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Speaker: Oh, you're recording already. Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of TapTap. cast my name is martin you may know me as an eloquence and i am joined here by my precious co -host um i'm her favorite caster by the way not speedy's chief hi amanda lundberg how are you doing hi martine i'm doing well it's you know honestly it's it's been a while you know that If you haven't seen someone for just two weeks and you feel like it's a while, it's kind of crazy. But yeah, it's like. a Why? Look how much we've aged. Look how much we've grown.
Speaker: I just shaved. So i with wall restrain my beard actually as I was hoping that I wouldn't look that that old. but so Yeah, here we are again. I've been actually sick for a couple weeks still. I'm coughing a bit. Yeah, I saw that you ah you posted on Twitter after Nice about that you were like sick leading up to that, which is kind of a bummer, right? Because it was the first time in for Pokemon Go in a cool new location like Nice, and I was kind of wondering what your opinion on the city was.
Speaker: Dude, it's a great place. i yeah It sucked for me personally. um I wish I didn't go, just because I was... not feeling well i hardly prepped anything But um the city is cool.
Speaker: it's It's like ah what's it called in in English? It's like at the shore as well. There were riots near the shore, so obviously it was not a great timing either for that. Yeah, PPC got hit by tear gas twice. Oh, are you being serious?
Speaker: yeah i don't think it was serious because or it's just pvp steve because he's always happy yeah but so he said he was like yeah i got hit by tear gas and then i went to the hotel when i went back out i went back to the same place i got hit by it again man like well that that sounds like losing your phone in sao paulo yeah i was just gonna say that if it would happen to anyone i love steve but maybe a little bit less naive there um ah But it's like... ah
Speaker: How do I describe it? like Obviously, I haven't seen as much because I stayed a lot at the hotel. But it just has this this very nice summery vibe to it. Like I said, a shore city. There's so many places where you can sit like on a rooftop bar or like near the beach, have ever have a drink.
Speaker: that That's the kind of city it was. The weather, very nice, not not too much, not too... cold i thought maybe you were making a nice pun but i'm like no you just meant it i'm so not into that no But what I disliked about it, I actually planned to do a full day of just ah you know seeing the city. right But because I got sick, I actually...
Speaker: Moved my flight from thursday Thursday evening to Friday evening. Okay, yeah. i basically skipped the whole friday the whole sightseeing stuff and i flew back on monday so that was a little bit unfortunate about it but i love the city if it's back there next year i would love to do it
Speaker: Awesome. Well, while we're on the subject of Nice and how nice it was, I i want to bring up, of maybe it's a little bit of a sore subject, but we can bring it up right away on the podcast. And this was...
Speaker: one of your first not day twos in quite a long time. Oh yes, quite a bit. I forgot what it felt like.
Speaker: Yeah, and I wasn't there. i I was on a cruise, so my Wi -Fi was horrible. So I was trying to check in, watch it whenever I could and everything, kind of keeping my eye on the bracket. ah You had a very, very, I mean, I'm not making excuses, obviously, but you had a very tough bracket full of a lot of good friends of yours, too. I was i've sent you a message. It was like, oh, is this like an emperor's reunion tour in your bracket there? It was a scapo, palasha, mind joke, I think.
Speaker: Well... Honestly, every group had like five regional champions. Competing in Europe has come to a point where I'm like, this is not fun. There's just no easy opponents. um and I wasn't exactly afraid of my bracket. I never really am. I mean, come on. I had hard Jeff round one and Elon round two at Worlds. It doesn't really get worse than that, except that I did lose this time.
Speaker: Um, i Like I said, I just hardly got to practice. I made my team on Friday. So. basically had like no scrims going into the tournaments which was a pity because... When I played the Challenge of the Cup, I actually felt like... I actually got the hang of the team by then. It was kind of too late, you know?
Speaker: And you won both of them or you won? Yes, I won both the cup and the challenge. So I was like, okay, maybe I don't suck. That's nice. i I just had my team in front of me. Let me reopen it again. I guess I closed it. um i went to guillotine again and i was actually really not Planning on bringing your Tina, but you know, I just opened the game friend. I'm like no this is the time to bring your Tina And it was there as a real Pokemon. I use it quite a bit.
Speaker: You used it quite a bit in a Shadow Sableye, Florges. Melmetal meta. This is when your Giratina decides it's going to shine. Yeah, but those Pokemon suck. Careful.
Speaker: Um... I had... um i had it with dragon breath this time and i thought it caught really well with astonish dunsparce Really like that core something those just I had evil at first but he was like I think he's more neutral it done Sparse and does was was a great call. I mean Batman won a tournament with it. I had an Araquanina Toxpex to soak Melmetal energy. I had my own Melmetal. uh and a little nine tails to complement that i run chilling water i don't run dazzling gleam i think doesn't lose it leaves it
Speaker: it's a poor choice chaining water secures shadow save line match up so nicely i'm like why would you run shadow it doesn't leave you don't you just don't want to win If you wrote that. Um, Yeah, talk specs. ah A pick suggested by Zizualos has made quite the impact last weekend as well in Puebla.
Speaker: um A Pokemon that's... I feel like... This is like a small register. You know, it's like. Beep, beep, beep. Does it deal? Fantastic damage. Yeah, except there's like... to
Speaker: to Marcus can make a really good impression. And then you say it's hard with Brian's sludge wave. The resistance profile is really interesting. Actually, that's quite well into Quagsire. That was the most appealing about it. like that that Everyone who doesn't know, I can just swap the Toxapex in. Hopefully, they bring the Quagsire, and then they just lose. that was Kind of something I was really hoping to achieve with talk specs, but...
Speaker: Yeah. In my first round, I had an absolute nightmare matchup against a Byte Dunsparce. Interesting, okay, yeah. everything on my team, basically. ah So I thought, but...
Speaker: again i didn't have much practice with the team my team was actually not bad but i thought i was and That was against FrankTheTank, an Italian player. mm -hmm After that, I had a couple solid wins. one of them was feelback you know the the guy who had an unbeaten record in uh Was it Torino or Bologna? The eat Italian special event? Yeah, yep. Two seasons ago. um And then against Maxi, I had a great matchup there, I thought.
Speaker: until you actually select the team. like I'm like, wait. Charge bug beats all of my team. That's gonna be tricky. and uh yeah i didn't utilize the talk specs well he safe switched to quack siren amanda you know what i did i didn't bring the toxic packs even though i had it on my team so uh it well was kind of a quick run for me i wouldn't say it's terrible 4 -2 still with like what yeah Yeah, it wasn't terrible. i had a couple of good wins but i think that's like not the problem but like you kind of pointed out in europe
Speaker: And actually everywhere in A2. There's so many good players who are continuing to compete, who are known for doing well in tournaments. Like last year, you won two tournaments right out the gate. Everyone kind of has their eyes on you as an incredible player.
Speaker: And 4 -2 is a still a very respectable run. And I think a lot of people would be happy with that overall. so I mean, I just think it's it's one of those things where...
Speaker: Obviously, when you've been playing for quite a long time like you have, it can be easy to be disappointed in what other people would consider a very stellar run. Yeah. I don't know if i'm if I want to say I'm disappointed.
Speaker: and Again, yes, I have my regrets of going, but... considering how i felt leading up to it and when i built a team and how much practice i had with it Maybe this was just a result I deserved with it.
Speaker: fair okay yeah um and and then you know i i get into it i get used to the team more and i i win Basically, I had What was it? Like 18 wins and 2 losses?
Speaker: Um, I think I dropped two matches in total, like two battles over like 20 matchups in the Challenger Cup. And I'm like, okay, if i just if I just played a little bit more with this, I would have known how to deal with all this crap. They were good players. It was like like snoring a nickname who I both beat twice.
