INFORMATION
Pokemon Netbattle is an online Pokemon battle simulator. Instead of training up your own pokemon, you can define your own pokemon's type, moves, ev's etc using a simple team builder. Obviously NetBattle relies more on stratergy and luck rather than your ability to raise good pokemon. It is quite popular in MFGG and several members play. The regulars are listed here: http://wiki.mfgg.net/index.p...kemon_Netbattle

SERVER INFORMATION

MikeL's Netbattle Server (Default for most MFGGers)
Server: h4xopolis.net
Password: pi
Rules: None.

BananaHead's MFGG Netbattle server
Server: bananahead.ath.cx
Password: tsb
Rules: Unknown

CLIENT DOWNLOAD
You can download Pokemon Netbattle here:

Mirror #1: http://mikelim0.cjb.net:1069/Setup096.exe
Mirror #2: http://media.smogon.com/netbattle/Setup096.exe

If you get an error while installing, uncheck the "Install Stadium sprites" option and try again.

USEFUL LINKS
http://www.smogon.com/ - Articles and a hell of alot of movesets to help you out.
http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml - Some more movesets around here (under pokemon of the week)

NOOB CORNER
Before you begin battling opponents via netbattle, there a few things you should be aware of. First of all by default all of your poke's will be level 100. In the GBA games you will probably feel with your team of level 100's you can kill anything right? Wrong. There is ALWAYS a way to beat your team. That's right, that 6 level 100 Mewtwo team of yours will probably perish in netbattle if the right team is put up against it. If your team consists of your favourite pokemon, they will probably lose to more powerful ones. Sorry kabutops, magmar and other "cool" pokemon trainers, you just won't do good in netbattle against the likes of Tyranitar and blissey etc.

Before battling people, you should have some idea of attacks, abilities and the type chart. If you're new to pokemon alltogether you should play the GBA games first.

So, how do you do well in this thing? Here's some pointers.

Pokemon Tiers
Netbattle fanatics have ordered pokemon into groups, so it's somewhat easier to tell what pokemon stand a chance against others. The groups are Uber, OU(Overused), UU(Underused) and NU(Neverused). Ubers mostly consist of legendaries and the most powerful pokemon. Overused are the pokemon who are more powerful than the rest but not as powerful as ubers. UU are the weaker pokemon than OU which aren't usually seen in Netbattle, but people still use them cause they think they're cool, and can sometimes stand a chance agaisnt OU's and Ubers. NU's are the absoloute bottomline pokemon who just plain suck. Luvdisc for example.
Players in the MFGG servers tend to use one uber and 5 other OU, UU and NU pokemon. Here's a list of pokemon sorted by tiers: http://www.smogon.com/rs/tiers

EV's and Natures
Effort Values and natures play a HUGE part in netbattle. EV's were a pain to manage in the GBA games, but netbattle allows you to set them easily. Basicly, EV's can boost the stats of your pokemon. You can boost HP, Attack, Defence, Speed, Special Defence and Special Attack with your EV's. You have 510 EV's to share out between your stats, and the max EV's you can put on any stat is 64. For every 4 EV's you put on a stat, that stat increases by 1, so be careful when sharing them out. To make sure you share evenly, you should put the Snap option on in the EV changing window.
Natures are the same sort of thing. There's a handfull of natures which boost a stat and lower a stat at the same time. For example, the Jolly nature adds 10 to your speed but lowers 10 for special attack. Smogon has plenty of statergies for placing your EVs and natures correctly with the right movesets.

-- More to come --

This post has been edited by Cutman on Oct 4 2006, 12:09 PM

I'll download this later. I'm at my mom's workplace and using one of the company's laptops. But hell yea I'll sign up to this.

Just a note, MikeL's server is currently down.

We need more cool cats.

fyi it's up now


and by the way, you can use 'h4xopolis.net' instead of 'mikelim0.cjb.net' if you want.


it looks cooler ^__^~

that was fast 8D

:)

fixed. Btw I don't suppose you could add XD moves on that thing could you?

Added some extra info for noobs and newbs

kecleon evo pls i needed.

way to let me down gamefreaks






Also did anyone every come up with an all-encompassing anti-toxiwall strategy?

a toxiwall is a wall with toxic, right




i think i just came up with one

Roar/whirlwind

recycle/lum berry

Needs more NB tourney. Grid style.

Those take too long


way too long

Hey mikeL could you somehow add XD moves?

To add XD moves, wouldn't he have to rewrite the actual program and add them in?

hey get on ***s

There's database mods I believe.

Yeah, although I don't think you can modify moves.
I know you can give moves to pokemon that don't normally learn them, I did that once.


aeroblast magikarp sgkfdhdf