2020 Pokémon Players Cup VGC Caster Showdown - Aaron Zheng vs Rosemary Kelley

Pokémon Players Cup VGC 2020 Caster Showdown, Aaron Zheng vs Rosemary Kelley.

[@MrMooseman182]

I would love to see more “gym leader” themed competitive teams. Nice break from the monotonous team builds

[@ME_Scot]

But people want to win 😅

[@MrMooseman182]

Martin Eadie true that. Though it’s interesting to see top competitors play with a handicap and see what strats they can come up with.

[@TripleM24]

@@ME_Scot exactly lol. It's a balance between using the Pokemon you want to use in battle and using meta Pokemon for a better chance at winning. Wish there was more balance in that sense

[@ryankendall3716]

Pokemon Showdown has a monotype format

[@Pyritie]

@@ryankendall3716 showdown's is 6v6 singles, not 4v4 doubles -- very different metas and strategies available in each

[@Peelz315]

That game one finish was sick

[@SomeRandomDude895]

These are the most fun battles I've watched in a long time. Love the monotype from such amazing players and friends.

[@jasonjarmoosh]

Lol these commentators roasting Aaron for missing with his rotom. Has this man not been through enough??

[@neyo231]

but the zheng brothers do have a long legacy of missing moves since vgc gen 5 lmao

[@yoloclos5148]

That 1st battle was fkn hardcore 🔥

[@victorholmes5225]

So amazing to see a fairy type gym leader with a name like Rosemary

[@Fenrir_6.6.6]

They're themed teams notice everything she had was fairy and he had all water.

[@simpleasliam657]

...that was the point mate

[@Fenrir_6.6.6]

@@simpleasliam657 this was for all the people talking about rillaboom like he need to worry about it from every team

[@nintendosega100]

It was a pleasant surprise to see Gigantamax Alcreamie, but most of all that first match was stellar!

[@aeroblaze4]

If only Pokemon game's gym leader were like this, maybe players would have to do more than mash A. (Atleast they tried with Raihan)

[@charliez077]

Oh gosh. They "tried" lol. Raihan is such a perfect example that there NEED to be multiple difficulty mods - newbies can have that "weather team" but for experienced players his "combos" are a total joke... Flygon doesn't benefit from Sandstorm, Goodra has to spend a turn setting up rain, just lol. BW2 Challenge mode bosses actually had legit stuff like Choice Scarf/Focus Sash.

[@blastchaos4286]

@@charliez077 Challenge Mode was a joke, sometimes there was an extra mon added to NPC teams, and everything was slightly higher level. All that did was give me more exp when I proceeded to OHKO them with supereffective moves, thus making my team more overleveled than they were in Normal Mode.

[@charliez077]

@@blastchaos4286 really? tbh I never played Challenge mode bc it was so ridiculously difficult to unlock, but at least those Gym/Elite 4 attacks/items were legit stronger. and i was never overlevelled playing any Gen 5 (or earlier) game, that is a new problem since Gen 6. in any case they simply need to give us multiple difficulty mods that work well (and I think Challenge Mode was the closest so far), point blank.

[@josephcox7181]

Dude. This themed stuff is freaking awesome!!!! This is sick af. The best VGC battle I’ve seen in years.

[@Sugarist0]

17:54 that kingdra sprite was so small, I thought that was a horsea

[@rattamytata1970]

watched this one first because gigantamax alcremie is pretty cool

[@lancedu9331]

Also the weakest one

[@kyleconway1137]

How is alcremie gmax the weakest gmax mon lol? Not true at all.

[@lancedu9331]

@@kyleconway1137 it can't hit hard at all basically it special ability what make it tolerable but dies by half the meta

[@kyleconway1137]

Ok so @Lance du you obviously tried alcremie maybe once and was like aww alcremie sucks. But to say she dies to half the meta she's weak to only steel and poison thats it.. she can take hits..? I mean yea but you can say that about most pokemon dieing to most of the meta and no she can hit really hard with gmax finale and that also heals alot of dmg. Alcremie works very well with a team built around her.. also shehas 121 spdef base and 110spatk if the spread is built correctly she can put in some work. Ive also used her as support and can be an amazing support. So to say she is the weakest of the gmax mons its not true sorry bud. But Orbeetle is prolly the worst gmax or maybe garbodor is the worst I've tried.

[@kyleconway1137]

@@lancedu9331 ..

[@notRyanhardt]

Love the water mono vs fairy mono

[@psp7690]

I think swords dancing mimikyu before dmaxing cost her the game as Aaron has spread moves.

[@rsstudios9562]

Yay I really wanted this and Arron and rosemary were made for each other

[@austinr6211]

The picture they used of Aaron is so old 😂

[@snapclub8751]

Now these are some fun battles. I hope to a mono ground, dragon, dark, steel, normal, or fire team next.

[@CurriB09]

Bede was more better.

[@adibhusnizaim]

Imagine having crappy monotype like normal and bug but the players still somehow come up with crazy strats and pokemon

[@oshanewint9654]

This match was very fun to watch. Remind me of the old days

[@Peelz315]

I think this is a cool for fun battle. I used to build Monotype gym leader teams back in gen 3 so my friends could have some fun. When I used more competitive teams it wasn’t even fair lol

[@Gamesmarts194]

Damn that game 1 finish tho. On that note does anything constitute as a tie game or does something always go to one player?

