Pokémon Showdown, ofttimes formatted as Pokémon Showdown!, is a popular competitive Pokémon simulator. It was created past Zarel and opened in October of 2011, but it was not until July 2, 2012 that it was adopted as Smogon's official battle simulator. Pokémon Showdown is a spider web-based projection available on all major browsers and also has a downloadable client. This means you can play Pokémon Showdown on web browsers such equally Google Chrome or download information technology from the internet and play information technology direct from your desktop.
Pokémon Showdown was designed to simulate the atmospheric condition of WiFi Pokémon games in a more stable environs, which creates a more efficient method in which to be 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 community as a whole. This guide may also incorporate sections which help give agreement to aspects of the programme to veterans of the site, as well.
Settings
Pokémon Showdown also allows users to customize their settings to their own preference. In gild to modify those settings, one should navigate their cursor to the top correct of the primary menu when logged in and hitting on the gear button to open the settings menu.
Currently, it is possible to change 1'southward avatar, change the groundwork, disable animations, and change chat preferences. Most of these options are purely aesthetic, so feel free to alter them to whichever manner you adopt. Using commands, it is also possible to change some settings relating to battles. This will be covered more in-depth in the side by side section.
Commands
Inside any of the chats information technology is possible to type in commands (messages beginning with /) in order to perform a particular activity. A wide variety of these commands be, with some but available to certain users. For case, the /wall control is only bachelor to Drivers (%) and to a higher place. Similarly, only users ranked Leaders (&) and above (~, #) are able to promote other users within a room.
These ranks will be explained later in the guide in more depth. For more information, see the "Community" section. The commands listed will exist separated into Useful & Commonly Used Commands, Battle Commands, Highlights, Room Commands, and Miscellaneous Commands. A brief description volition be provided next to each control, explaining what information technology does.
Useful & Ordinarily Used
This is a list of the most commonly used or practical commands that you will use on Pokémon Showdown.
/rules - Links to Pokémon Showdown's full general rules. This may likewise prove specific room rules of the room you are in.
/msg OR /whisper OR /pm OR /w [username], [message] - Send a private message to a user.
/rating OR /ranking OR /ladder OR /rank [username] - Become user'south rating on all of the ladders they have battled in. Leave [username] blank if you lot want to view your own rank.
/larn [pokemon], [move, motility, ...] - Displays how a Pokémon tin learn the given moves, if it can at all.
/calc - Provides a link to a damage estimator.
/dexsearch [type], [motility], [move],...
Search categories are: type, tier, color, moves, ability, gen.
Types must be followed by " blazon", eastward.g., "dragon blazon".
/information OR /info OR /stats [pokemon/item/motion/ability/nature] - Obtain details on this Pokémon/item/movement/ability/nature.
/dt [pokemon/item/motility/ability] - Provides more than details than /data. For Pokémon, information technology includes dex number, generation, height, weight, dex colour, egg group, and evolutions; for items, it includes generation introduced in and Fling Base Ability; and for moves, it tells you lot the priority, generation introducted in, whether it makes contact and/or has a secondary effect, and what Pokemon it targets.
/nick [new username] - Alter your username to [new username]. If the username is already registered you volition be prompted to enter a password.
/claiming [username] - opens up the pick to send a boxing claiming to another online user
/assistance [x] - Gives information on a specific subject. Replace 10 with a different command, subject, or 'all.'
/away - Blocks challenges and PMs. Cannot block from staff.
/back - Unlocks challenges and PMs. (reverse of /away)
/blockpm OR /blockpms - Blocks other users from PMing you. Cannot block letters from staff.
/unblockpm OR /unblockpms - Unblocks other users from PMing you.
/blockchallenges OR /bch - Blocks other users from challenging you.
/unblockchallenges - Unblocks other users from challenging you lot.
/ignore [username] - negates messages from and ignores another online user. Note that y'all cannot ignore PMs from global staff members.
/unignore [username] - Opposite of /ignore [username].
/formatshelp - Brings up a list of Smogon Tiers, Tiering FAQ, and the banlists for each tier.
/formatshelp [format] - Brings up a list of all links related to a specific format.
Battle
These commands are useful in battle rooms. When you are contesting, you are temporarily given a rank called Player (★). These commands can only be used by Players and any global staff members who bring together the battle room.
/modchat + - Makes it so only room Voices and Players can talk.
/modchat ac - Makes it so but autoconfirmed users, which are users who accept won one rated battle and have been registered for a week, tin can talk.
/modchat off - Turns off any modchat.
/modjoin - Makes the room hidden and adds /modchat +
/hiddenroom on - Hides the room so other users can't bring together unless they accept a link to the boxing.
/hiddenroom off - Makes the room public once more.
/savereplay - Saves a replay of the battle so yous tin can share it with others!
