Smogon Simple Questions & Suggestions Thread

Apologies in advance for noob questions.

1. How come online battle matchups take forever to find a partner? I have pokemon moon and I can barely find someone online to fight with in rating battles, even free battles take a long time too.

2. Obviously the people that play online don't follow smogon rules, where do the smogon community play their battles?
 

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Apologies in advance for noob questions.

1. How come online battle matchups take forever to find a partner? I have pokemon moon and I can barely find someone online to fight with in rating battles, even free battles take a long time too.

2. Obviously the people that play online don't follow smogon rules, where do the smogon community play their battles?
1. I guess because no one is on?
2. http://play.pokemonshowdown.com
 
What would happen if you were to stop creating all those formats ? What if players were "free" ? Would it be THAT bad ?
 

sin(pi)

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It's called Anything Goes. From what I hear, it's very luck-based and only a few Pokemon species are good.
Arguably untrue high ladder; yes there are plenty more gimmicks and cheese strats (BP, Moody, etc) but they aren't really good or consistent, and aside from those, luck is not really a factor more than it is in every game of mons.
Latter statement is fairly true but most mons viable in Ubers are also viable (not necessarily to the same extent).

/way offtopic but this seems to be every single person's view of AG if they haven't played it and spreading misinformation in a SQSA thread is counterproductive lmao
 
Arguably untrue high ladder; yes there are plenty more gimmicks and cheese strats (BP, Moody, etc) but they aren't really good or consistent, and aside from those, luck is not really a factor more than it is in every game of mons.
Latter statement is fairly true but most mons viable in Ubers are also viable (not necessarily to the same extent).

/way offtopic but this seems to be every single person's view of AG if they haven't played it and spreading misinformation in a SQSA thread is counterproductive lmao
Sorry. I edited that part out of my post.
 

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Hizo, I've been playing showdown forma some week and I use to play random, bit I can't find gen5 random. Anyone can help me pls?
 

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