Ludicolo, eh, we have Birds everywhere.
- Miltank up to RU from NU
- Linoone up to RU from NU
- Magmortar up to RU from NU
- Rhydon down to NU from RU
- Ludicolo down to NU from RU
- Crustle down to NU from RU
- Sawsbuck down to NU from RU
My alt was Malibu Stacy and Aristote. I never use my Nelson-X alt, check and you'll see i used a lot torkoal and a bit rattata while i was above 1337.
id,name,rating,displayed_rating,last_check_time,bonus_time,matches
91023,"malibu stacy",1276,[B]1248[/B],1330519813,-177113,146
82071,aristotle,860,[B]930[/B],1330519813,-1250344,23
It's one of those Pokemon that ticks all the boxes so is easy to fit onto a team. Does it actually do anything? Nope; but it's easier than trying to fit 2 separate Pokemon that lays SR and spins, or finding other ways to prevent enemy hazards, or making a team less SR weak. Claydol is a comfort Pokemon that assures us we have SR and Rapid Spin on our team but often fails to even perform those jobs properly so it's a false assurance. I'm not surprised few teams have got to the top with Claydol in their team because often it is just begging to be set up on.Sizor: #1 OU, #1 1337 OU
Mesprit: #1 NU, #2 1337 NU
Roserade: #1 UU, #6 1337 UU
Claydol: #1 RU, #36 1337 RU
Ok, what makes people use Claydol so much. It's obviously not that amazing, and yet it has been number 1 in RU for four different months. Just why?
Jynx wasn't actually voted on and Linoone was used by Shnen and various other people. But otherwise what you said is pretty accurate.Magmortar: Good riddance. Although Jynx might need another vote if one of it's checks goes.
Militank: Don't care
Linoone: Did anyone actually use this in NU? #112 says nope.
That is EXACTLY correct. It only considers ratings taken at the snapshot of 5am on the first of every month.Lol.
It's not cuz i'm not at 1337 today that i wasn't during all february lol.
You mean, you only consider the 1337 stats for those who are above this number only when you screen shot it today ? that's not representative at all if you do that knowing that your rank varies a lot.
Edit 2: that's now been edited to say 3/1.1337 stats!
This data only takes into account teams whose user has a current rating--as of 2/1--of 1337 or higher. In tiers where there were not enough players with a rating that high, I lowered the cutoff as specified.
Bawse. People...realize the power of the Pwnchu!!!!| 70 | Pikachu | 486 | 2.662% | 384 | 2.509% |
If it really does hold up:If March usage is identical to February usage, here's how the tiers will change.
I want to make this clear: TIERS ARE NOT BEING UPDATED THIS MONTH!!!
- Deoxys-D up to OU from UU
- Hitmonlee up to UU from RU
- Gligar up to UU from RU
- Claydol up to UU from RU
- Honchkrow up to UU from RU
- Yanmega up to UU from BL2
- Scrafty down to UU from OU
- Miltank up to RU from NU
- Linoone up to RU from NU
- Magmortar up to RU from NU
- Rhydon down to NU from RU
- Ludicolo down to NU from RU
- Crustle down to NU from RU
- Sawsbuck down to NU from RU
no it's not. Kyogre still has more usage on the main stats by a fairly large margin...1 | Groudon | 704 | 50.684% | 646 | 58.906%
I seriously like this. Groudon is the new king of ubers!
Deoxys-D: Unsurprising conclusion if I ever heard one. Saves the trouble of wasting a Suspect Test on it, at any rate
- Deoxys-D up to OU from UU
- Hitmonlee up to UU from RU
- Gligar up to UU from RU
- Claydol up to UU from RU
- Honchkrow up to UU from RU
- Yanmega up to UU from BL2
- Scrafty down to UU from OU
- Miltank up to RU from NU
- Linoone up to RU from NU
- Magmortar up to RU from NU
- Rhydon down to NU from RU
- Ludicolo down to NU from RU
- Crustle down to NU from RU
- Sawsbuck down to NU from RU
Errr Pokemon going up tiers does nothing to affect the tiers they're going up to since they could have been used there before anyway. It'll only affect the tiers they're leaving, as they can no longer be used in those. Going down tiers also doesn't affect the tier they're leaving, since they can still be used there. It only affects the tier they're arriving it, since they couldn't be used there before.Deoxys-D: Unsurprising conclusion if I ever heard one. Saves the trouble of wasting a Suspect Test on it, at any rate
Hitmonlee: Unsurprising here, too. Again, saves the trouble of wasting a Suspect Test on him when there are equally powerful things running rampant in RU.
