Did you like the stream in general?
* Most of the time it was ok. The first day was the weakest because there was a lengthy amount of downtime from battle phase to interview phase with casters/Ryan Hart and then battle analysis.
Day 2 remedied that by showing another battle straight after the main battle, regardless of current situation on the 'other' battle and day 3 downtime was reduced significantly because it was top 8 which obviously means less chaotic.
- The downtime especially for day 1 was just very dull with near endless techno loops. Does the stream not have the rights to play music from the actual video games?
A Pokémon Center healing theme would be a nice notification when you're all back live to start the next segment for example.
What would be even better is (now with the new dates revealed) is to show dates for official upcoming events and a small "Did you know?" box somewhere on the page to cover useful information about VGC including:
* Spread moves
* Legal Pokémon
* Typing
* STAB bonus
* Knowing who is the fastest before the very first turn
* Combos (Drizzle + Swift Swim or Water attack/Thunder)
* Common VGC items (Focus Sash, Lum Berry, Life Orb, Choice
* Important abilities (Weather setters, Terrain setters, Beast Boost, Prankster, No Dark Void on Smeargle)
* Important moves (Protect, Z-moves)
I've attached an image taken from Street Fighter V's tournament streams when there is a bit of downtime, not only they add some merchandise but also information about mechanics and upcoming events.
Did you like the casters?
+ Good diverse casters from various UK/European countries and I think it's the first English stream to have a female caster. Cheeky British puns/Drizzle humour.
- One of the English casters was speaking a bit fast to the point he lost what he was trying to say next. I admit the amount of depth is getting bigger to the point I'm slowly forgetting certain Pokémon species/moves myself.
- For the very nit picky people, I've noticed plurals on Pokémon species like: "both Celesteela
s" instead of "both Celesteela" and at one point "taking him out" when the actual species in the match was female. I think it was either Alolan Marowak or Oranguru.
I'm not going to criticise on Z-status moves like asking people on Twitter what does Z-Stockpile actually do because the info to know every Z-Status move is 100 times more complex than a typical Z-Attack move.
There's pastebins on the list but 9/10 the Z-moves you'll see in VGC 2017 are mainly going to be a traditional Z-move attack for all 18 types.
- Did you like the metagame analasys and stuff?
Knowing very little other than reading a segment on the Flying Press for best new Gen 7 mons in each format, it was a huge change compared to VGC 2016 where Gen 6 boxart mascots including ORAS Primals were so good to the point it looked like Magneto-Sentinel-Storm combo in Marvel vs Capcom 2.
I never expected to see Toxic or even Recover more than once. Heck some games had a massive U-Turn in momentum when Encore was used against the opponent's Substitute and even Perish Song against the opponent's remaining 2 Pokémon. The only part that will look dull is a Celesteela mirror and Heavy Slam is the only non-status move. Overall it felt like VGC 2014 diverse but replacing Megas with a terrain setter instead.
Oh this was a thing too.