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Pokemon Champions vs Showdown

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 00:00:03 No.58896699 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>58896705 >>58896709 >>58896713 >>58896823 >>58897536 >>58897868 >>58898850 >>58898946 >>58899519 >>58899591 >>58899607 >>58899828 >>58900163

Will it completely kill Showdown?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5DD7_fBmeP0&pp=ygUaUG9rw6ltb24gQ2hhbXBpb25zIHRyYWlsZXI%3D

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 00:02:00 No.58896705 Report

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>>58896699
No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 00:04:01 No.58896709 Report

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>>58896699
To kill Showdown you'd need to easily be able to make new Pokemon, and Champions hasn't proven that you can.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 00:05:42 No.58896713 Report

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>>58896699
Will Champions have randbats?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 00:19:24 No.58896755 Report

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doubt it'll be as streamlined as showdown
only question is whether they stop quietly tolerating it now that they have an official alternative

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 00:53:21 No.58896816 Report

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>>58896709
If they don't get extremely greedy with p2w, unlocking new stuff and accumulating points could actually feel rewarding

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 00:56:23 No.58896823 Report

Quoted By: >>58899881

>>58896699
Not unless it offers a 6v6 ladder.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 07:29:58 No.58897536 Report

Quoted By: >>58897551 >>58898428

>>58896699
it will because you just know the moment it releases theyre gonna dmca showdown lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 07:49:26 No.58897551 Report

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>>58897536
lmao that's not gonna do shit since it's open source
and it's likely that dozens of people have backups of the code and the will to reupload it at any given moment
cut off one head and two more will take its place

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 08:45:42 No.58897617 Report

Quoted By: >>58899881

Will Hampions let me play 6v6 singles? No? Then fuck off

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 12:54:39 No.58897868 Report

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>>58896699
Showdown is extremely lightweight, lets me build any team I want in an instant, and doesn't waste my time with long animations for every action. It also has a variety of formats beyond simple 3v3 singles and 4v4 doubles. I see no reason to go all-in on Champions for the same reason I see no reason to battle on cart.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 17:33:52 No.58898428 Report

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>>58897536
Basically what I’ve thought from minute 1 when this thing was revealed. cCampions will be their attempt to monetize the competitive side of the game. I imagine shutting down the unofficial free version of what they’re selling is a no brainer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 17:55:18 No.58898486 Report

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>>58898428
Good luck. You can't copyright math. All anyone would need to do is make a fork that strips all of the Pokemon references, and give people a way to provide their own graphics and data.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 18:05:48 No.58898509 Report

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I hope, there's an official alternative so there's no excuses
>But i need to gen pokemons!!!!
Play. The. Games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 18:24:36 No.58898568 Report

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>>58898486
It’s got nothing to do with the technical aspects. If TPC comes around sending dmcas to people it’ll scare everyone off. No one’s stupid enough to fuck around like that. But that’s only if it’s something official.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 19:41:27 No.58898763 Report

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>>58898568
What do you think the C stands for in DMCA?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 19:49:11 No.58898785 Report

Quoted By: >>58898822

It'll give TPC the excuse they needed to C'n'D showderp, so yes.
>buh muh open surce11
Yeah, we all know none of them will grow large enough to carry the torch because as soon as they do, TPC will find them and kill THEM.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 19:57:13 No.58898799 Report

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>>58898763
>get sent DMCA notice
>“What do you think the C stands for in DMCA?”

I’m sure that will go over well

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 19:59:46 No.58898808 Report

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Showdown is free and has no microtransactions, so no.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:05:54 No.58898822 Report

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>>58898785
There's already other Showdown servers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:13:40 No.58898837 Report

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>>58898822
>Yeah, we all know none of them will grow large enough to carry the torch because as soon as they do, TPC will find them and kill THEM.
There's no world where you cunts win. The instant some wee sperg gets a lawyer letter in the door, he's gonna shut the shit down, than spend time and money trying to fight a potential lawsuit they know they'll lose anyway and have lawyer fees from both sides and damages to pay out. In case you shitheads forgot, you cunts didn't think the guidebook leakers were going to get pinned to the wall, but they did. Soon as lawyers get involved, copyright violators tend to fuck off than draw proper legal attention (all those faggots selling pokémon porn subscriptions getting shut down by TPC while the ones giving it away are free to continue to create and share pokémon grot).

