Okay,please enjoy this guide,I made it soo long ago I was probably sweet and innocent then.



Which Pokemon you decide to use also depends on what you want them to do.
Here are some of the ways that Pokemon can be trained.

Sweeper-A Pokemon who's mostly meant to attack. Depending on which stat is
better, you can either have a Physical Sweeper or a Special Sweeper.
Sometimes, the Physical and Special Stats are close enough that you can make
the Pokemon a Mixed Sweeper, with both Physical AND Special attacks.
Sweepers in general also have a lot of speed on them, so they can get their
hits in before the other guy does.

Tank-Usually a Pokemon with good Defense, Tanks are MADE to take hits. Tanks
have recovering moves, like Rest, and items that recover hit points. There
are a couple of variations of this. The Wall is meant to take any kind of
Physical hit, while the Sponge is meant to take all kinds of Special Attacks.

Choice Bander/CB-er: A Pokemon holding the item Choice Band. Choice Band
increases the power of your moves, but you can only use one move...Until
you switch out, at least!


Spiker-Spiker is a Pokemon who has either the move Spikes or Toxic Spikes.

STANDARD VS NON-STANDARD MOVESETS

The problem with a Pokemon's moveset is that after a while you end up seeing
the same thing over and over again. For instance, it's easy to guess that a
Garchomp will be a Physical Sweeper, or a Gengar will be a Special Sweeper
or a Hypnosis-er.

So, you want to create your own moveset? Well, the first thing you should
know is that the standard movesets are standard for a reason. They've been
tested and used by the people who know their Pokemon. For instance, putting
a move like Recover on a Shedinja is kind of silly, since it only has one hit
point, period.

Look at the Pokemon's base stats. Look at the moves it can learn. What
do you want it to do? Once you've figured that out, you can figure out what
Nature's right for it. Then you can decide where to put its' EVs.

Once you're done with everything, the next thing you want to do is try it out
in a Battle. Multiple Battles would be the best, as that gives you a better
understanding of how your new Pokemon works.

NATURES

Once you've figured out what you're going to use and what its' role is going
to be, the next thing you must do is get the Pokemon itself. Each Pokemon
comes with a "Personality" or "Nature" on it. These natures affect how the
Pokemon's stats grow. Here's what each personality does. The Plus sign means
that Stat grows quicker, the Minus sign means that stat grows slower.

-Lonely: +Attack, -Defense
-Brave: +Attack, -Speed
-Adamant: +Attack, -Special Attack
-Naughty: +Attack, -Special Defense

-Bold: +Defense, -Attack
-Relaxed: +Defense, -Speed
-Impish: +Defense, -Special Attack
-Lax: +Defense, -Special Defense

-Timid: +Speed, -Attack
-Hasty: +Speed, -Defense
-Jolly: +Speed, -Special Attack
-Naive: +Speed, -Special Defense

-Modest: +Special Attack, -Attack
-Mild: +Special Attack, -Defense
-Quiet: +Special Attack, -Speed
-Rash: +Special Attack, -Special Defense

-Calm: +Special Defense, -Attack
-Gentle: +Special Defense, -Defense
-Sassy: +Special Defense, -Speed
-Careful: +Special Defense, -Special Attack

There are also some Natures that DON'T affect any Stat. They are Hardy,
Docile, Serious, Bashful, and Quirky.

When you've figured out what Nature will affect your Pokemon's stats in the
best way, the next thing to do is get a Pokemon with that Nature. It's harder
than it looks. The easiest way is to find one in the wild and catch it, but
there are times when you can't do it that way. If the Pokemon you want can't
be found in the wild, or if the Pokemon can only learn the moves you want by
breeding.

The Day Care center in Solaceon Town has an option where you can raise two
Pokemon at a time. If those two Pokemon are in the same breeding group, and
if they're different genders, they'll make a Pokemon egg. The baby Pokemon is
the same species as its' mother, and if it can learn the TMs that its' father
has, it will have those TMs.
BASE STATS AND TIERS
Base Stats are more or less the numbers used to calculate the stats for each
species of Pokemon. The Base Stats change when the Pokemon Evolves. In other
words, they're a quick way to see what each Pokemon's strongest and weakest
stats are. A good way to see which Pokemon is more suited for combat is to
add all its' Base Stats together. That Palkia has a MUCH higher total than a
Pachirisu.

