Patterrz Reacts to "Competitive Pokémon's Greatest Cheating Scandal"

[@TheEquestrianGallade]

I'm imagining a scenario where Mazar is sat in front of hundreds of monitors, each one playing a different Showdown game, sorting through the myriad replays he's downloaded until one of his opponent's test matches comes up and he begins to scrutinize it obsessively, crafting the perfect Pokemon to counter the team.

[@Gohka]

If I remember correctly what happened with Wolfey was he was practicing with his tournament team on Sw/Sh with an alt account on Japanese servers and someone he battled was streaming and someone watching that stream (somehow) figured out the opponent was Wolfey.

[@needude7218]

There was another of wolfe's teams (His Scream Tail perish trap team if I'm remembering correctly) that he tested on Showdown and ended up climbing the ladder too high. People saw it and some attempted to counter team it, and others attempted to use it for themselves (and switched things up when they couldn't make it work)

[@Nigolasy]

@@needude7218 Yes! The video about this was so funny. He used an alt account, accidently won too much an people were like: "That must be a pro player.." He also had this accident on european sw/sh online ranked with a game copy that used a different name. He got rank 1 so quickly that people got suspicious of it. This is what we call: Suffering from success lol

[@Pikatrainer2]

There was a pretty big scandal I think in 2018 where during a global challenge where you could win championship points to play in world's there were people with hacked devices that let you dump your opponents team to see their sets. While it was supposed to be closed team sheet best of 1.

[@reymirodriguez273]

12:20 at this point in time pokemon showdown didnt save team for accounts but instead save the teams on the device you're playing on so if you were to make a team on one device then logged into another device the team wouldn't show up on that other device

[@permacoo3760]

Isnt it still like that?

[@mechashadow]

Cannot believe he said that Drama in the Pokemon community is rare after that Yokohama tournament with a straight face.

[@Lichtkrieger13]

When you win a big Smogon tournament you get a cute little trophy next to your name

[@jamesdorling417]

Oh my god it’s the double kick terrakion thing lol

[@JulianTheHwDuskit]

Oh wow I literally just finished binge watching your other videos after missing multiple for the past week and now there’s another one

[@zadaboujaoude]

Freezai makes great content I would love to see you react to more of his stuff

[@ladyakkyn]

I'd love to see your reaction to Freezai's other video about the greatest Smogon battle of all time! It's by and far my favorite of his videos.

[@PokemonParadise2010]

Mazar was smart in a way! using friend to make a bot and doing data analytics - while his friends developing real world skills. His friends are the real genius!

[@tp57118]

me who doesn't test team because i don't have friend

[@Nightmare-we8vm]

Mazar fighting for his life in Discord to this day.

[@leonshirogane5541]

to answers your question..."Fame and Glory" + "MONEY" and yes sometimes Tournament on Showdown does pay real money...not many thou and rarely do. unless someone else like Wolfey make a tournament and paid for it.

[@RealNitetales]

I’d have fun seeing Pat play some draft. I’ve been doing draft for over a year now, and honestly building is fun for me. I love calcing and experimenting

[@alexandermenko3192]

Pattttt please join the Shuckle Premier League season 3! That would be so awesome to watch

[@Antimatermeister]

Damn he talked about the president secret service being good before what happened in the US at 15:40

[@omerozel4716]

Hahaha that Zygardes name at the 9 minute mark name means "Brother why" in german.

[@WindowsXPFrog]

We need a New Pokémon Stadium for competitive battling so badly.

[@utatanepiko7087]

Everything Patternz said about competitive Pokemon is exactly why I don't play competitive Pokemon. I don't even play normal online battles ever since gen 6 games

[@Poke-ladd]

I play Pokémon casually, I don’t think I have the stomach for competitive or ranked, I rather fight NPCs

[@marcorodriguez8792]

It was Patterrz the whole time. He did it!!

[@Ivan-Hernandez]

Those cheaters are now immortalized forever

[@Freefidy]

2:00 "Woah woah woah HOLD UP.. you want us to give the players access to pokemon? without buying 2 versions? or attending JP exclusive/pokemon GO events? Who do you think we are?" - Gamefreak

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content 😊😊😊

[@oven723]

I was able to make a team and battle right away in pokemon stadium on the n64(it came out in 99)....its about damn time gamefreak make a smogon like online battler

[@BlastHeart96]

I feel like I’m one of the only weirdos that actually enjoys competitive breeding. It’s easier than it’s ever been by a wide margin. I realize that I’m in the minority.

[@pengwino828]

Well imagine having to breed a new team every week to stand a chance.

[@BlastHeart96]

@@pengwino828That's true. While I am a unique case with good IV Dittos & a very large backlog of breedjects from over the years to help with prep time, this is a valid concern. I will stand by that it's much easier with mints, bottle caps, ability capsules, everstone, destiny knot, passing of egg moves without directly breeding, etc than back in say Gen 5. As someone that has dwindling time, I can see this as a sticking point, but I will still find the time for it since I actually enjoy doing it.

