The complete Pokémon draft league platform

The easiest way to run a Pokémon draft league.

Paste your tier list, invite your coaches, and draft live tonight. Indigo Draft keeps rosters, trades, schedules, standings, and playoffs accurate all season | no spreadsheets, no bookkeeping, no arguments.

  • Free to run a full league
  • No credit card required
  • Rotom-Draft bot included

New to the format? Read what a Pokémon draft league is or the commissioner's guide to running one.

  • Effortless to run

    Set the rules once. The season runs itself.

  • Tier lists, your way

    Paste any tier list and draft from it in minutes.

  • Play for something

    Pennants, medals, and a ladder that remembers.

  • Lives in Discord

    Draft and manage right from your server.

From empty league to championship in three steps

No spreadsheets, no manual bookkeeping. Set the rules once and the platform runs the season alongside you.

  1. Set up your league

    Pick your rules, paste your tier list, and invite coaches. Most leagues are draft-ready the same evening.

  2. Draft live together

    Open a real-time draft room with the clock, pick queues, and full commissioner controls | start, pause, skip, and override.

  3. Compete all season

    Schedules, standings, playoffs, and replay-powered stats update themselves. You play; the platform does the bookkeeping.

One platform for the whole season

From the first tier list to the championship bracket, every workflow your league needs is built in and kept consistent.

  • League setup, your way

    Create a league, invite coaches, assign commissioner and staff roles, and tune every rule | budgets, transaction limits, grace periods, and more.

  • Fully customizable tier lists

    Import any tier list by paste, CSV, TSV, or JSON. Build draftboards, watchlists, and reusable templates, then browse available picks live.

    Explore tier lists
  • Live multi-user drafts

    Run real-time draft rooms with commissioner controls | start, pause, skip, and override | plus make-up picks and reconnect recovery.

  • Authoritative rosters & trades

    Roster legality, budgets, and transaction counts are tracked for you. Add, drop, and propose Pokémon-only trades with a full ledger.

  • Schedules, standings & playoffs

    Auto-generated schedules, member scheduling, official results, configurable tiebreakers, and playoff brackets for 2–16 teams.

  • Achievements, stats & replays

    Showdown replays become per-Pokémon stats and leaderboards, and every season leaves permanent pennants and medals behind.

    See the achievements
Achievements

Play for something that outlasts the season

Win a championship and the pennant hangs in your trophy room forever. Sweep a week and the medal says so. Every season adds to a career record | pennants, medals, and a cross-league Elo ladder that remembers every match you have ever played.

See what you can earn
  • ChampionIndigo Cup 2026Lumiose Luxrays · Rowan
  • Perfect SeasonSinnoh Slate LeagueSnowpoint Froslass · Wren
  • Living Dex151 species draftedIris
Discord automation

Rotom-DraftYour league runs where your community already lives

Rotom-Draft, the Indigo Draft Discord bot, is more than notifications. Any league can add it free for automatic updates and Pokémon lookups; with Personal Premium, coaches and commissioners can drive the draft, manage rosters, schedule matches, and report results without leaving Discord | and the platform stays the single source of truth the whole time.

  • /draft pick
  • /roster
  • /standings
  • /schedule
  • /replay
  • Free for every league: add the bot and auto-post draft picks, add/drop updates, weekly matchups, schedules, live links, and results to the channels you choose.
  • Free for everyone: look up Pokémon stats and learnsets right in chat.
  • Personal Premium: draft straight from Discord | submit picks, see who is on the clock, pause, skip, and check the draft order.
  • Personal Premium: manage rosters in chat with add, drop, budget, and team commands, and look up standings and coach records.
  • Personal Premium: drop live Showdown room links, submit replays, and schedule matches without leaving Discord.

Free to run. Premium to go further.

Every essential league workflow is free. Premium adds the team builders, draft-queue automation, stats dashboards, and Discord coach commands for players who want an edge.

Free

$0 forever

Everything you need to run a complete league.

  • League creation, settings, and role management
  • Live drafting with full commissioner controls
  • Authoritative rosters, transactions, and trades
  • Schedules, standings, playoffs, and archives
  • Replay ingestion and league results
  • Matchup prep and planning & lab "what-if" workspaces
  • Add the Rotom-Draft Discord bot for automatic updates and Pokémon lookups
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Premium

Advanced automation & analysis

Everything in Free, plus tools that scale with competitive play.

  • Smart Queue & decision-tree queue builder automation
  • League and global teambuilder workspaces
  • Global stats and personal stats dashboards
  • Drive the draft from Discord | picks, add/drop, budget, and lookups in chat
Start free, upgrade anytime

Questions, answered

Is Indigo Draft really free?

Yes. League setup, live drafts, rosters, trades, schedules, standings, playoffs, replays, and matchup prep are all free. Premium adds the team builders, draft-queue automation, the stats dashboards, and Discord coach commands for players who want an edge.

How do I run a Pokémon draft league without spreadsheets?

Create a league on Indigo Draft, paste your tier list, and invite your coaches. The platform runs the live draft, enforces budgets and roster legality, generates the schedule, and keeps standings and playoffs up to date automatically.

Do I need Discord to use it?

No. Discord is optional. Any league can add the bot free for automatic updates and Pokémon lookups, and with Personal Premium coaches can draft and manage right from your server | but every feature works on the web on its own.

Where do the stats come from?

Import Pokémon Showdown replays and the platform builds per-Pokémon stats and leaderboards for your league automatically.

How many teams can a league have?

Schedules, standings, and configurable tiebreakers scale with your league, and playoff brackets support 2 to 16 teams.

Can I customize the rules?

Yes. Budgets, transaction limits, grace periods, tier lists, roles, and more are all configurable per league.

Ready to draft?

Create your Indigo Draft account and have your league draft-ready tonight.