The Biggest Lie You Believe About Pokemon 

When people bring up Sejun’s Pachirisu as a “people should win with their favorites!” argument, they’re missing the reality that Pachirisu was not chosen by Sejun because it was one of his favorites, it was chosen because there was a very specific role Sejun needed filled on his team and Pachirisu was one of the only Pokemon able to fill it. Pachirisu became one of Sejun’s favorites AFTER the success of that team.

This is the best Pokemon video I've seen in a long time

I think what people actually mean when they say, “Everyone should use their favorites!” is “My favorite Pokémon isn't viable in the meta, so I can't have fun in VGC!”

I like how Wolfey completely ignored the fact that if someone 'just used their favorites' they would likely not get past quarterfinals. No matter how much you love Ariados, no Ariados team is gonna win. Some pokemon are just strictly better than others

wolfey: Pause the video... what do you think happened? me: uhhh... Corsola won the tournament...

“I don’t want to see another Smeargle ever again.” Wolfe: no, no. He’s got a point.

people also forget that "people's favourites" typically have their roles fulfilled significantly better by "meta" pokemon, which would make using their favourites akin to shooting themselves in the foot. there may be pokemon that have potential to revolutionize the meta, and i'm not saying you shouldn't try new things (as a lack of trying to think outside the box with off-meta pokemon causes less change and will eventually bring a game to a slow, dreadful stop), but there aren't a lot of pokemon that can be meta defining, or relevant in general.

I’ll be honest Wolfey, I was one of those people. I’ve always bitched about centralized metas. I didn’t know about the thunderous thing or most of your examples. I think I get it now. It’s not about trying to go around the entirety of the game to find some secret formula for success, it’s adapting to an environment that is constantly growing and changing around you. Thanks man

"Everyone uses the same pokemon" Spinda: all of us are built different mere mortals..

"I miss when Legendaries weren't used" Zapdos in Gen 1, Suicune in Gen 2, Jirachi in Gen 3 and Heatran in Gen 4: Hello

To be honest I feel like the whole draw of Pokémon and an active competitive meta just kinda clash against each other. There are so many Pokémon and many of them are just bad. It’s not like a fighting game where characters can be balanced to be “better” or “worse”, because there’s such a massive roster and not everything can be good. Most of the time casual spectators want to see variety because that’s what Pokémon is about. It doesn’t help that every aspect of the franchise is about friendship and using the Pokémon you like, etc. In conclusion, this is unavoidable tbh.

People when competitive players use good pokémon so they can win: 🤯

if they think its stale now, just wait for the 1 billion lions meta

counterpoint: landorus is ugly and everyone who can bear seeing it on their screens is a much stronger man than i am

Love that people think Se Jun Park just slapped Pachirisu on his team because he liked it. It served an extremely specific purpose on his team - keeping Electric moves away from Talonflame and Gyarados. Unlike Amoongus, it barely cared about Taunt since it still had Super Fang and Nuzzle. Se Jun wasn't the only person to get good results with it - there was another player called Angel Miranda (sorry if wrong spelling) who ran one with Ion Deluge to ruin Mega Kangaskhan and give his Hydreigon an Electric Hyper Beam to KO Azumarill (source: False Swipe Gaming).

i respect this video, it manages to both disprove and prove the point. yes, there is a lot of creativity despite the lack of pokemon variety. but also the fact that those few top pokemon perform better with 50 different sets than 80% of pokemon do with ANY set, is a major turn-off for many.

"This is not what pokemon battles used to be, I mean using legendaries" *Meanwhile the games give you the box legendary before the elite 4*

I would like to add that in 2012, 1 year after rizzo won with thundurus, he did not use it and beat wolfe who was using support thundurus

I definitely don't think players are uncreative by bringing similar pokemon, but as a view and especially as a less competitive (and skilled lmao) player, it sucks that so many pokemon that I've grown to love over the years feel completely invalid 99% of the time. I'll still try to make them work cause I care less about being highly competitive than just having a good time, but it still sucks that I can't do both. That said I super appreciate Smogon for giving me the chance to try out completely different formats with completely different pokemon. I just wish there were more officially supported formats like that.

