Overview:

The goal of any good Pokémon trainer is to catch and train a team of Pokémon that can help you through any situation! This guide will talk you through the basics of what a Pokémon is, what all of the info on its character sheets means, and some considerations for when building your own Pokémon team during seasonal!

• A: Level of your Pokemon

• B: The name you chose for this Pokemon

• C: Pokemon’s Gender (Male, Female, None)

• D: Model of the Pokemon

• E: Held Item

• F: Typing of your Pokemon

• G: Identification number in the Pokedex

• H: Species Name

• I: The person who caught this Pokemon

• J: Nature of the Pokemon

• K: Pokemon’s Static Ability

• L: Summary Overview of this Pokemon

• M: Move List

• N: Stats

• O: Your Full Party of 6

• P: Swap the order of your Party

• Q: Overall EXP. and required EXP. to level up

Starter Pokémon:

The first thing you will do on seasonal is choose your starter Pokémon! Each starter is one of 3 types: Water, Grass, or Fire! and will have a mixture of secondary types added as they evolve or stay the same throughout their evolution line. While some starters are “better” then others or there are meta picks. It really does not matter for this seasonal, if you are new to Pokemon just pick whichever one you like the design of the most! If you really can not determine after that the top Corb Pick for each typing is: Grass: Rowlet, Fire: Cyndaquil, Water: Mudkip!

Typings:

There are 18 types in the world of Pokémon, and each Pokémon is represented by 1-2 of them! These typings will show you what moves they will specialize in, what they are weak to, and what effects they can resist!

Each type has a variety of strengths and weaknesses that you will have to learn by the end of seasonal to take home all 8 gym badges! These are classified as:

• Super-Effective: The attacking type is effective against one of the defending Pokémon's type. Deal extra damage!
• 4x-Effective: The attacking type is effective against both of the defending Pokémon’s types. Deal 4x the damage!
• Not Very-Effective: The attacking type is weak into one of the defending Pokémon’s types. Deal reduced damage.
• Effective: This type does neutral damage! It does not interact with the defending Pokémon’s types OR it is Super-Effective against one and Not Very-Effective against the other so they cancel out.
• Immune: The attacking type can not damage one of the defending Pokémon’s types at all so the attack does nothing.

There are 18 total Pokémon types. It would be pointless to just list them all off in text form here and expect you to remember them all! So instead is a handy-dandy type chart that you can save to your pc and reference anytime you are unsure of a type matchup!

The points where two types meet is their interaction! 1/2 means the attack is not very-effective, 2 means the attack is super effective, 0 means the attack does nothing, and a blank square means there is no interaction in the matchup!

Stats:

Each Pokémon is represented by an array of stats, moves, and abilities to make it who it is! The stats are the same for every Pokémon, but the values are different!