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Smogon (Website)	comment	Smogon is a notable competitive PokÃ©mon battling community. It provides reports for every fully-evolved and non-evolving PokÃ©mon (as well as a few "special cases" such as Pikachu, Porygon2, Scyther, and Vigoroth that differ play-wise from their evolved forms, plus some others such as Chansey and Magneton that are strong enough to be used in the lower tiers that their fully-evolved counterparts are banned from) that analyze how well they do in the site's competitive battling circuits and give moveset recommendations. ALL PokÃ©mon, regardless of evolution status, get a description of their abilities, base stats, and the moves that they can learn. Smogon also has numerous informative articles that explain things like how Hidden Power works, how to make a good Rain Dance team, and so on.The site is the current largest influential authority in the English-speaking competitive PokÃ©mon battle scene. Their Character Tiers for the PokÃ©mon are considered an excellent attempt at balancing what is a very unbalanced metagame. The tiers are also criticized and most everyone on the site admit that the tiers aren't perfect. The tier that the casual players tend to pay the most attention to is the "Uber" tier, as those PokÃ©mon are deemed "too powerful" and are typically banned from standard play.note Casual player =/= Scrub. The Uber-tier PokÃ©mon receive a lot of attention largely for being overpowered, not for being noob bait. Fortunately, only a minority of PokÃ©mon are in this tier, and they all received placement in it for one reason or another. From the looks of things, all but a couple of them were designed to be overpowered in the first place by Game Freak. The few that aren't (such as Wobbuffet and Gen IV Salamence and Garchomp) appear to have very good reasons for their placement... and it could be argued that certain mons (the most powerful of the psuedo-legendaries) were also made powerful on purpose. On the other hand, due to various reasons (primarily Power Creep, bad typings and movepools), being Purposely Overpowered does not necessarily guarantee a spot in Ubers; Celebi and Jirachi in Gen III were the first to not make it into Ubers, while Black Kyurem was the highest-profile example thanks to its horrible movepool and awkward typingnote though it finally got sent to Ubers in Gen VIII thanks to Dragon Dance and Icicle Spear.The site was founded in 2004 by one of the creators of PokÃ©mon NetBattle, then the only battle simulator with a GUI (other battle simulators were on IRC and were very hard to follow or use) and then the most popular simulator. The website was born very similarly to a marsupial: undeveloped. At the time of its launch, it only had a bare-bones PokÃ©dex for the third generation. The site's staff spent much of 2005 building up the site. They gave it a revamp when they finished.Smogon then spent much of 2006 and 2007 on hiatus because they outgrew their servers. The site was relaunched in 2007 as what you see today. Along with the revamping came a name change to "Smogon University" and a slogan change from "PokÃ©mon on the Internet; let's make it happen!" to "''Nil Sine'' PokÃ©mon"note "Nothing without PokÃ©mon".It's unknown why this site is seen as an authority. One reason might be because the founder was one of the creators of NetBattle. Obviously, in order to create that simulator, they had to do a lot of ROM hacking to see how the PokÃ©mon games worked. The site also claims that many of its staffers have been playing and/or hacking PokÃ©mon since the days of Red and Blue. Another more likely reason is that the site's staffers simply work really hard in analyzing the game and its mechanics.Smogon does the vast majority of its work on battle simulators, with the subsequent analysis fitting more with those simulators than the actual game. This is easily justified, though, as it's an extremely hard (not to mention tedious) task to manually raise PokÃ©mon to Level 100 in the actual games, especially because some mechanics, such as individual values (IVs), are mostly beyond the Trainer's control. Also, some things in the game, such as TMs being one-time use in the games until Generation V, or certain moves on certain PokÃ©mon that are only available from Nintendo held events just make it a pain in the neck to make a good team in-game.Smogon determines which tiers the PokÃ©mon go into by tracking usage statistics on battle simulators. The Uber and Borderline tiers are ban lists for PokÃ©mon too powerful in the Overused tier and too powerful for each tier below OU, with every tier from Underused to PU housing a Borderline tier of its own. What they consider "too powerful" is typically determined via peer review, polling, and analysis of statistics. Anything Goes is a last-ditch tier that throws all rules out the window note save for Endless Battle Clause, and that's because Funbro and similar sets have no value beyond pissing people off and inviting ragequits and is the final stop for anything that is so stupidly overpowered or toxic that it ruins Ubers; the format was created for Mega Rayquaza after Mega Gengar narrowly avoided its own ban from Ubers and so far, only a select few PokÃ©mon have ever resided in the tiernote Arceus in Generation IV, Mega Rayquaza in Generations VI and VII, both forms of Zacian in Generation VIII and both Shadow Rider Calyrex and Miraidon (in National Dex only) in Generation IX..Smogon also has a side project known as Create-a-PokÃ©mon, which attempts to create PokÃ©mon that have specific roles in the metagame. Eleven were created for Generation IV. The CAP process was then suspended until the PokÃ©mon Black and White metagame stabilized. A popular spinoff, PokÃ©mon Battle-By-Post (BBP), was formed to keep the forum alive in the meantime. A new Create-A-PokÃ©mon project for Generation V began in February 2011 and, like the games themselves, restarted the numbering system at one. In addition, a new portion of the process was dedicated to creating a pre-evolution for the CAP. All CAPs so far can be found here.NetBattle was Smogon's official simulator until it was shut down in 2006. In 2008, they adopted a new program called ShoddyBattle. In April 2009, Smogon and ShoddyBattle merged. However, in 2010, after a decidedly late entrance and subsequent cutting of ties from Smogon, Shoddy Battle's successor, PokÃ©mon Lab, was generally disowned by Smogon. Meanwhile, PokÃ©mon Online, a simulator formerly known for being Scrub territory on Smogon, not only had working Generation IV, but also the only working Generation V in existence, as well as a far more active developer. Smogon created a server on the program, officially supporting PokÃ©mon Online until the recent adoption of a new simulator, PokÃ©mon Showdown!, which is being actively developed by one of their users.They have an IRC channel on synirc (currently #smogon), and a monthly(ish) podcast. Their simulator can be found here and the damage calculator they use can be found here.Bulbapedia also has an article on Smogon.
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Smogon (Website) / int_1153199	type	Fat and Proud
Smogon (Website) / int_1153199	comment	Fat and Proud: Whenever someone is quoted on the forums, the attribution line always says "Originally posted by Fat <user name>". The default "PokÃ©mon characteristic" each user may have is "Likes to eat".
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Smogon (Website) / int_123f1464	comment	Knock Off played this especially straight in Generations III-V, as it was a 20 power move that removed the item of the target. While pitifully weak, making sure that something was losing their passive (and in many cases, their only) recovery in Leftoversnote Exacerbated by the fact that these were the generations where sandstorms set by the Sand Stream ability (and to a lesser extent, Snow Warning's effect) were permanent unless removed, putting the enemy on a timer or removing the speed/power granted by the Choice items was an effective strategy and a viable use of a moveslot. Starting from Gen VI, it was buffed to 65 Power, and had a 1.5x power multiplier added to opponents with items on top of its existing effect, making it less this trope and moreso Simple, yet Awesome in the hands of physical Dark-types such as Bisharp and Weavile, as well as Fighting types, who appreciated a way to hit Ghosts and Psychics who would wall them otherwisenote The introduction of more crucial items such as Heavy-Duty Boots and the buffed pinch berries exacerbates this. Even so, on less offensive monsnote or mons with low Attack stats like Alakazam and Reuniclus who learn the move like Ferrothorn and Toxapex, the trope is still played straight, since it's slapped onto their moveset moreso for the item removal.
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Smogon (Website) / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Smogon (Website) / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: Dugtrio and Venusaur in BW; the respective bans of Arena Trap and Chlorophyll + Drought after the generation officially ended rendered the once extremely threatening PokÃ©mon to near uselessness. However, due to Smogon choosing not to revisit their tiering, they dubiously remain tiered in OU with their analyses being updated to note that they are trapped in tiers they no longer belong in.
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Smogon (Website) / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Smogon (Website) / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Tier Leaders, Tier Council Members, and many moderators get their position from being really good battlers. Justified, as Metagame knowledge is necessary for them to do their jobs and due to the site's nature in general.
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Smogon (Website) / int_1ebbdddb	type	Power at a Price
Smogon (Website) / int_1ebbdddb	comment	Most Power at a Price tactics, such as the Guts/Quick Feet/Toxic Boost abilities, Choice Items, and Life Orb. In-game, most threats can be utterly overpowered by raw level advantage and simple knowledge of the Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, so such things are seen as hindering the PokÃ©mon's survivability or versatility for little payoff. In the metagame, though, all PokÃ©mon are the same level, and it is generally taken for granted that every competent player knows what hits what, so such tactics become much more necessary for attackers to dish out the damage they need to.
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Smogon (Website) / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
Smogon (Website) / int_1ee9819e	comment	Clemont gets "11/10" in Spoils because Thunderbolt is such a good move overall. For Coolness, he gets a "0_0/10" as the writer questions the Scary Shiny Glasses trope.
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Smogon (Website) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Smogon (Website) / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Rhyperior's DP OU analysis compares using it to making a deal with the devil, due to it having immense strengths balanced out by crippling weaknesses.
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Smogon (Website) / int_20210131	type	Poor, Predictable Rock
Smogon (Website) / int_20210131	comment	Poor, Predictable Rock: The "Other Options" sections for some PokÃ©mon, such as Hitmonlee and Mega Medicham, simply say that they have no other viable options. However, some of these PokÃ©mon are still highly viable due to how good their single set is.
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Smogon (Website) / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
Smogon (Website) / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Hidden Power is used by special attackers to cover up holes in their coverage or hit specific targets. Lower tiers occasionally use the pre-evolutions of high tier PokÃ©mon to fulfill similar jobs. For example, in Generation VI, Fletchinder is the RU tier's version of OU's Talonflame, using priority Flying attacks to revenge kill targets. Whenever a specific PokÃ©mon gets banned from a tier, sometimes people will try to make their pre-evolved form work by using Eviolite to shore up its inevitable bulk problems. Some PokÃ©mon sets will run moves you'd never expect because nothing else they have equals the niche they provide, such as Choice Band Flygon sets occasionally running Gust in Gen 3(to deal with Breloom and Heracross that otherwise take their options just fine), or Landorus running Fly so it can have a high-powered STAB Supersonic Skystrike with a Z-Crystal in Generation 7.
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Smogon (Website) / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Smogon (Website) / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Some of the analyses are very blunt about how terrible the PokÃ©mon they're analyzing are. For example, Typhlosion's SM NU analysis just flat-out says "Do not ever use this PokÃ©mon with the intent of winning games."note Normally, a PokÃ©mon like this would fall to a lower tier, but Typhlosion received too much usage to drop despite being terrible in NU.
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Smogon (Website) / int_24fbee90	type	Broke the Rating Scale
Smogon (Website) / int_24fbee90	comment	The "Do You Even Lift" articles using Broke the Rating Scale.
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Smogon (Website) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Smogon (Website) / int_25524784	comment	By holding any Choice item, the PokÃ©mon gets a permanent 50% boost to their Attack (Choice Band), Special Attack (Choice Specs), or Speed (Choice Scarf), but this only allows them to use the first move that was selected until they switch out. Despite this drawback, these items are common in competitive, as Band and Specs are usually given to PokÃ©mon to supplement their ability to hit the opponent harder, while the Choice Scarf enables the holder to outspeed many foes that they otherwise couldn't.
