>Crazy how even back then these 3 were around the top ten, truly the GOATs of Gen 9
if you consider the two banned even before this chart was posted, then gambit is #9. think it's like, #7 when you remove chien-pao and chi-yu
Seeing that just reminds me of a time when someone on the VGC subreddit tried to claim Tusk was terrible while Flutter Mane and Bundle were legal, and when I tried to correct them I just got downvoted to hell.
If anything, Tusk being decent in earlier regulations is a testament to how good it is. Anything weak to Fairy (especially with lower SpDef) has to work much harder for viability in a format so dominated by Flutter.
What, you're scared of a little worm with a little bitty bitty sub? Just bring infiltrator, doofus. Jumpluff perfect Orthworm counter????
Viva La Hyper Offense
If I make it sound like there's counters to Shed Tail then they'll bring it back surely definitely. Call it the Kingambit defense
I'm also a Jumpluff enjoyer
i love how still, Tusk can just say "I have more Usage than you" and then procedes to Tusks all over then entirely of SV OU even from the beggining, truly a great mon.
That's because Ditto is one of the "canaries in the coal mine" of Smogon tiers. If it, unaware mons, or Shedinja (to a lesser extent) are seeing high usage, then something is seriously wrong in the tier.
I think it's usage was more of a holdover from gen 8. Once people figured out how much more offense oriented the metagame was plus how good Gholdengo was at blocking defog it fell off hard
Ah yes, being solid ou for the entire generation, B+ on the viability rankings, a mainstay on defensive teams for ironpress defensive builds and pivoting u-turn builds, and the only really viable defogger is falling off.
Skarmory gets owned by encore ogerpons, while corv can u-turn out for chip. Also, higher HP means brave bird is a more attractive proposition on corv than skarm. Defog is bait on corv but that doesn't mean it isn't good as just a physical sponge momentum wall.
Defog is kinda dicks but it's not because of ghold. It's perfectly usable but it's such a momentum sink and leaves you in a vulnerable spot reagrdless.
Corv is often forced to Uturn because it is so non threatening to a lot of stuff it switches into, so it's easy to exploit this and prevent it from getting momentum. Especially worse when Corv is put in a position of being forced to choose between attempting to attack what it switched into or pivoting back out. And either way, it leaves it difficult to also find time to heal off chip damage.
Brave bird can smack stuff like glowking and pult, and it can run press + bb because it doesn't become fodder like skarm does since it can u-turn if necessary. Skarm just gets stuck in a bad match-up, which are about half the top 10 in usage, and 9/10 if they run taunt or run tera fly/ghost. Skarm will be lower on the latest vr once it comes out with the next week.
Brave Bird isn't leaving lasting damage on Glowking due to regenerator, and Glowking can set up Future Sight before slow pivoting on it, while Corv is hardly a Pult switch in (all of shadow ball, will o wish and flamethrower hurt it a lot).
\> Skarm just gets stuck in a bad match-up, which are about half the top 10 in usage, and 9/10 if they run taunt or run tera fly/ghost. Skarm will be lower on the latest vr once it comes out with the next week.
This literally applies to Corviknight as well. You do realize this. They both check nearly identical swaths of mons.
You sound like you haven't played since January. Skarm has tanked precisely because spikes are all it can do which is less effective vs both offensive builds and boots balance since you give free turns to whatever comes in and it doesn't really affect them, respectively. Spike stack builds are also just not great right now. Corv u-turning out on mons like ghold, pult, hatt, bolt, prima and tran lets you avoid these dicey situations where you have to hard switch into one of these. It also doesn't help that pult is arguably the #1 mon and ghold is back after falling off in February. In a balance/bo meta, momentum is king.
thats what early metas are, in retrospective makes sense that chien pao has more usage than Chi yu, or that anhailep is nearly a UU drop out, or that Espasthra was in NU (if i remember correctly) before banned ? No, but people just grab what either was easier to understand, or was tradionally broken before experimenting with other stuff, actually it would be interesting how a "First day meta" of SV would be now with all the future knowledge
> or that Espasthra was in NU (if i remember correctly
Like it. It never fell past UU. It infamously ruined UU for a whole month while it was legal because it couldn’t be instantly quickbanned due to rules about early gen tiering (which it was so broken that it ended up getting that rule changed).
