>>20824410"Power creep" is the sensation where a game introduces progressively stronger expansions or updates, voiding the viability of everything not from the newest sets or patches. There's about 45 Pokemon in OU right now. Of them, the ones from gen 1 that have builds that can get by without their Mega are:
Chancey, Clefable, Dragonite, Gengar, Gyarados, Vaporeon, Zapdos.
7. That's about 16% of the OU cast. A sixth of the metagame. Oh, but that can't be right. Shouldn't the power creep have made them all defunct?
Amswer's no dingleberry, and that's because people cry power creep without actually having a fucking clue when their extremely average favorite pokemon gradually receives actual competition.
