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I glanced at the GSC tiers yesterday and saw that some of the placements were either grossly inaccurate, grossly outdated, or perhaps both. it doesn't really matter much in all honesty, but I think it's proper to have everything corrected. I'm going through and editing a bunch of the pokemon articles also, since I can see that some of them haven't been updated since I (or whoever else, but mainly I) wrote them back in 2004-2005. I've bolded the pokemon I changed along with its former tier. [OU] alakazam blissey cloyster exeggutor forretress gengar heracross jolteon machamp marowak miltank misdreavus nidoking porygon2 raikou rhydon skarmory snorlax starmie steelix suicune tyranitar umbreon zapdos [BL] aerodactyl ampharos articuno charizard (from OU) clefable donphan dragonite entei espeon golem houndoom jynx (from OU) kangaskhan kingdra lapras meganium moltres muk scizor tauros tentacruel typhlosion (from UU) ursaring vaporeon [UU] aipom arbok arcanine ariados azumarill beedrill bellossom blastoise butterfree chansey (from BL) corsola crobat delibird dewgong ditto dodrio dugtrio dunsparce electabuzz (from BL) electrode farfetchd fearow feraligatr flareon furret girafarig gligar golduck granbull gyarados hitmonchan hitmonlee hitmontop hypno jumpluff (from OU) kabutops kingler lanturn (from BL) ledian lickitung magcargo magmar magneton mantine mr_mime murkrow nidoqueen ninetales noctowl octillery omastar parasect persian pidgeot piloswine pinsir politoed poliwrath primeape quagsire qwilfish raichu rapidash raticate sandslash scyther seaking shuckle smeargle (from BL) slowbro (from BL) slowking (from BL) sneasel stantler sudowoodo sunflora tangela togetic unown venomoth venusaur (from BL) victreebel vileplume weezing wigglytuff wobbuffet xatu yanma if anyone wants me to explain any or all of the moves, I'd be more than happy to. in short, I think a pokemon's tier is dependent on both usage and actual power in the metagame. in the cases of Jynx, Jumpluff, and Charizard, their usage has never exceeded BL in the past 5 years or so, and others (Venusaur, et al.) never got to BL in the first place. I think certain things were ranked BL simply because they could feasibly be in standard play, but just because something can give a standard team trouble does not mean it dominates UU. in fact, GSC UU is a very offensive-based metagame, meaning that a lot of these high Attack, low Defense things actually have less durability in UU than they would in standard play. of course, if I had my way entirely, there would be no "BL" tier at all, but oy...
nowadays, everything that is not OU would be put in UU and we'd suspect test from there. but since very few people care about GSC, we can't suspect test (or gather OU stats, for what it's worth).
I posted in C&C last week about the egregious error of Charizard being in OU and it got deleted and ignored. >:o BUT WHY THE JUMPLUFF HATE >:O
A tier list based strictly on useage should only be split up into OU and UU. So I'm assuming "power" holds significant weight in your decision. Stuff like Ampharos, Clefable, and Typhlosion eliminate a good portion of useable pokemon in a UU meta. If the "true" UU pokemon are ever going to see any play, I don't think there's too much of a case to be made for them. Sure they're not obscenely overpowered, but it's the simple concept of overcentralizing what could be a very creative metagame. How can something like Octillery, Poliwrath, Flareon, Pinsir, Golduck, etc etc, who are all very capable UU pokemon, compete with the likes of OU-considered pokemon? I'd argue that Typhlosion is both easier to use and more effective than Entei. Ampharos nearly mirrors Raikou's stats apart from speed, and it has a far better movepool. Clefable romps the majority of UU (that aren't Typhlosion/Ampharos class). Sure there are some hard hitters in UU like Sandslash/Dodrio (probably the only two, maybe Feraligatr), who don't really have a case in the BL category (Sandslash MIGHT, but it's just an inferior Marowak), and almost go toe-to-toe with the aforementioned, but is far more limited in usability. Eh, that wasn't a good sentence, whatever. And what does Kingdra do exactly? I still don't understand. It should be in whatever tier Meganium is in. Or lower. Tauros is a debatable BL. Certainly UU the way the list stands right now, but has a case for BL once "some changes" are made. Smeargle might be fine in UU too. The full list of UUs this applies to: Slowbro, Slowking (???, doesn't make any sense to separate him from Slowbro), Typhlosion, Meganium, Venusaur (???, personally I prefer Victreebel who'll never rid itself of the UU pretext, but Venusaur's debatable statistically), Electabuzz, Clefable, Chansey (???, not exactly overpowered, but gives the UU meta a chance to develop a special front), and Ampharos. "???" means questionable move. Jumpluff should be no more effective in UU than in OU as a non-attacking pokemon. Aka not very. He(she)'s fine. So unless every UU team is going to be the same 4-5 pokemon, it doesn't make any sense to keep them there. Not that any of this matters of course.
