Smogon
Smogon is a website whose content encompass 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.
The term 'competitive battling' within Pokémon refers to battling against other human players using either Wifi Battling via the Nintendo DS, the downloadable program NetBattle [1] or any of a number of battle simulating bots, usually found on 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 AI - which requires a significant amount more intelligence and strategy to succeed.
Smogon has three primary faces through which it operates: the Smogon website and forums, #smogon on dejatoons.net, and the Smogon NetBattle server.
Residents of the Smogon forums are referred to as "Smogoneers" or "Smogonites". The Smogon motto is "Pokémon on the Internet: Let's make it happen" and their mascot is the Pokémon Koffing, the name Smogon itself being the German moniker for this Pokémon.
Administrators
- Aeolus
- chaos
- DougJustDoug
- Jumpman16
- Mekkah
- Misty
- Vineon
- X-Act
