Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (12093 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (18032 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (27083 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (15675 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (20391 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (64421 views)

Hail Stall (25093 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (29277 views)

Archetypes (28851 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (12628 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 (28245 views)

Compilation of Movesets (23897 views)

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

Uber (42104 views)

Overused/Standard (71875 views)

Borderline (18871 views)

Underused (22776 views)

Neverused (24889 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 (28567 views)

Overused/Standard (29040 views)

Borderline (18675 views)

Underused (22223 views)

Neverused (22572 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (9455 views)

The Debate Tournament (8215 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!