VG Day 2 | 2025 Pokémon Sacramento Regional Championships

[@nickholland24]

Aaron Zheng is your best caster. He should be doing every single event!

[@jussiffsantos6466]

Yes!

[@serpentmaster1323]

Give the guy some time to play too!

[@mathieul4303]

I agree

[@Draecozolt]

The thing is aaron is also a content creator and a player lol. He plays in many of those events

[@noahbrown2100]

He should be casting the finals for certain.

[@stoicauritra7147]

Joseph ugarte Hit 10 sleep powder Missed 3 overheat in single game

[@YoJoRockThaBeat]

@@stoicauritra7147 he would gladly trade 2 of those sleep powders for 2 of those overheats

[@ladyvigilante]

Spoiler free time stamps 29:54 R11 Tristen Nelms vs Erich Schrader 1:42:39 Top Cut 2:31:23 Top 16 Round 1 3:37:27 Top 8 Round 1 4:32:28 Top 8 Round 2 5:06:46 Top 4 Round 1 (🔥) 5:47:55 Top 4 Round 2 6:27:24 FINALS!!

[@Juniper_Rose]

thank you, queen

[@DimitarVlaev]

All Hail the Queen

[@GuardianDiancie]

Thanks for the timestamps.

[@Ryan-gk6ko]

My go to. Appreciate you

[@jgs_james]

Don’t ever stop please 😭🙏🏽

[@belatkuro]

I feel the struggle of the casters during the 2nd Top 4 match. They had to say the player's name as well to refer to which Pokemon they're mentioning on the field. Especially that 1st round with both Sneasler and Electabuzz on both sides. That's what a mirror match does I guess.

[@alexanderbatterbee8369]

Joseph "please let my sleep powders connect" ugarte

[@Kanbei11]

It was ironic that it was overheat missing that was crucial in the final

[@laxbeastmode]

Joseph used up a lifetime’s worth of RNG

[@jeffreycole1669]

We neeeeed Cybertron Zheng on these finals come on guys! He is electric.

[@WolfPack505-m1s]

Cybertron is a confirmed cheater!!!

[@Normanxls]

Spoiler That incin switched in follow by Talonflame’s williowisp play is so sick!!! A well deserved champ!

[@nathanielwilliams6664]

Please put a spoiler on these comments sheesh

[@Normanxls]

@@nathanielwilliams6664 my b. Just edited it.

[@JoseDavid__]

nah hecking Torkoal missed thrice

[@nathanielwilliams6664]

@@Normanxls thank you!

[@get_dqstrqyed1786]

Now that I saw that both of my day 1 losses made it far into the tournament, i feel honored having gotten to play them! Great job Alex and Akhil!

[@KH-zo8zm]

Credit to Akhil for keeping his composure and taking it down to the wire after that turn 1 that got his Amoongus annihilated. I think it was a pretty bad gamble but he was able to stay focused.

[@drifloonsupremacyassociation]

SPOILER.... Not to be hateful, but ugarte had it fully coming with all those overheat misses after all the absurd sleep powder luck

[@YoJoRockThaBeat]

RNG favors don't ever arrive for free. When I have matches they I end up winning due to freeze, I almost always lose the next match due to a miss in a key moment.

[@mongeneral05]

@@YoJoRockThaBeat Yes and it's indeed why it's better to have more certainty, because in the long run you might not be in the top cut.

[@ParkyMarz]

​​@@mongeneral05this top cut had amazing playing but also some annoying RNG fest

[@mongeneral05]

@@ParkyMarz Just the fact that sneasler is top used pokemon is truly annoying...

[@HermeticAcolyte]

Not to mention some self-defeating tactics too. No sleep powder after the overheat misses?? Encoring Knock Off and swapping in for a ghost type?? Make it make sense

[@KH-zo8zm]

The stones on Joe for that self Ice Spinner play lol. I think in game 3 he had to sleep powder Talonflame instead of encoring Incin to stop the tailwind.

[@ParkyMarz]

Yeah not setting Tailwind cost him the game, the Encore was pointless

[@lilpigboy]

@@ParkyMarz That and missing 2 overheats early on, literal 1% chance. Brutal. Imo it felt like he played a little better overall and got RNG'd. Would've won first game too if not for getting crit at the end, or if dragonite could've landed a 5-hit icespin. Just some seriously rough luck overall. Used up all his luck getting to the finals I guess! Credit to Carson granted, he still had to play well to win

[@SrLhama9]

Joseph is the kind of guy that plays coin base decks in pokemon tcgp

[@yuentolaw6504]

7:21:40 Torkoal outspeed Amooguss without TR😯

[@nnicoiosi]

Torkoal also outsped Ursaluna-BM with Tailwind up. Joe's Torkoal was quite speedy.

[@fogyy]

That's the end of the video

[@cxncxrtmxstxr]

2:02:37 Yugioh reference in a Pokemon game

[@saarthakj]

What's the background music in the first game (Round 11)?

[@spongeb27]

The regulation of Dice Claw hehe

[@MidianVGC]

Win by the RNG, lose by the RNG. Great run Joe

[@juvenileygo]

Final last match painful af to watch

[@weightedundermountainofbook]

Not really it was coming tbh and joe probably know it, that's what you get when you use inaccurate move.​@@juvenileygo

[@Llo834]

Not really. He hit every sleep powder before which is 75% ​@@juvenileygo

[@MidianVGC]

@@Llo834 When I say RNG I really meant all of it. Hitting or not hitting moves, getting all three sleep turns or only 1, etc. Joe's team is "Live by the RNG, die by the RNG"

[@lilpigboy]

@@weightedundermountainofbook I wouldn't say a 90% move is particularly inaccurate. Missing 3 in the final match was a 1 in 1,000 situation. Missing the fist two (1% chance) was particularly impactful. And then to lose game 1 to an absolute bail-out critical hit (~4.17% chance) lol. It seemed his strategy gave him a firm upper-hand and he lost primarily to RNG. Granted he definitely used up all his RNG getting to the finals

[@nsixtysean9261]

*Final Match spoiler Comment* > > > Fissure Camerupt would of had better accuracy 💀 Unlucky break.

