The Hoopa-U case

[KorpiklaaniVodka]

Hoopa-Unbound writes history in the Smogon tiering process, as it's the first non-mega Pokemon with a base stat of 680+ that gets added to OU right away. Last gen, Kyurem-B with a 700BST was initially sent to Uber and then tested down.

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/hoopa-unbound.3544660/

So apparently there's a double standard... or what am I missing? Because here's their reasoning: "Why would we make an exception for Hoopa ? Why would we change our current policy".

So yeah, I think we need some discussion on this 'mon, because while personally I don't think it's broken, it's kinda borked that they decided to send it to OU right away.
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/hoopa-unbound.3544660/

 

[Zeffy]

I don't see how this is a resource...? Anyway, I've renamed it to [Discussion] now.

Also, the way they titled it "the Hoopa-Unbound case" is really, really misleading seeing as they're discussing tiering philosophy. I think cases like this are best handled by placing the Pokemon in the appropriate tier based on its BST, and test from there.

 

[Anti]

mega evolutions changed ou's power ceiling, for better or worse. mega metagross is ou with a 700 bst and a recoil-free life orb boost on many of its attacks, and it's not like it's a huge exception. i tend to agree with the op in the linked thread that testing it down makes more sense, but i don't really see this as a double standard when, well, it's not bw2 anymore.