How GOOD was Golduck ACTUALLY? - History of Golduck in Competitive Pokemon (Gens 1-7)

Golduck is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Golduck in competitive Pokemon!

Looks like we missed some big VGC placements!

Big apologies to the ones we missed and thank you so much to those who pointed it out!

2015:
Nicholas Ong 2nd Place at Singapore Regionals with C9 Golduck
You can watch his Top matches here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAtMwDnk5s&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BVLf_WYTeY&feature=youtu.be

2017
Presten Clark aka SnoozeVGC won the Salt Lake City Regionals with double duck
Jarek Makarachuk took Top 8:
https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/salt-lake-city-regionals-2017/vg-masters/
Finals Match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMdLQ7MXDxE&feature=emb_title
FULL RESEARCH SOURCES HERE
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vW7CRpkLfYTiSQUW5two31_K4iCPcnaNIar0FZmnL64/edit?usp=sharing

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Directed by Kellen
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Written By
Kevin aka BKC
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This Bread Needs More Jam: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9rsc9ZPW9WfADydF5CeIg

Edited By
Connor Nguyen aka CDK
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VFX Intro By
Ryan Gonzales
https://ryangonzalesfilmmaker.weebly.com/

Sound Designed by
Lloyd Ea
https://www.youtube.com/user/LloydE1532

Game Capture Artist:
DarkMusician
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DISCLAIMERS ON FORMATS COVERED:
Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.

For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.

Songs Used (List of ALL Songs used for this series. Some may or may not make it into the video):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H7aXDbiW6DIrCEAl83g0-36Aw7ePqnR3RnvxcPuivv4/edit?usp=sharing

My Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/kellen_FSG

Resources and Historical References

History of Rule Variants: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rule_variants#Nintendo_Cup_.2799

Smogon University:
http://www.smogon.com/

Maikiri
http://www.twitter.com/NBmakiri

Aaron Cybertron Zheng:
https://twitter.com/CybertronVGC

Pokeaim
https://twitter.com/JoeyPokeaim

Pokemon Battle Historia:
http://pokemon.s20.xrea.com/

Nintendo Cup 2000 Team Construction:
http://pokemon.s20.xrea.com/2nd/construction.html

Nintendo Cup 2000 Tier List:
http://pokemon.s20.xrea.com/2nd/2000/

Pokemon Japanese Battle Wiki:
http://wiki.xn--rckteqa2e.com/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8

Sprites From:
https://www.spriters-resource.com/
https://pldh.net/dex/sprites/index

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