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Speaker: Welcome into a spooky episode of Tap Tap Cast. I'm Amanda, also known as Lumberger, and Martijn, I see you're wearing your your scary mask for the...
Speaker: Halloween season. Oh, you've been holding this wand... Oh, I can't. You know what? I'm leaving already. No, come back, come back. No it's just me. I just got home.
Speaker: And I'm still in the best. So look at us. See, we do this for our listeners to push it out immediately. And be quicker than Speedy Steve and Zee's Wireless. Yeah. Well, they're on a break, so we're definitely going to be quicker than them for a while. But I will have to say... getting an hour Individual time with you here is more than I got the whole week in Cadast. So... Had to make sure that we could film this whenever possible.
Speaker: Well, you were busy. You were busy too. No, I was... I was just on the other side of the room. That's true. that's true Yeah, I don't think I could just walk up to you and disturb you there. No, yeah. Maybe I could, I don't know. I tell you what, so yeah for... let's Let's break it down. mean maybe Maybe tell us what he did. so Well, normally I'm behind the casting desk.
Speaker: This time I was behind the graphics So I was running like helping with the the final standings players to watch all the like little added pieces And then I was also doing it for TCG So.
Speaker: it was like it was It was a lot of fun. It was really different than what we were doing. On Saturday, I had a lot of downtime after TCG started because I had to get like stuff ready for their start of show. And that was cool for me because then I got to actually kind of go out and explore the floor and talk to people a little bit more, watch some of the games from out in the crowd. I tried to avoid you, but you came up to me a couple of times. great But yeah, and then it was also cool because on Friday.
Speaker: Now, Saturday evening after the show was done for TCG, I went out and it's not like you have to preserve your voice or anything and make sure that you're being a little bit well behaved. But in turn, I'm.
Speaker: I can already feel it. I have a tickle in my throat and I think that I'm going to come home pretty sick. No. Yeah. And but you on the flip side, you started out the weekend apparently a little bit sick. When I saw you earlier on, you said that you weren't feeling the best and you didn't have high hopes for the weekend.
Speaker: Well, I was just kind of afraid of a repetition of nice which I didn't see as a failure, but it wasn't like what I'm used to, you know, getting as far as I'd like to. I mean, that's for everyone to wish, of course. But yeah, I got sick right before Nice. And now before Gdansk on the Monday off, I... i start feeling bad again so it was kind of annoying Um,
Speaker: Yeah, I'm still coughing quite a bit. I don't think I was infectious because like Ash was like next to me. The whole... from Thursday to Monday. She didn't get anything.
Speaker: So I don't think you got your craft from me. The only thing infectious about you is your smile. Oh, you. i mean We already saw each other. I know, it's true, it's true.
Speaker: I did get to see a little bit of screen time of you though, because while you. Like you said, Nice wasn't your best performance. Day two, Inadequance is back with the weirdest freaking team that I think I've seen. I mean, i and I say that with...
Speaker: 800 champs around for this tournament um you were the only person in the tournament to be running a guillotine not a surprise that that was there but also you had a lot of kicks on your team Pfft. Where do I even start? Yeah, I mean, it was just kind of... um you know like i just told you i post this this this is newer gdansk tweets yeah i haven't read it yet i'm gonna be surprised so but you can give me the too long didn't read right now on the podcast i think um
Speaker: the The biggest challenge... So for Nis, I made the team on the Friday before, so but barely hard practice and everything. And I felt like Giratina was the answer for the meta. People were like hype on this Ursa Luna guy. And I was like, okay, I just put my Ghost Dragon there by Ursa Luna guy. I have Spider and Pax to wall mail meta energy. Cool, cool, cool. Figure it out.
Speaker: And now, I felt like Toxpex wasn't cool anymore, you know? It was not a surprise. No, it was too cool. It was top 12. How boring is that? Right? Yeah. I was actually surprised it was top 12. uh i think type is pretty good but um i just realized you know after after this whole tournament that shadow force is just a big joke it's just a meme like it made everything so much more difficult you cannot run
Speaker: Shadow Force gear Tina easily into the likes of Coordinate, Melmetal and... uh, Empoleon. Because you have to bait to win. Hence. especially losing that first game to Boom. because i had shadow force and i had to bait which filled Um, Well, I didn't. My my actually Not Batingfield. but that that that was painful you know i was like if i have sneak here this is 100 win yeah
Speaker: so you know that was kind of uh why did you choose to go with shadow force just for the for the lulz just for jokes yeah like just for jokes absolutely no i'm not doing anything with a reason but it was really funny when you played against boom like because tristan and i we were sitting on opposite sides i was sitting with the tcg which is where the graphics thing was set up and i get this dm and i opened it and he said Who are you cheering for in this matchup? And I just.
Speaker: Put like the the monkey with the thing covering the eyes and I didn't answer. He's like. I can see you. And I looked over and he's like, just like. But those That's fun. Who were you rooting for?
Speaker: Yeah. I don't blame you. Boomer's a nice guy. yeah I just wish... it it just what i The only thing I hate about that is that like I lost 0 -2 to him, yes, but I felt like it didn't reflect on the actual game. They were there were so freaking close. Yeah, I agree. Well, speaking of close games for you... um I was out in the crowd at the time. I was chatting when you were playing Cockshock. Cockshock. Oh my. And I was like.
Speaker: I think it was a little Sparty. She shouted, he can't keep getting away with this because you had some. Disgusting wins in that matchup. That was incredible gameplay, don't get me wrong, but I felt so bad for Kochuk there. He was like, that first game, he had the lead, he had the switch, and just by magic trick -or -treating...
Speaker: mostly tricking on your side there. Fantastic win to be able to put you into day two. It's a great preview of what's to come. um let's talk about the locus first before i actually added dive into more of that actually are you gonna do like uh showing teams and stuff i could actually just just grab my team real quick yeah if you if you could grab my phone give give me a second i'll grab my phone real quick because it's charging right now
Speaker: Doo -doo. The role of Martijn is being played by a chair. Oh, he's back. The team are hats. Obviously gear 10, alright. uh and this time guillotine was was just there because it's me uh what was it like i need guillotine i was like no i'm just running guillotine again I had a Cramorant.
Speaker: And I thought kramer was like the best book on the meta currently well boy was I wrong amanda If you don't cover melmetal good Kramer's is bad. It's like every time I use it, it's like on a Kramer's or you swing electrodes. I had it with an Altaria Bulk Point, so that was cool. And you were running it with Surf. Surf, yes. I am a surfer. ah Out of Pocket its kind of made me doubt, and that cost me a game later as well.
Speaker: uh i don't want to blame pocket for it of course uh it's my own gameplay but but he did get into my head with something he said about a moment of matchup. um Melmetal.
Speaker: which I called GIF... ah You know what the kids do? Give give a box a fist as a greeting. yes yeah no but yes but i call it gif feast oh okay with with very high attack as you may have noticed uh zizuanos halfway to match Seth, that's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker: I take pride in that. Um... Hmm. Then the low kicks, which are called Big Thief. In Dutch, we call it zware jongen. It's basically, you know, ah what's what's what's Donald Duck's uncle called in English?
Speaker: well What's, what's, the did you know, um... Yep, no. It's like the rich uncle. yeah Yeah. Yeah, probably. Oh, my goodness. I can't remember now. either either way yeah people are always screaming it in the there's like that that those three thieves always try to rob him that's what i named the low kicks after because because it looks like such a thief um and this pokemon is supposed to tackle astonish and Byte Dunsparce, Sableye, Melmetal...
Speaker: uh coordinates. and glaring core slot. So. Obviously, they're all not hard wins. Melmetal, you lose the zeros. I think you can win the twos if you don't throw one move.
Speaker: um and of course you also lose the zeros but everything else is a pretty decent check So that's why I ran the low kicks on paper seems like an actual genius pick But I'll tell you my flaw later.
Speaker: Um... Cliff Abel. I call it heel clef, means very clingy. This one did not have a high attack. I do have a high attack Clefable, but it's just not necessary on the pokemon for this this meta because most pokemon that you want cmp for i need around 120 attack if it was like 115 so i lose charging pretty tight anyway unless i want to be really goofy And then... Diggersby is called Easter Marcus for reasons Marcus knows. And Diggersby is kind of of a funny Pokemon because, again...
