Pokemon Champions - Gamescast Plays

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: "Pokemon Champions – Gamescast Plays"
April 8, 2026 | Hosts: Mike and Blessing

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Episode Overview

In this episode of Gamescast Plays, Mike and Blessing dive hands-on into the newly released Pokemon Champions, Nintendo’s surprising free-to-play Pokémon battle application. The duo critically unpacks their first impressions, discusses the game's structure, microtransactions, competitive scene, and customization, and even pulls in some live Pokémon battling. Their candid, fun, and critical tone serves both longtime Pokémon fans and newcomers curious about whether "Pokemon Champions" is worth jumping into.

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Main Topics & Insights

1. First Impressions & Expectations

[02:23–04:57]

• Mike admits he expected "more of a Pokémon Stadium experience," with all Pokémon available. He’s surprised to find a competitive, bare-bones battling app instead of a traditional RPG.
• Blessing compares the experience to "an application more than a game," emphasizing its focus on daily recruitment and ranked battles over narrative or adventure.
• Both note the game is free-to-play, with a $6 welcome pack and $10 premium battle pass:

  “I go into the Nintendo Store and I go, oh, my God, it's free to play. [...] And so then I finally download it. I get hit with [...] a bunch of stellar cutscenes and like CGI video trailers. […] And then I kind of get bogged down in way too many menus.” – Mike [04:15]

2. Microtransactions, Shops, and Progression

[05:37–08:41]

• Premium Shop: Offers battle passes ($10), monthly/annual memberships (more storage and features), and exclusive cosmetics/music.

  "Honestly, I don't really like that." – Blessing, on exclusive battle songs [07:22]

• Cosmetics in the Frontier Shop (purchasable with in-game currency, VP) are expensive—shoes cost 4000 VP!

  “Why are shoes the most expensive thing?” – Mike [08:00]

3. Character Customization

[08:41–12:00]

• Discussion gets lighthearted as the hosts experiment with clothing, venting about price and limited cosmetic options ("I want to go just crop top... There's no belly buttons in the Pokemon world." – Blessing [10:55]).
• Mike points out the lack of paid microtransactions for Pokémon themselves likely avoids "whales" dominating competitive play.

4. Core Gameplay – Battles

[12:15–15:56]

• Explains singles (pick 3 of 6 Pokémon) vs. doubles (pick 4 of 6) – a mechanic for strategy.
• Blessing prefers the picking phase – “I think the strategy of having to pick based off of what you see… I think it’s fun.” [13:18]
• Both agree this leans more toward being a competitive tool for battling, not a casual adventure title.

5. Recruiting & Transferring Pokémon

[16:05–23:38]

• Explains how to move Pokémon from Pokémon Home into Champions, the risks and feelings of separating Pokémon from their original games.

  “Now, my Scarlet team looks real whack right now, but they're all in Home. How do I get my Pokemon from home?” – Blessing [16:29]

• You can't import every Pokémon—only compatible ones.
• If you lack Pokémon Home, you recruit one Pokémon per day (free roll, with options to rent or keep permanently via tickets or currency).

6. Party Building & Strategies

[24:04–30:15]

• Blessing discusses type preference ("What if I just become a Fire Motherfucker's only?" [27:35]).
• Chat interaction: Community helps him choose optimal Pokémon for competitive play.

7. Stat & Move Customization (Training)

[31:09–37:19]

• Explains stat alignment and move customization for Pokémon, referencing meta picks vs. unique builds.

  “Each Pokemon have a different alignment that it wants or is there just one golden goose alignment for everyone?” – Mike [32:28]

• MVP: The game shows most-used options for movesets/stats, letting even newbies sync with the meta.

8. Battling Experience and Design Feedback

[40:41–56:13]

• First live battles: Praises UI clarity, but critiques lack of stadium variety and static camera.

  “I want an announcer. I want more camera angles. I want the camera to move around.” – Mike [67:17]

• They note learning through play is key for both of them (“I want to understand how it works… is to get on the ground floor and struggle with it.” – Blessing [57:20]).
• Discussion of how battle formats (singles vs. doubles) shift the competitive focus; doubles offers more strategy but isn't modeled after the mainline series.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Game Identity:

• “It feels like less of a game and more like an application.” – Blessing [04:02]
• “No, this feels more like an application is right.” – Mike [13:20]

On Microtransactions & Cosmetics:

• “If you're selling socks, I don't like that for the vp.” – Mike [10:08]
• “I'm not rolling up to a poke battle not steezed up.” – Mike [09:57]

On Competitiveness & Accessibility:

• “Isn't the goal to get more people into and wanting to try the competitive scene?” – Mike [14:56]
• “This is making me want to get more into competitive Pokémon. […] They just have to update it a lot.” – Blessing [15:09]

On Learning vs. Following Meta:

• “That’s my least favorite way to play a game. I don't want to look at a piece of [paper]... I want you to wow me.” – Mike [44:59]
• “I want to get like, tossed around, and then I can then learn…If I learn that stuff myself, it’s gonna be way better than if I just copy someone else's homework.” – Blessing [57:26]

On Presentation:

• “I want an announcer. I want somebody. I want more camera angles.” – Mike [67:17]
• “The Pokémon Stadium announcer was such a classic.” – Blessing [67:41]

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Key Timestamps for Segments

• [02:23] – Intro, premise, and initial impressions
• [05:37] – Microtransactions, premium/battle pass breakdown
• [08:41] – Cosmetic customization: pros, cons, and costs
• [12:15] – Battle format explanation: singles vs. doubles
• [16:05] – Linking and importing Pokémon from Pokémon Home
• [22:06] – How daily recruiting works for non-Home players
• [31:09] – Training, stat/move customization
• [40:41] – First ranked battles: UI, stadium critique, meta-strategy
• [57:19] – Personal learning approaches vs. following guides
• [67:17] – Final thoughts on presentation and "Stadium" feel

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Final Thoughts & Takeaways

• "Pokemon Champions" offers a stripped-down, competitive-centric platform that leans hard into daily battling, stat tweaking, and meta chasing rather than adventure or traditional collecting.
• It's accessible (free-to-play, beginner-friendly UI), but longtime fans may find it lacking in charm, diversity, and expected polish (like multiple stadiums, announcers, or RPG elements).
• For competitive battlers and Pokémon fans curious about the PvP scene, it's engaging—especially with live, persistent meta stats. But for those longing for a modern Pokémon Stadium, this isn't quite it (yet).

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For Listeners:

Whether you’re a Pokémon veteran or just want some online battles without the grind, "Pokemon Champions" deserves a look—but with expectations set for a “Pokémon battle hub” rather than the next great adventure. The Kinda Funny crew will revisit it, possibly with tournaments and more community action, so stay tuned!

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[Mike]

What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of gamescast Plays your afternoon stream but with a twist where we dive a little bit deeper. We answer your questions and we bring a little bit of an editorial vibe to our afternoon stream. And today I got a fun one because I got my Pokemon Master, a Pokemon Champion over here. Did you beat Leafgreen yet?

[Blessing]

I I beat Leafgreen two days ago.

[Mike]

So you are a champ.

[Blessing]

You're officially.

[Mike]

You're a legend here. We're gonna play Pokemon Champions.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

The brand new Pokemon experience. And bless you did a great preview already with Jake Deckard from GameSpot. GameSpot, which got me excited. But also now that I've experienced this game just a little bit, it is not what I thought it was.

[Blessing]

What did you expect, though?

[Mike]

I guess I was hoping more for a Pokemon Stadium experience, which I feel like this is kind of that. But this is also very much. We're looking for the chat up there. That's why. But what I was looking for. Oh, I didn't know if you adjusted the camera.

[Blessing]

He's tall like that chat. Yeah, I adjusted it. But bless was here. Yeah, yeah. For you to be.

[Mike]

I'll get down. So what I thought bless was I'd get Pokemon Stadium. Right. Like, hey, here it is. And I was hoping for every Pokemon. So this very much feels like, hey, this is going to be the competitive, like kind of bare bones, just competitive fighting.

[Blessing]

And that was. It was interesting because I was trying to find the words for it during the preview of how I wanted to talk about it because, like, one of the things I wrote down and I was like, I don't know if this is offensive to say about it, is that it feels like less of a game and more like an application.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing]

You know what I mean? Like, it is very much you're going in, you're recruiting a Pokemon a day and then you're going in and you're just battling. You're just ranked battling. It's a game. But it's like, if you're coming into this thinking you're going to get a full game experience, I think you'll be lucky.

[Mike]

And it's so weird because as a person who listens to the preview, but it's still like coming in very fresh. Right. Bless. My expectations were, okay, I'm going to get some sort of Pokemon stadium. Then all of a sudden I go into the Nintendo Store and I go, oh, my God, it's free to play. Yeah, but there's a $6 welcome pack. And I'm like, double checking, like, are you sure you don't want to give. You don't want me to give you $60? I'm ready to give you $60. And so then I finally download it. I get hit with a bunch blessing, a bunch of stellar cut scenes and like CGI video trailers. And I'm like, oh, this is how every Pokemon should Look, and then I kind of get bogged down in way too many menus. Yeah, that's my experience.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Then you get into the full to

[Mike]

do, then it's just too much time.