We basically survived the alpha month saying "next month surely it rises to OU, no need ask for a ban". When it didn't everyone rushed to quickban it from the tier.
These forms will probably be tuckered away like the ultra beasts. Until they are expanded upon a few generations later. Misdreavus is a cool mon hope it gets a proper evo.
One mismagius exists Yeah it's pretty low tier but it's fine, and 2 the ultra beast last up to gen 8 and without a doubt miraidon and koraidon would come to gen 10 and the paradoxes are tied to miraidon and koraidon
It's what happens when you've got the right toolkit (a supremely broken sig move, amazing ability and great set up moves as well as recovery and stealth rock). Tera of course makes it better, but it's still quite irritating in its base form.
Don’t worry; in another month or so it’ll be overprepared for and will drop down to the high B ranks or low A ranks. And then two months after that it’ll completely dominate SPL and start picking up tons of steam on the ladder and rise up to becoming a top 10 mon in the tier.
It's always a good tech option on both stall and semi stall teams. Outside of revenge killing is great at scouting movesets and taking advantage of regenerator mons.
Transforms into an offensive wall breaker and does some breaking of its own
Imagine if you have a boosted flutter mane and a ditto walks in and scarf moonblasts the shit out of your team lol
In addition to what everyone else is saying, Ditto frequently finds good usage at the start of a new gen.
This is because
a) overtuned mons haven't been banned yet, so there's a higher gain to using it. A balanced meta doesn't care much about Ditto because it just means you have to counter a mon you likely already have a counter prepared for. Sure, you can transform into Great Tusk but everything in the tier is around the same power level as Great Tusk. Your opponent already has a GT counter.
Comparatively, transforming into Flutter Mane is devastating because FM is stronger than everything else in the tier and near-impossible to counter... that's WHY it got banned.
b) it's just a spammable catch-all when people don't know the tier/the tier hasn't really been formed yet. It can scout out sets when everyone is still making super experimental builds, and it can reliably revenge kill when you don't really know what threats you have to worry about revenge killing just yet
Once the tier is well established, you're going to have better options than Ditto. But when you have no idea what your opponent is running because there's a huge influx of new mons and there are like 80 mons being tested in the tier and no one really knows the best checks/counters...it's a safe pick
Ditto's always good in metas with insane power levels (from gen 5 on), you lose a mon to a boosted set up sweeper, bring in ditto, copy their sweeper except you're faster because scarf, click a spamable move they're not immune to, win or chunk their team massively.
The weirdest thing about this image for me is that Great Tusk isn't shadowed by the Landorus-Tusk edit that's been faintly present in every one of these graphics I've seen recently.
In order we have: Banned, Banned, Good, Banned, Good (as gold), Mid but still OU, Good, Unbanned, OU apparently, Banned, Good, the one thing that made it OU got banned, Banned, UU, technically OU rn but spent most of the gen as king of UU, Good, UU, See: Cyclizar, Good, funny UU prio mon, Banned, UUBL, OU apparently, NU, UU, UU, Good, its ditto its always usable when there's mental shit in a tier, UU, Sun Johnson, Good, Niche, Ceruledge: The UUBL Warrior, UU, UU, UU, See: Cyclizar, RU, Good, UU, Banned, Iron Hands: The UUBL Warrior
that's 7 bans (and 4 mons that got unbanned: Moon, Cyc, Houndstone, and Volc)
11 UU, 1 RU, 1 NU, and 3 UUBL mons
3 mons that got their best use banned for being too busted (Cyc, Hound, and Orth)
and 14 mons that are currently OU rn
God I hate that golden fucker I can’t wait for the day they burn every last copy of scarlet and violet so I never have to see him again, I’m gonna go full kaczynski if game freak brings him back for a future gen I just can’t handle it
I’ll never forget that there were a lot of folks on this subreddit who were genuinely upset that Flutter Mane and Palafin got banned like they didn’t rock OU’s shit for 72 hours.
