Not sure where to start.

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(Sep 25, 2016, 08:25 PM)TheFriedToast Wrote:

(Sep 25, 2016, 05:52 PM)naitre Wrote: Each format has completely different metagames. Has one of the particular formats caught your eye?

Sorry for sounding like a total newbie but what do you mean by format?

Battling can generally be broken down based on where you do it. For competitive, there's smogon, which you find used on Pokemon Showdoan, and VGC, which is used by official Nintendo championships. Smogon has arranged Pokemon into a ton of different brackets based on power and usage and is generally singles. VGC is doubles with relatively few banned things.