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DragonWhale is now a Moderator!
Hey Battle Spot fans, I'd like to announce that DragonWhale is now officially a mod of this forum! He's been with us for a long time and is very qualified, so we look forward to seeing how he does...
View ArticleSM Kickoff Tournament! (Won by Theorymon!)
SM KICKOFF TOURNAMENTWelcome everyone! With S&M out for 4 days now (in most of the world ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)), and playable on PS, it's time for our very first tournament! What better time to do it than...
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Complete The Core Competition #1: Tapu Koko! (Won by cant say)
Complete The Core! Hello everyone, and welcome to a new series of Battle Spot threads, Complete the Core! What is complete the core? In the past, we've had Battle Spot cores threads. These are in a...
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Viability Rankings (Pre-Bank)
Battle Spot Singles Viability Rankings Welcome to the Battle Spot Sun/Moon Viability Rankings thread. Here, we as a community will rank every single usable Pokemon into ranks. You're encouraged to...
View ArticleProject QR: Your experiences and stories with silly QR Code Teams
Approved by Hulavuta Remember back in January, when the excitement of Pokebank was in the air? During that time period, Gamefreak snuck in a pretty cool feature: QR code teams. With these, when you...
View Articlepɐǝɹɥʇ sɹǝʎɐld ʇods ǝlʇʇɐq uɐılɐɹʇsnɐ (April Fools 2017)
˙ǝuıʍs ǝʌıʇısuǝsuı ʎllɐɹnʇlnɔ noʎ 'uɐılɐɹʇsnɐ ʞɐǝds noʎ ǝɹns ǝʞɐɯ ʇnq 'ǝsɹnoɔ ɟo ǝɹǝɥ ǝɯoɔlǝʍ sı ǝuoʎɹǝʌǝ ˙uǝʞods sı uɐılɐɹʇsnɐ ʎluo ǝɹǝɥʍ 'pɐǝɹɥʇ ʇods ǝlʇʇɐq uɐılɐɹʇsnɐ ʇsɹıɟ ʎɹǝʌ ɹno ǝɔunouuɐ oʇ...
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Battle Spot Singles Season 2 Cartridge Tournament [won by Jmal98!]
Season 2 Cartridge Tournament Welcome to our first SM Cartridge Tournament! This tournament is an invite-based tournament where the top 8 players from the previous season's PGL ladder duke it out for...
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Battle Spot Singles Sample Teams (New Season 4 teams, season 5 currently...
SM Battle Spot Singles Sample Teams Thread Banner graciously provided by kind user blazenix Approved by cant say ... Battle Spot Singles Sample Teams (New Season 4 teams, season 5 currently underway!)
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Friendly Competition/Discord Party!
>>SIGN UP HERE<< (log in to to the PGL before clicking) May 13 8PM - May 14 7:59PM (EDT) Hey everyone, this gen has brought a cool new feature on the PGL, friendly competitions. This is...
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Viability Rankings (OUTDATED)
Battle Spot Singles Viability Rankings Welcome to the Battle Spot Sun/Moon Viability Rankings thread. Here, we as a community will rank every single usable Pokemon into ranks. You're encouraged to...
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Battle Spot Singles Season 3 Cartridge Tournament [won by: Natalie.!]
Season 3 Cartridge Tournament Welcome to our first SM Cartridge Tournament! This tournament is an invite-based tournament where the top 8 players from the previous season's PGL ladder duke it out for...
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Victim Of The Week [VoTW #27 - Zygarde / Zygarde-Complete]
SM Battle Spot Singles Victim Of The Week [ Approved by cant say, AMAZING artwork thanks to Jackii ^-^] Throughout generations, we've witnessed significant changes in the metagame through the...
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BSS Factory [playable on Showdown!]
~ Battle Spot Singles Factory ~ Programmed and maintained by LegoFigure11 Movesets by cant say / NOVED / Jhon / chemcoop / Solerme Yes, the rumors were indeed true! For a little while now we've been...
