Explore Smogon's OverUsed (OU) tier strategies, team-building tips, and competitive insights for Pokémon Sun & Moon. Welcome! Smogon is a Pokémon website and community specializing in the art of competitive battling. Introduction From Pokemon whose strength comes from their versatility and unpredictability to those who rely on battering the opposition with high-powered assaults, offensive threats have defined the evolution of the DPPt metagame.
Look at the top ten most used OU Pokemon: these offensive stars have been used on many teams because of their capabilities. But why? There are many ways to answer. Is this a poll for second best pokemon because the best one ain't on there.
sorry but this is the voting round so if you're favorite is not on this list it means it's not the best. (VR made by compiling rankings from 11 SM mods / top players) Welcome to the official SM OU Viability Rankings thread. In this thread, we as a community will be ranking every single usable Pokemon into "tiers." You're encouraged to post your thoughts or opinions on the various Pokemon that are.
However some Pokemon have maintained their OU status for multiple generations, such as Zapdos (except for gen 5), Tyranitar, Garchomp, Heatran, Landorus-T, and from gen 6 onwards, Clefable. Certain pokemon just seem llke they will always be useful. Who do you think never has a chance of dropping down?
The best thing that happened to Gyarados after Platinum came out was the increase in Choice Band Scizor usage. Gyarados can nab a free Dragon Dance on Scizor locked into pretty much any of its common attacks. The two most common "variants" of Gyarados are bulky Dragon Dance and offensive Dragon Dance.
So right now, Gholdengo, Dragapult, and Great Tusk are at the top of Smogon's OU rankings for best Pokémon. The Pokemon Tiers Gen 1 (Credit: Smogon) Tier List below is created by community voting and is the cumulative average rankings from 345 submitted tier lists. The best Pokemon Tiers Gen 1 (Credit: Smogon) rankings are on the top of the list and the worst rankings are on the bottom.
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