Registration Open for 2015 International Challenge April
Registration is open for the 2015 International Challenge — April! As the first online tournament to give out Championship Points this season, there will be a lot of interest going into this event. The tournament may very well decide the last few spots for the 2015 Pokémon World Championships. Players will play on the Competition ladder on Battle Spot from Friday, April 24, 2015, at 00:00 UTC to Sunday, April 26, 2015, at 23:59 UTC. There is a limit of 10 battles per day for a total of 30 battles in the tournament. The highest ranked players will receive Championship Points as follows in each age division. Championship Points will not be divided by region but instead will be awarded to the top 256 players.
| Placement | Championship Points |
| 1–2 | 12 |
| 3–4 | 10 |
| 5–8 | 8 |
| 9–16 | 6 |
| 17–32 | 4 |
| 33–64 | 3 |
| 65–128 | 2 |
| 129–256 | 1 |
Registration ends as soon as the tournament begins so be sure to get your entry in on the Global Link now. You don’t need to lock your Battle Box until just before your first match. To register, log in to the Pokémon Global Link and click on the Competitions link on the left hand navigation bar. You must have your Player ID linked to your Pokemon.com account that your game card is associated with before the competition begins to receive Championship Points. Results will be released on May 1st.
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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I played with two carts this IC, here I’ll talk about my more “fun” team which had some synergistic combos I’d been wanting to play with for a while. Finished 21-9, around 1690 rating.
Team synergy
Team design notes
Team preview selection
The most common core I used was essentially
On occasions when I saw my opponent had Talonflame in team preview, I usually led with Kangaskhan+Parasect in hopes of being able to take it out early, if they chose to lead with it.
If I had to do it all over again, I’d make a few changes
Regrettably, I wasn’t far enough on this cart to have the Vs. Recorder, so I only got one video saved by one of my opponents: 79UW-WWWW-WWXU-446F
I really love this team, especially the Hawlucha/Parasect lead combo, and how Parasect still underspeeds Hawlucha by 1 after an Agility. I have a soft spot for sets that some may call “gimmicky” but still work.
Sky Drop imo is a highly overlooked move. Maybe not the best choice for a lot of Pokemon, but still something to consider. I was running it on my Aerodactyl in the tournament. Its best use is probably for rendering Rage Powder/Follow Me completely useless for a turn.
Didn’t get to play all my matches because my internet kept crapping out causing me to lose 2 matches so I didn’t bother continuing to avoid situations where it would seem like i’d be rage DCing. Team was pretty awesome and it only lost 1 game to RookieSlayerMLG(which was a pretty good game)
The concept of this team is from someone I played a bunch on XY battle spot before oras came out. I liked the concept of sun + trick room. The original team had rhyperior over marowak but with the amount of grass knot thundurus around made me avoid rhyperior. Marowak also helped me soft “check” thundurus since it couldnt deal with charizard while in play I used hidden power ground on charizard because there were plenty of situations where I’d have charizard + venusaur/cresselia and heatran would have an easy time switching in(and possibly getting a flash fire boost) and I couldn’t immediately deal with it allowing it to get up a free substitute/boosted heat wave. Although hp ground didnt ohko it let me be able to threaten heatran/knock it out of substitute range. In the case of charizard/cresselia helping hand hp ground would ko. With heatran being a natural switch in to charizard(and being really common) I felt it was worth giving up a moveslot to pressure heatran.
I used sitrus berry conkeldurr because I think its infinitely better than assault vest. Conkeldurr is often double targetted since it lacks protect. Sitrus berry helps gets you out of that situation while remaining “bulky”. I also decided not to run wide guard because I liked having the coverage of ice punch/knock off more and didn’t want to go overboard on protecting my charizard since charizard isn’t the only mode on the team.
Stone edge landorus-T was something I usually favored over u-turn. Stone edge lets me get the KO on charizard-Y through intimidate/wide guard which is pretty big considering my lack of good charizard checks. Can’t really say I ever missed u-turn, and I definitely don’t think its a “staple” move on any landorus-T.I
Since I didn’t have sitrus berry on cresselia I decided to throw on safety goggles to better my amoonguss/gardevoir matchup. as it let me comfortably control the pace of the game since I could pretty much control whether trick room stays up or not since amoonguss can’t spore and stop me.
hope my explanation was good enough. writing this as I wake up and I don’t feel like proofreading. Anyway give the team a try its pretty fun!