Speaker: Amanda, I was obsessed with tackling Steel plus Ghost. I just hate... save lives so much. How dare you? Amanda, it's just the... I... No, it's just, like you know, okay okay let let's listen. listen once you compete you you you understand amanda that See you later. is so hard to check. It only has one weakness. You. No, it's fairy. Still be you, maybe.
Speaker: That means you have to bring a fairy type. on your team to tackle Ceblai. Now, in Puebla, we saw Mango win. uh he did face single save like
Speaker: So I didn't need a ferry. I didn't have a ferry on Steam. But every other person has at least one fairy Pokemon on their team. And what does that mean, Amanda? You played a... rps game with mel metal yeah it is that is stabilized No one else's fault. Literally no one else's fault. And to be fair, with false we've also seen Sableye double shielded by Xyz Wireless, you know, at the very beginning of the season. even powering through fairies that really only have fairy windows the attack that is in that super effective form so
Speaker: Exactly. um so yeah diggersby kind of tackles that's that's melmetal corvinite stabilize well i'm also a really big corvinite hater by the way wait save pokemon grow up um but the risk of it was like when you face grammar you cannot play this game or if you face a toke tick i face that too Horrible, horrible matchup. The cool thing about Digsby is...
Speaker: You actually live to dynamic punch, so that's cool, I guess, from Mel Metal. Now, my problem, Amanda, is what was so cool about my niece team was that if a Melmetal farms down something... I just bring in my Iroquois and my Toxic Packs and have fun with your stupid double Iron Bash and yeah Dynamic Punch. I don't care. yeah Yeah. But this team took no energy from it. So that resulted that sometimes I just...
Speaker: late as as the tournament progress i just realized melmetal's way too free into me and that's again where the problem of shadow force comes in shadow sneak you just win the zeros and ones there's melmetal uh shadow force doesn't it's kind of a very much a pity and the problem with locates as well is because i have that overlapping fairy type weakness um it's hard to bring both low kicks and guillotine and on top of that
Speaker: um i'm forced to bring melmetal every time so it's it's it's just kind of that that's that's the thing right the fable makes it a little bit easier because It covers other fairs as well. Weenie Mash. But then I play the Melmetal game again and it's like I play Clefable. dgsb core if i want to go for rps so that was kind of the the idea and especially the flaw ah about this team amanda i look back at this and i'm like how did he even get this far so
Speaker: Well, yeah, I mean, what was the but the first game we saw of you was on stream against Boom, right? That was the first one that. was it was streamed No, no, no, no. I played on day one, like...
Speaker: Three matches, no four matches. Because I sent you a message from the social because they were playing ah the things. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a very funny yeah matchup. Yeah, it it also illustrated that... I made...
Speaker: Too many mistakes again. very very annoying that I just know I shouldn't be making. Obviously, Fulvers. first pfp steve you you you you see us chatting we're both very unserious as usual and um i think in game game two i i was like i can just get to another double iron bash no i get farmed down by yeah the villain save lie and lose the game very unnecessary i just had a move stored so i could just sniped him Um,
Speaker: And then... I think it was a game two or game three. and It was just this funny moment because I played against Steve in Nice in the... Challenge or Cup? And we both had the Melmetal Bolt. I think we used... the same elemental.
Speaker: And he won at CMP. And I'm like, your Melmetal must be disgusting. Must be like a 15 -0 -0. Does nothing but win CMP. And he runs that same f freaking thing again. So you knew. So like I'm like, i'm like did he get did he get a better one from Ash and Ash maybe in Puebla? Does he have a different one? I'm just going to go for the C &P. Not only does he win CMP, he also beta beats.
Speaker: Shape on you, Steve. yeah I mean, listen, there's there's a saying, you know, fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me. I think the the shame is should actually be just point those that finger right back at you, Martijn. Crap. Maybe maybe you're right. i feel like i kind of got away with with with with like just just throwing that second game so hard that that made me very much uh not not feel confident for most of it i think it was also
Speaker: The match after was my only one at the tables, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so I played Steve first, right um It's like the the first... In a very long time, I have an early call time. So that's cool. Normally I have like a 1 p .m. call time. Great. There goes my day. This time was 8 .45. I was there up up early. Did you have to work early by the way? Oh yeah, I was, uh...
Speaker: the because the gdansk City center is where most of the hotels are at. the conference center where the event was held is actually quite far away from everything so we had a bus and so i had to be on the eight o 'clock bus every single day Which is not horrible, but yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, but you worked until like 9 p .m. i worked The first day I worked until 6 .37, I think, and also about the second day. Wow, that's very punctual, 37. Do you know which second? 6 .7, you know, 6 .30, or how you weird Dutch people say it, you know. ah We don't do that. Half seven.
Speaker: Okay, that's actually the proper way to say it. Um... Yeah. Furthermore, then I play against Borja. the first time actually it was at the tables and i i uh respectful with all respect to ah borja i mean he knows probably i annihilated him uh he looked very disappointed and i don't think it that even was because he lost i think it' just because he had absolutely No, just, I was like... Okay, if I could just keep this up, that'd be cool, you know. yeah yeah
Speaker: and then i play alfie you know uh i played alfie last year in frankfurt in the finals i had a Pretty good matchup. This time he had a good matchup and he did what I did to him there. I had no chance. I had to get all the alignment. and This is where I realized...
Speaker: that It's a pity that I just realized these things too late, honestly. Yeah. Where I was so afraid of his studio electrodes and he just kept spamming Melman. I'm like... Why? Because it was better, man. It turns out, yeah, just don't play the better one. why Why play electrodes when you can just have Melmetal check the Giratina?
Speaker: Yeah, pitiful. He got a little revenge on you there, but I suppose you would take the win over him in Frankfurt for the finals any day. Every day. Yes, yes And then, to your point, I think the highlight of my tournament, definitely against Cockshark. You said you feel sorry for him. I don't. I i i take that win anytime. No, I did actually say sorry. I mean, it's the game. It was so it was truly the most...
Speaker: Fun, but disgusting matchups. to You look at it and you're like, okay, well that was Martijn's tournament run. it was ah It was a weird team. He made it work really well. And then you look back and be like, how? Like, how is he in this position now?
Speaker: It was... You know, he I... i thought i look at his team and i'm like he doesn't really have that but good of a crown to answer you think he's suing electrodes that great but if it's behind energy and i land a fly i just can back uh back it down Amanda, I notice. I notice all the time.
Speaker: And what do I do? I CMP. I don't even run an attack with this Kremorant. I'm like, why do I do this? I was like, you know what? Let's just try it. For science. Actually for science. And it's like a two attack Kremorant. It's never going to do it. So that was just a huge, huge throw on my end. So unnecessary. Could have come out with so much energy. No, I spill it all.
Speaker: there i was You know, that game probably would have been way less close if I just didn't do that. Let me check two videos real quick. Let me show you. You're not showing. So yeah, I guess so the backup plan was to get... alignment anyway yeah yeah
Speaker: You kind of needed it, right? I mean, that was like, there was yeah yes no coming back if you got the Giratina lined up again. There would be, but only for game two. He was smart, though, unfortunately. So we didn't get the Shadow of Force even more than I wanted. The thing was... um well When he came into that... floors I knew it was Politoed. Politoed was going to be tricky Pokemon to deal with. Luckily, Amanda...
Speaker: You live by the gear, Tina. You die by the gear, Tina. Sometimes if you have ancient power, you get a boost. Yeah, sometimes. I watched that game back and I saw he wanted to weatherball and I think weatherball would have put me in fairway downrange.
Speaker: But with the boost, it didn't. Not anymore. He was in a tricky position. Because he needed all that polytote energy. for my mail metal it was way too it was almost full health he had like five much shot damage on it so yeah he couldn't really stay into that and then the The best part, and this is especially why I don't feel sorry, Amanda, is because... Of course I could try. Try to be cheeky.
Speaker: You know what he did? And I know he does this. Yee? when When I got to that Shadow Force, he looked over for a little bit. To to look at my expression. What I did was, and then what I did. Was like, oh no, crap.
Speaker: And I knew that would not have him no shields. Then the sheriff went in, and I look at him, and he's just going and insane. Yeah, he's like, sucker. Yeah. Tough for him, but it's what you get. It's what you get. You try to look at people swiping or an expression, yeah. I mean, the mind game can...
