Pokemon Dictionary
Sometimes in the Smogondex or in the forum topics, you might see a word or abbreviation you do not understand. This guide will help you. It's a new version of what Donut started, but I felt it was incomplete and I added some to it. Also thanks to blueshirt32 for ideas of what to define too...can't think of them all.
Note how I'm not going to add stuff really nobody uses or, in the case of naming sets, not going any further than things that really made a difference. Naming sets is stupid anyway unless it sounds good and it was something gamebreaking (McGar is really the only one in that category in ADV). Usually, if you're going to post something like a guide or just a RMT, you might want to try not to use too many abbreviations.
This guide is divided into sections. After the name of the section you'll see some examples. This guide is now restricted of plain the definition, maybe one or two examples, but no strategy is found in here.
Table of Contents
1. Roles
2. Pokémon
3. Moves
4. Stats and status effects
5. Games
6. Misc.
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Roles
Note: usually, you can find what it means by just taking off -er or -r, and you get a move name.
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Annoyer
A Pokémon that tries to win by using non-attacking moves. The key difference with a disabler is, is that an annoyer is completely relient on stalling out an opponent or winning with it's tactic. Outdated since the GSC era.
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Aromatherapist (or Aroma The Rapist)
See Beller. The long-winded way of saying it.
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Boomer - Exploder
A Pokémon that uses the move Selfdestruct or Explosion (boom = sound it makes)
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Beller - Heal Beller
A Pokémon that uses the move Heal Bell or Aromatherapy, to cure the whole team of their status injuries. Also called "cleric" or "Aromatherapist" sometimes.
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BPer - Baton Passer
A Pokémon that uses the move Baton Pass to pass effects to another Pokémon on the team.
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BDer - Belly Drummer
A Pokémon that uses the move Belly Drum.
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BoltBeamer - Thunderbolt/Ice Beamer
A Pokémon that uses the moves Thunderbolt and Ice Beam. Sometimes used when the user has an Ice and an Electric move, and sometimes used when the user has two moves that work really well together type-wise. BoltBeam is resisted by only three Pokémon: Shedinja, Lanturn and Magneton. Therefore it makes a good combination to hit about anything with neutral damage at least. Though it should be noted Special walls like Snorlax and Regice stop this cold.
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CBer - Choice Bander
A Pokémon that holds the item Choice Band.
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Cleric
See Beller. The Tibia way of saying it.
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CMer - Calm Minder
A Pokémon that uses the move Calm Mind.
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Curser
A Pokémon that uses the move Curse.
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DDer - Dragon Dancer
A Pokémon that uses the move Dragon Dance. Sometimes people just mean Gyarados and Salamence with this, sometimes they also mean Tyranitar.
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Disabler
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A Pokémon that uses the move Disable
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A Pokémon that nullifies opponents with non-attacking moves like Sleep Powder.
A very rare term. See Annoyer for the difference between Annoying and Disabling.
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Healer
See Beller
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P-passer - pseudo-passer
A Pokémon that uses Reflect, Light Screen or Safeguard.
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pHazer/phazer - pseudo-hazer
A Pokémon that uses Whirlwind/Roar, usually to get rid of opponent's stat boosts. This is the most direct form of phazing. Other forms are Perish Song and Yawn, which leaves opponents to the choice of being killed or put to sleep, or switch.
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QAer - Quick Attacker
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A Pokémon that uses Quick Attack
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A Pokémon that uses Quick Attack, Mach Punch, Extremespeed (and/or Fake Out). In other words, a way of beating low HP Pokémon, usually powered up by a stat boosting berry. The most common example is Reversal/Flail users, with the help of Substitute/Endure and a Salac Berry.
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Resttalker/Sleeptalker - Rest/Sleep Talker
A Pokémon that uses the moves Rest and Sleep Talk in tandem.
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Seeder - Leech Seeder
A Pokémon that uses the move Leech Seed.
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Shuffler
A Pokemon that uses the moves Whirlwind or Roar to "shuffle" the opponents team, often causing Spikes damage.
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Sleeper
A Pokémon that has a move that inflicts Sleep, or sometimes, a Pokemon that is meant to absorb a Sleep-inflicting move, usually has Sleep Talk.
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S-talker - Sleep Talker
A Pokémon that uses the move Sleep Talk, usually combined with Rest.
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Subber - Substitute(r)
A Pokémon that uses the move Substitute.
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Subpuncher - Substitute/Focus Puncher
A Pokémon that uses the moves Substitute and Focus Punch.
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Subseeder - Substitute/Leech Seeder
A Pokémon that uses the move Substitute and Leech Seed. The user seeds the foe, and then keeps on subbing to regain HP while the opponent loses it and can't do much.
