Sorry, I was hoping for a one word answer from a fairy.
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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?
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.
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?
...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
Oh. Well that's incredibly misleading. I know the site has "Showdown" in the title, but I still figured it was talking about the actual Z-A game. So I guess nobody's doing any real analysis of the Z-A metagame, then?
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/pokemon-legends-z-a-combat-pvp-discussion-thread.3772811/unread you might find something here
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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Banned deucers do lose their CAs, and when they are unbanned, I am 90% sure they do not get their CA back
Adding onto this, when a user is permalocked they lose their CA's, but I am not sure if they get their CA's back when their permalock is removed.
Now I guess I should also ask what "CAs" are. Community accolades? I'm not entirely sure, I've never heard of them before.
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