Changes for this VR slate!
rises
Cobalion: S- -> S - best pokemon in the tier, invalidates a significant number of pokemon defensively, can bust through almost all of its checks and is just super fast and has so much utility at its disposal. nothing else is rly close to this level of centralisation and strength.
Hydreigon: A -> A+ - hydreigon is very debatably the best scarfer in the tier and has oodles of offensive and defensive utility in that slot, being able to stave off psychics and checking a whole host of stuff offensively like cobalion, excadrill, zygarde, azelf and more. other sets remain decent as well, it has been underranked for a significant amount of time.
Nihilego A -> A+: I DID NOT FORGET THE JELLYFISH OKAY
Chansey: A- -> A - the blob enjoys a rise in pokemon like hydreigon and primarina that usually lose to it and most of the things that threaten chansey can be outlasted by it long term
Excadrill: A- -> A+ - massive rise but excadrill is just really good right now. the downturn in hippo / skarm usage is amazing for it, and the rise in nihilego means its favourite prey is always there to be eaten. It's also enjoying the rise in amoonguss > tang bc that thing does NOT take earthquake well! It's in a really amazing spot and is arguably one of the scariest mons to face at +2 +1, especially if you're lacking a dedicated counter as so many teams tend to do.
Gyarados: A- -> A - waterfall flinch go brr
Zygarde-10%: A- -> A - less tang, less hippo, more mushroom, happy dog
Togekiss: B+ -> A- - good stop to hydreigon and stuff and can really just 6-0 stuff randomly if you don't have a flying resist / if your flying resist is skarmory. twave and heal bell both v strong
Lycanroc-D: B -> B+ - perhaps we treated you too harshly. doggy likes beating up hyper offense and likes there being less hippo and skarm to ruin its day
Necrozma: B -> B+ - HO staple, demon with CM sets as well
Raikou: B -> B+ - raikou's speed and good coverage in addition to its great mu against stuff like togekiss and ability to check crobat gives it a fair amount of utility for offenses that makes it better than other stuff in B
Reuniclus: B- -> B+ - aha! i see you are lacking a dark type! unfortunately i will be sweeping your entire team. well played friend
Crawdaunt: B- -> B - have primarina or die
Vanilluxe: C+ -> B- - die but like, regardless of what you have
Toxtricity: C -> C+ - pretty decent ho mon and can be a funky breaker on its own, i personally think it sucks but i acknowledge it's better than c rank
drops
Hippowdon: S -> A+ - the former titan has just not been so hot lately. people are abusing the fact that wow! a pokemon that only uses earthquake and toxic is actually pretty easy to handle if you respect its presence. while hippo is still great at keeping rocks up and has a very valuable and unique defensive profile, it just lets too many things to shit for free to be considered the very best.
Scizor: S- -> A - scizor is something to be respected to a massive degree but it's just got so many flaws; the best pokemon in the tier is one of your best checks, stuff like salamence skarm rotom gbro is still giving you a really hard time, and it wants 10 moves to fit in 4 slots. on top of that it's quite difficult to build effective scizor teams because of the awkward issues brought about by its typing and meh bulk, making it an ineffective check to fairies (hatt prim toge), rocks (lycan nihi), grounds (drill mamo zydog) and a bunch more. random fire coverage on EVERYTHING sucks ass as well. it still retains a high ranking because you need to respect it so much but it just is not a super consistent in-game performer these days
Keldeo: A+ -> A - water horse no like seal or slow guy :(
Crobat: A -> A- - ppl running less hippo means theres less stuff for crobat to abuse freely. being a speed control option that's rly meh into coba makes it less appealing too.
Jirachi: B+ -> B - just really hard to find a reason to use jirachi rn
Moltres: B+ -> B - ohkod by knock, can't check coba, minimal reasons to use this
Mandibuzz: B+ -> B - good defensive profile but biggest coba fodder ever and is just so passive into stuff like prim as well
Starmie: B+ -> B - was always extremely overranked
Swampert: B+ -> B - big competition w/ hippo drill and fat waters
Tentacruel: B+ -> B - meh at everything it does
Nidoking: B -> B- - use nidoqueen
Tapu Bulu: B- -> C+ - use any other grass type
Cloyster: B- -> C+ - use polteageist
Jellicent: C+ -> C - honestly don't know what to say about this one bc i didn't support ranking it in the first place really
Mantine: C+ -> C - rain is just meh
Heliolisk: C+ -> C - ^
Inteleon: C -> UR - just use crobat or noivern or something
new additions
Polteageist: UR -> B- - big ass threat that really abuses darkless teams and is one of the best mons on ho rn.
Golisopod: UR -> B- - first impression is incredible at revenge killing diggersby, azelf, hydreigon, etc. and pod is so strong that it can even revenge kill nihi, gyara etc. from pretty respectable ranges. combine that with valuable knock targets in mence, skarm, prim. coba and steela, as well as a great and unique defensive profile that lets you check excadrill and zygarde quite effectively, and you've got a pretty valuable pokemon.
Sylveon: UR -> C - scorbunnys this is still blacklisted just so you know
Regieleki: UR -> C - use any other electric type
Lanturn: UR -> C - beats thundy on stall and heal bells. it's something
these will be edited into the op whenever i'm not feeling lazy but if you have any questions let me know :D