I retract some of my choices (Chansey, Venusaur) seeing as they won't limit the use of UUs as much as the others. // Flareon wouldn't be used, nor Arcanine/Magmar given the option of Typhlosion. Without typhlosion, Arcanine/Magmar probably shares the spot. Flareon was a bad example. // Octillery can probably do something, who knows. Golduck is just a watered version of Magmar/Electabuzz. And by Pinsir, I meant Scyther. // It's two separate completely legitimate arguments: its counters were "mistakenly" placed in BL, OR Typhlosion was "mistakenly" placed in UU. I'm sure with Slowbro/king, it might not be as overpowered. But it would be a case of forcing teams to run specific Pokemon. I strongly believe that if everyone were included, the "meta" would stabilize to just these: Aerodactyl (if it were moved) Ampharos* Clefable* Dodrio Electabuzz** Kingdra (if it were moved) Lanturn (?) Meganium* Nidoqueen (?) Sandslash Slowbro/king** Smeargle (?) Tauros (Dodrio v. 2) Typhlosion* Venusaur Victreebel *denotes what I think should be moved from UU->BL **denotes questionable Without them, these are all usable in UU: Arcanine Blastoise Chansey (not as a beller, screens/status/s-toss/counter/sing should be plenty) Crobat Dodrio Electabuzz Feraligatr Gligar Golduck Granbull Gyarados Hitmonlee (?) Hypno Jumpluff Kabutops Lanturn Magmar Magneton Nidoqueen Ninetales (?) Omastar Piloswine Politoed Primeape (?) Quagsire Qwilfish Raichu Sandslash Scyther Smeargle (if moved) Venusaur Victreebel Weezing (?) Xatu (?) (?) are questionable usages Probably a few more, and a cursing normal somewhere. // You're definitely underplaying Clefable. With some paralysis, it runs over teams. "Other" sets are nice, but Belly Drumming will always be its primary set. It doesn't even have to account for ghosts in UU. Its only threats come from... those in the first list. You're underestimating its ability to take hits. // None of those you listed can compete with the likes of the 10 or so I mentioned. Why would anyone use Magmar if given Typhlosion? Typhlosion is the Snorlax to Magmar's Kangkhaskhan (except it doesn't even get the speed adv). // I know, but sometimes, less is more. Moving certain things to UU is a counter-intuitive approach to increasing the number of usable pokemon. Technically, the "pool" gets bigger, but the number viable becomes smaller without the right balance. The OU environment is a physical example of this. // I like the idea of 3 tiers, since it makes the UU actually playable at the cost of making the BL tier a complete mess (the outcasts of OU/UU). // Smeargle to UU Ampharos to BL Clefable to BL Meganium to BL Typhlosion to BL Aerodactyl to UU (maybe???) Tauros remains because of Dodrio-like attacking minus the defensive loopholes. Kingdra's 288 makes it a special threat coupled with 288 defenses and no weaknesses, should mirror Meganium imo. // I know the difference quite well, and it lies in its water typing. Whatever it's not resistant to, it's weak to. That makes special def almost irrelevent for waters to an extent. This is also why Starmie takes special hits "better" than zam despite similar defenses, speed, HP, and Recover. But I don't think this difference is as prevalent in UU as in OU, where special sweepers are almost nonexistent. Most of the SE attacks it'll take would probably come from non-STAB fronts, in which case the extra defense might prove to be useful. This is probably the most questionable change, given Slo's innate defensive approach. And its typing/speed gives it quite a few weaknesses that can be exploited. Debatable. // Typhlosion above. // Meganium walls everything that's not an SE-STABed move, AND has offensive potential as a dancer to counter some of those that can hit it. // Yeah all the starters have the same total BST, which is why I'm trying to move three of them (the waters have the short end of the stick in terms of stats-distribution). I guess Venusaur isn't too bad, Poison is a god-awful typing, especially with no Sludge Bomb typing. Hence, I'm second guessing myself with the Venusaur change. // I'm retracting Electabuzz as well. // Clefable. // Retracting Chansey for the time being, but to say it's not usable? Hardly. Belling is NOT the way to go. This one's debatable. // Ampharos is being underrepresented. Ampharos can switch into pretty much anything that's not Dodrio/Ground, and God-forbid if it gets passed a screen by Meganium (heh) or Hypno or something. And what exactly can't it hit EXTREMELY hard once it IS in? Given that Raikou only switches into Raikou/Zapdos/Starmie/Suicune/Miltank (non-EQ kind obviously)/Blissey/Gengar/Umbreon/Skarmory/Jolteon/Misdreavus/Dragonite (the HP Flying/Wing attack kind)/Cloyster/Forretress, the difference isn't big unless it's the KO-ing shot, which shouldn't be the case. And it can't roar. I guess the focus here should be breaking down the list a bit farther. Separate the NU from the UU for the purpose of clarity. Anything in this "new UU" is viable against every other member, and for all intents and purposes, the true UU pool. I believe the two lists I mentioned should be a pretty accurate representation of what it'll stabilize to if given the option of a. adding more shit to UU, or b. removing shit FROM UU. It's really a case of maximizing the number of usable pokemon really. EDIT: I'm rather curious to see the OU list changed tbh. Move snorlax to ubers. To make things more interesting, move Raikou, Zapdos, and Suicune as well. THAT would make an awesome tourney, a tribute to sheer skill of on-the-spot creativity in both team building and adaptation.