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Sunnybeamer - Sunny Day/Solarbeamer
A Pokemon that uses the moves Sunny Day and Solarbeam to try and plow through opponents. They usually are either Grass or Fire-types, where the Grass ones usually have the Chlorophyll trait.
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Sweeper
A Pokemon that is meant to take down the opponent's team with sheer power, usually with the Choice Band item or a stat-upper move like Swords Dance.
A Pokémon that uses the moves Sunny Day and Solarbeam.
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Supporter
A Pokémon that helps the team out with non-attacking moves like Reflect, Heal Bell, Thunder Wave, Charm and Sleep Powder.
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Tank
A Pokémon that sponges hard-hitters, usually from one side. It "tanks" against the opponent by upping it's own stats.
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Thunderdancer
A Pokémon that uses the moves Rain Dance and Thunder.
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Wall
A Pokémon that sponges hard-hitters, usually from one side. It usually doesn't hit hard effectively.
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Weather modifier
A Pokémon that makes use of either of the following moves: Hail, Sandstorm, Sunny Day or Rain Dance.
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WoWer
A Pokémon that uses the move Will-o-Wisp.
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Certain Pokémon
* Aero - Aerodactyl
* Bellyzard - A Charizard with Belly Drum.
* Bliss - Blissey.
* Blisslax - Blissey and Snorlax, often used to summarize these two most used Special sponges.
* Bliss(s)karm - Skarmory and Blissey on one team, an annoying pair of walls that newbies clause, mostly found on stall teams, also called Skarmbliss.
* (Tyrani)boah - A Tyranitar with Substitute, Focus Punch, Thunderbolt, Crunch.
* Calmcune - A Suicune with Calm Mind.
* CBpokemonname - The Pokémon that's filled in or abbreviated is holding a Choice Band.
* CeleJump - A Celebi with Substitute, Calm Mind, Psychic and Baton Pass.
* chaosbreon - An Umbreon with Mean Look, Taunt, Baton Pass and Moonlight.
* Celery - A nickname for Celebi.
* CMcune - A Suicune with Calm Mind.
* Cune - Suicune.
* Curselax - A Snorlax with Curse.
* Drag/Draggy - Dragonite.
* Druidcruel - A Tentacruel with a dual-attacking moveset (Swords Dance, Sludge Bomb, Hydro Pump, Substitute, usually).
* Duggy - Dugtrio.
* EspyJump - An Espeon with Calm Mind, Substitute, Psychic and Baton Pass.
* Fake Boah - A Tyranitar with Substitute, Focus Punch, Flamethrower, Crunch.
* Fishlax - A RBY Snorlax set: Body Slam, Hyper Beam, Selfdestruct, Surf/Earthquake.
* Fishtauros - A GSC Tauros OHKOer set: Rest, Sleep Talk, Horn Drill, Fissure.
* Gyara - Gyarados.
* Hera - Heracross.
* Kou - Raikou.
* Lax - Snorlax.
* Maggy - Magneton usually. Or Magcargo or Magmar.
* McGar - A Gengar set invented by McGraw. Substitute, Focus Punch, Thunderbolt, Shadow Ball.
* McIceGar - A follow-up set to McGengar by Absolut-Kaos. Substitute, Focus Punch, Thunderbolt, Ice Punch.
* Mence - Salamence.
* Meta - Metagross.
* Missy(D) - Misdreavus.
* MSDos - Metal Sound Zapdos, a pun on Microsoft DOS
* Sala - Salamence.
* Skarm - Skarmory.
* Skarmbliss - Skarmory and Blissey on one team, an annoying pair of walls that newbies clause, mostly found on stall teams, also called Bliss(s)karm.
* Tauntrados - A Gyarados with Taunt.
* Tobybro - A RBY Slowbro set: Amnesia, Thunder Wave, Surf, Rest.
* T-tar - Tyranitar.
* Wobby - Wobbuffet.
* Zam - Alakazam.
* Zap/Zappy - Zapdos.
* Zard - Charizard.
Note: Pokémon names/abbreviations are sometimes combined with moves, the most known one being CMcune - Calm Mind Suicune.
