Often misinterpreted as a video game series exclusively for a younger demographic, Pokémon is arguably one of the most complex titles ever created. With plenty of hidden stats and a seemingly unlimited combination of pocket monsters to match up, the amount of depth on offer at a competitive level is simply unrivalled. If you want to be the very best in this scene, it's not just something that happens overnight. It takes years of training, commitment and sacrifices to become a true Pokémon master.
This untold but potentially legendary story in the making is something that has inspired two-time US National Champion of the Pokémon Video Game – Wolfe Glick – to start up a project via Kickstarter that documents the world's most talented Pokémon players.
Wolfe has teamed up with two others in hope of bringing viewers closer to the personalities that make competitive Pokémon a story worth sharing. The documentary follows the journey of a group of players who go beyond beating the Elite Four and completing their Pokedexes to striving for glory at the Pokémon Video Game World Championships.
Titled "To Be The Very Best", this Pokémon documentary on Kickstarter has a $50,000 goal and currently sits on $6000 with 23 days remaining. Wolfe also has a number of rewards on offer for donors willing to support the project. Take a look at the trailer below and for more information head over to the Kickstarter campaign page.
[source kickstarter.com]
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I can't imagine that this would be a particularly great documentary. I'll pass on backing it.
"...an unlimited combination of pocket monsters..." Someone needs to re-take mathematics.
I'm quite into the battling scene to a degree... but this just sounds bloody boring.
Since at this point, pretty much everything seem sto be a good idea to kickstart / crowdfund, lets just crowdfund this:
We all crowdfund a couple new Amiibo production sites and forwarders for Nintendo to achieve a "at least one of each Amiibo per participating store across the world" goal.
Lets call it: DIY Amiibo distribution - Spend money to spend money.
@linforcer
Yeah I know, my calculator gave me a total of 1.1.99200973x10^14 (accounted for repetition of Pokemon) combinations if you go with 6 Pokemon (which will give you the highest number of combinations) on a team so that is able to be counted!
HA HA
I friggin hate the Pokémon community and there's no way in hell I'd back this. I might watch it just to complain.
By the by I doubt it's all that hard to be the best, and it takes strategy not dedication.
Note: At least this is VGC though.
What. Ever.
Such hate in the comments. I...actually was not expecting to see that.
I dont care for pokemon competitive at all. I tried to get into it, and i still dont get EV and IV, its wayy to confusing. So no interest
I feel like they should reach out to other Pokemon youtubers such as shofu and what not.
Is the competitive scene for Pokémon really worth a crowdfunded documentation? It's complexity largely stems from the games never explaining advanced features and even withholding most information on aspects like IV's, stat increase formula, and other stuff, not from any of these aspects being particularly difficult to understand - and of course it's unbelievably tedious, since none of the Pokémon games actually support competitive training in the slightest.
The problem is the metagame will completely change the moment gen 7 is released, so this documentary will be outdated really soon.
The original GB and GBC Pokemon games were the only ones to take off with me or anybody I knew personally. Multiplayer by cable link was so cool and clunky.
After that, I don't recognize them. They lost what the originals had- an 8-bit handmade hanfuda vibe I still love.
The level of missinformation in the comments is kinda hurtful. I wasn't convinced on the need for a documentary but if it could at least set the record straight with the majority of the pokemon community that couldn't care less about competitive play then it would probably be worth it.
I would love to see this!
Not into Pokemon but if it's anything like the Smash documentary, Yes, I'll back that up
My god, the negativity in the comment section is disheartening.
Like always this community has really gone down the drain. Man the negativity in here is stupid. But, this is why the documentary if a good idea! To show people like those getting upset over nothing here in the comments why those of us who really enjoy competitive battling are into and it it's more complex than it seems. Glad this got a news article. Hope it makes that goal.
Sorry, Yooka-Laylee more important. lol
I thought it would be a nifty game or app that would help me be the very best.
As a competitive player myself I am very excited for this, they got the director of law and order svu to direct and Wolfe is very respected within the community
Here's what you need to know. If you liked the Smash Documentary, you will like this.
wow the comments here are salty as the sea
seems like some of us have been living next to a certain sponge for too long
I'm definitely looking forward to this. I have yet to really get into the competitive scene because of how complex it is, but I'd love to learn more about what it's like. This sounds way more interesting than that documentary about the Melee community.
Man, the hate in the comments...If King of Kong can be so beloved, then so can this.
@Snivy102 Long time! Never seen you on nb, what happen?
