Teams from the VGC 2015 Winter Regionals (Week 1)
We were able to take a small look at what was happening at Europe’s Regional Championship earlier this month, but last weekend gave us a larger picture with four events happening across the United States. Here’s what made the top cut at each event.
Missouri
1st) Aaron Traylor (Unreality)
2nd) Zach Droegkamp (Braverius)
3rd) Andrew Burley (Andykins)
4th) Michael Fladung (Primitive)
5th) Jonathan Rankin (JRank)
6th) Ammar Baig (Knife)
7th) Ryan Brooker (lolfailsnail)
8th) Kyle Timbrook (TM Ruby)
9th) Jake Muller (majorbowman)
10th) Drew Nowak
11th) Justin Burns (Spurrific)
12th) Andrew Hovis
13th) Michael Shropshire (shrop05)
14th) Tiffany Stanley (shiloh)
15th) Leonard Craft III (DaWoblefet)
16th) Ken Wright (DoctorKen2k)
California
1st) Alberto Lara
2nd) William Hall (Biosci)
3rd) Alejando Jimenez (Legacy)
4th) Anthony Jiminez (DarkAssassin)
5th) Phillip Wingett (THATSAplusONE)
6th) Jobany Vazquez
7th) Nawraz Bashir (knawraz)
8th) Eduardo Mendez (JustEdo)
9th) Nathaniel Christmas (KSpam)
10th) Erik Holmstrom (Cyrus)
11th) Hayley Aldworth
12th) Alexander Ellyson
13th) Dane Zieman (agentorangejulius)
14th) Matthew Greaves (picklesword)
15th) Dylan Robison (DylanxArsenal)
16th) Tracy McLaughlin (Mack)
Virginia
1st) Karl Concepcion (Masakado)
2nd) Colin Schonewolf (RedWolf)
3rd) Alec Rubin (amr97)
4th) Angel Miranda (CT MikotoMisaka)
5th) Collin Heier (TheBattleRoom)
6th) Michael Lanzano (JiveTime)
7th) Arbin Tumaneng (Cypher)
8th) Wolfe Glick (Wolfey)
9th) Ben Hickey (Darkpenguin67)
10th) Chris Danzo (Lunar)
11th) Jared Fishkin
12th) Dan House (SharingIsCaring)
13) Dorian Nousias (crazyblissey)
14th) Junghun Yeom (ANGDE1234)
15th) Cameron Swan (Drizzleboy)
16th) Zachary Rivera
Oregon
1st) Conan Thompson (conan)
2nd) Max Douglas (starmetroid)
3rd) Rushan Shekar (Firestorm)
4th) Chris Stotts (MasterFisk)
5th) Nikolai Zielinski (Nikolai)
6th) Devin Honer
7th) Evan Feroy
8th) Demitrios Kagaras (kingdjk)
Usage Stats
| Kangaskhan | 24 |
| Landorus-T | 21 |
| Terrakion | 16 |
| Bisharp | 14 |
| Suicune | 14 |
| Heatran | 13 |
| Thundurus-I | 13 |
| Cresselia | 12 |
| Sylveon | 12 |
| Aegislash | 11 |
| Rotom-W | 10 |
| Salamence | 10 |
| Metagross | 9 |
| Hydreigon | 9 |
| Talonflame | 8 |
| Gengar | 7 |
| Rotom-H | 7 |
| Conkeldurr | 6 |
| Amoonguss | 6 |
| Zapdos | 6 |
| Ludicolo | 5 |
| Mawile | 5 |
| Gastrodon | 5 |
| Togekiss | 5 |
| Charizard-Y | 5 |
| Clefable | 4 |
| Virizion | 4 |
| Scizor | 4 |
| Weavile | 4 |
| Venusaur | 4 |
| Jellicent | 3 |
| Arcanine | 3 |
| Hariyama | 3 |
| Ferrothorn | 3 |
| Gardevoir | 3 |
| Chandelure | 3 |
| Tyranitar | 3 |
| Breloom | 3 |
| Thundurus-T | 2 |
| Milotic | 2 |
| Slowking | 2 |
| Swampert | 2 |
| Garchomp | 2 |
| Politoed | 2 |
| Scrafty | 2 |
| Camerupt | 1 |
| Cofagrigus | 1 |
| Machamp | 1 |
| Greninja | 1 |
| Emboar | 1 |
| Azumarill | 1 |
| Clefairy | 1 |
| Latios | 1 |
| Abomasnow | 1 |
| Banette | 1 |
| Volcarona | 1 |
| Blaziken | 1 |
| Kingdra | 1 |
| Sableye | 1 |
| Primeape | 1 |
| Crawdaunt | 1 |
| Crobat | 1 |
| Nidoking | 1 |
| Sceptile | 1 |
| Smeargle | 1 |
| Stoutland | 1 |
| Gyarados | 1 |
| Excadrill | 1 |
About the Author
Braverius started playing competitive Pokemon in April 2011. Since then he has been fortunate enough to compete in numerous official live events, qualifying for Worlds in 2013 and winning four Regionals along the way.
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I can’t say I’m that surprised about Mega Metagross’s performance at Missouri, I was really just waiting for people to figure out how to implement it to mix well with their strategies. On what Scott said about teams matching to the player, I feel almost the same way personally about the team I took to competition, and I think it’s an important quality to consider when building a team that you as a player match it to your playstyle. That being said, rarely seen things like Wolfe’s Mega Banette are always cool to see make high marks. Congrats to everyone!
