A look at Pokemon usage at worlds in top 8.
Aug 23, 2015, 10:38 PM
Well, you first need to look at just what these people are playing for here.
"1st: $10,000
Pokémon World Championships Trophy
A Travel Award for the winner (and parent or legal guardian for players considered minors) to the 2016 World Championships
An invitation to the 2016 World Championships
Two boxes of the most current Pokémon TCG expansion"
Pretty big stakes here haha.
And honestly, there's a reason why these teams made the top 8 cut. Sure, they take little effort, are simple, really straight forward & easy to make: But they're SO good.
Most teams that could beat these teams rely on a gimmick of some sort, or have to meet perfect conditions to win. Meaning, they just won't work effectively in a best of 3. If your gimmick is some weird trick room setter, a weird mental herb mon, or just some sort of weird perish team, some weird will-o user, some weird hp user, etc etc; you can get the jump on them on just that one game, you know?
Basically, this was no fluke. People definitely tried to counter teams like these, but even their counters couldn't work/only worked for one match. I figure a lot of players realized that these meta teams were the best, and basically had no holes. So the best way to beat them was through a mirror match. Just my opinion.
"1st: $10,000
Pokémon World Championships Trophy
A Travel Award for the winner (and parent or legal guardian for players considered minors) to the 2016 World Championships
An invitation to the 2016 World Championships
Two boxes of the most current Pokémon TCG expansion"
Pretty big stakes here haha.
And honestly, there's a reason why these teams made the top 8 cut. Sure, they take little effort, are simple, really straight forward & easy to make: But they're SO good.
Most teams that could beat these teams rely on a gimmick of some sort, or have to meet perfect conditions to win. Meaning, they just won't work effectively in a best of 3. If your gimmick is some weird trick room setter, a weird mental herb mon, or just some sort of weird perish team, some weird will-o user, some weird hp user, etc etc; you can get the jump on them on just that one game, you know?
Basically, this was no fluke. People definitely tried to counter teams like these, but even their counters couldn't work/only worked for one match. I figure a lot of players realized that these meta teams were the best, and basically had no holes. So the best way to beat them was through a mirror match. Just my opinion.
50 thousand people used to live here...Now it's a ghost town.
