Better support for articles

• URLs for infographics now go to infographic section
• URLs for pvp now go to pvp section

PVP rankings update .

• Major behind the scenes updates to support little cup, premier and XL pokemon
• Currently XL and Premier cups are working properly and are available in the rankings
• Little cup and other leagues will be added as details are announced

Mischief Unbound raids

• Added raid hours

Added new raid infographics section featuring @CaptGoldfishand Jace

• Infographics integrated

Proud to announce a partnership with @CaptGoldfish!

• Minor redesign of raid result page

New mon and moves

• Full regeneration

Luxray community day and Mega Absol availability

• Full regeneration

Shadow Mewtwo fix

• Shadow mapping for shadow mewtwo went to shadow armored mewtwo which obviously doesnt exist
• Full regeneration

Halloween support

• New mons
• Sludge Bomb Darkrai
• Fixed pvp rankings bug
• Full regeneration

Hoopa and Dusknoir

• Full regeneration

Lake Guardians minor update

Move rebalance

• Tweaked configuration to handle high load days better
• PvP rebalance
• Full regeneration

Added support for Samurott community day

• Fixed issue where Zacian and Zamazenta were not showing up as available
• Full regeneration

Lots of changes behind the scenes to support the large number of new Pokemon. Expect issues with purifed mons

Fixed some bugs

• Forced ZACIAN and ZAMAZENTA to their hero forms

Major update for Gen 6-8!

• All new pokemon and pokemon forms added
• Temporarily disabled purified forms due to memory constraints
• Full regeneration
• Fixed some version numberings

Lots of changes behind the scenes to support the large number of new Pokemon. Expect

Minor update

• Added XL Candy to Advice
• Made it slightly easier to get to raid Ho-Oh when shadow Ho-Oh is also in raids

Major backend update

• Major memory savings for cache

Go fest update

• Mewtwo added
• Raid Party raid list added into the website

Full raid party support in the website is going to take some time. For now you can just see the raids

Go fest support

• New special moves
• Day 2 raid hours added

Full regen

Better support for special Go Battle League cups

• Element Cup added
• Bidoof Cup added

Bidoof!

July raid announcement

• Deoxys defense and mewtwo!

R19 contest has been won. Announement coming soon!

Regigigas, Shadow Ho-oh, team rocket improvements

• Updated stats calculation for team rocket thanks to a on of research, article coming soon!
• Added Shadow Ho-Oh
• Updated team rocket stun to be 3 seconds
• Full regeneration

Thanks in particular to ko3k3bakk3r#0685 for help on the spreadsheet and regression formulas and everyone who contributed to the reddit thread!

Galarian Slowbro, Galaraisn Slowking added

• Full regen

Pvp rebalance, new move, new mega

• Feather Dance added
• Poison and misc others pvp damage increased
• Mega Slowbro added

New mons

• New shadow mons added to available mons
• Full site regeneration

Team Rocket Update

• Research is still ongoing as to new Team Rocket mechanics. Hope to release something soon

Minor news update. Major backend update for the app

Community day Swablu

• Mega Altaria coming to pogo
• Alteria and Mega Altaria given Moonblast
• Regenerated entire site

Xerneas, Yveltyl are nerfed 9% as expected

• Regenerated entire site

Xerneas, Yveltyl are coming to Pokemon Go!

• Xerneas, Yveltal, Aromatisse, Goodra, Slurpuff, Pangoro added to available mons
• Regenerated entire site

New movesets for Landorus Therian and quite a few mons have Payback and Leaf Storm as new moves

Mega Lopunny and Frenzy Plant Serperior added. Full regen. Also fixed issue with filters when switching to and from pokebox

Tornadus Therian move rebalance and raid counter update

New announced raids and some behind the scenes work to more easily support the crazy raid updates

Thundurus Therian has new moves!

Mega Manectric added to available pokemon.

Fixed Mr. Rime by popular demand

Update with more details on raid timings for March

New Legendary raids!

