The NDCL regular season is just about to end, and with NDWC right around the corner the council has decided its time to run another player survey!
Click Here to respond!
Click Here to respond!
-
Smogon Premier League is here and the team collection is now available. Support your team!
-
Welcome to Smogon! Take a moment to read the Introduction to Smogon for a run-down on everything Smogon, and make sure you take some time to read the global rules.
-
The moderators of this forum are omarsgarciav, bumboclaat, Sealoo, Ineros, Solaros & Lunaris, and Sputnik.
-
Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Smog Awards!
Announcement National Dex Player Surveys
- Thread starter Jho
- Start date
- Status
We are back again with the latest survey's results!
Enjoyment
General: 6.87 (↑0.23)
Qualified: 6.26 (↓0.34)
Competitiveness & Balance
General: 6.90 (↑0.39)
Qualified: 6.78 (↓0.28)
Both metrics are up for the general playerbase by a decently significant margin, which is very good to see. This indicates that our ladder and casual play is in a solidly enjoyable and balanced spot. Conversely, the qualified scores are significantly lower than the last time, indicating perhaps that tournament play has seen somewhat of a stagnation, and the popularization of hyper offense teams that perfectly exploit the strengths of Ceruledge and Dragonite alongside lead Mega Diancie could be behind the decrease in the percieved competitiveness of the metagame.
────────────────────
General: 2.34 (↓0.13)
Qualified: 2.08 (↓0.13)
General: 2.05 (↓0.20)
Qualified: 1.70 (↓0.36)
All metrics for both of these Pokémon indicate that both the general and qualified playerbase agree that there should not be any action on either one, we won't be asking about them again for the foreseeable future.
────────────────────
General: 2.65 (NEW)
Qualified: 3.40 (NEW)
General: 2.70 (NEW)
Qualified: 2.27 (NEW)
Zamazenta-C saw quite high support for a suspect test, particularly among the qualified voter pool, which resulted in us deciding to perform a council vote to decide whether or not it got suspected. On the other hand, despite Magearna's slightly higher general playerbase support it had an extremely low amount of support among the qualified playerbase, which resulted in us deciding to not include it in the vote.
────────────────────
I've mentioned this vote a couple of times now so I'll include it here. We first decided on Volcarona and Deoxys-Speed, the former after receiving reltively high results last survey and continued complaints this time around, and the latter after recieving many requests for another Deoxys-S suspect throughout the past 3 surveys. Zamazenta-C was decided on after finalizing this survey's result.
Given these results and past suspect tests do NOT expect any action on Deoxys-S or Volcarona. We also got a handful of responses regarding Terastalization and Ogerpon-W. Given that both of these were suspect tested multiple times, there will also be no further action on them. Expect a Zamazenta-C suspect test to drop in the very near future!
Enjoyment
General: 6.87 (↑0.23)
Qualified: 6.26 (↓0.34)
Competitiveness & Balance
General: 6.90 (↑0.39)
Qualified: 6.78 (↓0.28)
Both metrics are up for the general playerbase by a decently significant margin, which is very good to see. This indicates that our ladder and casual play is in a solidly enjoyable and balanced spot. Conversely, the qualified scores are significantly lower than the last time, indicating perhaps that tournament play has seen somewhat of a stagnation, and the popularization of hyper offense teams that perfectly exploit the strengths of Ceruledge and Dragonite alongside lead Mega Diancie could be behind the decrease in the percieved competitiveness of the metagame.
────────────────────
General: 2.34 (↓0.13)
Qualified: 2.08 (↓0.13)
General: 2.05 (↓0.20)
Qualified: 1.70 (↓0.36)
All metrics for both of these Pokémon indicate that both the general and qualified playerbase agree that there should not be any action on either one, we won't be asking about them again for the foreseeable future.
────────────────────
General: 2.65 (NEW)
Qualified: 3.40 (NEW)
General: 2.70 (NEW)
Qualified: 2.27 (NEW)
Zamazenta-C saw quite high support for a suspect test, particularly among the qualified voter pool, which resulted in us deciding to perform a council vote to decide whether or not it got suspected. On the other hand, despite Magearna's slightly higher general playerbase support it had an extremely low amount of support among the qualified playerbase, which resulted in us deciding to not include it in the vote.
────────────────────
I've mentioned this vote a couple of times now so I'll include it here. We first decided on Volcarona and Deoxys-Speed, the former after receiving reltively high results last survey and continued complaints this time around, and the latter after recieving many requests for another Deoxys-S suspect throughout the past 3 surveys. Zamazenta-C was decided on after finalizing this survey's result.
Given these results and past suspect tests do NOT expect any action on Deoxys-S or Volcarona. We also got a handful of responses regarding Terastalization and Ogerpon-W. Given that both of these were suspect tested multiple times, there will also be no further action on them. Expect a Zamazenta-C suspect test to drop in the very near future!
- Status