Resource Random Battles Forum Resources

[A Cake Wearing A Hat]

Here are links to several resources that will help you introduce yourself on Random Battles formats:

• the Forum Rules, the first thing you should read
• the Random Battles room on PS!, which hosts real-time discussion of the format
• our multiple competitive articles: the Gen 8 Random Battles Competitive Guide by Clementine, A Strategy Guide to Hackmons Cup by platinumCheesecake, and the article about Super Staff Bros 4 by HoeenHero
• the Random Battles tools post on this same thread, including useful commands, tools, and more!

Here are resources to help you improve your understanding on Random Battles development:

• how are Random Battles sets generated? What is the "roles" system we use? How do we make our sets, and what are our principles?
• how are Random Battles formats level balanced by winrates?
• information on the Random Battles Development Council and their council minutes
• the Random Battles Changelog

Finally, here are some threads where you can participate in everything going on in the forums and the formats:

• threads to discuss changes to randomized sets:
  • Gen 9 Singles
  • Gen 9 Doubles
  • Old Gens
  • Gen 8 Battle Factory
• threads to discuss other community metagames:
  • Metronome Battle
  • Hackmons Cup and Challenge Cup
  • Super Staff Bros 4
• if you are interested in tournaments like Spotlight formats, RBTT, WCoR, Rands Slam and more, be sure to check for new threads on the forum!
• the Simple Questions and Answers thread, for anything else you want to know!

 

[Tarrembeau]

Here is an index for all Random Battles Community Interviews:

• Interview #1 - BoRida by Syrinix and Tarrembeau
• Interview #2 - MichaelderBeste2 by Tarrembeau
• Interview #3 - Clementine by Syrinix
• Interview #4 - soTsoT by Tarrembeau
• Interview #5 - TheFranklin by Tarrembeau
• Interview #6 - pokeblade101 by Syrinix
• Interview #7 - Michielleus by Tarrembeau
• Special Edition Interview - Team Yveltal Managers (pokeblade101 and Roginald) by Syrinix and Tarrembeau
• Interview #8 - xGang by Tarrembeau
• Interview #9 - RSB by Syrinix
• Interview #10 - odr by Syrinix
• Interview #11 - snorlax142857 by Syrinix
• Interview #12 - Luchik by Tarrembeau
• Special Edition Interview - Team Benelux Managers (Chains of Markov and Wubben) by Syrinix and Tarrembeau
• Interview #13 - HaunterBoy28 by Tarrembeau
• Interview #14 - livid washed by Syrinix
• Interview #15 - Lady Writer by Syrinix
• Interview #16 - GXE by Tarrembeau
• Special Edition Interview - Team Chi-Yu Managers (pokeblade101 and Roginald) by Tarrembeau

 

[Irpachuza]

Besides our multiple resources available on Smogon, Randbats is a project founded and mantained in the Pokemon Showdown simulator, and therefore, a lot of important and useful resources can be found there. Here we describe most of them:

• The "/randbats" command, which can tell you what moves each Pokemon can run. Use "/rfaq sets" in the Random Battles room to see similar commands for other randomized formats such as BF or Doubles!
• The "/rcalc" command, which gives an accurate Random Battles damage calc (Courtesy of Austin and Kris)!
• The "/rwr" command, which gives details on the winrates of each Pokemon in random formats (Courtesy of Mia)!
• This Chrome and Firefox browser extension adds a tooltip to Pokemon Showdown that shows additional set information such as possible items, abilities, stats, and moves when hovering over Pokémon (Courtesy of pre)!
• The Randbats Set Odds API gives the probability of a set matching the inputted data for the given species. While not very relevant for competitive, it's very useful on a set development PoV (Courtesy of Mia)!
• Try other room faqs in the Random Battles room to see relevant information such as relevant generation differences, what CC, Build-a-Bear, or HC stand for, and more! You can type "/rfaq" to get a list of all faqs available in the room.
• Did you know that, besides the almost 30 Random Battles ladders, there are even more formats available on PS to be played by directly challenging a friend or in room tournaments? Here you have a list of those, divided between formats that you can see when challenging someone, and the ones that need to be manually inputted by using the "/challenge username, format" command (thanks Chains of Markov for gathering them all!):

Challenge only formats

On the challenges format list:
gen9doubleshackmonscup
gen9brokencup
gen9challengecup6v6
gen9multirandombattle
gen8cap1v1
gen8bdsprandombattle
gen7bssfactory
gen7hackmonscup
gen7letsgorandombattle
gen8metronomebattle
gen9randomroulette

Available using the challenge command:
gen7randomdoublesbattle
gen6battlefactory
gen1challengecup
gen1hackmonscup