this is really the only other thing I'll post about it unless people have other questions. like RBY, GSC never had an "underused metagame." this whole concept began with RSE, that is, the concept that the non-standard pokemon, in and of themselves, formed their own, unique metagame. this has never been the case in GSC, RBY, and even RS 200 for that matter. sure, there have been plenty of tournaments in the past...10 years (has it really been that long?) where only underused pokemon were allowed, but when GSC/RBY were the main metagames, we always viewed UU pokemon as fun things to try and incorporate into standard teams, not build a sub-metagame out of them. that's one of the main reasons I love GSC--many UU pokemon are totally viable in standard play (not as gimmicks, mind you), and there is one singular metagame that, though skewed in favor of some pokemon, involved all the non-uber pokemon. just like RBY, it does leave out a bunch of pokemon that Nintendo just didn't seem to care about making relevant. but we should also consider the fact that: ~there just aren't as many pokemon in GSC/RBY/200 as in the later generations ~there was never an attempt to create a singular UU metagame in RBY or GSC when they were the newest metagames. even going back to when GSC was popular, the most prominent UU battlers, probably Locke/McGraw/Kane(? I can't remember the other one), integrated UU pokemon into being able to go against standard teams. that's the main reason why I think the BL and NU tier ideas are kind of dumb, especially for GSC and RBY (and theoretically, 200, although it is surely the only truly "dead" metagame--shame since it was so awesome). I completely understand your (Charlie Brown/Borat) idea that perhaps adding more things to the UU tier will not necessarily widen the pool of used pokemon, but my main concern is why there is even a "BL" tier in GSC and RBY when GSC and RBY don't have (and have never had) a clear-cut "UU metagame"? if we ever had a strictly-underused tournament for RBY or GSC (and, realistically, when would that happen?), discuss and define the list then and there for that tournament, and that tournament only. otherwise, I think that the RBY/GSC tier lists are sort of misleading casual visitors, in addition to people who simply weren't around for GSC/RBY, into thinking that there's some kind of real significance as to why a "true" "underused team" can't have Tauros, or Clefable, or Meganium, or whatever. if I beat your standard team with Locke's infamous UU team (Houndoom/Piloswine/Magneton/Victreebel/Slowbro/Ursaring), would you discredit it by saying "but Houndoom, Slowbro, and Ursaring are TOO good for underused, so your achievement isn't as profound"? if something is a good underused pokemon, a great underused pokemon even, let it be stated in their respective analyses, not in a tier listing that's kind of bogus to begin with. as far as RBY and GSC are concerned, the tiers are (or at least should be) used simply as a reference as to what is commonly seen on standard teams, and what is not--nothing more, nothing less. the tiers for the later generations have a different meaning than they do for RBY and GSC. to be truly correct and satisfy both the legacy of GSC along with what's going on in pokemon today, I think it's important to make this distinction clear. case in point: we could move Snorlax to uber in GSC, and it's probably where Snorlax belongs. no one would probably care. but the fact is that GSC's play, now approaching 10 years old, has revolved around Snorlax; as we've said, Snorlax IS GSC. if we had suspect testing like Garchomp did for DPP, perhaps things would be different and we'd have a much more vibrant and dynamic metagame, but that just isn't the case. I think trying to evolve a metagame, through whatever means, just won't work when the metagame has long stopped being popular. edit: sorry for the Jumpman-like use of quotation marks, but I find it necessary
If that's true, why make changes? Beating a standard with a team of BL/UU is great. But there's a clear-cut advantage for BL over UU, just like OU over BL. Using a team of BL against UU is about as fair and as "accomplishing" as standards beating BL/UU. Therefore, in the context of a "UU match", it DOES matter whether or not a pokemon was BL or UU. But in the context of a standard meta, there's OU, and there's "everything else". A tier list designed with BL is designed with a "UU meta" (however non-existent) in mind inherently. I agree completely with your OU list (zam included, since it's based on usage afterall). And if it were just the standard metagame at hand, Uber, OU, and "other" should be the only tiers. But it's the inclusion of a BL tier in the first place that makes debates and clarifications like this "necessary". Your list might be more accurate if "BL" was short for "usable/viable pokemon in the standard meta that are not often used" (in which case, Jumpluff, Meganium, Clefable, Ampharos, and Slowbro still should be moved up). Because let's face it, some of the powerhouses in UU won't ever be used in OU because they're inferior versions of OU pokemon (granbull, dodrio, arguably typhlosion as well). It depends what you're striving for here. Ignoring the possibility of a pure UU meta (in which case, two tiers is plenty), or acknowledging that such a meta can exist. And seeing that Smogon is often looked upon as "THE" place for competitive battling and guidelines, who knows, someone somewhere could be hosting a competitive UU tourney on their own. It's clear these changes aren't made for us.
I know I don't have influence on Smogon, but I would like to enter on that debate in the name of my community in Brazil. The main point I agree here: "And seeing that Smogon is often looked upon as "THE" place for competitive battling and guidelines, who knows, someone somewhere could be hosting a competitive UU tourney on their own. It's clear these changes aren't made for us". We are included on this. Every rule an tier on my community is just equal to Smogon's rules and tiers, since everything else run that rules on NetBattle. Don't forget also the old UU Stadium server/community. Plenty of players with UU Teams battling on the server, in every generation, GSC and ADV mainly (although they ran their own rules and tiers, but based on Smogon). I disagree with the OU list just because of 1 Pokémon: Porygon2. And this is not a point of Porygon2 being useless or not so good (because he is very good IMO), but the simply fact that he isn't an OVER USED Pokémon. Its very very hard to see one being used. Even Tentacruel, Dragonite and Slowbro are a lot more common (and I'm not considering my community on that). And please, don't go with "I don't care much, whatever..." concept in mind doing that new tier. There are people that are still active on the GSC meta, probably not only my community (GSC Elite/Lost Soul from Cingapura can argue on that, but I don't know if he is still active here).
so by your reasoning, i should be able to get a pokemon to a tier lower than its current tier by say....for argument's sake..... ordering friends of mine playing gsc to order their friends playing gsc to boycott said pokemon for a convincing period of time? "Look guys, according to stats compiled over the last few weeks snorlax was used a total of 2 times! It is clear, snorlax is obviously uu." please clarify if im misunderstanding
I didn't get your point I think. If I did, its completelly the contrary I've said. I'm not counting my community just because some may think my community can be biased (and it is really; Vaporeon and Charizard would definitelly be OU if I'd count my friends), so I'm only counting players OUT of my community.
is "a pokemon should be tiered based on how much frequently its used in the metagame" what you were trying to say? if not, then i didnt get the quoted part of your post. if so, thats not a very clever idea imo
wtf? I am against the release of HP in Lends, mainly in Zapdos. Clefable UU it's a offense, serious... i dont believe this. did you never lost for drumfable?? Slowbro too... omg, you are crazy? Slowking ok, is acceptable, but slowbro dont is right. Its my opnion.
