Hey there! The original upload had audio issues. I hope this one is better.
I just beat Sword for the first time last March 3, 2022... which was 4 days ago! I've spent the next few days doing Crown Tundra expeditions and got Peony the Calyrex with his trusty Spectrier, whom I named Epona. I also got Franklin the Regieleki that same day, named after Earthbound's Franklin Badge. Then I withdrew Strelitzia the Zacian (sister to Hop's Zamazenta who I guess is the Lauriam of the two). I did this as I said goodbye to three of my main party for now, Colonel the Corviknight, Sumeria the Galarian Slowking, and Rollie the Coalossal. Strelitzia, Peony, and Franklin round out the rest of my main party who get to stay: my beloved starter, Boone the Rillaboom, good buddy Ryu the Single Strike Urshifu who I was initially crestfallen when he got so serious after evolving, and of course, Vanitas the Grimmsnarl, caught as an Impidimp in Glimwood Tangle. Vanitas had mostly offensive moves in the main story, but now I plan on taking advantage of his Prankster ability for VGC 2022 shenanigans.
I taught everyone some new moves for VGC. I gave Boone some sons, a daughter, and a grandson that knew Fake Out, evolved said grandson through a short stint at Wyndon Stadium, then made the grandson teach Boone Fake Out in the daycare. I spent a long time grinding in Dynamax Adventures just to get the 200 Dynite Ore Ability Patch for Boone's Grassy Surge and some extra Dynite Ore for Cram-o-matic PP Ups. I collected 30 Armorite Ore to get Lady Clear to reset Boone's, Ryu's, and Vanitas' EVs. Got a ton of BP getting to Master Ball tier (doubles) and Ultra Ball tier (singles) in Leon's Battle Tower with Strelitzia, Peony, and Franklin for Bottle Caps, Power items, and the Mints I was unable to forage in the Isle of Armor or Crown Tundra. Foraged some Max Mushrooms to make soup for Boone. Did a bunch of Max Raids to collect candies and possible Cram-o-matic ingredients. I then went and EV trained, Dynamax Candied, levelled up, and Hyper Trained all of them (Strelitzia can't Dynamax so no candy for her). Most of the EV training I did in Route 1 on Rookidee and Skwovet (I thank them for their service) while holding the proper Power items.
...I think that covers most of what I was up to!
I hope that in sharing this story, you can be inspired to get into competitive Pokémon, too, like so many other content creators have done (and are still trying to do) before me. I'm a vet when it comes to Showdown but a complete rookie when it comes to cartridge play in Sword. I do have some competitive experience in my Sun and Ultra Sun cartridges, but that's where my competitive journey in official hardware started, while I started way back in Gen IV with Shoddy Battle for battle simulators. I hope these videos will help you improve your team. Or at least get some ideas on how to enjoy these battles, especially if you get to incorporate your favorites.
This video in particular is my first ever battle in VGC 2022 on the official cartridge, while the footage after that is just me doing some Pokémon Camp and showing the League Cards I collected throughout this very recent but very memorable journey. My next videos will probably only contain just the battle, for brevity and for everyone to get what they came for. I was just really proud of the team I befriended and trained with in such a short time, so I wanted to give them a chance to show their adorable selves with Pokémon Camp.
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I'm really not good with video descriptions or titles, so I got a ton of inspiration with both from YuksVGC, who you should subscribe to, by the way. I hope this was okay. Thanks for reading and watching!
- Gildrop (Patrick)
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