Thanks for that. I know Antar is able to provide some kind of usage statistics for mega forms, but I'm not exactly sure what they're supposed to represent. I'll need to do some investigation. I've raised an enhancement request, so I don't forget!Something important would be to see differences in mega and non mega forms. Or something like Charizard with two completely different viable forms.
A really interesting insight, thanks! Slowbro's the only one who spiked but people decided wasn't worth pursuing. The rest mentioned have been thriving since!Its quite impressive to see how aegi's ban affected the meta, there are a shitload of mons that have seen more usage after its ban, including medicham, gardevoir, heracross, pinsir, slowbro, jirachi, mew, starmie, even metagross had a spike of usage in that period and then fell down again.
Given the data I have at the moment, I'd be able to specify by the standard rankings (0, 1500, 1695 and 1825 in OU, for example). Is this what you had in mind? If so, that's an enhancement I'm already planning, although it may take a bit of time (in the same way that with RU it will take time simply to gather the stats over a long-enough period of time) :)no RU :(
This is so great, is possible in a future to change the usage stats based on ladder rank for the graphic?
Very interesting plotting those three mentioned there. All three started declining at roughly the same rate around June (around the time of the Aegislash ban, don't know if that's related). When Mawile was banned, it seemed to affect the Thundurus numbers more than the Landorus numbers.Well i was curious about seeing graphs of mons that were part of popular cores.
Do you remember thundy+lando+mawile? The two genies Were hurted a bit by mawile's ban and they have steadily decreased their usage since then.
I was also interested in seeing the graphs of rain teams mons but they don't seem to be connected, but can someone explain what happened to kingdra in may lol?
Indeed, but it shouldn't stop us speculating either! I think the real fun of this is noticing correlations and then reasoning your way to causation (should it exist.) We've already seen if you look back through this thread. You can make an argument that loads of Pokemon affected each other after the Aegislash ban, when actually, if you then plot Aegislash on the chart you can become *fairly* certain the ban was the cause. There's a lot of factors at play in a constantly evolving metagame so you're right, we can never be entirely certain, but best guesses are certainly reasonable.Guys just remember, correlation doesn't imply causation :]
Just because you see two mons' usage linked doesn't mean that one causes the other.
I think this is a bit of a trick of the design. When was Aegislash banned? My guess is around June, and we don't have usage statistics for July. My algorithm attempts to interpolate between values it doesn't have - so if Aegislash has 16% usage in June and 0% in August, it will plot the point in july at 8%. This works well for steady changes, but for sudden changes like a ban it doesn't. My guess is that the Aegislash graph should be at zero or close from about July, and as such the conclusion that most of these changes are a direct result of the ban seems more reasonable. Especially if you consider that on the month of the ban, people were already starting to use these Pokemon more.
So something that I thought was very interesting was the affect of the "Post Aegislash" meta-game. Natually, one would assume that the usage of Heracross, Gardevoir, medicham, and slowbro would go much higher but instead we saw, with the notable exception of slowbro, their usage went up more as a continuation of their trend withing the meta-game as opposed to being a direct result of aegislash's ban.
Hey, thanks for flagging that. I was aware the size of the graph wouldn't resize based on resolution, but wondered just how many people it would affect! Seeing as it is affecting you it seems worth raising an issue and trying to fix it! Nice graphs :)Was nice to see a couple of things, for example Greninja-Latios, Azumarill-Charizard & Thundrus-Slowbro.
I have problem with the chart stretching wide with Firefox, appreciate any help with that.
Very useful!!! It seems worth try to scrape somehow but would need to have a think about how.I can fix the "old data is lost" problem though it's VERY tedious: just type the URL of the old data in Google, and bring up the Cached version.
for reference: http://sim.smogon.com:8080/Stats/2014-10/
add what you want to access to the end - for example, if I add "ou-1695.0.txt" to the end, I end up with this.
edit: tagging Antar , as he might want to see this.
Just done a bit of investigation. I've created a script that will pull down the file you pointed out with the url:I can fix the "old data is lost" problem though it's VERY tedious: just type the URL of the old data in Google, and bring up the Cached version.
for reference: http://sim.smogon.com:8080/Stats/2014-10/
add what you want to access to the end - for example, if I add "ou-1695.0.txt" to the end, I end up with this.
edit: tagging Antar , as he might want to see this.
Antar take a look at this^I can fix the "old data is lost" problem though it's VERY tedious: just type the URL of the old data in Google, and bring up the Cached version.
for reference: http://sim.smogon.com:8080/Stats/2014-10/
add what you want to access to the end - for example, if I add "ou-1695.0.txt" to the end, I end up with this.
edit: tagging Antar , as he might want to see this.