June Statistics

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June statistics are up, and what a crazy month it was with many moves in the OU tier. Source: http://shoddybattle.com/stats

Just for comparisons sake, here is what happened to the stats from April to May:

1. Garchomp (=)
2. Gengar (=)
3. Blissey (=)
4. Gyarados (=)
5. Tyranitar (=)
6. Bronzong (=)
7. Lucario +1
8. Heatran -1
9. Infernape +1
10. Salamence +1
11. Metagross +1
12. Starmie -3
13. Celebi +1
14. Gliscor -1
15. Swampert +1
16. Skarmory -3
17. Weavile +2
18. Forretress -1
19. Heracross -1
20. Zapdos +2
21. Vaporeon +7
22. Azelf -2
23. Cresselia -2
24. Togekiss -2
25. Magnezone +8
26. Suicune +14
27. Machamp +4
28. Jirachi -2
29. Breloom -4
30. Dusknoir -1
31. Electivire -1
32. Snorlax -8
33. Yanmega +1
34. Hippowdon -7
35. Scizor -4
36. Tentacruel +5
37. Deoxys-e +10
38. Jolteon -1
39. Milotic -4
40. Ninjask +2
41. Mamoswine -9
42. Dugtrio +2
43. Roserade +9 (NEW)
44. Dragonite -8
45. Donphan (=)
46. Wobbuffet -3
47. Porygonz -9
48. Spiritomb +5 (NEW)
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Ill now take this list and post the movers from May to June in the weighted usage statistics.
  1. Garchomp (66288504 points) (=)
  2. Gengar (53045305 points) (=)
  3. Gyarados (47415774 points) (+1)
  4. Bronzong (43224891 points) (+2)
  5. Tyranitar (41477471 points) (=)
  6. Heatran (39970652 points) (+2)
  7. Lucario (38379712 points) (=)
  8. Blissey (37845455 points) (-5)
  9. Salamence (33616776 points) (+1)​
  10. Celebi (32632200 points) (+3)
  11. Infernape (30100650 points) (-2)
  12. Metagross (28802841 points) (-1)
  13. Starmie (27352485 points) (-1)
  14. Swampert (26338977 points) (+1)
  15. Gliscor (24462872 points) (-1)
  16. Vaporeon (23722207 points) (+5) (Net+12 over 2 months)
  17. Azelf (22519932 points) (+5)
  18. Skarmory (21945678 points) (-2) (Net-5 over 2 months)
  19. Weavile (21905553 points) (-2)
  20. Forretress (21165085 points) (-2)
  21. Zapdos (20866039 points) (-1)
  22. Heracross (20321984 points) (-3)
  23. Deoxys-e (20093872 points) +14 (Net +24 over 2 months)
  24. Magnezone (16986372 points) (+1) (Net +9 over 2 months)
  25. Cresselia (16761068 points) (-2)
  26. Togekiss (16318255 points) (-2)
  27. Suicune (15822045 points) (-1)
  28. Jirachi (15424243 points) (=)
  29. Snorlax (15219875 points) (+3)
  30. Electivire (14974328 points) (+2)
  31. Scizor (13775321 points) (+4)
  32. Wobbuffet (13630932 points) (+14) (going to UBER)
  33. Machamp (13255059 points) (-6)
  34. Tentacruel (12669840 points) (+2)
  35. Roserade (12051707 points) (+8) (Net +17 over 2 months)
  36. Dusknoir (11932275 points) (-6)
  37. Breloom (11722192 points) (-8)
  38. Mamoswine (11127130 points) (+3)
  39. Yanmega (10993591 points) (-6)
  40. Hippowdon (10819124 points) (-6) (Net -13 over 2 months)
  41. Gallade (10794875 points) NEW +9
  42. Spiritomb (10689368 points) (+6) (Net +11 over 2 months)
  43. Dragonite (10236511 points) (+1)
  44. Dugtrio (10235670 points) (-2)
  45. Jolteon (9998362 points) (-7)
  46. Porygonz (9930299 points) (+1) EDIT: 75% usage cut off here
  47. Donphan (9921050 points) (-2)
  48. Milotic (9736331 points) (-9)
  49. Ninjask (8876765 points) (-9)
Edit: I noticed some small math mistakes here and there, I'll go through it again tomorrow to make sure I have my +/- amounts correct.

Some interesting movements that you could argue are all somewhat related to one another. The rises of Deo-S and Wobbuffet also falls in line with a big rise in Roserade. Roserade has the ability to lay down Toxic Spikes as a tool to effectively shut down the amount of time and uses each of those guys (Wobbuffet/Deo-S) can get into play. Smogon seemingly will put Wobbuffet into ubers, but an interesting increase in usage this past month.

