Smogon

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"

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 forums has over 120,000 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. Smogon 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 and #smogon as the more general channel. Others include #othermetas, #ubers, #genvuu, #neverused, #littlecup, #dw, #dwcouncil, #vgc, #tcg, #smogonwifi, #stark, #insidescoop, #cap, #c&c, #grammar, #ratemyteam, #rarelyused, #battlecapacity, #nuzlocke, #pokedraft, #smeargle, #1v1, #cam!, #lcqc, #warau, #fluodome, #moo, #drachma, #hawk, #ilblud, #fail, #capasb, #mtg, #tf2, #mk7, and #smogcraft. 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 Wifi Battling via the Nintendo DS, the downloadable programs Pokémon Online, Shoddy Battle and NetBattle 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 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.

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

chaos (Site Owner) (Badge Leader: Programmer)
Alucard (Badge Leader: Team Rater, Battle Server Administrator)
Bloo (Badge Leader: Tutors)
bojangles (Badge Leader: Contributor, Pre-Contributor, Smogon IRC AOp/SOp)
DougJustDoug (Badge Leader: Programmer)
Great Sage (Badge Leader: Contributor, Pre-Contributor, Battle Server Moderator)
Jumpman16
Mekkah
mingot (Badge Leader: Researcher, Site Staff, Programmer)
Misty
Philip7086
Synre

Super Mods

Alaka
Aldaron
darkie
Earthworm (Badge Leader: Tournament Director)
Firestorm
Hipmonlee
JabbaTheGriffin (Badge Leader: Tiering Contributor)
Jibaku
jumpluff
Kevin Garrett
Oglemi (Badge Leader: Tiering Contributor)
RBG
reachzero
Setsuna (Badge Leader: Site Staff, Smogon Media Contributor, Tutors)
tennisace
Vader (Badge Leader: Tiering Contributor)
Wild Eep
Zarel (Battle Server Administrator, Programmer)

Moderators

Aerrow (Contribution & Corrections, Little Cup)
aeosoft (Projects)
Agammemnon (Translation Projects)
Alchemator (CAP ASB, Smeargle's Studio)
Antar (Pokemon Online)
Athenodoros (CAP ASB)
barry4ever (Ubers)
billymills (Circus Maximus)
Biosci (Wi-Fi Tournaments)
Birkal (Create-A-Pokemon Project, Dragonspiral Tower, Dream World, Orange Islands, Overused)
capefeather (Create-A-Pokemon Project)
Chou Toshio (Contributions & Corrections)
cookie (A FORVM)
Cybertron (TCG)
Deck Knight (CAP ASB, Create-A-Pokemon Project)
Delko (Rate My Team)
Desolate (Pokemon Online)
Ditto (Tournaments, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Tournaments)
DM (A FORVM)
Dozz (VGC)
Dubulous (Blind Voting, The Smogcast)
Eiganjo (Wi-Fi)
Elevator Music (Create-A-Pokemon Project, LC Analyses, Little Cup)
Engineer Pikachu (CAP ASB
evan (A FORVM, VGC)
Expert Evan (Wi-Fi)
Fatecrashers (Contribution & Corrections, Smeargle's Studio, The Smog, The Suggestion Box)
Flora (CAP ASB)
Furai (Ubers)
gene (Ruins of Alph)
Giant Enemy Crab (VGC)
Glen (A FORVM)
Human (Battling 202)
Huy (Pokemon Organized Play, TCG, VGC)
IceBug (CAP ASB)
Iconic (Contributions & Corrections, Tournaments)
idiotfrommars (Smogon YouTube)
IronBullet93 (Rate My Team)
JRank (VGC 2011 Analyses, VGC 2012 Analyses)
Kaxtar (CAP ASB)
kd24 (Smogon YouTube)
Korski (CAP ASB)
Leethoof (CAP ASB)
LightWolf (Circus Maximus)
little gk (LC Analyses, Little Cup)
macle (Contributions & Corrections)
makiri (TCG, VGC)
Matthew (Dragonspiral Tower)
MK Ultra (CAP ASB)
mostwanted (Rate My Team, Tournaments)
Nails (Blind Voting, Rarelyused)
Nastyjungle (Smeargle's Studio)
Nexus (Contributions & Corrections, Wi-Fi)
NixHex (Dream World [Smogon Metagames], Dream World [Site & Projects])
OmegaDonut (VGC, Wi-Fi)
Omicron (Dream World [Smogon Metagames], Dream World [Site & Projects])
Philip7086 (Tournaments)
Pocket (Overused)
Poppy (Ubers)
Ray Jay (LC Analyses, Little Cup)
religousjedi (Wi-Fi)
reyscarface (Tournaments)
Sarenji (Pokemon Online)
Seven Deadly Sins (CAP ASB, Contributions & Corrections, The Smog)
Shii (Wi-Fi)
Son of Shadoo (CAP ASB)
skarm (A FORVM)
Snunch (Contributions & Corrections, Underused)
Solace (Contributions & Corrections, Global Battle Union)
Stellar (Orange Islands)
Straw Hat Luffy (Contributions & Corrections)
Swaggersaurus (A FORVM, Firebot Development Lab, Smeargle's Studio, The Smog) (Badge Leader: Artists)
symphonyx64 (Smogon YouTube, Tournaments)
Taylor (Dream World, Overused, Rate My Team)
Texas Cloverleaf (Rarelyused)
Theorymon (Contributions & Corrections, Create-A-Pokemon Project, Ubers [Smogon Metagames], Ubers [Contributions & Corrections])
Tobes (Dragonspiral Tower, Dream World [Smogon Metagames], Dream World (Contributions & Corrections], Overused, Ubers)
trickroom (Contributions & Corrections)
V0x (Dream World)
Wyverii (Create-A-Pokemon Project)
Zebraiken (Contributions & Corrections, Neverused)
zarator (CAP ASB)

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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