Pokémon Showdown

We might have heard once or twice that y'all wanted an OTS ladder... Shout-outs to Mia, Karthik, and Dawob for their amazing work!

@IMBavitz I loved the story and was really impressed by how faithful the battles were to Smogon formats!

I made a detailed post about the process of making When I Win the World Ends. You can read it on my Tumblr: tumblr.com/weaselandfrien…

@OHKOvgc @SmogonU Hey! It looks like I can't DM you, but that'd be a good place to talk about it. You can also find us on the Dev chatroom psim.us/dev or Dev discord psim.us/devdiscord

Anyone know a good way to get in contact with the Showdown/Smogon folks in regards to discussing some features of OHKO to make sure we don't piss off the wrong people? hi @SmogonU @PokemonShowdown

👀👀👀 A new batch of 3D models has gone live on PS courtesy of smogon.com/forums/members… and smogon.com/forums/members…!

@ZeBanded I mean it's cool to get feedback from someone with a lot of experience. Making the sprite bigger was already on my to-do list, of course.

Tagging @PokemonShowdown, hope you dont mind the rage i typed when it was late and i was offended by the design given the information i had at the moment. Please consider the annotations i gave when redesign the teambuilder

As someone with 10 years of doing art and design, this shit suck ASS The only idea i like is adding EV and raw stats, and i made a mock up of how to solve that problem in 5 minutes without looking hideously ugly Also annotated why things worked before and why this sucks

@aboxoftimbits I say "leak" not because it's secret (it's open-source and the alpha code is public) but because whoever fed you this info seems to have made you think it's a final design and not an in-progress pic on something I started two days ago.

@aboxoftimbits Where are you getting "little to no care"? I was asking people what they thought about the changes to decide whether to do them, that's how they leaked to you. Of course I care!

Pokemon showdown devs are looking to change the teambuilder negatively as a whole and are going to screw over VGC players with these changes with little to no care. This also just completely breaks pokepaste, pokebin, and any other team paste website we've used for years now 1/2

@aboxoftimbits I started work on this like two days ago! Give me more time to get mobile working!

@aboxoftimbits "Mobile becomes unusable" is such a weird way to say "this is an alpha version and we haven't started work on mobile yet"

@alchemistake @aboxoftimbits Even if we end up moving to a new format, we are 100% still going to support importing and exporting the old one

@PokemonShowdown @aboxoftimbits I know current export markup lang is not the best but you guys need to support it. That will break so many external tools.

@aboxoftimbits To be clear: this is still an alpha! we don't want you all to panic, nothing is set in stone here and we're all happy to hear what you have to say! (in fact, we'd quite like it, we need more eyes on it)

@aboxoftimbits Dev here. Nothing is final yet, esp not the export changes. We're soliciting feedback as we work through this, and are changing things as we go. (also note the new builder isn't done yet + that last ss ignores the fact you can swipe it to the right to fullscreen the builder)

@DeepDishCalzone The approach we're using didn't work for some of the replays. We're looking into other fixes.

@PokemonShowdown Do you have any information on this? x.com/PokemonShowdow…

We have a new design for elimination tournament brackets! It should be much easier to read than the old one.

Update alert! Thanks to hecate, the team-sharing functionality has been overhauled. You can check it out at teams.pokemonshowdown.com - New static pages with shortlinks to easily share teams with friends, on or off PS! (check out my cool BDSP OU team: psim.us/t/795973) - All teams uploaded to your account will automatically download across devices - You can browse public uploaded teams - Teams are uploaded with the "upload to Showdown database" button at the bottom of the teambuilder

@eltuiterdemario @SerebiiNet It's in! How's that for turnaround time?

Serebii Update: The Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Ranked Battle Regulation I ruleset has been officially revealed. Allows for up to 2 Restricted Pokémon Runs from May 2025 through August 2025 Details being added @ serebii.net

I just updated the design for the calculator! calc.pokemonshowdown.com

Hecate has updated the RNG algorithm that Pokemon Showdown uses. Read more about it here - smogon.com/forums/threads…

Ever have one of those days?

Are you a fan of Draft League? Try out the new Draft Factory format! You can find it under the "Randomized Metas" section when selecting a format to play on the ladder. No teambuilding is required!