Pokemon’s Power Creep Problem.

Competitive Pokemon Singles has slowly been succumbing to the disease known as Power Creep as each generation goes by. Maintaining a reasonable Power level in Singles has become a Herculean task. This sure is non-epic.

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[jimothycool]

I ranked every Starter Pokemon. You won't believe my Incredibly Controversial #1 choice.

[Judgement_Kazzy]

I think most of gen 9's power creep issues stem from the fact that they introduced an evolution for Dunsparce, so they had to abruptly buff the rest of the roster in a vain attempt to keep up with his might.

[chriskirby]

Competitive Pokémon would be much better if there were balance patches every 6 months or something

[artistmaterial]

It is kind of sad to see older Pokémon fall off completely. Nowadays modern Pokémon have broken stat spreads or busted signature moves. It doesn’t help that old legacy moves are gone because of home complications I think

[nigeltimothycruz]

As a Tyranitar Fanboy, that thumbnail just stabbed my heart.

[gelamity]

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[secondbeamship]

Power creep so great that Iron Mugulis got a render improvement

[albertodonini]

Gen 4 as a whole was power creep done right imho. Why? Because it happened in the form of new moves and items that most pokemon could use (most fighting-type mons could learn close combat, most rock-type mons could learn stone edge, and literally everyone could use a life orb or a choice scarf). New evolutions and abilities were used to revitalize old forgotten pokemon, and the phisical/special split opened up a lot of options. Basically what I'm trying to say is that at the time gamefreak didn't just invent 50 new pokemons each one with a unique ability/move, every new thing was available to almost everyone, and if almost everyone gets powered up, then things mostly stay the same. That's why even with all the changes, Gen 4 OU is basically Gen 3 OU plus.

Now compare this with everything from gen 5 onward, where every new OU is so different from the last that it feels like a whole different game, especially with the new gimmicks (Gen 6 tried to fix things with mega-evolutions of old weak mons and the new fairy type but it wasn't enough). Gen 5 is also the generation that introduced scald, a move that could cripple almost every pokemon except for a select few who took super-effective damage from it, and this move was also available to pretty much all water types, which is already one of the most powerful types out there. Once you go in such a direction there's no turning back.

Also I absolute loved the irony of some people getting all angry at hidden power in the older generations, but then completely ignore Terrastalize which has the same problems but multiplied, plus a few more

[YoshiGaminStuf]

I feel like they might have a solution to rectify power creep through HOME. Pokemon can get their movesets changed depending on the game they are moved to, and I feel like that in and of itself could be a great solution even if they didn’t make moving pokemon to different games change their stats if power creep get too powerful.

[Nutleaf]

Remember when swsh released and the only really broken thing we got was dracovish? TAKE ME BACK

[presidenttogekiss]

I want you to talk about Frosmoth and Avalugg, who have left their previous home in PU to chill the RU tier alonside Abomasnow and Ceititan.

[SteveIsHavingMC]

What sucks is that gamefreak fosters powercreep. They nerf the old fairly balanced mons because they do well in vgc, but if that wasnt enough, most nerfs they do are double nerfs, like dark void being usable only by darkrai and also destroying its accuracy when both was not needed. Removing mechanics of previous gens (namely, megas, as the other ones suck pretty bad) also fosters this, ans i have no doubt they will remove terrastalization too in gen 10 for no reason. Now in gen 9 all mons were blanket nerfed by having all their moves replaced with their level up moves for no real reason. I have some mons that i had to breed in older gens to get them to have a certain move and now all that effort is gone to waste because of gamefreak's terrible decisions and the overbearing powercreep of the game.

[DavidKassa]

Is iron mugulis a sinestea paradox form?

[blues]

Tera specifically pushes all these ridiculous pokemon over the edge imo. Makes the Gen 9 meta frustratingly unfun for me. Even went back and started exploring gen 1-4 ou just for some simple strategic pokemon battles again

[liammarko]

Ive just started playing uu because the meta is far more stable down there.

[zeenoh]

Honestly I have been enjoying gen 9 OU but that's only post-bans. I don't find kingambit that big of a problem and the metagame is better than SSOU at least.

I'm very worried about home though because a lot of the Hisuian Pokémon are just stupid power level wise

[LazurBeemz]

I'm not sure how powercreep is an issue in Smogon when you can just play a different tier if your favorite mons got made irrelevant by the new additions.

Meanwhile, the game is balanced around doubles. We know this. And - go figure - all of these ridiculous broken threats are much more fair in doubles.

[SwindleUK]

It's just a shit game now. Gen 5 might be the last time it was "good".

9 is so far removed from good I can't believe the scene hasn't ditched it.