Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (11339 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (17020 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (24181 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (14509 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (18679 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (60850 views)

Hail Stall (22423 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (25720 views)

Archetypes (26767 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (11724 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 (26565 views)

Compilation of Movesets (21873 views)

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

Uber (40304 views)

Overused/Standard (69198 views)

Borderline (17915 views)

Underused (21549 views)

Neverused (23162 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 (26371 views)

Overused/Standard (27045 views)

Borderline (17242 views)

Underused (20439 views)

Neverused (21039 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (8800 views)

The Debate Tournament (7600 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!