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Heatran Raid Guide
Heatran Raid Guide Heatran- Lava Dome Pokémon [Personalized Counters] [Infographic Download] Heatran is the only Fire/Steel type Pokemon, and is 2x weak to Ground-Type attacks. It used to be not that good...
Pokebattlers Terrakion Raid Guide
TerrakionTerrakion - The Cavern Pokémon Terrakion is the second in a Legendary Trio ( +1 Mythical) of deer-esque Pokemon! They are a Gen 5 crew all themed around the members of the Three...
Pokebattler’s Cobalion Raid Counters
CobalionCobalion - The Iron Will Pokemon. Cobalion is the first in a Legendary Trio ( +1 Mythical) of Deer-eque Pokemon! They are a Gen 5 crew all themed around the members of the Three Musketeers....
Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Regirock Raid Guide!
RegirockRegirock - The Rock Peak Pokemon Regirock is a member of the Legendary Titans/Golems from Hoenn. These Pokemon all have design elements inspired by Braille, which was incorporated in a puzzle you...
Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Registeel Raid Guide!
RegisteelRegisteel - The Iron Pokemon. Registeel is a member of the Legendary Titans/Golems from Hoenn. These Pokemon all have design elements inspired by Braille, which was incorporated in a puzzle you...
Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Regice Raid Guide!
RegiceRegice - The Iceberg Pokemon Regice is a member of the Legendary Titans/Golems from Hoenn. These Pokemon all have design elements inspired by Braille, which was incorporated in a puzzle you had to...
Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Darkrai Raid Guide!
DarkraiDarkrai is the counterpart to Cresselia, making up the Lunar Duo! A bizzare one to be sure, as Darkrai is categorized as a Mythical Pokemon (among Mew, Celebi and Jirachi). They create involuntary Nightmares everywhere they go and had some of the most powerful...
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Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Mewtwo [TIER 6] Raid Guide!
Mewtwo [UPDATED 9/18/2019 for Gen 5 and Psystrike re-balance] Mewtwo is one of the most iconic and formidable Pokemon from Gen 1, boasting fantastic stats and moves. It was created as a hyper-offensive clone of Mew to be used by Team Rocket as a weapon. That-didn't...
Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Azelf Raid Guide!
Download Printable High-Res Infographic Interactive Azelf Counters Guide Azelf Azelf is a member of the Lake Trio of Legendary Pokemon released in Gen 4. Azelf represents willpower, and gave it to humanity as its gift after being created by Arceus. Azelf often gets...
Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Suicune Raid Guide!
Download Printable High-Res Infographic Interactive Suicune Counters Guide Suicune The Third Global Catch Challenge has been complete, and in addition to triple stardust rewards, we're getting Suicune day! Now with a chance of a shiny cobalt-blue mane! The only...
New Rayquaza Contests!
Yes, some include using Aggron. Pokebattler is proud to announce a new set of contests for the Rayquaza Raids just starting today through September 2nd. Update August 3, 2019 Current leader for Aggron only once he submits the videos: 13s remaining by KiengIv ...
Team Rocket Update
Update #2, A special guest has taken over the Pokebattler channel to provide you critical information about how to build a Team Rocket battle party! On July 22nd, Team GO Rocket started to mysteriously...
Cracking the Case: CP Formula for Team Rocket Shadow Pokemon
Edit: On July 25th Team Rocket returned and has higher stats. Our current hunch is that now defense and stamina are also boosted. A 2.5x multiplier seems to fit the tier 1 invasions. We can use your help for research! Please post videos of your invasions along with...
Armored Mewtwo Analysis and Raid Guide
Download Printable High-Res Infographic Interactive Mewtwo - Armored Counters Guide Mewtwo - Armored Waiting until the absolute last moment, Niantic has dropped this decked out form of Mewtwo into Pokemon go! Not only that, but Armored Mewtwo has arrived with entirely...
Contest Winners and Additional Pokebattler EX Raid Contests!
First, contest winners for the Deoxys - Attack Forme have been chosen, watch this amazing video to see how what it takes to compete in these contests ...
New Pokebattler EX Raid Contests! Fastest Time and Lowest CP
New Ex Raid Contests - Soloing Deoxys Attack Forme Hold onto your smartphones, Pokebattler is proud to present a new contest! Actually, make that two contests! The legendary Deoxys - Attack Forme is totally solo-able, which gave us some ideas for some unique contests....
Rayquaza Duo Challenge: We have winners!
EDIT: We have winners! Updating with a new blog post now! It's time for another exciting Pokebattler Pokemon Go contest! The last one was quite popular so we thought this time we'd kick it up a notch. We...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 #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...
Realistic Dodging update, now with more realism!
So its been two weeks since the realistic dodging update was pushed out and I've gotten a ton of feedback. Unfortunately, no one can agree what realistic dodging means! Some people don't like how much I penalize the super effective text. Others wanted faster moves to...
Realistic Blissey Counters Revisited
My recent post on Realistic Blissey Counters generated quite a few comments on reddit. Most of these comments had to do with the way Overall rating was calculated.Overall rating is composed of 50% Power, 30% Combat Time and 20% Potions. The issue comes down to, how...