Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin)

Half American, half Japanese. PTCG player/retired Smash tournament organizer. Come say hi in my stream chat🙂日米ハーフ。現ポケカガチ勢/元スマブラ大会主催者。配信のチャットで気軽に話しかけて！🙂

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Top 4 Orlando Regional!
Started the day thinking that I was out of the running for top cut but then I won every single match in Phase 2😭
Glad to have done it with my favorite deck ever right before rotation😙
+$5000, +300 points, +108 packs, celebration stream on Tuesday🥳

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Got tired of playing matchup roulette,
turned to the dark side and started playing Dragapult🥀
Made a huge misplay that ended my chances for Day 2 at Indy but I still managed to win the Friday Challenge and Top 4 the Sunday Cup, which got me much needed points. Next stop NAIC!🔜

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

@TO_Meeps

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

3-3-2 finish at LA Regionals, only matched into 1 Pult with a deck designed to beat Pult. But this cat led me to their squad of cat homies and I got to see the Braves beat the Dodgers with a local homie so I’d say it was a net positive weekend 🙂

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

⌨️I’m in😤

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

https://t.co/HlWUeQquy1

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

New bideo - Did Joltik Box survive rotation? (kinda)

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Mr. Top 4@Orlando gets Top 4 at a League Cup 🤪
Been lost on what to play since Miraidon rotated and was missing a couple cards for Slop Box so I peeped @Ian__Robb’s Raging Bolt guide early this morning and it got me 1st seed for cut. Unfortunately got Dipplin’d at the end 😅

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Whiffed both waves despite queueing the second registration went up, what can ya do 🥲

[{CCG} Matt Bridges @bluebr0nc0]

My 2026 Orlando Regionals Vlog is out now on YouTube!!! This was such an amazing run for both @TheAABattery and I, and I couldn’t be happier we got to give Joltik Box the best send off ever! https://t.co/mFvX696Wn0

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

@TokiDotMori It was wild coming across it during my dub rewatch

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Was watching the Bo-bobo English dub to study humor localization and

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

@FelipeRAG Exactly. Better off playing an Ogerpon Box-style deck at that point. Maybe you can use Joltik in a Raging Bolt-style deck but at that point it isn’t really a Joltik Box deck, and Raging Bolt doesn’t really need Joltik to succeed right now anyway.

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

New video is out 🙂
Went over my Top 4 finish at Orlando, my matchups, and overall tournament experience 😙

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

@FelipeRAG You can try to functionally replace Iron Hands with Wellspring Ogerpon and use Trolley as your Ace Spec, but it really isn’t the same without Miraidon and Iron Hands 😔

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

https://t.co/eG9zFDRcnU

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

@DSJ_2 https://t.co/ZT4Wb5BY79

https://t.co/eilLQ21Hwr

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Top 4 Orlando Regional!
Started the day thinking that I was out of the running for top cut but then I won every single match in Phase 2😭
Glad to have done it with my favorite deck ever right before rotation😙
+$5000, +300 points, +108 packs, celebration stream on Tuesday🥳

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

CELEBRATION STREAM IS LIVE!🥳
Going over my run/matchups, discussing future plans, ripping packs, and testing out post-rotation decks!
https://t.co/PCxPgHzDkZ

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Top 4 Orlando Regional!
Started the day thinking that I was out of the running for top cut but then I won every single match in Phase 2😭
Glad to have done it with my favorite deck ever right before rotation😙
+$5000, +300 points, +108 packs, celebration stream on Tuesday🥳

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

Most successful American Joltik Box player🥹

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

@Jctfordd @julianG_835 @piperlepine @rowan_stavenow @hryyau Great pleasure playing you in Top 8! Hope to play again in a more even matchup!

[Double A Battery (Makoto Gamblin) @TheAABattery]

@noahlesak Was a pleasure playing you in Semifinals! Congratulations!🥳