Wolfey Reacts to the 2023 World Championship Finals

Wolfe Glick breaks down the FINALS of the 2023 Pokemon World Championships!
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0:00 Introduction
0:46 Team Breakdown Michael
5:23 Team Breakdown Shohei
8:12 Announcement
9:28 Match Pressures and Expectations
10:33 Game 1
31:50 Game 1 Postgame Analysis
36:03 Game 2
47:20 Game 2 Postgame Analysis

[@WolfeyVGC]

Check out the Patreon! www.patreon.com/WolfeyVGC

[@chimuoma390]

Play Digimon World Dawn/Dusk/DS In A World Championship!I'll Chrono Destroy You!Who Is Like Chronomon?!

[@forthetune]

BonusWolfe is finally the main character now

[@namantherockstar]

Wolfey inspires me.. My parents said if i get 50K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

[@H3II0TH3RE]

​@@namantherockstaroki

[@rydermcclanahan6324]

@@namantherockstarI gotchu fam

[@abhivanshbaweja9878]

​​@@rydermcclanahan6324it's a bot

[@tractorfactor9576]

@@namantherockstar the content on your channel is actually amazing bro, not the videos but the comments. Had me dyin fr fr

[@archscize5082]

A good carpenter never blames his vertical mouse.

[@swasome5821]

Huh?

[@mechanicalincandescence391]

​@@swasome5821There's a saying called "a carpenter never blames his tools" which basically means "if you have a skill issue don't blame the tools"

[@ImVeryBrad]

Hahaha

[@0condolences]

​@@swasome5821 woosh

[@CRO-Palacinke-D.C]

Michael wasn't just rank 1 in random battles a couple times, he held the no.1 spot almost permanently, mostly with a sizeable lead, for an extended period of time. I'd say it was like that for at least 3 weeks prior to the world championship, could be longer, didn't follow him then. There are more knowledgeable people on him, but he seems to win a lot of different tournaments and stuff.

[@reema6322]

Yeah, if I recall correctly, he won the yearly Smogon Ranbats tournament 5 times... no one else has won it more than twice (?) (going out on a limb here, I don't fully know, and I am a bloke on the internet, someone else can correct me or look it up)

[@GardEngebretsen]

I've watched Freezais random battles to the top series over the last few months, and Michael has been number 1 or number 2 at the top all the time - often with a ridiculous lead to number 2. Might have had the highest ELO I've seen at it, and certainly the highest win ratio.

[@marianorivera3272]

he had an over 92% gxe last time I checked and basically nobody else is above 90.@@imcoral

[@_Albret]

you're the dude from the freezai comments lool

[@CRO-Palacinke-D.C]

@@_Albret yessss good to see you again

[@MoinCoin]

still love how michael is insane in singles and now also in vgc

[@supremechaosbeing2696]

he really is der beste

[@Schlecht_und_Teuer]

@@supremechaosbeing2696He really is der Allerbeste, wie keiner vor ihm war

[@jonkess2768]

Er will der allllerbeste sein wie keiner vor ihm war. Düm Düm Düm Pokemon! Komm und schnapp sie dir!

[@jebx7801]

12:13 audio repeats for a small portion

[@boeniman7553]

I really like the "old" Wolfey style just recording and talking. The edited essay type of videos are nice but I just love these videos the most

[@NotKonan019]

Agreed!! I think the essay type videos are amazingly done and show a lot of work and passion but I think wolfeys content is the most enjoyable when its not so heavily scripted and he just lets his personality shine :) that's just my preference tho, still love all the content

[@ciarzyx]

I stopped watching when the production value went up tbh!

[@madibyee]

I mean he still does this stuff on BonusWolfe

[@calub_wendex1233]

@@ciarzyxL

[@kurokofs113]

​@@ciarzyxjust watch his bonuswolfe content

[@Dave98x]

In a German interview, Micheal said that they played against each other earlier this year. Micheal already had a similar team and he won both matches by clicking Phantom force. Which is why he assumed that Amonguss wouldn't click Spore into the Dragapult slot this time.

[@sniderealism2410]

So, Michael was hoping Ryohei would forget what made him win that earlier match?

[@momzwrite]

​@@sniderealism2410more like, shohei understand better where Michael's head was at in a 3rd game of rock-paper-scisors

[@Tyufvfv]

@@sniderealism2410more like Michael expects Sohei to read the phantom force and not spore dragapult

[@sniderealism2410]

@@Tyufvfv Fair enough. Sohei would be risking wasting a turn by sporing that slot. But at the same time, that Dragapult proved itself to be a threat to Sohei's team before worlds, so I find that risk of wasting a turn to be one worth taking early in the game.

[@ShinyHydrapplTheSyrpent]

Its a shame to see such a unique take on trick room not win. I never saw amoongus being as dominant as it was ever.