Fun story for y'all: When I first started playing conpetitive, the thing that has always made me think some metas were centralized was, as you might expect, the lack of species diversity and thus I would almost always use teams built around outclassed pokemon that I liked, to try and bring my own creativity into battle. This has continued for years since midway through XY and it led me to VGC 2020 series 5 and current SwSh OU It was only relatively recently (june 2019 iirc) that I came to know about Wolfe, as I didn't care much about tournaments and top players, but I enjoyed watching him and so I did. Then the day came when I saw his Glaceon video and decided I'd do the same thing, but with a different approach: a Tailwind-based, all-out offensive, Glaceon team, featuring Alolan Ninetales, Indeedee, Talonflame, Lycanroc Dusk and Milotic, as well as Glaceon. It was a very fun team, I tried it on Showdown and in the games themselves, but, because of my nature, I decided that I wasn't done with just doubles and I joined the OU base Things haven't changed much for my "competitive career" since then. I now use Leafeon on my OU team and, because I like exploring random bad stuff, it's MIXED Leafeon, but what has changed is the way I think of metagames. My experience with what some people call "heat" and some others call "bad" competitive pokemon and sets is that if you really want to play with your favourites, you need to acknowledge the fact that you are at the same time willing to put yourself at a disadvantage many times, because there are other pokemon objectively better than others that actually do have a role in the metagame and you can't change that. A lot of people in OU use Landorus-T and it's understandable because it's very good in the context of the OU meta. Landorus, however, has different sets. Heatran has different sets. There are some times when pokemon don't have multiple sets but their teammates may vary The point I want to make? If you want to use your favourites, use them. Everyone uses what they want to use. Metas become not creative only when they not only lack species diversity, but also set diversity and strategy diversity

People talk about pachirisu like it was there just for show, when it was an actual godlike meta call that other players were already experimenting

13:25 "It's extremely likely that Thundurus was a driving factor...... .... ...as was Aaron Zheng" *Aaron stares into your soul*

While I do get what you're saying, and that I understand that objectively, there's a lot more depth to a team more than just the species used, as a casual spectator of VGC events I can't really see the depth of a team in the same way. For this reason, I prefer to spectate restricted formats, because they usually give an opportunity to see species you don't commonly see in VGC. Take Lando-T for example -- there's a lot of ways you can tweak and refine a set for it, but at the end of the day it's still a Lando-T. Seeing it pop up in so many VGC formats can make them feel very samey to me, even if technically they all use completely different sets. I would never say things like VGC players being lame for using what they use though -- they're playing to win, and why would you intentionally handicap yourself? Rather, I'd prefer VGC formats to have ways to ensure variety in species -- either by restricted formats, rotating banlists based on usage the previous format, or whatever they can come up with.

"you should battle with you favorite Pokemon!!!" good thing my favorite Pokemon is Landorus-T

The big lie is that Wolfey is actually a lizard

"Ow, no one uses their favourites!" All Unown team on low ladder: Bonjour

"People should use their favorites pokemon" Ok my favourites pokemon are incineroar landorus and amoongus, what should I do?

I think part of why casual players can't really see the variety of builds a single Pokemon species can have is because the games themselves have historically done a godawful job of communicating ideas like EVs and IVs to casual players. As such unless a player invests some significant time into out of game research, they're not going to really think you can build a Pokemon to perform outside of its most obvious role.

I remember playing at a local in the late stage of Gen 3, maybe a month before Gen 4 came out. Everyone was playing Agility, Meteor Mash, Clearbody Metagross. There was one guy who play a full Defense/HP invested Steelix and won the finals 6:0 cause noone brought anything against this physical behemoth. The only time he lost his Steelix was vs another guy who played full Sp. Atk. Init Charcoal Overheat Camerupt. Good times.

"I miss the good ol days when legendaries weren't used as much" My guy... Zapdos is a top threat in RBY OU, legendaries were ALWAYS used.

Tbh I think the issue is less that competitive players aren’t creative, and more that game freak doesn’t allow enough Pokémon to be viable. Like I feel like base stats matter so much that not using the Pokémon with the crazy stats is actively handicapping yourself

Love this in depth description of pokemon metagames! I used to be one of these naysayers, but after getting into competitive, primarily watching your videos, I can see how cool this stuff is!

Damn bro I was supporting corsola but corsola took the win pretty entertaining

0:46 “Yeah I really don’t like Wolf’s face either.” That’s just rude, and besides he has a beautiful face

This is a reeeeally minor nitpick but, the Ability Capsule specifically can't change to or from Hidden Abilities at all. It's the Ability Patch that does that. I know this because hours of grinding were wasted ages ago :|

Damn, I've only seen your 'can we make it to masters?' videos in gen 8 so I was pleasantly surprised by this god tier editing!

