Teams from the VGC ’15 European National Championships
It has taken a little while for this to come about, I’m sorry for everyone who has been waiting on tenterhooks for this, but we finally have the full team lists from all of the European National Championships held across May and June. I’d like to thank the dozens of individuals that helped supply the team information that made this possible.
German Nationals
1) Markus Stefan (Blacklag)
2) Tobias Koschitzki (TobySxE)
3) Baris Ackos (Billa)
4) Luca Breitlig-Pause (sewadle)
5) Davide Sperati
6) Sergi Luna (lunaxxl99)
7) Matteo Gini (Matty)
8) Adrian Baumann (Euler)
9) Nemanja Sandic (Porengan)
10) Alejandro Gomez (Pokealex)
11) Jamie Miller (Blaze King7)
12) Christopher Schumacher (Zwockel)
13) Tirso Buttafuoco (Fuoco24)
14) Daniel Pastor (Danielux)
15) Pagonakis Yohan
16) Amin Sulzer (Lorenzo)
17) Szymon Wojdat (Szymoninho)
18) Pietro Chiri (kirro)
19) Florian Henry (Flynned)
20) Carlos Rodriguez (BrintMea)
21) Markus Stadter (13Yoshi37)
22) Naomi Fluckiger (Aquana)
23) Luigi Lo Giudice (LPROX)
24) Jonas Esser (Sharqi)
25) Rebecca Wolf (Sanchan)
26) Huib Buijssen (Lolnub)
27) Brian Zourdani
28) James Kean (Sweet Clive)
29) Christian Cheynubrata (chrisdc)
30) Abel Sanz (Flash)
31) Richard Z.
32) Felix Rössler (fxelxy)
33) Mattis Tebäck (JanobiiChan)
34) Brian Bruno
35) Daniel Mardjonvic
36) Christian Schultz (Anima)
37) Mark Klamt (Flame)
38) Alexander Kuhn (Hibiki)
39) Ufuk Kucukakyuz (Ufuk)
United Kingdom Nationals
1) Markus Stadter (13Yoshi37)
2) Arash Ommati (Mean)
3) Baris Ackos (Billa)
4) Eugenio Discalzi (XG J4SON)
5) Matthias Suchodolski (Lega)
6) Miguel Marti de la Torre (Sekiam)
7) Jamie Miller (Blaze King7)
8) Joe Cox (MegaPunchMew)
9) Lajos Kowalewski (Lajo)
10) Matteo Dorrell (MattDorrell)
11) Till Böhmer (Dark Psiana)
12) Terence Dray (Ty Flowsion)
13) Matteo Gini (Matty)
14) Dawn Mathieson
15) Jeremy Mantingh (Jezza)
16) Jan Michelberger (Lati)
17) Alvaro Rodriguez
18) Rachel Annand (SPEevee)
19) James Tarbuck (OnlineTuba)
20) Charlotte Hall (Jhon)
21) Sergio Marcos
22) Samuel East (Samuel996)
23) David de Pedro (soulofaetherym)
24) James Kean (Sweet Clive)
25) Sheldon Greenaway
26) Nathan Mack
27) William Tansley (StarKO)
28) Pedro Lima (Findow)
29) Lee Provost (Osirus)
30) Chalkey Horenstein (Chalkey)
31) Alberto Gini (BraindeadPrimeape)
32) Chris Foulds
33) Brandon Ikin (Toquill)
34) Barry Anderson (Baz Anderson)
35) Matthew Shepherd (KaSlaps)
36) Jamie Boyt (MrJellyLeggs)
37) Sam James
38) Oliver Hirsch (Yanzin)
Italian Nationals
1) Francesco Pardini (Alexis)
2) Dominic Scheffler (TheFlashColonel)
3) Miguel Marti de la Torre (Sekiam)
4) Raphael Paul (Glurakxy)
5) Florian Wurdack (DaFlo)
6) Marcel Kapelle (Massi)
7) Michelangelo Baudanza (IP Ender)
8) Riccardo Rispoli (Tecnarca)
9) Eloy Hahn (Dragoran5)
10) Giulia Sogaro
11) Anilcon Ackos (BillaBro)
12) Amin Sulzer (Lorenzo)
13) Carlos Rodriguez (BrintMea)
14) Matthias Hellmoldt (Tyvyr)
15) Peer Broxtermann (Bjart)
16) Christian Cheynubrata (chrisdc)
17) Victor Gardet
18) Len Deuel (Alaka)
19) Ugur Tatli
20) Matthias Suchodolski (Lega)
21) Akira Petrolini (ReaperJoker)
22) Gianalfredo Giusiano
23) Huib Buijssen (Lolnub)
24) Thomas Schadinger (th1806)
25) Aniello Iuliano (Senior14)
26) Javier Berdun (Burdunsito)
27) Ylenia Locatelli
28) Till Böhmer (Dark Psiana)
29) Eugenio Discalzi (XG J4SON)
30) Lorenzo Galassi (Greyfox)
31) Gabriele Cinquepalmi
32) Felix Rössler (fxelxy)
33) Adrian Baumann (Euler)
34) Rina Purdy
35) Joan Bennasar Bonnin (Nova)
36) Lee Provost (Osirus)
37) David Hernandez (Blumer)
38) Giovanni Milani
39) Federico Superti
About the Author
Wyrms Eye aka Nigel Gower started playing the VGC format in late 2013 following the release of Pokemon X and Y. Since then, his unusual style has seen him become a solid player within the community, culminating in an impressive NPA Season 3 run with the Mistralton Jets.
