Black & White, Referência Competitiva
Generation 5 is the permaweather era. Drizzle, Drought, Sand Stream and Snow Warning all set their weather for the entire match, produzindo the most centralised offensive and cores defensivos in Smogon's história competitiva.
Lançamento
Setembro de 2010
Região
Unova
Mecânica
Permaweather + habilidades do Dream World
Sequência
Black 2 & White 2 (2012)
Drizzle Politoed, Drought Ninetales, Sand Stream Tyranitar, Sand Stream Hippowdon, choose your weather, build the team around it. Most BW2 OU matches were decidido before turn one.
Em resumo
Gen 5 is da franquia last permaweather generation. Drizzle and Drought, distributed via Dream World habilidades, produziu rain and times de sun that ran for the full match, and the format adapted entirely around them.
The era split into two main phases. Black & White (2010) introduzido Dream World habilidades and Drizzle / Drought / Sand Stream as permanent. Black 2 & White 2 (2012) refined the meta and added returning Pokémon, incluindo the Therian formes, but the permaweather rule permaneceu until da Gen 6 5-turn nerf.
- LançamentoSetembro de 2010 (Black & White)
- SequênciaBlack 2 & White 2 (Junho de 2012)
- RegiãoUnova
- Mecânica signatureDream World hidden habilidades (Drizzle / Drought / Sand Stream / Speed Boost)
- Tabela de tiposInalterado, mesmo desde a Gen 2
- Mudança de regra notávelSleep Clause, o contador de sleep agora reseta no switch-out
- Hidden PowerFórmula moderna introduzida, tipo a partir dos IVs, 70 BP fixo
- Tiers de SinglesUbers, OU, UU, RU, NU, LC (PU ainda não existia)
- Formatos DoublesDoubles OU, VGC 2011 (apenas Unova), VGC 2012, VGC 2013
A era do permaweather
Drizzle, Drought, Sand Stream and Snow Warning all set their respective weather for the entire match na Gen 5. Every team had to commit to a weather, or pay the cost of fighting under someone else's.
The mechanic itself wasn't new (Gen 3 introduzido permanent weather habilidades), but da Gen 5 Dream World additions distributed permanent-weather habilidades to Pokémon that could actually use them competitivamente. Drizzle arrived on Politoed; Drought on Ninetales; Sand Stream on Hippowdon (already na Gen 4 but reaffirmed); the Tyranitar + Excadrill Sand pair se tornou the format's ofensivo definidor core.
A única regra que sustenta tudo
Os quatro weathers
Politoed com Drizzle
Efeito
×1,5 de dano Water; ×0,5 de dano Fire. Thunder e Hurricane ganham 100% de precisão.
Abusador icônico
Kingdra with Swift Swim (banido-paired); Tornadus-Therian with Hurricane.
Item signature
Damp Rock, irrelevant na Gen 5 (rain is permanent), definidor na Gen 6+.
Ninetales com Drought
Efeito
×1.5 Fire damage; ×0.5 Water damage. Solar Beam ignora its charge turn.
Abusador icônico
Venusaur with Chlorophyll (×2 Speed); Mega-Charizard-Y na Gen 6.
Match-up definidor
Sun vs Rain, o match-up mais polarizado do formato. A weather que vencer a weather war no early-game vence a partida.
Sand Stream, Tyranitar / Hippowdon
Efeito
+50% de Defesa Especial para tipos Rock; 1/16 de chip damage em não-Rock/Steel/Ground.
Abusador icônico
Excadrill with Sand Rush (banido-paired); Tyranitar with Choice Scarf.
Core definidor
Tyranitar + Excadrill, the most banido-and-contested core of BW1 OU. Excadrill itself was banido to Ubers mid-cycle.
Snow Warning, Abomasnow
Efeito
1/16 de chip damage em todos os tipos não-Ice. Eleva Blizzard a 100% de precisão.
Abusador icônico
Presença no formato
Hail teams permaneceu niche in OU, Abomasnow was the only viable setter and the chip damage was less consequential than Sand or Rain pressure.
Por que a Gen 5 baniu weather
Gen 5 OU never banido permaweather as a mechanic, but the council banido several weather-paired Pokémon: Excadrill (Sand Rush sob sand), Kingdra (Swift Swim sob rain, Drizzle + Swift Swim was banido via clause), and other paired habilidades deemed uncompetitive in combination.
