The 2024 Pokémon Europe International Championships (EUIC) were held from 5-7 April 2024, and were won by 2018 Worlds Semi-finalist Nils Dunlop.
This tournament is currently the highest-level event to use the Regulation Set F format, allowing access to every Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet, excluding Restricted Special Pokémon such as Koraidon and Miraidon. More information from the event can be found below, including each trainer to make it to Day 2 of the event; the teams they used, which you can click or tap to see more information, such as each Pokémon's moves or ability; and their final win-loss record. Any team or rental code shown below can be used in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's in-person events while Regulation F runs from 4 January to 30 April 2024, and later from 1 December 2025 to 31 March 2026.
Winning Team
Masahiro Ito ended the event with a score of 6 wins and 3 losses. Their team consisted of Ursaluna, Urshifu Rapid Strike, Incineroar, Cresselia, Articuno, and Alolan Ninetales. One of the most notable parts of this team would be the Legendary Pokémon Articuno; alongside Ninetales' Snow Warning setting up the snow weather condition, Articuno uses the Choice Specs to boost the damage of Ice-type attacks like Blizzard and Freeze-Dry, as well as its ability Snow Cloak to slightly boost its evasiveness stat. Alongside damage reduction from Ninetales' Aurora Veil and healing from Cresselia's Lunar Blessing, Articuno can stick around much longer than its opponents can handle.
Jorijn Raijmakers used a more standard team featuring format staples like Incineroar, Amoonguss, and Landorus Incarnate, as well as slightly more uncommon picks in Roaring Moon, Porygon2, and Gholdengo. This team has a few options for speed control: Roaring Moon can use Dragon Dance to boost both its Attack and Speed stat to put huge pressure on any Pokémon it targets, and Porygon2 has the option of using Trick Room to force slower Pokémon to move first and faster Pokémon to move last. This greatly boosts the utility provided by Amoonguss, since it can use Spore to put its targets to sleep or Pollen Puff to heal its teammates before any other Pokémon can move, due to it being one of the slowest Pokémon in the format, and therefore one of the fastest in Trick Room.
Results
Top Cut
# | Record | Trainer | Pokémon |
1st | 16-2 | Nils Dunlop | |
2nd | 15-3 | Tim Edwards | |
Top 4 | 14-3 | Jorijn Raijmakers | |
13-4 | Alex Gómez Berna | ||
Top 8 | 13-3 | Luca Ceribelli | |
12-4 | Diego Gutierrez | ||
12-4 | Davide Cauteruccio | ||
12-4 | Aurélien Soula |
Day 2
Top 16 | 12-3 | Davide Fazio | |
12-3 | Alberto Cañuelo Gómez | ||
12-3 | Roberto Porretti | ||
12-3 | Joseph Russell | ||
12-3 | Wolfe Glick | ||
12-3 | Brian Collins | ||
12-3 | Kasper Kallio | ||
11-4 | Sam Danneker | ||
Top 32 | 11-4 | Víctor Medina | |
11-4 | Arash Ommati | ||
11-4 | Nicholas Kan | ||
11-4 | Guilherme Queiroz | ||
11-4 | Esteban Molina | ||
11-4 | Stefano Greppi | ||
11-4 | Juan Salerno | ||
11-4 | Stefan Mott | ||
11-4 | Teemu Mankinen | ||
11-4 | Emanuele Briganti | ||
11-4 | Alberto Lara | ||
11-4 | Christian Smiljanić | ||
11-4 | Eduardo Cunha | ||
11-4 | Miguel Paquete | ||
11-4 | Davide Carrer | ||
11-4 | Diego Ferreira |  |
Top Pokémon
# | Pokémon | Day 1 | Day 2 | | # | Pokémon | Day 1 | Day 2 | ||
#1 | Incineroar | 43.0% | ▲ 51.7% | #8 | Chien-Pao | 25.3% | ▲ 37.9% | |||
#2 | Flutter Mane | 42.7% | ▼ 32.2% | #9 | Tornadus (Incarnate) | 21.6% | ▼ <16.1% | |||
#3 | Raging Bolt | 38.9% | ▲ 47.1% | #10 | Ogerpon (Hearthflame) | 20.2% | ▲ 24.1% | |||
#4 | Landorus (Incarnate) | 38.6% | ▼ 35.6% | #11 | Urshifu (Single Strike) | 19.7% | ▼ 16.1% | |||
#5 | Ogerpon (Wellspring) | 36.4% | ▼ 23.0% | #12 | Farigiraf | 16.6% | ▼ <16.1% | |||
#6 | Rillaboom | 32.2% | ▲ 33.3% | #13 | Amoonguss | <16.6% | ▲ 29.9% | |||
#7 | Urshifu (Rapid Strike) | 30.8% | ▲ 44.8% | #14 | Gholdengo | <16.6% | 16.1% | |||
Galarian Zapdos appears only once in the Top 32, on Sam Danneker's team alongside more uncommon Pokémon in Heatran, Iron Bundle, and Baxcalibur. Zapdos' strengths are its high Attack and Speed stats accompanied by its choice of many powerful attacks, mainly Brave Bird and Close Combat. While holding the Choice Scarf, Zapdos is able to outspeed most Pokémon in the format, even opposing Urshifu that are also holding a Choice Scarf, and can pick up one-hit knockouts if its opponents don't respect its damage.
Iron Crown similarly appears only once in the Top 32, this time on Joseph Russell's team. This Pokémon appears in a popular team composition known as "Psyspam", a strategy in which a team features a Pokémon that can set up the Psychic Terrain, mainly Indeedee, and at least one other Pokémon that can use the attack Expanding Force, in this case being Iron Crown. Expanding Force is a powerful Psychic-type attack that gains a huge damage boost on Psychic Terrain; while its base power is only 80, the Psychic Terrain gives the attack an additional 50% damage boost on top of the usual 30% damage boost from the terrain, as well as a 50% boost from the same-type attack bonus (STAB), and is given the ability to hit both opposing Pokémon. This massive and sudden damage output can quickly overwhelm teams if they're not prepared, but can also be easily countered by Pokémon that can replace the Psychic Terrain, like Rillaboom, or Dark-type Pokémon that are immune to Psychic-type attacks.
Okidogi appears twice in the Top 32, on 2022 Santiago Regional Champion Diego Gutierrez' and Teemu Mankinen's teams. In both cases, Okidogi uses its respectable defensive stats on top of the Assault Vest held item to stand its ground against the format's powerful attackers. It also works well as a hard counter to the ever-popular Incineroar; Okidogi's ability Guard Dog boosts its Attack stat by one stage if affected by Intimidate, instead of the usual Attack drop, and Okidogi also learns Upper Hand, a fighting-type attack that flinches the target, but only works if the target has selected an attack with increased priority, such as Incineroar's Fake Out.
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