Pokémon Showdown, ofttimes formatted as Pokémon Showdown!, is a pop competitive Pokémon simulator. It was created by Zarel and opened in October of 2011, only it was non until July 2, 2012 that it was adopted as Smogon'southward official boxing simulator. Pokémon Showdown is a web-based projection available on all major browsers and as well has a downloadable client. This means yous can play Pokémon Showdown on web browsers such as Google Chrome or download information technology from the internet and play it straight from your desktop.
Pokémon Showdown was designed to simulate the weather condition of WiFi Pokémon games in a more than stable environment, which creates a more than efficient method in which to exist involved in the competitive Pokémon setting. The aim of this guide is to explicate to new users to the manner in which Pokémon Showdown operates and integrate said users into the customs as a whole. This guide may also contain sections which help give agreement to aspects of the plan to veterans of the site, besides.
Settings
Pokémon Showdown also allows users to customize their settings to their ain preference. In club to change those settings, ane should navigate their cursor to the top right of the principal carte when logged in and hit on the gear button to open up the settings menu.
Currently, it is possible to alter one's avatar, modify the groundwork, disable animations, and alter chat preferences. Nigh of these options are purely aesthetic, so feel free to alter them to whichever way you prefer. Using commands, it is as well possible to change some settings relating to battles. This volition be covered more in-depth in the adjacent department.
Commands
Inside any of the chats it is possible to type in commands (letters start with /) in social club to perform a detail action. A wide diversity of these commands be, with some only available to certain users. For instance, the /wall command is simply available to Drivers (%) and above. Similarly, only users ranked Leaders (&) and above (~, #) are able to promote other users within a room.
These ranks will exist explained later in the guide in more depth. For more information, see the "Community" section. The commands listed will be separated into Useful & Usually Used Commands, Battle Commands, Highlights, Room Commands, and Miscellaneous Commands. A brief description volition be provided next to each command, explaining what information technology does.
Useful & Commonly Used
This is a list of the nigh commonly used or practical commands that yous will employ on Pokémon Showdown.
/rules - Links to Pokémon Showdown'south general rules. This may also prove specific room rules of the room you are in.
/msg OR /whisper OR /pm OR /due west [username], [message] - Send a individual message to a user.
/rating OR /ranking OR /ladder OR /rank [username] - Get user's rating on all of the ladders they have battled in. Leave [username] blank if you desire to view your own rank.
/acquire [pokemon], [movement, move, ...] - Displays how a Pokémon can learn the given moves, if it can at all.
/calc - Provides a link to a damage calculator.
/dexsearch [type], [movement], [motion],...
Search categories are: type, tier, color, moves, ability, gen.
Types must be followed by " blazon", e.chiliad., "dragon type".
/data OR /info OR /stats [pokemon/item/movement/ability/nature] - Obtain details on this Pokémon/item/move/ability/nature.
/dt [pokemon/item/move/power] - Provides more than details than /data. For Pokémon, it includes dex number, generation, peak, weight, dex color, egg group, and evolutions; for items, it includes generation introduced in and Fling Base Ability; and for moves, it tells you the priority, generation introducted in, whether information technology makes contact and/or has a secondary upshot, and what Pokemon it targets.
/nick [new username] - Alter your username to [new username]. If the username is already registered you will be prompted to enter a password.
/challenge [username] - opens up the option to send a battle challenge to another online user
/help [x] - Gives data on a specific subject. Replace 10 with a unlike command, subject, or 'all.'
/away - Blocks challenges and PMs. Cannot block from staff.
/dorsum - Unlocks challenges and PMs. (opposite of /away)
/blockpm OR /blockpms - Blocks other users from PMing you. Cannot block letters from staff.
/unblockpm OR /unblockpms - Unblocks other users from PMing yous.
/blockchallenges OR /bch - Blocks other users from challenging you.
/unblockchallenges - Unblocks other users from challenging you.
/ignore [username] - negates letters from and ignores some other online user. Note that you lot cannot ignore PMs from global staff members.
/unignore [username] - Opposite of /ignore [username].
