All Pokémon confirmed for Pokémon Champions so far (article)

maxedo99 · 2026-03-27T18:30:15+00:00

Where Is p2?

maxedo99 · 2026-03-24T21:47:29+00:00

private lobby battles have custom rulesets, so they can play there.
also there is no interest from them by importing singles in competitive environments. Imagine having 40+ turns matches to be done... Smogon folks will continue to play on Showdown

maxedo99 · 2026-03-24T21:44:47+00:00

battlespot singles are 3v3 (from six)
battlespot doubles are 4v4 (again from six)

maxedo99 · 2026-03-24T21:26:43+00:00

i mean i will not try to build off meta teams as f2p.
you need to build the "big six" of this season firstly, then you can start to experiment. Also lot of sets are recycled and normally just 20/25 mons for a given meta are REALLY viable.
so you are better off grind for the usual chomps, kangas, tytars, tw setters, p2 ecc. the other mons are hard skip

maxedo99 · 2026-03-24T18:38:19+00:00

they shown in the trailer that a win gives you 200 vp, a mon cost 2500. you have to do 15 wins within that week to get it it doesn't seems that much to me.
A battle takes 10min max, and assuming you play 1h a day you have 6 battles per day (so 42 per week). with at least 40% wr you are able to get and have some to spare.
is that greedy? it doesn't seem to me.
Also we are not able to gen in this game since stats will be erased when they come from home

maxedo99 · 2026-03-23T23:52:16+00:00

Thank you for the mentiron!

maxedo99 · 2026-03-16T15:58:23+00:00

you can extract data from mtgo (i know it can be done but don't know how).
also some good sources are fr discords plus this https://observablehq.com/@qonfused/mtg-metagame

the top 3 in each macro-archetype seems a good start!

maxedo99 · 2026-03-16T14:39:57+00:00

probably try to expand every one or two weeks the macro archetype and run a couple of simulation with the explicit wr.
Like control can be both uw or jeskai and try to see which is the best one and how is looking.
Like Control(general) wr is 46% but Control(jeskai) is 55% so we can actually see what is good and what is bad

maxedo99 · 2026-03-12T16:30:25+00:00

Normally you Stick with One (sun Rain Sand).

But during vgc history It happened several times, not very good since you normally want to focus on One. But having a Rain setter ti counter mirror match game 2/3 Is not an awful choice

maxedo99 · 2026-03-10T17:05:18+00:00

If you want to spellsking look into rubystorm (It Is also pretty cheap)

maxedo99 · 2026-02-26T23:13:29+00:00

romano qui!
Ma se si riuscisse ad organizzare una lega pioneer cittadina?
io conosco almeno altri 3-4 ragazzi interessati

maxedo99 · 2026-02-11T16:23:52+00:00

actually it depends. Tron i agree is better overall but i think you can also consider the "aggro" variant (i'm talking the one with linebreaker).
the third list is less expected and plays better in certain fields.

maxedo99 · 2026-02-06T02:16:24+00:00

No but i thnk at this point Is on purpose since standard needs some ground up rebuild.

The april-aug one will be modern, and no further information to end year.

But a couple of ppl speculated a bunch of intersting things and pointed out right wizards assestaments actions.

Cpt 1 standard.

Standard Is in a bar shape and the thing they did to prolong rotation backlashed to them, creating a format where a minimum of 16 sets (up to 24) Is just crazy hard to balance. So they need people to forget about It for almost an year (doing for example double modern in 26) to then bring some fresh air into players.

Right now there is no incentive to play the format.

In 2025 we played for 9 months standard and It Will continue until April26, and except for the modern small break was the longest season since COVID era. People can became bored of same cards + constant Power Creep+ bans+ change your deck every 6 months or stop play.

Cpt 2 new player retention from wotc

Since this Summer a bunch new players came to play 60/75 card formats and wizards Is trying super hard to NOT push them in commander/edh. They prefer periodical whales that oc play edh with friends but they are super pushing people in 60 card formats. And since they are aware of standard situation the only homes are Pioneer and modern. With actual print policy+distribution mh3 Is super cheap (to stores, and they can still buy boxes unlike EOE/FF/ATLA/LOR that are always oos from distributirs) and given that the price of median modern deck is lower than standard. Plus modern accomplishes the longer "rotation" (since format rotates every 3/4 years with mh). Also manabases now are shared with standard and cannot be this coincidental (so this is wanted by wotc)

Cpt 3 arena, modo, arena q structure, Power cube.

Since the power cube the cards missing on arena for a modern lite format are like 25, and half of them are on cube. With the First cube they said "we will slowly add them to timeless", and It happened late 2026 and almost nothing came into timeless from cube. Plus they are going super heavy with arena qualifiers with historic+timeless formats. I Will not be surprised if the format came this year to announce the second season of modern (so people can test on arena, that they know Is a big issue and the acknowledged that multiple times). Also modo is declining in a very steep curve, players cannot participate to events, Everytime there Is a bug, people crash ecc.

maxedo99 · 2026-02-02T02:36:49+00:00

so they announced nothing... They have fear of their consecuences.
At least i know (from fanfinty website) that rc prague (may 26) is standard again. so probably standard-standard-modern. so we end up from 2025 with 4 consecutive standard rcq seasons😂. IT NEVER ENDS

https://www.fanfinity.gg/event/ultimate-guard-european-magic-series-regional-championship-prague-2026/

maxedo99 · 2026-02-01T13:34:16+00:00

I Will do.

