Resource 1v1 Scarlet and Violet Viability Rankings

[lost heros]

Umbreon to C minimum please.

Set

Umbreon @ Kee Berry
Ability: Synchronize
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Baby-Doll Eyes
- Snarl
- Foul Play
- Moonlight

Haven't bothered to actually make a spread yet, but Umbreon continues to do what Umbreon does best as a mixed wall against neutral hitters.
I've opted for Baby-Doll eyes over Charm this gen for more immediate bulk against physical attackers, and I'm relying more on Foul Play to deal with Swords Dance users, but over all it works fine.

I know Foul Play and attack mitigation seem counter-intuitive together but just trust me it works. Umbreon's neutral damage will always be higher than your opponent's base damage output so it's fine.

Snarl is snarl and moonlight is moonlight

Counters are fairly standard; strong Fairy and Fighting types, subseeders, most trick users, certain Taunt users blah blah blah. I'm nomming to C tier here guys

Relevant calcs

Calcs

Gouging
-1 252+ Atk Protosynthesis Gouging Fire Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Umbreon: 157-186 (39.8 - 47.2%) - First hit before Kee pops. You win in PP vs DDance

Hoopa-U
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Hoopa-Unbound Drain Punch vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Umbreon: 192-228 (48.7 - 57.8%) -- First hit before Kee pops
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Hoopa-Unbound Drain Punch vs. +1 252 HP / 4 Def Umbreon: 130-154 (32.9 - 39%) -- kee's up moonlight until you wanna hit more BDE

Regidrago
252 SpA Dragon's Maw Regidrago Dragon Energy (150 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Umbreon: 184-217 (46.7 - 55%)
Just predict ez

Arch

+1 252+ SpA Archaludon Electro Shot vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Umbreon: 136-161 (34.5 - 40.8%)
252+ SpA Archaludon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Umbreon: 136-162 (34.5 - 41.1%)
Just don't hit the Bpress set

Skeledirge
252+ SpA Skeledirge Blast Burn vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Umbreon: 144-169 (36.5 - 42.8%)
Not happening

 

[ULTRAV01D]

I think Iron Hands belongs in at least A- tier (maybe A or A+ though)

Hands is still the same as it’s been at the beginning of the generation but I believe that it has kept up with the power creep. I personally think it is the best electric type in the tier (including raging bolt) purely because of its sheer bulk and power. Hands will nearly never be OHKOd by most viable mons and can do ridiculous damage with booster energy. The only downside is that it’s slow but Hands is bulky enough to where that doesn’t matter as much.

 

[recti]

I think Iron Hands belongs in at least A- tier (maybe A or A+ though)

Hands is still the same as it’s been at the beginning of the generation but I believe that it has kept up with the power creep. I personally think it is the best electric type in the tier (including raging bolt) purely because of its sheer bulk and power. Hands will nearly never be OHKOd by most viable mons and can do ridiculous damage with booster energy. The only downside is that it’s slow but Hands is bulky enough to where that doesn’t matter as much.

custap

 

[ULTRAV01D]

custap

Hands doesn’t need Custap

 

[crucify]

quick post with suggestions before swiss
-> S, this mon is op, thinking about all the sets it can use its getting harder to justify not using it on every team tbh
-> S-, this mon is op, if it weren't for the dragons this mon should be quickbanned. offensive ooga booga'ing stuff with its typing makes leech and counter less expected, which are both powerful sets.
-> A+, this mon is better than everything in A and A-. notable over hearthflame for being able to run stall sets better (both leech and charm), which in turn makes offensive sets less expected, and for being not randomly uncomfortable vs prim
-> A/A-, the theme of this post is raising ambigious mons because the gen favors them. band and av are main sets and both really good, leech ok, specs meh. basically only reason against A is gouging fire but should raise.
-> A-, does registeel things, shoulda raised earlier. beats most non fire/ground things, notable beating archaludon + fairies + other steels. specifically notable over corv for archaludon + primarina.
-> B, unfortunately annoying right now with occa for gouging/babiri for meta/archaludon safety. doing well vs top tiers does well in this gen, but ogerpons hurt it.
-> C+/B-, breh these are not worse than okidogi, both arguably the same/better than rhyp

 

