Upon the release of Pokemon HOME yesterday, numerous Pokemon were brought to the attention of the tiering council through firsthand experience and thorough discussion. We are playing as regularly as we can and we are listening to our playerbase as much as we can in order to execute the best tiering process possible.
While we are not currently at a point where we are confident enough to vote on each of these Pokemon yet, we did have an emergency vote on one Pokemon today —
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Regieleki will be banned from SV OU effective immediately after a unanimous council vote — tagging Kris Marty
Regieleki demonstrated an overpowered offensive presence in its brief stint in OU with Terastallization. The combination of Electric STAB and Tera Blast Ice — famously known as BoltBeam coverage — was too much for the metagame. It already boasted amazing strength and unmatched speed, but having perfected coverage made it unfair. People oftentimes used their Terastallization to stop it defensively, but Regieleki even used Substitute on occasion to ease prediction and scout out the line-of-defense against it. Overall, there was very little counterplay to Regieleki and we wanted to remove it before it further inhibited the development of our rapidly moving metagame.
In addition, you can expect us to release a formal tiering radar within the next 48 hours and conduct a vote on the Pokemon on this radar within 72-96 hours. This will tackle numerous other Pokemon we identify as potential problems in the metagame! Stay tuned.
While we are not currently at a point where we are confident enough to vote on each of these Pokemon yet, we did have an emergency vote on one Pokemon today —
!| Finchinator | Ruft | NJNP | Star | FlamingVictini | TPP | xavgb | mind gaming | Ausma | ima |
| Ban | Ban | Ban | Ban | Ban | Ban | Ban | Ban | Ban | Ban |
Regieleki will be banned from SV OU effective immediately after a unanimous council vote — tagging Kris Marty
Regieleki demonstrated an overpowered offensive presence in its brief stint in OU with Terastallization. The combination of Electric STAB and Tera Blast Ice — famously known as BoltBeam coverage — was too much for the metagame. It already boasted amazing strength and unmatched speed, but having perfected coverage made it unfair. People oftentimes used their Terastallization to stop it defensively, but Regieleki even used Substitute on occasion to ease prediction and scout out the line-of-defense against it. Overall, there was very little counterplay to Regieleki and we wanted to remove it before it further inhibited the development of our rapidly moving metagame.
In addition, you can expect us to release a formal tiering radar within the next 48 hours and conduct a vote on the Pokemon on this radar within 72-96 hours. This will tackle numerous other Pokemon we identify as potential problems in the metagame! Stay tuned.
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