How I got to the top of Random Battles on Pokemon Showdown

[@pokeaimMD]

Wanted to try out a different style of video! If you wanna see my pokemonchallenges tour run, you can check that out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6WQq4uPZ6iNoJI Also, follow me on twitch! so close to 100k twitch.tv/pokeaim

[@LoudMiller]

the Wolfy Strat, like the style!

[@MrMilitoso]

Love it, always good to see creators try new things, it's probably a lot more effort, but I really think it paid off! Long time viewer of the channel and I can say I was pleasantly surprised, keep it up Joey!

[@tauabn]

Honestly Joe, I prefer your entire live thought process. 3 hours > 20min am I right? :p Are you bringing back the beast boosht merch? Only have one shirt :(

[@dreepyairlines]

In your random battles tournament video I thought I heard you listening to cassanova, or a remix of it. Were you?

[@sonicx254shere3]

Absolutely loved the vid joey!!!!

[@LudwigFrog]

Poetic how he ended it by beating a Kyurem

[@pokeaimMD]

2 in a row lmao

[@maxoyew2965]

@@pokeaimMD Damn bro you finally did it. Nice man

[@dreepyairlines]

Loved ur nasty plot rotom rmt

[@LudwigFrog]

@@dreepyairlines Thank you glad you enjoyed it.

[@pokeslim]

Joey: I won a very close 1-0. Surviving Aegislash: I would 6-0 that man myself given the chance.

[@Moon-uq6ob]

Great job editing this together. Definitely wouldn't mind seeing more of your videos with this format.

[@eulefranz944]

Yeah great format Enjoyed it quite a lot

[@mosteez2547]

it made it so intense!

[@FreezaiPokemon]

love the new style

[@aetherjuice]

I feel that despite you being THE BEST at the main aspect of the worlds biggest franchise you don't get enough recognition.

[@murads6947]

Hey, I was Aqua. I had no clue you were aim lol, glad I got to play. That Gyarados was going to devour my team so I had to take the risk there. Yeah, Starmie isn't guaranteed to get Rapid Spin - it can roll Choice Specs w/ Psy, Ice Beam/Tbolt, Scald/Hydro, or Life Orb with Psy, Scald, Recover, Ice Beam/Tbolt. Rapid Spin would've helped for sure. Good luck in future gen 8 games! Running into you again would be cool.

[@Cygis]

I really like this video format! I’d love to see more random battle gameplay, whether it be live or post commentary. I play random battles in college classes just to pass the time and am getting back into singles after abandoning it for VGC in gen 8. I wish there was a random National Dex option but alas, gen 8 randoms are still good fun

[@Lichtkrieger13]

I like gen 6 or 7 randoms more since dynamaxing can be very hazardous in singles

[@maswoodshaheb3931]

Always love to see randbats representation! Loved the vid as always Joey and was especially cool to see so many of my friends be (unknowingly) featured in the video haha. In case you wanted some more help regarding sets and stuff, we have a tooltip that installs into your browser and lets you see what possible moves and items a pokemon can run in rands, all pulled from the calc :] Keep up the amazing content man!

[@SadiTonmoy]

Always love to see your representation Maswood :')

[@SAMIberrada]

Really like this style of video Joey! I love the long-form content as well, but this is for sure a little more consumable to me and I understand why Ludwig, Smallant, and even Wolfey have moved to this format. Personally I think this type of video is best when you can balance the raw-unedited live stream with the more script and this video didn't quite capture your personality the way that lives do but I think finding that right tone and balance will come with time. Keep up the good work!

[@UGMD]

Ooh I really liked the editing style of this one! Please do more!

[@IluminateIS]

This type of video was great! 100% would watch every other one like it

[@iam3gion204]

I saw your comment on Wolfeys wideo about how you liked the way he scripted his tournament video. I really like that you actually went and tried it yourself! I love seeing creators try new things and the video turned out great!

