>>30821746>It's not bad. It's just that there's probably a Pokemon that can do its job better.So it's bad.
I get that you're trying to say some NU/UU or even low tier OU mon can hold their own fine in OU in general, but if we're looking at statistics then yes, yes it's bad. Because there's a more viable and accessible pokemon for you to use - competitively this justifies calling an NU/UU bad.
Outside of showdown and smogon expectations, there aren't so many boundaries. This means objectively and officially there are bad pokemon and good pokemon in terms of battle viability. Because pokemon was not created by smogon, right? Their meta is completely unofficial, and so outside of tiers or even in OU, where it's inclusive of shitmon. These pokemon are bad.
They have their tiers BECAUSE they can't keep up or are outperformed in the same role by a mile. NU/UU are just tiers for shitmon who can ONLY perform good enough within that respective shitmon tier. You see where I'm going with this?
I like smogon for the tiers and being able to identify where your mons sit competitively. But when you say something like "But that's why we have tiers", maybe we're talking about VGC but in regards to how smogon rates pokemon in terms of viability due to it being like thee only dedicated resource for being able to research something so large.
SO on vgc (the official objective of pokemon anyway) it does in fact mean that anything below OU is a complete shitmon.
You are right about the chansey thing, but I mean you have to be retarded to not know that a pokemon doesn't have to be fast to do well. Just so long as the stats are placed correctly for its ability, typing and movepool.
imo singles is probably the most official and default format, so a pokemon sort of does need to be able to hold its own. I get that some are made for doubles, like comfey or magearna. But doubles are an extra, not your bread and butter.
