How to build a Pokémon team with PokéQuest
A team’s types and base stats give you a starting point for planning. PokéQuest helps you compare those basics, spot shared weaknesses, and keep several teams ready to revisit. Its analysis is a planning aid; a battle also depends on moves, abilities, items, format, and your opponent.
1. Choose up to six Pokémon
Open the Pokédex explorer, search by name or ID, and use Add to Team on a Pokémon card. Type and generation filters help narrow your choices. You can include alternate forms; generation filters use the species’ original generation.
For example, start with Charizard and Squirtle, then open the battle-team panel. Both are weak to Electric attacks, which the shared-weakness summary will highlight.
2. Read weaknesses, resistances, and immunities
Each matrix row is an attacking type. A value of 2× or 4× indicates a weakness, 0.5× or 0.25× indicates resistance, 1× is neutral, and 0× is an immunity. For dual-type Pokémon, the two defensive multipliers are multiplied.
Charizard’s Fire/Flying typing takes 4× damage from Rock by type alone and is immune to Ground. A Ground immunity from typing is included; an immunity granted by an ability is not. The chart uses modern rules, even when you filter the catalog to an earlier generation.
3. Check potential offensive coverage
STAB stands for same-type attack bonus. PokéQuest’s coverage summary asks whether an attack matching one of your team members’ types would be super effective against each single defending type. It helps reveal type gaps, but does not check whether a particular move is learned or selected.
A type listed as covered is not a guarantee against every dual-type opponent. Use the summary alongside moveset and ability choices rather than treating it as a battle simulator.
4. Compare base stats
The panel averages HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed across the current team. Open individual Pokémon profiles to inspect their own base stats. These are species/form base values, not calculated battle stats with levels, natures, EVs, or IVs.
5. Save, export, and share your teams
Use Your teams to create, name, and switch between up to 20 teams. Changes are stored in your browser on this device. Export teams downloads a JSON backup; Import teams adds teams from a backup without replacing your existing ones.
If browser storage is unavailable, you can keep building for the current session and export a backup. Copy explorer link shares filters and search settings only, so use an exported team file when you want to share your Pokémon choices.