So, I fail to understand why so many people are still complaining about the bad pokemon that are getting high usage. If you scroll down a biiiit farther, just below the "official stats" you find the 1850 stats. Here's a quick taste:
Look more inviting? Yeah.. There's the Latias, Keldeo, BOTH Landorus' and even Celebi people are wanting!
What people forget on here is that there are almost 2 completely different metagames in OU right now on showdown:
You have the actual OU metagame, with the weather-wars and high-levels of playing.
But you also have the completely nubby metagame, where the lowest of low players have sunk to. NO one that is THIS bad would come on to the smogon forums to comment on the official usage stats of OU, so that's why we never hear from any of them. They're a bunch of mystery players, that sink straight to the bottom of OU, where anyone with even a decent rank will NEVER be matched up with them. Seriously, if you don't believe me, log onto showdown, and open a few battles that just started. I'm willing to bet within 30 seconds you'll fins a match that features Infernape, Eletivire, Eeveelutions, Ambipom, etc..
So before you start demanding to know "who would use Infernape over Latias!!".. well, these people would. And they do. A lot. And it's because of the sheer number of these nooby battles that the full stats are so skewed from 1850 stats. If you want to see where something is in the actual COMPETITIVE side of OU, be sure to check out the 1850 stats :]
That is all.
| 10 | Keldeo | 14.52078% | 87615 | 6.890% | 66980 | 6.553% |
| 11 | Latios | 14.37881% | 125087 | 9.837% | 98238 | 9.612% |
| 12 | Terrakion | 14.18682% | 111886 | 8.799% | 82435 | 8.065% |
| 13 | Garchomp | 12.66682% | 144519 | 11.365% | 112895 | 11.046% |
| 14 | Starmie | 12.21533% | 135772 | 10.677% | 105187 | 10.291% |
| 15 | Landorus | 12.15138% | 73433 | 5.775% | 57176 | 5.594% |
| 16 | Landorus-Therian | 11.63695% | 75886 | 5.968% | 65848 | 6.443% |
| 17 | Celebi | 10.87653% | 81813 | 6.434% | 66617 | 6.518% |
| 18 | Forretress | 10.83271% | 123040 | 9.676% | 105908 | 10.362% |
| 19 | Latias | 9.96651% | 71083 | 5.590% | 55095 | 5.390% |
| 11 | Latios | 14.37881% | 125087 | 9.837% | 98238 | 9.612% |
| 12 | Terrakion | 14.18682% | 111886 | 8.799% | 82435 | 8.065% |
| 13 | Garchomp | 12.66682% | 144519 | 11.365% | 112895 | 11.046% |
| 14 | Starmie | 12.21533% | 135772 | 10.677% | 105187 | 10.291% |
| 15 | Landorus | 12.15138% | 73433 | 5.775% | 57176 | 5.594% |
| 16 | Landorus-Therian | 11.63695% | 75886 | 5.968% | 65848 | 6.443% |
| 17 | Celebi | 10.87653% | 81813 | 6.434% | 66617 | 6.518% |
| 18 | Forretress | 10.83271% | 123040 | 9.676% | 105908 | 10.362% |
| 19 | Latias | 9.96651% | 71083 | 5.590% | 55095 | 5.390% |
What people forget on here is that there are almost 2 completely different metagames in OU right now on showdown:
You have the actual OU metagame, with the weather-wars and high-levels of playing.
But you also have the completely nubby metagame, where the lowest of low players have sunk to. NO one that is THIS bad would come on to the smogon forums to comment on the official usage stats of OU, so that's why we never hear from any of them. They're a bunch of mystery players, that sink straight to the bottom of OU, where anyone with even a decent rank will NEVER be matched up with them. Seriously, if you don't believe me, log onto showdown, and open a few battles that just started. I'm willing to bet within 30 seconds you'll fins a match that features Infernape, Eletivire, Eeveelutions, Ambipom, etc..
So before you start demanding to know "who would use Infernape over Latias!!".. well, these people would. And they do. A lot. And it's because of the sheer number of these nooby battles that the full stats are so skewed from 1850 stats. If you want to see where something is in the actual COMPETITIVE side of OU, be sure to check out the 1850 stats :]
That is all.