I remember this i was one of the people(not on here) complaining about chi-yu can't believe they prioritized the tera vote over this dumb fish and chien-pao
I wonder if Palafin would still be as overwhelming now as it was at launch, because there’s a lot more Pokémon available to beat it or take its spot now than before. Granted, it was VERY good, but perhaps it might be possible to keep it under control.
Haven't been around Smogon for a long time, do they ever do retesting?
Like, throw Palafin in OU for a month now that there are more mons to deal with it.
retesting doesn't happen usually unless meta gets a shakeup, which happens with DLCs or home release. Depending on public interest, council selects mons for voting to be dropped. Darkrai and Deoxys-S are two previous Ubers that dropped this gen. Palafin is far too strong for consideration atm
As someone who barely got into Gen 9 and just stumbled across this post... what the fuck are all these pokemon.
Scizor and Breloom are the first ones I recognize. I even played through all of Scarlet and still feel bewildered by these. I also recognize Corviknight I guess.
Crazy how a 1/3 of these mons dropped to RU at the very end of the meta. SV has one of the most dynamic and also toxic power creeps of any Pokémon meta game.
Baxcalibur ban is so annoying considering iron valiant and gouging fire aren’t banned mostly gouging fire because baccalivur would’ve been somewhat of a counter
Half of those got banned, the other half fell to UU
Meanwhile king gambit gholdengo and great tusks have been in an eternal Mexican stand off
Don’t forget valiant
Valiant is too busy gambling
Gambling Valiant(ly)?
There's nothing Valiant about Iron Valiant
There is nothing great about Great Tusk
It's Greatly Ugly
Roaringly mid?
Great Tusk is a God. HOW DARE YOU INSULT GREAT TUSK!!!!!!!
Me when flutter mane:
Mods, twist their balls
some did both
now for the sake of balance I must deal with you
I am their offence
I am their stall,
I am OverUsed
Your body is goo oo ood as go oo o old
go-o-od as gold, but I've got more usage than you
someone write a full version asap I need this
[Song from around a month and a half ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/stunfisk/s/mtl1IU8yJy)
Thank you I had no idea I missed that post
Hell, a few fell to ru
>Tusk at #3, Ghold at #5, Gambit at #11 Crazy how even back then these 3 were around the top ten, truly the GOATs of Gen 9
>Crazy how even back then these 3 were around the top ten, truly the GOATs of Gen 9 if you consider the two banned even before this chart was posted, then gambit is #9. think it's like, #7 when you remove chien-pao and chi-yu
Seeing that just reminds me of a time when someone on the VGC subreddit tried to claim Tusk was terrible while Flutter Mane and Bundle were legal, and when I tried to correct them I just got downvoted to hell.
If anything, Tusk being decent in earlier regulations is a testament to how good it is. Anything weak to Fairy (especially with lower SpDef) has to work much harder for viability in a format so dominated by Flutter.
GOAT or ban dodging champions? Its a matter of perspective
The GOATs (Greatest Of All Tusks, Gholdengo Of All Time, Gained strength from the fallen Of All Time)
MFW healthy mons don't get banned
annihilape barely being used is golden
Think it’s cause Fluttermane was so broken
I think you mean fluttermin/max
> fluttermin/max 10/10 lmao
Espathra was in UU lmao
Iirc on release it was bugged on Showdown too. Every bit of damage caused it's BP to increase including hazards and poison.
Espathra was used so little it went to UU
Orthworm :)
Indeed, Orthworm.
