01
Draft a starting five
Every pick is a position. Cover all five and the game hands you a lineup bonus; leave a hole and someone plays out of position all night.
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Pokéjam: Pokémon Basketball Game, Free Online
Pokéjam is a fan-made basketball game: draft five Pokémon, shoot with a timing meter, and use type matchups as contact physics. This site is the manual — the ratings, the draft maths and every team you will face.
No download, no account. The frame loads the game from pokejam.xyz.
- Pokémon in the roster
- 291
- Positions, one starter each
- 5
- Gym and Elite teams
- 9
- Weeks in a season
- 9
How a Pokéjam game runs
02
Play the possession
Hold shoot, release on green. Turbo to the rim for a dunk, shove to knock a ball loose, and cash the special bar for a signature move.
03
Win the season
In Franchise, nine weeks decide the seed. Starters tire, the bench matters, and the four best records make the playoffs.
Three numbers that decide a draft
The roster is not balanced by position, and the overall rating is not the same formula everywhere. Both facts change who you should take first.
42%
of centres rate 85 or better
Only 36 of the 291 Pokémon are centres, and just 6% of the far deeper shooting-guard pool reaches 85. The scarce position is also the strongest.
Position depth →25%
of a centre's overall is rebounding
Blocking is another 25%, finishing 20%. A centre's rating is built from different weights than a guard's, so the two numbers do not compare.
OVR explained →+62
rating from one franchise level
Magikarp starts at 25 and becomes Gyarados at 87 on the way to franchise level 3. No other evolution in the game comes close.
Evolution guide →Pick a way in
One match
Quick Play
Pick a gym leader, draft five, tip off. Ten minutes end to end, and the fastest way to learn the shot meter.
A season
Franchise
Draft ten, manage stamina and trades, earn badges, then level up and evolve across nine weeks and the playoffs.
Head to head
Online
Quick matchmaking or a room code. Type matchups decide shoves, so the draft is not the only place to win a game.
Eighteen types, eighteen signature moves
144 of 291 Pokémon carry a second type, which is why shoves are rarely a clean win. Water is the most common type in the game and Ghost the rarest — 5 players, all of them awkward to draft around.
Water53Flying42Poison38Normal38Ground31Psychic30Grass27Fire26Bug23Electric21Rock20Fairy17Fighting17Steel13Ice12Dragon12Dark10Ghost5
See the full type chart and what each type does when a shove lands.
Good to know
Free, no account
The game runs in the browser and asks for nothing but a team name.
Saves live in the game
Franchise progress is stored by pokejam.xyz, not by this site.
Mouse or thumb
Keyboard and gamepad on desktop, on-screen stick and buttons on a phone.
Runs in a frame
If the frame misbehaves, open the game in its own tab — it needs real storage for online play.
Start with the part you need
- ControlsShot meter timing, dunks, alley-oops, shoves and the special move bar.
- DraftThe case for position scarcity, the lineup bonus and three worked lineups.
- RosterAll 291 Pokémon with ratings, archetypes and position pages.
- Gym leadersNine teams from Brock to the Elite Four, and what beats each of them.
- Tier listS to D for every position, built from the ratings rather than memory.
- DifficultyWhat Rookie, Pro, All-Star and Legend actually change under the hood.
Pokéjam is a fan project. This guide is independent of it: the numbers come from the player data the game ships with, the judgements are ours, and the site never hosts the game itself.