• Therians added to available pokemon

Pokebattler Raid Party app now has raids! Also Mewtwo is here

• Lots of raid changes

Mega Gyarados is in raids

• All raid results regenerated

Team Rocket Update

• New mons

Upcoming Raids and Shadow Pokemon

• A packed raid schedule for February
• Some new shadow pokemon, most importantly Shadow Mamoswine

New Raids

• Legendary Beasts

New Raids

• Kyogre, Rayquaza and Mega Ampharados
• Major backend changes for raid parties

Community Day and other new moves for mons

• Payback Machamp
• Roserade weather ball fire and bullet seed
• Updated availability date for metagross meteor mash

Pvp move rebalance

• New moves
• pvp move data changed
• Full rebalance

Mega Amphardos is coming!!

• Added Mega Amphardos
• added Techno Blast Burn

Happy New Year!

• Removed December raids
• Updated max pokemon level to 55 to account for events

Happy Holidays!

• January raids added
• Genesect Burn Form and Mr. Rime added to available Pokemon

More big performance improvements!

• Reduced page load time for all pages by 1.5s
• Backend support for raid party network notification discord subscriptions
• Added Holiday Cup
• Fixed some cpm issues

Big performance improvements!

• Most sims 2x faster due to optimized bookkeeping
• Pokebox results have priority over non-pokebox. Higher subs have highest priority
• Mega Abomasnow added to available pokemon
• Regenerating

New Attacker Rankings!

• Has a few different filters so far

Gen 6!

• Disable friend boost

Gen 6!

• Due to lack of Gen 6 Dreamworld images, now using Pokemon Go images
• Initial Gen 6 support

Lots of changes!

• Performance optimizations and bug fixes for the Pokebattler Raid Network
• Translations for Hungarian and Bulgarian
• Update for Kyurem
• Remove unavailable related counters like shadow kyurem. Also tweak the charizard results to include all charizards

Pokemon will soon be able to level up to level 50! Rankings have been added for raids

• Support for level 50 mons in Pokebox
• Support for level 50 rankings in raids
• Updated friendship boost based on current event

Lots of preparation for the Pokebattler Raid Network. Its designed to allow you to to join raid parties formed in various discord servers and the Pokebattler Raid Party App

• Support for Kanto Cup
• Updated raids list
• Backend support for Pokebattler Raid Network

Bug fixes and news update

Bug fixes

Major behind the scenes changes

• Hopefully fixed site outage issue for good
• Improved caching dns and nginx
• Added dual move support to advice page

Update for Silph Marsh Cup

• Added Silph Marsh Cup
• Minor text updates

Halloween update 2

• Missing images added.
• Prep work for Silph Marsh Cup

Halloween prep

• More mons added.

Will regenerate tomorrow if new moves are added to mons

Updated news

• Mega Gengar and Darkrai both confirmed

Mega Gengar added

• Mega Gengar may or may not be available as a raid but will be a quest on October 25
• Raid results regenerated

New pokemon

• Red eggs bring some new pokemon
• Full site regeneration

Niantic's Mega bug has been fixed

• Mega buffs now only affect other raid members
• Lots of tweaks for raid party app behind the scenes
• Added Dragon Breath for Charizard
• Full site regeneration

Season 4

• Move rebalance

Raid rotation

• Removed Heatran
• Raid list is no longer from Silph and is now updated by volunteers

Thanks to Kimberkunoichi, Mostycool and Olafbrows for providing updates to the raid lists. Thanks so much for Silph providing the raid api for so long. The new system provides additional features over the old such as Breaking News and prioritizes having every raid possibly available while Silph prioritized having only confirmed raids. These are both valid methodologies for different purposes. Pokebattler raid api as always is available for anyone to use at fight.pokebattler.com/raids

Even More Mega support!!

• Mega Pidgeot and Mega Houndoom added as available
• Pokebox rankings can now select number of megas available

Thanks to the Pogo Raids discord for all their help investigating the mechanics.

More Mega support!!

• Boosted friendship levels applied
• Mega bonuses are now applied to all party members

Thanks to the Pogo Raids discord for all their help investigating the mechanics.

Initial Mega support!!

• Added all mega pokemon as available raid bosses
• Added 6 mega pokemon as available counters
• Added related counters to raid counters

Update 3 for Go Fest!!

• Added Shadow Mewtwo to pvp, raids and gym

Update 2 for Go Fest!!

• New Team Rocket event
• Team rocket counters regenerated

Update for Go Fest!!

• New Pokemon added
• Galarian Darmanitan now correctly showing in counters

Team Go Rocket Update 4!!

