Pokemon Champions
What is This?
This page if full of everything you need to know to climb the #Pokemon Champions ranked ladder. Including sections about Rental Codes, Team Building, Team Planners & Analytics, Battle Testing, and How to Improve. You can also find additional Pokemon Resources here.
The information on this page assumes you have a firm understanding of the VGC format. If you're new or starting from scratch I'd recommend going through the VGC Guide or watching this video.
Rental Codes
Team Building
While this video is from an older format, the logic is evergreen.
Having a solid team core is one of the main building blocks to good synergy. While some of the videos contain information for previous formats, the base line still holds true.
Team Planners & Analytics
- PokeSynergy - Best team building tool; It does everything you need. Watch the Tech Demo
- Showdown Calculator - Run damage calculations
- Marriland - Visualize your team's resistances and weaknesses
- Pikalytics - View data and trends
- Labmaus - View data and trends
Battle Testing
Testing your team to find weaknesses, make micro-adjustments, and learn from experience is critical to your path to improvement. Using Pokemon Showdown is the easiest way to test teams before committing your resources.
I highly recommend installing the Showdex plugin so you can learn moves and damage calcs easier.
You can download the PASRS google sheet and fill in the information to help anaylze your games. There is also a video below from an older version of the sheet going over the basics.
How to Improve
More Pokemon Content
This page is full of information specifically for #Pokemon, you can also see the Pokemon Resources page or other pages tagged with #Pokemon for additional information.