Welcome to the Trophy Garden | Wolfe Glick, Aaron Zheng, and James Baek

en-usOctober 01, 2022

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About this Episode

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!

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Recent Episodes from Trophy Garden

The Dumbest Pokemon of All Time | Trophy Garden #5

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 Garden

Timestamps
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0:00 Podcast Start
00:23 Catching Up
1:10 The San Diego Experience
1:30 Wolfe Top Cut
2:17 James Top Cut
3:20 Team Diversity in Series 1
5:10 Interesting Teams
5:29 Series 1 Cut short
5:52 Series 2 First Impressions
7:12 Paradox Pokemon
8:05 Wolfey Doesn't Believe
8:52 Centralization?
11:00 How many are there?
11:14 The dumbest Pokemon of all time
12:12 A defense for Gholdengo
13:08 Usage over time
14:58 Gastrodon enters the fray
15:28 How much will the meta shift?
18:00 How Has Scarlet & Violet Held Up
20:01 Performance patch
20:18 James keeps beating the game
21:30 Recently t's all been a blur
21:59 Competitive Interest is the business and business is booming
22:31 The Wolfe seen around the world
24:16 Tame James
25:30 Keeping up the momentum
27:10 Wolfe Glick's Scarlet & Violet Invitational
27:44 VGC in the spotlight
28:44 Mew2king Dynamax Fail & Old Man Hugs
30:17 Rapid Fire Q&A

Trophy Garden

en-usJanuary 25, 2023

To Paldea, And Beyond! | Trophy Garden #4

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.
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Timestamps
Busier than Ever 00:28
Thanksgiving Break 2:22
That New Game Feeling 4:04
First Playthroughs of S/V 5:45
Keeping Up The Pace 8:50
Pretty Solid Game 10:50
Gripes 11:07
Progression Woes 13:40
QoL and Less Features 15:50
DLC and More Features 17:15
The Postgame 17:47
Dragonite's Time To Shine? 20:37
Pronunciations 24:10
These Names Make No Sense 25:36
Guybull 26:24
Verdict on Terastallize 27:55
When To Terastallize 32:14
Mons We Want To Use In Competitive 33:14
Tut Tut, Looks Like Rain 36:34
Sand 37:41
Returning Pokemon 39:29
New Meta 41:55
Pokemon IRL 42:44
New Gen, New You 45:18

Trophy Garden

en-usDecember 09, 2022

Scarlet & Violet Is The Future & The Future Is Now | Trophy Garden #3

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: 0:00
Scarlet & Violet Dropping: 00:50
Beginning of New Generation: 1:38
Pokemon Changes: 2:38
Regional Forms: 3:50
Theorycrafting Terastal 4:38
1st Regional of Scarlet & Violet: 7:10
New Meta: 9:58
Improving the Competitive Circuit: 11:30
Cost of Attendance: 12:08
Favorite Regional Event: 17:55
21:00 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 32:00
What Format for S/V 34:32
Regional Dex Format? 36:08
Excluding Tera Types 37:15
Alas Sword & Shield, We Knew You Well 38:55
A New Era Of Pokemon 45:10

Trophy Garden

en-usNovember 18, 2022

Rest is Super Effective | Trophy Garden #2

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.

Trophy Garden

en-usOctober 18, 2022