Speaker: or Or that kind of gameplay can turn back on you. I think I'm pretty good with my expressions in that regard as well. That does that does remind me, this is nothing about... the flipper uh pokemon circuit but at gofist one year you know they had like the pvp arena where you and it was one of those things where it's like if you won your first battle you went to the second ring and if you won from the second ring yeah then like after you third and third you got a t -shirt or something like that so i'm playing kevkiller
Speaker: a belgian trainer who's not really playing pvp anymore but he used to be like really really yeah good and into it and we were playing each other in the finals and uh I threw...
Speaker: I can't remember what it was. It had to have been like ah a Stunfisk. And I threw a Rock Slide. but I was like but faking an earthquake or something. I can't remember. It was either one of one of the other ways around and he was like watching me. And so he didn't shield. And at the end he was like, you really need to work on your, ah like you're being too obvious. with And he's like.
Speaker: You know? was like, oh, am I? That's good. That's good. And that's exactly what well how how that was there, right? so it so like On a regional as well. You have this this this this barrier thing, but like some of us. not me usually, are tall enough to look over it. ah Right? um
Speaker: So yeah, that happened in game one, then game two. Oh, majestic. We got to Shadow Force. And an actual Shadow Force, Amanda, was not not just a 40 % floggers that would have gotten knocked out by a Shadow Sneak anyway. No, this was a like 65 % health polytose.
Speaker: And I hear. I hear the cast, I look back at it, and I hear the cast are like, is it going to be enough? Is it going to be enough? Amanda, I was fully convinced that Polito was going to get blown out the window.
Speaker: Like, Guarantina was coming in... Bye -bye! That was probably yeah for me the highlight of day one. games was watching those matches. So if anyone wants to watch back at some really, really fun matches, not fun for Coke Shack, of course, but. Just ah some interesting gameplay. That was definitely it. for For day number two, I have to admit, I...
Speaker: Because since I was doing graphics, once you had made it into the final standings. the the top eight, I turned to Julian, who's the photographer. And I said, we need to find. the photo of Martijn where he was cosplaying as Cyrus ah because if he for some stupid reason ends up winning this tournament um
Speaker: i want to I want to have that graphic on as the as the play the big player profile. Because I think that was the the major like bummer of when you won with it and you had cosplayed with the Giratina behind you is that that wasn't the photo that they used on the the graphic. Yeah, they did for Stuttgart. Yeah, but it wasn't like right out. And I was like, I thought that was going to be your photo from then on.
Speaker: but yeah it's it would have been very cool yeah and they just totally forgot about it and they they use the same picture they they took of me like four years ago when i was you know i i Don't understand, but sure. Fresh baby face boy.
Speaker: I take like new pictures every six months by now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I actually wanted to cosplay as Cyrus again, but but the batch broke off. They're right there. I know that because we talked about it the day before. You said, oh, if I make it to day two with this crazy team, then I will probably, ah you know, cosplay.
Speaker: so I can show you real quick. That it will also lead the Spotify listeners to YouTube. So get extra views. Look. okay Yeah, guys, if you're just listening on Spotify, you might as well go ahead and click back over to to the YouTube so you can see Martijn's special thing that he's about to show up here. i I'll talk it through. here
Speaker: Oh, that's... It's broken off. Like, this is basically a different pin. I don't even remember which one. I think it's like a Pokemon Center one. That, that like, ah my my my brother's wife made something on it, and then...
Speaker: But now it's like broken off. So it's like very unfortunate. Yeah, that's why I couldn't do it and the other one simultaneously broke with it I have two actually, a big one and a small one. Did you just snap them in half? You're like, oh. No, I would never. I can't cosplay. These are so good. They are good, yeah, yeah. Honestly, speaking of cosplaying, this weekend was really good for it because for Go at least, the casters were very dressed up. And we had some very funny.
Speaker: punny names. I love a good pun. And so Jay had originally shown us in our lister little chat of him dressing up as clay and then at one point i was like oh my goodness can we call you clay the underdog that weekend and then we realized that blaine's or you know blaine was also gains and i was like dang that's so good pokey blaine's and then marcus jumped on top of it and he picked archie afterwards so he could be archie aurelius so i was like man these the
Speaker: Big applause. of And we have one more, right? oh Yeah, but and that was also the joke. And Farid. As Leon. look There's not really a pun that you can make into that one. You can't be a regional champion, you cosplay one. yeah No, I especially like... Especially Gains, his outfit just looks...
Speaker: uh so perfect like with all respect to the others of course also very good but case just just killed it it was so good it was good yeah he had like also fun little riddles that he had made up too i was like i thought that that was like a very fun uh broadcast to listen i was telling marcus that is like and I mean this in the best way possible, sometimes it was like unhinged like you know like there's like point i see a lot of like chaos going on
Speaker: um But it was fun and entertaining. And I think a lot of people will look back on the broadcast probably throughout the season and will be like, that was a really fun broadcast to watch, not only from the caster's perspective, but also like the walkouts were really funny with people. There was a lot of really, really good gameplay with some Pokemon that we hadn't seen.
Speaker: quite so much i mean the meta hasn't change theoretically, like the nothing about the movesets are changing but Every single time now, the the Pokemon for the meta is shifting.
Speaker: especially in Europe. Well, especially when you have like like a small group of players that are brainstorming on how to corebreak. Yeah, yeah. um And I think the Medchamp story, if you're well in the community, you're practicing now now and then, did the Medchamp was not hidden. it It was definitely out there that it was coming.
Speaker: But yeah, you just see that, like especially amongst trainers like Boom. bottom and beef b david they they use the same stuff That's good on them. Like. You can build together. there's there's There's nothing wrong with that. You're going to face each other eventually sometime. I mean, boom, face Batman in Frankfurt as well. Or was it It was Frankfurt, yeah. Yeah. It was so crazy because if you remember, lot was it last season? I think it was in Gdansk. So boom in PvP David. ran the same team.
Speaker: um And they were. both in the grand finals together. David ended up beating Boom. ah boom and david also ran the same team this time but i think it just kind of got a little bit overshadowed at the beginning because Boom and Pato Man had just played each other in Frankfurt with a very similar team. Everyone knows that they're friends now as well. So it's like.
Speaker: And they do the Machamp cosplay? Yeah, they do that, which is so funny. But I was telling David that I was like, oh, I don't know if you listen to our podcast. Obviously he does. Yeah, sure. But ah I picked you as my...
Speaker: caster pick for the caster fan is my our little draft ah and he said thank you he's like everyone's glazing boom over here but he's like i'm the the reigning champion and we have the same team
Speaker: It's a good point. Here's a good point. Yeah, it's ah you're right. It is kind of overshadowed. And right now I'm just happy. Amanda, that... Their teams weren't so freaking. boring. Yeah.
Speaker: thank god that there wasn't a champ on there oh i can i could not stand another quacksire altaria third mirror good lord so Thanks that they run Machamp to pace it up a little bit. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: And how about the mega Junko? I did say it too. I said, you know who I would have like, I should have maybe picked as Junko because he's doing better and better. And that is true too. He started out the season with a bang. Fourth place in Frankfurt, third place in Nice, second place now in Gdansk.
Speaker: And he is playing in Stuttgart, so it's very interesting to see if this will be his actual timeline. but Yeah, it might be a player to watch. He could be a player too. I owe him an apology. A couple days ago, he was like saying, hi, Drake, I'm better than Gearty. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you just started. I'm like, you want to compare achievements? Okay, dude, shut up.
Speaker: And he's actually been doing pretty well. So I'm sorry. yeah He didn't even have a Shadow Hydreigon on his team this time. He's proving once again, this this kid is cracked. Yeah, he was proving me right that Hydreigon sucks. But my apologies. I wasn't familiar with your game. uh well done mega junkie i'm just glad that it's working for him because it's like the the tournaments in the previous season didn't go as well uh for him uh i believe it was like maybe maybe a top 16 somewhere but
Speaker: Yeah, now it's fine. Because I've always seen him as a good player. But I also feel like if you don't perform as well at the start... yeah it's not exactly appealing to keep going. i feel yeah Yeah, maybe that's true. But I think that... Out of anything, he's probably a good... Peace.
