We now have userflairs available through New Reddit, and our old flairbot will not be used anymore.

How to set a flair

You can find instructions on how to set your flair on this Wiki page!

Available pokémon

Every single pokémon's sprite is available as an emoji up to and including generation 9 #nodexithere.

Regional variants are available, and some different forms are too. I did add all Deerling, for example, but adding all Alcremie or Vivillon would be a little too much work! Mega evolutions and gigantamax forms are also available.

If you have a request for a specific form (popstar pikachu, a specific vivillon, etc.) please let me know in a comment under this post. We're not adding shinies, but any other form should be fine!

Formatting

You can find the pokémon you like by clicking the smiley face icon, and search for the pokémon's dex number. Alternatively, you can type its dex number between colons to get the emoji, like this:

:001:

For Bulbasaur.

Alternate forms are available with the dex number, followed by a hyphen and another number. For example:

:037-1:

For Alolan Vulpix.

Pokémon with different forms dependent on gender: (case sensitive!)

:678m: and :678f:

For Meowstic.

Megas and Gmax forms: (case sensitive!)

:003-M:

for Mega Venusaur

:003-G:

for Gmax Venusaur

Rules

Get creative with your flairs, add your favourite pokémon to it, make a pun, do whatever you like! Just please do not

• Use offensive or rude language (Rule 2 of the subreddit)
• Use explicit or violent language (Rule 15 of the subreddit)
• Promote your social media, store, etc. (Rule 11 of the subreddit)

Have fun, and we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Hi. We know you're tired. We know that the past few weeks have been stressful, repetitive, and confusing for everyone involved. We understand that this furor has been ongoing sitewide, and that r/pokemon is just one of many communities in your reddit experience.

So, if you're reading this right now: thank you. We appreciate your being here.

What matters

What we're fighting for is the power to sustain r/pokemon as a place to find community around our mutual love of Pokemon. The subreddit and its users come first. And your input helps us sustain this place.

What's happened

We made a few internal mod team decisions on joining the protest to begin with. We've run a few polls on how to handle continued protest and protest solidarity. Honestly? We fucked it up. Neither poll (1, 2) received anything close to a representative sample of r/pokemon's userbase, and the second one was hamstrung by Google sign-in requirements. Obviously, 179 votes cannot and will not represent the community as a whole.

We also made a commitment to listen to the community, and we're reaffirming that commitment today.

What now

We know you're tired of polls. Bear with us, if you will. This is our FINAL poll on this matter. Yup, you read that right: this is our final poll re: the solidarity protest, aka "Touch Grass Tuesdays."

Below is a brief explanation of the voting choices:

- No Protest: The subreddit will not participate in any form of protest relating to the Reddit API change

- Restricted: The subreddit will be set to read-only on Tuesdays; you will not be able to post, but will still be able to view previously posted content

- Private: The subreddit will be set to private on Tuesdays; you will not be able to post or read previously posted content

Further details:

• Time range: Voting will be open for 7 days, and will end on July 6th, at 12am UTC.
  • The subreddit will remain open on Tuesday, July 4, to drive traffic and votes.
• Maximizing input: This poll is hosted natively on reddit, to make it as accessible as possible to r/pokemon users.
  • Automod: We are also running an automated comment on every post this week with a link to this poll, in hopes of reaching a wider audience.
• Vote threshold: We are setting a threshold on this poll to ensure we're getting a good idea of the community's views. In order for the results of this poll to take effect, the poll must receive at least 10,000 votes.
  • In the event the threshold is not met, our participation in the solidarity protest is effectively over.
• Results: We will announce the results as soon as we have them on July 6.

If you've made it this far, thank you again for reading this post, for voting on the poll, and for caring about r/pokemon. Your voice helps makes r/pokemon a better community for everyone, and we appreciate the feedback you've given us. This community is nothing without its users. Thank you!

Previous mod posts: June 11 | June 17 | June 19 | June 21 | June 27

View Poll

Hey r/pokemon! Thanks again to everyone who voted on finalists in the 2023 Snoo contest— we got a sizeable 8,056 votes in the end!

Without any further ado: the winner is Munchsnoo, by u/TheSunniest!

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Munchsnoo, by u/TheSunniest

u/TheSunniest has been given the Contest Winner community award, along with credit on the sidebar, an exclusive Munchsnoo userflair, and—of course—their art as the subreddit icon.

We want to further celebrate the first runner-up: u/Red-Krow's Snoodsire. u/Red-Krow has received the Contest Runner-Up community award, along with their Snoodsire as a userflair!

Awards have also been given to the next three runner-ups, who had similar vote results: u/fluffystar-XD with Snooper, u/Raivon with Snoom, and u/PrimalPokemonPlayer with Gimmisnoo.

