LifeStyleNORE Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Imperial said: Blaziken would either need to run Ice Punch or Thunder Punch, meaning that some of the mons listed above can check it reliably. It can't run Ice Punch. Imperial, DoubleJ and TohnR 2 1 Link to comment
razimove Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Imperial said: I noticed you love mentioning Blaziken - I agree it can be a problem but there are still some checks, some more viable than others: Altaria , Rotom , Gligar , Steelix , Slowking , Hitmontop , Qwilfish , Stunfisk/Seismitoad/Sandslash , Mantine Blaziken would either need to run Ice Punch or Thunder Punch, meaning that some of the mons listed above can check it reliably. I would also include Sableye but I don't know how much longer it'll end up staying in the tier. It's also vulnerable to being revenge killed killed by Hitmonchan, Ambipom and Samurott (quite niche) and other scarf mons. The mixed/specs set can be troublesome, but I still feel both are manageable and the annoying thing about Blaziken is its continuous ability to pivot using U-turn. Is Blaziken centralising? Yes. Does it need to be banned? No. If Tier Council are happy to keep more threatening Pokemon such as Feraligatr and Crawdaunt in UU, there's no reason why Blaziken can't stay in NU. I honestly feel like scarf ken is the least concerning set to even consider, but all in all, out of all you mention, there are only 3, maybe 4 that safely deal with it. Blaziken is strong and it always has been, heck if we had HA, it would probably become a OU staple even, but it can be checked by a lot of stuff, scarf ken is heavily punished by rocky helmet spam, mixed natures due to speed tiers and 4mss syndrome Etc. Main point id address rn is if this monthly tier shift shouldnt be manual this time? Usages are all still unstable due to HA coming and meta didnt adapt fast enough to it imo Link to comment
caioxlive13 Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 8 hours ago, razimove said: I honestly feel like scarf ken is the least concerning set to even consider, but all in all, out of all you mention, there are only 3, maybe 4 that safely deal with it. Blaziken is strong and it always has been, heck if we had HA, it would probably become a OU staple even, but it can be checked by a lot of stuff, scarf ken is heavily punished by rocky helmet spam, mixed natures due to speed tiers and 4mss syndrome Etc. Main point id address rn is if this monthly tier shift shouldnt be manual this time? Usages are all still unstable due to HA coming and meta didnt adapt fast enough to it imo Well, I think the best thing is to try a different system to build the tiers. Usage in the current way is very flawed. The best I think is that the usage should keep, but: 450- Elo Players(Low Ladder) should not have usage counted. 450-650 Elo Players(Mid-Ladder) could even have usage counted, but with a weight of 0.5. 650+ Elo Players would have usage counted normally. Why? Because of a phenomenon called "New Toy Syndrome". Basically when something is released players tend to use it more. On the high ladder people quickly notice when the poke is Gimmick and stop using it very soon. The opposite happens in the Low ladder. Also, the usage of very gimmick mons that only Low Ladder will use, will simply vanish. But if applicate, devs need to do one of the two following things: Classify a people on a rank based on previous season. Example: 450- elo players starts on 450 next season 450-550 elo players starts on 500 next season 550-650 elo players starts on 550 next season 650+ elo players starts on 650 next season Disconsider "First season month" usage to do movements. With the chaos and "New Toy Syndrome" attacking at full power, isn't good idea keep with usage system in the format that he are. Link to comment
Munya Posted October 29, 2022 Author Share Posted October 29, 2022 From the Caoix tournament this morning. TohnR and Huargensy 2 Link to comment
TohnR Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) I don't think it would make any sense to raise Quags and Sharpedo which are lower than Sableye, Poliwrath, Clef, Golbat, Ambipom & possibly some others. I guess you saw that Golbat isn't used with Infiltrator in UU so you thought that HAs have no impact on that hence no movements. I would agree ! However if you're raising Crobat it's obvious that Golbat - even if it is worse - will end up in the top10 usages for UU next month so you should preemptively raise it, all the more since it is already above the cutoff. For Poliwrath, it is literally one of the central mons of the tier what is the reasoning for keeping it in NU ? Cloyster, Jellicent & Xatu are fine, wouldn't Ludicolo also drop in that situation ? Edited October 30, 2022 by TohnR razimove, gbwead and Umbramol 3 Link to comment
Munya Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 Todays the last day for them to change their minds but as it stands the changes are going to be happening as stated earlier. Some votes have shifted but not enough to change anything. Link to comment
SweeTforU Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 22 minutes ago, Munya said: Todays the last day for them to change their minds but as it stands the changes are going to be happening as stated earlier. Some votes have shifted but not enough to change anything. xatu, raptor and nidoking are dropping to uu? or staying ou? TheShyn 1 Link to comment
gbwead Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 what's the reasoning for poliwrath staying NU? DoubleJ 1 Link to comment
Munya Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 Xatu, cloyster, and jellicent will be dropping, raptor and king will be staying OU DoubleJ 1 Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 I had voted to keep it NU when it had mediocre usage, but now it's settled itself. I agree that it should rise. All eyes on Sharpedo now. TohnR and gbwead 2 Link to comment
