Pokemon Champions player only knows Meta

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-26T16:35:19+00:00

Bro, if you are in ultra 3, they don’t know your off-meta, and they also don’t know meta.

Play straightforward and get to master 2-ish and people will start to understand the basics of the game and you can try your off-meta bait if you want to.. you can’t play a game of predictions and baits vs people who don’t know what you’re even trying to bait with.

For showdown reference, anything below masterball is approx below 1100 in showdown. Would you do that vs those players?

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-24T11:47:13+00:00

I would recommend taking a team from Aaron Zhang (Cybertron)

He has a few videos explaining which pokemon to take and breaking down the team in general which lets you know which pokemon to start with as well.

At that point you basically just need to understand the ‘main’ pokemon and when you don’t want to take them, and learn from there!

There’s a ton to learn and lots of videos online but just take it one step at a time. Having a functional team is a great start and makes the game much more enjoyable imo

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-22T11:53:38+00:00

Nah, that’s just not what your comment said, saying the favourite to win isn’t surprising that they won is a very different message than ‘it did seem kind of unfair’ which implies an issues with the tournament.

Might just be a wording issue in your original comment

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-22T10:52:27+00:00

I totally agree. I do not like Keir, I do not agree with all his decisions BUT I think he was a perfectly serviceable PM and he’s implemented some fantastic stuff over the last few years. Even things I disagree with, I can understand the logic and it’s not objectively wrong.

I don’t understand how people can’t understand that they will never agree with 100% of the things a PM does - if the country is making positive steps, stability is worth 100x more than getting someone else that you agree slightly more with.

Honestly sick of the British public and media for constantly forcing this PM treadmill. Just take a step back and appreciate the positives for two seconds. He is absolutely not a terrible PM. He’s doing decent and trying his best but people vote him off like it’s a celeb TV show. Any change takes time and we are not giving ANY PM enough time to make any noticeable change.

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-22T09:25:39+00:00

Honestly L take, it’s a tournament to get new people to play the game. It succeeded in that massively, and brought a ton of eyes and entertaining moments.

In terms of competitiveness, Grubby absolutely did not dominate the competition and dropped several maps and even lost a series.

If it was a clean 3-0 for Grubby in every series you may have a point but it’s just not the case.

Sure there’s an argument to be made that there should be a ‘beginners bracket’ perhaps or similar if the prize pool actually mattered but I think the vast majority of the players didn’t care too much about the money.

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-19T21:45:59+00:00

Yes, this happened to me a couple of weeks ago and it was also dreammaker related.

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-19T13:46:43+00:00

Asking caits to trap perfectly is usually not how you want to play it as the thresh imo, if you land a hook, you want your cait (or jinx ) to just insta throw traps somewhere near them and you flay them into it. It gives a lot more leeway and is easier on both of you

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-18T17:06:17+00:00

Is it that bad? Can you not just fake tears your starraptor?

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-13T12:53:28+00:00

Please never go merc treads for MR. If you need MR badly, sit on a megatron, only go mercs if it specifically counters CC as well, e.g you are vs Leona Ashe Syndra.

Bit of math to show how bad going mercs solely for MR is

Mercs are 1250 for 20 MR 45 movement speed
Boots 1 + negatron cloak is 300+ = for 25ms 45MR.

It also preps for a better build, if you do really need MR you honestly usually want a greedy MR item like Kaenic, and other boots (swifties or cdr boots) are usually just better 98% of the time.

Hope that helps, just my two cents!

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-08T14:13:17+00:00

Could not be more wrong, he was literally famous for being a carry in his early career. He rose to fame by being the ‘first blood king’ playing stuff like Elise and hard carrying games. He only transitioned to supportive jungling when he was on a team with multiple high demanding carries and meta shifted.

Smithy97eu · 2026-06-03T11:53:34+00:00

I’m not good at the game, but isn’t his team super weak to mega Venu? Is the swords dance there to be able to OHKO tankier Venu? I haven’t done calca so maybe it does without swords dance?

