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'''Smogon University''', commonly shortened to '''Smogon''', is a website whose content encompasses competitive [[Pokémon]] [[Pokémon battle|battling]]. It offers guides on battling strategies for people of different Pokémon knowledge backgrounds. The website was founded by 'chaos' (one of the developers of {{pkmn|NetBattle}}) and is a considerably well-known website, visited by competitive Pokémon battling enthusiasts. Its mascots are the Pokémon {{p|Koffing}}, {{p|Ho-Oh}}, and {{p|Lugia}}, with the site being named after Koffing's German name. Members of the Smogon forum typically identify themselves as "Smogonites" or "Smogoners."


'''Smogon University''', commonly shortened to '''Smogon''', is a website whose content encompasses competitive [[Pokémon]] [[Pokémon battle|battling]]. It offers guides on battling strategies for people of different Pokémon knowledge backgrounds. The website was founded by 'chaos' (one of the developers of {{pkmn|NetBattle}}) and is a considerably well-known website, visited by competitive Pokémon battling enthusiasts. The rules and tier system enforced by Smogon on simulators and in Battle Spot are considered the official rules of competitive battling, and  generally supercede the VGC rules.  
==Site==
===Website & Forums===
The official website contains various articles and information about competitive Pokémon battling, including a "Strategy Pokédex" with competitive movesets and analyses, occasional news articles under "The Flying Press", in-game guides, and more. It's also a hub to access the Smogon Forums; as of August 12, 2022, it has over 421,000 members and 219,000 open discussions. It features discussion points for the Smogon metagame, [[VGC]] metagame, and any past generation metagame. It also has numerous workshop forums for making competitive documents and discussing tiering policies. It is also the central hub for tournaments, with its tournament subforum being where the premier [[Single Battle]]s event, Smogon Premier League, is held annually.


The Smogon motto is "Pokémon on the Internet: Let's make it happen" and their mascot is the Pokémon {{p|Koffing}}, the name Smogon itself being the German moniker for this Pokémon.
During [[Generation IV]], Smogon was affiliated with [[Shoddy Battle]], and the official support and discussion forum of Shoddy Battle was a section on the Smogon forums. During [[Generation V]], however, Smogon instead affiliated with [[Pokémon Showdown]], the most up-to-date Pokémon simulator available.  


==Site==
===IRC and Discord===
===Website===
As of late 2016, Smogon's central discussion happens on [https://discord.gg/smogon their Discord server], which maintains over 38,000 members as of April 2023.
The official website contains various articles and information about competitive Pokémon battling.
===Forums===
The forum has over 166,000 members and several sections. During [[Generation IV]], Smogon was affiliated with [[Shoddy Battle]], and the official support and discussion forum of Shoddy Battle was a section on the Smogon forums. Residents of the Smogon forums are referred to as "Smogoners" or "Smogonites".


===IRC===
Historically, Smogon has operated several IRC channels on irc.synirc.net, the most important being #pokemon for Pokémon centric discussion; this is also where Smogon originated. Others included #othermetas, #ubers, #genvuu, #neverused, #littlecup, #adv, #vgc, #tcg, #smogonwifi, #mentor, #insidescoop, #cap,  #grotto, #c&c, #grammar, #ratemyteam, #rarelyused, #ruinsofalph, #orangeislands, #smeargle, #circus, #warau, #fluodome, #doubles, #capasb, #tf2, and #showdown.  
Smogon operates several IRC channels on irc.synirc.net, the most important being #pokemon for Pokémon centric discussion. Others include #othermetas, #ubers, #genvuu, #neverused, #littlecup, #adv, #vgc, #tcg, #smogonwifi, #mentor, #insidescoop, #cap,  #grotto, #c&c, #grammar, #ratemyteam, #rarelyused, #ruinsofalph, #orangeislands, #smeargle, #circus, #warau, #fluodome, #doubles, #capasb, #tf2, and #showdown. These are all run by community leaders of Smogon.


===Spriting===
===Spriting===
To accommodate their site and Pokemon Showdown, Smogon created the XY Sprite Project that make sprites in the style of the 5th generation sprites. To date the project has front and back sprites for every new Pokemon that has been released. This project has been borrowed by other community sites, fan-games and Pokemon Online. Smogon has also been an area of ripping sprite icons from the 3DS games which have been distributed to other sites such as Veekun and r/pokemon.
To accommodate their site and Pokémon Showdown, Smogon created the XY Sprite Project, which makes sprites in the style of [[Generation V]], and has since continued for later titles. To date, the projects have front and back sprites for almost every new Pokémon released since [[Generation VI]], and have animated sprites for a significant portion. This project has been borrowed from for other community sites, fan games, and Pokémon Online.
 
