It's my understanding that R_D *can't* do his version of the stats, because the plugin that generated them in previous months wasn't running in July/August (nor is it running now). It was apparently one of the reasons the server couldn't stay up in July. The battles have already happened. The only info we have about them is the battle logs, which CANNOT be used to generate R_D-style stats.It's worth noting that August percents seem to be lower for pretty much all Pokemon, so I doubt we'll see a huge exodus of Pokemon from OU once/if Rising_Dusk does his version of the stats.
Even so, couldn't this average explain the shrinking of OU? The top 10 has more or less the same percentage stats they had in May and June (in fact, it's less centralized than June lol) and it's comprised of shit like Rotom-W which will appear in battle at least once, while the #20-50 may not appear in battle due to several reasons (such as, huh, Toxicroak vs. Sand?).To address some comments made about the technical aspects of the stats (the only thing I feel I am qualified to comment on):
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August June May
10 26.5% 28.3% 26.4%
20 40% 44.6% 42.8%
30 50.5% 55.9% 53.2%
40 58.7% 64.8% 61.3%
50 64.2% 71.7% 67.8%
Exactly. The most will probably see is tornadus dropping to uu or anything that barely made it in OU and dropped places through the data we have. So basically tornadus has a high chance of dropping not things like gross and chandy etc.Posting this on the new page
I cannot stress enough that these are the stats for JUST August. Tier placement changes include the usage stats for the past three months, which is going to be May, June, and August (July doesn't count...).
So, to the people saying Metagross and friends are going to drop to UU, they probably won't after this round. If the current trend continues for the next three months though, then we can definitely expect them to drop to UU during the next tier placement change.
This is a good point. You can argue that this method is superior (I wouldn't, btw), since "benchwarmers" who never see any action shouldn't really get counted the same as pokemon who are in every battle (I don't think this point is valid because Team Preview means your opponent is (should) be making decisions based on even your unseen pokemon. as are you.), but you can't argue that an apple is the same thing as an orange.I'm just afraid people are getting the wrong idea because they want to compare the newest stat gathering method with the previous one.
Donphan
Hitmontop
Heracross
Arcanine
Roserade
Mismagius
Zapdos
Victini
Chansey
Flygon
Empoleon
Mew
Milotic
Froslass
Nidoking
Azelf
Rotom-H
Registeel
Slowbro
Kingdra
Cobalion
Abomasnow
Suicune
Deoxys-D
Snorlax
Rhyperior
Blastoise
Nidoqueen
Weavile
Crobat
Umbreon
Dusclops
Ambipom
Houndoom
Raikou
Togekiss
Escavalier
Bisharp
Shaymin
Jolteon
Hippopotas
Azumarill
Zoroark
Venomoth
Yanmega
Cresselia
Entei
Honchkrow
Claydol
Porygon-Z
Gallade
Ferroseed
Clefable
Sharpedo
Alakazam
Uxie
Moltres
Galvantula
Durant
Cofagrigus
Typhlosion
Lilligant
Krookodile
Steelix
Sandslash
Manetric
Rotom-C
Dusknoir
Omastar
Gligar
Electivire
Primeape
Munchlax
Qwilfish
Medicham
Hariyama
Miltank
Quagsire
Magmortar
Magneton
Slowking
Croconaw
Drapion
Aggron
Smeargle
Swampert
Venusaur
Chandelure
Meinshao
Hippowdon
Tornadus
Cloyster
Darmanitan
Machamp
Porygon2
Whimsicott
Sceptile
Spiritomb
Tangrowth
Sigilyph
Xatu
Aerodactyl
Dugtrio
Sawsbuck
Charizard
Victreebel
Pretty much my opinion as wellSmogon is a competitive community first, and that is why I believe that there should still be a cutoff (1001) so that the stats are more representative of the competitive community.
The UU-NU split was based on usage in UU in Gen IV. Where'd you get that?Is the UU-RU tier cut based on usage in UU now? Because it always annoyed me that the UU-NU split was based on OU usage in Gen IV.
1. Honchkrow has a lot of other things able to beat it, don't worry. Also, Eviolite Rhydon's still around, he counters Honchkrow just as well as his big brother.Looks like Ru will will have more trouble with Honchkrow without Rhyperior and Hazards without Blastoise being the main Spinner in the tier
I'm beginning to support the "weather tier" idea I heard somewhere.God this weather centralized metagame is disgusting.
Without official stats will Smogon be able to produce tier lists anymore?There are currently no plans for Rising_Dusk to continue doing stats in the future. If it wasn't for Antar, there would most likely be no stats.
Not when it limits the metagame as much as it has. And Hail can hardly be counted, so 3. I think we can agree even if we took Sun out of the equation we'd have nearly the same percentage of auto-weather teams. So much of the game has come down to countering weather.Less than 50% of the teams being weather seems reasonable to me. I mean we have 4 diff types of weather (one of them being TYRANITAR), what did you expect...
It currently depends on what the admins want to do, if they are fine with Antar's work then things go well from here on.Without official stats will Smogon be able to produce tier lists anymore?