I Learned Competitive Pokemon in 100 Games

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i tried Competitive Pokemon and it is way harder than i thought it was. So i tried to get a high rank in the game on Pokemon Showdown and Pokemon Scarlet, so this is my Journey. Comment Below what Game i should try out next!
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[@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…

[@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.

[@rickelmemonti1405]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@kirbyx2573]

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

[@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

[@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

[@bicboyjoy]

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

[@jimothycool]

Finally, a true e sport.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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)

[@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

[@TempestDacine]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@votreadelphe6008]

You copied Pokemon sets for all the formats except VGC, no wonder you had trouble

[@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.

[@skinnysnorlax1876]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@generalgawain5599]

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

[@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.

[@CallmeSlimeWolf]

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

[@BobTheMonkeyProductions]

Just wait until this guy gets a hold of Pokkén Tournament

[@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.

[@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)

[@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.

[@meekon]

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

[@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

[@hussainalaiwi9270]

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

[@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

[@albishuan5252]

Megaman battle network legacy collection next? 👀

[@iggysentyou]

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

[@petayaa78]

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

[@azelfie1041]

When I saw brick break Gengar I knew it was over

[@OutOfCharacters]

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

[@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

[@Rascal1214]

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).

[@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"

[@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

[@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

[@bananacat3109]

With this series ludvix will eventually be good at every game

[@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

[@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

[@ashleyunderscorebl]

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

[@alathreon8315]

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

[@FiniteMan1933]

From trying to master tekken to competitive Pokémon

[@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

[@FranXiT]

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

[@daiceyy]

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

[@SrEpic3]

Pikachu in this moment: oh no

[@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.

[@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?

[@stoicauritra7147]

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

[@blastchaos4286]

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

[@nicholasanderson2876]

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

[@pazukunous]

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

[@VoltageCowboy]

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

[@liveonguitar5625]

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

[@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

[@echospace7347]

Fossil fighters is just as complex i reccomend

[@Women_Respecter]

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

[@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.

[@infernoleopard3524]

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

[@Yodaminnesota]

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

[@AceToast777]

AGENCY LUDVIX LETS GO LOVING THIS

[@edsbegaming507]

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

[@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

[@508911]

Welcome! Us showdown users are totally normal AND pokemon is a balanced game designed for competition

[@AngelEUW]

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

[@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

[@heynero6440]

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

[@dislexyc]

16:40 icy wind always drops speed

[@Stingrays110]

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

[@BawanaBeast]

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

[@SaucySanti4]

Would like to see Wolfey react to this 😂🔥

[@CodPatrol]

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

[@plabcentral630]

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

[@Chompo]

I'm sorry you had to go through this

[@GravityIsFalling]

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

[@sshadowzlmao]

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

[@sjaakbakker9944]

There is a data command on showdown, it gives you information

[@jdawggg1995]

Loving the crossover content, would love to see more!

[@Rudy-du2mt]

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

[@AJ86776]

Painfully relatable ❤

[@SpiritSquadMTG]

I always joke about Pokemon being super-hard and say that you need a minimum of 2 degrees to be any good in competitive. One of those has to be in math. 😂

[@Clodsireenjoyer-bc9cd]

as a comp pokemon player thank you for saying pokemon takes skill

[@Dr.J42]

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

[@zx3227]

why did you portray single battle disingenuously

[@Ari.1460]

ik its really annoying when vgc people start talking like it's way deeper or whatever cuz then it turns people off to singles which is more fun and rewards creativity more imo, i dont get the different gamestates argument either like sure you can play 2 games of chess at the same time which is harder sure but that doesnt make it deeper or more fun

[@nxtz8712]

@@Ari.1460 creativity def goes to double battles, there are so many moves, ability’s, and items that only work in doubles and it make sure that Pokémon is played to its full ability

[@Ari.1460]

@nxtz8712 i would only agree if there were bans on broken pokemon/moves that are overcentralizing or uncompetitive, i love playing doubles OU where i dont have to worry about getting hit by fissure from ting-lu turn 1. the craziest thing is that most likely this is VGC at its most fun, once they start allowing box legends its gonna be lame just like last gen and the gen before that. you can play VGC if you find it fun but personally i enjoy singles where it feels like im actually outplaying my opponent and not hitting them with a random gimmick theyve never seen before

[@GravityIsFalling]

-because doubles is better- Probably because that wolfey vid has a lot of views so it’s likely he’ll see it