Challenge Cup Trainers/Typing Decisions

Poke Ball and Ultra Ball are linked, just with different Pokemon. Challenge Cup after Round 2 changes Rocket Grunts to Execs.

Gold Berry and Berry Juice are really powerful in Poke Ball Cup, prevents a lot of 2hkos. Miracle Berry is good since Swagger is used a lot.

Poke Ball 1
Owns: Ground/Fire
Use: Water/Ground/Grass

Poke Ball 2 (Grunt/Exec)
Owns: Poison
Use: Psychic/Ground/Fire (Warning: Nidos can learn Blizzard)

Poke Ball 3
Owns: Flying/Coverage
Use: Electric/Rock/Ice (Pick according to their coverage mon)

Poke Ball 4
Owns: Electric/Grass
Use: Fire/Ground/Ice

Poke Ball 5
Owns: Water
Use: Grass/Electric (Rain Dance strategies, be cautious when using Solarbeam/Thunder)

Poke Ball 6
Owns: Psychics (Egg, Slowpoke, Drowzee in Poke Ball) with various coverage
Use: Electric/Fire/Coverage

Poke Ball 7 (Grunt/Exec)
Owns: Normal
Use: Electric/Machop/Rock/Physical

Poke Ball 8
Owns: Balance
Use: Good cores like Water Electric, Fire Grass coverage reasonable. Leading Electric and switching to Water/Fire is a good strategy turn 1/2.


Great Ball and Master Ball are linked, just with different Pokemon. Wobbuffet strats are a possibility for some fights.

Great Ball 1
Owns: Bug/Flying/Coverage
Use: Fire/Electric/Rock

Great Ball 2
Owns: Rock/Ground
Use: Grass (lots of Rock/Waters)/Water/Chinchou (Corsola has Mirror Coat)

Great Ball 3
Owns: Water/Coverage
Use: Grass/Electric/Physical

Great Ball 4
Owns: Normal/Coverage (Attract strats)
Use: Fighting/Rock/Ground/Physical

Great Ball 5
Owns: Fire/Grass (Sunny Day) Usually leads Fire
Use: Ground/Fire/Coverage (depends on whether you need to worry about Grass or Fires more)

Great Ball 6
Owns: Balance
Use: Good cores like Water Electric, Fire Grass, good attack users. Leading Electric and switching to Water/Fire is a good strategy turn 1/2.

Great Ball 7
Owns: Psychic/Dark/Ghost (potential for Evasion strats)
Use: Dark/Water/Ground (beware of Wobbuffet)

Great Ball 8
See 6