[@dawsonmoore2496]

You know, I don’t think Charizard would have died from Knock Off.

[@YoJoRockThaBeat]

Guess Typholsion isn't better than Charizard then

[@garrettmooney3343]

@@YoJoRockThaBeatimmune to fake out tho 🤷‍♂️

[@YoJoRockThaBeat]

@garrettmooney3343 immune to Fake out, dies to sucker punch. It's a give or take. Charizard being faster by 5 points and not relying on it's Health being full in order to do major damage is a plus. It all depends on comfort level. I say that, as someone who uses H.Typholsion quite often

[@sleeper9550]

Zard isn't immune to fakeout and can take dmg from espeed Sucker punch and from its own passive on top of that heatwave can miss even though it doesn't have drawback of doing less dmg on less health

[@mongeneral05]

@@sleeper9550 Yes and it can one shot a bear with a weather ball even it's not under sun (but need need helping hands)

[@Sugar_beans]

Top 4 round 1 was indeed

[@slipperydanger7148]

SPOILER BLOCKKK

[@rodjilius]

Missing 3 overheats in one battle.... It just wasn't meant to be

[@dizzlx4662]

1:43:43 legendary 'eggexcute' instead of 'execute'

[@shiro8663]

Akihil should have played more with protect and it would have been an easy win.

[@silvervuong4135]

I would like to see Aaron ( Cybertron ) joins the VGC. Big support from America!! 🎉

[@yangzixiang6605]

eyyyyy incin the GOAT!!

[@bunnearix]

I was there for about a few hours until I left before sunset.

[@ALessInfinity]

4:30:20

[@slipperydanger7148]

SPOILER WARNING: Joe's plan of overheat switch into specs typhlosion in g3 was a perfect counter into his opponents plan, but missing the overheats put his so far on the back foot, which is really just unfortunate. Ggwp by all the players

[@f210-t1r]

Can’t lie I’m so tired of armarouge indeedee in master ball my feelings can’t take seeing either of those Pokemon anymore 😂😊

[@metalicemorningstar9705]

😊❤😊❤😊

[@ParkyMarz]

this top cut had amazing playing but also some annoying RNG fest

[@VitoldoErickson]

Great analysis, thank you! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

[@xyBubu]

torkoal with burning jealousy blud thinks dynamax is still allowed

[@ateam678]

Blood Moon Ursaluna ain’t that much of a threat. I’ve one shot it with aura sphere infernape.

[@het2shah]

Please implement sleep clause its soo boring to watch

[@Dragonairkanto148]

Alex is that dude that gets in a rocket league game, and then votes to concede down 1 goal with 4 min left. 💯

[@Azun_Kurone]

He was down like 4 goals lol

[@antwanr5058]

VGC fans are so lame… none of these players have any skill other than predicting which is 50 percent luck. These guys run soulless lifeless meta teams that are carbon copies of other players teams. They slap on a unique Tera, item, or move onto a top usage mon and I’m supposed to be impressed? The only dude with some respectable variance gets screwed by 3 misses and people wanna say, “he had it coming because sleep powder”. Lame as hell. Happy with the winner being some carbon copy team that he didn’t even create.

[@gabir8707]

This comment is super lame. C'mon now

[@jotarokujo3603]

You do realise that these players don't make their teams alone right? You see multiple copies of the same team because groups of friends create them together. You also don't see all the variance because it's a competition and interesting teams that are very off meta usually get eliminated in day 1. Smogon is literally no different. It's the same skill set, the only difference is the maximum number of possible predictions is limited to 9. Which is insanely low compared to the variance possible in doubles. These players also don't get to sit there with the calc open to check the answer every time they want to make a move.

[@Spector000]

Happy to see Mouth breather Joe lose on RNG 😂

[@banditvgc6491]

What a childish comment 😂

[@cornhusk]

Get the cheaters out so we can have an ACTUAL cool cempetitivr scene

[@cornhusk]

Wolf. Aaron. All then chumps... Are cheating fraudsters who are stealing little kid's dreams. They should be sued for all their competitive money they've "won" over the years

[@jeffreybravo1234]

What are you tapping about lol, Wolfe has lost a lot throughout his career and is a big reason why the competitive scene has grown.

[@jotarokujo3603]

Let's play "spot the verlisify fan". 😂 You do realise that established players don't need to generate pokemon for a number of reasons right. They have most of them already. Friend groups share mons. These players have breeding stock. It doesn't take very long to breed and train competitive mons. Content creators have even more access to help due to fans. The ability to quickly generate competitively viable pokemon with software removes an entry barrier and significantly advantages new players considerably more so than established players. It is literally a good thing for the game and is way more likely to help some kid achieve their dream. Now they don't need to spend any time learning how to train and breed mons, they can skip straight to the competition and if they're good enough they can win. One of the top 16 in this tournament is a dude competing at his first regional. Ignoring the fact that most people don't need to gen mons because of how easy it has become to create competitive pokemon in recent generations, it's not even a bad thing. It aids accessibility to the game.

[@jotarokujo3603]

FYI competitive pokemon wins don't pay squat. 😂 Nobody is here to make money.

[@jeffreybravo1234]

@ seriously