• Updated team rocket counters based on research by Willie333b
• Changed ad code. Hopefully it will work better

Team Go Rocket Update!!

• Updated raid and pvp results to include new shadow pokemon
• Improved load performance of raid and rocket results
• Made Rocket a top tier link
• Added helper links for people getting raid Suicune results when they obviously want Team Rocket
• Fixed a rare performance issue

Team Go Rocket Update!!

• Updated current list thanks to /u/skewtr
• Team rocket list is now dynamic and will not require releases to update
• Nidoran male and female shadow forms split into separate Pokemon
• Updated available pokemon
• Fixed issue with Machamp as well as non-released shadow pokemon not getting buffs

Team Go Rocket Balloons!!

• Updated formula to estimate Team Go Rocket new stats.

Ho-Oh Raid weekend!

• Ho-Oh will be here July 3rd to 6th

Pokebattler Raid Party App is here!

• App is finally available in the app store

Zekrom is here!

• Minor text fixes..
• Better support for merging discord accounts

Raid weekend info

• Added Latios and Latias raid weekend.
• Behind the scenes support for Pokebattler raid party app

Adding support for Sorcerous Cup

• Added cup

Regenerated all results

• Reshiram and Braviary added

New Tier 5 Bosses!

• Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem added to links

Will add Reshiram to available Pokemon and try and get a release out later tonight

Update for Terrakion

• Updated shadow moltres and others to allow Pokebox elite movesets
• Major update for deployments that should prevent a few seconds of errors

Shiftry community day support coming soon

Season 2 pvp re-balance

• Updated moves Wild Charge, Moonblast, Drill Run
• Added Aqua Tail to Palkia
• Added unique moves to Groudon, Ho-Oh, Cresselia

Remote raids released

• Minor text fixes
• All raids will regenerate and should release later tonight

Elite TM added

• All PVP and Team Rocket regenerated
• Can now choose to not show TM moves for pvp rankings under Move Meta
• Added elite tm info in pokedex pages
• Formatted ugly YYYYMMDD string
• Restyled the grids slightly

I expect a new Raid boss shortly so I did not regenerate all the raids

Added new Forest Silph Cup

• Added sunny cherim movest to pokebox
• CP tweaks (no great leak virizion)

Fixed Cherrim sunny form moveset

• Fixed a few issues with moveset calculations with some of the forms
• Regenerated all pvp rankings

Grass move rebalance mostly for pvp

• Bullet Seed, Energy Ball and Leaf Tornado buffed
• Some grass types given new moves, most notably Ferroseed
• Ancient Power, Ominous Wind and Silver Wind nerfed

Landorus update

• Minor update for Landorus

Sacred Sword partial support for Cobalion

• Front end support added, need to regenerate pvp results

May still need to make performance optimizations for the new filters. They are still very expensive

Fixed Raid results for Cobalion

• Missing mons added to various raid results
• Switched everything except level 40 no weather to the faster settings for server stability and cost reasons

This release has been very expensive. Additional cost controls may be coming

Raid filters for shadow, legendary pokemon and by type!

• Fancy new filters use highly optimized backend code that cuts down the number of movesets considered greatly
• Filters by type are extremly expensive and are behind a paywall. Over 6,000 trillion combinations of pokemon types for the curious!

Stay safe everyone. Some updates for raids and pvp are coming soon

Covid-19 update

• Special Thanks to Trainer Tips for the non-monetized Covid-19 video
• Scheduled raids are updated

Stay safe everyone. Some updates for raids and pvp are coming soon

Friendship bonus is live!

• Raids updated
• Team rocket updated

Pvp update coming soon but its pretty much a wash

Shadow Pokemon now do more damage and take more damage

• Raids updated
• Team rocket updated

Pvp update coming soon but its pretty much a wash

Even more raids

• Clone Blastoise
• Clone Charizard
• Clone Venusaur
• Party Hat Gengar
• Party Hat Nidorino

Armored Mewtwo

Rock Wrecker support added in pokebox. Oops sorry about that

Legal work in preparation for app. Short version, nothing has changed. I only collect your email for logging in. I use Google Analytics to measure traffic. 3rd party login systems have their own privacy policies.

• Privacy policy update
• Terms & Conditions added

Rock Wrecker Rhyperior!

