Previously, usage data has been analysed on a month-by-month basis, as and when new statistics become available. This is great for looking at short term changes, for example the impact of a particular centralising Pokemon being banned from a tier. But what about longer term trends? You need a visual tool. Fortunately, such a thing now exists and can be found at the URL below:
http://pokestat.org.uk/
I haven't played properly since DPP, so I'm not the best person to use this tool. I'm very interested to see what people who are more involved in the game as it stands today are able to come up with! Please use and abuse this tool to find out interesting things and post them back in this thread! If you want some ideas, some of my exploration is in the spoiler section below:
Again, I'm not familiar with XY, so please go ahead explore those ideas and your own. Let us know what you find out! I wish I could post this in a more general thread, as it covers more than just OU, but this seems the most appropriate place that I have permission to post in.
For anyone interested in the technical details, here is the Github repository. I implemented the backend in the Play Framework in Scala, and the front end in Bootstrap, jQuery and Chart.js. Please feel free to raise issues there if you find any bugs, reporting them in this thread will also work. You may find that this doesn't work well on mobile devices or on machines with low-resolution - my front-end development skills aren't exactly stellar.
Happy stat hunting!
http://pokestat.org.uk/
I haven't played properly since DPP, so I'm not the best person to use this tool. I'm very interested to see what people who are more involved in the game as it stands today are able to come up with! Please use and abuse this tool to find out interesting things and post them back in this thread! If you want some ideas, some of my exploration is in the spoiler section below:
Let's take a Pokemon I used to use a lot back in the day - Gengar. Add Gengar to the graph - note how its usage has steadily increased since about April. What could be causing this? What's a great Pokemon to switch into Gengar? When I played Blissey was an obvious choice, add Blissey to the graph too - note how its usage has been steadily decreaing since about April. This may explain why Gengar has been growing in popularity over that period! Quite what's causing this steady decrease in Blissey usage isn't entirely clear to me though. Could it be the steady increase in the use of Keldeo since February?
Clear the graph, put Skarmory and Garchomp on there. Note how as one's uasge increases the other decreases. These numbers fluctuate quite rapidly. Quite what causes them to fluctuate so much I don't know. But we can see from the graphs that their usage number are quite strongly inversely correlated!
Clear the graph, put Skarmory and Garchomp on there. Note how as one's uasge increases the other decreases. These numbers fluctuate quite rapidly. Quite what causes them to fluctuate so much I don't know. But we can see from the graphs that their usage number are quite strongly inversely correlated!
Again, I'm not familiar with XY, so please go ahead explore those ideas and your own. Let us know what you find out! I wish I could post this in a more general thread, as it covers more than just OU, but this seems the most appropriate place that I have permission to post in.
For anyone interested in the technical details, here is the Github repository. I implemented the backend in the Play Framework in Scala, and the front end in Bootstrap, jQuery and Chart.js. Please feel free to raise issues there if you find any bugs, reporting them in this thread will also work. You may find that this doesn't work well on mobile devices or on machines with low-resolution - my front-end development skills aren't exactly stellar.
Happy stat hunting!