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Smogon's tier system is used to rank Pokémon into several groups based on their perceived power and usage in competitive play. These tiers dictate which Pokémon can be used in the various metagames of competitive play.
Welcome to the Tier Sections of Smogon! Each Smogon tier will have its own hub containing information about the tier and what's happening on the forums. Various events are always occurring in each tier, and you may not have time to keep up with it all.
Smogon's tier system is used to rank Pokemon into several groups based on their perceived power and usage in competitive play. These tiers dictate which Pokemon can be used in the various metagames of competitive play.
The Smogon Strategy Pokedex provides comprehensive information and strategies for competitive Pokémon battling.
Smogon uses usage as the main metric to determine tiers, which is evident by the full names of the tiers: OverUsed, UnderUsed, RarelyUsed, NeverUsed, and PU. The banlists UUBL, RUBL, NUBL, and PUBL serve to balance out the usage-based tiers.
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The standard tiers that are endorsed by Smogon in Gen VI are Ubers, OverUsed (OU), UnderUsed (UU), RarelyUsed (RU), NeverUsed (NU), PU, Little Cup (LC), and Doubles.
Welcome to Ubers, where all of your Pokemon dreams come true! Being the highest tier of all, the metagame includes every single (released) Pokemon you could want but never got to use in the lower tiers.
For those interested in Sub-Zero Used, an unofficial tier below ZU, these are the changes for October 2024: Toxicroak moved from SU to NU Articuno moved from SU to ZU
Welcome to the OU Speed tiers! The idea of the thread is to provide an easily-accessible list of all the OU-viable (and the majority of the newly released) Pokemon by their speed stat.