2022 Pokémon Secaucus Regional Championships VGC Top 8B - Wolfe Glick vs Andrew Ding

[@brendanreamer4507]

Dude I swear, sometimes it seems like Wolfe just flips a switch and turns into the most ruthless killer in all of vgc

[@yappyyamper9808]

FACTS

[@ShaunAnderson_Sauce]

Gotta say I really enjoyed the casting. Well done. Sounded incredibly knowledgeable.

[@b1gandch33sy]

A lot better than I am used to Nekkra doing. She's improving a considerable amount

[@smurfpoppin4470]

🤣

[@davidhuynh9996]

Definitely a rough Game 1 for Andrew, but holy moley Wolfe with the reeeeeads Game 3!

[@kndl5390]

Reading is fundamental

[@loudwhispre9406]

To be fair, Wolfe missed his first 2 P-blades with Groudon, hitting only his 3rd and final one of Game 1. The least important one of that game. Not sure why Andrew was thinking so hard, given that he had such a pretty convincing momentum going with his Intimidate cycle and the Rillaboom to scare out Gastrodon support.

[@DeerayYoDaddy]

That dynamax and max lightning play in game one was insane .

[@azura2552]

Game one was a world champion diff moment. Winning by time is either the most chad way to win or the absolute worst. But I laughed so hard when he just cheers because he timed him out lmao

[@Shadoune666]

What a set, game 1 with both timer almost out was insane, and Game 3 from Wolf was flawless

[@roger2281]

Yo what are u doing here shadoune

[@panzerkampfwagenvitiger3770]

shadoune??? no me esperaba verte aquí

[@KiwyGal]

Funny that Andrew Ding won regionals in 2020 against Wolfe due to timer issues, and now Wolfe wins against him with timer strats

[@nevercoolracing]

Great games, and adjustments by wolfey. That rockfall was big brains 🧠

[@chitownking7427]

Man I haven't played Pokemon VGC since the ORAS days but this video made me want to try it again haha. What rock type move was Lunala using to use Max Rockfall? Power Gem maybe?

[@trevlonify]

No its a two turn rock attack that gives you a special attack boost. Can’t remember the name its a new move from swsh

[@Gronkiy]

@@chitownking7427 meteor beam

[@chitownking7427]

@@trevlonify Oh okay thanks for letting me know that makes more sense than power Gem considering how much damage it did lol

[@chitownking7427]

@@Gronkiy Thanks man, that move sounds familiar

[@gobro2688]

Announcer: Big damage! (Deals 14 damage)

[@diegoxavier9107]

I like how the commentators call Wolfe "Wolfey". Like they use his nickname because everyone knows who he is and he's been in the scene for so long; he's probably the biggest American player after Ray Rizzo himself

[@Ghostrider6A]

Players potentially selected for stream are usually asked if there is a nickname they want to use. I was judging the TCG at this event.

[@angellopez6475]

Crazy how the timer works. It is another win condition

[@mesan4641]

It’s not that dissimilar to chess time control except you don’t gain any increment time, and it’s much less overall time as they don’t want matches going on for hours and hours

[@topoftheworld4]

Wolfe do be looking HOT both in and out of game

[@kevins8850]

38:11 Perfectly synced

[@lucasc5336]

Exactly

[@TheKampfmaschine]

These top 8 matches were something else altogether, but this one was a match for the pokemon history books

[@etrainfsb]

At the end of game 1 wolf is explaining the timer mechanics. Rough bro. My dude thought he won until he saw the league cards

[@mateoavila3284]

Hi, Could you (or someone else) please explain me why Wolfe won game 1, how does the timer works in this case? thanks :D

[@etrainfsb]

@@mateoavila3284 there is each person's own timer and the overall battle timer. If the overall battle timer hits zero it determines who wins based on Pokemon count and HP. If either trainers own time runs out they lose

[@mateoavila3284]

@@etrainfsb Didn´t know there was a timer for each trainer, Thank you.

[@Ben-ok1ij]

if Wolfe lost the match because of Rilla's ghost sash in game 2 i woulda been hot! that max rockfall read in game 3 locked it in for him. great match

[@igonnawrecku]

I actually don’t believe that was a read, but rather covering all options. As we saw the previous turn, max phantasm did about 30% through protect, meaning it does 120% without protect. Because of the stab boost on phantasm, Rockfall would do about 80% normally, and considering Rillaboom was at 70% after the phantasm, that was a guaranteed knockout on Rillaboom as well. It was a great play by Wolfe to be able to see every possible scenario and choose the move that covered all of them

[@JeremyMYG]

What an epic best of three.