• New move is out
• Regenerated all rankings

Silph Toxic Cup

• New cup
• Regenerated all pvp rankings
• Updated meta matrix

Tornadus and shadow Raikou

• Tornadus added everywhere
• Lickitung and LickiLicky added with new move
• Added more mons to Silph Rose Cup
• Regenerated everything

Pokemon GO Battle League Update 2

• Fixed error in matrix
• Added great league predicted meta
• Moved Silph Cups after the Go Battle League

Pokemon GO Battle League is here!

• Major text fixes

Discord Login option added. Discord login will automatically link if the emails match

• Added Login with Discord

Move shuffle!

• Full game master update
• Regenerated entire site

New Silph league added

• Rose cup added
• Mid season meta update for current meta

Quick update

• Fixed bulk import if you only had a second charge move but not a first charge mvoe
• Latios/Latias announcement

Community Day

• Empoleon has Hydro Cannon
• Regenerated raids, pvp, rocket

Bug fixes!

• Raid simulator choose battle party button works again
• Raid simulator add additional users works again

New mons!

• Raid and Gym pages updated
• Fixed profile page

Current events

• Heatran set as current boss
• Fusion cup set as current pvp tournament

Minor bug fix

• Delete Pokemon now works

Happy New Year! Giovanni update and updating some behind the scenes code

• Updated Giovanni mons
• Changed navigation links to not use popover menus
• Improve performance of raid page

Heatran update

• And it's Shiny

Raid update

• Added Regice

Team Rocket Update

• New rocket lineup

Timeless meta update

• Updated timeless meta for post moveset changes

Overall did very well predicting the top meta. Only missed Sunny Castform, Sudowoodo, Swampert, Ivysaur and Shiftry among the 2% or higher.

Community day

• Updated most recent date for every previous move
• Added community day moves to purified, shadow and new eeveelutions

PVP!

• Updated CMP for PvP
• Updated PvP sims so 50% is 50% instead of 47% or 52%
• Fixed the nasty bug in the cache generation code.

Major rebalance

• Full game master update with new moves
• Updated CMP for PvP
• Updated PvP sims so 50% is 50% instead of 47% or 52%
• Introduced a nasty bug in the cache generation code. Looking into it. Until its fixed, I cant release the pvp changes

Minor update

• Remove friendship boost
• Minor text fixes!
• Polish translations added!

Team rocket update

• Major redesign of Team Rocket pages
• Pictures for team rocket!

Major thanks to /u/Skewtr for his help in putting together this update! More updates coming for improved sims

Pvp bug fixes

• Matrix results now always load when switching between them
• Some situations with overlapping attacks were not working properly for pvp and team rocket

All team rocket and pvp simulations regenerated

Minor bug fix!

• Shield strategies were not being chosen correctly for team rocket

Happy Thanksgiving!

• Best Friends bonus increased to 25% based on research by myself and TheEggman
• Other friend ship bonsues set to 6%, 12% and 18% because it looks pretty

All raid results regenerated

Terrakion update

• Updated news
• Reduced total download size
• Disabled auto scrolling on raid result due to jerkiness and bugs
• Minor text fixes

There was a large influx of shadow and purified pokemon added. Still thinking about how to handle these.

Major simulation update

• Added shielding options for both pvp and team rocket
• Reworked the counters for team rocket to encourage correct counter use by default
• Fixed rare issue in pvp simulator where results would never return
• Minor text fixes

There was a large influx of shadow and purified pokemon added. Still thinking about how to handle these.

Big update!

• Blast Burn Infernape added
• Galarian Support added
• Fixed matrix bug in multi-moveset cases

Still more to do!

Team Rocket Simulation overall

• Correctly uses stats on the backend
• Perfect CP utilitization
• Improved attacker level modifier for Pokebox use
• Exectutives have 20% boost to stats, Giovanni has 25% boost

Team Rocket Giovanni Update

• Added legendary shadow birds!
• Boosted Executive stats by 15%
• Fixed stat and cp display to show what Pokebattler actually uses

Team Rocket Executives Update

• Updated info
• Fixed help links

Team Rocket Executives

• Initial support added. Shielding is not currently handled but should be a quick fix
• Beginnings of a redesign of the team rocket page begun

Code clean up

• Mini raid result redesign
• Now all articles use the same code

Cobalaion

• Cobalion coming to raids

Minor UX Tweak

• Removed old raids
• Removed youtube video from raid result until redesign can be done. It can still be found at the bottom of the page

