fresh trick room for him For everyone interested, it’s in his video for the random tournament at around the 54 minute mark. I recommend watching the full video for context though.

Do you have a link or an estimated date of when it happened? I wanna watch that it sounds hype

@@cerovlogs right i gotta see this now

Need a link to this rn

But watch the whole video, the context of the entire tournament makes it even better

I love those types of plays. I remember when weedletwineedle did that too

I love how Ludwig wins that match and then when he explains his strategy he calls it "Terrorizing"

Man didn’t speedrun it, he PHASED through it

A dynastic comment

Dynasty fan? 🫡

This is why I wish Pokemon was bigger as an eSports, it's not taken seriously by a lot of people but the highest level players are so skilled and fun to watch because they can find a way out of seemingly impossible situations

The mam coming to see himself .... are you gonna upload the reaction to morepatterrz

When a game has this big of RNG involved it can never be big and shouldn't be rightly so

Too much of those "noteworth" plays occur only in the player's head. There isn't something in-game to tell it's a good move except when they win. Doesn't help out how centralized the META can be, the sheer amount of time involved nor the fact that an enourmous part of your community simply doesn't care about competitive.

Heavy RNG and a wider community that's very hostile towards the competitive side hurt it plus it's not on pc and it takes a while time to make a team

Whoever edited this video was on some next level shit. THAT IRON HANDS TRANSITION @5:20 was sick as hell. Shoutout to you editor.

Agreed

I think James’ burn tech was absolutely wild stuff to see. A 9000+ IQ play

It was better than the #1

I don’t get why #1 is ahead of Baek’s, is it just that the stakes were higher? Tricking a choice item onto an Indeedee isn’t out of the box thinking.

@@martyrking2288 i guess it's the combo of choice item + trapping that makes it particularly evil, since normally you force a switch but this just forces them to disable their own TR lol

@@martyrking2288 Because #1 didn't just give him a big lead, it won him the entire game from turn 1.

@@martyrking2288 number 1 was probably super planned. He lead with Goldenghoul and brought Gothitelle in the back basically check mating his opponent from the pokemon selection. Honestly, that Gothitelle might be there with mainly that purpose in the team (counter trick room and maybe perish song), making it a plan he had from team building. That's pretty impressive imo. Normaly tricking Indeedee only forces a switch, having a team that can auto win a match up without losing that bad to the other ones is insane. Baek's is probably more out of the box like you said, but it didn't win the game by itself and neither was that well planned, it was mostly improvisation.

I remember the #2 play, with James and Luca it was just genius. It was like i had a brain blast moment that just had a huge meta shift

It helped that Wolfey made a popular Short about it

And Tiktok, I assume.

Am I the only one who doesn't get fazed by that? That was my go-to in gen 8 on my tr team when going against amoinguss

One of those plays you feel like an idiot because it's both so genius but so obvious you really should've seen it sooner

I think the Tera type has to be my new favorite gimmick in Pokémon I really like the extra layer of strategy it gives :D

100%. its so much fun

I really wish they keep it in some form going into Gen 10

i agree

​@@myhairhasamindofitsowncould you imagine the chaos if we ever got a game with z moves, Megas, dyna/gigantamax, AND terastalization?! Obviously there'd have to be some hard limits, like only one of the last 3 per match, but imagine how wild the meta would be for the first few weeks as everyone frantically tried to psych out their opponents

@@LittleCrowYT If I was a competitive pokemon player and all those gimmicks were viable, I'd die

That volkarona giga drain to his partner was CRAZY

the editing was so unimaginably clean this video shoutout to the editors

Facts

big fan of this type of content, great work Wolfe and good luck in the tournament!

Honesty these plays are so cool to see. I wish I could play like this.

MARKUS #1 LET'S GOOOO! Very well deserved, I remember that Trick Gholdhengo play so well, it was pure genius and pretty much locked in the match turn one. It's also kinda crazy how many of these plays came out of NAIC, just goes to show how insane the competition and skill ceiling was for this final tournament before Worlds. The editing here was so clean too, those transitions were smoother than a polished Voltorb! Keep up the great work Wolfey and team

I loved to watch that play out, I wonder how many times Trick Room was toggled on and off that battle?!

DEUTSCHLAND

5:20 That transition was incredible, well done editor

5:04 That transition was smooooooooth! I love the editing done in these videos. You really knocked this one out of the park, Wolfe!

I love it whenever attacking your partner is the right play to win the game. It doesn't happen very often, but the fact that its still an option and is very rarely the right play just adds another option to pokemon that only the truly best trainers would ever think of.

wolfey winning those matches today shows he has the wcd

Baby

I hope Belosrea plays every single match for the rest of the season

Did he make it to day 2 missed it

@@jshmish yes he went 7-2

I watched the first few but stream ended before I could watch the rest 😢

Not just each generation, I'd like you to do it for each year. It'd be a nice miniseries on the channel.