[armaldlothearmaldo]

quick post with suggestions before swiss
-> S, this mon is op, thinking about all the sets it can use its getting harder to justify not using it on every team tbh
-> S-, this mon is op, if it weren't for the dragons this mon should be quickbanned. offensive ooga booga'ing stuff with its typing makes leech and counter less expected, which are both powerful sets.
-> A+, this mon is better than everything in A and A-. notable over hearthflame for being able to run stall sets better (both leech and charm), which in turn makes offensive sets less expected, and for being not randomly uncomfortable vs prim
-> A/A-, the theme of this post is raising ambigious mons because the gen favors them. band and av are main sets and both really good, leech ok, specs meh. basically only reason against A is gouging fire but should raise.
-> A-, does registeel things, shoulda raised earlier. beats most non fire/ground things, notable beating archaludon + fairies + other steels. specifically notable over corv for archaludon + primarina.
-> B, unfortunately annoying right now with occa for gouging/babiri for meta/archaludon safety. doing well vs top tiers does well in this gen, but ogerpons hurt it.
-> C+/B-, breh these are not worse than okidogi, both arguably the same/better than rhyp

I'd like to second Archaludon for S. It's the best mon in the tier right now and has far greater teching options than Gouging Fire. Bulky sets, both AV and bulky power herb, are criminally underexplored and the opportunity cost of running them is very low. Breaking swipe beats Donphan without enormous invest, ID+Press beats Metagross and Ursaluna with the right evs, metal sound beats Iron Crown etc. I've been starting to build seriously, and it's the easiest mon in the tier to build around by far.

Calcs

-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Donphan Bulldoze vs. 224 HP / 28 Def Archaludon: 158-188 (41.9 - 49.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO

252+ Atk Guts Ursaluna Earthquake vs. +2 252 HP / 72+ Def Archaludon: 194-230 (50.5 - 59.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Guts Ursaluna Earthquake vs. +4 252 HP / 72+ Def Archaludon: 132-156 (34.3 - 40.6%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+4 72+ Def Archaludon Body Press vs. 248 HP / 4 Def Ursaluna: 480-566 (103.6 - 122.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
If it's Headlong Rush, ID once and then press. This has more opportunity cost, but you beat two major answers to Archaludon.

+1 252 SpA Iron Crown Tachyon Cutter (2 hits) vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Archaludon: 166-196 (43.2 - 51%) -- approx. 4.3% chance to 2HKO
+1 232+ SpA Archaludon Electro Shot vs. -3 252 HP / 0 SpD Iron Crown: 527-621 (137.2 - 161.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

 

[LemonLime78]

I think Iron Hands belongs in at least A- tier (maybe A or A+ though)

Hands is still the same as it’s been at the beginning of the generation but I believe that it has kept up with the power creep. I personally think it is the best electric type in the tier (including raging bolt) purely because of its sheer bulk and power. Hands will nearly never be OHKOd by most viable mons and can do ridiculous damage with booster energy. The only downside is that it’s slow but Hands is bulky enough to where that doesn’t matter as much.

Bit late, but would like to second this. Along with the booster energy set mentioned, AV can tear through a lot of special attackers that otherwise check it. Along with being fairly strong in a vacuum, its av set easily checks some of the top meta threats (gouging, primarina, archaludon, certain hoopa sets). In the team builder, iron hands helps alleviate a lot of pressure from some of the strongest mons currently. Hence, I think that Iron Hands should rise to A-/A (B+ if nothing else).

 

[fruan]

please rank blastoise, its literally a better water type than manaphy right now.

the stoise

Blastoise @ Rindo Berry
Ability: Torrent
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 176 Def / 172 SpA / 160 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shell Smash
- Hydro Cannon
- Ice Beam
- Substitute

As needed run the item you want between resist berry/life orb. You beat a bunch of weak grasses (including the cat), u beat gouging, etc...
Stoise - > C+ (surely its as good as iron moth - insane fraud mon)

case in point, better iron moth:

The Lazzle Dazzle

Salazzle (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Oblivious
Tera Type: Poison
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Mild Nature
- Fake Out
- Overheat
- Sludge Wave
- Protect / Nasty Plot / Encore

u beat fairies consistently, you beat sturdies, whats not to like... Salazzle to C+

Few notes: meta is cool but kinda dire. Every top pokemon having 1 billion sets that techs it counters is super painful. Oger water stocks going up imo, it just feels more consistent than fire (fire is still insanely broken and meta warping, how its still in the tier is wild to me). Raging bolt is also super fraud, horrendous dragon mu at preview, cant beat av metagross, unviable. Urshifus are also dire in 2024, dark is outclassed by hoopa as u don't lose to fairies, and water kind of exists but I never see it, probably for good reason.