Speaker: for the opposite right i mean so it's like if you know that you're a good player sometimes you just maybe have to work out the kinks of playing live against other people playing in a completely different setting um because he said it too he's he's not always like super comfortable and big crowds and there's certain things that like maybe overstimulate him sometimes a little bit, but he's really focused and locked in and he's looks like he's kind of turning that to his advantage. I was doing graph. Like I was like panicking by the end because with the the graphics, some of it is.
Speaker: done by like just like click that that's this kind of the stuff that Tristan can handle like if you see the Pokemon come out of the ball and so you see the teams of six but the final standing stuff that's like all like me dragging sprites over and I'm like oh crap now this person beat this person so I'm like moving things around and then in the losers finals Junko just like swept through Galax so quickly I'm like I don't have to and then David doh also started sweeping through so quickly I'm like can we just get some more games so I can get this done in time
Speaker: Really? Does it take that much time or is it because you have so many graphics through each other to make? so it's It's like, I mean, you have to go and make sure that the the sprites are correct for the...
Speaker: Yeah, but so like you don't want the Clefairy instead of Clefable, right? Yeah, yeah, you did hear about that. I was like, it's so tiny. I'm like, how do you even look and see this? I have a Clefairy build, by the way. Should have you just played it. That's what I wanted. That's what I was saying. I was like saying, my yeah, come on. I thought we were in this together.
Speaker: But yeah, so then I was like, okay. So I was like moving stuff around up until like the, pretty much the very last time. Cause you have to make one for both. trainers right because there's not enough time to ah from the time that they win to be able to be like okay now we'll now we'll make the graphic and no one told me that there was no uh outro in the lounge so i thought i had a bit more time for
Speaker: one of the graphics, like the regional champions one with whoever's face. I'm like, oh, I'll do that one last, making sure that we get all these other ones done first. because And then Tristan's like, there's no lounge. I was like. okay let's Let's get this done.
Speaker: yeah And then i took I took that same like... crazy like frantic energy for TCG because they're like okay we want to make this we want to make this entirely new graphic uh before the finals we don't even we don't have one of the finalist photos yet so when they get done with their game we'll quickly come back and take their photo and I was just like panicking you know like trying to yeah get all this stuff done and then all of a sudden I was like Oh, we have 40 more minutes before the next player is announced who's going to be in the...
Speaker: What am I doing? Yeah, it's it not going quick. i think it like ghost to This is a whole different ballgame. ah An easier ball game, you would say, or or not? um I guess with Go you're more familiar with players who you grab, but with Tishibuchi...
Speaker: You want to know who's who, no? Exactly. I mean, the thing with the TCG is there's just more tools that you have to go through to like, you know, find the decks and... they're combining decks because there's like four dragon bolt decks that are good so it's like for some for their metagraphics they want all the dragapult decks combined to be like okay and dragapult is 60 of the tournament but then they also want that broken down to and of these
Speaker: 66%, 30 % of them are Dragapult to Dunsparce. 12 % is Dragapult. Badoo and you know, just so. um but But these are things that I don't know you know ahead of time. so yeah Also, someone's like, oh, the Raging Bolt is actually a part of the Ogre Pwn deck. And I was like...
Speaker: oh Yeah, obviously. Everyone knows that. These non -go -coconuts. What's a raging bull?
Speaker: Is it a side effect? A weather boost? But it was a lot of fun. Talk about a winner. Yeah. I had fun doing both of them. And it's cool just kind of be back in like production stuff because that's what I. did in my college, I worked for like the TV station and stuff. And I did a lot of like behind the scenes things.
Speaker: And it was only. really doing the my pvp academia with obby and sergio and having to sit in sometimes because someone couldn't cast uh like one of the gym breakers matchups so i would like have to be running the scenes and doing the casting um that i really even started doing that from Pokemon Go perspective.
Speaker: Mm hmm. where did my pvp academia go it's just the lombard channel now right yeah i mean like everyone just got a little bit busy and then like yeah i think that when sylph kind of To your point of the last podcast, when you're like, it's kind of a bummer that grassroots.
Speaker: aren't what it is ah when grassroots kind of died out that was like our main focus of the channel was like you know doing like these are the metas for the upcoming sunshine cup and these are the pokemon and stuff so so I mean, you can't really do that for play Pokemon as much because...
Speaker: Yeah, it's a little of course. Of course. um To continue with with with my run, Manda. um Right after Cog Shock. Play against Borja. And that was when I started losing every lead.
Speaker: I felt like. I let Gearty into Malamar three times. Yeah. Very fun. Got away with it barely. um I also got two disputes against me. for players uh Oh. Tapping.
Speaker: Next. or where there's a wanted to tap against borja had a dispute where he wanted to shield a malamar Um, and the shield didn't go off, according to him. Sure, I'll believe it. The the thing that was weird to me.
Speaker: And obviously, this is not like something that I can see, right? But but to me, it was like he only noticed after Spokane got killed. does Does that tell me? you click at the very very very last second and yeah so maybe you're too late right it's possible um because like if you're tapping your shields uh during those 10 seconds and it nothing is working you're like hey judge judge judge look look look look look Yeah, so that was kind of an iffy one.
Speaker: there but to be fair a lot of people have to make very last second calls of whether or not they're shielding and so yeah Of course, but but in that case, it's more like player error yeah and in that scenario. Or... or maybe not maybe not but it might just be too hard to see or to decide like or to prove yeah that's Borja actually pressed her. I felt bad for him. He's a good guy.
Speaker: And day two, Amanda. I would face the... the loser of alfie versus pockets now alfie destroyed me before that so this whole evening and And mourning. I was just obsessing over... How do I beat Alfie? I can't win this composition. I scrimped Rice, I scrimped a Chira, Zardy, and it's like...
Speaker: Can't do it man. Maybe I should just call it here so To get some extra championship points, I played to the cup in the morning before actually playing on stream. I saw that you said that you're like, what time do I have to get in? Because I'm going to go early and play the cup.
Speaker: Yep, that's that's what I did, actually. And I was like, you know what? To beat my opponent, Amanda, I need to be my opponent. So I locked in Alfie's team in the c cup. Interesting.
Speaker: And I actually qualified for the Top Gun, didn't play it because then I had to play the main event. So I got 25 points from that. And then it turned out, when i when I got picked up straight after that to play on the main tournament, I didn't even get to play off -field.
Speaker: Because Alfie beat Pockets. yeah I had to play Pockets. and We played twice before Pockets, I think in Hartford. That's when he got his Bastiodon on my Charizard in game 3.
Speaker: Super fun. Oh, there's worlds when his Malamar... was impossible for me as well. And I cannot let someone go 3 -0 against me. So I had to beat him. Well, he he actually went like with crazy lines.
Speaker: And that it worked out very very well for me. Cleo was very good. Giratino was very good. We got Shadow Force again. And BM poked a little bit. He was okay with that, with you know doing his his own celebrations slash expression when he wins a tough matchup, which is like, ah ah yes, exactly that. That's what I did. So I was... I was happy with that one Got me top eight. yeah
Speaker: time Time out. Put a pause in that real quick, because on the last podcast, you said podcast or. Pocket was bringing some sauce that you were considering, but then once he said he was coming to Gdansk, you took it off your team. Was it a carbic?
Speaker: Was this your the sauce that ah that you were considering bringing? That was not the sauce. But I've considered Carbic multiple times. Because it breaks Corviknight that doesn't run Iron Head anymore. Sableye and Ursaluna. The three met hard mana Pokemon. So, yeah, I have... I've had drafts with Karbing. The pick was Scrafty.
Speaker: Okay, so neither of you ran it then. nope nope we both didn't believe in it eventually and you know what looking back at it maybe it could have been an okay pick honestly it's like good ball good moves but And ah honestly, in my run, definitely could have...
Speaker: put in work because I faced no Galarian Corsair, I believe. Did you face any Shadow of the Champs? Yeah, but that's a poop. a won I think that poop was into a Scrafty.
Speaker: Okay, well, but it isn't guillotine, so I'm always fine. Okay. Everyone knows I always bring guillotine. True, true, true. Okay, yeah take the pin out of, now now you can continue. Oh, no, sorry, one more pin. You said that you had two disputes. again The other one was ZZ, right? Yes. yeah Yes.
