A collection of the best Pokemon Go gym combat research articles inspired by Pokebattler
Tier 3 and 4 Raid Guide – Newer, Better, More Effective
Tier 3 and Tier 4 Raid Counter Infographics I did my best to make my wife go blind these last few days making her mess with teeny tiny Pokemon Go icons in Photoshop. But if you know anything about Pokebattler, you know we can't rest until we've got THE most accurate...
Pokemon Go Tier 4 Raid Boss Guide
There has been a major update of this guide. Please see the new version here: Tier 3 and 4 Raid Guide – Newer, Better, More Effective Original article: Download Infographic After much researching, updating, and tweaking, we have an updated raid infographic and an...
Choose Your Attackers v9.0.1 – What attackers are (theoretically) the best against specific defenders / raid bosses
The spreadsheet you have long waited for is finally there 🙂 Instructions Target Input sheet: enter the defender, its moves, how much % of fast and charge moves you will dodge, and the raid boss tier (enter 0 if it's not a raid boss but a regular gym defender). There...
Raid Research Update
There has been a major update of this guide. Please see the new version here: Tier 3 and 4 Raid Guide – Newer, Better, More Effective Infographic download link Pokemon Go Raids are here and Pokebattler has been busy researching exactly how everything works. This is an...
Gym Remodeling Theorycraft #4 – Fix Super Effective Confirmed!
Niantic, in a determined effort to make sure that I don't sleep, overnight pushed out a new game master. There were a few hints in there regarding how raids will work but the big news is that they agreed with me and updated super effectiveness and added immunity!....
Gym Remodeling Theorycraft #3 – Raid Bosses
Skip to the Simulations Today was a big day in the Pokemon Go world. Tons of new information regarding upcoming changes to the gym combat scene! Niantic themselves said themselves in their announcement post: The biggest update to Pokémon GO is nearly here! Very soon,...
Gym Remodeling Theorycraft #2 – Fix Prestiging
This is the second article in the Gym Remodeling Theorycraft series, for the first article, check out Gym Remodeling Theorycraft #1 – Fix Super Effective Prestige Issues Once again, Pokebattler has been updated with new formulas in our attempt to balance the...
Gym Remodeling Theorycraft #1 – Fix Super Effective
This is article 1 in a series, see Gym Remodeling #2 - Fix Prestiging for more As most Pokemon Go fans are aware, a giant gym rework is coming any day now. Pokebattler.com has decided to take this downtime to experiment with a theoretical rework to address some of the...
Underrated Prestigers #7: Hatching Pineco is not as bad as it seems (aka Forretress the Snorlax slayer)
So you were disappointed because half of your last six 10km eggs were Pineco. However, the good news is that two hatched Pineco make a Forretress in the 1260 CP range, which is half the CP of the typical gym bottom defenders in many areas. The even better news is that...
The Best Blissey Counters, Considering Sub-Optimal Movesets with Realistic Dodging Pro
There have been many threads discussing options for Blissey counters. Most rank by species, listing the best 1 or 2 movements, without comparing the relative movements. I thought it would be interesting to compare how rankings changed with specific sub-optimal...
Stamina is Broken in Pokemon Go
First, let's start by defining a few terms. Base Stamina is calculated from the main series games (based on Generation 6 stats) it is the same for each Pokemon irrespective of level and IVs. HP is what you see on a specific Pokemon's health bar; it is based on the...
Damage Breakpoints
While I understand that when powering up past level 30, the DPS of your Pokemon doesn't increase substantially, there has been discussion what are the various sweet-spot levels to power up to. While all these depends on both the defender types, their levels and their...
Underrated Prestigers #6: Fighting Fire with Fire – why Magcargo is the best prestiger against Fire
According to most sources (example), Slugma is the most frequent event spawn together with Geodude. It has a relatively low catch rate, so why waste Razz Berries and Great/Ultra Balls on it? Because Magcargo is the most efficient prestiger against Flareon, Arcanine,...
Underrated Prestigers #5: Beedrill and Furret are among the best allrounders for prestiging
We have to catch Weedle and Sentret anyway for stardust and XP. Everyone evolves a lot of Furret, and those of you that aren't into power leveling (e.g. being level 30+ and finding the diminishing returns of stardust investments after level 30 not so attractive) can...
