All Hail the Water Festival

All Hail the Water Festival

And on the 22nd day of March at 1PM, the Niantic Gods smiled upon us trainers and showered us with water Pokemon of many kinds. First the rumors spoke of just Magikarp, Squirtle and Totodile. But then appeared Tentacool, Psyduck, Slowpoke, Seel and perhaps even some...
50 Shades of Cheating

50 Shades of Cheating

We at Pokebattler are Pokemon purists. We don’t cheat. No spoofing, no maps, nothing. When we heard that Niantic was putting a lot of resources into stopping all forms of cheating, we didn’t mind. We felt like maybe their resources would have been better spent...
Prestiging – Advanced simulations

Prestiging – Advanced simulations

TL;DR: link to a spreadsheet with all the info about attackers, defenders, prestigers, battles won, battle durations, HP lost in a battle, counter ability and more, based on ~20 000 000 simulated battles not all Pokemon species had been used, as battles would have...