I would love more of these for each season and generation gives a great insight on high level play and is just cool to watch

The SportsCenter that I never knew I needed. As a casual fan of competitive Pokemon who doesn’t have the necessary patience to be a spectator but who LIVES for these type of omega brain moments, I would be thrilled to see you make more of these for past generations and formats

This was my first season competing (went to Charlotte and NAIC), and I had a ton of fun battling and spectating. Getting to see some of these plays live was a highlight of my year.

As someone who doesn't tune in live to these battles, I love seeing the highlights of these moments, so more of this would be the best!

I did a similar play to one of the plays featured; it was a 2v1 between my Iron Hands and Chi-Yu and my opponent's Glimmora, and I knew I had to avoid the Spiky Shield damage, so I intentionally Drain Punched my own teammate (to also get recovery), and I positioned correctly to win the match

i don't even play or watch competitive pokemon but wolfey always helps me understand whats going on which makes it really easy to follow these great plays

My favorite moments from playing competitive TCGs has always been the squad retelling their best/worst plays in the car on the way back home This makes me miss those days so much

Love this type of content. Great way to highlight some of the best plays so far!

I met you on Sunday briefly at NAIC (my first irl Pokemon event) and you were so kind and welcoming!! Was so exciting to check off so many boxes as a first-timer, seeing you included! I had such a great time at the event that I didn't even get to tell you that you were a huge reason I got into VGC in the first place!! I've learned so much from your matches and videos and I just can't overstate how much of an asset you are to this community. Thanks for another great video and all you do Wolfey!!

Dude, the editing on these videos is bonkers good

That Markus v. Alex game, what Markus did was so good yet so brutal (in a positive meaning) I can't help a laughter from getting out 😂

Please do more of these! This was a fantastic video and I love seeing the strategies that go into this high level of competition!

Your editors have some crazy skills. These transitions are awesome.

Good lord, Wolfey your editing is getting spicier and spicer! What a visual treat!

Saw last one (Bochum) live while rooting for my man Len (Alex), it did hurt a lot to watch, Markus was incredible in that final, simply ggs. Anyways, watching Spain becoming so strong in VGC is great!

Man, the editing was godlike as always

The way u explain, the content u create and also the way ur videos are amazing for me. After a couple of years that I tried ur content, I wondered if u kept on that and the surprise was amazing. Fr, I love how ur content has evolved and even though I don't know so much about competitive (and nothing about new generations) u somehow make me want to click on another video. Gj! U r for real so good on this and all this videos are gold for people wondering about this world!!

This was a very cool video, would love to see more like these!

AWESOME VIDEO. I hope you do more expert reporting like this! My favorite play was either the #1 (Trick Trick Room...), James's sick burns, or the Fake Out + baby Pala into Flutter read. Shouts out to the editor as well.

all of these are very impressive and kinda make me wanna pick up pkmn again^^ can't wait for gen10!

Maurice's last ditch hail Mary of a nasty plot was incredible truely high level play. Seeing your only out and risking everything for it. Very cool

I loved this video. I really like the detailed breakdowns of actual matches.

This was late last year I believe but one of my favorite plays was in the first regional when Jeudy predicted his opponent to use fake out a second time with pawmot over close combat in order to outplay his kingambit super punch and correctly called it and OHKO’d with his gambit using a slow move

You and your editor(s) are doing an amazing job, Wolfey! Wishing you the best of luck at worlds!

I went into this video thinking “Wolfey is gonna give himself the #2 spot and think ‘Wow I’m so humble by not giving myself the #1’” but instead he just threw himself into the honorable mention 🤣. Great video sir 🫡

yes! keep talking about the VGC circuit and other players. I see these plays (on stream or on twitter) and not many people get to see how damn cool it is. it’s really cool to see other players and see your opinions on how they work

I would love to see great vgc plays as far back as gen 5!

videos like this really help more people (like me) get into VGC/pokemon and I hope you keep them coming!

This would be an amazing series. Top plays of the month/week or something like that

Just looking at the number 1 slot and how he not only tricked specs onto trick room but also predicted armarouge's trick room is beyond impressive

Ok, this video earned my subscribe. I absolutely love stuff like this, and it's one of the most exciting parts of competitive pokemon for me. The opponent will do something baffling, and you should be afraid.

As a Pokemon play, they were indeed 1000 iq

I remember calling Paul Chua's double up into bax on game two when he was in the same position, seeing it play out game three had me super hyped

The editing on this video is amazing!!

The reads these guys make are insane. But I want to see top 10 misplays. Completely blowing a read and a game on turn 1. Because I'd probably end up in one since I'm not great.

It was really cool to see the Championship last weekend and seeing all this plays in real life and hearing everyone cheer or hiss about hen someone lost a Pokémon

Love these play highlights. Big plays are my favorite part of competitive pokemon

Volcarona is one of my top favorite Pokémon, so seeing such an insane play for the sake of my sweet baby boy is impeccable. Favorite play of the vid

I would love to see this for other generations please!

I really enjoyed this video concept. It would be cool to see this for other generations and perhaps a yearly (or every time teh ruleset changes) series.

