A collection of the best Pokemon Go gym combat research articles inspired by Pokebattler
New Higher Friendship Bonus Research Results!
After Niantic’s announcement about friendship bonus, we have discovered how this has affected Ultra Friend and Best Friend damage bonuses! HUGE news for Groudon on Raikou day! Video analysis In the below videos, we chose Pokemon on the edge of a new breakpoint and...
Tier 6 Mewtwo Counters and Raid Guide – September 2018
High-Quality Infographic Download Interactive Mewtwo Raid Guide Livestream discussion Tier 6 Mewtwo Counters and Raid Guide: September 20, 2018 Update with new moves and hp Mewtwo has had some dramatic changes including becoming available WITHOUT an EX raid...
World’s First Regirock Trio Analysis
Video Transcript: The infamous raider Kieng and his two ultra friend trainers, Hundohunter, and Erasold managed to trio a Regirock with an army of max level, perfect and nearly perfect IV Kyogre, with a...
Stardust efficiency and breakpoints of lucky Pókemon
First of all, many thanks to Celandro for asking me to write about lucky Pokémon after reading my post on The Silph Road subreddit. This is a more refined article based on said post, reflecting on the questions and criticism of fellow players as well as some aspects I...
Massive Server Bug in Pokemon Go
I don't normally like to create such inflammatory articles, but this time it's absolutely warranted. Something is wrong with the Pokemon Go servers and the results are unexpected. Read on to find out what, or look at the image above closely for spoilers,...
Pokebattler vs. In Game Autosuggest with a Jynx Solo, and new full raid simulation Battle Parties!
Video Transcript: Welcome to another Pokebattler raid video. This is going to look at the difference between the game’s autosuggest and Pokebattler’s suggestions with a Jynx Solo and we’re going to...
Determining Which Gyms will Get you Ex-Raid Passes for Mewtwo: Part 2
In my earlier article, I outlined how EX raid eligible gyms are determined based on OSM data from 2016 and level 20 s2 cells. In this article, I will explain how we can use that information to generate a custom Google Map showing which gyms are eligible for EX raids,...
The best generalists for each weather (including unreleased Gen3 Pokémon)
Here are my rankings of the best attackers against a neutral target (i.e. not considering type advantages and resistances) for every weather currently available in Pokémon GO. The first table is based on my "Raid Score" metric, where DPS is weighed exponentially and...
Choose Your Attackers v12.0 – more accuracy + finally a Lite version with several weak attackers removed
A new version of my famous spreadsheet is there. Now there is even a Lite Version without a lot of irrelevant attackers! (Sorry Murkrow.) WARNING! Even if the v12 Lite version is faster than the full v11, it may happen that you need to exit and re-enter in order to...
Aggron Raid Guide & Infographic with Weather
High Quality Infographic Download Interactive Aggron Raid Guide Getting to know Aggron The latest Pokemon Go update brought us a new Tier 4 raid boss: Aggron. He happens to be the toughest tier 4 raid boss to beat, needing a minimum of three trainers to take him down....
Analysis on EX Raid Gym Distribution Using S2 Cell Level 12
When EX Raid was first announced, it was not clearly communicated to us how to obtain the elusive EX Raid pass. But on 21st November, Niantic announced the end of Field Test and made EX Raid official. This also came with announcement to do raids at parks and sponsored...
Choose Your Attackers v11.0 – with complete Gen3 and Weather Boosts
A new version of my famous spreadsheet is there. As you probably know, it's a theoretical spreadsheet. If you like exact rankings, I recommend to check the excellent Pokébattler raid rankings because they are based on simulations. However, simulations are as accurate...
Groudon Raid Guide Infographic Featuring Weather
Groudon Raid Guide High-Quality Infographic Download (Printer Friendly) Interactive Groudon Raid Guide This raid guide covers levels 30-40. For lower levels, check out the interactive raid guide (linked above). Groudon is an awesome new ground Pokemon. A level 25...
The Most Useful Pokemon Including Gen 3 Infographic
/u/ControvT made an insightful post at ground zero for Pokemon Go analysis, www.reddit.com/r/thesilphroad, using Pokebattler for the analysis. They graciously gave us permission to post it here for your reference. Lots of interesting new Gen 3 mons, although most of...
An investigation into Raikou breakpoints
Breakpoints are an advanced topic in Pokemon Go. For an intro to breakpoints, please read the Damage Breakpoints article first. The Mystery of Raikou Raikou has very strange performance in the Pokebattler rankings for Ho-Oh. He starts in 3rd place at level 30, slowly...