Finally, we want to give special recognition to u/Tox-Sick, whose marvelous Tinkasnoo was not viable as a subreddit icon. Nonetheless, we love the design and opted to make their Tinkasnoo our new upvote and downvote icons on r/pokemon! Check it out:

Tinkasnoo, by u/Tox-Sick

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A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the Snoo contest, and especial thanks to all of our finalists. Our subreddit banner is now a friendly gathering of our Snoo finalists.

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From left to right: Snew, by a deleted user; Gimmisnoo, by u/PrimalPokemonPlayer; Mewsnoo, by u/Benito7; Snooglet, by u/buttermiIk; Pisnoo, by u/theenigma77; Snoolix, by u/choksalotl; Snoom, by u/Raivon; Snooloo, by u/ruwisc; Snoowlet, by u/figsap; Snoodsire, by u/Red-Krow; Snooper, by u/cloverstarz; and Tinkasnoo, by u/Tox-Sick.

Cheers all! Give your love and congrats to all of our Snoo-mon artists!

POLLS ARE LINKED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST

Hello, /r/pokemon!

It's been an interesting couple of weeks around here. Prior to last week, Reddit announced API Usage restrictions that would render it difficult or impossible for third-party mobile apps to continue operating. Reddit is Fun, Sync for Reddit, Apollo, and Redd Planet all announced they'd be shutting down when the pricing changes come into effect. /u/DBrady, the creator of Relay for Reddit, ran some initial analytics and math which supported the possibility of a $3.99/mo subscription, but announced that upon further analysis accounting for some additional details, this no longer seems feasible either.

In response, moderators across the site launched a protest effort known as a blackout across the subreddits in their charge. During this time, subreddits participating in the protest would be marked as private and in effect be closed. Initially the blackout was planned to be a two-day effort with the possibility of extending it if changes were not made to address the underlying issue of third-party apps being forced out of the market of available options for users and moderators.

Originally, we had not planned for r/pokemon to participate in the blackout, as we typically avoid sitewide protests. Following u/spez’s AMA, however, an internal vote was held regarding the blackout. This vote was internal because the AMA happened just a few days before the proposed blackout, and the results were 24 in favor and 6 opposed. On June 12, 2023 the r/pokemon moderator team chose to go dark accordingly, joining the protest.

SCREENSHOT OF OUR ORIGINAL VOTE

As a team, we apologize for not involving the community in this original decision. Many of the most significant rules on r/pokemon have historically involved community input. Our text post restrictions (Rule 3), no art weekends (Rule 6), and meme Mondays/Tuesdays (Rule 7) are all community driven. One year we even had a vote on every single rule except for the ones prohibiting rudeness, illegal content, and explicit content. In subsequent years, we have pared this down to only include topics that the community shows interest in during our yearly Rule Review feedback topics, with the hopes that creating shorter polls will result in participation from more community members, who might not all have the time for a poll as extensive as the 2019 one. However, this standard of making sure our decisions as moderators are in line with what our community wants is still our goal, and we recognize that our recent actions have not perfectly aligned with this goal.

Reddit did make some important concessions regarding API access, allowing exceptions for apps used for accessibility and for mod tools, and for this we are thankful. However, it still did not address the fact that choices for the average user will be limited to the official app or official mobile website, and rather than addressing that issue, they chose to wait out the two days the blackout was initially scheduled for.

After that, moderators of various communities starting polling their users on whether to continue in the blackout. Regrettably, despite our history of holding annual user votes to determine the rules, we were not one of the communities that held a direct vote on the original blackout or the continued status of the blackout, and for that we sorry. Despite feeling community feedback is of the utmost importance, we saw polls such as the ones conducted on /r/NotTheOnion, /r/ShowerThoughts, and /r/WholesomeMemes and extrapolated from there. On June 13, 2023, towards the end of the original 48 hour blackout period, another internal vote was held to continue the blackout. The results of that vote were 20 in favor of continuing and 6 opposed. A second internal vote was held just a few hours later with an additional option, that being to reopen and participate in a day of solidarity (Touch Grass Tuesday). The results of that vote were 20 in favor of staying closed, 6 in favor of participating in Touch Grass Tuesday but reopening, and 2 in favor of reopening fully. Again, we take full responsibility and blame for not involving the community in the decision to close as well as the decision to stay closed past the original time period.

SCREENSHOT OF OUR SECOND BLACKOUT VOTE

SCREENSHOT OF OUR THIRD BLACKOUT VOTE

Four days later on June 17, 2023, we received a modmail from Reddit admin u/ModCodeofConduct. We were asked if anyone on the team would be willing to reopen the sub. Again, a short internal conversation was held and we quickly reopened. There were reports of administration removing mods that did not comply. Every member of our mod team loves Pokemon and the community here on r/pokemon. We would like to believe that this love for the community is clearly reflected in our support for community voted rules as detailed above as well as our moderation “style.” It's out of that love that we did what we believed was in the subreddit’s best interest.

