Research Best and Worst Competitive Gen 1 Pokemon Over Every Generation

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Hey guys - competitive player and frequent lurker on Smogon. My first post here. I made a ranking that lists how good every Gen 1 Pokemon has been, on average, throughout the history of the game. Not sure if this has been done before. I based it on Smogon's tiers and gave each Gen 1 Pokemon a rating out of 10 based on which tier it appeared in for each format. Thought it would be fun to see how each of the Gen 1 Pokemon fared over the years. Considering making it a video sometime soon. I figured since I took most of the info from Smogon I should share it here first. I can expand it to other gens and include doubles soon.

Here's the breakdown:
Uber 10/10
OU 8/10
BL 7/10
UU 6/10
RU 4/10
NU 2/10
PU 0/10

BL2, 3 and 4 are 5/10, 3/10 and 1/10 respectively. I simply averaged each Pokemon's score out of 10 over the seven gens.

For example, this would be Machamp:
Gen 1: UU 6/10
Gen 2: OU 8/10
Gen 3: BL 7/10
Gen 4: OU 8/10
Gen 5: UU 6/10
Gen 6: UU 6/10
Gen 7: RU 4/10
Average: 6.43/10

Now for Gen 1 and 2 there is no format below UU, so nothing would get lower than a 6/10. For those two gens I gave a somewhat subjective score based on my perception of how good they are in those respective generations. For example I gave Gen 1 Sandslash 6/10, Hitmonchan 4/10, Butterfree 2/10 and Ditto 0/10. And no PU exists for Gens 3, 4 and 5. I didn't hand out any 1s or 0s for these gens because I wasn't sure what the worst of the worst was. Nothing got less than a 2/10 for gens 3-5, except for Ditto which got 0/10.

Now if the Pokemon evolved into something stronger in a later generation, then I used its evolved form. So I used Seadra for Gen 1 and Kingdra for Gens 2-7. If the Pokemon evolved but its base form was better, like Chansey with Eviolite in Gens 6 and 7, then I used that. Whichever was stronger. I didn't include the parallel evolutions that come from Gen 1 Pokemon - Bellossom, Politoed, Slowking and Hitmontop didn't affect the rankings.

I did the same with Alola forms - whichever was stronger. So Alola Marowak was better than regular Marowak and regular Dugtrio was better than Alola Dugtrio.

Now the Mega Evolutions were a bit tricky. I feel like a Pokemon that has a good base form and a good Mega form is more impressive than a Pokemon with only a good Mega form. For that I took the average of the two. So Gen 6 and 7 Venusaur got 6/10. Base is 4/10 and Mega is 8/10. Maybe I should just go with the Mega score - let me know. But averaging it vs taking the higher one doesn't affect the rankings much.

So here's the final rankings:
Final Rankings

Here's the raw data. You can see what score I gave each Pokemon for each Gen, including my subjective scores from Gens 1 and 2. If you feel that any of the Gen 1/Gen 2 scores are off or if anything from Gens 3-5 really deserves a 0/10 let me know.
Raw Data

If you don't want the link here's the top 25:
Rank Pokemon Average
1 Mewtwo 10
2 Mew 8.86
3 Gengar 8.29
4 Chansey/Blissey 8
5 Starmie 7.71
6 Zapdos 7.71
7 Dragonite 7.43
8 Scyther/Scizor 7.29
9 Alakazam 7.21
10 Magneton/Magnezone 7.14
11 Gyarados 7.07
12 Cloyster 6.86
13 Snorlax 6.86
14 Tentacruel 6.71
15 Slowbro 6.64
16 Dugtrio 6.57
17 Porygon/2/Z 6.57
18 Venusaur 6.57
19 Seadra/Kingdra 6.43
20 Clefable 6.43
21 Machamp 6.43
22 Vaporeon 6.43
23 Nidoking 6.29
24 Golbat/Crobat 6.29
25 Jolteon 6.29

And the bottom 10:
RankPokemonAverage
1 Butterfree 1.43
2 Farfetch'd 1.43
3 Parasect 1.71
4 Kingler 1.86
5 Wigglytuff 2
6 Raticate 2
7 Arbok 2.14
8 Flareon 2.14
9 Beedrill 2.29
10 Lickitung/Lickilicky 2.29


A few notes. Some Pokemon dominated their tiers and some were at the bottom. Snorlax was the king of Gen 2 OU but he only gets an 8/10. But I think this generally evens out, and I don't want to get too subjective and give 8.5, 6.5, 4.25 etc to every Pokemon. Also that's too much research - there's about 600 data points I'd have to check. Also Ditto was a little tricky. He was the worst Pokemon in Gens 1-4 but with Imposter he became quite viable in various formats in Gens 5-7. He doesn't really have a designated tier though. Right now his best tier is Anything Goes, where he's the 11st most used at 5.3%. Uber is 65th 2.1%, OU 117th 1.2%, UU 125th 0.65%, RU 127th 0.60%, NU 112th 0.78%, PU 54th 3.4%. Not sure what to make of that. Anyway I gave him 0/10 Gens 1-4 and 6/10 Gens 5-7 for an average of 2.57.

Let me know what you guys think. Suggestions to make it better are appreciated.
 

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This is pretty much the only place on Smogon which does not really deal with Competitive Pokemon.

Orange Islands is about basically everything but Competitive side of the Franchise.

Honestly your best bet for something like is to put it up in The Ruins of Alph, which is where most of the "Old Gen" players talk and discuss Competitive Pokemon.
 
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