[Blessing]

Too much time. Tut. Which is why I'm glad I booted it up last night. Cuz like often times for gamescast plays, it could be like, oh, let's start from a fresh save. But I was so antsy to get in that I started playing last night. And for most of the time I was playing, it's like Tut. I'm like, okay, well now I'm just talking to these characters I'm probably never going to talk to again. Because it's not that kind of game. Yeah, it's a whole thing. But now we're here with it and it's such an interesting one because there are big questions which we had about Pokemon Champions. The number one question probably was, all right, what are the microtransactions? Like, what are the purchases? Like, what's the story?

[Mike]

Yeah. As a free to play game, are there microtransactions you guys came back from a few like we didn't see. We don't know.

[Blessing]

Yeah, they wouldn't tell us. Show us any of the stuff that is like purchasing. As you can see, there is a premium shop. If you hop into the premium shop, there are two things for sale. There's a premium battle pass for 10. $10.

[Mike]

Bought that.

[Blessing]

And then. Oh, you bought the premium Battle Pass.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. I mean, well, if I'm gonna play it, I want to earn while I play. So of course I bought the Battle Pass. That's how I saw that one. You know what I mean? Games free to play battle pass for $10. Okay, cool. Reward me while I play so I get more things. Because like you said, it feels like an application. Feels very bare bones. So if you don't have anything to bring to it, like me, who doesn't have a Pokemon home account, who doesn't have Pokemon stuff, I'm kind of like, you gotta give me things. So I'm encouraged to play.

[Blessing]

And as you can see, I'm on the free Battle Pass here. Right. And so, you know, I got. You can earn Pokemon here, which is cool. I didn't realize. Yeah, which, no, this is premium. But yeah, you have that. You get the quick coupons, you get these teammate tickets, which we'll get to. These are all used for recruiting, I guess. Training ticket is used for training and stuff like that. But for these premium items, it's like you're earning these Mega Evolution Stones and you're earning Pokemon themselves. And I guess you have a trainer icon here. Got some cosmetic stuff as well. Yeah. And then. Yeah, you go into the shop alongside the Battle Pass. You then in the premium shop have the memberships so you can buy a one month membership or a 12 month membership.

[Mike]

I'm not doing that.

[Blessing]

I'm not doing that either.

[Mike]

I'm not doing that.

[Blessing]

But you do get more box bases. You get. I don't know what battle teams plus 15 is. Maybe that's like preset teams that you can assign.

[Mike]

Those are your loadouts of teams. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

You have exclusive missions, which I guess are just dailies or whatever.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then you have exclusive battle songs. Honestly, I don't really like that.

[Mike]

That was odd to me when I went to the shop and the stuff that they're selling, it was like battle songs. I'm like, okay, I don't like this,

[Blessing]

I don't like that. And then you go into the shop and then you have the non premium shop, the frontier shop, where you can spend vp. VP is the currency that you earn in the game called victory points. And you spend VP on all these things. Held items, which are the items that you can use in battle. Mega stones for the Mega Evolutions. Clothing options for your character. Accessories, hair and cosmetics. Pre battle poses, which I think is cool in theory, but they're expensive as hell.

[Mike]

Why are they so expensive? Why are shoes 4000 VP? Why are the shoes the most expensive thing on the game?

[Blessing]

Why are throwing styles 5000 VP? And I'm sure we'll see how much they deal out the vp. Yeah, it seems like they might be more generous than I'm giving them credit for because you start off with 10K. Every win you get in a ranked battle, you get 300. But then they also have missions and stuff, which I claimed a bunch of them at the start of the day where I came in and it's like, all right, here's a bunch of VPs. Maybe they're more generous than I'm giving them credit for. For. But you also have songs that you can buy, which honestly you like Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green. Okay. Yeah.

[Mike]

Have you decked out your play with cosmetics?

[Blessing]

No. Well, I mean I. I customized him because this is how he looks, right?

[Mike]

Oh yeah. You gotta, you gotta change that.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Mike]

That's a bad top and short shorts combo, buddy.

[Blessing]

Okay, well then what do we, where do we go?

[Mike]

I mean, we gotta kill in here. So here's the deal.

[Blessing]

Like red Red's my favorite color.

[Mike]

Okay. I love you in red. I like red. So I don't like any of these weird nylon T shirts.

[Blessing]

I'm sleeveless, though.

[Mike]

You like sleeve. You are. You are gun Poppy right now. Maybe you can find that with red. I will. That. That red jersey looked good on you. That red and yellow jersey.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I like this.

[Mike]

Yeah, I like that. Because what you got to do, though, is before you stand, you have to look at the pants. You have to. You have to make sure you're building out the best look because there's also jackets that you're going to put over this.

[Blessing]

Oh, I even see that.

[Mike]

Yeah, there's, like, jerseys. There's crop tops, sweaters.

[Blessing]

Can I go just the crop top? Do you think Pokemon will allow me to just go crop.

[Mike]

No, I think you always have a T shirt underneath it, unfortunately.

[Blessing]

What are we doing here?

[Mike]

And then pants.

[Blessing]

This is so expensive.

[Mike]

Yeah. So I had to immediately spend. This is so my 10,000 on this. And I didn't even have enough to deck it all out. I had to get another extra 10,000 for my gift to buy the shoes.

[Blessing]

I don't know about all that, though.

[Mike]

I don't know if I'm. Because I'm not rolling up. I'm not rolling up to a poke battle. Not steezed up. Dressed up with the shoes, though.

[Blessing]

Like, where are the shoes at? Are they in this menu?

[Mike]

Accessories.

[Blessing]

Accessories.

[Mike]

No, no, no. They're in the clothing. You keep going. They got weird gloves. They got a hip thing that you don't see. I don't like the sale of socks. I'll say it right now. If you're selling socks. I don't like that for the vp.

[Blessing]

See, I don't. Yeah, I don't like these options. What is this? Oh, belts. Okay, this is what we're going to do. I'm just going to buy.

[Mike]

Get crazy with it, bro.

[Blessing]

What happens? Can I just unequip a shirt? Where's the menu to. Let me just customize my guy style.

[Mike]

Style Ste it.

[Blessing]

Okay, so I have to have something on.

[Mike]

Yeah, you can't go. You can't go just crop top.

[Blessing]

Because I want to go just crop.

[Mike]

There's no belly buttons in the Pokemon world.

[Blessing]

I just want to go cross.

[Mike]

They don't let you show your belly button like that.

[Blessing]

What other pants do I have? No, I just have that. Oh, I have.

[Mike]

Those are your underpants. Yeah, they.

[Blessing]

It's only the default one of these.

[Mike]

He's dialing in.

[Blessing]

Okay, so then I love how we're spending.

[Mike]

Our people are gonna be like, the first seven minutes of them just looking at fucking cosmetics right now. Like, get to the Pokemon.

[Blessing]

It's. Cause Mike is microtransaction pappy, you know?

[Mike]

I mean, you gotta give him kudos. No microtransactions. The chat, I'm sure, is celebrating that and loving that there's no way to spend. And I thought about that, and I was like, is that to keep the whales away? Because this is your competitive title, so you avoid people spending thousands of dollars to buy the best Pokemon. Is that what we're doing here?

[Blessing]

Should I get these pants? I like these pants.

[Mike]

Those pants are lit.

[Blessing]

All right. I'm getting used to. Oh, that's a lot of money. I'm not spending all that, though. I'm not spending all that.

[Mike]

You better go earn, then.

[Blessing]

Yeah, we're going to.

[Mike]

We're going to earn. Go out there looking like a buster,

[Blessing]

then we're going to money. Because that's a lot of money to be spending on these games, so.

[Mike]

But then also, you're spending money on training.

[Blessing]

No, you're earning money by training. Training.

[Mike]

Oh, you earn by training.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Apparently people will tell you, you earn a lot of VP by doing the.

[Mike]

Okay. Okay. Yeah. I think this is where I got my extra 10 GS.

[Blessing]

You do double battle.

[Mike]

Double battle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

We'll do that real quick.

[Mike]

So there's a problem with this game, though.

[Blessing]

What's up?

[Mike]

When you think of Pokemon, you think of usually single battles with six Pokemon on your hip.

[Blessing]

Well, more the competitive people will tell you. Double battle.

[Mike]

I get. Well, now we've evolved to that. But, like, here's the catch. There's not even that. The most basic of Pokemon battles.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

What's up with that? Why am I choosing. Why am I choosing a portion of my team and not just playing what Pokemon is?

[Blessing]

So for context, if you do a singles battle, you go in, you have your teams of six, but you have to choose three to do the battle because you see your opponent's team and it's about now picking the right.

[Mike]

We're playing a guessing game.

