Teams from the VGC ’14 Germany National Championship
The first National Championship of the season was also our first look at the metagame developing in Europe outside the United Kingdom. With a three week break between National Championships, much can change between the event in Bochum and the upcoming tournament in Manchester — especially with the International Challenge happening in between! These were the teams that players piloted to the top cut at the Pokémon National Championships in Germany last weekend.
1. Markus Stadter (13Yoshi37)
2. Simon Stanford (Falco)
3. Nemanja Sandic (Porengan)
4. Matthias Suchodolski (Lega)
5. Lajos Kowalewski (Lajo)
6. Zacharias Daum (Mercury)
7. Stephan Appelfeller (trident)
8. Szymon Wojdat (Szymoninho)
9. Timo Koppetsch (37TimoK1)
10. Florian Wurdack (DaFlo)
11. Carlo Arbelli (shinycarletto)
12. Baris Akcos (Billa)
13. Steve Edgson (SirSmoke)
14. Faaiz Ashfaq (Feis)
15. Ciskejan Giannakos (sagaciousslowpoke)
16. Jake Birch (WhiteAfroKing92)
Thank you to everyone who helped contribute to the data in this thread!
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I love Porengan’s team. One of the most unusual teams I have seen make top cut.
My baby Mega Gyarados finally had it’s time to shine!
Three of them in top cut makes me really happy.
I’m extremely surprised Vivillon made top 4. I wonder what its set was…?
the vivillion set was focus sash spore hurricane… I don’t know the other moves but i guess bug buzz protect.
I have no idea how he made top cut with that team.
Maybe because he played better than others did? Twat much?
Vivillon probably had Sleep Powder, Hurricane, Protect and either Quiver Dance or Bug Buzz.
Porengan’s team is very unique, I’d be interested to know all the mechanics behind it.
To clarify some things: Porengan’s Team was not gimmicky, he just thought about a way to beat those standard teams and that’s what he came up with. It wasn’t like “ah, Vivillion looks cute, let’s take this”, every Pokémon on his Team had a defined role. And yes, he probably played better than his opponents, otherwise he wouldn’t have made it to the Top 4. Oh, and his Vivillion was a Sleep Powder – Rage Powder-Set.
The i’m pretty sure it had Sleep Powder, Hurricane, Safeguard, and Protect. Thats pretty much the best set.
Vivillon also gets access to Powder, and assuming more opposing Zards are opting for Modest and Vivillon runs max +Spe, it can easily get the attack in and laugh as they damage themselves; this also applied to non-scarf Rotom-H as well. I don’t really see Quiver Dance being the play, though I suppose it can pull it off as Raichu lures over Tbolts and such. But more than likely I’d guess the other 2 moves are one of Powder, Protect, or Bug Buzz. Maybe even Rage Powder as sacrificial or WoW bait.
I think Feis hit the nail on the head: people are freaking out too much over the Vivillon without taking a closer look at the team. There’s a really good reason it was on the team, and although I don’t think it’s a really great option on most teams, it made sense here.
It’s somewhat similar to any concept with any mega Pokemon we’ve seen this year, but with very out-of-the-ordinary Pokemon. “Protect the mega” is the primary approach for a lot of teams, and in this case, it was Mega Gyarados, something that is really tricky to protect. Sure, he could have used Amoonguss, but that doesn’t make a lot of sense because once Gyarados is at +1, its best bet is to Earthquake most of the time. He also could have used Smeargle, but again, it’s not immune to Earthquake. Vivillon is both immune to Earthquake AND deals with Mega Venusaur and other Grass-types, which were things Gyarados was not enjoying (nor was anything but Bisharp on that team.) This, along with being able to outspeed and Sleep Powder things that Gyarados couldn’t immediately deal with, make it pretty understandable once you theory through what Mega Gyara needs in a partner. I fail to understand the Meowstic beyond the Safeguard part still, but the other five make a lot of sense, especially given the concept of the team.
Really hoping we get to see a report on a lot of these teams in top cut. There’s some really interesting stuff that’s going to surface.
Reports in particular I would like to see a Porengan and SirSmoke both are rather unorthodox and making the top cut with such teams would be good to read.
It’s great to see people who think outside the box, create a unique team and then do exceptionally well with it.
i wasn’t trying to bash him. I was making a compliment.
Anyone know the gyarados set?
And spread
Meowstic helps against status (Safeguard), Priority Moves and Fake Out (Quick Guard) and can perform the SafeSwag combo with Swagger. I think all of Porengans (Pokemon-) choices were right and it was really cool to fight him in Top 16 ^^
It’s great to see how Lightningrod Raichu and three electric weak Pokemon were used on Porengan’s team to tempt opponents into bringing arformented electric Pokemon (particularly Rotom’s) for Mega Gyarados to Mold Breaker Earhquake. It’s a really clever idea and I’m glad it got him so far
Excellent to see some much variety in teams this season despite Mega Khan’s presence in the metagame ^^
The real question, of course, is what wing pattern did the Vivillon have?
I like that lajo and timo have been using their teams since almost the start of the season and yet both of them still managed to top cut. Some really creatively solid teams on here. Well done to all
sorry phone double posted – plz delete
Thanks!
Looks like Tundra pattern…
English may not be my native tongue, but I have no idea how that was a compliment. :/
I wasn’t saying you were bashing him, but you definitely weren’t praising him.