Showdown AI Bot

A bot player for Pokémon Showdown

The bot can play on the pokémon showdown platform in the following battle formats:

Gen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 random battle

It can play also in 3 different modes: Easy, Normal, Hard

You could use it to improve your skills in pokemon battles, the Normal mode is much better than the Easy mode, the Hard mode is different from the Normal one only as far as implementation is concerned, the Hard mode uses a depth limited search algorithm.

How to install

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/JJonahJson/Showdown-AI-Bot.git
cd /path/to/Showdown-AI-Bot

Install python3 and pip3

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3
sudo apt install python3-pip

Install the requirements to launch the bot:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user

Install docker to use the database required by the bot:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker.io

Launch the bot

Start docker:

sudo docker pull errevas/showdown_db:latest
sudo docker run --name=showdown_db -p 38928:3306 -d errevas/showdown_db:latest

Everytime you want to launch the bot be sure docker is running, you can check the running container with sudo docker ps -a.

If it's not running you have to digit sudo docker start showdown_db

Possible arguments for launching the bot:

-u username     where username is your Pokémon Showdown username    [REQUIRED]
-m mode         mode can be "searching" or "challenging", if you use "challenging" you must specify the opponent    [DEFAULT "searching"]
-o opponent     where opponent is the Pokémon Showdown username of the opponent
-d difficult    difficult can be "easy", "normal" or "hard", it can be changed by the opponent during the game      [DEFAULT "easy"]
-g gen          gen can be a number from 1 to 7, it represents the generation of random battle you want to play     [DEFAULT "7"]
-s sex          sex can be "m" for males of "f" for females, it changes the avatar of the bot                       [DEFAULT "m"]

Examples of launch:

cd /path/to/Showdown-AI-Bot/src
python3 main.py -u username
python3 main.py -u username -g 2
python3 main.py -u username -m challenging -o opponent -d normal
python3 main.py -u username -m challenging -o opponent -d normal -g 6 -s f