Wednesday, April 9, 2014

1760 stats' impact on tiering + Lucario in UU

I've already gone over the Pokémon that changed tiers solely because of the new weighting system, but I just wanted to push it a step further and compare some Pokémon that don't change tiers, but whose ranking varies wildly.

For reference purposes, here are the stats with the old weighting method and the new one.

So many big changes. Bisharp goes from #21 to #5, Landorus-T from #20 to #7, Keldeo from #39 to #10, Chansey from #40 to #23 (in fact it's even more popular than Blissey at higher levels of play), Landorus-I from #58 to #25... There are also several Pokémon who took a nasty tumble, especially Greninja (#5 to #21), Togekiss (#26 to #41) and Volcarona (#35 to #55).

On another subject, last month I wondered whether Mega Lucario's ban would mean the disappearance of its base form from OU, and the numbers I had back then gave us the right idea: vanilla Lucario just doesn't cut it anymore, at #82. Was Gamefreak targeting it for a mega evolution amazing foresight or sheer dumb luck? Either way, I think we can agree Adaptability was freaking overkill. Heck, there's no need for a super godly ability for previously bad Pokémon to rise to fame - Mega Manectric is currently making Jolteon quite obsolete armed with just the standard issue Intimidate, to such an extent that it should enter OU very soon. Of course it makes an amazing VoltTurn core with Landorus-T, who also has Intimidate, but my point is, even the megas that don't have terrifyingly good abilities are making a name for themselves.

9 comments:

  1. You're wrong! Mega Gengar's shadow tag should be legal! But it was okay to change chandelure's ability to infiltrator, else it would've been way too strong! We can't have it competing with mega gengar! Don't you understand the groundbreaking, forward thinking mentality GameFreak is applying to our megas?

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    1. On a serious note, I think Gamefreak thought the restriction of having only one mega per team would be a lot more punishing than it is now. Which it might be someday... when more than 26 Pokémon can megavolve.

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  2. I know you don't claim to be a genius at competitive metagame implications, but what do you think would happen if Game Freak released this event? How might Bibarel fare then?
    Bibarel
    Ability: Fixed at Simple
    Random Nature
    -Shift Gear
    -Sacred Fire
    -Earthquake
    -Stone Edge

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    1. Even with Sacred Fire Entei's still riding the hamster wheel to nowhere. So... not much, actually.

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    2. Well, even if it didn't move out of the NU tier, it certainly would be better, right? Simple Shift Gear (Which is +2 Atk and +4 Spe in one turn, remember) at least strikes fear into my own heart, and puts Bibarel's stats into an impressive range, right?

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    3. While that's certainly true, Pokémon that absolutely need to set up in order to do any real damage are just not that good, unless we're talking about something like Malamar's Superpower, which also deals huge damage in the process. You'd think Calm Mind Swoobat would be pretty good, but... nope.

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    4. Ah. So it'd be something that stunk of Gonad's armpits. Bibarel is just that bad, I guess. Also, Superpower SimpleBeaver FTW.

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    5. bibarel is better than Arceus. It's almost as good as Unown!

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    6. But let's not forget the best Pokemon of all: Luvdisc!...

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