Okay so I'm pretty sure this was asked before, but has there been any consideration for a 'NUBL' sort of tier for every Pokemon that is UU but unviable? I noticed a damn good chunk of UU isn't at all listed in the VR rankings for the tier, either version of it, (Some good examples include Sneasel, Girafarig, Shiftry, and Quagsire among some others) or ranked alongside or even lower than some NU tiered Pokemon. If changes between Gen 3 UUBL and OU can occur, is 'disrupting' Gen 3 lower tiers the main reason this hasn't happened yet?
Granted, its not like we're dropping obviously broken for NU standards stuff like Sharpedo into NU by doing this, nor would using the VR as a basis for such a tier (this would be done similarily to how a shift for the unofficial ADV PU occurred; it'd be dropping B- and lower UU Pokemon to this theoretical NUBL) necessarily meaning moving Glalie up to UU which would be a massive disruption for NU and highly unnecessary. (Similar to why Nidoqueen and Clefable never moved up to OU in Gen 4 when they became notable threats there (at least for a while in the former's case))
Granted, its not like we're dropping obviously broken for NU standards stuff like Sharpedo into NU by doing this, nor would using the VR as a basis for such a tier (this would be done similarily to how a shift for the unofficial ADV PU occurred; it'd be dropping B- and lower UU Pokemon to this theoretical NUBL) necessarily meaning moving Glalie up to UU which would be a massive disruption for NU and highly unnecessary. (Similar to why Nidoqueen and Clefable never moved up to OU in Gen 4 when they became notable threats there (at least for a while in the former's case))
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