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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...