Experienced Battlers like to rank Pokemon by how much their total
Base Stats are, and by the moves that it learns. The larger the total is,
and the more moves it learns, the higher it's ranked. Each rank
is called a Tier, so when people use the phrase "High tier," that's what
they mean.

As much as I would like to include a list of what is on what tier, I've
noticed that it mostly comes down to personal opinion, meaning a LOT of
arguments over what goes where. Alakazam for instance, is one of the ones
that nobody is ever sure where it goes. That Special Attack, for instance,
would put it in Overused, but its' Defense would suggest that it goes in the
Borderline tier. So I've decided to stay away from all that arguing. If you
want a what's on what Tier list, try Smogon.com or Serebii.net.

LEGENDARIES AND UBERS

Some people (Until recently that included myself) tend to just shove all the
Legendary Pokemon into one category. "They're all Legendaries, right?!
They're all the same." But another look at the Base Stats of some of them
shows that some Legendaries are actually stronger than others. They are put
on the highest tier, Uber, and banned from most Battles. Here's the list,
according to Serebii.net.

-Arceus
-Darkrai
-Deoxys
-Dialga
-Giratina
-Groudon
-Ho-oh
-Kyogre
-Latias
-Latios
-Lugia
-Manaphy
-Mew
-Mewtwo
-Palkia
-Rayquaza
-Garchomp
INDIVIDUAL VALUES AND HIDDEN POWER
Individual Values, or IVs for short are numbers, from 0 to 31, given to each
and every Pokemon when you first encounter it. This determines what your
Pokemon's stats are. For instance you see how two Pokemon, even if they have
the same Nature, have some different stats? That's IVs. I am NOT good at
calculating them, so please don't ask. there is another way, though. In
Diamond and Pearl, you can tell what stat has the highest IV on each Pokemon
by looking at its' Summary See the line at the bottom of the screen where
its' Nature is shown? the "Loves to Eat," "Somewhat vain" "Likes to thrash
about." That's the Stat with the highest IV.

Okay, here's where things get a little complicated. Each saying stands for
a bunch of possible IVs. So if you get "Often dozes off" for the highest IV,
it could be 31, but it could also be 26, 21, 16, 11, 6, or 1. The sayings go
around in a pattern, which repeats itself

Anyways, here's the list of the pattern. At the end, they repeat.

HIT POINTS
31-Often dozes off
30-Loves to Eat
29-Likes to Relax
28-Scatters things often
27-Often scatters things
26-Often dozes off

ATTACK
31-Likes to thrash about
30-Proud of its' Power
29-Quick Tempered
28-Likes to fight
27-A little Quick-Tempered
26-Likes to Thrash about

DEFENSE
31-Capable of taking hits
30-Sturdy Body
29-Good perseverance
28-Good endurance
27-Highly persistent
26-Capable of taking hits

SPEED
31-Alert to sounds
30-Likes to run
29-Quick to flee
28-Somewhat of a clown
27-Impetuous and silly
26-Alert to sounds

SPECIAL ATTACK
31-Mischeivous
30-Highly Curious
29-Very Finicky
28-Often lost in thought
27-Thoroughly cunning
26-Mischeivous

SPECIAL DEFENSE
31-Somewhat Vain
30-Strong Willed
29-Somewhat Stubborn
28-Hates to lose
27-Strongly Defiant
26-Somewhat Vain

Calculating IVs is not my thing, so I could still have a mistake or two here,
but at least I figured out the whole chart.

It is possible to breed IVs, when your Pokemon make an egg that egg gets
the IVs from three different stats from its parents. The other three are
put on randomly.

IVs also affect a move called Hidden Power. They affect what type it is, and
how powerful it is. If you want your Pokemon to have a particular type, it
may take a while to get the right one.

It takes a lot of patience to breed for high IVs in the right stats. Serious
players will try to get good IVs just to get that extra boost. I personally
don't have that patience, I figure, as long as it's the right Nature, I'm all
right. IVs are just extra icing on the cake. But that's just my opinion.

MACHO BRACE, AND POKERUS.


The item Macho Brace makes the Effort Values, or EVs for short, double, so
instead of getting one EV Point from fighting a Gastly, you get two.

On very rare occasions, the lady at any Pokemon Center will tell you that your
Pokemon has a disease called Pokerus. Unlike real life, it's a very good
thing to get Pokerus. Pokerus does the same thing that Macho Brace does, it
doubles the EVs you get from fighting Pokemon. If your Pokemon has Pokerus,
you'll see it in the Pokemon's summary.