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Smogon (Website) / int_2804d516	type	Master of None
Smogon (Website) / int_2804d516	comment	Master of None: This is the reason why mixed attackers are generally in lower tiers than purely physical or special ones, especially in later generations. More focused attackers can afford to invest in both their relevant attacking stat and speed or bulk, depending on the stat spread. Mixed attackers, by contrast, have to split their EVs if they don't want to put one of their attacking stats to waste, on top of usually having lower stats overall. Some mixed attackers do manage to avoid this, though, such as Iron Valiant and (to a lesser extent) Infernape.
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Smogon (Website) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Smogon (Website) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: "Smogon" is the German name for Koffing, the site's mascot. Trou du Cul, a forum used to house the forum's stupidest threads for mockery by the staff, means "asshole" in French.
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Smogon (Website) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Smogon (Website) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Many PokÃ©mon fall into this trope due to a number of reasons, but these are the most notable ones: Scolipede's Hidden Ability in Generation V is Quick Feet, which increases its speed by 50% if it has a status effect. However, the only two status effects that can be reliably self-inflicted without need for reapplication are poison and burns; being a Poison-type, Scolipede cannot be poisoned and being burned halves its Attack, meaning that, while it can outrun just about anything, it'll be hitting like a feather duster. The ability was changed to the far superior Speed Boost in the following generation. Many Legendary PokÃ©mon tend to show up in the lower tiers. Articuno and Regice get this the worst; although both were initially able to pack a punch in their own respective metagames (Articuno with a 90% accurate Blizzard in a generation where a lucky freeze was equal to death and Regice in a generation before the physical/special split), they both lost viability over time, especially in the transition to the fourth generation as a result of growing power creep in addition to the ever-present Stealth Rock. Kecleon is pretty much the definition of this trope (except with "awesome" replaced with "entertaining"). Kecleon's original ability, Color Change, caused it to change into the type of the attack of the move that hit it, which had some uses but was also an Achilles' Heel because of how easy it was to exploit with PokÃ©mon that had great coverage options. Fast forward to Generation VI and Kecleon gets a new ability that's much, much better in the form of Protean. Rampardos is a PokÃ©mon that looks like it'd be too strong on paper. With a devastating 165 base attack, as well as access to an assortment of options such as Head Smash, Zen Headbutt, Iron Head, Crunch and even Swords Dance, on top of 2 good abilities in Mold Breaker and Sheer Force, which most of the aforementioned moves are boosted by, it's going to dent pretty much anything it hits, if not KO it. Its problem? It has a pathetically low base speed of 58 (only 8 more than Chansey, the PokÃ©mon designed to be a Stone Wall) and due to its typing and generally poor bulk, it can't take a hit well either, making it incredibly difficult to do anything with. Absol has a wide movepool. Unfortunately, Absol's Special Attack is rather mediocre, which is a let-down considering that Absol learns a wide variety of special attacks. Mega Absol fixes most of these problems by gaining a fantastic Ability, as well as vastly-improved Special Attack and Speed â€” its defenses were not altered, though. Tyrantrum learns Head Smash, one of the most powerful moves in the game, which it even gets STAB on and can negate the recoil via its Hidden Ability of Rock Head. While the thought of a draconic T. rex abusing a 150 base power STAB move sounds incredibly badass, Rock/Dragon as a defensive typing really takes the wind out of its sail. Ice, Fighting, Fairy, Dragon, and Ground are very common attacking types and any PokÃ©mon worth their salt that have these moves will likely also outspeed and OHKO Tyrantrum. It doesn't help that Steel-types, resisting both Rock and Dragon and dealing super-effective damage to Rock, were given an offensive buff this generation. Xurkitree has an absolutely horrifying Special Attack stat plus Tail Glow, which raises it to truly obscene levels, and Beast Boost will raise it even more with each kill. Unfortunately, that's literally all it has, as the rest of its stats are thoroughly mediocre at best, and there is literally no way for Beast Boost to boost anything other than Special Attack due to its stat distribution, preventing Min-Maxing to help boost its Speed instead. The end result is a slow, fragile and predictable PokÃ©mon that can reduce things to ash but probably won't get to do so; while it can be very effective with proper setup, general consensus is that there are plenty of less extreme but more dependable special wallbreakers out there that won't crumple from a single STAB Earthquake or Earth Power. Possibly the most extreme example of this trope is Machamp when used in National Dex Anything Goes, where he can make use of the No Guard Fissure combination. While No Guard always allows the move Fissure to kill the opponent in one hit so long as they aren't a Flying type or have the abilities Levitate or Sturdy, Machamp is too slow (his speed stat is 55, which is even less than the previously mentioned Rampardos) and he doesn't have enough bulk to get a reliable chance to exploit the combo. Hisuian Ursaluna eventually proved to be this. Yes, it's a horrifically powerful wallbreaker that can delete almost anything that isn't a Ghost-type or a 4x resist with a Guts-boosted Facade, while also being insanely bulky and having plenty of options to deal with its checks. Unfortunately, it's also way too reliant on support, it's quite slow, it needs Flame Orb to be effective (preventing it from running other items), and, most importantly, it's really not all that durable due to its reliance on Flame Orb and lack of reliable recovery. The result is a Pokemon that can splatter almost any wall it's tasked with destroying, but will then probably get revenge killed right after. Ursaluna is not bad by any means, but the general consensus is that it generally isn't useful enough to justify the amount of backup it needs. On the other hand, Bloodmoon Ursaluna was another case entirely, getting banned to Ubers.
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Smogon (Website) / int_2c4950a6	type	Switch-Out Move
Smogon (Website) / int_2c4950a6	comment	The AI rarely switches out PokÃ©mon. So entry hazards such as Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Stealth Rock aren't especially useful unless the opponent has several PokÃ©mon that are weak to them, or using Switch-Out Move. In the metagame, however, switching out PokÃ©mon is critical, and hindering your opponent's ability to do so is a huge advantage. While not a hazard, Pursuit also falls in this category, as you'll very rarely see its power boost in-game.
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Smogon (Website) / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
Smogon (Website) / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: Thanks to Team Preview, each player knows what their opponent's PokÃ©mon are and can make an educated guess about their sets or general strategy based off of that before the match. It also makes Batman Gambits easier to plan out on the fly, as you know what your opponent might switch to based off of various factors.
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Smogon (Website) / int_2e492b94	type	Trap Master
Smogon (Website) / int_2e492b94	comment	Trap Master: Anything with Entry Hazards. Some users can be less obvious about it due to the weird distribution of Stealth Rock or just because they usually don't run them.
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Smogon (Website) / int_2ea22847	type	That One Boss
Smogon (Website) / int_2ea22847	comment	That One Boss: invoked The majority of "Top Ten Most Infuriating PokÃ©mon In-Game'' is about specific instances of this and why players find them frustrating, such as Misty's Starmie in Red and Blue being extremely powerful for the point in time you fight it, or being unable to weaken Regigigas in Platinum since it's at level 1 (thus you'll probably make it faint) so you're forced to throw PokÃ© Balls at it and pray the Random Number God will eventually let you catch it.note Though what the writer neglects to mention is that, you could use False Swipe and Nest Balls (extremely effective on Lv.1 'mons) to weaken it and make catching it easier. Be sure to remember fitting that on your team though. "Do You Even Lift: Johto Jockstrap Edition" has a two paragraph rant about how Whitney's Miltank from Gold and Silver will eat up all of your time and make you depressed trying to beat it.
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Smogon (Website) / int_3069d72a	type	Attack Backfire
Smogon (Website) / int_3069d72a	comment	Attack Backfire: Commonly invoked with PokÃ©mon that have these abilities; one popular application in Generation IV was to switch Gyarados out for an Electivire that could take the incoming Electric-type attack and gain a speed boost. Explosion and Self-Destruct (before the Gen V Nerf) were extremely powerful moves that also halved defense, near guaranteeing to kill anything that wasn't resistant (and some PokÃ©mon that were) at the cost of fainting your PokÃ©mon. However, trying to explode on a Ghost-Type (commonly Gengar) or a substitute, meant that your opponent gained free advantage, making it a severe risk one must watch out for.
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Smogon (Website) / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Smogon (Website) / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: A PokÃ©mon being relegated to a low tier could arguably be seen as this, as it gives them an opportunity to be a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond, and thus be a feared threat that they never could be with higher-tier PokÃ©mon around.
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Smogon (Website) / int_36249acd	type	Lethal Joke Character
Smogon (Website) / int_36249acd	comment	Lethal Joke Character: The classic example: Shedinja. It's more or less useless in lower tiers because its vulnerability to Stealth Rock (and passive damage in general) means it usually faints on the turn it enters. In Ubers, the face of the tier (Kyogrenote In Gen 3-5, before weather was nerfed to only last a number of rounds and the introduction of Primal Groudon) only had a few (otherwise not worth using) moves that could damage Shedinja, making it an effective surprise weapon. An Oblivious Slowbro set with a Leppa Berry, Heal Pulse, Slack Off, Recycle, and Block can force a stalemate against foes unable to defeat it. Oblivious prevents Taunt from working, Leppa Berry and Recycle prevent Slowbro from running out of PP, Block prevents the foe from escaping, and Slack Off allows Slowbro to heal non-lethal damage. When the opponent eventually runs out of PP and starts struggling, Heal Pulse will bring its health back up, making an endless stalemate. This moveset was banned as a result, up until the revision of Endless Battle Clause which simply disallows endless battle from happening.
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Smogon (Website) / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Smogon (Website) / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Finally, a new gamemode was unveiled known as "Just another Random Battle" which turned out to be a 4-player random battle, with all 4 players given PokÃ©mon with doubles movesets. Became an Ascended Meme in the form of the new Free-For-All Random Battle and Free-For-All gamemodes.
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Smogon (Website) / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Smogon (Website) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Some sets have moves that are meant to hit Mons that would likely switch in to wall you, such as Earthquake on Latios to lure out and hit Heatran.