I disagree. You have OU and UU, what purpose does that serve? Why not just eliminate UU as well? There's ubers and "others", the banned and the not banned. That would make more sense wouldn't it? Why does it matter to a "standard" player the popularity of pokemon? This brings me to my next point. A tier list isn't made to give people a history lesson, it serves as a guideline for people playing the game. An uber player should be able to use everything from uber on down, a standard player should be able to use everything from OU on down, a BL player should be able to use everything from BL on down, and a UU player should be able to use everything from UU on down. And if it's suppose to be a snapshot of what WAS, why change it at all? Lanturn was OU. As was Kingdra, Tentacruel, and Houndoom. Why "mislead" people into thinking otherwise? Hell, going back further, shit like Nidoking, Exeggutor, Steelix, SKARMORY, weren't OU. The only reason to differentiate OU from UU in a strictly standard meta is to show that certain pokemon are "better" than others. That's the only merits it has to a standard player. But even if you were showing the strengths of particular pokemon over another, it would make sense for the changes I'm proposing. Those I mentioned ARE a step up from the others in the UU pool, just like Snorlax is a step up from Ursaring. That's what a tier is, isn't it? To show rank... hierarchy? I didn't think so. I've always used UU-UU teams (granted, I admit I took advantage of Clefable) to play against standards and other "UU"s. And it always bugged me when they used Golem, Kangaskhan, and Ampharos against my team of Feraligatr, Magneton, and Dodrio. Of course, I kept my mouth shut, since there was nothing to back up my reasoning. Have you thought, maybe the reason why UU never took off, was because of the lack of tourneys and therefore, a lack of solid UU/BL differentiation? I mean, you might argue there was only one metagame during that time, but I guarantee everyone had AT LEAST one UU team. They just rarely had the chance to use it. I acknowledge that some pokemon are just useless. Refer to my previous list. This is where you lose me. If you agree with everything I'm saying, then why are you so hesitant to make the changes? What exactly do you lose from making the changes? Because it doesn't matter? That's not a valid reason. It's a win-tie situation going with my thinking, and a tie-lose going with your thinking. EDIT: A list that acknowledges the possibility of a UU-meta can adapt to it if it ever develops. A list that completely dismisses the possibility simply won't. I don't even think it serves a purpose (at least not without statistical backing). I hate historical analogies, but here goes. When the Constitution was originally written, it paved way for future "development" via the amendments. It outlined a process for change at a future time, despite the fathers themselves not knowing what they were. And that's what made it so successful. This is one of those "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" things. EDIT2: That's because a BL list NEVER developed. I have no doubt, that if people ever took the time to create one like we are now, that Ampharos would be in BL (or at least strongly considered). It was UU based on usage, and probably BL based on power. Who the hell uses Tauros [after the OHKO ban] to warrant BL?
to .Maguss.: I did not ignore your post, but understand that you're one poster. in addition, you're one poster speaking, it seems, on behalf of an entire community. if there's indeed an active GSC population wherever you are, have more of them come here and discuss this. read the last statement in bold in my previous post. and if we did indeed make the tiers based on how frequently a pokemon is/has been used in the metagame, I'd claim most (if not all) of the BL pokemon would be UU. it SHOULD serve as a guideline, that's exactly what I'm saying; our opinion differs in what KIND of guideline it should be. the GSC (and RBY) metagame was "everything non-uber." as I said in the suggestion thread (link in signature), in GSC/RBY, the tiers are just a loose heads-up. OU: "these are pokemon commonly seen in the GSC netagame" UU: "these are pokemon not commonly seen in the GSC metagame" (again, noting that there's only been one GSC metagame) popularity shouldn't matter in making a well-structured team, but we'd have to assume that popular pokemon are popular for a reason. in addition, also consider that there has never been, in ANY generation, a "BL" metagame. what bothers me is that, as Great Sage pointed out, BL pokemon are OU for all intents and purposes. but since they're not "truly" good enough for OU play, they're (with maybe 3-4 exceptions) never used in standard play, but since they're also "too good" for UU play, they can't be used there either. so, in being "decently good," but not "exceptionally good," these pokemon are pretty much excluded from all play unless we magically devised yet ANOTHER hypothetical GSC metagame; honestly, it's enough of a stretch to think that we could evolve, develop, and stabilize one extra GSC metagame 5+ years past its creative peak, let alone two. either way, you're excluding one batch of pokemon for another. the way I see it, we differ only in which batch of pokemon we want to exclude. one of the reasons there was only one metagame in GSC/RBY was because there were many different communities, the information was scattered on many different forums, not to mention that in GSC's period the majority of the playing population was on GSBot, not NetBattle. since there wasn't a Smogon-like beacon of information and strategy, there were only a few things totally agreed upon (ubers, clauses); the rest was fair game. I hate the use of historical analogies also, but to go with what you're saying, you could also think of GSC/RBY as the Confederate States of America. we could re-examine and edit its Consitution (including taking out that slavery bit) to make the perfect government. but the Confederacy is dead. I'd say some OU pokemon are better than others. Jolteon v. Raikou. Rhydon v. Tyranitar. Alakazam v. Starmie. I'd also say some UU pokemon are better than others. we can theorymon all we want, but the only way to really be able to do this is to actually get a bunch of people to make teams and try shit out a la the Suspect Testing system. we don't have enough people to do that.
