I Hosted A Competitive Pokemon Fusion Tournament

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[@LungaFermata]

FYI the link to twitch in the description is still using the old twitch url.

[@JustaGeek2400]

Can we please get the whole ban list? Kinda wanna hold a similar tournament around our friend group

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

May I propose an idea? Here are 29 demands of you must follow in this nuzlocke video. Put these demands in notes and scramble them in hat, bag or something else and you have to make a team on pokemon that you can get, based on the note you pulled. Pokemon that looks like Kaiju. For extra name the pokemon after the Kaiju it looks like. (examples, Baxcalibur Named Godzilla, Volcarona named Mothra, Aerodactyl named Rodan or Aggron named Bulgasari) Either Froslass or Gallade Either Male Gardevoir or Female Glalie Pokemon that looks feminine but he has to be male. (Excluding Gardevoir, there's seperate note for him) Pokemon that looks masculine but she has to be female. (Excluding Glalie, there's seperate note for her) Pokemon that evolves through trade. Pokemon is either species or evolved form of a species that KO'd one of your pokemon. (If you have not lost any pokemon until this point, put this note back and draw new note) Pokemon whose picture comes up first when you Google 'One pokemon from (Game you are playing)'. If first picture is that of multible pokemon or is pokemon that you already have, ignore it and look at picture after it and repeat until you get to picture that has one pokemon. Pokemon from your favorite type. Pokemon that looks like dinosaur Ghost-like pokemon Serpent-like pokemon. Pokemon of your least favorite type. Pokemon that favorite character in pokemon anime either has or had. Pokemon you bred using two pokemon of different species (these pokemon don't need to be any of from other challenges. However, if this is the case, after capturing these pokemon you must not use them for anything else but for breeding. Resulted pokemon must also have an egg move. Pokemon who is seemingly made of more than one invidual. At least one of its forms. (Examples in case you're confused. Exeggcute, Klink or Falinks) One pokemon whose picture comes up first when you look up 'pokemon' in Deviantart This pokemon is not evolved into its final form and must stay unevolved into its last form for rest of the video. Pokemon species who'se male and female have some differences at least. Insectoid pokemon Fish-like Pokemon Pokemon that looks like a dragon but isn't a dragon type. Pokemon that looks like an object. Pokemon from Type chosen either by your friend or random person chosen by you in chat. Pokemon from Egg group chosen either by your friend or random person chosen by you in chat. Non-Water pokemon you either found in water or caught by fishing (Depends on the game) Pokemon that neither evolves from or evolves into any other pokemon. Pokemon of a specific color chosen by either by your friend or random person in chat you choose. If you have chat watching you, choose one of chatters randomly and ask them choose pokemon for you to find. They have to rethink their answer if pokemon they chose is not available in game you're playing.

[@parsath_2584]

Infinite Fusion getting added to Showdown is wild.

[@Kebeo2]

Right!!! What format is it? Trying to find it on showdown

[@judebarei-burns1059]

Same like my comment if someone finds

[@EinManU]

yea i wanna play too ^

[@chloeligma3883]

its not on the main showdown server so its probably just something he added to his side server

[@ludi489]

It’s very likely just the official Infinite Fusion Showdown

[@angelwings9549]

funniest part of the video is jan throwing out smogon legends' usernames like theyre randoms showing up for their first tournament

[@PrismaAce]

fr. at least finch got the shoutout

[@jdie6616]

Lmao freezai and blunder getting lumped into one shoutout.. no mention of temp6t and the craziest part is no intro for michaelder

[@TheRealDarkSide830]

I got lowkey jumpscared when Temp showed up so late in the vid.

[@egshwhwjwnoeowkwkw9809]

tricking is literally one of the best players of all time and he wasn't even mentioned lol

[@CEFG100]

It’s infinite fusion and it’s mostly everyone’s first time playing it in a competitive format, so in a way, this *IS* their first tournament.

[@ohno5559]

Now I want to know what the worst fusions are. Like how badly can you screw over two decent pokemon by combining them?

[@Bonkus..]

