Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (11478 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (17169 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (24673 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (14722 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (19009 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (61534 views)

Hail Stall (22986 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (27015 views)

Archetypes (27100 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (11853 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 (26964 views)

Compilation of Movesets (22227 views)

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

Uber (40646 views)

Overused/Standard (69757 views)

Borderline (18096 views)

Underused (21825 views)

Neverused (23487 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 (26924 views)

Overused/Standard (27573 views)

Borderline (17547 views)

Underused (20819 views)

Neverused (21327 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (8919 views)

The Debate Tournament (7706 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!