>>54925013Okay, explain this to me since I never played comp:
So, to me pokemon showdon "competitive" (fanfic meta) went like this. You made a pokemon emulator that had become really very robust. So robust that it could emulate close to perfectly the actual game's fighting. So people started playing that competitively, to win. But they quickly realised not all pokemon are equal. And they'd often lose if they didn't pick the best of the best.
So, they devised a system of "tiering", I don't know if it worked automatically at the start, but it did its job of separating pokemon into pools based on power such that most pokemon have a place to be. But those tiers, in reality, were made for the WEAK pokemon, and people who wanted to use them.
OU was "the real game" because it had all the pokemon from all the tiers and all the strategies available, so that was the most complex, highest power, and most realest tier there was. So it was "the main tier"
But then, strategies or pokemon that were very, very powerful came up, so much so that they didn't fit into the game appeared. To the point where they needed those to be banned. But they couldn't ban them into another tier because OU is the higher tier. So they made a banlist "tier" where they could shove all of them. Pokemon get banned into Ubers, they don't trickle from ubers into OU like other tiers. And AG was made for super-legendaries.
But now that there's SO MANY bans of normal pokemon and strategies that they have to make ANOTHER tier above OU, it raises the question of why is OU even considered the main tier? Wouldn't UUbers now be the "the most complex, highest power and most realest tier there was"?
OU was "the big boys tier", but at this point it feels like just another NU style tier given too much importance. It's not "the biggest and best pokemon" but just some random combination of new mons people decide are "fine". At this shouldn't UUbers be considered "the big boys tier"?