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Smogon (Website) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Smogon (Website) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Scolipede is used to lead Baton Pass chains; it acquires speed while other members obtain other boosts required to allow one member to sweep. Such teams are hard to break without very specific moves or a great deal of luck. This tactic was later disallowed for that reason. Chansey, paired with a PokÃ©mon that can take strong physical attacks and save it from Knock Off, can spread its health around with Wish and remove status from its teammates, undoing turns of effort with a single move. Lugia in a nutshell. It has a decent offensive movepool and stats and sometimes does run an offensive move or two to cover common threats, but its real strength is as a wall. With its monstrous bulk (even without Multiscale), Speed that exceeds many dedicated offensive PokÃ©mon, access to reliable recovery moves, and access to Whirlwind and Dragon Tail to ruin the plans of anything requiring setup, there is a reason why Lugia was considered the best wall in the game. However, general Power Creep and the increased difficulty of keeping Multiscale up caused it to become less practical in later generations. Knock Off played this especially straight in Generations III-V, as it was a 20 power move that removed the item of the target. While pitifully weak, making sure that something was losing their passive (and in many cases, their only) recovery in Leftoversnote Exacerbated by the fact that these were the generations where sandstorms set by the Sand Stream ability (and to a lesser extent, Snow Warning's effect) were permanent unless removed, putting the enemy on a timer or removing the speed/power granted by the Choice items was an effective strategy and a viable use of a moveslot. Starting from Gen VI, it was buffed to 65 Power, and had a 1.5x power multiplier added to opponents with items on top of its existing effect, making it less this trope and moreso Simple, yet Awesome in the hands of physical Dark-types such as Bisharp and Weavile, as well as Fighting types, who appreciated a way to hit Ghosts and Psychics who would wall them otherwisenote The introduction of more crucial items such as Heavy-Duty Boots and the buffed pinch berries exacerbates this. Even so, on less offensive monsnote or mons with low Attack stats like Alakazam and Reuniclus who learn the move like Ferrothorn and Toxapex, the trope is still played straight, since it's slapped onto their moveset moreso for the item removal. In Doubles, there's Protect and its variants. While all it does is block almost any move that would hit the PokÃ©mon on that turn, the PokÃ©mon avoids being double-targeted and may allow its partner to land a free attack, making Protect the most important move in Doubles. In Gen IX Ubers, Ribombee is one of the most used PokÃ©mon in the tier solely for the fact that it is the best Sticky Webs user. Because differences in speed tiers flattens significantly the higher you get to the top of usable PokÃ©mon, being able to halve your opponent's Speed without any additional effort required beyond the first turn is invaluable for getting a massive advantage over your opponent. This is compounded by the fact that the available PokÃ©mon in Paldea severely lack decent hazard removal, meaning that once Sticky Webs goes up it is unlikely for it to go away. This is also the case for the unofficial tier "Ubers UU", where Masquerain is used instead because Ribombee is banned, and Ribombee's pre-evolution Cutiefly is used explicitly to check Masquerain due to its superior speed and access to Imprison, preventing the latter from getting up webs to begin with.
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Smogon (Website) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Smogon (Website) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Quickbans are based around this concept, as they are generally given to PokÃ©mon that are far too overcentralizing and would easily be banned if they were voted on in a suspect test.
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Smogon (Website) / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Smogon (Website) / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Avalugg may be an excellent tank in theory, but having the worst single defensive type in the game makes it underwhelming. In spite of fantastic stats and offenses that any sweeper would kill for, both Kyurem and Black Kyurem lack both the speed and the movepool necessary to take advantage of those properly. It is notable that Black Kyurem has the highest base stat total of any PokÃ©mon in the Overused (OU) tier,note The Mega Evolutions of Diancie, Tyranitar, Garchomp, Latios and Latias all have a base stat total that tied with Black Kyurem, but all of them required holding a Mega Stone to use so Black Kyurem is technically higher. but still does not find itself banned; its normal form meanwhile had descended well into Underused by now. Black Kyurem was finally deemed strong enough to enter Ubers in Generation VIII, thanks to gaining access to Dragon Dance and Icicle Spear. Base Kyurem would eventually join it since the addition of Freeze-Dry and the item Heavy Duty Boots allowed it to also be too strong for OU. Mega Rayquaza is even more ludicrous than Kyurem. It was so strong, it had to be banned from Ubers. Has on rare occasion become a problem for PokÃ©mon with Popularity Power that far outstrips their actual usability, due to it landing them in a tier where they're thoroughly useless, whereas they could compete better if they were used a little less and allowed to drop down. PokÃ©mon that are so powerful for their official tier that they have to be banned from it. Oftentimes, PokÃ©mon who suffer this fate can't compete well in the tier above that, and thus end up not being used at all. Speaking of PokÃ©mon unable to compete in lower tiers, Mega Garchomp has an absurd base stat total of 700 with a base attack of 170, but it is still outclassed by normal Garchomp due to Mega Garchomp losing 10 base speed and access to an item as well as preventing the use of a better mega. It can't officially drop to UU either, since Normal Garchomp would have to be used there to Mega Evolve, therefore Mega Garchomp is the only PokÃ©mon listed as "OU by technicality."
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Smogon (Website) / int_3eab5b90	type	Limited Move Arsenal
Smogon (Website) / int_3eab5b90	comment	Limited Move Arsenal: Or as it's known on the site, "4-Moveslot Syndrome/4MSS"note PokÃ©mon that have to choose between different moves in order to beat a different threat, since their other moveslots are filled with "must-have" options. Keep in mind that having a rich movepool is by no means a bad thing; what's seen as the problem is that, no matter the moves it picked, the PokÃ©mon will have a hard counter. For example, Mixed Infernape in SM UU needs to choose between Grass Knot and Gunk Shot, and forgoing one or the other leaves it countered by bulky Water-types or by Fairy-types. Downplayed Trope in the sense that it's largely dependent on how the meta evolves and how popular the PokÃ©mon is.
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Smogon (Website) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Smogon (Website) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The entirety of the "Insider X & Y Leaks, Straight From the Playground" and "Insider Leaks: ORAS Edition" articles, which are presented as "legitimate" leaks about the (then unreleased) PokÃ©mon X and Y and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire games.
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Smogon (Website) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Smogon (Website) / int_415b3315	comment	Every April 1st on PokÃ©mon Showdown, the standard sprites and models are replaced with poorly-done drawings of them, references, or inside jokes about what they do in competitive. A full list can be found here. Additionally, some moves, such as Earthquake (which shakes the whole screen when used) have additional visual effects.note The sprites can be viewed on any other day by typing the command /afd into the chat box. To turn them off, type /afd off
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Smogon (Website) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Smogon (Website) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Doublade with Eviolite in XY Under-Used (XY UU). Thanks to Doublade's great Attack stat, incredible coverage, excellent Steel/Ghost typing, and Eviolite boosting its Defenses by 50% since it hasn't fully evolved, players who are new to the UU tier often build teams that can't even hurt Doublade, let alone take it out. However, Doublade's poor Special Defense and Speed stats and vulnerability to the ever-common move Knock Off (which doesn't just hit the sword super-effectively, but also removes Eviolite from Doublade) can be taken advantage of quite easily by someone who knows what they're doing, and cause it to be viewed as a perfectly manageable (albeit still threatening) PokÃ©mon in higher-level play.
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Smogon (Website) / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
Smogon (Website) / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Discussed in the "Movie Critics - The Panel" series. According to critic Kadew in "Johto Journeys", it works in Spell of the Unown's favor since the eponymous PokÃ©mon are supposed to be otherworldly and animating them in 3D emphasizes this. On the other hand, it goes overboard in 4Ever and Heroes due to being unnecessary and how badly it stands out. In "Direct to Hoenn Video", she claims that the real villain of Destiny Deoxys is a "3D virus," as she finds the effects to be that bad.
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Smogon (Website) / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Smogon (Website) / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The analysis for Farfetch'd paints that using the PokÃ©mon is the most respectable thing a player can doâ€¦ and also that it is completely suicidal.
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Smogon (Website) / int_45bf382b	type	Game Mod
Smogon (Website) / int_45bf382b	comment	Game Mod: The Other Metagames houses these. The more popular ones, such as Hackmons, Generation Next!, Tier Shift, and Create-a-PokÃ©mon, can be played on PokÃ©mon Showdown!.
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Smogon (Website) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Smogon (Website) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Most PokÃ©mon with terrible attacking moves and/or stats were treated this way in their analyses. Luvdisc, Unown, Spinda, and Delibird are four notable examples. Most of their analyses were written as a joke, but eventually they all just straight up said "don't use this", or have nothing written at all.
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Smogon (Website) / int_4c24a9ed	type	Power Copying
Smogon (Website) / int_4c24a9ed	comment	One of the CAPs, Necturna, was designed around learning the move Sketch exactly once through breeding to give it a single wild card attack. Since X and Y changed breeding mechanics so that egg moves can be relearned just like level-up moves (and thus giving Necturna any 4 moves it wants), a special rule was made so that Necturna could only be used with one move learned via Sketch.
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Smogon (Website) / int_4c709317	type	Useless Useful Spell
Smogon (Website) / int_4c709317	comment	Useless Useful Spell: Gender-dependent moves and Abilities like Attract, since they require your opponent's PokÃ©mon to be the opposite gender to activate, and a decent chunk of popular PokÃ©mon are genderless, and are thus immune anyway. Simulators used to default to making gendered PokÃ©mon male, but genders are now usually randomized. Even in those times, some players manually randomized their genders anyway to ensure the opponent can't abuse Attract. Plus, Attract can be negated just by switching out. Moves that just reduce stats are usually not recommended as the opponent can just swap out (negating the stat change) or will just continue to beat on you anyway. Memento is an exception to this, as it was used to provide momentum by fainting. There are several moves and abilities that don't transition well into Doubles. Take Outrage (and its variants) as an example, as the move targets a random foe in Doubles. While that doesn't sound like a hefty drawback on paper, it's easy to lose crucial momentum if Outrage ends up hitting a Fairy-type or Protect, making Outrage a far less ideal choice there.
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Smogon (Website) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Smogon (Website) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Earlier analyses would refer to PokÃ©mon as "he" or "she" depending on their appearance and it could be written in first person, whereas later analyses will be written in second person and refer to PokÃ©mon as "it" regardless of if it's a One-Gender Race. The original Generation II and III analyses were much more brief, informal, and opinionated than the ones common in later gens, to the extent that the GSC UU Ariados analysis has an "Opinion" section where the creator states his personal opinion on the PokÃ©mon - which would never be seen on any other analysis before or since. Analyses from this time period would also focus much more on the PokÃ©mon's use (or lack thereof) in OU and sometimes UU, due to the lower tiers not being as settled yet. Some of these older analyses remain as The Artifact, even when the PokÃ©mon in question received an analysis for a tier it was more suited for. Some Gen III analyses have a specific "EVs" section that would explain in-depth about the EVs for specific sets. Later Gens would simply explain the EVs for sets in the set details themselves.
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Smogon (Website) / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Smogon (Website) / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Smogon provides builds, and strategies for dealing with, most PokÃ©mon, allowing you to know ahead of time how to deal with opponents you might face.
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Smogon (Website) / int_5288f02	type	All Your Powers Combined
Smogon (Website) / int_5288f02	comment	All Your Powers Combined: The premise of Shared Power. When a PokÃ©mon switches in, their ability is shared with the rest of their team.
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Smogon (Website) / int_549cd62d	type	Level Grinding
Smogon (Website) / int_549cd62d	comment	Level Grinding: Half the appeal of the simulator is that it averts all the Level Grinding, Effort Value (EV) training, breeding, hunting for PokÃ©mon with the perfect nature/ability without resorting to Ability Capsules (unless the ability in question is a Hidden ability) or Mints, etc. to get competitive PokÃ©mon needed for tournaments in the real games.
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Smogon (Website) / int_54ec2f0c	type	Not Completely Useless
Smogon (Website) / int_54ec2f0c	comment	Not Completely Useless: Toxic Orb is usually a terrible item to give a PokÃ©mon, but in Gliscor's hands, it turns it into a Stone Wall that can be incredibly frustrating to take down. It's also the only reliable way to activate the Toxic Boost and Quick Feet abilities note Quick Feet doesn't prevent burns from halving Attack and most Quick Feet users are physical attackers, so Flame Orb isn't very good for this, and can be used to activate Guts. A PokÃ©mon-specific example is Hawlucha and its signature move, Flying Press. Normally, the move is passed over in favor of more reliable and powerful Fighting-type attacks, as its unique dual-typing gave the move more resistors than targets. However, during Single Strike Urshifu's reign of terror in Gen VIII Overused, the move saw some genuine use - Urshifu is one of the few PokÃ©mon to take quadruple damage from the move, being Dark/Fighting, meaning that the move could One-Hit Kill it with minimal offensive investment. This gave Hawlucha room to invest EVs into Defense, making such a set into one of the few answers to Urshifu.
