ryan
Jojo Siwa enthusiast
idk what the hell else to call this but Antar is right (I believe at least) about precedence on the issue i'm about to outline and we should at least discuss it.
when a Pokemon jumps up multiple tiers and then drops again, it should go back to where it came from. in this particular instance, it is relevant for Quagsire, which went from NU to OU and has now dropped out of OU. Quagsire has already found its way down to NU, and it hasn't even been long since that happened. OU is a very different metagame from RU and UU, so it being good there at one point (arguably at least) does not mean that it is good in UU or RU or that it should go there. and as it was before, it will still be legal in those tiers and can move up to them if metagame shifts favor it.
our only instances of doing this in the past have been with mega formes prior to tiering megas and their base formes separately and with bans (snow warning in BW was banned from UU, thus banning it from RU and NU. when it was unbanned, snow warning snover was allowed in both of those tiers because that's where it was when it got banned).
those instances are not different enough from this to justify doing things differently here imo and we should probably change our policy to reflect that.
when a Pokemon jumps up multiple tiers and then drops again, it should go back to where it came from. in this particular instance, it is relevant for Quagsire, which went from NU to OU and has now dropped out of OU. Quagsire has already found its way down to NU, and it hasn't even been long since that happened. OU is a very different metagame from RU and UU, so it being good there at one point (arguably at least) does not mean that it is good in UU or RU or that it should go there. and as it was before, it will still be legal in those tiers and can move up to them if metagame shifts favor it.
our only instances of doing this in the past have been with mega formes prior to tiering megas and their base formes separately and with bans (snow warning in BW was banned from UU, thus banning it from RU and NU. when it was unbanned, snow warning snover was allowed in both of those tiers because that's where it was when it got banned).
those instances are not different enough from this to justify doing things differently here imo and we should probably change our policy to reflect that.