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Fortune Championship

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

The NEW Showdown Alt thread

Arcaneum, Jan 2021: Invictus Isawa Rabinov Rabinova PC Rabinov Arcaneum
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Battle Server Support

SawkTheWarrior, Aug 2020: Thanks!!
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Rules

Events & Groups Approval

wolf, Apr 2020: We allow them. :)
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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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Rules

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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Quick play Team

illumine, May 2016: Which game are you playing, specifically? Incidentally, you might want to merge your posts into one on the other threads on this board, there seems to be a bit of double-posting there.
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Started by Oddpokerman

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Popular ways of winning battles, and approximating in-game trainers

illumine, May 2016: Sure. Wasn't sure about posting it here, as most of the threads here are more focussed on technical discussion or scheduling around PS or the competitive scene, but don't mind it being moved here if that was deemed appropriate in this case. ...
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Started by illumine

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If you could change the megas

pleryt17, May 2016: For me, I would definitely have to change Mega Medicham. It's my favorite mega in the game, but it's a little too slow, and mixed with it's low defenses, it can be revenge killed quite easily. Instead of boosting its Special Attack by 20, I would...
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Started by Nah

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Event

POKEMON TOURNAMENT FOR SMALL TIME YOUTUBERS. (UNDER 1000 subs!)

illumine, May 2016: Possibly not necessary to make this thread twice. That said, I suppose that re-making a Youtube-related thread in all-caps does help to give it more legitimacy.
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Started by GaoAndDrum

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EV / IV / Ability / Nature Learning!

RawrMonkey, May 2016: I went ahead and added on a little more in-depth than what the above poster wrote. I'll go through each subject you mentioned and provide an example with Venusaur, specifically it's mega. ________________________________________________ Stats...
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Article

Make-a-Mega: Roserade

Al3x, May 2016: Not fan of Storm Drain as ability. Would rather see Natural Cure or Poison Point. Iron barbs would be neat too since roses are thorny and their are some spikes on the mega design. A new ability like Refrigerate/Aerilate but for grass or poison type...
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PCL

PCL Championship II: Week 2

Anti, May 2016: Nice work, everyone. I wanted to make note of the fact that this is the first PCL week ever with no activity decisions, which is excellent. Keep it up!
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Started by wolf

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Checking your privilege: a few statistics and graphs about types and tiers

smoothshake317, May 2016: I have made a few graphs showing the relationship between the pokemon types and tiers. They can be found here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B45EAEE46513E2B1!852&authkey=!AOFvCSuP-_eZIcw&ithint=file%2cxlsx or you can see them in the...
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Group

Practice Partner

ddrox13, May 2016: Hiya! Many of the nice people on the PC showdown server are willing to test and help you build, and I'm willing to help whenever I can get online. Just hop over to http://pokecommunity.psim.us/ and see who's on.
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RMT

rate my ou team

eishiba, May 2016: I forgot to say where they were ev'ed. Ferrothorn both defenses Excadrill Hp Attack Talonflame speed attack Swampert both defenses Primeape attack speed Garchomp attack speed For ferrothorn I was trying to get something that could sit back...
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Article

Why you shouldn't use Ambipom

Hikamaru, May 2016: I find Ambipom cute, and Technician Fake Out paired with a Normal Gem can do some good damage on the first turn. Nice to see an article that points out its downsides, though it's definitely not as bad as you'd think, but that might be me watching it...
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Mega Gardevoir Movesets

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Wanna be on YouTube?

janejane6178, Apr 2016: Omg any1 wanna have a battle and then upload it online?? Pm me <3
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Started by DeadlyScyther

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Help with getting invovled in battles.

wolf, Apr 2016: We have resources here that should help. Sample teams are a good way to get a feel for the metagame too (here are some for OU).
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Started by Dmidnight

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PCL

PCL Championship II: Week 1

Anti, Apr 2016: Nice first week, everyone. Good battles, and 9/10 battles done is a significant step up from last season's activity loss circus. There is one activity decision though between acatfrommars and Wicked3DS: Based on their VM conversation, both...
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Started by wolf

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Vs. Seeker battle codes?