I think the biggest stories are the collapse of Blissey and rise of Deo-S. Blissey falls from 3 to number 8 in weighted usage in a span of a single month. I don't think we have had such a huge shakeup in the top 10 used pokemon in a while. Deo-S usage continues to rise amazingly fast. Its only July 1st, but with Husk's offensive team being posted featuring Deo-S I would make a guess that July statistics will continue to show more usage of Deo-S in standard play.

Some other notes - Hippowdon continues to fall quickly in usage, Ninjask's usage went down dramatically, Milotic has taken a hit in usage while Vaporeon still showed some more increases.

Edit: I didn't notice this last night, but besides Blissey's big tumble in rankings Garchomp usage keeps increasing by enormous amounts. Here are some good posts related to it:

For the lazy who won't read all the posts heres an interesting statistic from X-Act:
February: Garchomp 4.17%, Gengar 3.91%. Difference: 0.26%
March: Garchomp 4.11%, Gengar 3.95%. Difference: 0.16%
April: Garchomp 4.18%, Gengar 3.73%. Difference: 0.45%
May: Garchomp 4.34%, Gengar 3.58%. Difference: 0.76%
June: Garchomp 4.75%, Gengar 3.80%. Difference: 0.95%
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And then ChouToshio pointed out some more numbers for the Garchomp discussions going on:
Gallade jumped 9 ranks, and this resulted from only increased usage 2500

Blissey who dropped by 5 ranks in the top 10 dropped in usage still by a mere 4000

Garchomp increased in usage by over 7000
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Discuss!
 
I'd like to also point out that the number of pokemon comprising the top 75% of usages in the weighted statistics is 46 according to Colin, (49 for unweighted) That's down one Pokemon from May's 47.

I'm not so much surprised as I am just in shock that Blissey's reign is over. As well as walls in general (with the exception of Bronzong, although he's part Utility part Wall). This generation just seems to have no place in high level teams for Pokemon that sit around and do nothing but take hits. (see: Gliscor/Skarm/Blissey/Cresselia/Hippowdon all losing spots) I forsee Blissey losing even more spots next month, maybe even dropping out of the top 10 all together.

Also of note is Garchomp's continued gains on the rest of the metagame. It picked up another 3,000,000 points over 2nd place Gengar, and it doesn't look to be stopping anytime soon. I am guessing Garchomp's usage will be 20 million points above Gengar's within the next 2 months. (barring any retiering)

Some Pokemon are making pretty big gains... notables include Roserade, Vaporeon, and Gallede. The popularity of Toxic Spikes seems to be the reason for increased Roserade usage. Vaporeon's bulk make it well suited for taking on non-CB/Yache versions of Garchomp, and his increased usage is probably the reason for Vaporeon's gains. I'm a bit confused about Gallede, though. There's no real shift in the Metagame that Gallede takes advantage of... perhaps people are just trying him out.

Wobbufett/Deoxys-E make HUGE gains this month. Not surprising as this month marked the end of the limbo tiering of Wobbuffet... I guess people really are seeing that Deoxys-E makes a great endgamer, and revenges a lot of things.

Those are the only apparent changes that I can see at the moment. I'll probably make more analysis as I look at the statistics.

Edit: Oh, wow... 200 posts already! only took me a year and a half.
 
Gallade is a big mover who I was expecting. I've seen a lot of him lately. Vaporeon is very useful in DP, and with the new Specs set, people use her more than just as a supporter, giving her more places in teams.

This whole list coincides with the move to bulky offense, with the rise in Gyarados, Bronzong, Heatran, Celebi, Snorlax, and Scizor, all in response to the huge Deoxys-S rise. Spiritomb and Magnezone use also increases, the former to counter Deoxys-S, and the latter for Bronzong, which is used against Deoxys-S.

Pure stall also seems to be fading out, with teams now being a sort of mix between offense and stall. This is best seen in Roserade's increase and Blissey's decrease. (People like to use the sexy Roserade as opposed to the fat Blissey.) Hippowdon who was once in the top twenty went way down, as with Skarmory.
 
I would love to see more roserade, and I will continue to use roserade in all my teams for her setup ability.

I can understand magnezone's ability to shut down steel types by trapping and killing to support Deoxys, but what's the deal with vaporeon? What's her niche in this metagame that's causing her to slowly and steadily rise in usage? Also, I'm a bit depressed about blissey. Blissey has always been one of those great pokemon with notable weaknesses but great strengths. It seems like walls are becoming less and less usable in this metagame. Deoxys-S didn't seem to help that aspect of the game, with the exception of a sharp rise in Spiritomb and rising usage of celebi and others, unless of course this is unrelated to deoxys and just the metagame slowly changing itself.
 
