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Okay, potentially stupid question: It makes sense that Pokémon Showdown! doesn't simulate battles from Legends: Arceus, due to the developers deliberately excising PvP from the title... but what about Legends: Z-A? Does the addition of movement to the battle mechanics make it too much trouble to try and adapt to PS!'s system?
 
johnboy3434 said:
Okay, potentially stupid question: It makes sense that Pokémon Showdown! doesn't simulate battles from Legends: Arceus, due to the developers deliberately excising PvP from the title... but what about Legends: Z-A? Does the addition of movement to the battle mechanics make it too much trouble to try and adapt to PS!'s system?
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ZA would be nearly impossible to emulate. The battle system is far too complex. The closest thing we can get is Champions, due to said game having most of the ZA megas iirc.
 
johnboy3434 said:
Okay, potentially stupid question: It makes sense that Pokémon Showdown! doesn't simulate battles from Legends: Arceus, due to the developers deliberately excising PvP from the title... but what about Legends: Z-A? Does the addition of movement to the battle mechanics make it too much trouble to try and adapt to PS!'s system?
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Legends Z-A is not turn-based. How could you adapt a game that has nothing in common with Pokemon Showdown to Pokemon Showdown's system?
 
fiish said:
Legends Z-A is not turn-based. How could you adapt a game that has nothing in common with Pokemon Showdown to Pokemon Showdown's system?
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...Very carefully?

I was mainly looking for similar levels of statistics and analysis regarding Z-A's PvP that we have for other mainstream titles here at Smogon. Unfortunately, from what I can find the only site that seemed to track such a thing was Showdown Tier, and they gave up after doing so for less than four weeks this past April. For those curious, the three most-used Pokémon at the time they stopped coverage were Garchomp, Excadrill, and Greninja.
 
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johnboy3434 said:
...Very carefully?

I was mainly looking for similar levels of statistics and analysis regarding Z-A's PvP that we have for other mainstream titles here at Smogon. Unfortunately, from what I can find the only site that seemed to track such a thing was Showdown Tier, and they gave up after doing so for less than four weeks this past April. For those curious, the three most-used Pokémon at the time they stopped coverage were Garchomp, Excadrill, and Greninja.
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That site is referencing the Showdown Legends Z-A OU format played with the Z-A roster, not ingame Legends Z-A gameplay.
https://www.smogon.com/stats/2026-04/gen9legendszaou-1630.txt
 
simplyetchedsite said:
I am new to SV OU and trying to learn teambuilding properly. Where is the best place to find current sample teams, and how often do the usage stats that decide tier shifts update? I want to make sure I am practicing with teams that still fit the current meta.
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https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-ou-sample-teams-new-samples-added-post-spl-and-tera-blast-ban.3712513/

tier shifts are every three months but since rises were frozen there aren't really any that matter for OU anymore. we get an update on usage stats monthly, you can find the most recent ones here
 
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