Wolfe Glick Reveals What It Takes To Compete In Pokemon’s VGC World Championships
We’ve all wanted to become a Pokemon Master at some point – I would much rather travel the world with a horde of cute and fearsome creatures than file taxes – but only a handful of people have made a career out of playing Pokemon in real life. Of those, Wolfe Glick stands among them as the most recognizable. With over 600,000 YouTube subscribers, a healthy following on Twitch, and a Pokemon World Championship win, he’s about as close as it gets to a real Pokemon Master.
“For me, even though I create [Pokemon] content and compete, they’re actually very different things,” Glick tells me over Zoom. “I have goals to be the best VGC player of all time and I have goals to make my YouTube channel as big as I can. VGC is very niche. It’s not enough that you can really focus on and expect to reach a broader audience, so my goal with my channel is to introduce as many people as I can to competitive Pokemon. I mean, it changed the course of my life.”
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Like many of us, Glick began his Pokemon journey collecting trading cards and watching the anime. In his freshman year of high school he learned of a nearby VGC Regional Tournament, and after convincing his parents to take him, Glick spent a couple months preparing for the tournament, which he won. His prize was a flight to the National Tournament, which – you guessed it – he also won, before finishing sixth at 2011’s World Championships. Four years of competing later and Glick would win it all, becoming the 2016 VGC World Champion.
Glick’s early success impressed many, as competitive Pokemon has a steep barrier of entry. All VGC matches are best-of-three double battles where trainers choose four of their six Pokemon to bring
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