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Pokémon Showdown is a free, web-based battle simulator. It comes with many different servers and a plethora of features such as fan-made tiers and chatrooms to fit your style. Whether you use it to learn competitive battling, to practice, or just use it for recreation, you are welcome to this community.

Hosted by the OU roomstaff team | updated May 4th 2026 Welcome to the sample teams thread where you can find solid teams to try out the tier and learn the OU metagame with teams proven to be good in Tournaments and Ladder alike. To get the importable of the team, simply click on the...

Pokémon Showdown is a free, web-based battle simulator. It comes with many different servers and a plethora of features such as fan-made tiers and chatrooms to fit your style. Whether you use it to learn competitive battling, to practice, or just use it for recreation, you are welcome to this community.

Hello! This thread serves to be a place for successful UU teams intended to help new players get acclimated to the metagame and different playstyles. The subtle differences in each tier can make UU seem overwhelming, even to seasoned veterans of other tiers. Here, you can post your own team for...

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Teambuilding Guide Approved by Aragorn the King and bludz By UberPyro Big update 12/17/15: The guide has been restructured and rewritten. Introduction Hello everybody, my name is UberPyro, and this is my guide to teambuilding. I have been playing for quite a while, having started...

Pokémon Showdown is a free, web-based battle simulator. It comes with many different servers and a plethora of features such as fan-made tiers and chatrooms to fit your style. Whether you use it to learn competitive battling, to practice, or just use it for recreation, you are welcome to this community.

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Helpful information includes your team's total defensive resistances and weaknesses, offensive move coverage, and stat break downs. One of my favourite features is being able to import and export a team to and from Pokemon Showdown using the same text format.