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Friday Fun Thread for May 15, 2026

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Over a year since the last time, Claude remains firmly on track to be the very best, with much better results: as of me writing this he is facing Blue a second time (at least the second time I see), with the first attempt foiled by an ill-advised Solar Beam charge against a freshly switched-in Charizard. To his credit he did not go gently into that good night, having Leech Seeded Charizard before his Venusaur's demise and burned through his entire roster of unleveled HM friends, with a fucking lv19 Oddish tanking a Rage, actually hitting a Sleep Powder in turn, and giving chat a faint cortisol spike before Charizard went into the red from the seed and Blue showed Claude exactly how real League Champions roll.

Impressively, Claude did not fail to appreciate the power of spamming Full Restores and sought a Poke Mart cashier immediately after being beaten Black and Blue, painstakingly selling off his inventory for ~20 minutes to make space before going back in. 6 Full Restores and 2(?) Revives should make the rematch a cakewalk, but not to be outdone, Blue brought bullshit of his own in the rematch, with an immediate burn and 4 consecutive Fire Blast crits depleting Claude's healing stocks in record time (while still having Full Restores of his own). The whole thing is actually really fun to watch despite Claude's glacial pace, I continue monitoring the situation. I'm also curious how he got to this point past Mt. Moon, Pokemon Mansion, and all the delightful sidetrack opportunities that stumped the older challengers, might have to peek at VODs.

edit: He was dangerously close to fat fingering the last Revive on a random shitter, but ultimately completed the difficult task of using it on his main, and the HM friend that tanked meanwhile locked Charizard into Rage, letting the Venusaur finish it without issue. Claude is officially the champ of Kanto! Depending on how handholdy the "harness" is that's actually kind of a milestone, I wonder if these guys will continue burning millions of Opus tokens giving it games to beat, or at least leave him running around the postgame to see what he does.

Read your post just in time to see the victory! Thank you!

The model has some level of access to state this time, don’t know if that was true last time. And a few MCP tools like ‘navigate to square’.

I notice that like any true champion it beat the game with a massively overlevelled starter, one other for luck, and a bunch of nonentities :P

Doesn’t seem to have caught very many poke. Only 16. I’d guess b/c it inputs button sequences it’s hard to knock down their health without killing them.