Probably by using truant or slow start

[@taylortierney6542]

put a slow special attacker as the body, and a fast physical attacker as the head, its easy enough

[@Ryu_D]

Fuse Shedinja with a high defense pokemon with bad type weaknesses.

[@zenon6493]

@@Ryu_DAvalugg

[@priestesslucy3299]

Wobuffet with Slakoth

[@FafliXx]

"I'll Face Myself" using Final Gambit is a hilarious bit

[@frisolaxod3835]

into the Ampharos sweeper named "The Almighty"

[@fenixchief7]

​@@frisolaxod3835 had to be a persona reference

[@chrispyvolterra]

Did not expect Temp6t to show up since he hasn’t uploaded any videos recently. Glad to see him still play Showdown.

[@natnuss98]

Same!

[@michaelh.3228]

Lily is a fucking icon. Three or four completely separate teams that were all cracked.

[@rmx39]

just dominated lmao not even one close win

[@dunscydunscy5605]

It would be great if everyone could show their support for the game and project! Make sure to check out the wiki, it contains information on the mechanics, game, and even showdown!

[@zero1343]

The infinite fusion teambuilding alone is so much to think about, bringing it up to natdex gives so man options that its hard to even know where to begin.

[@SHDW_HUNTER]

What is the mode called

[@exaltedexile6290]

This is one of the videos I wish was 2 hours long

[@kyokkyuu]

Same. Very information dense and as such long-format would've been easier to follow.

[@malxire]

I mean the while 4 hours tourney is on his twitch

[@Eroil]

​@@malxirewatching vods on twitch is so ass though

[@tricmagic]

@@malxire If I can find it, I don't really use twitch. And the link just takes me to a dead screen time machine joke.

[@MunkeeMazik]

Yeah, I appreciate the amount of effort that went into editing this, but for tournaments a long format with whole battles is a thousand times better. You can't really capture the excitement of the battles otherwise, no matter how good the editing and narration is. Some light editing would be good to remove dead time between battles and speed up any stall stalemates, but that's it.

[@josiahball7799]

Props to Lily for naming her Pokemon after Persona 5 Royal, Undertale, Luxury Disease, and Persona 4 Golden music tracks (thanks crosszsilver for letting me know about Luxury Disease)

[@crosszsilver]

That team was named after songs from ONE OK ROCK's 2022 album, Luxury Disease.

[@lasiace]

Yeah, it was really cool seeing her being the only one actually naming her pokemon and having a theme for it, at least for the players who made it into the video. I mean obviously in a competitive format names don't really matter, this isn't a nuzlocke, but it was cool precisely because it didn't matter.

[@Shalakor]

@@lasiace I mean, Lily won, so you have no evidence it didn't actually matter. Attention to detail like that can easily lead to better build decisions.

[@doot_2198]

@@Shalakor its also common knowledge that giving your pokemon cool names gives them a 1.2x omniboost

[@madisonc5643]

whats her channel?

[@scorpioncox8978]

I’m loving the fact infinite fusion keeps getting love despite the rocky road it’s been on when talking about Pokémon showdown. This just brings a big smile to my face.

[@number-no-1443]

What do you mean rocking road?

[@LovelySoftSnow]

@@number-no-1443 its so awesome the road its on is rocking 🤘

[@scorpioncox8978]

@@number-no-1443 If you were with the IF discord server since the showdown simulator first came up, you would understand completely.

[@johndinner4418]

Rocking road?

[@garrettgautreau5908]

@@number-no-1443 three years ago infinte fusion had a different showdown server that shut down due to inactivity.

[@roxlife8173]

Jan not being able to pronounce therian is the most German thing ever.

[@novameowww]

ironic because the arguably most famous therian (maia arson crimew) lives in the german-speaking part of switzerland

[@bryce1197]

Legit ever since I saw IF I was wondering what a competitive IF would look like, and damn am I stoked to see what additional content comes from this

[@Timme]

Insane strats by Lily, her plays were flawless

[@adriancm3920]

The IF showdown can be found on the wiki or subreddit for those interested :D

[@tdragon8]

Also the discord!

