I Entered a Tournament with a Classic Pokemon 

“I have a perfect counter to Miradon!” Doesn’t encounter a single miraidon the whole tournament.

Hi guys, I was Wolfey's top 16 opponent in this wideo :) First off, I wanna say I'm super grateful to have played Wolfey and was very happy to have had a good showing regardless of the loss. I have been playing VGC since 2015, and Wolfey has been a huge inspiration to me, so playing against him was super special! For anyone that is interested, I wanted to present some of my thoughts and perspective on the set to show off what the opponents side was thinking: **FULL RANT THAT IS WAY TOO LONG AHEAD** My full team was Calyrex-Ice, Gholdengo, Amoonguss, Incineroar, Pelipper, and Raging Bolt Game 1: My plan was to get a Nasty Plot off on Gholdengo, and try to protect it the entire game. Gholdengo was one of my best answers against Zamazenta and I didn't want to lose it. On turn 1, I honestly wasn't expecting him to Fake Out + Nasty Plot because I could have just went for Nasty Plot as well, I also wanted to weaken Incineroar so that it didn't do too much damage to Gholdengo, so I went for Parting Shot. I don't have too much else to say about game 1, I played well, but was caught completely off guard by how much damage metal coat Gholdengo did, knocking out my Amoonguss and setting up a KO onto Gholdengo from Incineroar. The game 1 plan was flawed because even though Gholdengo is good into Zamazenta, he also has two dark types and a lot of ways to deal with it. Game 2: My game 2 plan was perfect. I expected him to lead the same, and I countered with Pelipper and Calyrex-Ice. My plan was to set up Trick Room and ruin Wolfey's momentum by dealing a lot of damage and removing threats, before bringing in Gholdengo to KO Zamazenta in the end game. One thing that happened was me getting the KO onto Gholdengo with Weather Ball, I was expecting that because my Pelipper was max special attack. The biggest highlight of this game was me getting a crit confuse onto Zamazenta with Hurricane, and to be completely honest I didn't want the confusion because I wanted to have Amoonguss + Gholdengo in after Trick Room ended. In the end the crit confuse didn't even matter. He hit himself once, when I double protected, and the crit didn't matter because I was able to set up a Zamazenta 1v1 against my Gholdengo. Game 3: My game plan was decent, but had flaws, and my execution was horrible. I predicted him to lead Chien Pao, which was right, so at least I got that, and turn 1 went fair enough. But the turn where I went for Parting Shot was such a misplay because Wolfe didn't even have to switch into Gholdengo, he could have just protected Chien Pao and would have OHKO'd my Incineroar. After that play, I had little chance of winning because I didn't have much of a way to deal with Gholdengo and the rest of his team was too much without my Incineroar. Looking back on game 3, I think I should have left Gholdengo behind, and brought the Pelipper again, knowing that it was such a driving force in game 2. Anyways anyone who actually read this until the end is awesome, and you should definitely sub to Wolfey if you haven't already :)

1:05 In a video about entering a tournament with raichu, it takes 65 seconds for incineror to appear

No lie, the visual of Raichu running through the dematerialization gate from portal and losing its event move is genius. These editors man

"Fulfills the prophecy you can't ride your bike here" low key goes hard

Icicle Crash Flinch Icicle Crash Flinch Icicle Crash Flinch into Icicle Crash Miss is the biggest RNG roller coaster ride I’ve ever been on

28:46 “Imma just go to Chien Pao, I’ll figure it out later” World Champion btw

"This is an investment for later." *paralysis* "This is an investment for now"😂 Absolutely killed me 😂

As someone who has to include Kanto Raichu on every team, I appreciate seeing the GOAT bring back the GOAT. 👍

As soon as I heard that Miraidon was dominating a few weeks after reg G started, I immediately thought "why don't people just bring back Raichu? It's already proven itself several times through VGC's history as an amazing mon to stop an Electric sweeper from going out of control" and, now, here we are. Neat

49:12 "What am I Chappell Roan? Cuz I didn't quite think this through babyy"

49:11 "What am I Chappel Roan? Because I didn't quite think this through, baybee!" Wolfey is a wlw confirmed

Miridon: I am inevitable. Tera-Fairy lightning rod Raichu: I’m about to end this Mon’s whole career.

It's genuinely so cute seeing him say "I missed you, my friend" to Raichu

Pokemon is the only game where you get to beat up raging fire cat wrestlers with electric rats competitively. I love it for that.

