PokiBot is Pokimono's helper in the Discord server. It is the same bot account you use for battles, bag items, village shifts, and chat levels. It answers when you type ? or ?: shortcuts in a channel with quick links into the site. It quietly carries private mod mail when you DM it. In short: if it happens through the bot in Pokimono Discord, this page is the tour.

New to Discord bots? Slash commands are the small forms that start with /. Click the message box, press /, wait for Discord's command list, and choose a PokiBot line (if you see more than one bot, pick the one named for Pokimono). Tap each empty field, use the suggested rows or type to search, then press Enter or tap Send. The bot posts its answer in the same channel unless Discord shows a note that only you can see that reply.

When a field wants a character, use Discord's suggestion rows or type a few letters of your OC's name first. In duels, pick opponent before their OC list fills in. For bag item, choose the OC first so the suggestions match what that character can use right now.

The sections below walk through everything PokiBot does, one topic at a time. When you want the deeper rules for battles or village work, follow the Mechanics links inside each block — here we stay focused on what the bot is for and how to talk to it.

Ruu pays for PokiBot's hosting out of pocket — about $10 a month (~$120 a year). If you'd like to help offset those costs, you can donate via PayPal or message Ruu for other ways to contribute.

Pokimono keeps bot traffic in two kinds of places so village roleplay stays readable: a single hub channel for bag, shop, and level commands, and each region's village channel for battles, clock-ins, and berry plots.

• Arceus Shrine — In the Discord sidebar, open the channel named arceus-shrine (capitalization may vary). Use it for /item, /buy, /sell, /levels, and /pray. That keeps item use, healing, shop receipts, and level readouts in one easy-to-find thread of messages.
• Village Roleplay channels — Under the Roleplay category, each home region has its own text channel (for example │💠・gale-springs for Gale Spring). /job work, /job status, /job heal, and /berryfarm tend must run in the channel that matches that OC's home village — wrong village returns an error. /battle wild and /battle challenge work in any of the four village Roleplay channels; wild species, levels, and weather follow the channel you are in. Exact channel names and a tap-through for first use live on Mechanics → Jobs → Village work.
• Pocket links (? / ?:) — Send them as a normal chat message in any text channel you are allowed to use; arceus-shrine works well next to item, shop, and levels commands.
• Gifts & trades — /gift and /trade work in any channel, so you can run them right in the scene where your OCs make the exchange.
• Bulletin board — Run /trade right inside a bulletin board post when a deal comes together there, or use Offer a trade and Fulfill on the post on the site; see Trade shelf & bulletin board.
• RP scenes — /rp start, /rp dms, and /rp mentions work in any channel, and start opens the scene post in the RP scenes forum; /rp join, leave, skip, mark, and end run inside that scene post. /rp starttracking runs inside a post in the RP scenes forum that members opened by hand; see RP scenes.
• RP threads — /rpcount and /rpexport run inside the thread you want counted or saved; see Roleplay threads.
• Question of the Day — /qotd works in any channel. Questions and answers land in the Question of the Day thread under │・headcanons; see Question of the Day.
• Mod tickets — Open a direct message to PokiBot from your Discord home (same as messaging a friend). That path never needs a server channel.

Same list you will see in Discord, plus the two “no slash” tricks — bookmark this if you like having every option on one screen. For which channel to stand in, see Where to run commands above.

PokiBot runs OC battles with main-series style rules. The move buttons on its posts read from the battle slots you set on each character's Profile on the site.

Run /battle wild and /battle challenge in any of the four village Roleplay channels (channel names in Mechanics → Jobs → Village work). Wild species and field weather follow the channel you stand in. Just start the battle — PokiBot creates a thread for your OC automatically and runs the fight there. For /item, /buy, /sell, and /levels, use Arceus Shrine (arceus-shrine); see Where to run commands.