Highlights
If yous've spent any fourth dimension in the Vestibule, you may notice users refer to a concept of 'highlights.' In a nutshell, highlights are words that trigger a message to announced at the corner of your screen, akin to private bulletin alerts. You lot may cull to highlight on specific words such every bit your name so that you know when people are directing word, questions, or answers towards yous specifically.
/highlight add, word - add together a new word to the highlight list.
/highlight listing - listing all words that currently highlight you.
/highlight delete, word - delete a word from the highlight listing.
/highlight delete - clear the highlight listing.
Room
The commands listed below 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 see your ain rooms.
/roomauth [room] - Shows the detail staff for a room in a pop-up. Without [room] it shows y'all the roomauth of the room y'all used the control in.
/roomhelp - Gives data on all commands that a staff fellow member in a room can use.
/roomintro - Shows the room intro of the room you lot are in, which normally has helpful links and relevant information pertaining to the room.
/roomdesc - Shows the full general description of the room you are in.
Miscellaneous
This is a list of the balance of the commands which aren't as unremarkably used or don't fit under whatsoever other specific categories. Hither you volition find commands y'all may have never even heard of, such every bit /faq doubles or /opensource!
/respond OR /r [message] - Send a private bulletin to the final person you received a message from, or sent a message to.
/ip - Become your own IP accost.
/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] assault to a [type2] Pokémon.
/user [username] - opens up a small tab which gives you the pick 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] - Same as higher up.
/groups - Explains what the + % @ & ~ next to people's names mean. (This is also covered after in the guide)
/opensource OR /git - Links to PS's source lawmaking 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 project.
/om OR /othermetas - Provides links to information on the Other Metagames.
/weakness [pokemon/type] - Returns the type weaknesses for a specific Pokémon or blazon.
/faq [theme] - Provides a link to the FAQ. Add deviation, doubles, randomcap, restart, or staff for a link to these questions. Add together all for all of them.
/articulate - Clears the chat that you're currently in of all text
/restarthelp - Gives information regarding server restarts
/om calendar month - Links to explanation of the Other Metagame of the month.
/userauth [username] - See what rank a user has in all public rooms.
/uptime - Tells you how long the server has been up.
/staff - Links to a list of global staff members.
/auth - Aforementioned as /staff, but instead of a link it gives yous a pop-upward list of all global staff members.
/timestamps [all/antechamber/pms], [minutes/seconds/off] - Sets your timestamps preferences.
all - Changes all timestamp preferences.
lobby - Changes but lobby timestamp preferences.
pms - Changes merely PM preferences.
off - Sets timestamps off.
minutes - Shows timestamps in the form of [hh:mm].
seconds - Shows timestamps in the form of [hh:mm:ss].
Teambuilder
The teambuilder is a large office of Pokémon Showdown and enables users to create their own teams from scratch, import other people's teams, or edit whatsoever of their currently existing ones. Some formats on the simulator will not crave you to create a team and let you lot bound straight into boxing. An example of this is the very popular 'Random Battle' mode, or equally it is commonly referred to, 'Randbats' for brusk.
Other tiers and formats, such as OU, Ubers, RU, and NU will require the user to create a squad that coincides for the rules of that tier. If you'd similar a listing of what you tin and tin't use for each tier, click hither. If you intend to create a team for playing the Sixth Generation, at that place are dissimilar rulesets for each tier, which are likewise listed on the aforementioned folio. In gild to create a team, click on the 'Teambuilder' button in the principal menu.
Edifice a team is fairly cocky-explanatory with the teambuilder guiding y'all along each stage of the procedure. You lot can select a Pokémon's Detail, Ability, Moves, Stats, and other details such as its Level (from 1 to 100), its Gender (None, Random, Male, or Female), Happiness, and whether or non it is Shiny. Keep in mind that some sets may require a Pokémon to have particular attributes. For example, Entei tin can but obtain the moves Flare Blitz, Farthermost Speed, Beat out Claw, or Howl from a specific event which dictates that it must have an Adamant nature and be Shiny. If you lot attempt to enter a battle with an moveset which doesn't bide by these rules, you will be prompted to change it before you lot battle.
Other features of the Teambuilder include the power to rearrange the team slots (the "Move" button on the top right of the above image), delete existing Pokémon or teams, or import/consign text versions of the team so that you can share your team with friends or the customs.
Battling
Organising a battle on Pokémon Showdown is a very like shooting fish in a barrel task to do. Ane can either opt to play in a ladder game (in which you receive a random opponent), or to challenge a specific user. To play in a ladder game, select your format and team in the peak left hand corner using the drop-down boxes. If your team is accustomed and deemed legal past the server for that specific format, you lot will be put in a queue amongst other players to bring together a match. The server matches yous with people with the closest rank to y'all ideally, just expands the parameters as time progresses.
