We Ran the Largest AI Pokemon Tournament Ever. Now It’s an Open Benchmark.

We Ran the Largest AI Pokemon Tournament Ever. Now It's an Open Benchmark.

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We built a standardized Pokemon benchmark and ran a NeurIPS 2025 competition to validate it. RL specialists easily beat LLM generalists in battling, but hybrid methods (LLM planning + RL execution) won speedrunning. The LLM battling arena ranking is different from standard benchmark leaderboards, and harness design matters as much as model choice. See our paper for full details.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15563
Benchmark: https://pokeagentchallenge.com

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