Garchomp was considered an Uber by a vote from about 50 Smogoners who had proved their credibility through a sufficient Shoddy ranking on both the standard and suspect ladders. The only person who voted that I recognized as on Serebii would be Mysterious Stallion. I'd imagine that others such as Unaware and possibly Blue Ace are capable of such a ranking given the short notice that they got. A CRE of 1650 isn't easy to maintain when you have a large group of people intending to reach this target.
The Smogon tier list is based off of usage and power. They figured that usage implies power (in a certain metagame), and that works in only a purely competitive community such as Smogon.
I'm going to make a simplified SSBB comparison here. Captain Falcon is the most epic character in Brawl. People use sometimes him for that reason alone. However, the large population of Captain Falcon users are not likely to win many tournaments due to Meta Knight. Eventually, these Captain Falcon users will realize that it's useless to use Captain Falcon because he's so common and there are easy ways to deal with him (Meta Knight). These Captain Falcon users will go to MK and main him in order to be one of the ones who trounce other Captain Falcons and has no bad matchups. Eventually, we get a large amount of MK players who only play MK because it's useless to play anything else to win. Some smart players realized, hey, Snake can deal with MK pretty well if I camp and spam my tilts. So there became more Snake users who started winning tournaments that were once dominated by Snake.
Of course, the MK users weren't happy. So they searched for the most broken move they could use. This is called the Infinite Dimensional Cape. Eventually, they also found other ways around Snake, and Snake users no longer had the advantage. At this point, MK usage increased to a gross amount such that it eliminated any chance of a lesser sword/non projectile user from winnning a tournament except for GaW. So after a bunch of threads and flaming, the cape move still isn't banned (only for stalling), and the skill of MK users is skyrocketing. Competitive Brawl is currently reaching a point where the game is no longer fun (Melee addicts would argue it has been this way since the day it came out but w/e).
Just replace MK with Garchomp, Infinite Dimensional Cape with Yache SD Outrage, Captain Falcon with any low BL pokemon, GaW with Bronzong. That gives you the gist of why Garchomp was banned. Except Smogon took preemptive action instead of letting it get this far as the SSBB community did. It had to be done sometime. Using an overcentralized Pokemon to counter Garchomp is just like using Bowser to counter MK. It doesn't make sense, and even if it works, whenever any good projectile user or Shiek is CP'ed, Bowser has no chance. Liken this to using Cloyster as a Garchomp counter, if you will.
Basically it works like this: If you weren't motivated/experienced enough to make the deadline or have an account on smogon + the prerequisite ranking, then your opinion wasn't a deciding factor. Smogon is about competitive battling at it's finest, highest skill level. It may not apply to lesser-skilled players at Serebii or Marriland (lol).
Serebii will never have a tier list that will be respected by anyone else. This is because it is a place for both casual and competitive gamers alike, and it is difficult to discern who influenced the list. But who could blame them for not trusting it- basically anyone who doesn't post in this forum is either a mod or a casual player. With the sheer number of casual players, the experienced players are likely to be ignored. One of the CRMT commoners could go to a DPPt thread and have their insight completely ignored.
Edit: Yes, Salavoir55 has a complete understanding of this issue. Although aside from newbioform, I don't know anyone in CRMT who is pretty active on Smogon.
The Smogon tier list is based off of usage and power. They figured that usage implies power (in a certain metagame), and that works in only a purely competitive community such as Smogon.
I'm going to make a simplified SSBB comparison here. Captain Falcon is the most epic character in Brawl. People use sometimes him for that reason alone. However, the large population of Captain Falcon users are not likely to win many tournaments due to Meta Knight. Eventually, these Captain Falcon users will realize that it's useless to use Captain Falcon because he's so common and there are easy ways to deal with him (Meta Knight). These Captain Falcon users will go to MK and main him in order to be one of the ones who trounce other Captain Falcons and has no bad matchups. Eventually, we get a large amount of MK players who only play MK because it's useless to play anything else to win. Some smart players realized, hey, Snake can deal with MK pretty well if I camp and spam my tilts. So there became more Snake users who started winning tournaments that were once dominated by Snake.
Of course, the MK users weren't happy. So they searched for the most broken move they could use. This is called the Infinite Dimensional Cape. Eventually, they also found other ways around Snake, and Snake users no longer had the advantage. At this point, MK usage increased to a gross amount such that it eliminated any chance of a lesser sword/non projectile user from winnning a tournament except for GaW. So after a bunch of threads and flaming, the cape move still isn't banned (only for stalling), and the skill of MK users is skyrocketing. Competitive Brawl is currently reaching a point where the game is no longer fun (Melee addicts would argue it has been this way since the day it came out but w/e).
Just replace MK with Garchomp, Infinite Dimensional Cape with Yache SD Outrage, Captain Falcon with any low BL pokemon, GaW with Bronzong. That gives you the gist of why Garchomp was banned. Except Smogon took preemptive action instead of letting it get this far as the SSBB community did. It had to be done sometime. Using an overcentralized Pokemon to counter Garchomp is just like using Bowser to counter MK. It doesn't make sense, and even if it works, whenever any good projectile user or Shiek is CP'ed, Bowser has no chance. Liken this to using Cloyster as a Garchomp counter, if you will.
Basically it works like this: If you weren't motivated/experienced enough to make the deadline or have an account on smogon + the prerequisite ranking, then your opinion wasn't a deciding factor. Smogon is about competitive battling at it's finest, highest skill level. It may not apply to lesser-skilled players at Serebii or Marriland (lol).
Serebii will never have a tier list that will be respected by anyone else. This is because it is a place for both casual and competitive gamers alike, and it is difficult to discern who influenced the list. But who could blame them for not trusting it- basically anyone who doesn't post in this forum is either a mod or a casual player. With the sheer number of casual players, the experienced players are likely to be ignored. One of the CRMT commoners could go to a DPPt thread and have their insight completely ignored.
Edit: Yes, Salavoir55 has a complete understanding of this issue. Although aside from newbioform, I don't know anyone in CRMT who is pretty active on Smogon.
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