Speaker: um Obviously... ZZ, good friends. um he He may be a little bit nervous because... Before the match, he said, the winner can stay on Sharks. And I'm like, oh, shit. I did it before. I'm like 12 -0 Battlefield here, but playing Pokemon is a different beast. um And...
Speaker: Going into that first match, I played a little bit of a soft ABA 2 Melmetal. But something that Pocket said threw me off. Because he said... I would play Dive here, ah specifically for Melmetal, because otherwise...
Speaker: They can just double Iron Bash. shield once and farm you all the way down and it's even worse for you and i look at my team like i cannot soak the energy anywhere so i'm just gonna catch but my original plan was to just surf let it go if that matchup gets really close then clefable in the back is free um Had I done that...
Speaker: Maybe, maybe if he shielded the surf, yeah, I would have been cooked. But otherwise, Michael le Fay on the back versus Tokatik and a save line would have been pretty good. So game one is a total toss.
Speaker: uh i i catch a move on diggers be whoa great play he comes with toke tick totally nullifies my beautiful play and then uh he has like a billion energy for michael fable that has to solo a toke tick and save light with a shoot down later impossible of course, game two. That's when the dispute happened. And I look back at it. It was a very very rough one And I think that CC was just a little bit too late tapping move He wanted to get a charge security tie on a fire punch for my days be at the very ends in that leads of Diggins v. Sableye. But it looked like he just stopped too late.
Speaker: Just did an extra shadow of claw. easily He's like, Amanda, you know how he taps? No. He taps here. and like in the very bottom yeah you guys you gotta to be watching this episode yeah he taps like like like like two spots like in the very left corner i'm like who does that if i do that i just i'm opening it yeah i'm closing my app the whole time yeah he must be playing on samsung
Speaker: but does I don't know. i i could I'm looking at them like... And I looked at Emmy Weedle's recap as well. It's like... he's all surprised like he said there's a random tab there it's a random thing he also couldn't believe it it was
Speaker: It was very funky, right? It kind of reminds me of, like, how Galaxy Composer was, like, with his two thumbs. Like, I was just thinking the exact same thing, where it's just like, scribble, scribble, scribble. they're very precarious uh tappers in our community let's call it that so uh he lost that one I saw his something on
Speaker: um twitter who is like I'm not in the cool kid chat. but we're all We're too old. We're tapping outside the areas where we're meant to be tapping. I'm right with him. I also feel too old sometimes. When I play this and I compete against the kids, it's it's life.
Speaker: Um. All right. And then the third game was the funkiest one. You thought the Shadow Force one versus Cookshack was cool. This was the low kicks one. This was actually where I brought low kick and it did something. It was cool. It was really good.
Speaker: you wouldn't say that when you see the leads so funky game i lead um actually before leading up going into the leads i was like the whole time thinking Do I need Clefable or Lokic? It has to be one of the two.
Speaker: but always if i he played a lot of metal so if i lead the fable and i lose the leads what do i swap i cannot swap anything and only go into diggers b i'm just a dead man if i lose the lead into melmetal Um,
Speaker: so I couldn't do that I went with low kicks instead at the very, very last second. And then ZZ says... i think this is stupid but i'm gonna do it anyway and i'm like This is gonna be like some ridiculous ABA. It's gonna be something like... Machamp or Sableye lead with the other one in the back. It has to be. But I'm going to stick to my own plan and I'll... Just lock in the low kicks lead. Hard ABA to token tick.
Speaker: because i was playing metal and i felt like he he saw that coming so i was so that he would not not bring tokyo We see the leads, Amanda. So I play ABA to my champ. What do you think I see in the lead?
Speaker: Yeah, Machamp. Yeah, it's Machamp. So he went with he went with the freaking ABA into Glavable. Unbelievable, this guy. um And then i read i I was like, well... Here it goes. We're just going to double shield this, hopefully. Oh, for the best. And apparently, Amanda, I suck a bunch. She does about the same. There was this karate chop. Yeah, i I was actually like.
Speaker: Thinking whoa, this is way Better than I thought it would be for those optics. So I was like okay i don't know this matchup at all but i would have immediately been like oh it's kind of i mean it's not super bulky of a pokemon and no shadow of a champ hits super hard pretty much but i guess but not the karate chops right so to your point if you're double shielding you're just actually able to.
Speaker: put in a little bit of work. Actually a lot of bit of work. It was a very funky matchup. um Mostly... If ZZ had stayed into that Machamp versus low kicks...
Speaker: michael fable in the back would be free he would have to stay in with my champ because he cannot align a save like down shields and down shields melmetal gets almost one shot by escorting stance he just gets wiped off the floor so Um,
Speaker: What he did was catch my... Second move, I believe. ah Yes, the second. move. on his save light. and what i did was throw a dark post on what would have been charged security time amanda low kicks loses just to be tied to him a champ if he just launched a cross chop i would have been dead And the thing is...
Speaker: and I have a little bit of a attack on low kicks. for specific breakpoints. But I was not aware the difference was that big. I'm pretty sure he would have just knocked me out and I could have top lefted. I may as well have top lefted. But that didn't happen. He got a dark pulse because I was like, I only get to one charge deck here anyway. So I'm just going to throw the hard -hitting charge deck in case he catches on Melmetal. No, he catches on Sableye. And Sableye sucks him, as you know. so Dark Pulse plus five Sucker Punch just knocked out the Sableye and...
Speaker: Reverse uno? No! I had to switch advantage. Yeah. So he comes in with Melmetal. They put you in such a good position at that point. I was like I just won the game. This is the way I lose this now. He comes in with Melmetal. Eats another dart ball. So I'm like, dude. This is...
Speaker: This is the first time I could tell someone that low kicks whoop their butt yeah yeah it' like like that That's low kicks took all down to my champ almost wiped out a save lie and that brought a metal down to 30 yeah It was insanity.
Speaker: yeah it was a bad crazy game after that game but i mean again fun to watch and it's also fun when people know each other right and are having a good time together so i think that that's yeah No, it was fun to face him. me He's been...
Speaker: Like in recent scrims, I've not been playing super well against him, but... nice that that i did well when it was for the marbles yeah um he could have had me because i goofed technically but I do think his play was necessary so that that that per se wasn't wrong but my mistake was trying to go for CMP there because I would have 100 % lost that and if he knew that he would win CMP there I would have been. Cooked.
Speaker: But... I mean... I would think though that he would think that... He... would win CMP. i think he He did not know. He really didn't, because I think that Shadow Machamp is one of the highest... ah do Do you know low -kicks attack? No, no. no this I don't think anyone knows low -kicks attack. I assume things... as for i always go by like frailty a little bit so i'm like okay the more yeah frail usually are They're probably going to win CMP.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Lokex is one of those fragile Pokemon. It is fragile, but it's not as fragile. Yeah. yeah I know Lokex attack, but I didn't know Machamp attack. So for me, it was vice versa. And I'm like, okay, I have like 135 attack. I probably win Charizard Purity tie.
Speaker: And then I don't know if I seemed with the rank one Machamp, but Machamp has about 135 attack. And that is a good Machamp. yeah so I'm i actually curious. but Yeah, I'm just looking it up right now. Shadow Machamp.
Speaker: Yeah, the rank 1 has 134 attack yeah and the rank 1 lowkicks has 131. So my lowkicks had like 135 attack. um It could have went charge stick pretty tight. It actually could have on on a lot of them. It it's could have. If you had a really good one. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. So. It was a very goofy game. I would guess my my thing was just on vibes. If you would have been like, well, of course, of course I know. But this is like Leo when he I can't remember there was a matchup that he was like.
Speaker: pause Yeah, that I remember. I think it was like. ah Shadow Kento Marowak. And he was surprised that it like. Won or lost CMP, I can't remember.
Speaker: Yes, you're right. though There was with Leo where he thought that. But I think it was an IV -dependent matchup. And he just had such a bad one or something that he always won. He was so confident. Yes, he was so confident he would win charge security design. And it didn't. yeah So.
Speaker: that' ah that That does... ah that That does happen. Sometimes so the the attacks are pretty close to each other. Um, who knows who otherwise it would have played out my next round will be because boom uh the one you were rooting for Which...
