Possibly because Cranidos in Pearl is obtainable there, but is locked to post-game? At least that's how i see it, though that doesn't explained that Shieldon doesn't have "Pearl only" if that was the case.
I've got a suggestion to fix this shortcoming. DP got a friendship underflow bug. If you use 1 Energy Powder or Energy Root right after catching Buneary during a battle, it will underflow the friendship. So that's instant Lopunny after a level-up and maxed Return after Lost Tower. I haven't used this myself yet, but it's documented here. The bug seems to have been fixed in Platinum though.
This is an old thread. The second thread, which is the latest one, is currently locked, and it has Budew at B Tier right here, at least in Platinum's ranking. From my experience using it in Platinum specifically, it looks more of a C Tier, with a possibility of a D Tier, it had serious issues (someone also nominated Budew to C on the second thread iirc) .One of them is a rather late evolution, by Gym 6, so might as well call it a mon that evolves just as late as Ponyta, and Roselia felt pretty bleh prior to Canalave, even its Wake matchup is disappointing, though mostly from its low physical bulk(You only beat Quagsire, which is his weakest mon, and the other two are more threatening). Not only it could get one shotted by Floatzel, it even almost got 2HKOed by a Waterfall Gyarados (nice resist you got there). Second, its seemingly high Special Attack stat is not that great bc you're stuck with 60 BP Giga Drain for a long time, and Sludge Bomb TM just comes way too late by the time you get it, you're still probably facing some Golbats. Btw, just catch a Roselia, its not worth using Budew at all, mine doesn't even reach 2 small heart(200 friendship) by the time i reach Hearthome.
That's what I figured out. Roselia will likely miss out on multiple good moves like Magical Leaf and Giga Drain if it stays as a Budew, since it takes so long to evolve via Friendship.
So why didn't the tier ratings get updated? I'm sure most people just see the tier rankings on the front page.
Not sure about why the first page wasn't updated. And yeah, most people would see the tier ranking on front page, myself included. I actually checked there to see which interesting mon should I test, particularly i was initially settling on Hippopotas, who was on E tier and thought to myself, this mon might have potential to be D, until I scrolled down and find out Hippo actually moved up to D....
The in-game tier lists should really get updated in general. For that matter, why is the latest thread for DPPt's tier list closed? We should be having this discussion on the most up to date tier list thread.
At the very least, there should probably be a system in place that makes it easier to update the tier lists. I assumed that it shouldn't be that hard to take each Pokemon listed, and place them in their respective tier. I'm more referring to updating the information on the front page than anything else. The list on the front page is apparently an earlier version of the tier list.
I want to echo what Altissimo said.
Because the idea at the time was to pretty much retest everything.
I was mainly just referring to updating the data that was already collected. I mean the thread is closed, so I assume that means that nobody else can actually submit their test results if they wanted to.Because the idea at the time was to pretty much retest everything.
But yeah, like Alti said, running a thread like this is insane work. Not only because the workload is insane, but also because running so many tests on vanilla games can drive you insane, and the people will definitely drive you insane.
Also, I got *really* unlucky with that run, including, but not limited to, breaking my hand on a crackhead's face, and my father getting ill. So basically, all I remember is people wanting to shoot things to S-Tier (AKA the broken one) off +6 Curse + Healing Item sweeps, leading me to cuss out a bunch of people, peak pandemic, and the aforementioned health issues.
It's a pretty absurd amount of work, especially since standards can vary wildly between testers. I tried focusing on clear, detailed guidelines, but even then, things pretty much immediately hit the fan
DrumstickGaming gave you some very solid advice. We've been at each other's throats more than once over that kind of stuff, but he's more than earned my respect over managing to finish so many lists.
If you want to give it a shot, go for it. I'll help however I can.
