I Learned Competitive Pokemon in 100 Games

[@Ludvix]

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[@Lozzu]

Get that bag yo

[@darienwest4748]

eat up, big guy

[@Gnarfledarf]

Don't put sponsored content in the middle of the video.

[@Lozzu]

@@Gnarfledarf bro just skip it lol

[@throastpopoki1682]

Sucker punch doesn't beat rage powder, your king gambit had safety goggles, that's what let you ignore rage powder. Extreme Speed would hit before rage powder or any other move with +2 priority sucker punch is only +1.

[@RocketPropelledMexican]

No it's actually really easy, all you gotta do is just sack your featured mon while reciting Agency Agency and it will always be the optimal play

[@darienwest4748]

Sack the main mon -> say "This is getting shiest" -> win with Valiant

[@HeresTonez]

SHAMONE

[@jeremye1159]

@@darienwest4748 Don't forget predicting the Tera even though the opponent Tera'd last turn

[@tomturtl]

Spore on grass type

[@obiwancannoli1920]

Say "this mon GOOBS their entire team", sack the mon, say "this is gonna be SHEISTEHHH", get into losing position, but comeback with a predict, then clean up with Val/Kingambit.

[@jeez8939]

Wait till he finds out about urshifu

[@genjishimada450]

😭

[@thefamilieagoshino3654]

💀

[@Matheus-mu7fd]

Zacian too

[@AkarisMouth]

Gonna have a damn aneurysm

[@JackJack-tg7zg]

​@@Matheus-mu7fdnah, zacian got nerfed in gen 9, so it's not as good as before, but it's still pretty strong

[@ItsAZues]

One thing is common among mainline Pokemon games. When the box art legendies are allowed in competitive, you gotta have them on your team.

[@leftistdegeneratejs]

Kid named zamazenta, reshiram, and dawn wings necrozma

[@DaSquyd]

Zamazenta entered the chat

[@iseegreen5297]

Haha zamazenta mid lmao

[@beanslinger2]

@@iseegreen5297 they gave himb body press

[@vimogam]

@@beanslinger2and lowered his base defense stat…

[@rickelmemonti1405]

16:44 just wanted to note icy wind always drops speed, but has 95% accuracy

[@fatyoshi696]

33:00 what actually happened here is that your kingambit had the safety goggles so it was immune to all powder moves, which includes rage powder even though it isn't a targeting move

[@rickelmemonti1405]

was going to point this out too lol

[@Ludvix]

Oh word I thought it was sucker punch thing

[@KingCosmosYT]

​​@@Ludvixalso a few more things about sucker punch is that if your pokemon's speed is higher and uses a priority move the slower pokemon with sucker punch fails What's priority moves? Priority moves are moves that ignores the speed or turn order such as in trick room the fastest pokemon moves last and the slowest pokemon moves first but with priority moves it ignores the turn order even if you are slower the move that has the highest priority is helping hand at +5 and the lowest priority is trick room at -7 sucker punch has +1 so if you use extremespeed and the opponent uses sucker punch the sucker punch fails 1 extra tip when playing pvp you need to calculate what your opponents wants to do with their team I recommend watching other videos on yt with the other teams The reason why your protect didn't work is because moves like hyperspace hole,phantom force,shadow force,and pokemon like urshifu that uses contact moves always go through protect because they have an ability called unseen fist that goes through protect The basic thing you want to perfect first is what you want to do with your team utilize your pokemon and abilities,looking at the popular meta pokemon and try countering them,speed control,always have PROTECT unless your pokemon is using a choice item,cover your weaknesses and support moves

[@itsasecrettoevery1]

its kinda cool seeing a beginner's team improve at real time

[@johnnyfields1392]

It reminds me of my past self, especially the part where he doesn't know how to counter a pokemon, so he uses it to see how his opponent counters it.

