Trainer Tower Your Journey to the Top

Hello! My name is Benjamin Tan (@TheRealMination) and I’m a Singaporean VGC player. I was introduced to competitive Pokémon while I was in Norway during late 2016. During my first year of playing, I was a day 2 competitor at the 2017 World Championships. This season I wasn’t able to travel as much due to my national service, but I ...

Sao Paulo; Brazil: 4/27/18-4/29/18 Placing Player CP $ Team Used 1st Carson Confer 500 $3,000 2nd Alberto Lara 400 $2,000 3rd Eric Rios 320 $1,000 4th Melvin Keh 320 $1,000 5th Alex Gomez 250 $750 6th Jean Paul Lopez Buiza 250 $750 7th Raul Ramirez 250 $750 / 8th Nico Davide Cognetta 250 $750 A / indicates that a Pokemon ...

Written by Jeremy Gross and Nicholas Borghi Difficulty Rating /5 (4 Komala sleeping on LATAM out of 5) The Komala may be sleeping on LATAM, but you probably shouldn’t. Their player pool continues to grow stronger with each passing season. Whether it’s enough for them to successfully defend their international, or if it will fall to invaders again remains to ...

My name is Giuseppe Musicco and I’m a player from Italy, known online as Peppe (@peppemusicco). You may have seen me as a ladder player on Pokémon Showdown in VGC 17, with the name “Il Koho del Pardo”. Team’s Achievements I used this team to reach a 1800+ rating on Pokémon Showdown and then won the Stuttgart Regional Championship! This ...

Hello everyone! My name is Meghan Hyman (@PinkySylvie on Twitter and PinkSylvie on here and SD). I am a player from the Midwest, USA, and started playing competitively late 2015. This was my first large (non pc/mss) cut at a tournament. This team started out as an attempt to play something a bit slower, and test Venusaur. Venusaur was something ...

Stuttgart; Germany: 4/14/18-4/15/18 Placing Player CP $ Team Used 1st Guiseppe Musicco 200 $2,000 2nd Ernest Azanza 160 $1,000 3rd Arash Ommati 130 $500 / 4th Ben Kyriakou 130 $500 5th Michele Gavelli 100 $250 6th Matthias Sucholdulski 100 $250 7th Robin Langer 100 $250 8th Andrea di Tivoli 100 $250 A / indicates that a Pokemon was removed due ...

Malaysia: 4/6/18-4/7/18 Placing Player CP Team Used 1st  Benjamin Tan 200 2nd  Alister Sandover 160 3rd  Ang Wei Wen 130 4th  Khalid Alhuraiz 130 5th  Martin Teo 100 6th  JS Deo 100 7th  Joel Lee Jia Pei 100 8th  Yoko Taguma 100 Usage Usage % Pokémon 6 75% 3 37.5% 2 25% (1) 1 12.5%

What is up everyone, my name is Gary and I’m here to feature the team I used in Portland Regional Championships. I got into competitive Pokémon in 2009 because my friend Daniel Tapp won the Seattle Regional Championships that year with Shuckle. It was inspiring and I immediately wanted to do something just like that. I was obsessed with GBU ...

Written by Zac Emerzian Pokemon Showdown! January Rankings –  Unweighted: 26th (6.47749%) 1500: 22nd (7.23836%) 1630: 20th (8.22456%) 1760: 25th (6.73196%)   Everyone’s favorite fire moth has returned to VGC. However, now more than ever, Volcarona finds stiff competition in the Fire Pokemon department. Much of the Heat Wave spamming limelight was taken by Mega Charizard-Y when X and Y rolled ...

Hello everyone, Pd0nZ here. Long time player, first time report writer. In this report, I am going to talk about the team that I piloted to a 7-0 Swiss run in the Prague Special Event. Before I do so, however, you may be wondering how an American even ended up in Prague in the first place, especially with Charlotte Regionals ...