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Smogon (Website) / int_5554487f	type	PurposefullyOverpowered
Smogon (Website) / int_5554487f	comment	The staff of the Anything Goes ladder released a fake post about Eternamax Eternatus being released in a Sword and Shield event but due to "confusion" about whether or not the form would be a permanent form change or a temporary one like Dynamax it was only allowed to be used in a separate version of the laddernote Smogon only allows PokÃ©mon to be used after they are officially obtainable on the console, so if this wasn't an April Fools Joke the confusions would have been cleared up before Eternamax Eternatus was playable on ladder. Just like in Pure Hackmons the meta for that separate ladder was Eternamax Eternatus and the few PokÃ©mon that were able to take it down.
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Smogon (Website) / int_59da9841	type	Skill Gate Characters
Smogon (Website) / int_59da9841	comment	Skill Gate Characters: If there is one PokÃ©mon defined by this trope, it is Ambipom. While a Technician-boosted Fake Out is appealing on paper, Ambipom has a ho-hum typing and mediocre stats outside of speed, making it outclassed by basically any offensive pivot or physical attacker. This does not stop people from using it, and for 3 generations straight (and BDSP UU), it was stuck in tiers that it wasn't really cut out for. And this was so severe that the official Smogon set for Gen 6 RU is labeled "Don't Use Ambipom.". Considering it dropped to a lower tier every subsequent generation, there is hope that it will be in a tier that it belongs, but it remains to be seen. In the first generation's competitive scene, Machamp is a common sight in lower brackets due to it being the hardest-hitting Fighting-type in the game in a generation where nearly all teams run three Normal-types. Despite being slow, it's relatively bulky, even tanks like Snorlax and Chansey don't like switching into its STAB moves, and even Tauros (a common candidate for the best PokÃ©mon outside of Ubers) is hard-pressed to take on Machamp if it's been paralyzed. However, Machamp is incredibly vulnerable to paralysis itself, its typing gives it no useful resistances and a positively crippling weakness to Psychic (which is only slightly less common than Normal), making it far less bulky than it looks, and its strongest STAB move, Submission, is downright terrible, being inaccurate and doing recoil to Machamp. Add in the fact that Rhydon does its job as a Mighty Glacier much better, and you have a PokÃ©mon that is almost entirely unseen outside of those lower brackets. Electivire in DP OverUsed is an infamous example of this trope. To new players, it seems like a strong offensive threat, with its great attack stat, decent speed, wide range of coverage moves to hit practically the entire tier for super-effective damage, and Motor Drive ability to boost its speed when hit by an Electric-type attack. However, Electivire's "decent" base 95 speed leaves it outsped by many other offensive PokÃ©mon in the tier, its moves have underwhelming base power, and its Glass Cannon nature makes it easy to revenge kill or just take out after tanking one of its attacks, even if it's hitting super-effectively. Players would often pair it with Gyarados to bait in Electric-type attacks, then switch in Electivire to activate Motor Drive, but this strategy is easily predictable at higher levels of play. As a result of these weaknesses, Electivire sees no serious play in modern DP OU, but it's trapped in the tier due to the tiers locking at the end of each generation. Tellingly, it fell to RU once BW started, where it's a legitimately viable choice. Doublade with Eviolite in XY Under-Used (XY UU). Thanks to Doublade's great Attack stat, incredible coverage, excellent Steel/Ghost typing, and Eviolite boosting its Defenses by 50% since it hasn't fully evolved, players who are new to the UU tier often build teams that can't even hurt Doublade, let alone take it out. However, Doublade's poor Special Defense and Speed stats and vulnerability to the ever-common move Knock Off (which doesn't just hit the sword super-effectively, but also removes Eviolite from Doublade) can be taken advantage of quite easily by someone who knows what they're doing, and cause it to be viewed as a perfectly manageable (albeit still threatening) PokÃ©mon in higher-level play. While Marshadow is a viable PokÃ©mon at all levels of Ubers play, there's a specific set for it that falls into this trope: Focus Sash. On paper, it seems like a great idea â€” Marshadow can come in on a boosted sweeper, steal all their stat boosts with no risk due to its Last Chance Hit Point, and then reverse sweep. In practice, the set completely falls apart to hazards, which will break Marshadow's sash and essentially leave it with no item. Marshadow also really needs the power boost from a Choice Band or Life Orb to fill its role in battle, so if it has to do anything other than attack a boosted foe, it'll be too weak. While there were many shades of this beforehand with Forretress, it did at least decently in the tiers it was stuck in. But this comes in full force in Gen 9, to almost memetic proportions. While it has some good tools in concept, supported with its newfound Body Press, there are better Rapid Spinners to rely on because Forretress can't really fight back, and has little options against those who want to remove hazards from it. In terms of its typing, Scizor is far more aggressive, and Donphan's better offensive typing and utility options keep it from becoming the sitting duck Forretress is. Maushold seems absurdly broken at first glance, thanks to a combination of Technician, a decent movepool that includes coverage options such as Bite (boosted by Technician) and Tidy Up (a Secret Art that removes hazards and boosts Maushold's Attack and Speed), and its other Secret Art Population Bomb. In addition to being bolstered by Technician, the move can hit up to an absurd ten times, and while the amount of hits is dependent on Accuracy more hits can be guaranteed via the Wide Lens item, which boosts its Accuracy. However, Maushold's stats outside of Speed are extremely mediocre, including a 75 base Attack (which is pitiful by Overused standards), and Population Bomb's nature as a contact move leaves it easily exploited by contact based abilities and items, most notoriously Rough Skin and/or Rocky Helmet (it will literally kill itself if it uses Population Bomb against a mon with at least one of those two traits). What's more, its coverage isn't quite strong enough to muscle through PokÃ©mon that check it, namely the Ghost- and Steel-types that run amok in the higher tiers. While it's usable in Overused, you'd be hard-pressed to find a high-level player finding success with it. However, Maushold shines in Underused due to these traits (even though it is quite predictable and easily checked), and in Doubles it's a lot less predictable since it can take on an offensive or defensive role thanks to Friend Guard and its surprisingly wide support movepool.
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Smogon (Website) / int_5b81ca8d	comment	Gardenia's Difficulty is "gg/10" due to Starly obliterating her.
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Smogon (Website) / int_5e5cf652	type	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
Smogon (Website) / int_5e5cf652	comment	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: Suicide Leads in a nutshell. Their job is to set up an entry hazard and faint as soon as possible to allow the next Mon (oftentimes a Glass Cannon) a free switch-in.
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Smogon (Website) / int_62efd747	type	Kryptonite-Proof Suit
Smogon (Website) / int_62efd747	comment	Thanks to Mega Charizard Y giving rise to a plethora of Sun-based teams, Fire must now always be accounted for in the metagame. As a Steel/Fairy, Fire-type PokÃ©mon are the main thorn in Mawile's side due to being 1) weak to Fire-type moves, and 2) both of Mawile's STABs being ineffective against Fire-types; Mega Mawile not being able to hold an Occa Berry with the Mawilite doesn't help. It's entirely possible for Mega Mawile to remove such threats with Sucker Punch or Rock Slide, but extreme caution must still be employed.
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Smogon (Website) / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
Smogon (Website) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: Happens fairly often with Legendary and Mythical PokÃ©mon, especially older ones. Articuno is a classic example: Articuno is potrayed as a powerful Ice-type PokÃ©mon of near godlike power. Competitively, Articuno suffers from a horrible typing, anemic movepool, and aggressively average offensive stats and Speed have consistently forced it further down the tiers with each new gen.
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Smogon (Website) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Smogon (Website) / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: The analyses themselves are optimized for all of the major threats in the metagame, with movesets of specific use as well as comments on the purpose of what stat spreads outspeeds or survives.
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Smogon (Website) / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Articles with multiple contributors like the "Movie Critics" or "Judge a PokÃ©mon" series will have the writers represented as PokÃ©mon.
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Smogon (Website) / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Smogon (Website) / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: The Arceus analyses for DP and BW are written in hammy, excessive prose.
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Smogon (Website) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Smogon (Website) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: PokÃ©mon is this to these guys.
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Smogon (Website) / int_6c10754e	type	Secret Art
Smogon (Website) / int_6c10754e	comment	Maushold seems absurdly broken at first glance, thanks to a combination of Technician, a decent movepool that includes coverage options such as Bite (boosted by Technician) and Tidy Up (a Secret Art that removes hazards and boosts Maushold's Attack and Speed), and its other Secret Art Population Bomb. In addition to being bolstered by Technician, the move can hit up to an absurd ten times, and while the amount of hits is dependent on Accuracy more hits can be guaranteed via the Wide Lens item, which boosts its Accuracy. However, Maushold's stats outside of Speed are extremely mediocre, including a 75 base Attack (which is pitiful by Overused standards), and Population Bomb's nature as a contact move leaves it easily exploited by contact based abilities and items, most notoriously Rough Skin and/or Rocky Helmet (it will literally kill itself if it uses Population Bomb against a mon with at least one of those two traits). What's more, its coverage isn't quite strong enough to muscle through PokÃ©mon that check it, namely the Ghost- and Steel-types that run amok in the higher tiers. While it's usable in Overused, you'd be hard-pressed to find a high-level player finding success with it. However, Maushold shines in Underused due to these traits (even though it is quite predictable and easily checked), and in Doubles it's a lot less predictable since it can take on an offensive or defensive role thanks to Friend Guard and its surprisingly wide support movepool.
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Smogon (Website) / int_6ca52003	type	Master of All
Smogon (Website) / int_6ca52003	comment	Some PokÃ©mon that are banned in Nintendo/Game Freak-sanctioned tournaments (such as Mew and most of its clones and Black Kyurem) are legal to use in the simulator's standard matches and tournaments, due to the community viewing them as Awesome, but Impractical. Inversely, some PokÃ©mon considered tournament-legal by Nintendo are banned due to the differences between the formats making certain threats more powerful (like Mega Kangaskhan in Singles).
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Smogon (Website) / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Smogon (Website) / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: A good indicator on whether the community thinks a Mon is bad or not is how much of their analysis page is written sarcastically. Naturally, Joke Characters such as Luvdisc had articles drenched in this trope. As the generations went on, however, they stopped doing the sarcastic joke analyses and either just state matter of factly how terrible the bad Mon is and suggest to use something else, or just don't have anything written period.
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Smogon (Website) / int_6d740dff	type	Enforced Trope
Smogon (Website) / int_6d740dff	comment	Enforced by the Monotype ruleset. Players have to build a team where every PokÃ©mon shares a single type (dual-type PokÃ©mon are allowed, so you can use stuff like the Dragon/Ground-type Garchomp and Ground/Steel-type Excadrill together on a Ground team) and try to battle with them. Because everything shares a single type, there's a high chance that you'll lose against teams comprised of a type yours is weak against.
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Smogon (Website) / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
Smogon (Website) / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: The Grammar-Prose team viz. PokÃ©mon analyses. Justified in that their job is, in fact, to catch mistakes and make the analyses look professional.
