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I've run this game many more times through postgame and I have minor refinements to make to my tier list from over three years ago. As before, Pokemon within tiers are ordered alphabetically.
S [Easy Mode]
(The best mixed attacker in the game)
(The most offensively efficient Pokemon in the...
There's big hypocrisy in banning the box legends while hiding behind the veil of player satisfaction since being able to use box legends competitively is the reason most of us are even here. If you want to talk playerbase sustainability, an Ubers tier where you can't even use the big mons will...
Rolling a 12 with two six-sided dice: 1/6 * 1/6 = 1/36 = 0.028%
Missing with Hydro Pump: 1 - 0.8 = 0.2%
If you're that lucky you're playing the wrong game.
Just want to briefly share some thoughts as a council member.
When talking about overreaching concepts such as "the next step for Ubers tiering" there's benefit in having a perspective that takes a step back without getting too caught up in the minutia of the month. Pokemon has changed a lot in...
The counterargument to outright banning sleep moves of "it sets dangerous precedent on tiering status infliction in general" is not valid because of the immensely wide gap between sleep and other status conditions not named freeze. One easy way to see this is to weight the number of buffs...
There's been over a dozen threads in PR alone about Baton Pass in only the last three years. How many more pages of red tape can you possibly expect to collect on this topic before accepting the reality that BP has no place in competitive singles.
In my opinion having more than five tiers is unnecessary to categorize the Pokemon in this game. The tiers should be:
- Very High Potential (First Picks)
- High Potential (Second Picks)
- Moderate Potential (Niche Picks)
- Low Potential (Bad Picks)
- No Potential (Dragonite, Meganium...