CAP Server Statistics - November 2008
 

Here are the CAP Server usage statistics for November. Detailed statistics are contained on the following webpages:

CAP Ladder Details - November 2008
Little Cup Ladder Details - November 2008
Unrated Play Details - November 2008

The Usage and Lead Statistics are contained in the posts immediately below this one. Enjoy the stats!

CAP Server Pokemon Usage Totals
 

CAP Server Pokemon Lead Totals
 

Heh all the CAPs are in the top 10, and 3 in the top 5, interesting... Not surprised to see Stratagem at #1, it's new and pretty good and everyone wants to use it. Rev at #2 isn't surprising either, first time I hopped onto the CAP server I was swept by one ?_?. I guess Salamence not being in the top 10 is a bit of a surprise to me. Thanks Doug and congrats on double star ;)

Thank you for all the hard work, but I kinda feel it was in vain. These stats further prove that we have almost no solid user base, as evidenced from Pyroak at #10 and Gastrodon at #40. X-Act is calculating the OU list as we speak, but I'd suggest that unless stats and battles pick up soon, CAP OU should be defined as standard OU plus the five CAP Pokemon.

Here's what the CAP OU list would look like if we took only the November stats into account:

OU Quota: 191 usages.
Frequently-used Quota: 891 usages.

CAP OU:

Frequently Used Pokemon in CAP:

A general comment would be that the CAP metagame seems to be more centralised than the Standard metagame, but this should happen if you think that most teams would invariably have at least one of the 5 CAP Pokemon.

Tennis, this just shows that there are less people on the server is all. Obviously, server regulars hold much more sway over stats on our server than on Smogon server simply because the ratio of server regulars to total usage is much higher. So if one of you whores a Pokemon for a week or so, it will be at the bottom of the OU list.

And Pyroak is so high because he is one of the reasons to come to the server. Why battle on CAP if you don't use the new Pokemon? (Don't say the people there, shush I'm talking competitive reasons).

I do agree with using regular OU top 5 though, as it allows more people to be involved and creating a Pokemon to check other CAP Pokemon seems wrong.

Thanks Doug/X-Act. This will really help with CaP6!

Here are the common movesets used in the CAP metagame during November.

And here are the attack percentages in CAP during November:

I disagree. I think these statistics, especially now that X-Act has made the new OU list, are a valid representation of the metagame. I wouldn't say we lack a "solid" userbase, just a rather small one. Statistics tend to be more representative of the actual metagame if they have a larger sample size (ie Smogon University). With X-Act's OU list, I don't really see anything that seems strikingly unusual or unexpected (ie. No OU Absol).

Interesting info, I did a quick comparision between this and last months standard OU list and found what was different between the two. The results are very interesting.

In Standard but not CaPs' Ou
Alakazam
Breloom
Cresselia
Donphan
Dragonite
Dusknoir
Electivire
Fortress
Gallade
Ninjask
Jolteon
Rotom H and W
Snorlax
Weavile
Yanamega

Non Caps in Cap but not in standard
Rotam A

Granted Im using last months list for standard, so its not a 100% comparision.

Urm.. I don't get this at all, Oak is a stunning tank in the right hands and the only reason it was not high last time is because many people underrated it. I think that it is now more recognised as a great Pokemon.

Gastrodon is a bit more suppriseing but its not that bad really, it can be quite effective in some situations and 40 is not massively high.

Really metagame changes must be expected when we start getting a good few CaP's into action.

Sure we don't have anywhere near as many battles as SU but 2700+ on ladder and 2100+ Unrated is nothing to be disapointed with.

Anyway for the stats I think that Strata will drop down a bit once the OMG NEW PKMN MUST TRY! thing wearns off and people start to see its not that hard to stop, but it should stay top 10 due to its speed and variability.

HP Fly did not make it onto Zappy unfortuanatly, but maybe next time.

Rev still almost always has the same set, with a few Ice Punchers or Shadow Punchers here and there.

Interesting trends with Fidgit, top lead by quite a way and a very variable movepool. 12 moves made it to the stats with the most common, Earth Power, getting onto only 69% of movesets.

*Checks Oak*
:toast:
yay 35% Toxic, much better than last time.

The fact that fidgit continues to get used as a lead despite being stopped by basically every common one i don't get. As well as wish not being a standard move on it.

Good to see that technician is actually more used then levitate on strata, despite a lot of people myself including thinking it would be made redundant because of levitate.

Lets see if I can justify those who got left out of CaP OU (thanks Kammen):

In Standard but not CaPs' OU

Alakazam
Revenged by Strata and many who whoudl use it could be inclined to pick Strata over it. Rev can kill with SS, Syclant outsped for most of the month, Oak could take its attacks, beats down Fidgit.
Only just made normal OU.
Not a surprise.

Breloom
Yea.. Loom really hates every CaP for a different reason.
Not a surprise.

Cresselia
Wait what? Well Ant can 1KO after a TG (close with just LO), Rev can set up on it under some conditions, Oak stalls it to death (even CM).
This is a bit unexpected as it is decent against some CaPs and a solid OU in normal, but oh well.

Donphan
Barely in normal OU. Rev/Oak/Ant/Strata setup on ot beat it.

Dragonite
Little odd but Oak can wall for a while as can some Rev. Strata and Ant may be able to revenge under some conditions.