Speaker: um ah August Sisley was there. There were more good players. um So. Yeah, kind of a shame that I just didn't get that more practice, I guess. Well... this is a ah question i guess since Good dance is coming up right around the corner.
Speaker: But I know you're probably not going to say. Is is the team? The sauce, is it going to be something that maybe makes a repeat? Or is it something that you're saying? we'll see We'll see when we get there.
Speaker: well Pocket gave me some new sauce and I tried it out. and now pocket is going to uh to gdansk and i'm like okay no it's this is no i don't want to take it anymore now it's not okay anymore and and maybe he's playing a trick on us i don't want to I'm not going to do that. so you know,
Speaker: I don't know either what I'll run. I really like the Giratina Astonish Dunsport score. Is it the way? I don't know. The meta seems to change every day, especially after... mango one with this very specific pics in puebla yep um talk specs was impressive but i feel like the
Speaker: What's the English? is Is the cat out of the back an English expression? That's awesome. It's that, right? Like everyone knows Toxapex now. So it's not a surprise anymore. So I feel like I kind of want to innovate in that. But maybe I work with some cores. I did finalize a draft.
Speaker: Two drafts, actually. but Maybe I'll make some small adjustments. I don't know yet. And. um also very very important i know that everyone's dying to know did you finally hit veteran and
Speaker: Go battle you again. Did you? Huh? fun yeah You know what, Martin? I did. I haven't played GBO in like three weeks. I'm like 50 Elo of Legend, I think. All right. that That was just like those the biggest backdoor brag. Oh, I haven't played in three weeks. I'm very close to Legend, but I just i couldn't be bothered playing. Yeah, no. I mean, we have a full month, Amanda. We'll be fine. Yeah, it's true. I was up pretty high, actually. I was up to 29. No, 28, like 90 or something like that. but Then I just had a horrible run after a horrible run. And I have this.
Speaker: I mean... It's an addiction. It's a little bit like, cause I'm playing. increase. And I have like better Wi -Fi because I purchased better Wi -Fi for the ship. okay But it's not great.
Speaker: You know, and so then there's moments where it's like, it's clearly not going well. And I'm like. Alright, we'll see if it's better next game. I was like, why are you doing this to yourself? You're just like, i'm I'm losing turns and I'm like, oh, I'm not seeing a Pokemon come in. And I'm like, well, all right, I guess there goes that set.
Speaker: An addiction. you I know. It's a little bit of a problem. Or even when the, though I don't know if yeah went for you, obviously not because you haven't been playing, but there was a glitch going on a couple days ago where it's like you would go to the battle.
Speaker: And then it would just say errors occurred or like no opponent could be found. And then you'd get the game loss. And so I didn't realize. And so I was like. oh, you know, I'll just wait a couple minutes and I'll do the next one. And I looked, I was like, three battles lost. I was like, what? I haven't even played.
Speaker: Yeah, I've read about it. I've not witnessed it for reasons I just said. But... um Yeah, ah it's such a pity, Amanda. It's honestly such a pity. I know. And not just the specific bug, right? but Right before Baltimore and at Baltimore.
Speaker: the new Update was so good. And it just seems like with every update, something else breaks again, which is kind of obnoxious. I mean, Zaxxon called it out too. you when it one It was just like saying like... ah You know, I'm really loving the new Battle system.
Speaker: but then yeah it's almost like a curse to say it because then they're like well hold my beer Well, we're not doing worse either, I think. We're not doing worse than before either. So so I guess that that's kind of a counter -argument. Uh... I guess things are going less frequently wrong. Well, great. You have a... a better of the two evils you know yeah true but it was it was so good for for a couple days and i felt like that just slipped away right which is such a shame it's like with every update
Speaker: Something else breaks and it's. You know... i like to brag about how flawless my game usually is amanda that's not been flawless even for me lately like If I have issues in the game, they are actual issues. Like, I have such good ping.
Speaker: Wi -Fi, anything all the time. No, I'm familiar. i Sometimes I remember. We were battling against each other. It was for some grassroots thing. ah And every time you snuck through, I'm like, how is he sneaking on every single turn? I was like, I think I'm also in the Netherlands, so ah my Wi -Fi should be comparable.
Speaker: Nah, no. Hashtag blessed over there, Martai. I don't know if it's that, but... some Yeah, just, I don't know.
Speaker: It feels weird. You know, I really hope that... that that It just keeps improving. on the books. I know that they are. But hopefully it'll end up. better pace you know and not breaking all the things with every update like what why why would an update for Dynamax private lobbies break pvp yeah why i know and it's like it's one of those things where it's like i truly love the game and
Speaker: The frustration is because you love the game, right? And I don't want to pile it on and be like, hey, this sucks. Why haven't you guys fixed this yet? Because they are trying to do better of life improvements for the game. But even still, it...
Speaker: It is one of those things where it's like, i because I wrote it in the help support ticket thing. saying like i'm not trying to be like a jerk or squeaky wheel here. but The issue is still going on and it's like three days later and I don't know if people are still reporting it or what, but I want it to be fixed because I don't want to lose more players and I don't want people to become so frustrated.
Speaker: that things aren't changing, that they're... just willing to drop something that's brought so much joy to them for so long. Did you get a free rate pass for that? You know what? I've gotten quite a few free rate passes at this point. You probably get like an AI reply. Here's a rate pass. You know, but ah you may have to restart your game. for it to be put into your inventory so if you get a raid pass don't worry it's gonna be there guys
Speaker: it's And while we're on that topic anyway, Amanda, why is Mimikyu still banned? You don't like Mimikyu? I don't. I don't. but But it makes no sense that Kramer is allowed.
Speaker: And Mimikyu, when it's... is mim Why is Mimikyu still bad? b a No, no, no. I mean banned from playing Pokemon. That is a really good question. It's like, this is the least viable it's ever been. Nelmetal, Sableye. Galarian Corsla?
Speaker: Um... Good luck with running Mimikyu. but it's you can't even run a bath pokemon right now because it's bad yeah yeah i'm i'm like and What are we doing? I guess the Meteor... kind of makes sense that people get used to it okay i i i can i can see that i'm still not exactly on board with that but you know who am i Mimikyu? It's been around for quite a while. it's yeah Did they just forget about it? Because it's one of those Pokemon where it's like, yeah. I mean, I remember at the beginning it was like.
Speaker: Something about it was broken, I thought. Or maybe that was more Petco. But there was like the something was in there like, yeah, we can't use it in battle yet because it's not working as intended. No. That was Cramorant and it was fixed right before Baltimore.
Speaker: Okay, they didn't ban crime run so no that that is the i don't know all right it seems minikyu is working just fine honestly it would be the great season for it too you know we're like getting near halloween it's a little bit spooky so Yeah, I don't think it'll be unbanned before Gdansk. I don't think so either, but yeah. it's a i'm yeah I'm using it right now in the fantasy cup. Everyone's using it right now in fantasy cup. It's not changing. It having an extra shield helps. yeah Are ah steel types allowed in there? Yep.
Speaker: Okay, both of you to run it. if Literally, Martin, everyone is running. okay I mean, I haven't played GB on a while, so forgive me. So I'm yeah. I'm not that special Damn, that's the first time I think I've ever said that.
Speaker: Really, though. Yeah, I mean... and I don't think... It it can it can be unbanned, Mimikyu. I don't see why not. that' yeah Maybe there's something I don't know.
Speaker: It will have zero impact when it does. Speaking of a Dynamaxing, like you said earlier, and how it maybe was breaking the game, did you do the Mesprit? dyn Yes, I have two stops two power spots at home usually with these events.
