What do the following terms mean?

-TANK-SWEEPER-WALL-PHYSICAL SWEEPER-SPECIAL SWEEPER-MIXED SWEEPER-ANNOYER-BATON PASSER-CLERIC-DRAINER-SPIKER

explain with an example for each

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

A tank is a Pokemon with attacking and defending abilities.

A sweeper is a role that is the name exactly. It sweeps the Pokemon out of the way, ususally with just a few hits.

A Pokemon with amazing defensive abilities that can stall and help set up.

A sweeper with physical moves and high attack.

A sweeper with special moves and high special attack.

A Pokemon with with good offensive stats and both physical and special moves.

An annoyer basically annoys other Pokemon ie. Substitute with Leech Seed.

A baton passer is a Pokemon that uses many stat raising moves and uses Baton Pass to switch to a different Pokemon with those boosts still intact.

A cleric is a healer ie. Blissey with Wish.

Just guessing here, but a drainer is a Pokemon that uses moves to drain the other Pokemon’s HP to use for itself. Moves would include things like Drain Punch, Giga Drain, Leech Seed, etc.

A Pokemon that sets up moves like spikes and toxic spikes.

These are all diffrent roles. There is a post of what all that means on this link:

http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/38940/what-are-the-diffrent-kinds-pokemon-competitive-battling#a38954