Rejected - Inactive Options to sort Pokemon, Items, etc by Usage in the Teambuilder

Plague von Karma

Banned deucer.
So, I haven't seen a post for this so I thought I'd chuck it up.

I feel a good way to streamline the teambuilding process in the Showdown Teambuilder would be to have a Usage Sorting function. Hell, maybe an option to pull up the latest stat sheet. I often find myself having to Ctrl+F through the Index of /stats/ when considering my build, or when reviewing the current meta, which can be a bit difficult on my end given the formatting. It isn't anyone's fault they're like that, in fact, I believe it's the best they can be in their current form. But, I feel that the sheets could be put to better use on Showdown for the end-user. So, how about integrating it more for convenience?

In terms of ideas on how to implement it, I have some. There could be a toggle on the Pokemon Search to order by Usage, the same way you would order by highest/lowest stat right now. This would be the same for items and moves, only for the Pokemon itself rather than generalized (at least that's how it looks in my experience, correct me if I'm wrong). I feel this would make any Showdown format far more accessible, hell it may even improve low ladder. I wouldn't replace the current stuff personally as it definitely has a place, only have it toggle-able.

If this is already being developed in the new thing Zarel was doing, then feel free to tell me I'm stupid so I can crawl back into my cave.:psycry:
 
I dunno how doable integrating usage stats into teambuilding is, since that'd require a lot of work from what exists currently plus having to manually update it each month, though I do like the idea of making usage stats easier to find and utilize.

Something we have in the 1v1 room is /rfaq usage, which pulls up the most recent stats from the past month.
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I think having at least this much on a universal scale would be useful with the likes of a /usage command:
- base /usage pulls up the general stats page https://www.smogon.com/stats/ and maybe an explanation on how to use /usage to find the below option, as well as listing the different Glicko ranges.
- something like /usage gen8ou, 1825 pulls up the most recent SS OU stats (usage/moveset/leads/metagame) from that range of Glicko-1.

At the very least, the base /usage command would be nice so that we don't have to make rfaqs or google search every time we wanna pull up usage stats.

E: this thread also gave me the idea to do this for the 1v1 room
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If this sounds more like a separate suggestion please let me know and I'll make a separate thread.
 
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