Speaker: So I just do them from home. I'm like, hey, mom, let's do one. yeah and the maybe so like the The positive thing about this was... the The negative, obviously, that if you want the other ones, you have to remote. But it meant that, like, Americans and APAC players were joining me for Mass Grid remotely. So that is cool my lobbies would just fill up. um People know I'm not a scrub. bringing like a double all to this. like I'm bringing the freaking Grimmsnarl as a charger, Gengar as the attacker, Zacian as the tank. It's the best you could have. mm -hmm
Speaker: Right. So my lobby is filled up. pretty quick whenever I was doing them. Unfortunately, I did have to do gym breakers in between, so I missed out on a couple. but i didn't get a shiny misprint i got a shiny azelf though so i guess that oh nice yeah I got a... to mesprit And I remember... No, I remote rated for both of them because, again, that's like...
Speaker: Oh, no one was playing on the cruise? Yeah. For some reason, is i would think I think I was the only Go player on the cruise. It was really weird. Yeah, crazy. Interesting. Yeah.
Speaker: But. so ah Every day. We docked in a new area. And. I talked to Tristan i and I am already ahead of him on Pokestop spots. Yeah, because I was sick, we had to cancel the bus.
Speaker: going through yeah yeah nice getting all the unspun stuff yeah who do who do you like i was just having people like cough around your house for the whole time leading up to nice just in case uh Because I wanted to make sure that Tristan wouldn't be able to do it.
Speaker: I don't even know where I got sick. Noodle doodle. Oh boy. Where did that name come from again? So when we were on the cruise... oh Oh, yeah. oh And Pattoman won. ah Like, Pattoman.
Speaker: Not surprising, right? Really, really good. And so I was laughing at one of his like ah entries that he had done through the walkway. And I showed your room and I was like.
Speaker: ah talking about pataman he's like he's like oh i don't know that name but that his face looks familiar i'm like you don't know the name pataman because i feel like that's maybe like right now, maybe one of the most popular names, but He's like, no.
Speaker: And I was like, okay, well who do you know? And so I just wrote them out in the order that he said them. And then they just got progressively kind of funnier as they went on. But Paula was the first one, he said. Even above you, you were his second. I was fourth down on the list. That seems a little weird. ah ah i did Did he get my whole name correct or was it more tight? No, he got it. He got it. Not bad.
Speaker: and but yeah doesn't He doesn't really watch all the time, no? No. It makes sense he doesn't know Pac -Man. Exactly. he too He tunes in sometimes to watch the cast just as like a little bit of moral support. And obviously I talk about some of the players and stuff. And he's met, you know, because that was the thing too. I was like, oh, well, do you know?
Speaker: Marcus's. And so he knew Marcus's. like Do you know Will's? And he said, Speedy Chef, which is pretty funny. And I said, do you know Tristan's? And he's like, oh, yeah, no, I know Tristan's. It's a ah noodle doodle.
Speaker: It's so... it's close It's close. It's really close. It's basically the same. yeah For those who don't know, his in -game name is actually Tripitando.
Speaker: Maybe not that close. Not for long. no we Yeah.
Speaker: Who do you think outside of... You, I guess. And Tato, man, since we just said it would be like the most recognizable. Name.
Speaker: to someone who wasn't super familiar with. Pokemon. I feel like a couple years ago it was Wadash. Like people ah were like guessing him to win worlds and ah even from other games that were like, oh yeah, I've heard of Wadage. Wadage seems really, really good.
Speaker: He didn't even come and set it. This is such an easy question. It's action. Yeah. that's a good one yeah i guess okay so i guess the europeans have no idea because they always he always streams at our 3am or something but he's like the only one who gets like 400 plus viewers right now That's really good.
Speaker: yeah so it's accident home slash henry i mean henry is not a competitor obviously but this accent like but by far i think right now Um, the most well -known player. and i think honestly like in general just the the world champion with all the respect to the others i ah appreciate the most because he became rules.
Speaker: A world champion. He didn't become the tournament. He became champion. and What he moulded out of that, what he made... with that is exactly what you'd love to see right i think something only wolfie did and obviously wolfie had a way
Speaker: bigger audience stage and everything. like like Obviously, you know our numbers are not exactly comparable to that of Wolfie. I think if you put all our content creators combined, you still won't have more of them. But, you know, we'd just like to see what is Accent's done with that. Yeah. Truly to... also Humble, really, really nice. Too humble. Way too humble. yeah yeah I would like to see him give someone a little bit of crap. you know He doesn't do that. He avoids too much conflict. Sometimes you have to say...
Speaker: I'm... I'm better than you. He can say that. He really can. He won Louisville. He's good again. yeah It's the return of the champions this season, right? I mean, like ah Emmy Weedle also won Frankfurt there. Now we have Saxon winning.
Speaker: both of them world champions maybe dancing rob's gonna be making a comeback we'll have to see doubts very much dancing rob is go it's just gone he's just judging that's uh it's a pity i mean you do what do you want to do right um but that's what what i mean with what what you can do with the become world champion like it's it's such a How do I say it?
Speaker: You're just proving that you are the guy. or or the girl if you if you're a woman who wins it right that can teach people how to do it right The the title is just...
Speaker: Immense. Yep. I agree. I mean I think winning any regional even starts to boost your recognizability within the... you know the whole thing i think a lot of people have Fake in -game names?
Speaker: that art like I know that Emmy Weedle, there's another Emmy Weedle. But it's not him. It's with like an I, I think, or something instead of the L for Weedle. and i have seen that yes yeah it doesn't have the same pose though so yeah and there was another one that was like it was really recently and i meant to take a screenshot of it because i battled them and i thought it was really funny but i obviously knew it wasn't the person but i can't remember who it was now but yeah you see quite a few of those types of things we'll have to see if there's any Inadequence.
Speaker: There was inconsequence and people... Kept tagging me for that. I think they quit now because no one's been tagging me for a couple months. That's because you haven't been playing GBL. Well, others have. so People just keep playing them, not me. I'm like, dude, I'm not even playing. But yeah. That this is definitely a phenomenon we have seen.
Speaker: a couple times. Interesting. Very interesting. ah don They don't have the jerseys. They don't have the regional champ or world champion poses. it It has to be just an alt because none of them are also competing in like regionals or anything. So you'll never have a face with them.
Speaker: Yeah. I'm going to laugh so hard if inconsequence comes to Gdansk. Cheers. Can you imagine? Are you dressing up this year? I know last year, you it wasn't necessarily for...
Speaker: Yep. you were just cosplaying as cyrus but uh Yes. so you're gonna be but If I make it to day two, I will introduce myself as Cyrus again. nice That is the plan. that is Okay, cool. cool but But again... The European regionals are like six regional champions per group. yeah It won't be easy. I can actually see how many people are signed up currently. I believe it was around...
Speaker: 90 players for Gnatskling. There's a lot of Americans coming over which I am all about I think that's super cool that this season more than others. It seems like people are really traveling abroad to go to the different regional competitions. And it's expensive to travel through the US to go to the different places. You might as well go somewhere really, really cool, not to not pooping on.
Speaker: louville or anything like that or a milwaukee not exciting indianapolis but gdansk is a really beautiful very very cool city i heard good things about nice even from you earlier today prague is awesome sevilla is super cool i mean like uh
Speaker: If you want to go check out a cool city in Europe and also play Pokemon Go, I mean, I think... ah You have some really cool opportunities this season. I believe we have around eight Americans competing in Gdansk, which is going to be approximately 10 % of the tournament. Yeah, which is so... I mean, again, with...
Speaker: We don't like the player, Amanda. We don't like the player. We just watch and then sign up for EYC. Then we all sign up for EYC. Everyone. I'm wait listed. Yeah.