O problema estrutural era a visibilidade. Os dois jogadores veem o setter de weather no team preview, mas as consequências se desenrolam ao longo de 30+ turnos de dano de chip composto e boosts de stats. No momento em que você percebe seu time não consegue lidar the opponent's weather, the game is already lost. Gen 6 addressed this by capping weather to 5 turns per activation.
Tabela de tipos e Unova
The Gen 5 type chart is unchanged da Gen 2, Steel still resists Ghost and Dark, Dragon has no Fairy counter, and Fairy itself does not exist as a type. The Unova dex contributed structurally but did not modify the chart.
- Sem novos tipos, da franquia 17-type chart herdado da Gen 2 stays intact for the entire generation.
- Dominância de Dragon, sem Fairy, sweepers do tipo Dragon (Garchomp, Hydreigon, Latios, Latias, Salamence) não enfrentavam nenhum counter defensivo no nível de tipo. O teto ofensivo da era ficava firmemente com os Dragon-types.
- Steel ainda double-resiste, Steel resists Ghost and Dark na Gen 5 (these resistances were removido na Gen 6). Steel walea were correspondingly more universal.
- Formas Therian, BW2 introduzido Tornadus-Therian, Thundurus-Therian, and Landorus-Therian. Each redistributed stats and habilidade, Landorus-T (Intimidate + 145 Atk + Earthquake) se tornou the mais usado Pokémon in BW2 OU.
Baseline das mecânicas de batalha
Gen 5 herda its core mechanics da Gen 4 with one critical exception: the sleep counter now resets on switch-out, ending the Gen 4 sleep-stalling pattern.
1/16
Taxa de crit
Baseline pré-Gen 7; ×2 de dano
2×
Dano de crit
Reduzido a 1,5× na Gen 6
25%
Velocidade de Paralisia
Velocidade dividida por 4; elevada a 50 % na Gen 7
∞
Duração do weather
Permanente até o setter sair de campo
Condições de status
| Status | Efeito | Observações |
|---|---|---|
| Paralisia | Velocidade × 0,25 + 25 % de chance de falhar a ação | Quartered Speed, Gen 1–6 baseline. Halved Speed only da Gen 7. |
| Burn | Physical Attack × 0,5 + 1/8 HP máximo por turno | DoT pesado, baseline das Gens 1–6. Reduzido pela metade a 1/16 a partir da Gen 7. |
| Freeze | Não pode agir até descongelar | 20% descongelar por turno. moves do tipo Ice can freeze on chance de efeito secundário. |
| Sleep | Não pode agir por 1–3 turnos | O contador é resetado ao trocar (switch-out), a mudança de regra da Gen 5. Sleep Clause aplicada. |
| Poison | 1/8 do HP máximo por turno | Toxic dobra a cada turno até 15/16. |
A mudança de regra da Sleep Clause
Hidden Power, fórmula moderna
A Gen 5 finalizou a forma competitiva do Hidden Power. O tipo do move é determinado pelos IVs do Pokémon, and o BP foi fixado em 70 (não mais escalando com os IVs como nas gens anteriores). Isso fez do Hidden Power uma opção de coverage quase universal for atacantes special, Hidden Power Ice on Latios, Hidden Power Fire on Magnezone, Hidden Power Ground on Thundurus.
Habilidades introduzidas
da Gen 5 Dream World introduzido hidden habilidades, alternate habilidades for existing Pokémon, distributed via the Dream World online feature. Several reshaped competitivo identity for their carriers.
Sets permanent rain no switch-in. Distributed to Politoed via Dream World, transforming Politoed from a Gen 3 forgotten frog into BW1 OU's definidor weather-team setter.
Sets permanent sun no switch-in. Distributed to Ninetales. Sun teams built around Chlorophyll Venusaur and Sun-boosted Fire-types competed diretamente with rain.
Sand Force boosts Rock / Ground / Steel moves by 30% sob sand. Sand Rush dobra Speed sob sand. Excadrill with Sand Rush + Tyranitar Sand Stream produziu one of the format's most powerful offensive cores, Excadrill banido to Ubers as a result.
Reflete status moves direcionadas ao usuário de volta para o oponente. Counter definidor para hazard-setters e spammers de Toxic, Espeon tornava arriscado posicionar entry hazards contra times que o utilizavam.
Halves damage from a hit when the user is at full HP. Combinado com Dragonite's 91/95/100 bulk, produziu one da era's most reliable Dragon Dance setup sweepers.