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Smogon (Website) / int_7b4ac30a	type	Status Buff
Smogon (Website) / int_7b4ac30a	comment	The Battle Screen shows the Status Buffs (or debuffs) a PokÃ©mon has and their exact boosts.
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Smogon (Website) / int_7c6e6113	type	Original Character
Smogon (Website) / int_7c6e6113	comment	Original Character: The CAP PokÃ©mon are creations of the community, not Game Freak. They can be used in battle on the special CAP server separate from the standard servers.
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Smogon (Website) / int_7d561d58	type	Too Awesome to Use
Smogon (Website) / int_7d561d58	comment	One-use items, like Focus Sash, Weakness Policy, and the rarer Berries, as they tend to be hard to come by, and thus highly subject to Too Awesome to Use in-game. In player vs. player matches, any used items are returned at the end of the match, so it's possible to be much more liberal in their use.
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Smogon (Website) / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Smogon (Website) / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Anything Goes tier. You can use any PokÃ©mon you would like, and all clauses are lifted (except for the "Endless Battle" clause).
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Smogon (Website) / int_85474aa1	type	Power Creep
Smogon (Website) / int_85474aa1	comment	Power Creep: A PokÃ©mon's tier placement will vary from gen to gen based entirely on new changes to the metagame that Game Freak introduces. For instance, Snorlax, once the undisputed king of Gen II with over 90% usage, saw a decline over time as Fighting-types became more viable and common and PokÃ©mon started getting slightly more Min-Maxed base stats that overshadowed it. This is also taken into account when banning or unbanning certain Mons. Some banned PokÃ©mon are retested whenever a new game comes out to see if any of the new tools make dealing with them easier, while others may be banned because of getting access to new moves or abilities.
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Smogon (Website) / int_858dc9aa	type	Unwinnable
Smogon (Website) / int_858dc9aa	comment	The Endless Battle Clause prevents people from using certain moveset and item combinations that create Unwinnable situations that can be infinitely prolonged until someone disconnects. Because this strategy is used purely to troll and piss people off and invite Rage Quits, it is the only clause that Anything Goes kept. The clause was eventually revamped to very specifically stop players causing endless battles in a way that avoids possibly catching legitimate builds.note Healing an enemy Mon or using a berry multiple times makes the affected Mon "stale", and if, after 100 turns, all Mons on the field are "stale" and at least one player has no ability to switch to one that isn't, the player with the ability to cause this situation loses (or if both of them could, it's a tie). None of this is that much an issue in the official battle format, as there's always a timer for multiplayer battles.
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Smogon (Website) / int_869ffa6b	type	Random Number God
Smogon (Website) / int_869ffa6b	comment	The Swagger Clause prevents use of the move Swagger. This clause came about because of Klefki abusing priority Swagger and Thunder Wave, combined with Foul Play, to wreck pretty much everything unless the Random Number God felt like actually allowing its opponent to attack. The ban is lifted in Generation VII OU because confusion was nerfed, Misty Surge prevents status, Psychic Surge blocks priority moves, as well as Dark-types now being unaffected by Prankster. However, Swagger got banned in Gen 7 Doubles OU again as Tapu Fini supports its teammate by sharply raising their attack stat with Swagger, then the release of Marshadow landed the final nail in the coffin.
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Smogon (Website) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Smogon (Website) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Literally! Double Switching is a tactic that involves switching in a PokÃ©mon, then immediately switching it out with the hope that your opponent just sent out that PokÃ©mon's counter, forcing it to deal with its counter you just sent out. Best used when the PokÃ©mon you're trying to bait out is weak to Pursuit, since you can force a Heads I Win, Tails You Lose/Morton's Fork situation by trapping it.
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Smogon (Website) / int_8941750b	type	Willfully Weak
Smogon (Website) / int_8941750b	comment	Willfully Weak: Using teams of PokÃ©mon from lower tiers. About a hundred or so PokÃ©mon outside OU have niches in OU, but generally it's considered a bad idea to use them outside their niches. One exception (and therefore aversion to this trope) is Reuniclus in Gen 7, who is considered a good PokÃ©mon in OU despite not even being UUnote it's in RUBL, as in it was Kicked Upstairs to UU despite not having the usage to actually be in UU.
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Smogon (Website) / int_8df14c99	type	One-Hit-Point Wonder
Smogon (Website) / int_8df14c99	comment	The classic example: Shedinja. It's more or less useless in lower tiers because its vulnerability to Stealth Rock (and passive damage in general) means it usually faints on the turn it enters. In Ubers, the face of the tier (Kyogrenote In Gen 3-5, before weather was nerfed to only last a number of rounds and the introduction of Primal Groudon) only had a few (otherwise not worth using) moves that could damage Shedinja, making it an effective surprise weapon.
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Smogon (Website) / int_8f1ec2c5	type	Joke Character
Smogon (Website) / int_8f1ec2c5	comment	Wallace and Juan are given a "Luvdisc/10" for Difficulty, but are also given a 20/10 for Coolness since the writer treats them as the ultimate Casanovas.
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Smogon (Website) / int_91172ed8	type	Misère Game
Smogon (Website) / int_91172ed8	comment	MisÃ¨re Game: Smogon has an Other Metagame called Loser's Gamenote formerly Suicide Cup, where players try to lose the battle. Self-KO moves like Memento and Healing Wish are banned, so the main strategy is to rely on residual damage from the Black Sludge, Sticky Barb, Toxic Orb, and the move Steel Beam, which damages the user for 50% of their max HP. Alolan Sandshrew is notably banned for having the lowest Special Attack of any PokÃ©mon that can learn Steel Beam, letting it KO itself in 2 turns while barely damaging the foe.
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Smogon (Website) / int_931ef4f1	type	Complacent Gaming Syndrome
Smogon (Website) / int_931ef4f1	comment	Complacent Gaming Syndrome: A PokÃ©mon's usage (which is kept track of on their simulator) determines what tier they end up in, barring it getting banned from a lower tier to one of the Borderline lists. invoked
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Smogon (Website) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Smogon (Website) / int_933576c8	comment	PokÃ©mon that are Mighty Glaciers or Stone Walls. In-game, players can just level grind a couple of team members to overpower the Artificial Intelligence with brute force and use items to heal crippled/downed members, which is much easier to accomplish with Glass Cannons due to their strength and speed. In player vs. player matches, it doesn't work this way: if you want to switch in something, you have to either let your current PokÃ©mon be knocked out or give your opponent a free shot at whatever you're bringing in (barring a Switch-Out Move, of course). In such an environment, highly defensive PokÃ©mon are much more useful, as they can typically take a hit or two and still survive well enough to provide support for the attackers.
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Smogon (Website) / int_943f7a7e	type	Wiki Walk
Smogon (Website) / int_943f7a7e	comment	You can quickly look up data about a PokÃ©mon's stats or information about moves, abilities, or items in the chat using a command (/data [PokÃ©mon/move/ability/item name]). Useful if you don't want to/can't tab out to look them up.
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Smogon (Website) / int_963e7a0f	type	Random Effect Spell
Smogon (Website) / int_963e7a0f	comment	Taken even further with "Metronome Battles", battles where every PokÃ©mon has Metronome and nothing else. Metronome uses an attack at random, and almost any attack can be summoned (except for a few Secret Arts, Z-moves, and Max Moves). These random attacks include Self Destruct and Explosion, Memento, Taunt (which prevents the opponent from using status moves, of which Metronome counts as one) and Imprison (a move which stops the opposing PokÃ©mon from using moves that both them and their opponent have in their arsenal). If any one of these moves is called, the battle is more often than not decided there and then, since they either instantly KO the PokÃ©mon using them, or they force the opponent to use Struggle and KO themselves with recoil in just a few turns. Sometimes, the battle can end after just one turnnote If, during a 2 vs 2 battle, both PokÃ©mon in the same team move first and Metronome calls any of the following moves for them both: Self Destruct, Explosion, Misty Explosion, Final Gambit, Lunar Dance, Healing Wish, or Memento
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Smogon (Website) / int_9885d4ab	type	Min-Maxing
Smogon (Website) / int_9885d4ab	comment	A PokÃ©mon's tier placement will vary from gen to gen based entirely on new changes to the metagame that Game Freak introduces. For instance, Snorlax, once the undisputed king of Gen II with over 90% usage, saw a decline over time as Fighting-types became more viable and common and PokÃ©mon started getting slightly more Min-Maxed base stats that overshadowed it.
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Smogon (Website) / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
Smogon (Website) / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Luck-Based Mission: Largely averted. Strategies that try to invoke this (evasion moves and the Moody Ability) are banned from all tiers (except for the "Anything Goes" tier). Played completely straight with Random Battles, which gives the participates semi-randomized teams to duke it out with each other. Taken even further with "Metronome Battles", battles where every PokÃ©mon has Metronome and nothing else. Metronome uses an attack at random, and almost any attack can be summoned (except for a few Secret Arts, Z-moves, and Max Moves). These random attacks include Self Destruct and Explosion, Memento, Taunt (which prevents the opponent from using status moves, of which Metronome counts as one) and Imprison (a move which stops the opposing PokÃ©mon from using moves that both them and their opponent have in their arsenal). If any one of these moves is called, the battle is more often than not decided there and then, since they either instantly KO the PokÃ©mon using them, or they force the opponent to use Struggle and KO themselves with recoil in just a few turns. Sometimes, the battle can end after just one turnnote If, during a 2 vs 2 battle, both PokÃ©mon in the same team move first and Metronome calls any of the following moves for them both: Self Destruct, Explosion, Misty Explosion, Final Gambit, Lunar Dance, Healing Wish, or Memento
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Smogon (Website) / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Smogon (Website) / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Might be the case with PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield. Smogon actually banned the Moody Ability from the PokÃ©mon battles it sanctioned because it modified accuracy and evasion. For the Generation VIII games, Game Freak nerfed Moody so it no longer included evasion and accuracy in the values it modified. Smogon unbanned Moody at the beginning of Generation VIII, but re-banned it when it was clear that Glalie was still too much to handle.
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Smogon (Website) / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Smogon (Website) / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: Enforced by the Monotype ruleset. Players have to build a team where every PokÃ©mon shares a single type (dual-type PokÃ©mon are allowed, so you can use stuff like the Dragon/Ground-type Garchomp and Ground/Steel-type Excadrill together on a Ground team) and try to battle with them. Because everything shares a single type, there's a high chance that you'll lose against teams comprised of a type yours is weak against. This is also how "overcentralization" is defined. If a certain PokÃ©mon or strategy is so overwhelmingly effective that multiple slots or entire teams have to be devoted to dealing with it (to the detriment of their effectiveness as a whole), especially if it forces people to use very obscure and narrowly-tailored PokÃ©mon and strategies that just happen to counter it but are more or less completely useless otherwise (as opposed to just niche), a strong case for a suspect test can be made. Any PokÃ©mon that is strong because of one specific strategy or option will naturally suffer if that strategy gets banned or removed. DPP Ninjask had it especially rough in this regard, as its movepool, stats and Ability are tailor-made for Baton Pass chains and is highly effective...but when Baton Pass was banned, it found itself stuck in OU without any other niche to fall back on, making it one of the worst Mons in the tier. Dugtrio and Wobbuffet are similarly useless without their trapping Abilities.