[@madman4043]

I think you would've had a MUCH easier time if you started with a sample team. It gives you time to actually learn what you'd be dealing with before you build a team

[@ambermind3233]

came down here to say exactly this

[@soap6264]

But it's less fun then learning teambuilding and improving teambuilding as you go through the ranks

[@hypphen]

@@soap6264true using floatzel in ou is fun asf but also painful

[@DemiIsNotHere]

A tip for everyone that wants to get into competitive pokemon. Just play random battles. Theres singles and doubles random battles and it skip the whole teambuilding process so you can familiarize yourself with the moves, abilities and matchups. You can even remember that Illumise exist. Random battles can even be a good inspiration to create your own sets, as defaults are taken from sample sets.

[@kirbyx2573]

Dude competetive pokemon is so much info I swear. This is gonna be a very nice watch.

[@rickelmemonti1405]

34:40 idk if you ended up figuring it out but there's an in game menu (you press +) during battles that shows you stat drops, trick room turns, weather turns, and other effects

[@Ludvix]

Bro I wished I knew this lol

[@leftistdegeneratejs]

Ludvix is in his agency era

[@Yodaminnesota]

We need the black sludge bisharp tech its gonna go brazy in vgc

[@YoutubeConnoisseur]

Agency Agency Agency

[@johnathens_1321]

he’s gotta run some ou w blunder

[@mailiam1]

Not agency until he plays OU unfort

[@Trashtox]

This is getting shiesty

[@robbylava]

Dude I *love* the new direction for your channel. A couple years ago I mentioned to a buddy that I really wanted to see a KZbin channel all about diving into established games' competitive metas and seeing how far you could get as a new player learning from scratch -- you seem to be doing exactly that! Keep it up Ludvix. I've been subbed since your 4th vid but I can legit say I prefer this to your Melee content, much as I loved that.

[@cellgoondude]

Note: Safety Goggles blocks the powder moves, not sleep, like Rage Powder and Spore (basically the things Grass types are immune to)

[@Pablo360able]

Which means it *doesn't* block Sing or Hypnosis.

[@TheMasterBlaze]

Goggles are basically "Overcoat" the item.

[@stupidityatitsfinest123]

I''m only 6 minutes into the video but I noticed that you use a separate window for type charts, you can use /weak (pokemon name, or type(s)) to see what a a mon or type is weak to, you could also use /dt (item/ability/pokemon/move name) to see what an item/ability/move does or to see pokemon's base stats along with typing, ability, weight, etc

[@stupidityatitsfinest123]

also, spread moves like discharge, eq, surf, etc all have their power multiplied by 0.75

[@jimothycool]

Finally, a true e sport.

[@primrosevale1995]

I love how *this* is the most complex video in this series he's done to date, just constantly mentioning new tidbits pretty much every single battle. _Pokémon_ just has so many factors you need to take into account that it makes playing it competitively super difficult.

[@Fimbu1vetr]

For real. I remember starting showdown and putting in 300 hours to learn the basics. Much more intense than I thought going in

[@obiwancannoli1920]

It's one of the things I love about pokemon tbh. Sometimes I think I've won, then get my ass beaten by a mechanic I forgot existed, then win cuz the opponent missed a Hydro Pump.

[@Mage_Nichlas_]

I originally thought picking VGC was a weird choice but I realized that since it's the only format officially supported by the Pokémon Company it gives you the avenue to the in person community if you want to continue. Also, pro tip when using Showdown: There are commands in chat that can help you out. There are /data and /weak that are probably most helpful. Type into the chat like "/data Dragonite" and it will pull up the Pokémon's Base Stats, Type, and Abilities. You can also look for Abilities, Moves, and Items like "/data Multiscale", "/data Draco Meteor", and "/data Leftovers". /weak brings up the Pokémon's or Type's Weaknesses, Resistances, and Immunities. Just type like "/weak Tatsugiri" for the Pokémon or "/weak Steel" for the Type in case they Tera. Some Pokémon have specific forms that have different Types and/or Stats so for them you'd have to type in like "/data Wishiwashi-School", "/data Ninetales-Alola, and "/weak Venusaur-Mega". Make sure when you type you use / because typing just "data Oranguru" will put that plain text in chat. / gives only you the information, but if you're playing with your friend and wanna show them something type in "!data Porygon2" or "!weak Zacian-Crowned" and it will show both of you.