Speaker: I will also be in Gdansk, but doing graphics. so gonna be long work days for you you cannot you cannot give me crap this time for not inviting you to a dinner if you're working till like freaking 10 p .m oh i'll still give you crap on that no you can't do that no i will i will give you crap for working no why don't you let me know what your hotel and room number is and i'll make sure i'll call you from the front desk when i get off work so then you can come down for a drink
Speaker: i'll be asleep not no not not if i call your room you'll be wide awake i'm 30 plus amanda i i go to bed you got these old bones yep i go to bed at eight now It was funny, actually. Like, I was playing his nickname, and and I was, like, expecting a specific move. This was in a cup in Nice.
Speaker: And I was really quick with something that he thought that he caught a move. And he was like, wow, you still saw that? I'm like... um I'm not that old. I still have some reactions. I still have the react. Like he was thinking I caught a double iron bash on this. ah on his core and i was was dynamic punch and he just lost like 100 energy it was You're like, yeah.
Speaker: Well, the best thing was when his face was like... Ah. No! Like, ah! Yes! And then it went back to no. I don't know. He asked me afterwards, did you see that? I'm like, yeah.
Speaker: not All right. well speaking of americans coming over um other americans just recently traveled abroad to win the first broadcasted regional for the Latin America region, which is pretty darn cool and also was a great way for people to get Charge TMs.
Speaker: and stuff. um Yeah. Look. Before going into that, I want to give a little bit less credit into the traveling part because geographically, Mexico is not that far from the US. s like it's It's not like you're traveling to Brazil. You still need your passport. that ah that i Sure. But, um, guess.
Speaker: I love that it was in Spanish, honestly. uh we got like 25 charts and fast tms i mean you look at the views when there's drops it's six times six times more than regularly in Spanish, not in English.
Speaker: I did hate the chat. like There was a lot of crying about, why is this in Spanish? uh this is not fair blahbly blue blue someone give me spanish uh sorry english stream and i'm like can we just let them have it for once exactly exactly like why book book It's like, I'm just saying stuff. Vamos, senor Buck, Dumbuck. You know, I'm just trying to get into it. I understand nothing, but but I liked it. I loved it.
Speaker: um Didn't really... What's this? it It reminded me Amanda of when we did community streams in Europe. um Pretty long downtime sometimes. A little bit confusing. They were just showing random replays now and then. The same replays, yeah. Well, no, they show... Competitors?
Speaker: right who are about to play and then they show 10 minutes of replays and uh the the twitch The the Twitch drops. at a random interview, and it's like... um i'm just thinking to myself are those guys sitting there 15 minutes with white noise mm -hmm
Speaker: that that That was kind of weird. But overall, I think Day 2 went... much smoother obviously so their first time right so right i'm not saying that this was a flop or something getting it's growing pains right yeah yeah exactly looking back to our first cast that we did together didn't the internet go out Yeah, and then we did an AMA. It was great. our yeah Our producer brought a laptop to us and they're like, here, go go go play with chat. And it was great, actually. Yeah, that was kind of fun.
Speaker: we got I mean, there was a lot of... Not getting away with stuff, but there was... Less pressure of course with the... That sort of stream. And obviously this was an official stream with official drops and everything behind it. um But it can only go up, right? i mean it's only go there The first one is always going to be working out a little bit of kinks. and i was ah I'm just so happy that they've been asking for it for quite a long time and that it's finally has arrived.
Speaker: And I just also saw it, that like especially because it is Spanish -speaking. Hopefully in the future also, like if they're doing it in Brazil, that we get like Portuguese -speaking. like just could Just get people from those areas involved as well and give them the feeling that they matter because they do. yeah right the South America and Spanish in general. Like that's a, that's a.
Speaker: the second Most. spoken language right it's it's it's a huge part of the world that speaks this language and you know not not everything always needs to be in English in my opinion like like yeah I would have understood it butt.
Speaker: you know, the people who are actually competing there and involved with the LATAM community can can understand it and probably um should be the ones understanding it yeah over yeah over over just lazy sick uh european laying in bed just like maybe not even listening maybe just watching on mute anyway yeah yeah right so yeah no i i like that they had that dislike chat a little bit but um i mean listen Chat for...
Speaker: anytime there's drops and also the bigger of like ics and worlds uh Jet can be a bit toxic no matter what. So it's like. I like to close it. yeah sanity It's like maybe something that I was like, okay, I don't need to like.
Speaker: dwell on any of this right now but also at the bigger events there has been Spanish streams. Because I know that for Worlds, it was the Japanese stream and there was also the Spanish.
Speaker: uh channel streams and i feel like niantic at a time also did like a portuguese or spanish Yeah, the Mexico City one. so I mean... hopefully like you said that they'll be around to do things like that so the difference is those were not on the official channel. This is the first time it was. Yes, exactly. Because that Niantic one was on, like, Facebook, respectfully, who watches all that? And the other ones were, like, on Pokemon Go, BR, and Pokemon...
Speaker: Go. a lot um something i don't remember it well it's been quite a while since they've done that actually and They'll probably do it for LASC again. I hope so. Yeah, I would imagine so. Yeah, but this is the first time an official stream. I'm just just glad I worked out um you know, room for improvements. um and for a first time honestly for an actual first time
Speaker: Big. Big goods. Big goods. Big goods. Those are the words to to describe it. Straight from the horse's mouth there, big good. Yeah, I do think for the competitors who were there, it was a bit of a painful tournament. You look at the top four of Puebla and there were no Mexican trainers in there, no Latam trainers. It was all... ah the the The Americans that took it. Listen, they got to win somewhere.
Speaker: Yeah, once Europe started invading in the US they they went to Mexico instead now um We had Rise in fourth place, Doom Bug in third place, a Hungry Wolfpack in second place, and... ah UX Zot.
Speaker: We call them the Pokemango. in the first place. some Honestly... very mixed teams But very fun battles to watch. um And... it's Definitely going to influence Gdansk so hard. I mean, obviously... trainers like tonto but those actually i think tonto's not even competing but someone like pataman myself we're gonna bring off meta anyway but everything will be based off this likely yeah um
Speaker: Just looked at the most recent practice tournaments. Ursaluna was an absolute beast in Puebla. Guess what? 100 % sableye usage now. it goes that quick we're not losing to the bear again yeah I saw a lot of it, yeah, afterwards. Ursulina was a really cool pick.
Speaker: I mean, I don't know How he... Yeah, I mean. As a really good player yourself, you probably also... Is it just like... Are you simming? Things ahead of time to try to figure out a core breaker, or are you...
Speaker: Just like flipping through your Pokedex and landing on something and trying to build a team around it. Like, what is the, how do you find these? off meta picks that turn out to be something that actually turns it around and shapes the new meta.
Speaker: Well, Arceluna is one of those Pokemon that received a moveset update with Swift now to its movepool. And um for myself, if I only look at Ursulina, one of the things that made the difference for it, and obviously...
Speaker: Easy to say now, after Pateman and Boom, base kind of fall although Boom doesn't play the game, so he didn't use it, are like the ah inventors, right? Of Ursaluno, the people who found it.
Speaker: But you look at Vigorolt. You have a great Pokemon. but it's just sometimes not fast enough. You have Ursulina with Swift instead of Bollyslam. it's faster Decent typing. I think the ground typing holds it more back than it gives, but still normal is a good typing to have.
Speaker: I think that kind of is just what Earth's Luna came to. You look for a better Vigerald. especially when and it is what part of me said as well i cannot play something like floor just but in general to find core breakers i mean look if you want to go in a theoretical way you just put like uh Pokemon in the team builder in PvPoke.
Speaker: You put like the Pokemon that you want to core break, not the ones you want to use. I want to core break Tinkton and Altaria. I put it in Peep Poke. people is gonna say uh you are a weak to these pokemon boom you might have a core breaker It can be as simple as that.
