Why is Furret in Gen 9 OU?

Question

Furret is so frail. Even though it's cute, it has a bad stat spread, with it's only good stat being Speed.

Comments

The answer to this and the Ariados question is that most of the Pokemon who came due to DLC 1 start off in OU and will drop from OU whenever October 1st comes.

Answer 1

Because it just came out. All Pokemon, except for most legendaries, always start out in OU. They only drop to the lower tiers if they feel to reach a certain usage threshold. The DLC literally just dropped yesterday so all Pokemon in it, garbage or otherwise, will start out in OU