Smogon Simple Questions Thread

jeleps said:
Thanks for your comprehensive response! This is the 3rd place I've posted this... I'm new to smogon forums, sorry.

Personally I also think that protect in free-for-all makes the game mode boring. It sometimes turns an ultra casual game mode to 35 minutes of frustration. This is caused by players who protect every other turn.

In some games however protect is awesome, but this requires all 4 players to have some decency about how often they protect.

Maybe a solution could be like:
A) Only 2 pokemon with protect
B) Only special forms of protect (wide guard, spiky shield etc)
C) Protect accuracy is 70%
D) Protect cooldown is 2 turns

Now that I got myself going, I'd like to mention hazards. I think they are great, but there are games where toxic spikes basically sweeps my team. So a combinational solution of something like hazard removal, rest, H-D boots feels necessary.

Great to hear you've got a lot of things going! You've been doing a fantastic job so far imo.
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Thanks for the response, we’ll take it into account. A red line for us will be modding the mechanics of the game so C and D are off the table unfortunately. We also don’t yet have a mechanism for restricting how many of a certain role are on a team (which is how we’d have to execute it, Protect only on a Protect role) but maybe it’d be possible.

Hazards are another thing, we’ve already recently been asked to remove T-Spikes from the format completely. Boots will probably be quite common, especially with Lefties being worse in FFA by quite a lot. Rest is kinda bad in FFA since people are incentivised to target you, since you can’t use Protect, but if we mostly get rid of Protect maybe it could be more common.
 
wloy said:
How do I link my showdon account in discord?
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Discord does not natively allow you to link your PS account; any sort of link would require 3rd party infrastructure, which to my knowledge is not currently provided in any official capacity by Smogon (I hope to change that).

If you're trying to verify your Discord account so you can participate in one of our servers, that's best done via your forum account and Chatot. If you're trying to use your PS account to verify, you should contact the server's staff and/or refer to that server's rule for what info they're looking for (typically, a screenshot of you logged in).
 
IAmJosh27 said:
Been playing for years but finally got on smogon. How do I put sprites in messages?
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type the pokemon’s name surrounded by these colons :

like this:
Code: 
:pikachu:
:pikachu:

you can also type :gameacronym/pokemonname: to get the pokemon’s full in battle sprite or model from the game whose acronym you used

like this:
Code: 
:bw/magneton:
:bw/magneton:

or like this:
Code: 
:xy/magneton:
:xy/magneton:
 
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How do I get this?

I used to think this was for badgeholders, but then I saw something in the discord server that says using nitro there gets you a title on the pokemon forums, and I assume this is what they mean. If so, is this the only way to get this?
 
I'm looking for a replay of a Gen 6 OU tournament game from several years ago which was won when a Mega Lopunny used Healing Wish to cure a paralyzed Volcarona, allowing it to sweep. Unfortunately, I don't remember who the competitors were, but I think it was a relatively prominent tournament. I know that it's kind of obscure, but would anyone happen to remember where this replay was from?
 
lets say I wanted to suggest something that would affect competitive pokemon in general. Where would I go to do that?

more acurately, it is about a move that I think could see more usage because of an overlooked aspect of it.
 
Cancel cult said:
lets say I wanted to suggest something that would affect competitive pokemon in general. Where would I go to do that?

more acurately, it is about a move that I think could see more usage because of an overlooked aspect of it.
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I'd say post a short writeup of the move in the primary thread for whatever metagame you think this move would affect. In Gen 9 OU for example, that would be This thread here.
 
Well, my proposal is to consider creating a new Badge, this Badge would be directly related to the RMT forum. Although we already have a Team Rater, I wonder why not reward players who post RMT there, which are well written and detailed and with good results, for example, the last one I saw that caught my attention was a Probopass that got top 2 on the ladder and it was really incredible, I imagine the time invested in the creation process, the dedication in laddering and especially all the time invested in writing it. And this is just an isolated example, as several appear every month that will be made available to the public and whether they like it or not, this helps a lot to move this part of the forum. In general, greater visibility and incentive for those who frequently post good RMT would be contributing to greater competitiveness on the ladder and an even greater movement in this part of the forum, resulting in even more good teams emerging to the public.
 
Vorulito said:
Well, my proposal is to consider creating a new Badge, this Badge would be directly related to the RMT forum. Although we already have a Team Rater, I wonder why not reward players who post RMT there, which are well written and detailed and with good results, for example, the last one I saw that caught my attention was a Probopass that got top 2 on the ladder and it was really incredible, I imagine the time invested in the creation process, the dedication in laddering and especially all the time invested in writing it. And this is just an isolated example, as several appear every month that will be made available to the public and whether they like it or not, this helps a lot to move this part of the forum. In general, greater visibility and incentive for those who frequently post good RMT would be contributing to greater competitiveness on the ladder and an even greater movement in this part of the forum, resulting in even more good teams emerging to the public.
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a badge for that does exist in community contributor. People have gotten it for those purposes before, but considering how rare it is for people to actually make detailed RMTs of their successful teams, demand for a new badge is kind of low.
 
How can I recover my smogon account that I forgot the password to and no longer have the email associated with it. Is there a way to change the email on it? I have the pokemon showdown account that was used by the account.
 
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