Competitive Pokemans?

Hey everyone!

I'm hoping someone or some people can help me out. With Silver and Gold coming out next month, I would like to get into Pokemon competitively. However, I have no idea where to start. I've looked online and found forums flooded with so much info, I have no idea where to start.

Is there a guide or a great forum (besides this one) I should look into? Thank you for your time! Competitive Pokemans?

I have no idea what you mean by that but I googled it and heres the first link I found.also please enjoy this picture of a cat playing pokeman.

Heh, Smogon is the best forum out there to begin. Theirs articles helped me a lot when i tried to enter competitive battle.

THIS article is exactly about entering the competitive world, and THIS is a little glossary. There are many others, but begin with these two.

Edit: okay, let me rephrase that first statement. Smogon is the best forum out there. Doesn't matter what is your knowledge about competitive battling.

Smogon and Seribii(spell?) have decent online communities and are loads of help with competive battling.

Smogon and Seribii(spell?) have decent online communities and are loads of help with competive battling.

SSBMFighter

Thanks for the replies and links friends!

Smogon and Seribii(spell?) have decent online communities and are loads of help with competive battling.

SSBMFighter

Serebii has a lot of outdated information. That "pokemon of the week" thing is a big trap. One of the Roserade sets, for example, suggest Extrasensory "to hit poison types", and Crobats sets has Hipnosys. When they wrote these things in 2007/08 it was true, since platinum wasn't out there and roserade was UU, but now it's just a BIG trap.