Body Press is coded weirdly. It is calced based on the pokémon's unmodified defence stat, rather than its attack, and defence stat boosts or drops, rather than boosts or drops to attack. In all other ways it is treated like an ordinary physical attack: it's affected by any modifiers to "attack", e.g. it's raised by holding a choice band or having huge power, it's reduced by burn or tablets of ruin, and it's *not* affected by holding an eviolite or any modifier to defence. Very scuffed move, but not the first time this has happened (foul play's damage is reduced if the user is burned, for example).

Bad RNG happens to Wolfe: *All around me are familiar faces* Good RNG happens to Wolfe: *YEA-HYEAAAAAH!*

Fun fact, I won this tournament with Helping Hand Koraidon, and was the guy using it on stream at NAIC. (I sadly didnt get to face Wolfey tho)

Dude I'm so stoked to see Zamazenta slay in a format where its not overshadowed by sword dog. I love that big dinner plate face

Fulfill the prophecy “You cannot ride your bike here” made me laugh out loud 🤣 great dry delivery

It’s so interesting they way miraidon made its way into the meta by being an unaccounted for threat, and now raichu rising to counter it. The meta is ever-shifting.

Wolfe mid game talking is the anime protagonist thinking their going to lose then pull through from the power of friendship.

The Endeavor reveal is top tier, I had to rewind it because I was so caught off guard

4:15 *You cannot ride your bike here.* Raichu making that a threat. Love to see my favorite yellow boy getting some much needed love!

Prof oak "you cannot drive your bike here" was so unexpected and absolutely the funniest Pokemon joke ever written

This team may have been designed to take on Miraidon, but it really is the Terapagos destroyer with body press, double fake out, and wide guard

Nerd here. If I had to take a guess as to how body press works, this is my two cents. This is just a theory so take this with a grain of salt. Short explanation: Body Press is weird and ignores certain abilities that affect stats. Long explanation: It's 2018, and Sword/Shield is in development. They've come up with a smashing new idea for a move: Body Press. It flips the entire combat system on its head by using the Pokémon's Defense stat as if it were its attack. But the Pokémon Company doesn't want to rebuild their entire combat system from the ground up to factor in defensive stats as offensive ones, so they take the lazy route: the move simply substitutes stats when calculating Body Press. That is, it looks at the user's Defense stat, and just makes it the attack stat for that attack, and then resets it, which is much simpler than recoding the combat system to use defense stats as attacks when it would only be useful for one move on a few Pokémon. However, The Pokémon Company immediately notices a problem with this: Huge/Pure Power. Your Defense stat shouldn't affected by huge power in theory, but in practice, substituting the Defense stat into the Attack stat onto a pokemon with Huge/Pure Power would incorrectly double the attacking stat of that Pokémon. So, their simple solution is just to have Body Press ignore abilities that passively affect stats. In Gen 8, that's only Gorilla Tactics, Solar Power, Battery, Power Spot, Flower Gift, and Huge/Pure Power, none of which affect the Defense stat, so it works. In Gen 9, the Ruinous abilities come into existence and GameFreak doesn't factor this in, so it creates weird jank. If you want to prove it for yourself, Protosynthesis is an ability which passively boosts your stats. Body Press ignores Protosynthesis as well.

Unlike raichu, watching your recent content isn’t a big endeavor at all. I miss the YouTubist stuff but I love how striking and well edited the content is now. Watching hour-thirty minute long videos seem really easy with how easily they get me hooked. Thanks for partially curing my brainrot wolfey

Original Thumbnail time! I’ll need to keep a bank of each of the iterations. V1 - Little Miraidon overtaken by large, imposing Raichu I’ll keep the lost updated to the best of my ability.

Fun fact: everybody commenting hasn't finished the video yet edit: They should have finished by now.

0:47 Wolfe says butt and then Raichu's frown turns upside down.

52:87 Legends say that “If Icicle Crash connected it would have flinched”

Wolfey: makes a video on how strong Miraidon is Also Wolfey: immediately makes another video showing off how to counter it with a mouse 😂

40:20 "That's my hat saying turn me around man" Wolfey and his hat are a whole Mario Odyssey character. 🎩

The reason that sword of ruin doesn’t reduce body press damage is that, other than direct modifiers like you get from swords dance and iron defense, Body Press is affected by attack stuff, not defense stuff. So, like, it’s boosted by choice band but not fur coat.

