Explaining MY Greatest Competitive Pokemon Game of All Time

freezai vs High Impulse (2020)
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For clarity on the world cup format, the qualifiers are held right before the next tournament.
E.G. if you finished in the bottom 3 in 2020, you would play qualifiers a few weeks before the 2021 tournament, to gain access to the 2021 world cup

[@sunvulper9641]

Why did he leak it? Was there any given reason?

[@FreezaiPokemon]

no real reason, he just wanted to be a dick and thought no one would find out

[@Seinsmelled]

@@FreezaiPokemon his plan got foiled and he was unmasked like a Scooby Doo villain

[@ember3579]

@@FreezaiPokemon What sort of long-term punishments/repercussions did he get? I know you mentioned a tourney ban, but somehow I suspect that no official team is going to like having a backstabber like that anywhere near their gig.

[@vtmagno23]

@@ember3579 Tournament ban also includes any solo tournaments, so he can’t join those either

[@ember3579]

@@vtmagno23 One year professional play ban still seems a bit light for this kind of dick move.

[@danielhale1]

Props to the UK team immediately announcing the leak and refusing to be party to it. Also I'm glad you noted this so openly. It would be easy to make them out to be the villains since they were your main opponent, but as you said, they did nothing wrong here. It was entirely Aquafinity being garbage. I think that challenge definitely makes this a good story; it's not when the stakes are highest, necessarily, but when you're most proud of yourself. Really good job pulling through!

[@alexchongz3]

Respect to Freezai

[@ktbmk]

@@ArceusX300 I meant Knock Off is spammable move and Dark Pulse (and Goltres' signature move) can also be spammable for flinch chance. But yeah aside those moves u are right

[@rishabhanand4973]

what i wonder is, why would he bother unless he had some kind of offer for the intel beforehand? Seems like a dumb move on his part.

[@alexchongz3]

@@rishabhanand4973 interesting

[@cheddarsmith6568]

As long as we have our cup of tea, us brits are nice people

[@Plastoon.]

I think the worst smogon tournament experience I had was in gen 6 XY OU. It was the Semi-final round a standard OU tournament. Not a big event by any means but it was my first tournament ever and sadly my last. I had a balanced semi defensive team centered around mega venusaur and umbreon. But I cant remember the rest of my team, other than it had u-turn and voltswitch for momentum and a scarf cleaner. My opponent was running an aegislash before his ban. He had the swords dance shadow sneak set. The opponent tried to set up swords dance in my mega venusaur but I knew how rampant aegislash was and specific EV'd him to be able to take even a +6 shadow sneak after leach seed, protect and synthesis if necessary to stall it out or force a switch. The mods watching the tournament at the time, saw my opponent set up a +6 and looked at my team and assumed it was over. I ended up winning the semi finals thanks to mega vensaur chipping away at his team with leech seed and momentum moves enough for my scarfer to clean up. But my opponent had already told the mods that he won and was placed in the finals shortly after. I was left confused and wondering when my finals round was going to be. When I asked the mods they told me that I had lost the battle, so why would I be in the finals. I had to make them watch the rest of the replay of my semi final match just to prove that I did indeed come out on top. All the while the "finals" where taking place behind me. They where shocked and surprised, but they did correct the mistake with an apology shortly after though. They also called off the current final match that was well under way. But the damage was done. Over 2 hours had passed and my finals round was finally about to go under way. At this point I was distrought confused and just not in a great mindset but tried to go into the battle as best I could. I made a few bad calls and lost the match 0-3. It ruined my perception of tournaments from smogon and now I only play competitively on a casual level on extremely are occasions.

[@SaucersOfficial]

Man that’s just disheartening as hell, I don’t blame you from touching tourneys after that

[@shapeturtle]

Holy man, that just straight up sucks and there wasn't even anything you could do about it. Huge rip

[@seanscott2677]

was posting replays not required back then?? why wouldn't the tournament directors/organizers not watch to confirm the proper winner

[@auroraourania7161]

Wow, what a shitty set of mods. Like it's so little energy to leave the thing going in the background to see who won at the end. I hope that asshole got banned for fucking you over like that.