/formatshelp - Brings upward a listing of Smogon Tiers, Tiering FAQ, and the banlists for each tier.
/formatshelp [format] - Brings upwards a list of all links related to a specific format.
Battle
These commands are useful in battle rooms. When y'all are battling, you are temporarily given a rank called Player (★). These commands can but exist used by Players and any global staff members who join the battle room.
/modchat + - Makes it and so only room Voices and Players tin talk.
/modchat ac - Makes information technology so simply autoconfirmed users, which are users who have won one rated battle and have been registered for a week, tin talk.
/modchat off - Turns off any modchat.
/modjoin - Makes the room subconscious and adds /modchat +
/hiddenroom on - Hides the room so other users can't join unless they have a link to the battle.
/hiddenroom off - Makes the room public once again.
/savereplay - Saves a replay of the boxing so you can share information technology with others!
Highlights
If you've spent any fourth dimension in the Lobby, y'all may notice users refer to a concept of 'highlights.' In a nutshell, highlights are words that trigger a bulletin to appear at the corner of your screen, akin to private message alerts. Yous may choose to highlight on specific words such as your name so that y'all know when people are directing discussion, questions, or answers towards you specifically.
/highlight add, discussion - add a new word to the highlight list.
/highlight list - list all words that currently highlight y'all.
/highlight delete, discussion - delete a word from the highlight listing.
/highlight delete - clear the highlight list.
Room
The commands listed beneath are all relevant to the rooms. This topic is discussed more in-depth in the Rooms subsection.
/rooms [username] - Show what rooms a user is in. Omit [username] to encounter your ain rooms.
/roomauth [room] - Shows the detail staff for a room in a pop-up. Without [room] it shows you the roomauth of the room you lot used the command in.
/roomhelp - Gives data on all commands that a staff member in a room can employ.
/roomintro - Shows the room intro of the room you are in, which usually has helpful links and relevant data pertaining to the room.
/roomdesc - Shows the general description of the room you are in.
Miscellaneous
This is a list of the rest of the commands which aren't as commonly used or don't fit under whatever other specific categories. Here you will find commands you lot may have never fifty-fifty heard of, such as /faq doubles or /opensource!
/reply OR /r [message] - Send a private message to the last person y'all received a message from, or sent a message to.
/ip - Get your own IP address.
/avatar [new avatar number] - Change your trainer sprite.
/whois [username] - Get details on a username: group, and rooms.
/effectiveness [type1], [type2] - Provides the effectiveness of a [type1] assail to a [type2] Pokémon.
/user [username] - opens up a minor tab which gives you lot the selection to challenge, PM, and cheque the rooms / rank of some other online user
/analysis [pokemon], [generation] - Links to the Smogon University analysis for this Pokémon in the given generation.
/smogdex [pokemon], [generation] - Aforementioned as in a higher place.
/groups - Explains what the + % @ & ~ adjacent to people's names mean. (This is also covered later in the guide)
/opensource OR /git - Links to PS's source code repository.
/avatars OR /avatar - Explains how to change avatars.
/intro - Provides an introduction to competitive Pokémon.
/cap - Provides an introduction to the Create-A-Pokémon projection.
/om OR /othermetas - Provides links to data on the Other Metagames.
/weakness [pokemon/blazon] - Returns the blazon weaknesses for a specific Pokémon or type.
/faq [theme] - Provides a link to the FAQ. Add departure, doubles, randomcap, restart, or staff for a link to these questions. Add all for all of them.
/clear - Clears the conversation that yous're currently in of all text
/restarthelp - Gives information regarding server restarts
/om month - Links to explanation of the Other Metagame of the month.
/userauth [username] - Meet what rank a user has in all public rooms.
/uptime - Tells you lot how long the server has been upwards.
/staff - Links to a list of global staff members.
/auth - Aforementioned every bit /staff, but instead of a link information technology gives yous a pop-upward list of all global staff members.
/timestamps [all/foyer/pms], [minutes/seconds/off] - Sets your timestamps preferences.
all - Changes all timestamp preferences.
lobby - Changes only entrance hall timestamp preferences.
pms - Changes only PM preferences.
off - Sets timestamps off.
minutes - Shows timestamps in the grade of [hh:mm].
seconds - Shows timestamps in the grade of [hh:mm:ss].
