SuperEffective vs PMBattle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SuperEffective
Calculate type matchups for Pokémon, considering both offensive and defensive advantages. This tool aims to assist trainers in strategizing for battles and becoming the best.
- Type matchup calculation
- Attack type effectiveness
- Defense type resistance
- Battle strategy aid
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This application helps you find out type matchups for Pokémon! Both attack and defence can be calculated. Hopefully this can aid you on your journey in becoming 'the very best'!
PMBattle
This app provides comprehensive data and tools for Pokémon trainers. It offers popular battle teams, move look-ups, and an integrated database with real-time information from PGL and Smogon. Enhance your Pokémon battling skills with detailed strategies and team-building calculators.
- Popular Pokémon battle data
- Rentable teams with usage stats
- Move look-up functionality
- Integrated Pokémon database
- Real-time PGL and Smogon data
- Team building and analysis tools
- Community interaction
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PMBattle is a 20th Anniversary Gift for all Pokémon lovers. We support data of the Sword and Shield timely. The latest battle data can make you enjoy Pokémon battle. It can enable you to master entire databases and achieve your goal to be Pokémon master. Including： 1. Popular Pokémon to battle 2. Renting teams any time 3. Moves look-up 4. Integrated database 5. Real time data from PGL and Smogon Module descriptions: 1. Popular matches are divided into Singles, Doubles, WCS, etc. and can be configured in settings to suit your preferences. 2. The QR team contains the current hot team, with usage and winning rates as references. The team is divided into Singles, Doubles. In team details, you can choose to open the team in an external browser for 3DS scanning and click on the “copy team" to collect the team locally. It is noted that the team's information（Natutre,EVs,IVs,Item and Ability）needs to be configured by yourself due to the different battle formats. 3. The Information from Smogon contains the big data of the battle platform. There are many top players who recommend strategies to direct you，especially if you are layman, how to play excellently. 4. The Pokémon zone includes boxes and team’s space. Boxes are where players collect Pokémon and can save the matching moves of different PM. The team’s space is a collection of Pokémon in boxes. To build a better team, the team details have joint anti-blind spot calculation and strike surface calculator, which easily find team’s drawbacks. 5. The toolbox currently contains information such as character / egg set / skill acquisition and various calculators. Meanwhile, the damage calculator have two languages, and you choose English or Chinese. 6. There are also Treasure Hunts, Quest, maps and recipes. 7. Finally, you can interact with other Pokémon trainers by our community to talk and share your topic.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SuperEffective at none against PMBattle's 6. SuperEffective also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). PMBattle's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 20 months) and review sentiment (93% vs 82%). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PMBattle sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. SuperEffective asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for SuperEffective against 4.8 for PMBattle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 207 and 146 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of SuperEffective's written reviews are positive against 93% of PMBattle's.
SuperEffective ships an update every 20 months, PMBattle weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SuperEffective | PMBattle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (207 ratings) | 4.8 (146 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 207 — better | 146 |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 223 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dan Isacson | 云良 姚 |
Customer experience
SuperEffective
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In-app purchases
SuperEffective
No in-app purchases
PMBattle
- Chips$0.99
- AI Chat Weekly Pass (7 Days)$0.99
- Coffee$2.99
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- AI Chat Monthly Pass (30 Days)$2.99
- Remove ad$3.99
- AI Chat Yearly Pass (365 Days)$19.99