[@jorgefrade8900]

/dt for short

[@Pablo360able]

You can also use the /movesearch, /dexsearch, and other commands chatting with yourself out of game to get useful data for teambuilding

[@TempestDacine]

Loved watching your experience from completely new battler to an experienced vgc player. Good work getting that far in 100 matches

[@mythicsword8169]

As someone who plays a lot of competitive pokemon this was very fun. (I would love to see you try singles or random battles)

[@CallmeSlimeWolf]

The first mistake was saying that Pokémon is a kids game.

[@code_error_]

Just wanted to mention that 29:45 only POWDER moves can’t work on the king w safety goggles. Hypnosis, a non-powder move, still works

[@The_Pikaboi]

As a heads up, you can press Y in the console games to see the duration of field effects and see the current buffs and debuffs active.

[@dislexyc]

29:35 safety goggles makes him immune to powder moves, not sleep moves. Can still be put to sleep by yawn or hypnosis, for example

[@jman2050]

I love how quickly Ludvix fell back on the age old sage wisdom Pick A Top Tier

[@skinnysnorlax1876]

Pick a top tier until you understand the meta and why they are meta and then pick anti meta cause it's more fun :3

[@Insantgd]

16:37 icy wind always lowers speed of both Pokémon (though it is 95% accurate) this was super cool to see your thought process when just starting out to the end! Awesome video

[@BoomBurster]

18:47 What’s crazy is that I helped one of my friends and he leaned on the EXACT same 5 mons: chien anoongus, flutter and,kingambit and dragonite. It’d just so user friendly because priority and bulk. You don’t have to think about more complex speed tiers or set up. And just dish damage

[@bicboyjoy]

The cardinal rule of Pokémon is "if it isn't 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate

[@Chaise-Lounge-Chair]

Competitive Pokémon is intimidating when you understand the amount of information that is needed to battle at a decent level. With Tera in this gen there’s an added layer to an already thick meta game. Good on you for jumping in head first, nothing feels better than winning a game you had no right winning!

[@RocketPropelledMexican]

It's funny to see singles sets being used in VGC lmao And yes, TR is the common noobstomper build, at higher level its less common though this gen

[@BTBlackheart]

Hey, I'm the BTBlackheart that's around 11:27. My friend watched this video and noticed I was in it and let me know that I was featured. I was also just learning VGC this year! I started Pokemon with Blue and then Gold when I was a kid and they were released. Unfortunately, I didn't have any of the handheld systems that the games continued to be released on, so I never got to play any of them. I'm an adult with money now, though, so I bought a Switch and Pokemon Scarlet, and I decided that if this was going to be the first Pokemon game that I was going to play on release in years, I was going to do everything that I could, including VGC. I attended Portland Regionals where I took 262/469 players. I actually lost two rounds due to scheduling conflicts, so I could have potentially done better, but oh well. I brought Choice Specs Tera Steel Tera Blast Rotom-W to kill Flutter Manes, and that worked out really well. I also brought Breloom as a meta choice against the Ruin Pokemon that had just been released, as they were all part Dark type. I one-shot a Chi-Yu with Mach Punch Adamant Breloom, so I was very happy to see it work. It also would do like 40% to Ting Lu, which couldn't do much against Breloom. Here is the paste for what I brought: pokepast.es/c901e14da8256fac I ended up going to the Fresno Regionals as well, where I went 86/285 players. My goal was to go positive at a Regional, which I managed, so I was happy with that. I brought Grimmsnarl, who was great. If I was going to change something I would have looked into my offensive Ting Lu calcs because my Ting Lu ended up not being able to OHKO bulky Chi-Yu. That's relevant because Justin Tang, who was a killer player this year winning multiple Regionals, and I got paired to fight, and he had a bulky Chi-Yu with Nasty Plot. Lol. Sufficed to say, I lost that match pretty badly, but I did pretty well at the tournament overall, for my standards as a new player. Here's the paste for the Fresno team: pokepast.es/179f3f12976c749f Now that Regulation D is out I still play sometimes. I'm currently tinkering with a "semi-Room" team inspired by Ryosuke Kosuge's 2013 Worlds 2nd place finish team. That team, and the Pokemon introduced in Regulation D, share a lot of things, like Cresselia, Landorus, Heatran, and Thundurus. I figured I could use that as a basis and then go from there. Here's his original paste: pokepast.es/a13fc28ce1008526 Here's the team I've been tinkering with: pokepast.es/3e3b78c3106b2a49 So the idea is drop Conkeldurr for Iron Hands, because Iron Hands is super buff and fills a similar role as Conkeldurr; Hit stuff go big mode in Trick Room. Flutter Mane is a replacement for Tyranitar I guess just because Flutter Mane is extremely strong and I need another damage dealer. It's a work in progress. Lol. Here's a game I played a few days ago: replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2023regulationd-1923860587-wppkitqq6y5foqmqbb9w2tvrthj1750pw Anyway, this was a wicked video. It was really cool to see you thinking critically about the games. You summarized what you were losing to very succinctly and made adjustments. That's really awesome to see in real time. If you want to battle sometime, you can message me and we can play some games. Lol. I'd love to get a rematch if you want to play.