As a Mega-Meta user myself, I can say that Metagross/Hydreigon/Bulky Water is simply awesome in terms of coverage and synergy
I really like your team! I’ll hope you are making a report about it, definitely want to read about it!
From the guy that made top 8 with a Mega Sceptile at Arnhem Regionals
7th) Evan Feroy
You win my heart.
Thanks for all the love for my Metagross team, I’m really glad I/Andykins/Zach were able to do so well with it/variations of it in Missouri. I’ll talk a lot about what I think are the merits of Metagross in a team report after Florida, but I really do think it has the potential to be top tier if supported by the right team.
Yesss primeape.
Was it:
Defiant jolly @choice scarf
close combat/ice punch/u-turn/rock slide?
Or something similar to that? I love this furious ape.
I think it even goes beyond these ones as well. Camerupt appeared a few times on this list and another Sceptile won its way into a Top 8. Swampert is still seeing play on Rain teams, even if you believe it’s garbage, and I think Gyarados might still be relevant, even if Salamence performs a similar role. Its difference in typing may end up being more desirable for some teams that end up running it over Salamence. They may make up the D-tier of Megas but I do believe all of these Pokemon are viable Mega choices as well.
Yeah I am. Should be done within the week
Representing that 1 gyarados, 1 excadrill
I’m surprised with Collin Heier (TheBattleRoom)’s team with a Mega Latios. Perhaps he is there to counter M-Venusaur and Amoonguss as well? I really want to know his EV’s spread and set of moves on that Latios since he has been weakened with the fairy-type pokemons and the removal of dragon gen 🙁
These teams look cool, and I love that there are some Pokemon there people wouldn’t normally use. It makes me kinda sad sometimes to know that Pokemon can sometimes be so exclusive in terms of teams( like Kanga’s omnipresence), so it’s nice to see people changing things up a bit!
What the heck are you doing with that Sawk Ashton
well you see….he didn’t use mega latios. its a mistake he used life orb instead.
I sure don’t see a sawk or ashton in these results.
I know Ashton Cox was at the tournament in VA and saw him using Sawk, didn’t really know where to post that and wondering if anyone ran into it.
Substitute Metagross omg <3
Easily my favorite part of regionals teams this weekend. So glad so many other people also thought of the same idea, though maybe I should see how the genies fit with it too. I never really considered them in team building.
Ken Wright’s Kangaskhan was not a Mega version, it held a Lum Berry.
Overall I was impressed with the variety of teams and thought most towards the top were solid, if not necessarily something I would use. I think we’ve stumbled into one of the best formats ever. The game can be played at the highest level on any part of the speed spectrum, which hasn’t been true in recent years – games were very fast in 2014, and tended towards the slow side in 2012-13 – which I think is great for the game. Really looking forward to seeing what the rest of the season brings.
Thanks to Zach and everyone else who helped compile this list!
I used Life orb Latios. But on the subject of Latios. I felt like he was totally underutilized going into my first tournament so I decided to give him a spin. I used him in a majority of my matches and I don’t regret running him at all. He turned into the MVP of the entire event for me!
Speaking of stylistic issues;
I shouldn’t run Aegislash. Or defensive steels in general. They’re so weird to me.
Before regionals I was running a mega sceptile, but I dropped it after I thought it was to frail and ice weak to be relevant in the meta but I stand corrected, I still perfer venusaur on my team (M-Venusaur, M-Mawile, Terrakion, Aegislash, Talonflame and Milotic for those who were wondering), but I have to say that I dont like mega mawile as much in this meta with lando, heatran back so I’m really liking mega metagross for the bulk, speed, power and steel tyoe coverage he brings
whoops type ^^ referring to Ashton’s Sawk
I like how my last name was misspelled but my brothers wasn’t xD
Evan’s teams are a master piece.
Lol so I actually brought a Mega Venusaur team to Lancaster, but scrapped it the night before and decided to run the Mega Sceptile Tem I made for the Eakes Invitational back in December. After going 8-0 on day 1 im pretty happy with my Mega Evolution choice
I was the one who wrote this article. Went into the content management system before having Firestorm post my article.
I’m digging all the Mega Metagross that made top cut. I felt like it was seriously underplayed going into the tournament and it was cool to see do well. Also shout outs to Wolfe <3 Mega Banette.
I’m glad to see that Swampert showed up.
Chesnaught is actually a viable alternative in this case if you don’t need the speed of Virizion. Bulletproof immunities to Shadow Ball/Sludge Bomb is very nice and Quick Guard is great for Metagross with all the Sucker Punches flying around. Virizion also has Quick Guard but can’t really risk taking physical hits.
Hoping to see some pop up throughout the year as I feel it’s underrated just like Virizion and with how creative and unpredictable this meta has been sofar it might just happen
Mega Banette being in the list blowed my mind. Really hoping here to see a team report about that one!
JoeDaPr0 went undefeated in Missouri with a chesnaught.
Given how common Terrakion is, I would be suprised if it was something other than 252 Speed Timid. Lati@s outspeeds Terrakion and OHKOS with Psychic/Psyshock.