Restores 1/3 HP máximo when o portador switches out. Distributed to Slowbro, Slowking, Tangrowth, Amoonguss, etc. The habilidade that defined defensive pivoting for the next decade.
Boosts moves with secondary effects by 30%, but the efeito secundário itself does not trigger. Combinado com 
Life Orb, ignora the Orb's recoil. Defining engine for Nidoking and Landorus.
Status moves used by o portador gain +1 priority. Thundurus with Prankster + Thunder Wave + Taunt produziu one da era's definidor utility lead patterns. Banned in OU mid-cycle for paralysis denial of the format's wallbreakers.
Raises the user's Attack by one stage on knocking out an opposing Pokémon. Salamence + Moxie + Outrage produziu uncatchable late-game cleaning patterns.
Defiant aumenta Attack by two stages when stats are lowered. Competitivo does the same for Special Attack. Bisharp with Defiant se tornou Sticky Web and Intimidate into +2 Attack triggers.
Itens introduzidos
Gen 5 introduzido fewer items than later generations, but several reshaped what específico Pokémon could accomplish, most notavelmente Eviolite, which created the Little Cup metagame as we know it.
EvioliteBulk de pré-evoluçãoAumenta Defesa e Defesa Especial em 50% em Pokémon que ainda podem evoluir. Item definidor do Little Cup; em OU, usado em Chansey, Porygon2, Doublade (Gen 6+).
Air BalloonItem de imunidade a GroundGrants o portador immunity to Ground-type moves until popped (any direct hit pops it). Niche but único, a one-time Ground immunity for non-Levitate Pokémon.
Big RootBoost via drainIncreases the recovery from moves de drain (Giga Drain, Drain Punch, Leech Life) by 30%. Used on healing-pivot wallbreakers but rarely on top-tier OU Pokémon.
Float StoneItem de setup de SpeedHalves o portador's weight, increasing Low Kick / Grass Knot damage against o portador. Niche, used on Normal-type Pokémon needing to dodge Low Kick.
Rocky HelmetPunisher de contatoDeals 1/6 HP máximo to atacantes making contact with o portador. Defining item for Ferrothorn and Garchomp, atacantes físicos making contact paid a 16% tax per hit.
Red CardTrigger por switch-outOn taking a hit from an opposing Pokémon, forces the atacante to sair de campo to a random teammate. Single-use. Niche but unicamente punishes Choice item users locked into one move.
Choice Scarf (rebuff)Item de SpeedExisted na Gen 4 but da Gen 5 competitivo landscape made it ubiquitous. Boosts Speed by 50% but locks o portador into one move. Defining item for revenge killers (Tyranitar, Latios, Genesect).
Life Orb (rebuff)Item de danoBoosts move damage by 30% but costs o portador 10% HP máximo per attack. Combinado com Sheer Force, the recoil is negated, ofensivo definidor item for Sheer Force users.
Moves signature introduzidos
Gen 5 introduzido a large set of moves, incluindo several that defined the era's offensive ceilings, Hurricane sob rain, Stone Edge for Rock-types, and Volt Switch as da franquia second pivot move.
Electric 70-BP ataque special that switches the user out after damage. The Electric counterpart to U-turn, distributed to most Electric-types. Defining momentum tool for Rotom-Wash and Thundurus.
Flying 110-BP ataque special. 70% accuracy normally; 100% sob rain. Defining opção ofensiva for Tornadus-Therian in BW2 times de rain.
Ghost 50-BP ataque special that dobra in power if the target has a status condition. Niche before Toxic distribution; definidor on Will-O-Wisp + Hex pivots.
Status move that aumenta Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed by one stage each. Distributed to Volcarona, Lilligant, Vivillon (Gen 6). One of the most powerful moves de setup in the franchise.
Status move that aumenta Attack, Defense, and accuracy by one stage each. Less common than Quiver Dance but definidor for Arbok and Milotic-style coils.
Status move that aumenta Attack, Special Attack, and Speed by two stages each but lowers Defense and Special Defense by one stage. O mais powerful offensive move de setup; banido-paired with frail Pokémon in some lower tiers.
Bug 90-BP sound-based ataque special. O principal Bug-type STAB option for atacantes special, distributed to Volcarona, Vespiquen, etc.
Ice 65-BP ataque special that lowers the target's Speed by one stage. Kyurem's definidor utility option.