Speaker: I actually had a great lead. Clefé went to my champ. Tremendous. I know he switched Quacksign. He always switched Quacksign to me. That's whatever. so i stayed in i'm like he's always gonna play him empoleon quackside core whatever I've got a nice stun shoot down afterwards.
Speaker: And... um than one of the flaws of my guillotine. game uh to show. Which is like I said at the start of it if you have shadow sneak you can just Easily take, or not easily, but It's more.
Speaker: comfortable to take on steel type pokemon like corvinite like melmetal like empoleon And... Boom shields my shadow force. I just went for it trying to go through one shield Um, He shoots my Shadow Force at the very, very, very last second. And I lose me the game because... three drill pack our 120 energy combined to shadow force 130 energy so i needed a bait otherwise if he was going to use a shield and that was That that that left a foul.
Speaker: taste in my mouth but because i i know that matchup from from but For a year, pretty much. Very very unfortunate
Speaker: Yeah, Game 2, I don't know if you if he saw it, but it was just a very, very... very close matchup where i i had lost the lead he played very patient too right uh not just from my end where I make a play and he makes a play. One of the flaws of his team that I kind of... made advantage took advantage of, to no success, was that you cannot really play Empoleon and Florges into a Melmetal team.
Speaker: That was his weak spot. Like, you cannot even safe switch safe switch either, really. You you could take Melmetal low. into Empoleon, but it just comes out with so much energy that your Quacksire or something is going to take a punch. That's not fun. So I was like, okay, if he leads Melmetal, I can always just go in low kicks or Giratina. He doesn't have an answer. He cannot have an answer. So, you know, low kicks made it very difficult for him.
Speaker: To the point where at the very very end I had two X's Amanda here the Dunsparce and a Quagsire Both having a move. I have two X scissor. And I was like, Bye. I don't think Dark Pulse does it. I don't think Axis does it here. I throw the Dark Pulse.
Speaker: But knowing Boom, it might just be the 15 -15 -0. Yeah, yeah said this is this is the only Quagsire I have. It's very high attack. Because if axis had knocked out a dunce that done sparse I don't think it would have then I would have won because I come out with another exit. Yeah but I don't think I would have yeah and then ah yeah he throws a melee very smart and my Mil Medals won. than the shock of the Iron Man. Well played by... I think we both...
Speaker: Pretty much. perfectly executed that but he just had a slightly more edge oh actually he did one thing better than me um i was thinking the whole time was charge back in the back and not done smart so okay he made a great catch on a double iron bash where i was like okay if he catches double iron bash he just gets himself into dark pools range and i'm fine but but yeah It wasn't close.
Speaker: That reminds me of another play. I don't know if you you saw it, but it was Pato versus Maxie. Yeah. And there was like just really good plays by both of them. um And Maxie had. Pato in a position where it was...
Speaker: like three his three pokemon but they were all pretty low health and just the corviknight by oh draw And I was like... If he boosts, which is a... possibility then it's over for maxi because pato played it
Speaker: perfectly like mathematically not like getting as much energy as possible not letting the damage go through before go like putting off his attack and in the end it's like maxi's i can't remember what the last pokemon even was chargeable i didn't even think corvin i would get there yeah and then so i turn around i'm like yes maxi won and then
Speaker: uh i don't remember who was sitting next i think was it boom was sitting next boom or z was sitting next to me or pocket maybe even and yeah it was pocket and it was looked like wait wait wait is he winning this i'm like wait what just happened they couldn't get there still That thing was...
Speaker: and i don't know what it' because at the no hpia It's because of the new mechanics, right? It's like in the past, it used to be that the damage went through on the second to last, but now when it's actually on the last part of the turn duration... of If you have a one -turn attack, Patil just like... Truly, I was like, man, if he pulls this off.
Speaker: this is the play this this was probably that's the video thing yeah yeah this is literally perfect but yeah Unfortunately for him, he he needed the air cutter boost to be able to... on If you would have got the first one boost, he would have had the game for sure.
Speaker: Yeah. But I also thought about because he was running an Alolan Ninetales with Dazzling Gleam on it. as a second attack and i was just like apparently he just doesn't want to win I think Chilliwata's the way, but that that's my opinion, I guess. I mean... That's some bold decisions. You're just so vocal about that. Oh, people who play dazzlingly news just don't want to win.
Speaker: It's true. Guess you didn't want to win. I agree. I mean, Patman had some bold decisions throughout the tournament. Some of them paid off. ah Safe swapping Alonon Naito into an Ampouleon team in round one did not pay off for him. Sometimes you don't get away with it. Sometimes you look at these players like Boom, Batman, you're like, how do they always win and get away with these things? Well, they don't always get away with it. Yeah, it's true. Neither do I.
Speaker: But, I mean, coming off of, I mean, Pato also obviously having a really great start to the season, winning Frankfurt. Obviously, I don't think this was his or not. So not fourth and Frank for winning Nice. Nice. Yeah. yeah um But.
Speaker: Not top cutting this tournament, but still. walking away with a decent amount of points playing some really good people boom keeping up his accolades of top cutting every regional that he's ever played in which is insane and like we yeah we already discussed mega junco's really really good run i i don't want i'm not trying to leave anyone out these are just
Speaker: Obviously, I'm not casting, so I'm not following everything 100%, but i tried to I got the team in the back to give me a headphones so I could actually listen to the matchups and watch stuff too while I was doing my games speaker or my graphics and stuff. because i really like to feel a part of the the community and see what's going on.
Speaker: You're... It's... hard to include everyone we had on day two 10 out of 12 competitors already had one at least one regional so that just shows what kind of competition and now we can say all 12 of them have been in grand finals After this. Right? because it was yes, off the and the mega junko. Yes.
Speaker: Which was crazy. Yeah, I would have loved to play Galax Cabal. Gheratino would have feasted there. ah I learned a very interesting fact about Galax when he said it in the interview about how ah he doesn't prepare.
Speaker: he doesn't know He doesn't look even at his opponent's team. until they change team sheets. So he's not studying up. And then ah i I can't remember who's interviewing him, but he said something like, oh, well, you know, if you. You just beat Boom, so if you do play bit David...
Speaker: You at least know how to play against that team. And he was like, oh, I didn't know they had that same team. He was like, oh, but they'll play it differently anyway. he's ah He's a very funky guy. I like Galax. Also very humble, but of course. i'm of of course and He hasn't made a deep run in a while, too. So it's good for him that he got top three there, too. With the Shadow Eye dragon, by the way. So it it was not non -existent. It was around. Also, his walkout was really awesome. I mean, all of them have been funny, but he is...
Speaker: known for a coin flip Pokemon that he hasn't brought for quite a while. uh with the superior with leaf tornado and of which always has a chance of debuffing your opponent by quite a bit and so he walks out and he does like ah a coin flip i like you know Like a heads or tails scenario. I'm like, that's pretty good.
Speaker: i I'm glad that book one has been around for a little bit. uh you just should stick to it i use gear you know why can't i use it yeah i mean he he literally said but but one other time he's gonna use it in every meta that he thinks it's viable so I'm wondering whether the big...
Speaker: things that is making it not viable right now. I guess no metal. Geartina's not. if you keep on know that Well, surely you have play. yeah Just write the coin flip play. yeah But even like the flyers that are... popular right now are like Corbin Knight, that's...
Speaker: It's not like - Yeah. No, that is that is highly unplayable. No, I said that's not great. Especially if you're running Leaf Tornado, right? Cremorant might be a more playable matchup for sure. But I think if you look at like... fairy quack sire and dunsparce those were the usage um you have played to those at superior So, yeah, I think just chickened out. Better play next time, pal. Yeah.
Speaker: Man, you just can't trust anything he says. I guess that's the the moral of this story. It is what it is. In the end, B .P. David taking it with Chairman Champ is yeah is's quite something. For two years in a row. Is he the only defending reigning champion that we have?
Speaker: For regionals, I think yes. That's cool. I mean, for EYC, we have both. Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. And we've had people who've won multiple. um but with years i think and yeah so i mean but yeah Defending is a pretty cool thing.
Speaker: Mm hmm. and that was the end end of your run which was still like a really good run you were Yeah, I mean, i looking back at it with the... with the crap that i brought almost yeah yeah that is true i like how do i forget there i'm glad i'm glad with with where i got for sure but i didn't think i'd get that far after losing off and did you ah because i know that one thing that you were saying earlier on just like you you like to compete.
