There Will Never be Another Pokémon Player like Ray Rizzo 

Thanks for this wolfey

Him making a video about Rizzo? Such a unique thing.

Bout time!

Pippy

Wolfey, thanks for sharing this story. It's always a pleasure.

great job on this

This is an excellent documentary, thanks for all the hard work!

That was so cool!! Great job!!

Gorgeously done, congrats dude!

Yo, phenomenal story telling!

You got torn up by Ray Rizzler 😏

It’s a wild British man!

I can hear this comment. You type exactly how you speak.

Ray is a terrorist for introducing the world to bulky Thunderus

​@@12jswilsonfr

Agreed

25:29 I saw this clip and immediately cringed in cringe from the sheer number of Will-O-Wisp misses in that set

It’s thanks to wonderful people like you that the scene has grown so much!

Hey Aaron, please make a "reaction" video to this just talking about your experiences during these events, maybe your friendship with Ray and all that.

Despite the fact that he brings his success stories of the past up quite a lot and is very confident in his abilities as a player, Wolfe seems pretty humble in recognizing others' skills and achievements. He's incredibly open in talking about his respect for players like Cybertron, Se Jun Park, PM7 and Pokemon Challenges in their respective areas and has commented in the past his belief that Ray is the best player to ever compete.

he once said something like "only one player had ever won this tournament without getting seeded into the second day so i really wanted to skip day one" without mentioning that the person who'd achieved that was himself...

That's the world champ difference, baby.

​@@andy4anhe mentioned that that was him like 3 sentences later

​@@lolozo214 no he had the courtesy to wait till the end of the video

The world champ difference

For real. Wolfe's had a lot of World Champ Difference lines over the years, but I don't think anything he's said has hit quite as hard as "My strategy was 'I'm just going to play better than everybody,' and I ended up executing on that."

Bros him

when i hear pokemon world championship i think of cards, when i think of greatest pokemon player of all time, its the cardgame! why are these guys acting like this is pokemon when its just some videogame variation?

@@henkdachief that's cool lil bro. Keep going with the card game if that's what you enjoy. The video games came out first though, so the card game is the variation.

​@@jeffreymcmillanThat was an execution. gg

please!!!

wolfe. ray. moxie. who's the 4th?

​@@ace88bfwho's Moxie? And I mean Sejun Park could be one.

@@ace88bf id imagine he'd need 2 more cuz ray would be the champ and then he'd need 2 more for the elite four

Moxie Boosted. his name i think is Marcos @@The_Evening_Sun

This is a great comment. I wish I could've entered more tournaments in the game I used to play competitively back in the 2010s. It was hard to support it before streaming and twitch all came into existence and could make a real living off being entertaining playing at a high level. 😢

Ray Rizzo and Wolfe Glick. 2 GOATS with 2 incredible names

He had the Rizz before it was a thing lol

People, whether conscious of it or not, tend to live up to their names. It's quite fascinating.

Facts haha, Gamefreak/Nintendo should make it up to Rizzo by adding him as an elite four Champion in future games with one of his competitive teams he won with. (Never going to happen, but I can dream right LOL)

@@TheMadSnorlaxwhile they haven’t done that, black and white 2 had an online event where you could fight against “world champion ray rizzo” at the PWT where his exact team was used!

Too bad Ray's competitive career ended that way, but understandable that he wanted to quit after.

​@@redmasterx4477You mean, too bad theres crazy people on the internet.

@@JayceCH. Yeah

Yeah, sad way to go out but understandable. It makes even less sense since that type of 'cheating' doesn't even give you an advantage. In fact it's not even cheating since cheating is defined as 'a dishourable act in order to gain an advantage' but no advantage is gained from a dream ball.

the advantage came from the pokemon not being able to be "legit" from a dream ball making people assume it was hacked. If you could make pokemon from thin air it would save alot of time and effort allowing for more practice. Annoying that he got flack just because the parent pokemon had a dream ball so it passed it down. If it passed the hacks screening who cares imo. @@finnsnow2495

I mean, being the strongest gets boring after a while, so I don’t blame him

True. You’re right; It’s not really chest thumping or crowing. It’s data driven. Dude has three world titles. If there have only been…what 14 total world championships since 2009, he owns over 20% of them by himself. That would be like an NFL team having 12 Super Bowl titles.

@@kylescott9529 Exactly. He also has every right to crow, considering. But he doesn't.

I mean the stats prove it. Kinda hard to be the only 3 time winner and not say you're the best, especially when no one else has won 2 yet

@@tricatmeows The facts don't lie, sure. But some people with that kind of accolade develop an ego. Ray doesn't seem to have one.

The state the franchise is at the moment killed all my motivation or love for the franchise. I stopped playing since gen 7 and there's nothing so far worth for me to go back. Hopefully Game Freak will wake up and produce a polished, incredible game someday, like was HGSS or BW2. I still look at competitive content from time to time but that's about it. I can't... Support the current state the games are in.

Same lmao

what? He barely ever talks about the world champ title. So humble.

@@NopeNope-mh4tyListen if I won a world title I’d bring it up a lot too.

@@NopeNope-mh4ty yeah tataly

His autobio would be called "The World Champion Difference"

Wow having rich parents, so much talent 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@songa4096 The truth hurts, is your only talent having rich parents as well?

@@PatrickArcatoWhat a sad existence you are

@@thatonerandomguy7937 Nope, I worked hard and achieved things on my own

​@@PatrickArcatoHis parents paid for the trip, they didn't help him develop his skill

Sure thing bud, I'm also 3 times national champion 😂 get outta here man

@@PatrickArcatosomeone’s jealous

@@Abcdefg-rk8jk I just became 4th time national champion man

​@@PatrickArcatoMy guy, just because you've done nothing with your life, doesn't mean that's true for everyone else.