[@Veroveren]

that 1HP on Rillaboom is a heartbreaker lmaoo

[@sajanramanathan]

Great set and awesome commentary! Honestly this video needs more clickbait lol, way more exciting than the title and thumbnail implied.

[@felonious_c]

That max lightning at 5:45 - seriously, it's moves and 0lays like this that make me loooooove this game. It was perfect 🥰🤩

[@jbyrne4531]

Damnnnn, Wolfey with the Gigantamax-Brain reads and counters. TBF, Andrew played well but he was too stiff and easily readable during his intimidate cycling and Wolfey capitalized on that in Game 3. Good for him, World Champ Difference comin' through in the end! 👍

[@CherrySplit]

Nice play by Andrew but Wolfe is the man

[@luna6315]

51 minute match lets go wolfe

[@victoryera3236]

Big damage coming in from the landorus does 14 hp damage Lol I don’t consider a speed drop as damage 😂

[@VersacePokemon]

This also made me laugh lol

[@DeerayYoDaddy]

She might of meant big as important.

[@benfulford813]

I love this vgc stuff but damn, I never expected gmax lunala

[@xGatorchomp28x]

D*max

[@jamesc7894]

It took 51 minutes to win. The competition is only going to get better

[@MathematicPony]

These commentators are really great!

[@c.m.9369]

SPOILER Uhhh, this must hurt! Outplaying your oponent for the first two games, just to then lose 1:2, because you ran out of time in the first match… Well done from both players, but I do feel sorry for Andrew. Just a few seconds more time in the first game and he wins that one… But Wolfe also had insane reads during the game 3! Completely took the game in the first few turns. Insane!

[@CarnageIsILL]

I don't really think Andrew "outplayed" Wolfe in any of the games. Wolfe missed P-Blades several times, the Rillaboom living with 1hp was just BS, etc.

[@davidgumm2359]

Seeing wolfey win by timer is just another level of gaming 👽 goat

[@mikhaila.5288]

Another impressive win brought to you by the legend wolfey.

[@holie13]

Wolfe is so handsome

[@shArc27]

wait since andrews incin doesnt have flare blitz, why didnt wolfey just parting shot andrews incin down to -6 so andrew doesnt have enough throut chop pp to knock out wolfeys incin?

[@joelchia123]

Throat chop blocked wolfe's parting shot

[@OblivionField]

Wolfy the god read game 3 sheeeeeeeeeeesh, what a champ!

[@lunanasushistax6692]

Man that game 1 was hilarious

[@DP-um1ck]

That second game was like watching a Summerslam main event where both wrestlers just trade punches until someone gets knocked out of the ring xD

[@MyRegularNameWasTaken]

Game 1: Downloading... Game 2: Downloading... Game 3: Download Complete.

[@brizzleyoh]

I really like these commentators.

[@DSBW]

Andrew is good, but sadly he doesn't have that world champ difference

[@jamesc7894]

Neither of them were champions during this match.

[@sanidhyagoyal7776]

@@jamesc7894 Wolfe is the former VGC World Champion as he has already won 2016 VGC World Championship once.

[@CivilMind117]

“Yeah, well…the groudon is knocked out” 🤣🤣🤣

[@RafaelSilva-yn4ps]

World Champ diff

[@patriciapotatoes1691]

the best set all tournament. crazy.

[@joshuaschanie4025]

“Big damage!!!!” 14 health lost smh

[@xGatorchomp28x]

Is this the same team Wolfey brought to World's?

[@lancechesticles]

i love it when wolfe puts on his sexy silk button ups and smashes tournaments.

[@Francis...]

I don't understand brackets. Is this the Championship Match?

[@RFDN0]

Nope

[@mesan4641]

It’s the first of the top 8 matches, after that there’s top 4 matches and then the finals of this regional tournament

[@DamaLiam]

Top cut

[@CPS12]

Relatively new to VGC so can someone explain how Wolfe won game 1 even though Andrew had 3 pokemon left and Wolfe only had 1

[@PokemonAdviceVGC]

Andrew took too much time selecting moves each turn and ended up running out of the allotted command time before the actual 20 minute game timer ran out.