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Certain Moves
* AA - Aerial Ace
* BB - Brick Break
* BD - Belly Drum
* BP - Baton Pass
* BS - Body Slam (it also means Bullshit)
* BU - Bulk Up
* CC - Cross Chop
* CM - Calm Mind
* DD - Dragon Dance
* DE - Double-Edge
* DP - Drill Peck
* EQ - Earthquake
* FB - Fire Blast
* FT/F-thrower - Flamethrower
* FP - Focus Punch (it also means fully paralyzed)
* HB - Heal Bell or Hyper Beam
* HP - Hidden Power (it also means Hit Points)
* MH - Megahorn
* MM - Meteor Mash
* RS - Rock Slide OR Rapid Spin
* SB - Shadow Ball OR Sludge Bomb
* SD - Swords Dance (it also means Special Defense, and Selfdestruct too if you're ever going to use that)
* Sub - Substitute
* ST - Sleep Talk
* T-bolt - Thunderbolt
* T-wave - Thunder Wave
* WoW - Will-o-Wisp
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Stats
In italics is the Smogon way to abbreviate.
o Hit Points - HP
o Attack - Att, Atk
o Defense - Def
o Speed - Spd, Spe
o Special Attack - SpA, SpAtt, SpAtk, SA
o Special Defense - SpD, SpDef, SD
And for status afflictions:
o PSN - Poison
o SLP - Sleep
o BRN - Burn
o PAR/Para - Paralysis
o FRZ - Frozen
o Parafusion - paralysis and confusion. Commonly used to reduce chances of being hit.
o Parattract - paralysis and attract. Commonly used to reduce chances of being hit.
o Paraflinch - paralysis and a flinching move. Commonly used to reduce chances of being hit.
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Games
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Metagame
Basically the "what's up"-answer in Pokémon. The metagame defines what is used a lot, for tactics, moves and Pokémon. Though with NetBattle, it's harder to say anything about the metagame than with RS Bot, as a very large part of the battlers can be fanboys using Ember Charizard because it looks cool, and this doesn't say anything about if this is handy at the moment or not. A better example for example is the heavy decrease of Blissey users a few months ago, with Gengar and Snorlax on top, while before that, Blissey, Salamence and Skarmory were up there. Because of the heavy use of Blissey, lots of people used Gengar and Snorlax, two Pokémon that can both counter it (Gengar to an extent). You could also see that nobody was trying to make Raikou work. You don't need to mind all this to make your team work, because you never know what idiot will decide to use something that is "not going to work in the current metagame". Half of the time, when people that say something about "the current metagame", they don't know anything about it anyway.
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Generations
There are three generations at the moment.
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RBY - Red/Blue/Yellow (Chromatics)
The first era of Pokémon, mostly played for its nostalgia. Lots of glitches that were on the carts are also implemented in NetBattle and the RBYbots, and abused a lot in battle. Quite a strict metagame, probably the least varied one.
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GSC - Gold/Silver/Crystal (Metallics)
The second generation. Known as the "stalling metagame", this is what makes it loathed sometimes. However, good players can confirm that while it usually has longer battles, antistall works just as fine as in RS. You just need a little more tactical play sometimes. If you don't play GSC because it's stallish, then you should check it out with an antistall team.
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ADV - Ruby/Sapphire/FireRed/LeafGreen/Emerald (Gematics)
The last generation at the moment. Gives either very quick or very long games, depending on what teams use. Since it involves a lot of ways to kill things quickly, like Taunt, instant trapping abilities and EVs, the battles usually last no longer than 60 turns. This metagame is often loathed because of the heavy effect bad luck can have - one critical hit can completely ruin your game. There are also lots of Pokémon you have to counter, so teams are rarely perfect.
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Metagames
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Uber
Ubers are Pokémon too strong for the metagame: they would counter a lot of standards, beat the shit out of switchins (or stall), be practically uncounterable and used by everyone. The Pokémon that are fully considered uber at the moment are: Mewtwo, Mew, Ho-oh, Lugia, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Latios, Latias, Deoxys-RS, Deoxys-FR, Deoxys-LG and Wobbuffet. There are some "doubt" cases though, but this is what you should assume. Deoxys-E is recently unbanned from a couple of tournament settings for testing, but there's a high number of people opposing this. Jirachi but also Celebi caused an explosion of people using it or going against it. There's no doubt that all of these three Pokémon are exceedingly useful (like some legendaries), but at the other hand, they all have some extential counters. Back to the real ubers: they got their own metagame, the uber metagame. I find clashing two teams with these powerful monsters against each other the most enjoyable metagame, personally.
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OU - Overused
The standard metagame, with just the normal rules. Can also be used in the sentence: "Metagross is OU", which means Metagross can hold it's own well in the standard metagame, or that it's used a lot.
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UU - Underused
The metagame that nobody agrees on. Meant to ban all OU Pokémon, plus Pokémon that would dominate all others (Moltres, for example), to create a hard-hitting way of play (as it turned out to be). Of course you have standards in the UU metagame too. There is no clear list of what's UU and not since people disagree all the time. Examples of disagreement are Cloyster, Houndoom, Slowbro and Scizor.
