Talk:Katsushika Hokusai (Saber)/@comment-37946388-20190818012911/@comment-34208015-20190819225510

Servant moving down in FGO tier list doesn't mean that they have become worst, you're misunderstanding LazyCat, (DW has never directly nerfed any unit and it's especially true for SSR). It mean that the requirements for this tier have increased. If Servant doesn't demote in the ranking then Appmedia will have to expand the ranking and none want to see some ridiculous rating like SSSSS while A, B, C, D tiers are empty.

In your Tamamo Lancer vs Scathach example, they decided that Scathach is overall better than Tamamo (I won't comment on the decision itself, it's not the point). So if Tamamo was A, they would have to put Scathach on S tier, but then it would be comfliting with Jack and MHXA that does perform significantly better than Scathach. So let's move them up to SS tier? and then what about Dantes? SSS? Let's stop here... Better set a rating seiling and move up/down stuff relatively to each over to avoid ridiculous rating escalation.

New playstyles emerging can prefectly deprecate old playstyle from meta standpoint (again passive star generation study case, friend). It doesn't mean that old playstyles have become weaker in the absolute, but it does mean that your old playstyle has lost to a new playstyle that do what the old playstyle does but faster and hence meta shift.