[Blessing]

You're playing the guess, guessing. It was like, all right, that's the six they have. What, like what three out of my six do I want to choose that I think are going to be good against whatever they choose. For doubles, you're seeing their six, and you're picking four of yours, which, honestly, even though I'm with you, that, like, I think traditionally 6v6, I do think the Strategy of having to pick based off of what you. What you see.

[Mike]

What you see.

[Blessing]

I think it's fun. I think it's cool.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's like a lot of people, like, no, that's the competitive way. And, like, that leads this to more of, like, this is an application for competitive Pokemon. This is not a game that little Suzie and Billy are growing up with. Pokemon Stadium, like you and I were, where it's like, oh, this is my next Pokemon game. No, this feels more like an application is right.

[Blessing]

Exactly. And I'm earning everything. Do you. Because one of the things I compared this to during the preview was Magic the Gathering Arena. And do you see what I'm talking about now with it right where it is? Very much like, oh, you're just coming

[Mike]

in here to battle, so show me the recruiting.

[Blessing]

Well, before I do that, I got enough money.

[Mike]

Oh, you ready to steeze up a little? You got to go buy.

[Blessing]

I just need to buy. I just need to buy a shirt.

[Mike]

Yeah. This is their new official competitive battler. Barnell says so not a game.

[Blessing]

But, like, if the competitor. If the competitive players don't like it, then what are we doing then? Because the competitive players are tearing this thing apart. You can't be a competitive battler if the competitive players don't like it. What's funny, though, is that I like it. I played it last night. Really into it. I think it has.

[Mike]

So what are you. Are you a casual fan? I mean, are you a competitive fan?

[Blessing]

I'm a casual battler. You know, I'm like a. I'm a intermediate Pokemon fan. You know, I'm in the middle. I'm not that hardcore. Yeah. Not that casual. I'm in the middle. But when it comes to battling, I'm casual.

[Mike]

It's just another one of, like, this is for our battling scene, which is great and awesome, but, like, is it your goal to get new players? I like this jacket a lot. I just hate that, like, it only changes the color of the laces.

[Blessing]

I don't like that.

[Mike]

So I had to go get it. I picked a different one. But I do like the cut of it. I think it's very cool. Isn't the goal to get more people into and wanting to try the competitive scene?

[Blessing]

Yes, but. And I think that could work. It's working for me.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

This is making me want to get more into competitive Pokemon. I was playing last night, I was like, yo, this is actually pretty. Pretty sick. But you. I think they can get it there. They just have to Update it a lot. You have to get in the items and Pokemon that people want out of it. Expect out of it. You need to get in the items, the held items that people expect out of it. I think they just need to build it there. But from what I'm seeing, I think the bones are here.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

For what they want out of it.

[Mike]

Well, I'm excited to jump in. I'm really looking forward to recruiting and battling all the time. Like, late last night, I downloaded this because I was like, I cannot wait to experience this and try it. Now. My expectations were different than what it is, but I am still excited to battle. And that thrill of the chase of, like, you show me yours, I'll show you mine. Now let's see who picks right. Who picks the right.

[Blessing]

Let's see who picks the right.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I think that's fun. I don't like this. This phone. Rotom. I hate the phone. Can I remove it?

[Mike]

Why is no Rotom's on your ear the whole time?

[Blessing]

Rotom's there the whole time. I don't like that.

[Mike]

I hate it.

[Blessing]

All right, let's go to recruit. What I was trying to do before, because I took. So right before this, I booted up Pokemon Scarlet. As you can see, I redownloaded Arceus. My whole screen is Pokemon.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Blessing]

It's just all Pokemon. If you go further, there's Za. There's Procopia there. Right. I'm Pokemon out right now.

[Mike]

Cause your goal was to suck Pokemon from your other games.

[Blessing]

Yes. So I took the Pokemon from Scarlet. I put them into home. So right now, my Scarlet team looks real whack right now, but they're all in home. How do I get my Pokemon from home? Because I go here now. Checking. To bring your Pokemon to Champions, you'll need to link your game to Pokemon Home Chat. What does. You have to go into the home app and transfer them to Champions.

[Mike]

All right.

[Blessing]

We're going to go there.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

We're going to figure this out.

[Mike]

I like it. Bless. I like it.

[Blessing]

Is it safe to stream home? I'm not gonna, like, don't do it. There's a bug. We're not doing it. Really?

[Mike]

Why not?

[Blessing]

I'm not risking.

[Mike]

So what happens? So explain to me home, as a player that just. I just play the Pokemon game. People are gonna go beyond Pokemon. Oh, okay. Then we're not doing that.

[Blessing]

Yeah, no, we're not doing that. Okay. We're not doing that. Pokemon Home is basically like your home bank for Pokemon.

[Mike]

Yeah, Right.

[Blessing]

It's where It's. It is the thing that keeps your Pokemon between different games. You can import them there and now. Cool. I can export this to Scarlet. I can export this to Champions. I can put this in other Pokemon games or just hang out with it. I don't know. Yeah, okay. Actually, Chat, correct me. Can you export Pokemon from home to a Scarlet? I know you can export them into Champions, which I'm excited about.

[Mike]

People say, so far I've transferred 15 Pokemon. I had no issues. I did it and it worked fine. Jacob says

[Blessing]

if you were saying, yes, you can. Okay, perfect. Perfect. There's no bug. I've transferred around 50.

[Mike]

So you're just allowed to transfer any Pokemon. So does this game have every Pokemon or not?

[Blessing]

No, you can't transfer every Pokemon, I don't think.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Only the Pokemon that are.

[Mike]

So they tell you what are compatible?

[Blessing]

They tell you what's compatible. Okay, y' all are scaring me. Oh, am I at home right now? Oh, I'm at home. I accidentally.

[Mike]

Yeah, you're already deep at home. I'm already. You've been clicking around home.

[Blessing]

How do I get to my bank? Okay, this is the dex.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Deposit Pokemon. If I just go here. Yeah. Oh, shouldn't wish McCalla be here? Shouldn't Champions be here? What do you mean? Premium plan. Bottom right corner. There we go. Thank you. Chat. Now, Chad, do I have to pay for this because I don't have the premium? The premium situation.

[Mike]

Oh, you gotta be paying, bro. We'll give him a little money. Cut him a little piece off the top.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah. You see here? So you have the thing that says this can't come through.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

So I want my Skeledirge.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I want Mouse Hold. I want Tinkaton. Okay. Give me my Sylvie. I'm putting. I'm putting them all in there. This is my team from Scarlet. Okay. Actually, screw it. I'm putting all of them in there.

[Mike]

Might as well. So you're taking these Pokemon from Scarlet, so you can't use them anymore in Scarlet?

[Blessing]

Correct. Yeah. Right now, these Pokemon aren't.

[Mike]

Yeah. Let's make it official.

[Blessing]

What button do I press? Send for a visit. Is that it? Warning. While a Pokemon is visiting Pokemon Champions, you'll be unable to. Okay. Boom. Okay, if these Pokemon get lost, Chat. I will.

[Mike]

They mean something to you? I will.

[Blessing]

Yes, they mean something to me.

[Mike]

So now when you click on Scarlet, you're telling me those Pokemon are just gone?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

What a weird system.

[Blessing]

That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm saying, like, what are we?

[Mike]

I guess I'm just like, I'm such a Pokemon og. I was like, I just play the game.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I go and catch Pokemon.

[Blessing]

They are so serious about it. Where I had to open up Scarlet and take the Pokemon out of my party. Cause they're all in my party. I had to put them in the box.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then I go home and I take them from the box and I can see them leaving Scarlet. It's like, all right, cool. I'm taking it from Scarlett, putting it in home.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And now they're just not in Scarlet. And I'm like, now I'm scared. Cause I'm like, oh, my Pokemon, they're not home anymore. You know what I mean? Scarlet is their home. And now they're just not there. I don't know. It makes me scared. I don't like it. You can always just put them back. But what if they get lost?

[Mike]

Lose them forever.

[Blessing]

Let me double check this.

[Mike]

Ah, fuck it. Just ride.

[Blessing]

We'll ride.

[Mike]

You'll never play Scarlet again.

[Blessing]

That's the other thing is, you're right. I am never playing Scarlet again.

[Mike]

So why not? I'm never playing Scarlet again. Don't worry about it.

[Blessing]

Yeah. That's the other thing I had to remind myself is like, I'm not playing Scarlet. So who cares? So we go to recruit and then we collect Pokemon from home.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Wow.

[Mike]

There you go. Take them.

[Blessing]

When you collect Pokemon in visiting home, a Pokemon's strength will be determined. Not even if you're in. Okay. Okay. All right.

[Mike]

So you just. You essentially added six Pokemon to your permanent roster via that.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Is that correct?

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Mike]

So then what is a normal person who say, doesn't have Pokemon home? What does it look like? How do I recruit Pokemon and what does it look like to me?

[Blessing]

You. Then what you're going to do, right, you're going to go to recruit. The recruit menu that we were just at. You're going to hit recruit Pokemon. Yeah. Now, Mike, you get one free recruit a day. Okay. All right. Every 20.