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BL - BorderLine
A cause for the disagreement of the UU metagame: this summarizes the Pokémon that can't do much in standard, yet are way too powerful for UU. When people see something they can't handle in UU, they usually start shouting "that Pokémon is BL =/ =/ =/". Nothing you can do about it.
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NU - Neverused
The true outcasts of Pokémon. These guys are too weak to compete in UU play. Get the most honor for beating standard teams. Think of Pokémon like Lickitung, Farfetch'd, Parasect, Unown and Ditto.
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CC - Challenge Cup
What on the bots is called a "randbat". It doesn't matter what kind of teams you have - if you accept a CC challenge, both receive a team of random Pokémon with random moves out of their movepools. The strength/weakness of the Pokémon is somewhat compensated by making strong Pokémon lower levels and vice versa.
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2v2 - 2 versus 2 (Double Battle)
Ruby and Sapphire introduced this way of battling to the cartridges, and it's implemented in NetBattle too. Both teams send out 2 Pokémon at a time. When one faints, it is replaced. Some moves hit all Pokémon on the field except the user, some hit both opponents, some hit one target. New moves have been made especially for this mode: Follow Me and Helping Hand, for examples. For more information about this, check out strategy guides written by KKM and his 2v2 friends. It's a very offensive metagame, with lots of teamwork and combo's. Battles rarely last longer than 15 turns.
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3v3 - 3 versus 3 (Stadium Mode)
A mode you can turn on, like Challenge Cup. Before battling, you see all your opponents Pokémon sprites (so not his sets etc). Both you and your opponent will pick 3 Pokémon of your own team to battle with. A very sucky format sometimes, but is entertaining when you're prepared for it. Pick the Pokémon you think he will have the most trouble with.
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Abbreviations with games
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gg - good game
A polite thing to say. It never hurts to say gg at the end of the match. It is recommended to put this in the auto message thing (for both win and loss) and leave it at that. Also used before one forfeits, or when one is sure about his loss/win (when either party set up something powerful, like 3 Dragon Dances on a Tyranitar).
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bg - bad game
What bad sports say when they get haxxed or something similiar. They usually are right though.
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gfg - good fucking game
Usually used when one is sure about his win (again, probably with a lot of Dragon Dances on Tyranitar or something).
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Misc
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BDF - Battle Damage Formula
The formula used to calculate the damage done, I wrote a complete guide about it. Click here.
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Bots - Robots
The old way of battling was via bots on IRC. There were RBYBots in #rbystadium, GSBots (evilgsbot) in #battlearena and RSBots (DarkBot) in #rsarena. The bots are no longer in use.
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DmgCalc - Damage Calculator
A tool in NetBattle, also found on Smogon.com and many other places. It can display the range of damage and attack can do in any circumstance.
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gj - good job
Giving someone a compliment, sarcastically or not.
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hax - hacks
When someone gets a load of luck, it is labeled as "hax" or "haxxy", implying he gets so much luck because he hacked in the game. Commonly misspelled by leetspeak people as "h4xx0rz"..don't listen to these people. The reason good players have losses on their records.
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NB - NetBattle
The program most people use to battle online. Read more about NetBattle at our NetBattle page
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PP - Power Points
The amount of times you can use a move is your PP. When you run out, you can't use it anymore. PP Ups is a rule that ups your and your opponent's PP to the max: it adds 60% to your current PP, or multiplies it by 1.6. In-game, this is represented by the items PP Up and PP Max.
Base With PP Ups
5 PP 8 PP
10 PP 16 PP
15 PP 24 PP
20 PP 32 PP
25 PP 40 PP
30 PP 48 PP
35 PP 56 PP
40 PP 64 PP
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Stall
Usually means the make the game longer in some way.
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The offense to the rules
If someone waits a long time to move (repeatly), it is called stalling in a very negative sense. It's to annoy the opponent into forfeiting or accepting draw request. If someone does this to you, report it to a mod or admin. If you do it or ever done it, don't do it ever again. Mods/admins have to deal with it every day and it's no fun.
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A kind of play
A team built to last long and wear down the opponent slowly, is a stall team. It consists of very defensive Pokémon and usually one or two back-up offenses, and relies on slow damagers like Seismic Toss, Spikes, Will-o-Wisp and Toxic to open up the game for a sweeper like Suicune or Salamence.
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Theme
A theme team is a group of 6 Pokémon put into the TeamBuilder because they have something in common. This can be color, some letter in their name, typing, Pok�dex number, or they are named after characters in some series, or anything you can think of. Usually not meant to compete with standard teams.