"Remember when they didn't used to use legendaries?" *glances at Zapdos in gen 1, Raikou and Suicune in gen 2* "Sure Jan"

Saying there’s no diversity in Pokémon VGC is the Pokémon equivalent of watching a professional soccer game and saying they’re all just European.

This video opened up my eyes so much. For a very long time, I was unable to make a proper team. I still struggle with it unfortunately, I was determined to make what I call a "meta-breaker" team. I was trying to find my own unique way to play in each game regardless of the meta, but that has never worked out in the long run. I'm still trying to get some practice in with swsh, at least until the next game drops. Thanks to your video Wolfey, I'm going to give some of the meta pokemon a try and see how it goes for me.

in this case I think pokemon’s biggest strength, its ability to make super customizable sets, is also its weakness. if you are running a pokemon that has the ability to run 10 different sets well, it automatically is more competitively viable than a pokemon that has 1 set, because the unpredictability is itself a buff. I’m the type of person that loves to find trash pokemon nobody expects and create a single good moveset, but I will admit that the surprise factor is very easy to see through with a bit of knowledge of pokemon, and my efforts would better be spent making another version of Landorus-Therian if I wanted to win tournaments

I love that Wolfe can pronounce things however he wants and no one can say shit because theyre not a world champion lol

The comment about using Pokémon as “tools for battle” had me ROLLING 😂

There’s no doubt that a pokemon can be used in multiple different ways, but the problem I have is that they make so many weak pokemon that will never be viable based on their base stats, and I’d like to see some different pokemon be able to be used.

Now I get the lesson of this video. People will always gravitate to the strongest, and most reliable Pokémon, so the only way to actually beat them is to use said Pokémon in your own (stronger) way to counter them. Hence the abundance of reoccurring Pokémon among competitive teams.

I know smeargle is no longer in the game, but it would be cool to see how a meta would evolve in a smeargle only tournament considering it can learn every move.

Wolfey: The ability capsule gives you access to your hidden ability Ability patch: ...

It's amazing how the meta "triangle" is at work in the tcg as well, also we have the difference in Deck lists like the different builds of teams and Pokemons it's quite similar and I love it's because it shows the similarities between the two games that usually seems very different

Blaming who uses legendaries is the same thing as blaming a chess player for "only using the queen instead of showing that you're badass by using only pawns"

“Using legendaries noobs” yeah no. I really think there is so much diversity in VGC right now and in singles, it’s so beautiful. Also the Corsola tournament sounds like a ton of fun and wouldn’t mind seeing something like that again.

What a lot of people seem to miss about the Pachirisu situation is that he wasn't using it to own everyone by using a "weak" pokemon He used it because it filled a specific metagame niche that gave him an out to common tactics.

Interesting video. Wish I'd seen it when it first came out. Makes me a little less annoyed at legendary use, but really my issue with people using legendaries is more about them being legendaries than them being OP, cause plenty of them are in lower tiers for a reason. Personally, though, I think it's less a legendary issue and more and issue of power creep? Like, OU tier to me just feels like Ubers 2.0 at this point so I usually just mess around in lower tiers on Smogon unless I'm trying to mess around and use lower tier stuff in OU just for laughs. And there's a lot more variety in lower tiers than what I see in OU.

"every major competitor is using the exact same Pokemon that is different 'under the hood' compared to its same species competition" is a hard sell when you don't spend thousands of hours in the game tbh

I used to believe this, then started actually playing competitive battles, and of course I find some Pokemon many times, but it's never the same thing, specially in ladder.

This was a desperately needed video. Someone else in the comments mentioned it, but there will always be a disconnect between what casual viewers and actual competitors are looking at in any sort competitive experience. Competitors might want fighting games with strong neutral, but the casual viewers just aren't interested in seeing two guys moving back and forth, "doing nothing". Pokemon is really similar. Competitors are metagaming and trying to squeeze every drop of optimization out of a mon, but the average viewer just sees the same 7 or so mons back to back with changes that SEEM very minimal. A more casual viewer might want to see some random picks like Jolteon come out and make a big upset, but that's a frustrating nightmare for a competitor who has to throw all of their planning out of the window and just guess because they didn't prepare for Jolteon. No one prepares for Jolteon because you would then lose to the other 99% of teams that would never consider it.