[@competitively3315]

Thank you for hosting this tournament. I was so entertained by all of the team building ideas people made and I hope this gets on the official showdown server at some point.

[@calebnelson4932]

Not showing the blunder/ freezai match is crazy

[@kylekiske_]

So true. Disrespect to the agency.

[@hardhoofdful]

Always wondered what some of the brightest minds within pokémon battles would make of the fusions, great video!

[@Gazzas.fishing]

This guy is one of my favourite Pokémon Channels on any platform love you man ❤️

[@1Henrink]

I really really appreciate all the explanation at the beginning. It can be hard to follow pokemon if you don't know it all, but with fusion it gets much harder, so the explanation is very welcome.

[@itchy7879]

Good to see a bunch of OU guys playing in this as a smogon community person, hope they all had fun!

[@UltrakillZer0]

Great video, was a blast being there live, looking forward to future tournaments! and seeing just how crazy these fusions can get.

[@littlebirdy3545]

It makes me so happy that fusion got added to pokemon showdown. Such a cool idea

[@adriancm3920]

Infinite Fusion did not get added to Pokemon Showdown, there is a fan-made server for it. You can find it on the wiki!

[@JeanKP14]

if it's fan made even more reason to get more of the actual sprites in there huh... @@adriancm3920

[@jdd11529]

@@adriancm3920no you can’t.

[@skyeazura3593]

I appreciate the effort taken in editing so that people not as familiar with pokemon can keep up with the commentary

[@lazypaladin]

*_I've been waiting for this!_* The Infinite Fusion Fan Game has been my goto time waster and Nuzelocke game for *_months!_*

[@tylermitchell3621]

Hey man, so since you uploaded last, I've binged the channel, become obsessed, and now is the time to celebrate!!

[@VengIsBFF]

Loved the vid! I feel like you couldve done more videos on the turny. Winners bracket, losers bracket, final 4 battles. Show us more stuff of the turnament board. Milk that yt ad rev you know lol keep em coming!

[@alexeirahfao5414]

This is so hype!! I've wondered about how pkmn fusion would look in competitive, it's so cool!! Also shoutout to the Tunic OST!! A wonderful ost, so happy to see it around!!

[@Winterbub]

Super fun and creative idea, i'm excited for the future of this format!

[@Sphaxy08]

Risk of Rain, Hadès, Tunic, Hollow Knight, Outer Wilds... Man, the music never disappoints in Jan's videos

[@salmonellaII]

Celeste too :)

[@KeViNMCMXXCIX]

Fascinating battles and fusions and strategies. Congrats Lily on winning!

[@ImLerning]

This is great, its interesting how similar the meta is to the AAA (almost any ability) rule set, galvanize dragonite was something I saw often

[@heycxpid]

shoutout the agency.

[@Spyder21458]

I love Jan's foray into hosting tournaments and will watch every video and stream i see

[@user-qj8db7kw7n]

the agency always provides 🔥🔥provided like a dead beat dad but still provided 🗣💯

[@mattkotewa6098]

It'd be cool to link every participants twitch/KZbin/Twitter whatever, in the description, whichever they'd prefer. Adds depth to it if we want to see who is who, and give everyone some incentive to participate even if they know they lose. Cool vid.

[@baddragonite]

Wish I had known! I do sprite art and love making fusions!

[@albatros4003]

There is still sprite that have to be made if you want

[@oogabeluga9396]

sadly most nat dex sprites won't work right now due to how the coding works so any sprites you decide to make would have to be of pokemon that exist in IF dex

[@TheLefty5o2]

Love to see comfey getting some love here. Triage was such a cool ability.

[@l_spagal7649]

I was going to leave after realising that cool artwork wouldn't be featured but then I stayed and got to see some really cool plays and some very interesting fusions.

[@faby6515]

Hey, Jan. You're the guy that got me (further) into Pokemon. Now I use a vaster variety of Pokemon thanks to your technical talks in Nuzlockes. I love your content.

[@AlyxDerNarr]

I haven't clicked off not because I'm NOT interested in sprites, but because I'm ALSO interested in competitive play and new concepts. People contain multitudes, JAN.

