A professional Pokémon player is going viral after begging his fellow competitors to keep up with their personal hygiene, claiming he literally threw up at an event due to someone’s stench.
Texas-based Pokémon VGC regional champion Donghun Youm says he lost his lunch at the 2026 Baltimore Regional Championships thanks to a super smelly player.
Youm wrote about his experience in a viral post on Twitter/X, where he begged players to “please take care of [their] personal hygiene.”
Youm said someone at the competition smelled so foul that he literally threw up because of it, and his friends were unable to concentrate on their own matches due to the putrid stench.
“I've had an incident at Baltimore regionals where I had to throw up due to a nearby player's stench,” he said. “My friends and I couldn't focus that round due to how putrid the smell was, and we even told a judge due to it. Like, c'mon man....”
Youm’s post has kicked off a heated discourse about players’ hygiene at competitions, as well as no end of jokes and memes about certain Pokémon attacks that rely on smell to deal damage or inflict adverse status effects. (The ability ‘Stench’ was most popular, as it has a 10% chance of making your opponent flinch when hit by a damaging move.)
Please take care of your personal hygiene. I've had an incident @ Baltimore regionals where I had to throw up due to a nearby player's stench. My friends and I couldn't focus that round due to how putrid the smell was and we even told a judge due to it. Like c'mon man....
“[Washing] should be a requirement to attend an event,” one commenter replied. “People who smell bad should be kicked out.”
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