[@ironboy3245]

Wait a second...isn't this just Jaiden's team with Incineroar instead of her screener?

[@giogonzalez9112]

Wolfe playing the clock like Belichick

[@josezavala2745]

His opponent ran out of his time not the timer

[@metallic789]

Wolfe probably can’t see the timer of Ding

[@aquirick]

WORLD CHAMP DIFFERENCE

[@jamesc7894]

What was he doing the other tournaments this year then? He isn’t a champion until he advances and beats real competition

[@aquirick]

@@jamesc7894 He won the second players cup, one of the only ones in which he didn't meme. Anyway, pokemon isn't a 100% game of skill and I'm not even convinced that Wolfey is the no1 player at the moment (Aaron tought that was Marco Fiero, but he became a youtuber too and is having tough tournaments in Europe). To top every event is as much as it can be guaranteed by a top player and people like Wolfey, Andrew or Joeux do that everytime

[@aquirick]

@@jamesc7894 also also, you can't take a caps note meme seriously

[@josezavala2745]

@@jamesc7894 I mean the goal is to get to Worlds first. Im not a big Wolfey fan but I admit he’s a great player and once they get to Worlds he gets more motivated. But i agree with you other than this tournament he has been underwhelming considering he’s a top 5 player in my opinion

[@angellopez6475]

Holy shit that last game

[@thisislesbomaya]

Thats the world champ difference baybee

[@nyugraduate]

Poor Wolfe faced Andrew again but this time did not even get a 0.5 champion. LMAO.

[@Plugzgaming97]

Can I battle you for fun ? I wanna learn a lot from you

[@tee-p6f]

how does timer work? shouldnt andrew win bc he has more hp?

[@scotttalley3240]

It seems like there's an overall timer of 20 minutes and a personal move selection timer of 7 minutes for each player. If the overall timer runs out, then the winner is decided on knockouts and HP differentials. If one of the players' individual move selection timers runs out, that player immediately loses. What happened in game one was that the game clock was just about done, but Andrew's personal selection clock ran out right before that and he lost.

[@Rubenlostit]

What Scott said. Wolfey keeps track of how much time it takes for his opponents to make decisions and knows how yo play the timer to his advantage.

[@daltondavis46]

Isn't this basically the team he used for jaidens team?

[@VersacePokemon]

Man, I can’t wait for dynamax to be over and done with forever.

[@Rubenlostit]

Why? I think its kinda healthy for competitive in terms of if Pokemon needs to have a gimmick. It’s definitely the most balanced gimmick we’ve had in Pokemon.

[@VersacePokemon]

@@Rubenlostit I don’t think Pokémon needs a gimmick, but if it must, I’d argue megas is the most balanced (with a few exceptions like mega rayquaza, which are banned) Also, out of the 3 “gimmicks” dynamaxing is the least cool thematically and visually. “The Pokemon gets big” is a dumb concept. But that’s just my personal opinion.

[@Rubenlostit]

@@VersacePokemon Megas were pretty unhealthy, especially when you look at ones like Mega Kanghaskhan or Mega Gengar that just dominated the format for a while. And then Unrestricted Megas/Primals were just a mistake entriely. Dynamax does a good thing by keeping all of the moves consistent, they always have the same effects. The problem with gen 8 is the imbalance of Pokemon’s stats, like Zacian and Regieleki existing

[@DuskDawnVGC]

I think they won't remove it but I have to agree that it's quite bad compared to mega evo

[@DeerayYoDaddy]

@@Rubenlostit you forreal? Dynamax literally is the most unbalanced mechanic we have gotten. Especially considering most games are decided by who uses there dynamax turns more effectively.

[@Dee3Tears]

Haven't watched yet. WOLFEEEE

[@demetriusdemarcus589]

How did he win because of time is it by health points ??

[@c.m.9369]

There are two timers: The overall game timer and the timer each player has to select their moves. If the game timer runs out, then things like HP and pokemon remaining will determine the winner. However, if your individual timer runs out, you just lose, no matter what the situation on the board is. In that first game, Andrew‘s timer ran out slightly before the game-timer. Meaning, he has spent waaaay more time selecting his moves and making his choices than Wolfe.