• /battle info — See your OC's battle stats and typings at their current level. You can pick a character or leave the field blank: PokiBot uses the OC you last used for a shift or battle, or your first approved roster character if you have not picked one yet.
• /battle wild — Start a wild encounter in the village channel you are in. Pick character for the OC who is fighting. When the encounter posts, play your turn from the buttons on that message (moves and Run). Away from your OC's home village, wild Pokémon tend to be tougher — see Wild encounters by region.
• /battle challenge — Invite another member to a duel with the same feel as a wild fight. Tag them as opponent. You can name your OC and theirs, or leave those fields blank — PokiBot fills in sensible defaults (including their active village-shift character when that fits). Accept, decline, and moves happen on the challenge and side posts.

For how turns, Run, OC XP, and status effects work, head to Mechanics → Battling, especially wild battles in Discord and member duels.

PokiBot connects your site bag to Discord: use /item use when you want potions, revives, status cures, treats that raise character level, or anything else the bag supports to land on one of your roster characters.

Use Arceus Shrine (arceus-shrine) for /item use. For /buy and /sell, use the same channel: PokiBot pulls the same Items Shop catalog and prices as the site — search the autocomplete list, then pick a row.

• Choose a character and a bag item from the lists (both support search-as-you-type). Optional count (1–20) repeats the same item until your OC is topped off, the status clears, you run out, or the run hits the cap.

The suggestions line up with that character's current HP and status, so you see what actually applies.

/item lookup works in any channel: pick an item from the list and PokiBot posts what it does, its buy and sell prices, and how many you carry, with a link to that item in the item catalog. Handy mid-trade. On the site, hover an item name in any Bag to read the same description, or select the name to open it in the catalog.

Every village keeps a shrine where travelers stop to rest and pray. Once a day, you can send one of your OCs there with /pray and they walk out fully restored — the Pokimono take on a Pokémon Center visit.

• Pick the character who needs healing from the suggestion list (or type part of their name).
• That OC returns to full HP, gets back on their feet if they fainted, and has any status effect (poison, burn, sleep, and the like) cured.
• You get one prayer per day across your whole roster. It resets at midnight US Eastern (EST/EDT), the same time as /job work.
• Your prayer stays available when the OC you picked is already at full HP and feeling well, so you can save it for when someone needs it. Finish any wild battle or duel first; the shrine welcomes your OC once the fight is over.

/pray sits nicely in Arceus Shrine (arceus-shrine) alongside /item use. For more healing between prayers, use bag items or visit a village Healer or Potions Master (Healing at the village practice).

When your OC pays another character for a service, hands over a present, or swaps goods at the market, PokiBot can move the real mon and items to match. Everything comes from and lands in your Profile wallet and bag, and each gift or trade shows up in both members' wallet activity.

• /gift mon — Tag the member and enter an amount. The mon leaves your wallet and arrives in theirs right away.
• /gift item — Tag the member, pick an item from your bag (the list shows how many you can send), and set a quantity.
• /trade — Tag the member, then fill in what you give (give_mon, give_item) and what you receive (get_mon, get_item — that list shows their bag). They get Accept and Decline buttons; both sides swap the moment they accept. Offers stay open for 15 minutes, and you can withdraw yours with Cancel offer.
• Add an optional note to any of them — it appears on the receipt, which makes a nice record of the exchange in your scene.

Each member can send up to 10,000 mon and 20 items per day across gifts and their side of trades. The limit resets at midnight US Eastern (EST/EDT), the same time as /job work. Items your characters are holding stay with them, so the list counts only the spare copies in your bag. Mega Rings, Mega Stones, and key items belong to the member who earned them.

If something in your bag looks wrong after a gift or trade, DM PokiBot so the mods can take a look.

