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Guidelines & Resources

wolf, Jul 2017: Guidelines & ResourcesGeneral Guidelines ・For submitting events and groups, look at the Events & Groups Approval thread instead. ・Don't make a new thread regarding a topic that has been posted in the last thirty days. ・Don't make a thread that...
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Replay Sharing Thread

ARSOO_95, Jan 2020: I think the replay data is available on your Switch SD card, maybe you just need to convert it to a clip first in the Smash interface? After that you can just upload it to YouTube,
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Events & Groups Approval

wolf, Apr 2020: We allow them. :)
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Battle Server Support

SawkTheWarrior, Aug 2020: Thanks!!
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Featured

The NEW Showdown Alt thread

Arcaneum, Jan 2021: Invictus Isawa Rabinov Rabinova PC Rabinov Arcaneum
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Fortune Championship

gimmepie, Sep 2021: What's this about Nitro being over?
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RMT

ORAS competitive team? Good or Bad?

Dr_Pumpernickel, Jul 2016: Thanks!
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Event

Community Weekend XXV Participant List

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The Replay & Critique Thread (MK 3)

gimmepie, Jul 2016: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-monotype-227798 I ended up winning this one but that's largely because I managed to get a poison on Camerupt which I was otherwise really struggling with. Any tips for either of us are much...
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Started by Dragon

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A Horrible Battle

Khrysamere, Jul 2016: I need to vent a little, I just fought a Person that further proves that my Contempt for Free Battle Triples is Justified. Ultimately He Disconnected, So I can't he even show you guys what happened, so instead I'll explain it. This Person Has...
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RMT

Battle maison team singles.

JayTheKing, Jul 2016: This is for X Y: Lead: Scolipede (M) @ Mental Herb Ability: Speed Boost EVs: 240 HP / 80 Def / 188 Spd Timid Nature - Iron Defense - Protect - Substitute - Baton Pass​
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Breeding:Am I doing something wrong

PlatinumDude, Jul 2016: Did you have any of the parents hold a Destiny Knot? This item takes 5 out of the 12 parents' IVs at random and passes them to the offspring. The sixth IV will be randomly generated.
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Started by JayTheKing

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Rate this doubles team

ZM11, Jul 2016: Thinking of playing some online double battles in ORAS with this team. Tell me how I can improve it. All feedback is appreciated. Whimsicott @ Leftovers Ability: Prankster EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA Bold Nature IVs: 0 Atk -...
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RMT

ORAS Singles OU Team

LatiasSoulDew, Jul 2016: I'll try this out. Jirachi covers Clefable's Poison and Steel weakness after all.
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Breeding Question

JohnnyGolduck, Jul 2016: Apologies in advance if this is posted in the wrong section but I've seen some threads about breeding here but I'm not sure! Hi all. This is pretty strange, honestly but here goes... I've bred a lot of Pokemon in my copy of Pokemon X. Mostly I...
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Event

WPDC Draft Style Pokemon League

GreatMudkip, Jul 2016: Hello id like to join
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Event

PokemonBattlingTournament

GreatMudkip, Jul 2016: or message me on skype my name is GreatMudkip OR THIS https://join.skype.com/rm5vJ1eeODmz
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RMT

Monotype Poison: Biohazard

Locko, Jul 2016: I caught a shiny Tentacool a while back so I might train it up and make a team like this.
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Started by Fletchling

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RMT

ORAS OU team

WestCoastShiny, Jul 2016: Ah ok thanks for the suggestions. I'll test them out pretty soon. Also I'm a bit rusty at competitive which is why I think I struggle against Keldeo (specifically choice scarf with scald and icy wind), and Ttar as well. Also the Magnezone suggestion...
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RMT

Attempt at a serious OU team.

72485rahul, Aug 2016: and Evasion Moves (like Double Team) is banned in OU, anyway.
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Started by Kabocha?

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Gen 1-4 Team Building Help

Poll
InsTincT_OP, Aug 2016: Hi everyone! I am planning a team for challenge mode and would greatly appreciate some help. I wont be posting movesets and items as they're only really relevant for competitive imo (I can always edit it in if need be). Starter- Empoleon-...
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Started by InsTincT_OP

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Event

Join PBT Draft League format

GreatMudkip, Aug 2016: Hello, pokemon battlers this is the first season of PBT if you want to join the pokemon draft league format know as PBT, message me on pokecommunity or pokemon showdown my name is Guysbelike420yeah, see you soon in PBT. ps make a pokemon team name...
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RMT

How is my UU team?