[@gabyssb5802]

Safety goggles makes the mon using them inmune to powder moves, it doesnt make u inmune to sleep. The most common move to get u to sleep is spore, which is a powder move, but, for example u can still get slept with hypnosis

[@Eunanae]

I've really been enjoying this series. It's surprising how fun it is to watch people learn new games from knowing basically nothing about them. Really puts into perspective a lot of stuff you take for granted. It helps that your script is really well written and you aren't afraid of admitting when you just don't know basic mechanics the first time they come up. Could never be me, I'm a chronic googler when it comes to competitive games. As for the obligatory game recommendation, Omega Strikers is a game that came out a few months ago and is a ton of fun. It's a MOBA style game, but instead of being focused around farming and taking objectives over 45 minutes, It's and sci-fi sports game with matches taking around 20 minutes. Basically, you play 3v3 hockey, but with weapons and superpowers, and at certain points throughout the match you take a short break to choose power-ups. It's one of those games that looks simple at a glance, but once you get going, you realize it has a lot of depth.

[@motherhorse6695]

33:00 Just wanted to say that I believe Sucker Punch does get effected by Rage Powder. It was just the Safety Goggles there.

[@EllaEllaAudios]

Wait this is such a good video for me I've been cautiously interested in serious pokemon for a little bit, this will be a good introduction

[@CodPatrol]

I heard good things about belly drum snorlax but it just deletes his health, maybe I need to give him perfect defence IVs. Gyrados and garchomp have some powerful swords dance, dragon dance builds. Get them set up early without weakening them and it’s dangerous out there

[@somestupidguyontheinternet4305]

in my opinion, the knowlage gap learning phase of pokemon singles/doubles is the most fun part of playing pokemon because you just need to play alot to learn what every relevent pokemon does. and when you think you know everything you will forget x ability does this thing and use that knowlage for future plays and its really cool.

[@nerdyfalco408]

33:06 No, you stated earlier that kingambit has safety goggles, which makes it immune to powder moves, like spore and rage powder, it doesn't make it immune to sleep (it can still fall asleep with moves like sing)

[@Cyzorix]

at 33:00 sucker punch is affected by rage powder but you have safety goggles on kingambit I believe for powder moves like spore but it also makes sure you can't get rage powdered

[@hussainalaiwi9270]

25:01 i can't believe he stopped the strat with follow me then still put tatsugiri on 1 hp with physic

[@BobTheMonkeyProductions]

Just wait until this guy gets a hold of Pokkén Tournament

[@skinnysnorlax1876]

Loses Puts flutter mane on team Wins Yeah that tracks. Lol

[@angelinacamacho8575]

you reminded me of a team I made from scratch that centered around zacian and rayquaza which involved lapras (hydration ability holding assault vest and sets rain) as one of the dynamax options to set screens on my team and is usually paired with pikachu (lightning rod ability) who who is holding focus sash and provided redirection and speed control. urshifu and mimikyu (TR setter holding a white herb) were the other 2 mons to round out the team.