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Now we wait till US nats to see any copy cats
Love the two Chandelure in German Nats Top Cut
Also cool that so many Mega Heracross made it
Congrats to all players who placed well
2 M-Heracross and a M-Sharpedo. I like this C:
Can’t wait for usage stats
ayyy big plus from me for using Aurorus
I think this is the first time I’ve seen more venusaur than salamence. Also a lot of char y. Also like how someone top cut with heatran on a rain team.
Lopunny? Heracross? Slowbro? VENOMOTH? Malamar, Entei, Dusklops… I had fun just looking at these teams
Wow, two guys used Mega Heracross and another two used mega sharpedo and Rhydon.
I always get excited seeing Mega Char X doing well.
I’m looking very forward to seeing what the U.S. will bring to the table in a couple of weeks! It’s been a very interesting set of Nationals so far.
Really appreciate the work put into this, but could you change the R”o”ssler to an “ö” or at least “oe”? cheers
Hey look the entire Pokedex cut European nats!
KABUTOPS!! Please tell me that team’s getting a report.
I think the one with whoever was crazy enough to use Venomoth would be interesting.
Looks like Germany doesn’t like mega mence much haha. Intetesting to see Heracross and Roserade. What can Rosy do in vgc at all being pretty frail?
Roserade can be an interesting scarfer: stuff like STAB Leaf Tornado, Technician HP Fire/Ice and if your matchup’s bad, you can always make the coin toss with Sleep Powder. It’s a very particular solution to very particular problems.
She has potential as a good Fairy check with Technician Venoshock, especially when paired with Prankster Thundurus.
Venoshock doesnt get that Techician boost, since it is 65bp, not 60 or less
What’s wrong with Venomoth haha. I can imagine it being used similarly to Vivillon with it’s amazing support movepool (Tailwind, Rage Powder, Disable) and great abilities, particularly Shield Dust nullifying the effects of Fake Out. It’s typing and BST goes against it but can be fixed with the right team members. I know I’ve defended the use of “standard” Pokemon in the past but on the other side there’s no harm in being creative to get around current metagame threats; look what it did for Blazeking getting high into top cut in two Nationals
Shoot! The ol’ memory’s not what it used to be
Are we gonna ignore the fact that Ditto placed 7th? Duplica would be proud.
Oh, I didn’t notice the Ditto! That’s really cool. Sorry for not seeing you, little guy. I guess you sort of…
… blanded in
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
For those of you who are interested in usage stats, I’ve compiled the data onto the google sheet that I used to collate all of the information, under the ‘Usage Counts’ tab:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U3-R8UgDhSzc_lfaq66CU1T8JIpNCLvOPcKKxzjpF20/edit?usp=sharing
With regards to the lack of Salamence in Germany, I’m pretty sure that Japanese Sand, where Salamence was the primary mega of choice on the team, did not get significantly popular in the West until after this event occurred, although I have been to sleep since then so my memory might be slightly fuzzy!
And no problem fxelxy, I’ll get to changing the name shortly. If there are any other mistakes with names, let me know!
I still can’t believe people aren’t commenting Jamie’s Ditto.
I’m still very depressed with my Italy experience, but I guess it’s over now.
Congratulations to everyone who made cut.
Not that it matters but I was running double mega, charizard Y and swampert instead of the normal one
dat ditto tho
Congrats to all the winners!
I love the way Dominik played Malamar!!
Congrats!
Im so eagerly waiting for Blaze King7 report. Not only for the ditto, but for the Blaziken+Ferrothorn+Staraptor core plus 3 buddies. I’ve been checking this teams for the past weeks and europian nationals sure love to try diferent things or common ones with diferent strategies
HYPE TOO REAL
CANT WAIT
Sorry, I’m newbie. How work these usage stats? Win – Lose?
If it’s possible to edit, could you put in my username next to my placement (Matthew Shepherd, 35th at UK Nationals)?
Otherwise good job compiling all of this! It looks like it took a lot of effort, and I’m sure it’ll help those US players looking to Nationals in the near future.
Is there a link for those battles?