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Originally Posted by Fat bugmaniacbob

Obligatory thanks for stats.

On looking at OU, Scizor, Salamence, Gyarados and Tyranitar all took massive drops in usage, if I'm not mistaken, while Heatran, Infernape, Gengar, and Starmie all leapt up. All I can think is, either people have decided to fill their teams with fast stuff in order to centralise around Salamence now that he's apparently very threatening all of a sudden, or they're just anticipating Salamence's banning (can't think of any other reasons). IIRC, the standard metagame seemed to show those trends roundabout the Garchomp stage - food for thought...

I'm think it's people thinking Salamence is even better then it is. (Just looking around Smogon you might get the impression that it's totally insane, given the hype people are giving it) if mence isn't banned, I'm guessing a major dropback in Tran, Ape, Gengar and Starmie.