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The Immortal said:
This is the place to ask questions that can be answered in a single post. Threads are meant for discussion, and questions like those don't provide that. Before you post here, check your post wouldn't be better suited to one of these threads:
If you have one of those questions, great! Just scan over this list first:
  1. Make sure it's related to the Pokemon Showdown simulator. In-game questions go in Orange Islands, while battling questions are more suited to the relevant Smogon Metagames subforum.
  2. Google is a cool resource - try searching there first. It only takes a matter of seconds, and might resolve your issue quickly without resorting to this thread.
  3. If you're new to Smogon in general, the Smogon Simple Questions & Suggestions Thread thread is the perfect place to find your feet.
  4. There's some good stuff on the sim page on the PS site - including a general FAQ and staff FAQ.
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Hi, do you know where I can get information as to how usage stats are compiled? I've been curious as to how the data is gotten for some time now and couldn't really wrap my head around on how it is collected.
 
Is there any way to play smaller metagames on Showdown Mobile? (I wanna play LGPE)
The list is way smaller than in PC version. Dont know if its like that or i can expand the list
 
MarianaYu said:
Is there any way to play smaller metagames on Showdown Mobile? (I wanna play LGPE)
The list is way smaller than in PC version. Dont know if its like that or i can expand the list
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The list of formats is the same, the difference is that there are more formats available when you directly challenge a specific player - these do not have their own ladder due to lack of interest from the playerbase.
 
why does my PS avatar keep resetting to default? Shouldn't my selection be stored in PS' database where it would be permanent until i choose to change it?
 
sasol said:
why does my PS avatar keep resetting to default? Shouldn't my selection be stored in PS' database where it would be permanent until i choose to change it?
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Avatar settings arent stored on the server at all, theyre stored in your localstorage with your teams, client settings, etc.
 
Please help me

I am a user in Pokemon showdown and my account name is "death note xd" since 3 days I massage someone or in a any room my massage doesn't shows please help me also I am using showdown for 2 years and this problem also occurred 1 month before but it fixed after some restarts but this time it is not working I don't know if this a bug so please help me also even staff members can't see my massages
 
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Since you're typing in the Pokemon field, the matched pokemon I believe matches the filter you type as you type it in, aka: "b" to "bu" to "bul" and then "bull". The matched Pokemon doesn't just use their english names though, they also use any aliases assorted with them like "bull" (https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/blob/master/data/aliases.ts see line 686).
As "bull" doesn't match up with any names except Tauros's alias "bull", the teampicker defaulted to Tauros until there were no more mons left when on "bulle" to "bullet punch". Of course you can go on filtering "Bullet Punch" and pick Metagross as you please, but it's due to the search selecting the last mon or its alias in serach.
 
Quoise said:
Since you're typing in the Pokemon field, the matched pokemon I believe matches the filter you type as you type it in, aka: "b" to "bu" to "bul" and then "bull". The matched Pokemon doesn't just use their english names though, they also use any aliases assorted with them like "bull" (https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/blob/master/data/aliases.ts see line 686).
As "bull" doesn't match up with any names except Tauros's alias "bull", the teampicker defaulted to Tauros until there were no more mons left when on "bulle" to "bullet punch". Of course you can go on filtering "Bullet Punch" and pick Metagross as you please, but it's due to the search selecting the last mon or its alias in serach.
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Thanks a lot!
Man, I thought it was a bug ;-;
 
Will moveset buffs that came with the Home update through PLA (Like Gardevoir learning Ice beam and Recover) get added to showdown or no?
 
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when selecting the name button on gen 5, dwebble is repeated twice. the same goes with bronzor. any reason for this?
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Question: has anyone else been receiving an issue where the ads are blocking the game chat, and cannot be removed? Attaching an image below. Asking here because unsure where to post (please forgive me).

EDIT: it shows a black X, but clicking it on mobile does nothing at all.
 

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I don't know whether to ask this here or in OI so please redirect me if this is wrong.

