Expert guides on type coverage, team synergy, competitive strategy, and everything you need to master Pokémon team building.
Learn how to build the best in-game Pokémon team for story playthroughs. Covers team building for Fire Red, Emerald, Platinum, HeartGold, Black & White, Sword & Shield, Scarlet & Violet, and all mainline games.
Learn how to build a winning VGC and doubles team in Pokémon. Covers speed control, team structures, common cores, protect synergy, and how to analyze your doubles composition with a team builder.
Learn how to build a complete team around your favorite Pokémon. This guide covers the anchor method, core pairing, weakness patching, and role filling for competitive and casual play.
Learn how to build rain, sun, sand, and hail weather teams in Pokémon. Covers weather setters, abusers, team structures, counters, and how to analyze your weather team composition.
Learn how to build competitive Pokémon teams for Showdown. Covers OU team building, VGC strategies, synergy cores, speed tiers, and how to use team builder tools effectively.
A complete guide to building Pokémon teams for competitive play, story playthroughs, and Pokémon Showdown. Covers team composition, type coverage, roles, and common mistakes.
Understand Pokémon team synergy through type cores, offensive-defensive pairing, pivot chains, and role compression. Learn how to build teams greater than the sum of their parts.
Master offensive coverage in Pokémon with STAB move optimization, best dual-type coverage combos, wallbreaking strategies, and team-level offensive planning.
Complete guide to the Pokémon type chart with all 18 types, super-effective matchups, resistances, immunities, dual-type interactions, and practical team building applications.
Learn how to build a defensive Pokémon team with proper typing, recovery options, hazard control, and win conditions that can outlast any offensive threat.
Discover which Pokémon types form the best team cores. Steel, Water, Ground, and Fairy ranked by defensive synergy and offensive coverage for competitive and casual play.
Learn how to check your Pokémon team's weaknesses, identify shared vulnerabilities, and fix defensive gaps with smart type pairings. Includes common traps and fixes.
Understand offensive and defensive type coverage in Pokémon. Learn how to identify coverage gaps, optimize STAB moves, and build teams that handle every type matchup.
Discover beginner-friendly Pokémon teams with strong type coverage, simple strategies, and forgiving defensive cores. Learn to build your first competitive team step by step.
Master competitive Pokémon team building with proven strategies for ranked battles. Covers team roles, metagame awareness, speed control, EV spreads, and how to iterate on your team effectively.
Learn how to build a balanced Pokémon team with proper type coverage, complementary roles, and defensive synergy. Covers the Fire/Water/Grass core, role distribution, and common mistakes.
Fairy types are weak to Poison, Steel. Learn the best counters, type matchups, and team building strategies to beat Fairy type Pokémon.
Steel types are weak to Fire, Fighting, Ground. Learn the best counters, type matchups, and team building strategies to beat Steel type Pokémon.
Dragon types are weak to Ice, Dragon, Fairy. Learn the best counters, type matchups, and team building strategies to beat Dragon type Pokémon.
Water types are weak to Electric, Grass. Learn the best counters, type matchups, and team building strategies to beat Water type Pokémon.
Fire types are weak to Water, Ground, Rock. Learn the best counters, type matchups, and team building strategies to beat Fire type Pokémon.
No single type has zero weaknesses, but some dual-type combinations come close with just 1. Full breakdown of the least vulnerable Pokémon types.
There are 171 possible type combinations in Pokémon: 18 single types and 153 dual types. Learn which ones are unused and which are the strongest.
There are 7 types with immunities in Pokémon. Ghost is immune to Normal and Fighting, Normal is immune to Ghost, and more. Full immunity chart inside.
Grass type has 5 weaknesses, the most of any single type. See which types are most vulnerable and how to support them on your team.
Discover the best dual-type combinations in Pokémon ranked by fewest weaknesses. Bug/Steel leads with only 1 weakness.
Steel resists 10 types and has 1 immunity. Complete resistance rankings for all 18 Pokémon types.
Steel resists 10 types and is immune to 1, making it the top defensive type. See the full defensive rankings and best type pairings.
Fighting and Ground hit the most types super-effectively. See the best attacking types and 2-move coverage combinations ranked.
Ghost/Steel ranks as the strongest dual type with 12 resistances and only 4 weaknesses. Full rankings inside.
Put these strategies into practice with real-time type coverage analysis and smart team coaching.