Top Teams at the VGC’13 Australian National Championships
Players from all around Australia traveled to Melbourne for the Australian Pokémon Video Game Championships, to put everything they had on the line to try and get a top two placing in their division, earning them a paid expenses trip to Vancouver, Canada to participate in the Pokémon World Championships. Here we have the teams for the top cut of 16 from the Masters Divisions, top cut of eight from the Seniors Division and top cut of four from the Juniors Division.
Masters Division
1. Ben Kilby
2. Hugh Ronzani
3. Jordan Bradley
4. Peter Seo
5. Jack Clarke
6. Nicholas Steer (IncredibleChaos)
7. ???
8. Rob Whitehill (No1 Machop Fan)
9. Alex
10. Marcus Raj
11. Martyn Brookshaw
12. Jackson Lakey (FamousDeaf)
13. Michael Kan
14. Attila B.
15. Kaine Matthews
16. Nathan
Seniors Division
1. Michael Z.
2. Brent
3. Matt
4. Larry
5. Harry
6. Angus
7. Ruben
8. James
Juniors Division
1. Nick K.
2. Aj B.
3. Peter
4. Blake
Frequency Per Pokémon
So how did the Australians fare in terms of their Pokémon usage at the Nationals event compared to the rest of the world? Keep in mind when viewing the table that the data in it is from across three divisions where some teams are incomplete. If you see a Pokémon on this list it is definitely something to prepare to encounter.
| Tyranitar | 10 |
| Metagross | 8 |
| Thundurus | 8 |
| Garchomp | 7 |
| Gastrodon | 7 |
| Scizor | 7 |
| Cresselia | 6 |
| Hitmontop | 5 |
| Latios | 5 |
| Scrafty | 5 |
| Chandelure | 4 |
| Ferrothorn | 4 |
| Heatran | 4 |
| Hydreigon | 4 |
| Politoed | 4 |
| Terrakion | 4 |
| Togekiss | 4 |
| Abomasnow | 3 |
| Amoongus | 3 |
| Breloom | 3 |
| Crobat | 3 |
| Kingdra | 3 |
| Liepard | 3 |
| Dragonite | 2 |
| Excadrill | 2 |
| Gliscor | 2 |
| Infernape | 2 |
| Latias | 2 |
| Lucario | 2 |
| Ludicolo | 2 |
| Milotic | 2 |
| Porygon2 | 2 |
| Rhyperior | 2 |
| Rotom-Wash | 2 |
| Salamence | 2 |
| Tornadus | 2 |
| Virizion | 2 |
| Volcarona | 2 |
| Arcanine | 1 |
| Bisharp | 1 |
| Dusclops | 1 |
| Eelektoss | 1 |
| Escavalier | 1 |
| Gyarados | 1 |
| Landorus | 1 |
| Landorus-Therian | 1 |
| Magnezone | 1 |
| Mamoswine | 1 |
| Maractus | 1 |
| Raikou | 1 |
| Rotom-Heat | 1 |
| Sableye | 1 |
| Slowbro | 1 |
| Toxicroak | 1 |
| Whimsicott | 1 |
| Zapdos | 1 |
About the Author
Rusty a pokemon player of old, has been an avid VGC player since the days of Hoenn! Since then he has become an advocate for Pokémon within Australia, and helps to run tournaments within his own state. Never one to keep knowledge to himself, he is here impart what he knows onto the next generation of Pokémon world champions.
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IncredibleChaos is Nicholas Steer, his team is awesome.
16. Nathan had two Garchomps?
FamousDeaf isn’t lying, I am indeed Nicholas Steer. Thanks
MY TEAM IS ON NUGGET BRIDGE
My team is too!
(Oh yeah Rusty I’m Michael K (and the K should be a Z) 
)
Great job, Peter Seo!
Repeating myself but how nosporebreloom ahhhhggg
We finally have Junior division teams!
You´re noticing that and not the brave Crobat with our favorite move? xD
On a serious note: Some of the choices are really a bit… strange. Still, seeing Pokemon like Maractus or Milotic doing well is pretty cool even though there have been some questionable move choices in some teams. I´m hoping to see some reports or RMTs (here) soon to see the logic behind those because I really don´t get some of them.
The pride when I was the only Masters in the top 16 to use Salamence, Virizion and Raikou
I guess all I can do is send them here or get them to give me a report? I guess that most of the top teams/players have already been snapped up by the main Aus site that deals with Pokemon, but I’ll give it a shot.
I can guess about Maractus though. It is faster than Gastrodon so is able to counter that, has access to Storm Drain and/or Water Absorb so can nullify water moves, and gets a stab move off on Tyranitar. Granted there are better choices and I am not No1. Machop Fan, I’m assuming these are the reasons.
Yeah I sent them a message about it. I made that error and then people told me things after it was posted even though I asked at the time. I’m hoping it can be fixed
I was regret to not use Conkeldurr or Volcarona in my team for nats but no time to RNG them.
How about Cradily or evo Lileep? I am pretty sure his Maractus have HP rock/Helping Hand/Giga Drain/Protect.
Cradily is good, but really weak in the meta. With fighting moves everywhere it doesn’t do well at all. Granted in Sand it’s great, with Storm Drain and the Spec Def boost, overall it just doesn’t offer what say Gastrodon does. I guess that Machop chose Maractus cause he liked it? O.o
Maractus got Top 8
I can finally die happy
Anyone who uses Raikou with great success should be very proud.
#raikoufanclub
Maractus happens to be a storm drain ‘mon that deals very well with Tyranitar using Wood Hammer. It also gets Sucker Punch. I don’t see a good reason to run both it and Toxicroak on the same team, but it’s cool that it did so well.
If Attila B is Attila Baranyay thats pretty awesome. I met him at Apex and hes a pretty great smash player also
Actually Maractus was pretty much a filler Pokémon, which saw next to no use in Nats.
Originally Zapdos was in its slot because of Thunder, but I found I rarely used it because it didn’t sync well with the rest of the team. I replaced it with Maractus because of Storm Drain, which allowed it to benefit from Surf, and because it could still hit Water-types hard using Giga Drain.