The Lava Pool

Sam, Toler, and Tiffany are back with timers, demos, rules, and new pokemon. We also revisit bow-tie vs bikini top on our way to ninja town and depression. So you can go ahead and call this one a banger. 00:20 Intro, Board Games 03:30 New Timer 05:10 Ladder Updates 06:32 Battle Teams 09:35 Triples and Free for All 10:25 WCS17 Rules 16:00 Sun & Moon Features 26:00 Demo 31:00 Fees and Lines 35:00 New Pokemon 44:00 VGC16 Metagame Changes

Take your hat off and get ready to rock, VGC 2017 is here! This week Sam, Toler, and Tiffany are breaking down Championship Points, Prize $$$, and format changes. There was also a bunch of Sun & Moon news with double doses of wolves, monkeys and unevolved Z-Moves. 00:20 Intro, Zog 02:30 CP Bar 14:30 Prize $ 19:00 Format change in December 22:05 Pokemon Bank 25:20 Dress up is back! 27:00 Grooming 30:20 New Z-Moves 36:50 Passimian 38:55 Oranguru 41:55 Lycanroc 46:35 Bronzong 50:25 Personal favorite pokemon in 2016 Download Standard Podcasts

Take your hat off and get ready to rock, VGC 2017 is here! This week Sam, Toler, and Tiffany are breaking down Championship Points, Prize $$$, and format changes. There was also a bunch of Sun & Moon news with double doses of wolves, monkeys and unevolved Z-Moves. 00:20 Intro, Zog 02:30 CP Bar 14:30 Prize $ 19:00 Format change in December 22:05 Pokemon Bank 25:20 Dress up is back! 27:00 Grooming 30:20 New Z-Moves 36:50 Passimian 38:55 Oranguru 41:55 Lycanroc 46:35 Bronzong 50:25 Personal favorite pokemon in 2016

Apologies for the audio this week, I let the auto tools in audacity loose instead of doing everything myself. The end result is a rather manically paced episode with a number of sentences cut off. HOWEVER, the rest of the episode is so good it doesn't even matter. Gabby and Tiffany hang out and talk about Sun and Moon, new pokemon, fashion, and photography. Then about 40 minutes in we start talking about VGC, kind of. Welcome to the off season!

Apologies for the audio this week, I let the auto tools in audacity loose instead of doing everything myself. The end result is a rather manically paced episode with a number of sentences cut off. HOWEVER, the rest of the episode is so good it doesn't even matter. Gabby and Tiffany hang out and talk about Sun and Moon, new pokemon, fashion, and photography. Then about 40 minutes in we start talking about VGC, kind of. Welcome to the off season! Download Standard Podcasts

DrFidget has stolen Kyogre from the Pokemon World Championships. Gumbshoes, you need to fix your pokeradar, travel to Alola, and get Kyogre back. Then capture Carmen Sandiego! The Loot is Gone and the chase is on, and one of these people could find her: Toler, Tiffany and Stephen. 0:00:20 Intro 0:04:46 Mewtwo 0:09:15 Pokemon GO 0:16:30 New Pokemon Forms 0:23:13 Z-Moves 0:30:20 New Pokemon 0:53:00 Aegislash 0:54:10 Must have moves 0:57:45 Double Primal 0:59:56 Improving as a player and moving on from a series of bad runs 1:04:00 Restricted pair that will win worlds 1:07:35 Worst restricted 1:11:20 The real answer is DrFidget himself 1:12:50 Outro Download Standard Podcasts

DrFidget has stolen Kyogre from the Pokemon World Championships. Gumbshoes, you need to fix your pokeradar, travel to Alola, and get Kyogre back. Then capture Carmen Sandiego! The Loot is Gone and the chase is on, and one of these people could find her: Toler, Tiffany and Stephen. 0:00:20 Intro 0:04:46 Mewtwo 0:09:15 Pokemon GO 0:16:30 New Pokemon Forms 0:23:13 Z-Moves 0:30:20 New Pokemon 0:53:00 Aegislash 0:54:10 Must have moves 0:57:45 Double Primal 0:59:56 Improving as a player and moving on from a series of bad runs 1:04:00 Restricted pair that will win worlds 1:07:35 Worst restricted 1:11:20 The real answer is DrFidget himself 1:12:50 Outro

Toler and Sam switch roles to catch up on the VGC 16 metagame going into worlds. Turns out not much has changed since the last episode. So then we spend the rest of the episode breaking down the Pokemon game everyone is talking about right now: Pokemon Go! Just kidding, we spend 40 minutes on Sun and Moon. This is strictly a VGC and sandwich podcast after all. VGC 00. Intro 13. Big 6 20. Japan 23. US Nats and Metagame 27. Questions! Venusaur and Safeguard Sun and Moon 32. New Pokemon 39. Highest Priority 41. Snatch 43. Horse 47. Bounsweet 51. Mimikyu 55. Bear 1.00. Competitive changes 1.07. Outro