[@TWLSpark]

You're not the kind of person the disclaimer was directed to, but towards the inevitable "wah wah, they're using the same 6 fusions instead of my favorite!!1!1" commenters. You'd be surprised how easily they can ruin entire comments sections if they're given no warning of the sort.

[@brendanelmer3305]

All here right now in one place hahahahhahahha 😂 love your videos man keep up the amazing pokemon content

[@rajimus]

Always interested in sprites... just so happen to be equally interested in a good battle or two and fusions spice everything up so well.

[@AshfcknKetchum]

Sad I missed this, and a little surprised how quickly OGs like Finch and blunder were out. Great stuff out of Lily though, that was a brutal Grandfinals.

[@DJprofessorK]

Awesome content, more tournaments. Some of your best content for sure but everything is good

[@joellimaverde1236]

I was surprise by not seen a coffing Neutralize gas in the turnent. That thing with some other defensive pokemon fused looks like a nightmare to deal with.

[@Nhecator]

17:45 - temp had one with mandibuzz

[@klutzy6833]

The tournament videos are godlike

[@daxdleader719]

Glad to see stuff from my own infinite fusion run like a ground-flying type and slowking + steel

[@monkeydetonation]

The ripple from that one guy in dragon's den handing out e speed dratinis has been a tsunami for dnite ever since lol

[@achingjack]

god, this is SUCH a cool format

[@kawandwoodbridge7925]

This was so entertaining thx for for the vid bro

[@timmaia5082]

Grats to all players! Surprisingly fun tournament, I didn't think it'd be this balanced between offense and defense!

[@and1ajthag0d73]

I love this happy I found this video definitely gon sub and watch more

[@smarthipan]

outer wilds the end playing at 22 minutes god i love that so incredibly much

[@Hobo-jo]

I am so happy to hear risk of rain background music😊

[@jblen]

The idea of fusions competitively is really cool. There's so many combinations that there's a good chance some perfect counter is just not discovered yet and it gives so much room for the meta to shift but equally plenty of tools to deal with the meta. And yet since you only have to be familiar with every Pokémon (heh... Only... As if it's not over 1000) the barrier of entry isn't actually as high as it would be for entirely new creations.

[@Redemption519571]

Love that you always have Risk of Rain OST in your videos

[@samsong8355]

I hope he doesn't get into trouble for that (the composer is strictly against using his music in videos other than music analysis)

[@patricialock1862]

I hope he does more infinite fusion tournaments! That was fun to watch

[@WillyDojoDocBPHD]

The persona references in Lily's team made me happy

[@weewoo3023]

I feel like a way to make it more clear what pokemon are in a fusion is to show both sprites at once, like a half and half type thing

[@daddygalaxy8782]

bro i just checked your channel like 10 mins ago for new uploads and nothing then 2 minutes later i see this in my feed

[@SonicMegaKing]

Imagine some maniac actually attempts to make custom fusion sprites for every possibility. Just getting one artist to do one Pokemon would be daunting if not overwhelming. It would need to be a massive undertaking.

[@mariobutwithdrip8944]

I feel like having a fast special attacker, mixed with pex to get merciless and Venoshock would be cool

[@SourSalmon]

Problem is pex is so slow and weak that it would bring down the fast special attacker to below average stats

[@mariobutwithdrip8944]

@@SourSalmon oh so it makes an average of the stats?

[@SourSalmon]

@@mariobutwithdrip8944 yes

[@fapnoob]

Love the Great Tusk name combos

[@-en_x3]

I saw Sylvern and was instantly ecstatic because I thought of that for IF dex OU myself, and it has been the one constant on my teams. In nat dex though, I think Sylveon Kommo-o would be better with throat spray clangorous soul pixilate boomburst.

[@Mercenious]

I had always wondered how Infinite Fusion would work in a competitive setting, and well, this is my answer. It honestly feels a lot more exciting since there are so many possible fusions you could run (well, legal ones that is), which allows for a lot more variety and customization. Infinite Fusion already has over 176000 different combinations, so I can't even imagine that number all the way to gen 9.....either way it's a simple concept that makes a Pokemon battle a lot more interesting

[@bart6067]

what about a community tournament with the IF ou gen 7 format? The fusion sprites are usually complete and the meta has crystalized somewhat

[@Hazedboss]

Commenting and liking as I'd really like to see more of this!

