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I still think Primal Groudon deserves to stand alone in S+. During the last slate although I wasn't quite sold, there was a pretty strong argument for getting rid of S+ entirely. At that time fat balances were picking up a lot of steam which could reasonably drop Primal Groudon and it was nowhere to be seen on most HO teams. Personally the main reason to have an S+ ranking is if not using a mon will generally make your team worse. This was a pretty reasonable stance a couple of months ago, and still is, but is much harder to argue for currently. Primal Groudon is seeing use on HO again and the fatter balances that can drop Primal Groudon have dropped off a bit. Furthermore, Arceus formes generally running little to no physical bulk is a boon for defensive sets especially as they can afford a few evs to 2HKO with Precipice Blades.
I've been mulling over whether Zygarde is S+ material recently. In game it certainly is, but ultimately it isn't a your team is worse if you drop this mon scenario. Despite being one of maybe 3 mons holding the metagame together, it is quite droppable. It should still probably be on close to, if not a majority of teams, but that is a far cry from Primal Groudon which should have >75% usage. Zygarde is immensely splashable, but it isn't something every team needs. Coil sets, whether Glare or Dragon Tail, Tera Water or Tera Fairy, Phys or SpD hold the metagame together defensively due to at least soft checking most mons that don't run Taunt. However Taunt user(s) are on almost every team courtesy of Yveltal and Arceus formes, but are not happy switching into Glare. SpD sets are also easier to build around than they've ever been, but I generally think that an Impish nature with some def EVs are better than Calm sets.
My feelings towards Eternatus are kind of jumbled. Adem's FSG debut with the Eternatus theorem is coming soon and it would be best if she elaborated on that. To start with, I've always felt that Eternatus is slightly overrated and overused. It is arguably the most splashable mon in the tier (more than Primal Groudon) and that is a signficant reason for its placing rather than the strength of any indvidual set. In terms of metagame trends, Eternatus has established itself a common mon, if not a staple on HO at this point due to its ability to absorb Toxic Spikes.
Offensive Ho-Oh, particularly with Tera Flying (provided it is accompanied with appropriate anti-offense tools) or Grass is something I think is a bit slept on and 248 HP / 16 Def survives +1 Wild Charge so that is nice. Offensive Ho-Oh is fairly flexible, but is going to want Defog on most teams. The last moveslot, tera type, and EVs are pretty flexible depending on what the team needs (anywhere from 0 to 196 Speed works). It is sort of a flex spot, but recently I've been staying away from Earthquake more often than not. The damage is pretty disappointing without Tera Ground and dipping into Ho-Oh's deep utility movepool. Flame Charge with various levels of speed investment to outspeed anything from slower Arceus formes to Chien-Pao is usable imo. Defensive sets are still geat, but a bit boring and exploitable if just paired with a bunch of fat shit that has trouble forcing progress. I just find defensive Ho-Oh a bit boring to use currently despite it still being good, there are still a lot of good teams that rely on its defensive capabilities where offensive Ho-Oh doesn't quite cut it, especially on the physical side.
As a whole things havn't changed much for it. Offensive structures are rising in popularity and viability which Marshadow loves facing whilst being common on them itself. The one thing it doesn't love is the rise of Dragon Dance Zygarde. Dragon Dance Zygarde doesn't switch in unless Marshadow is locked into Shadow Sneak, but can use it as setup fodder. I'm still low on non Choice Band sets, but they do have their place on various teams. Choice Band Marshadow is good into pretty much everything that isn't stall or Psyspam. I still find it funny that Marshadow is more annoyed by Arceus-Dark than Arceus-Fairy.