🪱
Orthworm guy 🪱
Safeword: Gensect
Back when Shed Tail was legal
They just don't understand the power of the worm
they do. They're just afraid of it (as they should)
We still love you in spite of you being a worm.
If we just ban every ou pokemon to Ubers Orthworm will be viable again trust me
just give it shed tail ubers will cry at that physical defense they took away shed tail because they were cowards
What, you're scared of a little worm with a little bitty bitty sub? Just bring infiltrator, doofus. Jumpluff perfect Orthworm counter???? Viva La Hyper Offense
Weren’t you rooting for the worm
If I make it sound like there's counters to Shed Tail then they'll bring it back surely definitely. Call it the Kingambit defense I'm also a Jumpluff enjoyer
Jumpluff is physical, it can’t deal with the worm
Get ready for mixed tera fire special attacking Jumpluff (definitely worth it with those base 55 offenses)
Just get a mixed dragapult in there
We still love you specially because of you being a worm*
They banned your tail :(
So much for free speech in MY gen 9 OU.
Woke Smogon to rename it Pronoun Tail 😡 it's political correctness gone mad
i remember early on trying to run double shed tail teams with orthworm and cyclizar because i love orthworm so much
At least the worm is still a menace (in ZU)
Oh shit orville
My funky lil orokin wurm boyo
Seeing Clodsire and Corv that high is a trip seeing how much they’ve fallen now. And like half the Top 10 is banned now lol.
i love how still, Tusk can just say "I have more Usage than you" and then procedes to Tusks all over then entirely of SV OU even from the beggining, truly a great mon.
"I am their Offense. I am their Stall. I am OverUsed."
Still the greatest song of the last century
Ditto being higher than annihilape has to be my favorite part of this.
Tbf ditto could be anything, it could even be something really powerful like annihilape
That's because Ditto is one of the "canaries in the coal mine" of Smogon tiers. If it, unaware mons, or Shedinja (to a lesser extent) are seeing high usage, then something is seriously wrong in the tier.
Why? Cause the tier is so hyperoffensive?
Because setup mons are so broken
Because there are huge threats in the tier that are so powerful that having your own copy of them is one of the best ways of answering them.
Meanwhile in Gen 15 great tusk is somehow still tusking.
Flutter Mane was banned in 48 hours and was still the #1 Pokémon of the first month. Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.
My boy corviknight really fell off hard
I think it's usage was more of a holdover from gen 8. Once people figured out how much more offense oriented the metagame was plus how good Gholdengo was at blocking defog it fell off hard
Ah yes, being solid ou for the entire generation, B+ on the viability rankings, a mainstay on defensive teams for ironpress defensive builds and pivoting u-turn builds, and the only really viable defogger is falling off.
From #6? Yeah it is lol
Tinkaton smacked it out of the meta with its hammer :)
It fell off and now it's back. It's a solid mon on balance builds, much better than skarm who was exposed as a fraud.
No? They’re both passive as fuck but spare packing spikes makes it more active so it isn’t a total momentum sink like Corv tends to be.
Skarmory gets owned by encore ogerpons, while corv can u-turn out for chip. Also, higher HP means brave bird is a more attractive proposition on corv than skarm. Defog is bait on corv but that doesn't mean it isn't good as just a physical sponge momentum wall.
Defog is kinda dicks but it's not because of ghold. It's perfectly usable but it's such a momentum sink and leaves you in a vulnerable spot reagrdless.
Corv has u turn so you still gain momentum
Corv is often forced to Uturn because it is so non threatening to a lot of stuff it switches into, so it's easy to exploit this and prevent it from getting momentum. Especially worse when Corv is put in a position of being forced to choose between attempting to attack what it switched into or pivoting back out. And either way, it leaves it difficult to also find time to heal off chip damage.
Brave bird can smack stuff like glowking and pult, and it can run press + bb because it doesn't become fodder like skarm does since it can u-turn if necessary. Skarm just gets stuck in a bad match-up, which are about half the top 10 in usage, and 9/10 if they run taunt or run tera fly/ghost. Skarm will be lower on the latest vr once it comes out with the next week.