Ok, I'll call them then. OU, UU and NU are all tiers based on use (hence his names, with the word "Used"), but Uber and BL are tiers based on power. Uber limits Pokémon for the standard metagame, and BL limits Pokémon for the UU metagame (hence why they don't have the word "Used" in its names). Anyway, I was talking about the OU tier (and Porygon2).
Kouwak doesn't work as well as Joltwak. And let's be fair, Jolteon wouldn't be OU without Marowak. Rhydon and Tyranitar define equal. I don't know how you consider tyranitar a step up (or vice-versa). Losing that ground typing is both an advantage and a disadvantage. And even disregarding that fact, ttar is still not a definitive step up in sheer power alone (as with the case of Raikou definitely being superior than Jolteon). Alakazam and Starmie is harder to argue, especially with my bias. I'm not a big fan of generalizations, so let's continue. Steelix vs Rhydon? Nope. Misdreavus vs Gengar? Nope. Forretress vs Cloyster? Nope. Pgon2 vs Snorlax? Almost. ALMOST. But not quite. They still serve very different roles, and have extremely different takes on the Cursing set as well. Nidoking vs Tyranitar/Rhydon. Here we have something, but like Jolteon, one move makes all the difference. An LK-less Nidoking is not OU-worthy. Ursaring vs Snorlax? Yep. Hence the different tier. I don't think you understand. You don't LOSE ANYTHING going with the tier structure I outlined. It still tells people what's popular (since I have no intents of changing the OU definition), and let's face it, what's THAT popular IS good. But the UU is just further broken down, and it's more useful to players in determining "oh hey, these BL pokemon are usable standard play, I don't even have to look at the UUs". It also tells them "oh hey, these BLs act as the ubers of the UU world". It's not like OU teams can't beat celebies, lugias, ho-ohs, and mewtwo, it's just that undeniable power gap, a clear advantage over the mere mortals of the OU world. Same thing here. Again, it accomplishes everything you want to do (which is to tell people what's popular, what's not), since people can figure out for themselves, if it's not OU, then it's not... overused. You have nothing to lose, but everything to gain. You keep saying "we don't want to misinform the people", but "people" aren't that stupid. I'm not saying create an overused-UU list, THAT would be a lie. BL pokemon can be used in OU for the most part, that's the point. There are a few exceptions, of course (Tauros, Articuno, Entei, Aerodactyl), but that number doesn't approach the number of pokemon that WON'T be used in UU should the UU pool grow to encompass BL. Furthermore, the point isn't to use every pokemon in just 2 definitive metas. Are we forgetting that in GSC's prime, most of the BL/UU pokemon were not used in UU/BL/OU teams, but rather THEME teams? The mono-types, the colors, the gym leaders, the favorites, the OHKO, the metronome, the whatever, and these theme teams are not bound by any traditional tiers. In fact, these theme teams are what put some of these UUs on the map in the first place, and even made some UUs into BLs. Also, as a side argument, I still feel Slowking should be in whatever tier Slowbro is in. Slowbro is better, forever better, but by how much? If one was a 75, the other would be a 70. That should still be in largely the same tier. Snorlax's 100 betters Starmie's 90, but that doesn't stop Starmie from topping every OU list.
"BL pokemon can be used in OU for the most part, that's the point." they "can be," just like the already-UU pokemon. but when does that actually happen? when is Bob going to use Lapras? when will you use Scizor? and be honest. the only time pokemon like (most of) those in the BL tier ever come up for consideration in standard team building is when you try to build a team to support that pokemon because you like it. isn't that, in itself, a bit of a "theme team"? if people really insist on there being more than just OU/UU, I'd rather stick all of the "BL" things and the "better" UU pokemon into the UU tier and drop everything else down into the "NU" tier. to compromise or something. at least then we'd be honest ("these pokemon aren't used much") while still maintaining this felt need of "balance" in the non-OU tiers. and like I said, we may think we have it figured out, but we'll never know for sure unless we actually got a group together and tested it.
Aren't explosion teams "theme" teams then? What exactly IS an OU team in this regard? Toxic spikes? Still theme. There's no such thing as a non-theme team if you discount building a team around a particular "strategy". There's only "bad" teams. This doesn't balance "UU" at all. It'd be worse than what you have currently (in terms of playable pokemon). It'd discount even some of the "better" UUs. Who'd use Dodrio if given Ursaring/Kangaskhan? And Charizard in "UU"? Golem? That's definitely shrinking the pool even further.
