This is the end. I've taught you half of what you need to know about competitive battling. The other half, you'll need to learn yourself through experience. To cap it off, I am going to write about things to keep in mind.
- EVs, IVs, and Natures are SUPER IMPORTANT. Though I did go in to these before, I am not sure I got around how extraordinarily important they are. If you you go against a team of EV trained pokemon with a team of not EV trained pokemon, you will lose 99% of the time. The 1% of the time you win is because the opponent decided to use a team of 6 Magikarps for fun. Lets use the pokemon Shuckle as an example. Suckle has godly base 230 defense and special defense. It would be an amazing wall if it weren't for a horrible moveset, and base 20 hp. the latter of these, can be helped, however. Let's say you have a lvl 100 Shuckle with no EVs in hp. That Shuckle will have an hp stat of 150. Pretty pitiful for a wall. Now lets say you give Shuckle the maximum (252) hp EVs possible. That hp stat jumps up to 244! That is a 61% increase. 244 still isn't a lot, but it is much more usable. I did leave out that even if you played the game normally, you would end up randomly giving Shuckle hp EVs (around 42). That's only a hp stat of 160 though. Not much of an improvement over the lowest possible.
-Don't expect to win without careful team planning. This is the first mistake I made. Granted, you WILL win against your friends and their teams of in-game pokemon, and will probably even pull off some wins on Shoddy Battle, but in the long run, you will never compare to a carefully structured team.
-Have fun. You do worse if you aren't having fun. Try making a weird team that just for fun sometime or have a metronome only battle. Video games are supposed to be fun. Right?
That about wraps it up for this series. I am going to begin a new series of giving examples of original and unoriginal movesets for pokemon. I will also do the occasional full team example. See you then!
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