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Published on June 24th, 2015 | by LithiumAcid

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Teams from the VGC ’15 Japanese National Championships

Information was compiled with help from Daniel Pol (Chiron), Conan Thompson (conan) and Barudoru’s blog post found here. Twitter names added if applicable

A note in regards to how tiebreakers work in this format, Federica was able to advance from their pool (which consisted of another player with a 2-1 record, slime). Even though slime was able to defeat Federica during pools, Federica’s number of pokemon remaining in prior battles consisted of 3-0 and 2-0 were higher then slime’s 2-0 in both battles.

The following players have an invitation to Day Two of the Pokemon World Championships in Boston, Massachusetts.

jpnvs_masters

1st Place

Syouma Honami (@SHADEviera)

charizard-mega-ykangaskhan-mega cresselia heatran landorus-therian amoonguss

Runner-up

Daiki Moriyama (@mor1yama)

gardevoir-mega amoonguss landorus-therian zapdos tyranitar heatran

Top 4

Ryouta Otsubo (@barudoru)

politoed ludicolo krookodile gardevoir-mega zapdos amoonguss

BIDC (@BIDcp)

kangaskhan-mega milotic thundurus-incarnate landorus-therian volcarona aegislash

Top 8

The following players have received an invite to play in worlds, but not the paid trip.

Federica “shinobumeiru” (@0p0t0p0t0p0t)

liepard porygon2 salamence-mega aegislash garchomp entei

nepinepi (@_NP55)

kangaskhan-mega zapdos hydreigon landorus-therian heatran aegislash

Penguin (@penguin2142)

politoed kangaskhan-mega smeargle jellicent amoonguss escavalier

Sharon (@syaronalex)

kangaskhan-mega gengar breloom landorus-therian thundurus-incarnate suicune

Group Stages

Group A

Penguin advances to Top 8.

みょん (@myon7314)

aerodactyl-mega breloom garchomp azumarill bisharp zapdos

Bicho (@bicho_5296)

gardevoir-mega ludicolo amoonguss thundurus-incarnate heatran landorus-therian

Yuichi Sasaki (@Yuuichi_u1)

gardevoir-mega landorus-therian thundurus amoonguss suicune heatran

Group B

Barudoru advances to top 8.

にしのつかさ (@temp25004762)

kangaskhan-mega landorus-therian zapdos amoonguss heatran sylveon

ライ (@raito1496)

kangaskhan-mega zapdos cresselia conkeldurr landorus-therian heatran

こもりん (@Sarapoke0914)

kangaskhan-mega suicune thundurus-incarnate landorus-therian cresselia heatran

Group C

(Viera advances to top 8)

Kaori Kikuchi (@SyadoWCS)

kangaskhan-mega charizard-mega-y heatran cresselia landorus-therian sylveon

みなみこり

charizard-mega-y tyranitar zapdos landorus-therian aegislash amoonguss

まずいぼう (@mazuibou1)

kangaskhan-mega garchomp abomasnow scrafty zapdos aegislash

Group D

mor1yama advances to Top 8.

see (@see_miruo)

kangaskhan-mega thundurus-incarnate landorus-therian heatran amoonguss sylveon

glay (@nandeglay)

kangaskhan-mega zapdos gengar heatran landorus-therian amoonguss

ユー

kangaskhan-mega charizard-mega-y sylveon hitmontop thundurus-incarnate landorus-therian

Group E

Nepinepi advances to Top 8.

Daichi Kunabe (@Scar3020)

infernape gardevoir-mega landorus-therian heatran azumarill amoonguss

ぷらずま (@pmantoka)

kangaskhan-mega smeargle sylveon gengar heatran landorus-therian

シルバーN (@N14602428N)

kangaskhan-megaazumarill zapdos landorus-therianheatran amoonguss

Group F

Federica advances to Top 8.

slime (@Westwoodkun)

kangaskhan-mega togekiss azumarill landorus-therian thundurus-incarnate heatran

psk (@psk_medaka)

tyranitar excadrill azumarill aegislash salamence-mega amoonguss

tatikawa (@pupeet1)

kangaskhan-mega talonflame greninja hydreigon thundurus-incarnate amoonguss

Group G

BIDC advances to top 8.

rem (@yande_rem)

kangaskhan-mega arcanine zapdos suicune metagross hydreigon

inoseno (@inospeed)

kangaskhan-mega heatran landorus-therian gastrodon cresselia amoonguss

Yuki

charizard-mega-y weavile ferrothorn rotom-wash sylveon landorus-therian

Group H

Sharon advances to top 8.

