What happens when you put three dudes who love Pokemon in a room together? A podcast of course. Join Wolfe Glicke, James Baek, and Aaron Zheng every other week for an inside look into their lives as professional casters & competitors.
We break down our experience with Series 1, our thoughts on the early days of Series 2, the ridiculousness of Gholdengo, & the impact of Paradox Pokemon & more in the latest episode of Trophy GardenTimestamps-----------------------0:00 Podcast Start00:23 Catching Up1:10 The San Diego Experience1:30 Wolfe Top Cut2:17 James Top Cut3:20 Team Diversity in Series 15:10 Interesting Teams5:29 Series 1 Cut short5:52 Series 2 First Impressions7:12 Paradox Pokemon8:05 Wolfey Doesn't Believe8:52 Centralization?11:00 How many are there?11:14 The dumbest Pokemon of all time12:12 A defense for Gholdengo13:08 Usage over time14:58 Gastrodon enters the fray15:28 How much will the meta shift?18:00 How Has Scarlet & Violet Held Up20:01 Performance patch20:18 James keeps beating the game21:30 Recently t's all been a blur 21:59 Competitive Interest is the business and business is booming22:31 The Wolfe seen around the world24:16 Tame James25:30 Keeping up the momentum27:10 Wolfe Glick's Scarlet & Violet Invitational27:44 VGC in the spotlight 28:44 Mew2king Dynamax Fail & Old Man Hugs30:17 Rapid Fire Q&A Follow Beastcoast: ► twitter.com/Beastcoast ► instagram.com/beastcoastgg/ ► www.tiktok.com/@beastcoastpokemon ► Beastcoast.gg Follow the Beastcoast Pokémon Team: ► youtube.com/c/JamesWBaek ► youtube.com/c/ChaoticMeatballTR ► youtube.com/c/CeliosNetwork ► youtube.com/c/CybertronVGC► youtube.com/c/WolfeyVGC
In our first episode since the launch of Scarlet & Violet, our trio of VGC Pros sat down to chat about their experiences with the new game so far, ramping up into a new generation of competitive, and how we're bringing a Pokemon Gym to Real Life.------------------------------TimestampsBusier than Ever 00:28Thanksgiving Break 2:22That New Game Feeling 4:04First Playthroughs of S/V 5:45Keeping Up The Pace 8:50Pretty Solid Game 10:50Gripes 11:07Progression Woes 13:40 QoL and Less Features 15:50DLC and More Features 17:15The Postgame 17:47Dragonite's Time To Shine? 20:37Pronunciations 24:10These Names Make No Sense 25:36 Guybull 26:24 Verdict on Terastallize 27:55When To Terastallize 32:14Mons We Want To Use In Competitive 33:14Tut Tut, Looks Like Rain 36:34Sand 37:41Returning Pokemon 39:29 New Meta 41:55Pokemon IRL 42:44New Gen, New You 45:18Follow Beastcoast: ► twitter.com/Beastcoast ► instagram.com/beastcoastgg/ ► www.tiktok.com/@beastcoastpokemon ► Beastcoast.gg Follow the Beastcoast Pokémon Team: ► youtube.com/c/JamesWBaek ► youtube.com/c/ChaoticMeatballTR ► youtube.com/c/CeliosNetwork ► youtube.com/c/CybertronVGC► youtube.com/c/WolfeyVGC
It's the night before the drop of Scarlet & Violet 9, and we're back to discuss where competitive is headed in the upcoming game, improving events for players new and old alike, and some of our favorite moments from Sword & Shield as we bid Generation 8 Farewell. Timestamps:Intro: 0:00Scarlet & Violet Dropping: 00:50Beginning of New Generation: 1:38Pokemon Changes: 2:38Regional Forms: 3:50Theorycrafting Terastal 4:381st Regional of Scarlet & Violet: 7:10New Meta: 9:58Improving the Competitive Circuit: 11:30Cost of Attendance: 12:08Favorite Regional Event: 17:5521:00 Logistics & Transparency 21:00 Other improvements 23:00 Binocular Guy 24:00 Getting Acclimated 25:20 Side Events 26:48 Talking During Matches 28:10 The Series Era 29:44 Didn't Even Have Mega 32:00What Format for S/V 34:32 Regional Dex Format? 36:08 Excluding Tera Types 37:15Alas Sword & Shield, We Knew You Well 38:55 A New Era Of Pokemon 45:10 Follow Beastcoast: ► twitter.com/Beastcoast ► instagram.com/beastcoastgg/ ► www.tiktok.com/@beastcoastpokemon ► Beastcoast.gg Follow the Beastcoast Pokémon Team: ► youtube.com/c/JamesWBaek ► youtube.com/c/ChaoticMeatballTR ► youtube.com/c/CeliosNetwork ► youtube.com/c/CybertronVGC► youtube.com/c/WolfeyVGC
On todays episode we sat down to chat about some of our experiences growing up competing in Pokemon and the difficulty of finding tournaments back in the day. We also dive into EV resets on legendaries, how strong Mythical pokemon really are, and the effect of Dynamic Speed in recent competitive formats. Follow Beastcoast: ► twitter.com/Beastcoast ► instagram.com/beastcoastgg/ ► www.tiktok.com/@beastcoastpokemon ► Beastcoast.gg Follow the Beastcoast Pokémon Team: ► youtube.com/c/JamesWBaek ► youtube.com/c/ChaoticMeatballTR ► youtube.com/c/CeliosNetwork ► youtube.com/c/CybertronVGC► youtube.com/c/WolfeyVGC
On todays episode we break down our recent experience at Worlds 2022 & look forward to Scarlet and Violet. From talking the psychology of a professional player in the high and lows to some mechanics that concern us in Scarlet and Violet we have you covered! Follow Beastcoast: ► twitter.com/Beastcoast ► instagram.com/beastcoastgg/ ► www.tiktok.com/@beastcoastpokemon ► Beastcoast.gg Follow the Beastcoast Pokémon Team: ► youtube.com/c/JamesWBaek ► youtube.com/c/ChaoticMeatballTR ► youtube.com/c/CeliosNetwork ► youtube.com/c/CybertronVGC► youtube.com/c/WolfeyVGC