I hardly consider stall teams "higher rewards" than something built around a "mediocre" Charizard, Clefable, or Vaporeon. In GSC, sometimes, "medium reward" is as good as it gets. Some players prefer "high risk, medium reward" over "low risk, low reward". I would hardly consider the former "inferior". Because in the hypothetical "BL meta" scenario, I'm assuming most of the pokes used would be from the BL tier anyway. That's to be expected. In the OU scenario, most of the pokemon used would be from the OU tier. That's the norm. And if it were up to me, I would differentiate UU into NU/UUs as well. It's much more representative when every single pokemon in a tier could be used in their respective metas, but I'll stick to OU/BL/UU for now. But a "UU" tier in which only 10% of the pokemon are usable? No thanks. Take a look at the OU list and tell me each and every single one of them isn't usable on a standard team? That's the way it's suppose to be. Now take a look at the UU list, then tell me every pokemon is at least viable to some extent? You can't. They aren't. And once you incorpoate the BLs into that list? Well then, it's almost offensive how small the list shrinks. It's not too hard to grasp. Once you get to a certain level of "theorymon", it gets pretty damn accurate. You just see things, because it's a truth. Unless I'm completely missing something, it's not too hard to play out battles in your head, and it'll end up pretty close to an actual battle, minus the luck, minus the skill gap, minus the team gap.


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What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Thelonious Monk's piano. What I'd heard was titled Misterioso, with a [Giorgio] De Chirico painting on its jacket. I was just 21 years old, and it changed my vision toward the structures of harmony.
Also, the paintings of Marc Chagall changed my ears for music. I knew his painting for a quite while. Several years ago, I started to feel I didn't like my improvisation on piano and started trying to find out why. And one day I found it on Chagall's paintings—especially those arms twisted at some point on their way to extend. And that's what I was looking for. Since then, my improvisation started to change drastically, because I freed myself from the basics of the overtone series.
Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi has played with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Gil Evans, Bill Laswell, and, most notably, Paul Motian. On Sunrise, a recent solo album for ECM, he pairs Monk's crippled chords with Chagall's Modernism to produce a hushed elegance that's subtle and thrilling. Look for it on Best Of 2012 lists at year's end. And don't be frightened by Kikuchi's Glenn Gould-ish grunting.


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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria's opposition has scheduled a second confidence vote regarding the government in just a week, underscoring the depth of the Balkan country's months-long political crisis.
The motion against the Socialist-backed government was signed Thursday by opposition lawmakers who accuse the 4-month-old government of a "failure in regional development and infrastructure policy." Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski's Cabinet survived a confidence vote last week regarding its investment policies, and is expected to rally enough support in parliament to withstand the next one, too.
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MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is an N-way messaging server and networking API. It includes client-side networking APIs for various languages, including C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, and Python. MUSCLE lets programs communicate over a network via streams of serialized Message objects. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other and store information in its server-side hierarchical database. The database supports flexible queries via hierarchical wildcarding, and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism.
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I've been lucky enough to watch Garden City play several times in each of the past years, but I can't remember the last time I saw the offense click like that. Devin Dwyer (Harvard), IL's No. 13 junior, dazzled working from X. It's an understatement to say his skills and smarts make up for his lack of size, though he's grown considerably since he was a 100-nothing pound freshman playing considerable minutes for the Trojans. He's known for his feeding ability (put up eight assists a few weeks ago vs. San Ramone Valley) but scored some very nifty goals. Beside him, senior Tom Gordon (Johns Hopkins) and junior Liam Kennedy also jumped out, especially Kennedy who showed he was more than just a crease finisher, pitching in three assists. It's a shock that he's still uncommitted, but whoever picks him up will be very lucky to have him.


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Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The three Republican members of the five-person House of Representatives Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, including Speaker John Boehner, told a U.S. judge that a lesbian woman's fundamental rights aren't burdened by the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The measure, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, defines marriage as being between one man and one woman, bars the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex marriages, and allows states to decline to do so as well. President Barack Obama's administration this year said it wouldn't defend the measure in court.
The representatives, in an Oct. 14 filing with U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White in San Francisco, defended the law, known as DoMA, against a legal challenge filed last year by Karen Golinski, a federal court employee seeking to extend her health insurance benefits to her wife.
"There is nothing intrusive in the least about DoMA," the congressmen said, opposing Golinski's request for a ruling that the act is unconstitutional. "It is simply a definitional statute that defines, for federal law purposes, marriage and spouse."
In June, New York became the sixth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, joining Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa. Such unions are also lawful in the District of Columbia. Florida, Texas, Missouri, Virginia and Utah are among the states that have constitutional amendments barring same-sex marriage, according to Lambda Legal, a proponent of equal rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people.
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Golinski wed Amy Cunninghis in 2008 during a period in which same-sex marriages were lawful in California before being barred by a voter referendum. That outcome is being challenged in court.
Rita Lin, an attorney for Golinski, disagreed with the congressmen's view that her client doesn't face an unconstitutional burden because of the marriage law.
"If she'd married a man instead of a woman, she'd be paid differently," Lin said today in a phone interview. The out-of- pocket expenses the couple must pay to separately insure Cunninghis is tantamount to a tax, Lin said.
When the U.S. Justice Department said it wouldn't defend the law's definition of marriage, Boehner of Ohio, said the chamber would support the measure. Joining him in the Oct. 14 filing were U.S. Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California.
California Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who preceded Boehner as speaker, and Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic Whip, are also members of the Legal Advisory Group. They declined to support the filing, according to a footnote on the final page of the document.
A hearing in the case is scheduled for Dec. 16.
The case is Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management, 10-cv-00257, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).
