About Pokepedia

Pokepedia is a free Pokemon reference and Pokedex tracker for fans. Every one of the 1,025 Pokemon, 937 moves, and 371 abilities lives here alongside a no-account catch tracker, a team builder, a type chart, a side-by-side compare tool, a random Pokemon generator, and a trainer card maker. One site, one red banner, every tool you'd actually use.

It runs on your phone as well as it does on your laptop. No login, no email, no paywall on any fact.

I'm a 37 year old Pokemon fan. My first Game Boy Color cartridge was Pokemon Yellow, which I adored harder than a nine year old is supposed to adore a toy. I beat the Elite Four, saw the credits, and cried. Real tears, not the cute kind.

Then life went and did what life does. I stopped paying attention around the time the series turned three dimensional. Years passed. Then one random night at 2am, nostalgia ambushed me and I went looking for information about a franchise I'd missed half of.

What I found was a mess. Not the games. The fan resources. Every small question led me to a two thousand word entry when I just wanted the answer. Type charts were built for 2004 desktop monitors and crammed awkwardly on my phone. Catch trackers demanded an email before they'd let me mark a Bulbasaur. Checking which Pokemon are in a specific game meant scrolling past three paragraphs of regional folklore I didn't come for.

I've been a graphic designer for 17 years. I looked at the state of things and decided I could build something better, or at least something prettier. Something that put the artwork first, used bold type, stayed readable on a phone, and let you find one fact in five seconds without doing homework for it. That's Pokepedia.

The original plan was a Pokedex and a tracker. Two things.

I built the Pokedex and realized it needed a type chart that was actually readable, so I built one. Then I wanted to see which Pokemon shared moves with which, so I built a compare tool. Then I wanted to plan a team around what I'd already caught, so I built a team builder. A friend asked me to roll a random Pokemon for their Nuzlocke, so I built a generator with ten filters. A trainer card maker snuck in because I thought it'd be cute. It was.

Along the way I filled in a full moves database, a full abilities database, a regional Pokedex for every main-series game, a Pokedex for every generation, a landing page for each of the eighteen types, a roster for the new Pokemon Champions title, and a small curated merchandise catalog for people who also cannot help themselves.

What started as two things is now closer to two dozen. Each one began as a side thought I couldn't shake. The honest version of the story is I made all of this because I like making it.

• Pokedex. Every one of the 1,025 Pokemon, from Bulbasaur to Pecharunt. Types, stats, abilities, full movesets, evolutions, and which games they show up in.
• Pokedex Tracker. Mark caught, shiny, and traded across every main-series Pokemon game. Notes per Pokemon. Export and re-import your progress whenever. Works offline after your first visit. Nothing ever leaves your device.
• Type Chart. The full 18-by-18 matchup matrix, with a flip button to switch between offensive and defensive views.
• Team Builder. Pick a game, drop in six Pokemon, see your team's type coverage and defensive holes before someone else does. Shareable via the URL.
• Compare Pokemon. Any two Pokemon side by side. Stats, types, shared moves, abilities, and the games you can catch both in.
• Random Generator. Ten filters for when you want a surprise Pokemon.
• Trainer Card Maker. Design a trainer card, drop in your party, export as a PNG.
• Pokemon Games. Every main-series title with cover art, release dates, and a link to its regional Pokedex.

Sugimori's artwork and the original pixel sprites are what made Pokemon feel like a world to me. Pokepedia puts them in front instead of tucking them behind rows of data. Big art, bold type, generous white space, type colors borrowed straight from the games. The internet has enough gray databases. This isn't one of them.

The whole site is free and nothing is gated. Every Pokemon, every move, every stat, every game, the tracker, the team builder, all of it opens without a login. The tracker even works offline.

Two things aren't free and I want to be straight about them.

Ads.I hate ads as much as you do. They're a small way to keep the lights on for a site that pays for servers, data sync, and CDN bandwidth. If they bug you, there's a one-time option to remove them for good. No subscription, no newsletter, no account still. Pay once, never see an ad on Pokepedia again. Refuse to pay and you lose nothing: every piece of data is still free and every tool still works.

Merchandise affiliate links. On /pokemon-merchandise, some links are affiliate. If you buy something through one, I get a small cut. Consider it partial reimbursement for what I've spent on Pokemon merch over the years.

Pokemon names, artwork, sprites, and game metadata belong to Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company. Pokepedia is an independent fan project and uses them under fair-use principles for informational and editorial purposes. If you're a rights holder with a concern, get in touch via the form below. Full details on the Fair Use page.

Pokepedia is run by one person who happens to be a Pokemon fan. NERDDEX LLC is the legal home for the project because running a public site that accepts voluntary support is more responsible inside a liability shield than outside one. Nothing else about the site changes. Same fan, same project, same Pokedex.

Spotted a bug, a wrong fact, or a broken sprite? Want to tell me your best Pokemon story? Or maybe you happen to own a complete-in-box copy of Pokemon Yellow and want to make my year? (Side note: my original cartridge got destroyed in an earthquake. The first thing I did when I got that game as a kid was throw the cardboard in the trash. Bless my heart.)

Use the contact form. Replies come within a few days.