What on earth is wrong with unrated UU battles. This looks so wrong on so many levels.
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Smogon University PO Statistics — May 2011
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Well, let's say that there are 1000 teams comprising the statistics. If your assumption of 20% usage of each weather starter holds true, then 200 teams use Tyranitar, 200 teams use Hippowdon, 200 teams use Politoed, 200 teams use Ninetales and 200 teams use Abomasnow. Disregarding teams that use two or more weather starters on the same team, then YES, 100% of all teams you would face would have a weather starter. Which just shows that adding all those usage percentages to get 45.7% is a valid measure of the prevalence of weather in the current metagame, disregarding all the other factors outlined in my previous post.
Is the cutoff for UU 53 pokes, after crobat, or will the UU list be a little bigger than the OU list?
Any way thanks for the list. i keep hearing that each tiers has so many useable pokemon, that the tier groupings should be expanded a little, but keeping it this simple is good enough for me.
Any way thanks for the list. i keep hearing that each tiers has so many useable pokemon, that the tier groupings should be expanded a little, but keeping it this simple is good enough for me.
Aerodactyl is the last UU Pokemon. UU has 54 Pokemon this time around.
Very interesting UU stats and no real surprises.
Kyurem and Victini were no brainers, everyone has been screaming for them to get insta-bans from the start. Arcanine has always been a top contender but being able to heavily damage/take hits from the 3 most ridiculous Pokemon in UU is a bonus (Chansey/Kyurem/Victini).
Hitmontop and Donphan is no surprise as keeping hazards off the field is so insanely important in UU and they do it best.
Kyurem and Victini were no brainers, everyone has been screaming for them to get insta-bans from the start. Arcanine has always been a top contender but being able to heavily damage/take hits from the 3 most ridiculous Pokemon in UU is a bonus (Chansey/Kyurem/Victini).
Hitmontop and Donphan is no surprise as keeping hazards off the field is so insanely important in UU and they do it best.
Gonna hazard a guess and say thats Swift Swim sweeper Mantine making 14th, its actually a very effective counter to the Hail/Sun teams in UU.
@Red Alert, actually Gtm came to the same conclusion as us, that 20% individual weather starter usage ratings would mean 100% of team having a weather starter. It's just that he disbelieves what such an assumption could mean, as evidenced by his phrase "which can't possibly be true".
As outlined here, 70.4844% of all pokemon battles involve weather in some form.
Effectively there is a 7:3 ratio between battles with weather and battles without weather. The question here is whether this is a significant. Does this mean that weather is overcentralizing the metagame? I'm personally leaning for NO. I'd only say yes IF, say, 90% of the battles are weather-based.
As outlined here, 70.4844% of all pokemon battles involve weather in some form.
Effectively there is a 7:3 ratio between battles with weather and battles without weather. The question here is whether this is a significant. Does this mean that weather is overcentralizing the metagame? I'm personally leaning for NO. I'd only say yes IF, say, 90% of the battles are weather-based.
You need to work on your phrasing here. It's not really clear what you are saying. I can assure you that he didn't not come to the same conclusion as I did, as evidenced by his phrase "That wasn't my point."
You mean 10:3 ;)
Actually no, now people will be screaming to get Zapdos out of UU.
Curselax is good. But it's lost it's shine now in the meta. There's way too many hard hitters (even in UU). And thanks to the new sleep mechanics, if lax switches, it'll reset. The only slight hope is if he ever gets slack off...
^By which point he'll prolly STILL need Rest seeing as Burn would still cripple him.
That's why I implyed 'Slight' in my response. Either way, CurseLax has seen better days.
Snorlax was godly when the metagame didn't have people like Conkeldurr.
yes except that you ignore the most important think as to why azumarill is used:priority!!!and this makes a whole world of difference!
and anyway i am 100% sure that swamperts useage will fall more every month when it finally settles at low ou to uu...
Kyurem just got banned from UU.
QFT
I think Snorlax is a lost cause, but I'll be damned if Zapdos doesn't remain an OU vet.
edit: Well, Snorlax could have hope, being at #76. But it would take a massive player-movement to get him back. Let's worry about Zapdos for now. Use it, people!
I think if Thundurus ends up getting banned from OU, Zapdos will go up quite a bit in usage. Its fantastic typing and overall bulk is too tempting to resist.
But don't forget, the problem is Drizzle, not those three pokémon!!!!
Can't wait for July usage stats, really.
Okay, I was wrong. No need to be a douche about it.
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I think specially defensive Heatran is one of the best and most underrated sets in the current metagame so I was pleasantly surprised to see Heatran so high, since I haven't seen very many other players using it. Then I started laddering on a fresh account to dick around and fought my way through six teams with Balloon Heatran. Sigh.
Every metagame is centralized.
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