[@cmonkey3698]

@@seanscott2677 they don't even have to watch it, there is a button on showdown replays to just skip to the end of the battle and see the result, this is beyond unexcusable

[@angelbeatzbell4057]

I love the irony of how freezais game name is serene grace and the 1st turn, serene grace gets him 💀💀

[@void6772]

The opponent took freezai serene grace

[@unwilledlight...6036]

Your crawdaunt game was pretty legendary too

[@bastianleyton1951]

Crab hammer 5 times in a row was hype

[@hps362]

That is the moment Freezai will go down in history for

[@11086nowell]

Where can I see this game??

[@charade9091]

@@11086nowell i wanan see too

[@adibmuhammadadib3207]

Where is the game

[@dca1024]

India vs UK a tale as old as time

[@carnaje9075]

💀

[@axlr8deathpls294]

This time india will be colonizing the UK meaning british people will no longer exist 🦀🦀🦀

[@belimvasim143]

As a indian it feels so good to see pokemon growing in india not poke go or unite but mainline series games

[@veenadayma6514]

+++ Hats off to Freezai! For actually being able to represent India in Competitive Pokémon!

[@dashingclasher]

same, i might live in the us but i would support my home country india any day

[@morninglion27]

i think unite is decent as well gaming in general is getting more recognition which is good just the govt support is negative f*ckers tax anything they want

[@amberhernandez]

Ahh, the greatest threat to any snakes in the grass: integrity. Good on team UK for immediately shutting it down.

[@jaschabull2365]

I'd say you do serperior a great disservice by comparing it to Aquafinity. (in all seriousness, I agree that it was good the U. K. team decided not to use the unfair advantage they'd been given and corrected for it)

[@jaschabull2365]

Can we talk about how cool the team logos are tho? Just love how each national/regional team picks their mascots.

[@Gold-Dango]

At first I thought UK cheated by hacking Freezai, but turns out they didn’t and even reported the cheater. Although they still lost, at least they had the sportsmanship to know cheating is wrong. Also it’s fun to watch the battle turn into a all out hyper offense vs hyper offense war.

[@thepotato513]

I love that the footage you used when talking about Aquafinity was of them losing. So fitting

[@charade9091]

lmao i noticed too

[@frankwest5388]

Maybe you could make a video, where you explain the difference between a Pokémon being OU, having a significant niche and minor niche in the tier. Since not every mon that you need to team build with or around is placed in the tier, where it sees use It’s a thing that many mediocre players struggle with and recognizing that tier placement doesn’t mean a mon isn’t relevant for a higher tier. I would argue that this is the biggest barrier between a mediocre and good competitive Pokémon player and would love to see a video on it.

[@sephikong8323]

Reminds me of how in gen 7 one of the mons people kept the most in mind when building a team was Reuniclus despite being officially RU, because it was a devastating late game cleaner that could easily snowball and become unstoppable if your team wasn't prepared for it. It wasn't the only example of course and the BL alone had some you needed to keep in mind like Mega Gallade (M-Medicham was overall more consistent due to the immediate power, but M-Gallade was a more potent game ender due to it's higher speed (outspeeding Garchomp and Kartana is huge), SD (after a SD it's attack was ....... it was) and a good special bulk. And bear in mind, M-Gallade was just ONE of the BL (one of the better one though true) but the BL list in gen 7 was massive and you generally needed to keep them in the back of your mind, if you didn't and thought "what's Mega Heracross gonna do ?" without preparing for it you'd just see Heracross come in and take a kill every time causing your team to get dismantled. Gen 7 teambuilding was harsh af man, so many things to always keep in mind

[@nwut]

biggest barrier between a mediocre and good teambuilder**

[@frankwest5388]

@@nwut not really. A good team builder is mainly familiar with the individual strengths and weaknesses of a Pokémon, how they play into the wider game plan, how to support those and how to make up for weaknesses. Still a big thing to know, but understanding the tiering systems and it’s flaws is mostly something else, even if there is a big overlap. I know why I said what I said

[@borby4584]

Hey man, I got some info on your next opponent: They’re going to use 6 Pokémon, and they will not have any Pokémon from Paldea.

[@pyprod.]

How would you like the banhammer for sharing these pieces of important information?

[@sumansaxena2277]

holy shit that is a huge leak

[@numberstheidiot]

As it turns out, that leak is a lie - Hydreigon appears in Paldea.