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Battle Spot Singles Season 4 Cartridge Tournament [Won by: Doobzi!]
Season 4 Cartridge Tournament Sorry about the delay. Welcome to our first SM Cartridge Tournament! This tournament is an invite-based tournament where the top 8 players from the previous season's PGL...
View ArticleBattle Spot Suggest-A-Project Thread!
Pokemon Sun and Moon are turning 2 months old soon. With Pokebank on the horizon, we're in from some big changes in the land of Battle Spot, with many classic threats such as Cresselia, Charizard, and...
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Season 6: BSS UU!
Battle Spot Special Season 6: Battle Spot Singles UnderUsed! >>> PGL Announcement <<< Rules -This is a standard 3vs3 ladder. Anything... Season 6: BSS UU!
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Battle Spot Singles Season 5 Cartridge Tournament [Won by: chemcoop!]
Season 5 Cartridge Tournament This tournament is an invite-based tournament where the top 8 players from the previous season's PGL ladder duke it out for the title of Season 4 Cartridge Tournament...
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Battle Spot Singles Season 6 Cartridge Tournament [Won by: Psynergy!]
Season 6 Cartridge Tournament I know USUM's out and you want to play that instead but please play on Sun/Moon for consistency's sake. Thank you. Round 1 chemcoop vs Psynergy ThickFatAzumarill vs...
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2017 Battle Spot Singles Circuit
banner art by jroxas Welcome to the Smogon Battle Spot Singles Circuit, where we will be hosting a year-long circuit in the Battle Spot Singles format! The goal of this circuit is to provide a highly...
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1st Annual BSS Secret Santa
Approved by cant say and the gang Sign up Deadline: December 12 Building Deadline: January 1How to join:... 1st Annual BSS Secret Santa
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Battle Spot Singles Circuit 2017 Invitational - FINALS [Won by: Jmal98!]
Invitational 2017 It's finally time. It is with great pleasure that I present the first ever BSSC Invitational! 12 players fought through the 10-month long circuit to qualify, and one of them will be...
View ArticleSome big things for BSS in 2018
2017 was huge year for our section, largely due to the successes of our circuit and premier league, ran by DragonWhale, bringing in many new faces and driving the metagame forward. DragonWhale was the...
View ArticleI'm retiring.
Here listen to this while reading. Back in November, The Dutch Plumberjack pointed out that I'm actually the longest-standing current section leader, having been appointed back all the way back in...
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Battle Spot Singles Role Compendium
Draft by Dogknees, QC'd by cant say + Noved. Credit to p2 for thread layout and idea. Approved by cant say. Banner graciously provided by blazenix, thanks again man!Welcome to the SM Battle Spot...
View ArticleGhosting while streaming and the implications regarding BSSC
hey guys, got a serious topic I want to discuss with the whole community so I'm making a thread to properly gather opinions. As a lot of you know, I've started streaming the cart ladder on twitch...
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Victim Of The Week [On Hiatus]
SM Battle Spot Singles Victim Of The Week [Approved by cant say, banner by yours truly, ThickFatAzumarill]Throughout generations, we've witnessed significant changes in the metagame through the...
View ArticleThe Next Best Thing [Current Subject: Tapu Bulu]
op stolen from the old thread Approved by cant say The Next Best ThingWhat is this?: I for one, along with many others I'm sure, feel as though there is some untapped power within the Battle Spot...
View ArticleLure That Threat [That's All, Folks! (Paused For BSPL)]
Approved by cant say OP stolen from ORAS OU thread, with some slight changes by Darkinium (myself) Some changes were replaced with stuff from our Victim of the Week thread, from where most of the...
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Community Create-a-Team 2: M-Lopunny + Lando-T
current team: >> link to current discussion <<Teambuilding is something I don't think we do enough of as a community. It's time to come together and build the ultimate Smogon BSS team and...
