He Won by Doing Nothing 

Why can I imagine that one GIF of Luigi about to read a book before immediately passing out?

Fr man

Neutral jing

ya XD

​@@liannabunny7775 😂

Soo true

Same energy as "they can't leak our plan if we don't have one"

Wise words from a wise person

He used neutral jing, king bumi would be proud

This comment reminded me of one of the novel that i read where these pair of brothers are scheming against each and one of the younger brother's plan is literally doing bunch of random shit and he's straight up said "if I don't know what I'm doing then nobody will"

Nice one buddy

“NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!” Nothing: “hi” “NOOOOOO”

"Wait, but that's illegal" "Not according to the judges" "Then that's just being a dick" "You lost don't be a sore loser"

Luigi would be proud

DM I do nothing. Can I roll to do nothing?

Yeah, this isn't a super difficult concept to figure out when you know you can do that, but who even thinks to DO that!?

Even crazier is that in older gen games, clicking your own (empty) team or any empty slot will default to an active enemy slot, so it wouldn't have even worked. I only know this cos of laziness, tapping away w the stylus on the same spot 🤣

​@@johnmcbruce215yeah i thought this was always the case? That was what made me puzzled..i thought you couldn't attack an empty space because it will automatically select the opponent by default

@@johnmcbruce215 yeah wouldn’t be surprised if they started making so clicking an empty enemy spot would do nothing instead of retargeting

​@@BabySlayer13 watch them change it back to that in like 2 games lol

Honestly, the idea that someone brings a Hyper Beam varient to a tournament messes me up personally

​@@willofthewinds3222pretty sure it's because Dynamax was still a thing and they needed the strongest base move to win

Absolutely

@@willofthewinds3222dynaMax

​@@shayonmitra8337 yeah thats sw/sh

This line has never been so apt 😂

No, he attacked his dead friend.

The ONE time beating a dead horse works

UNFAZED (tate's quote)

Lol the fact I heard Patricks voice from SpongeBob saying that 😂

Same

I respect it. I didn't try competitive until SwSh and it's still rather challenging for me in SV. There are a lot if smart players out there but sometimes its still fun when losing, especially if they do something like this. I still get salty tho 😂

I always want to get into it, but comments from competitive people are like "FOOL! Dunsparce 252 SpDefXYZ+ with 1000 IVs and the ability I Win makes the damage 0.000512% greater so it's more viable than Mega Mewtwo Y in UU Hakusho. It's so obvious." Like I get most of those terms and I grind for all of them, but IDK how people can be so toxic about not knowing how to calculate stuff.

​@@caseydewitt6236 well, considering level 100 pokémon, each IV is one point of stat, and each 4 EVs are one point. So, if you're playing lvl 50, then it is 2 IVs ans 8 EVs per stat point. Every nature boosted stat is 20% higher, and every nature decreased stat is 20% lower. Now items would take a lot to explain, and damage is way too complicated to explain, and after having the damage calc, it can still go from 85% of the damage to the normal damage. There's also abilities, which I don't want to explain, crits, that ignore status increases in your oponent and (I might be wrong in that, but I think it also ignores your stat decreases) there's stat boosts and decreases. Each 2 stat increases is one multiplier higher, so if you use a swords dance, a move that gives you +2 in a stat, it doubles, if you use it twice, it triples, and if you use it the maximum amount of times, which is thrice, since a stat boost can't get past +6, it quadruples. With stat decreases it is different. -1 gets you to a third of the stat, -2 is half,-3 is two fifths, -4 is one third, -5 is 2 sevenths and -6 is one forth. Hope some of this useless information may have helped.

​@@caseydewitt6236 aditionally, stat boosts stack with abilities and items. But speed can't get past 10000 for some reason. There is a really weird calc involving that

"Here goes nothing" hits different when it's literally an option 😂

​@@tablet0908 "yep. that's right. it's literally nothing. and it's not gonna be anything, either."

Tf did u use a period instead of a comma?

@@tablet0908Kid named nothing

To be fair, I can completely imagine Ash coming up with something as weird as that... The man's a genius when he's not an idiot.

This is the same Ash that made his Pikachu hit himself to wake up from iirc sleep powder.

​@@kjn3350 that last part reminded me of Goku

Deleted this comment as it's in the wrong place.

@@jordanmcbride9893 What? Marvel? Movies?

