Pokémon team building guides

Step-by-step guides to competitive Pokémon: build your first VGC team, choose a team from tournament data, and compare the team builders players use.

• How to build a competitive Pokémon VGC team, step by step

  A step-by-step guide to your first competitive Pokémon VGC team: start from the meta, cover your weaknesses, plan speed, test damage and export it.

• How to choose a Pokémon team using tournament data

  How to use tournament results to choose a competitive Pokémon team: find the teams on top, read the patterns, import a team in one click and adapt it.

• Pokémon team builders compared: PokemonBuilder, Showdown and Pikalytics

  Which Pokémon team builder to use, and for what: Pokémon Showdown to battle, Pikalytics for usage stats, PokemonBuilder to build with full analysis.