"I made charts showing the evolution of some Pokemon's competitive tiers on Smogon over the different generations"

https://ift.tt/2PfFDwu kinda fun seeing the changes in viability of Pokemon when they live and die by 1 added move or one changed passive, but also because of the metagame itself evolving and counters emerging.For those who don't know about Smogon :It's a website that analyses and organises competitive battle through the Pokemon Showdown simulator. In order to make as many Pokemon as possible viable, single battles are divided into tiers which are (from the highest to the lowest) Uber, OU, UU, RU, NU and PU. Uber used to just be a ban list for the most popular tier OverUsed, but it kinda became popular and became its own competitive tier.If a Pokemon is in a "**BL" tier, it means that he does not have enough usage in the above tier to be considered part of it, but was deemed too strong for the tier below. Exemple : Mega-Venusaur is UUBL, which means he is isn't used enough in OU but is still too strong for the UU tier. OU's banlist is still the Uber tier.Disclaimer :RU was introduced in Generation 5, but replaced NU as the 3rd level tier, and NU became the fourth tier. For the sake of avoiding confusions, Pre-Gen 5 Pokemon ranked NU were shown as RU in the graphs. Exemple : Articuno was NU in gen 4 (RU didn't exist) and was NU in gen 5 (RU exists). It's very misleading because while people might guess he stayed the same tier, he was actually relegated one tier instead. PU was introduced in Gen 6 and the new last tier, and Untiered in Gen 7 as that includes the Pokemon who don't even have enough usage in PU.The chart sheet is still ready so it's easier for me now to make new charts, therefore I'm open to receiving requests if you there's some tier variations you want to see for certain Pokemon! via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/2BLNHSc