[Mike]

But a Pokemon, it's a six person Pokemon match.

[Blessing]

I mean, they'll give you some at the beginning.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

They'll give you some free Pokemon at the beginning. A dude lends you. Everybody gets the same, like five Pokemon.

[Mike]

Okay? Okay. Okay.

[Blessing]

But every 22 hours, the store refreshes.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

You meet a new one.

[Mike]

Meaning I lose one Pokemon and I get a new one. I select a new one.

[Blessing]

No, you're just, you're just collecting them. Like you get one Free roll, essentially.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

After you pick, you then decide if you want to rent it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Which is temporary. Or if you want to keep it by spending.

[Mike]

So here are my options for the day.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Mike]

Right here in front of me. And so it was my goal to be like, hey, I'm building out this squad. I'm missing a nine Tails. A fire type. I should add this to it 100%. Okay. And so you're going to select.

[Blessing]

I don't like any of these. If I'm being real.

[Mike]

I love that we have to have the key Pokemon in a Pokemon fighting game is very important.

[Blessing]

It's competitive, you know, it's a good football.

[Mike]

That's crazy.

[Blessing]

I'm going to pick Bliscor.

[Mike]

Why?

[Blessing]

Because it's ground and flying. And I think that's a unique type combination.

[Mike]

Okay. Okay.

[Blessing]

Although I'm going to check. Let me check its ability. Because you have the move list. Of course, you can change moves in training and stuff. Abilities are interesting. Boost the Pokemon's evasiveness by 25% in a sandstorm.

[Mike]

Which doesn't really help based on people are liking Whimsicott.

[Blessing]

Whimsicott.

[Mike]

Whimsicott. For support.

[Blessing]

Let's see its moves. It has moonblast. Has a 10% chance of lowering target. Special attack has growth. Boosts users attack and special attack. In harsh sunlight, these stats will be boosted. Boosted by tc. Okay. As light screen. Give the user's side light screen for five turns.

[Mike]

Oh yeah. Last Geek. You're not getting Nick because he doesn't care about Pokemon.

[Blessing]

Have you damage taken from special moves in double battles. Okay. Light screen is good. Light screen is good. And then you have charm.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Lowers the target's attack stat by two stages. Then you have Prankster stat. Increases the priority of the Pokemon's status moves by one stage. Increases the priority of the Pokemon status move. I don't know what that means. What's the status move? Chat.

[Mike]

Oh, now you see. Now you gotta.

[Blessing]

Is that like when you know all the terminology? Like when you're inflicting burn. Oh, so is it like if you're inflicting burn or poison or something, you go first, like the priority of the turn. Every move that isn't attacking has priority. Like quick attack. I see. That makes sense, actually. Oh, you know what? That is kind of fire based off their moves.

[Mike]

Oh, he likes that.

[Blessing]

That is really fire.

[Sponsor Voice]

Actually.

[Mike]

Hold on.

[Blessing]

Chat. You're right. Okay, we're picking up whimsical.

[Mike]

So now what are we doing here?

[Blessing]

Now you can do trial recruitment which you have that you spend nothing. Yeah, it's free. But you only have that Pokemon for seven days.

[Mike]

Okay?

[Blessing]

You can spend VP to recruit that Pokemon permanently, or you can spend these tickets. I forget what they're called. They're just tickets. You can spend one of these tickets to repeat it permanently.

[Mike]

So you have 25 tickets.

[Blessing]

I have 25 tickets. I have, of course, 12,000.

[Mike]

Love that. Love that.

[Blessing]

I think this is the one I want to keep.

[Mike]

Okay. He's gonna keep.

[Blessing]

I'm spending a ticket, okay? And that's it. That's my one a day.

[Mike]

And you are not allowed to recruit any more past that.

[Blessing]

Unless if I go back here, I can spend these other tickets, the quick coupons,

[Mike]

and I get a new lineup. I get a new lineup.

[Blessing]

Want to roll it?

[Mike]

Roll.

[Blessing]

Everything is currency.

[Mike]

Yeah. Everything. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Everything is currency in a free to play game Chat.

[Mike]

Big roll, Greninja. Big fucking roll. Big roll.

[Blessing]

And I have Incineroar.

[Mike]

Big roll.

[Blessing]

And I got Lucario and. Right shoes.

[Mike]

You actually got a. You got the cool dinosaur one too.

[Blessing]

Dinosaur Blastoise.

[Mike]

You actually got a pretty big

[Blessing]

shit Chat. I'm so. I'm leaning. What am I leaning? I'm leaning Incineroar. Little guy. Fuck.

[Mike]

Yeah. But see, now you gotta kinda know what your squad is. Do you know all the Pokemon you already have? See, like now the cat's like. Do you know what you need to compliment here?

[Blessing]

That's actually a really good point. I have. My main Pokemon Pokemon right now is Ceruledge or. No, sorry, not Ceruledge.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Armor Rouge. Yeah, Armor Rouge is, I believe, Fire and Ghost.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I have a Typhlosion. That's a Hawaiian. No, Hisuin.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Something like that. Yeah. Incineroar is the best Pokemon in all of vgc. Says go, Jacob.

[Mike]

There you go. Shut it down.

[Blessing]

Somebody says without. Intimidate. Hold on. Let's intimidate. When the Pokemon enters battle, it lowers attack state. Oh, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.

[Mike]

Seems like you pulled it. Pulled a champion right there.

[Blessing]

I feel like Raichu and Lucario, though. These are all. Oh, man. Chat is Incineroar the move.

[Mike]

They're saying bless. He's goaded.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's gonna be great. Like when we pull up the Blesses, like team, it's nothing but Fire Pokemon.

[Blessing]

That's what it's about to look like. It really is Fire Pokemon as my team. Because I'm gonna have my Skeledirge or whatever. What if I just become a Fire Motherfucker's only.

[Mike]

He's throwing out six fire Pokemon every single time.

[Blessing]

All right, let's go.

[Mike]

So that's how you recruit right there.

[Blessing]

Then you have the. I'll show you the box.

[Mike]

Show me the box. Show me everything.

[Blessing]

This box is where you store all your Pokemon here, as you can see. So right now, my actual team is Armarouge, Dragon Knight, Typhlosion, Zoroark, which I like Zoroark a lot.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing]

His ability. He has an ability called illusion. What happens is if I switch in Zoroark, he comes in disguised as another Pokemon.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

But people don't know. So, like, he'll come in looking like a Dragonite, and people were like, oh, let me do. Let me do something against Dragonite. But it's not Dragonite.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then it hits. Or then he reveals himself. I got Slow King.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then got Corviknight.

[Mike]

And they all have items as well equipped to them.

[Blessing]

They all have.

[Mike]

Did you get those given to you?

[Blessing]

Those were.

[Mike]

Or did you buy all these?

[Blessing]

These are the ones you start off with.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Begin the game. And the guy is like, here's a bunch of Pokemon with items on it. So. Oh, interesting. It won't let me do Tauros. Why? Why not? I don't know what that is. Chat. Somebody explain that if, you know, if he's not usable in this game.

[Mike]

Now, they're all the same level. When you battle Pokemon, everyone's the same level. I think they.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I think they equalize all the levels.

[Mike]

Okay. So you're never at a disadvantage.

[Blessing]

Oh, it has moves that aren't released in this game. So this is the one that I imported. It has moves that aren't interesting. Oh, you can see it there. Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Sorry, what were you saying?

[Mike]

No, I'm just. I'm soaking it all in. I have a lot of questions about, like, when you say, oh, this is the application for competitive play, but, like, certain things aren't in. It kind of, like, bothers me a little bit of, like, what do you mean? If you made that, shouldn't everything be ready to rock and roll? But it's an odd rollout.

[Blessing]

It's a really odd rollout. I think both from all the complaints from the people who are in competitive, and then also, just, like, the microtransaction stuff. I know it's great that it doesn't have microtransactions.

[Mike]

We're celebrating that.

[Blessing]

But I think the currency system in this game is just so weird and interesting, and I. I don't Know how I feel about it yet? I think as I feel it out, maybe I'll, like, settle in on. Okay. It's fine.

[Mike]

Competitive has. Competitive has regulations, which often Pokemon restrictions. I like that. So it's like magic. I get that. Where it's like, certain cards are banned or like, we're moving on from certain stats. I get that. Right? What is in vogue? What's not in. But, like, why not have every Pokemon available ready to rock and roll and just play off of that?

[Blessing]

Am I just gonna be a fire trainer? Because, like, this is kind of crazy. Got Incineroar. I got Skeledirge. I got Typhlosion. And I got Armor Rouge.

[Mike]

That one kid's just like, man, I hope I brought my Blastoise Psychic.

[Blessing]

They're also. Let's see, for secondary ties, right? You got a sidekick. We got Ghost. Ah, it's another Ghost. So I think I get rid of Typhlosion. Yeah, let's get rid of Typhlosion. Chat. Is Mousehold competitively viable? Let me know.