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Smogon (Website) / int_9b9397bb	type	Difficult, but Awesome
Smogon (Website) / int_9b9397bb	comment	Difficult, but Awesome: By holding any Choice item, the PokÃ©mon gets a permanent 50% boost to their Attack (Choice Band), Special Attack (Choice Specs), or Speed (Choice Scarf), but this only allows them to use the first move that was selected until they switch out. Despite this drawback, these items are common in competitive, as Band and Specs are usually given to PokÃ©mon to supplement their ability to hit the opponent harder, while the Choice Scarf enables the holder to outspeed many foes that they otherwise couldn't. A few PokÃ©mon fall into this category. One famous example is Volcarona: it can be difficult to fit Volcarona into a team, plus entry hazards are the bane of its existence, but it also happens to be one of the best Quiver Dance users with its amazing stats and fantastic coverage. With the right support, Volcarona can be a terrifying juggernaut after pulling off several Quiver Dances. In order to transform into Ash-Greninja, a Greninja with Battle Bond must KO a PokÃ©mon by itself. This is actually difficult in practice, since it lacks versatility when compared to a Greninja with Protean and is forced to rely on STAB moves. But once it does become Ash-Greninja, it is rewarded with higher offensive stats and a slight boost to Greninja's speed and Water Shuriken now always strikes 3 times and has 20 Power.
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Smogon (Website) / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Smogon (Website) / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The main thing that separates their Character Tiers system from others; each tier is set up so that the PokÃ©mon in higher tiers cannot participate, giving the lower-tier PokÃ©mon an environment they can shine in. Later generations add more lower tiers to fit the larger amounts of PokÃ©mon, so every PokÃ©mon (save the truly awful ones) gets a chance to prove its worth. The unofficial tier DNU (Do Not Use) takes this to its logical conclusion, giving Joke Characters like Unown and Luvdisc alongside terrible first-forms like Zubat and Togepi a place where they can be useful.
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Smogon (Website) / int_9f41fabe	type	Elite Tweak
Smogon (Website) / int_9f41fabe	comment	Elite Tweak: Almost as prominent as Min-Maxing. While it is true that most mons largely want to invest their EV in relevant stats, depending on the PokÃ©mon you can also add a certain number of speed EV to outspeed a relevant target and OHKO/2HKO on the switch-in before it can do anything, a number of defense EV to avoid a OHKO/2HKO, or a number of attack EV to guarantee a kill on a lured target. A notable example is Stakataka â€” while it has a whopping 211 Defense, it's possible to make it increase its Attack stat with Beast Boost if Stakataka has two things: a Defense IV of 15 or lessnote at Level 100. The same can be applied at Level 50 with a Defense IV of 17 or less, and a Lonely nature*+Attack, -Defense. Even with losing some of its physical bulk, Stakataka can still survive from most attacks as long as they don't deal super-effective damage to it and it can now potentially snowball off of KOs and steamroll the enemy team in Trick Room.
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Smogon (Website) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Smogon (Website) / int_9f80e1da	comment	Cress, Cilan, and Chili's Puzzle gets a "brb gonna buy a strategy guide/10" for being ridiculously simple, while Difficulty gets "100/10" for the game forcing you to fight the one that has the advantage over your starter.
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Smogon (Website) / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Smogon (Website) / int_a414c3f0	comment	The OHKO Clause prevents the use of One-Hit Kill attacks like Sheer Cold.
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Smogon (Website) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Smogon (Website) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: PU (according to Smogon, the "PU" abbreviation officially doesn't stand for anything, although one could interpret it as Toilet Humor) was once an unofficial metagame for the worst of the worst Never-Used (NU) PokÃ©mon (such as Arbok and Parasect), but has been turned into an official tier by popular demand. The "ZU" format (formerly named "FU") has since taken PU's place as the unofficial lowest tier.
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Smogon (Website) / int_abc57fc1	type	There Are No Rules
Smogon (Website) / int_abc57fc1	comment	There Are No Rules: Subverted. The Anything Goes tier does not enforce any rules... except for the Endless Battle Clause, and it's only there to ensure matches actually end.
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Smogon (Website) / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: The Unown analysis, although it is Played for Laughs.
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Smogon (Website) / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Smogon (Website) / int_b47d95be	comment	Skyla's Black 2 and White 2 Puzzle gets a "$/10" to go with a joke that the writer makes about the hospital bills that you'll need to pay after going through it.
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Smogon (Website) / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
Smogon (Website) / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Even though Uber is a banlist for PokÃ©mon that are too powerful for the standard Overused metagame, there are some PokÃ©mon that are just incapable of performing any viable roles in the Ubers metagame. Deoxys-N is a prime example of this; it has great offensive stats and a movepool that is capable of sweeping the entire OU tier, but in its native Uber tier, it falls completely flat because its role is completely outclassed by Deoxys-A. A large amount of single stage PokÃ©mon that gained an evolution in a future generation became this in Little Cup, as due to originally being intended to be the final evolution, they were far too strong for the format to handle.
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Smogon (Website) / int_b59f6070	type	Confusion Fu
Smogon (Website) / int_b59f6070	comment	Electivire in DP OverUsed is an infamous example of this trope. To new players, it seems like a strong offensive threat, with its great attack stat, decent speed, wide range of coverage moves to hit practically the entire tier for super-effective damage, and Motor Drive ability to boost its speed when hit by an Electric-type attack. However, Electivire's "decent" base 95 speed leaves it outsped by many other offensive PokÃ©mon in the tier, its moves have underwhelming base power, and its Glass Cannon nature makes it easy to revenge kill or just take out after tanking one of its attacks, even if it's hitting super-effectively. Players would often pair it with Gyarados to bait in Electric-type attacks, then switch in Electivire to activate Motor Drive, but this strategy is easily predictable at higher levels of play. As a result of these weaknesses, Electivire sees no serious play in modern DP OU, but it's trapped in the tier due to the tiers locking at the end of each generation. Tellingly, it fell to RU once BW started, where it's a legitimately viable choice.
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Smogon (Website) / int_b6b58f	type	Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training
Smogon (Website) / int_b6b58f	comment	Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Several Smogon-recommended PokÃ©mon lack attacking moves in one or both of their types. Such sets are often justified by either the PokÃ©monâ€™s poor attack stats (namely the defensive Stone Walls or tanks), poor offensive coverage in one of its STABs and wanting room for more practical coverage/status moves as a result, or in Gen 1 to 3, being victim to the pre-Physical/Special Split.
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Smogon (Website) / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
Smogon (Website) / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: One of the CAPs, Necturna, was designed around learning the move Sketch exactly once through breeding to give it a single wild card attack. Since X and Y changed breeding mechanics so that egg moves can be relearned just like level-up moves (and thus giving Necturna any 4 moves it wants), a special rule was made so that Necturna could only be used with one move learned via Sketch. The Baton Pass Clause had to be revised twice since people kept finding ways of abusing the move Baton Pass. The final version prevents having a moveset with Baton Pass and a way to boost Speed + any other stat while restricting the move to only one PokÃ©mon per team. And as of Gen VII, Baton Pass itself is flat-out banned. The Endless Battle Clause had to be added on to a year after its inception since people found some convoluted ways of getting around it. Averagemons is a Game Mod metagame where all Mons have 100 base stats across the board, making abilities and movesets the determinant of viability. Smeargle is banned as it can learn nearly every move with Sketch. Speaking of Metagames that are game mods, if it is possible to change the ability of a PokÃ©mon in a format, then there is a pretty good chance that Regigigas and Slaking are banned in that format.
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Smogon (Website) / int_b970a40	type	Valley Girl
Smogon (Website) / int_b970a40	comment	Valley Girl: The part about Erika in the first "Do You Even Lift?" article looks like it was written by one.
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Smogon (Website) / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Mega Gengar's specialty and why it was banned. It works like this: Mega Gengar uses Perish Songnote a move that will make both PokÃ©mon on the field faint in three turns. This normally forces a switch, but Shadow Tag means that that isn't going to happen. It would be tempting to kill it directly, but it can also use Destiny Bond. Walling it is also a non-option, as most walls are dispatched with Perish Song. Even forcing it out with Roar and such will not get rid of the Perish Song counter, making you lose momentum. Baton Pass and Volt-Turn are the best options to escape, and this is only buying time instead of eliminating the threat. Ghost-type PokÃ©mon can innately escape trapping moves and abilities; however, the problem with that is that Gengar is itself a Ghost-type PokÃ©mon with an absurd amount of Special Attack to boot, and outside of Mega Sableye (who simply does not have any offensive firepower) and Spiritomb (who is not a particularly strong PokÃ©mon in general), there isn't a single Ghost-type that can resist it. There's no reliable way to deal with this setup, and checking it is largely a matter of dumb luck and/or the M-Gengar user being dumb as a sandbag.
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Smogon (Website) / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
Smogon (Website) / int_bbcdd673	comment	Earlier analyses would refer to PokÃ©mon as "he" or "she" depending on their appearance and it could be written in first person, whereas later analyses will be written in second person and refer to PokÃ©mon as "it" regardless of if it's a One-Gender Race.
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Smogon (Website) / int_beac3bec	comment	While Marshadow is a viable PokÃ©mon at all levels of Ubers play, there's a specific set for it that falls into this trope: Focus Sash. On paper, it seems like a great idea â€” Marshadow can come in on a boosted sweeper, steal all their stat boosts with no risk due to its Last Chance Hit Point, and then reverse sweep. In practice, the set completely falls apart to hazards, which will break Marshadow's sash and essentially leave it with no item. Marshadow also really needs the power boost from a Choice Band or Life Orb to fill its role in battle, so if it has to do anything other than attack a boosted foe, it'll be too weak.
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Smogon (Website) / int_bf0713ce	type	Cup Holders
Smogon (Website) / int_bf0713ce	comment	Cup Holders: The X/Y parody leaks in issue 28 of The Smog claims Gogoat's evolution, Gagoatfast, has these.
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Smogon (Website) / int_c0ccf45c	type	Metagame
Smogon (Website) / int_c0ccf45c	comment	Metagame: The site is aimed towards enabling some semblance of balance to PVP play.
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Smogon (Website) / int_c4fd76e0	type	Kryptonite Is Everywhere
Smogon (Website) / int_c4fd76e0	comment	Kryptonite Is Everywhere: Generation IV introduced the very common Stealth Rock, which inflicted continual rock damage to the opposing team. This was especially critical to Fire and Flying Types because they became less viable competitively note unless they had enough bulk or managed to serve another team function, since they would lose 25% of their health upon switching in, and it made the already-horrible Ice/Flying typing even worse and served as the final nail in Articuno's coffin. It wouldn't be until Generation VIII when Heavy-Duty Boots were added to the selection of items to help PokÃ©mon with severe Stealth Rock weaknesses shine more. Thanks to Mega Charizard Y giving rise to a plethora of Sun-based teams, Fire must now always be accounted for in the metagame. As a Steel/Fairy, Fire-type PokÃ©mon are the main thorn in Mawile's side due to being 1) weak to Fire-type moves, and 2) both of Mawile's STABs being ineffective against Fire-types; Mega Mawile not being able to hold an Occa Berry with the Mawilite doesn't help. It's entirely possible for Mega Mawile to remove such threats with Sucker Punch or Rock Slide, but extreme caution must still be employed.
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Smogon (Website) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Smogon (Website) / int_c70fc0a2	comment	Pretentious Latin Motto: "Nil Sine PokÃ©mon" (Nothing Without PokÃ©mon)
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Smogon (Website) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Smogon (Website) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: "Smogon 2014 in a Nutshell" takes a jab at the lack of traffic the Victory Road subforum had been getting ever since it was created.