Complete rewrite of pvp inner loop

• Pvp damage windows properly modeled
• Edge cases with overlapping attacks in pvp fixed
• Increased number of dual moves considered to 5 with a max of 3 per type
• 2 second 'stun' added to team rocket after each special attack and on join for 2nd and 3rd rocket opponent (not currently used)
• Updated Ferocious cup meta
• Regenerated all rankings

Shout out to pvpoke.com for the excellent analysis of exact move mechanics

Ferocious cup support

• Added Ferocious Cup

Regigigas update

• Minor Text Fix
• Colossal Discovery Special Research info

Darkrai is a Tier 6 raid and Umbreon is Tier 4

• Better handling of Tier changes

Future tier changes will be much faster

Bug fixes for selecting pokemon

• Very strange bug

Darkrai coming October 17th!

• Regenerated everything

Flygon Earth Power

• Regenerated raids, pvp and team rocket

Minor bug fix

• Patreon users now also get 1 Pokemon type in the matrix

Matrix permissions boost. If performance is a problem, I may have to make some tweaks

• Higher matrix permissions
• Performance tweak for matrix non-random shield scenarios

Bug Fix #3

• Now works again when no Pokemon type is selected
• Made it more clear how to run your own sims
• Added information regarding who created the sim

Bug Fix #2

• Now shows parameters on shared matrix links better
• Disables all inputs on shared matrix links

Todo, make clear that you need to go elsewhere to use!

Bug Fix

• Can now run new simulations properly

Sharing!

• Pvp matrix results can be shared!
• Share boxes added to the top

Fixing some bugs

• Fix for advice power up
• Minor text fixes
• All results regenerated to address smissing pokemon

Move Rebalance!

• New moves!
• Lots of moves changed
• All results regenerated

Giratina returning!

• Added news
• Fixed pokebox filter for non-english

Psystrike rebalance and Gen 5!

• Added first gen 5 pokemon to all results
• Regenerate everything

Gen 5 Cleanup!

• Added gen 5 section to raid page
• Minor text fixes

Gen 5!

• Add new mons
• Regenerated everything

New Shadow mons, Torterra community day and server side updates preparing for Gen 5!

• Add new shadow mons
• Performance boosts for some PvP Matrix calls
• Upgrade database
• Upgrade articles software stack
• Switch to Redis for sessions
• Complete translation into Korean by /u/septacle!

Friendship boost revert

• Regenerating all raid

Raid guardian support

• Added raid guardian info
• Minor layout fixes

Crabhammer

• Kingler has arrived and is

Minor bug fix

• Single view sorts correctly

Update for Ultra Bonus

• Psystrike is terrible
• Additional shadow forms added
• All results updated

Backend updates

• Upgrade to Java 11, Spring Boot 2.1, etc
• Fix embeded raid articles to be relevant only to the current raid
• Suicune!

Shadow Pokemon stats update #2

• Another update to tweak shadow pokemon
• Update all results to return 30 instead of 24.
• Removed Shadow Pokemon from silph leagues
• Updated Purified Pokemon to minimum level 25
• Limited Purified and Shadow Pokemon single moves to only include signature move
• Limited Purified and Shadow Pokemon dual moves to include signature move
• Unavailable Shadow Pokemon now have only current moves
• Major performance boosts in simulations. Please let me know if anything funny occurs.

Coming soon, an update to the layout of the main shadow page based on current research by The Silph Road!

Shadow Pokemon stats update

• Update to get much closer to the current stats. Exact formula is not quite correct but the fit is +-0.5% which is good

Minor redesign of raid page

• Supports article, video and infographics

Community Day Raltz!

• Added new moves
• All results regenerated

Team Rocket round 2!

• Guesses as to likely tiers added
• Prep work for legacy tiers
• Minor text updates

Rayquaza!

• So shiny
• Minor text updates

Team Rocket update 3!

• Team Rocket hour information added
• Made links to team rocket more obvious
• Updated notes for logged in users to ensure they set their player level

Mechanics update!

• Team Rocket no longer dodges

Initial Team Rocket counters support!

• Rocket counters added
• Team Rocket News articles added

Results are not going to be too accurate as of yet until I have time to determine how mechanics differ. Right now, stats should be pretty close to correct.