Serebii.net

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Serebii.net
"Where Legends Come To Life"
Banner in July 2025
Language	English
Status	Active
Run	1999 - Present
Date opened	October 21, 1999
Creator	Joe Merrick
Current owner	{{{owner}}}
Forum	SPP forums
Mascot	Celebi
Website	Main page

Serebii.net, also known asSPP (Serebii's Pokémon Page), is a fan site created bySerebii in the fall of 1999, when manyPokémon sites were quickly starting to appear. The site first gained popularity as a GeoCities site, where it was also a member of theArticuno Island network. The site also had a close affiliation with the short livedPokémon Official Magazine inthe United Kingdom.

It is a well known source foranimation andgames information. The website is updated on an almost daily basis. A popular feature of the site is the "Pokéarth", a complete listing of all in-gameTrainers and catchable Pokémon in every city and route.

Serebii.net's name is taken from the romanized Japanese name forCelebi. The Pokémon also serves as the site's mascot.

History

The original SPP was established in October 1999 as a GeoCities site, as a result of lunchtime website design sessions between Serebii and a friend. While initially not as prominent as sites likeThe Pokémasters,UPN, and the originalBulbagarden, Serebii soon began to gain popularity, and, by 2002, after becoming Serebii.net, became one of the most visible Pokémon fansites. It eventually eclipsed the remaining older fansites in terms of popularity and activity.

Originally, Serebii.net was hosted for free on a large variety of servers as it grew. However, once Serebii's popularity exploded, these servers proved inadequate, resulting in frequent downtime. As a result, in 2003, Ledian_X introduced Craig Maloof to Serebii, who made an offer to pay for Serebii's server costs. Since that time, Serebii.net has been hosted on Craig's own private servers, with the hosting bills apparently being paid for via the single Google AdWords banner on every page of the site and forums.

In early 2006, after the site had made enough excess to pay Craig back for the time he personally funded the servers, it was decided to move the site onto servers under the sole control of Serebii, with assistance from ricocheting, a person who had helped Craig run his servers in the past.

Upon the release ofPokémon Black and White in September 2010, Serebii was among a few websites to receive a cease and desist order from Nintendo for posting early images of the games.

In 2019, Serebii made the first major layout change to the website in over a decade, adapting the old layout to form to mobile devices.^[1]

Staff

Serebii - Head of Serebii.net.
Coronis - Helps with news, updates on new games and the Manga sections, and created various fansprites for thePokémon Adventures sections.
Alfonso - Has written many episode guides.
Miror - Writes the Pokémon of the Week entries.
Dragonair - Has written various guides on game mechanics and other related items.
Skittyonwailord - Scans cards for the cardex.