Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (10832 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (16374 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (22351 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (13539 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (17277 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (58636 views)

Hail Stall (20806 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (23742 views)

Archetypes (25556 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (10972 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 (24927 views)

Compilation of Movesets (20217 views)

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

Uber (38789 views)

Overused/Standard (67851 views)

Borderline (17077 views)

Underused (20601 views)

Neverused (21668 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 (24434 views)

Overused/Standard (25318 views)

Borderline (15873 views)

Underused (18841 views)

Neverused (19505 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (8298 views)

The Debate Tournament (7102 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!