[Mike]

You can get a free Machamp. Big Fresh says, hey, get your free Machamp.

[Blessing]

Where's the free Machamp at?

[Mike]

There's a super chat from Big Fresh who says, Mystery Gift code champion with a 10 instead of the IO for a free Machamp. So you go to your mystery Gift. All right, you can go get that.

[Blessing]

Let's go. Let's do that.

[Mike]

Because who doesn't love a Machamp?

[Blessing]

So we go to Mystery Gift. Yeah.

[Mike]

Champion. Skip the IO. Put a 10 in there.

[Blessing]

I love how IO isn't even an option. They knew. Your gift has been found. Your gift will be sent to your mailbox.

[Mike]

There you go. Cool. Now you got him.

[Blessing]

Nice.

[Mike]

So now we're ready. We are dialing in our team.

[Blessing]

We're dialing in the team. We definitely want to train.

[Mike]

What is training?

[Blessing]

Training?

[Mike]

I'm glad you asked, because there's no Pokemon levels here.

[Blessing]

No, but you can. You can adjust their stats in their movesets. So let's go. Oh, who do we want to train?

[Mike]

Yeah,

[Blessing]

let's do Incineroar.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I love it. So everything you change is going to cost vp. That's important to know, because you can change the stat alignment as you see the up and the down there with the stat points.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

Basically, you go to stat alignments. You see all these things.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. Who doesn't love this shit? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

So your Pokemon can be serious, lonely, impetus, quiet. And based off of its alignment, you can then that'll then essentially change Its special needs.

[Mike]

Each Pokemon have a different alignment that it wants or is there just one golden goose alignment for everyone?

[Blessing]

It depends on, I think your strategy with that Pokemon. You know what I mean? Like if a Pokemon has all special attacks, for example, it's like you might worry a lot about the special attack damage going up. And then maybe physical attack isn't as important to you.

[Mike]

Someone says if you press Y you can see the most used option, which is I love.

[Blessing]

There it is.

[Mike]

So everybody, 59% of your bones is using careful.

[Blessing]

All right. We're going careful then.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I didn't know that. That's really cool. Yeah. Careful alignment.

[Mike]

Now I wonder, is that just because it was the. The starter one of it?

[Blessing]

What do you mean?

[Mike]

Well, like you already had it on careful before we clicked on that button. So do you think 59 of people just haven't changed it? Is that that wide maybe?

[Blessing]

Yeah. I don't know. That's a good question.

[Mike]

Or is careful?

[Blessing]

Actually the one for ability chat was seem. It seemed like chat was in on intimidate. Use the power of Pokemon's fire type moves. Yeah, I like intimidate. Okay. And then we got to get some. We got to get some different moves.

[Mike]

So then you change the moves here. The moves cost money to change.

[Blessing]

Yes. Hold on. Darkest Laria. That's the move ignores the target stat change when dealing damage. I see. And that's a dark type move. Oh, there we go.

[Mike]

How much? 250 VP. Okay.

[Blessing]

Yeah. 250 for any changes. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. That's not bad.

[Mike]

No, careful is just good on incinerar. People say okay.

[Blessing]

Oh, and they show you the percentages of what the movesets are too.

[Mike]

Of what people are picking.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Mike]

So you can always stay up to date with the meta and you can

[Blessing]

change on double battles versus single battles.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Blessing]

That's really cool. 100 of people have fake out.

[Mike]

Oh, of course everyone's gonna use fake out.

[Blessing]

This move fails unless it is is the first move used by the user after it enters a battle.

[Mike]

Wait.

[Blessing]

Makes the target flinch. This move fails unless it is the first move used. You always start off with fake out.

[Mike]

Always start off with fake out. Ghost Jacob says parting shot. Fake out. Flare, Blitz and protect or Incineroar's moves.

[Blessing]

Interesting. Okay, look at that. Lowers the target's attack and special attack on Wednesday. The user then switches out of battle. Oh, that's cool. I like that. I like that. Player blitz has a 10% chance of burning. Here's the User being frozen. The user also takes a third of the damage dealt by this move. Okay, interesting. So they said protect is the fourth one. This one has it at throat chop. What the. What's throat chop? The Pokemon cannot use any sound based moves for two turns. Okay. I don't think I'm worried about that. Darkest Lariat. This move ignores the target's stat changes when dealing damage due to that. And then protect. I guess protect is good if you have the other. Other team Burn.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Or something. Right. Or poison to where you're not getting hurt. I mean, I like that actually. Do I.

[Mike]

I'm not the.

[Blessing]

I have flare blitz to burn, but it's not. It's 10. I feel like I want something that's more offensive.

[Mike]

And him with the throat chop.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I think that case I might go throat. Yeah. Because that's power. Yeah, let's do that. Pretty much all Mons want to have. Protect. Protect is the single most important move in doubles.

[Mike]

Wow. Now you know you're learning.

[Blessing]

Yeah, now I'm trying to think.

[Mike]

I'm like, he's learning. So essentially you're gonna spend 2000.

[Blessing]

Flare Blitz is offensive.

[Mike]

You're gonna spend 2000 VP on every Pokemon to dial in their moves. Yeah, because you just did doubles. You gotta do singles as well.

[Blessing]

Oh, I see what you're saying. But like those are. These are my movesets for these Pokemon for single end up. Like for incinerar. This boost set is.

[Mike]

You just did. Oh, I thought they. I thought you could do either or.

[Blessing]

No, because those tell me what the highest percentages are for people playing doubles.

[Mike]

So it's a thousand of Pokemon.

[Blessing]

So it's a thousand.

[Mike]

Okay, about a thousand.

[Blessing]

If you want to edit all the moves.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then I do commence training. Oh, yes. Wait, hold on, hold on. Are you sure if I use a training ticket, am I saving that money? Yes, I am.

[Mike]

Oh, there you go. You got 50 of them.

[Blessing]

Oh, okay. All right.

[Mike]

Your battle ready.

[Blessing]

That's it.

[Mike]

All right, well, Bless is going to dial in the rest of his squad so we can get to battling. But before we do that, I thought we'd take a quick word from our sponsors. So we'll be right back from a quick commercial break.

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[Mike]

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[Blessing]

Does it have?

[Mike]

And that's what we're gonna answer right now as we're back with more Pokemon champions. We have now gone over the shop, we've gone over recruiting We've gone over training.

[Blessing]

I think it's time to battle.

[Mike]

I think it's time to battle. Bless. I want to see what battling is all about. So what do we got?

[Blessing]

Actually, before we get there? Let me make sure I have the right team.

[Mike]

Yeah. Make sure you got your team in the box right now.

[Blessing]

I'll be honest. During the commercial break, did not train any of my.

[Mike]

You didn't set up anybody?

[Blessing]

I didn't set up any.

[Mike]

Which you should be setting up. What minimum three, if not four. So you can do the doubles. Because remember, everybody, competitive play now is just doubles only. That's what we do.

[Blessing]

Who's like my Tank? There's a lot of hp.

[Mike]

Incineroar or the Alligator.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Skeletor is the Tank. I'm gonna give you leftovers. Leftovers lets you heal after every turn.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And then, honestly, I should maybe get Mouse Hole out of here. He's my favorite Pokemon from that gen, but I don't know if. I don't know about his battle viability.

[Mike]

Okay, here we go. Ghost, Jacob says.

[Blessing]

And maybe we get Machamp in there.

[Mike]

Bless. I'd recommend these EVs for incineroar. It's what I use to make him tanky. 32 hp. 18. Defense, 16. SPD. Okay, let me.

[Blessing]

Let me.

[Mike]

How do we look at that?

[Blessing]

Let me get lycanrock in here over Mousehold.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And then give you an item. Yeah.

[Mike]

People are dialed in. There's a competitive scene to Pokemon that I've never been quite aware of, which

[Blessing]

is why I'm excited about this.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Because I feel like this is the most accessible it's been for me so far.

[Mike]

Way to be in on this.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Yeah. Now, remind me, those Eevees.

[Mike]

You want to know about this? Eevee cinero.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

32 HP. 18 defense, 32 GP. Yep. What he says to me.

[Blessing]

I don't even know how to. I don't think I can adjust. Wait, 30. Okay. What? Defense, 18. Oh, you know what? I got to bring things down from other things. What's Attack?

[Mike]

He doesn't have attack. He just has the three here. 32 hp. H. 18. Defense, 16 special defense.

[Blessing]

I don't know what's going on here. I can't. I don't think I can bring my HP down.

[Mike]

No. Maybe you're adding to it. You see the number on the side, how it says 22 and 32? You're bringing that up. 32 points.

[Blessing]

I'm bringing down attack.

[Mike]

All this is like NBA 2K, just so everybody Knows this is your my player build. Everybody loves this stuff. And what they do in NBA 2k is they restricted restricts you. They make you build one build and then it's locked forever. So then when you put all your money into it, you got to go back and drop him, buy a new one.

[Blessing]

You know what else you got for me?