[@imerebus]

the beginning hurts so much to watch due to his lack of game knowledge and then he starts using smogon singles sets which lack a lot of doubles utility

[@azelfie1041]

When I saw brick break Gengar I knew it was over

[@TherandomguyhiAlastar]

25:25 That's a WolfeVGC team, it uses the fact that if tasugiri faints you can send out a new mon and they both have +2 omni

[@Nmoment-uv6jc]

33:08 sucker punch does get affected by rage powder, but he had safery gogles, that prevent your pokemon from being affected by powder moves

[@albishuan5252]

Megaman battle network legacy collection next? 👀

[@petayaa78]

i loved watching the process. hope you'll make it far

[@meekon]

Ludvix was simultaneously the main character learning the mechanics of the game and the know it all side character explaining everything.

[@iggysentyou]

Jumping into doubles is wild, a singles format probably would have been easier to learn

[@getmilked6216]

think about singles and doubles as a chess middlegame versus a chess endgame in their complexity, where endgames are like singles. you have to calculate very far and accurately, and the number of forseeable gamestats is much higher than in doubles due to the small number of turns a singles game has.

[@OutOfCharacters]

Very cool video! Loved watching you learn and improve, would love to see videos like this on other games

[@A_Real_Rascal]

16:40 I don't want to sound like a jerk, but Icy Wind is a guaranteed -1 to your speed when you get hit by it. I think you confused the stat with the percentage being shown. @ 19:20 the damage you showed is a "damage roll", there are 16 possible amounts of damage, going from the lowest percentage shown to the highest one. 28:08 Heat Wave didn't miss twice, it had a 90% chance to hit Magneton & Mimikyu separately. The game does the accuracy check on one pokemon first, and then does a whole new one on the second one. The accuracy shown on the move only factors in the chance to hit one opponent and not necessarily both. Unless you mean it missed twice in a row, in that case that's just unfortunate. 29:35 Safety Goggles blocks all the "powder" moves, like sleep, stun, and poison powder for example. 32:30 In case you didn't know, the reason the crit killed is because critical hits bypass all the opponents stat buffs as well as Light Screen and Reflect. That's also why they forfeited. 34:30 press +, that pulls up all the stat changes and weather/terrain/trick room turns remaining. Anyways, I hope you liked your time playing Pokemon, if you'd like a recommendation, then you might wanna try out Gen 7 DOU (Doubles OU) next. DOU works the same as VGC except that you use the full team of 6 instead of just 4. Since you liked Torkoal, then Mega Charizard Y would be perfect for you, as it sets up sun once it mega evolves, is pretty fast compared to most of the tier, and it's Overheat & Heat Waves are easily the strongest fire attacks you'll be using, not including anything from Ubers (essentially the tier for legendaries & broken pokemon).

[@daiceyy]

That surfshark ad is actually the most effective ad I’ve ever seen😂

[@ashley_bl2]

havent watched much yet but already really hoping he learns that /weak (pokemon name) tells you the type matchup without having to cross reference things

[@white_tiger2669]

🤓 "um akshually the recommended sets for a pokemon are dependent on the format and tier, and are usually sub optimal if used in a different format"

[@bananacat3109]

With this series ludvix will eventually be good at every game

[@Luma24546]

I did this exact same thing where I knew nothing about pokemon but instead I stole one of wolfeyvgc's teams and having a good team helped me understand and learn the game a lot quicker

[@pazukunous]

That self discharge para to synchronize para the opposing espathra is some heat cooking in ur kitchen ngl

[@SrEpic3]

Pikachu in this moment: oh no

[@nicholasanderson2876]

I just noticed that if you thunderwave your own gardevoir it paralyzes everyone that’s actually so useful

[@stoicauritra7147]

Just to let you know gardevoir has ability telepathy which allow it to avoid spread hit from ally

[@rennytheevilest-8333]

12:57 wait until he finds out about Bleakwind Storm

[@echospace7347]

Fossil fighters is just as complex i reccomend

[@blastchaos4286]

23:13 I replayed this part so many times I am cackling

[@FranXiT]

Every time I see your name I misread it as luv dix.

