Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (10833 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (16375 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (22367 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (13546 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (17282 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (58646 views)

Hail Stall (20817 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (23748 views)

Archetypes (25561 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (10973 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 (24931 views)

Compilation of Movesets (20226 views)

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

Uber (38795 views)

Overused/Standard (67861 views)

Borderline (17078 views)

Underused (20606 views)

Neverused (21671 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 (24442 views)

Overused/Standard (25329 views)

Borderline (15876 views)

Underused (18849 views)

Neverused (19512 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (8301 views)

The Debate Tournament (7105 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!