Your trade shelf shows up to 3 items you're offering and 3 items you're looking for, plus a short note. It appears on your Profile → Bag tab and on your character pages, so members browsing your OCs can see what you have to trade. Set it up on Profile → Bag — every change saves on its own:

• Offer for trade — Press the button on any item in your bag to put it on your shelf. Your shelf shows offers while the item is still in your bag.
• Want this — Browsing another member's bag? Press the button on an item to add it to your Looking for list. You can also search for any item, or type something in your own words.
• Matches — Your shelf lists members looking for items in your bag, and members offering items on your Looking for list, with a link to each member's profile.

Before you /sell, the item list tells you when members are looking for that item — a quick trade might get you something better than mon.

The bulletin board forum is the place for trades, giveaways, RP partner requests, and anything else that lives outside RP general. A pinned post at the top explains how it works.

Posts start on the site: open Characters → Bulletin board, press New post, add a title and tags, and PokiBot posts it in the Discord forum under your name. That page also lists every post and trade shelf, and you can reply or mark yours done from either place. If you start a post in the forum itself, PokiBot saves it and sends you a link to finish it on the site.

• Your shelf post — PokiBot keeps a post for your trade shelf on the board and updates it whenever your shelf or bag changes. Members can reply there to make an offer. Turn it off anytime with Post my shelf on the Discord bulletin board on Profile → Bag.

Every member post gets a PokiBot helper:

• Tags — Pick Trading, Looking for, Giveaway, RP request, or General so members can filter the board.
• Trading posts — List what you have and what you want. Once you agree on a deal, press Offer a trade on the post on the site, or run /trade right in the post. Pick what you give and what you get — items on the poster's wish list and trade shelf are marked with ★. The poster has 24 hours to accept or decline on the site or with the buttons in Discord, and you can cancel anytime before then. Nothing moves until they accept, and the post is marked Done when the trade goes through. Offers waiting for your answer show at the top of the board.
• Looking for posts — Have what they need? Press Fulfill on the post on the site, pick mon and/or an item from your bag, and PokiBot sends it to the poster. Running /gift to the poster right in the post works the same way. Either way the post is marked Done. Fulfilling counts toward your daily gift limits.
• Mark done and Reopen — The post owner or a mod can close a post when it's finished, or reopen it if it's still going.
• Quiet posts close after 7 days without replies. Reply in the post anytime to bring it back.

PokiBot is the village clock-in: each OC gets one successful shift per Eastern calendar day, and the same bot readout shows wallet, HP, reputation, quest rank, and more when you ask for status.

• /job work — Pick the character who is clocking in. Run it in that OC's home village Roleplay channel (one of the four region channels under Roleplay — not Arceus Shrine and not a general RP room). Mechanics → Jobs → Village work lists the exact channel names and a first-time tap-through. If you are in the wrong place, the bot's reply points you to the right channel.
• /job status — Same character field and the same home village Roleplay channel as /job work. You will see wallet, cooldown, job line, HP, quest rank, village reputation, and other readouts in one embed.
• /job heal — For Healer and Potions Master OCs. Pick your healer as character, the member as patient, and their OC as patient_character, from the healer's home village Roleplay channel. The patient must share that home village; each OC can be treated once per day, and the healer's first patient of the day counts as their /job work. Details on Mechanics → Jobs → Healing at the village practice.

/berryfarm tend follows the same village-channel rule: send it from the village's Roleplay channel and pick your OC — the channel decides which farm you tend (see Villages → Berry farming).

For what the four focus types mean in play, open Mechanics → Job Mechanics.

PokiBot mirrors the chat XP you earn in the server: peek at your bar, trade eligible levels for mon, or cheer on the leaderboard climbers.

Run /levels in Arceus Shrine (arceus-shrine) so rank checks and exchanges sit with the rest of the bot traffic.

• /levels rank — Your level, XP progress, leaderboard placement, and how many levels you can still trade for mon. Optional user lets you look up another Discord member (pick them from the member picker — it is not the OC list).
• /levels exchange — Pick Check status for a preview, or Exchange levels to turn eligible levels into mon at 1 level = 100 mon.
• /levels leaderboard — Top members by level. Optional limit between 5 and 25 names; if you skip it, you get 10.
• /levels characters — Top approved characters by level, then OC XP, with links to each public record. Optional limit between 5 and 25; if you skip it, you get 10.