Speaker: in pretty cities. because it gives you a chance to explore them a little bit more. I know that you said you were a little bit sick, but did you get a chance to? do anything cool because i mean there was a lot of like fun people that came to i mean they're always fun i'm not saying that but but having some of the americans come over um oh you say americans are from europeans and all i see how it is
Speaker: There were some people. the cities it was pretty we walked for a little bit on friday but i didn't do as much because i wasn't feeling too well um the food oh my goodness amanda we went to the best places i had the the biggest what what do they call it there instead of schnitzel they call it the shabowi i believe okay yeah they're They're like almost a freaking half meter long. Oh. I finished both of them. Great.
Speaker: Yeah, so i have a good I had a good time for sure. so If there's not anything else that you want to say about Gdańsk, I... was requested originally for Go to make some spooky Pokedex entries.
Speaker: But the thing got so busy. that they weren't able to do them. So I wondered if you wanted to do a couple of them. with me now because I think you're pretty decent at this game.
Speaker: Okay, but you already know the answers. Yeah, well, I'm going to give them to you, so I'm going to read them to you. Bring it on. Alright. Well, it will start out pretty easy, okay? Okay. All right.
Speaker: when it finds humans or Pokemon it likes. It freezes them and takes them to its chilly den. where they become decorations. Froslass. Very good.
Speaker: all right hiding in people's shadows at night, it absorbs their heat. The children caught...
Speaker: This Pokemon lives in dark places untouched by sunlight. When it appears before humans, it hides itself under a cloth that resembles a Pikachu.
Speaker: Mimikyu. me a difficult one. Alright, let me find a more difficult one. It... Its flickering spores lures in prey. and puts them to sleep. Once this Pokemon has its prey snoozing, it drains their vitality with its fingertips.
Speaker: It's fingertips. lord And uses spores? Flickering spores So that has to be like a grass -type Pokemon.
Speaker: What is...
Speaker: I would have no idea, Armando. Ooh, we got him! We got him, guys! a grass it has to be like a grass and ghost is this okay give me one give me one tip give me one Let me - Tell me this. Is this in Pokemon Go? Yes.
Speaker: I only picked Pokemon that were in Pokemon Go. That's it. Thank you. help too it's not the it's not the anchor one it's not revenant Could it be funk? Pumpkaboo.
Speaker: No. I think Plump Caboo had a different one. Yeah, I don't think it's pumpkaboo either. Yeah, what? Yes. Uh, Shenotic. That's a fairy type! ah I didn't think that was an evil Pokemon.
Speaker: Whoa, whoa, spooky, come on. this is so what you asked for You asked for a hard one, right? Yeah, i guess I guess. How about this? it you will use any means necessary to frighten people and absorb their life energy It practices constantly to hone its skill. and causing fear.
Speaker: It's practices. I kind of feel like there has to be like a fighting in Ghost, but what is that? It's not Annihilator, that's a different one. Is there not a fighting and ghost? It's not a fighting and ghost Pokemon.
Speaker: Okay, can can you read it one more time? Yes. Um... Going back up to it. It will use any means necessary to frighten people. and absorb their life energy.
Speaker: It practices constantly to hone its skill in causing fear.
Speaker: I would say it's the... um it evolves And this is the lower evolution. Yeah, I'm thinking of Haunter. but It only evolves once. This is the First evolution. okay So it's not altered. Thank you.
Speaker: Uh...
Speaker: grievers I'm going with a random guess, but I don't think that's the one. It's mischievous. No! That's the only one I was thinking! I, ugh. Dang it. I'll give you the last hard one, okay?
Speaker: okay or do you want an easy one to make you feel self feel better whatever you want it'll go with We'll go with an easier one first. This Pokemon appears just before someone passes away. Lampent. Yep, okay, fine. You got too cocky with the Gengar immediately. All right. This is the last one we'll play of Spooky Pokédex entries. Okay. It summons the dead. with its dreamy dancing.
Speaker: From their malice it draws power with which to curse its enemies. Miss Marcus? No. This doesn't evolve. Oh.
Speaker: It's a ghost. I didn't say that. Oh. Okay, so maybe not. It's it it dances Yes. It dances. What is it? I will say that I gave these to Louie Louie Lou and Zoe because they were standing by me while I was making them and ah And Zoe got it by By the exact same thing that she said that you just said.
Speaker: She said dreamy dancing. Dreamy dancing? Something that has dream eater, maybe? be So it summons the dead with its dreamy dancing. From their malice, it draws power from which to curse.
Speaker: its enemies.
Speaker: What summons to death? I will give you the typing. Oh. It's a ghost flying. But... if it's any the indication I didn't know it and I had to look up the typing.
Speaker: And it's in... it that It's in Go? It's not Drift Bloomer. I would be sad if I did not know the typing.
Speaker: It's not dribbling or dribbling. Yeah. Again. now Give me a little credit.
Speaker: Ghosts are flying. I don't know, Amanda. There are other forms of it that are not ghost and flying. It can't be Rotom, no.
Speaker: but I would say the ah one around where we could get it was... is a Fire type, I believe. now I have to look that up too. not now now Now I'm totally lost. The one that we can get? Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, is fire and flying. It's fire and flying. It's not ghost. No, the one that we can get is fire and flying This one is ghost and flying.
Speaker: If you compete in America, you could get one that's electric and flying.
Speaker: and in hawaii it's the bird it's the birds it's the bird i don't orichorio yes finally says that's the book wide laboratory exactly but that's a tricky one right yeah oh that is a good one that's a good one Not spooky though. Maybe a little bit, maybe a little bit. with the description yeah so i know that you're normally very good at that game so i was You know, started you out easy. Obviously could tell that you knew quite a bit of them, but he had to throw in a couple hard ones too. ah
Speaker: You got me. Should I just go for over some events that we're getting? Yeah, well what do we have to look forward to now? Well, we still have mega save line rates, but they're very rare. Yeah, I was thinking the same.
Speaker: i will I wanted to do some, but they were just they're just never spawning anyway. there were one those there was so There was one that outside the venue where you couldn't reach it. i Sorry, one one small rant about the venue. Wait. The bonus!
Speaker: It was so stupid. We don't... so We don't get gyps. or stops or like we get like a handful and we don't even have the bonus pocket was like i'm gonna i'm not going anywhere until i have the bowel energy i'm like good luck dude yeah
Speaker: I was so bummed because even like normally during the regional events, you can do three special trades. And I was like, oh, I actually have like a. Pretty big break time. So I was going out and seeing people. And the first trade I did with was with Jojo Go -Go Dancer with the Pikachu astronaut from the space station in... tolu And so I was like, oh, that's that's a cool Pokemon. With the background, I'm going to get this. I don't have it in my Pokedex.
Speaker: And then Minivan walked him up and he was going to do a trade. And I was like, oh, I. I was like did you do all your treats already? Because he's like, no, I haven't done any trades. It's you. And I was like, no, I've only done one trade. And I look and it says you have zero special trades remaining. I was like, what?
Speaker: I had the same. I was like, guys are going crazy. Yeah. that was ah Did they do it on Sunday? because I don't know. because We had like some some spawns some with some spawns. But we didn't have extra traits. Or the extra dust. It was so weird.
Speaker: Okay. That was our rant. Rant over. Events coming up. Giratin origin rates, they unfortunately end by this Wednesday. But we get Giratin altered back in case you wanted that. They're not super necessary to have right now. I mean, they're not going to be for Grey League anyway. I just need that candy. So, yeah, again.
Speaker: What is going to be exciting though, in two weeks, Amanda, you you're going to have to play. We're going to get the ah in the wild ah events. actually not super exciting but in case you are missing Zacian and Zamazenta crowned form and their energy You could rate them during.
Speaker: i think it's a couple days before the weekend so that's not this week but next week And we're also going to get Regidrago in Max Battles. Which is an interesting Pokemon, I guess. I mean, if you want to do that, it's good Stardust. Not a Pokemon you're necessarily... going to need at all especially for mazlik or for uh for dynamax itself but it's a
Speaker: cool Pokemon for Ultralight for sure. Do you know what the IVs are that you kind of want for Ultra League or does it really matter that much? Because I have a couple, but I was like, I need to look this up because I want to power it up.
