Competitive Conundrums
The first Pokémon to be banned from Smogon's Uber tier.
What is Arceus?
The only multi-hit move with a priority change.
What is Water Shuriken?
The Pokémon with the highest Special Attack stat.
The only evolution of Eevee unavailable until the postgame of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
What is Glaceon?
This Pokémon wears the skull of its mother.
What is Cubone?
The only weather to be completely changed.
What is hail?
The first gym leader Ace Pokémon in the series.
What is Onix?
The most well known Pokémon trainer in the franchise.
Who is Ash Ketchum?
The VGC player who won a world championship with Pachirisu.
Who is Sejun Park?
The only legendary Pokémon with a 3 stage evolution tree.
What is Cosmog?
The move with the highest possible base power.
What is Last Respects?
The only fossil Pokémon to be banned from Smogon's standard tier of play.
What is Dracovish?
This Pokémon flies off with children.
What is Drifloon?
The move that got Chatot banned from online play in DS era Pokémon.
This Pokémon used by Ghetsis is 10 levels below what it should be to evolve.
What is Hydreigon?
The trainer widely considered to be the most difficult gym leader.
Who is Whitney?
The competitive Singles player who created the infamous "Unfortunate doesn't even begin to describe my series" copypasta.
Who is Lavos?
The only Pokémon able to ignore Max Guard.
What is G-max Urshifu?
(Full points if Urshifu is guessed correctly.)
The damage multiplier of using Freeze-Dry against Volcanion.
What is a 1x multiplier?
The first pure Ghost type.
What is Misdreavus?
This Pokémon has a broken jaw.
What is Mega Glalie?
The generation that introduced battles with more than 2 Pokémon.
Generation 5.
Lusamine fuses with this Pokémon at the end of the story of the original Sun and Moon.
What is Nihilego?
The trainer with the highest level Pokémon.
Who is Red?
These two classes of Pokémon are referred to as "Restricted Pokémon" in official competitive formats.
What are box legends and mythicals?
The only Pokémon with an alternate form that cannot be battled.
A tera fire Heliolisk with Solar Power under the effects of Primal Groudon's Desolate Land, critically hitting a Parasect under the effects of Tar Shot, Powder, and Dry Skin, would recieve this damage multiplier on the move Breaking Swipe.
What is a 1.5x multiplier?
The Pokémon with the most signature moves.
What is Vespiquen?
This Pokémon is actually the spirit of a dead child.
What is Phantump?
The only typeless damaging move.
What is Struggle?
This monotype Pokémon becomes a type it's commonly mistaken to have while in battle with Brassius.
What is Sudowoodo?
The Japanese name of Pokémon's first rival.
What is Green?
The best Pokémon in VGC, according to Wolfe.
What is Incineroar?
The generation where the move Softboiled was not exclusive to the Blissey line.
What is Generation 3?
Learned by tutor by Cleffa, Togepi, and Togetic
The only way for Pawmot to take neutral damage from Earthquake without using a berry or another Pokémon.
What is using Double Shock?
The only Pokémon to learn Thunder by TM or TR, but not Thunderbolt.
What is Reuniclus?
This Pokémon has a habit of inadvertently killing its trainer with hugs.
What is Bewear?
The only Z-Move with an increased critical hit ratio.
What is 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt?
The title of the area bosses in Pokémon Legends Arceus.
What are Noble Pokémon?
The granddaughter of the Mega Evolution Guru.
Who is Korrina?
The year of the first Pokémon World Championship.
What is the year 2000?
Espeon's signature move in the second generation of Pokémon.
What is Morning Sun?
The highest speed stat obtainable without cheating.
What is 6578?
(Points awarded if the number is within 250 speed.)
The only fighting type Pokémon consisting of multiple bodies.
What is Falinks?
This burns from this Pokémon's flame are impossible to treat.
What is Houndoom?
The content that Mega Mewtwo Y was first revealed in.
What is the Pokémon Black and White anime?
(Mewtwo - Prologue to Awakening, first aired in Japan on July 11th, 2013, about a month before Mega Evolution was first announced.)
The number of totem Pokémon in the Generation 7 games.
This trainer's ace Pokémon is arguably the least popular Pokémon of all time.
Who is Chili?