TohnR Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 What I don't understand is why you would have to vote for usage movements ? Aren't those done by default ? Gonna ask the same question again but how come some 2% mons will be raising while 5% ones won't ? That's very counter intuitive and can't be justified without proper arguments You can't just say "We had 5 dudes that don't play the tier vote, they think those 2% mons are more relevant than the 5% ones so they'll raise" CaptnBaklava, Belegado, bingonb and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Munya Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 Because these arent hard usage movements, usage this month was entirely just a piece of data used to inform not decide. Given the relatively small amount of data we have for the lower tiers Poliwrath is now set to move up to uu DoubleJ and TohnR 2 Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Ya the data is weak with all the drops happening at different times. We gotta think beyond the numbers just a bit. Link to comment
TohnR Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) I mean fair but if you disregard usages strict rule, then you have to provide actual arguments or reasoning to TC's decisions. You can't just drop random incoherent movements and expect it'll be fine. So far all arguments I've read from TC towards Crobat & Ditto to raise to OU were purely usage related. Again they are not bad changes, it's just extremely confusing. So far all arguments I've read from TC about Sharpedo & Quagsire to raise to UU were ... wait ? Yea there wasn't even any justification to these ever I'm just asking for facts. We can't discuss if no point is made in the first place ... Edited October 31, 2022 by TohnR Link to comment
Munya Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 OU usage is a bit different as there's actually significant data there but I do agree people need to start being more open with their reasonings, and in the future we are going to be easing into participating in these discussions becoming a requirement for the TC for a more open line of communication. I am sure it is a bit intimidating for them though so I do ask for a bit of patience and hopefully we can start seeing more active community participation from them. That isn't an excuse though, I will continue to request that more of them post why they went a particular direction with things here and hopefully some satisfying answers will be given. I know for some pokemon(Poliwrath) some voted one way but only if x mon hadn't been voted up, so once thing was voted up, they changed the other thing. In this case, Sharpedo being the mon in question that directly effected their opinion on poliwraths movement. TohnR 1 Link to comment
Azphiel Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, TohnR said: I mean fair but if you disregard usages strict rule, then you have to provide actual arguments or reasoning to TC's decisions. You can't just drop random incoherent movements and expect it'll be fine. So far all arguments I've read from TC towards Crobat & Ditto to raise to OU were purely usage related. Again they are not bad changes, it's just extremely confusing. So far all arguments I've read from TC about Sharpedo & Quagsire to raise to UU were ... wait ? Yea there wasn't even any justification to these ever I'm just asking for facts. We can't discuss if no point is made in the first place ... I believe Sharpedo is extremely strong in NU with speed boost, being able to run physical/special/mixed sets and not being revenge killed by any scarfer makes it a threat that I don't think NU can handle properly. The fact that Poliwrath will rise to UU would make things even worse, I prefer Sharpedo being in the same tier as Poliwrath. As for Quagsire, I voted for it to stay in NU as it is doing fine in that tier and is a good check for top tiers mons like Blaziken. In my opinion Quagsire should only rise in UU by usage Edited October 31, 2022 by Azphiel whilt, Munya, epicdavenport and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment
TohnR Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) Thanks for your answers 🙂 Edited October 31, 2022 by TohnR Link to comment
Umbramol Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 2.9% usage on Nidoking and not even in the discussion. Send the pokemon to UU already. Xatu got it's hidden ability later and it moved. Quinn010, gbwead and Zymogen 1 1 1 Link to comment
Munya Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 Xatu was under the cutoff at every point, when you look at king from when it was released onward it is actually above. Link to comment
suigin Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Have all HAs been released? All we have been getting are repeats. Link to comment
Munya Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 New ones are still being released, but as it gets closer to the end of the list its obviously going to be rarer, and the ones that have been recently have been insignificant. suigin 1 Link to comment
epicdavenport Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Munya said: New ones are still being released, but as it gets closer to the end of the list its obviously going to be rarer, and the ones that have been recently have been insignificant. Hoping for aftermath garbodor Link to comment
suigin Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 For me it's Magic Guard Alakazam 🙏 Link to comment
LifeStyleNORE Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 regen tangrowth 😋 gbwead, kiwi and repposh 2 1 Link to comment
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