Uber Analysis (Part 2)
First Post:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1762059&postcount=14
There were significantly more uber battles this month than last month. Quite a few new players started playing - and this is undoubtedly responsible for some of the shifts in the statistics (although the degree can certainly be called into question). Unfortunately, I was absent for about half the month, but I'll try my best to interpret these stats regardless.
On the whole, the metagame has further decentralized this month. Yet again, one more pokemon is included in the top 75% of usages. Delving more in-depth into each ranking's comparative stance to last month, however, reveals a few interesting micro-trends. For your benefit, I'll scale this month's usages to last month's.
Rank - December - January* - Percent Change
*scaled down to actual usage*~.5485
1).......3668..........3562.5.......-2.9%
2).......3353..........2902.1......-13.5%
3).......2818..........2744.1.......-2.7%
4).......2539..........2587.8.......+1.9%
5).......2449..........2575.2.......+5.2%
6).......2372..........2573.5.......+8.5%
7).......1942..........2166.6......+11.6%
8).......1926..........1540.7......-20.0%
9).......1534..........1465.0.......-4.5%
10).....1499..........1402.0.......-6.5%
11).....1316..........1232.5.......-6.3%
12).....1303..........1104.1......-15.3%
13).....1233..........1164.5.......-5.6%
14)......936...........1038.3......+10.9%
15)......822............922.6......+12.2%
16)......745............727.3.......-2.4%
17)......658............677.9.......+3.0%
18)......596............676.8......+13.6%
19)......526............629.1......+19.6%
--- OU cut-off point --- (December)
20)......472............564.4......+19.6% (not a typo)
--- OU cut-off point --- (January)
21)......467............478.3.......+2.4%
22)......433............476.6......+10.1%
23)......412............409.7.......-0.6%
24)......399............401.0.......+0.5%
25)......391............378.5.......-3.2%
Just a quick browse at these statistics, however, immediately reveals that the bulk of decentralization as it effects lower number ranked pokemon is a result of #8 on. The top spots also underwent decentralization, but usage was distributed amongst themselves, the top 7 (formerly the top 6). Compared to the rest of the metagame, the top 7 as a whole are roughly as diverse as they were previously. From a relative standpoint, the #1 pokemon has "pulled away" from 2-7. It still lost usage to the others, but it lost considerably less.
More to come. I'm posting these numbers immediately "just in case". I don't want to redo all these calculations.