VGC: The Other Half of the Coin Part Un

Exactly the title: The other half of the Pokemon game franchise.

The Pokemon Video Game Championships (VGC) or in Japan, World Championship Showdown (WCS), have been running since about 2008-09. Before then, there would be an occasional tourney, or ones such as Journey Across America (JAA) back in '06, and another called the Pokémon Emerald Ultimate Frontier Brain Battle. What a mouth full.

Unlike the TCG where you have to fork out possibly several hundreds of dollars getting the right cards to make a deck which could possibly be beat by someone who payed half that, or in some cases, a few hundred more, the VGC involves having the Pokemon game of choice, and of course the game system needed to get the best d*mn team together that you can.

Let's talk strategies. Unlike the TCG, I actually know alot more about this.

PEUFBB: I have no clue, I didn't even know there was such a thing till last year. It was back in '05 to commemorate the release of Emerald.

JAA: Mewtwo, Groudon, Lugia, Kyogre, etc...

VGC '09: Rain Dance was huge. It was the strategy of the World Champion, and many other winners at Regionals. Trick Room was a big contender, but while it could beat Rain, it also loses out to it. Goodstuffs, which is the use of generally good Pokemon, was also big back in the day.

VGC '10: Read above. The use of (some) legendaries such as how it was done in JAA made weather big. Rain Dance was still good, thanks to TopOgre (Technician Hitmontop and Kyogre). Sunny Day also shined, and Trick Room was just as big as before. Goodstuffs also did well. However, it was a combination of the two that had won Worlds '10 for Ray Rizzo.
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VGC '11. In the current state, it consists of Trick Room, Sandstorm, Tailwind, and the rare Sunny Day and even rarer Rain Dance. Goodstuffs still exists, and works quite well. With the Mental Herb buff, Trick Room is almost always able to be set up, and with the vast number of abusers this time around, is actually the most common of teams floating about.

Common mons:
Sazandora/Hydreigon
Burungeru/Jellicent
Morobareru/Amoonguss
Gigalith
Reuniclus
Urugamosu/Volcarona
Erefuun/Whimsicott

Among others.

That's not all though.

Stay tuned for Part Deux!