Terminology about Pokémon

I want to make Project Pinkmoon as friendly as possible to all those who play Pokémon games. However, some terminology related to competitive battling is extremely useful, since Pokémon changes will be designed around those concepts. Therefore, this is a guide to any term you might come across in my article

Balance

A team archetype that utilizes offense and defense together. This style favors having a good response to a lot of a variety of threats. Tanks are commonly used in these teams.

Check

It is like countering a Pokémon in a certain conditions. Instead of reliably winning one on one ach time, A Pokémon's checks usually rely to force it to switch out. Alternatively it can't switch in to that mon's attacks easily but can outspend them.

Cleric

Mon who have moves like Wish and Heal Bell that can heal your team.

Core

A group of mon that covers each other's weaknesses and often chosen in same teams. Can be defensive or offensive. Celesteela and Toxapex for example together form CelePex, a good defensive core.

Coverage

A Pokémon's ability to hit neutral or super-effectively it on many Pokemon as possible. For example if a mon has a strong Ice and Electric attack together, it can hit a lot of Pokemon neutrally.

Counter

A Pokémon that can completely stop and win against another mon in most match-ups. They can switch in to their attacks safely and beat them on 1-on-1. For example Florges is a good Hydregon counter. Not same as from the move named Counter.

Hazard

Refers to battle hazard, moves that gets set up on opponent's side of field like Spikes or Stealth Rock. Hazard-setters are Pokemon who are specialized in setting up those.

Lead

Mon who are dedicated to sent out first in battle. Hazard setters or strong offensive mon are usually chosen for the moment. Has variants like Suicide-Lead, who cleans the field after setting up by sacrificing itself and Anti-Lead, leads who are dedicated to beat other leads.

Momentum

Being able to have the correct mon at the field at the right time. If the opponent brings out an advantageous mon safely, then it is said that you are losing momentum.

Movepool

Mon's entire arsenal of available moves.

Moveset

Mon's current selection of moves.

Offensive

A team archetype whose main strategy is just hitting hard and a lot to opposing team. This team style does not like passive Pokemon a lot. Hyper-offense teams, purely focus on overwhelm the enemy with constant offensive pressure at the cost of being defensively weak.

Phazing

Making the opponent's mon switch-out by moves like Roar and Dragon Tail.

Pivot

Mon that can switch into Mon and then can be used for bringing the advantageous ones safely.

Revenge-killer

Mon who come for defeating the opposing mon after your your previous mon is fainted. Hence, take revenge.

Scouting

Stalling a turn to figure out the opponent's moveset. Usually done with Protect.

Screens

Refers to moves as Reflect and Light Screen. Mon who use them are said to set up screens.

Spinner

Mon who have Rapid Spin and dedicated to remove hazards from the field.

Stall

A team archetype where the team primarily depends on walls and passive damage like status effects and battle hazards and some slow setup sweepers to clean up. Has a variance called Semi-Stall, where the tam brings a little more offensive pressure but still relies on indirect damage mainly.

Stallbreaker

A mon who is specialized in obstructing the opponent's stall team. Different from wallbreaker's that these mon focus on shutting down opponent's healing and ways to inflict passive damage.

Support

Mon who support your team. It's cleric support with healing moves, weather support with weather-setup moves etc.

Sweep

The Pokémon equivalent of Damage Per Second. Their role is to eliminate multiple members of the enemy team, usually after they have been weakened. Has many variants such as: Late-game sweepers refers to mon who sweeps in late-game, rain-sweeper refers to mon who specializes sweeping under Rain, setup-sweeper refers to using a setup Move such as Calm Mind. It's a very common role among Pokémon.

Tank

A mon who can take hits well but also can give them as well.They are more active than walls but usually not as dedicated to constantly take hits. Tangrowth is a good example.

Trapper

Mon who blocks other mon from switching out with a move like Mean Look or an ability like Shadow Tag.

Utility

A Mon with various moves that can be useful for the time. Hazards, spreading status, phazing, spinning etc.

Wall

A mon with strong defensive capabilities whose main role is soak up hits and basically stop enemy Pokémon from wrecking your team. The difference from a tank is that, walls really in more passive methods or damage, like Status effects. Skarmory is an iconic example.

Wallbreaker

A mon who specializes in destroying walls with devastating attacks. They differ from sweepers that they are not expected to take on many different mon. Heracross is a great example.