Toler and Sam switch roles to catch up on the VGC 16 metagame going into worlds. Turns out not much has changed since the last episode. So then we spend the rest of the episode breaking down the Pokemon game everyone is talking about right now: Pokemon Go! Just kidding, we spend 40 minutes on Sun and Moon. This is strictly a VGC and sandwich podcast after all. VGC 00. Intro 13. Big 6 20. Japan 23. US Nats and Metagame 27. Questions! Venusaur and Safeguard Sun and Moon 32. New Pokemon 39. Highest Priority 41. Snatch 43. Horse 47. Bounsweet 51. Mimikyu 55. Bear 1.00. Competitive changes 1.07. Outro

This week Dim returns and friend of the show PBall0010 makes his Lava Pool debut. We talk about food, money, hair, and a surprising amount of pokémon. 00.20 Intro: Best breakfast food. 05.20 Hair Loss 07.25 Pokken 09.15 Stipends 18:30 HP Water Mons (Salamence doesn’t count, learns more water moves) 21:50 Dumbest “Big 6” counters 24.45 Gravity Kyurem & Groudon teams 27:30 Best wing sauce 29:55 Pokémon that understand sandwiches  31:28 Top underrated restricted pokémon  36:02 This years “Japan Sand” 38:30 Best of 3 practice 44:20 Should pokémon be esports? 48:30 Is the community to negitive? 52:15 NPA & Outro Download Standard Podcasts

This week Dim returns and friend of the show PBall0010 makes his Lava Pool debut. We talk about food, money, hair, and a surprising amount of pokémon. 00.20 Intro: Best breakfast food. 05.20 Hair Loss 07.25 Pokken 09.15 Stipends 18:30 HP Water Mons (Salamence doesn’t count, learns more water moves) 21:50 Dumbest “Big 6” counters 24.45 Gravity Kyurem & Groudon teams 27:30 Best wing sauce 29:55 Pokémon that understand sandwiches  31:28 Top underrated restricted pokémon  36:02 This years “Japan Sand” 38:30 Best of 3 practice 44:20 Should pokémon be esports? 48:30 Is the community to negitive? 52:15 NPA & Outro

This episode is just exciting enough that we got up at 7am to record it. Tiffany (shiloh) Stanley joins Samuel (DrFidget) Haarsma to stack rank bears, restricted pokemon, and Bronzong move options. 0.20 Intro- How early is early? 4.20 What bear is best? 6.25 Bronzong sets 11.00 Tyranitar 13.55 What 2 restricted pokemon will win worlds? 17.55 Kyogre reality check. 25.45 Double Primal 30.00 Stipends 32.23 When will other restricted pokemon pop up? 33.18 Will people really miss invites? 34.45 Regionals not having uniform "Best of x" or days played. 38.00 Outro Download Standard Podcasts

This episode is just exciting enough that we got up at 7am to record it. Tiffany (shiloh) Stanley joins Samuel (DrFidget) Haarsma to stack rank bears, restricted pokemon, and Bronzong move options. 0.20 Intro- How early is early? 4.20 What bear is best? 6.25 Bronzong sets 11.00 Tyranitar 13.55 What 2 restricted pokemon will win worlds? 17.55 Kyogre reality check. 25.45 Double Primal 30.00 Stipends 32.23 When will other restricted pokemon pop up? 33.18 Will people really miss invites? 34.45 Regionals not having uniform "Best of x" or days played. 38.00 Outro

Sorry this episode is late, mostly unedited and lacks timestamps, but it’s been a crazy week. Dim and BadIntent jump on this episode to talk about the Pokken circuit, and answer a ton of listener questions about VGC 16. Like I said no timestamps but here were the topics mostly in order: Best Hotels Pokken Tournaments and prizes. (Also, here’s the link to the Team GFB episode with Jabailey I referenced, if you’re interested http://teamgfbradio.com/episode-62-darryl-interviews-alex-jebailey/) Next International Challenge Practice Nats Stipends Walruses Number of players in Worlds Crobat/Gengar Smeagle Kyogre/Xerneas Pikachu

Sorry this episode is late, mostly unedited and lacks timestamps, but it’s been a crazy week. Dim and BadIntent jump on this episode to talk about the Pokken circuit, and answer a ton of listener questions about VGC 16. Like I said no timestamps but here were the topics mostly in order: Best Hotels Pokken Tournaments and prizes. (Also, here’s the link to the Team GFB episode with Jabailey I referenced, if you’re interested http://teamgfbradio.com/episode-62-darryl-interviews-alex-jebailey/) Next International Challenge Practice Nats Stipends Walruses Number of players in Worlds Crobat/Gengar Smeagle Kyogre/Xerneas Pikachu