Despite playing pokemon all my life, I didn't ever try competitive until sword and shield. One of my favorite pokemon has always been Raichu and I had someone with knowledge help me build a team and it had Raichu on it with lightning rod, fake out, focus sash etc. This was when Kyogre was king. That little mouse shut down so many teams and helped get me into Masters. So cool years later to see the little guy back in action!

Wolfy should do a tournament with slither wing, its suprisingly good, first impression, close combat, u turn and earthquake are really strong and its a good way to catch people off guard :3

When I saw that you chose Zamazenta as your restricted pokemon, I cheered out loud. I'm so happy that one of my favorite pokemon ever is now one of the top pokemon after being completely humiliated in sword and shield. THANK YOU WOLFEY

I LOVE these long videos! The mix of general narration, ingame battles with commentary, just overall funny bits and nice editing are so enjoyable to have on while I'm doing mindless tasks (e.g. breeding for shinies).

"what am I, Chappell Roan? Because I didn't think this through" at around 49 minutes is part of why Wolfe is so iconic

Seeing Raichu (my favorite Pokémon) get so much love and climbing back up in competitive makes me so happy

Every time Raichu does anything Wolfe: 😂😂😂😂

Ive rarely played VGC, but man I had fun with Raichu recently, entering T500 in showdown VGC with barely any experience outside watching it. And Raichu was huge for it. Used ur WC Raichu as inspiration, nice to see that you used it again. Fake out, helping hand, nuzzle and Encore (for protect / calm mind users like terapagos) is what I used. Max speed hp and with a sash. Rest of my team : Tera Fairy Kyogre (counters raging bolt and miraidon w Raichus Helping Hand and Ice Beam, same as ur tera idea) Rillaboom (Average AV Tera Water set) Moltres Galar (Black Glasses Sucker Punch one hits Caly S with max speed and hp + Tailwind is nice, hurricane in rain is nice too, black glasses +1 fiery wrath in tailwind next to Kyogre waterspout sweeped teams and poison is also a great tera with synergy to dark) Farigiraf (trick room control if need + fake out block helps) Urshifu Rapid Strike (Scarf Tera Water with Kyogre rain cooked)

I used raichu in a shell smash water spout blastoise set in gen 8 that I really liked and it did wonders for me even without endeavor. Now that I know endeavors back on raichu I 10000% need to use it

Prof oak "you cannot drive your bike here" was so unexpected and absolutely the funniest Pokemon joke ever written 😂

Wolfy: "oooh noo, I used this Pokemon to become a world champion. But it had a special move it couldn't learn.😫😫😭😭" Also wolfy:"Well anyways now it can🤫🧏‍♂️"

I love how Wolfe continues to underestimate Zamazenta, a legendary, and be surprised when they take over half damage.

Bros got more sidequests than legends arceus💀

The king is back (Raichu that is).

Finally,a tournament video It's been 9000 years

Wolfey: best player in the world by far and does Pokémon for a living Also wolfey: “archaludon has eyes?”

I did not expect the Chappel Roan reference out of Wolfe, but I'm happy to hear it :) xD

The quality of these videos is just at an insane level right now. I got served a Covid time wideo yesterday and it’s hard to believe this is the same channel lol

I actually ran an almost identical Raichu a few weeks ago while grinding the ladder. For me, this is basically me getting the World Champ Seal of Approval. I'm glad I am not the only one who saw Lightning Rod Tera Fairy Nuzzle+Endeavor Raichu and went with it. The rest of the team was almost wholly different, of course. I went with Tornadus, Incin, Terapagos, Flutter Mane and Urshifu. I did quite well, I even got to punk a Miraidon twice in a single match. I recommend trying a Raichu for yourself too!

“What am I, Chappel Roan? ‘Cuz I didn’t quite think this through, baby!” 💀

“What am I? Chappell Roan? Cause I quite didn’t think it through” good taste from world champ!

Wolfe really out here making a counter to a pokemon he put into the meta 💀

49:10 chappell roan has the world champ seal of approval i see! :D

As a raichu fan this brings me immeasurable joy

Miraidon: "i fear no mon, but that THING...." Raichu:"Rai Rai!" Miraidon:"It SCARES me!"