Fighting 90-BP ataque físico that ignora the target's stat boosts. Distributed to Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion, Keldeo.
Fire 50-BP ataque físico that aumenta the user's Speed by one stage. Distributed amplamente, sweeper definidor-builder option on Pokémon like Volcarona and Mega Charizard X (Gen 6).
Competitivo formats
A Gen 5 abrigou a hierarquia padrão de tiers Smogon mais um calendário VGC plurianual centrado na dex de Unova.
Smogon Singles e Doubles
Tier 1
OU, OverUsed
6v6 Singles. Permaweather era. Banlist included Excadrill, Garchomp (suspect), Thundurus (Prankster), Landorus (BW1), Tornadus-Therian, Genesect, and several Dream World habilidade bans.
Restricted
Ubers
Hosted box legendaries, Mewtwo, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina forms, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem-Black / White, Excadrill (BW1), Garchomp (BW1, eventualmente retornou).
Hierarquia de tiers
UU / RU / NU / LC
Lower Singles tiers. Gen 5 UU notavelmente ran Mienshao, Roserade, and Crobat. RU and NU were established as separate tiers; PU did not yet exist (introduzido na Gen 6).
Especialidade
Doubles OU
Smogon's 4v4 Doubles. Permaweather rules applied; Drizzle + Swift Swim banido-paired in Singles also affected Doubles archetypes.
Especialidade
Monotype, Hackmons
Long-running unofficial metagames. Monotype se tornou increasingly popular through Gen 5 and 6.
Torneios
Smogon Tour / SPL
A Gen 5 foi uma era de pico de torneios para a Smogon, SPL (Smogon Premier League) e Tour mantiveram BW1 e BW2 ativos muito além da janela de lançamento dos seus cartuchos.
VGC, por ano
2011
VGC 2011, apenas Unova
4v4 Doubles, apenas dex de Unova (sem Pokémon de retorno). Definido por Hydreigon, Zoroark, Excadrill, e as formas Therian (que chegaram em BW2).
2012
VGC 2012, Dex completo
Dex nacional permitida. Garchomp, Tyranitar, Cresselia, e cores de weather (Politoed + Ludicolo) definiram o formato.
2013
VGC 2013, Dex completo + restricted
Two restricted legendaries permitted por time. Dialga + Palkia + Tyranitar + Cresselia cores; Latios + Latias frequent atacantes special.
Bans definidores
Gen 5 OU's banlist was dominated by weather-paired Pokémon and Pokémon whose Dream World habilidades pushed them past the format's defensive answers.
Several Pokémon were banido-paired (banido only with específico habilidades), a tier-level innovation that permanece in use. Drizzle + Swift Swim, Drought + Chlorophyll, and Sand Stream + Sand Rush all triggered ban-by-clause rather than full Pokémon bans.
Bans notáveis em Gen 5 OU
| Pokémon | Por que foi banido |
|---|---|
| Excadrill | Sand Rush + 135 Atk + Choice Scarf ou Life Orb. Na sand do Tyranitar, dava outspeed no formato inteiro. Banido para Ubers em BW1 e rebanido várias vezes. |
| Garchomp | Sand Veil ban-clause + 130 Atk + Outrage / Earthquake / Stone Edge. Banned to Ubers in BW1; eventualmente retornou to OU. |
| Thundurus | Prankster + Thunder Wave + Focus Blast + Hidden Power Ice. Banned-paired com Prankster (BW1). |
| Landorus | Sheer Force + Life Orb + Earth Power + Focus Blast. Banido para Ubers em BW2, superava todas as respostas defensivas. |
| Genesect | Download SpA boost no switch-in + U-turn + perfect coverage. Banned shortly after BW2 release. |
| Kyurem-Black | 170 Atk + 120 SpA + Teravolt. Ubers permanente from BW2 onward. |
| Kyurem-White | 170 SpA + 120 Atk + Turboblaze. Special analogue to Kyurem-Black; Ubers permanente. |
| Keldeo | 129 SpA + 108 Spe + Hydro Pump + Secret Sword + Hidden Power Ice. Borderline OU/Ubers; suspect-tested várias vezes. |
| Salamence | Moxie + Outrage + Dragon Dance. Banned-paired com Moxie em OU; as variantes Intimidate continuaram legais. |
| Manaphy | Tail Glow + Hydration sob rain + Scald + Ice Beam. Banned to Ubers. |
| Deoxys-Speed | 180 de Speed + Stealth Rock setter. Ubers permanente. |
| Mewtwo | 154 SpA + 130 Spe + universal coverage. Ubers permanente da Gen 1 onward. |
Permaweather made the Gen 5 OU council write more rules than any other generation's, banning Pokémon, banning habilidade-Pokémon pairs, banning entire combinations. The whole framework of "banido in this format with this habilidade" comes from BW1.
