The Scammer Became a Concept Champion (1)
As someone who can see the future, I can choose the timeline where I win no matter what in the world of PoChamps.
The worldline where one-hit KO moves never miss.
The worldline where a -90 never crits me by accident.
The worldline where I predict a switch and use a different move—and the opponent who comes in is weak to it and drops in one hit.
So.
Here's the question.
What happens if I just keep winning?
Controversy, obviously.
A 33-win undefeated climb all the way to Master Ball.
That much? Sure, fine. It's hard, but not impossible.
There's no official verification system, and the record sites aren't even based in Korea, but if someone really wanted to, they could pull it off.
If they were a ranker.
Someone good enough to make Worlds.
Someone who'd already won Worlds before.
Unfortunately, it didn't go viral.
If I'd been even a slightly bigger streamer?
It would've become a community issue. A challenge would've been born.
But there was zero reaction.
I mean—come on. Thirty-three straight wins?
Amazingly, nobody cared.
The people who did show interest flooded into my stream, sure, but they were just there to watch. Not a single one of them went and hyped me up on the forums.
Thanks for showing up, but while you're here, could you maybe spread the word a little?!
Even if you get called out for "shilling for a nobody streamer lmao," don't fold—please, just promote me!!
Nothing I can do about it. I have to grow my own weight class.
Frustrating as it is, this isn't something I can force.
If my followers weren't sitting at around twenty but closer to a thousand—or ten thousand—then my name would start circulating in the communities and become an actual issue.
Ten thousand followers.
The threshold where you get your own standalone page as a streamer on Kingmu Wiki.
Once I hit that, every single thing I do will get promoted—or permanently archived—across the communities.
Until then, I'm just a nobody streamer who might quit at any moment. A small fry people scroll past.
A small fry with no concrete viewers and no real fans cannot afford to kick up too big a controversy.
For example… yeah.
Undefeated rating climb to Solo Queue rank one.
Even pro players lose. If I go 75–0, how the hell am I supposed to handle the fallout?
This is a world where even AI can lose to a god-tier move a human throws out of nowhere.
Rack up too many wins and the arrows of suspicion fly at you regardless of your size.
Prove it.
Explain yourself.
And the second someone demands I turn on a cam, I'm screwed.
So from here on out, I lay the groundwork in advance.
Make it look like the 33-win climb was just prep for the PoChamps streams to come.
"Hello, everyone. I'm Shirona."
Today's PoChamps stream.
Ranking with a champion concept party.
"I even changed my nickname to Japanese. Shirona. How is it?"
Is victory guaranteed?
Not even close.
No matter how hard the champions are supposed to be, at the end of the day even elementary schoolers can beat them.
That said, if you had to pick the hardest champion, the top spot might vary person to person—but there's always someone who locks into the top three on every list.
I picked the most mainstream, most famous one among them. The female champion viewers keep saying is actually viable in real matches.
There are a lot of reasons, but…
Because I can farm content off her.
His Majesty, the undisputed king of single-battle usage rates.
And His Majesty just so happens to be the ace of the champion I'm cosplaying right now—Shirona.
"Alright, hopping straight into ranked. Let's twist every wrist and ankle of the friends we meet on the Champion Road."
I lock in the lead in seconds.
His Majesty as the ace, two supports locked in under three seconds flat.
The chat reacts with a collective "yeah, that's fair."
The whole point of a concept party is committing to the bit all the way through.
Even when you lose, you show people why you built the team this way. That's the right way to do it.
At minimum, slot one is locked to a single mon no matter what.
Slots two and three flex depending on the situation, but His Majesty is basically a mandatory attendance.
And then the match… doesn't start.
"Why is everyone who sees my party so slow at picking?"
This stretch is a bit of a tightrope.
I've already made every decision. Now I'm just waiting on the opponent to finish their entry.
Dead air.
I could analyze their entry and talk through it, but that works just as well once we're actually in the match.
So to hold the viewers through this scrap of downtime, I need something else to talk about.
"Who do you guys think is the strongest champion?"
