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Competitive Pokémon icon

Competitive Pokémon

The forum designed for all of your competitive Pokémon needs! Here you can discuss the metagame, receive help on your team, ask for battles, participate in events, and much more!

Section Staff: gimmepie, wolf

Featured

The NEW Showdown Alt thread

Rabinov, Jan 24: Invictus Isawa Rabinov Rabinova PC Rabinov Arcaneum

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Started by gimmepie

Battle Server Support

SawkTheWarrior, Aug 19: Thanks!!

3 5,579

Started by wolf

Rules

Events & Groups Approval

wolf, Apr 30: We allow them. :)

8 5,525

Started by wolf

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,

1 12,044

Started by Sirfetch’d

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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Started by wolf

How good are you?

Pokedream.su, Apr 16: For all my effort, I reach a skill ceiling in competitive battling. During Black and White I played competitive battling on smogon's servers for easily 4-8 hours a day, getting pretty damn good at the game. However, even then, I would BARELY make...

4 67

Started by Sheep

Event

Gym Leaders in OU

Yollaxi, Apr 8: Greetings Trainers in the making! I have created teams based on Gym Leaders from around the pokemon world. They are on pokemon showdown. Style: Doubles OU Number of Pokémon: Bring as many as you please, but I will have 4. Current Leaders...

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Started by Yollaxi

Help Me Start

Any ideas for Pokemon that can help Blastoise in the OU format?

Pokedream.su, Apr 1: Blastoise has literally one one thing other bulky waters do not have: Rapid Spin. This was a bigger deal prior to gen 6. Blastoise would be OK as a defensive rapid spinner, but the issue is that it doesn't have much in the way of offenses or...

5 2,021

Started by Rose Oni

What's your favorite tier?

Ragengar, Mar 31: AG for legendary pokemon OU and UU because they had some of my all time favorite pokemons like Gengar, Dragonite,Lucario and Tyranitar

20 1,060

Started by Sheep

What tier are your favorite Pokémon?

Fairy, Mar 25: - Sylveon is NU.. - Gliscor is AG, but in SM was OU still so that’s my boi! - Volcarona is OU! - Alcremie is... Untiered? Huh. - Jirachi is UU Man the meta has changed. (。･o･｡)

9 283

Started by Sheep

Help Me Start

Team not valid for ranked!

Gia, Mar 1: OMG Thank you so much!!! This was the problem. I traded those pokemon on Home and they were coming from Alola in fact. So I solved the problem after talking to the guy at the Battle Tower and changing some of their moves (not allowed in ranked...

2 467

Started by Gia

RMT

Red-style Galarian Champion Team

Makaan, Feb 21: Danke, so it was option 3 (ish). I will take the advice on board. I suppose the closest format would be 'Anything Goes', which I foolishly thought would be self-explanatory, though I imagine it makes little difference.

4 708

Started by Makaan

Help Me Start

Magic Room Set-Up

NikolaP, Feb 19: Great to see you're interested in using such an unusual move! As Squirtlenator and Mobile Tsk said, this strategy is not easy to use, or to think of how to use, compared to other, more popular strategies (which are popular because they're...

5 781

Started by FireintheSky

When did you first get into competitive battling?

Dark Azelf, Feb 10: Gen 2 initially in 2001 until about late 2003 (yes im a dinosaur lol). Missed most of advance and came back in late 2006/ early 2007 for DP. :) Watching Marriland on youtube actually got me back into it in 2007. ...

11 1,597

Started by Sheep

Team comp

gimmepie, Feb 2: I'd recommend just looking for some sample teams first if you're new to competitive before you try making your own. That way you can get a better feel for the meta and competitive strategies without diving right into the deep end.

2 561

Started by Blackskarm

Somebody that understands pokemon math please help.

Fafrir, Jan 30: Moved this to Competitive Pokemon. :) Welcome to the forums btw!

2 586

Started by ShrekOderBanner

Clear body or Infiltrator for Choice Specs Dragapult?

Squirtlenator, Jan 28: I've been out of the completive ring for a while but, if I were you I would go on a site like pikalytics and look at the top ten mons with the highest usage for your tier. I would look at their move sets and see if substitute is a high usage move....

7 3,428

Started by Shuckle99

Help Me Finish

A Balanced Team Revolving Around Alolan Ninetales

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 20: its all good, I just like golisopod, a little bulky, good attack. and like I said I know nothing of competitive play. And that said, my golisopod got completely washed, in the sun battle frontier thing.

5 2,840

Started by saniachan

Zacian-Crowned banned from Ubers with a with a 86.53% supermajority

Mobile Tsk, Jan 19: Zacian-C was beyond ridiculous even for Ubers. However, I am a bit confused by the threshold for banning something from Ubers, after Primal Groudon ruined two straight generations of Ubers by being required on nearly every serious team. To say...

4 1,535

Started by HeroLinik

Article

Queenly Majesty: How the Women’s VGC Tournament Came to Be

Figure, Jan 16: Were VGC tournaments men only? I guess I just don't understand the importance of this, I feel like I am missing some information so if someone could fill me in, that would be great. Edit: So I read the article and I do get it. It's crazy to me...

2 1,956

Started by Rivvon

Help Me Start