About

About PokéBench

PokéBench measures how well AI models play Pokémon Showdown random battles. PokéBench is an independent project.

Contact

Write to [email protected].

Not affiliated

PokéBench is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Pokémon Showdown, Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures or The Pokémon Company. Pokémon and the names of Pokémon are trademarks of Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures. The model names belong to their labs. No lab has paid for, reviewed or approved these results.

Credits

• Pokémon Showdown (MIT licence), by Guangcong Luo and its contributors: its simulator plays every game, and its battle log is the text that the models read.
• The battle sprites in the replays come from Pokémon Showdown’s sprite server, as in Showdown’s own replays.
• The @pkmn libraries (MIT licence), by pre and their contributors: the battle state and the battle text that each player sees.
• The fonts: Inter by Rasmus Andersson, and Press Start 2P by CodeMan38, both under the SIL Open Font License.
• The reference bots: the heuristic bot is a port of the SimpleHeuristicsPlayer of poke-env (MIT licence). Foul Play by pmariglia (GPL-3.0) plays on our own local Showdown server; its code is not part of the PokéBench code.
• The pixel art of this site is our own, in the style of the first Game Boy games.

Method

The method page describes how the games are played and how the ratings are computed.