VGC 2018 Resource Index

Posted by: Trainer Tower in Resources January 19, 2018 4 Comments

Everyone has to start somewhere! Many new or returning players may struggle to find VGC-specific resources. From the basics of strategy to team construction or format information, knowing where to read and who’s knowledge to trust can be a hard task. In an information-based game such as ours, the right resources are critical to both learning to play, elevating your game or staying up to date with changes between formats. In response to these challenges, we at Trainer Tower have compiled a convenient resource index for every player, containing all of the most foundational and essential information in one place!

Starting Out In VGC

These articles are helpful in understanding the essentials and getting involved in the game.

  • Intro to the Pokemon Video Game Championships – An official Pokemon article that gives a very basic rundown of how VGC works. Even though this article was written for the 2017 format but is applicable to current formats.
  • Play! Pokemon Glossary – A list of definitions for common terms used in VGC.
  • VGC Glossary – Spanish VGC website Victory Road goes more into more common phrases used in VGC and although it’s written in Spanish, it’s still very helpful to read if you understand it.
  • Event Locator – The event locator is the most useful piece of info to find upcoming VGC events all across the globe.

Format-specific Information

These are general resources that are good to bookmark and can be referred to throughout the season.

In-game Team Preparation

If you’re struggling to get a team and/or Pokemon ready in-game, these articles should help.

  • EV Training Hotspots in Alola – VGC veteran DaWoblefet goes through in-depth on how to efficiently EV Train your Pokemon in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
  • An Intro to Teambuilding – VGC Veteran Smith talks through effective ways of team-building your team and writes it in a way where it’s not specific to anyone VGC format in particular.
  • Gen 7 Mechanic Changes – Serebii goes through all mechanic changes that occured in Sun and Moon. The article does not include how Rocky Helmet, Iron Barbs, and Rough Skin recoil have changed to now, the attacker will always win if both trainer’s final Pokemon are KO’d if the attacker faints due to recoil from these moves.

General Content

Improving Battle Skills

These articles and videos are designed to help shed some light on some important topics that are crucial to know in VGC.

Competition

These articles and videos focus on what you can do to improve your game, both in and out of battle, and some habits that are helpful to form.

Making EV Spreads

Check out these guides to learn about EV Spreads, how to make them better, and how to make them fit well into your teams.

VGC Websites

  • TrainerTower – A successor to NuggetBridge as the main home of VGC on the internet.
  • Smogon VGC Forums – A subforum on Smogon for VGC Players.
  • Emolgame – The most popular place online to find teams used by top Japanese VGC players.
  • VGC Tournament Stats – Twitter account dedicated to collecting teams from all Midseason Showdowns, Regionals, and International Championships. Follow them on Twitter!
  • Pikalytics – Competitive VGC Rankings with Spreads/Moves
  • Victory Road – The main VGC Website for all Spanish speaking players.
  • Nimbasa City Post – Website that exists to analyzing the VGC metagame, both on each Pokemon and cores in the metagame.
  • /r/stunfisk – A Subreddit for competitive Pokemon players with a helpful community. Also has a lot of aggregated content from other websites.
  • PokemonAustralia – The main hub for VGC news for Australia. Has event results, usage stats, and other helpful content.
  • Mirage Island – The main hub for VGC for the Singapore community.
  • VGC with Hats – Canadian VGC website
  • Indonesian Pokemon Community – Indonesian VGC website

Facebook Groups

Content Creators

International
United States
Europe
Rest Of The World

Credit to Mindape for originally gathering these resources, and to TempleVGC for updating them in 2018!

4 comments

  1. David Pezoa
    January 19, 2018 at 11:13 pm

    Very, very, very good article, very complete ! Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Pat Ball
    January 21, 2018 at 9:19 am

    Why am I not listed as a content creator 🙁

    Reply
  3. Quell
    January 26, 2019 at 8:19 am

    If I wanted to start playing should I start by buying Pokémon yellow,red,blue .exc or is it another game which will be a better start

    Reply

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