Pokemon Abilities & Held Items Explained

This video covers common Pokemon Abilities that you can expect to encounter in competitive battles, and which Held Items are commonly used. There is a segment at the end of the video about Type Effectiveness and how you can use "not very effective" hits to your advantage.
0:00 Introduction
0:08 Part 1: Held Items
0:19 Choice Band, Choice Specs and Choice Scarf
0:47 Life Orb
1:07 Leftovers
1:13 Light Clay
1:17 Lum Berry
1:28 Sitrus Berry
1:34 Yache Berry
1:40 Part 2: Abilities
1:46 Levitate
1:56 Rough Skin
2:04 Contact Moves
2:20 Magic Bounce
2:40 Mold Breaker
3:09 Sturdy
3:18 Focus Sash
3:23 Unaware
3:46 Regenerator
3:55 Intimidate
4:05 Huge Power and Pure Power
4:19 Weather Abilities
4:25 Drizzle
4:33 Drought
4:43 Snow Warning
4:54 Sand Stream
5:08 Pokemon Type Chart
5:32 Garchomp and Golduck
5:54 "Not very effective" is important!
6:13 Like & Subscribe
In the first part of this video, I go over 10 of the most common items to come across when playing Pokemon competitively. The list is not extensive, but with this introduction to Pokemon held items, you should easily be able to interpret how other held items work as well.
In the second part, there is a Top 10 list of abilities I think is important to be familiar with when battling competitively. The same principle applies here, as to the section for items, which is that once you have been given a general presentation of useful abilities on competitive teams, you are better equiped to interpret the effects of the other abilities that were not part of this video.
In the last part of this video, I go over Type Effectiveness, which is really important in battling. But it's not just the Super Effective hits that are important to memorize, but also the "not very effective" hits, so that you can switch out a vulnerable Pokemon into a different Pokemon that can take the attack just fine.
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[@nirtheart]

Correction: Sitrus Berry heals *1/4* of a Pokémon's total HP, not 1/3 as stated in the video. I got Sitrus confused with the flavor berries, which heal *1/3* bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Figy_Berry

[@TheHopelessNinja]

Always love your explanation videos! especially didn't know what mold breaker does, but i play causally not competitive.

[@nirtheart]

That's great to hear! It would be fun to have you join the battle livestreams someday! It's a lot of fun to battle everyone

[@eclipze8408]

thanks dude, your videos are really helping. i’ve just started getting into pokemon competitive and i’m struggling to decide what items to put on each of my pokemon

[@nirtheart]

I'm glad you found the video useful! I will be making a few of these general videos in the coming weeks, and then start making strategy guides for specific Pokémon

[@Seltaeb_]

You have a great voice for these types of videos tbh

[@Mrammer]

Thank you, Selt! Is there anything I could've done better with this video?

[@KainMalice]

Unaware has got to be the funniest ability

[@nirtheart]

Sure is an UNO reverse card at times

[@Stevezftw]

Tapping right into my competitive edge. I was looking back at my play Pokemon account and was able to see all my points I earned back in 2015 :0

[@Mrammer]

Oh snap! It's great you still have your points after all this time! I hope you will join in on the fun with competitive battles in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl!!

[@Stevezftw]

@@Mrammer they removed competitive play from those games so I’m gonna skip them:

[@nirtheart]

There is no official ranking or anything, but you can play against other people in the games and so they do work! There will be lots of people in *Nirtheart* to battle anyway, and I'll be having battle livestreams on these games, too!

[@Stevezftw]

@@nirtheart no that’s good but to me that’s casual play. I like playing in regional events and stuff and that’s just not supported with the new games.

[@nirtheart]

@@Stevezftw I understand! You're welcome to join in anytime if you change your mind, anyway :)

[@Apex00007]

Nice vid nirth I liek it liek how I liek mudkips

[@nirtheart]

Ayy I appreciate it! We be getting 'em Mudkipz in BDSP so me happy!

[@nacht9517]

nirth are you getting both versions or just one? im getting both but ill probbaly play shining pearl firdg

[@nirtheart]

I'm getting both, but I will have *Pokémon Shining Pearl* as my main copy!

[@NectarineEmulator]

:DDDD

[@Mrammer]

Thanks for watching!!

[@ronswanson7371]

69th

[@Mrammer]

Loool