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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 (Not including an analysis for each Pokémon in each generation, moves, items, types, Natures, Dream World Project. Includes CAP)
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.

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.

Site

Website

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

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.

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 Pokémon Online, Shoddy Battle, NetBattle, and Pokémon Showdown!, 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.

Pokémon Showdown!

Pokémon Showdown! is Smogon's official battle simulator created by one of the site's super moderators: 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 Black 2 and White 2. The simulator also includes a downloadable application that can be run on the web browser Google Chrome. Pokémon Showdown! 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 is an application for competitive Pokémon battling, compatible with Generations II, III, IV, and V. On November 21, 2010, Smogon released its official 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 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

Administrators

  • Bloo (Battling 101, Rate My Team, Tournaments)
  • bojangles (Contributions and Corrections, Smogon IRC, Ubers)
  • Cathy (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • chaos
  • DougJustDoug (Create-A-Pokémon Project)
  • Haunter (OverUsed, Rate My Team)
  • Jumpman16
  • Mekkah (Circus Maximus, Orange Islands, TCG)
  • mingot
  • Misty
  • Setsuna (Battling 101, The Smog)

Super Moderators

  • Aldaron (OverUsed, Pokémon Showdown!, Smogon IRC, The Policy Review, Tournaments)
  • Antar (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • Birkal (Create-A-Pokémon Project, Orange Islands, Other Metagames, OverUsed, The Smog, The Suggestion Box)
  • Delko (Rate My Team)
  • Iconic (Contributions & Corrections, OverUsed, The Policy Review, Tournaments)
  • JabbaTheGriffin (OverUsed)
  • Jellicent (Contributions & Corrections, Orange Islands, RarelyUsed, Ruins of Alph)
  • Jibaku (Smogon IRC, Ubers, Ubers Analyses)
  • jumpluff (Smogon IRC, The Smog)
  • kokoloko (Contributions & Corrections, UnderUsed)
  • Oglemi (Contributions & Corrections, RarelyUsed)
  • RBG
  • Solace (Battling 101, Contributions & Corrections, Global Battle Union, Orange Islands, VGC)
  • Vader (a forum, LC Analyses, Little Cup)
  • Wild Eep (Wi-Fi)
  • Zarel (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • Zebraiken (Contributions & Corrections, NeverUsed)
  • Zracknel (Smeargle's Studio)

Moderators

  • ΩDonut (Global Battle Union, VGC, Wi-Fi)
  • AccidentalGreed (Contributions and Corrections, OU Analyses)
  • Arcticblast (Other Metagames)
  • Athenodoros (ASB) (Project)
  • billymills (Circus Maximus)
  • blarajan (Contributions and Corrections, LC Analyses, Little Cup)
  • bmelts (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • Bummer (The Smog)
  • capefeather (Create-A-Pokémon Project)
  • cookie (a forum)
  • Deck Knight (ASB, Create-A-Pokémon Project)
  • Ditto (Tournaments, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Tournaments)
  • DittoCrow (Contributions and Corrections, RarelyUsed, RU Analyses)
  • DM (a forum)
  • Dogfish44 (ASB) (Project)
  • dragonuser (Rate My Team)
  • Eiganjo (Wi-Fi)
  • elcheeso (Smeargle's Studio)
  • Elevator Music (ASB, Create-A-Pokémon Project, Contributions & Corrections, Little Cup)
  • Engineer Pikachu (ASB) (Project)
  • Eo Ut Mortus (Tournaments)
  • Expert Evan (Wi-Fi)
  • Fatecrashers (Contributions & Corrections, Orange Islands, Smeargle's Studio, The Suggestion Box)
  • FLCL (NeverUsed)
  • Furai (Blind Voting, Ubers)
  • gene (Ruins of Alph)
  • ginganinja (OverUsed)
  • Glen (a forum)
  • Harsha (Battling 101, OverUsed, Rate My Team)
  • Hugendugen (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • Its_A_Random (ASB) (Project)
  • jas61292 (Create-A-Pokémon Project)
  • Jirachi (Rate My Team)
  • Joim (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • kd24 (OverUsed, RBY / GSC / ADV, Warstory Archive)
  • Korski (Create-A-Pokémon Project)
  • LightWolf (Circus Maximus)
  • Limitless (Battling 101)
  • locopoke (Smogon Social Media)
  • macle (Contributions & Corrections)
  • Mario with Lasers (Orange Islands)
  • Marty D (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • McMeghan (Tournaments, Ubers)
  • M Dragon (Tournaments)
  • MikeDecIsHere (Smogon Social Media) (Project)
  • mikel (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • MJB (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • MK Ultra (ASB) (Project)
  • Molk (RarelyUsed)
  • Nexus (Contributions & Corrections, Wi-Fi)
  • Ninahaza (a forum)
  • NixHex (OverUsed)
  • Objection (ASB) (Project)
  • paintseagull (Create-A-Pokémon Project)
  • Philip7086 (Tournaments) (Project)
  • PK Gaming (Contributions & Corrections, OverUsed)
  • Pocket (OverUsed)
  • Raseri (Contributions and Corrections, NeverUsed, NU Analyses)
  • religiousjedi (Wi-Fi)
  • R Inanimate (VGC 2013 Analyses)
  • RitterCat (Smeargle's Studio)
  • RT. (Contributions and Corrections, UnderUsed, UU Analyses)
  • R_N (Orange Islands)
  • sandman (Global Battle Union, VGC)
  • sandshrewz (The Smog)
  • Seven Deadly Sins (ASB, Contributions & Corrections)
  • shade (a forum)
  • Shii (Wi-Fi)
  • Stellar (Orange Islands)
  • symphonyx64 (Smogon Premier League) (Project)
  • tab (Rate My Team)
  • Taylor (OverUsed, Rate My Team)
  • test
  • Texas Cloverleaf (ASB) (Project)
  • The Immortal (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • TheMantyke (Wi-Fi)
  • Theorymon (Contributions & Corrections, Smogon IRC, Ubers)
  • Toast++ (The Smog, Wi-Fi)
  • Tobes (OverUsed, Pokémon Showdown!, Ubers)
  • trickroom (Contributions & Corrections)
  • V4Victini (Pokémon Showdown)
  • verbatim (Pokemon Showdown!)
  • Vinc2612 (Tournaments)
  • voodoo pimp (Global Battle Union, VGC)
  • WaterBomb (Sports Arena)
  • Woodchuck (Pokémon Showdown!)
  • zarator (ASB) (Project)

Badge Leaders

  • Bloo (Tournament Director, Tutors)
  • bojangles (Community Contributor, Contributor, Pre-Contributor, Smogon IRC AOp/SOp, Tiering Contributor)
  • Delko (Team Rater)
  • DougJustDoug (Programmer)
  • Elevator Music (Tiering Contributor)
  • Haunter (Team Rater, Battle Server Administrator, Battle Server Moderator)
  • Iconic (Tiering Contributor)
  • JabbaTheGriffin (Tiering Contributor)
  • mingot (Researcher, Programmer)
  • Oglemi (Tiering Contributor)
  • Setsuna (Site Staff, Smogon Media Contributor, Tutors)
  • Zracknel (Artist)

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.

External links


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