Scripting Tesung Retrospective

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Briefly explain the video idea you have. The most dominant player in Pokemon history

I'm not sure how recent events pan out with Empo's existence, but in the past whenever I asked about the top players of all time people would always bring up Tesung. I needed it explained to me multiple times why he was considered so dominant, because the trophies on his profile weren't as telling as someone like ABR or SoulWind.

It would also be cool to revisit some games in old metagames

Are you willing to direct this project? Yes

If yes, do you have any prior experience? im radu

Would you be willing to script this project? No

Would this video be longform, or is it intended to be a short for Tiktok/YouTube? Longform

Anything else you'd like to add? Feel free to include things like who you'd like to help you on the project, or other information. give me @-Tsunami- for the scripting, or anyone else who was really in deep at the time

 

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0. the strongest

short montage with some clips from old bkc videos, cuts into the title of the video, then into the title of the chapter

Competitiveness exists with the express purpose to rank; to find out who’s better. Competitive tournaments have only one winner, ranked ladders have only one #1 spot, and whoever holds that is technically the strongest.

But things get messy when you have more than one tournament, more than one ladder, more than one format. The title of strongest… becomes subjective.


1. the landscape

Smogon is a peculiar space. You have both ladder and tournaments. You have individuals and team tournaments. There are 9 different generations of play to pick from, and countless tiers to play for each generation. There is no unified tier and tournament, somewhere to pick the best player from… but you can get pretty close.

OU is far and away the most played format, and the one that holds the highest level of prestige for being good at it.
Current Generation is the one that’s most played, but when you talk about OU, there is a mountain of formidable foes that are incredible at any given OU gen. No matter where you go, it’s a fiery field of competitors.

The ladder is competitive, sure, but it’s more of an entry point.
The strongest players will be found in the Official Tournament Circuit

short one-line explanations for each:
OST
SPL & SCL
Stour
WCoP
Classic
Slam


Even so, with so many trophies being won every year and no unified grand championship to speak of, rarely do you find a consensus on who the best player is. And yet, if 8 years ago you were to go around asking, you would only find one answer: Tesung.


2. climbing the mountain

talk about tesung’s beginnings, what he played, how he did etc.
not a lot of detail just to highlight he was a scrub too at one point

talk about some of the other strong players and mention how many years it took for them to finally win their first trophy etc.

mention how quickly tesung won his first


3. the peak

the bulk of his accomplishments, talk about his stour wins, his teamtour records, his classic finals, his slam qualifications, how versatile he was etc

here is where we highlight some of his best replays and sequences, and quickly explain why they were so above the rest


4. gone with the wind

if you’re not red from gold&silver, there’s no reason for you to await at the top of a mountain. Once he reached that peak he was satisfied, and simply vanished. There’s much to wonder about how dominant he would be if he had kept playing… but no way to know.

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Introduction - The Game and the King​

At a basic level, humans need competition.

But a key part of competition is your opponent. Whether too easy or too difficult, we are prone to losing that spark of focus that comes with a matchup - after all, beating up Bug Catcher Brendan on Route 1 gets boring once you’ve defeated the Elite 4.

This is the story of a player so good that the rest of the pack became flies on the wall. During his prime, he was unmatched at the top of the mountain. Nobody could defeat him - except his own boredom. He left swiftly, having achieved all there was to achieve then, and left behind nothing but the crown.

His name was Tesung.

Part 1 - The Realm (description of tours - can cut if need be)​

Smogon during Tesung’s heyday looked far different from

Part 2 - The Ascendancy (Tesung's rise)​

Part 3 - The Throne (peak - gameplay clips)​

Part 4 - The Sunset (after leaving / events leading up to it)​

Perhaps that’s why he left as suddenly as he joined - after all, beating up Bug Catcher Brendan on Route 1 gets boring eventually. Who knows? If he had stayed a while longer, Tesung very well could have etched his name in the stone pillars of tournament legends. But we will never get to know. After all, endlessly beating up Bug Catcher Brendan gets boring fast.

 

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useful stuff:

Other Thread 'OU Player of the Week #9: Tesung'

Dec 7, 2014

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Welcome to OU's Player of the week, a thread where I interview well known players to gain insight on how they battle, as well as get to know some things about them. The goal of this thread is to have these high level players give insight to other players in this community in hopes of creating a better overall experience in the OU environment. As always, if theres someone youd like to see interviewed, feel free to shoot me a PM. So without further ado, lets get to it...​

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