>>57895949
here's one meme analysis
https://www.smogon.com/dex/bw/pokemon/metang/ru/

also pic related here's something from a gen 6 RU forum post from 10 years ago. i remember it took forever for hitmonchan to drop to NU

this autism was probably more common in the lower tiers


i can't remember when they changed the weighting so that low-ladder doesn't affect tiering anymore

as far as OU goes
there are a bunch of "OU by technicality" pokemon in gen 4-5 (meaning they were OU by usage when the generation ended, but no one uses them anymore)

look on the teambuilder on showdown.

from a tiering perspective, "OU by technicality" has the same effect as UUBL