[@Rephic]

38:11

[@ez2195]

Let’s goooo wolfey!!!!

[@wizardmari3497]

wolfey still a goat

[@ariac1197]

Wolfe 🥵

[@yisus7397]

Wrld champs difference

[@andisaints2894]

Is Wolfe single? 😅

[@Bufubarion]

I think he has a girlfriend

[@chaddude2]

Really disgusting to watch double intimidate + double fake out cycling with U-turn and Parting shot. Really hope they remove Lando and Inceneroar in Scarlet/Violet

[@memelydcatting3049]

Lunala with a hex set is better

[@GenocideHeaven]

At 24:35, Andrew’s Kyogre dynamaxed and did nothing? Fake out doesn’t flinch dynamaxed Pokemon yes? Why didn’t the Kyogre perform any attack?

[@Rakkinahit0]

I wanna get into competitive Pokémon so bad but using legendary Pokémon is so lame to me

[@vvingblade]

Then play tiers like OU or UU! Those tiers are always more fun than VGC, bc while VGC is fairly predictable, you'll see alot more variety from OU and especially UU, and the lower power levels in those tiers means no legendaries and sometimes truly insane maneuvers. This coming from a competitive UU player ^^

[@peachywoojaezen8787]

AMPOGI NI WOLFE OMG

[@caleanwatts8450]

World champ difference

[@NH-bn8xn]

Wooooooow

[@armandnarine9830]

Smh

[@mikhaildennis1014]

shite that’s how he won nah that’s bs

[@armandnarine9830]

He take too long

[@djt.frosty69]

New pokemon is worse than new yugioh

[@RobMonroe97]

Why are people still wearing masks?

[@ThatHoodlum19]

first 2 mins - BIG damage coming in from the landorus" Lunala - takes 10 damage. 🤣 What is with Pokemon and terrible commentators..?

[@lapangbagang9970]

U probably don't play pokemon if u call landorus weak XD

[@KuyoCuteeTv]

That speed drop was insane for lunala

[@thesprinkler7893]

They're still wearing masks?

[@crowzet0]

This match is so boring

[@charless2100]

Are they wearing the mask so the opponents can’t read facial expressions?? I don’t get it

[@KiwyGal]

There's still a pandemic going on

[@alexeihensel6257]

They can't do this shit online?

[@luisortega9073]

Timer is stupid

[@FullMetalMachine]

tell that to chess players

[@user-cw4xm2bm1i]

@@FullMetalMachine lol

[@storrow10]

Pokémon is so dead these teams are so overused and boring. 0 variety and only few people care to develop a strat and master a favorite even if they’re not viable competitively. Can’t say I blame people with how top heavy online battles have become

[@Francis...]

These women are confusing. Jesus. Edit: - At 7:06, she says that Rillaboom's Wood Hammer didn't connect with Groudon and even says it a second time but what really happened was it hit the Incineroar. - Around the 29 minute mark, one of them points out one thing but then contradicts herself immediately after. While the other one goes "You pointed that one though." and she answers back "I know." - Around the 30 minute mark, one of them says that the defense drop is better for Groudon than the Incineroar then the other one shuts her off by saying that the Groudon has already been knocked out.

[@ChakiChu]

what exactly did you find confusing though? sounded fine to me

[@Francis...]

@@ChakiChu read my edit. Had to watch it all over again.

[@mikayul]

They just like to speak in hypotheticals and “what ifs” because they are speculating. It makes sense if you’re in their head but definitely a bit confusing if you are looking for play by plays from them in those instances.

[@DAlbanese10]

Pretty mediocre commentating

[@toughlife6016]

Winning of the clock…stally and lame

[@Rubenlostit]

Lol maybe Andrew should manage his decision making better?

[@rivershen677]

But Andrew made the mistake. He stalled his own time.

[@steve2468]

Where is this? And why are they wearing masks?! Wtf. Stop

[@Quantumanticz]

…where in the world are people still wearing face diapers in may/June 2022?!?

[@robertopalmieri3803]

WORLD CHAMP DIFFERENCE

[@mrCetus]

if Wolfe lost the match because of Rilla's ghost sash in game 2 i woulda been hot! that max rockfall read in game 3 locked it in for him. great match

[@lapangbagang9970]

Yeah keep stealing comments