[@zowwycafe]

would love more freezai reactions :)

[@erycalexander7315]

Freezai don’t even upload like that anymore 😢wassup with the Rand bats

[@pillowhead4456]

This can easily be fixed if they just give the players an account or team code for them to use in tournaments. Or just make iv, ev training easier especially with legendaries

[@JediMage]

Great thought there, too bad greedy pikachu want's you to buy 2 games with dlc and then legend arceus and sword&shield with crown of tundra to be competitively viable.

[@JBSouls]

Oh, I thought I had missed drama in the actual official competitive scene (i.e. VGC) - never cared about singles and such personally... it's just too boring to me. (not judging others who enjoy those battles, ofc) Can't even stand watching doubles on showdown because my mind wanders so easily if there's no ingame stuff like full animations, background soundtrack, etc. 🙈

[@vik.o1598]

There is though? It's worse than the actual games but all of those things are there

[@JBSouls]

@@vik.o1598 Not comparable. What I mean was more like this: Imagine the stadium background animations during SwSh battles, full move graphics (+ their own individual sound bits), pick great songs that enhance the atmosphere (e.g. make it feel even more like an arena - or just something you enjoy) I've tried watching showdown when my favourite creators use it occasionally but I lose focus within ~5 minutes if all the stuff I mentioned isn't there.

[@jeremycurtis2012]

​@@JBSoulsyou lose focus within 5 minutes? Holy gen alpha attention span

[@JBSouls]

@@jeremycurtis2012 (I'm 30+ and have been playing since 1999) Finding certain things mind-numbingly boring isn't a new invention.

[@EliasMorals]

​@@jeremycurtis2012 less of a "I need to be stimulated 24/7" things and more of a "the minimal graphics don't interest me" thing dude

[@Sam24600]

I'm kinda impressed ngl

[@njivwathomassilavwe2056]

Actual supervillain nonsense

[@kaboom328]

"drama in the pokemon community actually quite rare now-a-days." Tell that to the Palworld devs that a big chunk of the community harassed.😅

[@DjPrimeVideos]

Literal nothing burger

[@kaboom328]

@@DjPrimeVideos W/e that means.

[@Avyukth2000Yuvraj]

You really need to react to the owl house timeline

[@MrDekasOne]

The pokemon company needs to do something about competitive pokemon, vgc has been pretty much nothing but cheated pokemon for over a decade almost everyone is breeding with and illegally modded 6iv ditto acquired from some random on the internet, and like yeah the teams people use with perfectly breed shiny pokemon are technically possible but anyone with any understanding of the game knows they weren't acquired legally

[@Usagi2380]

I only use VGC rules

[@AgentOcto7]

Has he heard of Pokémon stadium 2:30

[@PeruquinhaJG]

Idk if PokeAim really build any teams by his own... Joey always uses pre made teams and makes mini adjustments as he plays his games at Showdown At draft leagues I saw he uses teams build by so many friends that kinda makes unfair against a solo player without any feedback of multiple friends and premade calcs....

[@gaara_death88]

Pokemon showdown seems lazy to me, just to jump into competitive battling out the hard work is just lazy

[@Holy-Tiramisu]

Of course, you can think that, everyone is allowed to have opinions i'm not judging, but it's funny cause i always thought vgc players were the lazy ones only playing one format, even if this format change over time

[@zerezx]

"competitive" smogon Lol Still funny story

[@Holy-Tiramisu]

Competition definition : noun noun: competition the activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others. Smogon is competitive. It's not official but it's still competitive

[@ioioi_prx4639]

@@Holy-TiramisuI love my fanfic meta

[@fraon]

I genuinely want to see you react to Wolfey being exposed as a cheater. While I understand Wolfey is obviously a great player and now a days it is much easier to acquire which ever Pokémon you want for your team, I still would like to see your thoughts on his blatant cheating in the past when it was not so easy to get the competitive Pokémon one desired.

[@The_Pikaboi]

Verlisify is not a person to react too and im very sure Patt and Verlis are on bad terms (to hopefully no ones surprise)

[@fraon]

@@The_Pikaboi It's not just Verlisify. Also, why are they on bad terms?

[@i_like_chomp6382]

​@@fraonBecause Verlisify is a bad person

[@Skullhawk13]

Except he’s not. He has fans help him breed. Don’t parrot baseless accusations.

[@DjPrimeVideos]

​@@Skullhawk13yeah but there's also likely a pipeline in his fanbase where hacked pokemon exist

[@Kaimax61]

Nah, if you only cared about the battles, then you shouldn't bother playing official competitive tournaments. You need raise that pokemon yourself. Raise Legit pokemon, if it's too time consuming then maybe don't do it? since you have better priorities at that point if you consider that too time and money consuming.

[@koishi5935]

L take

[@tp57118]

this video isn't about official competitive tournament, its about smogon which is unofficial but even vgc players said grinding is just annoying so yeah

[@ienjoyoranges]

they dont use alt accounts for testing outside of the tournament server thingy. nneevveerrmmiinndd