[@yolobot4644]

This video style is really cool! Also, congrats on top 10. :)

[@dk_38]

I like the post-com style, it’s good to have some variations in the showdown vids

[@jesper6765]

LMAO when "Zoroark" was sent out disguised as Kyurem-White it still loaded in the Zoroark on the team preview, great Illusion, not very sneaky hahaha xD (15:09)

[@user-hl1lb4tt2g]

It did that I think because the original Kyurem-White was at 84% so when it came out at 100%, considering you can't have two of the same mon, it was immediately identified as Zoroark

[@jesper6765]

@@user-hl1lb4tt2g Ah true, that would out-right give away as well, so maybe it's set up to say "fuck it they know it's me" lol

[@zachfranklin6359]

Volcarona is my favorite pokemon, so happy it got the spotlight

[@hamzahmasud6965]

LOVED the new vid format was super fast paced and entertaining super engaging I think videos like these and your normal videos which are also sick might I add, mixed like a vid like this every few days would be 🔥🔥🔥

[@leviadams8777]

Love the edited style video. Just wanted to point out that it looks like when the marnie theme remix comes in, your stream music is still playing. Makes for a weird auditory experience. Still a sick video

[@pokeaimMD]

The stream music unfortunately is on the same track cause of how twitch downloads work and that song got copyright for whatever reason so i put music over it to cancel it

[@goettee5430]

Really digging the new video style. Great content as always Aim.

[@Rozonkomo]

This reminded me a lot of the smogon War Stories threads, always a good time. Hope you make more of these some time.

[@champloo1788]

Love this style of video with the combination of post comm and normal battle comm for the finale, keep evolving brotha

[@edwardofmouth]

Hopped on the Wolfey battle recap style. Loving the pace and your vids. Keep whuppin ass

[@smhroyalmc]

loved the video/editing format on this one! randbats are actually so fun to watch as well

[@MrLogistician]

More vids that go over a lot of battles would be nice, but I do realize it takes a lot more production. ThanksJoey!

[@emceesquared2]

This is a cool concept of video! I wouldn't watch this type of video like I do your daily showdown battles, but an occasion like this was actually really cool and it hope it reaches a wider audience for you!

[@ivbyse]

This feels like such high quality content, Joey!

[@LuciusAugustusRex]

The two tracks near the end playing at the same time were making me go insane. Outside of that good video joey

[@sGzBugz]

love this format more of this is gonna have you up there with the top creators joey like you deserve. video is way more engaging to watch

[@zelz3011]

Looking REAL GOOD! I've learned a bit about Rando's.

[@ralts_boy]

Took me a second when you said the sand made their max geyser weaker - thought you meant that the water move was weakened by the weather. Obviously you meant that the sand gave a Spdef boost, but it just didn't register for a bit.

[@yungjerm333]

Fire video definitely need more of this

[@alexanderhetlinger3294]

That was good. You have gotten much better at doing voiceover-type commentary than you used to be. Nice work, keep it up!

[@soundaholixx]

That Porygon-2 moment was amazing to watch LMAO that was some monotype random battle luck

[@c3_pulsar]

loved the video! wouldn't mind some more live reactions/ hype clips from the stream being thrown in there on top of it :) also the double music at the end was a bit dank but as I said I loved the vid as a whole! keep up the good work man

[@pokeaimMD]

Tetris got me copyright so had to add some marnie to balance it out haha. Will mix in more clips in the future!

[@c3_pulsar]

@@pokeaimMD ahh gotcha! excited for the content man :)

[@ryanantoine8457]

I absolutely loved this format!

[@akshayy_xd]

That was an awesome intro Joey, dunno why it really pulled me in to the video

[@edkolbe1850]

My favorite Pokémon youtubist. PRAISE THE SUN using my favorite fire type pokemon Volcarona

[@tomfoolery8238]

Loved the wolfey-style video edits man! Keep it up!

[@togakhan1274]

Joey, this is the kind of mixing up of content I am really liking the most right now. I feel like the interest in showdown lives is a at a low right now as Legends Arceus doesn't have competitive and that was supposed to be the meta shift we needed. SS has gotten old and BDSP seems more like a side, flavor metagame if you relate with what am trying to say. I saw that you have been doing playthroughs on your streams and plan to do Radical Red. I would personally love to see it as a series on YT as catching streams is difficult for me. At this point I just like to watch content from you and your friends. Showdown lives are not seeming that fun lately and I would love to see all the different kinds of things you do/games you play on streams here on YT. What are your thoughts, guy? Would you be willing to see more kinds of content or do you prefer showdown lives only.