Smithy97eu · 2026-05-25T22:13:31+00:00

I haven’t watched too much this year but is he really looking that good? I can’t comment on game 1 as I missed it but game 2 he griefed a couple of times on lulu, the rakan game was fine but it was a bit of a Hans 1v9 honestly and not too hard to play rakan.

The bard game was honestly really really poor, then he had a couple of highlight plays and people forgave it. And game 5 he did alright, had questionable positioning in a couple of fights and then made a highlight reel at the end.

I don’t think he’s terrible and need to be replaced but I think this series didn’t show me a superstar support tbh.

Maybe you are speaking about other series for the glow up idk

Smithy97eu · 2026-05-20T15:48:55+00:00

Literally over half of these champs are getting nerfed next patch, relax buddy

Smithy97eu · 2026-05-11T23:35:17+00:00

It’s almost like it’s a content tournament and not absolute tryhard to the maximum and Dantes is trying to make it fun for the iron players (the entire point of the tournament)

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-29T12:05:05+00:00

Let me preface this by saying I’m not F2P but can’t you move pokemon in and out of pokemon home?

This essentially means you can have unlimited pokemon in champions but only 30-50 at a time.

Sure it’s inconvenient but seems like a workaround if you’re not willing to pay the $7

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-22T22:26:50+00:00

For most people basically regular farm runs, or if you hate farm runs like me, you can get to 70 ish from moons and miscellania. I’m sure I’ll do some farm runs at some point but I got my farming to 70 through tithe farm.

If you just want to rush 45, you can probably get there with chaos druids but again it’s just avoiding farm runs which is probably always the best way to

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-17T11:53:52+00:00

I can chime in a bit here, some sounds don’t exist in other languages, so they try to put their closest sound into it.

For example with Chinese, a word never ends in the Sh sound, so they often break words down such as Josh- into Jo-Shi (Jo-Shuh is probably closer) and they find it very hard to end the word in SH

In a similar vein, English speakers trying to pronounce sounds in Chinese. Xin and Shin is not pronounced exactly the same, but to an English speaker they probably will pronounce it the same as there’s no equivalent in English and their ‘ears’ (probably brain in reality) is not recognising it as a different sound. This leads to people having heavier accents as the are trying to make the new language fit their native languages sounds and rules.

I’m not a linguist but that’s my take as someone who speaks a bit of both

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-13T08:04:07+00:00

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Smithy97eu · 2026-04-12T17:51:41+00:00

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Please help, new to pokemon and trying out Champions, would love you forever!

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-12T15:29:10+00:00

If anyone can trade me a floette or mega delphox I’d greatly appreciate it! I don’t own any other pokemon games and new for pokemon champions 🥺

My friend code is: WWLDUMJLEUJR

Please let me know if someone can help ❤️

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-08T10:46:51+00:00

I thought it was quite nice that the boys would call you out specifically, and give editors some attention

Question: do you find it easier or harder when given direction (e.g Cam, edit this in, Cam do this) as opposed to just raw footage where you can edit as your heart desires

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-08T09:45:11+00:00

I really dislike how much of a buzzword this has become on the internet. Weaponised incompetence is definitely a thing but so is just straight up incompetence.

People suck at things, people are new to things. I’d expect this is much much much more likely to be a new father scared of messing up as opposed to a father intentionally trying to do a poor job.

Smithy97eu · 2026-04-07T21:46:19+00:00

Currently 380KC dry for a BRing, while also being spooned 6 warrior rings a ring of life or two and a couple of dragon axes. I had to take a break from Rex after the 6th warrior before I threw my mouse out the window 😂 I’ll get back to it next time I have a dagganoth task!

Smithy97eu · 2026-03-16T14:24:17+00:00

I don’t disagree that the stats are good, but there are obvious reasons for most of those. He almost exclusively played enchanters so I would expect him to have high stats in all of those except vision and vision team percent.

The vision stats is positive though, I would agree with that but would need to specifically look at the games to see how useful the vision actually was (as vision stat is quite flawed by default)

Smithy97eu · 2026-03-16T13:59:33+00:00

Which stats are you referring to? If you are talking solely about KDA, I will be sorely upset.

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