As of right now I see Deoxys-S controlling the metagame and so I assume the rise in Spiritomb, Scizor, and Gallade (Shadow Sneak? Perhaps) is not to surprising. Fall of Blissey is possibly due to.. 1. Deoxys-S and 2. Roserade's T-Spikes. I'm sort of surprised with Infernape's drop seeing that the top 5/8 are OHKO'd by him. Garchomp still sits on top of his throne... I don't mind the offensive Meta-Game myself.
 
I think the drop in Blissey usage has also a lot to do on losing Wish, which was one of the reasons it was used so much. Now it can't support the team, so it appears a lot of people are turning to Vaporeon for their healing needs.
 
Mizuno said:
I think the drop in Blissey usage has also a lot to do on losing Wish, which was one of the reasons it was used so much. Now it can't support the team, so it appears a lot of people are turning to Vaporeon for their healing needs.
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I think that is exactly what is going on.

Also thinks makes me think, even more now than before, that garchomp is uber material.
 
Deoxys is climbing high even though people say it is not used. He will go up by July IMO, maybe hit the Top 20.

Surprised about Blissey, too. I do agree that the lack of Wish has to do with this because Vaporeon raised his use misteriously.
 
Well, no surprise to see Vaporeon moving up, and the same goes to Deoxys-E. I now see that Toxic Spikes has become a Major part of the current metagame, with Roserade really rising in the past 2 months. I'm happy this is finally up after 1 day:P.
 
Garchomp is a whopping 10,000 usages over Gengar, and almost 15,000 over Gyarados. It has twice as much usages as Infernape, in the number ten spot. This is just sick... I never thought it'd get this bad.

Really cool that Deoxys is finally getting some love, I used him extensively early on because he was so cool and exotic in a stale game, but now it seems he's been discovered.
 
skiddle said:
Garchomp is a whopping 10,000 usages over Gengar, and almost 15,000 over Gyarados. It has twice as much usages as Infernape, in the number ten spot. This is just sick... I never thought it'd get this bad.

Really cool that Deoxys is finally getting some love, I used him extensively early on because he was so cool and exotic in a stale game, but now it seems he's been discovered.
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I agree, Chomp is getting way out of hand. It's just so versatile...
 
It doesn't have to be versatile... you know what it's gonna do, but you still can't beat it.

Anyways poor Alakazam is still sitting at #50. Someone other than me needs to boost him back into OU where he belongs. The key is thinking outside the box. I try and use his awesome disruptive movepool to sweep, don't rely on Trickspecs. Encore + Substitute is nice, so is Taunt, Thunderwave, etc.
 
I knew Vaporeon usage would rise, and I've been consistantly using her for the last few months due to her incredible versatility and bulky nature. Vaporeon stops virtually all of the Garchomp sets, bar the yache berry (If it get's in 2 outrages). Overall, I'd say that vaporeon's usage will keep on rising and blissey's will slowly decrease.

Garchomp is steadily becoming a major offensive threat with too good defenses. This will cause some discussion on whether it belongs in uber or not, that's what i foresee. :D
 
skiddle said:
It doesn't have to be versatile... you know what it's gonna do, but you still can't beat it.

Anyways poor Alakazam is still sitting at #50. Someone other than me needs to boost him back into OU where he belongs. The key is thinking outside the box. I try and use his awesome disruptive movepool to sweep, don't rely on Trickspecs. Encore + Substitute is nice, so is Taunt, Thunderwave, etc.
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Believe me ive been trying! Its just so sad to see one of my favorite pokemon so close yet so far to OU! I really thought this month it would change.

I've been using Roserade, and IMO its OU material. Its got an awesome ability, decent movepool, and a monster Special Attack.

Glad to hear Vappy is rising in usage, i only wish Jolteon would secured its OU position a few spots higher. It seems it'll drop out soon...that bring me to....

Milotic! What happened? It seems things hit to hard for her. I thought the Hypnosis + Recover advantage she had over her fellow bulky waters was reason enough to use her. I'm sorry to say Milotics not fit for the metagame at this point. She's unfortunately at the bottom of OU....
 
I think toxic spikes ruin milotic.
That's why she can't live up to her potential anymore. She used to sit there and tank well, but she can't anymore, and pokemon like vaporeon who can give wish to other pokemon do better than walls who can self-heal.
 
Because of the massive influx of Toxic Spikes, I think Milotic needs to switch to a restalker. Marvel Scale could prove to be very useful, boosting it's defense to a whopping 423. Throw in that awesome 394 HP, and you've got one heck of a wall.

@ [off topic] Thunderpup: hey, in D/P you called yourself Ness, do you play Earthbound ^_^ [/off topic]
 
Going to make an educated guess that Vaporeon's rising use also has to do with being one of the better Wishers still available with Official Shoddy's ban on Wish Blissey (which takes a lot of utility away from it and is probably costing it a lot of uses).

