Competitive Pokémon players usually forfeit matches with seemingly unbeatable odds. But the first day of the 2017 North American Pokémon International Championships is a perfect lesson in why never giving up can pay off. Giovanni Costa, this season’s consummate Eevee player, found himself facing down one of the most talented players from Germany, Tobias Koschitzki, in the third round of the tournament. Koschitzki was using a team of Smeargle, Porygon Z, Arcanine, Tapu Bulu, Hariyama and Nihilego, which recently finished in the top four of the Japan National Championships. Costa had made some major updates to his previous Eevee team, with Incineroar, Tapu Koko, Whimsicott, Tapu Fini and Dragonite accompanying the Evolution Pokémon — and they helped him enough to secure the set’s first win. To read the rest of this feature, click here.
Source: Kotaku
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