Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (10681 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (16144 views)

Common Strategies
Subpunching? Subpassing? BOAH? No? Oh dear; you'd better click here quickly.

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (21744 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (13213 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (16802 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (57816 views)

Hail Stall (20268 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (22976 views)

Archetypes (25142 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (10742 views)

Mechanics
EVS FTW

Game Mechanics

Team Rating and Building
Your team sucks so badly it has it's own set of drinking straws? Fear not!

Forums Get your teams rated!

Tips on Team Building (24486 views)

Compilation of Movesets (19663 views)

Gen III Tiers
Where does X fit? Usually between W and Y, but you can find out here anyway.

Uber (38240 views)

Overused/Standard (67297 views)

Borderline (16825 views)

Underused (20267 views)

Neverused (21198 views)

Gen IV Tiers
Now that they've got a new generation, X suddenly moved to be between I and V, which are now all adjacent.

Uber (23835 views)

Overused/Standard (24845 views)

Borderline (15419 views)

Underused (18356 views)

Neverused (18995 views)

Tournaments
I wanna be the very best, like lots of people already have been.

The First Wifi Tournament (8134 views)

The Debate Tournament (6962 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!