[@justin4296]

Banned

[@dharve0280]

Super cool video man. Thanks for sharing that story with us! Massive respect for you bringing that to your country. Also massive respect to the UK team for doing the right thing.

[@Nvel09]

Absolutely loving this coverage-especially all the contextual information you include on how the tournament works, how it ended, and what's happened since 2020. Fantastic video! Thanks for the hard work on this!

[@YukkuriChei]

Freezai: As you may know, there are more than 16 countries in the world... Americans: Wait, really?

[@nwut]

muricans*

[@getthegoons]

There's more than 16. Most just don't matter

[@AsraliaX2]

At the end of the day only one country matters. America.

[@skynuggy5175]

@@AsraliaX2 Russia be like: we still want ukraine

[@AsraliaX2]

@@skynuggy5175 First world problems

[@AquaticIvy]

Freezai consistently produces some of the highest quality KZbin content

[@NeoWocky]

India beating UK always brings a joyful tear to my eye

[@Mark-nn2ce]

I was just thinking the same thing. India v. UK. Classic.

[@Pikana]

I don't care what you say about it not being that important, you guys qualifying after so long is hella hype and I'm glad that you've shared this story with us.

[@harryvickers8686]

Please analyse more of your own games these videos are both entertaining and informative

[@gaily4000]

The ending of this video is what it’s all about ❤️

[@xXarcheniXx]

@Freezai I have a question. Why did at 6:32 did their dracovish get scared and swap? A fisheous rend would have rocked that rotom heat

[@gold626]

rotom could be faster, and a burnt dracovish from a potential will o wisp could be disastrous, or it could just take the KO, and while thats a free switch he probably wanted to conserve vish for a different sac or to knock out primarina which is also very dangerous

[@jasoncole1833]

Yeah rotom was probably max speed/he was fearing it was max speed

[@skarmcl]

This Dracovish was Banded, Sticky Web support allows it to forfeit Choice Scarf but since Rotom doesn't get slowed by it they can outrun and KO Dracovish if max speed (which it likely was since Freezai wouldn't switch in a slower mon to finish the job. Duh)

[@toast2492]

Overpredict or max speed willo wisp

[@jacobcollenburg5676]

Predict

[@alpho_luny]

Why would aquafinity leak your Team info? Like why would he cheat just so you lose even though he ain't gonna go against u nor is he in any team?.

[@discipleofshaun5252]

Spite? Getting payed?

[@ember3579]

Some people just think that shit is funny. Might also be payback for not getting on the team, but I obviously was not in the room so Idunno.

[@moneyboyok]

Freezing mentioned he wanted to be a dick for no reason but I wouldn't be surprised if he did it out of jealousy/ feeling slighted in not making the team.

[@dhruvanand6695]

As a fellow Indian, this is a matter of pride. Thanks, Freezai.

[@zzzeyder]

True that,Never even seen a gameboy in a store here, Nintendo switches can be found but are very costly. I hope someday they become affordable and every Indian kid will get to enjoy pokemon games(We only know pokemon through the anime and most dont know the games even exist)

[@enderredacted112]

most of us have played fire red on an emulator same with black and white

[@zzzeyder]

@@enderredacted112 all of us have played on emulators, thats what I am saying.. And if u see India as a whole, U cant argue that majority of the kids/teens know about pokemon games (mainseries especially)

[@purptube678]

​@@zzzeyderrn its just pokemon unite thats the most known among Indians

[@aquaffinity]

Listening Freezai calling out someone with a same username as me feels really weird. Just for anyone to know, I'm not the same aquafinity in this video.

[@notstampgoat]

6:10 Ah yes the competitive pokemon player's monolog. Truly a sight to behold, especially when it actually works as intended.

[@minhvutuan7121]

"I decide to go for a predict and predict his predict" Man I give up I'm too low IQ lmao

[@yume6532]

India beating UK is music to my ears,

[@Eichro]

"2020 was a year of optimism" said nobody except freezai

[@Pichubber]

I’ve seen a few of your videos now, but this one is my favorite. I love the energy, happy to subscribe and see you grow.

[@peterstorm8089]

1:35 Honestly might be the first time I have ever heard someone say that phrase.