masa (@masaVampharos)

kangaskhan charizard-mega-y smeargle salamence-mega togekiss aegislash

Haru-chin (@haruchin_kawaii)

kangaskhan-mega arcanine thundurus-incarnate landorus-therian suicune aegislash

annyui (@ennui_noon)

blastoise-mega hydreigon cresselia ferrothorn zapdos landorus-therian

Senior Division

jpnvs_seniors

1st. Honda Kouki

kangaskhan-mega suicune heatran sylveon landorus-therian thundurus-incarnate

2nd. Haruki Kondo

charizard-mega-y venusaur rotom-wash gardevoir garchomp aegislash

Junior Division

jpnvs_juniors

1st. Harasaki Shuu

salamence-mega aegislash bisharp terrakion unown unown

2nd. Yasue Kotone

gardevoir-mega tyranitar thundurus-incarnate landorus-therian unown unown


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13 Responses to Teams from the VGC ’15 Japanese National Championships

  1. Aurorusite says:

    > japanese nats
    > only 1 “japan sand”
     
    what is this
     
    also garde being really popular in japan 

  2. LithiumAcid says:

    Also confirmed with rem and masa that rem’s metagross was non-mega and Masa’s Kangaskhan was King’s Rock with Fling (presumably to help him set up with his Geomancy Smeargle)

  3. Banana says:

    Ryosuke Kosuge , Jumpei Yamamoto and Yosuge Isagi are considered to be one of the best japanese players in their division, so why aren’t they here? Didn’t they participate at all?

  4. LithiumAcid says:

    Ryosuke Kosuge , Jumpei Yamamoto and Yosuge Isagi are considered to be one of the best japanese players in their division, so why aren’t they here? Didn’t they participate at all?

    The qualifying tournament was a Wifi tournament and it is notoriously hard to make it through

    As for Ryosuke, he is busy with his studies, assuming Yosuke didn’t qualify. Junpei? he hasn’t been active since 2012

  5. Also confirmed with rem and masa that rem’s metagross was non-mega and Masa’s Kangaskhan was King’s Rock with Fling (presumably to help him set up with his Geomancy Smeargle)

     
    It just goes to show how diverse their meta is compared to ours. Some of the teams wouldn’t function as well in bo3, but they are still interesting nevertheless.

  6. Banana says:

    The qualifying tournament was a Wifi tournament and it is notoriously hard to make it through

    As for Ryosuke, he is busy with his studies, assuming Yosuke didn’t qualify. Junpei? he hasn’t been active since 2012

    The tournament defenitely seems tough, especially given that it’s BO1 nature makes gimmicks run freely.
    I really wished Ryosuke could qualify since he couldn’t make it last year despite having a great team.

  7. LithiumAcid says:

    Ennui_noon’s Japan Cup blog post has a section at the bottom for his Garchomp -> Hydreigon ammendment at Nats. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ennui_noon/20150614/1434262412

    How could I forget :>

  8. fourganger says:

    Usage stats – I’m doing these at work so please forgive any errors.
     
    Masters Division.
     
    Mega Pokemon:
     

    Kangaskhan

    20

    Charizard-Y

    6

    Gardevoir

    5

    Salamence

    3

    Aerodactyl

    1

    Blastoise

    1

     
    Non-Mega Pokemon:
     

    Landorus-T

    23

    Heatran

    16

    Amoonguss

    15

    Zapdos

    12

    Thundurus-I

    10

    Aegislash

    8

    Cresselia

    6

    Sylveon

    6

    Suicune

    5

    Azumarill

    5

    Hydreigon

    4

    Garchomp

    3

    Gengar

    3

    Smeargle

    3

    Tyranitar

    3

    Arcanine

    2

    Breloom

    2

    Ferrothorn

    2

    Ludicolo

    2

    Politoed

    2

    Togekiss

    2

    Abomasnow

    1

    Bisharp

    1

    Conkeldurr

    1

    Entei

    1

    Escavalier

    1

    Excadril

    1

    Gastrodon

    1

    Greninja

    1

    Hitmontop

    1

    Infernape

    1

    Jellicent

    1

    Kangaskhan

    1

    Krookodile

    1

    Liepard

    1

    Metagross

    1

    Milotic

    1

    Porygon 2

    1

    Rotom-W

    1

    Scrafty

    1

    Talonflame

    1

    Volcarona

    1

    Weavile

    1

  9. R Inanimate says:

    Teams from this are interesting, as it feels like they range from teams that players are known for, and have used for a while to teams with the most strange and wacky things. While there’s a number of teams that may look “boring” or “standard” in the mix, I’m pretty sure all of them have some hidden tricks up their sleeves within their finer details.
     
    Also… I know that he changed his Twitter name for a short while to “Federica”, then to “Japan Sand”… but are we really still keeping that typo in Frederica’s handle name?

  10. kibago11 says:

    No one else going to comment on those rad ‘vs’ photos?

    Also M-Gard and Amoonguss combo for days.

  11. LithiumAcid says:

    Teams from this are interesting, as it feels like they range from teams that players are known for, and have used for a while to teams with the most strange and wacky things. While there’s a number of teams that may look “boring” or “standard” in the mix, I’m pretty sure all of them have some hidden tricks up their sleeves within their finer details.
     
    Also… I know that he changed his Twitter name for a short while to “Federica”, then to “Japan Sand”… but are we really still keeping that typo in Frederica’s handle name?

    Conan informed me he still goes by Federica?

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