Speaker: But sometimes Amanda is just through playing. And it's just through playing. Maybe you see a cool pick in GBI and you're like, wait. This could work. Sucker Punch Shadow Reachable? let me sim that wait it wins all the twos that's crazy no one's gonna see that coming fortunately a mind joke didn't do well with it again yeah but i mean well he did again Didn't do bad with it.
Speaker: Did he know? I think he got up to... oh wait i was thinking of frankfurt because he also ran it there right because he was in like yeah and i think he ran it again let me check real quick um I'm not a believer of the shit. Yeah, he played it again. uh Oh, he did even worse than me. It was incredible. I feel like every time... No, I shouldn't. like like My joke is one of my best friends, but I keep giving him crap.
Speaker: It just goes automatically. if You hurt the ones that you care the most about. That's why you're always painting me. I get it. He's he's not listening anyway. yeah What?
Speaker: He's not listening to this podcast. Crazy. I keep telling you. This inconsistent, not put out. very often podcast? How dare he? We have done this more often. That's true. Our consistency is better. Sparklyx is a... Belgian trainer. He.
Speaker: uh showed me that he's actually going through all the old episodes too because he didn't realize that there was so many of the old Tap Tap Cast episodes. And he said, my goal for my Spotify wrapped at the end of the year.
Speaker: is that i'm good it's going to be my number one listened to podcast, that I'm going to be the number one fan of Tap Tap Castle. Listen, the gauntlet has been thrown down. If anyone else wants to try to beat it. I'm curious.
Speaker: Surely there's some people that have listened to it. I mean, we haven't brought out like for a year anyway. true So you probably only had to listen from like what, August, September? Yeah. wow we've been doing this for two months already amanda i know cra my time flies when you're having fun Um, Just ah zooming in a little bit more on Puebla.
Speaker: ah Shadow Alolan Merak. Remember when I got 15 Lucky Trace with Zionic in a row? A little Merrick, interesting pick, but I also feel like that kind of costs Dune Bug. It's a Fire and Ghost type Pokemon that... but he didn't run fire type moves on it.
Speaker: I think that's the way to go anyway. But you know what? What sucks? You don't counter. uh he's doing electro with that and uh yeah Hungry Wolfpack just beat him up with that. Hungry Wolfpack is someone...
Speaker: And I appreciate this a lot about him, right? He's been practicing so much. He's been practicing in so many practice tournaments in my server. He's got ah one top 16, I believe, at LESC last year. And all the other ones were...
Speaker: No day two, basically. So to get to second place now, huge improvement for him. I think honestly a big win for North American competition anyway to begin with. Yeah. he uh he he pleads I don't know if I want to call it solid. Like, Pokemango just caught moves on on the Hungry Wolf pack. He made great predictions on the Hungry Wolf pack. Won the lead a couple times. but Pokemon Go was just the bear man.
Speaker: Hmph. the bear was was in him and he he was the bear and the bear was was pokemon go It's like... i don't know like you just look at this bear and it's like it has poor ball commander but you have this altaria and altaria doesn't have anything on this this thing just throwing swifts at it and you actually have to respect it you see your hungry wolf pack coming with like like done sparse out of
Speaker: just being desperate to soak the energy somewhere but you still suck against the the what's it called The Ursaluna. Um, Pokemango has very interesting takes on the meta as well.
Speaker: Obviously I'm with him in a team in Sharks. He thinks fairies suck. Okay. He didn't run a ferry he ran Shadow Sableye? Melmetal. Corviknight, Toxapex, Araquanid, and Shadow Ursulina. So no fairy on his team. That meant he had no Shadow Sableye counter.
Speaker: Amanda sometimes it's so simple. If you are weak to a specific Pokemon, just don't encounter it. He didn't face one on day two. So, like, he had no shot of save light to fear.
Speaker: And is there someone who's free because of that? Yep. Yeah. That was ah quite interesting that I saw. like They were a fairy -type Pokemon against his Shadow Sableye, but you look at the Hungry Wolfpack's team, there was no ah Shadow Sableye. uh doom bug steam there was no shadow save lie rice steam no shadow save lie uh i think his his first opponent of the day was dell one three Once.
Speaker: four six i think something like this those numbers sorry de i got it wrong Also no Sableye. So like... he kind of just got away with that i feel like um obviously maybe it's not like he's weak to the to the sale like either right only book one week to his ursuluna but if you don't face one Like, Ersten was just kind of free into all those matchups.
Speaker: Yeah, and it kind of put on a show. Not only once this season, but already twice. I wonder if we'll see more of it. Because like you said... Every time someone wins,
Speaker: There seems to be an adaptation to the meta based on whatever that was. so But there's been quite a few. Tournaments that have happened recently. and Each of them has shifted.
Speaker: a little bit i would say overall so i i am very curious to see what's coming up one thing we could discuss too the fact that dune bug uh got third he We have still been behind the scenes drafting, even though we haven't been podcasting. So I believe Rise was my very first pick. He got fourth here.
Speaker: uh dune bug was the latest one that i picked up Peacock. third um Yeah, hard yes. One. me Did you have him? Yeah. No, I didn't have his accent. oh boom got a top placement top eight i think right so Yeah, I don't know not memorable enough
Speaker: So I think think I'm winning this draft pretty far. So far. I mean, you haven't even gone up to LAIC, Amanda. Okay, okay, okay. Like, it's been, what, fourth? Thornemans? Are you competing at LAIC?
Speaker: Yes, I will be worried. Yes. Okay. I will be competing. um And... I played two matchups in it, in in Arena Legendaria. It's like the Mexican... uh battle frontier basically um What a really nice website. I really like their websites.
Speaker: I played two matchups there. One against Zhao Victor. Should have 3 -0'd. Went 1 -2 because I just sucked. uh made mistakes where i was like okay if i just counted uh you're just playing your hotel maxi was there we're just talking and i'm like oops i made a misplay oopsie whoopsie now i lost And then against Ash and Ash, which I lost one because of...
Speaker: Um, This specific book where you sometimes... swap in you cmp and then it shows your opponent's throwing attack but you get the bubbles and i was like wait my mega scissor doesn't lose cmp to this mega mawa so i see this attack coming in i look i go to my computer i'm like there's no way and i look back and see bulbs i'm like bro and now i don't knock out the mouth anyway i shoot three out went to two one i feel confident in this one it it's It's not a...
Speaker: meta where alignment is so important. okay And I have all the good stuff. I have all the good stuff. I have the level 5 Mega Pokemon. How are your Megas coming along? I think you you out of anyone that I know care the most about... ah i'm all paid to win i have a good mao i have a bad mao i haven't looked at uh breaking bulk points just yet i have a good hound with bad hound doom i haven't super maxed those yet I have it ready.
Speaker: but um there's a lot to still look through that i think mega hound was really cool i think I'm not believing so much in Malamar anymore. But, you know. Maybe I need to practice a little bit. I feel confident in that.
Speaker: But there's also like 400 people registered. So yeah I don't want to get too much to have of ahead of myself. um I think day one will be easier than in Europe. That's for sure. Then we'll see from there.
Speaker: The customer announcements have been already released, right? Correct. Yes. yeah We are not casting it. We and we are not casting it. Are you competing there? Yeah, I'll see you in South Park.
Speaker: It's going to be ah Caleb. Butters. Tomahawk UK and Marto. Marto's not competing at LASC. Yeah, he's decided to give someone else a chance, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I would have liked to play him as well, but... I guess the other Latam players have to make up for that.
Speaker: He also he had his casting debut with you last year at EUIC, right? That was his first official broadcast. His yes second one was just this past weekend in Puebla. um with swagger on those who are cool i like they're they're good friends and they're just you can always tell even if you can't understand what they're saying that the vibes are good you know their synergy yeah Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, I think that was a great choice of pairing. We also had... um jolts right uh basically his first time really really casting He seems very enthusiastic. That's true, but he also he's officially casted for Unite. on the LATAM streams. Oh, I was not aware. of Okay. Yep.
