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Anonymous01/18/26, 21:40No.58849514VGC
been watching this and it feels like the same exact few battles over and over
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Anon01/18/26, 21:49No.58849540
Because you have.
Gen 9 VGC has been absolute fucking disaster thanks to all the ridiculous power creep.
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Anon01/18/26, 21:54No.58849556
soon Pokemon will be the good old No items, Fox only, Final Destination, everyone with the same team of 6 of the same pokemon with the same movesThen we'll truly get into the one TRUE meta, when we drop the game and just beat the living shit of eachother with our fists
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Anon01/18/26, 22:16No.58849628
roaring moon gholdengo amoongus ogerpon
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Anon01/18/26, 22:18No.58849633
Legendaries were a mistake, Reg H was way more interesting
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Anon01/18/26, 22:37No.58849724
i thought this guys name was like a play on pikachu + hawktua but it's his actual last name
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Anon01/18/26, 22:43No.58849752
>cat
>monke
>urshifu
every battle man
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Anon01/18/26, 22:48No.58849778
Pokemon Champions will save us.
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Anon01/18/26, 23:18No.58849888
please kill pauls team
amen
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Anon01/18/26, 23:26No.58849921
>he's only been playing a few years they said
kek because you only need the last couple games to get pokemon that rape everything else
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Anon01/19/26, 00:35No.58850125
That's just competitive gaming in general and why I don't care to "git gud"
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Anon01/19/26, 00:46No.58850160
Vgc sucks. The worst part of the by shill dlc was having to wait 10,000 years for all the animations to stop playing
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Anon01/19/26, 01:12No.58850235
that's because it is, vgc is fucking boring
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Anon01/19/26, 01:20No.58850261
Every team in this reg is just some permutation of the following:
>Incineroar
>Urshifu
>Rillaboom
>Ogerpon
>Amoonguss
>Gholdengo
>Landorus
>Paradox PokemonProve me wrong.
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Anon01/19/26, 10:37No.58851362
I pray that Champions does some actual balance changes or every format involving legendaries will continue to be the same shitshow.
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Anon01/19/26, 11:02No.58851386
Weirdly enough, this is kind of why I like the competitive format in Legends ZA. Like, you still have the top tier of Pokémon and several similar teams but stuff like positioning and timing matter and you can win vs. a copy/paste team by using good tactics. They should make it a part of VGC, it'd be way more entertaining to watch IMO
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Anon01/19/26, 14:23No.58851627
just limit uturn to bugs
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Anon01/19/26, 15:00No.58851706
Remove UrshitfuThat's it
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Anon01/19/26, 15:55No.58851820
Worlds 25 was really good, wide variety of teams in the double restricted format.
Ho-Oh made top 16, horses didn't win.
Giovanni put on a masterclass and if you haven't watched the finals then you should.
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Anon01/19/26, 20:44No.58852484
VGC has always been poopoo
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Anon01/19/26, 20:54No.58852498
How do I get into vgc
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Anon01/20/26, 16:20No.58854526
reg H was slop reg F is slop. champions save us
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Anon01/20/26, 19:45No.58854911
Z-A helped me realize how much I did not enjoy VGC
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Anon01/21/26, 02:50No.58855951
vgc is like watching the metapod vs metapod match in early anime
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Anon01/21/26, 11:31No.58856861
yess yesss come to the dark side. we have heavy duty boots and suspect tests
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Anon01/21/26, 20:10No.58857811
Based
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Anon01/21/26, 20:34No.58857873
Scarlet and Violet are almost 4 years old and they've been repeating the same formats for a while now
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Anon01/22/26, 19:30No.58860994
right
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Anon01/22/26, 19:35No.58861000
If it makes anyone feel better, at least Bolt Balance didn't win Toronto.
Jack Clarke with Entei and Okidogi took 3rd. Tang took Regidrago to 4th.
It was a fine tournament, hopefully we see less Raging Bolt.
The reason Gholdengo is so common right now is because of the prevalence of Fluttermane and the Fairy Tera on Bolt. If we ever see those dip in usage, then the gold surfer will too.
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Anon01/22/26, 20:12No.58861085
This regulation is particularly gay, funnily enough if you rule legendaries out the meta stales even more
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Anon01/22/26, 20:59No.58861209
its crazy how sv's restricted formats were some of the best and most varied weve ever had and then its non restricted formats sucked complete and total ass
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Anon01/23/26, 13:51No.58863195
If we can keep this thread alive, Birmingham Regionals starts in 19~ hours.
It will be live here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/BYQ5xNaftjo
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Anon01/23/26, 14:32No.58863256
Peak VGC is when the list of available pokémon is limited
The moment you go national, and go forbid, allow restricted pokémon, it goes to the shitter
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Anon01/23/26, 15:37No.58863384
It will be interesting to see if we have a tera+mega format or just mega.
We can't even really speculate on potential teams because we don't know what's going to be in or not.
I'm most excited to try a ZardY protosynthesis team, but I suspect those won't be allowed until 2027.
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Anon01/24/26, 06:14No.58865346
Yuma Kinugawa's LAIC winning Hisuian Typhlosion will be distributed via code through the Birmingham(685 players) broadcast.
I also forgot that there's a smaller tournament in Merida(191 players) going on at the same time.
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Anon01/24/26, 10:39No.58865671
FlutterGODS
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Anon01/24/26, 13:05No.58865868
This is why competitive will never be a replacement for battle facilities, regardless of what shills say.
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Anon01/24/26, 16:37No.58866247
>its the caster with the annoying voice
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Anon01/25/26, 13:25No.58868705
>doubles players complaining about cat monkey switching in and out
>still refuse to play stealth rock and spikes to punish them
>just keep bitching about fake out rotations
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Anon01/26/26, 06:58No.58870974
What’s the error?
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Anon01/26/26, 07:37No.58871021
Welcome to compshittery, where one meta is found and defines the entire tournament. This is true for all forms of compshittery and why sweaty compshitters hate Johto.
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Anon01/26/26, 21:04No.58872361
that's what unrestricted powercreep does
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Anon01/27/26, 09:20No.58873993
Gen 8 really fucked everything up with urshifu and the horses power creeping like insanity.
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Anon01/28/26, 18:38No.58877936
always is
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Anon01/28/26, 23:47No.58878905
always was
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Anon01/29/26, 03:36No.58879551
According to Zheng, these are the top Pokemon in the current format
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Anon01/29/26, 04:36No.58879676
That’s been a problem for long while