[@nugget9214]

I never want to see amoonguss being as dominant as it is again.

[@ShinyHydrapplTheSyrpent]

@@nugget9214 he's a smooth criminal

[@Weavileiscool]

@@nugget9214I hope this reminds Gamefreak to change sleep and freeze for Gen 10

[@huh9400]

Crazy that that’s his first year doing VGC too he’s a smogon guy

[@namantherockstar]

Wolfey inspires me.. My parents said if i get 50K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

[@DNeonLamp]

It's insane to me as a relative outsider to the scene that a world championship is played in Bo3 when a game can be won on a 27% chance flinch proc.

[@tweakr4377]

This is such a fair take- I definitely would like to see Grand Finals at least be a Bo5, especially because of how fast paces VGC doubles are in this format.

[@HappyGick]

​@@tweakr4377 In League Of Legends World Championships, every Finals is a Bo5 despite League being basically a deterministic game. They only do Bo5s because it's exciting. Pokémon is a game where sometimes losses are out of your control. Game 1 in this series was a "30% chance to lose and 70% chance to instantly win" for each game. In a Bo5, Michael wins the series.

[@LeGoooze]

I like this format, it is super interesting to me how many ways a turn can go and how it actually went on pro-level matches. I don't know how much editing you plan to do on this kind of videos but a suggestion: make the match screen a bit smaller, just small enough so you can stay on frame without hiding the video. This way we can clearly see you and all the information of the match. On the remaining empty space what you can do a couple of things like list the Pokemons of each player, list the active Pokemons of each one with their moves, habilites and items or just use a wallpaper kind of thing to fill the empty space. Cheers, I can't wait to see more of these!

[@darlhiatt8136]

Yeah, I wish I could have seen the hp values during the match more.

[@xavierlehew6746]

Michael is an absolute genius. Ive played him in many tiers on pokemon showdown in high ladder and he always plays damn near perfectly. Hes one of the few people I've always felt was "In my head". One of the greatest to ever touch this game.

[@Sangheliosgarcia]

why isn't the finale decided by a best of 5 instead? it's too fast of a match to decide the winner in my opinion.

[@DNeonLamp]

Especially considering game 1 came down to a 27% chance flinch proc.

[@av2279]

I think this would be a good idea. Especially since in this case Michael had a better record than Shohei, yeah? 6/1/0 to 5/2/0? So if this match is supposed to matter more than the rest of the matches, by enough to decide the overall winner, then imo it makes sense that this match would be the biggest one, aka best of 5.

[@SamoIsKing]

Its a lot easier to build a team for Bo3 than Bo5.

[@milkiesLoverboi69]

they were in the grand finale tho@@SamoIsKing

[@volbla]

​@@SamoIsKing What does that mean? What's the difference?

[@Egghead1229]

We know you can win world championships next year Wolfey

[@why3994]

thanks egghead1229!😀

[@Brelvos]

Its called having friends@@supremeheroism7524

[@stofez5625]

@@supremeheroism7524yo and I bet you’re also a top tier competitive Pokémon player then

[@staco522]

@@supremeheroism7524 just because wolfey didn't win Worlds, one of the hardest pokemon competitions, doesn't mean he's a bad player. he's placed very well in other large tournaments, and is one of the best VGC players in the world.

[@supremeheroism7524]

@@stofez5625you don't need to be a chef to be able to see that food is raw, or a carpenter to tell that the chair is shoddily made. it's a courtier's reply fallacy and it just makes you look desperate to say something back at somebody.

[@buickchaser]

I really, really like and appreciate this video. It's super helpful to know the options and what people are thinking. It's hard for me to think about what my opponent might do and usually I spin my own head in circles and pick the wrong choice. Thanks for your time and effort!

[@henriquebaeningerpescarini5006]

Evaluate the seniors division finals. The winners team was so different!!

[@josecarlosaceves3351]

Gonna need to Patreon for that rec!

[@KHfan0011]

Senior was so much more fun and interesting. This was just a stomp of a game where the meta showed how busted it was.

[@joshuamangnall]

Is it only for people 65 and over?

[@MrGksarathy]

As is generally the case when the Masters Division over centralizes on one team archetype.

[@butlershurk7227]

As funny as that would be, no. The Seniors division is for teens if I remember correctly.

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

I hope Mr youtubism's wrist is feeling better - the intro was pretty peak today tbh. It was passionate, artistic, and full of earnest integrity.

[@King_Pyjamas]

how did the bonus wolfe guy get onto wolfeyvgc’s channel? did wolfey get hacked?

[@y.f8139]

I didn't even know Michael was a vgc finalist wtf... I already respected him a ton for being amazing at basically every singles format ever. actual irl pokemon master

[@liljagsa]

The REAL YOUTUBIST returns to the main channel baby!

