What makes a Pokemon good

[Subhamaster]

I regularly find many players asking what nature/ability is good for each pokemon. Through this topic, I attempt to make new players self dependent on finding the best Ability, Nature, Hidden power and Required IVs.

All the pokemons have one of these specialties: Atk Offensive, Special Atk Offensive, Mixed Offensive, Def Bulk, Spdef Bulk, Mixed Bulk and Other Strategic.

Now usually, Offensive pokemons prioritize Speed and then comes the Atk/Sp atk stat. If your pokemon has a high base speed and you think of using a choice scarf on it or it will set up speed with moves like dragon dance/Quiver dance, you may use Adamant/Modest as well. You can also choose Adamant/Modest for pokes which work with sticky web/Tailwind or works with weather like rain or sun (ability Swift swim/Chlorophill)

So these Offensive pokemons Generally works with Jolly/Timid/Naive/Hasty or Adamant/Modest.

Similarly, for tank pokes, you prioritize HP, then the respective Def/Spdef stat. 

Atk Offensive: Jolly/Adamant

Special Atk Offensive: Timid/Modest

Mixed Offensive: Naive/Hasty

Def Bulk: Impish/ Bold/Relaxed

Spdef Bulk: Calm/Sareful/Sassy

and Other Strategic.

I think the best way to explain is to lead by an example.

Lets assume we wanna catch a Charmander.

When ever you catch a pokemon, You need to identify what would be the best Ability, Nature, and hidden power (conditional) to go for.

Remember: Priority-wise Ability>Nature>IVs. Many new players thinks good IVs= good pokemon and its absolutely wrong.

Now back to Charmander. Charizard can be used in the same form, as Charizard X or Charizard Y. Have a look at the Base stats of each of these forms.

 

Charizard in Normal form has good speed, and Special attack>Attack. Its Ability are Blaze and Solar power(h.a). Both these point that It will be a better Special attacker. Hence, Timid is a good nature to have on this poke.

But another thing to consider is its move pool. It can use dragon dance, Belly drum and STAB moves like acrobatic. Considering this, Jolly is also possible.

Conclusion: Charizard can be Atk offensive or Spatk offensive based on the moveset you use.

Charizard X has 130 Atk and 130 Spatk and 100 speed. But look at the ability, it is Tough claw which bootst the Atk moves. Also it can learn dragon dance, so it is better as an Atk offensive.

Charizard Y  has 159 Spatk and 100 speed. And the ability Drought which doubles all fire type moves. Thats one great combination for a special atk offensive poke. So Charizard Y can be timid. Now for a Special attacker, Hidden power move is also a bonus. If it has an HP Ice, it can deal a good damage on pokemons like garchomp ,Landorus or Gliscor.

So when you hunt a pokemon, you must look at the base stats first, find which category it belongs to, check what abilities it can have and how it can be utilised best, Check its move pool.

Then identify which Ability, Nature and Hidden power pokemon you need, Put the respective sync poke first, have a Trace abi poke to identify the ability and hunt those pokes. The better the IVs on the poke the better it will be. But remember, for offensive pokes, speed is more important, for defensive, HP is more important. The Second priority IV must be 23+ and other IVs 20+ if you need pokes which are pvpable.

In the end, it is all about your creativity and skill that determines the value of the pokemon you hold.

I will try to explain this longer and in depth in the future, till then i hope it sheds some light on this topic for new players.

Edited February 27 by Subhamaster

[Chitti678]

^^ a nice guide , would be pretty useful for new players