Teambuilder
The teambuilder is a large part of Pokémon Showdown and enables users to create their own teams from scratch, import other people's teams, or edit any of their currently existing ones. Some formats on the simulator will not require you to create a team and let y'all jump straight into battle. An instance of this is the very pop 'Random Boxing' mode, or as it is commonly referred to, 'Randbats' for brusk.
Other tiers and formats, such as OU, Ubers, RU, and NU volition crave the user to create a team that coincides for the rules of that tier. If you'd like a listing of what you tin can and can't employ for each tier, click hither. If yous intend to create a team for playing the 6th Generation, in that location are unlike rulesets for each tier, which are also listed on the same folio. In social club to create a team, click on the 'Teambuilder' button in the chief card.
Building a team is fairly self-explanatory with the teambuilder guiding you along each phase of the process. You can select a Pokémon's Particular, Ability, Moves, Stats, and other details such equally its Level (from ane to 100), its Gender (None, Random, Male, or Female), Happiness, and whether or not information technology is Shiny. Keep in heed that some sets may crave a Pokémon to have particular attributes. For example, Entei can just obtain the moves Flare Blitz, Extreme Speed, Crush Claw, or Howl from a specific issue which dictates that information technology must accept an Adamant nature and be Shiny. If you try to enter a battle with an moveset which doesn't abide past these rules, you will be prompted to modify information technology earlier yous battle.
Other features of the Teambuilder include the ability to rearrange the team slots (the "Move" button on the elevation right of the above prototype), delete existing Pokémon or teams, or import/consign text versions of the squad so that you lot tin share your team with friends or the community.
Battling
Organising a battle on Pokémon Showdown is a very easy task to do. Ane can either opt to play in a ladder game (in which y'all receive a random opponent), or to challenge a specific user. To play in a ladder game, select your format and team in the top left hand corner using the drib-downwardly boxes. If your team is accustomed and deemed legal by the server for that specific format, you will be put in a queue amongst other players to join a friction match. The server matches yous with people with the closest rank to yous ideally, simply expands the parameters every bit time progresses.
Alternatively, you tin type /challenge username into chat or click on a person'due south name to claiming them manually. Nevertheless, these types of games will non change your ranking on the ladder. From the point of two players entering a game, you'll either exist thrown straight into a boxing or into the Team Preview. Team Preview occurs in the bulk of formats, in which case you volition exist given time to cull your leading Pokémon based on your opponent's team. After you've made your choice, the boxing will brainstorm almost identically to in the bodily games themselves.
The process of choosing your moves and switching Pokémon is quite straightforward altogether. If you wish to Mega Evolve a Pokémon, click the checkbox located side by side to the moves and the Pokémon volition so plow into the respective Mega forme. If you're interested in improving your contesting skills or learning more than about a item metagame, the Contesting 101 section of Smogon tin can assistance newer players. To learn more about this programme, click the the link provided.
Community
Pokémon Showdown itself is coupled with a unique and vast community which ranges from each room on the simulator as well as its forums. If you're often in the Lobby, you will notice regular users who discuss a range of subjects in the chat. Because of this, if one has any questions, request them in this Lobby chat might not exist the ideal fashion of getting a response; for this reason, if your question isn't peculiarly complicated, feel gratis to join the Help room and ask information technology at that place. In the case that y'all believe your question is too difficult to reply accurately through the common cognition of others, asking said question on the Pokémon Showdown forums is also an option. Alternatively, one can also post the question in its respective Simple Questions / Simple Answers (SQSA) thread.
Ane of the almost common questions I run across on Pokémon Showdown would be, "How do you become that plus sign?", or "How do you become a mod?". These different symbols (+, %, @, &, and ~) all denote a detail level amid staff or that the user is a "Voice."