DeadlyScyther, Apr 2016: I have recently purchased and gotten back a 3ds capture card to let me record footage from my 3ds. I really want to record other peoples battles and put them on YouTube. So comment some battle codes, I will look over them and make some videos. I...
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Started by DeadlyScyther

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RMT

Team Advice

bdogbears, Apr 2016: I don't believe online trading works anymore for Gen V. I think I'll just teach it shadow claw instead with the ability blaze.
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Volcanion looks so awesome!

gimmepie, Apr 2016: Most recently I've tried pairing it up with Heatran and Ferrothorn. Heatran absorbs fire attacks on Ferro and Volc absorbs water attacks on Heatran. Obviously that doesn't deal with Ground and Fighting issues mind you, but there's still three spots...
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Article

How to Battle with Bronzong

Leviathan, Apr 2016: Ah Bronzong, my precious dual-wall setting lead. Love using it to scout foes, even if it is ultimately a sacrificial lamb on my teams. So cool to see this in-depth look at it!
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RMT

Rate my UU Team!

darkmario957, Apr 2016: Pokemon: Azelf Item: Focus Sash Ability: Levitate Moves: Stealth Rock, Flamethrower, Taunt, Explosion Nature: Naive (+Spe, -SpDef) EV Spread: 252 Atk, 4 Def, 252 Spe Purpose: A fast support lead, mainly used for Stealth Rock and then Exploding...
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RMT

Rate my team

Monkeypants786, Apr 2016: Hello, can you please tell me if my team is good? Here are my pokemon and their levels, stats, natures, held items, and movesets, along with abilities. Gengar Level 99. Special Sweeper. Held item: Gengarite, so it mega evolves. Moves:...
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Article

Eevee is Great! (Except at Battling)

Who's Kiyo?, Apr 2016: Perhaps this is the reason why Game Freak is so slow on creating the full type spectrum of Eeveelutions; because it and a lot of its evolutions are not really all that competitively viable - so why make a whole spectrum? If that was true, I...
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Are hackers just lazy or...

GhostFlame, Apr 2016: I knew the max was 510 EVs, but 508 are the only ones that affect your stats. i can go into any 2 wild battles, get those 2 EVs, and they wont alter anything (after I get the first 508 of course). I usually do this because getting the full 510 is...
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RMT

Battle resort Super Double Team

Pukeamon, Apr 2016: aha. well i've got to go sleep soon :P
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Full Togekiss team?!

GhostFlame, Apr 2016: There's always the gimmick Choice Band set. Max Atk, split HP and Speed; Adamant Nature; Hustle Ability Extremespeed, Brick Break/Drain Punch, Aerial Ace, Zen Headbutt. It also gets double edge and return, but since it's no longer a Normal type...
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PCL

Team Orb - Season 2

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punkysaur, Apr 2016: So whose gonna sit out for this week?
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RMT

Advice for my Monotype Flying Team

PlatinumDude, Apr 2016: Mega Altaria > Mega Pidgeot. The type of the original form is what matters on monotype: http://www.smogon.com/dex/xy/formats/monotype/ Cloud Nine is also a viable ability on regular Altaria before it Mega Evolves to check Charizard Y. To...
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Starting a new competitive league

FireSnow, Apr 2016: Count me in Sean!
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Started by SeanClinton

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RMT

First OU Team

wolf, Apr 2016: Yeah, Klefki is a flimsy check. Without Zapdos the team is a bit weak to Torn-T, but it's better to be prepared for more common threats like Exca and Zard X. I'm not sure what could be added to fix the Torn-T weakness. Mega Diancie > Gardevoir...
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Scald

L'Belle, Apr 2016: I Think it is just fine in OU. Most of the time, it doesn't do that much damage for me, and I rarely get the burn. Thats why I rarely use scald.
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RMT

New OU Team

72485rahul, Apr 2016: Your Team seems good but you have two Electric types and Opposing Zard Y gets the win if your Landorus is down. Zard Y OHKO's Raikou with Fire Blast (even Flamethrower can OHKO if Stealth Rocks are up), whereas Raikou fails to OHKO it with TBolt. ...
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Hoopa-Unbound suspect test

Megan, Apr 2016: And there it goes. And in all the time that it ran freely, I've never used it once.
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Started by Nah

