The first major Pokémon event of the 2025 season just wrapped in Baltimore, and it ended with an epic final showdown between a VGC legend and a player attending his very first regional.

The Pokémon VGC community couldn’t have asked for a better start to the season with Baltimore Regionals (Sept. 14 to 15). The entire tournament was filled with new threats like Hisui’s Sneasler and Basculegion as well as weird off-meta picks like Scyther, Volbeat, and Toedscruel. To top it all off, we got to witness what caster Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng called “one of the most phenomenal runs [he’s] seen from a player in VGC history.”