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Smogon (Website) / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
Smogon (Website) / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Many PokÃ©mon from lower tiers are usable due to this, whether it be to check/counter popular threats or to fill out a niche role in their party. This trope tends to be part of the banning process as well. If numerous players are spotted using what is ordinarily considered a sub-par PokÃ©mon for the sole purpose of countering a specific mon or strategy, or an extremely specific setup on a widely-used PokÃ©mon that is objectively not optimal solely because it counters a common threat, said mon or strategy may be suspected for being over-centralizing. It's not given as much attention as the inverse, but many PokÃ©mon, abilities, and moves are far more useful in the metagame than they are in-game. The AI rarely switches out PokÃ©mon. So entry hazards such as Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Stealth Rock aren't especially useful unless the opponent has several PokÃ©mon that are weak to them, or using Switch-Out Move. In the metagame, however, switching out PokÃ©mon is critical, and hindering your opponent's ability to do so is a huge advantage. While not a hazard, Pursuit also falls in this category, as you'll very rarely see its power boost in-game. Due to entry hazards being much more useful in competitive play than in-game, the moves Rapid Spin and Defog, which remove entry hazards, also become drastically more useful. In-game, these moves are pretty much dead weight outside of a few specific situations. In the metagame, depending on how you set up your team, it can be downright necessary to have a PokÃ©mon handy that knows one of the two moves. Trapping abilities. While trapping moves like Mean Look, Wrap, and their variants have fallen by the wayside due to the faster-paced metagamenote opponents are much more likely to switch out of an unfavorable matchup than stick around long enough for such a move to connect to its intended target, abilities like Arena Trap, Magnet Pull, and especially Shadow Tag remain incredibly useful for the same reasons as entry hazards. To illustrate, Shadow Tag almost single-handedly turned Wobbuffet from a Joke Character to a Game-Breaker (before Gen V, at least), and it's a large part of why Mega Gengar is considered a Game-Breaker in Gen VI. In fact, all trapping abilities except for Magnet Pull are banned to Ubers as of Gen VII. Recovery moves like Recover and Wish. Sure, in-game they can be pretty convenient, but they're hardly necessary when the right healing item can do the same thing better without eating up a moveslot. In player vs. player matches, when non-held items can't be used, they suddenly become a lot more vital. The usability of many a Mighty Glacier and Stone Wall has been made or broken based entirely on whether they have a reliable way to heal back damage. PokÃ©mon that are Mighty Glaciers or Stone Walls. In-game, players can just level grind a couple of team members to overpower the Artificial Intelligence with brute force and use items to heal crippled/downed members, which is much easier to accomplish with Glass Cannons due to their strength and speed. In player vs. player matches, it doesn't work this way: if you want to switch in something, you have to either let your current PokÃ©mon be knocked out or give your opponent a free shot at whatever you're bringing in (barring a Switch-Out Move, of course). In such an environment, highly defensive PokÃ©mon are much more useful, as they can typically take a hit or two and still survive well enough to provide support for the attackers. One-use items, like Focus Sash, Weakness Policy, and the rarer Berries, as they tend to be hard to come by, and thus highly subject to Too Awesome to Use in-game. In player vs. player matches, any used items are returned at the end of the match, so it's possible to be much more liberal in their use. Attacking moves with low Power Points (PP), like Close Combat and Fire Blast. In-game, they're not especially useful since the low PP means having to stop and go back to the PokÃ©mon Center/use up PP-restoring items that much more often, and the minor increase in power generally isn't worth it. Even worse, these moves often have some drawback, like decreasing stats after each use or having low accuracy, which makes the more practical moves like Brick Break and Flamethrower even more appealing. In the metagame, though, the low PP is typically not an issue, since PP is restored after each battle, and the drawbacks of such moves are seen as worth the risk, since the difference in power between Fire Blast and Flamethrower can often mean the difference between, for example, a 2-hit KO and a 3-hit KO, which can snowball into the difference between a win and a loss. Most Power at a Price tactics, such as the Guts/Quick Feet/Toxic Boost abilities, Choice Items, and Life Orb. In-game, most threats can be utterly overpowered by raw level advantage and simple knowledge of the Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, so such things are seen as hindering the PokÃ©mon's survivability or versatility for little payoff. In the metagame, though, all PokÃ©mon are the same level, and it is generally taken for granted that every competent player knows what hits what, so such tactics become much more necessary for attackers to dish out the damage they need to. Numerous PokÃ©mon that tend to be overshadowed by more powerful alternatives in-game can become highly useful players in lower-tier matches, where they don't have to compete with the PokÃ©mon that have blatant advantages over them. Since the AI almost never uses Status moves in favor of brute force, Taunt is incredibly impractical in single-player modes. Even if they do have status moves in their moveset, since the PokÃ©mon and movesets they use are fixed, it is generally better to abuse type and level advantages against them. But in multiplayer, however, status moves are one of the leading gears of the metagame, and as such, for many offensive or anti-stall teams, Taunt ranks among one of the best moves to directly prevent them from using status moves to cripple your team.
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Smogon (Website) / int_d295a79e	type	Just Here for Godzilla
Smogon (Website) / int_d295a79e	comment	Just Here for Godzilla: In "Movie Critics - The Panel: Golden Oldies", critic Layell claims he only watched the movies for the fight scenes and says he fast-forwarded through everything that wasn't some sort of action sequence. invoked
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Smogon (Website) / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Smogon (Website) / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: The Viability Ranking threads (think a tier list within a tier list) will occasionally have PokÃ©mon blacklisted from being discussed if they are outclassed by something else available or because the people talking about them wouldn't shut up and pissed off the mods.
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Smogon (Website) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Smogon (Website) / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: Their simulator has a ton of features harder to gauge in actual games to make battling more convenient. First of all, the simulator itself is one, since it cuts out hours of tedious breeding, soft-resetting, RNG abuse, PokÃ©mon catching and Level Grinding â€” ultimately just letting you battle. This also makes it an ideal place to test out potential builds and competitive strategies to see if they're worth replicating in the games for official tournaments. Your opponent's team is always visible on a sidebar in the Battle Screen, and scrolling over the icons will show their HP value and if said PokÃ©mon is still conscious. Scrolling over a PokÃ©mon's sprite/model will tell you their possible abilities, typing, and stat range. The clauses are listed at the top of the chat at the beginning of each match. The amount of damage received is always announced in the chat, but is listed as percentages. note This is technically a Game Mod. The chat keeps track of turn order, the number of turns that have passed, what moves have been used, and the aforementioned damage percentages. The simulator keeps track of things that players had to memorize while playing the regular PokÃ©mon games. The main PokÃ©mon games eventually got a similar feature in PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon. The Battle Screen shows the Status Buffs (or debuffs) a PokÃ©mon has and their exact boosts. Effects such as Destiny Bond, Bide, etc. will show whether they are still active or not. Weather, Light Screen, Reflect, terrain, and other field effects have a turn counter. For weather, terrain, and Light Screen/Reflect, it gives 2 counters (listed as "x or y turns left") since the opponent could possibly be holding the items that extend the effect time. Stealth Rock, Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Sticky Web have their own graphics to tell you that they're active. When selecting moves for your PokÃ©mon in the Teambuilder, you can choose what type you want Hidden Power to be and the simulator will adjust the IVs accordingly. If you chose a Hidden Power with this method, the move selection screen will always display what type it is as part of the name (for example, "Hidden Power Fire"). You can quickly look up data about a PokÃ©mon's stats or information about moves, abilities, or items in the chat using a command (/data [PokÃ©mon/move/ability/item name]). Useful if you don't want to/can't tab out to look them up. The simulator will warn players if the opposing PokÃ©mon may have a trapping Ability that locks in otherwise free switches. You can cancel your move choice if your opponent hasn't finished, with the exception of circumstances where doing so would give you an unfair advantage of knowing what your opponent has (such as your opponent's PokÃ©mon possibly having a trapping ability.) The teambuilder has a section for recommended moves, links to pertinent Smogon analyses, and automatically suggests stat spreads depending on the moveset for convenient access to competitive sets. Replays can be uploaded or downloaded, and the replay viewer lets you switch PokÃ©mon Trainer viewing perspectives. The Endless Battle Clause exists to prevent setups like Funbro that have no actual strategic value and exist solely to create Unwinnable situations and provoke a Rage Quit. It's quite telling that even in Anything Goes, the Endless Battle Clause still exists. In Generation 3 Deoxys's forms were based on what game they were in and they all had the same sprite, because of this Generation 3 formats have the Deoxys Camouflage Clause, which reveals which form the Deoxys is before the battle starts. This is meant to be like the player telling their opponent what form their Deoxys is. The Generation 9 Hackmons Formats would later take this clause to its extreme when it was revealed that just about every PokÃ©mon that wasn't in that generation was still able to be hacked in and used in battle albeit with Pikachu sprites. Since the "Pikachu" could be one of hundreds of PokÃ©mon, this fact about the sprites would be ignored as if the player told the opponent what all of their "Pikachus" were.
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Smogon (Website) / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Smogon (Website) / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: How Ubers used to function before it gradually became its own meta, and what Anything Goes filled the void with. This is also what happens to certain PokÃ©mon who get kicked into Ubers and wind up in the unenviable position of being too good for OU but completely outclassed in Ubers, as Mega Kangaskhan, Pheromosa, Solgaleo, and various others will lamentingly tell you. The various Borderline tiers also serve the same function for PokÃ©mon in lower tiers, such as a UUBL mon being too good for UU but not worth using in OU, or a PUBL mon that's too over-centralizing for PU but barely makes a dent in NU.
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Smogon (Website) / int_d94ff9b3	comment	Wall of Text: The analyses can lean towards this, especially if the PokÃ©mon in question has multiple sets.
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Smogon (Website) / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Smogon (Website) / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Unown's Generation IV analysis brags about how it can OHKO or 2HKO a number of PokÃ©mon... except all have either low Special Defense or a 4x weakness. The teammates section is basically "team building for dummies", full of advice that is not specific to Unown.
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Smogon (Website) / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: A few Trou du Cul threads are this â€” and are subsequently mocked by the staff. This happened rather infamously once, concerning an Energy Ball Jellicent. After a PokÃ©mon Online moderator named Somalia lost to a Jellicent with Energy Ball and thus proceeded to use his moderator privileges to systematically rageban all members of the Smogon PO server and subsequently was banned, Energy Ball Jellicent has become a regular sight, even becoming part of a temporary new name of the off topic discussion forum.
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Smogon (Website) / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Smogon (Website) / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Using PokÃ©mon from the Rarely-Used (RU) or Never-Used (NU) tier can catch foes off-guard in the Over-Used (OU) tier, as they might not follow what PokÃ©mon from those tiers run for their sets as closely and sometimes have little to no idea on how to counter them. The same goes for using common PokÃ©mon in a certain tier, but with an unusual moveset. These kinds of movesets are referred to as "lures".
