DougJustDoug
Knows the great enthusiasms
Not a lot of stunning revelations this month in stat-land -- at least nothing really stands out to me after a quick comparison to the previous month. In OU, the top Pokemon pretty much stayed the same. Down a little lower in the list, it looks like Starmie and Jolteon were the only movers of consequence, and their statistical change was nothing earth-shattering. Perhaps OU has finally "settled down", and will experience low volatility in the coming months.
Down at the bottom of OU, Heracross usage increased slightly, perhaps staving off the much-debated "Heracross in UU Adventure" for a little while longer. Cresselia, on the other hand, dropped this month and appears to be hovering very close to the UU event horizon. We'll see what happens when X-Act runs his tiering numbers. Stay tuned.
Overall server traffic increased dramatically last month; probably because many people were on break from school and had lots of time to spend playing our favorite game. The server jumped by more than 54,000 battles, and almost set a new traffic record for a single month.
For the entire calendar year 2009, the server hosted 4,823,841 battles. That's a staggering amount of battles when you think about it. I may run some yearly stat reports later on, just for the heck of it. Now that I finally released the Smogon Damage Calculator (which almost completely consumed my free time for the past few months), I'm free to work on some other stuff. I've always had a penchant for useless stats, so end-of-year reports are right up my alley. I suspect a few of you other stat junkies would be interested too!
These stats were gathered from 531,307 individual battles that were fought during the month of December on the Smogon Shoddy Battle Server. Usage and Leads are listed in the posts directly below this one.
Happy stat hunting!
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Down at the bottom of OU, Heracross usage increased slightly, perhaps staving off the much-debated "Heracross in UU Adventure" for a little while longer. Cresselia, on the other hand, dropped this month and appears to be hovering very close to the UU event horizon. We'll see what happens when X-Act runs his tiering numbers. Stay tuned.
Overall server traffic increased dramatically last month; probably because many people were on break from school and had lots of time to spend playing our favorite game. The server jumped by more than 54,000 battles, and almost set a new traffic record for a single month.
For the entire calendar year 2009, the server hosted 4,823,841 battles. That's a staggering amount of battles when you think about it. I may run some yearly stat reports later on, just for the heck of it. Now that I finally released the Smogon Damage Calculator (which almost completely consumed my free time for the past few months), I'm free to work on some other stuff. I've always had a penchant for useless stats, so end-of-year reports are right up my alley. I suspect a few of you other stat junkies would be interested too!
These stats were gathered from 531,307 individual battles that were fought during the month of December on the Smogon Shoddy Battle Server. Usage and Leads are listed in the posts directly below this one.
Happy stat hunting!
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