Sword/Shield UU Metagame Primer

Composition

UU (UnderUsed) is Smogon's second usage-based tier. All Pokémon that are not OU by usage and are not banned to Ubers or UUBL can be used in UU, including Pokémon from RU, NU, and PU. While any of the aforementioned Pok&eracute;mon can be used in UU, only those Pokémon that make up at least ~4.52% of total weighted usage in the tier are designated 'UU.' A Pokémon is truly 'UU' if a typical competitive player is more than 50% likely to encounter that Pokémon at least once in a given day of playing (15 battles).

A list of the current UU Pokémon and those with UU analyses for the SS era are found on the dex page.

Play Restrictions

Players cannot use Pokémon from the Uber tier, OU, or UUBL.

Players must abide by the following clauses:

The UU Forum

Learn

The Simple Questions, Simple Answers thread is a great place to ask any simple questions you might have relating to the UU metagame. Do not make new threads for questions that could be answered here.

The SS UU Analyses forum is the place to go for writing analyses to be uploaded to the official Smogon Dex. You may reserve an analysis in the Index.

Participate

The SS UU Viability Rankings shows how well every UU-viable Pokémon fares in the UU tier.

The SS UU Metagame Discussion thread allows players to discuss current trends in the UU metagame.

You can help contribute to Smogon's social media pages by writing SS UU Pokémon Spotlights for the Facebook and Twitter pages.

The OU Discord server allows you to chat in real time with other Trainers about the UU tier.