Smogon's [https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-sprite-project.3647722/ Smogon Sprite Project] has been the hub for ripping sprite icons from the 3DS games, distributed to other sites such as Veekun and r/pokemon, and continues to see activity into [[Generation IX]].


==Competitive Battling==
==Competitive Battling==
The term 'competitive battling' within Pokémon refers to battling against other human players using either Wi-Fi Battling via the Nintendo DS, the downloadable programs <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.pokemon-online.eu Pokémon Online]</span>, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.shoddybattle.com Shoddy Battle]</span>, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.netbattle.net NetBattle]</span>, and <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.pokemonshowdown.com Pokémon Showdown!]</span>, or any of a number of battle simulating bots, usually found on {{wp|IRC}}. Both of these are online simulations of Pokémon games, where one may build a team of Pokémon with relative ease. Experienced players, 24-hour servers, diverse communities and an opportunity to test out strategies are just a few advantages of online battling, but perhaps the most vital advantage is battling against sentient players rather than {{wp|artificial intelligence|AI}} - which requires a significant amount more intelligence and strategy to succeed.
The term 'competitive battling' within Pokémon refers to battling against other human players using either Wi-Fi Battling via Nintendo consoles or online battle simulators.  


===Pokémon Showdown!===
Despite the console origins, Smogon tiering has historically been conducted on a variety of online battle simulators, including [[NetBattle]], [[Shoddy Battle]], [[Pokémon Online (battle simulator)|Pokémon Online]], and as of July 2012, [[Pokémon Showdown!]]. Pokémon Online formed the basis of its usage-based tiering in [[Generation IV]], which [[Pokémon Showdown]] has continued since [[Generation V]]. Battle simulators are primarily used for quality-of-life teambuilding, ease of data collection for usage statistics, and diverse communities with in-built chat rooms.
<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.pokemonshowdown.com Pokémon Showdown!]<span> is Smogon's official battle simulator created by one of the site's administrators: Zarel. As of July 2, 2012, it was adopted by Smogon and became one of the first battle simulators to support the changes brought about by <span class="plainlinks">{{2v2|Black|White|2}}<span>. The simulator also includes a downloadable application that can be run on the web browser <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.www.google.com/chrome Google Chrome]<span>. <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.pokemonshowdown.com Pokémon Showdown!]<span> also includes unique features such as the emerging tiers "Hackmons" and "Balanced Hackmons", which encompass Pokémon of normally illegal movesets and abilities.
 
===Pokémon Online===
[[Pokémon Online (battle simulator)|Pokémon Online]] is an application for competitive Pokémon battling, compatible with [[Generation]]s {{Gen|II}}, {{Gen|III}}, {{Gen|IV}}, and {{Gen|V}}. On November 21, 2010, Smogon released its official [[Pokémon Online (battle simulator)|Pokémon Online]] server, which is usually the second most occupied server, only behind the Pokémon Online test server. On July 2, 2012, Smogon made its transition to Pokémon Showdown!, but retained a Pokémon Online server; this was later phased out due to a severe lack of userbase.
 
===Shoddy Battle===
[[Shoddy Battle]] is an application for [[Generation IV]] competitive Pokémon battling. Due to its increasing popularity during [[Generation IV]], Smogon once ran a dedicated Shoddy Battle server, and later had affiliated with Shoddy Battle itself. Due to Shoddy Battle's incompatibility with [[Generation V]], it was shut down. Smogon planned to host a server on Pokémon Lab, Shoddy Battle's successor. However, [[Pokémon Online (battle simulator)|Pokémon Online]] reached completion while Pokémon Lab was still in its beta stages, so this plan was scrapped.
 
===NetBattle===
[[NetBattle]] used to be one of the most popular competitive Pokémon battle simulators on the Internet. Smogon used to have a server on [[NetBattle]], but due to the decreasing popularity of the program, it was shut down.


==Staff==
==Staff==
This is a current list of Smogon's senior staff.
This is a list of Smogon's Senior Staff, who govern much of the goings-on on the website, as of August 2023. This ranges from leading tiering efforts and subforums to their {{w|Discord}} server.


