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Originally posted by Phoenixstar
Guys, What is UU, OU, RU Mess?
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They are short for "Over Used", "Underused" and "Rarely Used"; there is also Ubers (the highest tier full of the Legendary Pokemon and others too powerful for OU and below), Borderline, Borderline 2, Not Used, Non Final Evolutions (I think).
They are several of Smogon's tiers (competitive Pokemon site that determines these lists aka tiers) that divide the entire 649 Pokemon into each category based on their usage (the more often a Pokemon is used and if it is too powerful; it is bumped up into the next tier. The same is true of Pokemon who are used less and if they are too weak for the tier they are dropped to the tier below the one they're in; exceptions are NFE I think).