(All of this is about the Pokebank stats)



I'm not surprised at the top 10 given the current state of the metagame. A lot of the mons up there are genuinely good and are familiar with top 10 status. Mons like Genesect, Heatran, and Scizor are right where they should be, and I expect them to stay there. Aegislash and Kangaskhan are also deserving of high use, because they have been hyped but also deserve the hype they are getting. The only major change I see coming to the stats is a Talonflame drop, and Rotom-W subsequently dropping from #1. Talonflame just isn't that good of a mon. It has mediocre Attack, easily walled STABs, nearly non-existent bulk, 4x Stealth Rock weakness.... I could go on, but my point is that Talonflame is such an aggressively mediocre mon and more people will come to see that eventually. Rotom-W will still be top 10, but there won't be as much need for it if (or when) Talonflame usage dips.



Now, I know that the metagame is still developing and the stats still only represent such development, but after a full month of battling, as opposed to just one week, seeing stuff like this is rather disturbing:



| 28 | Donphan | 5.74369% | 99248 | 5.352% | 83013 | 5.710% |

| 34 | Forretress | 5.03305% | 101011 | 5.447% | 86424 | 5.945% |

| 37 | Starmie | 4.56010% | 82259 | 4.436% | 60465 | 4.159% |

| 85 | Hippowdon | 1.82917% | 31333 | 1.690% | 27151 | 1.868% |



Why. Is. Donphan. So. High. It literally gained nothing useful in the shift to the new generation. It lost its niche as a spinner useful to sun teams because of the weather nerf effectively taking sun teams out of the picture, and Excadrill utterly outclasses it now that it's allowed in OU. Both Forretress and Starmie are astronomically better at Rapid Spinning than Donphan if you don't want to use Excadrill. Gliscor and Hippowdon are better at being bulky Ground-types, there's no reason for Donphan to be that high while Hippowdon wallows in the low 80s. If you want a bulky Ground-type that can also spin, just use bulky Excadrill. Let that piece of shit Donphan drop. It shouldn't take more than a month for people to find alternatives to him.