Thank you for the explanation, I was confused for a second ngl

Thank you so much for the explanation something was missing on the short

yeah there’s a detail required for this to make sense thank you

How tf did you people not understand that? That was the entire point of the short???

@@callmezeldaonemoartime okay so then why did urshifu attack the missing pokémon … and why didn’t he attack the missing pokémon after blastoise attack??

fr tho

I’m confused how that helped him

@@8obil116 if he attack blastoise, torrent will activate and will wipe his mon. since he didn't attack, he's left with 8 hp where he can attack on the turn that blastoise is disabled by hydro cannons penalty and next turn to finish since his mon outspeeds.

@@ameo3257ohhh gotchaaa!! I was wondering why he didn't just attack twice lmaooo. Geez this really explains it more clearly than the video for some reason. Lol.

Try doubles, DO IT! Honestly, if 6v6 singles seems daunting give vgc 4v4 doubles a shot. Its fun, seriously.

There's some big moves people have done this year with burning your own special attacking Pokemon so they can't be put to sleep by like an Amoonguss for example

Doubles is hard, but honestly that’s part of the fun for me! Getting surprised by something you’ve never seen is a fun way to learn about it when you’re just starting out.

Doubles is often leagues easier

Doubles are way more balanced than singles tbh

I haven't played past gen 7, but traditionally, yes.

I thought the same.

Honestly same since it does that in the regular game, so I guess it is somehow turned off in competitive or something?

Ok so he didnt target blastoise's partner slit it was his own partners slot.

​@@kaneviviThis takes on a whole different meaning with targeting his partner's slit

Not your own slot, but your partner's. In double battles, you can choose either of the opponent's pokemon or your other pokemon as a target. Moves like Surf or Earthquake show this clearly. Usually, you can't attack an empty opponent space, so he could only attack the Blastoise. However, it looks like you can attack your empty partner's space.

There was a set that was moderately popular in early sword and shield using beat-up on your own lucario to give it attack boosts.

​@Skippy the Walrus Even aside from that, side attacking is pretty common to trigger your own Weakness Policy.

@@stinkypitz0005 yeah, what I meant is that I didn't know that you could attack your own EMPTY slot. Of course you can attack your own slot if there is a pokemon over there. But apparently you can do so even if the slot is empty, which is new for me

​@@Felipe_Andre_ You probably have attacked an opposing empty slot many times already, just there it gets automatically redirected to the only enemy still standing. For your allies slot there is no redirection, most likely because when you target your partner with a positive move like Heal Pulse, you wouldn't want the opposing mon to get healed just because they surpise ko'd your partner

Yea

I was searching for this comment XD

true 50/50 aside from damage roll variance and random crits

So it’s rock paper scissors?

I didnt even know it didnt just move it to the only target actually on the field. Because there have been times I've targeted the empty slot and it just moved it over to the living mon. Is that turned off in tournament doubles?

​@@kanevivi only attacking opponents. He attacked his ally

@@kanevivi the idea behind the mechanic is most likely that when you target your ally with a positive move like Heal Pulse, you wouldn't really want your opponent to get healed just because they suprise ko'd your partner

That's a really clever setup and joke.

that was clever

Lmao

Better phrasing is "Nothing will let you win now!"

​@@MD-vs9ffnah the original is better

Important to note that blastoise specifically run that move in gen 8 VGC because it gives the highest base power when it gigantamax. Outside of maxing it's usually a support mon with fake out and yawn

I'm saying. This was a big brain kung-fu master move.

@@AndersonMallonyMALLONY-EricCF he went with the flow

@@EbilDerp Be water, my friend 😆

Yes, I've seen several wins come from killing your own mon to proc Stat boosts and swaps and now this

Only if it's an opponent. Ally targeting is weird like that.

You can use moves on your partner Pokémon too. It’s generally used for support moves like helping hands or even heal your partner with pollen puff. I have even seen people attack their own Pokémon with moves which are always critical hits just for their anger point ability.

Seems the water bender has learned a few tricks. Iroh would be impressed.

