Pokémon Showdown is a Pokémon battle simulator. Play Pokémon battles online! Play with randomly generated teams, or build your own! Fully animated! Play online. Smogon uses Pokémon Showdown for competitive battling, tournaments, chatting, and other community functions.
For more information, visit the Pokémon Showdown website or the forum. Pokémon Showdown is a fan-made simulator created by Guangcong Zarel Luo, for the purpose of competitive Pokémon battling using customisable teams. [1][4][5] The site was adopted by Smogon University in 2012, and became the official simulator for the website and forums.
All Smogon formats are available with individual competitive ladders on Showdown, which is accessible either as a. Smogon is a website and community for Pokémon battling enthusiasts. It offers strategy guides, Pokédex, tournaments, and Pokémon Showdown, an online simulator for Pokémon battles.
Pokémon Showdown, also often formatted as Pokémon Showdown!, is a web-based Pokémon battle simulator. It is free open source software written in TypeScript and JavaScript, with its server infrastructure designed to run on Node.js. It was adopted by Smogon on July 2, 2012, and is open source.
In addition to standard modes of play, Pokémon Showdown! includes unique features such as Pure. RU Winter Seasonal The first tournament of the 2026 RU Circuit is now live with the RU Winter Seasonal! Signups for the twenty second edition of Smogon's largest OU Tournament, the Official Smogon Tournament, are now open! Face off against hundreds of players to be the one left standing in this single elimination tournament. The UM circuit begins with the AG Open and ZU Open, the first of the year for a chance to get circuit points! The Smogon tier system Smogon has a usage-based tier system.
Basically, a few Pokémon are considered too strong and considered Uber. After that, all other Pokémon are allowed to be used in OU (Overused). Any Pokémon used on average more than once every 20 battles in OU is considered in the OU tier, and the rest are allowed in UU.
Pokémon Showdown is Smogon's official competitive simulator and is the basis of this guide. Replays contains all uploaded videos of Pokémon Showdown battles that have been saved to the server. Gen 2 Randbats Open Signups No abilities, but items.
No regional formes, but shinies. Join in on the classic randbats fun by signing up to the Gen 2 Random Battles Open! - eva on Jul 28, 2025.