While signed in, open Profile → Levels on the site for rank, leaderboard, character levels, and exchange alongside the bot commands above.

/rp start opens a new post in the RP scenes forum for you and your partners. PokiBot tags everyone, tracks whose turn it is, and keeps a running tally of each person's posts and words at the top of the post. You can also start a scene from Tracked RPs on the site: pick a title, village, your OC, and any partners, and PokiBot posts it in the forum the same way. Already writing in a post you opened yourself? /rp starttracking picks it up with the posts and words written so far.

On the site, Profile → Roleplay is your RP tracker: every active scene marked Your turn, Their turn, Pending, or Paused (your turn on top), open scenes you can join, and final counts from scenes that recently ended. You can also choose your turn DMs there.

/rp start — open a scene

• title and village — the scene name and where it takes place. The post is tagged with the village.
• character — your OC. You post first.
• partner_1 to partner_4 (optional) — tag each partner, then pick their OC in the matching partner_N_character. The rotation runs in that order: you, partner 1, partner 2, and so on.
• premise (optional) — a short setup shown at the top of the post.
• open (optional) — turn on to let anyone join with /rp join. Without it the scene is Private (the default): invite-only, great for 1:1s, and it grows only when the host adds people.

/rp starttracking — track a post you opened yourself

Already writing in a post you made by hand in the RP scenes forum? Run /rp starttracking inside it. The member who opened the post, anyone who has written in it, or mods can use it, and whoever runs it hosts.

• village, character, partners, premise, and open work the same as /rp start.
• title (optional) — the scene name. Leave it empty to keep the post's current name. The post is renamed with the village prefix and tagged like any other scene.
• PokiBot counts the in-character posts and words already in the post for everyone in the rotation, then picks up the turn order after whoever posted last. It pins a tracker message with the running tally and keeps it updated.
• If someone else has been writing in the post too, PokiBot lists them so you can add them with /rp join and member.
• Edits to posts written before tracking started show up in the final count when the scene ends with /rp end.

Turns and counts

• Your in-character post passes the turn to the next person, and PokiBot pings them. Normal posts and OC lines (Name:, see Character aliases) both count.
• OOC lines starting with ((, //, [[, or OOC keep your turn and stay out of the totals.
• Editing or deleting a post updates the tally, and replying to edit an OC line counts as the same post.
• If a turn sits for a few days, PokiBot sends the writer a gentle reminder in the post. Anyone who leaves the server comes out of the rotation automatically so the scene keeps moving.

Scene status

• Pending — a new scene waiting on its first in-character post.
• Ongoing — the scene is moving. The first in-character post sets this automatically.
• Paused — the scene is on hold until you're ready to continue. The post stays open, turn pings, reminders, and turn DMs pause, and it drops off the open scenes list. Any in-character post brings it back to Ongoing with the turn order where it left off.
• Ended — closed with /rp end; final counts stay on your profile.

The scene post's forum tags follow the status, so you can filter the forum by Pending or Paused.

Turn DMs

PokiBot can DM you a link to the scene when it's your turn. Choose with /rp dms (anywhere) or on Profile → Roleplay:

• Every turn (default) — a DM whenever the turn passes to you, plus the reminder DM if it sits. If you posted in that scene in the last few minutes, PokiBot leaves the DM out since you're already there.
• Reminders only — a DM only when your turn has been waiting a few days.
• Off — you still get pinged in the scene post.

Turn on DMs from server members in your Discord privacy settings so PokiBot can reach you.

Mention DMs

PokiBot can DM you when someone mentions your OC, so you can catch up on fast channels and jump into the conversation. Turn it on with /rp mentions (anywhere) or on Profile → Roleplay; it starts off.

