(request) DELETE SMOGON NOW [decision pending]

With the advent of Pokemon Champions's release date upon us, the official Pokemon forums are debating on if Pokemon Showdown even deserves to exist anymore if it has subpar graphics.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23253/champions-is-free-to-start#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23255/oficial-release-date-for-champions#latest
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EDIT: Live post updates added.

Fun fact: The official Pokemon forums have been recently linked on the English Champions website revamp so this is still a thing.
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https://champions.pokemon.com/en-us/news/
 
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unrelated to any recently occurring events on the official pokemon forums but if a forums war breaks out can i become a reaction score profiteer please :>

edit because i thought of an actual substantial thought: why does distinguished forums user Evolve8eon think the ps ui sucks? like it's pretty damn well designed and intuitive unless, like, you only play on mobile (which would not surprise me) but even then it's pretty fine i think?
 
chroma_2903 said:
unrelated to any recently occurring events on the official pokemon forums but if a forums war breaks out can i become a reaction score profiteer please :>

edit because i thought of an actual substantial thought: why does distinguished forums user Evolve8eon think the ps ui sucks? like it's pretty damn well designed and intuitive unless, like, you only play on mobile (which would not surprise me) but even then it's pretty fine i think?
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I feel like the logistics of a cross-forums war and the value of reactions as currency would depend on if flagging/reporting still removed reaction score/forum points or not, and maybe if gambling would return to raise morale. I would say a Smogon reaction is more accountable than a Pokemon.com reaction due to being public but I think both sides have the same potential for reaction farming, just that the Pokemon.com side has a bigger issue of each individual reaction and flags being public.

I could ask for further clarification, but I am on the edge of believing that Evolve8eon is just posting bait for some reason that mainly applies to people outside of the target audience of the Pokemon Forums, much like the goal of Rhythm Heaven posting.
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For example, this inflammatory Paper Mario opinion was posted with no elaboration and little engagement.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23257/sticker-star-is-a-good-game/p1
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Also a clarifying update, Hades was not actually defending Pokemon Showdown's graphics/UI and instead thought the conversation was about Champions. Also another user could not figure out the Showdown UI which makes me think this might be a general mobile and/or casual issue.
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Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of things, Forum President Hades/Snow is making a public declaration of his plans to recreate society in his own image, and many comments seem to disagree with his controversial views on what would happen if Pokemon were real.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/profile/83838/Hades0918
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Guys, I believe that Pokemon showdown should be deleted. Ralph Smogon didn't allow me to keep speed pass in ADV OU and he said "nuh-uh" in regards to any DPP tiering actions. Naturally, we should all jump ship back to shoddy battle, or maybe even Porygon's Big Show.
 
Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of things, Forum President Hades/Snow is making a public declaration of his plans to recreate society in his own image, and many comments seem to disagree with his controversial views on what would happen if Pokemon were real.
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goddamn this really is just metaphor
 
With the advent of Pokemon Champions's release hour upon us, the official Pokemon forums are debating on if they should buy the starter pack or not, among other things. This post will be a long and varied compilation if you want to spend some time waiting in the remaining hours before release.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23484/tomorrow-is-champions/p1
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(This is not actually how it works, everyone gets the download at the same time.)
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23325/lets-just-talk-about-champions/p1
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I think intuition and estimation are the more key skills to mons than statistics.

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clasingla keeping it honest with the casual rep.
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https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/lego-ideas-pokemon-trading-card-challenge-build-your-card (context)

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23421/the-first-pokemon-tcg-lego-submissions#latest
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I'm not sure what this is referring to but 4 out of 11 submissions are Gyarados.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23439/finally#latest

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Local Screwbot Factory 2 fan plays Screwbot Factory 2 for first time.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23428/we-should-make-a-scary-story-section#latest
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I think the idea behind putting missing childrens' faces on milk cartons in real life was to spread awareness across the USA. I think this campaign would be much less effective in a land like Hisui where the population is smaller and more dense, and the danger of wild animals is well known.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23259/i-need-help-in-leaf-green/p1
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23012/i-wont-be-on-tomorrow/p1
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23250/a-completely-normal-convention/p1
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23441/happy-late-days/p1
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23468/what-s-you-favorite-miku/p1
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23457/miku-mange-vol-1-project-overchage/p2
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EDIT: I reached the maximum attachment upload limit at once, so the forum presidency section is a WIP.
I think it might be higher than it was initially (50) after the Xenforo update, maybe about 100 images at once now, but the workaround to upload more after an edit still works.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23344/is-sphea-still-president
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EDIT: There's a bit more to the new elections but I'm leaving it at that for now.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23467/espurr-for-president-april-edition
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Official Pokemon.com forums users are vocal about Pokemon Champions and they are not happy about the lack of items/doodads.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...eed-some-new-do-dads-in-it-right-quick#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23529/so-whats-missing-in-champions/p1
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I remember thinking Muscle Band was an item worth using playing SoulSilver as my first (physical) game. This fallacy may be because it has no drawbacks and is applicable to most of your favoured offensive side moves, which will fill out most of your moveset ingame and you may have imperfect knowledge of the varied enemies to come. The thing is that reaching KO thresholds with stronger raw multipliers is a more deciding factor in a more controlled and competitive environment. It's kind of interesting to see people arguing for Muscle Band like this online and sometimes justifying it.
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Well, Battle Revolution has a narrator and single-player campaign so those are two big pros going for it. And it was pretty accurate to Gen 4 gameplay.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23495/can-i-delete-my-save-data-in-pokemon-champions#latest
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I think it's both questionable that you can't change your base appearance ingame, but also I was expecting people to be rerolling for gacha pulls instead of a trainer you barely even see in battle.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23530/i-have-a-stratagy-for-delphox-spoilers#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23536/pokemon-champions-balancing#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23528/anyone-know-a-good-waether-setter#latest
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No one has mentioned Castform.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...ese-just-suddenly-deleted-my-save-file#latest
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Mod_Nova might actually be a bot if they are asking to make a ticket for Japanese Pokemon Red on the game boy.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23519/we-have-a-slight-issue-in-champions/p1
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The game is new but the battle system should be old, is the thing.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23511/champion-chat/p1
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...d-pokemon-title-highest-rated-game-in-2026/p4
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Honestly I don't think this was even a useful explanation for anyone without a Switch that has the ability to have CFW in the first place.
 
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