===Administrators===
* chaos (Founder & Site Owner)
* Aldaron (OverUsed, Pokémon Showdown!, Smogon IRC, The Policy Review, Tournaments)
* estarossa (Contributions & Corrections Leader)
* Bloo (Battling 101, Rate My Team, Tournaments)
* Coconut (Little Cup Leader)
* chaos
* DHR-107 (Orange Islands Leader)
* DougJustDoug (Create-A-Pokémon Project)
* Blitz (Discord Leader)
* Haunter (OverUsed,Pokémon Showdown!, Rate My Team)
* Aberforth (Ubers Tier Leader)
* Joim (Contributions and Corrections, Doubles, Other Metagames, Pokémon Showdown!)
* ausma (OverUsed Forum Leader)
* Jumpman16
* HoeenHero ([[Pokémon Showdown!]] Administrator)
* Mekkah (Circus Maximus, Orange Islands)
* in the hills (Other Metagames Leader)
* mingot
* ironwater (OverUsed Forum Leader & [[Pokémon Showdown!]] Administrator)
* Misty
* Kaede (Discord Leader)
* Setsuna (Battling 101)
* Lily (UnderUsed Leader)
* Zarel (Pokémon Showdown)
* EviGaro (RarelyUsed Leader)
* Marty (Research Leader)
* Merritt (Head Tournament Director)
* Quite Quiet (The Flying Press Leader)
* shiny finder (Wi-Fi Forum Leader)
* Theia ([[Pokémon Showdown!]] Administrator)
* Ticken (Battling 101 Leader)
* UT (Other Metagames and Contributions & Corrections Leader, [[Pokémon Showdown!]] Administrator)  
* Aeonic (Forum Administrator)
* autumn (Contributions & Corrections Leader)
* Kalalokki ("Jack of all Trades")
* Lumari (The Flying Press Leader)
* nui (Appeals Warden)
* shiloh (Tiering Administrator)
* Zarel ([[Pokémon Showdown!]] Founder & Administrator)
* Siatam (Ruins of Alph Leader)
* Rissoux (Draft Leader)


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* Contrary to popular belief, Smogon was not the first website to focus on competitive battling. In the past, websites such as [http://www.math.miami.edu/~jam/azure/ Azure Heights] and [http://www.zero.eclipse.co.uk/mp/index.shtml Marble Palace] catered to competitive players.  
* Contrary to popular belief, Smogon was not the first website to focus on competitive battling. In the past, websites such as [http://www.math.miami.edu/~jam/azure/ Azure Heights] and [http://www.zero.eclipse.co.uk/mp/index.shtml Marble Palace] catered to competitive players.  
* The badges used on the Smogon forums are based on the [[Badge#List of Badges|in-game badges]].
* Smogon discovered the '[[Masuda method|Masuda Method]]', a way to increase the chance of breeding a shiny Pokémon in Generation IV onwards.


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.smogon.com Smogon]
*[http://www.smogon.com Smogon]
*[http://pokemon-online.eu Pokémon Online]
*[http://pokemon-online.eu Pokémon Online]
 
*[http://pokemonshowdown.com Pokémon Showdown]
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Latest revision as of 18:09, 18 September 2024

This article is about the fansite. For the Pokémon named "Smogon" in German, see Koffing.
Smogon
"Pokémon on the Internet: Let's make it happen"
Smogon logo.png
Language English
Status Active
Run 2004 - Present
Date opened December 18, 2004
Creator chaos
Current owner {{{owner}}}
Number of Articles 148*
Forum Smogon University
Mascot Koffing
Website Main Page

Smogon University, commonly shortened to Smogon, is a website whose content encompasses competitive Pokémon battling. It offers guides on battling strategies for people of different Pokémon knowledge backgrounds. The website was founded by 'chaos' (one of the developers of NetBattle) and is a considerably well-known website, visited by competitive Pokémon battling enthusiasts. Its mascots are the Pokémon Koffing, Ho-Oh, and Lugia, with the site being named after Koffing's German name. Members of the Smogon forum typically identify themselves as "Smogonites" or "Smogoners."

