How BLAZIKEN carried me to Day 2 of Baltimore Regionals...

[@DudleyVGC]

It was nice meeting you in between rounds! You, Charlie, and a majority of the community made my buddy who was competing for the first time ever feel welcome and not intimidated.

[@EmbracingVGC]

Dude, the nicknames are awesome lmao

[@tac5191]

Yo I almost had this exact team in the builder (maus instead of electabuzz). Glad to see I wasn't alone in thinking blaziken is actually kinda heat next to pult and gambit

[@MaiZora]

I also won a 🇹🇭 local with Special Blaziken couple of weekends ago. It basically carried the entire tournament. 👊

[@bradnewell2448]

Love the technical break down :)

[@GuruFernandez]

Brooooo major respect for the Coaching Cucco (thats what I called him in testing). I also like Sneasler for Coaching strats

[@carternoble6469]

Love me some blaziken. Absolutely love to see it do something. Congrats on the great finish.

[@Shuckleking87]

Great team overview congrats on your placement!

[@staraptorop6386]

Going through your teambuilding and prepping process was super helpful. Would you mind dropping the prep doc that you showed during the video? I think would really help with my prep as well to have a starter doc like that.

[@SableyeVGC]

The doc is a project I released a little while ago actually, I can’t post link here, but it is the pinned post over on my Twitter which is in the description of my video

[@staraptorop6386]

@@SableyeVGC Found it, thank you so much!

[@brennanartrip3106]

Thank you for the breakdown. Emulate before you can innovate. Love watching how the best think!

[@Azun_Kurone]

Hey, I'm the other Blaziken! I also tried to coach Dragapult in Phantom Force 😂 but because I couldn't I went with Upper Hand instead

[@SableyeVGC]

🤣🤣🤣 Congrats on your run this weekend!

[@Azun_Kurone]

Thanks, you as well!

[@Mysterious-Stranger]

Hot darn, always happy to see my boy Blaziken getting some success

[@washingrotom]

Awesome team and run!

[@Rylekt]

The run was insane and the team is some heat! Love seeing the optimizations

[@talhanawaz7951]

I believe there was another Blaziken Primarina team in day 2, while skimming through the teams on VR yesterday I thought you were using it

[@SableyeVGC]

Yeh there was a pledges team featuring Blaziken that also did well

[@Azun_Kurone]

Hi, I'm the other Blaziken! I used Empoleon instead of Prim, but Victory Road used the Primarina sprite for some reason 😅

[@Blazer1992]

Glad to see my favorite pokemon shine

[@jeffreyabercrombie8136]

Coaching busted. My balance secret sauce was grassy seed kommoo. It was a great nuisance. I wanted you add coaching to it to coach my banded Rillaboom. But rilla already did enough damage and taunt was just too valuable to drop. I did go with the Volc setup. But coaching blaziken (or sneasler or pawmot, still can’t decide) is what I’m still cooking up for GC

[@Squiddys]

this man useing the rogue decks

[@Onemagician4496]

BLAZIKEN MENTION 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥 would this work in gc?

[@SableyeVGC]

The team really appreciates seeing the team sheets from your opponent, so probably not the best call for a GC, although the team is naturally strong so it should still be alright

[@bko.3596]

Like I said at Baltimore You’re my hero chief 🔥

[@Quez189]

Congrats! You're not washed!

[@DonkVGC]

Congrats on the amazing run!

[@talhanawaz7951]

Gastrodon looks so good on paper but in testing always lacks behind. I am using it on my current delphox psyspam team for both rain and sand mus and its a really weird 4 attacks, rocky helmet set to just tackle the specific mons i need to, definitely not the star of the team but its getting the job done

[@GenieFarms]

I enjoyed this thank you. Yeah Primarina without any boost has has been damage lacking.

[@scottcrysel]

ran a fun clear amulet brave bird set 2 regs back but urshifu hitting through protect was just too annoying most matchups to safely get the speed boost. but now with no urshifu and lower overall speed threats i was hoping it would be viable again. super cool team, congrats on the finish!

[@lightnight3430]

You’re my hero man. You a goat

[@PokeBattleLab]

Damn from Volcarona to Blaze lmao amazing run bro

[@acetfp]

This team is gas well done

[@briansing3493]

i love these nicknames

[@Beamin439]

ppl cope and say legendaries dont ruin the game and that it always ends up centralized no matter what. and then blaziken electabuzz and primarina day 2 a regional.