 

[DreamPrince]

Nominating Cobalion to C+/B- rank

We've been discussing on Discord, and I was encouraged to post here. We believe Cobalion has a niche has a fast, tanky fighting type that can take on Pokemon like Meowscarda, PZ, Regidrago, Azumarill, Garchomp, Landorus-T, Corviknight, Metagross, Ursaluna, Registeel, Rillaboom and prior to ban, Archaludon while not outright losing to Fairy Types like Sylveon. Its main downsides are low special defense and Fairy neutrailty, making it a risky answer to Fairy types as a whole.

Here is the set:

IronPress Cobalion

Cobalion @ Air Balloon
Ability: Justified
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 88 HP / 4 Atk / 116 Def / 72 SpD / 228 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Heavy Slam
- Body Press
- Iron Defense
- Taunt

Don't want to write an essay, but the EVs let you outspeed Garchomp while the Defense EVs give you a 68.8% chance of OHKOing Ursaluna BM at +2 with Body Press.

Replays:

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2120265367

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2120255840

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2120259157

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2120262191

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2120262549

 

[ihbst]

Charizard should be put on the rankings!
-> D
At a glance, it doesn't have much going for it. But that's because most people focused on its blaze ability, ignoring its real power. The sub petaya set is not good, but the specs set is really nice.

Specs Zard set

Charizard @ Choice Specs
Ability: Blaze
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scorching Sands
- Fire Blast/Hurricane
- Air Slash
- Blast Burn

At a glance, this set appears to be outclassed by other fire types. Charizard's unique attributes give it a niche. Unlike something like moltres, charizard reaches the important speed tier of 328 max base 100. Without setup, Charizard's Blast Burn is the 2nd strongest fire type attacks for its speed tier, rivaled only by Delphox.

It is pretty simple set, where you just click blast burn. But you may be wondering why you don't use it over delphox. After all, it has more speed and power. The reason is that, its flying typing gives it an edge VS urshifus. Like, delphox loses pretty bad to urshifu dark, but charizard can beat it. Delphox is not a safe click into urshifu, the same way charizard is. Scorching sands gives it the advantage against other fire types, and its flying type is also a bonus vs the likes of great tusk whom other fires have a harder time with.
Of course, just a simple specs user isn't really enough to warrent a VR spot. But what if I told you it was also a good scarfer. A Choice scarf set is much more niche, but it can catch faster pokemons off guard and you KO them with your powerful fire attacks. Set is basically the same as speccs but you change the item lol.
Lastly, but not the leastly, choice band charizard is a very powerul attacker.... people underestimate its power.

Choice Banded Charizard!

Charizard @ Choice Band
Ability: Blaze
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Fly
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Flare Blitz

While many people suspect charizard to be special, it can run physical sets well too. Base 84 attack is unremarkable at first glance, but Charizard overcomes this with its nice typing, speed, and good bulk. Unlike most other fire types, it gets access to Outrage, an extremely powerful tool to beat dragons that usually beat charizard. While Band Charizard doesn't have the same power as specs, or bulk as other physical fires, its power will take many foes by suprise.

So yeah Charizard is an underexplored threat. Btw before you say stuff like use sub petaya, its not so good. Practice proved me right on this take. Either way please consider Charizard for the VR.

 

[fruan]

Without setup, Charizard's Blast Burn is the 2nd strongest fire type attacks for its speed tier, rivaled only by Delphox.

252 SpA Choice Specs Ninetales Overheat vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Mew in Sun: 348-409 (102 - 119.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Charizard Blast Burn vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Mew: 324-382 (95 - 112%) -- 68.8% chance to OHKO

 

[lost heros]

gm here are some opinions

Gouging Fire S- > A+

With Regidrago staying in the tier, Gouging Fire is more pulled to running Haban Berry over Booster Energy which is a shame because it really likes running Booster Energy. 115 Attack with no offensive ability even with great STABs is still relatively meh in the damage output side. It gets a lot of value still out of running things like Burning Bulwark, Sub, Scale Shot, Flame Charge, etc. But overall imo not S or S- rank.

Ursaluna - A > A+

Just really, really good, and often overlooked on builder. So many otherwise really good teams get bopped by Ursaluna. Good offensive typing with great STABs that hits a lot of things. Guts is fine and Unnerve stops some random custap mons.

Volcarona - A- > A

Even with some absurdly good fire type alternatives, Volcarona stands out. Notably with Pecharunt and Regidrago. The sets are all mostly the same but QD + Swarm Bug Buzz is strong and Overheat does Overheat things.

