Pokemon Battle Revolution: Little Battles

February 2, 2009

Pokemon Battle Revolution

Sunny Park Colosseum is a special place in Pokemon Battle Revolution. While it is a normal battle spot the first time through it becomes something far more interesting afterwards. Why do I say this? Because Sunny Park Colosseum becomes the place to battle with Little Pokemon.

Little Pokemon are defined as unevolved Pokemon that are level 5 or lower. This means those big basic Pokemon such as Skarmory and Heracross can not compete. Nor can any Pokemon that evolves with a stone such the evolved forms of Eevee.

Most competitive Pokemon Battlers never even look at the unevolved Pokemon. They only look at the Uber and Over Used tiers. Here at the farm we like to be different. One way we are different is that we encourage the use of Pokemon that many battlers would shy away from.

In the past we have held tournaments where participants could only use level 1 Pokemon. This sort of battle is very different from the high powered battles most players are familiar with. For one thing set damage moves are banned (they would be OHKO moves in this format) and their is less of an emphasis on EVs and IVs. In fact a Pokemon may have terrible IVs but if their starting scores are higher than a Pokemon with better IVs then they will see battle before their better does.

    Basic Rules

  • Any unevolved Pokemon that can evolve can be used in this format. This includes Pokemon that have gained an evolution in 4th gen.
  • Pokemon must be level 5 or lower. This is due to early generations hatching Pokemon at level 5.
  • No set damage moves allowed. Most set damage moves would be an instant kill in this format.

Creating a team for this format is not much different than building a team for the normal formats. The only big difference is that it is all about the breeding skills of the trainer. Though you could burn a ton of TMs on your low level Pokemon it is much better to breed the moves into your Pokemon. There are numerous articles on the site about breeding and you can also check out out the forum.

When choosing Pokemon to use in your Little Battle team it is important to note that most Pokemon that fit into this tier will not be dual-type. There are some dual-types but they are few and far between. Available move pools is also something that you need to take into consideration. Some Pokemon you might never think of using become very desirable in this format.

Let’s take Munchlax for example. If you can get one with the Thick Fat ability you have already gained a huge advantage in that your Pokemon will only suffer 50% damage from Fire and Ice type moves.

Unlike the sleepier Snorlax Munchlax is a real hustler. He also has a wide variety of moves available (even more when Platinum comes out). Why not breed your Munchlax to have: Focus Punch (150 Fighting), Earthquake (100 Ground), Zen Headbutt (80 Psychic) and Rock Slide (75 Rock)? All of those moves are Physical due to Munchlax having a high base Attack score.

Why not give Little Battles a chance? It’s not that hard to make a team of Legendary Pokemon and kick butt in the competitive battle scene with them. It’s a lot harder to take a bunch of unevolved Pokemon and forge a competitive team out of them.

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Comment by TN
2009-02-06 00:18:29

That is really awesome

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Comment by andrew212
2009-02-07 05:38:09

I had a great little team formed by thier parents they wiped the floor literally my riolus earthquake my chimcars U turn then eleckids ice punch little battles are a nice change if you want to put your baby pokemons in a tournement.

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Comment by I.C
2009-02-08 09:51:20

Yo I love the LC its way better than regular competitive battles

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