I've found Gallade to be one of the more reliable double-statusers for its bulk, as the faster slighter users like Mismagius are penalized much more for misses and speed doesn't really matter for the switch-in.
 
skiddle said:
Because of the massive influx of Toxic Spikes, I think Milotic needs to switch to a restalker. Marvel Scale could prove to be very useful, boosting it's defense to a whopping 423. Throw in that awesome 394 HP, and you've got one heck of a wall.

@ [off topic] Thunderpup: hey, in D/P you called yourself Ness, do you play Earthbound ^_^ [/off topic]
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I guess, but Rest Talk milotic loses that valuable hypnosis.
 
Mr_Goodbar said:
Agreed very much (as with everything else you said), though azelf does not really fit in with this ?_?
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Taunt/Stealth Rock Azelf @ Focus Sash has grown to be quite popular as a lead. The days of Nasty Plot @ Life Orb Azelf (much to my dismay) have long since passed.

Can't really say that there's anything here that surprises me to be honest, except for Gallade. Good to see it's finally getting the use it deserves (could also be linked to the Deoxys-E rise, considering Gallade is one hell of a counter)
 
I am surprised Electivire went up, I personally haven't seen one in about 2 months. Looks like nothing will catch Garchomp as its on about 95% of teams.
 
Mr_Goodbar said:
Agreed very much (as with everything else you said), though azelf does not really fit in with this ?_?
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Hmm. I've been seeing a tendency to see the lead Azelf @ Focus Sash w/ Taunt, Explosion, Stealth Rock, Filler. It's not bulky per-say but it's fast and is a great utility lead and works against many common leads.

Anyway, Deoxys-S rising is no surprise. It's a great late game cleaner (in the broken kinda of way) and I expect it to continue. I predicted the fall in Blissey in the event-moves topic because of the loss of Wish as well as the dramatic rise of Vaporeon but it's not only that which effects Blissey's usage. With the hyper-offensive metagame it's just hard to use Blissey. Plus, with the major special attackers she can walls such as Gengar and Azelf Blissey also must fear Explosion. Just a thought. I'm not surprised Roserade usage has risen at all. Toxic Spikes are amazing in this metagame right now (I'm a Roserade T-Spikes abuser myself). Many teams don't have enough room as it is to fit in a Rapid Spinner and most poison types aren't easily used on most teams (or at least the ones that can actually remove T-Spikes). Spiritomb rise is a direct result of Deoxys-S no question. It's Deoxys-S greatest fear with STAB Sucker Punch and Pursuit. I'm a little baffled by the dramatic rise in Suicune usage as well. I'm not sure exactly why it's so popular all of a sudden. The drop in Hippow isn't particularly surprising. He just doesn't have enough options to be usable outside of stall teams really, and for the most part stall is dead in DP.

Bulky offense has arrived it seems and this list proves it.
 
IggyBot said:
Taunt/Stealth Rock Azelf @ Focus Sash has grown to be quite popular as a lead. The days of Nasty Plot @ Life Orb Azelf (much to my dismay) have long since passed.

Can't really say that there's anything here that surprises me to be honest, except for Gallade. Good to see it's finally getting the use it deserves (could also be linked to the Deoxys-E rise, considering Gallade is one hell of a counter)
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This. Out of the 10 or so battles i had today, 8 of them were azelf leads with stealth rock/taunt/explosion(they exploded before i could ever figure out the forth move, most probably psychic) @ Focus Sash.

It was getting annoying after awile, because i had no ghost and my Jirachi was taking a large chunk of damage :(
 
darkie said:
This whole list coincides with the move to bulky offense, with the rise in Gyarados, Bronzong, Heatran, Celebi, Snorlax, and Scizor, all in response to the huge Deoxys-S rise. Spiritomb and Magnezone use also increases, the former to counter Deoxys-S, and the latter for Bronzong, which is used against Deoxys-S.
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I disagree with this darkie. Gyarados, Heatran, Celebi and Snorlax should all be going down due to Deoxys-S since he can easily kill them all, but they're going up.

Also, a lot of pokemon that would be described as "bulky offensive" pokemon have gone down a bit, despite Deoxys-S's supposed shaking of the metagame. I'm talking about Metagross, Heracross, Togekiss, Machamp and Suicune. Metagross is supposedly one of the best counters to Deoxys-S, but oddly enough, he went down in usage instead of up.

These may be minor points, but it does show that even though there's been a little change in the metagame, bulky offense is not totally dominant yet. A lot of frail offensive pokemon are still in the top 20. Heh, one thing's for sure, whether it's frail or bulky offense that's dominating, defense is taking a turn for the worst, considering pretty much every wall suffered a deficit this month.
 
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