I know I JUST changed my theme yesterday but this one is even better so like. Bleez hours ig 😈

Just wanted to share a short story since Pokken has been rereleased. Its a little long but i think its fun. About a year ago when the first Pokken came out, an entertainment store held a tournament on Pokken, scheduled in about a week. I’m a fighting game fan so the challenge lured me in, but I never touched Pokken up to that point (it had been released for a little while by then). So a friend of mine let me borrow his copy and I started my vigorous training.

I wasn’t a fan of the roster, especially since I only played RBY and was a blastoise fan, so at first I started using Machamp SIMPLY because he had some Jojo Ora Ora attacks.... but hes not very viable...nor good >_>. I probably could’ve made him work but I would’ve needed more than a week to do so, so I picked up Gardevoir because she had some tricks under her sleeve. First I beat offline mode to get used to the controls, then I took it online. To my surprise, NOBODY knows how to fight Gardevoir (at the time at least), I actually won a ton of my matches because she has so many versatile techniques, almost one for every situation. Sure, a knowledgeable foe that knows her stuff can completely shut her down and theres not much she can do, but they were very few and inbetween. I even fought some Mirror matches against others but I was able to beat them because they tried using her in a cheesy way, so much so that they were predictable and I put a stop to them. I knew she was the right main for the tourney after that. I also used the default assists because I doubted they would have all of them unlocked (and they didn’t)

Come fight day, there were like around 30 college students there, me, who was just slightly older than them, and then one 12 year old kid, who is ideally the demo for this game >_>. Everybody brought their 3ds, tagged each other, were talkin Pokemon, etc. I’m not into pokemon anymore but I could appreciate the environment. You’d be surprised who is still a Pokemon fan

Once the tourney started, about 20 of them used Garchomp. The tournament was nothing but them spamming dig on each other. The kid actually used Lucha Pikachu. One guy was a Shadow mewtwo main but SM was banned because he had an infinite at the time and it was deemed unfair, he went to garchomp too. Garchomp has the dreaded dig attack, he goes underground, dodges all attacks, and automatically zooms in towards the opponent to delivery a devastating shouryuken attack.

And sure enough, people complained that their assist that they played with (mostly the later ones you unlock) were not there

Then come to my fight. Gardevoir has an attack where she forms a dome around herself, which acts as a shield, and sure enough, it was strong enough to tank dig attack. My first opponent was so stunned his usual strategy didn’t work that he KEPT USING DIG ATTACK thinking he could break my guard. The shield can burst into an offensive attack and I countered him every time. Did he stop?

Nope. I win. Next time I fought a Garchomp. HE DID THE SAME THING. Thats when it hit me. These dudebros just learned enough about the game to cheese their way to victory for the prize money. Granted, I sorta did the same thing, but at least Gardevoir requires some technique and finesse. These guys were just trying to strongarm their way to the top. Didn’t work.

I never lost a single round.

My final match was against the 12 year old kid! (See, he was gonna come into play afterall!) Pretty much teaching the lesson of never underestimating your opponent. Just like Gardevoir, nobody ever fought against Lucha Pika and his tricks.....including myself! I don’t recall fighting one online, only the regular Mishima Pikachu. He also didn’t know much about Gardevoir.

So this was gonna be a match to remember!

Unfortunately for the kid, his inexperience in gaming is what led to his downfall, I caught on to Lucha Pika’s tricks MUCH faster than he caught onto mine. But to his credit, HE STILL BEAT ME ONE ROUND. I ended up winning. We shook hands and smiled because as the oldest and youngest, we beat all of the people that were in their prime. I felt a little bad I beat a kid but he came here with his claws and fangs on full display, going for the jugular. He put up a fight.

The prize was a 100 dollar gift card, and the kid got a 50. I used it to buy Digimon on PS4 (THE IRONY) and a bunch of Jojo manga when a b1g1 deal hit on them

So I run a local game shop in town, and the next day when I opened, 10 of the same people that were in the tourney, some of which I fought, all unrelated to each other, were in line outside to sell the game to the shop. and at least 10 more came in throughout the day. Me and that kid stomped them so hard that we utterly defeated them and they completely gave up on the Pokken life afterwards instead of wanting to improve. I actually kept playing the game a few months afterwards, even though no 2nd tourney was announced.

Me and that kid were the only ones that had the real heart of a Pokemon trainer. and even though my days of RBY version are long gone, I STILL just then went on a Pokemon adventure that day. While I won’t be picking up this new version (Since I don’t have the system), it being on the switch is great, that means you can take your battles on the go and have your own adventures!

Everybody go have fun and be a Pokemon master!