Hah! If you guys think I don't understand competitive play because I hate the community you are woefully mistaken. I have over 1,000 hours in X, over 300 in Omega Sapphire and for a brief period(around March of last year I believe) I was rated number 1 overall in America on global link. I also checked and I had more than the number one of most European countries...still, that isn't very impressive since I only had a little over 7,700 points, and it was close to the time points reset but hey I did it. I also didn't start playing online until Pokemon X so it didn't take all that much effort or dedication. Well actually yeah, it did because hatching eggs is tedious as everything. I mean over 1,000 hours? Hatching eggs was probably 600. Though that wasn't really the effort part so much as the dedication part, and the battling/strategizing part wasn't very difficult at all. You can even skip the egg hatching. If you want to be like everyone else in the community just use Pokegen. I'm pretty sure they've found a way to use it even after DS wifi went down but I don't keep track of that so I don't know. Last I heard you could even hack the hexagon onto a Pokémon so go wild.
If you're wondering what the community is like...childish...but I guess that's not the people who actually win at VGC. I don't hate everyone in the community or anything. If I'm honest I don't even know much about the people who play VGC. I just hate the community as a whole. The comments I've seen and people I've met are just ridiculous. Maybe this documentary would be enough to make me exclude some people from my own stereotypes(like I've excluded Sejun) but it wouldn't change my mind about the community as a whole. Most Pokémon fans just annoy me.
P.S. Fun fact. My first comment is probably the first time in my life I've used the phrase "no way in hell".
@Kaze_Memaryu Ummm Super Training was made specifically for competitive players. Someone's never played X&Y or ORAS.
@Zombo Super Training is tedious and slow. People use hordes for EV's and even then IV's aren't explained. They at least made breeding easier than it was before though. You're right too. X and Y and Alpha and Omega do support competitive training, not nearly enough(I really REALLY wish you could skip the egg-hatching cutscene), but they support it.
Ugh. Honestly Smash is way better. Community(even with the Melee derps) gameplay, game design, and competition. I am 99.9% sure this documentary wouldn't hold a candle to the Smash documentary, and I haven't even friggin' watched the Smash documentary. I hate Pokémon sooooo much! I guess I'll just admit to being a bit tsundere about it since I do enjoy Pokémon, and the online battles a lot but AUGH I just hate it!
@Fee If you think that peaking number 1 on battlespot makes you the very best I encourage you to come to the a live event and test that theory.
P.S. And also you can't use genned pokemon at official events or on ORAS battlespot due to the gen 6 born rule
@Frenderman I said in my post it's not that impressive, so no I don't think I'm the best. This was also America and a lot of the Japanese players had like 700 points more than me. I also said in my post that you can hack the hexagon onto a Pokémon last I heard. The hexagon is what denotes gen 6 born.(did you not know that?) I ALSO said I don't keep track of pokegen which meant I could have been wrong and was just guessing you could still do it. All the things I said already mean your post says nothing to me.
P.S. I don't know much about hacking tools so maybe I was wrong to say "pokegen". It might have been Action Replay or something like that but I know for certain you can hack gen 6 pokemon. They may not be as undetectable as pokegen'd ones but I don't know. I do know, that most people I met said that most competitors used hacking and/or RNG abuse to get their Pokémon. Admittedly some of these people said this prior to gen 6 but not all of them.
EDIT: Derp! I meant to say pentagon. My bad...though when I google searched Hexagon it gave me a lot of results. XD I feel dumb but at least I don't feel lonely.
@Zombo It still doesn't explain how stats growth works, and how battles work into it, so it's superficial, at best.
@Fee you cannot hack a pentagon onto a pokemon while a tool does exist called powersave to modify ivs it has the potential to corrupt your game so it is not very widely used, nowhere near enough to be "everyone"
@Shiner1776
Yeah, they lost the need for link cables and now you can actually play with anyone in the world. It's actually better now, only needs an 8-bit mode.
@Frenderman http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/696959-pokemon-x/68187640
I googled and found that very quickly.
I also found this.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pokemontrades/comments/1ws0ej/detecting_hacked_kalos_bred_pokemon_in_gen_6/
I know you probably still have some bad info to spread, but I'm probably not going to respond to you again. You've reinforced my earlier feelings about the community. You probably shouldn't respond to me either because you just made everything worse to be honest. I wouldn't have even cared if I was actually wrong but you just gave me blatant misinformation. The only way I can even begin to take anything you said seriously is if you find a link that debunks those two.(which may be out there and I'll eat my words if so)
You know something else? Hacking isn't even a big reason I have a problem with the community. That's more of a problem I have with the game design. No one wants to spend 600 hours hatching eggs, and before gen 6 it would have taken even longer so of course they'd rather just pokegen. There's not a moral reason I don't hack, I'm just really stubborn.
You're right about one thing in all your mess. It's not "everyone" doing it. Sorry for saying that I guess. -shrugs shoulders-
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