It is no mystery that people are interested in contributing to the site or gaining status and this tin exist done in a range of different ways. Primarily, ane tin potentially exist promoted through user ranks for conversation contributions. This essentially means being a expert influence in chat by leading potent and intelligent discussion, answering questions of other users, and not breaking the rules. One can likewise gain the Voice status by being a well-known and distinguished member of the community, completing the (discontinued) Voice challenges, or contributing to the simulator itself.
Beingness voiced marks you as a particularly skillful user, granting you a position at the meridian of the userlist, the ability to speak in moderated chat, and shows that y'all are a respected fellow member to other users. Asking for condition will not aid your cause and is nigh likely to set you dorsum. In a like vein, sucking up to staff is non beneficial and is not encouraged at all.
The staff members of Pokémon Showdown accept a particular set of roles. To a higher place all else, these users will enforce the rules of Pokémon Showdown if they are breached. Exceptions exist for those that are given staff membership for programming abilities or are more focussed on Smogon Policy. It is recommended that users don't direct questions towards staff, specially Administrators, if they are answerable by regular users.
According to the Staff FAQ, below is a list of ways one can be promoted. Take note that just because you fulfill these requirements doesn't mean you will instantly go ranked and that these requirements be to set up a standard, and help users sympathize what they can do to contribute to the site. Post-obit these points will not ensure that you're added to staff; indeed, they are merely guidelines which can help you understand how you can join staff.
Be on Pokémon Showdown regularly and contribute regularly to the chat. Being a staff member requires both a loftier level of activity and quality. Existence on the conversation regularly gives a adept indication of your intelligence and will ensure, with practiced behaviour, that y'all earn respect from other users.
Do not flame, exist argumentative, or be a poor user in general. Yous obviously won't be given whatsoever power if you insult other users, intermission rules, or otherwise make more work for the staff. Besides as the above, sycophancy is not beneficial and will not aid your cause.
Know what you're talking about when answering questions or having discussions. Although you don't need to be a smashing battler by any ways to be a staff fellow member, it does assist if you know the metagame, then equally to make it easier for yous to help others.
Show that you lot are mature and level-headed plenty to have the privilege of power, and the responsibilities that come with it.
Moderators have the power of banning users for long periods of time, and to earn this power, you must show that you are level-headed enough to simply apply this and other Moderator powers when admittedly required.
Almost importantly, gain the respect of the users and staff members. Yous will only be considered for a staff position when you take the respect of all of the Pokémon Showdown staff and users.
Rooms
While the chief room used on Pokémon Showdown is the Lobby, a variety of different rooms be for different purposes. These rooms can range from different linguistic communication rooms, rooms for people with particular hobbies or those defended to a particular playable format. Rooms can either exist official, public (which means they're listed under "chat rooms") or they can exist private.
In that location are three official public rooms, and they are Anteroom, Tournaments, and Assistance. Lobby is where most word and action resides, Tournaments is a room that hosts scripted challenges constantly, and Assist is the room to get to if you have any questions. Examples of public rooms include the Wi-Fi and Spanish (Español) rooms, which anyone may join provided they are not room banned. Private rooms are undisclosed to the public are generally for private communities or staff areas.
Resources and Links
Pokémon Showdown is Smogon's official competitive simulator and is the ground of this guide.
Pokémon Showdown Forums are the forums section of Pokémon Showdown. One may study bugs, suggest ideas, or appeal bans here. At that place are several important threads hither every bit well, such as How to Contact Senior Staff, suggestions, and bug reports, also equally threads that annunciate contests happening in different rooms across Pokémon Showdown.
The Rules outline what are punishable offences on Pokémon Showdown.
Replays contains all uploaded videos of Pokémon Showdown battles which have been saved to the server. One can search for specific battles hither.
News contains an annal of the Pokémon Showdown news bulletins that have been published on the server.
Antar's Guide to the PS Ladder Mechanics is a guide to Pokémon Showdown's conventional rating systems.
The Guide to the PS Mystery Ratings is a guide to Pokémon Showdown's suspect testing requirements rating system, written past their creator, Antar.
Elo Hell-o: Rating Systems on Showdown and You is a guide written by scalarmotion that explains the rating systems used on Pokémon Showdown.
#showdown is the official IRC aqueduct.
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