Bedschibaer
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BW2 OU General Metagame Discussion
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Usage Stats*
Viability Rankings
RMT Archive
Articles
Tour Usage Stats
The Smog Article Index
Old Forum Resources and Discussions:
Creative / Underrated Sets
General Metagame Discussion
OU Cores in the BW Metagame
The Next Best Thing
Lower Tier Threats
In case you have any relevant links you feel that should be posted here, feel free to tell me.
*This link directs you to the general usage stats of the Pokemon Showdown! Simulator, to find the Gen 5 Stats you have to pick a month and scroll down to the gen5ou.txt file.
So how has the BW metagame changed since XY OU has been around, apart from the obvious decline in activity on the ladder?
The ladder usage stats compared to the (unupdated) tour usage stats show quite some oddities. Rain's usage on the ladder is insanely high. Politoed hitting top 2 in the last 3 months and Ferrothorn even hitting number 1 last month. Compared to Politoed only hitting number 9 in the tour usage stats and Tyranitar as the third most used mon. Appareantly ladder players also love sun, Ninetails hits around 10% usage every month, whereas a pityful 3,5% usage in tour speaks for itself. Would be cool to hear a couple of opinions on the actual viability of sun teams at the moment.