>>54028869Alright, let me be super clear then, to clear any misunderstanding for you or anyone else.
As you know, Smogon tiering philosophy is that instead of ranking pokemon into tiers manually, where biases, misunderstood potential, and sheer workload issues are concerns, they use (almost) purely usage stats to determine this, with the idea being that Usage has a VERY LOSE correlation with viability. People will use what will give them the best odds at winning, and so good Pokemon will naturally rise.
This correlation is extremely lose, however, even without counting manual efforts like bans and what not, so they are strictly listed as USAGE tiers as a result.
However, due to the lose correlation of tiers and viability, lesser viable things will be, on average, in lower tiers still. The difference in the viability-to-tiers amount changes gen to gen, and especially with amount of Pokemon. In Gen 1, most things in UU and below were pretty clearly not cut out for OU play, due to the lower amount of Pokemon (though there were still exceptions, like Lapras, Golem, etc...). In a modern game, where power levels tend to be very high across the board, this aforementioned difference is significantly less noticeable between tiers, to the point where UU is basically an OU#2 in terms of viability.
This is the point that I'm making-- Mew isn't in UU because its unviable for OU play like a lot of anons think, it's in UU just due to the sheer amount of good pokemon in the game at the moment, and it's more niche role.
Also, as for
> I also don't know why you picked DPPIt's not a clear cut "this gen now has UU pokemon viable, this gen doesnt", but a slope. Gen 4's obviously got things like Clefable and Nidoqueen and whatnot, but its also an old gen where tiering doesnt shift anymore. Even though clearly incorrect, Clefable was thought to be unviable in the earlier days in Gen 4.