Cresselia - A- > B+/B

I mean this pokemon is virtually unloadable. What is it good for. There are a multitude of other Psychic types like Hoopa-U, Iron Crown, Metagross, even Espathra that can do its job. There are I'm sure good teams that can be made with this pokemon, but it's just never exciting or valuable on a team.

Walking Wake - B+ > B

Walking Fake

Goodra-Hisui - B > A-

An amazing pokemon. Dragon / Steel with great utility moves. I mean Acid Spray, Counter, BPress, etc. Even with its uptick in recognition it's probably the single most underrated pokemon in 1v1 right now.

Zapdos - B > B-/C+

Just middling. No good set, or at least not one that I know of, and it's not doing anything special that Corvi, Entei, or Suicune, aren't able to do and sometimes even better.

Ursaluna Bloodmoon - B > B+

Really good. A lot of the same things that I said about regular Ursaluna applies to Bloodmoon. + Custap is good

Rapid fire time because I don't feel like typing anymore

Baxcalibur - B- > C+
Diancie - C+ > B-
Landorus - C+ > B-
Ting Lu - C > C+/B-
Roaring Moon - C > C+

Empoleon - UR > C+
Klefki - UR > C
Iron Treads - UR > C-
Cobalion - UR > C-
Wyrdeer - UR > D
Gallade - UR > D

Braviary- UR > Never rank this pokemon

 

[UwU1v1]

Braviary- UR > Never rank this pokemon

excuse me? I mean, someone had to respond to this (as in I had to respond to this)
UR -> D
Alright lets start with listing a few possible sets.

Choice Scarf

Braviary (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Defiant
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Brave Bird
- Giga Impact
- Close Combat
- U-Turn

Some obvious things it beats:
252+ Atk Braviary Brave Bird vs. 172 HP / 220+ Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 344-408 (100 - 118.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
(This is the counter set according to smogon, but on set comp it's jolly, not impish, so it should be even easier to kill)

252+ Atk Hoopa-Unbound Hyperspace Fury vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Braviary: 265-313 (77.7 - 91.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (custap i guess)
For bulky: 252+ Atk Braviary U-turn vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Hoopa-Unbound: 348-412 (95.6 - 113.1%) -- 75% chance to OHKO (doesnt ohko unless...)
If you are running scarf or 252hp/252+defense band/specs.....
what are you doing. those sets are not real. dont even think about replying with those horrible fake sets. (please no)

I don't want to make this post too long, but Scarf Braviary also beats most fighting mons (besides valiant)
(and also volcarona, meowscarada (most grass mons)

Now we have a more creative set!

Power Herb

Braviary (M) @ Power Herb
Ability: Defiant
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 136 HP / 252 Atk / 104 Def / 16 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Sky Attack
- Giga Impact/Acrobatics/Close Combat
- Close Combat/Acrobatics/Giga Impact
- Bulk Up

This set is great against slower, bulkier mons, and also has a strong stab move with Sky Attack. With bulk up, you can now beat Ursaluna (Bulk up t1, if they avalanche, bulk up again and then ohko with close combat) and if they click gimpact, bulk up into either cc/bulk up, and then cc.
Calcs: 252+ Atk Choice Band Ursaluna Giga Impact vs. +1 132 HP / 104 Def Braviary: 316-373 (84.4 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Ursaluna Avalanche vs. +1 132 HP / 104 Def Braviary: 170-200 (45.4 - 53.4%) -- 41% chance to 2HKO

The reason for sky attack is, obviously, to hit way harder. the only problem is some 3-0s from custap mons.

Now, we have probably the best braviary set.

Life Orb

Braviary (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Defiant
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 136 HP / 252 Atk / 104 Def / 16 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Brave Bird
- Giga Impact
- Bulk Up
- Close Combat

Same evs, but also beneifts attacks like gimpact and close combat.

IM NOT DONE WITH THIS POST! THERE'S MORE COMING FROM YOUR FAVORITE BIRD! I just need to get this information out now. I will edit this with more detailed explanations later

 

[happysh]

Another day, another terrible(probably biased) tier list

Holy, never let this guy on the VR council.

