If Little cups are the lowest evolutionary Pokémon and Über is the highest, what's in the middle?

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Please tell me.

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Clearly you don’t understand the Smogon tier system yet.

The tier system isn’t based on evolutionary stages; it is based on viability and usage. Firstly, the Little Cup tieris notthe lowest tier - Neverused is. Little Cup is more of a separate tier as it follows many different rules.

As for the Ubers tier, yes, it is the highest and contains the Pokemon that are too powerful for the lower tiers due to how overpowered they are. The tier is 100% legendaries apart from Blaziken and Excadrill, who are there for their own reasons.

Back to the question. Therearemiddle tiers; their names areOverused, Underused, Rarelyused and Neverused. Ubers and the tiers listed just before are all playable metagames; however, there are some unplayable tiers. They areBorderline, Borderline 2 and Borderline 3 (which currently does not exist due to all the Pokemon in it moving to other tiers). They speak for themselves really; Pokemon that are too weak for one tier but too powerful for another are placed in there tiers.

I’ll now list all the tiersin orderto hopefully explain thing more clearly.

Little Cup is a separate tier that follows different rules and should not be seen as “the lowest tier”.

Also a few last things to note.

Tiers are often abbreviated.

Ubers stays the same usually.

You know just look at the Smogon pagehere.The tier list from highest to lowest (Main tiers) are;UbersOverused (OU)Underused (UU)Rarelyused (RU)Neverused (NU)Little Cup (LC)

So I suppose technically, there are 4 main ones in the middle being OU, UU, RU, and NU.

The Borderline (BL) and other tiers have very little meaning, so they aren’t really important.

I think you’ve misunderstood tiers a bit. They are not based on evolutionary lines but how much the Pokemon are used. Granted fully evolved Pokemon are stronger than unevolved ones, resulting in them being used more, but that’s no reassurance of tier placement.So ther is no middle tier, higher or lower tier looking at it from evolutionary lines, but tiers are rather based on the individual Pokemons viability, not their evolutionary position.