Hello everyone. Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will be releasing in about one week from the time of this post, and as such people are naturally curious about how Smogon will be handling the games from a tiering perspective.
First off, I feel it's important to say that SS OU will still be Smogon's official OU metagame. This means that our official tournaments will still be played on SS OU, and in terms of the Tiering Contributor badge, BDSP tiers will only count towards the 10 vote threshold.
With that disclaimer out of the way, let's get to the specifics:
BDSP OU will start with all Pokemon obtainable in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl legal, with the exception of all box legendary Pokemon, like Mewtwo and Giratina, and will be tiered appropriately by a council once the metagame is officially playable. The tier will be available to play after the games' official release. Note that any Pokemon not available in the actual games will be considered "unreleased", and won't be allowed in any tiers until they make their way into the games.
In terms of tiers lower than OU, for the time being it is only planned for BDSP UU to exist. Like tiering for Sword and Shield, BDSP tiers will use the 4.52% cutoff when it comes to determining the cutoff for usage-based tiers. The tier will go live some time in early 2022, though we feel it important to focus our efforts on establishing an OU community first. In addition, a tier above OU will also be available, though at this time it is still being discussed whether the format should be an Ubers-based or Anything Goes-based metagame.
Other tiers such as Doubles, LC, or OMs will have BDSP metagames available at the discretion of the respective Tier Leadership. Please message me if you have any questions, thank you!
First off, I feel it's important to say that SS OU will still be Smogon's official OU metagame. This means that our official tournaments will still be played on SS OU, and in terms of the Tiering Contributor badge, BDSP tiers will only count towards the 10 vote threshold.
With that disclaimer out of the way, let's get to the specifics:
BDSP OU will start with all Pokemon obtainable in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl legal, with the exception of all box legendary Pokemon, like Mewtwo and Giratina, and will be tiered appropriately by a council once the metagame is officially playable. The tier will be available to play after the games' official release. Note that any Pokemon not available in the actual games will be considered "unreleased", and won't be allowed in any tiers until they make their way into the games.
In terms of tiers lower than OU, for the time being it is only planned for BDSP UU to exist. Like tiering for Sword and Shield, BDSP tiers will use the 4.52% cutoff when it comes to determining the cutoff for usage-based tiers. The tier will go live some time in early 2022, though we feel it important to focus our efforts on establishing an OU community first. In addition, a tier above OU will also be available, though at this time it is still being discussed whether the format should be an Ubers-based or Anything Goes-based metagame.
Other tiers such as Doubles, LC, or OMs will have BDSP metagames available at the discretion of the respective Tier Leadership. Please message me if you have any questions, thank you!
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