Competitive teams
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What are tiers?
A tier is the competitive division of a Pokémon. It groups Pokémon of similar strength, so battles stay balanced and more than just the strongest get used.
The S to E ranking on this page
Calculated by RotomDex from Smogon's monthly stats: the percentage of highly rated players' teams the Pokémon is on.
S: 20% or more · A: 10% · B: 5% · C: 2% · D: 1% · E: 0.5%.
What about Pokémon Champions?
Champions is the official battle game of the VGC circuit. It has no Smogon tiers: what counts are each regulation's rules (like Reg. M-B). So, for it, this page's ranking uses real usage only.
Smogon's official tiers
In Scarlet/Violet, Smogon splits Pokémon by usage: every month, those on more than about 4.5% of teams move up; those below move down. Each tier bans the ones above it: a UU team cannot use OU Pokémon. "BL" (borderline) tiers are too strong for the tier below but rarely used in the one above.
- AG
- Anything Goes: no bans at all.
- Uber
- Too strong for OU: legendaries and the like.
- OU
- OverUsed: the main tier, with the most used.
- UUBL
- Too strong for UU, rarely used in OU.
- UU
- UnderUsed: the second level.
- RUBL
- Too strong for RU.
- RU
- RarelyUsed: the third level.
- NUBL
- Too strong for NU.
- NU
- NeverUsed: the fourth level.
- PUBL
- Too strong for PU.
- PU
- The fifth level.
- ZUBL
- Too strong for ZU.
- ZU
- ZeroUsed: the last level.
- NFE
- Not Fully Evolved: still evolves (outside the main tiers).
- LC
- Little Cup: first stage, at level 5.
Doubles tiers
- DUber
- Too strong for Doubles OU.
- DOU
- Doubles OverUsed: the main doubles tier.
- DUU
- Doubles UnderUsed.
- DNU
- Doubles NeverUsed.