Good day, Pokémon Trainers! The Pokémon GO World Championships are just around the corner. And whether or not you’ve been ardently following this year’s Pokémon GO Championship series, or it’s your first time watching an official Pokémon GO tournament, there has never been a better time to start!
To add to this excitement, just like last year, we’ve had look at some of the more interesting Pokémon that might make an appearance during the tournament. However, as the official GO circuit is starting to set its own place in the overall tournament series, we are starting to see some star players rise up. As such, let’s take a moment to highlight some of the best you might see in the tournament.
doonebug97
It’s hard not to talk about the doonebug97 when talking about star players. After all, who else can claim to win 3 regional tournaments in a single competitive season alone with flying colors? Well, not only that but “with flying colors” is rather literal here.
As in the Orlando 2024 Regional Tournament doone won with a Pidgeot. Certainly not a common Pokémon seen in these tournaments. Which goes to show that doonebug97’s success isn’t just in good team composition, but good gameplay as well.
With that being said, doone played a quieter role in the later parts of the 2024 official tournament season, playing the role of a judge in some of the later tournaments. There’s been a rather large gap between the last tournament, NAIC, and the World Championships. So has this slowed down doone’s game or will the bug from America fly ever higher? We will have to see.
Reis2Occasion
Since we’ve talked about doone, it’s only fair to talk about this trainer’s friend and rival, Reis2Occassion. In his own opinion, it took more time than expected for Reis2Occassion to win a tournament this year. Finally getting a regional first-place finish in the Los Angeles Regional Championship, which took place much later in the season at 2024-05-25.
But when he won though, it was something to behold. Playing nearly flawlessly and getting win after win. If Reis can keep that momentum going into Worlds, it is sure to be an exciting show.
MEweedle
The first European we’ll be taking a look at today and also someone related to doonebug in some wa, as MEweedle is someone who manages to defeat doonebug in spectacular fashion. MEweedle battled doonebug97 in the grand finals of the Europe Internationals, one of the biggest tournaments that take place each year, at the height of doonebug’s success, coming hot off of 2 regional victories.
MEweedle won of course. And it isn’t surprising, or a blow to doonebug’s success, as MEweedle is one of the very first world championship winners. He was the senior division champion of the very first Pokémon GO World Championships!
OutOfPoket
Okay, no more doonebug talk. We have other fantastic trainers from the US to talk about as well! One of the most noteworthy ones in my opinion is OutOfPoket. As the GO circuit no longer has age divisions, there are certain young players in GO that can really shine and present themselves as the best of the best. Trainers like wdage, and MEweedle fall under this category.
However, in my opinion, the young trainer that has really been making a splash is OutOfPoket. OutOfPoket already established a great understanding of the game by popularizing Serperior early in the 2024 circuit. This momentum was not lost on OutOfPoket, with a wonderful NAIC 1st place victory before worlds.
LNDsRargef
If you caught sight of the Latin America International Championship this year, you were certainly in for a surprise. The LATAM-centered “LNDs” group went into that tournament with full force. Their fans were hyped and the entire venue was electrifying. You could feel the hype and tension through the screen on stream!
And when the dust settled and the battles ended, LNDsRargef stood at the top as the winner. So really, that’s why he’s the title of this section. I actually want to dedicate this section to many of the LATAM trainers that do really well whenever they’re under the limelight. Just as an example LNDsTSteinar achieved a respectable third-place finish at NAIC as well.
Inadequance
Going back to Europe, Inadequance is a rather popular name in the PvP scene. Being a caster, player, and all-around supporter of the scene, it’s easy to see why he would be known. But that isn’t the only reason for Inadequance’s fame.
As Inadequance is someone who has a tendency to bring spicier Pokémon to tournaments and perform rather well with them, often making those Pokémon more popular in PvP afterward. He had some fantastic matches at last year’s World Championships with some solid Shadow Charizard action. Even this season Inadequance has made Pokémon like Giratina and Magnezone more popular.
Paulasha97
Another trainer from Europe, Paulasha97 is definitely on the upper echelon of trainers from that part of the world. Paula really made a show this year carrying the Magnezone popularized by Inadequance, and beating Mattbeer in London in some truly grueling matches. I definitely hope to see similar nail-biting battles from Paula at Worlds.
An Endless Discussion
And there you have it! Some of the trainers to look out for at Worlds this year. But, if I’m being honest, this list is barely scraping the surface of potential trainers we could be talking about. There’s Colin06, considered one of the best players in Europe. There’s also itsAXN and xXRubixMasterXx, first and second-place finishers at last year’s world tournament.
But perhaps most importantly, there are the underdogs, the trainers in parts of the world that aren’t often streamed on the official English channels. There are trainers like ChiodoSH01 a player from Japan that got 5th place last year. And there’s our very own Avrip, who got highlighted by the official Pokémon GO X account for his Altaria play at worlds last year. These surprise trainers are the ones I’m truly excited to see!
Goodbye for now, Pokémon trainers. Priom-out!