Speaker: Well, maybe that's also like where Pokemon's like, okay. Maybe I'm dumb. But I'm pretty sure that... Yeah, yeah but potentially, potentially. I mean... Anyway, he seemed very enthusiastic. He seemed you were he seemed very good with like the interviews, just very handily. I liked how they did that, especially with like the non... Spanish speaking, they were like... um Going back and forth, right? Like asking a question.
Speaker: doombox understands spanish but doesn't speak it so it was fine but then with like mango or rice They're basically asking English and then... translates whatever the interviewee said. right I like that. Obviously it wasn't the most optimal set. like They didn't have a lounge. So they had to do it behind the caster desk like we did. with the Yeah, at the beginning. yeah um And ah a no translator. I think they made the best out of that. and yeah I like like the energy of all the casters. But i mean like I think all the casters for the most part are kind of...
Speaker: decently well known like Spence as well T .C. Spence and we all know that they can speak English as well so that is a a really like a tip of the hat to them just to be able to seamlessly being like, okay, this is my native tongue and then, but be able to switch it off. for the English speaking people and not make them feel out of place or that it's an inconvenience for them. So I was like, yeah.
Speaker: I'm excited to see more. If you just think of it, right? we had martha and swagon do like I think they... No, Swaggon did any IC before. Either way...
Speaker: You can tell that... English is not like as clean as like with a native speaking English. So I like that now they got the opportunity to speak in their own native language. and they just It just comes out way smoother for both of them. right I'm not saying they do poor in English, no but you notice a difference in in how rapidly... Obviously, Marto is is rapid fire anyway on Spanish, but just comes out. cleaner, they they express themselves easier. and yeah you know. I say that while not understanding a word, but there's no stuttering, you know? Yeah, exactly. I like that for them too, that they had to do the Spanish there. And Swaggeron is like a, I mean, I think that obviously with Pokemon Go, there's like...
Speaker: there's players and there's pvp players and then there's like the small intersection of people who Do. both but i think For the most part, a lot of PvP players really just care about PvP. But Swaggeron is...
Speaker: A huge name. In the Pokemon Go. regular circuit you know like he's like a content creator and the biggest a lot of them i think yeah i yeah i mean You can't go anywhere with that guy without.
Speaker: Him being called out by everyone. People are wanting to take photos with him down the street. i He is. Yep. Very, very popular. And it's cool that he also cares so much about PvP. He he competes sometimes. We've seen him compete at LEIC. And he's also, yeah like you said, got to host a couple of different international championships as well.
Speaker: Yeah. um just Just an exciting weekend, I would say, right? Successful weekend. I enjoyed it. you know that did There have been some frustrations with Pokemon Go sometimes, but this was definitely a big positive. i was ah I was happy. yeah happy not i don't know how much that matters but i like I like what I saw. Yeah. Yeah. Fun. I agree. I agree. And I think that it's like.
Speaker: It's crazy to think that We've been doing... this for five years, right? I mean not quite. necessarily but that our circuit has been around now this would be the sixth year yeah and Just... Looking at all the people that...
Speaker: Like, I would not have known you. other We would not be doing this podcast. if it wasn't for Pokemon Go PVP. so Yeah, I guess um you know there's I think it's a huge upside, obviously, about official competition providing all of this.
Speaker: i also do feel feel like it's kind of killed off uh grassroots formats i'm i'm not i don't know if kill love is the right word for it but If you talk to any. top player that All right. I don't know if I should even say top player, but there's anyone who regularly goes to regionals or investing is invested into the into the play Pokemon scene. And they're like, well, Battle Frontier or any other format is just there.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't really care but but I just play it and I'm like It's kind of a pity. because i feel like that that is exactly the ramp players should be able to use utilized to get into all of it and to even like experience Pokemon that you don't see. as much an open grill kick. True, true. and i'm you know I'm not even a fan of Open Great League to begin with.
Speaker: Um... I mean, this is but this is sort of like... Emmy Weedle shouting out unemployment as well, right? He he is very involved. You know, he has the gym breakers. he's You say that, but he doesn't play in every single regional. So I don't even think he's the best example. I think i think someone i like Pocketh might be a little bit better sure of of an example.
Speaker: ah For example, go to every everything. a s Stone collection with 50 original students' names, right? Regardless. But it's just like. at's At some point...
Speaker: because this i mean i i'm not making excuses for why i'm not competing uh i think Realistically. I'm one of the... THE PEOPLE THAT would fill out an extra rule. I'm complaining that Europe doesn't have...
Speaker: as many competitors as na but i should also be one of those people who are going and competing but My free time is like. this And so it's like, I don't know, the the more... ah adult life stuff going on, then the less time that I have for this sort of fun.
Speaker: extra thing. The way I see it, I just like to enjoy it while it's there. Yeah. and while i stay and that And that's fair. And also you were. Top tier.
Speaker: As well. I mean, i I think I would, the one tournament that I competed in, I went 2 -2. I was very happy with it. I picked a weird team the very last moment. It was five week to Dunsparce.
Speaker: Excellence. Yeah. I was like, who's playing Dunsparce anymore? Oh, Blissfully. Yeah, it turns out Blissfully is playing Dunsparce. It happens. Yeah, I mean, you know, we look at other of people as well, like Leo with goofy pics. And sometimes you take it far, right? Yeah, yeah. Leo's a great example, too. i mean like of the not that he's been competing so much but he's his scaling of
Speaker: When he started to now is incredible. And I really remember when he was first casting, he was like, we'd be all out at the the bar having like a. waters and fun. drinks. yeah and And he would just be asking everyone for scrims.
Speaker: Mm hmm. Like the whole night he would just be like. yeah and and just like trying to learn like why people were running this he was like save me all your swa blues uh because i still need an altaria
Speaker: Yeah. He even qualified for Worlds last season, yeah but chose not to go because obviously he was casting Yu -Gi -Oh! Worlds in Japan. yeah i mean Kind of hard to turn down. Wouldn't give up that opportunity, to be honest. I mean, San Francisco was great, but it's no Tokyo, with all due respect.
Speaker: But is it a Singapore? I don't know. Maybe this. I mean, Yu -Gi -Oh! Worlds is also Singapore. Yeah, I know. So... But they're not the same weekend this time, right? Yeah, well, um you can make it a two -week, maybe three -week thing. I don't know.
Speaker: apparently singapore's quite small so maybe i'll do a week singapore small it's also really hot and this summer but it's a cool city super clean super safe a Very cheap.
Speaker: delicious food almost everywhere, so. I like that. Yeah. And, uh... I think I'll do a week of Japan anyway. Like thinking yeah Singapore might not really be enough for a whole week.
Speaker: No, I... um but differently for like a day or two extra, but it's it's small. uh and it's It's a cute cute little. place though. You have to go to...
Speaker: I can't remember what it's called. Have you been there before, Singapore? Yeah, I've been there a couple times. Of course you have. neon trees singapore was it on a cruise or did you go first class year it was uh ah The old job that I used to work at, this business -to -business ingredient company, there was ah two events in Singapore. and then i went It's called Gardens by the Bay. You have to see it.
Speaker: I'm recommending this to anyone who goes to Singapore. What is that? gardens by the bay it's like these big giant um Man constructed. trees but they have like lights strung up in them and so there's like a light show essentially every night uh and so like they light up all across and there's like things that go around that plays with music and you can walk up in them as well and it's It's a really cool thing to see.
Speaker: Okay, wickets. Do you have to make reservations? Nope. It's like a park. Oh. Okay. Yeah. i might just go there you should Maybe they do a Gophers there again. I really like when they did Japan Gophers right before Worlds. That was good. Hopefully... ah They do it at something like that again.
