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9/2/25
My interest in the trap started when I watched Wolfe's video about the Toronto 2025 regionals just one day after it released, on the 18th of May. There's been a few rough spots I've had since then but it's been taking up a huge part of my brain even now. The way he presents the strategy and the trials it has to go through whenever it gets used, in places where it's really difficult to win with, alongside the specifics of how fine-tuned the teams have to be to eke out those wins... His love for it resonated with me so deeply that I started to love it too. It made me want to know the context of everything surrounding it and competitive Pokemon in general.

I would like to play Perish Trap for myself sometime, but I know there's a long way to go (see: learning the fundamentals of VGC and getting a feel for the mental aspect of it) for me before I could even think about it. For now I am content with simply being a fan of the strategy, following its development, and documenting everything about it that I can find, like a person who goes to a music artist's concerts because they love them so much.
(This is why I call myself a concert goer. It's all Perish, all the way down.)

9/3/25
If there's ever new Perish Trap team viable Pokemon introduced in the upcoming games, I hope that there won't be too much. I know that's kind of contradictory to my liking of it but I do prefer it being a niche little thing compared to stuff like weather and Trick Room teams... especially with all the really powerful guys running around already...

9/13/25
OHHHJ MYGOD Hi Mega Gengar using Perish Song in the latest Z-A trailer 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊So cool I get to finally see it in action after so long...!!!!!! I'm going to be extremely normal about this information! Yipppee! I have faith that what made it good in the strategy is going to remain in the move to Champions. Please...

9/17/25
Toronto Perish mentioned in the Frankfurt Regional stream!! Yay!!!! My favorite trendsetters, they're so cool... Fun fact, it got to Day 2 in the Monterrey Regionals that was running at the same time!
Also to expand on my 9/3 entry I do think the challenge of bringing Perish to matchups that are difficult against it and to metagames that discourage it is like part of the appeal for me, personally!

I got a Gengar themed steamed bun wrapper earlier ^_^ ok thats not impressive but I like having physical paraphernalia of things I like.

10/19/25
Lost the wrapper. Fuck my stupid chungus life.

In unrelated news, PL:Z-A is out!!! Won't be able to play it as per usual but like. God bless... They found a way to put the strategy in... Hi Perish Song + Infestation. It's like the first time I've seen the latter be used in the trap OMG... I mean there's no Shadow Tag (there's a Goth cameo in one of the locations though so that's fun) to use but yeah... #ILoveBugs.
Dedenne's doom has arrived!

11/4/25
I GOT POLITOED AND GOTHITELLE ON TCG POCKET... omg omg omg omgomg Im soooo so happy i love these guys so so much Go look at them !!!!

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Pub: 21 Jun 2022 10:56 UTC

Edit: 04 Nov 2025 09:10 UTC

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