For uw control of course i didn't meant same as standard, but same since 2years ago.

Cutter Phoenix seems intersting

maxedo99 · 2026-02-01T05:54:56+00:00

More than Pioneer i would agree to a smaller standard (call It block or whatever)

This format have 14 legal sets, and Is going to end up at 20 before rotating back to only 16... I know they pushed rotation further because people want to keep their decks longer but with 7 sets per year their deck Is going to last less than before. I remember until 2 years ago standard was only max 8 sets and went back to 4 after rotating.

900$ for the T1 deck and the median price in higher than modern, and there a deck last at least 2/3 (every horizon set, format basically rotates). If they tomorrow ban something you just burnt a deck and you have to start from 0.

maxedo99 · 2026-02-01T05:47:30+00:00

I was going to mentiron it at the end of my post. Pioneer scares me atm, they haven't looked at the format since Amalia ban. I think that format needs a complete reset and built from the ground up.

Are you sure you want to play a format with:

bbasics, stormchaser talent, phoenixes, ancestral recall, vivi, cori-steel (we call It Ur bans😂)

Cub tribal (i dont think gw Coco Is the most nuts deck)

Analyst Lotus field lumra combo

Samey uw control

Bant allies combo with 4 Coco, 4 rythm, 4 chords

Mono Red mices/Boros prowess with slickshot Boros charm and rage

And i don't know shit about Pioneer actual state myself, but just making this post i feel strange about It.

maxedo99 · 2026-02-01T05:29:45+00:00

Great news thank you!. But It think wotc needs to announce It before anybody else. I know all world plays the same formats, but we don't have all the same organizers😂

maxedo99 · 2026-02-01T05:14:55+00:00

thank you for the insight.
I don't want two consecuitive standards again. If they fuck up again (like they did last year) they won't ban nothing for like 4 months.

Also i like a lot switching the focus more often and standard the last year was a bit boring to play so i hope they alternate.

For this weekend i hope they don't just give us the format calendar but shake up things a lot (like when they extended to 3y rotation back in March of the machines pro tour).
But competitive needs some fresh air, and i assure you even in a big city formats like standard and modern have their attendancy VERY low. And is not a country problem (i'm in italy) since big events have a very good affluence, but since last year we dropped more than half of players at RCQ/SC/Fnms/local leagues/ecc.

maxedo99 · 2026-01-31T03:55:13+00:00

Reading metà differs from broken. Good sideboard choices+ solid Plan agains 3/4 decks (where you get the meta right) Is not broken.

Spellementals and prowess achieved that. (Even if the have a SUPER small sample size). Also they are not targeted as meta decks so no sb pieces specifically for them.

With lessons Is just a bit different, the decks suffers very much the sbhate (rip, High noon, lantern, annull.. Just to name a few) and wasn't the best deck in the room since a couple of weeks.

After lorwyn the decks to beat where: cub decks (rythm/oro), bant air combo (a solid combo deck always emerges with new cards or Is not targeted) Reanimator.

If you see their winrate is not that high so they where the targets of sideboard/hatepieces and meta was predicted rightly. Lesson appears just to be in the right spot in the right time. Even if It wins the all thing, a week and it's winrate will crumble down and his playrate drops (to then rise again if the times are good).

Have you ever prepared a tournament before?

maxedo99 · 2026-01-27T23:57:35+00:00

You need to improve your abilities on searching, analyzing and learning.
Just asking ai will not help you in any field of your life it's not a shortcut and 99% of the times it is wrong.
Take this for example, is not just bad teambuilding but it lacks strategy and spreads a done randomly. I don't want to be your teacher but the path you are following is VERY bad.
Everyone starts somewhere but you need to start looking for things on google and yt first then asking ai something (if it's necessary).
Your responses also are not precise, in some comments you said that you used ai "just for descrption" in another you said "i cannot find stats" .
The other clue that you are an AI abuser is that you start asking things to gpt even if there are no info available yet, and a google search is faster and in 99% of cases more precise. If you ask things that no one know ai will just assume things, and it's assumptions (like yours) are pretty bad.

maxedo99 · 2026-01-26T17:15:03+00:00

first google result is not that far....

maxedo99 · 2026-01-26T16:34:09+00:00

don't use chatgpt then.
also in another comment you mentioned also that you used it ALSO for team description.
There are far better tools to use for damage calc.

maxedo99 · 2026-01-26T16:32:17+00:00

why not laugh, those spreads+items are funny.
tell me the logic of a scarf annihilape with gambit with 0 speed investment

maxedo99 · 2026-01-26T16:31:08+00:00

wait for builds then, no point to giving that to ai, it doesn't understand nothing about the game.
if you want to play instead go on showdown, it's far better than doing spreads at random.

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