Nothing works better than starting a fight.
"Shirona, right?"
Who's the hardest champion?
Even the people running Pookémon content channels on YouTube make videos on this exact topic.
Long-form or short-form, you can't help but be curious.
Power rankings always draw eyes—that's just human nature.
See?
I don't even have to say anything. The viewers are already arguing among themselves over who's the strongest.
Go any deeper and an actual fight breaks out, but—
"Ah, it started."
Thankfully, entry selection didn't drag on that long.
And for the lead…
My side: Spiritomb.
Theirs: a mon I can hit for 4x ice damage through its Ground/Dragon typing.
"They must've thought His Majesty was leading."
A champion's entry.
Honestly, not all six are ace-tier.
Shirona is a champion from a generation that released about twenty years ago from where we are now.
Power creep has come and gone and come again.
Champion Shirona's lead has fallen, for first-timers, from "broken mon with no weaknesses" all the way down to "annoying free win if you know what you're doing."
It's not like I just changed my nickname and slapped the name "Spiritomb" on some random guy in a mask.
This is the cold world of competition.
A real ranked ladder where your standing rises and falls with every win and loss.
On a board where anything goes as long as you win, bringing something weak is just stupid.
But.
This is perfect.
For a stream, this is the correct call.
"I already muted the in-game battle BGM, by the way. I'll put this on instead."
The same piano piece I'd put on when I first started farming aggro keeps playing, and I open the moveset screen to match their lead and projected entry.
"Guys."
Four moves on screen.
I deliberately don't pick one yet—so the viewers can see.
"Just because it's a concept party doesn't mean you have to authenticity-check the moves too. That's just dumb."
Brand-new moves across the board.
I left the usable main weapons alone, but the rest were plastered on as pure samples designed to mess with the opponent.
For example.
"Alright."
The single best move for a nasty little ghost like this one—accuracy's low, but land it once and you seize the entire tempo.
"We'll start by feeding them a Will-O-Wisp."
"Oh, is that so?"
Opponent goes first.
A predicted guaranteed two-hit attack comes in and hits decently hard, but—
Fwoosh.
"Mine's a hundred percent."
Champion concept party.
The entry itself is a handicap—so the only way to beat that handicap is this.
Status.
The opponent is burned.
"So now…"
A future so locked in I don't even need to look ahead.
The opponent is probably slamming a damage calculator right now.
Can they get a one-shot on my ghost while burned?
It's a roll for the OHKO, but they won't get it.
The moment they start predicting what comes next, the future opens up.
"…Heh."
Future sight.
In some ways the whole thing looks like a curse—but in moments like this, it makes me drunk on pure exhilaration.
"Everyone."
That joy of solving a hard problem, picking an answer, and knowing for certain it's correct.
"They're gonna switch, so I'll feed them another Will-O-Wisp."
The curse activates.
I predicted a switch. The viewers didn't buy it.
Because their suggestion is the stable play, and what I'm doing is high-risk.
They stay in and throw a second hit?
If it goes to a third hit, I lose.
If they switch, I win.
And the future is—
Fwoosh!
Hit.
The second mon that switched in walks straight into a burn.
6–3 rule.
You bring six, pick three, and fight three-on-three. First side to lose all three loses the match.
And two of theirs just had their physical attack cut in half?
Both of them physical attackers as their main damage?
I've already broken two of their mons.
"Everyone."
The moveset screen opens again.
"One more Will-O-Wisp."
"Ah. I'm not insane. The opponent is."
I hit Will-O-Wisp without a single second of hesitation.
"At this rating, in a spot like this, it becomes a pride fight."
Switch.
"'Let's see how many you can land,' that kind of energy."
Fwoosh.
"Ah."
Connection with the opponent has been severed.
"And that's another GG."
Three Will-O-Wisps at 85%?
You just don't press it on the turns it misses, right?
Shirona concept stream: eight hours.
33 matches. 28 wins. 5 losses.
Master-tier rating: 1,820.
Global rank: 1,400th worldwide.
A wild champion has appeared.