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What university do you guys go to? I wonder which university has the most Smogoners I go to the University of Georgia!

It's been 9 months since Donald Trump has been in office and he has shaken up the political systems in interesting ways. What do you guys of his presidency so far? In what ways could he be a better president? Would you consider voting for him in 2020? So far I've not been particularly...

Introduction Welcome to the Smogon election! In this game, you will be assigned to 1 of 2 teams (Green Team and Purple Team). Each team has to come up with a team platform (Smogon related), a slogan, mascot, and a leader that will represent the team and try to get their leader elected to the...

Introduction Welcome to the Smogon election! In this game, you will be assigned to 1 of 2 teams (Green Team and Purple Team). Each team has to come up with a team platform (Smogon related), a slogan, mascot, and a leader that will represent the team and try to get their leader elected to the...

Introduction Welcome to the Smogon election! In this game, you will be assigned to 1 of 2 teams (Green Team and Purple Team). Each team has to come up with a team platform (Smogon related), a slogan, and a leader that will represent the team and try to get their leader elected to the position...

atomicllamas, Kiyo, rozes and I want to host a RU smogcast this Sunday (July 24) at 8 PM Eastern US time. script: introduce cast members, me, atomicllamas, Kiyo, and rozes mega steelix and tyrantrum banned happened around a month ago, lots of metagame shifts because of it metagame became...

approved by Spirit and atomicllamas Venusaur just recently dropped back in January and has made a large impact on the metagame in the short time it's been around. However, everyone is mostly just utilizing one set, despite Venusaur being a pretty versatile Pokemon. Venusaur @ Life Orb...

EDIT: THIS CHANNEL HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED BECAUSE OF INACTIVITY. IRC has historically been a large part of Smogon's culture. However, as of late, a large part of the playerbase has moved towards PS rooms for chatting and battling. As such, the leaders over at #smogon have decided to start a...

Art Made by Miniarchitect RU Viability Ranking Note, atomicllamas and Molk run this thread. Spirit gets an honorable mention. Welcome to the official RU Viability Rankings topic. In this thread, we as a community will rank every single usable Pokemon into ranks. In this thread, you're...

Introduction Teambats are team battles between two teams. People are assigned to one of the two teams to make a team based on certain restrictions given by the host. Restrictions are typically something along the lines of assigning a Pokemon to a team that they must use or banning all Pokemon...

better name pending In this metagame, you pick one of the the listed classes. Each class has 10 Pokemon that they may use, and you pick 6 of those 10 to use in a team. As of now, there are 4 classes. Every once in a while (about once a week), changes will be made to some classes, or new...

taken over from Electrolyte Victim Of The Week aims to serve as a discussion thread for dealing with the top threats of the LC metagame, especially potential suspects. A new victim will be chosen each week for people to discuss how to deal with that specific threat in terms of checking...

approved by blarajan Sorry if this is a bit messy at the moment; I just wanted to get something up before too many spl matches happened. Basically this thread will cover everything related to LC in SPL. All matches, player records, and other important information will be in this post. If you...

Approved by blarajan Now that Tangela is banned from LC, the dynamics of sun have changed a lot. While Tangela was definitely an amazing (this adjective is an understatement really) sun sweeper, many users feel sun is still very strong even without Tangela. In this thread, we will talk about...

TRI ATTACK + DOWNLOAD IS LEGAL NOW!! Overview ######## Ability Capsule makes Tri Attack with Download legal. Great coverage + 19 Special Attack + Download makes Porygon a powerful threat that is also bulky at the same time Good catch-all answer to many Little Cup Pokemon, such as Misdreavus...

This Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread is a resource provided to you by the Smogon Mentorship Program. In it, feel free to ask this mentor about anything you'd like. They're most prepared to answer Smogon-related questions, but don't be afraid to ask them about their personality and life outside of...

Now that we have NU 1695 stats, we have a much clearer representation of what the potential NU tier will look like. However, note that NU will not be starting until we have 2/3 months of stats, and thus the NU list will be a bit different from what we're discussing now. A few rules to note...

Theorymon Sessions A lot of prompts being brought up in the old thread were not very great. Some would obviously not have a place in NU, and others just don't make any sense. In addition, the discussion is not very focused. I have gotten the go-ahead from Raseri to make a revamp of...

BW NU has been around for quite a while, and while there has not been many big tier shifts besides the first one, the NU metagame sure has changed a lot. Many Pokemon -- some even considered the top threats -- have dropped down massively in usage for one reason or another. In this thread, we...

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