[@pokeaimMD]

plan is to for sure port over either in 1 or 2 big vids my radical red runs when I start them. i stream mons but also random fun/sometimes weird stuff so as long as I can do what i did with this video for that stuff, i don't mind.

[@togakhan1274]

@@pokeaimMD I mean if you would be willing to, why not try posting something new from the streams then that you see fit on YT. I would personally love to see new unique topics and I am sure many people would too. If it gets positive reception then great , if not, it was worth a try. It would broaden everyone's horizons and variety is good for everyone, in general.

[@anthonypotts5232]

Really liked this style of video!

[@vincek3234]

The Rona came clutch

[@Lukas23D]

Inspired by Wolfey's editing, hue? Really enjoyed the video!

[@brodyhill1650]

i like this style joey, good stuff my man

[@milanotheduelist]

i really like this style aim, i think it’ll help expand your reach 💯

[@connerb1695]

GOAT. Cant wait for the drop a draco shaker too 👀

[@windagaming5145]

Love the video format, congrats on topping the ladder!

[@henriquearmani714]

That was an incredible format

[@pedrogb512]

Love this style should def mix in some more post com/narration with your regular vids

[@Dominikvd]

Freezai: I waited 3.5 years!!!! Pokeaimd did it in one week....

[@roland8357]

Nice video was cool to have a story behind some showdown games

[@phantombrawler]

Love this format Joey

[@suryankkumar7708]

Nice to see Joey in the only format that I play lmao, I'm there in the top 10 in the intro xD

[@GakenotJake]

would love to see videos like this for other tiers

[@meteordmsyu6298]

this was a good format for a video

[@christianjaymatas875]

Gotta love the commentary and explanations

[@TheRussianRage]

really liked this style man would be cool to mix in a video like this once a week or sumthn 👍🏻

[@xjjay554x]

Volcarona has always been my sleep paralysis demon even before we had the rona plague.

[@Greedman456]

I liked the scaling of the ladder. Would love to see top ten In other ladders as well, uu and ru are very interesting for me

[@skyloftlink1862]

I don't know if anyone else noticed but in the last battle when Zoroark switched in as White Kyurem you saw the pokeball icon that shows a pokemon as hidden switch into Zoroark. I feel like they should change that for random bats that's kinda sucks for zoroark to have that it completely defeats illusion.

[@chutney1223]

Joeys content has been fire lately

[@squamsh122]

Congrats top 10 is nuts

[@chance_sx2925]

This way so hype 🙌 keep up the good work my guy 👏

[@SupThomas]

Great video as always JOEY! Got me laddering on Gen 8 randbats after the tourney 😂😅

[@LB_FFM]

Very nice Video, I just would appreciate it, if you could use less cuts in the battles. If necessary, split the videos into more parts or just make them longer, so the viewer is much more into the grind in my opinion. Nevertheless, very nice video and congrats for getting top 10!

[@arnon8906]

this is a very youtuby vid Great effort and great result Joey! :)))

[@pieterbassie85]

Love the format

[@mariojordan9543]

That was hype honeslty, I like it

[@plabcentral630]

This vid is a hit doctor. Good stuff

[@jchud13]

JOEY POKEAIM DOCTOR I LOBE YOUR VIDEOSSSS!!!!!

[@joshuaschanie4025]

Great video, love your insight!

[@tommyvril]

Sick format

[@ninjanoafa8636]

I love the random battles, and I know I could never do the team battle, so I only do random

[@ballbuster2417]

Love this keep it up but full games please

[@giovannigonzalez9040]

I strongly prefer your previous format. I see and appreciate the hard work put into this editing but I like seeing your real time thought process.

[@alejandroayala9187]

W video 💯 volcarona one of my favourites too🤣

[@gohamwitstacks6765]

I'm 2 days behind on videos. Love the content and I have ribs for you bruh lol.

[@Brelvos]

Love this style of vids keep it up aim

[@billisaac3092]

Hell yea cool shit.... Just now getting into them randoms it's pretty decent

[@yonatangale1452]

Maybe change the title to wolfe went to med school lmao. Much love and support youre contents fire man

[@aaronnbothner3714]

i like this style of video

[@cameronhayes5393]

Do a rematch vs wolfeyVGC! I would love to see a first to 3 again!