Also S/O Los the Ros for making the tier list slightly better by coercing me into moving the mouse to C

 

[LongRat]

Wyrdeer UR -> C or C+

Currently 100% more viable than the mons currently inhabiting the D rank. Here's the current meta moveset, although the EVs could be changed:

Wyrdeer Set

Regular Deer (Wyrdeer) @ Custap Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 224 Def / 252 SpA / 32 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Beam
- Psychic Noise
- Calm Mind / Earth Power
- Endure

Solid Matchups against Ogerpon-H, Gouging Fire, Pecharunt, Primarina, Valiant, Raging Bolt, Meowscarada, etc, means that Wyrdeer is a genuinely viable choice against some top matchups. It, at the very least, deserves to ranked at all. BigChuchu was cooking with this one. You can also EV to live a Max Speed Drago Dragon Energy if desired.


Slaking D -> UR
Slaking has poor matchups against most top threats, due to the presence of Endure, Protect, and lacking the power to OHKO some mons (Iron Crown) without Choice Band. Without Choice Scarf however, it has exploitably low speed. I've not built with it so I can't verify how it "feels" to use, but I can say with some confidence that Slaking is a pretty awful pokemon in this meta and would be a risky click into most teams.

 

[ULTRAV01D]

I guess everyone’s giving their opinions so I might as well give mine.

Urshifu-Rapid -> A-
Urshifu is just a mon with great damage output (especially with band) while having good speed and bulk. It beats threats like hoopa, pecharunt, and even the ogerpons if they aren’t running a grass move. It can sometimes even beat fairies such as sylveon with poison jab, but this is rare.

Set

Master Shifu (Urshifu-Rapid-Strike) (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Unseen Fist
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- U-turn
- Surging Strikes
- Close Combat
- Poison Jab

Ting-Lu -> C+/B-
WP is such a good set on Ting-Lu. It is extremely bulky and can also deal a lot of damage, even without WP. It beats threats like Iron Crown, Pecharunt, or Raging Bolt. Also somehow beats primarinas without calm mind.

Set

Ting-Lu @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Vessel of Ruin
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Payback
- Heavy Slam
- Taunt

252+ SpA Primarina Hydro Cannon vs. 4 HP / 252 SpD Vessel of Ruin Ting-Lu: 360-426 (79.6 - 94.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Goodra-Hisui -> B+
Did you know that with the right set, Hoodra beats the ogerpons? Speaking of sets, Hoodra has amazing set diversity with options such as AV, Kee Berry, Specs, Chople, or even PP stall without attacks (it’s good I swear). You can beat most Pokémon by tweaking its sets.

Set

Snail (Goodra-Hisui) (M) @ Kee Berry
Ability: Sap Sipper
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 16 Def / 152 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam
- Draco Meteor
- Acid Spray
- Flash Cannon

Terrible person simulator

How ba-a-a-ad can I be (Goodra-Hisui) @ Leftovers
Ability: Shell Armor
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 48 Def / 208 SpD
Calm Nature
- Acid Armor
- Rest
- Tackle
- Tearful Look

Serperior -> B
Whimsicott -> A-
With arch out and drago in, whimsicott is the better leech seeder now. Sure it can’t affect dark types but it also has priority and more importantly, cotton guard, which let’s it beat physical attackers, sometimes even gouging fire (this is Haban from showdown usage btw)
40+ Atk Gouging Fire Flare Blitz vs. +3 4 HP / 252+ Def Whimsicott: 108-128 (41.2 - 48.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO

edit: completely forgot to mention that you can pp stall choice band donphan with gunk shot

 

[UwU1v1]

With more braviary related content coming soon, and after happysh made this epic tier list, I'll make my own! I'm too lazy to insert sprites into a tier list maker, so I'll just put some of my opinions (or all of them) here. I'll separate it into a few different posts so it's not too long. (The order I put these in don't mean anything)

S:
S-:
A+: (and everything else in A+ currently as of June 20th 2024 besides pecha) (good job vr council!)
A:
A-: (trust me with this one)
B+: (kinda overrated I think but I think it could go in A-)
B:
B-:
C+:

i dont feel like doing more than this but here's a few other things
Braviary: UR -> D (obviously)
Braviary-Hisui: Ur -> D/C- (maybe C-)
i think umbreon is alright but i also think that umbreon deserves a -> never be ranked again! (im sorry umbreon you were in my tournaments profile team a while ago but there's a... reason for this!)

 

[ZackPalace]

Infernape UR -> B/B-(idk where to put it)

Infernape is a mon that get moves like endure,reversal and blast burn which make it a decent custap user.