GreatMudkip, Aug 2016: True But for Arcanina you should use bulldoze or iron tail instead of crunch probably
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Need something to stop tyranitar

kingtigertank, Aug 2016: As mentioned before any fighting type will do. Also inflicting a burn on it will cripple it e.g. Rotom-w using will o' wisp.
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Started by mokonasakura

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RMT

It's Been Awhile

gimmepie, Aug 2016: Seconding the Skarmory recommendation, it'd greatly improve the team and can give you a potential taunter or your own as well since you already have hazard control with Tentacruel.
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New Player's First Competitive Team

Nah, Aug 2016: Asking for one in the Trade Corner is likely your best bet.
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Politoad in the meta?

Karous, Aug 2016: http://battlespotstats.com/ If you plan on playing on the in-game ladder, this site has full usage statistics for the most commonly used Pokemon and their sets. Politoed is listed at #98 most used for singles but #18 for doubles. Make sure to...
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Started by LuxrayXD

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Event

The Suuuuper Monotype Tournament!

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wolf, Aug 2016: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-monotype-230820 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pokecommunity-monotype-230821 Won vs Rabinov, good games.
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Started by Dragon

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Daily

Make-a-Mega 4: Complete

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gimmepie, Aug 2016: Sweeper Weezing has it! Stay tuned for the article and for the next poll which will be appearing soon.
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Healing Chimecho

Howmander, Aug 2016: Disclaimer: Yes, I KNOW we are not supposed to talk about in game strategies, this is not an in game strategy, this is for online against other people that I use from WITHIN the game, which I mention later in this post, but if I don't put down the...
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Friends and PBT

GreatMudkip, Aug 2016: Want to be friends and play Pokemon and join the PBT My skype is Great Mudkip and my Pokemon showdown is Great Mudkip
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Group

Competitive Battling League

TheEpicPsyduck, Aug 2016: .
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Event

King / Queen Of The Battle tournament!

Master Kavar, Aug 2016: Hey ill play FC: 2294 7492 8324 IGN Alexander (Alpha Sapphire) My Times Zone : AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time.
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Started by TogeKisser

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Group

Aeon League!

FindingXMemo, Aug 2016: Welcome to the Aeon League! This league is a UCL Style League (https://unofficialucl.wordpress.com/) comprised of 16 teams, each of which has a different coach (Trainer). The teams are listed in the spoiler below Each of these teams...
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IV breeding HELP PLEASE

Karous, Aug 2016: You may find this site useful in calculating the probability of the Pokemon you want: http://mkwrs.com/destiny_knot/ You just need to keep trying, according to the site I got the result: Breeding parents 31/x/31/x/31/x and x/31/31/x/x/x will...
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Team building help

kingtigertank, Aug 2016: Klefki with light clay and using reflect + light screen will allow you to set up almost anything e.g. your Hawlucha with substitute/swords dance, or dragon dance your Mega Altaria. The last spot on your team should be a defogger/spinner, ideally one...
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Event

Rainbow Revolution: A Colorful Tournament

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noa, Aug 2016: The winner is Karous! Congratulations, and thanks to all who joined! :)
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What Pokemon tilt you?

kingtigertank, Aug 2016: Heatran is the worst when it comes to screwing with the type coverage of my sweepers.
21   2,871
Started by Sirfetch’d

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RMT

Building My First Team - Advice and Feedback Wanted!

Pudd, Aug 2016: Apologies about the Excadrill, I think I pasted in the wrong set! The reason I actually chose Excadrill was because of the Sand Rush/Sand Stream synergy. The Light Metal Scizor is for the reasons mentioned. I have, however, trained a Technician...
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Article

Anti’s Competitive Battling Tips: Team-Building

bobandbill, Aug 2016: https://i1.wp.com/daily.pokecommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/teambuilding.png?w=1038&ssl=1 In the first instalment of his Competitive Battling Tips series, Anti gives readers tips on how to improve their general approach to team building...
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How to Correctly take down a hacker

TogeKisser, Aug 2016: As many of you competetive battling player's already know, Hackers are inevitable. i have devised a strategy to torture and humiliate a Hacker, and so far, i have won around 30 battles with this setup. You know that Damn, Shiny Ultra ball Mega...
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Started by TogeKisser

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RMT

New OU team - Looking for advice!