• What counts — your OC's first or last name (or the full name) as a whole word, in a member's message or an OC line. Matching ignores capitals and accents.
• Where — the Roleplay channels and their threads, the RP scenes forum, │・headcanons, OC discussion, and the art channels.
• What you get — a quote of the message with a link straight to it.
• Pacing — channels you posted in during the last 10 minutes stay quiet since you're already there, and each channel sends at most one DM every 15 minutes. Direct @pings already notify you, so those come through Discord as usual.

Inside the scene post

• /rp join — join with one of your OCs; you post last in the rotation. The host and mods can fill in member to add someone else.
• /rp leave — step out of the rotation. If the host leaves, the next person in line hosts.
• /rp skip — pass the current turn along. The writer whose turn it is, the host, or mods can use it.
• /rp mark — the host or mods set the scene to Pending, Ongoing, or Paused. Pausing keeps the post open and holds the turn order until you pick it back up.
• /rp end — the host or mods close the scene. PokiBot recounts the whole post, shares the final posts and words for everyone, then locks and archives it. Run /rpexport first if you want a copy of the scene.

Run both commands inside the thread you want — any RP thread works, including threads under the village Roleplay channels. PokiBot reads the thread (up to its latest 10,000 messages) and credits every post to the member who wrote it, whether you posted as yourself or as an OC.

What counts

• Normal posts — messages you send as yourself, with text in them.
• OC lines — lines you post with Name: (see Character aliases). They show your OC's name and art in Discord, and PokiBot still counts them for you and for that OC.
• OOC lines — anything starting with ((, //, [[, or OOC is treated as out of character and stays out of the totals.
• Images — posts with only an image or sticker stay out of the totals, and exports keep them as links.
• Words — each run of letters or numbers is one word; don't and well-known each count as one. Links, mentions, and emoji are skipped.

/rpcount — posts and words per member

PokiBot posts the tally in the thread for everyone to see: the thread total, then each member's posts and words. If you wrote OC lines, a second line splits your total between normal posts and each OC.

Example

84 RP posts · 21,340 words from 4 members
1. @Ruu — 12 posts · 3,450 words
↳ Normal: 7 posts, 2,100 words · Akisu: 3 posts, 820 words · Fumi: 2 posts, 530 words

• sort (optional) — rank members by Posts (default) or by Words.

Now and then an older OC line cannot be tied to a member (for example when two members have OCs with the same name). Those are totaled on their own line at the bottom.

/rpexport — download the whole thread

PokiBot sends you a file of the thread, oldest post first, in a reply only you can see. Each post shows who wrote it and when (Eastern time); OC lines read like Akisu (posted by Ruu). Mentions and emoji turn into plain words, and images come through as links. The top of the file lists the thread name, date range, and total posts and words.

• format (optional) — Text (.txt) (default) or Word / Google Docs (.rtf), which opens straight in Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, or Pages.
• include_ooc (optional) — turn on to keep OOC lines in the file, marked (OOC).

Toss out a question for everyone's OCs — favorite food, worst fear, what they'd do with a free day — and answer in character. Every question and answer lives in one shared Question of the Day thread under │・headcanons, and each answer is saved to that OC's character page so you can look back on it later.

/qotd ask — post a question

Type your question in question. PokiBot numbers it (QOTD #1, #2, …), posts it in the thread with your name, pins it, and pings everyone with the QOTD role. Each member can ask one question every 12 hours, and PokiBot points you to the original if the same question was already asked.

/qotd answer — answer as your OC

• character — pick one of your approved OCs from the list.
• answer — your OC's answer, up to 1,500 characters.
• question (optional) — pick a question from the list, or leave it blank to answer the newest one.

PokiBot posts the answer in the thread with your OC's name and art, and adds it to the Question of the Day section of their character page. Each OC keeps one answer per question — run the command again for the same OC and question to update it. Several of your OCs can each answer the same question.

