kukukachui
@kukukachui
Paul's VGC knowledge is fantastic. His coaching is focused, hands on, and enlightening. Highly recommend!
VGC Academy - Exploring competitive Pokemon
This group is for learning concepts and tips about competitive VGC and exploring relevant updates of metagame trends. I'll be posting new articles as I make them alongside team reviews and explanation for my supporters
Reviews
From the community
boliviancondor
@boliviancondor
un grande la verdad, me introdujo al mundo del competitivo y me dio unas bases brutales. sencillo pero toda la enseñanza bien estructurada.
DarkPine
@darkpine
Fantastic session! Paul knows his stuff and showed how to patch some serious holes in my team. Highly recommend!
CurseShaka
@curseshaka
Paul is fantastic to work with! Professional, attentive and most importantly focused on meeting your goals. I felt like Paul, personally wanted me to achieve my goal and was working together with me to achieve it. 100% recommend.
Hoflax24
@hoflax24
A really great session! Everything went smoothly and we had a productive hour where I learned a lot, and had some of my own ideas challenged and changed in a good way. I'll definitely book again in the future,
anonymous_snorlax
@anonymous_snorlax
Ralf is patient, incredibly knowledgeable, and has an excellent step-by-step approach to coaching. Highly recommend his package for tournament preperation!
Zesso
@zesso
Enthusiastic and kind - I could tell he wanted me to succeed and he met me where I was at. His questions and suggestions were exactly what I needed to hear and consider. I will definitely be booking more sessions and highly recommend it to players of all levels.
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet1 on 1 Full 1-hour Coaching Session
Do you have an specific topic you want to focus on? Are you stuck and don't know why and how to get better? This lesson is for you. All aspects of coaching can be featured here.
Session
1 hour
$40.00
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet1 on 1 Full 1-hour Coaching Session
Do you have an specific topic you want to focus on? Are you stuck and don't know why and how to get better? This lesson is for you. All aspects of coaching can be featured here.
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet1 on 1 Full 2-hours Coaching Session
Do you have an specific topic you want to focus on? Are you stuck and don't know why and how to get better? This lesson is for you. All aspects of coaching can be featured here.
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
Pokémon Scarlet and VioletMonthly training plan 1
This training plan is structured in a pre-set way to help you improve in different areas, but if you have specific topics you want to focus more, I can adapt the structure to your personal needs without any issue. In this plan, I'll help you with important topics, such as: building teams for the current metagame, decision making, team preview analysis, win condition identification, early game plan VS late game plan, Bo3 mindset, and many others. The default structure consists on 4 weeks of coaching with me, and each week will have one 2-hour session. Beginning on session 2, I'll be asking for pokemon showdown replays to do some replay analysis that can help you learn how to find ways of improving your gameplay. After purchasing this plan, you would have to schedule the sessions manually. Each session should be scheduled on a weekly basis, and I recommend to do it in the same day each week, ideally.
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
Pokémon Scarlet and VioletMonthly training plan 2
This training plan is structured in a pre-set way to help you improve in different areas, but if you have specific topics you want to focus more, I can adapt the structure to your personal needs without any issue. In this plan, I'll help you with important topics, such as: teambuilding, decision making, team preview analysis, win condition identification, early game plan VS late game plan, information management, risk management, Bo3 mindset, metagame analysis, and many others. The default structure consists on 4 weeks of coaching with me, and each week will have two 2-hour session. Session one is usually reserved to discuss about your current level and some important aspects: as fundamentals of the game, team structures, main strategies, EV spreads, and many others. Beginning on session 2, I'll be asking for pokemon showdown replays to do some replay analysis that can help you learn how to find ways of improving your gameplay. After purchasing this plan, you would have to schedule the sessions manually. I recommend to do it in the same days each week, ideally.
Pokémon VGMausApe Rain LAIC Top 32 team report This is a team report of the team I used to make 7-1 at day 1 of LAIC and finished top 32. Here I describe how I constructed the team, and give you very insightful details of what each member does, the EV spreads and why everything was picked in the way it was
Guide
2hrs 7m
Pokémon Scarlet and VioletBreaking down the POKEMON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The most important tournament of each year in the pokemon community is the World Championships. High-level battles are shown on stream for the audience and in this guide I go over each one of them, providing deep analysis on what each player is thinking and the options they have based on their teams.
Guide
3hrs 56m
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About me
Meet your Community host
Ralfdude
@ralfdude
About me
My name is Paul Ruiz aka Ralfdude. I won the VG Pokemon World Championships in 2018 and finished 3rd in Worlds 2017. I've been playing Pokemon competitively since 2013. Pokemon is my life. I've traveled to lots of different countries to play Pokemon and I've always been a very competitive person in...
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Frequently asked questions
How does a session work?
I'll message you on discord before the beginning of our session (to the discord account you put on your metafy account). The preferred tool I use for live sessions is Google meet, so I normally create a meeting and share the link with you via discord, but we can also do a discord call or Skype if you wish!
Do I need any previous experience to book a training plan?
Not at all! My training plans are designed to help players improve their knowledge of the competitive game and gaming skills at all kind of levels. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or experienced player, the first 15 minutes of the first session are reserved to discuss about your current knowledge.
Do you accept Pokemon Showdown replays for the replay review lesson?
Yes, but in order to use them you'd need to convert the replays to actual videos since metafy currently only supports video footage. You can convert your replay into a video with the screen recording feature of Windows or MacOS. Information on how to do this is on metafy's page support.
What equipment do I need for a session?
All you need is a microphone and a computer or mobile device where you can be in a call with me. A webcam is not needed.
*SPANISH* ¿Haces coaching en español?
Por supuesto que sí! Tanto Inglés como Español son los idiomas que manejo para mis sesiones de coaching, pero por supuesto que me alegra mucho poder usar mi lengua natal.