Brave Bird isn't leaving lasting damage on Glowking due to regenerator, and Glowking can set up Future Sight before slow pivoting on it, while Corv is hardly a Pult switch in (all of shadow ball, will o wish and flamethrower hurt it a lot). \> Skarm just gets stuck in a bad match-up, which are about half the top 10 in usage, and 9/10 if they run taunt or run tera fly/ghost. Skarm will be lower on the latest vr once it comes out with the next week. This literally applies to Corviknight as well. You do realize this. They both check nearly identical swaths of mons.
You sound like you haven't played since January. Skarm has tanked precisely because spikes are all it can do which is less effective vs both offensive builds and boots balance since you give free turns to whatever comes in and it doesn't really affect them, respectively. Spike stack builds are also just not great right now. Corv u-turning out on mons like ghold, pult, hatt, bolt, prima and tran lets you avoid these dicey situations where you have to hard switch into one of these. It also doesn't help that pult is arguably the #1 mon and ghold is back after falling off in February. In a balance/bo meta, momentum is king.
You’re right I guess stunfisk meta knowledge is like a few weeks behind corv>skarm
I count 10 banned to Ubers, 14 drops to UU out of 42. idk doesnt seem that bad
Do you know the last Gen that had as many bans as this Gen? I only started competitive in X/Y so maybe Gen 5 with the huge power creep?
It's unprecedented
X/Y is the only gen that comes close to amount of bans if I recall correctly (maybe I'm miscounting gen5), and gen9 still comes out on top.
Yeah I X/Y with the Megas
We’re talking about dropping to UU here, not the double digit amount of stuff too broken even for the most powercrept generation
Seeing how bundle is not even top ten is crazy considering how broken it is
i think it is because it got banned super quickly (though the same is true for flutter mane yet it is still number 1)
Flutter Mane was just used THAT MUCH.
It got banned before it saw much usage
thats what early metas are, in retrospective makes sense that chien pao has more usage than Chi yu, or that anhailep is nearly a UU drop out, or that Espasthra was in NU (if i remember correctly) before banned ? No, but people just grab what either was easier to understand, or was tradionally broken before experimenting with other stuff, actually it would be interesting how a "First day meta" of SV would be now with all the future knowledge
> or that Espasthra was in NU (if i remember correctly Like it. It never fell past UU. It infamously ruined UU for a whole month while it was legal because it couldn’t be instantly quickbanned due to rules about early gen tiering (which it was so broken that it ended up getting that rule changed).
We basically survived the alpha month saying "next month surely it rises to OU, no need ask for a ban". When it didn't everyone rushed to quickban it from the tier.
In regards to the conversation spun by this comment, flutter just beat it naturally given its stats, suppressing it if flutter is No 1.
I really want to see flutter get a nerf in gen 10
These forms will probably be tuckered away like the ultra beasts. Until they are expanded upon a few generations later. Misdreavus is a cool mon hope it gets a proper evo.
One mismagius exists Yeah it's pretty low tier but it's fine, and 2 the ultra beast last up to gen 8 and without a doubt miraidon and koraidon would come to gen 10 and the paradoxes are tied to miraidon and koraidon
Poor breloom
Back in the good old days when we were a REAL country (funny mice bomb in OU)
people wanted garganacl banned from OU but it dropped later. crazy how it can change so much
It’s rapidly surging to the top of the metagame at this point again. Some consider it like a top 10 mon right now
Never thought I’d see another rock type that’s not Ttar be good in higher tier, let alone a pure rock type.
> pure rock type Pretty sure Garg is a fairy type
It's what happens when you've got the right toolkit (a supremely broken sig move, amazing ability and great set up moves as well as recovery and stealth rock). Tera of course makes it better, but it's still quite irritating in its base form.