In gen 1, it's saying that Kakuna can't learn Harden with Poison Sting or String Shot, but Metapod can learn Harden with Tackle and String Shot. I tried googling and it says they both learn Harden at level 1 so I assume that means Metapod shouldn't be able to learn Harden in combination with Tackle or SS? I didn't want to post this in bugs in case there's something I'm missing

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fanyfan said:
I don't know whether to ask this here or in OI so please redirect me if this is wrong.

In gen 1, it's saying that Kakuna can't learn Harden with Poison Sting or String Shot, but Metapod can learn Harden with Tackle and String Shot. I tried googling and it says they both learn Harden at level 1 so I assume that means Metapod shouldn't be able to learn Harden in combination with Tackle or SS? I didn't want to post this in bugs in case there's something I'm missing
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Metapod learns Harden at level 7 in Yellow only.
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Why does PS not accept level 1 mons that can be gotten in that form from GO? Best example is a Sturdy Level 1 Donphan. It can be gotten by transferring a Donphan from GO to BDSP (All GO mons are level 1 when put into a main-series game), and any moves on Donphan's normal learnset can be learned from another Donphan if they're left in the daycare together (Only in BDSP, as this mechanic was added in gen 8, but Donphan isn't in SwSh).
 
Bulbapedia says that a Pokemon can eat a Leppa berry only when a move runs out of PP, the Pokemon receives the berry, or when something forces it to eat the berry. This replay shows a Pokemon eating a Leppa berry when magic room wears off. Is this a Showdown! bug, or is Bulbapedia wrong?
 
sumwun said:
Bulbapedia says that a Pokemon can eat a Leppa berry only when a move runs out of PP, the Pokemon receives the berry, or when something forces it to eat the berry. This replay shows a Pokemon eating a Leppa berry when magic room wears off. Is this a Showdown! bug, or is Bulbapedia wrong?
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Leppa Berry would have activated on the turn that Ditto’s Transform PP counter hit 0, but Magic Room prevents items from being consumed; Magic Room ending equates to a situation in which the holder is “forced to eat the berry.”
 
Hi, I dont know if this is the correct place to ask, if so apologies for the case.

I was wondering something, as you know, in the games there are certain pokemon that have a highter chance to be found on a specific gender than other, for example, starter pokemon have a 87.5 % to be male and 12.5% to be female. My question here is if you don't set your pokemon with a specific gender on the Pokemon Showdown simulator, and instead let the server choose a random gender at the beggining of a battle (as most of the time is the case) when the simulator randomizes the gender, it takes the specific chance that each individual pokemon has to appear as male of female just like in the games, or instead it randomizes the chance to a 50/50?

For example, lets say that I wanna use a Totodile, and I don't choose an specific gender for it, will my Totodile have a 87.5% chance to be male on a battle and 12.5% to be female, or instead it will have a 50/50 chance to be male or female?

Let me know if I didn't make my question clear, and thanks if someone knows this.
 
Luirromen said:
Hi, I dont know if this is the correct place to ask, if so apologies for the case.

I was wondering something, as you know, in the games there are certain pokemon that have a highter chance to be found on a specific gender than other, for example, starter pokemon have a 87.5 % to be male and 12.5% to be female. My question here is if you don't set your pokemon with a specific gender on the Pokemon Showdown simulator, and instead let the server choose a random gender at the beggining of a battle (as most of the time is the case) when the simulator randomizes the gender, it takes the specific chance that each individual pokemon has to appear as male of female just like in the games, or instead it randomizes the chance to a 50/50?

For example, lets say that I wanna use a Totodile, and I don't choose an specific gender for it, will my Totodile have a 87.5% chance to be male on a battle and 12.5% to be female, or instead it will have a 50/50 chance to be male or female?

Let me know if I didn't make my question clear, and thanks if someone knows this.
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It's 50/50. More details and debate about the topic can be read on this relatively recent suggestion to change that.
 
In the teambuilder, the physical attack IV sets itself to 0 or 31 every time I click one of the Pokemon's moves (even if I don't change that move). Is this intentional? This happened to me when I was putting a sandy Wormadam on a gen 4 OU team, in case you were wondering.

Edit: According to this Serebii page, Sandshrew can know vital throw from a gen 3 event, but Showdown! says it's illegal in gen 3. Which website is wrong?
 
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