Freezai vs Elias PSY, Smogon Champion's League Week 1, 2023 pokepast.es/be297b8cec47134e Edited by: tazprods Thanks to KrystalKiwii for helping get the footage 0:00 Introduction 2:01 Teambuilding 5:31 The Battle
@@slader6079 I think it's a better visual, and I appreciate the effort of recreating the battle, but the continuity errors make it even harder to match the two visuals as describing the same event (example 6:20 froslass faints twice back to back, 8:30 jolteon switch in was much smoother transition)
I think it wasn't even a prediction, he had the room to lose heracross for some chip and getting rid of the item is reasonably strong. It feels like covering the options more than a prediction
Something I really appreciate about your videos, and you in particular, is you don't trash-talk your opponent. You talk about how good they are, you explain that even the smartest player can make unsuccessful predicts, etc, and this greatly enhances the experience of watching you play these tournaments. Best of luck to you!
@@SharpLCDTVI forget the channel name, but I used to watch a guy whose channel was mainly hilarious weird strategies (often on Anything Goes), and people throwing angry ranting tantrums. The tantrums were funny at first, but after a while I just felt gross watching. He had a... meanness to him. Sometimes he seemed to deliberately provoke people who weren't being toxic. He would aggressively belittle people who weren't doing anything particularly wrong, and might have just been a bit new to the game and competitive scene. And then I learned that a lot of big his tantrum videos were totally staged, and that was the breaking point. I found Freezai's channel around the same time, and kept comparing the two. I decided I vastly preferred his personality. It's incredibly easy to rip a person to shreds, downplay their ability or worth, and provoke them. There's lots of channels like that. It takes strength of personality to treat an opponent with respect whether they played well or poorly, whether you win or lose. I wanna frick'n become Freezai. I still need to work on how well I handle loss and mistakes. :D
@@danielhale1 if it makes you feel better, a lot of those videos of salty people on smogon are extremely fake. Especially if the protagonist is using wacky strats that seem incredibly random. The entire genre is corny tbh.
the post-match discussion about how you planned an entire team is very interesting to listen to, should def keep that up since the most common struggle most people have seems to be teambuilding, and dedicating just a little % of the video going into super details before the actual match makes it much more engaging and easier to understand!
Its a test on meta knowledge. I have a good team in a vaccume for NU but I know nothing about the NU metagame and it isn't great. This is where I struggle with teambuilding as it's a lot of research
I really enjoyed this video for the reasons you mentioned despite having already watched the live commentary for this game on his second channel. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching the latter too but it's great to get some more insight into NU as a format and how it influences teambuilding.
This is honestly so much more compact and fun than watching a full game. Like those are fun too but the way you made it short and gave us insight to your thinking is really good enjoyable content
The editing on this video is great! The way you explain the turns mid-match with cut-aways is really skillfully done to feel informative without being disruptive to the battle itself.
This was great to watch. I watched the battle footage on your other channel and didn’t understand all of the decision making and plans since I’m not a player myself but this video recontextualized it all easily
This was so well done! Brilliant explanation of tournaments & your strategy. Also, I recognize all the effort that went to simulating the moves/match in Scarlet/Violet even though the whole match was really just on Showdown. Well done!
I watched the original video of the Showdown battle but there was so much more content including the educational side about your teambuilding and then your thought process, as well as the in-game visuals; that watching this felt like a brand new experience! This was awesome, looking forward to seeing more of your tourney grind!! 💪
I saw the replay on your other channel, but the introduction, teambuilding insights, and editing made it worthwhile to watch that game again. Seeing the same game on both channels really highlights the different identities of your channels. Great job at editing and best of luck!
That was awesome, i love seeing tournament content with context. And using the ingame to supplement the showdown is such a great idea! Would love to see more!
Insane effort you put in this, could have been just the showdown replay but this makes it so much nicer. Also reminds me of the good old DPP/BW days with the post narration lol. Great vid!
Really interesting to see this on Freezai live when I didn't understand the team, and then see it again with all the explanation. Amazing how much theory you can have behind your team.
The production quality is insane on this. It's been amazing seeing your content evolve and I'm excited to see what you do going forward. Excellent video and excellent gameplay!
I love your videos on competitive Pokemon, you show and explain everything so well that's it's easy to understand even as one not as knowledgeable about competitive level play. Definitely hope to see more of your matches in this tournament!
the quality of all your videos always astonishes me, but this one in particular was amazing. however you're getting the stat graphics and whoever your doing the mock-battles with. amazing stuff guys
oooh, this was really interesting! It makes me think of a singles version of Wolfey's content. It's one thing to see all of the analyses but actually explaining your teams and then your strategies during an actual battle helps way more with understanding competitive stuff.
You do such a great job of explaining what's going on. I'm a doubles player who found your channel after you began playing doubles tournaments. I played singles gens 5 and 6, but haven't played since, and you make it so easy to come into a video, get an understanding of a meta, and an idea of what high level players are thinking about. Really glad to have found your content!
These are really great. I dare say this is the best format for a competitive pokemon vid I've yet seen. You've always been the best at explaining the theory of the game in my opinion, and now we get the luxury of hindsight postcom with high production value. Please, please please! Make a ton of these going forward.
LOVED the weekly tournament summaries from before, cant wait for these. just thought id write that down here cause a lot of times avid viewers dont let the creator know when theyre enjoying the type of content the creator's putting out lol
This seems like such a pain in the butt of a video to make but is super well done and worth it. Kudos to Freezai, the editor and the gameplay simulator!
