Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (12090 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (18030 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (27075 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (15671 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (20386 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (64411 views)

Hail Stall (25081 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (29265 views)

Archetypes (28846 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (12626 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 (28242 views)

Compilation of Movesets (23889 views)

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

Uber (42100 views)

Overused/Standard (71872 views)

Borderline (18864 views)

Underused (22773 views)

Neverused (24885 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 (28564 views)

Overused/Standard (29036 views)

Borderline (18672 views)

Underused (22220 views)

Neverused (22568 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (9454 views)

The Debate Tournament (8213 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!