Gligar: ...what? Gligar hardly gives me any trouble at all on RU... what provokes its usage to go up so high?
Claydol: (M. Bison) OF COURSE! A Rapid Spinner that doesn't afraid of Toxic Spikes is asking to join UU.
Honchkrow: Honchkrow going up to UU is a foregone conclusion: if repeated Suspect Tests don't get Honchkrow up there, it will spread its wings and get into UU on its own. It's an extremely good mixed sweeper or a good Moxie physical sweeper whose unpredictability leads to "If you don't watch out for it, you will be swept by it near every time". In RU it's not difficult to hard counter it with Aggron unless it runs HP Ground or Superpower (the former being found in the MoxieKrow set, the latter being in the MixKrow set). However, without Aggron, how will UU fare against Krow?
Yanmega: Well, tier risings are So Zetta Slow, or otherwise I'd be asking why Yanmega isn't in OU yet. To be honest, Yanmega being able to trample through most of the UU metagame for a month or so is... actually promising for the metagame shifts.
Scrafty: ...this had better not drop to UU. I say this because it will wreck virtually everything in UU without so much as a care in the world. Another Poke that makes a good Stall team member in UU is largely egregious, due to the number of bulky Pokes already in the tier.
Scrafty essentially becomes Suspect the moment people use him and find him to be yet another thing among everything in UU that laughs at status and pisses in Sableye's CornFlakes (In essence, all Scrafty has to do is eat an orange. In this case, said orange is using Rest and Shed Skin as a combination). Everything in UU urinates in Sableye's CornFlakes.
Miltank: ...this going up to RU is unexpected. To be honest, Miltank is not going to impact the RU metagame much if at all.
Linoone: We've got a badass over here! If people can use it correctly, that is...
Magmortar: Another dull surprise. Too many Fire-types that are better are in the RU tier. If this thing makes it to RU, then virtually nothing changes.
Rhydon: No comment.
Ludicolo: ...more people have the chance of using a very good Rain Dish tank? You know what they say, the more the merrier!
Crustle: ...with Whimsicott and other Leads in RU being more popular, I'm sadly unsurprised. On the other hand, this calls for me using Crustle more later.
Sawsbuck: Same as Ludicolo, but with Chlorophyll as opposed to Rain Dish and "sweeper" as opposed to tank.
guilty, it sucks vs players who know what they're doing unfortunately but i'm 22-2 on PS's NU ladder with my scraggy team xD| 78 | Scraggy | 444 | 2.432% | 377 | 2.463% |
okay who else uses this shit in NU
Magmortar is great and can do all of those things, ever since RU was created. Maybe there is another reason it has gone up in usage, you must have played a high proportion of those 700 battles with Magmortar if the reason is solely you.Um, no.Scarf Magmortar is actually great in RU. Vital Spirit and Thunderbolt set it apart from any other Fire type. It is a great check to Lilligant and Jynx (yeah we're using that too), and limits Smeargle to either one turn of hazards or prevents it from Baton Passing Quiver Dance.I've used it a lot and am largely the reason why Magmortar has risen drastically in both regular and 1200 stats.
While I did exaggerate for the regular stats, I did contribute a lot to 1200 stats. Lilligant is a lot more prominent in the metagame now than it was before with Krookodile leaving last tier shift, and Durant just recently being banned. Magmortar has always been good, it's just that now it's finally getting used.Magmortar is great and can do all of those things, ever since RU was created. Maybe there is another reason it has gone up in usage, you must have played a high proportion of those 700 battles with Magmortar if the reason is solely you.