havoc
pottlepalooza
I glanced at the GSC tiers yesterday and saw that some of the placements were either grossly inaccurate, grossly outdated, or perhaps both. it doesn't really matter much in all honesty, but I think it's proper to have everything corrected. I'm going through and editing a bunch of the pokemon articles also, since I can see that some of them haven't been updated since I (or whoever else, but mainly I) wrote them back in 2004-2005.
I've bolded the pokemon I changed along with its former tier.
[OU]
alakazam
blissey
cloyster
exeggutor
forretress
gengar
heracross
jolteon
machamp
marowak
miltank
misdreavus
nidoking
porygon2
raikou
rhydon
skarmory
snorlax
starmie
steelix
suicune
tyranitar
umbreon
zapdos
[BL]
aerodactyl
ampharos
articuno
charizard (from OU)
clefable
donphan
dragonite
entei
espeon
golem
houndoom
jynx (from OU)
kangaskhan
kingdra
lapras
meganium
moltres
muk
scizor
tauros
tentacruel
typhlosion (from UU)
ursaring
vaporeon
[UU]
aipom
arbok
arcanine
ariados
azumarill
beedrill
bellossom
blastoise
butterfree
chansey (from BL)
corsola
crobat
delibird
dewgong
ditto
dodrio
dugtrio
dunsparce
electabuzz (from BL)
electrode
farfetchd
fearow
feraligatr
flareon
furret
girafarig
gligar
golduck
granbull
gyarados
hitmonchan
hitmonlee
hitmontop
hypno
jumpluff (from OU)
kabutops
kingler
lanturn (from BL)
ledian
lickitung
magcargo
magmar
magneton
mantine
mr_mime
murkrow
nidoqueen
ninetales
noctowl
octillery
omastar
parasect
persian
pidgeot
piloswine
pinsir
politoed
poliwrath
primeape
quagsire
qwilfish
raichu
rapidash
raticate
sandslash
scyther
seaking
shuckle
smeargle (from BL)
slowbro (from BL)
slowking (from BL)
sneasel
stantler
sudowoodo
sunflora
tangela
togetic
unown
venomoth
venusaur (from BL)
victreebel
vileplume
weezing
wigglytuff
wobbuffet
xatu
yanma
if anyone wants me to explain any or all of the moves, I'd be more than happy to. in short, I think a pokemon's tier is dependent on both usage and actual power in the metagame. in the cases of Jynx, Jumpluff, and Charizard, their usage has never exceeded BL in the past 5 years or so, and others (Venusaur, et al.) never got to BL in the first place. I think certain things were ranked BL simply because they could feasibly be in standard play, but just because something can give a standard team trouble does not mean it dominates UU. in fact, GSC UU is a very offensive-based metagame, meaning that a lot of these high Attack, low Defense things actually have less durability in UU than they would in standard play.
of course, if I had my way entirely, there would be no "BL" tier at all, but oy...
I've bolded the pokemon I changed along with its former tier.
[OU]
alakazam
blissey
cloyster
exeggutor
forretress
gengar
heracross
jolteon
machamp
marowak
miltank
misdreavus
nidoking
porygon2
raikou
rhydon
skarmory
snorlax
starmie
steelix
suicune
tyranitar
umbreon
zapdos
[BL]
aerodactyl
ampharos
articuno
charizard (from OU)
clefable
donphan
dragonite
entei
espeon
golem
houndoom
jynx (from OU)
kangaskhan
kingdra
lapras
meganium
moltres
muk
scizor
tauros
tentacruel
typhlosion (from UU)
ursaring
vaporeon
[UU]
aipom
arbok
arcanine
ariados
azumarill
beedrill
bellossom
blastoise
butterfree
chansey (from BL)
corsola
crobat
delibird
dewgong
ditto
dodrio
dugtrio
dunsparce
electabuzz (from BL)
electrode
farfetchd
fearow
feraligatr
flareon
furret
girafarig
gligar
golduck
granbull
gyarados
hitmonchan
hitmonlee
hitmontop
hypno
jumpluff (from OU)
kabutops
kingler
lanturn (from BL)
ledian
lickitung
magcargo
magmar
magneton
mantine
mr_mime
murkrow
nidoqueen
ninetales
noctowl
octillery
omastar
parasect
persian
pidgeot
piloswine
pinsir
politoed
poliwrath
primeape
quagsire
qwilfish
raichu
rapidash
raticate
sandslash
scyther
seaking
shuckle
smeargle (from BL)
slowbro (from BL)
slowking (from BL)
sneasel
stantler
sudowoodo
sunflora
tangela
togetic
unown
venomoth
venusaur (from BL)
victreebel
vileplume
weezing
wigglytuff
wobbuffet
xatu
yanma
if anyone wants me to explain any or all of the moves, I'd be more than happy to. in short, I think a pokemon's tier is dependent on both usage and actual power in the metagame. in the cases of Jynx, Jumpluff, and Charizard, their usage has never exceeded BL in the past 5 years or so, and others (Venusaur, et al.) never got to BL in the first place. I think certain things were ranked BL simply because they could feasibly be in standard play, but just because something can give a standard team trouble does not mean it dominates UU. in fact, GSC UU is a very offensive-based metagame, meaning that a lot of these high Attack, low Defense things actually have less durability in UU than they would in standard play.
of course, if I had my way entirely, there would be no "BL" tier at all, but oy...