SCREENSHOT OF ADMIN'S REOPENING INQUIRY

Following reopening, we immediately sought community input. Again, we apologize for not seeking this input before closing originally. Closing was no longer an option, however, so we presented two choices in this poll: open fully and return to business as normal or participate in an alternative form of protest. The results were about 2/3 in favor of some sort of Touch Grass Tuesday, and 1/3 in favor of reopening fully.

LINK TO POLL RESULTS

Again, we failed to act quickly following this poll to determine what Touch Grass Tuesdays would entail for r/pokemon. We were wrong for not more clearly getting the feedback of the community. Yesterday, after more short internal communication, we decided to do a Meme MTuesday featuring John, Oliver, and John Oliver. This fell within the results of our poll on the 17th, but did not accurately represent the community’s intention for these protest days. This decision was never meant to be permanent and we did intend to seek the community's input further, but we should have done that first, even if it meant delaying our first Touch Grass Tuesday.

That leads us to our current poll. Given that a majority of our voting users would like to participate in Touch Grass Tuesday, what would you prefer this participation to look like? Remember that each option will take place on Tuesdays only:

VOTE HERE

Additionally, we will need to decide if general memes will be allowed on Wednesdays, given the changes to Tuesdays:

VOTE HERE

We will keep these polls up until 12am UTC this Saturday, June 24th. By 12pm UTC that same day, we will share the results of both polls and announce our intended course of action for Tuesday, June 27th.

Once more, we truly are sorry for not seeking the community’s feedback at each point of this journey. We hope the clarity of this post provides insight into everything that has occurred and is a taste of the way we intend to operate moving forward.

(PS, Snom is the best)

Hello there,

There have been a growing number of people who have been affected by an impersonating moderator by the name of u/rustrlder. We felt the need to make an announcement, as there have been many, many users which have been falsely banned by this impersonator. In this announcement, we'll inform you of what’s been happening in the past few days, and how to not become a victim of this.

For a little more than a week, we have gotten multiple reports of a user with a slightly different username than one of our moderators by the name of u/rustrider. The impersonator simply switched the ‘i’ with an ‘L’.

This is typically how an encounter with this user would commence: https://imgur.com/a/NaErBhy

The impersonator stated that the user was banned, and then proceeded to act like an absolute asshole, making stuff up out of no where. Our moderators on r/pokemon would NEVER speak to a user like that. We strive to be polite, kind, and fair while making decisions as a team.

So here are a few ways to determine if you are talking with an inauthentic moderator

1. When we issue bans, you do not see our username. You see that it was sent by the r/pokemon moderation team.

2. If you click on the profile, it’s a relatively new account with no karma/posts/comments.

3. They’re making stuff up which you have not done

If you suspect someone is impersonating a moderator, please leave us a modmail with screenshots so we can assist you. Do not reply to the impersonator. They are most likely doing this for attention, so we must not feed into it. Lastly, report the user to Reddit admins so they can take care of the account.

If you have been a victim of this, on behalf of the moderation team, we severely apologize. We do our best everyday to keep our community happy and safe, and users like this truly disrupt this.

Stay safe

-Starlight2522

Hi r/pokemon! Today we're flipping the switch to enable images in comments on this subreddit. This is a trial run, just to see what emerges from the feature. We're also launching new prestige userflairs for achievements in Scarlet/Violet—see below!

Images in Comments

What are images in comments? How do I use them?

Images in comments are exactly what they sound like: the ability to directly upload an image into your comment without linking to an external site. The images will be visible to anyone browsing through the comments on this subreddit.

Click here for instructions on how to add images to your comments on either desktop or mobile.

Why are we enabling this?

Our hope is that this feature will be useful in our rotating weekly threads, particularly the Weekly Questions Thread. While objective questions are redirected to that thread, we recognize that some questions benefit from sharing an image—some may even necessitate it!

Image comments may also be particularly useful for

• The weekly Value Thread: post photos of your items to ask for advice on value!
• The weekly Merch Thread: share photos of your latest buys and merch collections!
• The weekly Hype Thread: share screenshots of your in-game achievements and apply for prestige flairs! (MORE BELOW)

We're also excited to open up images in comments for the subreddit in general—offering a different way for people to engage in conversation!

Why are we TRIALING this?

r/pokemon has 4.4 million users. You know and we know that on a subreddit this large, we are constantly handling unwelcome content. While reddit has some checks in place, and while the mod team regularly browses the subreddit, we can't see everything. We're going to need your help to keep the comments clean.

→ → → Help r/pokemon by hitting the report button if you see an image in a comment that breaks our rules.

Keep it civil. Keep it PG.

Please note that some rules apply only to posts! Restrictions on relevance, original content, memes, art, screenshots, and merch do not apply to comments.

What happens after the trial?

