Editorial Policy

Our Mission

simbozz.gg publishes deck guides, tier lists, news and competitive resources for the games we cover — currently Pokémon TCG Pocket, Pokémon TCG Live, Pokémon Champions and NARUTO: Ninja Cards. Our goal is to give competitive and casual players accurate, current and clearly-sourced information so they can make better deckbuilding, team-building and ladder-climbing decisions.

Our Two Content Classes

simbozz.gg publishes two clearly different kinds of content, and we think readers should always know which one they are looking at.

1. Editorial content

Guides, strategy articles, news, editorial deck analysis and other original commentary are written and reviewed editorially by Simbozz. Where an article is written by someone else, that person is identified on the page. This content is created from playtesting, tournament watching, ladder experience and discussion with experienced players. We do not publish scraped articles or low-effort AI summaries as editorial content.

We aim for guides that explain not just what cards to play, but why — including mulligan priorities, key matchups, common mistakes, replacement cards and decision points across the game.

2. Data-driven competitive content

simbozz.gg also operates automated, data-driven features that process public competitive and tournament information. These power our tier lists, archetype statistics, usage and inclusion rates, tournament results and top-cut listings, competitive deck data, and statistical tools such as deck 2D codes and sampled tournament decklists.

These pages are built by our own systems rather than written article by article, and they may update automatically whenever new tournament data is synced. simbozz.gg is not simply republishing a third-party feed: we add our own aggregation, ranking methodology, quality thresholds, presentation and — where useful — written context on top of the underlying datasets. Our data sources are credited on the pages that use them, and how the numbers are calculated is documented on our Methodology page.

Some older, automatically built deck pages remain available in our deck library for reference. They are labelled as generated and are gradually being replaced by our current data-driven competitive pages.

Accuracy and Sourcing

We verify card and game information against official releases for each game and the public datasets we credit on our card pages. Tournament results and meta callouts cite the event or creator they came from when relevant. Strategy claims (matchup ratings, line choices) are based on actual play and review, not speculation.

When we are uncertain about a card interaction, set release window or tournament outcome, we say so explicitly rather than guess. Translations are reviewed for accuracy before publishing.

Updates

Every game we cover shifts with set releases, balance changes and major tournaments. We review deck guides, the tier list and beginner resources continuously, with full re-rates on major set drops and balance patches. Every article shows both a "Published" date and a "Last Updated" date so readers can see how current the information is.

Author Process

Editorial articles are written by Simbozz. If an article is written by anyone else, that author is credited on the page and linked to a public author page describing their background. Data-driven pages are produced by our own systems and are attributed to simbozz.gg rather than to an individual author.

Drafts are reviewed before publishing for technical accuracy (card interactions, deck legality, math), structural clarity (mulligan guidance, matchup advice, decision trees) and editorial quality (grammar, formatting, internal linking).

Corrections

If we publish something incorrect, we fix it as soon as we can confirm the correction and bump the "Last Updated" date. Significant corrections are noted in the article. See our Corrections Policy for details, or report an issue at simbozz@outlook.de.

Independence

simbozz.gg is independent and not affiliated with The Pokémon Company, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK, Nintendo, DeNA or the rights holders of NARUTO: Ninja Cards. Rankings, recommendations and opinions reflect the editorial team's competitive judgment and are not influenced by sponsorships, affiliates or partnerships.

Methodology

For details on how decks are ranked, how the tier list is built and how meta analyses are conducted, see our Methodology page.