Site

Website & Forums

The official website contains various articles and information about competitive Pokémon battling, including a "Strategy Pokédex" with competitive movesets and analyses, occasional news articles under "The Flying Press", in-game guides, and more. It's also a hub to access the Smogon Forums; as of August 12, 2022, it has over 421,000 members and 219,000 open discussions. It features discussion points for the Smogon metagame, VGC metagame, and any past generation metagame. It also has numerous workshop forums for making competitive documents and discussing tiering policies. It is also the central hub for tournaments, with its tournament subforum being where the premier Single Battles event, Smogon Premier League, is held annually.

During Generation IV, Smogon was affiliated with Shoddy Battle, and the official support and discussion forum of Shoddy Battle was a section on the Smogon forums. During Generation V, however, Smogon instead affiliated with Pokémon Showdown, the most up-to-date Pokémon simulator available.

IRC and Discord

As of late 2016, Smogon's central discussion happens on their Discord server, which maintains over 38,000 members as of April 2023.

Historically, Smogon has operated several IRC channels on irc.synirc.net, the most important being #pokemon for Pokémon centric discussion; this is also where Smogon originated. Others included #othermetas, #ubers, #genvuu, #neverused, #littlecup, #adv, #vgc, #tcg, #smogonwifi, #mentor, #insidescoop, #cap, #grotto, #c&c, #grammar, #ratemyteam, #rarelyused, #ruinsofalph, #orangeislands, #smeargle, #circus, #warau, #fluodome, #doubles, #capasb, #tf2, and #showdown.

Spriting

To accommodate their site and Pokémon Showdown, Smogon created the XY Sprite Project, which makes sprites in the style of Generation V, and has since continued for later titles. To date, the projects have front and back sprites for almost every new Pokémon released since Generation VI, and have animated sprites for a significant portion. This project has been borrowed from for other community sites, fan games, and Pokémon Online.

Smogon's Smogon Sprite Project has been the hub for ripping sprite icons from the 3DS games, distributed to other sites such as Veekun and r/pokemon, and continues to see activity into Generation IX.

Competitive Battling

The term 'competitive battling' within Pokémon refers to battling against other human players using either Wi-Fi Battling via Nintendo consoles or online battle simulators.

Despite the console origins, Smogon tiering has historically been conducted on a variety of online battle simulators, including NetBattle, Shoddy Battle, Pokémon Online, and as of July 2012, Pokémon Showdown!. Pokémon Online formed the basis of its usage-based tiering in Generation IV, which Pokémon Showdown has continued since Generation V. Battle simulators are primarily used for quality-of-life teambuilding, ease of data collection for usage statistics, and diverse communities with in-built chat rooms.

Staff

This is a list of Smogon's Senior Staff, who govern much of the goings-on on the website, as of August 2023. This ranges from leading tiering efforts and subforums to their W server.

  • chaos (Founder & Site Owner)
  • estarossa (Contributions & Corrections Leader)
  • Coconut (Little Cup Leader)
  • DHR-107 (Orange Islands Leader)
  • Blitz (Discord Leader)
  • Aberforth (Ubers Tier Leader)
  • ausma (OverUsed Forum Leader)
  • HoeenHero (Pokémon Showdown! Administrator)
  • in the hills (Other Metagames Leader)
  • ironwater (OverUsed Forum Leader & Pokémon Showdown! Administrator)
  • Kaede (Discord Leader)
  • Lily (UnderUsed Leader)
  • EviGaro (RarelyUsed Leader)
  • Marty (Research Leader)
  • Merritt (Head Tournament Director)
  • Quite Quiet (The Flying Press Leader)
  • shiny finder (Wi-Fi Forum Leader)
  • Theia (Pokémon Showdown! Administrator)
  • Ticken (Battling 101 Leader)
  • UT (Other Metagames and Contributions & Corrections Leader, Pokémon Showdown! Administrator)
  • Aeonic (Forum Administrator)
  • autumn (Contributions & Corrections Leader)
  • Kalalokki ("Jack of all Trades")
  • Lumari (The Flying Press Leader)
  • nui (Appeals Warden)
  • shiloh (Tiering Administrator)
  • Zarel (Pokémon Showdown! Founder & Administrator)
  • Siatam (Ruins of Alph Leader)
  • Rissoux (Draft Leader)

Trivia

  • Contrary to popular belief, Smogon was not the first website to focus on competitive battling. In the past, websites such as Azure Heights and Marble Palace catered to competitive players.
  • The badges used on the Smogon forums are based on the in-game badges.
  • Smogon discovered the 'Masuda Method', a way to increase the chance of breeding a shiny Pokémon in Generation IV onwards.

External links

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