[Mike]

18 defense.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Mike]

16 special defense.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Pull something from speed then.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. So yeah, here's your number. You only have so much. Yeah, you have 32, 18 and 16, whatever that adds up to 66. So you have 66 points on each Pokemon to spend them how you want 250 points to change that? Okay.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Or you use a ticket.

[Blessing]

I'm just using points. Yeah, I should have used the tip. I should have done that before I used the ticket the first time. You know what I mean?

[Mike]

Oh, you think they all bundle it up?

[Blessing]

I think they bundle another Pokemon and

[Mike]

let's see if it bundles it up.

[Blessing]

All right, let's do it.

[Mike]

Do another Pokemon on your squad.

[Blessing]

What's the ev? I don't want to change Skeletor. Let's Give me the EVs for who's on my team.

[Mike]

How much room for fun is there chat as opposed to just following the meta? Are we just going to blindly choose the same four things?

[Blessing]

Because here's the thing, I was.

[Mike]

Or do people have fun?

[Blessing]

I was having fun last night just doing my thing because I worry.

[Mike]

It just becomes like now we're just looking at a piece of paper and going, these are the five best moves. You always do that.

[Blessing]

Which honestly, Mike, that's my least favorite way to play a game.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's my least favorite way.

[Blessing]

I don't want to look at a piece of paint.

[Mike]

I want you to wow me.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Actually go away from the door.

[Mike]

Yeah. I like this one right here from Biggs. Today's the day to try out the fun before it becomes look at the piece of paper and you'll never beat the piece of paper. That's why I love that. That's why I like.

[Blessing]

Because right now they start you off at the woods.

[Mike]

Today is the day is right.

[Blessing]

Because as long as you're at this bottom rank that I'm at, yeah, you're going to be having fun.

[Mike]

You can have fun. You can experiment with the moves.

[Blessing]

Once you get too high in the ranks, then it starts to become like, all right, cool. I love that I can like check other people's things. Cuz they got them at timid. Timid meaning speed is Up. Attack is down. Interesting. Will it tell me what other people have this at? It does tell me what other people have their stats at.

[Mike]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I like this. It's very fun. But understanding the meta for fun counters and experimenting against those is important.

[Blessing]

See that's.

[Mike]

See that's Blessing. Blessing likes to get in his bag and how he can defeat you. Like that. I like that.

[Blessing]

So we're going 32 special defense, 32 speed.

[Mike]

That's what they want.

[Blessing]

Oh, man. Zor Arc is about to be fast as dude.

[Mike]

Fast as boy special. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Oh, cool. So I can literally just click what they have and just copy it.

[Mike]

Yeah, they built some nice tools of like. You can just use what the community's doing.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that's nice. And let's. Do I have two left? Let's just put that into yes.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

So they have it at Icy Wind, Shadow Ball, Hyper Voice, and Trick. I got none of that now. Is there a button to where I can just go, Let me just copy it all? Yeah, I'm literally just gonna copy people.

[Mike]

Yeah, you just select the top four moves. Right.

[Blessing]

Shadow Ball. So what. Let me see what these moves do. The user and target swap their held items. So you have to like give him a shitty held item, I imagine.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. That would be your move. Yeah. Really him up.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Hyper voice. That does 90 to all opponents. It's a sound based move.

[Mike]

For anyone watching out there, Ben made a private room. You can go join him. Thanks, Ben, for the super chat and the code out there. If anybody wants to join Ben, I'm

[Blessing]

gonna switch Trick out with a different move.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Go with. Go protect. What is Icy Wind? Oh, we know that. Actually. No, sorry, I'm having a fun chat now.

[Mike]

He's getting in his bag.

[Blessing]

Okay, I'm going psychic.

[Mike]

Yeah, I love it.

[Blessing]

So as you can see, I've adjusted a lot. Right. It costs 1250. Let's see if I can just use a ticket. Yeah, nice. So I can do.

[Mike]

Do everything you want to do, preferably in one round there. Yeah, that's good.

[Blessing]

All right. And now I think I'm ready to get into battle.

[Mike]

Take us into the battle. Bless. Let's see what this actually looks like here. What are our options?

[Blessing]

You have ranked casual, private, and then online competitions. Okay, I'm going ranked, going ranked. I think doubles is the way to go.

[Mike]

Doubles is the way to go.

[Blessing]

That's the way people who are playing competitive are playing music. I'm changing that to leaf green music because I bought that you got the team.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

They all have their held items. All right, go. I love how. How far we're into the stream.

[Mike]

I need, you know, battled yet. I'm gonna always hold it down for the singles. I'm gonna make that right now.

[Blessing]

I'm making really.

[Mike]

I'm a singles guy for this.

[Blessing]

Let's see what singles after this. Okay.

[Mike]

I'm a singles guy.

[Blessing]

Are you gonna play this?

[Mike]

I want to play this. I will see if I like this tonight. It'll be very interesting to see if I vibe with this.

[Blessing]

I got a lot of fire Pokemon. I gotta switch that up. We're definitely going in Zen Aurora.

[Mike]

All right. So look at what he's got now. You gotta kind of guess. He's got the sword and shield. Garchomp. Cool lizard.

[Blessing]

Yeah. See, he has variety. He has dragon. Yeah. After this, I'm going to go back and maybe add some variety. Cuz I'm. I'm leaning real heavy toward fire. But maybe I'm a fire gym leader.

[Mike]

Okay. You got more. More style than this person.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

More swag.

[Blessing]

Okay. Both rocking Incineroar.

[Mike]

Yeah. As to be expected. There's a whim.

[Blessing]

That's my take a ton from Scarlet Chat. Come on. I love that.

[Mike]

Looks good in this 3D space.

[Blessing]

Yeah. He was 3D in the other game, but. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

But not as good looking as this.

[Blessing]

The flare blitz. I love the ui. It tells you everything you need to know.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

I'm hitting them with the super effective fire blast.

[Mike]

And what are you gonna do here?

[Blessing]

He's like my gigaton hammer. We're taking out whims of Scott. Okay. One of my biggest complaints.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I want more stadiums. Why is this the one? Oh, why is this the one stadium?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay. They have a different one, I think for casual maybe.

[Mike]

And then the other one. Yeah.

[Blessing]

But I want to have a variety of different locations. Like, can battle in like Pokemon. I think he has an item that helps him endure. Yeah, yeah. There it is. Yeah. Use the item. Boom.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Oh, we're disconnecting what's happening here?

[Mike]

We're taking our time.

[Blessing]

Oh, he was choosing the Pokemon. Yeah, they should say that. They shouldn't say communicating. That's confusing. Who's weak? We're gonna switch out Tinkaton. Oh, I see. I see. We're gonna put in zor arc for tinkaton. Nope, I did that wrong. Actually. We're gonna switch both.

[Mike]

Yeah. Lay it on me. Oh, you're switching out.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You're avoiding the fight.

[Blessing]

I'm using the Move with Incineroar.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And then I'm gonna just traditionally switch out Tinkaton.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Because Zoroark does the thing where he like, we'll trick them. So that's what I'm going for here. Because now that's not actually armor rouge.

[Mike]

They think it is.

[Blessing]

They think it is. And then in cinder or I'm using the move. Oh, how does this work? If I use. Can I use two armor.

[Mike]

No, that's not true.

[Blessing]

Yeah, they probably will. They're probably like. Yeah, that wasn't a good call.

[Mike]

Well, I mean, you were strong. You didn't take much damage there. It looks like you're gonna be able to get out to the next battle.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Next turn.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but he's turning.

[Mike]

Okay, well, this already.

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because as soon as you get hit, he turns back.

[Mike]

Yes. Okay, well, I hope it's got a lot of speed.

[Blessing]

I just need to go fast.

[Mike]

Yeah. Now the question is just like, who's got the speed here?

[Blessing]

Don't like that.

[Mike]

The guard chomp outspeeded you on that one.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That's too bad.

[Blessing]

We got that at least.

[Mike]

Oh, tough. But you still got three.

[Blessing]

That's true.

[Mike]

You got three Pokemon.

[Blessing]

Oh, he's doing the same thing. I think he. Yeah, he's doing the same thing.

[Mike]

Switch out.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Send in the cat and fake out. Now what does fake out do?

[Mike]

I'm still getting fake out. Makes them flinch.

[Blessing]

Good call.

[Mike]

They don't do a move.

[Blessing]

I had to do Garchomp.

[Mike]

Yeah, which is good because Garchomp was faster than you last time. I never liked this Pokemon over here.

[Blessing]

Which one?

[Mike]

This sword and shield looking thing I don't like.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah, I remember that one. He's got a lot of speed over there.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, we stopped that guy. Which is good.

[Blessing]

Like, I guess because I touched him, I get. I get damaged.

[Mike]

Nothing happened there.

[Blessing]

I. A lot just happened, but nothing yet. Nothing happened.

[Mike]

Yeah. Must have a shield on or something.

[Blessing]

We're in a weird spot. Yeah. Rip the boy.

[Mike]

Yeah, he said.

[Blessing]

I do like the move animations. Okay. I think move animations are fun.

