Plan Your Pokemon Team with This Cool Tool on Planet Pokemon

Attention trainers! Maxroll and IGN person teamed up to motorboat Planet Pokemon, a caller strategy usher tract and competitory Planner for your Pokemon squad with a clump of different chill features you won’t find anyplace else.

You tin presently program your Pokémon squad utilizing Planet Pokémon one-of-a-kind tools for 4 games: Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and Pokémon Sword and Shield – and we are moving connected much Pokémon games now!

All of our Planner stats are powered by a heavy Pokédex and curated by our squad of Pokémon experts that brought you Maxroll, IGN, Eurogamer, and Map Genie’s decades of the precise champion Pokémon strategy guides retired there. So however does this each work? We volition person Eurogamer's Pokémon pb Lottie Lynn locomotion you done it...

How to Use the Pokémon Planner

Whether you're caller to the Pokémon beingness oregon a longtime subordinate getting acceptable for your adjacent nuzlocke challenge, our Pokémon Planner is present to assistance you signifier your adjacent team!

Since our Planner is divided up by game, you don't person to interest astir accidentally including Pokémon you can't really catch. Alongside this, we've besides included the implicit moveset for each Pokémon and each point they tin hold. You tin adjacent play astir with the EVs and IVs for a Pokémon. Combining each of these features unneurotic successful 1 spot means you tin easy curate a squad to suit your purposes.

Want to marque a beardown commencement successful the online competitory world? Then usage the Planner to guarantee you person a balanced team! Want to spot however changing 1 Pokémon could impact your squad connected the whole? Then our Planner volition amusement you immoderate weakness gaps that mightiness appear! Want to physique a squad of six Magikarps for immoderate reason? Well our Planner tin assistance you bash that too.

So let's instrumentality a look astatine however it works!

Getting Started

The archetypal measurement successful utilizing the Pokémon Planner is to prime the crippled you privation to marque a squad for. You tin easy bash this by selecting the drop-down paper adjacent to 'Change Game' astatine the apical of the planner.

Before we spell immoderate further, however, it's important to constituent retired that you volition request to beryllium logged into Pokémon Planet if you privation to prevention your planned team. It's a bully thought to bash this earlier going immoderate further! You tin find the 'Login' fastener successful the apical right-hand country of the leafage and determination volition besides beryllium an enactment to marque an relationship too. We spell implicit the nonstop details for redeeming your squad further on successful this guide.

Adding Pokémon

Once you've selected the crippled you're playing, it's clip to adhd the Pokémon you privation successful your team. To bash this, click connected 1 of the six 'Choose Pokémon' boxes to unfastened a paper containing each of the Pokémon successful your chosen game.

Don't worry, we've ensured that lone the Pokémon contiguous successful each game's Pokédex volition appear. This means that, arsenic agelong arsenic you've selected the close game, you won't tally into immoderate unavailable Pokémon. Just retrieve that if you're gathering a squad for a mentation title, specified arsenic Pokémon Scarlet, you volition request to support an oculus retired for immoderate mentation exclusive Pokémon.

There are 3 main ways you tin hunt for Pokémon - simply scrolling down the list, searching by sanction oregon filtering by type. It's imaginable to prime aggregate types too, which is useful if you're looking for a dual benignant Pokémon. Selecting the 'Mega Pokémon' enactment volition besides let you to conscionable spot the Mega Pokémon contiguous successful your chosen game. Though, support successful caput that Mega Pokémon are lone disposable successful prime Pokémon games.

Since each of the Pokémon successful your chosen crippled are disposable - including pre-evolved Mons, Legendary and Mythical Pokémon - you're escaped to input whichever Pokémon you like. This could beryllium your existent team, your endgame extremity oregon Pokémon you're considering adding. No substance what you choose, I urge adding six Pokémon truthful you've got a full squad to play with.

After selecting each of the Pokémon you either person oregon privation successful your team, it's clip to commencement filling successful the details for each one. This includes adding their moves, stats and immoderate point they mightiness beryllium holding. Let's commencement with stats.

Adding Stats

The Stats conception for each Pokémon tin beryllium recovered connected the left-hand broadside of the Planner and volition ever show the Base Stats for each Pokémon. You're besides capable to adhd its existent Stats, including EVs and IVs.

The archetypal measurement successful adding your Pokémon's Stats is to take its Level. The Pokémon Planner selects each Pokémon's Level to 100 by default, which is useful for organizing an endgame team.

If, however, you privation to participate a Pokémon's existent level, you tin bash truthful by either selecting the fig '100' and changing it oregon by moving the bluish slider beneath said number. Changing a Pokémon's Level from 100 volition automatically alteration each of its existent Stats - recovered astatine the bottommost of this conception - to marque the Level you've chosen.

Now it's clip to benignant retired the EVs and IVs, which is wherever things get a small complicated. This is due to the fact that some are considered Hidden Stats, meaning you can't spot their nonstop values in-game. There's a speedy Hidden Stats explainer further on successful this usher if you privation to larn much astir however precisely EVs and IVs work.

You've got 2 options erstwhile it comes to entering some into the Pokémon Planner - either enactment successful the EVs / IVs you're aiming for oregon bash your champion to fig retired what they are in-game. If you're going for the past option, support successful caput that the IV Judge Function typically doesn't unlock until you've reached the postgame.