Sometimes I feel that this should drop to A+, but then I remember the resources that go into handling Yveltal both in the builder and in game. It is still an absolute pain to handle defensively and only moderately less so offensively. Life Orb is still far and away the best set, but I'm a lot higher on Choice Scarf these days that I ever have been. Choice Scarf Yveltal sucks, but it is also the GOAT. That role compression is invaluable to a lot of teams that struggle against offense. Sticky Web is the strongest HO playstyle at the moment and it is so good into that and Foul Play hits hard enough into most mons it isn't targeting. Defensive sets are just kind of alright, but I'm not a huge fan. I still don't like Yveltal as a primary Ultra Necrozma check. People should try Tera Flying and Poison on Life Orb sets more and Tera Fire is pretty nice on Webs. Yveltal ultimately still is an incredibly flexible mon that can fit on just about any playstyle and imo has a decent argument to move up to S. S+++ on Webs.
I want to say nothing much has changed, but there has been a slight uptick in Foul Play sets, especially alongside Dragon Dance Zygarde. I'm a much bigger fan of these structures than the Coil Zygarde + defensive Arceus-Dark structures that some people used to use that would get blown up by almost every special attacker. As with last slate, this vote is primarily due to Calm Mind sets. Only really needing to deal with Ultra Necrozma and Yveltal against HO results in a much better matchup in game against HO than on paper. Throughout the last sixish months I've found myself increasingly factoring in how a mon deals with Calm Mind Arceus-Dark. I think that this is a big reason we've seen a surge in Tera Dragon on Meteor Beam Eternatus compared to the old standard of Tera Fire as it allows Eternatus to beat it. Although it isn't the sole reason, it is also a factor in why I've gravitated more towards offensive Ho-Oh. Arceus-Dark doesn't centralize the metagame around itself in the same vein as its S rank compatriots, but is just as good. The only reason it isn't S rank is the Arceus tax as Arceus-Fairy does give it legitimate competition.
I voted for Primal Kyogre S- last slate and this time it is a bit tougher. Defensive sets are still very good, but definitely have a rougher time with the continued popularity of Garganacl, Ferrothorn, but particularly Alomomola structures. It still decimates stall, but has to work slightly harder against fat teams. Offensive sets are in an odd place as the metagame is slightly more offensive than last slate which isn't good for it, but it also fits incredibly well onto many of these offensive teams as well. I do rate defensive sets slightly higher than last slate as I think I overrated the issues it has with Alomomola structures. It isn't an ideal matchup, but it isn't deadweight. I did initially have Primal Kyogre as S-, but after a bit more thought A+is probably more accurate.
Before NDP/FL I'd planned to vote Zacian-C down to A. I still hold that sentiment, albeit loosely. During these tournaments people were spamming the ever loving daylights out of offense beyond reason. Consequently, Zacian-C had a stellar showing that oversells its capabilities. It is an excellent mon, but I don't think that it is nearly as strong as its results indicate. Having spent way too much time watching every game, a lot of Zacian-C wins were purely a result of luck due to dodging attacks or getting low rolls. Still, to some degree, data is data and people are creating an environment where Zacian-C is able to see a lot more success than it should means something.
It still has a polarizing matchup spread of either goobing or getting goobed by the top mons, but the latter isn't much of an issue in practise. This is largely due to Taunt as even though Arceus-Fairy isn't really doing much to Ho-Oh or Primal Groudon, it still prevents them from attempting to make progress and is quite nice for catching Eternatus or Necrozma-DM on the switch. The main issue that I've run into with Arceus-Fairy strucutures is Dragon Dance Necrozma-DM which is difficult to play around at +1 until the fourth move has been revealed. Primal Groudon can take +1 Earthquake, but outside of that any switchin is risky. Stealth Rock Taunt sets remain excellent and Calm Mind Taunt is quite good, but I'm surprised to not have seen a ton of Calm Mind Wisp. Feels like something that should be seen at least sometimes. I don't vibe with Wisp on support sets though. I'm not sure if I would even if it was 100% accurate. Bold is still really bad if you are not running it with Zacian-C. 68 Def is enough to be a decent soft check to Marshadow and you can actually outspeed Yveltal.
