Shoma Honami

Biography

Shoma “SHADEviera” Honami is a Japanese player and the 2015 Pokémon VGC World Champion. He qualified two times to Worlds and competed 3 consecutive years in Japan Nationals.

During an interview in the VGC website TrainerTower, he complained about Japan’s circuit along the previous years:

“2013 was pretty terrible, because only two people could go to worlds from Japan. And 2012 was really bad, because only six people from the Japan cup made it to Nationals, and those six people were chosen somewhat randomly from the top finishers. No one actually knew how they were picked. And out of those six people, only two made it to worlds, again.”