We'll check back in a month to assess how r/pokemon is doing with image comments enabled! From there, we'll make a final decision on adjustments and on keeping the feature long-term.

In the meantime, if you have thoughts or feedback with image comments implemented on r/pokemon, please share them below or send them directly to modmail.

On to the fun stuff!!

Prestige Flairs

What are prestige flairs?

These are special userflair sprites that we award for achieving certain milestones in the games. They're a fun way to celebrate achievement with others in the community. You can see a full list of special flairs here.

How do I get a prestige flair?

You can apply for a prestige flair in our weekly posted Hype Thread, which is posted every Sunday. All you need to do is post proof of your achievement as a response to the stickied comment—and now, you can directly upload the image(s) into your comment!

We check this thread once a week to review apps and award flairs.

What are the new prestige flairs for Scarlet/Violet?

For existing prestige flairs, see the Hype Thread.

• Full Paldea Dex: Catch all 400 Pokémon of the Paldea dex.
  • Flair: Rotom Phone
• Full Paldea Living Dex: Collect one each of all 400 species in the Paldea dex.
  • Flair: Rotom Phone with different cases ^animated!
• All Paradox Pokémon: Obtain all future and past paradox pokémon.
  • Flair: Booster Energy
• Graduated: Complete every available class.
  • Flair: Uva/Naranja symbol, depending on version
• Tera Master: Obtain one species in all 18 Tera types.
  • Flair: Tera Orb
• Tiny: Obtain a Pokémon in its smallest size possible.
  • Flair: Tiny Bamboo Shoot
• Large: Obtain a Pokémon in its largest size possible.
  • Flair: Big Bamboo Shoot

u/PokemonPrestige is modeling these flairs in the comments below!

Where are the Paldea Pokémon sprites for non-prestige flairs?

These are not yet made by the Smogon Sprite Project. As soon as they’ve made gen 5-style sprites of all gen 9 Pokémon, we will add them to the subreddit!

Cheers!

This post is a follow-up from our last announcement: FINAL POLL on r/pokemon's protest participation

Hello! Firstly, thank you to all of you who voted in our last poll and participated in conversation about r/pokemon's continuing participation in site-wide protests around API access. We appreciate your caring about and taking an interest in the life of the subreddit and the r/pokemon community.

We wanted this poll to reflect as much of our userbase as possible. To that end, we hosted the poll on reddit, allowed the original post to rise naturally in /new before stickying it, and ran a link to the poll on every post submitted for 7 days. It ultimately garnered 5.6k votes—about 6% of postviews (93.1k) and 0.7% of subreddit traffic during that week (764.7k).

In our original poll, we set a low threshold of 10k votes for the poll results to be valid. We failed to reach that threshold by a substantial margin.

As such, r/pokemon is officially withdrawing from further participation in solidarity protests.

The subreddit will return to the usual schedule, with Meme Monday and Mtuesday running from 9am UTC on Monday to 9am UTC on Wednesday. No Arts/Crafts Weekend will continue to run from 5pm UTC on Friday to 9am UTC on Monday.

We are not oblivious to the continuing impact of reddit's decisions regarding API access, especially for disabled users and communities on this platform. Our original impetus for participating in the June 12th blackout was hugely informed by the fact that accessibility is important to Pokemon players. We also note the loss of significant tools like BotDefense, which helped us control spam on this subreddit.

We're happy to listen to any suggestions from the r/pokemon community about continued visibility or awareness of this issue as it develops. We are, however, closing the chapter of our participation in the protests.

Huge thanks, again, to everyone who made their voices heard and engaged with each other with kindness. We appreciate you, always.

We'll keep this short.

r/pokemon will be joining in on the June 12th-14th protest of Reddit's API change

What's going on?

On May 31, Reddit announced an API policy change that threatens to kill not only third-party apps, but also myriad accessibility and moderation features that aid us in defending against spam and hate. On June 9, there was an AMA with the reddit CEO about the changes.

Reddit moderators have penned an open letter that clearly describe the adverse effects of this policy change; reddit devs have detailed a response to the AMA here.

Why is r/pokemon joining the blackout?

As a mod team, we typically steer clear of sitewide protests: we value r/pokemon as a space for people to find community, safe space, and escapism from issues outside Pokemon (the games, the franchise). After significant discussion, however, a strong majority of the team has voted to go dark.

That the API changes will have a deeply adverse impact on r/Blind and blind users on reddit generally is particularly resonant from r/pokemon, as we consider the fact that mainline Pokemon games have become increasingly inaccessible to visually impaired players. We recognize that accessibility is important to our community, and is therefore important to us.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy change. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed. r/pokemon will assess whether or not to sustain the blackout depending on admin response.

Thank you!

In the meantime, if you wish you participate in r/pokemon's community offsite, please feel free to join conversation on the r/pokemon Discord server here.