Victreebel has DROPPED from Gen 1 OU! | RBY Bytes

RBY OU's latest Viability Rankings were released recently, and with that, Victreebel has finally dropped to UU. Let's walk through the past two decades of Victreebel's tiering history to figure out how this all exactly happened.

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My microphone was faulty at the time of recording, I intend to get a dedicated recording one eventually. I use a Kraken TE headset which is intended for Voice Chat, not actually, well, making pre-recorded content.

Credits;
Hipmonlee - Early rationale
Amaranth - Late 2017 - 2022 history, fixing the 2019 VR's BBCode, replays
Disaster Area, Ortheore, & Lutra - Pokemon Perfect history
Isa - Pokemon Online
Torchic - General history
FriendOfMrGolem120 / FOMG - Background on his SPL X run
Enigami - General assistance
Mirabel_ - 2016 history & context
marcoasd - 2017-2019 history
Zokuru - Venusaur details
MetalGro$$ - Permission to use SPL IX replay

Sources;
Smogon VR things
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... C to D
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... PROPHET
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... Vic’s rise in 2019 (dead img links, but inspect element restored them)

PO things
https://web.archive.org/web/202108021... c.2012 rise
https://web.archive.org/web/202108021... wrap ban discussion
   • RBY OU - Isa vs. Dre   one of the only surviving replays of po’s wrap-like move implementation, where cloy uses clamp. s/o dre

Some PP stuff
https://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums... 2017 views
https://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums... da develops vic
https://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums... 2018 stuff, vic is argued for 1U in here.

Analyses;
https://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums... 2015 analysis that sees 2019 discussion, kind of a time capsule. Analysis was last edited in 2017
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... 2020 smogon analysis (by me and aaronboyer)
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... the better smogon analysis
There is no 2018-2019 era analysis.

Meta rationale
https://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums... some rated vic higher than gar here
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... a good showing of the 2019 rationale
https://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums... ortheore helps articulate a few things here
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... examples of the vic hysteria
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... a good showing of 2020 metagame shifts
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... further
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... bit further
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... hip thoughts
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... “impossible to set up” - sing chansey
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... “we were too quick”

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads...
A good amaranth post

Tournament highs
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads... SPL X - 17 7.33%, the one SPL it ever saw widespread success.
https://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums... PPL 2020 - 12 4.20%
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/sm... first use by FOMG in SPL X
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/sm... 6-0 by Amaranth in SPL IX
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/sm... first use by fomg ever

Ladder thing
https://www.porydex.com/stats/2015-05... la creatura