I don't find that there has been a ton of experimenting with Giratina-O and if someone thinks it should drop to A I'm not going to disagree much. It is between A and A+ for me. The structures Giratina-O fits on are pretty good, but offensive structures that don't use it are pretty good right now and those have all developed since Giratina-O rose to A+. I'm willing to give it some time and even though it wasn't used that much in NDP/FL that could be a quirk of small sample size. It isn't wholly dependent on Alomomola and plenty of good Giratina-O BOs exist without it and I that is good enough for me now. I'm not sure when the next slate will be, but I could easily see myself voting Giratina-O to A. It is still good, just seems to have slowed down slightly. Physical sets are still ass. I only recall one instance where a team actually appreciated what physical Tina-O brought to the table.
I struggled a bit with this one because Necrozma-DM has an A+ ceiling, but ultimately its splashability holds it back a bit too much. Dragon Dance Necrozma-DM is a really damn good wallbreaker and Smash still does very good damage even if not boosted, but it does want more support or attention in the builder compared to the A+ mons. This is due to it being a more generalized 'goodmon' than absolutely bludgeoning structures. I hold similar sentiments towards Giratina-O, but I value its ability to enable various mons / structures more. Defensive Necrozma-DM is still mediocre on a good day.
A+ was and still is a bit crazy to me. Last slate I spent a while mulling over whether Arceus should drop to A- and instead it rose. I didn't feel at the time that Arceus was worse, but the increased competition from Arceus-Ground was a pretty big factor given that Arceus doesn't fit on much outside of HO. Ultimately, Arceus was out of place with the mons I had in A- so I voted A. I do still feel this way, but offense has done enough to demonstrate its strength for Arceus to justify an A ranking. It is also clearly, to me at least, a step above everything below it.
Everything except for Dragon Dance and the ocassional Taunt Toxic set are mid as hell. Dragon Dance is pretty good on offensive structures, but not nearly enough to justify its current A+ ranking. Before NDPL I'd have had Arceus-Ground at B+, but I am a fan of Dragon Dance on offense. It ultimately boils down to Arceus-Ground not providing what you want out of an Arceus forme defensively or offensively. Primal Groudon is a great target, but beyond that stuff like defensive Necrozma-DM and other Ground-weak mons are not nearly common enough to justify this. A huge part of what makes Primal Groudon balanced is how easy it is for most teams to handle it without needing Arceus-Ground. It isn't so much Arceus-Ground is horrible as it is hard to justify giving up the Arceus slot for. Ended up moving this from A- -> A because I'm probably being a hater and it is legitmitately decent. I'll see whether having some faith in Arceus-Ground burns me as the tournament progresses.
I intially had Alomomola at A, but after thinking about it for a while A- is definitely more appropriate. They are still great, but some of the stuff Alomomola structures struggle with have seen a bit of an uptick, notably webs. I'm not really sure if it is a direct response to the rise of Alomomola structures, but various sets/mons that harass them have also been getting more common such as Deoxys-A, Tera Dragon Meteor Beam Eternatus, and especially Dragon Dance Zygarde. Alomomola is still a fantastic pivot and enabler, but seems to have settled into its place in the metagame rather than continuing to rise. It is still a reel good fish. Please stop using Zacian-C with it. Mola structures already tend to struggle with webs and a -1 Zacian-C is not a huge threat.
I'm not sure what there is to say about Ultra Necrozma that I or others have not already. It is obscenely threatening, but also doesn't have a great way to get past its counterplay. Arceus-Dark, Yveltal, and Marshadow are all elite and common mons, yet alone other softer checks such as Tera Dark Arceus-Fairy which leads to it being a bit too inconsistent for an A level threat in my experience. The Stealth Rock set is pretty decent, but is and should be uncommon. That almost kept it in A for me, but ultimately Ultra Necrozma is ranked on its Dragon Dance set which I consider A-. Chi-Yu and Arceus-Ground proving to be legitimate competition for Ultra Necrozma when it doesn't really fit outside of HO except for the SR set is a bit rough.