[@sleeper9550]

Single restricted format isn't bad, tbh it's just few legendaries being absurdly broken like calyrex both forms and urshifu if they balanced all of them like they nerfed zacian it would be fine they should also buff some old legendaries like zekrom how is completely outclassed compared to something like miraidon

[@Beamin439]

@@sleeper9550 we just came out of a bad single restricted format. we just went from the most uninteresting format by far in scarlet/violet, to by far the most interesting. look at the variety of teams topping tournaments. theres a clefable and a vivillon in top 8. volbeat and espathra in the top 16. just insane innovation. not just returning past meta pokemon, but also new pokemon we havent seen before. this doesnt happen in restricted formats ever.

[@bobbyblades9381]

Better than tailwind shadow and trick room Ice calyrex on every team, if they just banned the caly and the urshifus the format would be sick

[@bobbyblades9381]

@@Beamin439well said, I haven’t been paying attention to teams in this format yet but that’s super cool

[@Melodic_Minor143]

There were a bunch of weird mons that made day 2 at worlds this year (sableye+altaria, hariyama, slowking, iron leaves). Silly mons will show up in most formats

[@RagingAbout]

You had a great run, day 2 curse broken! What spreadsheet are you using for putting those matchups in. I'd love to have something like that

[@SableyeVGC]

It’s a project I’ve been working on over the last little bit, I can’t post links here but the latest version is the pinned tweet on my Twitter (which is in the description) if you are interested

[@GabriielMacedo100]

I gues that the jump poits in atk for Rilla is 116+, very cool team ❤

[@tomsontom]

Great Team 🎉 Why people run 52 - 68 Speed evs on Gambit? What they want to outspeed?

[@SableyeVGC]

Yeh being faster than opposing gambits can be very nice, along with some good speed for tailwind / icy wind synergy

[@tomsontom]

@@SableyeVGC i see, thanks 🙂

[@aboxoftimbits]

Hes too good at this game

[@lancedu9331]

Why pult over deagonite? Was it just because of speed. The team looks dope i been wanting to find a coaching or howl team and you didn't disappoint

[@SableyeVGC]

Speed and dragon darts, felt a bit better for what this slot on the team needed

[@lancedu9331]

@@SableyeVGC gotcha

[@XZacLee]

Goated player and mon

[@fluffyruff7453]

That graph looks really useful (last segment), is this one you made or is there a public one?

[@SableyeVGC]

Yeh it’s a project I’ve been working on as of late. I can’t send links here, but it’s the pinned post on my Twitter (which is in the description)

[@fluffyruff7453]

@@SableyeVGC Thanks! Now i dont gotta keep strats and MUs in my head and hope to remember them (normal documenting is lame, So what you just showed is a way better way of doing things imo).

[@fluffyruff7453]

I was just trying to cook up a blaziken team lol. Was trying out white herb over heat close combat detect brave bird tera flying. Prob not a great set but i feel like i'd give blaziken a better thought if there was a good howl or coaching user to put beside him.

[@tylerdamaso1877]

why does nobody EVER run the sd reversal set? these kind of teams can support it the same way. and if you ignore blaziken so its reversals stay weak, you get free sd's.

[@SableyeVGC]

I needed the immediate damage option of close combat on this team, it was one of the teams best options into archaludon, and we couldn’t wait to be knocked down to sash for the big damage option

[@TORVEX_]

Yep there it is, this team looked very fun to play

[@andrewdixon9849]

What was the sheets you were using for lines? I'd love to have a blank version of that

[@SableyeVGC]

It’s a project I’ve been working on lately, the blank version is public over on my Twitter as my pinned tweet (link in description) feel free to give it a try (sadly can’t post link to the sheet directly here)

[@Rockwell_a810g]

Do you have a skeleton of that matchup prep doc?!

[@SableyeVGC]

Yep, I can’t post the link here, but it’s the pinned tweet on my Twitter which is linked in the description

[@brennanartrip3106]

Also: Where do I sub for that matchup doc? Holy

[@SableyeVGC]

The matchup doc is actually public! I can’t link it here, but it’s the pinned post on my Twitter (in the description) if you want to check it out

[@ByeWorld]

Try Orthworm + Blaziken life orb, trust me 🤙🏻

[@sxewhil]

I love it

[@ismael8926]

Maushold will win worlds 2025, i said It here

[@smithmisimpson450]

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