Is pokemonshowdown.com safe?
http://pokemonshowdown.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Pokémon Showdown is a long-running, open-source battle simulator with no detected threats.
The site is a free, fan-made Pokémon battle simulator adopted by Smogon University in 2012. It has been active for over 15 years, uses standard advertising disclosures, and shows no malicious flags or deceptive commercial patterns.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 92/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsDomain is 5502 days old with continuous operation since 2011.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warnings.
- SupportsValid TLS certificate provides encrypted connections.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site is a free, fan-made Pokémon battle simulator adopted by Smogon University in 2012. It has been active for over 15 years, uses standard advertising disclosures, and shows no malicious flags or deceptive commercial patterns.
Technical and operational evidence
The browser threat feed returned no threat warnings and the site uses a valid TLS certificate for encrypted connections.
The registrable domain is 5502 days old, confirming continuous operation since 2011.
The site is a fan-made simulator created by Guangcong "Zarel" Luo and adopted by Smogon University in 2012.
How visitors interact with the site
The primary call-to-action is a "Play online" button that directs users to the simulator interface at play.pokemonshowdown.com.
Additional links lead to the Smogon forums, usage statistics, and the project's GitHub repository, all non-commercial destinations.
Why the score is 92
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from October 13, 2026 - stale
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiGames
- BitDefenderbusiness
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekergames
- Googlegaming
- Sophosgames
- Xcitium Verdict Cloudforums & newsgroups
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Pokémon Showdown! battle simulator
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Pokémon Showdown! battle simulator
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Pokémon Showdown! battle simulator
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Privacy policy/privacyRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Pokémon Showdown! battle simulator
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Domain is 5502 days old with continuous operation since 2011.
- 02The browser threat feed returned no threat warnings.
- 03Valid TLS certificate provides encrypted connections.
Web research findings
Independent findings for pokemonshowdown.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Wikipediaopen
"Pokémon Showdown is a fan-made simulator created by Guangcong "Zarel" Luo, for the purpose of competitive Pokémon battling using customisable teams of Pokémon. The site was adopted by Smogon University, a fan run community website and internet forum, in 2012"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainpokemonshowdown.com
- Redirects topokemonshowdown.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referenceshb.vntsm.com · smogon.com
Domain Timeline
- Sep 22, 2011Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 15 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 15, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
pokemonshowdown.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for pokemonshowdown.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://pokemonshowdown.com/
- 2206https://pokemonshowdown.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Oct 13, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 13, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Pokémon Showdown is a long-running, open-source battle simulator with no detected threats.
The site is a free, fan-made Pokémon battle simulator adopted by Smogon University in 2012. It has been active for over 15 years, uses standard advertising disclosures, and shows no malicious flags or deceptive commercial patterns.
09 · Community
Community
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