pkmn.ai covers all published mons bots and they all suggest one thing: search is needed more than anything else.
search requires many creations, transitions, and evaluation of a battle. pokemon-showdown has been the best hope for most devs, but its still orders of magnitude slower than libpkmn.
search in an imperfect information game like OU singles is also prohibitively expensive in its own right. It is an important motivator for search in perfect information battles.
Certainly mastery of the former requires mastery of the latter. And battles are always converging to a state of perfect information as sets are revealed during play.
that is the purpose of this repo. To combine the libpkmn simulator and pinyon search library