Zacian-C trending more towards Behemoth Blade is great for Ditto as Play Rough does help self improof a fair amount. I would have thought more voters would see Ditto as an A- mon given the offensive environment we find ourselves in. It is not a good Dragon Dance Zygarde check. The window where Dragon Dance Zygarde is in revenge killing range is far too narrow. Great against most other HO stuff and stall as always though.
Great mon when used by good players instead of myself. The lead set has been popping up here and there a bit more often which is great to see. It is a lot more annoying than Deoxys-S given that it can actually threaten things even if Deoxys-S is much better in that role. Guessing the coverage/tera is a headache. It will always have Psycho Boost / Low Kick, but figuring out the last two is a pain. It is hard to see Deoxys-A moving up a subrank in the future largely due to the opportunity cost of getting a turn wrong.
The last couple of slates I've had Lunala close to or rounding out A-, but Emoxu9 in particular has shown that Meteor Beam Lunala has a real niche beyond Psyspsam and others have been experimenting with it as well. I don't think it is a staple of HO, but is surprisingly decent on the with a some flexibility between the last moveslot and tera type. Choice Specs is still a ruthless wallbreaker that quites appreciate the resistance to making Timid Arceus formes standard. Until that change happens I don't see myself dropping it to B+.
Still stupid. Still very underused. HO and the style of offences used by Skimmy are not great for it. On that plus it having near zero use is justification for B+, but not something I'd agree with. Although offense is quite good, I don't think it is dominant enough to drop Gothitelle given how good it tends to be against everything else. I can't speak for anyone else, but Gothitelle is a significant reason why my teams have trended more offensive than in past metagames. If you are not running offense Gothitelle is often going to be able to remove an incredibly important defensive pillar on your team.
Unlike Mega Salamence I do still have enough faith in Rayquaza to keep it A-. I might still have Rayquaza A-, but its gone from borderline A last slate to borderline B+ this one. The biggest reason for me is that Alomomola structures actually do a decent job at limiting it due to Protect running through Dragon Ascent PP quite quickly. Garganacl is also a factor. Having some relatively common structures is definitely an issue for a mon whos biggest selling point is being an unwallable wallbreaker. It is still a very good wallbreaker, but is a bit less consistent than it used to be. Dragon Dance sets on HO are still not used nearly enough though. Choice Band doesn't love the more offensive environment we are in currently, but Dragon Dance being pretty good on offense does somewhat balance this out.
It is still really good so only one use across NDP/FL was very surprising. Ferrothorn is never going to be a high use mon as its splashability is what keeps it here instead of the A ranks in the first place. It is one of those mons that tends to be a lot better in game than on paper due to its ability to force progress between Spikes, Knock Off, and Leech Seed. I'm also a much bigger fan of Tera Grass than Tera Water as it shores up matchups that Ferrothorn should be decent against, but can struggle with such as defensive Primal Kyogre and Dragon Dance Zygarde. It rarely teras anyways so having that is quite nice. Ferrothorn plays a pretty big role in allowing a lot of fatter balance teams to exist in the first place due to its role compression. Funnily enough it isn't a horrible soft check to Ultra Necrozma. I understand an argument for B, but I still have faith in the durian.
Mega Salamence did actually have a great win rate of 80%, but was only used five times. I'm really not a fan of using winrates generally, especially with such a small sample size, but it is something at least. Mega Salamence is something that I've gone out of my way to build around a fair bit recently to give a fair shake and the results have left me a bit disappointed. Maybe it is one of those mons that is way better against me than in my hands.
Nothing has really changed. Still the best HO lead, still faces a decent amount of competition from Glimmora. Unfortunately for Deoxys-S, the surge in offense has largely been teams without a dedicated lead. Otherwise it would be A-, although if someone still thinks it is that is fine by me. I'm a little lower on offense in general than most people.