[@gustavorodrigues4830]

Wait, you were Serene Grace?? I remember watching your matches, that's sick

[@seanscott2677]

I always really respected Serene Grace's teams and matches. I was just as shocked when I found out that was Freezai a couple months ago lol

[@SeveralGhost]

Would love to see more littlockes, attempting it for gen 5 would be really cool

[@Radar_of_the_Stars]

I love how your channel is becoming more personality driven

[@seanscott2677]

Another Freezai video, another comment section learning Freezai is Indian for the first time lol

[@alt_meta3077]

One question I, and others probably have, why did AquaFinity backstab you?

[@nwut]

check top comments

[@alt_meta3077]

@@nwut I posted a little before the top comment, I saw it later on

[@minecraftoverlord4212]

Doesn't anticipate air baloon Agislash Runs air balloon Agislash lol

[@wjyp7277]

Congratz man, u are an inspiration

[@perladel95]

Will you make a video about the recent bans and suspect tests in the lower tiers (NU & PU)? Like the bans of Machamp, Sirfetch'd, Dragalge, Guzzlord, Inteleon, Vanilluxe, Araquanid and the suspect tests of Blastoise and Scyther. If you want to add ZU there is even Klinklang xD Or even the failed ban of Rotom-Mow in NU

[@StylishGaz]

Before watching the video I'm going to say your Little Cup win was galaxy brain, it has to be up there.

[@algar6616]

End of the month goal! Love to see it

[@jackalcoyote8777]

That opponent was so good! It's a real show of your skill you beat someone like that.

[@colder32]

Is there somewhere where I can see all the cool country logos? They all looks great.

[@cloudtender8813]

my best match was Block regigigas trapping the opponents Poke and then using Protect,Power up punch and Thunder wave to set up a sweep

[@LegendRazgriz]

I want to see you react to the infamous Anything Goes 5-Gothitelle torture chamber.

[@Ivashanko]

I knew one of the people on the Italian World Cup winning team. Dedicated group, that, and very good at what they do. I'm not surprised they won.

[@emblemadefuego20]

Tu eres Serene Grace??? Me he enfrentado muchas veces en ladder de OU 8.

[@FROZENbender]

unfathomably based to win that match

[@Blade-hf9po]

And this right here is a prime example of why I never bothered with competitive after Gen 4.

[@BrettRKS]

Great stuff Freezai

[@nibblerdoo]

Nice coverage of the game! I would love to see Finch v Omari P covered at some point.

[@Chimera-man-man]

Since the new gen is around the corner (with a new set of gimmicks), could you cover the dynamax ban at the beginning of Gen 8 for competitive singles as a retrospective on the mechanic?? I ask because even at the time I felt like it was too swift a decision and now people who have played using dynamax in other formats seem to generally agree that there's a lot of strategy to using dynamax effectively and a lot of counterplay involved. It's still weird to me that Gen 8 OU is always going to be played without one of the Gen's central mechanics, like they're barely playing the Gen over there.

[@TWLSpark]

Dynamax is still a mess for singles as it was in the beginning, unfortunately. Yes, you could argue that with the plethora of new Pokemon, we would have suitable counterplay, but by the same logic, way more broken threats would have been released as well. I don't think it's worth the test, especially not now. This is what happens when you make a mechanic specifically for doubles and balance it accordingly, but forget that singles is still part of the game.

[@vanesslifeygo]

7:45 brilliant late-game predict by the opponent. they really tried to get the win back

[@renanwillian1411]

wait, freezai is indian? i did not expected that, im also sad that my beloved brazil fell to the qualifiers

[@gyara7329]

Something poetic about India beating the UK.

[@Disguised_Cat]

YOOOO WAS NOT EXPECTING TO SEE VENEZUELA IN THERE EVEN IN 14TH SPOT LESS GOOOOOOO

[@coopersmith7987]

Freezai the goat

[@miteshyadav4883]

Ah yes Kohli

[@exaunitive4948]

This gives me inspiration that maybe one day my country will also qualify for the world cup of pokemon (not gonna reveal my country)

[@ThJakester897]

I'm American. I had no idea there were more than 16 countries in the world.

[@flaireyuwu]

Yes! More tour content!

[@ayskaripepperooni2770]

0:43 I think that is how my school is often called. And it is in Finland.

