Wolfe Glick (/ˈwʊlf/; born December 6, 1995),[4] also known as Wolfey or WolfeyVGC, is an American competitive Pokémon player, streamer and YouTuber. He is the 2016 World Champion of the official PokémonVideo Game Championships (VGC) format,[5] and has won numerous other VGC competitions. Glick was also one of the first people to have completed a Hardcore Nuzlocke of Emerald Kaizo, along with Pokémon Challenges.[6]
Glick has been called one of the most renowned VGC players of all time,[7] and his unique strategies often strongly influence the metagame.[8][9] His YouTube channel, WolfeyVGC, posts videos about competitive Pokémon content[10] and is the only competitive Pokémon channel to surpass 1,000,000 subscribers.[citation needed]
Education
Glick has degrees in Economics and Computational Modelling and Data Analytics from Virginia Tech. Before making competitive Pokémon his career, Glick worked as a government analyst.[6]
Competitive Pokémon
Glick began competing in competitive Pokémon in 2009 as a freshman in high school.[11] He made his debut in the World Championships in 2011, placing 6th overall. He won the Washington, D.C. Regionals and US Nationals in Indianapolis to qualify.[12][13]
Following his 2nd placing at the 2012 World Championships, Glick's team was added into the Pokémon World Tournament facility in the Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 games. Accessible via an optional download, the "2012 Masters Division Challenge"[14] allowed players to battle against an in-game trainer with his team.[15] The battle followed the same ruleset as the 2012 VGC format.[15]
2016 Pokémon World Championships: VG Masters Finals
In 2016, while attending Virginia Tech,[11] Glick won the Pokémon VGC World Championships, collecting $10,000 in prize money. This achievement is generally regarded as the peak of his VGC career.[16] Glick played Jonathan Evans in the 2016 finals and beat him 2–0 in their best of 3 set, being crowned the World Champion.[5][16]
From 2011 to 2019, he qualified for Worlds every year, qualifying again in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 being the player with the most World Championships' participations in competitive Pokemon's history. After he won the 2019 North American International Championships and the 2020 Player's Cup II, Glick became the first player to win a Regional, National, International, World Championship and a Player's Cup.[17][18] Additionally, Glick reached the most top cuts (round of 24) at World Championships and has played in two world finals (an achievement held by only two other players, Ray Rizzo[6] and Park Se-jun[19][20]).
Following his 2020 Players Cup II win, one of Glick's Pokémon, a Coalossal, was distributed to Pokémon video game Sword and Shield players via a Mystery Gift in-game code that expired in August 16, 2021. The code was 'V1CT0RYENG1NE25'.[21]
Though the Pokémon VGC scene was paused during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Glick returned to action when Play! Pokémon began hosting live events again in 2022. He returned with a top-32 finish at the Salt Lake City Regional Championships.[citation needed]
Glick started the 2023 season with a top-16 finish at the 2023 London Open, and placed top-16 across several more events during the year. He won his first official offline championship in over three years by winning the 2023 Orlando Regional Championship, at the time the biggest Pokemon VG tournament ever. Glick qualified for the 2023 Pokémon World Championship, but was eliminated on day one with a 4-3 record.[citation needed]
Wolfe Glick's 2024 season began with a second-place finish in the Pittsburgh Regional Championships, losing to Riley Factura in the finals.[22] From there, he enjoyed generally strong showings including first-place finishes in the 2024 Charlotte Regional Championships, which at the time was the new biggest tournament ever, and Orlando Regional Championships, successfully defending his title from 2023. In International Championship events, he placed top-16 in the 2024 Europe International Championships and top-32 in the 2024 North America International Championships.[citation needed]
This qualified Glick for a day-one invite to the 2024 Pokemon World Championships where he had an unprecendented run to start 9-0 in sets and 18-0 in games. He was, however, eliminated on day two of the event with a 9-3 record by Kylan Van Severen, finishing in 17th place.[23]
Wolfe's 2025 season started with a strong showing in the Baltimore Regional Championships, pushing into the top 16 and finishing in 9th place after a loss to Junxi Zhu. He continued with another good tournament in the Louisville Regional Championships, finishing in 8th place with a loss to the eventual winner of the tournament, Andrew Zheng. After a rather quick break, Wolfe entered the 2025 Toronto Regional Championships, and after defeating a numerous amount of competitors, including 3x International Champion, Marco Silva, he triumphed, becoming the very first and only player ever to have won 10 Regional Championships.
Esports teams
In 2018, Glick joined the esports team Panda Global, departing in 2021.[7] Glick joined the competitive Pokémon section of the esports team Beastcoast in 2022.[24] In 2024, esports organization M80 announced they had acquired the esports division of Beastcoast.[25]
^Sledge, Ben (October 7, 2019). "A Fan-Made Browser Game Is Pro Pokémon Players' Secret Weapon". Kotaku. Archived from the original on October 22, 2022. Retrieved November 6, 2022. Wolfe Glick is the 2019 North American VGC Champion, a title which saw him become the first Pokémon player to have won every level of official competition.
