>>57323431Last thread, there was a conversation about this
>>57297111 sort of thing, and I've come to the conclusion that only about 1/10 of Pokemon can be useable at a high level of Pokemon battling. I use both Gen 8 and Gen 9 OU and UU for this metric, and I think Gen 8 OU/UU is more accurate for writing battles because of Paradoxes and their unprecedented powercreep brought to Gen 9 OU.
This kind of thing is only really relevant to me, because I'm the only one who actually uses stats in my writing (but a modified version with max EVs and all boosted natures applied, in order to extend fights beyond OKO fests like in game, because lets be honest both of those things only exist as they do in the games for balance reasons), everyone else kind of just does playground fights where there's not really an objective metric. Which is fine I guess, because people can write what they want, but I still occasionally ask around regarding game machanics even if other people don't apply them, in order to try and make my own writing more sense.
I am interested in making a teambuilding advice document for teambuilding new OCs aimed at both writing with stats and without them, but it's relatively low priority based on the interest survey that I posted a while ago.
Infernape actually is NU though.
https://www.smogon.com/dex/sv/pokemon/infernape/ 