Pokemon World Championships 2019 VGC Swiss R7 - Wolfe Glick vs Brandon Meckley

Day 2 2019 Pokémon World Championships VGC Swiss Round 7, Wolfe Glick vs Brandon Meckley.

[@aquartertwo]

Sad to see my favorite Pokemon VGC player lose a place at the top cut. But to Brandon's credit, he didn't take the win from just the Rock Slide hax; he kept up with Wolfe's momentum-based play and sealed the win with a super-creative tech move. The Twitch chat was right; Wolfe got Wolfe-d!

[@haolee8498]

Wolfe is famous for defensive play style. In this set Brandon caught it and actively made reposition into his favor eventually. He only clicked fake out once.

[@Imoxone]

Man, the way he kept that dragon claw hidden until the PERFECT moment was just outstanding. Wolfe probably thought he would have used it before in previous chances if he had it. So he never saw it coming

[@noxultionis3851]

Dragon Claw was an incredibly clever play.

[@imjusthere750]

Could these announcers be anymore oblivious? Predicting z-moves when each player already did 1 in game 2.

[@pokestrikes2857]

I forget when my opponent uses their z-move too

[@thebandanapirates8591]

PokeStrikes yeah but the announcers shouldn’t do that lol

[@keyos27]

Thank you for uploading!

[@harmannd7270]

VGC 2019: INTIMIDATE INTIMIDATE INTIMIDAYE

[@zeemgeem]

@@datboi04 but the reset doesn't even make sense... incineroar is still transferable

[@theincrediblyawesomechanne3346]

Abbey W Hitmontop Arcanine Breaking Swipe

[@heemanijaz6100]

the date is great

[@VALDiesel01]

Stuff like this make me glad there hasn't been an ability like Intimidate that lowers Sp.Atk, cause then they'd have to make more abilities that can suppress it like a lot didn't until this current gen.

[@petelim477]

Why is intimidate-like ability bad though? Players use a turn to switch in to lower stats by one stage, seems like a reasonable trade off to me. Nowadays with attacking stats going sky high and nerf to defensive strats like Intimidate make the game extremely fast and one dimensional imo

[@knightarcane4920]

Jeez. And people say Stealth Rock isnt any good in VGC. If it were used in this first battle imagine

[@swordslash8]

Knight Arcane that meta was really switch based and the current one isn’t as switch based cuz u don’t wanna waste ur Dynamax boosts

[@sizzle5775]

It's not that Stealth Rocks are particularly bad, it's just takes too long and is too much of a hassle to setup.

[@Marcusjnmc]

you can be punished really hard for a rocks lead in vgc. at worst you go down 4-3 in exchange for slight damage to 2 pokemon. actually at worst you get set up on by offensive boosts & never see the back 2 pokemon. it does a lot better in 6v6 doubles but still worse than in singles.

[@anithasuresh2002]

Wow every player uses an incineroar

[@ciaranpatrick6859]

Who are the commentators

[@jackstraw1331]

I know one is arron Zheng, "cybertron productions" is his KZbin channel

[@jowee__8018]

Switch switch switch switch switch switch switch switch switch Switch switch switch switch switch switch switch switch switch

[@scum-kz1zv]

Jowee __ nice, hollow knight

[@skaladdy1164]

This kinda Pokémon battles just suck and isn’t entertaining

[@Bibbers]

Looking back on it, VGC is pretty boring compared to the Volatile nature of the current meta.

[@kingishking]

I ain't a pro at VGC, but Gen 8's still pretty fresh. The meta should settle in a few months.

[@Bibbers]

Cooper Rice yeah but at least it wont be dominated by legendaries and intimidators.

[@GabetheFrog_]

Japhet Noel that’s a great point

[@peeziisoda9241]

Japhet Noel ummmmmm.... about thaaat

[@Bibbers]

PeeziiSoda we will suffer by the laurels of Landorus-T, and suddenly Dynamaxing was wiped from competitive play.

[@kokochydaios]

SHINA RORR

[@gameyear28]

Lmao none of these mon in swsh

[@etoile7174]

Incineroar will be

[@filthy.kasual]

The Humble Hero wdym gonna?

[@Kasaaz]

@@filthy.kasual Once Pokemon HOME is released, it's on the short list of those you can transfer over.

[@filthy.kasual]

John Delaney is Greninja or Decidueye on the list?

[@Snaxis257]

Filthy Casual decid is I’m not sure about greninja

[@NoobGamer-ik4ed]

That Dragon claw though

[@franciscoflores55555]

yo bitch

[@MagicalGirlContractor]

Groudon is gross... God. Please don't let VGC 2020 bring back legendaries.

[@MagicalGirlContractor]

@@sizzle5775 WAIT SERIOUSLY? GO ON

[@sizzle5775]

@@MagicalGirlContractor VGC 2020 is no legendaries allowed, Galar native Pokémon only. No Incineroar, No Groudon, No nothing, just back to old school doubles.

[@MagicalGirlContractor]

@@sizzle5775 Oh yeah I knew that I mostly meant for the upcoming one post Isle of Armor where they're reintroducing Groudon/Landorus/Koko

[@sizzle5775]

@@MagicalGirlContractor Primals probably won't be returning and I doubt they'll allow legends until maybe VGC 2021

[@themurphy1245]

Sizzle they will allow legendaries upon the release of the next generation/game like always

[@MARC-VICTAL]

A "switch" game.

[@jrid1882]

This was played on the 3DS, not the switch.

[@MARC-VICTAL]

@@jrid1882 I put the " " meaning they only switch pokémons I can't see any skills in that.

[@NateTheDyno]

VICTAL Its all positional, imagine that turn 1 game 1 if Wolfe didn’t switch out Stakataka and Brandon’s Salamence used Earthquake? You switch because you need to preserve the specific Pokémon and get them in at the right time. There is a big level of skill knowing when to switch and when to attack with the Pokémon. these are 2 extremely good players, one a previous world champion KNOWN to use tech moves to switch around and get a good board position

[@killerfishfromsandiego8160]

That brandon kid was very lucky wow

[@infernalflames4224]

Beast ball xerneas... okay buddy

[@MasterPigeonXD]

Worst Gen and the worst meta Zzz

[@loslylale2825]

Losers uses legendary

[@angelzplus]

I hate this mindset. I always see these comments about how players are always using legendaries and always using the same pokemon but thats how all competetive games are played. In smash you consistently see a few top characters with a few outliers. In LoL you get the same thing. I think it's just casual players are more frequent in pokemon and don't really get this. These players use what's given to them. If Groudon Xerneas are the best in the format people will use them. If Gyarados is the best in the format people will use them. If you look these players are only using some legends. Things like Zekrom or Mewtwo aren't here cause people don't see them as particularly powerful, but then we see Salamence cause people see it's value. Umbreon came second in THIS tournament. I understand casual players tuning into a tournament and not getting to see the widest of variety of pokemon but to bash on players doing their best in a tournament to win is just really dumb. I wish people would just try to get what these players are doing and stop compaining about it like this.