ALL HACKS AND HACKING METHODS ARE STRICTLY BANNED! DO NOT OFFER, ASK FOR, OR DISCUSS HACKING IN THE WI-FI ROOM OR IN PRIVATE MESSAGES. DO NOT TRADE HACKED POKéMON IN THE WI-FI ROOM!

Trading self-hacked Pokémon, including those that come from misuse of third-party tools or applications will be evaluated by staff on a case-by-case basis.

1. If we believe this was an act of carelessness or ignorance, you will be met with a blacklist with the chance to appeal 6 months from the date of the blacklist.
2. If we believe this was an act of malice, you will be met with a blacklist with no chance to appeal, this will last 12 months from the date of the blacklist.

In most cases trading hacked Pokémon will result in a ban (2 DAYS). In more extreme cases we may decide to apply more strict punishment such as a weekban (7 DAYS) or a blacklist (365 DAYS). This rule extends to knowingly trading suspicious Pokémon from outside sources that later find to be hacked. If you are found to be distributing Pokémon you have hacked/genned yourself you will be punished with an immediate blacklist.

If you believe that you have recieved a hacked Pokémon from a member of the community, report it to a member of Room Staff immediately! Try to provide as much information as you can, including logs of the conversation with the user in question.

Scamming once leads to a blacklist, and multiple counts of scamming will result in a permanent blacklist. This rule is straight and narrow, do not attempt to scam anybody.

A scam is defined as an arrangement (e.g a trade) that did not meet the agreement between both concerned parties. For example, lying about the IVs or origin of a Pokémon or conducting a giveaway and not giving the winner their prize.

Community members with exceptionally poor behavior/room presence will be blacklisted with no opportunity to appeal. If you have sufficient evidence to suggest that your blacklist was unjustified for whatever reason, contact a Room Owner or submit a blacklist appeal by clicking the button directly below.

Contact a member of Global Staff with any questions or concerns about global moderation.

Any questions or concerns about room moderation can be directed towards a member of Room Staff in private messages. Avoid broadcasting your moderation concerns in the main chatroom.

Avoid using excessive CAPS, Bold, Italics, >Greentext, etc. Posting Trade/Raid/Union Circle codes in the chat is also considered spam.

Keep trade posts/multiplayer requests once per page, leave approximately 20 lines between trade posts. If your post is still on screen then community members can still see it, and spacing out requests helps to reduce clutter.

This rule extends to private messages, abusing formatting or spamming users in private messages (Including the offline messaging feature) may result in punishment.

This includes but is not limited to topics such as politics, religion, race, gender, or sexuality. This is a Pokémon chatroom, keep it friendly, keep it fun.

This rule extends to making inappropriate comments towards user contribution, such as insulting active Giveaway because the Pokémon does not meet your general standard.

You may post links that are relevant to active room discussions, avoid posting off content links, continually posting off-topic links will be treated in the same regard as spamming.

For on-topic links, add a caption or short description to explain the content inside. Images can be shared using the /requestshow command.

Do not advertise for other servers, channels, tournaments, giveaways, streams, etc. unaffiliated with Showdown; or Smogon.

You may ask people to PM you to join a league; however do not post any links in the room.

You cannot clone a Pokémon for another user without being a member of the approved cloners team. Click the button to find out more information on how to become an approved cloner.

This includes "keeping one for yourself" or "sending back the original". Do not attempt to circumvent cloning rules.

See the Giveaway Rules for more information.

Try to keep the room free from story spoilers for 1 month after the release of a new game, unless otherwise stated. This does not mean head over to Pokémon Games to post spoilers. This room also enforces spoiler rules which may be different than ours; be mindful of different rooms having different rules.