[@liveonguitar5625]

Ludvix: Am I ready to get WRECKED?!?!?!

[@keybladeapologist.1131]

Its really funny seeing you play against banned mons and realizing why they are banned

[@GravityIsFalling]

VGC doesn’t do bans

[@keybladeapologist.1131]

@@GravityIsFalling Smogon does

[@sshadowzlmao]

yk if you got a coach you coulda easily peaked 1400. im bad at vgc but i coulda helped a lot

[@heynero6440]

Love James Baek, he’s such a great mentor!

[@linguicaguy]

A ludvix video on competitive Pokemon? Oh this is gonna be a funny v--wait it's 37 minutes long? Does this man unironically choose to play competitive Pokemon?

[@FiniteMan1933]

From trying to master tekken to competitive Pokémon

[@AngelEUW]

Great video , was looking for a banger before sleeping and found one

[@VoltageCowboy]

The best part of Pokemon is in the very beginning when it's the literal wild west.

[@JohnJohnson-lr3ve]

The strat you faced during your game 40 at 25:12 was made by Wolfeyvgc and he made a whole vid about it and how he used the team to get first place

[@Yodaminnesota]

Wolfey does a lot of collabs I wonder if you could reach out. Singles would also be fun to watch.

[@plabcentral630]

Had no idea you knew riku. It makes sense, y’all do like falco

[@alathreon8315]

The number of times pikachu paralysed pokemons in the frist game lol

[@GravityIsFalling]

Fucking amazing video! You honestly grew so much from just 100 games

[@AceToast777]

AGENCY LUDVIX LETS GO LOVING THIS

[@infernoleopard3524]

Ludvix downloading singles sets for his Pokémon was painful to watch as a more experienced Pokémon player

[@KaioshinandPhione]

The thing is with competetive it completly ruined my view in a PLAYTHROUGH wear your pokemon are like 99% of the time garbadge in compettetive but i need a good nature perfect moves and good enough evs

[@Ludvix]

nowadays they made items that u can get late game that changes natures and iv's etc

[@cellgoondude]

Grats Luvdix, (R u rdy to get rekt) you’re learning the fun of thinking and then you’ll get to the point you can monkey out again. Kinda like playing Marth and swinging your sword.

[@BawanaBeast]

Imagine you trying todo 100 matches of each role from League of Legends, sounds time and mental consuming but interesting

[@Stingrays110]

Great video! It's funny how much this echoed my experiences learning this game 👍

[@edsbegaming507]

31:52 banded is for physical moves, this was choice specs

[@Women_Respecter]

Fun fact: focus blast has a 30% chance to miss

[@CodPatrol]

I’ve been trying a burn, freeze or paralysis into protect build but I’m not exactly sure how to do it, I need somebody quite tanky. Will o wisp sounded amazing at first but the accuracy is so low, confuse ray seems a lot better for success rate

[@jdawggg1995]

Loving the crossover content, would love to see more!

[@Dr._is_sleepy]

watch Cybertron or Wolfe to learn to play better. EDIT: James is a very talented player learning from the best

[@Golfredit0]

Hey Lud You Already Know Always Up For The New Content =D and btw Pokken Tournament Is The GOAT

[@nicocchi]

I like how the thumbnail says Pikachu bad, and yes that's true Pikachu sucks but Pikachu almost carried him through his first game

[@Rudy-du2mt]

Hey ludvix I really like this serie! What's the next game you're gonna tackle?

[@CodPatrol]

You should do a video on gen 4 only or below, I don’t know half of these modern day ones 😔

[@Chompo]

I'm sorry you had to go through this

[@dislexyc]

16:40 icy wind always drops speed

[@SaucySanti4]

Would like to see Wolfey react to this 😂🔥

[@mouser724]

Regulation C huh... You kinda dodged a bullet there 😅

[@brownishtint]

Sick, now for Regulation D!