Interesting that this thread is made, what with Black and White just around the corner, I too have dusted off my Diamond and Heart Gold and re-immersed myself in pokemon goodness.
So I was looking at re making my go to team to farm the elite four, so of course I hit the usual places (serebii, gamefaqs..) for move-set info, type charts and all that jazz. I was going back and forth between websites and quickly remembered what a pain it was to consolidate all this info into a fully functioning pokemon team.
I knew of online tools that help you determine movesets given a pokemon, but I wanted something more encompassing and fancier. I started thinking..hell, I'm studying CS, might as well put that knowledge to work. So for the passed couple days, I have been making a "Visual Pokemon move set reference evaluator thing" Think of a better name and get a free pokemon of you choice :p
So yeah, its been a learning experience and relaxing too, to work on something non-school related. Screenshots are all works in progress of course:

I'd like to think its all self explanatory just from seeing those screenshots. The user selects a move type (Fire, Grass, Electric) and then pokeballs represent which of the 4 selected moves is effective/non-effective against that element.
When I make a team, my main goal is to cover as many types as possible given my available pokemon. With so many pokemon and moves available now, its sometimes its hard to see the best combination of pokemon. This program aims to help you quickly and efficiently see they types your moves cover. It will also display the pokemon capable of learning the currently selected move-set.
To Do:
List the pokemon capable of learning the selected move set
Finish Dual Type functionality
Add ability to choose a specific pokemon to evaluate selected move set against
Add pokemon team presets to evaluate your move set against(Elite Four teams from all the games, Gym Leaders...)
Create and display 6 move sets, representing the player's whole team
Other shit I will think of later that will guarantee this project takes way longer than it should
I'd love to hear what yall think.
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