Speaker: Yeah. um Amanda. You want to talk about events coming up? Please. Now, I know you don't like this Pokemon. But Mega Sableye is going to be in raids soon.
Speaker: I know. You can't use it at LAIC, guys. You can't use it at LAIC. but you can just soak in it to the adorable nature. It's going to be in rates from, um I believe, this Wednesday already or the weekend. No, it's this Wednesday, 28. Yes. um You gotta do this one amendment.
Speaker: Mega Sableye is going to get Nightshade+. It's going to be a bulkier save lie.
Speaker: and it's disgusting pokemon sorry that's just what it is it's gonna be so good if it will ever be allowed in competitive play it will have 100 usage if you're not using it you're a dork honestly Like, it's going to be so good. Why would you not use it? You have Nightshade Plus as ghost coverage. It's basically kind of overlaps with foul play anyway, except that you don't hit normal types. But guess what? You have Drain Punch Sucker, so you don't even need... um
Speaker: You don't need 96 plus for a normal type Pokemon. And then you have the option between Dazzling Gleam, probably for the mirror, or Power Gem for flying type Pokemon. It's going to be the best Pokemon. And you all are going to wish that Wigglytuff... was not nerfed, I swear. Like, Weekly Thumb is going to be necessary to keep this in check, and you all wanted it banned. Well...
Speaker: You can now sit on this. You thought you had a fairy type that's going to count this Pokemon? No. i don't I don't know what's going to counter this, Amanda. Yeah, you dorks. Mega Audino, maybe? No, probably not. Probably doesn't even win. Yeah.
Speaker: Because you have like charge speed, which just blows. I have to see. How much ah candy that I have or mega energy that I have. I know what wins. Grimmsnarl. Grimmsnarl wins.
Speaker: Okay. Yeah, it Blows against everything else, but... Good against save lives. So you have... At least one win against every team with Morgan. That's why you want that dazzling gleam.
Speaker: All right. Oh, just crap. I forgot about that. and You probably don't even win that now. like especially yeah I have nowhere near enough Sableye energy. so If Nightshade... Well, that's why you can do raids. I will. But if Nightshade plus is going to be like 35 energy, it's so joker. Yeah.
Speaker: ah sure there's There's no place for guillotine anymore. Speaking of, guillotine origin erased from Wednesday. Do not miss out. Must have Pokemon. Um,
Speaker: actually Wait, time out. You're going to... Never mind. or Origin is the snake one, right? And altered it one yeah altered is the leg one. Yes. Okay.
Speaker: I need alt. Well, no, candy is candy. is candy Okay, I'm going to do this. If you see me online, send me Giratina raids, please, because I have ah the Hundo shadow Giratina that I need to power up.
Speaker: i'm glad we're candy I'm glad we're doing this podcast because you just confirmed that you... Care more for Giratina than Mega Sableye.
Speaker: Everyone knows that I'm already going to be doing the Mega Sableye raids, and I don't um need as many other people to help out with this sort of thing. But to do but Amanda, have you forgot that there's a...
Speaker: remote raid limits so you can only do so many save line guillotine and you just said you do guillotine over mega save line um and then this weekend mega chandler super mega raid day Um,
Speaker: Skippable. But if you want to, you can do it. It's not going to make an impact on anything unless you're really into short manning rates. Says the candle cult guy. Yeah, I wish it was good. I looked at it for LAIC, but it's just not better than Houndoom. Yeah.
Speaker: So. Pitsy. Speaking of Chandelure, this is kind of off subject, but there's a VG caster, Zoe, and she is an artist. type shes Did you see her chandelier? um mosaic sort of thing. It looked like a church stained glass window.
Speaker: when When did she make that? That must have been a while ago, no? It was a little bit ago. I think i ta maybe I tagged you in it. I can't remember. But ah it's so good. Everyone tags me in this kind of stuff. I'm so impressed at people that can actually like really do...
Speaker: um illustrative. work like lou i can actually maybe i'll i'll show it here look For my birthday. painted this for me. oh you still have it very good oh yeah i i'm in i'm in this very hard thing where i'm like Well, I don't want to ruin it. Yeah, no, I get that.
Speaker: But I also want to drink it, so we'll see. I also. have something from loo which is... I framed this. Oh, that's super cool. It's like, I think she used some sort of ink or something. Yeah, I have i have a lowland.
Speaker: Nine tails. No, no, sorry. The Vulpix. the lowland vulpix and the canto vulpix that she did for me on the similar kind of cool thing not even a sableye okay Yeah. I got the sableye on the affair and the even better thing. That counts too.
Speaker: um And then the last events that I want to look or, well, not per se look at. I don't think it's super special. We had Minior last week. um You were cruising, so obviously you missed all of them. No, I got a ton. I got a ton.
Speaker: You just ruined the joke. ah Well, okay, no joke then. All right. But, um okay. I'm so fearful. Amanda missed all of them. Have no fear, Amanda. Because next month, it'll just be back. for a full week. And then the next month as well. But Amanda, you have to stop cruising.
Speaker: Because then it won't be there for three months. Okay. little big So that's that's basically... Can you walk us through the um GBL mechanic of it? Because I've only played against one. I haven't powered up one myself. Yeah. So. so i'm I'm not super familiar with the exact form names.
Speaker: I'll just call it meteorite form and exposed core form. I think that's close to what it's supposed to be. But when you catch... Exposed core form sounds like naughty. that's i think that's what i'm I'm pretty sure that's what it's called.
Speaker: Don't blame me. This is this is Pokemon names. This is not suitable for Pokemon names. No, no, because when you catch the meteor, it's like ah it's like a floating turd. right it's like like a brown ball and then you catch it it's like this beautiful green Exposed core. It's exposed. it's There's no turn around it anymore.
Speaker: And when you bring it to battle... The expose score. shows for just a second and then Vroom! All the the the rocks. it will be formed around it right it will be formed in the rocks This is the meteorite form where it has a higher... A high defense?
Speaker: and a lower attack. I think the bulk is comparable to that of Araquanid, if I'm not mistaken. It might be a little bit off, but that's around 2300 stat products. That's pretty bulky. I think, if if I looked at the latest numbers.
Speaker: But once it reaches 50 % health, whether that's... uh from a charge stack or fast stack the game will pause for like two seconds and it will form change it can be very uh It can be very much throwing you off, honestly, because it just happens mid mid... fast attack. Just pause this for a little bit.
Speaker: And then the the beautiful exposed core comes out, like this this green ball, right? And you actually will see, like, just when you debuff a Pokemon, you will now see attack. uh rose and defense uh I don't know what what what it says in the game, but the defense lowered, right?
Speaker: So it hits harder, but it takes way more damage. yeah let me actually check i thought it was about 1600 staff product maybe even less for the for the Minior. Yeah, 1500 stat products in its exposed core.
Speaker: ah Meaning that... um The thing what it can do here, Amanda, is pretty nasty. You could hypothetically just farm up a lot of energy, soak damage.
Speaker: um especially when you swap into something you you're already behind on energy so you take damage and you charge up and then when you're under 50 health you can unleash all that energy that is the the mechanic that Minior has that can be so destructive because basically you you run a tank for the first half of the battle and then you run a glass cannon. Now, if you are like at at max energy, just about 50 % health, and you can get two acrobatics, you will one -shot a Bastiodon.
Speaker: and Just kidding. You're not going to want ba it. But you're going to hit very, very hard on just everything. It has a pretty strong moveset in rollouts. Uh, and I think that's ancient power Was about general rock slide. I think it's power gem yes power gem and acrobatics uh so You don't get to them too fast.
Speaker: but you can stack to power jam for example rollout charge pretty quick Um, that's kind of the mechanic that it has i think it's a very interesting pokemon i don't think it's too game too meta -breaking. The typing sucks. like Rock is just... yeah A great offensive typing.
