Paul Koll

Another season, another round of Alpensee appearances at Worlds! Finabas, @im-ryo.bsky.social , Choc & Sela represented us at the most stacked Worlds in history. We'll be back in force next year, see you in SF! 🌊 🌉

Last week VividArise managed to best us in a friendly, but as the saying goes: You either win or you learn!
Now the time has come to lock in on cheering on our worlds-players!🌊

Friendly-season continues, as we faced off against Team Switzerland last week! ⛰️
After a rough start we gave them a good fight, but they still managed to eke out the win. Onward and Upward! 🌊

Worlds is just over a week away and what better way to prep than a dedicated Alpensee bootcamp! 🌊
@im-ryo.bsky.social, Sela and Choc got in some serious prep with support from @paulkoll.bsky.social, Markus Hamann, Baked and Incineroar Jr. himself.
Now we‘re ready to make big moo-ves! 🐮

We want to give players the opportunity to prep for Worlds, so our Wednesday tours will remain in Regulation I until then 🌎
You can join our tour discord to keep up to date with any news and receive reminders for sign-ups, check-in etc. ➡️ discord.gg/fJBVMmmdDH
#pokemonvgc

We brought the content to Bologna! 🎥
A spectacular stream match from @im-ryo.bsky.social, a feature interview with @shmon.bsky.social and Choc taking the secret sauce all the way to a Top 64 finish 🐢
And that's a wrap on EU events for this season, but we still have some invites to lock 🌊
#pokemonvgc

Utrecht Results 📝
The end of the season is closing in and we are on the hunt for those final points with four Day 2s and a Top Cut Win & In for Choc!
Only Bologna and NAIC left to lock our invites 🌊
#pokemonvgc

How i feel going into the last round of a Regional after having played 7 Rounds of balance

Why Single Strike Urshifu is more consistent than Rapid Strike How damage rolls work and why multi-hit moves deal more consistent damage

I'm back with a new article about why the damage rolls for Surging Strikes are more consistent than for Wicked Blow. If you enjoy reading this article let me know, i might torture myself by calculating the damage rolls for Scale Shot and Population Bomb!
medium.com/@paulkoll/wh...

Strength Sap recovers a Pokémon HP by an amount equal to the target's atk stat (before the drop). This allows you to check the atk stat by using strength sap with a pre-damaged Pokémon and calculating the difference in HP.

Regulation I has officially started and Caly-Shadow has already established itself as a top tier threat 🐴
Catching a min attack Calyrex in-game can seem like a hassle, but did you know there's an easy way to check Atk IVs before throwing the ball?
Here's how! 🌱
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

No European major without Alpensee!
Our lone warrior @paulkoll.bsky.social went all the way to Spain to do us proud, recovering from a 0-1 start to play in his second ever win-and-in 🙌
Now he can finally leave Reg G behind to join our double-restricted prep for Utrecht 🌊
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

This is number 3 after Montanuniversität Leoben and TU Vienna

Starting a new sidequest to play Pokemon at as many universities as possible. Today: Universidad de Sevilla

I’m sitting in a common area at my university, everyone here is busily preparing for exams. They don’t know, that the only thing I’m studying is my gameplans for Sevilla. Somehow I’m still managing to procrastinate by writing this…

Chi-Yu’s Graph of Ruin: How much inaccuracy can you afford? Using compound probabilities to estimate how much RNG is acceptable in a tournament setting.

I have just published my new article about compound probabilities in Pokémon! I explain why it feels like moves miss more often than they should, how this can impact a tournament, and introduce a tool to help players estimate how much RNG they can afford.
medium.com/@paulkoll/ch...

Know your Unown Why it is important to keep in mind what you know and what you don’t when playing VGC

I just published a new article expanding on a topic i briefly touched on in my last one: the concept of Known Unknowns and why they are important in VGC. I hope you enjoy reading it!
medium.com/@paulkoll/kn...

Latios vs. Latias: Why we play the way we play Using behavioural economics to understand how we make decisions in Pokémon VGC

I've just published a new article about applying the ideas of behavioural economics to VGC and how it can help us avoid unnecessary mistakes! I hope you find it interesting!
medium.com/@paulkoll/la...

I just won my first ever limitless tour!

Stockholm Results 📝
Usually, this is where we would highlight our Day 2 players but as you can see, this was not our weekend 😢
However, being a team is about more than just celebrating success together, so we won't let this get us down 🌊
#pokemonvgc #playpokemon

A lot of our players went to EUIC and managed to get some very nice results! 📝
Congrats to Choc, who made it all the way to a Top Cut win-and-in, and Cyberman for making his first Day 2 in the biggest tournament yet! Baked did Groudon proud ☀️
See you in Stockholm 🇸🇪
#PokemonVGC #PlayPokemon

So close

EUIC was a bit of a mixed bag. I wanted to do better than 4-4 and i thought i had prepared really well, but in the end i have to admit i wasn’t good enough. On the other hand, this was one of the most fun weekends of my life. I’m very motivated to do better next time!

Won Multibattles!
Thank you @shmon.bsky.social and super-sub Cyberman for playing with me!!!

Cheering on all my friends at #PokemonEUIC this weekend 🌟
#pokemonart

Bingo sheet of things that are more or less likely to happen to VGC players competing at EUIC, such as "getting Day 2", "disconnect in Game 3" or "you didn't read the teamsheet well enough"

To all players competing at #PokemonEUIC 📢
We've prepared a bingo sheet for you - think you can fill in a bingo or even multiple?
We'll be checking in again after Day 1 tomorrow 👀

What a stacked weekend, does it even fit in one post?
+ 2 Cup wins: Sela 🇩🇪 and @shmon.bsky.social 🇧🇪 (BFL maxed!)
+ 2 Challenge wins: Sela 🇩🇪 and Cyberman 🇦🇹
+ Alpensee finals with Cyberman vs @paulkoll.bsky.social at the unofficial "Stratos Cup" 🇦🇹
We're locked in for EUIC 🌊
#playpokemon #pokemonvgc

Today i traveled over 250 km and spent 5,5 hours on public transport to go 1-2 at a 4 player local. Certainly one of the days of all time…

Team Alpensee is back for #VCL Season 5 🔥

🇦🇷 Week 1, we triumphed over freshly promoted Team Austral
🇪🇸 Week 2, we gained an early lead against Season 4 finalist PokeHornets, but couldn't quite close it out

For now, we're sitting in 4th place, but we're aiming for 1st 🌊
#PokemonVGC #PlayPokemon