Hey Wolfe! I've been watching your videos for over a year now and love the content. Would you ever consider hosting something similar to Corsola Cup but instead of just one Pokemon you use the vgc doubles format and everyone has to use the exact same team of six random mons. It could be six completely random choices or one random restricted and five random OU picks or any combination of randomized. Seems fair if everyone is using the exact same team. Let me know what yall think.

I feel like there's also a lack in variety in abilities Which isn't anything against competitive players, it's a problem with Pokémon's design, where a lot of abilities are just bad Like all starters have trash (and if not, then boring) base abilities, and only one alt ability, which means you'll only ever see that one ability on them

If going by the logic of “use your favorites” then uhhhh.... Groudon my favorite. BAM LOOPHOLE

For me, it’s not so much “everyone uses _____” as “I HAVE to use _____”. I won’t argue the customization that you can get out of one species-you did a good job making that point clear. But it still feels a little constrictive when that one species is an essential part of the team, especially over other Pokémon one might prefer. For example, I don’t have a problem with the idea that a lot of people use Dusclops, nor do I think all Dusclops are identical; what I DO have a problem with is the idea that I “need” to use a Dusclops over the Cofagrigus I like in order to perform.

I actually thought the nerfs to paralisis, confusion and prankster happened because of the prankster swagger strat (liepard + klefki + murkrow + sableye all with prankster swagger)

This wideo was great! I’d love to see more of this kinda stuff :)

I'm glad you made this video, hope it helps the community

I’d like to see the reverse of this video. Talk about how Pokémon of different species can perform similar roles and act very similarly. Showing that diversity of species doesn’t necessarily increase the diversity of the metagame

OMG, You showed a clip of the mega gengar perish song set with politoad, arcanine gothie and friends, I remember seeing that team and loving so much I played in a few Brazilians Tournaments back in the day lol

I don’t really enjoy competitive Pokémon anymore, but this video reminds me how I would run Magnet Rise on Jolteon to occasionally dodge earthquakes back in the day. Excellent video

"Even if you look a little outside of the Top 8, you'll see more unorthodox pokemon being used" that might be why they're not inside the top 8

Sword and Shield forcing me to learn double battles is what finally got me out of this mindset haha. There really is SO MUCH you have to consider, even if you're staring down the same mons you just saw last match.

This wideo does not beat the argument "everyone is using the same pokemon", because what people mean when they say that is they want to use a pokemon like sentret because they like sentret and think it's cute, but there is no way that sentret can be used in competitive. Though it gets helping hand and follow me it's bulk wont let it stay on the field for more than 2 seconds. So if someone wants to play competitive pokemon and don't like any of the pokemon in the higher tiers, they're fresh out of luck, and also probably never got a shiny in their life but that is unrelated. So though there is diversity in individual species, that doesn't change the fact that landorous is still landorous and the person who likes sentret thinks it's ugly. The fact that we even need tiers for pokemon does suck the creativity out of players. If sentret was given prankster and then also had access to nasty plot with a focus sash, it could baton pass into gastradon who could have a new item that boosts the speed of pokemon with less than 50 base speed by 2x and use surf with the ally having storm drain. This is just one of infinite examples that could be given to every pokemon to add more creativity to teams and remove the need for tiers. If ideas like these were implemented two teams could be completely opposite and it would blow the mind of the viewers watching the world championship that sentret guy won. Though there is currently a lot of creativity in competitive, this would make the creativity for competitive infinite.

I love how the quote "People should win using their favourites" was first used by the Elite Four *Karen*, and now, people use it to annoy VGC players.

I'd gladly hear Wolfe talk for hours about how the different sets in identical species matchups made key differences to the battle :) P.S. I made it "this far"

“i MisS wHen LegeNdArys aReNt uSEd” yeah, like noone used legendaries in gens 1-3. like suicune, jirachi, zapdos, registeel never existed and never used in OU

6:15 did he seriously say jenjar?

