February 2019 Tier Changes

[Munya]

There are no usage based movements this month as nothing crossed the thresholds for movement, however:

 

Banned from NU to BL2:

• Honchkrow - After banning Absol, there was concern that Honchkrow would take its place, having very similar offensive power, ability, moves, coverage, and more. However, these pokemon were different enough that Honchkrow was given a chance in NU before being acted on. After letting in linger in NU for a while, it really has taken the spot Absol once occupied in the tier. As a result, for the same reasons as Absol was banned, Honckrow is banned from NU.

 

 

 

[Munya]

Moving down from Ubers to OU:

• Dugtrio
• Wobbuffet - It was decided a long time ago at the time of its ban that once team preview was introduced, and Dugtrios nerf were carried out, that these two would be given another chance in the actual tiers.  As of the last last update both of these prerequisites have been met so these will both be returning to OU.

It has already been done for a few days now but we will also be placing Zoroark in the Over-Used tier to start with.

[Munya]

There will be no changes in the month of March since the update was midway through an already short month, we will be rolling the usage from February over into the usage from March when the time comes.