Could be a sign of centralization. The metagame isn't changing because it can't. I mean, even ordinarily we should see some responsive changes, such as Skarmory numbers falling because Magnezone numbers are rising.
This is why I don't think the tiers should be adjusted solely on usage. Cresselia is clearly not UU.Just to look at recent events ou has lost:
allakazam
rhyperitor
cressellia
porygon-z
(I cannot spell pokemon names)
and gained:
roserade
So ou is getting smaller.
And if it proves to be too defensive or supportive in UU it will be tested and banned and sent to BL or OU. :/This is why I don't think the tiers should be adjusted solely on usage. Cresselia is clearly not UU.
Bug good work Doug getting all that information.
How do you know? people said the same things about dugtrio, rhyperior, and alakazam, and they were proven wrong every time.This is why I don't think the tiers should be adjusted solely on usage. Cresselia is clearly not UU.
It does have Baton Pass, though, meaning you can BP out on the Blissey switchin and nail it with a Pursuit from TTar or Scizor or someone.I've been using an expert belt jolteon a lot, I think it's a really effective poke. It will probably never be a top tier poke though because well.. it's a special attacker without trick/explosion. Still a great gyrados/rotom counter.
The increased stagnation/centralization of OU should help too.Tyranitar, Starmie, and Jolteon are the most notable risers, and Celebi, Gliscor, and Hippowdon the biggest losers. Overall, most of the Pokemon that increased in percentage were orientated around sweeping or providing support to sweepers, and overall, those that decreased in percentage were orientated about stalling or providing team support to stall, which I think denotes a further move away from stall and towards offense, especially teams using large amounts of mixed sweepers. However, the overall change wasn't particularly high, indicating we may be nearing the peak of the move towards offense, and soon the wave will break and the metagame will begin to move towards more stall.
It's been on a steady decline for the past year. Still waiting for people to exploit this trend tbh.Blissey's falling even more, huh.
Ludicolo is coming close to the cutoff for becoming OU. If Manaphy goes down to OU, that will be all it takes to push it over the edge because Manaphy is often used with Rain Dance and almost every Rain team includes a Ludicolo.| 53 | Ludicolo | 20023 | 2.44 |
| 34 | Ludicolo | 490 | 4.95 |
| 42 | Kabutops | 228 | 2.30 |
The usages of Rain Pokemon in Suspect are very high compared to OU. This Rain-filled metagame could be the future in the likely event of Manaphy getting moved down.| 52 | Qwilfish | 119 | 1.20 |
Now THAT is the attitude to have. No whining and bitching about how "broken" it is, just anticipating the new strategies and metagame!Porygon-Z UU is pretty much chaos, this'll be SO MUCH FUN ;D
Mesprit actually gained 0.11% and 19 positions since November. And yes, it's a greatly underrated Pokemon especially considering Porygon2 gets so much attention. Most Ground-types can't do squat to it, it can threaten the otherwise annoying Machamp and Breloom, and it can send Gyarados and with the right EV spread DDMence into oblivion.Why is Mesprit falling? So much better then Uxie if you ask me. Stop using it for bulky purposes!!!! Seriously CB and SubCM are soooo much better.
because I used to play back in D/P when Cresselia was a fucking force to be reckoned with even in OU. Those others you mentioned never were too good. Alakazam and rhyperior may seem powerful, but alakazam is frail as fuck, and rhyperior is too slow. Rock polish helps it's speed but even with increased speed it's not very hard to handle. Cresselia on the other hand, used to be very very good before Scizor. CM versions were probably the deadliest to teams but the standard wall ones were also hard to deal with. It has moonlight, which in OU is not much of a recoery move since the sand makes it gain less HP, but in UU people will be forced to use snover or hipopotas to limit it's recovery.How do you know? people said the same things about dugtrio, rhyperior, and alakazam, and they were proven wrong every time.
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Cresselia in uu is going to be insane....GJ Doug
Oh, and Cress in UU is just absurd, IMO. Look at its gargantuan stats. It'll be walling much of UU (ecpet maybe subCMkou, but CMCress beats that...)
Yeah, the anti-sweeper set can check three huge threats on its own. Mespirit is HIGHLY underappreciated.Mesprit actually gained 0.11% and 19 positions since November. And yes, it's a greatly underrated Pokemon especially considering Porygon2 gets so much attention. Most Ground-types can't do squat to it, it can threaten the otherwise annoying Machamp and Breloom, and it can send Gyarados and with the right EV spread DDMence into oblivion.
I saw some people earlier saying that the removal of Gallade makes stall more viable; maybe we'll see a rise in stall teams with Cresselia as a tank.UU has been shaken up a bit, but I realy don't see how well Cresselia and Posrygon-Z will fit into the metagame; priorty will most likely take down P-Z and Cresselia's bulk makes her a very strage addition to the UU metagame.
My thoughts exactly. It seems contradictory to have all this suspect testing and not even debate whether PZ and Cress are UU or not and the impact they may potentially have. It certainly looks like we will never have a balanced UU metagame at this rate.This is why I don't think the tiers should be adjusted solely on usage. Cresselia is clearly not UU.