[@TheBobinator117]

Risk of Rain music in the background. I kbew this was gonna be a good video. 😎

[@obi965]

Wait, a video that's not at the end of the month? It's a Christmas miracle

[@carmichaelcarlisle6635]

I gotta say, hearing Temp6t's name show up in one of your videos gave me a serious case of whiplash -- but in a fun way!

[@evernewb2073]

huh, would've thought that the first thing that comes to mind would've shown up at least a bit: Huge Power is a hilariously broken ability with something to give it a base attack that's actually worth doubling even before you include the jankier stuff it does that it doesn't tell you about, using it in a good combo gets you a (usually) no-setup-required sweeper and since the only requirement is for the thing you're combining to actually have an attack stat and it's OP enough that you don't need to stretch for every stat point _most_ pokemon are valid options allowing you way more flexibility. probably the only thing about the pokemon games that I love is just how important status effects and the like are in them but sometimes a good ol' brick to the face is a great option.

[@stringrunner]

I’m not sure if it’s just perfect timing but props to whomever chose the music @ 22 minutes

[@jordanleighton6893]

Damn, Lily is good. Congrats to her and the rest of the players

[@broski98]

I know RoR2 music when I hear it lol Enjoyed watching, looking forward to another tourney (hopefully?)

[@stainmaster2630]

That was way more interesting than I thought it'd be

[@RealNikTrustMe]

i wonder how well a florges / bulky grass (venusaur maybe) set would be with flower veil

[@RainbowAceOfSpades]

I would love to see a Pokemon Infinite Fusion VGC tournament.

[@CM_684]

We need more fusion content!!

[@lanceyp.9587]

Of course Finch used a stall team we all know Smogon loves stall

[@watery2211]

Bro has never seen stall before

[@secondaegis9190]

> The team has strong defensive members > Stall

[@rodrigoreal4086]

Having so Many hours on Infinite Fusion I find amazing how they dont use the broken Fusions we used on the game my umbreon weezing was a Imortal Monster It would be amazing to see more of this

[@SgtJet3]

outer wilds music near the end immediately made me paranoid. xD

[@user-jo3kt7oj1o]

Love Gliscor, cool to see it here

[@HikasCorner]

My ptsd kicked in with that outer wilds music. Sometimes i forget that jan actually plays a lot of good games and isn't one of those one trick wonder gamers

[@dasamont8274]

I love that my dude Noivern got screentime

[@sovjetonion6385]

oh shit we getting the big boy competitive players for our videos now, makes it even more exciting

[@LetMeEatIt]

This needs to be added to public servers with fan submitted custom sprites, or sprites out of infinite fusion, asap!!

[@TheLiquidCastle]

"competitive tournament" and then it's singles xD aw man, was so looking forward when i saw this title :')

[@huso4821]

This was so cool and new and interesting content!

[@foldertim]

Love the music from Tunic

[@drachenklnd]

For the more casual players who just know fusion for its sprites: The stats of fusions are 2/3 and 1/3 of the other pokemon, which can even result in lower stat totals. You cant just slap a special wall and a physical wall together and get the ultimate tank.

[@stardoge6624]

bro shedinja/klinklang or shedinja/scizor finna go CRAZY

[@DeadShoot48659]

Loved all of lilys persona references

[@darkmatterpancake9824]

Lily's nicknames were bangers too

[@Humble_Goblin]

did you add "end times" from outer wilds in at the end or do i just have ptsd? i had to pause the video lmao

[@Panicaheartbeat]

I don't know if it would be too niche to get into, but if there's a chance, could you explain the change in overall usefulness for dropping dual types in fusion for Pokemon like Annihilape or Rotom types?

[@josidfin]

The god tier manscaped ads

[@daxdleader719]

Every time you said Clefurott my brain went "SEPHIROTH" in the church choir voice

[@mistadl]

using risk of rain 2 music is amazing