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> play pokemon against human opponents on a simulator like pokemon showdown

That's precisely the pet project I'd take on if/when I bother to take the time making some deep learning agent. There's a bot that plays one of the ladders already but it's just a decision tree and the best players know how to predict its moves. It's like ~1500 ELO in a ladder where the best players are 1800+. Still not bad, to be fair; it would probably beat me.

The bot has a pre-selected team, which I believe always starts with the same mon. I'd be more interested in an agent that fully played the game, start-to-finish, including making a team based on play data and selecting a starter based on the current opponent's team.