It still does the same things it has been doing for a while, but the teams it fits on are taken advantage of a little bit more plus it does not exactly love the rise of Dragon Dance Zygarde given it is OHKOed by +1 Tera Ground Thousand Arrows. Chien-Pao is definitely still B+ imo, but closer to B than the borderline A- it was last slate.
Is Calyrex-I the last mon without a PMD sprite? Either way not really much has changed. It is still probably the best trader in the tier and enables a lot of unique structures due to being the only non stall cleric. It still is capable of trading 1v1 with pretty much anything if tera hasn't been exhausted due to the natural bulk which is quite nice. Tera Fairy is something that has grown on me quite a bit due to It blanket checks Arceus formes while turning the tables on its typical counterplay. If someone were to make an argument that its lack of splashability limits it to B I can understand that. I just wish more people would use it in the way which justifies its ranking as opposed to Trick Room. The current environment is offensive enough that OTR isn't a total throw, but the amount of resources it requires to still be meh v anything other than offense in the late-game is a bit much for me.
Honestly, fuck this thing. It is the epitome of bullshit and always seems to have whatever four moves screw you over. Moody just adds onto this. The saving grace is that Perish Song is being close to mandatory given how easily Dragon Dance Zygarde just 6-0s otherwise. Webs have gotten a bit better and Smeargle has shown itself to be the premier webs setter for a while now so it rises.
Last slate it was on the verge of B+. It is still a good mon and a signficant reason to run fat balance instead of stall. Salt Cure is a broken move and its matchup against the defoggers means it will probably always have some niche. I'm a bit lower on it now than I was then as Garganacl thrives in a more balanced metagame as opposed to the offensive one we find ourselves in.
Nothing has really changed. Still annoying to most Ho-Oh structures and a lot of Giratina-O structures lacking Alomomola. It is still much closer to a sidegrade than a downgrade to Deoxys-S even if Deoxys-S is still a bit better.
As with Glimmora nothing has really changed. Great into HO while still being annoying for BO/Balance even if 4MSS is a thing. I'm not really sure what the future holds for it. I don't really see Mega Diancie rising to B+, but staying at B or dropping to B- seem equally possible. Its niche is valuable enough that it is hard to see Mega Diancie dropping to the C ranks. It is a decent if unflashy mon. The bulk really holds it back from being a lot better as it doesn't switchin well to mons it beats 1v1 such as Ho-Oh and Yveltal.
As time has progressed I've transitioned from an Arceus-Water believer to hater. It feels somewhat underexplored, but we are well past the point where theorymonning can be used to justify ranks. It comes down to Arceus-Water often struggling to justify the level of support it requires in the builder. This results in it being a paper tiger of sorts. It isn't even Primal Groudon blanking Judgment, but the difficulty in running mono Judgment sets. They end up having 4MSS or require a level of support more akin to a C rank mon. Arceus-Water is more underwhelming or mediocre than straight up bad.
Fishy fish is still fishy. A rise to 
Initially had this in B- and changed my vote to B. Just vibes I guess. Definitely more potential than results, but I do feel that the semistall stuff Bob has been up to with Teleport Blissey has a lot of room for optimisation.
Chi-Yu hasn't really changed, but Webs have gotten a bit better so it gets a rise. This is due to webs as a whole more than Chi-Yu specifically. It is very good on webs, but isn't close to mandatory. Unless Chi-Yu somehow falls off I'll likely have it a subrank below the best webs setter for the rest of the generation.
Stall hasn't changed. It is still a mediocre matchup fish. You either beat it or you don't. I've been thinking about it a little bit more and if you're very high on the sorts of offenses that have sprung up during NDP/FL a rise to B can be justified. A lot of those teams simply do not break stall with any consistency.