Answering on the site

The Question of the Day page lists every question with all of its answers. Choose Answer as your OC on any question, pick one of your approved OCs, and write their answer — PokiBot posts it in the thread just like /qotd answer and saves it to their character page. Use Edit on one of your answers to update it or remove it.

/qotd role — get pinged for new questions

Run it once to get the QOTD role and a ping whenever a new question goes up. Run it again to turn pings off.

/qotd delete — take something down

• Pick the question and one of your OCs in character to remove that OC's answer from the thread and their character page.
• Leave character blank to remove a question you asked, along with every answer to it.

Think your OC can outdrink Hizashi? Challenge any OC to a drinking contest and see who is the last one standing. PokiBot rolls the dice, keeps score, and saves every OC's wins, losses, and head-to-head results.

Contests happen in the 🍺 | Drinking Contest thread in #headcanons — run every /drink command there.

/drink challenge — start a contest

• Pick your character, tag the opponent, and pick their opponent_character. Tag yourself to pit two of your own OCs against each other.
• Your opponent gets Accept and Decline buttons. Challenges stay open for 15 minutes.
• Each round, both drinkers press Drink! to roll a d20. The contest card shows everyone's strikes and rolls as they land.
• The first OC to reach 5 strikes passes out and loses — it's all in good fun. If both reach 5 in the same round, the higher roll that round stays standing.
• Tap out concedes the contest — your opponent takes the win.

Dice results

• 💀 1–5 · Critical Failure — +2 strikes
• 🍺 6–10 · Failure — +1 strike
• 😵 11–15 · Survive — no strikes
• 💪 16–19 · Success — no strikes
• ✨ Natural 20 · Critical Success — no strikes, and +2 to your next roll

Advantage and Disadvantage

PokiBot sets each drinker's roll when the contest starts. Advantage rolls 2d20 and keeps the higher; Disadvantage rolls 2d20 and keeps the lower.

• Poison typing — OCs that resist or are immune to Poison roll with Advantage; OCs weak to Poison roll with Disadvantage.
• Tolerance — /drink tolerance marks your OC as a Heavyweight (Advantage), Average, or Lightweight (Disadvantage) drinker.
• One Advantage is the most a drinker gets, however many apply. Advantage and Disadvantage together cancel out to a normal 1d20.

Records

• /drink stats — your OCs' records. Add a character to see their win rate and head-to-head results against every OC they have faced, or tag a member to look up theirs.
• /drink leaderboard — every OC who has drunk in a contest, ranked by wins, with their losses and win rate. Add page to see further down the board.

Roleplay your OC getting progressively tipsy, making questionable decisions, or dramatically passing out — it's all for fun!

No slash command needed: type a regular channel message (not the slash menu). PokiBot listens for the little ? / ?: patterns and answers with a tidy embed of links into the Pokimono site. Arceus Shrine (arceus-shrine) is a good default if you want pocket links next to your other bot commands. Two shapes work the same way:

• ?: then a space and a topic word — for example ?: lore, ?: moves, or ?: shops.
• ? glued to the topic word — for example ?moves, ?lore, ?shiny, or ?help.

Send ?: help or ?help whenever you want the full topic list PokiBot recognizes in Discord.

To show off an OC, type ! glued to their name — for example !hizashi. PokiBot replies with their portrait, species, level, village, job, and who plays them, plus a button to their character page. First names, last names, full names, and Pokimono IDs (like !C00012) all work.

Do not DM the personal accounts of mods. For any private matters, slide into a direct message with PokiBot the same way you would message a friend. You do not need to join a server channel first — DMs work from Discord's home screen. Your first note opens a private ticket for the mods. Keep replying in that same DM so follow-ups and answers stay threaded together — that is how PokiBot keeps your mod conversation tidy.

If you are happy asking in public instead, use Suggestions & feedback on the site (anonymous post to the questions channel). When to use DMs versus the public form, and how the mod queue works, is spelled out under Follow moderator instructions on the community rules page.