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-TANK
-SWEEPER
-WALL
-PHYSICAL SWEEPER
-SPECIAL SWEEPER
-MIXED SWEEPER
-ANNOYER
-BATON PASSER
-CLERIC
-DRAINER
-SPIKER

explain with an example for each

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Tank

A tank is a Pokemon with attacking and defending abilities.

Sweeper

A sweeper is a role that is the name exactly. It sweeps the Pokemon out of the way, ususally with just a few hits.

Wall

A Pokemon with amazing defensive abilities that can stall and help set up.

Physical Sweeper

A sweeper with physical moves and high attack.

Special Sweeper

A sweeper with special moves and high special attack.

Mixed Sweeper

A Pokemon with with good offensive stats and both physical and special moves.

Annoyer

An annoyer basically annoys other Pokemon ie. Substitute with Leech Seed.

Baton Passer

A baton passer is a Pokemon that uses many stat raising moves and uses Baton Pass to switch to a different Pokemon with those boosts still intact.

Cleric

A cleric is a healer ie. Blissey with Wish.

Drainer

Just guessing here, but a drainer is a Pokemon that uses moves to drain the other Pokemon's HP to use for itself. Moves would include things like Drain Punch, Giga Drain, Leech Seed, etc.

Spiker

A Pokemon that sets up moves like spikes and toxic spikes.

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I like this kind of answer much better than a link
While answers like this are better than links most of the time, this time, the link is to a question just like this that was asked last year with a very comprehensive answer.
Yeah, more comprehensive than this one, no offense. I think it was the most upvoted answer of the history of the DB.
No. One have 70 something.
True dat.
Ninja has one that has 13.
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These are all diffrent roles. There is a post of what all that means on this link:

http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/38940/what-are-the-diffrent-kinds-pokemon-competitive-battling#a38954

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