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These days, most players play OU, simply because it's the standard battling tier.
Many people think Ubers require no skill and after EVing Uber battling is simply about chance (of you choice of Uber)
I find Uber battling as challenging as an OU battle, because Ubers have so many different movepools (Mew, Arceus etc)
What are your views?
I have never really battled competitively but imo I see battling with Ubers is just as challenging as any other tier. This being when both players use Ubers. I think the reason why people dislike the use of them, is that it pushes back other pokemon who don't stand up, meaning to stand a chance, players have to use Ubers.
As I said I am far from a pro so I don't know what the 'gap' is between the tiers. But I would assume that the use of standard rules means that all OU and below are at least feasible whereas Ubers are just that step to strong making other pokemon redundant.
I like using any rules as long as both players agree ^^.
Ubers are fine against others and as a means to power through some of the extras after the main story is finished. They can be fun to play with when you already have a designated team and are handy for switches during EV and/or EXP training of other weaker Pokemon, but otherwise it should be discouraged.
Although I always loved using Mewtwo on Pokemon Stadium. When I caught it, everyone in the neighborhood thought I was the most awesome kid on the block. Psychic was once one hell of a scary move.
My one moment of popularity thanks to a digital beast.
I honestly don't care if people use Ubers or not. Generally the ones that spam ubers suck anyways, and if you only have 1 or 2 then It's KO'd just like any other pokemon. I generally go for type advantage when facing them. Simple, yet effective.
I use ubers in game, but generally not vs. other people.
my take is i see no realy point to seporate pokemon into tiers. In my defence all pokemon are the same (not counting legends trios not in question.) Each pokemon fully evolved to final stage are all strong its all in the way you train them. "ubers" are not if i may say this "the noobs way out" pretty much the cheap hit in the heat of battle but a slight bit more of a challenge to battle.Me i use only one "uber" most of the time on my team and on certian situations 2 depending on a few things (no need to go into detail.)All i'm saying is if you ask me there is no need to seporate pokemon into these tiers the only teir that needs to be is all (fully) evolved pokemon and the legends/Trio members. if you ask me "uber" pokemon are no different that OU etc.