Speaker: i wouldn't know this out of top of my head really i'd have to investigate thing i I think that you don't need a lot of HP on this because Regidrago already has a very high HP stat by default. So you probably, if you go for a high stat product, you probably want to focus mostly on defense to get poke points because if you can reduce the damage you take, then, well, you get longer, right? So the average one that I'm looking at on PvPoke is 512, 14, and the yeah max is 115, 14. Just a reminder, though. Just to 2 ,500.
Speaker: just a reminder you don't get those ivs from the max battles you have to trade yeah so that's why i definitely have not done any digging into that one thing i want to point out about max battles too because maybe people don't recognize this but once you get these pokemon um If you just battle on your own, even something really small, you know, like a Bulbasaur or whatever, and you can place a Pokemon at the Pokestop.
Speaker: You can place in your legendary Dynamax Pokemon and then... when they return to you, they are bringing you extra candy. So that's a great way to get some extra candy for a Pokemon that maybe you are missing that for if you're still needing to power up.
Speaker: I think it's a small bonus for if you do the the max battle again or for other people doing a max battle at the power spot. so It's not about them, Martijn. It's about me and me powering up and getting the candy to power up my Pokemon.
Speaker: i will not do them with you i guess um And then with the the wild area, I call this world area in my notes, I just noticed. Wild area, if you get the the tickets, you can get a silver bottle cap. Bottle cap is ah is an is an item that's very unique. You only get it once a year so far. The gold one with GoFest, the silver one with... Wild area.
Speaker: Uh, to date and that can increase one of the IV stats of a specific Pokemon. Do you already have one in mind, Amanda? No, I was gonna look. through and see because a lot of people are opting to use it for pvp uh pokemon for a great league that you can't normally catch i think that uh
Speaker: And Tristan was saying that he was going to do it for a Galarian Moltres. I know other people have already used that in the past. So I don't know. Do you have something in mind do you want to use it for? a shiny mute because I'm not unable to get a Shundo so I gave up.
Speaker: Yeah. And I'm just going to get. Kind of threw a ball cap. And ironically, I actually did lucky trade a Hundo Pokemon yesterday. so We've gotten so many free Hundo Mewtwos, Martijn.
Speaker: Where? But no Shundo. No, it's true. It's not green. So that that's what I'll be using it all. I have the. Mewtwo with the background from Worlds. I just want to see what its IVs are.
Speaker: That's not that one. means 15 10 15 or something that'd be great you can use the silver on that yeah exactly
Speaker: It is... Not that one. Oh, it is that one. um No, it doesn't never mind. It's terrible? It's terrible. okay mo Gold bottle cap for Amanda by next June or July. Yeah, we'll see. I just, yeah, i I've used it on my Zarude, my gold bottle cup and my Kildio, which are both now. Done.
Speaker: Not bad. Oh, I need to... My Sarut sucks. I need to use it. A cold one on that one maybe someday too. It's not good right now, so it doesn't matter. um But with the event itself as well, there will be Gigantamax Duraludon. This event is kind of focusing a lot on max battles in general, which GOF has kind of neglected. right It went went mostly to Mega.
Speaker: rates there but now we get gigantamax duraludon um It's an okay Pokemon. not something you're going to necessarily need. Obviously, Gigantamax are going to be... It's already in the game. Oh, no, it' sorry. Gigantamax. Duraludon is, yes but Gigantamax is not. It's a Steel and Dragon type Pokemon. uh i don't know the top math which what kind of move it gets but um It could be a Pokemon you could have. Alternatively, you could go for Dynamax Dialga or Palkia in max battles. I think Dialga is actually quite good.
Speaker: For the same reason of Duraludon, that's the same typing. um From Pokemon to Dairon... Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, I remember that Dialga stood out because of a lot of resistances, Palkia because of very few weaknesses. And in Dynamax... especially if you are like as a defender you want resistances the few uh weaknesses are not going to do anything for you. If you don't resist something, you probably get one shot anyway. So Dialga could be pretty good, Pokia, meh.
Speaker: ah We're going to get Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem Black and White in raids as well during the event. Mighty Pokemon return, Safari Balls return, and Latios and Latios will also be encountered on Incense. So um my favorite thing of the whole event, Amanda.
Speaker: Safari balls. yeah save me the effort of throwing 500 pokeball Easy. I love it. We get ah two rotating habitats for eight hours. both each day of both days saturday and sunday and they'll be fitting the theme of duraludon of uh one hour is going to be still
Speaker: type pokemon and the other hour is dragon type pokemon nothing new i believe no new shiny besides aim a champ having a jacket very uh fitting after it won a regional championship so you could go for that but otherwise it's mostly like the useful pokemon are nothing new like an onix skarmory or you could get a gibble i still need a hundo skarmory for ultra so ill I'll try. I actually need a hundo for both of them because I want them for megas as well. Looks like you're going to be playing. I'm going to be playing.
Speaker: But yeah, that's that's kind of what we have coming ah up very soon. I guess Silver Bullet Cap is something that you probably want to get for sure if you're not so much into Master League or optimizing for max battles then.
Speaker: You're probably good on this too. like You could maybe get a shiny, if you want, of Dynamax Palkia, Dialga, and the Gigantamax Duraludon, but they're all not really must -have. like for steel as for steel especially we have Zacian like everyone and their mom by now has a Zacian if you do a Gigantamax everyone will have Zacian and Zamazenta that might just be the only pokemon they've built it's usually sufficient even And they're good concerts. Yeah.
Speaker: Perfect. I'm looking forward to it. I actually... I did - I - dislike max battles in the sense that you have to have a community to play with But in a way that makes it also special, right? ah um But being able to remote into dynamic... dynamic So expensive. Yeah, it's super expensive. So ill I'll try to do at least... one so i can get a pokemon and add it to the pokedex but yeah depending on where i'm at maybe ah maybe i'll Are you playing in Rotterdam maybe? Yes. We'll go crash your party.
Speaker: Sure, go ahead. I wouldn't hate it They're worse people. Name them. Name them on the podcast. All right, speediest chief. Yeah, definitely. Stop kidding, Speedy. Kidding. You can also go.
Speaker: Alrighty. Well, thank you for that. are Are there any other things that we need to look forward to? We have. other events obviously for pvp coming up relatively soon as well. We have LAIC and you are going to be at that in Sao Paulo. Buenos Aires is the weekend before.
Speaker: Ooh, should we do a draft then?
Speaker: We could, actually, yes. Yeah, I didn't even think about it. Once again, reminder, i won the last i've been I'm crushing this draft. The last people I've picked have been the regional champions, so you do want me to pick you for our draft. We have so many more months. I mean, what's what what's in it for the people we pick, actually? What do you mean by that? a Firm handshake. And a lollipop. i'll find off yeah Come find me to collect your prizes, I guess. Didn't I pick Boom, actually, for our draft? I picked Boom.
Speaker: Oh, crap. I shouldn't have lost to him. Yeah, and I let you pick first and I can't remember who you picked. And then you're like, oh no, I should have thought about you picking him. You pick Colin. You pick Colin. Yeah.
Speaker: ideas. I'm going to help him with LAC, I guess. ah For the next one... I will pick Lindo's... Oreo. Oh, that's a good pick. Um...
Speaker: I have to think of... ah Yeah, we don't get to see the Buenos Aires Yeah. Very tough. So I don't know if we have someone. I don't want to pick someone who's judging. You picked Zardy, right, already? Yes, I already have. I picked Harjeth. I don't think Zardy's going anyway.
Speaker: Okay. And you also have Marto on your team, so this might be your comeback arc. I don't even know if Ario's going, actually. I know he'll be at LAFC, right? Maybe he's hosting. Maybe he's casting. Please, I don't think casting. Yeah, it's like, I'll pick Swagger.
Speaker: Um... I mean, this is probably a cop -out just because he's... had such a stellar season. uh last one but i'll go with steiner I'll keep the L and &DS boys together.
Speaker: Alright, alright. Sounds good. So sorry. Well, we'll see next week. If he wins, then I think I should start picking numbers for the lottery then because a couple of ours have immediately won right after. So we'll see.
Speaker: Always good to see you, Martijn. Always good to have you guys listening to us. Thank you for tuning in again to Tap Tap Cast. We'll see you on a Tuesday. Bye -bye.