Wolfe laughing maniacally because of para is so funny omg

Finally, someone who appreciates nuzzle’s 100% accurate paralyze

49:12 The random Chappell Roan stannings okayyy we see u wolfey

49:10 did mf wolfe glick from pokemons just make a chappell roan reference

About the confusion at 7:45 -I believe the reason Sword of Ruin doesn't affect a Body Press user's Defense stat is where the Sword of Ruin drop is applied. The part of the Pokemon damage formula that uses Attack and Defense looks like this: (A)/(D), where under normal circumstances A is the attacker's offensive stat and B is the defender's defensive stat. We think Sword of Ruin changes the number for the Defense stat, when in reality it changes the damage calculation to this: (A)/0.75(D). In most cases they work the same, but in this specific instance affecting the damage calculation rather than the stat itself makes the weird outcome experienced. Edit: I forgot to mention this is unverified.

It takes 1:05 for incineroar to appear in the raichu video

we got a wolfe chappel roan reference before gta 6

We don't even get an explanation for incineroars moves or place on the team anyone. It's just cause incineroar 😂

Raichu is one of my top 5 favorite pokemon and I love that Wolfey always shows the love it deserves

52:57 lmao after all those flinches

Raichu appreciation AND a Zamazenta appearance? yep its a wolfey team

you know its a good day when wolfey uploads a 2 hour video. Its the world champ difference afterall

49:10 The Chappell Roan reference is appreciated btw

Good thumbnail with Raichu, hope the artist gets linked in the description (:

the chappell roan mention made me lock in

7:34 it's because the damage is calculated like: zam's def turns into atk, THEN sword of ruin applies after

Haven’t watched one of these long-form videos for a while so I didn’t realise just how much better the commentary is! I’ve always loved the commentary style anyway but the confidence and the delivery has obviously been worked on and honed. Nice!

hey wolfe i just wanted to say thank you for the content output recently. i've not been doing well mentally but every time you post a video it's like a break from everything i have going on and it's a big help. i appreciate all the effort you put in. keep it up

Raichu has always been my favorite since i was a little kid so it is great to see raichu get some spotlight! great video!

4:16 how does a warning not to use a bike sounds so ominous

Man raichu has been one of my favorite pokemon for years now! It saved me in a crazy nuzlocke i was in and became a favorite ever since! 💪💪

Tournament viiiidddeeeooooo Sidenote I love these videos esp the part where he explains the team and their roles

49:09 peak recognizes peak 😌

It's cool to see Raichu and it's also cool to see so many additional interesting choices like Ceruledge or Sneasler.

0:01 IS THAT FINLAND!? SUOMI MAINITTU!!!

My favorite thing about competitive pokémon is that it's really just one layer of reality away, if pokémon were real almost nothing would change in how people talk about VGC and I find that fascinating and very funny

So youre why i see this on ladder already, after 2 hours.

the reason Istarted playing vgc was your world champion victory, the stream was just suggested to me by youtube, and i fell in love with raichu, my favourite vgc mon

1:14What song is this

i loved the chappell roan reference 😭🩷

Algorithm Boost

not the chappel roan reference 😭😭😭

09:59. Calculated RNG

I love Raichu, will definitely try and use this moveset on my current guy :)

1:14:45 "We got pretty lucky with our luck here" truly a world champ difference moment

Body press probably does the same damage with swords of ruin because even thou the doggo’s defense is lowered so is the opponent’s so it cancels out

Captions be like : fakeout : X surpise : ✔ nuzzle : X static cheek : ✔ endeavor : X effort and strive : ✔ tm : X tech disk : ✔ tera type : X tera guy : ✔ bullying : X intimidating : ✔ (yes i know i ment bullying) runs : X executes : ✔ body press : X body plank : ✔ heavy slam : X heavy body : ✔ wide gaurd : X Vasta gaurdia : ✔ shadow ball and astral barrage : X wraith orbs : ✔ make it rain : X golden rush : ✔ metal coat : X revest metallic : ✔ dark type : X sinster type : ✔ icicle crash : X chops and chuzos : ✔ sucker punch : X low blow : ✔ sacred sword : X holy sword : ✔ throat chops : X Jaw blow : ✔ this was in the first 10 minutes.

I'm pretty sure the ruin abilities add a line into the damage formula's instead of adjusting the stat totals like stat drops and stat increases do. That's why it doesn't lower the damage on body press since the stat value doesn't change.

When the game runs damage calc for Body Press, they switch the Atk stat for Defense stat. The defense drop by Chein Pao's ability is apply in another formula, so doesn't affect Body Press damage

The way you basically commentate your own gameplay like a shout caster is the secret sauce. I know nothing about competitive Pokemon but I am never confused and makes it so easy to follow along with the intricacy.