A star from the favored Netflix actuality sequence Love Is Blind has revealed he’s an enormous deal within the Pokémon aggressive ladder, however on nearer inspection, he’s a little bit far off the rank of Pokémon Trainee not to mention a Grasp.
In season 5, episode six of the fact courting sim, there was a really temporary dialog about aggressive Pokémon between Milton Johnson, his new fiancée Lydia Gonzalez, and his roommate Josh. Johnson informed Gonzalez he’s “nationally ranked” in Pokémon Showdown, the favored unofficial battle simulator the place aggressive gamers can construct their groups, apply completely different codecs, or take part in random battles. He additionally claimed he and his roommate have been “each up there in rating.”
After listening to that dialog, you’d assume Johnson was among the finest Pokémon trainers on the market. Nevertheless, he was then referred to as out by the official Pokémon Showdown Twitter account—they usually weren’t afraid to flame him on his stats.
In line with Pokémon Showdown information, Johnson is presently ranked round 716,a hundred and fifteenth in his best-performing format, Gen VII Random Battles. His Elo within the different Pokémon Showdown codecs ranges from 1040 to 1233. For comparability, the top 500 Random Battle players presently sport an Elo round 2100 to 2400. He isn’t practically as excessive up within the rankings as he made himself out to be.
Along with being 716,a hundred and fifteenth place, Johnson additionally mentioned he’s been banned from the Pokémon battle simulator, giving the rationale, “You discuss an excessive amount of shit, you get banned.” In different phrases, he was seemingly poisonous towards his opponents throughout battle.
Regardless of all of this, Pokémon Showdown encouraged Johnson to “preserve grinding the ladder.” We’ll should regulate the leaderboards to see if Johnson retains up the grind.
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