Pokémon icônicos da era
Os Pokémon abaixo moldaram competitivo Gen 5 across formats. Curated by competitivo impact, several entries appear porque their Dream World habilidades or Therian formes redefined their competitivo role.
Singles, BW2 OU
Landorus-Therian
Pivô de Stealth RockIntimidate, Earthquake, U-turn
BW2 introduction. The mais usado Pokémon in BW2 OU. Intimidate + Stealth Rock + Earthquake + U-turn, wallbreaker físico, defensive pivot, and momentum generator simultaneamente.
Tornadus-Therian
Sweeper com SpecsRegenerator, Hurricane, Knock Off
BW2 introduction. Regenerator + Hurricane (100% accurate sob rain) + Knock Off + Heat Wave. The definidor special wallbreaker of BW2 times de rain.
Tyranitar
Sand setter · WallbreakerSand Stream, Stone Edge, Pursuit
Sand Stream made Tyranitar a engine ofensiva definidora. Choice Scarf, Choice Band, Dragon Dance, and stallbreaker sets all viable. The format's most flexible Pokémon.
Politoed
Rain setterDrizzle, Scald, Perish Song
The definidor rain setter, Drizzle no switch-in produziu permanent rain. Scald + Perish Song + Encore + Toxic utility set; physical bulk supported the slow defensive shell.
Volcarona
Setup sweeperFlame Body, Quiver Dance, Fire Blast
Quiver Dance + Fire Blast + Bug Buzz + Hidden Power Ground. O mais powerful offensive setup sweeper; banido in many later gens but legal in BW2 OU.
Dragonite
Setup sweeperMultiscale, Dragon Dance, Outrage
Multiscale + Dragon Dance + Outrage + Earthquake / Fire Punch. Multiscale garantia ao menos um Dragon Dance contra qualquer ameaça sem priority.
Latios
Atacante special com SpecsLevitate, Draco Meteor, Hidden Power Fire
Specs Draco Meteor + Surf + Hidden Power Fire. O wallbreaker especial Dragon arquetípico do formato, Fairy ainda não existia como counter.
Hydreigon
Wallbreaker com SpecsLevitate, Draco Meteor, Dark Pulse
Dragon/Dark, coverage de metade do formato. Specs Draco Meteor + Dark Pulse + Fire Blast / Focus Blast. Wallbreaker BW2 definidor para times ofensivos.
Ferrothorn
Hazard setterIron Barbs, Spikes, Power Whip
Iron Barbs + Rocky Helmet + Spikes + Power Whip / Gyro Ball. Defining defensive backbone for BW2 OU times balance; the most reliable hazard setter da era.
Heatran
Trapper SpecsFlash Fire, Magma Storm, Stealth Rock
Magma Storm + Stealth Rock + Earth Power + Toxic / Will-O-Wisp. Trap-and-kill against Steel-types; one of the most consistent OU defensive walea of BW2.
VGC, por ano
- VGC 2011 — Apenas Unova. Hydreigon, Zoroark, Excadrill definiram o formato antes da chegada das formas Therian.
- VGC 2012 — dex nacional completa. Garchomp, Tyranitar, Cresselia, cores de weather todos legais.
- VGC 2013 — formato restricted. Cores Dialga + Palkia + Tyranitar + Cresselia definiram o meta.
Para onde ir agora
O texto acima é a referência estática para Gen 5. O estado atual de qualquer um dos seus formatos lives in o restante do Pokékipe.
- Dados live do meta — Stats Pokémon, Team Builder, Timeline.
- Terminologia — todo termo usado acima está definido no Glossário Competitivo.
- Fluxo de trabalho — os guias Teambuilding VGC e Core Mechanics cobrem o processo de build e os sistemas subjacentes.
- Eras adjacentes — Gen 6, X & Y cobre a Mega Evolução e a adição do tipo Fairy, que juntos puseram fim à era de permaweather + dominância Dragon de BW2.