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...
Original games stats analysis: except for pseudo-legendaries, nothing is guaranteed
TL;DR: Dragonite and Tyranitar cannot be bad. Everything else can. Arcanine and Kingdra may improve a lot. Original spreadsheet here. WARNING: There is a lot of speculation and guesswork here. At least guesses are data-based / educated guesses. With the gym rework,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Potential New Research: I just caught four shiny Magikarp using chaining.
After reading a few posts about "chaining" on The Silph Road, i.e., exclusively catching the same species of Pokemon over and over in order to increase the chances of encountering a shiny, I decided to test and see if this technique would work in Pokemon Go. I...
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...
Announcing articles.pokebatter.com!
Pokebattler.com is proud to announce the all new https://articles.pokebattler.com! The new site has many features including comments, rss feeds and a better UI! Don't worry all the existing articles are already there and in fact have been served from there for awhile...
Realistic Blissey Counters
The biggest issue people have always had with Pokebattler is that the simulator is too good. It does not accurately portray a real result. It turns out that in the real world, people do miss dodges. They get death loop bugs. They can't see the special coming due to...
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[Analysis] How Good Is Vaporeon Compared To All 7 Generations Of Water Types?
EDIT: Vaporeon has been dethroned since the writing of this article by Waterfall Pokemon such as Kyogre and Gyarados. TL;DR 💯💯Vaporeon 👌 👌 is 💯 👌 really 👌 👌 gud 👌 💯 Recently, I realized that whenever I discuss Water types from future generations, I repeat a certain...
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...
There’s no useless grass Pokémon
Stock up on balls and berries and catch 'em all! Here's why every grass Pokémon can be useful in gyms: Exeggcute Exeggutor is one of the best attackers against Vaporeon. Also good against Snorlax and Blissey. Bulbasaur Venusaur is a great attacker against Vaporeon....
What’s a Gen 7 Buff?
A Gen 7 Buff (like a Gen 6 Buff) is a stat buff change to Pokemon from Gens 1-5. It could also mean new moves that a Pokemon can now learn in Gen 7 (such as Mantine now being able to learn Roost and Flygon now being able to learn Dragon Dance), but that doesn’t...
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...
A Study on Spawn Mechanics – Biomes, Pots and More!
Ok, so over the last little while I've done a study on how Pokemon spawning actually works in Pokemon Go. My study took place in Southern Ontario in Canada, and comprises 449 spawn points over nearly four days, for 93-94 spawns at each point and 41829 total Pokemon...
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
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...
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...
Preparing for a Day of Pokemon
We at Pokebattler take catching Pokemon seriously. We will dedicate a Saturday or Sunday afternoon to some hardcore catching whenever we have extra time. It's a fun way to get exercise and spend sometime outdoors. And we've learned a few tricks about how to make the...
Gen 2 Release: Here’s what we know
Blissey is truly Blissful Blissey tops almost all our rankings and makes the likes of Dragonite and Snorlax look like a chump. If you were lucky enough to get at least 50 rare Chancey candy, do not hesitate to evolve your best Chancey. If not, now’s the time to walk...