Parzibal

Ranked 91 in the world on Silph arena’s season 1. First “ace” ranked trainer in Israel!

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

That is incredible! I don't have children, but I do have a little 10 year-old brother, and we've strated doing many more activities together, I'm taking him to Denmark next week! Family is truly the best, and creating memories with our loved ones is what life is all about.
I'm sorry for your loss, and wish you and your daugther the absolute best, she has a great dad ♥️

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

My Pokémon Go story:

The 10th anniversary of Pokémon Go came and went, and while I haven’t played seriously for almost 5 years now, I wanted to tell the world what Pokémon Go means to me, and how important and impactful it has been in my life.
I started playing the game on July 22nd, 2016, and it was an absolute blast. I think we collectively agree that the summer of 2016 was one for the history books, and Pokémon Go was a major part of that feeling. Going out to roam the streets every single day. Pretty much everyone around you also playing. Hordes of people suddenly running because someone had spotted a Dragonite or a Snorlax on the other side of the park. Probably the closest we ever came to world peace.
To understand my Pokémon Go story, however, you must first understand my father’s.
My father loved Niantic games long before Pokémon Go was even announced. He was an avid Ingress player, Niantic’s first game, and had already spent countless days walking around the city or driving out to some random place I had never heard of to create the most optimized Control Field possible.
After a couple of years of watching him play, I got curious and decided to give it a go myself. I had gotten my first smartphone less than a year earlier, and while Ingress wasn’t my first game, it was the first one I took seriously. It was the first game I used and IGN, Parzibal, based on Ready Player One, a book my father and I both absolutely loved. Soon, we were taking weekend trips together, capturing portals and going to Mission Days (the shirt I got at one of them was positively huge – it still fits me today).
While I was never super invested in Ingress, Pokémon Go was another story entirely.
My dad started playing extremely early, less than a week after the game officially released, and a couple of weeks later, I joined him, downloading the game that would become a huge part of my life. Despite never playing the main-series games, I was instantly hooked. I played every day that summer, and, well, for the next few years.
I walked along my favorite track around my neighborhood with friends every day after school. When raids came out, I played even more, traveling all over my city and helping lead a local community of hundreds of players. But the part of the game that truly defined it for me was PvP. I finally had a use for all my low-CP Pokémon, and I could use many mons who were pretty much unusable and actually win with them.
I battled during uni classes. Until the middle of the night. On every vacation. I started playing grassroots tournaments, going all over the country for Silph tournaments (shoutout to the Silph guys, you are truly special, and you were the number 1 reason I played for years). I grinded friendship levels with people on Discord so we could battle remotely. I even had a decent Silph career, with several notable tournament wins, including some at the global level. During COVID, I played dozens of tournaments a month.
Eventually, around the time Silph shut down, and my studies and job started taking more of my time, I drifted away from Pokémon Go almost entirely. I still played Community Days, but I barely battled and became a very casual player.
My dad, however, was an entirely different story.
He never stopped.
He played the game every single day, long after I stopped playing seriously. He was the most consistent player I knew, incredibly dedicated, and he loved the game like no other.
He didn’t miss a single day, from July 11th, 2016, until September 29th, 2025. The day he died.
It has been almost a year since that day, and I barely ever log into Go. Whenever I do, it’s too painful to bear. Because for me, Pokémon Go is time spent with my father. It’s the Safari Zone at CentrO in 2017, where we caught our first few Unown. It’s countless trades, Community Days, raids and trips together. It’s the final time we ever played together, when we spammed trades until he finished the Lucky Trade requirements for level 49 – the biggest roadblock on his way to level 50, the highest level at the time.
And he did make it to 50, just a week before he died.
I remember how happy the game made him. How much he loved it. How much it helped him. Because of his health, he needed to lose weight and stay active. We can never know this for sure, but I choose to believe that all the walking he did because of Go – more than 20,000 kilometers – gave us more time with him. For him, this game was life changing. Thank you @PokemonGoApp @NianticSpatial @NianticLabs for everything!
I still have his phone and his account, but I haven’t been able to open Pokémon Go on his phone even once.
For me, Pokémon Go will always be more than just a game. It was a huge part of the relationship I had with my father. Something we could discuss endlessly. Something we always connected over. It holds so many good memories that the absence of all the future ones hurts. I met so many incredible friends I still meet with to this day. I was part of one of the best communities in the world.
It’s the game that influenced my life more than any other.
Eventually, I know I’ll come back and play again. I’m still not there emotionally, but I am sure of it.
Because for me, Pokémon Go is home.

#PokemonGo #PokemonGo10 #PokemonGoCommunity #GoMemories #Pokemon #TheSilphRoad

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

Thank you so much ♥️♥️ For now I have it both on his and my phone, and I have access to he's email. I might link it to one of my emails just for it to be accessible for life, and while I don't know what I'll do with is account yet, I will do something, I think he would have liked it

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@JEngels21 I cried reading this, thank you so much for these kind words, I truly do appreciate them ♥️
I truly do hope he's catching pokemon somewhere else now, he would absolutely love it lmao

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@sleunch Parzibal
Raze or viper pls thank youuu

[MrMcCalvin / Neria @MrMcCalvin]

EUIC was a blast! It was amazing to finally meet irl talented battlers I've known for years, play on stage, and even make it to the top 24 in my first-ever p!p tournament. Looking forward to my next event. 👀
Shoutout to MEweedle for his spotless performance! A win well deserved.

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@MrMcCalvin My goatt 👑👑

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@vaNNiiRL Congrats man! 🥳🥳

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@KettlebellLife @Anc_Aesthetics That's Prague I believe, Charles bridge

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@Anc_Aesthetics Love the content! Makes me so happy as a writer when I see one of your posts! Definitely one of my top accounts here

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@SpeediestChief2 @playpokemon Goated ngl 🐐🐐🐐

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@pvpstars @burnobus7337 Heartbroken to hear that, he was a great competitor, and the friendliest guy when we talked, this one hits hard 💔

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@MrBeast Hi

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

Thank you for everything ❤️

[The Silph Road @TheSilphRoad]

All good things must come to an end. After 7 glorious years, The Silph Road Team is ceasing operations. Thank you to everyone who traveled the Road over the years. Together we wrote this place into Pokémon history.

Read more: https://t.co/KJpLSYWuRP

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@ThoTechtical I feel you, I'm playing a couple matches of faction each month, and sometimes go to community days with my dad or some friends, but there's not a whole lot to play for these days, and I'm in a very similar situation
Still pretty damn sad to see you go
For all the memories 🥂

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[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@doonebug97 I also posted some stuff that was not totally appropriate at the time, and I'm sorry if I added to your difficulties, I really respect the fact that you've put yourself out there and trying to improve always, and also figuring out who your are is super important, proud of you!

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@Alfonsocp97PoGo @TeamB_K @TeaminfinityGO Ggs! Close battles!

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

Looking for some last minute spot in a Diamond/Emerald faction as a field specialist! Finished top 10 in EMEA platinum last cycle, 16/11 in matches! @EMEAFactions #Factions

[Parzibal @Parzibal_PoGo]

@RRayquazas What about me? 👀