Infernape @ Custap Berry
Ability: Blaze
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Blast Burn
- Reversal
- Endure
- Fake Out

(There are more sets that infernape can do such as LO set but i will just mention custap for now)

In addition to those move, being a starter infernape also get blaze which make blast burn even more lethal and with reversal which deal alot, infernape can ohko most mons at low hp.Especially good against mons with scarf,band and specs like (kyurem,meowscarada,darkrai,iron valiant,iron bundle and etc)
Because Blast burn can even ohko some ground mon
Infernape can be used as ground lure

Against great tusk

Booster energy (speed)
252 SpA Blaze Infernape Blast Burn vs. 144 HP / 112 SpD Great Tusk: 435-513 (106.8 - 126%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Booster energy (attack)
252 SpA Blaze Infernape Blast Burn vs. 0 HP / 116 SpD Great Tusk: 433-510 (116.7 - 137.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

(Lose against custap and assault vest)

Against landorus therian

Choice band
252 SpA Blaze Infernape Blast Burn vs. 160 HP / 52 SpD Landorus-Therian: 355-418 (98.8 - 116.4%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO(can ohko after fake out)

Life orb
252 SpA Blaze Infernape Blast Burn vs. 44 HP / 0 SpD Landorus-Therian: 378-445 (114.5 - 134.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
(Lose against assault vest as well)

And because of reversal it can win against both ursaluna (non-chople)

Against ursaluna

Band
4 Atk Infernape Reversal (200 BP) vs. 152 HP / 0 Def Ursaluna: 428-506 (97.4 - 115.2%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO(can ohko after fake out)

Assault vest(blood moon)
4 Atk Infernape Reversal (200 BP) vs. 248 HP / 112 Def Ursaluna-Bloodmoon: 348-410 (81.1 - 95.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO(has a chance to ohko after fake out)(lose 100% if it has vacuum wave)

Scarf(blood moon)
4 Atk Infernape Reversal (200 BP) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Ursaluna-Bloodmoon: 380-450 (103.5 - 122.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO

And due to infernape having fake out it can win vs most of the sturdy mon

Vs sturdy mons

Donphan
252 SpA Blaze Infernape Blast Burn vs. 0 HP / 232 SpD Donphan: 346-408 (107.7 - 127.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO(lose to expert belt due to ice shard)
Avalugg
252 SpA Infernape Blast Burn vs. 252 HP / 252 SpD Avalugg: 518-612 (131.4 - 155.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO(full hp infernape)
Hisui-Avalugg
252 SpA Infernape Blast Burn vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Avalugg-Hisui: 459-540 (138.6 - 163.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO(full hp infernape)
Golem
4 Atk Infernape Reversal (200 BP) vs. 0 HP / 252 Def Golem: 294-348 (97.6 - 115.6%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO(can ohko after fake out)

In conclusion infernape is a great choice for custap mon and overall a good sturdy killer.
(Feel free to criticise me,call out or give advices if i am wrong or my sets is bad)

 

[LongRat]

Since we're doing tierlists

S-:

A+:

A:

A-:

B+:

(Normal)

B:

B-:

(RS)

C+:

C:

C-:

D:

D -> UR:

(seriously, i've never seen this thing)

Slak attack is ded

updated post-hearthflame ban

 

[BigChuchu]

Wyrdeer UR -> C or C+

Currently 100% more viable than the mons currently inhabiting the D rank. Here's the current meta moveset, although the EVs could be changed:

Wyrdeer Set

Regular Deer (Wyrdeer) @ Custap Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 224 Def / 252 SpA / 32 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Beam
- Psychic Noise
- Calm Mind / Earth Power
- Endure

Solid Matchups against Ogerpon-H, Gouging Fire, Pecharunt, Primarina, Valiant, Raging Bolt, Meowscarada, etc, means that Wyrdeer is a genuinely viable choice against some top matchups. It, at the very least, deserves to ranked at all. BigChuchu was cooking with this one. You can also EV to live a Max Speed Drago Dragon Energy if desired.

Thanks for the shoutout! Direct to C is a bit much, I think D is ok to start with.
Wyrdeer's strength lies its in versatility, althouth bulky special attacker is its best profile in the current meta by hard-walling Gouging Fire.
Custap works really well with Intimidate and its natural bulk.
You can also make it a physical-based mixed attacker with Sitrus Berry + Psyshield Bash/Lunge/Giga Impact/Psychic Noise.
I haven't tried it, but in theory Assault Vest should also work fine.
It is also worth noting that it is a Psychic type that can bait and destroy [most] Hoopa sets, with Megahorn or even Lunge.

