PokéSurvivor Leaderboard: How Rankings Work

How the PokéSurvivor leaderboard is split

The ranking screen has two halves. Left is damage dealt to Arceus, right is time survived. Both load together. That split arrived with the 23 Oct patch, and every board was wiped on the same day.

Inside each half you filter by:

• Solo or Group. Co-op runs have their own boards (from the game's leaderboard screen).
• Period. Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly and All-time (18 Oct lists all five).
• All players or Friends only (the Friends rules are in the checklist further down).
• Per-Pokémon. A board for each partner.

Top 50 and "#1000+"

Friends only mostly shows friends inside the top 50; the exceptions are in the checklist below. On the All-time board, anyone below rank 1,000 sees "#1000+" instead of an exact number (18 Oct).

Arceus damage board

Reach minute 30 and Arceus drags you into the Judgment (13 Oct). Whatever you hit it for there goes on this board. It can't die, and it only takes a small, shrinking fraction of each hit (23 Oct). So big numbers take long fights.

• Halloween. From 30 Oct to 2 Nov, Spain time, a big witch Gengar replaces Arceus at minute 30, and its damage goes on the same ranking (26 Oct; the extra day was added on 28 Oct).
• Clamped before upload. The game clamps Arceus (or Gengar) damage before sending it (26 Oct).
• All-time keeps your best damage, even if that run didn't beat your best time (27 Oct).
• Friends only on All-time also lists friends outside the top 50 (27 Oct).

Want a bigger number? Start with how to deal more damage to Arceus, then compare partners' attack and HP in PokéSurvivor Pokémon stats.

How do top runs post such huge damage numbers?

Figures like that come from player posts we haven't been able to check, so we won't repeat any. What we can point you to: the fight itself on the Judgment of Arceus page and the moves and partners that hold up there on the tier list.

Time survived board

The right half ranks how long you lasted. There is no 45-minute limit in the ranking anymore (23 Oct), and no later patch adds a new one.

You may still see a 35-minute figure quoted around. That one is old. On 13 Oct records over 35 minutes were deleted, because the Judgment of Arceus had just made them impossible. It belongs in the history table at the bottom, not in today's rules.

Which runs count

• Per-Pokémon boards: 10 minutes or longer (25 Oct). It was 5 minutes from 20 Oct.
• Every other board: 2 minutes or longer (confirmed as unchanged on 20 Oct and 25 Oct).
• Under 1 minute never counted after 12 Oct.
• Weekly and monthly boards only took runs that reached the Judgment of Arceus from 14 Oct.
• Guests: leaderboards need a cloud account (name and password or Google), so guest runs don't enter (from the game's leaderboard screen). See co-op.

Ranking seals: why a run needs one

Since 26 Oct each run asks ice.pokesurvivor.com for a seal. No seal, no leaderboard entry. It's an anti-cheat step, and it sits on top of the server check that every record was really played (13 Oct).

The same patch put the public dev.html build into local-only mode online, so console edits there can't change coins. More in how PokéSurvivor's anti-cheat works.

Co-op: every player gets their own seal

In co-op each player has their own seal (26 Oct).

Why isn't my run on the leaderboard?

Go down this list in order.

1. Too short. Under 10 minutes won't reach a per-Pokémon board, under 2 minutes won't reach any board.
2. Not signed in. Leaderboards need a cloud account; guests play solo off the boards.
3. It played on the night of 26 Oct. Many runs went missing from the boards then while still showing on profiles. Since 27 Oct the game retries the seal more and those runs enter as usual. A run that can't enter now tells you so.
4. It wasn't your best. The board keeps your record. A worse run changes nothing.
5. You're on Friends only. On daily, weekly and monthly boards that view only shows friends who are in the top 50 (25 Oct). On the All-time damage board it also shows friends outside it (27 Oct).
6. You're checking someone's profile. Records and medals reach other players at most every 6 hours (25 Oct). You see your own right away.
7. It was one of the bugs fixed on 25 Oct: runs with more than 12 defeats per second failed to upload, the weekly, monthly and all-time boards fell out of sync, and all-time bests got lost or replaced wrongly.
8. It was removed. On 12 Oct broken records from the minute 84 bug and a few impossible ones were cleared. Since 13 Oct players can also flag rows.

Reporting a suspicious record

Each row has a little flag. Tap it to report the record (13 Oct). The server also checks on its own that every record was really played, as of the same patch.

Your records and profile

Your public profile shows your records and medals to others with up to a 6-hour delay (25 Oct). If you played a shiny, the board shows the shiny form (18 Oct).

Leaderboard reset history

Related guides

• Judgment of Arceus
• Co-op guide
• Anti-cheat and the 30 Oct save change
• Patch notes
• Tier list
• FAQ