Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (11571 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (17318 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (25138 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (14862 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (19227 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (62068 views)

Hail Stall (23428 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (27471 views)

Archetypes (27389 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (11964 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 (27275 views)

Compilation of Movesets (22523 views)

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

Uber (40920 views)

Overused/Standard (70152 views)

Borderline (18226 views)

Underused (22002 views)

Neverused (23733 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 (27256 views)

Overused/Standard (27812 views)

Borderline (17743 views)

Underused (21054 views)

Neverused (21536 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (9009 views)

The Debate Tournament (7814 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!