 

[bo_bobson27]

June VR Shifts
Rises
Gouging Fire S- -> S
Ogerpon-Wellspring A+ -> S-
Ursaluna A- -> A
Corviknight A- -> A
Goodra-Hisui B -> B+
Registeel B -> B+
Latios D -> C-
Drops
Avalugg-Hisui C+ -> C
Ceruledge C- -> D
Chansey D -> UR

 

[UwU1v1]

Since the bird isn't getting a well deserved nomination, I genuinely believe that the fish can.
UR -> D

For Iron Hands and other physical mons

Qwilfish-Hisui @ Eviolite
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 156 HP / 100 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature
- Gunk Shot
- Throat Chop
- Aqua Jet
- Swords Dance

Mainly a mon for physical bulk, with intimidate and eviolite.
Things it beats:
(except band)

Gouging Fire

Calcs (booster energy) : -1 128+ Atk Protosynthesis Gouging Fire Outrage vs. 156 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Qwilfish-Hisui: 84-99 (27 - 31.9%) -- guaranteed 4HKO
100 Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Gunk Shot vs. 88 HP / 0 Def Gouging Fire: 118-139 (31.6 - 37.2%) -- 83.2% chance to 3HKO (just swords dance t1)

Iron Hands

Booster Energy: -1 252+ Atk Quark Drive Iron Hands Earthquake vs. 156 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Qwilfish-Hisui: 118-140 (38 - 45.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO (This is after fake out, you are one hp off from killing if all rolls are max rolls)
+2 100 Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Gunk Shot vs. 152 HP / 56 Def Iron Hands: 244-288 (50.1 - 59.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
I'm not so sure about this calc, i'm just using the setcomp set but with max attack. Obviously, if you ran max attack and also max hp/max defense, you probably can win, but this isnt optimal at all.
+2 100 Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Gunk Shot vs. 0 HP / 252 Def Iron Hands: 205-243 (45.6 - 54.1%) -- 46.9% chance to 2HKO (probably no one is doing this

If instead, you want to beat leech seed ogerpon, you can run this set (it's just 252/252+) (also yes, this set still beats gouging, just not iron hands)

Generally Better Set

Qwilfish-Hisui @ Eviolite
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Adamant Nature
- Gunk Shot
- Throat Chop
- Aqua Jet
- Swords Dance

Although you already beat offensive ogerpon-h (100 Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Gunk Shot vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 318-374 (105.6 - 124.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO)
with max attack, you can also beat Leech Seed ogerpon.
252+ Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Gunk Shot vs. 240 HP / 16 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 392-464 (108.5 - 128.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Of course, you also beat the counter set, unless it's running encore and counter.

Here are other things that this set beats.
252+ Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Gunk Shot vs. 144 HP / 216 Def Primarina: 344-408 (102 - 121%) -- guaranteed OHKO (aqua jet t2) (i guess it loses to very fast charm prim and 252 hp 252 defense prim?)
resists gunk shot and knock off, immune to psychic type moves. Main thing you lose to is bulky specs, as gunk shot into aqua jet kos.
252+ Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Gunk Shot vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Hoopa-Unbound: 262-309 (87 - 102.6%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Qwilfish-Hisui Aqua Jet vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Hoopa-Unbound: 59-70 (19.6 - 23.2%) -- possible 5HKO
Swords dance t1, if they curse, just spam throat chop and aqua jet if necessary

The Physdef set has a roll with Haxorus -1 252+ Atk Choice Band Haxorus Earthquake vs. 156 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Qwilfish-Hisui: 142-168 (45.8 - 54.1%) -- 50% chance to 2HKO.

Also beats Cresselia, Non-Kebia Serperior, Skeledirge, Sylveon, and many other mons!
Try using it on ladder! It's a very fun mon to use.

 

[Highv0ltag3]

Gliscor UR -> B-

Main Set: Gliscor (pokepast.es)

I have no idea how this mon wasn´t ranked yet. Poison heal is the only reliable method to spam substitute + protect withouth losing HP, except for leech seed which requires a turn to set up. This means Substitute + Protect Gliscor can effectively stall out 32 PP from the opponent.

Choice Locked Pokemon below 317 speed that don´t have moves that bypass substitute are immediately defeated. Looking at VR, Offensive Gouging Fire Loses to 2 Earthquakes, while, bulky variants whithouth booster attack lose to Toxic. Hoopa generally loses, with the exception of Choice Band Defensive or Specs. Custap sets with Hyperspace Fury can win depending on the exact spread and moveset.