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:19:44 No.58898850 Report

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>>58896699
>3v3 instead of 6v6
No I think showdown will live on

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:20:30 No.58898853 Report

Quoted By: >>58898867 >>58898898

it baffles me that people would bend the knee to microtransaction hell than accept showdown. what made everyone so spiteful?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:25:16 No.58898867 Report

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>>58898853
smogon being ran by a group of autistic spergs still desperate to hold onto the meta of their childhoods than actually providing a meta reflecting the games of the era.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:26:33 No.58898871 Report

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>>58898837
Seriously all of this. I mean there’s no way of knowing if they’ll actually go after showdown yet (though let’s be honest, of course they will sooner or later) but no one is going risk going to court over this shit. One whiff of possible legal action and people will fold and shut it all down. You don’t “umm actually” or try to skirt around with big corpos. It’s suicide. Which I thought was common knowledge, but I guess not everyone knows how the world works.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:29:54 No.58898877 Report

Quoted By: >>58898889 >>58899093

>>58898837
It literally will not happen. You're bringing up a completely unrelated matter while ignoring anything closer to it(the reverse engineered source for gens 1-3 that has gone untouched for years)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:34:07 No.58898885 Report

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>>58898867
but showdown offers those metas regardless

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:37:03 No.58898889 Report

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>>58898877
Except Nintendo still shut down emu sites on the reg and TPC defends Pokémon's rights to the fullest extent. They won't catch who coded showderp but they WILL shut down every fucker hosting it, same as they hunt down cunts selling pokémon on hacked consoles. Grow the fuck up, there's no universe where autistic kids beat a multinational global enterprise the level of the Pokémon franchise. No cunt has the money to waste fighting any legal battle and frankly none of them want to ruin their lives over trying to either.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:39:17 No.58898898 Report

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>>58898853
They buy modern pokemon games, they're fundamentally broken people

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:40:39 No.58898901 Report

Quoted By: >>58898930

>>58898885
Irrelevant, they also offer automatic suspect tests as prizes in their organised comps, they literally cannot help but enforce their retarded (classic sense, to hold back or restrict, as opposed to internet "he's very fucking stupid" meaning) meta by offering people to FURTHER hamper it as hooks for engagement. Casual fuckers got sick of it, they wanted smogon to be a mirror of the current game meta, so they wouldn't need to bother with the core games for just the battling. Sadly, smogon was ran by sinnohtards who just wanted to remain 12 years old forevermore thus it fell from the eyes of the internet as a valid metric of anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:48:31 No.58898930 Report

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>>58898901
how depressing. I guess we all really do deserve microtransaction showdown

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 20:54:33 No.58898946 Report

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>>58896699
if it is only
>current metagame
then no

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 21:27:04 No.58899020 Report

Quoted By: >>58899093

>>58898889
They won't lol
You literally have no idea what you're talking about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 21:50:44 No.58899093 Report

Quoted By: >>58899098

>>58898877
>>58899020
>“Nah”

Okay, so do you have any real argument or reasoning? Because it sounds more like you’re the one who doesn’t know what you’re talking about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 21:52:30 No.58899098 Report

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>>58899093
I already gave my reasoning, you chose to ignore it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Feb 2026 23:49:41 No.58899388 Report

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>>58898871
Pokemon battle simulators have been a thing for decades and they did nothing about them, so they have no leg to stand on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 00:54:58 No.58899519 Report

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>>58896699
why are you talking lioke you care about showdown just cut the facade and say YAY NINTENDO YAY POKEMON BLOOBLOOOBLOO GIVE ME POOPY IN MY MOUTH GAMEFREAK

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 01:27:04 No.58899591 Report

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>>58896699
It will once Nintendo issues a cease and desist lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 01:35:22 No.58899607 Report

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>>58896699
>pay to win garbage
Not in a million years

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 02:30:45 No.58899738 Report

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>>58899388
Yeah but now they're trying to sell their own Pokemon battle simulator

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 03:18:03 No.58899828 Report

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>>58896699
Showdown will still be a faster way to test teams, so probably not. Plus Showdown has support for fan games and fan formats. Like now, both games will continue side by side.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 03:44:37 No.58899881 Report

Quoted By: >>58900211

>>58896823
>>58897617
>>58898850
It's hilarious how much Game Freak neglects and willfully ignores 6v6, and the funniest part is that it's absolutely justified. What a fucking god awful format.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 05:51:10 No.58900163 Report

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>>58896699
>Already confirmed to not have a grindfree teambuilder
>Pretty much confirmed to have micro transactions
>Likely will only have BSS, VGC, and No Rules formats
>Obviously will not have any OMs or Petmods or sort custom formats
>More than likely won’t have older VGC/BSS format support, much less older Gen support
>Chat will be even more restricted if there is even a chat
>Important information about abilities, moves, and items will be obfiscated like they are in mainline games. Want to know the exact chance Ice Beam has to Freeze the opponent? Well go find it out on Bulbapedia.
>Turn logs definitely won’t exist. So if you want to go check how much damage your Rillaboom’s Grassy Glide did to a Pokemon, you better have been recording it yourself of wrote down the exact fucking pixel count
>Could absolutely have actual balances patches, nerfing shit like Urshifu and Calyrex to significant degrees, but we all know it won’t happen
It’s gonna be way worse in every department besides graphics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 06:10:23 No.58900211 Report

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>>58899881
Regardless, it's what people on Showdown want to play so it will never die.

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