[@Raphanial]

Great video format

[@AmericanHuskyCash]

Love this type of video

[@adraino7345]

How did I get to the top of the Pokemon Showdown ladder? Inspect Element.

[@mattleemb6283]

TBH. I think Ledian would have really helped on this journey. Great job though buddy.

[@eulefranz944]

Gen5 is calling

[@assault410]

He got to the top by winning more than he lost.

[@rohanshankar6083]

The randbats master!

[@Musasensei1674]

Kyurem got banned..rip

[@Pokevin]

I love Volcarona :)

[@threegeekz6498]

mimikyu is busted in randoms bro i 1v5 with a mimikyu today and jesus i was on the edge of my seat

[@1nders1]

Loved this

[@nicksmith5400]

Now that I finally know what pokeaim looks like I gotta see blunder! Some reason I always pictured you as a guy in a hoodie 24/7 and long hair; I'll be honest I did not imagine that godlike jaw line of yours, you mega Chad you

[@ergofiction5627]

Feedback for this new style? Bear in mind, this is all one person's opinion of course. I think the content is hard to get right. Topping the showdown ladder is impressive, but if you're going to say "How i did...." You either want it to help teach others, or make it more eventful/important. People attracted by that title are looking for the "how" and want to see something very difficult or a way to replicate it. I think non-showdown players typically wouldn't be attracted to this title (afterall what do they know of a showdown ladder?), whilst many showdown players and fans of yours, would expect you to reach No.1 or may have felt this didn't help them/impress them given they know what you're capable of. You've got the in-game commentary nailed. But post-game, even when you do things like tournament replays, imo you lose the best aspects of your style, which is the entertaining reactions, humour, daring plays/taunts, inside language, etc. There always seems to be a sense of discomfort, like you're trying to be more professional and structured but it's just not natural to your style. Idk how you ago about fixing this (practice/scripting/adding more jokes/pausing for general theory and analysis to help viewers with context/video editing for visual entertainment, etc?), but i just wanted to point out there's a different vibe you give off and it's nowhere near as interesting as your normal one. I was always drawn to the videos when you're with friends, because it draws out your charisma way more, and postgame videos meanwhile often lack that. Which is understandable because you're basically making a presentation in post, vs just chilling with friends in realtime. The videos from other people of this style are also typically high effort/time investments. Look at PokemonChallenges or similar Poketubers who do challenge playthroughs and use similar titles. They are often genuinely massive feats. Some of those videos are like 50+-100+ hours of playtime on top of editting all of that footage. There's a full journey there, and that's something this video may have been missing. If i could change this video, I'd probably make it a journey from the very beginning 1000 to No.1. Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be killing 2 birds with 1 stone, make a "To the Top" series like you normally do with, but after it is finished, edit it into a condensed, more educational experience, adding something like a short presentation when you get into detail on stuff (like graphs for usage, highlighted screenshots, etc). Examples of educational content include; Pointing out things like how team composition changed as you move up the ladder, how your predictions change based on your opponent's skill, General advice using an example of what you or an opponent did wrong, how usage stats impact team building, meta analysis, etc. That way you can reuse footage of your most charismatic moments from live gameplay, so new people get a taste of who you really are, whilst your postgame commentary can be the new content for those who've already watched it and who are hoping to learn the "How" part. Add in a running joke from your twitch stream regarding the run, like the ambipom to the top and making ambipom OU to keep the video fun and entertaining, and you'd have a video that ticks all the boxes for this style, imo. Best of luck man, would love to see you expand more and become a more dominant force in the poketuber arena. There's only so many regular showdown lives/standard battles a person can watch lol

[@arthursdl]

I'm gonna tell my kids this was the pokémon anime

[@FlaskFlash]

- everytime i see volc i lose the game volc: well, about that

[@joelschmierer3544]

when you're scared of your oppoents rank...but because they are so much lower than you

[@Fezmania]

Fire video

[@CReaToRxPR]

I wonder if Joey or Wolfey edited this video,