Primarina loses 50% of the time. It must be either encore or specs hyper voice in order to win, which make up roughly 50% of usage.

From testing Iron Valiant generally loses but it can make a risky predict to give it chances on turn 2. This was thoroughly tested and I would say with perfect play the Gliscor player wins 60% of the time, but in practice it´s going to win around 80% of the time because the correct Disable Valiant sequence is far more complex than the Gliscor sequence. Here are some replays with chat logs explaining multiple lines:

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The correct sequence is gliscor toxic turn 1 as valiant protects.
Turn 2 has a prediction where Valiant can either disable as Gliscor repeats Toxic or Moonblast predicting Earthquake to escape encore disable trap.

From here there are ramifications but as I said the advantage is Gliscor´s.

Gliscor comfortably defeats the standard sets of Raging Bolt, both Ursaluna forms, Landorus, Cresselia, Donphan, Iron Hands, Annihilape, Arcanine-H, Moltres-Galar, non Baloon Sneasler, non max speed Zapdos, Bellibolt, etc.

It should be noted that Gliscor beats most trick users by clicking substitute on turn 2. After a turn 1 protect scouting trick and triggering toxic orb, substitute allows it to poison stall the opposing pokemon which just got poisoned by toxic orb. Poison heal allows it to get enough substitutes so that the opponent dies to poisoning. This strategy obviously doesnt work vs steel and poison types against which it would obviously preffer to lock into Earthquake anyways.

Finally I will add that finding good Gliscor teammates is a simple task. It typically loses to meowscarada chien pao and weavile which share roughly the same counters. Other bad match-ups such as parting shot curse pecharunt, regidrago or Urshifu twins must also be taken into consideration.



Whimsicott B -> A

Main Set: Whimsicott (pokepast.es)

Every time people mention this Pokemon they seem to not be aware of the existence of this simple set, for some reason. This set got me very good results on ladder and particularly enjoys the Ogerpon-Hearthflame ban for multiple reasons. Firstly, its one less Grass type to worry about. Secondly, after Hearthflame´s ban, the usage of Fire, Poison and Flying types that would cover Hearthflame on the teambuilder, such as Pecharunt, Iron Moth, Sneasler, or Zapdos-Galar decreased. Whimsicott really appreciated these shifts in usage, mostly struggling against dark types and grass types.

Cotton guard allows this pokemon to beat things it really shouldnt, Gouging Fire, Blaziken, Metagross and Avalugg-H get comforatbly defeated by a Simple cotton guard into Leech seed sequence. Choice Specs/Band users with moves that ohko, lose if their move is 8PP and have a 33% chance of losing if it´s 16 pp via double protect odds at the end. For example, a choice specs slowbro Galar clicking sludge wave can lose 33% of the time to protect + substitute spam + double protect at the end. This also is the case against choice band meowscarada which seems like an impossible to win match-up but isnt, Choice Band triple axel can lose to cotton guard, while locking into flower trick can be stalled out by Protect + Substitute spam into Double Protect at the end, which means Whimsicott actually wins this match-up 33% of the time.

Other than what has been previously mentioned, Whimsicott also has completely safe match-ups into Donphan, Iron Hands, both Ursalunas and many other Pokemon.

 

[bo_bobson27]

Cotton guard allows this pokemon to beat things it really shouldnt, Gouging Fire

Gouging often runs substitute, so you have to 5050 leech seed on sub and cotton guard on blitz, but even if you do cotton guard on blitz its not a favorable roll
252+ Atk Protosynthesis Gouging Fire Flare Blitz vs. +3 252 HP / 252+ Def Whimsicott: 168-198 (51.8 - 61.1%) -- 93.4% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
if you click protect for extra lefties healing its still a 49.22% chance to KO (and gouging can ddance on that turn), and If you click cotton guard twice you have worse odds, so you need to run sitrus berry to win this consistently.
btw your set has the wrong hp stat for leftovers subtect, so you dont get the last substitute (you only stall 13 turns instead of 15). 248 hp should do it tho

Iron Valiant generally loses

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2166688103-hkvbq4rhsj84b7u08nd21igrk1goak6pw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2166689406-urudxd7l30sqzgvgerf954gnx7gumwspw

 

[BigChuchu]

Yeah tbf UR -> B- is a bit ambitious, but surely Gliscor is at least worth D to start with? I'm baffled that it has never even been nominated.
Amd Whimsicott is not worth more than B imo. Losing to Dark, Grass, Taunt, and Psychic Noise is a bit unfortunate.