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I think people tend to forget that the Smogon system is only about usage and doesn't reflect a Pokemon's actual merit.In all fairness, Smogon tiers have always been based on usage statistics. OU and UU literally stand for "overused" and "underused". It's because there's just too many pokemon to analyze otherwise. The tiers are going to be super volatile for a little while as the player base figures out what's good and what's not.
Then banned pokemon get their own BL (borderline) or Uber tiers.
Like, Shedinja can function perfectly in ubers, that doesn't make it better than say, Charizard who really can't.