The nice thing about the month-end falling on the weekend, means I was able to get the February stats collected in record time! Do not expect such prompt service all the time -- but it is kinda nice to see this stuff as quickly as possible. Particularly now that we have the Latios test coming to a close over the next few days, and we just kicked off the new UU ladder earlier today.
I see several things that stand out from the basic usage stats, but here are my two biggest observations:
But, enough of my impressions... I'll post more later, after I've had a chance to wade through all this in more detail. I encourage the rest of you stat junkies to do the same.
Happy stat hunting!
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These stats were gathered from 305,669 individual battles that were fought during the month of February on the Smogon Shoddy Battle Server. Usage and Leads are listed in the posts directly below this one.
Links to Detailed Stats:
Links to Teammate Stats:
For convenience, here are links to all past statistics threads:
[THREAD=44003]July 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=45438]August 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=46752]September 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=47910]October 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=49056]November 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=49828]December 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=51012]January 2009[/THREAD]
I see several things that stand out from the basic usage stats, but here are my two biggest observations:
- Salamence seems to have fallen back from what appeared last month to be an inevitable rise to number one in OU usage. I'm not sure of the cause, but I wouldn't be surprised if Latias had something to do with it. You will note that Latias makes a sterling debut at #9 on the usage charts after her first month in OU play. It should be interesting how these two mega-dragons in OU fare in usage in coming months. Obviously, if Latias' twin makes it into OU, it could get even more interesting....
- Many of the just-banned UU pokemon actually FELL in usage. Notably, Staraptor, Gallade, and Raikou -- the latter dropping from #1 to #10. That's awfully odd for pokemon that are so powerful that they are suspected to be broken, to dramatically drop in usage. But this could be due to the long advance notice that they were likely to be banned. It stands to reason that UU players would stop using pokemon, if they knew they would be banned soon. OTOH, if players are playing to win, you would think people would abuse them all the way up to the last minute. I'm sure there will be plenty of debate on this topic, and I look forward to the conclusions drawn.
But, enough of my impressions... I'll post more later, after I've had a chance to wade through all this in more detail. I encourage the rest of you stat junkies to do the same.
Happy stat hunting!
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These stats were gathered from 305,669 individual battles that were fought during the month of February on the Smogon Shoddy Battle Server. Usage and Leads are listed in the posts directly below this one.
Links to Detailed Stats:
Links to Teammate Stats:
Smogon Standard Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon UU Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon Uber Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon Suspect Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon Unrated Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon UU Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon Uber Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon Suspect Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
Smogon Unrated Ladder Teammates - Feb. 2009
For convenience, here are links to all past statistics threads:
[THREAD=44003]July 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=45438]August 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=46752]September 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=47910]October 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=49056]November 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=49828]December 2008[/THREAD]
[THREAD=51012]January 2009[/THREAD]