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Not to be outdone by Microsoft and its BlueTrack laser tracking technology, Logitech recently introduced the Anywhere Mouse MX with the new Darkfield laser sensor. Darkfield tracks on almost all surfaces, including non-mirrored glass, a surface on which Microsoft's BlueTrack doesn't work. The mouse also uses the company's Unifying technology, which lets you connect up to six Unifying-compatible keyboards and mice to the same USB transceiver. Both innovations boost the usefulness of the Anywhere Mouse, but we can't really recommend a £65 mobile accessory, especially when Microsoft's £25 Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 works just as well on almost every other surface.
Comfortable and small
The Anywhere Mouse is meant to be the travel-sized companion to the Logitech Performance Mouse MX, but with a few key differences. Firstly, the device is smaller and easier to fit into a laptop bag. Secondly, unlike the sculpted form of the Performance Mouse, the Anywhere Mouse is perfectly symmetrical, to accommodate both left- and right-handed users, although we suspect that lefties might stumble over the two thumb buttons on the left side. The mouse is very comfortable to use -- the shape easily conforms to your hand and the surface is covered with a thin, lightly textured coating that makes it easy to grip and move around.
The scroll wheel sits between the two main buttons and moves from side to side, as well as up and down. Pressing the scroll dial itself changes the scrolling between ratcheted and smooth. The button directly below the wheel is preset to activate the Windows Vista Flip 3D overlay, with which you can quickly view all of your open windows in a digitally organised stack. As with most mice, you can reassign all the buttons with the included SetPoint 4.8 software.
On the bottom of the mouse, you'll find the Darkfield laser tracking unit and a power switch to preserve battery life when it's not in use. After testing the unit on a variety of surfaces, including mirrored glass, carpet and a pair of rigid denim jeans, we're happy to report that Darkfield really fulfils its promise to work on almost anything, with no obvious degradation in accuracy or speed during Web browsing.
Two AA batteries, included in the package, power the Anywhere Mouse. It doesn't support rechargeable batteries, but, according to Logitech, two alkaline batteries will power the mouse for 15 months, with help from its 'smart sleep' mode, which automatically lowers its energy consumption during long periods of inactivity. Another feature that Logitech doesn't advertise is that the mouse can run on a single battery, just in case you run out of juice or can only find one battery.
If you're completely dedicated to the Logitech brand of peripherals, you'll be happy to hear about its Unifying receiver. This new technology lets you connect a single USB plug to six compatible Unifying-family mice and keyboards. Each device comes with its own Unifying receiver, so you can conceivably leave the receivers plugged into several different computers at home and work. It also frees up USB ports formerly occupied by keyboards and mice. If you ever need to take it out, the USB micro receiver fits into a compartment underneath the mouse for convenient storage.
Logitech doesn't include any third-party software in the bundle, but it does offer its SetPoint for Windows and Mac app, which enables the side-to-side scrolling, as well as extra customisable functionality for the middle button.
The Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX is versatile and convenient, but whether you'll want to fork out £65 for a portable mouse is a different matter.
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Per Rotoworld, Arizona released FS Kerry Rhodes. He is or will be 31 soon, but man he was great last year. I wish we would grab him on a 2 year deal a la Wilson and let him duel it out with Griffin for the starting spot. I can wish.
I'll take anyone over Rojo at this point. I don't think we make any other significant moves unless we move Nate, depth signings from here on out. I'm ok with that though after a nice first two days.


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Date: Friday, March 7th
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Clubhouse Receptionist/Administrative Assistant
Grandfather Golf and Country Club in Linville, NC is seeking an organized, flexible, strong interpersonal communicator with hospitality industry experience to fill a full-time receptionist/administrative assistant role at our Club. This position offers a Tuesday - Saturday schedule during the months of May - October and a Monday - Friday schedule from November - April.
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Date: Friday, March 7th
at the Appalachian Wesley Foundation (United Methodist). 10-15 hrs/wk. Strong administrative and computers skills needed. For a full job description email
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Date: Friday, March 7th
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Underwood & Weld Company, Inc., based in Spruce Pine, NC, is currently looking for OTR drivers to pull dry bulk pneumatic trailers.
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Date: Friday, March 7th
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Date: Friday, March 7th
ROWLAND'S AT WESTGLOW is seeking well-qualified applicants for a dining room server position. Ideal candidates must possess serving experience, and a positive and hard-working mentality. Knowledge of wine & spirits is strongly preferred. Please send your resume and references to (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Date: Friday, March 7th
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Date: Friday, March 7th
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Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges in the restoration of pollination mutualisms
Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges in the restoration of pollination mutualisms
Trends in Plant Science, Volume 16, Issue 1,
Pages 4-12,
Publication Date 26 October 2010
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2010.09.006
Myles H.M. Menz
Ryan D. Phillips
Rachael Winfree
Claire Kremen
Marcelo A. Aizen
Steven D. Johnson
Kingsley W. Dixon
Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Fraser Avenue, West Perth 6005, Australia
School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia
Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, 137 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA
Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA-CONICET and Centro Regional Bariloche, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Quintral 1250, 8400 Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
DST-NRF Centre for Invasion Biology, School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa
Ecological restoration of plant–pollinator interactions has received surprisingly little attention, despite animal-mediated pollination underpinning reproduction of the majority of higher plants. Here, we offer a conceptual and practical framework for the ecological restoration of pollination mutualisms. Through the use of targeted restoration plantings to attract and sustain pollinators and increased knowledge of the ecological requirements of pollinators, we propose that pollination could be successfully restored in degraded ecosystems. The challenge for pollination biologists is to integrate their findings with those of plant restoration ecologists to ensure sustainable pollination in restored ecosystems.