I definitely would enjoy seeing such a video for previous generations!

Love this sort of content from someone who really knows what they’re talking about! Great job Wolfey!

The Gholdengo double trick from Chuppa Cross was one of the slickest sequences I've seen.

I like this style of video and think it could be interesting to see your opinion on other gens as well

What an incredible upload. Thanks for putting this together!

wolfey i really love this video!!!!! i’d love to see another like this soon

If we do another video in this style I think the Pokémon Gen 5 tournaments had some of the most insane moments.

Please bring this format for other generations too 🙏🏻

this was so fun!!! and yes please do this for other generations!!!!! if you do that, we can see stuff from worlds in past years!!! (You could even do like- "The Best Play of Every Pokemon Generation", I'd click on that lol. But whatever form it comes in, I'd LOVE to see more vidoes like this). I feel like #10 should've been way higher on the list, but I think in terms of the videos story it sets up/foreshadows the tricking a choice item right at the start with #10 and then comes back at the end with #1 too so thats awesome, the storyboarding/layout of the video is so good!! the plays dont have to be in any kind of order for the next one, you can just share them however they best fit together for the video :3

please do more like this! I would absolutely love to see a video about your all time favorite plays ever made by other players, your favorite plays of yours in your career, maybe your favorite plays of your own in scarlet & violet. Really anything like this

moments like these is precisely the reason I play pokemon. I'm looking to humiliate my opponents more than I want to win.

My Pokémon knowledge ends at the gameboy and I still watched this whole video. Was like sport highlights for competitive Pokémon.

LOVED THIS VIDEO. More like this please!!

These are some absolutely incredible plays I would never see coming. 2# was the least interesting to me since it was just a lot of predictions. Definitely preferred anything that was unexpected and unorthodox.

I do would like to see this for other generations. I dunno if it was an official match or a cybertron video, but I remember someone with trick room about to expire, who did the old it crowd trick, turning it off and on again, during gen 8 with calyrex ice rider at least, while the opponent double protected.

Would love more content like this!

Wolfeys editors with those clean transitions.

Really well edited. Love it. I wanna see more

I love, absolutely love that it has just been accepted that before palafin goes into hero mode it’s just called baby palafin.

You nailed it with your latest video! Your talent and hard work are evident. Keep up the excellent work and keep the content coming

*Sick* transitions in this video! Big shout out to the editor! (Whoever it may be)

Well Played in the tourney Wolfe. Love these breakdown style videos, keep it up!

although i know pokemon, and the items used, i'm glad you explain so thoroughly like what choice specs does, etc. opens up an understanding for new players, as well as all the other insights you offer for experienced players also LOL that trick room play was so funny, trick room after trick room followed by a third hahahaha

The live pop off when Chuppa did the self trick was amazing

love wolfe! he’s very compenitive

It is rlly nice to be featured in a Wolfey Video, especially about good plays >:) although i have to admit that Chuppas Trick Play looks way better imo, like damn, i wouldnt have thought of that! Great Video!

Please make this a series! 🙏

I would live a sword and shield one! I loved that season!

Alex Gomez's NAIC run was such a beautiful sight to behold

Yo the editing in this video goes crazy! Great video champ

I love videos like this!! Make more!! 🎉🎉🎉

Great video idea, and you did a great job of providing context for each of these plays in a very short time. For future iterations of this video, you could consider adding snippets of the commentators' hype reactions as these plays were happening so that we get a better sense of just how big-brain these plays were.

#2 should have been #1 easily. I was tricking specs onto setup pokemon back in gen 4, it is a standard play as far as I am concerned. Effective, but standard. #2 actually changes the meta, way more impressive. And sure, giving your own pokemon a status isn't exactly new either, but it was an in the moment decision, whereas trick specs is a pre-meditated play.

Wolfe is currently 15th on the leaderboard for VGC. Unfortunately he won't have a day 2 invite to worlds, however his World Champ difference will help him win worlds this year! LET'S GO WOLFE!

Yes! I love big-brained plays. Excellent video.

Videos like this are super cool It feels like when I was watching ash electrocute an onix for the first time lmao Would love this for throughout the generations

Best scene transitions yet man! Love it

Very nice video, really enjoy the format and would love more for the future of SV and beyond as well as older gens.

I would love to see a game breakdown of matches like 2008 finals etc

That choice specs trick onto the Indeedee was definitely my favourite. That was just evil.

That trick choice specs combo is genius.

Seeing this format for gen 5,6,7,8 vgc would be great

This video was great, I'd love to hear the commentator & crowd reactions to some of these!!

Gotta share a justin tang moment from his ascension to glory story. He has perish song up. Goth on the field. Last turn before trick room ends and perish song clears the field. I expect double protect, go for double trick room to reset with armorouge and indeedee, but he selects gothitelles trick room (3 in one turn) trick room is reversed back to normal. Just wins game 2 and the set by a narrow margin of iron hands with 10 percent health. GG Justin. I told him to win the whole tournament. He does

Wolfe: doing a read Wolfe: that's an honorable mention