A more realistic “suggested group size” for raids (v2.0)
Did you ever pay attention to the "suggested group size" for raids? 5 for a Metapod, 9 for a Sandslash, 13 for a Machamp and 20 for a legendary. Of course it doesn't make sense. Here I propose a (simple?) formula to calculate a much more realistic "suggested group...
Announcing the 1st Pokebattler Contest: Solo a Ninetales, win a Year Long Pokebox Membership!
UPDATE: We have a winner! https://articles.pokebattler.com/2017/12/06/ninetales-solo-contest-winner/ Attention trainers, the gauntlet has been thrown down! Oddly enough, the relatively useless Pokemon known as Ninetales is THE hardest Tier 3 raid boss to solo. But we...
A little guide to solo 2-star raids (Exeggutor, Magmar, Electabuzz, Muk, Weezing)
TL;DR: Exeggutor and Magmar are really easy to solo by exploiting their numerous weaknesses. Weezing is the hardest by far, but it can be tamed with a mix of Psychic glass cannons and sturdy Rhydon/Golem. Electabuzz and Muk are in between. This is meant to be a guide...
Choose Your Attackers v10.0 – added Gen3 (and Suicune with Hidden Power)
A new version of my famous spreadsheet is there. As you probably know, it's a theoretical spreadsheet. If you like exact rankings, I recommend to check the excellent Pokébattler raid rankings because they are based on simulations. However, simulations are as accurate...
Simulating Charge Moves is Hard
Pokebattler takes great pride in high simulation accuracy. This article is about the most recent research in Pokemon Go Gym Combat. Simulations are never going to be an exact replica of the real world but we are getting closer and closer every release. The most recent...
Water & Mud = Entei Drowned in a Sea of Krabbys
Hello trainers & travellers! The Team Cornebre strikes once again. Now we challenged our current Legendary Beast : Entei. The selected Pokémon for the task: The Mighty Krabby! The deal was the same as with Lugia: Only wild catches, no power-ups. Moreover, this...
Advanced SwagTips – Bonus Balls
Do you want to know how to maximize your damage ball bonus? Want to know if you can theoretically do a solo raid or how to set up a low party raid clear? By using the Pokebattler raid tool, along with some math, you can figure this out! Watch the video to find out...
Mewtwo counter tiers (including non-best movesets)
TL;DR: Tyranitar, Mewtwo, Gengar, Houndoom, Scizor, Pinsir, Dragonite, Alakazam, Gyarados, in this order. Here is my personal tiered ranking of the best Mewtwo counters, including non-optimal movesets. It's different from celandro's Mewtwo Raid Guide for two main...
Legendary Beasts Raid Guide
Printable High Resolution Beast Counters Download Hidden Power Detection Guide As usual , the infographic is intended to be easy to use. The best Pokemon are to the left. The best move types are in the upper left under each Pokemon quick attack followed by charge...
Choose Your Attackers v9.3 – Mewtwo, Raikou and everyone else
A new version of my famous spreadsheet is there. As you probably know, it's a theoretical spreadsheet. If you like exact rankings, I recommend to check the excellent Pokébattler raid rankings because they are based on simulations. However, simulations are as accurate...
Mewtwo Raid Guide
Edit: This is old. Check out our update for 2018 here. High Quality Infographic Download Interactive Mewtwo Raid Guide Update Mewtwo was released overnight in Yokohama as predicted! It is a single catch special edition. As such, you can not use Mewtwo to fight...
Choose Your Attackers v9.2 – Legendary update
A new version of my famous spreadsheet is there. As you probably know, it's a theoretical spreadsheet. If you like exact rankings, I recommend to check the excellent Pokébattler raid rankings because they are based on simulations. However, simulations are as accurate...
Legendary raids are here!
High Resolution Tier 5 Counter Download Printable Tier 5 Counter Download Tier 3 and 4 Raids This article is going to be a bit different than most. Its intended to cover all the events of the last day and a half. There was so many things going on, raids, research,...
A Further Look at the Attack Stat by Type
This was inspired by this post to work as a follow up on my first post about looking ahead at the attack stats by Pokemon type for each generation as we go. I will start with the current situation as we have it now and step through to cover each new generation as it...
Guide to a Quick and Cheap Level 30 Legendary Raid Battler
We don't know yet when Legendary Pokémon will appear, but it might be soon and time is running out to prepare. A lot of us hope they will show up during/after Go-Fest. There are multiple lists circulating the best raid Pokémon available to fight the Legendaries. But...