POKEMAS LAB GUIDE

Guides and comparisons

Guides for finding candidates and comparing conditions and action routes. Includes search strategies and cautions when interpreting the data.

TEAM COMPARISON · 2026.10.16

Archie move level 1 vs. 3: four teams with sync grids

Four Grass teams gain 1.2–30.0% in modeled firepower. See how extra boosts, caps, and setup assumptions affect the results.

DAMAGE STUDY · 2026.10.15

How many physical boost ranks are worth stacking?

Compare concentration, distribution, and setup costs, including Poppy’s regular and buddy moves.

Team comparison · 2026.10.15

Carmine vs. Archie: searching for each support’s best Grass team

Fix one support and exclude the other. Compare two free slots, firepower, and healing for physical Grass and physical immunity.

Team comparison · 2026.10.15

Compare physical Grass teams with Archie in Team Firepower Explorer

Replace Red while keeping two core pairs fixed. Compare Florian, Victor, and Erika with saved calculations in both languages.

Damage Challenge · 2026.10.15

Find a Fighting team from your roster with Pokemas Lab’s Team Firepower Explorer

Explore teams built around Juliana, Hop, Rei, and Bea, with roles, battle plans, and sync grid ideas.

ULTIMATE BATTLE · TEAM BUILDING

Two Finest Subway Brothers: build your own team

Find paralysis, Defense reduction, and circle setters. Choose grid tiles and build a team of three from your roster.

LUCKY SKILLS · Provisional ranking

Sync pairs with new options from exclusive lucky skills

Compare attack, utility and defenses before and after learning. Explains overlaps, conditions and the provisional score.

POTENTIAL · Cookie directory

Lucky cookie directory

Search eligible pairs and exclusive lucky skills. Explore regular, deluxe and guaranteed cookie types.

POTENTIAL · Exclusive cookies

Find skills from exclusive lucky cookies

179 learnable effects for 162 pairs. Search for desired abilities alongside grids.

LEGENDARY GAUNTLET · October 2026

Find Legendary Gauntlet counters with grid search

Tips for Tapu Bulu, Latias and Raikou, plus counts of available counter abilities including grids.

DAMAGE · Guides

Damage calculator guide

Compare damage with selected grids using Lysandre and Chi-Yu, with screenshots.

Damage Challenge · 2026.10.10

Three-target Psychic Damage Challenge teams candidates

Compare eight teams with the damage builder. View leading candidates and grids, then adapt the search to your roster.

GRID · Saved setups

Saved Sync Grids

Load setups saved from sync pair details.

TEAM · Guides

Team Firepower Explorer guide

Choosing single-target or total damage, comparing one to three damage dealers, and reading preparation and results.

TEAM · Damage teams

Find a three-pair damage team

Find teams for single-target or all-enemy damage. Compare teams with one to three damage dealers.

DAMAGE · Damage comparison

Damage Calculator

Simulate one Pokémon, buddy, sync or max move. Compare critical hits, supereffective hits, boosts and rules with a default sync buff of 5.

COUNTDOWN · Type comparison

Countdown rankings for three pairs of one type

Attack Compare 18 types with required damage and Support slots. View cumulative actions through the third sync and each team's reductions.

COUNTDOWN · Action order

How to use the countdown optimizer

Examples of choosing three pairs, configuring upgrades and lucky skills, and reading countdown routes.

01 · Search

Narrow down candidates with sync grid search

All versus any matches, fuzzy search and checking grid tiles.

02 · Comparison

Understanding stats and bulk indices

Examples and limits of HP × Defense or Sp. Def. Match forms and upgrade settings when comparing.

03 · Effects

Keep track of conditional effects

Check prerequisites from weather, field, master passive and Head Start search results.

Where to start

If you know the desired effect, use advanced search.
If you know part of a tile's name or description, enter it in the grid filter.
Open details in a new tab and check highlighted matches, activation conditions and required move levels.
Open details in separate tabs and match form and upgrade settings.

Search sync pairs →

These pages explain the site's search and comparison tools. They do not claim any pair is best for every battle. Check current in-game information too.