Speaker: Very poor defensive typing, especially paired with flying. You put one stun fisk next to it or a quacksire and you're like doomed. Bye! exactly yeah uh like obviously with this mechanic you you can fight back better into quack sorry bro it's a it's a similar but not same mechanic as aegis slash where it's like
Speaker: It has a form that's very bulky that can take a lot. um But the change is different. Obviously, when Aegislash throws its charge attack, it becomes the different attack version.
Speaker: the The change from EG Slash is... less throwing you off. It doesn't just happen mid -facet. True, true. I meant more like... um gameplay wise you know like but yeah you're deciding whether how to tank some of this energy and when I think Aegislash is very comparable on this. um just Just like with Minior, you can basically farm up a lot of energy, take damage, and then unleash all of it at once. I mean, the Shadow Ball buff was incredible for Aegislash, especially last season.
Speaker: uh when it even was good in the matter right we didn't have that many fire types at all and the fighter just gets one shot anyway like i i i'm a witness of that i played a ton of flame into each slice got one shot But, you know...
Speaker: being able to stack two moves has really lifted up that pokemon obviously typing right now is not great but mean you could do like similar things you can store two power gems Um... Now there is something weird with CP going on. i I don't know if that's still the case. But I know that if you came in... ah Initially with your Minior, it shows the... the CP that you normally have. Then it shows the...
Speaker: cp it changes to when it goes into the meteorite form but when it goes back to the exposed poor form under 50 % health. it changed cp to something entirely different again i don't know if that's still the case Um... But that was that was was happening for a while, and people were just not understanding it, yeah which was kind of weird. And like I said, I only played against one, so like I couldn't get like a full assessment of...
Speaker: what the whole thing was supposed to be like yet. so Yeah. wait I'm waiting for an in -depth. dive video first yeah i haven't made them for a while because i got pretty sick and now i lost motivation and yeah working and a whole month of regional and competition and stuff like we're gonna have uh Good answer this weekend. Then I believe next weekend or the weekend after is going to be the the Wild Area event. I will be grinding that. I like that event. Surprise. Then there's LAIC and then there's Stuttgart. So it's going to be... ah
Speaker: Yeah, don't expect too much from me this month. Sorry. You can expect something from me, actually. i I'm having a... video series.
Speaker: okay First one's coming out this week. I was just editing it today beforehand. beforehand Okay, what's it about? You guys like vlogging? it's so well It's sort of long. It's more of a game show. So I'm doing this thing called.
Speaker: meet me at the Pokestop. And so I'm going to... meet up with people. And then we're going to play games kind of based on their specific likes and knowledge. So Lou is going to be the very first one we filmed in Frankfurt. And I just got back and just got done editing it. So I'm going to put it out.
Speaker: uh after the podcast Literally skipped out on me. I see how it is. Yeah. Well, I was going to maybe try to get Emmy Weedle. I was like, Oh, it'd be really cool to get like the, you know, champions at the, but he was like, Oh no. he left Yep. He was out of there.
Speaker: so it was out if the gade Hey, why don't you win Gdansk and then stick around and I'll... interview you. I'm only worthy if I'm a champion? Well. Well...
Speaker: Honestly, i I like my alts better at LAIC. Is it okay if I win that one instead of Gdansk? I don't like my alts at Gdansk. I'm just gonna run trash again. We'll see how far we can run the trash. Well, I don't know. Maybe if you want to play the same team, you've had some experience with it now winning cups and challenges. No, Toxapex is not cool anymore. There were two Toxapex in the Puebla Grand Finals. Now that it's gone, I don't like it. Yeah, it's not cool. There were two of them in the Grand Finals. It's not cool anymore. It's meta. No, it's not fun anymore. What if you run it with Byte?
Speaker: They were running by the men, though. I know. you But No, I was. Oh, I thought you were running. Oh, my bad. Oh, yeah. I want you to watch me. Yeah. i Well, to be fair, I couldn't watch you. and i I watched you play a little bit against Maxie and then I saw and I was like, oh, then I closed it. yeah it's solidarity not not my best uh or whatever i'm gonna have to stick into that And I was like.
Speaker: Maxie deserves to get... Hey, I was i was at this how was helping him afterwards. We're just little friends. I know. of course i saw I also saw your little tweet and you know on a date.
Speaker: And then we went to another date after that. Yeah. But didn't take a picture. No, I saw the... you know because As most people know, we have like a... little castor chat. And so I was like, having major FOMO, I was like, oh, everyone's having so much fun in Nice without me.
Speaker: Bummer. Yeah, it should have come. Yep. Well, maybe. I'll see you in Gdansk. yeah I hope so, if you're not avoiding me. We'll see. But on that note, it is ah good to see you. I'm glad we got to do this again.
Speaker: um We'll be back for a while, so we will probably... Every Tuesday. is maybe a little bit overshooting, but These podcasts come out on Tuesdays, so just...
Speaker: If it's there. Merry Christmas. Do we do our a Costa draft? Yeah, we definitely should. Who starts? um I feel like I've been picking first the whole time. I feel like... You picked first last time. ah and who did you pick i can't even remember pockets i think i yeah you pick pocket and i pick dune bug um we are back in Let me quickly look.
Speaker: yeah because that's gonna be this weekend My initial... off the cuff thing is i think i'm gonna pick pvp david But I just want to make sure that he's playing.
Speaker: and god ask yes yes okay Okay, I'll pick PvP David then. I'll pick Maximilian. Okay, that's a good one. I know.
Speaker: You know who I should have maybe picked? One more thing that I should say before we end this podcast is the Mega Junko is doing so well this season. Yeah, but I'm going to put an end to that. You gonna i'm gonna away with it he said something about breakpoints and bulk points earlier, and then it just made me think of him automatically because he's...
Speaker: who i think about when You know, he has the Dragonbolt Simulator, so he he does a lot of the sims with bulk points, breakpoints. And he was explaining it to Vince a little bit because we were doing a small segment. in Oh, did Vince get it? I don't think Vince got it, but he was just like, dang, that guy is an analyst. Like if you're like looking for someone to explain something. you good I do feel really bad and I will shout it out here. I know it's not the same.
Speaker: um but he had gotten approval. to say that he would like. to work for Scopely if they're going to hire because he is a programmer. Mega Junko? Yeah And I said... Oh, I'll ask a, you know, is there anything else question? And then I just completely forgot because in my ear that, you know, they were like, okay, wrap it up to the next.
Speaker: person and So I forgot. But then I sent a message because Leo was doing and Mega Junko also was on the podium. Once again, I said, oh, you should ask this question because we didn't get around to it last time. It's already approved. And Leo also didn't do it. So Mega Junko was like, why? Why do you guys keep doing this to me? So Scopely, if you want a programmer, someone who's very good at Pokemon Go, who knows the ins and outs, wants to help improve PvP, the Mega Junko is your man.
Speaker: I would like that someone to have for uh From our side. Yes, exactly. A little bit of perspective of like a really talented trainer who just wants to make. PVP work better.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, I like the Mega Junko. He was talking trash about gear, Tina. That's why that's why he's go down. he's got to play He's like, oh, our dragon is so good. Yeah, well, where's his metal then? Oh, it was last season in Prague.
Speaker: Don't have to remind me. No, doubt that's the old season. It doesn't count. It's Dragon Breath gear, Tina, now, not not Shadow Claw anymore. Maybe I don't even run it. It doesn't matter. I'm just going to run five fairies. we'll see In the Melmetta Metal. Meta. Yeah, I get my one nil middle counter on it.
Speaker: I want the Delphox. Always is a pleasure. See you soon. See you soon. And we'll see you guys. on upcoming Tuesdays.