[Mike]

I like the look of it all. A little slow, but that's to be expected when you play online against someone else.

[Blessing]

True. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

Well, slow.

[Blessing]

Back, Chad. I need instant Ro to carry.

[Mike]

Yeah, big car.

[Blessing]

That's where we're at right now. Okay. I need priority moves. Somebody in chat mentioned it, but. Yeah, I need. I need faster Pokemon.

[Mike]

I was going to ask you, what if we went with an all speed team that no matter what, was always going to have the first move. But are they powerful enough to get the job done?

[Blessing]

That's the thing.

[Mike]

Sacrifice had a bunch of pidgeottos out there.

[Blessing]

You need to have balance, and this is not a balanced team for me right now. Wait, can I use fake out every single time? Oh, wait, does Incinera have fake out?

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing]

Damn it. Okay. That would have been the win. Yeah, I'm not used to having fake out. Maybe I didn't Pokemon Scarlet. Cause I think it looked like Tinkaton had fake out there.

[Mike]

Now it says, Mike, they may trick room you and flip the speed against you. See, there's like, a whole nother level of Pokemon that I'm not at. You know what I mean? I'm ash catcher. I'm on a journey.

[Blessing]

I'm on a journey.

[Mike]

I'm catching them. I'm battling. But I'm not this. I'm not spreadsheeting.

[Blessing]

Yeah, no, I'm not spreadsheet.

[Mike]

I'm not spreadsheet. I'm Pokemon Stadium. It you catch me in the stadium, I'm stadium.

[Blessing]

This, like, this is what I. This is what I talked about last night when I was streaming is. I don't. Yeah. I'm not the kind of person where I'm like, oh, put me in there. Let me read the guide, and then copy whatever is there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I want. Want to understand how it works. And the way for me to understand how something works is to get on the ground floor and struggle with it.

[Mike]

Then this could be you.

[Blessing]

And.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's.

[Blessing]

That's the thing. It's like, I want to get up. You know what I mean? I want to get, like, tossed around, and then I can then learn, like, oh, okay, this is why you do this. Oh, this is why I want to do it. And, like, if I learn that stuff myself, it's gonna be way better than if I just copy some. Someone else's homework. Yeah, that's.

[Mike]

Well, you talked about this. You wanted it on movie mobile asap. Yeah, because you want to be able to do it on the treadmill like you do with magic.

[Blessing]

Yep.

[Mike]

Do we have a date for that?

[Blessing]

No. I would think maybe they release it day and day at Worlds.

[Mike]

I was gonna say they'll get by world. She'll probably have a conversation here, right?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Will they be playing this game at Worlds? Yes, this will be live on stage.

[Blessing]

That's what they said.

[Mike]

The premiere title.

[Blessing]

That's what they said. I don't know if they're gonna be happy about it. Like, I don't know if the competitors are going to be happy about it, but that's what they said.

[Mike]

Well, we're all going to do our best to go. I want to go.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

I want to go. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Now, I don't know how much time we have, how much time we have left on the screen, but I mean,

[Mike]

I would assume we should do one more battle.

[Blessing]

One more.

[Mike]

Okay, it's 109. Can you do more?

[Blessing]

Let's do a singles one after this. Let's see.

[Mike]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Blessing]

I was gonna say we can fight against chat, but like, maybe we do that for another. Another stream. I think that'd be a fun one. These are a couple things I want to do.

[Mike]

Alchemy.

[Blessing]

Bless. I want the kind of funny Pokemon

[Mike]

competitive tournament with kind of funny like I wanted. Yeah, I think we'll be able to do this now. Cuz my goal.

[Blessing]

Bless.

[Mike]

If I had it my way, we would take the Point Crow idea. I was gonna force you all to do a Nuzlocke.

[Blessing]

Oh, Nuzlock.

[Mike]

You all complete your first ever Nuzlocke locks. You bring your six. We battle our sixes.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Mike]

That was my dream. Yeah, I thought Point Crow crushed that idea, but I don't think we all have time to do a Nuzlock. So yeah, like bring your six, let's battle would be fun. All right. What else do you want?

[Blessing]

And I just want to fight chat. Maybe. Maybe I do that at home.

[Mike]

If you don't, we can fight Chat all the time. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Damn. Hey, we took an L, but we learned. You know, I think I go back and I mix up the team a little bit.

[Mike]

Oscar writes in, says Bless. GameSpot put out a video for those new to competitive battling in champions.

[Blessing]

Oh, those are the team presets we're talking about here.

[Mike]

Those are your team presets. So you can make those a little bit quicker. Faster to pick from. What did you learn?

[Blessing]

I need. I need something other than fire types and I need more speed. Okay, so we're going to switch things up. I like slowking last night. I was pretty successful last night with my battles.

[Mike]

Get in there, dude. Show us where you were last night.

[Blessing]

Let me get back to the person I was last night.

[Mike]

Yeah. Become the person.

[Blessing]

Yeah, Sorry.

[Mike]

Skeleturge,

[Blessing]

my boy.

[Mike]

Yeah, you got the big crow. That'll have some speed to it, huh? Corviknight is good. Whimsicott is a must for doubles. What the chat says. Okay.

[Blessing]

Gotta listen to you.

[Mike]

This last time we listened to you and you let us down.

[Blessing]

Look what happened last time. Well, no, Whimsical is the one we just got. Yeah, no, you're right. I do want to add one to cut.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Cuz I liked him when we. When we acquired him. I think that's it. But I said I was going to do singles though.

[Mike]

You do what you want, bro. We're here.

[Blessing]

I'm going to rock another.

[Mike]

We can do both of these. We got time.

[Blessing]

I think I have a good doubles team.

[Mike]

We got time.

[Blessing]

We're going to change the music to. I really like the. Was it Ruby Sapphire music. Okay. Yeah. I'm really learning that I like doubles in Pokemon. Wow. Yeah.

[Mike]

That's amazing.

[Blessing]

Having a lot of fun.

[Mike]

I would love to see the pie chart because like, for me, doubles is so odd because you don't do many double battles in the Pokemon proper game.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

When you look at it, the pie chart's gotta be like what, 80, 20 maximum singles to double battles in a. In a normal Pokemon game. It's not like doubles are like the prominent feature in those games. Dude, that's what I'm getting at. It feels like I. Feels like I never do doubles matches. And everyone's like, oh, doubles matches is the way to go. I'm like, I don't. Whenever I play a Pokemon game, it's a lot of singles games.

[Blessing]

But I think doubles is better for Pokemon. Like, like competitive.

[Mike]

Interesting.

[Blessing]

Because Pokemon is why you're just by. I think Pokemon is easy. You're just fighting against these CPUs.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Like tuned to fight kids.

[Mike]

So why is it. Why is Double Peddler Income?

[Blessing]

Because I think it's more strategic. Because I think it is. Like, all right, I got one Pokemon that's doing X thing. I got another Pokemon that's doing Y things now you have to account for like, okay, they're poisoning and they're doing protect. And now I had to like, I had to balance like what I think the two moves are as opposed to just it being like 1, 101 back and forth.

[Mike]

Cuz this says doubles is doubles for competition because it's faster battle times.

[Blessing]

Oh, interesting.

[Mike]

So they're just trying to get your ass out of there.

[Blessing]

I can see that too. Ice cream. Yeah, let's do that.

[Mike]

Use fake out and tailwind.

[Blessing]

Right. I shouldn't. Listen, hold on. Chat shouldn't be playing for me. But you're right, I should use fake out.

[Mike]

You should always use fake out because it has to be used on the first move. Yeah, I know that from my Nuzlock streams. You always have to use that first. It stops them from doing a move. You use a light move on them. Yeah. Gotta do it.

[Blessing]

Crazy. That player that's actually. Well, Victory Bell's closer to death. I was gonna use it on Lucario because Lucario has a move that's strong against me, but it's not like, okay, that much damage.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then. Then what is growth? We're going to do that on Karia, Lower their attack.

[Mike]

Do we see in a week from now stats saying that this game has absolutely exploded? Like, are we going to read a news post? That's like. Pokemon company has announced that Pokemon champions has surpassed 20 million players because it's free to play.

[Blessing]

You know, that's a really good.

[Mike]

Like, do we see a crazy stat like that?

[Blessing]

I don't think it's gonna explode, but I do think it's gonna do very well because it's Pokemon.

[Mike]

Yeah, of course.

[Blessing]

I've learned you cannot count out Pokemon.

[Mike]

Never can.

[Blessing]

You cannot count out Pokemon.

[Mike]

Never can.

[Blessing]

I think by this time next week.

[Mike]

Week.

[Blessing]

Five million players.

[Mike]

Five million players.

[Blessing]

Five million players. Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Okay. Free to play Pokemon thing. Yeah, it's gonna. It's gonna go crazy. Yeah. Gyarados in here. Hold on, hold on. We might do parting shot. Yeah, we're gonna do parting shot. Peace.

