Archive Smogon bans Mandatory 4 + Alakazam

[CrapAtRBY]

So most of you have probably already seen this but we need everyone to be as vocal as possible against this change.

Smogon have decided to "automate their tiering"across all gens. The announcement is pinned in RoA and all old gens have been affected too.

"Currently the ORAS OU usage cut off is 3.41%, based on the number of fully evolved pokemon in each generation we have decided to implement an automated tiering system, RBY Ubers now consists of Mewtwo, Mew and any pokemon with greater than 52.11% usage in RBY OU in the month of March 2016, the pokemon affected are Tauros (86.49%), Exeggutor (82.06%), Chansey (79.64%), Snorlax (74.80%) and Alakazam (52.21%). Full tier listing are below"

Smogon historically has not been great at listening to the concerns of old gen players so we all need to voice our disapproval for this change being implemented in a of the old gens

Thread here

 

[Lutra]

I wasn't even consulted on this...I thought I was an RoA mod.

 

[Ortheore]

This is a huge blow to rby as a whole. It will divide the community, throw pokemon into chaos and bring about the death of the internet and everything else. Smogon must be stopped because they are ruining the metagame.