[@tommysawyer9680]

Can someone explain to me why Aaron didn’t do double surf and chose to protect at the end of game one?

[@pixeltobit7262]

Because he expected the wood hammer so he protected, but rosemary probably predicted that and went for the swords dance first.

[@ginshin8246]

he probably thought mimikyu was just going to go straight for the kill with wood hammer since gastrodon was low and wanted to play it safe in case the surf doesn't pick up the K.O.

[@LnnyOsoTo]

To my understanding they had open information (as in they both knew each other's moves) so he thought the Mimikyu would go straight for the kill on the +2 Sp.Atk Gastrodon. If he got that prediction he probably would've sealed the game right then and there.

[@leeharding9349]

I love the gym leader theme!! We need more!!!

[@thehappysuma3067]

Wait, didn’t one of them or both of them commentated one of the matches once?

[@superbaddctv]

She used the word Psynergy so well. The was the (Golden Sun) way of spelling it.

[@SebastianVR21]

I really miss dragon type:(

[@Viviantoga]

I'm here to support cake

[@superbaddctv]

The saying, “It’s been removed” sounds so disrespectful on the low.

[@untillthat]

I just watched these two commentating on another match in a previous video. Didn't expect them to be facing off in the following video.

[@thehappysuma3067]

Same

[@bobi200samatar6]

I have a rain team on Showdown, so this is cool to see

[@anthonyporter5093]

Round 1. Why didn’t you just protect?!??

[@worldsboss]

I feel as though Alcremie was dead weight this set. Its damage output is just not enough.

[@sesto_elemento8880]

Which is exactly why I use Hatterene instead, although I do love Alcreamie more!

[@jakec.1136]

Yeah, I was very surprised it couldn’t even bring Gastrodon to half with a Giga Drain. I think she was running Choice Scarf on it but I’m not sure

[@snapclub8751]

I feel like Alcremie is better as a supporter than an attacker.

[@jujushannon4829]

Why did thunder cause damage after busting mimikyu’s disguise at 8:27 ? Is it because of rain?

[@jeroenvdw]

No if Mimikyu's disguise is busted he will always take the same amount of damage when that happens.

[@osphasi]

I love Aaron so much!

[@dranreb330]

so you can actually become a water and fairy trainer?

[@StoicForce]

Of course. No-one decides which pokémon you train and battle with but you. If you want to test yourself as a mono type trainer, then go for it.

[@dranreb330]

@@StoicForce I've been a self-acclaimed water type trainer since Pokemon Emerald but I didn't know that competitive games could actually called you one.

[@aaronkelly8725]

Dont quote me on this but i believe this battle was set up as a monotype official competition

[@danielve09]

Lets go Aaron

[@memelydcatting3049]

Fairy has been my favorite type so that was cool to watch

[@whoiswolfpack]

Aaron! 🤩

[@lancedu9331]

Why did toga not live lapras d max ice move

[@ryankendall3716]

Max spa lapras against an offensive togekiss with little spdef.

[@lancedu9331]

@@ryankendall3716 mine offensive and still live it

[@ronitjalihal86]

nice

[@ronitjalihal86]

bruh he's running a full water team even though rillaboom

[@jasonjarmoosh]

They were doing a gym battle, so each one chose one type and built their teams around that. It's just for this one battle

[@gustavovasconcelos9857]

Why did Mimikyu get damaged after breaking his disguise at the end of the first battle?

[@douglasclare5106]

Disguise got nerfed by Gamefreak

[@gustavovasconcelos9857]

@The deepest puddle wth really?? This sucks

[@ajkbertho]

@@gustavovasconcelos9857 I think you take 1/8th damage. Don't quote me on that.

[@ryankendall3716]

Gustavo Vasconcelos it’s so that you can’t use focus sash disguise

[@charliez077]

@@gustavovasconcelos9857 it sucks for Mimikyu but it's a good nerf by Gamefreak, Mimikyu was a bit OP

[@LQRCerberus]

Haych-P

[@ronitjalihal86]

dang mimikyu lol

[@quiquef691]

too much sword dance

[@toxicboost1164]

If she would have protected the dynamax mimiq in the second set we could be talking a girl beating a champion..

[@The_GeekLeak]

Okay wow that was an incredible game one I think I need to marry rosemary that women knows how to battle 😭😭😭

[@brandscott3037]

cybertron is insane running full rain against a rillaboom metagame props to one of the goats

[@rinlila6974]

... They're doing monotype gym battles...

[@vitorbittencourt9369]

Lol brand is mono water vs mono fairy

[@colbygarnett]

It’s monotype games

[@codyjack7855]

Dudes lisp is unbelievably annoying

[@jamesperrott1]

Jesus Christ how do people watch content with these cringe kind of commentators

[@mynameisnotcory]

Lemme guess, rosemary tried fake outing the dusclops and lost? 🤣🤣🤣

[@charliez077]

Lol. She actually did a solid job here, winning the first battle - made me respect her more.