For a couple of years now we have started having monthly tiering changes in between the regular 3 months tier shifts. That was mostly done to allow Pokemon such as Gothitelle and Wobbuffet and to non-mega formes of Pokemon to drop down in tiers faster and increase the poll of usable mons for lower tiers.
The system has been fine and stuff just dropped down in tiers and nothing really went up as a result of those changes.
That until the recent quickrise of Ambipom this month that got around 12% usage in UU despite being unviable due to "manipulation" from some influencers.
The current weighting system was implemented years back to prevent stuff like that from happening but when the scale of people is so big and the content being so popular you can only do so much to stop it.
Considering that January was a 3/24 month Ambipom is in any case most likely dropping to RU with the next tier shift (and it will take another one for it to drop back to NU which is probaly its place) and the move up was simply unnecessary.
My proposal is then to stop having quickrises. Higher tiers can still use mons in the lower ones so nothing changes for them, the metagames below are more stable due to less frequent changes, and if something gets a new toy that makes it broken it will get banned quickly (see Contrary Serperior in PU/NU/RU).
tagging Antar
e: since someone asked: we should keep quickdrops
The system has been fine and stuff just dropped down in tiers and nothing really went up as a result of those changes.
That until the recent quickrise of Ambipom this month that got around 12% usage in UU despite being unviable due to "manipulation" from some influencers.
The current weighting system was implemented years back to prevent stuff like that from happening but when the scale of people is so big and the content being so popular you can only do so much to stop it.
Considering that January was a 3/24 month Ambipom is in any case most likely dropping to RU with the next tier shift (and it will take another one for it to drop back to NU which is probaly its place) and the move up was simply unnecessary.
My proposal is then to stop having quickrises. Higher tiers can still use mons in the lower ones so nothing changes for them, the metagames below are more stable due to less frequent changes, and if something gets a new toy that makes it broken it will get banned quickly (see Contrary Serperior in PU/NU/RU).
tagging Antar
e: since someone asked: we should keep quickdrops