Once you've decided which enactment you're going with, EVs tin beryllium entered either utilizing the bluish slider successful the mediate oregon by typing them straight into the left-hand column. Since you tin lone person 510 EVs for each Pokémon, the Pokémon Planner volition helpfully forestall you from going implicit that number.

For IVs, you'll request to alteration the fig successful the right-hand column. (Remember - it's highly improbable you're going to person a Pokémon which has 31 cleanable IVs for each stat.)

The changes you marque to spot values volition beryllium reflected successful the Stat layout astatine the bottommost of the screen.

Adding Moves

Adding Pokémon's Moves is rather easy. Simply prime the 'Add Move' fastener beneath the 'Move' subheading connected the right-hand broadside of the page. This volition unfastened up a paper of each the moves this Pokémon tin usage successful your chosen game. Here you tin either hunt for a circumstantial determination oregon simply scroll down the menu. The moves a Pokémon tin larn from TMs volition besides beryllium available!

Remember - each Pokémon tin lone cognize 4 moves astatine a clip and we've kept to this regularisation successful the Pokémon Planner. If you privation to region a move, hover your cursor implicit it and prime the 'Change' option.

Adding Items

To adhd an item, prime 'Add Item'. This volition bring up a database of each point disposable successful the crippled you're gathering a squad for. You tin either scroll done the database oregon hunt for the 1 you're looking for.

Once you've recovered the close item, simply click connected it and it shall beryllium added to your Pokémon!

Now you conscionable request to repetition this process for each of the different Pokémon successful your team.

Team Defense and Team Coverage Explained

After filling successful each of the accusation for your team, instrumentality a look astatine the 'Team Defense' and 'Team Coverage' sections.

Team Defense volition springiness you an thought of what types your squad presently includes (based connected some Pokémon and moves) and the weaknesses you request to support an oculus retired for. A bluish enactment means that you've included these Pokémon types, portion a reddish enactment means 1 of your included Pokémon is anemic to this type.

Team Coverage, meanwhile, informs you which Pokémon types your squad has an vantage over. The much small bluish bashes beneath a type, the much Pokémon you person successful your squad that tin antagonistic it. If a benignant doesn't person a dash astatine all, past you mightiness privation to see changing your team!

How to Save Your Team

To prevention your planned team, you archetypal request to log into Planet Pokémon. You tin bash this by utilizing the 'Login' fastener successful the apical right-hand country of the screen. After this, either login oregon marque an relationship if you're new!

Next, click the 'Manage Teams' fastener which tin beryllium recovered supra the Pokémon you've entered for your team. Here you'll beryllium capable to sanction your existent team, prevention it, make folders to signifier your assorted teams successful and beryllium capable to make caller teams too.

To prevention a team, archetypal springiness it a sanction by entering thing into the container containing the words 'Name your Team'. Once you're happy, prime 'Save Current Team'. This volition automatically prevention your squad into the folder you've presently got selected.

After redeeming a team, you'll beryllium capable to alteration its name, marque a transcript oregon delete it by utilizing the options recovered connected the close manus side. You tin besides determination a squad to a caller folder by dragging and dropping it.

A Note connected Hidden Stats

The EV and IV for each idiosyncratic Pokémon are considered Hidden Stats. This is because, portion you're capable to get an thought of what they are, you'll ne'er beryllium capable to spot the nonstop fig for each one.

It's besides worthy noting that Gen 3 changed however EVs and IVs worked. The pursuing mentation follows those rules, truthful volition not beryllium applicable for the Gen 1 and Gen 2 games.

EVs - Effort Value - corresponds to each of the six main stats. Each Pokémon has a full magnitude of 510 EVs divided crossed these stats, with the maximum 1 stat tin person being 252 EVs. Depending connected the game, assorted items, specified arsenic Vitamins, Berries oregon Feathers, tin beryllium utilized to bid oregon deplete an EV. Depending connected the game, you should beryllium capable to presumption a Pokémon's EVs connected the Stat leafage of their Summary. Just support successful caput that you won't beryllium capable to usage the nonstop value.

Each main stat besides has an IV - Individual Value - which is calculated based connected the Pokémon's Base Stats, Nature and EVs. Typically an IV tin not beryllium changed unless you usage Hyper Training to maximise it. IVs scope from 0 to 31 - with 0 being the worst and 31 being perfect. Each Pokémon crippled has a Judge Function which tin beryllium unlocked, usually by reaching the postgame, that volition springiness you an thought of what a Pokémon's IVs are.

But Wait… There’s More

Beyond the the Builder, Planet Pokémon offers these adjuvant services for Pokémon Legends: Z-A:

• A complete, sortable, in-depth Pokédex for Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and Pokemon Sword and Shield.
• An interactive representation for Pokémon Legends: Z-A, powered by Map Genie, with the locations of each Wild Zone Pokemon, Colorful Screws, Mega Stones and more.
• A complete, sortable point database from Antidote to Zinc for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and Pokeémon Sword and Shield.

For much connected Pokeémon Legends: Z-A cheque retired our latest sum similar How get Diancite and Baxcalibrite, and each the uncommon chromatic locations, a afloat database of each TMs, and a clump of quality connected the upcoming updates here.