Looking at the stats, and see the uu percents I have to say I feel like it doesn't accurately show the usuage of the suspects due to them not being allowed for the entire month... At any rate, its always fun to look at the stats... much appreciated.
This is a further barometer of the Ubers metagame becoming more stall-oriented. Because of Forretress running wild, Garchomp, who is almost always scarfed in Ubers, can't abuse Outrage and Dragon Claw to revenge kill dudes because it gives free turns to Forry. Garchomp uses rises when the metagame becomes more offensive oriented, because then Garchomp's great speed becomes more useful. When the game waxes towards stall, Garchomp suffers in favor of Palkia and Dialga, who have greater mixed capabilities.| 16 | Garchomp | 3412 | 13.32 |
Ninjask as a lead in Ubers. Come on, my cicada, get into the top 10! Ninjask should really be a top ten lead because of his favorable matchups against many leads.| 14 | Ninjask | 396 | 1.55 |
I second this, although it seems a bit pointless for ubers (but still a valid suggestion). Well, I quickly combined suspect usage, and Rotom-A was used 6666 times (lol). This puts it between Manaphy (#5) and Metagross (#6) so its quite common.How about a total for "Rotom-A" in Uber/Suspect usage, as well as in lead stats?
Woot, looks like some guys are doing their damnedest to make sure the 'Metang@' meme never dies.| Metang | Usage | 62 | 0.0 |
| Metang | Item | Other (5) | < 4.8 |
What in tarnation?| Jumpluff | Attack EV | Max | 5.6 |
Still hanging on to SpecsMence?| Salamence | Move | Hydro Pump | 8.2 |
48 | Crobat | 26378 | 3.33
I do think Salamence is far more versatile, but Latias handles stall more easily than Salamence(unless there is something like Perish Song Celebi/Mismagius or a Hazer). Latias has Calm Mind + Substitute/Refresh to beat stall, as well as Trick(Scarf or Specs hurts stall a lot), while Salamence must rely on Outrage. Outrage is pretty bait-able and the fact that it is weak to Stealth Rock and is hit by SS makes it a poor stall breaker. An easy way to force Salamence to Outrage on a stall team is sending in something like Rotom-A, who doesn't care about Fire Blast, and isn't hit by EQ. Stall teams can then exploit these turns to set up entry hazards with Forretress or Skarmory.im actually surprised to see latias overtake salamence, sure latias is great and beats mence 1v1 but mence is overall more useful. latias is great at revenge killing whereas mence cannot, but salamence can use his mixed attacking capabilities really well. latias does not have as much in terms of setup, sure it has CM but unless it carries HPfire on a CM version its gonna lose to scizor anyways (or get haxed), and the only way it beats blissey is trickscarf, in which case it is hardly a sweeper. mence on the other hand breaks stall singlehandedly =/ and DDmence is still really nice even with scizor
| Garchomp | Move | Swords Dance | 55.2 |
| Garchomp | 3. Tyranitar | 7718 | 36.66 |
I am aware of that, but what i meant was that his current use in OU (and not his former Uber status) will generate more discussion.Dude people have been discussing Latias's "uberness" for a while, hence why it's a suspect now. I mean shit, it used to be uber not too long ago