How To Win A Pokemon Battle

Hi, my name is Charles Scott and I'm an administrator at the pikaclub.co.uk.

I've been playing Pokemon for over ten years, and I pride myself on knowing everything there is to know about Pokemon. In this video I'm going to show you how to win a Pokemon battle. In the games, battling is key and you're going to be doing a lot of it as you play through.

So here are a few tips and tricks on how to win. First of all, a battle can occur between any Pokemon trainer, or any wild Pokemon, in grass, or water or in a cave. In this case I found a little Rattata hiding in the grass.

Now, on the DS, your battle screen is always on the bottom screen. We have four different buttons: The "fight", "bag", "run", and "Pokemon". Fight is what you choose if you want to do an attack.

Bag is what you choose if you want an item, such as a healing item, or maybe a pokeball if you want to catch the Pokemon you are battling. Pokemon will bring up a list of the Pokemon in your party to which you can choose anyone to switch. This can be very helpful if the Pokemon you're facing has a type advantage against you, and you want to switch to something where you have a type advantage against it.

This can be very key, as type advantage can be the difference between winning and losing a battle. The run button can only be used in wild Pokemon battles. If you don't want to fight the Pokemon you are facing, you select run and you have a chance of running away.

This can fail, especially if the Pokemon you're facing has a higher level than you do. So in this case I'm going to fight. So I select fight and I get a choice of four moves.

Now, Pokemon will always have a maximum of four moves and as it learns more you have to replace your old moves. What we have displayed here is the move name, type, and PP. PP is power points and its the number of times you can perform that move before you can perform it no longer.

In this case, I can perform "bite" 25 times. Okay so there are seventeen different types in the game. Types are like fire, water, grass.

And its a bit like a massive game of rock-paper-scissors. Water beats fire. Fire beats grass.

Grass beats water. The problem is, electricity beats water. Grass beats rock.

Fire beats ice and it can be difficult to remember all the types. With over 500 Pokemon there as well, it's difficult to remember which types each Pokemon are. With each of them being able to have up to two types as well, they can cancel out their weaknesses.

For example, a water type that has the ground type as well, will not be weak to electricity. However, because grass is strong against water and ground, it will be even more weak against a grass attack. Trying to remember these things is difficult, so you might want to just do experimentation.

Anything that comes up on the screen with "super effective" means you're hitting it really hard. Keep doing it. In this case I've got a "normal" type.

Now I have no moves that are super effective against the normal type, but my level is nearly 30 times greater. Now level plays a big difference as well in a battle, as your stats will be increasingly higher than the opponent Pokemon. So in this case I will just use any move, and it will most likely kill it in one hit.

So your keys to winning a Pokemon battle are level, and your types. And that is pretty much everything you need to know.