[Mike]

Big Fresh writes in the super chat, says the problem with singles is if you send out a bad matchup first, you can't really plan for that and then you're screwed.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that's true. Also singles.

[Mike]

Yeah, Singles gets into a cycle.

[Blessing]

Singles is like, all right, cool. Here's my charizard. And then they're like, here's a blastoise.

[Mike]

And you're like, ah, y.

[Blessing]

Now I just gotta immediately switch this out. Damn. They just gotta put the hit. Wait, shouldn't he come in? I thought he came in as like a Corvin knife. All right, well then I'm gonna. I'm just gonna bring in my Cor Knight then. Yeah. Why didn't my Zor do the thing where he's disguising another?

[Mike]

He's in your last spot.

[Blessing]

Oh, is it spot dependent? Okay, that's good to know. I did not. I did not know that. Why would they do it like that? It's your last lot. Intense speed.

[Mike]

Okay,

[Blessing]

So this part doesn't give you like the Pokemon stadium vibe that you're looking for?

[Mike]

It does. Yeah. Yeah, it does.

[Blessing]

Cuz what I. What I really want. Yeah. I want an announcer. I want somebody.

[Mike]

I want more camera angles. I Want the camera to move around.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

I think, I think the shot is too static and boring.

[Blessing]

I agree.

[Mike]

I wanted to. Let's get some new. Let's get some flair to it all.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I mean, they have some of that here.

[Mike]

As I say that. Yeah. It starts to happen, but, like, more times than not, you're just staring at that over the shoulder.

[Blessing]

Look.

[Mike]

Let's just get. Let's keep it fresh. Keep it moving. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. The Pokemon Stadium announcer was such a classic.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And middle card is weak as hell. I might have did that, though. Oh.

[Mike]

Oh, that could have been massive.

[Blessing]

We were right there.

[Mike]

Take the two for narrator. Is hard to program for all the variety of Pokemon now.

[Blessing]

I mean, I still stand by, like, if they could do it for Pokemon Stadium in Pokemon Stadium 2. Yeah. In 1999 or whatever it was, I think they could do it in 2026 for this. Because we're also talking about, like, they have to program all these unique animations for all these moves. I, I, I think we're overestimating, like,

[Mike]

getting someone in the booth and cutting it up.

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah, it's. It's Pokemon company.

[Mike]

Oh, this looks like a. You're a dominant performance for me. Bless. Unless this thing goes all, all of a sudden crazy on you.

[Blessing]

Yeah, no, we're them up.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah, no, we're them up. See, this is what happens when I turn away from chat. You know what I mean?

[Mike]

Just follow your heart.

[Blessing]

Yeah, follow my heart. Just look at that.

[Mike]

You're already a badass. You got it.

[Blessing]

Come on.

[Mike]

So we win this. Let's take a look at our ring. How much do you go up? How much do you earn? Victory points wise as well.

[Blessing]

Yeah. 300, I believe, is the thing. We'll see. Oh, yeah, yeah. 300 BP earned. You start telling me what these tickets are. Is that the Battle Pass?

[Mike]

That's your Battle Pass, I think.

[Blessing]

Gotcha.

[Mike]

Yeah. Like, if you went to your Battle Pass, you're level five on that now.

[Blessing]

I bet I'm ready for one singles if you want to.

[Mike]

Let's do one more. I like this.

[Blessing]

What? I like the music already.

[Mike]

Yeah. Music bumping.

[Blessing]

Yeah. You would chat if you hadn't. If you didn't play Pokemon Stadium back in the day. It's on Switch. If you want to play via the switch online N64 thing. It's extremely impressive. What?

[Mike]

They pretty special time back then.

[Blessing]

Yeah, really special time. But like, to this day, I, I go back to that game and I'm like, how did y' all pull this off on N64O.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

We gotta go Incineroar. We're gonna go Incineroar. We're gonna go. Or Knight. Actually, no, let's.

[Mike]

Let's. They allowed to pick three. So we're only gonna battle three. Three here?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

We're going with Incineroar, Slow King, and Dragonite.

[Mike]

And is that just because you're feeling them or were you looking at the other team going, here's what they're going to be weak against.

[Blessing]

Incineroar being fired. He has some. Or she has some stuff that's like weak against fire. The other two, I was just feeling them. I didn't use them in the last fight, so I'll get them in there. Yeah. This is ice, I assume.

[Mike]

I think that's electric.

[Blessing]

Really?

[Mike]

I. I believe that's an electric dog.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Right?

[Mike]

Got the cone head.

[Blessing]

I totally thought that was a nice Pokemon.

[Mike]

Bake out for chip damage. Yep. Always start with that.

[Blessing]

There you go. And see if I can get.

[Mike]

Now that's just a big body. He says, Oh, what you hit him with?

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Mike]

You doing that?

[Blessing]

So it lowers the. The stats and then I get to switch out for free.

[Mike]

Okay. So you still hit him with a move while also switching out.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay. What was the point of switching out when he had such a big body on him? You just didn't have the type advantage that you wanted.

[Blessing]

Didn't have the type advantage that I wanted. I thought I would have something for electric turns out.

[Mike]

I don't. Okay.

[Blessing]

I don't mind this matchup, though.

[Mike]

He's not water. He's just full psychic.

[Blessing]

He's psychic. Poison.

[Mike]

Isn't that crazy? Yeah. He just ditches everything that he was.

[Blessing]

Yeah, right. That's crazy. I mean, he was psychic before, so he's picking some. But like poison.

[Mike]

Oh, that's tough.

[Blessing]

Can I get a first move in?

[Mike]

Yeah. Can you finish him?

[Blessing]

I think he just run it back.

[Mike]

Yeah. They got to add some new stadiums.

[Blessing]

Yeah. See, I don't like just fighting this place over and over again.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Let me pick. And I think you can even do it. I mean, you have two waves, right? Where it's like they pick one, I pick one, and then you randomize which one you pick. Or if you really want to go above and beyond. Like, whatever stadium I pick. It looks one way for me. It looks a different way for the person.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

You can do. They do that for fighting games.

[Mike]

100%.

[Blessing]

They do that for Guilty Gear.

[Mike]

How hard is it?

[Blessing]

You picked Ha. Lucha against my Slow King. Sorry.

[Mike]

Well, yeah, they had to. Well, you. They had to.

[Blessing]

The fighting Pokemon. Don't they have another Pokemon?

[Mike]

We'll find out. Remember, at the bottom of. You're at the bottom of the race.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but like, how bottom are we? It's Pokemon. You know what type. Yeah, I think that would have been a better pick. Yeah. Because what is Armarouge Armor? Rouge is fire.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Fire and psychic. That's better than your fighting Pokemon because. Yeah, look at this. That's a way better pick. Trying to help you.

[Mike]

He's just a big body. Slow King's not going down though.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I got a lot. I got three big bodies.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

So this will help me switch out too.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And then, I mean, none of these are good against fire, but let's just go Dragonite. Okay.

[Mike]

Just for fun, bring them out. Is this should. How is to this look? Is this how all Pokemon games should look? I think like when you're doing gym

[Blessing]

fighting like this, I think they could look better.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Blessing]

I think this looks fine.

[Mike]

But like, I feel like this is like the minimum that I would like to see from now on.

[Blessing]

Oh, sure.

[Mike]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Minimum. Sure. I'll give you that.

[Mike]

Like, I feel like I don't even get this on my recent Pokemon games.

[Blessing]

Yeah. But yeah, I want it to look even better like this. I'm barely this. I'm like, it's a free to play Pokemon game. I'm not really expecting more out of it, but I want the game to look even better than this. Like, I was playing last night in Dragon Knight was moving at like four, five frames. Like, I think he got burnt or something. And it was like a bug and he was moving at 5 frames per second. I'm like, whatever. Oh, well, here's the thing. Big Fresh in chat says first few matches are against bots, bro. I'm like, this is like my number eight, eight or nine match I played last night as well. So how many.

[Mike]

How many bot matches can you really play? That's right.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I'm like, well, they're matching me on up against 15 bots.

[Mike]

Oh, did not get much XP for

[Blessing]

that on the rank system. That's a good question. I thought I had more than that.

[Mike]

I felt like you. That's where you were the last.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that's what I feel too.

[Mike]

Well, with that kind of funny best friends that is. Your games cast plays for Pokemon Champions. A brand new free to play Pokemon Battler. Yeah, it's an application. It's not a game chat. It's a game.

[Blessing]

It's a game.

[Mike]

Go. Have fun. Play with it. Enjoy it. Let us know if you're jumping in. I'm sure Blessing will be playing more.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I'll be playing more.

[Mike]

I'll play a little bit of it. I'm excited to jump in, and we'll. We'll see where it goes. We'll definitely be using this as a platform to hopefully play more Pokemon battles with all of you. But let us know in the comments down below. You jump again. And with that, we're getting out of here.

[Blessing]

I was thinking singles batch.

[Mike]

Do it.

[Blessing]

No singles and singles ranked. That's why my rank is different.

[Mike]

That's why.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Goodbye, everyone. Have a good.