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The hype for Regulation G is real, the bo1 ladder alone is showdown's most popular format! (besides Random Battles🫡)

OU once had millions of more games played than VGC, not anymore! Possible reasons: -Growth of VGC -National Dex "stealing" players from CG OU -More old gens means the player base is more split up -VGC games are shorter so more games played per unit time

This is insane.

Is Smogon dying? While VGC is now the biggest individual format... there are also an incredible number of smaller, different Smogon formats.

The average OU Pokémon has a BST of 558 Alomamola is the lowest OU Pokémon at 470 Shaymin is the highest ZU Pokémon at 600 (excluding Regigigas and Slaking)

Sprigatito found a good home 🔥 stay tuned for the next giveaway, i still have Fuecoco and Quaxly left

How much damage does Stealth Rock do over the course of a game? Notes: Gen 7 is skewed by a lot of long Gliscor-Celesteela-Toxapex games Gen 8 has Heavy Duty Boots, but the games are also longer

Just got this e-mail, Google has updated their ToS to ban Honey-style browser extensions

Water was the most used tera type in VGC last month 📈

Gen 9 Oricorio is the most banned Pokémon in Smogon history. If it gets banned this week in RU, it will be its 16th ban of the generation. Oricorio typically gets unbanned when a tier gets a lot of new Pokémon from DLC, etc.

How Landorus-T Adapted Throughout Gen 9 OU

freezai leslie DEAL

Finally. It's here. Just uploaded the greatest video I've made in a long time