Trainer Tower Your Journey to the Top

In the last GS Cup format, Xerneas and the Primals dominated the metagame, being part of almost every team of the format. Three years later, the Sun and Moon era brought us Solgaleo, Lunala, and Necrozma. The three new restricted legendaries of the GS Cup format. In the Sun Series of VGC19, Xerneas has remained the powerful force is was ...

Roanoke, Virginia: 11/24/18-1/25 /18 Placing Player CP $ Team Used 1st James Baek 200 $2,000 2nd Justin Burns 160 $1,000 3rd Mark Jackson 130 $500  4th Kyle Livinghouse 130 $500 *** Joseph Costagliola *** *** 5th Westley Long 100 $250 6th James Evans 100 $250 7th Nicholas Peckman 100 $250 8th Abdul Barrie 100 $250 ***=Player was DQ’d during the ...

In this article I’m going to present one of the most interesting cores this season: the restricted combination composed by Rayquaza and Kyogre, commonly referred to as RayOgre. The combination was present in the VGC 16 season on ORAS. At first, it wasn’t a very popular duo but slowly it gained traction and ended up winning the World Championship under ...

Sao Paulo, Brazil: 11/16/18-11/18/18 Placing Player CP $ Team Used 1st  Ashton Cox 500 $1,500 2nd  James Baek 400 $1,000 3rd  Jeremy Rodrigues 320 $750 4th  Paul Ruiz 320 $750 5th  Michele Gavelli 250 $500 6th  Ethan French 250 $500 7th  Melvin Keh 250 $500 8th  Caio Romanini 250 $500 Usage Usage % Pokémon 6 75% 5 67.5% 4 50% ...

What year is it? Just the mention of Xerneas and Groudon together will give some veteran VGC players flashbacks to 2016. It was namely during that year’s series that the potent combo of Xerneas and Primal-Groudon made its debut, being utilized in many team builds through the series. The notorious “Big 6” archetype from that year contained this duo and ...

Lille, France: 11/3/18-11/4/18 Placing Player CP Team Used 1st Ismael Aarab Umpierrez 200 2nd Alexandre Lissardy 160 3rd Oliver Eskolin 130 4th Nicolas Carvalho 130 5th David Koutesh 100 6th Arthur Blanc-Renaudie 100 7th Alessio Yuri Boschetto 100 8th Davide Cauteruccio 100   Usage Usage % Pokémon 6 75% 4 50% 3 37.5% 2 25% 1 12.5%

🔥🔥 Hi my name is Riley Factura and I recently won 1st place in the Pokémon VGC 2019 Sun Series Oregon, USA Regional Championships.  This marks my 4th regional win in the Masters Division. If it’s at all relevant to you, I’ve also won 16 Premier Challenges & 7 Midseason Showdowns. 👔 I took a break during most of the ...

Portland, Oregon; United States: 10/17/18-10/18/18 Placing Player CP $ Team Used 1st (7-0) Riley Factura 200 $2,000 6th (6-1) Louis Milich 160 $1,000 3rd (6-1) Terry Hong 130 $500 4th (6-1) Ian McLaughlin 130 $500 5th (6-1) Angel Miranda 100 $250 6th (6-1) Matthew Greaves 100 $250 7th (6-1) Qi Wei 100 $250 / 8th (5-2) Justin Burns 100 $250 ...

Santiago, Chile: 10/20/18 Placing Player CP Team Used 1st Juan Naar 200 2nd Estephan Valdebenito 160 3rd Javier Prada 130 4th Ignacio Sepulveda 130 5th Felipe Farias 100 6th Sebastian Reyes 100 7th Dorian Andres Quinones Vallejos 100 8th Sergio Oyarzun 100 Usage Usage % Pokémon 7 87.5% 5 62.5% 4 50% 2 25% 1 12.5%

London, England: 10/20/18 Placing Player CP Team Used 1st Ben Markham 50 2nd Rafik Sadli 40 3rd Piotr Kedziora 32 4th Eoin Galavan 32 5th Thomas Plater 25 6th Toby Glover-Meyer 25 7th Elliot Davies 25 8th John Janczewski 25