Sometimes in the Smogondex or in the forum topics, you might see a word or abbreviation you do not understand. This guide will help you. It's a new version of what Donut started, but I felt it was incomplete and I added some to it. Also thanks to blueshirt32 for ideas of what to define too...can't think of them all.
Note how I'm not going to add stuff really nobody uses or, in the case of naming sets, not going any further than things that really made a difference. Naming sets is stupid anyway unless it sounds good and it was something gamebreaking (McGar is really the only one in that category in ADV). Usually, if you're going to post something like a guide or just a RMT, you might want to try not to use too many abbreviations.
This guide is divided into sections. After the name of the section you'll see some examples. This guide is now restricted of plain the definition, maybe one or two examples, but no strategy is found in here.
Table of Contents
1. Roles
2. Pokémon
3. Moves
4. Stats and status effects
5. Games
6. Misc.
1.
Roles
Note: usually, you can find what it means by just taking off -er or -r, and you get a move name.
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Annoyer
A Pokémon that tries to win by using non-attacking moves. The key difference with a disabler is, is that an annoyer is completely relient on stalling out an opponent or winning with it's tactic. Outdated since the GSC era.
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Aromatherapist (or Aroma The Rapist)
See Beller. The long-winded way of saying it.
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Boomer - Exploder
A Pokémon that uses the move Selfdestruct or Explosion (boom = sound it makes)
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Beller - Heal Beller
A Pokémon that uses the move Heal Bell or Aromatherapy, to cure the whole team of their status injuries. Also called "cleric" or "Aromatherapist" sometimes.
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BPer - Baton Passer
A Pokémon that uses the move Baton Pass to pass effects to another Pokémon on the team.
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BDer - Belly Drummer
A Pokémon that uses the move Belly Drum.
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BoltBeamer - Thunderbolt/Ice Beamer
A Pokémon that uses the moves Thunderbolt and Ice Beam. Sometimes used when the user has an Ice and an Electric move, and sometimes used when the user has two moves that work really well together type-wise. BoltBeam is resisted by only three Pokémon: Shedinja, Lanturn and Magneton. Therefore it makes a good combination to hit about anything with neutral damage at least. Though it should be noted Special walls like Snorlax and Regice stop this cold.
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CBer - Choice Bander
A Pokémon that holds the item Choice Band.
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Cleric
See Beller. The Tibia way of saying it.
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CMer - Calm Minder
A Pokémon that uses the move Calm Mind.
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Curser
A Pokémon that uses the move Curse.
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DDer - Dragon Dancer
A Pokémon that uses the move Dragon Dance. Sometimes people just mean Gyarados and Salamence with this, sometimes they also mean Tyranitar.
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Disabler
1.
A Pokémon that uses the move Disable
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A Pokémon that nullifies opponents with non-attacking moves like Sleep Powder.
A very rare term. See Annoyer for the difference between Annoying and Disabling.
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Healer
See Beller
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P-passer - pseudo-passer
A Pokémon that uses Reflect, Light Screen or Safeguard.
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pHazer/phazer - pseudo-hazer
A Pokémon that uses Whirlwind/Roar, usually to get rid of opponent's stat boosts. This is the most direct form of phazing. Other forms are Perish Song and Yawn, which leaves opponents to the choice of being killed or put to sleep, or switch.
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QAer - Quick Attacker
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A Pokémon that uses Quick Attack
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A Pokémon that uses Quick Attack, Mach Punch, Extremespeed (and/or Fake Out). In other words, a way of beating low HP Pokémon, usually powered up by a stat boosting berry. The most common example is Reversal/Flail users, with the help of Substitute/Endure and a Salac Berry.
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Resttalker/Sleeptalker - Rest/Sleep Talker
A Pokémon that uses the moves Rest and Sleep Talk in tandem.
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Seeder - Leech Seeder
A Pokémon that uses the move Leech Seed.
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Shuffler
A Pokemon that uses the moves Whirlwind or Roar to "shuffle" the opponents team, often causing Spikes damage.
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Sleeper
A Pokémon that has a move that inflicts Sleep, or sometimes, a Pokemon that is meant to absorb a Sleep-inflicting move, usually has Sleep Talk.
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S-talker - Sleep Talker
A Pokémon that uses the move Sleep Talk, usually combined with Rest.
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Subber - Substitute(r)
A Pokémon that uses the move Substitute.
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Subpuncher - Substitute/Focus Puncher
A Pokémon that uses the moves Substitute and Focus Punch.
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Subseeder - Substitute/Leech Seeder
A Pokémon that uses the move Substitute and Leech Seed. The user seeds the foe, and then keeps on subbing to regain HP while the opponent loses it and can't do much.
