Teams from the VGC ’14 Viriginia Regional Championship
With a brand new generation and format, players had very little information to go off of in the first Pokémon VGC event of the season. These are the teams that top cut in Virginia:
Masters
1. Ray Rizzo (Ray)
2. Enosh Shachar (Human)
3. Joshua Edwards
4. Toler Webb (Dim)
5. Wolfe Glick (Wolfey)
6. Derek Gazis
7. Nicolas Peckman (Ace Emerald)
8. Patrick Brodarick (wer)
9. Tommy Cooleen (Tman)
10. Hanna Coder
11. Daniel Litvin (TalkingLion)
12. Westin Lee
13. Ashton Cox (linkyoshimario)
14. Matt Coyle (PrettyLittleLiar)
15. Ryan Gadea (The Knights of Wario Land)
16. Cameron Kicak (Stormfront)
Senior Division
1. Cameron S. (Drizzleboy)
2. Paul C. (pwny person)
Junior Division
1. London S.
2. Christian F.
Masters Top Cut Usage Statistics
| # | Pokemon | # of Uses | % Usage |
| 1 | Garchomp | 9 | 56.2% |
| 2 | Talonflame | 9 | 56.2% |
| 3 | Kangaskhan | 7 | 43.8% |
| 4 | Rotom-Wash | 7 | 43.8% |
| 5 | Salamence | 6 | 37.6% |
| 6 | Charizard | 4 | 26.7% |
| 7 | Amoonguss | 3 | 20% |
| 8 | Ludicolo | 3 | 20% |
| 9 | Mawile | 3 | 20% |
| 10 | Rotom-Heat | 3 | 20% |
| 11 | Chandelure | 2 | 13.3% |
| 12 | Clawtizer | 2 | 13.3% |
| 13 | Ferrothorn | 2 | 13.3% |
| 14 | Gardevoir | 2 | 13.3% |
| 15 | Klefki | 2 | 13.3% |
| 16 | Mamoswine | 2 | 13.3% |
| 17 | Manectric | 2 | 13.3% |
| 18 | Scrafty | 2 | 13.3% |
| 19 | Tyranitar | 2 | 13.3% |
| 20 | Abomasnow | 1 | 6.7% |
| 21 | Absol | 1 | 6.7% |
| 22 | Aromatisse | 1 | 6.7% |
| 23 | Chesnaught | 1 | 6.7% |
| 24 | Diggersby | 1 | 6.7% |
| 25 | Florges | 1 | 6.7% |
| 26 | Greninja | 1 | 6.7% |
| 27 | Gourgeist | 1 | 6.7% |
| 28 | Gyarados | 1 | 6.7% |
| 29 | Hydreigon | 1 | 6.7% |
| 30 | Krookodile | 1 | 6.7% |
| 31 | Lucario | 1 | 6.7% |
| 32 | Machamp | 1 | 6.7% |
| 33 | Magnezone | 1 | 6.7% |
| 34 | Mienshao | 1 | 6.7% |
| 35 | Mr. Mime | 1 | 6.7% |
| 36 | Nidoqueen | 1 | 6.7% |
| 37 | Politoed | 1 | 6.7% |
| 38 | Rotom-Mow | 1 | 6.7% |
| 39 | Scizor | 1 | 6.7% |
| 40 | Vaporeon | 1 | 6.7% |
| 41 | Venusaur | 1 | 6.7% |
| 42 | Weavile | 1 | 6.7% |
| 43 | Zapdos | 1 | 6.7% |
If you have the missing team data for the top cut placements we don’t have, please do let us know and we’ll update this page!
About the Author
Firestorm is one of the co-founders of Nugget Bridge and the Community Manager for eSports Tournament Platform Battlefy. He has been playing Pokémon since 1999, competitively since 2007, and attending tournaments since 2010. He lives in Vancouver, Canada with a degree in Interactive Art & Technology + Communications. You can follow him on Twitter at @rushanshekar.
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On a random note, anyone else surprised at the lack of bisharp on this list?
When your favorite Pokemon is used to great effect competitively. Vaporeon <3. Thank you Wolfe! Huge amount of talent on this list; congrats to everyone.
Adrian, that’s a lame way to mentally knock yourself out of regionals contention. I went 6-3 and only 3 of mine was mentioned on the list. And out of the three that weren’t mentioned, one of them was an ACCIDENT. You need to keep fixing your team and practice. Constantly bashing yourself like this is only gonna make you do worse.
Forgive my ignorance of the point you were trying to make, but the first part of your post seems to be completely opposite the second part. I would definitely say there was significant diversity among the top cut players. Ray was the only person in the top 8 not to use a completely unique Pokemon, and not all the spreads that Ray used were necessarily standard. I do agree with you that things will likely become more homogeneous as the season wears on, but for now there seems to be a nice mix of Pokemon being used.
As far as information sharing goes, I think we’ve struck a nice balance between privacy and freedom of information by including the mons used but not the movesets, EV spreads, or items. The mons themselves can be useful as a tool for teambuilding in that having a list of what’s successful can help you construct a team that can be successful itself, but the lack of any other information helps prevent counterteaming or straight up team plagiarism. It’s true that motivated players can obtain that information through other channels, but it’s probably best that we’re not the ones to provide that information.
I would expect at least one. It’s not that popular in the battle spot either
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Not too surprised. It’s certainly not a bad mon, but Mawile does basically all the same things better aside from countering Intimidate.
I love wolfey’s and Dim’s teams!
Even tho Dim might be more surprising from anybody else,everybody is using the same Pokémon in this VGC.
Thank you Joshua Edwards! I’m reasonably happy about the Machamp.
I’m Joshua Edwards
I’m Joshua Edwards, if someone can update the list.
I’m Lyndon Rees, got 6th in the Senior Division Top Cut, ran Rotom-W, Mega Mawile, Meowstic-M, Talonflame, Garchomp, and Noivern.
wow that puts a smile on my face (specially considering we have nearly identical teams) Would love to chat about them in messages maybe? I’m assuming you mean for the weekend of jan 17-19 regional.
Does anyone know set TalkingLion’s Nidoqueen was running? Am very curious to find out haha