After a few days outside the storage box, your Pokemon will lose the purple
box and gain a smiley face in the lower right corner of its picture. This
DOES NOT mean your Pokemon has lost the EV gain. It means that your
Pokemon won't be able to spread it to any other Pokemon. Keep the
infected Pokemon in the Storage Box if you don't want that to happen. If
you want another Pokemon to get Pokerus, just keep it in the same party
as an infected one and fight some battles. After a while, check the
new Pokemon's summary to see if it has Pokerus. If not, keep on
battling.

STRATEGY

The VERY first thing you should know is what your opponent is doing. That
includes:

-What Pokemon they use
-What attacks they will use
-When they will switch out (And if so, what they will switch to.)

For instance, the opponent will usually switch when their Pokemon's Stats
have been affected. If their Pokemon's asleep, they won't wait two to five
turns for it to wake up, they'll get it out of there.

Usually, they will switch to something that can counter your Pokemon.

This is another big strategy. Switching out gives the person that doesn't
switch a free turn. They can do anything from increasing their Stats to
winding up for a devastating Focus Punch.

What switches in is equally important. Focus Punch can't hit a Ghost Type,
and anything that uses Stat Boosters can be Hazed back to normal, or Roared
into a forced switch. If you want to turn the battle into a running game, by
switching Pokemon a lot, the opponent might ruin your plans with Pursuit or
Spikes.

This is where Abilities like Levitate, Water Absorb, or Volt Absorb are very
powerful. That Raichu is about to use a Thunderbolt on your Skarmory...No
problem. Switch to a Lanturn with Volt Absorb, then laugh as the bolt heals
you.

The opponent is also trying to predict what YOU will do. That adds a whole
new layer to the battle. I'll use the Raichu and Skarmory from earlier as an
example of how crazy prediction can get.

The opponent's Skarmory looks like they can easily be hit with a Thunderbolt,
but you know they have a Volt-Absorbing Lanturn on their Team. What's to stop
them from switching out and laughing in your face when Thunderbolt is made
completely useless?

So, you use a different attack. You go for a Nasty Plot. Then when the
opponent's Lanturn arrives, it'll get hit with a pumped-up Grass Knot.

But that's only one thing that could happen. Maybe the opponent will do
something completely different. Maybe they'll Switch, maybe they'll use Roar
to get rid of the Pokemon you're using. It's times like this when the
"Children's" game of Pokemon becomes a very big mind game.

Another good strategy is to ALWAYS expect the worst. If you must assume
anything, assume that the opponent has a move that could beat you. When the
opponent uses a move that has a chance of another effect, like Ice Beam, you
prepare for the worst, that your Pokemon will get frozen. This way, you
aren't terribly surprised when it actually happens, and if it doesn't, it's
a pleasant surprise.

Whatever you do, try not to let your opponent use Stat-Boosting moves. If
you see your opponent get in more than one Swords Dance, Calm Mind, Curse, or
any other move like that, either use a Hazer, or bring in a Pokemon with Roar.

Don't let a good Pokemon faint if you can help it. Even Exploders and
Self-Destructers. You might need that Pokemon further on in the Battle. If
the Pokemon's Hit Points are getting low, try and find a way to switch it out,
but if there's no way that the next Pokemon can survive a hit, then sometimes
it's better to let it faint. Then you can come back with a Fake Out or an Ice
Shard.



Now this is done,I can actually breethe deeply

this is really good, needed this when i first started playing. but i know most of this now

pretty good. =]

You can go ahead and add Garchomp to that Uber list.

Garchomp is uber now?

Yes sir.

In Smogon, it is.

Marriland hasn't assumed it yet. Although I guess everyone's embarking on the frenzy.
Pity. I think there are much better candidates for uber, like Deoxys-E.

Lol @ stat raising bit, rmember my stats raising registeel nat x)

Deoxys-E was broken, yes .. but he has MUCH MORE COUNTERS than Chomp and I've seen Chomp sweep 1/2 of a person's team with ease, maybe more, which is just unreal. In my eyes Chomp was in Rayquaza's league.

Besides that, Smogon is much more reliable for the official tiers list anyways. They put extensive testing on Chomp and Deoxys-E on Shoddy, and Chomp has come out Uber, while Deoxys-E has not.

I also think Bliss has a shot at Uber, being the ultimate wall and all that (used in Ubers battles as well <_<) but meh.