[@galequiru]

Hope you can become the world champion next year!

[@Rubbly]

great insights! you often formulate your thoughts and convey things very clearly, i like it

[@eliana_d]

that game 1 flinch is sooooo brutal

[@jonming6676]

That Charlie Brown reference was so on point! Watching Michael play, I kept thinking about Alex Gomez’s Dragapult-Chien Pao combo that won him NAIC. What made that special was that Alex would always switch in Chien Pao next to Pult on the turn Dragapult would go for the Tera Blas, taking advantage of that unexpected defense drop. Ball was always in his court, not the other way around. Still an impressive showing from Michael. Who knows what would have happened if Rillaboom didn’t flinch in game 1 😮

[@Siscon92]

Michael being on finals is so surreal. I only know him from freezai‘s freedom cup, which he won. He won 2 playoff games bc his opponents failed to show up on time and he refused to reschedule so he took the free wins so I thought, he was a scrub. Then I saw him winning other stuff and thought dude is strong. Seeing him 1 month later on VGC WC finals is wild

[@mayaelise2311]

Nothing wrong with taking activity wins when your opponent refuses to play. Obviously it's better for the tournament if games are actually played, but 15 minutes is *plenty* of time to show up to an online thing which you scheduled in advance. Show up to your damn games when you say you will and you don't lose on activity.

[@choerrim7745]

no cause when u schedule something u should be expected to show up otherwise ur wasting time for all ppl involved, rescheduling just lets that behavior get rewarded

[@warrenjanuszkiewicz]

Love you Wolfe 🙏🏽❤️ always supporting you in your corner bro, next year is gonna be your year to regain the title of world champion difference 😤

[@saminachoglay6015]

You really analysed it well!

[@nat298]

nooo you have to do the intro! even if it's bad. don't let us down wolfey!

[@gangmanization]

Intro is once again a banger 🙏

[@Weavileiscool]

Saw the old intro and immediately thought this was BonusWolfe 😂 still watching either way

[@sistemacosmo]

Nice to see old style videos together with the high edited ones, it is a nice mix

[@lektornese]

A real youtubeist intro on the main channel after all these years, im in tears

[@mattys1401]

Love the videos, I've now gone back to back master tier thanks to your videos

[@lystia]

12:10-12:30 around here there's an audio issue where you replay audio from earlier, just letting you know

[@Ddddddddddd381]

I'm so happy to have the real youtubist intro back on wolfeyvgc

[@jurrasicore8682]

wish you did a video explaing team choices and your specific plays in the championship like youve done for other tournaments. plus a vid on the new mons in the meta would be fun

[@blacktarsalmon6697]

Wrong channel?

[@WarchuEX]

Think so

[@Lissy_YT481]

Idk

[@theentirecolonyofbees1310]

BonusWolfe is taking over the main channel

[@Shoot_Drip]

Tbh I don't think anyone minds lol

[@ryanbranch1430]

I'm glad you have good video production these days, but I love your off-the-cuff personality of these more improvised videos.

[@johnbao444]

Vertical mice is great! I suggest using different mice to use different muscles in your arm to hilp with pains.

[@Skyace13]

A note about the “just trusting a sucker punch mind game in the world final” is the threat of farigiraf switching in with Armor Tail. Still a crazy call tho

[@lerbyn]

Was there an editing glitch when the first game started? Feels like the rerecorded and original made it in since the same things were said twice with some corrections

[@victor10798]

15 min of vid and still on turn 1, you love to see it. Insane analysis

[@theofmino6180]

If Rillaboom still had grassy glide, this set would've been different, but I guess at the same time the meta would be different

[@cpatten818]

I gotta say no other competetive vgc content hits like Wolfey's! Tried watching other creators but I always enjoy your videos.

[@nya69]

this kinda top level on top level analysis is fascinating there's just endless levels to every decision n mindgame

[@Mex_Luigi]

Anyone else notice the audio mistake at 12:12? I'm wondering if there's a purpose to this or it was just a simple mistake Regardless of that, amazing commentary about an amazing set. Great job as always

[@rafaeldias3785]

Is it just for me or the audio at around 12:15 switches with some audio from before?

[@justme14357]

Thx for this Video. Really enjoyed the Set. Amoongus was brutal

[@andrewfernandez684]

I’ve hit top 500 random battle for every generation from 4-8, what you said about Michael inspired me to try for Gen 9

[@itzorangesteve2853]

next up ya got to watch the match between kaito ari and kenji yabata. That game was INSANE

[@Megaleka69]

14:40 that sleeping animation popping up between dragon darts just sums up these pokemon games beautifully.