@@BeyondTrash-xe1vs Why do you believe him and not me 🤣? I'm 5 times national champion now

It's so cool to have this stuff documented honestly. Like, I was there, I don't *need* it for myself, but it'd be sad if it all slipped away into history without being recorded. Watching Ray Rizzo dominate years in a row it really did feel like he was at a different level than most of us. It was also wild later watching Se Jun Park go from experimenting with stuff like Follow-Me Magmar to later winning with Follow-Me Pachirisu.

He didnt make this...

For real! It cannot be understated how much watching Rizzo take what seemed like big risks at the time (bulky Thundurus) changed what standard team building would look like for lots of people moving forward. Tailoring EV spreads to incredible specificity is standard now, but back then it simply wasn't. Most of us were just maxing out a pokemon's obvious strengths and playing by heart. Doing damage calcs wasn't nearly as common outside of finding out what you could one-shot with a neutral nature vs with a +10% nature.

What about the guy who won with Pachirisu???

Which Nick do you mean? Didnt know any of these guys had passed away 😰

Nick who

Can you elaborate please? I'm so curious

@@nikunjkhangwal he is talking about nick bailey, he was a competetive pokemon tcg player who unfortunately has passed away from brain cancer

@@kaen4299 Ah! May his soul rest in peace Thanks for telling

Ray actually was playing last year and qualified for worlds but in Japan your invite is tied to your save file. His save file was in Japanese to stop other Japanese players from instantly knowing it was him but he wanted to switch his cart to English for worlds so he restarted his file which disqualified him from worlds. Huge bummer

it magic the gathering, it felt like no one could ever top the domination achieved by hall of famer Kai budde in the early days of magic. the average level of pro players has risen dramatically, that you'd think that he'd have the best record forever since it would be way harder to rack up those results (for point of reference, if you can get into the top 8 players at a major tournament 3x, you'll probably be inducted into the hall of fame, and kai had 11x, and 7 of those were outright wins) and yet, about 1 year after Kai "retired", paulo vitor damo da rosa started playing competitively and had matched and exceeded Kai by many metrics in about 7 years against that much tougher competition all that is to say, i appreciate you leaving open the sliver of possibility that it could happen! :)

Winning a World Championship is extremely difficult and I don´t see anyone wining a second trophy in the near future. Probably Ray will remain as the only player to have won in multiple instances. However, if we take into account every tournament that has ever been played, Wolfe takes a huge stand to claim to be the best. He's not the only player to have won every single level of competition, he even has the record for most Regional wins [x7] and most US Nationals [x3] (now NAIC). Both are outstanding players and both are the best in their regards.

The best Pokémon player of all time is CHAMPION LANCE. He has peaked 80 ladders between Pokémon Online, Pokémon Showdown!, and PokeBattle; achieved a GXE of 100% four times; and has achieved win-loss records of 48-0, 50-0, 55-0, 61-0, 203-21, and 209-17 in BDSP Ubers, DPP Anything Goes, Gen 9 National Dex AG, Global Showdown, USUM Anything Goes, and Gen 8 National Dex AG, respectively.

We could only call him the best of all time if he proves that he can compare with modern day pros. There were way less competitive players back then.

@@OutsideSV Is there any footage of this player in game? I'd like to see it.

death hreats arent ok however it was his fault he brought an non legal mon plain and simple even if it isnt on purpose

@@wowgek7 Still doesn't make a bit of difference to how he actually plays. There was nothing mechanically illegal about the Aegislash, it was just in a dodgy Pokéball. Nintendo/Gamefreak should really just find a way to give people the Pokémon they want for tournaments so this hacked Pokémon bullshit cease to be an issue people debate.

@@wowgek7even if he hacked it himself, it is completely IRRELEVANT if it’s legal (correct stats, ability, etc). Would not have made any difference and everyone knows that. Absolutely ridiculous.

@@godofwar2011 rules are rules and even if you disagree with that you are wrong as well. the ball an pokemon is caught it can tell something over the movesett it has so while smal it can in fact mather. either way the rules are clear no hacked mons no acceptions if you dont like that rule dont compete its that simple.

@@wowgek7 the Pokemon itself wasn't hacked the parent was. It passed all the hack checks aswell so clearly it didn't give an advantage. Your random reason for an advantage makes very little sense it is not an advantage in anyway that would impact the results of the game. It's also difficult to tell if Pokemon are hacked espically when they aren't hacked and some parent was. Yes, I suppose he had some fault for not knowing that Pokemon could not be caught in a dream ball at that time but it's such an obscure fact not even the staff noticed. Rules are rules but Pokemon can't ignore some people simply don't know their Pokemon are hacked espically when they don't even know it's hacked. You could also argue anytime you trade you risk a hacked Mon is invalid aswell because it's been shown even completely legit Pokemon that were traded can be flagged. It's fine if they want to enforce the rule but if they are doing it to the point of no exceptions then the tests for determining hacked mons shouldn't be so flawed. If they really want to double down that's fine but they need to make a better identifier or even allow player to test their own Pokemon to see if they are hacked. But, again even if that was the case that Pokemon he used was legit it was from an illegal parent but it itself was legal which is Why it passed the hack checks. Not even the current tests can determine such a conveluded hack because when it's born the game sees it as 100% legit. I see what you're trying to say but like I said if they want it to be strict they need to be able to fairly uphold that which they don't because they still flag legal mons and pass illegal ones all the time

Ray really said "Bring me some real competition" 😂😂