[@corrosivebarbarian7783]

This is my favorite type of content 😊😊😊

[@dirtcheapgaming8879]

Do you mind if I ask how you get your thumbnails to be so sharp? I had to manually edit one of mine just to get a Pokemon's smirk to show up

[@EdgarAllan2pointPoe]

Was this an official tournament or a Smogon tournament played via Showdown? I'm assuming the latter based on the footage but I could totally imagine using Showdown to recreate a match that wasn't recorded.

[@DododudeDM]

Just had a brain wave for a video/series idea: "What if X Pokémon had +Y in a base stat?" E.g. What if Ledian had (purely speculatively) +55 (=90) Attack? What if Nidoking had +10 SpA? What if Hydreigon had +3 Speed? How would counters and checks change? How would they fit into modern and past formats? Etc etc.

[@nwut]

way too specific less specific versions that do exist are 350 cup (double stats for mons with a bst of under 350) and tier shift (i think it was +10 for every tier under ou a mon is in)

[@DododudeDM]

tier shift sounds like a fun time

[@lorisaur3023]

Yay we won

[@1BlueYoshi]

I feel like the fact that it was India vs UK specifically raises the stakes even higher lol

[@raindown6702]

India knocking out uk twice is kinda ironic (historically speaking)

[@manjugangwar7245]

Also Freezai most kids are not interested in buying another console to play and most instead are playing free fire or any other shooter game for the matter and old people only know pikachu also I am Indian so namaste ya sastriakal ya Salam.

[@lionman9995]

And here I thought it would be the little cup open finals because it was the biggest tournament ever

[@andyyykane]

Dude, can you please uploads vods from your stream? I would have loved to watch you ranking pokemon but I can't find any vods on your twitch and they aren't uploaded on your other channels

[@sanyamjakhar]

How poetic India defeating UK.

[@pilkkimies]

That was an amaizing show of reads! Air balloon Aegislash, hilarious!

[@uncreative_user]

Funny how Japan didn't even have a team of it's own, seems to be in there under Asia.

[@santiagoacosta3372]

India vs. UK A battle older than history

[@wjyp7277]

Possible to make a video on your journey to become a professional player like you now? I always wanted to play competitively but it seems really difficult to progress higher in any ladder

[@tanishalur4119]

As a fellow Indian I’m disgusted by his actions, especially cuz he did it against the UK!! Where is your pride dude

[@OriginaI151]

Do energy ball jellicent

[@austinestrada8944]

How do you look up tournament wins and stuff like that? I’m super new looking to get into it lol

[@memenazi7078]

I like how the stronger the player the stronger the lisp

[@kefkapalazzo1]

Lol I’ve seen you carry India so much this year. Would’ve had no idea you were Indian by your voice too

[@jcgualde2747]

How do I get involved in this community? I want to play things like this

[@6x31.]

Choice scarf Hydreigon sounds fun

[@corybivins4085]

I wanna know more about the GOAT of smogon i think in one video you said his name was ABR or something

[@stylinsandwich]

Ah yes, UK vs India

[@ffttossenz]

Thank u mr. Fish

[@Ultra289]

4:47 how did you remove the play button?

[@eleviathan4621]

Ghandi would be proud, I think. (I hope this isn't racist)

[@ilovedogs2642]

0:20 why does Europe have a team but then so do Germany, France, UK etc also have teams?

[@seanscott2677]

He explains in the video. it's because there's enough Germans, French, Brits, etc. for a full team, but not for Finland (as an example) so the rest of Europe has their own team, allowing for more to participate

[@cassmoney3160]

Tell us ab the most brutal sweep in history or smthn

[@BiPhBiPhBiPhBiPh]

Shoutout to that Britney Spears team, the taste 👏👏👏

[@algar6616]

The game I want to see next is Pokémon

[@YaddleGaming]

Why did you play on team india tho, arent you from the US?

[@londegel]

When will you share YOUR greatest rage quit of all time?

[@plabcentral630]

Blimax is one of the greats

[@gumbigumb]

8:58 OttoderBusfahrer 😍

[@suneet6834]

Couldn't predict the Kohli meme in a million chances 🤣.. Great video mate.. Love your content

[@servine1212]

Next up... Your greatest rage quit of all time.