Welcome to the official OU Viability Rankings topic. You should know the drill by now; In this thread, we as a community will rank every single usable Pokemon into "tiers." In this thread, you're encouraged to post your thoughts and opinions on the various Pokemon that are usable in OU and what tier they should fall under. Posts in this thread will be taken into account when deciding rank changes.
The general idea of the topic is to rank each OU pokemon under "rankings" that go in descending order. Since this is a general tier list, everything is lumped together. There won't be any segregation between offense & defense threats.
- EX: Garchomp can be ranked in A tier as an offensive threat, Ferrothorn can be ranked under A as supportive threat and Toxapex can be can also be ranked in A tier as a defensive threat. These are just examples not representative of their future or current ranks.
Ranking Team:
We are alphabetical just like the mons.
SETS: If looking for sets they can be found in the online Pokedex. Also, each Pokemon will have a link to its individual analysis for detailed information. Just click on their names to be taken to their respective analysis. http://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/pokemon
Sets viability thread can be found in this link below for discussion of which sets are more viable than others in the meta.
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sm-ou-sets-viability-rankings.3592113/
SM OU Ranking Tier List
(In alphabetical order)
S Rank:
S Rank
Landorus-T
A Rank:
A+ Rank
A Rank
A- Rank
B Rank:
B+ Rank
B Rank
Kingdra
B- Rank
C Rank:
C+ Rank
Bisharp
C Rank
Alakazam
C- Rank
Aerodactyl (Mega)
Rules - Now updated 5/17/2017
- Post intelligently. Posts like "I think pokemon X should be in this tier" will be deleted.
- No flaming and being an idiot. You'll get warned if you purposely do. This specifically includes making joke nominations about other users.
- Usage statistics may be used to support an argument or a claim, but don't base your ENTIRE argument around them. For example, you can't just say "Pokemon X shouldn't be this tier because they aren't used that often!"
- When nominating a Pokemon, do not merely list its obvious qualities such as stats, typing, movepool, etc. If you think a Pokemon deserves to rise or drop, explain what has changed in the meta to cause such Pokemon to get better or worse.
- Suspect talk, unrelated stuff, one liners that ask questions that provide no substance, something that doesn't really pertain to rankings or petty arguments about semantics and definitions, such as the definition of a counter as one example, will be deleted.
- Pokemon that are OU simply by usage do not guarantee them a spot in the rankings
- When new Pokemon/Mega Stones are released, please hold off on discussing their ranking placement for at least a week to avoid theorymoning
- Failure to follow these rules after multiple warnings will result in an infraction or possibly worse
- POST REPLAYS FOR NOMINATIONS FROM UNRANKED TO RANKED OR YOUR POST WILL BE DELETED!!!
- Mega Beedrill (this is never coming off)
- Porygon-Z
Happy posting
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