Its existence is enough to ensure there is always a metagame where you can use a particular Pokemon. "Anything Goes" (Ubers+) is a philosophically-motivated metagame that does not have any clauses or banned Pokemon.One could imagine stratifying Ubers by usage similar to OU, although at the moment there aren't enough Pokemon in the tier for this to make sense. Assuming M-Ray is banned from Ubers, you can expect the metagame to revolve around Primal Groudon (my best guess, anyway). Anything above OU by definition will be overcentralized.You can expect tiers lower than OU to not be overcentralized. Each tier is balanced in a similar way to OU (except for experiments like UU). Since many Pokemon will be unusable in OU, we stratify the rest of the Pokemon by how often they are used. We consider it desirable to have, for each Pokemon, at least one metagame where it is reasonable to use that Pokemon.We run suspect tests to ban/unban anything that the heuristic fails on. In practice, removing all of the fanservice-y cover legends is a good heuristic. It is defined by removing Pokemon from the metagame until the metagame is "not overcentralized" (where the threshold for centralized is kinda arbitrary). Here is how I am constructing the tier system: Anyway, the point is: we have enough to try to make a workable metagame out of this set, and considering Ubers to be just a banlist is doing a disservice to the community. In XY, there are currently 50 Ubers-compare that to the 56 strictly OU Pokemon we have at the moment! Next generation we may have MORE Ubers than strictly OU Pokemon, which is a really weird thought. In RBY, the only Ubers were Mew and Mewtwo. When I first started playing competitive Pokemon, there was no point in playing the Ubers metagame, as there simply weren't enough Ubers for its metagame to be distinct enough from OU. Mega evolving Rayquaza will not be possible in the Ubers metagame. AG is the spiritual successor to (old) Ubers. AG has no bans, and no clauses, except for Endless Battle Clause. We are adding a new metagame called Anything Goes (AG). Ubers is now the name for the tier above OU. Is it a tier? Is it just OU's banlist? Is it OK to ban things from Ubers? Well, thanks to GameFreak and Power Creep™, we have some answers for you. For the last 3 or so generations there has been some tension over what exactly Ubers is.
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