Fun Pokemon Styles

One of the ways to divide all of the Fun Pokemon is into different styles that define the general strategy of the Pokemon's set. Each style exists on an axis where the more left the Pokemon style is, the more it focuses on defense and support, and the more right the style is, the more it focuses on offense and speed.

### Support

* Support Pokemon invest heavily into defense stats such as HP, Special Defense, and Physical Defense.
* They usually have several status moves that do healing, inflict status affects, or stat buffs and debuffs.
* They rarely have more than one attacking move.
* The general strategy is to outlast the enemies by messing up their strategies with status moves.
* They damage the enemy by either inflicting damage over time with burn or poison or they buff themselves overtime until their weak attacks become powerful.

### Tough Guy

* Tough Guy Pokemon prioritize defense stats, but still can invest a little into offense stats to land strong hits.
* They usually have a mix of attacking and status moves. Their ability and item usually helps defend them.
* The general strategy is to use strong attacking moves to kill the enemy while their high defenses and ability to last a while is what helps them survive long enough to achieve this.

### Mario

* Mario Pokemon have balanced stats between defense and offense.
* They often have many attacking moves of different types. This allows for good type coverage. They often take advantage of STAB to get powerful hits in.
* The general strategy is to use various different attacking moves to overpower the enemy by type advantage. They also can use buffing or healing moves to stay alive longer.
* They often have the least gimmicky strategy and rely purely on their stats and type coverage to succeed.

### Striker

* Striker Pokemon prioritize offense stats, but still can invest a little into defense stats to help survivability.
* Their moves are mostly or all attacking moves. They can, however, use a status move that prevents the Pokemon from attacking or from dealing damage to this Pokemon.
* The general strategy is to use strong attacks to kill the Pokemon in a few hits. They also can disrupt the enemy from doing their strategy by using moves such as Fake Out, Detect, and Taunt.
* Their speed can be high but its not necessary. The main goal of a striker is to land hits and stall the enemy from doing the same.

### Glass Cannon

* Glass Cannon Pokemon invest heavily into offense stats such as Physical Attack, Special Special, and Speed.
* Like Strikers, they usually have all or most attacking moves and can use stalling moves. Unlike Strikers, they have much higher speed, very low defense, and abuse priority effects.
* The general strategy is to use very powerful attacks plus their insane speed to attempt to one-hit kill the enemy Pokemon before they can attack them first. They also use moves like Feint, Extreme Speed, and Quick Attack which have priority to land hits before the enemy attacks.
* Because of how low a Glass Cannon's defenses are, they often have to use measures outside of endurance to last longer in battle. This includes using items like Focus Sash, abilities like Sturdy and Multiscale, and priority moves to act before the enemy does.
* Sometimes a Glass Cannon can use a suicide move like Explosion or Memento as a deathrattle effect if they expect to die the same turn and/or are low on health. This is often possible thanks to the Sturdy ability or Focus Sash item.

## Trivia

* Support get their name because they remind Elloss of the support classes in Team Fortress 2, such as Medic. This is because the Medic doesn't have much offensive capability and just heals and buffs the rest of the team.
* Tough Guys get their name because they are literally tough; it's in the name. Being tough means being able to take hits, but you can dish them out just as well.
* Marios get their name because they are a jack of all trades like Mario is in Super Mario 3D World. They are often average at everything but can still do pretty well because of their flexibility.
* Strikers get their name because they mainly focus on striking the enemies with strong moves. It's like the saying goes, "Shoot first, ask questions later." Or like another saying "The best defense is an even better offense." Or something like that, Elloss isn't great at metaphors...
* Glass Cannons get their name because they are extremely powerful and fast like cannon shots, but fragile and vulnerable to even the weakest attacks due to them being made of glass.