Underrated Prestigers #4: Jumpluff is the tankiest prestiger against Vaporeon and Rhydon
I hope you enjoyed the Grass event and caught, among others, a lot of Hoppip. The reward will be Jumpluff, which is a very revive-efficient prestiger against two of the most common defenders in current gyms: Vaporeon and Rhydon. Stats Attack = 118, Defense = 197,...
Realistic dodging shakes up defender rankings
Major shifts in the rankings for defenders are coming soon to Pokebattler! Recently two new features were added to the battle simulator for Pokebattler that dramatically increases the accuracy of simulations. The first is the addition of dodge strategies to the...
Made a simple tip sheet for the Grass Event
Hey there! I decided to make a simple tip sheet for the Grass Event. Unfortunately, this was made by me and not my girlfriend so it has a noticeable drop in aesthetic quality. I decided to say "any" for Exeggutor's fast attacks because of what you use Exeggutor for...
The Blisssey Beatdown Chart
Made a chart a while ago for my team page and my gf basically took it from F tier to A class. Since I know people are going to nit-pick, I understand that other Pokemon can be used to fight Blissey and other movesets are serviceable. I just featured some key mons and...
Choose Your Prestigers (and Attackers) v8.1
Here's the spreadsheet. TL;DR: Fill in Target Input and get the results in RBE and RDPS list. Sort by Total Eff (best). TL;DR and too lazy to fill in: the sheet Prestiger Values already has rankings against the most common defenders. TL;DR and too lazy even to open...
Underrated Prestigers #3: Noctowl is the new Pidgeot
TL;DR: Noctowl is a very tanky generalist prestiger and it packs a punch against Snorlax. Some long-time players may remember the times when Pidgeot with Wing Attack / Hurricane was considered the best commonly available prestiger. In particular it was excellent...
Dittostrat 2.0: Wigglytuff is still the best prestiger against Ditto (assuming no switching)
I made a simple calculator that shows how Wigglytuff is the 9th-fastest and the 5th-most revive-efficient prestiger against Ditto. Assumptions: - We are going for 1000 prestige, so we need to attack a level-N Ditto with a level-N/2 Pokémon. - No attacker...
Underrated Prestigers #2: Don’t sleep on Raticate! (Gen2 version)
This is the second post in the Underrated Prestigers series (first post here: Lanturn and Poliwrath). Before Gen2 release, everyone knew that catching Rattata was not only useful for the Youngster medal, but with Bite / Hyper Beam it was actually a good...
Underrated Prestigers #1: Lanturn and Poliwrath can satisfy 80% of your prestiging needs
This is the first post in a series that I will call Underrated Prestigers. I wrote this first post during the Water Festival, so the main characters are two Water Pokémon: Lanturn and Poliwrath. According to my CP efficiency calculator, these are their relative...
New defender rankings based on *real* gym battles (not simulations). Alpha testing (V0)
Note: Please read explanations before coming to any conclusions about this. Introduction You may remember me for my Quantitative gym defender rankings series where I used simulations to rank defenders while accounting for type based on survey data. I am now taking...
Best prestigers against Dragonite, based on 3 million battle simulations
TL;DR Scroll down to the table in the middle of the post. If you've already read my previous threads on CP efficiency for Snorlax, Gyarados, Vaporeon, Exeggutor, or Lapras, skip the intros and go to the new section on Measuring efficiency. Noob's intro to how...
Prestiging – Advanced Simulations Infographic
Hello travelers! Instructions: Generally, slightly better prestigers are towards the center of the circle, Pay attention to the colors, they tell you what movesets you are looking for with each prestiger! (one of the exceptions, though, is Vileplume against Vaporeon,...
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...
PoGo Ranking List of Prestigers and Counters – Version 3
Hello Travellers and Trainers, I finally have version 3 of my ranking lists ready for release! You can read my 2 previous ranking list attempts here and here. One quick note before we dive in... I will not be significantly updating the attacker and defender list for...
Ranking Graphics
This graphic shows the 26 fastest average clear times of all Pokemon in Pokemon Go. As you can see, there are some unusual contenders that made it on towards the end. The order was determined based on the fastest clear by the Pokemon with their primary moveset (to...