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RMT

『 BLOODSUCKERS 』

punkysaur, Apr 2016: You might consider choice band-victini over arcanine. Its a great breaker which ur team needs and its sheer power can 2 hit most meta with stealth rock damage. If fast electrics like thundurus, mega manectric, jolteon who carry hp ice are a...
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Started by Etherion

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Event

Pokemon League

SeanClinton, Apr 2016: Will keep this short as I posted just the other day. We have five members so far for a league of eight. Will share more details for those interested. Either PM me or comment on this post, and I'll be in touch.
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PCL

Black Magic, PCL Season 2+Off-Season

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ORAS Gen 1 Showdown

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Sirfetch’d, Apr 2016: The finalists are having scheduling conflicts. Will post an update on this soon.
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Clan War: Black Magic vs. Majestic Milotics - Won by Black Magic

wolf, Apr 2016: Sorry for the wait. Wicked3DS vs. Evening: Straightforward, Evening was inactive so Wicked will be given the win. KorpiklaaniVodka vs. ddrox13: Vodka didn't come online during the agreed upon time. However, this time was not specific and...
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Started by wolf

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Event

The Random Cup

Sirfetch’d, Apr 2016: salty af
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Started by antemortem

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Pokes with Baton Pass + DEF/SPDEF boosters?

DarkestMidnight, Apr 2016: Cool, thanks for the advice. I'll try out that moveset in a new team.
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PCL

Battle of the Week

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Sirfetch’d, Apr 2016: confirming! was a gg
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Started by Anti

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Underrated Ubers Movesets

Aurora, Apr 2016: I can attest to those sets being quite good. Alomomola is an absolute nightmare if your Primal Groudon doesn't have a boosting move, and it can serve as a last-ditch check to weakened Extreme Killer Arceus thanks to its excellent physical bulk and...
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RMT

VGC 2016

RawrMonkey, Apr 2016: I knew what problems you had before even reading them lol. Your team is very slow and would work very well with some trick room support to counter those tailwinders specifically. Although you say it's not quite a trick room team, it is mainly used...
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PCL

PCL Team-Building Competition

Sirfetch’d, Mar 2016: This was a fun competition! For anyone wondering which teams belonged to which clans, here are the results: 1st place: Ghosts of Perdition 2nd place: Team Orb 3rd place: Black Magic 4th place: Majestic Milotics The points will be updated...
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Aegislash Movesets

Soopa Derp Cat, Mar 2016: Never used an Aegislash before, but I managed to get completely walled out and swept by an Aegislash using this set in a 3-Pokemon random online battle: Item: Leftovers - Substitute - Toxic - King's Shield - Shadow Ball
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Clan War: Ghosts of Perdition vs. Team Orb - Won by Ghosts of Perdition

wolf, Mar 2016: Time to finish this up. Two match-ups weren't completed, so after talking with Chase I came to a decision regarding them. acatfrommars vs. Elektra Heart: Both players are at fault on this one. Neither player took the initiative to schedule their...
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Started by wolf

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Sceptile Suspect Test in NU

Nah, Mar 2016: It has apparently been banned from NU now: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/oras-nu-stage-12-suspect-voting.3568299/page-3#post-6730571
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Started by gimmepie

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Normalize Metagame

Zeffy, Mar 2016: As interesting as it sounds, I think this sort of metagame wouldn't be all different from the current meta except you can't take advantage of type effectiveness anymore. Additionally, (this is a bit of theorymoning, obviously) strong mixed attackers...
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Started by Mobile Tsk

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Absol Swords Dance

PlatinumDude, Mar 2016: Payback's power no longer doubles on a newly switched-in target. It's worthless now. Also, Knock Off > Night Slash for the utility of removing items. Not only that, the power difference between both is minimal. Refer to the Swords Dance set I...
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Started by Midnight shadow

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Event

The Pokemon Premier League

Pikeniggel, Mar 2016: Hi! I am starting a draft league tournament on Pokemon showdown. If interested PM me on showdown or you can text me on Skype. This league will consist of 8 people, but two people are already in the league. So there are only 6 spots left! The Draft...
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Durant suspect test in RU

Sweep, Mar 2016: The Choice Band set is the main reason I voted to suspect Durant in the Council PM. Although Durant actually has many natural checks, none of them can stand up to the assault Choice Band Durant will roll at them. The RU metagame also doesn't really...
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