Konnichiwa!

I've been a Hardcore Pokémon Player for over 20 years, but when I first came here to Paint, I was completely clueless about certain aspects of Competitive Pokémon Battling, especially the Tiering System.

I personally think that it's a nice idea, however, being used to the way that GAME FREAK classifies the Pokémon in-Game (what I now commonly refer to as the "2 Tier System"), I wanted to come up with an Alternative System, that acknowledges things such as Legendary/Mythical Status, like GAME FREAK does.

It's still a work in progress, but I plan on trying to make this a viable Alternative to Smogon's Tiering System, and I'd appreciate input from all Pokémon Players here, be they Competitive, Casual, or otherwise.
(I myself am an "otherwise" BTW, lol!)

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1. Ultimate Tier (UT)

Any Mythical/Major Legendary Pokémon with a Base Stat Total of 700 or greater, including those whose Base Stat Totals are 700 or greater after a mid-Battle transformation, such as Mega Diancie, Mega Rayquaza, Primal Kyogre/Groudon, Ultra Necrozma, and Zygardes with Power Construct.
(IDK how exactly to handle Dynamaxing yet, but I'm ignoring it in my System for now.)

Any Mythical/Legendary Pokémon that knows Dark Void.

Any Legendary Pokémon holding a Soul Dew.

Any Major Legendary Pokémon which is attained by fusing together 2 Major Legendary Pokémon.
(Dawn Wings and Dusk Mane Necrozma, in other words.)

2. Legendary Tier (LT)

Any Mythical/Major Legendary Pokémon, that is not in the Ultimate Tier, and has a Base Stat Total between 600 and 699.

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3. Mega Dragon Tier (AKA MDT)

Any Mega Evolved Minor Legendary/Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon, as well as any Kommo-o holding a Kommonium Z.

4. Dragon Tier (DT)

Any non-Mega Evolved Minor Legendaries.

Any non-Mega Evolved non-Legendaries, with a Base Stat Total of 600 or greater.

Any Mega Evolved non-Legendary Pokémon, whose Base Stat Total is 600 or greater after Mega Evolving.

Any non-Legendary Pokémon whose Effective Base Stat Total can be over 700, solely because of an Ability and/or Held Item.
(In other words: Aegislash.)

5. Hyper Tier (HT)

Any non-Legendary/non-Mythical Pokémon, with a Base Stat Total between 510 and 599.*

Any Pokémon that WAS considered Fully Evolved in previous Generations of Games, whose Base Stat Total is 450 or greater, IF they are holding an Eviolite.†

Any Mega Evolved non-Legendary/non-Mythical Pokémon, whose Base Stat Total is between 510 and 599 after Mega Evolving.*

Any Pikachu holding a Light Ball, or Marowak holding a Thick Club.

Smeargles that know the Move Dark Void.

*There are a number of formerly ST Pokémon that were bumped up to HT, despite their BST being below 510.

†Scyther is currently an exception to this, and is classified as BT.
(Simply because it's unevolved.)

6. Super Tier (ST)

Any Pokémon that has a Base Stat Total between 440 and 509, including Phione, and Zygarde 10% Forme, provided that it's Ability is not Power Construct.*

Any Mega Evolved Pokémon whose Base Stat Total is between 440 and 509, after Mega Evolving.*

Smeargles that don't know the Move Dark Void.

*Like with HT, there were a number of Pokémon whose BSTs would have placed them in NT, that have since been bumped up to ST.

7. Normal Tier (NT)

Anything that has a Base Stat Total of 439 or lower, and is not in any of the above Tiers, nor is in QT.*

*There are a number of non-Evolving Pokémon with low BSTs that are currently in NT, that I'm considering bumping down to QT.
(So far I've only done so with Unown, though.)

8. QT (QT)

All completely Unevolved Pokémon, who have Evolved Forms.

QT is meant primarily for "Little Battles" between Baby Pokémon.

Typical Little Battle Rules are:

-No Pokémon over Level 5

-No Dragon Rage or Sonic Boom

-Berry Juice and Oran Berry are allowed

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If anyone has suggestions about ways I could improve these, please leave a Comment here, or post on this Bulletin Board Thread that I started.

Also, I kinda skimmed my way through the Gen 8 Pokémon when I was adding them to these lists (I don't have either of the Gen 8 Games yet), so I suspect there are many things I overlooked when I was adding them.
(Please keep this in mind.)

Thanks everyone!