Nove Nu-Vonde, Aug 2016: Well I'll try Shuckle and see how it works, I suppose. This team will need some more testing, I'll probably edit with an update sometime later.
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HP Flying Thundurus?

KorpiklaaniVodka, Aug 2016: I've been using HP Flying Thundurus on a OU team with Arcanine (just for fun, because I've decided to not play OU seriously until the release of Sun and Moon) and I found out it's surprisingly effective at screwing opposing cores up. From some of my...
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Unova Classic

skyburial, Aug 2016: I've never really grasped the triples meta, but someone posted a blog a while back on nugget bridge about an undefeated triples rain team he'd built. I thought about using it on the unova classic but didn't have time to breed for it.
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Started by Poké Bean

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Do you build a powerhouse or tactical team?

FireSnow, Aug 2016: I like to think I have a tactical approach to my all out attack, making sure I have good coverage moves as well as mixing Pokemon that can use status moves as well as all out attack, such as Stoutland, or set up some attack boosts, Floatzel. My...
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Started by NathanW

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Event

Pokemon draft league want more people

GreatMudkip, Aug 2016: Want to Join My Draft League format it's like the ucl and the gab we would like more people to join PM me on poke community or join the draft league discord server https://discord.gg/YHzjS
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Started by GreatMudkip

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Article

Make-a-Mega: Weezing

Desert Stream~, Sep 2016: Nice work :) looks great.
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Started by Sylphiel

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Article

Anti's Competitive Battling Tips: Team Building (Part 2)

bobandbill, Sep 2016: https://daily.pokecommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/teambuilding.png In the second instalment of his Competitive Battling Tips series, Anti gives readers tips on how to make competitive teams more proactive, efficient, and flexible in...
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RMT

OU

jombii, Sep 2016: Alright, I will be going to try this new team for a few battles and come back here again. Thank you!
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What kind of buffs/nerfs do you hope to see in the future?

PikachuComicbook, Sep 2016: Well first, if you made steel types resist ghost and dark again, Aegislash would suddenly be twice as good as many of his counters in singles wouldn't anymore. The reason GameFreak removed the ghost and dark weakness was to buff dark types and nerf...
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Started by 5qwerty

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Building a New Team (w/ Mega-Sableye + Skarmory)

kingtigertank, Sep 2016: Heatran is the safest switch in for a fairy attack on sableye, most likely from a Mega Gardevoir or Clefable. Heatran also lets you switch in on fire attacks on Skarmory. Essentially, Heatran is great at annoying your opponent and Skarmory can cover...
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Started by Zenovis

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RMT

OU Team

kingtigertank, Sep 2016: You usually don't need 2 separate spinner/defoggers. That wastes a move slot in my opinion. I would go with Heat Wave on Zapdos instead, since Zapdos is weak to rocks which makes it a worse defog/spinner than excadrill. Or just not change breloom to...
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Doubles Team

destinedjagold, Sep 2016: I am aware that Goth can learn TR. The reason why I gave it to Slowbro instead is because of Oblivious making Taunt useless on Slowbro. I can't have Terrakion because he's a legendary and in this tourney, we're not allowed to use legendaries. So...
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Started by destinedjagold

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Daily

Make-a-Mega 5: Complete

Poll (3 pages)
gimmepie, Sep 2016: Wolf's sets win!
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Event

Pokemon Draft League (GBA/UCL Style)

Villvions, Sep 2016: Hey man I love pokemon and just want to join please
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Event

Modified Ubers Tournament [WON BY: 5qwerty]

Aurora, Sep 2016: Winner: 5qwerty Congratulations on your win, 5qwerty! Thanks to everyone who joined this tournament for making it delightfully smooth to organise. The variety of Pokemon used was interesting and much different to what I see when I fight...
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