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Sunnybeamer - Sunny Day/Solarbeamer
A Pokemon that uses the moves Sunny Day and Solarbeam to try and plow through opponents. They usually are either Grass or Fire-types, where the Grass ones usually have the Chlorophyll trait.
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Sweeper
A Pokemon that is meant to take down the opponent's team with sheer power, usually with the Choice Band item or a stat-upper move like Swords Dance.
A Pokémon that uses the moves Sunny Day and Solarbeam.
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Supporter
A Pokémon that helps the team out with non-attacking moves like Reflect, Heal Bell, Thunder Wave, Charm and Sleep Powder.
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Tank
A Pokémon that sponges hard-hitters, usually from one side. It "tanks" against the opponent by upping it's own stats.
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Thunderdancer
A Pokémon that uses the moves Rain Dance and Thunder.
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Wall
A Pokémon that sponges hard-hitters, usually from one side. It usually doesn't hit hard effectively.
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Weather modifier
A Pokémon that makes use of either of the following moves: Hail, Sandstorm, Sunny Day or Rain Dance.
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WoWer
A Pokémon that uses the move Will-o-Wisp.
2.
Certain Pokémon
* Aero - Aerodactyl
* Bellyzard - A Charizard with Belly Drum.
* Bliss - Blissey.
* Blisslax - Blissey and Snorlax, often used to summarize these two most used Special sponges.
* Bliss(s)karm - Skarmory and Blissey on one team, an annoying pair of walls that newbies clause, mostly found on stall teams, also called Skarmbliss.
* (Tyrani)boah - A Tyranitar with Substitute, Focus Punch, Thunderbolt, Crunch.
* Calmcune - A Suicune with Calm Mind.
* CBpokemonname - The Pokémon that's filled in or abbreviated is holding a Choice Band.
* CeleJump - A Celebi with Substitute, Calm Mind, Psychic and Baton Pass.
* chaosbreon - An Umbreon with Mean Look, Taunt, Baton Pass and Moonlight.
* Celery - A nickname for Celebi.
* CMcune - A Suicune with Calm Mind.
* Cune - Suicune.
* Curselax - A Snorlax with Curse.
* Drag/Draggy - Dragonite.
* Druidcruel - A Tentacruel with a dual-attacking moveset (Swords Dance, Sludge Bomb, Hydro Pump, Substitute, usually).
* Duggy - Dugtrio.
* EspyJump - An Espeon with Calm Mind, Substitute, Psychic and Baton Pass.
* Fake Boah - A Tyranitar with Substitute, Focus Punch, Flamethrower, Crunch.
* Fishlax - A RBY Snorlax set: Body Slam, Hyper Beam, Selfdestruct, Surf/Earthquake.
* Fishtauros - A GSC Tauros OHKOer set: Rest, Sleep Talk, Horn Drill, Fissure.
* Gyara - Gyarados.
* Hera - Heracross.
* Kou - Raikou.
* Lax - Snorlax.
* Maggy - Magneton usually. Or Magcargo or Magmar.
* McGar - A Gengar set invented by McGraw. Substitute, Focus Punch, Thunderbolt, Shadow Ball.
* McIceGar - A follow-up set to McGengar by Absolut-Kaos. Substitute, Focus Punch, Thunderbolt, Ice Punch.
* Mence - Salamence.
* Meta - Metagross.
* Missy(D) - Misdreavus.
* MSDos - Metal Sound Zapdos, a pun on Microsoft DOS
* Sala - Salamence.
* Skarm - Skarmory.
* Skarmbliss - Skarmory and Blissey on one team, an annoying pair of walls that newbies clause, mostly found on stall teams, also called Bliss(s)karm.
* Tauntrados - A Gyarados with Taunt.
* Tobybro - A RBY Slowbro set: Amnesia, Thunder Wave, Surf, Rest.
* T-tar - Tyranitar.
* Wobby - Wobbuffet.
* Zam - Alakazam.
* Zap/Zappy - Zapdos.
* Zard - Charizard.
Note: Pokémon names/abbreviations are sometimes combined with moves, the most known one being CMcune - Calm Mind Suicune.
3.