Even though you can use different stats and moves on the same Pokemon, it doesn't change the fact that it's still _the same Pokemon_ using those stats and moves. That said, I don't blame the players for this situation. The problem is that the game isn't balanced. With nearly 1000 Pokemon in existence, and many being balanced around the single-player experience, it would be impossible to make every one viable. Wolfey pointed out in another video that when the pool of available Pokemon is smaller, there is, paradoxically, _more_ variety in teambuilding. Maybe VGC could benefit from additional formats, or even a few bans? ( *_INCINEROAR_* )

"Dark types are immune to Prankster" Huh...Well I definitely learned something from this video

Imagine being a competitive threat A message from a Bisharp

Wolfey: "Thanks to ability capsule all pokemon have access to their hidden abilities" Article which he shown: "Are you sure about that?"

Whenever I wish Competitive Pokémon had more variety in species I just tell myself, “Not all Pokémon exist to be the strongest.”. While they’ll fight with their trainer I’m fairly sure a Butterfree would rather rest in a forest or an Eiscue bob-along the icy lakes then on the other hand a Landorus or Dragapult seem more than happy to fight to prove who’s the strongest. Point is I’d love more variety in the meta but maybe not all Pokémon have to be competitive? They just have to have their place in the Pokémon World.

Today on the internet: Pokémon players shocked to learn that competitive games have metas

Unorthodox Pokémon are only really good when they have a true reason to be there such as SeJun’s Pachurisu, I did well using one during Series 8 VGC when Torn-Ogre was meta because people wanted to spam Waterspout so I countered with super Special Bulk Goodra and Storm Drain Cradily, I love those Pokémon but they have a very small niche and overall as Wolfey said it’s more important to know when to use a Pokémon than how to use one...

Can we have more Wolfey covering past tournament games in this way??? This is amazing content.

Also let′s talk about how intimidate is nerfed in gen 8 against that lando t and incineroar. Galarian zapdos is pretty much their counter, and inner focus entei is dominating the s10 doubles with groudon

I think the lack of information given to the viewer is part of the problem, they could put the movesets and maybe the stats on the screen while they play.

The Aaron zheng part was pretty hilarious. I remember watching that years ago hoping thundurus would get nerfed.

Every time I hear ray Rizzo's WC record, followed by "and nobody has one it more than once" it just blows me away

I would love deep dives on major pokemon tournament matches and their builds and choices when playing. It would definitely help people become better players.

"Ah, yes. How I miss the days of Lando-T, Primals and Xerneas." Said no one ever.

"It's one thing to enjoy leisurely battles, but real battles can be a severe trial. Truly strong Trainers sometimes must be prepared to choose pokemon that can win rather than their favorite Pokemon" -ORAS Battle Resort Gentleman Just like Karen's speech about using favorites, it all depends on what someone plays Pokemon for. Both casual and competitive battles are valid ways of enjoying this series. Thanks for clearing up the lies that some believe about the VGC scene.

This was the biggest complaint of 2015 when CHALK was rampant. My friends complained that I was using CHALK but they didn't understand that my bulky CHALK set was so different from the original version that it was like a different team altogether. Nobody suspected AV Lando or slow Bulky Adamant Hammer Arm Kang or the team to be able to operate optimally in Trick Room or under Tailwind.

While I 100% agree with everything you said, two Landorus-T's with two distinct movesets, hold items, and EV spreads, are still the same pokemon in the eyes of a casual fan, which, by definition, is the vast majority of people. And honestly, I would agree with that angle purely from a spectator's point of view. It just means that [insert pokemon here] is so strong AND versatile that it has options. The levels to the counter meta innovation occur more often within moveset / item / EV changes in the same pokemon, than they do with actual pokemon changes. While not always the case, that typically hints at a degree of over-centralization. I think the vast majority of competitive players would agree that a centralized meta is absolutely good, if not necessary. The question has always been "Is the meta over-centralized?" which is not only difficult to answer, but frankly subjective and ever-changing (even within the same formats). Great video though, it definitely changed how I see things at the very least.

The I really don’t like wolf’s face comment has me dying 😭

Thing is, pokemon is a diverse and unique competitive game, but the fact that it could be 10× more diverse is what frustrates so many people. Sure, two different landorus T sets might be completely different, but why is landorus T the best at fulfilling both roles? So many pokemon have 4 or 5 niches, so the ones that could have a niche are outclassed and never used.

I definitely agree that there’s a lot more going on than people see. This was greatly educational and I feel more positively about VGC. I just wish that more of people’s favorites could be more viable. It sucks that you have to disregard a Pokémon you love because it’s not good. And hey, that’s part of how VGC works. It’s just a bummer when you want the little Pokémon you adore to have a chance at a big title. Thanks Wolfey for the wideo!

