Competitive Battling

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This section is part of the following section: Games.

Section Editors: Anarcree

Other Pages

Hidden Power Replacements (11655 views)

An Introduction to Competitive Battling Class 101 : Competitive Battling for Dummies! (17415 views)

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

Trick Room Next door to Mush Room. (25525 views)

Basics on Predicting Know what your opponent is thinking (14980 views)

Coverall Combinations Be able to cover as many Pokemon as possible (19412 views)

Rain Dance As taught by ancient tribal witch doctors (62489 views)

Hail Stall (23733 views)

Common Terminology
A CB OHKO QA LOL

Abbreviations and General Terminology (27815 views)

Archetypes (27622 views)

Counters To clear up any misconceptions (12068 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 (27472 views)

Compilation of Movesets (22727 views)

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

Uber (41147 views)

Overused/Standard (70400 views)

Borderline (18341 views)

Underused (22157 views)

Neverused (23946 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 (27500 views)

Overused/Standard (28020 views)

Borderline (17884 views)

Underused (21286 views)

Neverused (21715 views)

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

The First Wifi Tournament (9084 views)

The Debate Tournament (7874 views)

Current Tournaments See what Tournaments are currently running!