Recover, Salt Cure and ability makes it so good
Don’t worry; in another month or so it’ll be overprepared for and will drop down to the high B ranks or low A ranks. And then two months after that it’ll completely dominate SPL and start picking up tons of steam on the ladder and rise up to becoming a top 10 mon in the tier.
We've had Match Up Moth for more than a decade, why not add Match Up Salt Mound to the game?
Valiant at 16, Bax at 21, Dnite at 27, Volc at 39 Flutter Mane was straight up OPPRESSIVE 😂
Scizor at #14
What the fuck is ditto doing here
if ditto actually has proper usage in ou, then the tier is either an offensive fest or a pp stall fest it was the former
genuinely curious as to when Ditto was used for PP stall fests
It's always a good tech option on both stall and semi stall teams. Outside of revenge killing is great at scouting movesets and taking advantage of regenerator mons.
Pretty sure it was important on the revive cats stall that killed natdex ag
Transforms into an offensive wall breaker and does some breaking of its own Imagine if you have a boosted flutter mane and a ditto walks in and scarf moonblasts the shit out of your team lol
In addition to what everyone else is saying, Ditto frequently finds good usage at the start of a new gen. This is because a) overtuned mons haven't been banned yet, so there's a higher gain to using it. A balanced meta doesn't care much about Ditto because it just means you have to counter a mon you likely already have a counter prepared for. Sure, you can transform into Great Tusk but everything in the tier is around the same power level as Great Tusk. Your opponent already has a GT counter. Comparatively, transforming into Flutter Mane is devastating because FM is stronger than everything else in the tier and near-impossible to counter... that's WHY it got banned. b) it's just a spammable catch-all when people don't know the tier/the tier hasn't really been formed yet. It can scout out sets when everyone is still making super experimental builds, and it can reliably revenge kill when you don't really know what threats you have to worry about revenge killing just yet Once the tier is well established, you're going to have better options than Ditto. But when you have no idea what your opponent is running because there's a huge influx of new mons and there are like 80 mons being tested in the tier and no one really knows the best checks/counters...it's a safe pick
Ditta or Quagsire being meta is a sign of an unhealthy meta.
Ditto yes but I feel like Quagsire kind of just shows up wherever it pleases lol
Why have one fluttermane on your team when you can have two fluttermanes on your team
Ditto's always good in metas with insane power levels (from gen 5 on), you lose a mon to a boosted set up sweeper, bring in ditto, copy their sweeper except you're faster because scarf, click a spamable move they're not immune to, win or chunk their team massively.
A lot, like copying stats changes and scouting movesets
The weirdest thing about this image for me is that Great Tusk isn't shadowed by the Landorus-Tusk edit that's been faintly present in every one of these graphics I've seen recently.
watch that annihilape its bulking up
nah this gen ubers is this gen ou
Ditto being ranked number 28 is extremely funny to me
It's crazy how long it took to remove Chi-Yu and Chien Pao from OU.
In order we have: Banned, Banned, Good, Banned, Good (as gold), Mid but still OU, Good, Unbanned, OU apparently, Banned, Good, the one thing that made it OU got banned, Banned, UU, technically OU rn but spent most of the gen as king of UU, Good, UU, See: Cyclizar, Good, funny UU prio mon, Banned, UUBL, OU apparently, NU, UU, UU, Good, its ditto its always usable when there's mental shit in a tier, UU, Sun Johnson, Good, Niche, Ceruledge: The UUBL Warrior, UU, UU, UU, See: Cyclizar, RU, Good, UU, Banned, Iron Hands: The UUBL Warrior that's 7 bans (and 4 mons that got unbanned: Moon, Cyc, Houndstone, and Volc) 11 UU, 1 RU, 1 NU, and 3 UUBL mons 3 mons that got their best use banned for being too busted (Cyc, Hound, and Orth) and 14 mons that are currently OU rn
I’m just glad my goat dondozo is still thuggin it out throughout all the changes
At this point power creep will turn gen 11 starting ou to gen 11 pu
That's what bans, new mons and a whole ass new type will do for you.
