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Good evening, I'm wondering what the delay is with getting the ADV 200 ladder up on Showdown for this month's RoA spotlights? It's been several days and I find it hard to remember another time when we had to wait this long. Also, will the ladder continue for a few days into May to make up for lost time?
 
Hello, I'm wondering how you can do Anything Goes Multi Battles in showdown?
Or if there's any way to do that, I want to be able to do 6&6 v 6&6 battles with my friends, as well as not be limited by the regular battle rules
 
Is an update to the teambuilder gen 8 sprites currently planned? I'm aware that the gen 9 models are still in progress, but having all the gen 8 Pokemon with 3D models stuck as 2D in the builder is kind of unfortunate...
 
Is their any plan to allow players to just make a play list with in game music. some of these tracks I absolutely dont want to hear and would love if I could just select which ones I could have on a rotation.

id also really like to see games like Colosseum, XD, and PBR get added. and yes I get "you can just mute the music and add your own" but its not the same thing and you all know that
 
Hello! I have a pokemon showdown account under the name of "SpamtonGSpamton97". I have been longing for the name "Spamton" for a while now, since the account hasn't been active for a while. User "I am Obamna", Presumably an alt of DaWoblefet, due to me winning the Bulu Bash tourney, and "meeting obamna" being the prize, said " SpamtonGSpamton97, according to my contacts at the White House, the account in question was registered and last played in September 2021, roughly 3 years ago. Should you come to acquire the name 'Spamton' on Pokemon Showdown's affliate website, Smogon, you could ask for this username given its inactivity. " So, I was wondering, is this a possibility?

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SpamtonGSpamton97 said:
Hello! I have a pokemon showdown account under the name of "SpamtonGSpamton97". I have been longing for the name "Spamton" for a while now, since the account hasn't been active for a while. User "I am Obamna", Presumably an alt of DaWoblefet, due to me winning the Bulu Bash tourney, and "meeting obamna" being the prize, said " SpamtonGSpamton97, according to my contacts at the White House, the account in question was registered and last played in September 2021, roughly 3 years ago. Should you come to acquire the name 'Spamton' on Pokemon Showdown's affliate website, Smogon, you could ask for this username given its inactivity. " So, I was wondering, is this a possibility?

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Information on name reset requests can be found here: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...-contacting-upper-staff.3538721/#post-6227626 . Please make sure to check you qualify before submitting a request.
 
Hello, I have a few questions

1. Is it possible to embed a pokemon showdown window into a website?
2. Is it possible to have a link or a similar way to start a battle with an ai bot? (let's say, i have a showdown team and an ai bot to play against using that team, and made a website and with a button "start", on clicking that button, a window could open and a battle would start with the bot with whichever team you choose for yourself)
3.If yes, is there any api or library to do that or do I have to tweak the open sourced code to implement something like this?
 
OkabeRintaro said:
1. Is it possible to embed a pokemon showdown window into a website?
2. Is it possible to have a link or a similar way to start a battle with an ai bot? (let's say, i have a showdown team and an ai bot to play against using that team, and made a website and with a button "start", on clicking that button, a window could open and a battle would start with the bot with whichever team you choose for yourself)
3.If yes, is there any api or library to do that or do I have to tweak the open sourced code to implement something like this?
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1. no
2. We permit bots to connect to and play battles as they have no advantage or information over human players. For this to happen, you would of course need to write a bot that connects to showdown and responds to protocol messages as appropriate. Alternatively You could take the the source and build your own thing from it (server is licensed under MIT, client is not, please check that license before using anything from the client's source code). https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/
3. We don't have an API but I can recommend the PKMN package https://github.com/pkmn/ps#readme
 
HoeenHero said:
1. no
2. We permit bots to connect to and play battles as they have no advantage or information over human players. For this to happen, you would of course need to write a bot that connects to showdown and responds to protocol messages as appropriate. Alternatively You could take the the source and build your own thing from it (server is licensed under MIT, client is not, please check that license before using anything from the client's source code). https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/
3. We don't have an API but I can recommend the PKMN package https://github.com/pkmn/ps#readme
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okay, thanks for the response!
 
Leland Tyler Wayne said:
Right but can I find out how the winrates are calculated? If the data for winning and losing team is there, wouldn't it be trivial to note which set was on the winning pokemon? Chains of Markov
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Note that I'm not in charge of the gathering, I'm just the predominant user of the win rate stats.
That being said, they're gathered by simply iterating over the teams and incrementing a value in a small database (see here). Presumably parsing sets further would be more computationally expensive, though I don't know to what degree. I've been told server strain is a real concern for this.
Also, the distinct sets as you see them when doing /randbats <mon> are used during set generation, but are not a retained property. Backpopulating that would be algorithmically painful and occasionally impossible.
 
Does anybody know if the monthly ladder season hall of fame exists anywhere? The season rankings update hourly, but the announcement suggested the rankings at the end of each month would be recorded.
 
So say I created 50 custom game pokemon sets with each pokemon set being based off of a game character, and I wanted some help to see what tiers each one would end up being in (assuming that theyre an isolated pool of options and not considering anything other than the 50 I made). Where would I ask?
 
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So say I created 50 custom game pokemon sets with each pokemon set being based off of a game character, and I wanted some help to see what tiers each one would end up being in (assuming that theyre an isolated pool of options and not considering anything other than the 50 I made). Where would I ask?
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I don't know of anywhere on this site to ask about that (the solomod section of pet mods? maybe????) but honestly the best (and unfortunately hardest) option would probably be to grab some friends and play around with them yourself. Sometimes things that look strong on paper end up being mediocre and vice versa, so you won't really know for sure without first developing a metagame around them.
 
Hi,

I find it hard to understand, but do offline PMs work the same way as normal PMs, as in they stay logged forever, or do they get deleted? Sorry if I am being dumb lol.
 
Hello to all!
I was trying to set a championship in the tier gen3custom game because I like to play catridge rules only (I hate all Smogon clauses)
But gen3custom game also allow more then I want to accept, as for example this tier allow pokés to have more then 510 Evs.
Someone know how to use codes to avoid this issue?

I already found the link where the codes are: https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/blob/master/config/CUSTOM-RULES.md
But I can't use it propaly :'(
 
Shedinja-43152 said:
Hello to all!
I was trying to set a championship in the tier gen3custom game because I like to play catridge rules only (I hate all Smogon clauses)
But gen3custom game also allow more then I want to accept, as for example this tier allow pokés to have more then 510 Evs.
Someone know how to use codes to avoid this issue?

I already found the link where the codes are: https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/blob/master/config/CUSTOM-RULES.md
But I can't use it propaly :'(
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If you want to ban something from a custom game you created, type a Minus sign(-) in front of your challenge command and then type the name of whatever you want to ban.
 
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