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Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project with a single pod in orbit 280 miles above the earth, with the capacity to hold four guests and two astronaut-pilots.
It will take a day and a half to reach the pod -- which Claramunt compared to a mountain retreat, with no staff to greet the traveler."When the passengers arrive in the rocket, they will join it for three days, rocket and capsule. With this we create in the tourist a confidence that he hasn't been abandoned. After three days the passenger returns to the transport rocket and returns to earth," he said.
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A few months ago, we spent several days shooting with a preproduction sample—a not-quite-ready-for-prime- time version—of Canon's EOS 60D ($1,100, street, body only), and described our favorable first impressions in the October 2010 issue of the magazine.
But now that we've been able to see how a full production model performs in the Popular Photography Test Lab, it's clear that this 18MP Canon is going to be a big star.
Canon positions the 60D in a midlevel niche between its consumer-oriented Rebel line and more rugged and pro- oriented 7D. The only truly direct competitor for this successor to the popular 50D is Nikon's new D7000 (Lab test coming soon).
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In overall image quality, this time around it's Canon's turn to shine, with an Excellent rating from ISO 100 through ISO 800, based on our tests. The Nikon, with a 16.2MP sensor and slightly more noise, scored Extremely High in the same ISO range, just a notch behind.
In our resolution test, the 60D turned in an Excellent 2600 lines per picture height. Plus, it did an admirable job of holding onto that resolution as ISO increased maintaining 2500 lines at ISO 6400 when using the manufacturer's default level of noise reduction in converting 14-bit RAW images into 16-bit TIFFs. At the camera's top sensitivity setting of ISO 12,800, under the same test conditions, resolution dropped to 2330 lines, still enough for an Extremely High rating on our scale.
Color accuracy was a much closer race. Both the Canon and Nikon scored Excellent, with a negligible difference in average Delta E, a measure of color variation.
In noise suppression, the 60D pulled a surprise upset. Canon managed to keep noise lower at its default settings than Nikon did, despite the 60D's extra megapixels. In our test, the 60D scored a Low or better ratings from ISO 100 through ISO 800. It didn't reach an Unacceptable rating until ISO 6400, while the D7000 did so at ISO 3200. In fact, the Canon turned in lower noise results at every ISO the two cameras share, except at ISO 800, where they tied. (The 60D doesn't go past ISO 12,800; the D7000 reaches one more stop to ISO 25,600.)
We do all of our tests using the manufacturer's default setting in its own RAW conversion software. Both the Canon and Nikon RAW conversion software leave plenty of room for extra noise reduction for your images—but you'll likely sacrifice some resolving power.
When it comes to autofocus, the 60D isn't the fastest on the market at the brightest portion of our test—honors there go to the more expensive Olympus E-5 and less costly Sony Alpha 55. It squeaked ahead of the D7000 by just a few hundredths of a second down through EV 4. Once we turned the lights down to EV 2 (think a dimly lit interior), the Canon took a stronger lead, focusing in 0.59 sec versus the Nikon's 0.76.
The gap widened further at EV 1 and EV 0, then narrowed again at EV –1 (like a field lit by the full moon), with both cameras focusing in just under 1 sec. Although Canon rates its system as effective down to just EV –0.5, in our test it managed to focus (in just over 1 sec) in the very dim light of EV –2, where the D7000 couldn't make it.
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Boil for 10 minutes and then add zucchini and orzo. Boil until orzo is done.


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If you are plagued by hot flashes that interrupt your sleep and leave you feeling tried many days, you will be interested in this study that suggests the value of Gabapentin. Obviously, this is an "ask your doctor about it" situation.
Gabapentin Improves Sleep Quality in Women With Hot Flashes
By Megan Brooks
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Sep 14 - For their female patients experiencing hot flashes as they go through menopause, physicians may want to try the anti-epilepsy drug gabapentin to improve their quality of sleep, according to a new report.
With regard to the drug's potential for helping these women to sleep, "this is a rare example of an agent that might be mechanistically targeted, as opposed to true hypnotics that tend to cause drowsiness through GABAergic or histaminergic actions in a population-nonspecific fashion," Dr. Michael E. Yurcheshen from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York, told Reuters Health in an email.
Dr. Yurcheshen and his colleagues had previously reported on a randomized trial in which 59 postmenopausal women who were experiencing 7 to 20 hot flashes each day were given either gabapentin, 300 mg 3 times a day, or placebo. In that trial, gabapentin was effective at relieving hot flashes. For the current paper in the September Journal of Women's Health, the researchers analyzed Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores for the women in the original study.
Global PSQI scores improved to a significantly greater extent at week 4 in the gabapentin group than in the placebo group, the authors report. The improvement, they add, was "sustained," with effects tending to persist after 12 weeks. In addition, the gabapentin group had significantly greater improvements in sleep quality at weeks 4 and 12 and in sleep efficiency at week 4.
"Gabapentin is already used in clinical practice to control hot flashes, and this specific effect has good prospective data to support it," Dr. Yurcheshen said. "Although hot flashes are only one of the reasons why menopausal women have disrupted sleep, control of this vasomotor symptom certainly can result in fewer nighttime arousals."
"We have a prospective study planned looking at gabapentin and related compounds to prospectively test for improved sleep in a population that is specifically selected for sleep complaints, and screened for sleep-related comorbidities," Dr. Yurcheshen continued. "The planned study will use a battery of subjective and objective outcome measures that will be useful in detecting the effect, and hopefully in determining the mechanisms behind it."
J Women's Health 2009.
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