Just a few of my musings:
Empoleon: Fell three places. lots of teams in the RMT Forum recently have been Empoleon based teams, it looks like he might be running out of steam there.
Latias: If we lose Latias, I'm gonna have 1 hell of a lot of trouble making a team. Latias counters so many threats with minimal predicition, but I have never thought "Oh damn, Latias, now I loose" I can always handle her in any team I make.
Salamence: Wow, Salamence falling. He was always at the top ever since I started competitive, so this is a shock.
Registeel: Dammit people, Registeel needs to be used more. Registeel for OU!
Porygon2: Porygon-Z is essentially John and Edward, and Porygon2 is everyone else. It's an absolute travesty.
Crobat: 11th in lead use? Damn, it's coming back to OU.
Also, some figures from everyone's favourite Dragon:
Code:
| Latias | Item | Leftovers | 33.3 |
| Latias | Item | Choice Scarf | 28.1 |
| Latias | Item | Life Orb | 23.8 |
| Latias | Item | Choice Specs | 13.5 |
| Latias | Item | Light Clay | 1.3 |
So, Bulky sets are still the most common, with Choice Scarf just falling behind. Daul Screening is still exsistant though.
Code:
| Latias | Nature | Timid | 78.2 |
| Latias | Nature | Modest | 18.4 |
| Latias | Nature | Other (2) | < 2.0 |
Outspeeding Infernape seems to still be the main priority.
Code:
| Latias | HP EV | None | 72.0 |
| Latias | HP EV | Max | 9.3 |
| Latias | HP EV | Other (5) | < 8.7 |
| Latias | Attack EV | None | 100.0 |
| Latias | Defense EV | None | 94.7 |
| Latias | Defense EV | Other (3) | < 2.2 |
| Latias | SpAttack EV | Max | 74.6 |
| Latias | SpAttack EV | None | 13.7 |
| Latias | SpAttack EV | Other (3) | < 8.4 |
| Latias | SpDefense EV | None | 96.0 |
| Latias | SpDefense EV | Other (3) | < 1.5 |
| Latias | Speed EV | Max | 88.5 |
| Latias | Speed EV | Other (4) | < 4.8 |
Ok, what Latias set uses
no HP EVs. Even Choice Scarf has the ususal 4 EVs. Attack is as it should be. Defence is a bizzare one. 13.7 percent of people obviously don't want to atually attack with Laitas, while it would appaer others don't want to defend at all.
Code:
| Latias | Move | Surf | 67.4 |
| Latias | Move | Draco Meteor | 53.7 |
| Latias | Move | Dragon Pulse | 50.8 |
| Latias | Move | Thunderbolt | 50.5 |
| Latias | Move | Recover | 44.8 |
| Latias | Move | Trick | 35.5 |
| Latias | Move | Calm Mind | 30.2 |
| Latias | Move | HP-Fire | 15.0 |
| Latias | Move | Grass Knot | 6.5 |
| Latias | Move | Roar | 6.2 |
| Latias | Move | Reflect | 6.0 |
| Latias | Move | Other (12) | < 3.6 |
Draco Metoer does more than Surf to Infernape, but still. HP Fire is on the rise, what with the rise of Scizor. I suspect Thunderbolt will rise even more, considering all those Gyarados running around. Apparently, Light Clay Latias doesn't even use Daul Screens.