I thought it would be like if you attack an empty enemy slot

The way it works is, if you attack the enemy empty slot, then it redirects to the enemy pokemon on the field, but if you attempt to attack your empty ally spot, it fails because it can’t redirect to yourself, and I guess gamefreak didn’t want it to redirect to a random enemy pokemon

One of the not moves*

Man, I wish they made another Pokken with Urshifu in it

Torrent would have activated. Torrent boosts water moves at 1/3rd of HP. WITH Torrent. Hydro Cannon could one shot, WITH Torrent, Surf would STILL two shot. The insane play here is that he predicted his prediction of his prediction. The opponent thought he would ATTACK HIM, making him use Hydro Cannon because even though he's slower, he will one shot with Torrent, an ability that boosts water moves at 1/3rd of health will one shot, unlike surf. Because his Blastoise will ALWAYS survive a hit from Urshifu and be left with 1/3rd HP or lower. He predicted that his opponent would predict he'd attack him, and his opponent would use Hydro Cannon. And he used the barely ever used mechanic of attacking his nonexistent teammate, making him NOT attack Blastoise, leading for Torrent to NOT activate and therefore Hydro Cannon won't one shot.

I’d be the bozo who would use Splash and only then remember it’s choice band😅

Facts

Or a high roll on damage.

Hmm why I think every forgot how he win? The Video is about the main strategy ... But when Blastoise recharging on second turn The Ursifu attack Blastoise on 2 turn Soo he win I think Ursifu has more speed than Blastoise

Thank you! I watched this video and still had no idea how he won until i saw your comment

Thank you, I was so confused, it appeared based on luck to me. Now I see the tactic clearly!

​@@hlol1544if it wasn't to do with torrent activating, he would have just attacked to begin with instead of wasting a turn attacking Into an empty slot lol

Thank you, I was so confused

Or any move with cooldown. Yeah, Hydro Cannon is cool. But being able to throw two Hydro Pump is far better

@@anthonyr.9605 2 Scalds without burn chance would still be better.

Hydro cannon was likely used earlier, and from their opponent’s perspective torrent-boosted hydro cannon was the correct play as it would always ko.

It’s a game winning play if his opponent didn’t do something so bizarre. No one expects you to purposely attack into the blank slot so you miss.

Yes, he would have lost if he didn't use Hydrocanon. Urshifu needed two hits to win and moves faster. Blastoise could only win the game in one attack by using torrent powered Hydro cannon. Meaning that this was the only viable play for Blastoise player. Urshifu player made a move that people don't even tend to consider possible, which turned guaranteed loss into a guaranteed win, well not guaranteed win, crota happen

Opponent would've had to use another move twice as torrent only powers up waer type moves. Knowing this if Alex attacks twice they lose, but if he attacks and he does get the torrent boosted cannon off the blastoise player just wins. Alex banked on the other player knowing this and going for the one hit ko for "guaranteed victory"

Sounds like you do understand.

Surging Strikes always crits, so yes.

@@davidharshman7645 hahaha i've stopped playing pokemon since black&white 2 so im not that familiar with newer mechanic. But i love the mind game from pokemon games so i still consume wolfey's content.

@@calebbasssinger ah i see... That explains it... Thanks

if urshifu were to attack blastoise, its hp would drop to about 10-15% which would activate torrent, and then a torrent-boosted hydro cannon would instantly oneshot urshifu. But since he didn't attack blastoise, torrent won't activate, meaning a non-boosted hydro cannon can't KO urshifu. On the next turn though, urshifu attacks with surging strikes but this time blastoise needs to recharge so he's now a sitting duck. on the last turn, urshifu KOs blastoise with surging strike.(urshifu is faster) it was indeed a big brain move.

It was mentioned on the video. It is a bit doofus of you to not understand something that was explained to you.

@@serhumano3692 fica quieto Shrek mutante, nem ser humano vc é

Cope

@@ashmonke6588 I don't get it

seems to me that you just don't wanna compete in a mode where people need to use their brain.

@@luigimanzelli3786 nonsense. I just don't want to over complicate a game that's so heavily reliant on luck as it is.

@@AdvocateDeDevil there's very little luck in pokemon, sure sometimes you can win a game off a crit or a status condition, but if you're someone that plays regularly the amount of games you win like this is not relevant. Single battles are usually very straightforward, alternating the walls until you find a chance for a sweeper to click a setup move, in VGC deeper strategies are possible, and all of this by the way, will tilt the balance towards skill even more, the higher the skill cap is, the less luck is involved in the end results.

😐

when the blastoise takes damage (or a certain amount) his attack stat goes up meaning 1 hydro cannon would’ve killed him

@@loganconway8611 Oh, I get it now. Thanks!

@@UltimaGabe The abilities are called torrent for water types, blaze for fire type and overgrow for grass types. And they ups the attack power in a pinch like mentioned. All starter pokmeon have one of these abilities depending on type.