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Smogon (Website) / int_e2767d5c	comment	House Rules: Enforced by the simulator for the most part, though there's still the option to play by the original rules if you want (or make up your own in a Custom Battle). Unlike the official battle format, there is no Item clause, thus allowing more than two PokÃ©mon to hold the same items. The Sleep Clause prevents players from putting more than one of the opponent's PokÃ©mon to sleep at a time. While this clause has existed since Gen I (and was even invented by Game Freak), it became even more important in Gen V because the mechanics for sleep were changed. Gen V made it so the sleep counter is reset when the sleeping PokÃ©mon is switched out, which means players could theoretically put their opponent to sleep, force them to switch with Whirlwind or Roar, and repeat the process until every one of the opponent's PokÃ©mon are asleep. The player could then use entry hazards and Whirlwind or Roar to slowly beat the opponent to death without them being able to retaliate. Not applied to Doubles as of Gen VI due to not being as easy to abuse. The OHKO Clause prevents the use of One-Hit Kill attacks like Sheer Cold. The Evasion Clause prevents players from using moves and some abilities that intentionally raise evasion, as the stat increases how much luck influences the match. Ubers did not have this clause enforced until a policy revision after the release of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. The Endless Battle Clause prevents people from using certain moveset and item combinations that create Unwinnable situations that can be infinitely prolonged until someone disconnects. Because this strategy is used purely to troll and piss people off and invite Rage Quits, it is the only clause that Anything Goes kept. The clause was eventually revamped to very specifically stop players causing endless battles in a way that avoids possibly catching legitimate builds.note Healing an enemy Mon or using a berry multiple times makes the affected Mon "stale", and if, after 100 turns, all Mons on the field are "stale" and at least one player has no ability to switch to one that isn't, the player with the ability to cause this situation loses (or if both of them could, it's a tie). None of this is that much an issue in the official battle format, as there's always a timer for multiplayer battles. The Swagger Clause prevents use of the move Swagger. This clause came about because of Klefki abusing priority Swagger and Thunder Wave, combined with Foul Play, to wreck pretty much everything unless the Random Number God felt like actually allowing its opponent to attack. The ban is lifted in Generation VII OU because confusion was nerfed, Misty Surge prevents status, Psychic Surge blocks priority moves, as well as Dark-types now being unaffected by Prankster. However, Swagger got banned in Gen 7 Doubles OU again as Tapu Fini supports its teammate by sharply raising their attack stat with Swagger, then the release of Marshadow landed the final nail in the coffin. The Baton Pass Clause limits the player to one user of the move Baton Pass on each team. This clause came about in Generation VI due to the discovery of several overly-powerful team combinations that required multiple users of the move, and shutting it down being something of a crapshoot (requiring Haze or a Switch-Out Move to pull off). Generation VII straight-up bans the move Baton Pass altogether, even in Ubers. Some PokÃ©mon that are banned in Nintendo/Game Freak-sanctioned tournaments (such as Mew and most of its clones and Black Kyurem) are legal to use in the simulator's standard matches and tournaments, due to the community viewing them as Awesome, but Impractical. Inversely, some PokÃ©mon considered tournament-legal by Nintendo are banned due to the differences between the formats making certain threats more powerful (like Mega Kangaskhan in Singles).
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Smogon (Website) / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Smogon (Website) / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: They're called "Cores", which are made up of PokÃ©mon that have great synergy with each other by covering up each other's weaknesses. In the early sixth generation, Deoxys Defense Form and Bisharp worked extremely well together. Once Deoxys sets up entry hazards, the opponent is pressured to use Defog, which can then be absorbed by Bisharp to double its Attack and sweep the opposition. Then Deoxys Defense form was banned back to Ubers.
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Smogon (Website) / int_e4fe2e05	comment	Sandbox Mode: The custom game format is essentially this, as the only limits to the format are the limits of the Showdown Simulator itself. The most notable separation from it and Hackmons is the ability to bring 24 level 9999 PokÃ©mon that all have 24 moves.
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Smogon (Website) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Smogon (Website) / int_e545e190	comment	Explosion and Self-Destruct (before the Gen V Nerf) were extremely powerful moves that also halved defense, near guaranteeing to kill anything that wasn't resistant (and some PokÃ©mon that were) at the cost of fainting your PokÃ©mon. However, trying to explode on a Ghost-Type (commonly Gengar) or a substitute, meant that your opponent gained free advantage, making it a severe risk one must watch out for.
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Smogon (Website) / int_eac3ee70	type	April Fools' Day
Smogon (Website) / int_eac3ee70	comment	April Fools' Day: Every April 1st on PokÃ©mon Showdown, the standard sprites and models are replaced with poorly-done drawings of them, references, or inside jokes about what they do in competitive. A full list can be found here. Additionally, some moves, such as Earthquake (which shakes the whole screen when used) have additional visual effects.note The sprites can be viewed on any other day by typing the command /afd into the chat box. To turn them off, type /afd off For April Fool's 2020, PokÃ©mon Showdown became Digimon Showdown, and added special randomized ladders featuring Digimon in the place of PokÃ©mon. Said ladders were kept for about a week after April Fool's. During April Fool's 2016, the Battle Spot forum held a "suspect test" for Mega Kangaskhan, seeking to ban the PokÃ©mon from the Battle Spot ladder on Showdown. Given that Battle Spot was a metagame managed by Game Freak, the so-called suspect test was a joke. However, some members did indeed believe that Smogon actually wanted to ban PokÃ©mon from official metagames. April Fools 2021 was a goldmine of ridiculous, obvious joke suspect tests. OU unbanned Zacian-Crowned, which proceeded to immediately wreck havoc across the metagame. UU unbanned Tyranitar and Excadrill, as if trying to bring back a rehash of Gen V's metagame. RU unbanned Dynamax, something banned from Ubers. Metagross teams immediately popped up to abuse this. NU banned Ninjask (in reference to another Smogon meme related to Ninjask in NU) and all Ice-types in the tier. Funnily enough, most of the Ice-types in NU were banned or made unviable down the line. PU unbanned Indeedee-F and banned Team Preview. ZU unbanned Magmortar and banned Heavy-Duty-Boots. National Dex OU banned Sablenite, Chansey, and Toxapex. Explanation These are key components of National Dex OU stall teams. The staff of the Anything Goes ladder released a fake post about Eternamax Eternatus being released in a Sword and Shield event but due to "confusion" about whether or not the form would be a permanent form change or a temporary one like Dynamax it was only allowed to be used in a separate version of the laddernote Smogon only allows PokÃ©mon to be used after they are officially obtainable on the console, so if this wasn't an April Fools Joke the confusions would have been cleared up before Eternamax Eternatus was playable on ladder. Just like in Pure Hackmons the meta for that separate ladder was Eternamax Eternatus and the few PokÃ©mon that were able to take it down. National Dex UU unranked every single PokÃ©mon that wasn't a monkey PokÃ©mon and only ranked the aforementioned Monkey PokÃ©mon. Finally, a new gamemode was unveiled known as "Just another Random Battle" which turned out to be a 4-player random battle, with all 4 players given PokÃ©mon with doubles movesets. Became an Ascended Meme in the form of the new Free-For-All Random Battle and Free-For-All gamemodes. On April 1st, 2023, the site announced that it would be suspect testing the Species Clause in OverUsed under the testing prefix "OUWU", allowing players to play OU with multiple copies of the same PokÃ©mon for the day.
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Smogon (Website) / int_eb7d0d71	type	Quirky Bard
Smogon (Website) / int_eb7d0d71	comment	Kecleon is pretty much the definition of this trope (except with "awesome" replaced with "entertaining"). Kecleon's original ability, Color Change, caused it to change into the type of the attack of the move that hit it, which had some uses but was also an Achilles' Heel because of how easy it was to exploit with PokÃ©mon that had great coverage options. Fast forward to Generation VI and Kecleon gets a new ability that's much, much better in the form of Protean.
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Smogon (Website) / int_ee30ce4b	type	Popularity Power
Smogon (Website) / int_ee30ce4b	comment	Has on rare occasion become a problem for PokÃ©mon with Popularity Power that far outstrips their actual usability, due to it landing them in a tier where they're thoroughly useless, whereas they could compete better if they were used a little less and allowed to drop down.
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Smogon (Website) / int_f62cc38a	type	Stone Wall
Smogon (Website) / int_f62cc38a	comment	Toxic Orb is usually a terrible item to give a PokÃ©mon, but in Gliscor's hands, it turns it into a Stone Wall that can be incredibly frustrating to take down. It's also the only reliable way to activate the Toxic Boost and Quick Feet abilities note Quick Feet doesn't prevent burns from halving Attack and most Quick Feet users are physical attackers, so Flame Orb isn't very good for this, and can be used to activate Guts.
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Smogon (Website) / int_f711f899	type	Rank Inflation
Smogon (Website) / int_f711f899	comment	Rank Inflation: A strange inversion. Initially, the only Smogon tiers were NU, UU, BL, OU, and Uber, but as more PokÃ©mon came out and NU and UU were filled by a wide variety of PokÃ©mon, the RU and PU tiers were formed to organize this surplus into further tiers. Essentially, instead of making ever-increasing tiers for stronger PokÃ©mon as in typical Rank Inflation, Smogon made ever-decreasing tiers for mediocre PokÃ©mon, while Ubers went from being a "just for fun" tier to a completely serious format. "Untiered" became the true "trash tier" as each tier evolved into a dedicated format; if something is untiered, it is usually because it is so utterly useless that no one wants to go to the trouble of figuring out which of the bottom-tier formats it belongs in (aside from the unofficial Zeroused tier, or ZU for short). Note, however, that Mega Rayquaza and the AG tier plays this trope straight.
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Smogon (Website) / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
Smogon (Website) / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: As a result of Power Creep or sometimes changes in mechanics, very often a top tier in a previous generation(s) will slowly fall down the tiering rung into lower and lower tiers, such as Tauros from Gen 1 to every subsequent generation, and Snorlax from Gens 1-2 and onwards. As a silver lining however, they might be lucky enough to be kings of the tier down in whatever tier they fell to.
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Smogon (Website) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Smogon (Website) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: In the "Movie Critics - The Panel" articles discussing the PokÃ©mon movies, critic Jellicent always takes potshots at Ash for being an Idiot Hero. The "Do You Even Lift" articles using Broke the Rating Scale. People who frequent Other Metagames always seem to mention when a metagame idea allows Noivern to get STAB (same-type attack bonus) on Boomburst.
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Smogon (Website) / int_fa87021	type	Kill Streak
Smogon (Website) / int_fa87021	comment	Xurkitree has an absolutely horrifying Special Attack stat plus Tail Glow, which raises it to truly obscene levels, and Beast Boost will raise it even more with each kill. Unfortunately, that's literally all it has, as the rest of its stats are thoroughly mediocre at best, and there is literally no way for Beast Boost to boost anything other than Special Attack due to its stat distribution, preventing Min-Maxing to help boost its Speed instead. The end result is a slow, fragile and predictable PokÃ©mon that can reduce things to ash but probably won't get to do so; while it can be very effective with proper setup, general consensus is that there are plenty of less extreme but more dependable special wallbreakers out there that won't crumple from a single STAB Earthquake or Earth Power.
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Smogon (Website) / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Smogon (Website) / int_ff070bbd	comment	Moves that just reduce stats are usually not recommended as the opponent can just swap out (negating the stat change) or will just continue to beat on you anyway. Memento is an exception to this, as it was used to provide momentum by fainting.
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Smogon (Website) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Smogon (Website) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The simulator keeps track of what PokÃ©mon are used the most and the moves/stat spreads that are most commonly found on them.
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