>>30797987See:
>>30798010Most smogon rules are mostly bans. They ban overpowered shit to UBERs, where they can play with other overpowered shit. Then there's the usage based tier lists, which are indeed more like boxing weight classes.
Take a mon like Cinccino for example. If you really want to use that mon, you can. But you'd be better off using it in the RU meta. But you're free to pit it against OU mons if you want.
Then there's the BL tiers, which are mostly bans for mons who are too strong to be in a certain tier, but not used enough to be in OU. Perfect example is Mega Alakazam. It's way to strong to be in UU, but not used enough to be OU.
And that's basically it. There are some things like sleep clauses and such. But for the rest, it's mostly usage based, with the exception of certain mons being banned because they are too damn strong.
