I honestly don't mean for this to come across as criticism or at all accusatory of anyone, but I was wondering, why were many of the Smogon dex entries so sparse for SS? I feel like Smogon's dex is easily one of the farthest reaching and potentially most important aspects of the site, in regard to how influential it is across the larger Pokemon fanbase; maybe I'm biased, but speaking from personal experience, I can remember being a young kid and often referring to Smogon's dex while planning my playthroughs throughout the games, without knowing anything about Smogon's forums, and I don't imagine that is an uncommon occurrence. While up through SM the dex entries seem pretty comprehensive and detailed for essentially all of the relevant mons in a tier (although the formatting of SM Ubers entries bothers me a little, the information is still good), the same can't be said for SS, or at least SS OU. Unless I'm misremembering, I believe that while SS was the current gen, the dex entries took a while to get going, which resulted in using the calc tending to be a little more cumbersome as well, but that's understandable for any newer generation. However, if you look at some of the dex entries now, they're still pretty incomplete. Melmetal is a top 5 mon in SS OU based on the
current viability rankings but there aren't any descriptions for any of its sets in
Melmetal's SS OU dex entry. Tapu Lele is an A+ mon but it also doesn't have any descriptions in its
dex entry. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but Specially Defensive Landorus-Therian was the flagship set for the best mon in the tier, but there also isn't any elaboration on that set in
Lando's dex entry either. I'm sure there are other examples as well, but those were three of the most prominent that I found.
Again, I don't want to come across as ungrateful or disparaging at all, since I understand that a ton of work (which is also obviously all volunteer work) goes into making the dex entries, and the SS OU dex does appear to be more complete than it use to be. It also seems to me like many of the SS tiers besides OU have more thoroughly completed dex entires, although I didn't really play many non-OU tiers in SS so I can't say that with complete certainty. Really, I'm just curious as to if anything happened with the dex entries in SS OU and if there are any plans on expanding some of the dex entries still? I understand that SS OU isn't a terribly well regarded or highly played tier, especially now that it is no longer the current gen, so that may hurt the likelihood of the dex being revisited as well. Also, I'm not going to raise similar questions about the SV OU dex at this point, since obviously its a new generation that is still undergoing major developments/has DLC looming, but I'd be curious as well if anyone had any input on how the creation of the SV OU dex appears to be going or how it projects out to be.