Certain Moves
* AA - Aerial Ace
* BB - Brick Break
* BD - Belly Drum
* BP - Baton Pass
* BS - Body Slam (it also means Bullshit)
* BU - Bulk Up
* CC - Cross Chop
* CM - Calm Mind
* DD - Dragon Dance
* DE - Double-Edge
* DP - Drill Peck
* EQ - Earthquake
* FB - Fire Blast
* FT/F-thrower - Flamethrower
* FP - Focus Punch (it also means fully paralyzed)
* HB - Heal Bell or Hyper Beam
* HP - Hidden Power (it also means Hit Points)
* MH - Megahorn
* MM - Meteor Mash
* RS - Rock Slide OR Rapid Spin
* SB - Shadow Ball OR Sludge Bomb
* SD - Swords Dance (it also means Special Defense, and Selfdestruct too if you're ever going to use that)
* Sub - Substitute
* ST - Sleep Talk
* T-bolt - Thunderbolt
* T-wave - Thunder Wave
* WoW - Will-o-Wisp
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Stats
In italics is the Smogon way to abbreviate.
o Hit Points - HP
o Attack - Att, Atk
o Defense - Def
o Speed - Spd, Spe
o Special Attack - SpA, SpAtt, SpAtk, SA
o Special Defense - SpD, SpDef, SD
And for status afflictions:
o PSN - Poison
o SLP - Sleep
o BRN - Burn
o PAR/Para - Paralysis
o FRZ - Frozen
o Parafusion - paralysis and confusion. Commonly used to reduce chances of being hit.
o Parattract - paralysis and attract. Commonly used to reduce chances of being hit.
o Paraflinch - paralysis and a flinching move. Commonly used to reduce chances of being hit.
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Games
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Metagame
Basically the "what's up"-answer in Pokémon. The metagame defines what is used a lot, for tactics, moves and Pokémon. Though with NetBattle, it's harder to say anything about the metagame than with RS Bot, as a very large part of the battlers can be fanboys using Ember Charizard because it looks cool, and this doesn't say anything about if this is handy at the moment or not. A better example for example is the heavy decrease of Blissey users a few months ago, with Gengar and Snorlax on top, while before that, Blissey, Salamence and Skarmory were up there. Because of the heavy use of Blissey, lots of people used Gengar and Snorlax, two Pokémon that can both counter it (Gengar to an extent). You could also see that nobody was trying to make Raikou work. You don't need to mind all this to make your team work, because you never know what idiot will decide to use something that is "not going to work in the current metagame". Half of the time, when people that say something about "the current metagame", they don't know anything about it anyway.
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Generations
There are three generations at the moment.
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RBY - Red/Blue/Yellow (Chromatics)
The first era of Pokémon, mostly played for its nostalgia. Lots of glitches that were on the carts are also implemented in NetBattle and the RBYbots, and abused a lot in battle. Quite a strict metagame, probably the least varied one.
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GSC - Gold/Silver/Crystal (Metallics)
The second generation. Known as the "stalling metagame", this is what makes it loathed sometimes. However, good players can confirm that while it usually has longer battles, antistall works just as fine as in RS. You just need a little more tactical play sometimes. If you don't play GSC because it's stallish, then you should check it out with an antistall team.
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ADV - Ruby/Sapphire/FireRed/LeafGreen/Emerald (Gematics)
The last generation at the moment. Gives either very quick or very long games, depending on what teams use. Since it involves a lot of ways to kill things quickly, like Taunt, instant trapping abilities and EVs, the battles usually last no longer than 60 turns. This metagame is often loathed because of the heavy effect bad luck can have - one critical hit can completely ruin your game. There are also lots of Pokémon you have to counter, so teams are rarely perfect.
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Metagames
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Uber
Ubers are Pokémon too strong for the metagame: they would counter a lot of standards, beat the shit out of switchins (or stall), be practically uncounterable and used by everyone. The Pokémon that are fully considered uber at the moment are: Mewtwo, Mew, Ho-oh, Lugia, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Latios, Latias, Deoxys-RS, Deoxys-FR, Deoxys-LG and Wobbuffet. There are some "doubt" cases though, but this is what you should assume. Deoxys-E is recently unbanned from a couple of tournament settings for testing, but there's a high number of people opposing this. Jirachi but also Celebi caused an explosion of people using it or going against it. There's no doubt that all of these three Pokémon are exceedingly useful (like some legendaries), but at the other hand, they all have some extential counters. Back to the real ubers: they got their own metagame, the uber metagame. I find clashing two teams with these powerful monsters against each other the most enjoyable metagame, personally.
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OU - Overused
The standard metagame, with just the normal rules. Can also be used in the sentence: "Metagross is OU", which means Metagross can hold it's own well in the standard metagame, or that it's used a lot.
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UU - Underused
The metagame that nobody agrees on. Meant to ban all OU Pokémon, plus Pokémon that would dominate all others (Moltres, for example), to create a hard-hitting way of play (as it turned out to be). Of course you have standards in the UU metagame too. There is no clear list of what's UU and not since people disagree all the time. Examples of disagreement are Cloyster, Houndoom, Slowbro and Scizor.
