Welcome to Pokemondex

Most Pokémon databases are the same PokéAPI data reformatted with a different colour scheme. Pokemondex is built the other way round: the raw stats, movesets and evolution data are here too, but they sit underneath original analysis written by someone who has actually played every generation competitively — not scraped, templated, or auto-generated from a spreadsheet.

Every Pokémon page carries editorial sections you won't find on a bare stat-lookup site: biology and design origin notes, behavioural context, and a genuine competitive breakdown covering what tier a Pokémon actually sees play in, what its real counters are, and why. That's a deliberate choice. Base Stat Total tells you almost nothing about whether a Pokémon is good — ability interactions, movepool depth and typing matter far more, and that's the lens every write-up on this site is built around.

The Guides section takes that further with long-form pieces — full VGC archetype breakdowns, exact type-chart math instead of a static 18x18 grid, breeding and catch-rate formulas, and rankings that justify every placement rather than listing Pokémon in vague order of popularity. If an article says a Pokémon is strong, it says specifically why: the ability, the move, the matchup it wins.

That standard holds across all four guide clusters. Competitive & Meta guides explain why specific Pokémon — Mega Rayquaza, Zacian-Crowned, Primal Groudon — forced entire tiers into existence, rather than just labelling them "strong." Type Strategy guides go past the 18x18 chart into defensive cores like Steel/Dragon/Fairy and offensive combos like BoltBeam. Deep Game Mechanics guides work through the actual formulas — catch-rate math, EV/IV/Nature calculations, exact status-effect percentages — instead of hand-waving "it depends." And the Playthroughs, Starters & Lore cluster covers everything from starter tier lists to the hardest boss fights in franchise history, with real counter-strategies attached rather than vague "level up more" advice.

Pokemondex also tracks the Trading Card Game side properly — real price data, rarity breakdowns per set, and a running feed of newest cards — because most Pokédex sites treat TCG as an afterthought or skip it entirely. Between the data layer, the competitive analysis, and the TCG tracking, the goal is a site worth bookmarking rather than one you hit once from a Google search and never return to.

The site is built and maintained by Paul Lovell, who has played the core series on every Nintendo platform it has shipped on — Game Boy through Switch — and Pokémon GO since launch. That matters for accuracy in ways a pure data-scrape can't replicate: knowing that Runerigus requires 49 or more damage in a single hit to evolve, or that Dark Void got nerfed to 80% accuracy specifically because of how Smeargle abused it in Ubers, isn't something you pull from an API response. It comes from having actually tracked those rulings as they happened.

Data freshness is treated the same way. Base stats, move data and evolution chains are checked against the current generation whenever a new game or balance patch ships, rather than left stale from a one-time import. The Pokédex covers every Pokémon released through Generation 9, the Moves database tracks all 937 moves with category, power, accuracy and PP, and the Type Guide goes beyond a static weakness chart into actual defensive-core and coverage-move strategy — the same depth you'd expect from a competitive resource, not a wiki mirror.

Accuracy is treated as non-negotiable rather than best-effort. Competitive claims — which ability enables which combo, which move interaction a ruling actually changed, which typing gives a Pokémon its specific weaknesses — are checked against the real mechanic, not approximated. When a guide states that Dragon/Steel has exactly one weakness doubled to Fighting and Ground with no other exploitable holes, or that Destiny Knot passes five of a Pokémon's twelve total IVs from its parents, that's the actual rule, not a rounded-off summary. Getting competitive Pokémon content right matters more than getting it out fast, and it shows in how specific the numbers are throughout the site.

None of that replaces the fun of just looking something up fast — the Pokédex search is still built for a quick stat check on a specific Pokémon. But if you stick around past that first lookup, the goal is for there to be something worth reading: a ranking you can argue with because it shows its reasoning, a mechanic explained in enough depth that you understand why it works and not just that it does, or a strategy guide that would hold up against feedback from an actual VGC or Smogon community, not just a casual reader.

This is an independent project, not an official Pokémon product — Pokémon and all related names are trademarks of Nintendo, Game Freak and The Pokémon Company. Read more about who builds this and why on the About page.