[@NA-ys9ib]

Right? I thought his feed had glitched or something

[@blue4flame]

yo wolfe i think it would be intresting if you talked about the late format change in retrospect. idk if it would fill a video length tho

[@dragonsgod6412]

Hearing Wolfey say Malmö was so funny for me 🤣

[@croconardo1045]

Idk where all this Wolfey Content is coming from so fast but I am not complaining at all keep.up the great work Wolfey 🤘

[@therealerickmendoza]

This is Awesome 🥳

[@michaelroberts5191]

Would love if you added some periodic viewer battles in one of the patreon tiers.

[@linkyboyKOC]

@ 28:50 - I think he expected Farigiraf to switch out after being put to sleep and wanted to see if he could finish the Rillaboom with the more reliable Sucker Punch

[@robinbruce7838]

12:13 that absolutely messed with my head for a little bit xD

[@RealZard]

love the videos Wolfey

[@breakfast6723]

This kind wideo makes me so happy

[@Dunco64]

That flinch hurt so bad to watch

[@TheRedStinger82]

10/10 intro by the way

[@kvar_runeback]

It's not likz he's reached the randbats ladder number one at least a couple times. He's regularly first by a margin of 100 points on second or third place. I've faced the man and not only does he play very well in general but he knows who he's facing and reads you like an open book

[@bflat5767]

the goat vid format is back

[@artesque]

Alpha Wolfey came back from Japan with the wideos!

[@DestinsAPigeon]

So glad the real youtubists intro is back

[@aydeniswise4081]

The bonus Wolfe intros recently are so bad they creeped into the main channel

[@seantomlinson3320]

That flinch. My gosh what a flinch.

[@Dolliv5]

I don’t really know a lot about vgc but I’m surprised to see there’s no sleep clause

[@steegen101]

12:12 is the audio wrong for anyone else here? He said this part already, earlier in the video... if some observation needed to be cut you could just cut forward idk

[@MrZashTheGreat]

I love the vertical mouse intros 🤣🤣

[@arlen7726]

Gaming too hard is super relatable. Nearly gave myself a thumb blister binging Splatoon2 at one point because of spamming the quadruple dodge-rolls

[@Onmur]

What happened at 25:25, the game showing the same player character on both sides.

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

Steam is coming out of my ears as I rewind parts over and over to understand the scope of analysis here

[@TLPenenn]

I still hope for a Top 10 New/Returning Pokemon from Pokemon Home video

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

Was this supposed to be a bonus wolfe video?

[@BiggestBlunder]

That arena is unique is it exclusive for worlds or is it new/rare?

[@johnpyrett4017]

Mousehold really giving him trouble.

[@Tkokat]

That Amoongus won the entire worlds by himself

[@duanefrench9561]

Hey wolfey, your friend Incineroar is coming back but not only that he regain knock off and still have parting shot, lol. Incineroar is going back up in use again for vgc when he's available for use.

[@lilpoetat]

Thanks 🙏

[@j4cobwatkins]

You should put your cam on the left side so we can see HP

[@misfortune5091]

12:10 The audio cuts out @WolfeyVGC

[@ritwikism]

There's some audio issue around the 12 minute mark

[@kennyxx]

I got to 13k masterball with my same non meta team every season i get closer n closer to givin regional a chance might b fun

[@VincentV465]

I'm 20 seconds into the video. Best intro ever.

[@ThatOneGuy71217]

Can he react to the Junior and Senior division worlds finals?

[@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507]

Random battle is also rng heavy lmao I remember one time I got 5/6 normal and fighting types and opponent had calm mind spiritomb💀💀 literally couldn't hit it with 5/6 of my team

[@stfueg0]

best intro yet

[@nekryone4366]

OMFG THE REAL KZbin THING CAME BACK!!!!! WOOOOOO

[@broctaeshi4ever]

LET'S GO BONUSWOLFE TOOK OVER WOLFEYVGC!!!!!!!

[@Black117x]

Ngl that Charlie Brown example for game 2 was funny

[@hypernova366]

How did we just get a 1 hour live wideo 😢

[@slackermaru4045]

0:24 When you lose to Maushold+Annihilape on ladder

[@d.johnson]

Thanks to the glitch at 41:26, we know at that point that the tera ghost isn't going to KO because we can see the Dracopult asleep, which means Amoongus lived and Spore hit. 🤦‍♂

[@syan2240]

14:40 why did dragopult get sleep particles while it was attacking??

[@ShinyAndreon]

Michael could have switched in his own Chien-Pao, to ensure the presence of the sword of ruin.

[@samsamtherising]

If 2017 is the 'Old Guard'...what the heck does that make Wolfe!? 🤣🤣🤣

[@Ricardo-qq7us]

These intros are getting better 😂

[@Xantrahx]

Take a shot everytime Wolfe apologizes for the video length, it really puts a spin on this video and my brain 🥴