Dusknoir
Revenankh all but replaced it.

Electivire
Walled very badly by Oak, never was that good in normal.

Fortress
Can't wall the top Physical threat (Rev) and is set up bait for it. Rev also blocks Rapid Spin. Fidgit can encore and set up on it, Oak can wall and 1KO. Many Strata have a fire attack.
yea I can see this one.

Gallade
Flying attacks give it a hard time? Dunno about this one really. Never used/played against it much so I don't know what it has problems with.

Ninjask
Less noobs?

Jolteon
Walled by Rev/Oak/Fidgit. Strata may take its team spot as fast special sweeper.

Rotom H and W
We have Rotom A which includes these.

Snorlax
Rev/Strata/some Fidgit setup bait, Oak can normally cripple. Still I would expect it to scrape OU but evidently not.

Weavile
Oak walls, Strata revenges, Rev can set up on some sets. Tar is better for Pursuiting/sweeping normally.

Yanamega
Really? I always thought it would do decently in CaP.. Flying is such a good STAB here.
I suppose Strata could avoid a 1KO and revenge it, Rev.. dunno really. I think Yan would win with flinchhax normally.
Oak would be close, nether could switch in. Fidgit could hold it off for a few turns.


And as we have less people we can't try out as many Pokemon as normal or switch teams as much. Therefore will will have more "backround noise" and our meta will appear more centralised.

A CaP team does not need one of those pokemon. It should be tailored around the differences in the CaP metagame rather than just being a compelation of the community's recent work.

Overall, this is a problem. CaPs should not be overpowering, I think it's really time we start making CaPs on the premise that they have built-in weaknesses. Allowing standard pokemon to compete with them, rather than CaPs replacing them all together. I don't see a major problem with syclant's placement, and pyroak fits in perfectly, but in order to gain credibility, The Top 3 should not be dominated by CaPs.

Congrats Doug and X-Act on admin.

I agree with the assements. As for the ones you not sure about. I would Gallade really has problem againt Rev. Even though its psychic, its very weak defensivly, so its very vulnerable shadow sneak. I think Ninjask and Yanemega are beaten too badly by fidgit leads. Fidgit can lay down rocks and encore or whirlwind Ninjask. Yanamega cant hypnosis it most of the time, not to mention hypnosis has gotten worse in general, so fidgit can either U-Turn to a Yanemaga counter or just whirlwind the bug away knowing it will take 50 from rocks.

Heh, according to the moveset statistics I used my Trick Room team exactly 37 times this month, and my Stratagem team about 38 times.

I love the way Bulk Up and Hammer Arm's usages are so close

True, but a large majority of players will want to try out at least one CaP per team. I know that I almost always base my teams around one, and tend to fit in another 1-2 naturally.

I agree about the Bug/Flyings having a major problem with Fidgit, that largely explains their decline.
But Gallade is a strong sweeper with BU or SD and bears a Super Effective STAB attack against Revvy, sure you are not going to switch in on it but one on one I think it could come out on top.
However thinking about it more Rev does generally outclass it as a part Fighting type Bulky stat upper, that may be the main reason for its decline.

I wouldn't use Gallade on the CaP server not because it's outclassed by Revenankh, but because of Gallade's physical frailty. Even with a super effective STABbed move on Revenankh, Rev still comes out on top thanks to Shadow Sneak.

On the other hand, Rev can actually take super effective hits from something like Gallade thanks to the easy boosts from Bulk Up and its inherent bulkiness, even with little EV investment.

Is it that physically frail? *checks* ahh.. 68/65 defences. I see the problem.

But still most Rev have little or no Atk investment and a 40 BP attack even with STAB is not that threatening. Gallade's 125 base attack Sword Dance, Bulk Up and STAB Psycho Cut would surely win most of the time.

Nether could switch into the other (Rev could revenge a weakened SD Gal I suppose) but yea.. I doubt that 1 on 1 with no boost on ether side Rev would win.

Edit: Now that I think more, maybe.. yea it could go ether way. *does calcs*

I think Rev has an easier time coming in on Gallade than the other way around. Gallades runs Close Combat as its fighting move of chocie so if it gets a KO with it, it gets a defense drop on an already dismal defense, easy target for Rev, the problem gets even worse if its a life orb user.

Alternativly, Rev normally scores KOs with a few bulk ups on its belt and hammer arm, but the speed drop isnt going to hurt it against Glallade when its got Shadow Sneak. Plus with Leftovers as item of choice along with shed/rest, it will also probably be near full health against it as well. I think they look a lot close on paper than they do in practice.

It is and it isn't. On one hand, it represents the fact that with a small user base, teams being used over and over have a larger effect on the metagame. However, people almost never use the ladder anyway, compared to Smogon. I usually see nobody on the ladder, for hours at a time sometimes. So its not an accurate representation of the metagame when the statistics are biased a lot. This isn't to say they aren't accurate in a sense, but they're just off a bit.

great work guys, thanks =)

in the context of cap 6 we have what we need for decentraliser assuming it wins. these stats aren't backed by a strong userbase but there are trends present. ttar+bliss+rev+stratagem seem like an obvious "big 4". hopefully this in't o/t though.
ps hp fly zapdos whattt ?_?;

edit: hehe shoulda thought of that x)

Flying is a decent STAB on the CAP server, Pyroak, Rev and Scylant are all weak to it.