Unofficial Competitive Tiers for PRO

[Glogs]

Project description

Teerav, idkup, and I (Glogs) recently set up a new project to collect usage data from PRO ladder (on both servers). The ultimate goal is to create standardized tiers, much like Smogon’s, for tournaments on PRO, and allow for a more diverse competitive environment. We decided that the best way to do this would be to collect usage data, as it is the only objective and non-arbitrary measurement of a Pokemon’s position in the metagame. We aim to use these tiers to host tournaments for both Silver and Gold server with unique, yet standard, rules to allow for a different environment than the standard ranked ladder. Each tier will be managed by a council, which will have the ability to ban problematic Pokemon in order to maintain balance. Council members will be selected from dedicated members of the community who show passion for and consistently play a tier.

 

Description of each tier

 

The OU tier typically consists of the Pokémon that have the highest chance of granting you a win whilst playing competitively. Pokémon in this tier have strong combinations of abilities, base stats, typing(s) and movepools.

This tiers metagame will be comprised of the most powerful Pokémon, although all Pokémon that are not banned in the ranked PvP rules of PRO are allowed.

Pokémon with a usage of more than 3,41% in this tier are considered OU.

 

As the name suggests, this tier is for Pokémon that don’t belong in the OU tier, as they are too weak or have a worse combination of stats/typings/abilities. We have chosen to follow Smogon and their threshold of 3,41% usage in OU. If a Pokémon is used in less than 3,41% of teams in the OU tier, it is allowed in UU (unless the council has banned it for a multitude of other reasons). A Pokémon is considered UU when it is used more than 3,41% of teams in this tier.

 

 

Similarly to how UU is determined by the OU tier, the RU tier is determined by the usage stats in UU. The threshold is the same (being 3,41%). All Pokémon that are not OU, UU or banned by PRO rules (or the RU council when that’s established) will be allowed in this tier. A Pokémon can be considered RU when it’s usage in this tier is higher than the threshold of 3,41%.

 

Little Cup is a battle of unevolved Pokémon, and Pokémon with no evolutions are banned. Due to how PRO works, we have yet to make a complete ruleset that makes it possible for all available Pokémon to be played. Thus, the rest of this description is TBD.

 

Tournaments

We plan on hosting tournaments for all tiers, eventually. For now, our focus will be on UU.

Join our Discord for more regular updates: link.

Do note that we plan on letting others host tournaments through our Discord in the future, so if that's of any interest to you, feel free to contact us.

Councils

TBD

 

idkup - Gold server

Aggravatings - Gold server

Benikisaki - Silver server

Crystal_Hunter - Gold server

 

TBD

 

TBD

 

How you can contribute

Please join our Discord server in order to contribute. There will be a bot message upon joining leading you toward the essential parts of the Discord at the given time.

Primarily, we want people to help us track their opponents teams in ranked PvP. The more data we receive, the more accurate our numbers will be.

 

For any questions, feel free to contact us on Discord! Link is here, again: http://discord.gg/Z5U4pdc

Edited May 6, 2019 by GlogS