Alternatively, you lot can type /challenge username into chat or click on a person's name to challenge them manually. However, these types of games will not alter your ranking on the ladder. From the betoken of two players inbound a game, you lot'll either exist thrown straight into a boxing or into the Team Preview. Team Preview occurs in the majority of formats, in which case you volition exist given time to choose your leading Pokémon based on your opponent'southward team. After you've made your selection, the battle will begin 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 next to the moves and the Pokémon will then plow into the corresponding Mega forme. If you're interested in improving your battling skills or learning more most a particular metagame, the Battling 101 section of Smogon can assistance newer players. To learn more about this program, 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 every bit its forums. If yous're frequently in the Foyer, you will notice regular users who hash out a range of subjects in the chat. Because of this, if i has whatsoever questions, asking them in this Lobby conversation might not be the platonic manner of getting a response; for this reason, if your question isn't particularly complicated, feel complimentary to join the Assist room and ask it there. In the case that yous believe your question is besides difficult to answer accurately through the mutual knowledge of others, asking said question on the Pokémon Showdown forums is also an option. Alternatively, one can likewise post the question in its respective Simple Questions / Simple Answers (SQSA) thread.
One of the almost common questions I meet on Pokémon Showdown would exist, "How practise you become that plus sign?", or "How exercise you become a modernistic?". These dissimilar symbols (+, %, @, &, and ~) all denote a particular level amongst 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 can be washed in a range of different ways. Primarily, i can potentially be promoted through user ranks for chat contributions. This essentially ways being a good influence in chat by leading potent and intelligent discussion, answering questions of other users, and not breaking the rules. One can also gain the Vocalisation status by beingness a well-known and distinguished member of the customs, completing the (discontinued) Vocalization challenges, or contributing to the simulator itself.
Existence voiced marks you equally a particularly skilful user, granting you a position at the elevation of the userlist, the ability to speak in chastened chat, and shows that you are a respected member to other users. Asking for condition volition not help your cause and is most likely to prepare you back. In a similar vein, sucking up to staff is not beneficial and is not encouraged at all.
The staff members of Pokémon Showdown accept a item set of roles. Above 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, peculiarly Administrators, if they are answerable by regular users.
According to the Staff FAQ, below is a list of ways one can be promoted. Accept notation that just because you fulfill these requirements doesn't mean y'all will instantly become ranked and that these requirements exist to set a standard, and help users empathise what they can practise to contribute to the site. Following these points will not ensure that you lot're added to staff; indeed, they are merely guidelines which can help you lot empathize how you can join staff.
Be on Pokémon Showdown regularly and contribute regularly to the chat. Being a staff member requires both a high level of activity and quality. Existence on the chat regularly gives a proficient indication of your intelligence and will ensure, with practiced behaviour, that y'all earn respect from other users.
Practise not flame, be argumentative, or be a poor user in general. You obviously won't exist given any power if you lot insult other users, break rules, or otherwise make more than work for the staff. As well as the higher up, sycophancy is not beneficial and will non help your cause.
Know what y'all're talking about when answering questions or having discussions. Although you don't demand to be a peachy battler by whatsoever means to be a staff fellow member, it does assist if you know the metagame, so equally to get in easier for y'all to help others.
Show that y'all are mature and level-headed enough to have the privilege of ability, and the responsibilities that come with it.
Moderators have the ability of banning users for long periods of time, and to earn this power, you lot must show that you are level-headed enough to just use this and other Moderator powers when admittedly required.
Nearly chiefly, gain the respect of the users and staff members. You will merely be considered for a staff position when you have 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 exist for different purposes. These rooms can range from different language rooms, rooms for people with particular hobbies or those dedicated to a particular playable format. Rooms can either be official, public (which means they're listed under "conversation rooms") or they can exist individual.
In that location are iii official public rooms, and they are Lobby, Tournaments, and Help. Vestibule is where nearly word and action resides, Tournaments is a room that hosts scripted challenges constantly, and Help is the room to go to if you lot accept 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 more often than not for private communities or staff areas.
Resources and Links
Pokémon Showdown is Smogon's official competitive simulator and is the footing of this guide.
Pokémon Showdown Forums are the forums section of Pokémon Showdown. One may report bugs, propose ideas, or appeal bans here. In that location are several important threads here every bit well, such as How to Contact Senior Staff, suggestions, and bug reports, too as threads that advertise 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 take been saved to the server. I can search for specific battles here.
News contains an annal of the Pokémon Showdown news bulletins that have been published on the server.
Antar'due south 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 doubtable testing requirements rating system, written by their creator, Antar.
Elo Hell-o: Rating Systems on Showdown and You lot is a guide written by scalarmotion that explains the rating systems used on Pokémon Showdown.
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