Bulbapedia Pokemon rarities

[Missingno. Master]

OK, so in every Pokemon article, it's supposed to say how rare it is next to the locations, right? Like, "common", "uncommon", and "rare", correct? How exactly is that determined? I wanted to go start adding these to some Pokemon articles, but I want to be sure that I know what I'm doing first. My guess would be as follows.

If the encounter rate is 50% or above, it's "common"

If the encounter rate is anywhere between 49% and 11%, it's "uncommon"

If the encounter rate is 10% or lower, it's "rare"

Am I close?

With a mustache?

 

[MAGNEDETH]

i think thats a lingering effect on the old days when we didnt have percentages. the dex pages just stayed that way. so to answer your question, no, not with a mustache.

 

[SnorlaxMonster]

Those rarities have always bothered me. I think it would be best if that section changed to method. So grass, surfing, fishing, deep sand, gift, roaming, encounter, etc. For the Pokémon that have multiple methods (there are a lot of them), we could modify the template to have multiple rows.