Corsola example was awesome and made me wanna see more unique tournaments like that lol

Maybe this is a "hot take" of mine, but I think Pokemon falls into this issue because of the dissonance between competitor and spectator. I'll use a personal example to kind of explain where I'm coming from. I'm pretty big into competitive Smash Bros but, as contradictory as this may sound, I actually really don't enjoy watching competitive Melee. When I watch high-end Melee, I see characters zig-zagging and sliding around all over the stage, combos that just seem like they were strung together by a TAS bot, and the same 4-6 characters being used on repeat. Now don't get me wrong, I realize there's TONS of technical and mental skill going into those movements, but I personally am surrounded by this bubble of ignorance. I could tell you what a Wavedash or SHFFL is, but that's about it. So when someone tells me that the Marth I just watched is SO MUCH BETTER than the other Marth because they zig-zagged left three times before pulling off their combo, the implications of why zig-zagging left three times is such a big deal is lost on me. I just see characters slipping around all over the place, why is three times so much more crazy than two or four? I enjoy Smash, but I don't want to have to learn an entirely new dictionary of terms of strategies just to understand how to WATCH a game. All that to say, I think Pokemon is in a similar spot in terms of the divide between those who play competitively and those who casually check out Grand Finals of Worlds once a year just to see what it's all about. It's true that each Pokemon has WAY more going on under the hood and that a Thundurus who always moves first is a genuinely big deal strategically. But "Corey Casual" may barely even register the turn order, much less the strategic implications of something like Low Kick over Power-Up Punch. They can see Thundurus taking Thunder Wave, but due to not being well-versed in the strategy of the Meta themselves they don't register the scope of how big a decision that is. Without knowing the ratios of what moves typically OHKO or 2HKO a particular Pokemon, they aren't likely to pick up that one has been trained defensively, they'll just see "powerful Legendary lived through a strong hit." And so on. I don't mean to say this is EVERYONE who uses the "everyone just uses the same stuff" complaint, but I have to imagine it's a huge chunk of them.

For me at least, the issue with competitive is that you *can't* participate with a team of your favorites. Most people's top 6 Pokémon that they want to travel around with as best friends, would not make a balanced/good team, and would likely range from OU to numerous PU tier Pokémon. The anime & NPCs in game try to sell the idea that friendship is most important, and that you shouldn't just toss a Pokémon if it no longer serves a utility. In competitive, a Pokémon is not a friend, it is a statblock. Only in the team while functional against the current meta. Thus we run into the core incompatibility: Is Pokémon a story of friendship, or an inanimate game? (Obviously both). I feel like a lot of the claims of Competitive not using favorites comes down to thinking Pokemon-Competitive has any relation to Pokemon-Friendship. But, they are two very separate entities, and there is no need to engage with both if you don't want to.

I come from the future to offer a quote that perfectly counters Karen's quote: "It's one thing to enjoy leisurely battles, but real battles can be a severe trial. Truly strong trainers sometimes must be prepared to choose Pokémon that can win rather than their favorite Pokémon." -Gentleman from Pokémon ORAS.

Objectively, it's pretty clear that teams composed of the exact same pokemon can be used in completely different ways due to EV distribution and movesets. But _seeing_ the same Pokemon over and over again personally just burns me out, because I dislike a lot of the objectively better pokemon, and would want to see my favorites get some viability. But a lot of Pokemon fill the same niche, and expecting a professional competitive player to use a worse pokemon because I want them to or because "hurr durr favourite" would be stupid. Of course they will use the best pokemon. It's just that Pokemon has absolute shit tier game balance and unlike fighting games, where individual characters can be buffed or nerfed to balance the meta, they can't balance all the pokemon because there's just so many of them. And of course they won't try to mitigate power creep because they're game freak. TL;DR I just dislike that a lot of my favorites are obsolete and replaced by objectively better Pokemon. And even though those pokemon may be entirely different from each other of the same species under the hood, they're not pokemon that I really like. And that as a result makes me dislike competitive Pokemon

Loving this style of more "video essay"-like content

bring back corsola cup with added g corsola. please wolfey.

15:18 I can understand never wanting to see smeargle again though it looks like it never has ever slept

The funniest part about this is that wolf himself is literally the biggest argument against this He literally had an entire season where he just used “bad” Pokémon and still had his team win a regional and placed top 8 at least almost every other time