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BL - BorderLine
A cause for the disagreement of the UU metagame: this summarizes the Pokémon that can't do much in standard, yet are way too powerful for UU. When people see something they can't handle in UU, they usually start shouting "that Pokémon is BL =/ =/ =/". Nothing you can do about it.
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NU - Neverused
The true outcasts of Pokémon. These guys are too weak to compete in UU play. Get the most honor for beating standard teams. Think of Pokémon like Lickitung, Farfetch'd, Parasect, Unown and Ditto.
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CC - Challenge Cup
What on the bots is called a "randbat". It doesn't matter what kind of teams you have - if you accept a CC challenge, both receive a team of random Pokémon with random moves out of their movepools. The strength/weakness of the Pokémon is somewhat compensated by making strong Pokémon lower levels and vice versa.
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2v2 - 2 versus 2 (Double Battle)
Ruby and Sapphire introduced this way of battling to the cartridges, and it's implemented in NetBattle too. Both teams send out 2 Pokémon at a time. When one faints, it is replaced. Some moves hit all Pokémon on the field except the user, some hit both opponents, some hit one target. New moves have been made especially for this mode: Follow Me and Helping Hand, for examples. For more information about this, check out strategy guides written by KKM and his 2v2 friends. It's a very offensive metagame, with lots of teamwork and combo's. Battles rarely last longer than 15 turns.
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3v3 - 3 versus 3 (Stadium Mode)
A mode you can turn on, like Challenge Cup. Before battling, you see all your opponents Pokémon sprites (so not his sets etc). Both you and your opponent will pick 3 Pokémon of your own team to battle with. A very sucky format sometimes, but is entertaining when you're prepared for it. Pick the Pokémon you think he will have the most trouble with.
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Abbreviations with games
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gg - good game
A polite thing to say. It never hurts to say gg at the end of the match. It is recommended to put this in the auto message thing (for both win and loss) and leave it at that. Also used before one forfeits, or when one is sure about his loss/win (when either party set up something powerful, like 3 Dragon Dances on a Tyranitar).
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bg - bad game
What bad sports say when they get haxxed or something similiar. They usually are right though.
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gfg - good fucking game
Usually used when one is sure about his win (again, probably with a lot of Dragon Dances on Tyranitar or something).
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Misc
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BDF - Battle Damage Formula
The formula used to calculate the damage done, I wrote a complete guide about it. Click here.
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Bots - Robots
The old way of battling was via bots on IRC. There were RBYBots in #rbystadium, GSBots (evilgsbot) in #battlearena and RSBots (DarkBot) in #rsarena. The bots are no longer in use.
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DmgCalc - Damage Calculator
A tool in NetBattle, also found on Smogon.com and many other places. It can display the range of damage and attack can do in any circumstance.
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gj - good job
Giving someone a compliment, sarcastically or not.
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hax - hacks
When someone gets a load of luck, it is labeled as "hax" or "haxxy", implying he gets so much luck because he hacked in the game. Commonly misspelled by leetspeak people as "h4xx0rz"..don't listen to these people. The reason good players have losses on their records.
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NB - NetBattle
The program most people use to battle online. Read more about NetBattle at our NetBattle page
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PP - Power Points
The amount of times you can use a move is your PP. When you run out, you can't use it anymore. PP Ups is a rule that ups your and your opponent's PP to the max: it adds 60% to your current PP, or multiplies it by 1.6. In-game, this is represented by the items PP Up and PP Max.
Base With PP Ups
5 PP 8 PP
10 PP 16 PP
15 PP 24 PP
20 PP 32 PP
25 PP 40 PP
30 PP 48 PP
35 PP 56 PP
40 PP 64 PP
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Stall
Usually means the make the game longer in some way.
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The offense to the rules
If someone waits a long time to move (repeatly), it is called stalling in a very negative sense. It's to annoy the opponent into forfeiting or accepting draw request. If someone does this to you, report it to a mod or admin. If you do it or ever done it, don't do it ever again. Mods/admins have to deal with it every day and it's no fun.
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A kind of play
A team built to last long and wear down the opponent slowly, is a stall team. It consists of very defensive Pokémon and usually one or two back-up offenses, and relies on slow damagers like Seismic Toss, Spikes, Will-o-Wisp and Toxic to open up the game for a sweeper like Suicune or Salamence.
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Theme
A theme team is a group of 6 Pokémon put into the TeamBuilder because they have something in common. This can be color, some letter in their name, typing, Pok�dex number, or they are named after characters in some series, or anything you can think of. Usually not meant to compete with standard teams.