Heyo! Went 23-7 in the tournament which IMO is pretty good but not impressive. I’ve been pretty much playing Rain or/and Trick Room teams the whole season so I felt most confident running it. It was intended that Perish Song should go along with Eject Button on Scrafty (now Hitmontop) but Politoed decided to be cool with his new glasses, Perish Song was so
*specs on*
three turns ago.
Yeeaaaah!
My highlights of the team where:
– Goth being a victim of flinch abusers.
– Hitmontop’s only available fire attack is Hidden Power. Sad that it doesn’t learn Fire Punch or something because Scizor likes my team.
– Dance Dance Revolution lead with Ludi and Hitmontop.
– Mawile Goth duo is still stronk. Cybertron-senpai notice me.
Tournament Highlights:
– USA, I heard you liek Metagross.
– One game, Amoonguss looked like a huge question mark against my Goth Ludi lead.
– Rock Slide.
– Politoed’s Hydro Pump being 2HKO on a Hydreigon while not being fully invested on SpA! Yeeaaaah!
– Scizor wasn’t that huge of a problem, I only faced it once and I just didn’t need to have my pokemon being 2x weak to both of it’s STAB. I can see it being a problem in the future of the team against a good player though.
– Locking Charizard Y in rain.
– Locking Tyranitar in Rain.
– Almost being screwed by an assumed in-game team. That’s the International Challenge for you!
i believe we played each other, i was <3Misaki<3
Yep. iirc i faffed about too much in team preview because i wanted to bring azumarill and regret not doing, think the game may have even chose hydreigon for me if i ran out of time. My protects was too obvious but i wasn’t left with much choice since what i had in the back would have taken enough damage to be out sped and finished off the following turn anyway. GG
Who else didn’t finish the IC? I was 9-4 on the second day and decided not to waste my time playing it out
21-9
I swear i’ve seen more dragonite in the first 10 matches than in all of my life.
Well my record was 17-13. Was seriously considering just giving up as I’ve been at this for five years but it’s really just all elementary stuff to be honest.
The amount of Suicune surprised me; was very little. Thundurus and Landorus was very common of course, especially as leads in my experience.
when do results come out and cp are applied, does anyone know the exact date? =p
quick recap of my IC experience:
went onto the live competition page and was trying very hard to get my player ID. waited very patiently for 30 minutes before someone told me i had to actually enter the game to play
and lol who actually wants to do that
Finished a fairly disappointing 21-9, which is even less impressive than it may look because I kept getting paired down. Rating ended at around 1634. Sadly I didn’t battle anyone I recognized, though I did have a fairly memorable battle against someone from Alberta who may or may not know who I am because I got trolled pretty hard in that game… I led Metagross to his Sylveon, and he stayed in for three turns, Shadow Balling my Sub along the way. So I figured, well, my rating isn’t very high, maybe this guy doesn’t know what he’s doing, and on the turn I finally decide to Iron Head, he switches out, and I got danced around in every other turn of that game. I was planning on playing on my second cartridge as well but never had time to get more than ~5 battles in.
Team I used is par for the course for me. Politoed / Ludicolo / Hydreigon / Terrakion / Metagross / Togekiss. I still like the team a fair bit, and despite doing well with it in PCs and NB Lives, BattleSpot just hasn’t been kind to me since the ladder reset last month. I don’t know why. Pokemon’s weird.
May 1st
I believe we may have played each other. Did you play someone called Asch? If you did, that was my first match and you whitewashed me! lol
According to my records (here!), I didn’t play you haha. Must’ve been someone else running about with a fridge o___o
Welp, I did 16 battles with a 14-2 record and a ranking in the 1600s, when my internet decides to go down completely for the entire duration of the competition.
Oh well, it was fun, and since I’m not after CP I’ll just say it was good practice.
RESULTS ARE OUT
Went 21-7/1682 rating with mega blaziken.
I was going 21-4 until I decided that playing at midnight was a good idea, so I probably missed out on a top rank because of that. Oh well, I still get some delicious CP
Ranks went up 40 min ago. 21 in US and 40 WW in Junior/Senior Division.
Usage stats for the top 1259 players in the Masters Division (1568+ Rating):
It’s interesting Kangaskhan is the only possible mega evolution in the top12 usage and it’s not the first pokemon, it’s Landorus-T…
Bulky waters are a confirm with Suicune and Rotom-W.
Woo #245. 1 point here I come!