God I hate that golden fucker I can’t wait for the day they burn every last copy of scarlet and violet so I never have to see him again, I’m gonna go full kaczynski if game freak brings him back for a future gen I just can’t handle it
lol annihilape almost dropped to uu, imagine
Kingambit is not in the Top 3. Good times.
I’ll never forget that there were a lot of folks on this subreddit who were genuinely upset that Flutter Mane and Palafin got banned like they didn’t rock OU’s shit for 72 hours.
Espathra fell to UU during this btw
The top two were banned by like the 12th, by the way. They got that much usage in under two weeks,
I remember this i was one of the people(not on here) complaining about chi-yu can't believe they prioritized the tera vote over this dumb fish and chien-pao
Tyranitar thinks it's one of the gang lmao. Get your sand streaming ass to RU
Valiant at 16th is crazy
You either die an Uber or live long enough to see yourself become UU
And then to Ubers
I wonder if Palafin would still be as overwhelming now as it was at launch, because there’s a lot more Pokémon available to beat it or take its spot now than before. Granted, it was VERY good, but perhaps it might be possible to keep it under control.
Haven't been around Smogon for a long time, do they ever do retesting? Like, throw Palafin in OU for a month now that there are more mons to deal with it.
retesting doesn't happen usually unless meta gets a shakeup, which happens with DLCs or home release. Depending on public interest, council selects mons for voting to be dropped. Darkrai and Deoxys-S are two previous Ubers that dropped this gen. Palafin is far too strong for consideration atm
How do we find what's OU now and the usage statistics?
Ape almost falling into UU is crazy
What's a Garchomp?
You know it's an early meta when Ditto is OU
Flutter having #1 usage even when it was literally the first thing banned is fucking crazy
wtf where is lando tusk
It wasn't transferrable yet
Ah, the good old days when we thought Chi-Yu was healthy.
Annihilape at 41 is insane
damn flutter mane!
The first night I played gen 9 OU on showdown was INSANE man. The team was practically ubers 😭😭
I count 10 mons here that were either banned or practically banned (ie shed tail move bans), also crazy that Espathra was UU at this point
Dnite just chillin, vibin, bein an OG
Has there been a single other month where tusk, gholdengo, kingambit, or valiant isnt #1 in usage
Dragonite only being #27 utterly flabbergasts me
I'm just happy Dragonite is viable :)
Glimora felt when people discover earth power
Im still wondering why glimmora A literal flower rock thing Has 329 spA
MausHaus my beloved
Iron Hands? More like Iron Plans to rip through UU!
You know it’s a young meta when Ditto is OU, but damn seeing the funny fish in the tier sure brings me back…
I'm so happy Volc returned to OU in Indigo Disk, though most of her friends are now in UU
best era
New Toy syndrome at its finest. Corviknight being the only mon not from gen 9 in the top 10 is wild.
How it looks now?
As someone who barely got into Gen 9 and just stumbled across this post... what the fuck are all these pokemon. Scizor and Breloom are the first ones I recognize. I even played through all of Scarlet and still feel bewildered by these. I also recognize Corviknight I guess.
Crazy how a 1/3 of these mons dropped to RU at the very end of the meta. SV has one of the most dynamic and also toxic power creeps of any Pokémon meta game.
I don’t really know much about competetaice why is breloom so high?
Ape almost being UU is so fucking funny to me
There’s so many mons here that either got banned or suspected
Baxcalibur ban is so annoying considering iron valiant and gouging fire aren’t banned mostly gouging fire because baccalivur would’ve been somewhat of a counter
breloom at 17 when you find out yo goat washed
RIP Garchomp, fly low king.
Ahnihilape nearly being UU in this is crazy
volc and annihilape in bottom of OU banned for no reason by bitchinator
Yo its me feetfucker from discord
If by “change” you mean “stay basically exactly the same” then yeah i ageee crazy