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BSS Speed Tiers
BATTLE SPOT SPEED TIERS Approved by cant say Updated from the previous Speed Tiers thread by DragonWhale Some formatting taken from... BSS Speed Tiers
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An Introduction to 3v3 Singles (aka BSS)
90% of this was stolen from JabbaTheGriffin 's retired thread. I've just rewritten the common pokemon section. minor gp help from gato ___________________________ What is 3v3 Singles? To put it...
View ArticleBuild Around That (Battle Spot Special 13)
Approved by Cant Say (Will make a banner if this becomes popular) General wording stolen from Darkinium’s Lure That Threat which was stolen from other threads all with slight changes by myself....
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2018 Battle Spot Singles Circuit and Hall of Fame
The BSSC enters its second year with a lot of new tournaments and competitions to look forward to! This year, like the 2017 circuit, will have an Invitational at the end of the year with 12 players...
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Final Four Profiles: 2018 BSS Invitational
Approved by Can't Say The final matches of the 2018 Battle Spot Singles are almost upon us. Before the matches get started, get to know top 4! Feel free to ask any other questions in this thread below...
View Article2018 Battle Spot Singles Circuit Feedback Thread
Hello! BSSC 2018 is nearing the end as we are already into the Invitational, and I wanted to hear some feedback from you guys about this year's circuit so that we can create an even better circuit next...
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2nd Annual BSS Secret Santa!
Approved by cant say Almost everything stolen from last year's thread (here) Sign up Deadline: December 14... 2nd Annual BSS Secret Santa!
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Battle Spot Singles Open - Signups
thanks to Bummer for the art! Welcome to the first tournament of the 2019 Battle Spot Singles Circuit! This tournament awards Circuit Points (CP) that is used qualify for the Invitational tournament...
View ArticleBSSI Champion Spotlight: Greilmercenary9
Approved by cant say Special thanks to the people at smogon ubers, I borrowed a lot of the questions and the format from them! Happy New Year to all of my Battle Spot buds! To kick off 2019, I'd like...
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BSS Sets and Spreads Compendium
Approved by cant say Battle Spot Sets & Spreads Compendium The purpose of this thread is to provide a resource for BSS movesets and EV spreads for pokemon within our smogon viability rankings. This...
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Battle Spot Singles Sample Teams
Banner graciously provided by kind user blazenix Approved by cant say, previously hosted by dogknees Welcome! The purpose of this thread is to archive SM Battle Spot Singles teams that have had...
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2019 Battle Spot Singles Circuit and Hall of Fame
Happy New Year! We come to the third year of the Battle Spot Singles circuit in 2019, where players will compete to qualify for the Invitationals at the end of the year. The Invitational Champion goes...
View ArticleForum Rules and Simple Questions/Answers
R U L E S We don't have many rules that aren't already laid out in Smogon's forum-wide rules so make sure you read those. But here's some things to remember when posting here: Don't post a thread...
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Battle Spot Singles Good Cores
Credits to blazenix for the banner Building a team is the first step to get into battles. This can be quite difficult at times and it can leave new players disoriented. Having a few rules for building...
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BSS Viability Rankings
Credit to Centinela for the banner!Welcome to the Battle Spot Sun/Moon Viability Rankings thread. Here, we as a community will rank every single usable Pokemon into ranks. You're encouraged to post...
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[SPECULATION] BATTLE STADIUM SINGLES
If you complain about spoilers here despite the title clearly stating the purpose of the thread, let me know so I can ban you POKEMON SWORD AND SHIELD BATTLE STADIUM SINGLES SPECULATION THREADThe time...
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3v3 General Discussion
____ Battle Spot Singles Discussion This thread is for anything related to BSS! What's good? What's bad? What crazy Pokemon / sets / strategies have you seen on the ladder? But most importantly; what...
View ArticleBSS Teambuilding & Help Thread (SuMo Edition Reloaded 2.0)
Original XY version approved by Age of Kings, godspeed wherever you are. I think cant say suggested I do this on Discord so there's that Welcome to the official Battle Spot teambuilding thread's...
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