Pheromosa finds itself in a favourable metagame as the whole pivot + fastest viable mon + strong coverage gameplan works pretty well at the moment. Being an actual decent offensive check to Dragon Dance Zygarde that is unbothered by Substitute (Triple Axel accuracy willing), outspeeding and one tapping Zacian-C with Tera Fighting Low Kick, and forcing Eternatus to Tera (they're pretty much all Tera Dragon on HO atm which is even better) is some nice offensive role compression.
Absolutely screwing over Dragon Dance Zygarde keeps it in B- for me (mutes Adem shrieking in the background). It is still a very good breaker/ sweeper into a lot of balances and BO. It does have some flexibility as it only truly needs Fusion Bolt + Icicle Spear and has enough options at its disposal to provide some degree of flexibility. Even then I can see a case for C+ as it does not exactly love Zacian-C trending upwards.
Psyspam has not changed all. Tapu Lele is the representative of the playstyle. Despite not really seeing any development since its introduction, Psyspam does find itself in a favourable environment at the moment. I'm not sure it deserves to rise to B-, but Psyspam being around the same level as stall doesn't feel outlandish tbh. If everyone is going to spam offense, here is a great antioffense style that unlike Trick Room has good matchups outside of HO.
Arceus-Ghost isn't bad, but its inconsistency with the opportunity cost does knock it down from B- for me this time. Locking yourself out of Arceus/Arceus-Ground/Ultra Necrozma is a massive ask for HO squads which relegates it to a niche option on the playstyle. In addition to that the ubiquity of Arceus Dark, Marshadow, and Yveltal lend to consistency issues. Maybe C is a better rank?
I've always quite liked Arceus-Grass. This metagame makes any Grass-type worth considering due to the defensive characteristics. Yeah it has a lot of issues, but it is also in C+. Having an Arceus forme that actually handles Dragon Dance Zygarde without conciously is really damn nice. I'd say Arceus-Water but that uninvested Judgment doesn't even OHKO after Tera Ground. Grass is a polarizing type, but those positives are way higher than the negatives. Compressing a Zygarde + Primal Kyogre counter is always going to have value in this metagame.
Calm Mind is a decent wincon if you build around it. At the end of the day, it forces certain structures and the Arceus tax is a hefty price. It is good, but realistically you're using this because you want to. Fortunately for Arceus-Flying, it is good enough to justify doing so.
It isn't quite as much of a paper tiger as Palkia-O, but MMY is going to run into at least one, if not multiple roadblocks on nearly any team that isn't stall. Without Focus Blast it isn't good against stall. It had a good showing in NDP/FL, but it is a small sample size and one of those wins was a Grass Knot MMY that loaded into stall. I want MMY to be good, but its lack of initial power when it is this frail and has such a horrible defensive and only an ok offensive typing holds it back so much. Oh yeah, I don't Psychic is a bad offensive typing in this tier. It isn't near the top or anything, but we don't have any real defensive Steel-types. Pretty much everytime I try and build around MMY I'm left increasingly disappointed. Zacian-C, Marshadow, Ekiller, Arceus-Dark are obvious issues, but even stuff like Arceus or offensive Eternatus if it is willing to burn tera are pretty good into it. Those rare games where MMY goes off half makes up for it though. MMY can be fun to use, but it is a slog to build with.
The house always wins and Palkia-O has been gambling for too long. It has too many deadweight matchups while not being consistent enough in its good ones. It is kind of shocking that Palkia-O was A- not that long ago when you look at it now. At least Flutter Mane has the excuse of Koraidon being banned.
Don't really have much to say that I have not said above or in the metagame discussion post. Shuckle isn't bad, but has difficulty justifying use over Smeargle. Given that maybe C+ is a bit high.
Cool antimeta mon. Should not be seen often, but it is always cool when it is. It appreciates Ho-Oh shifting towards offensive sets and Arceus-Rock would rather deal with Earthquakes than Toxic.
Niche Arceus forme. I'd just like to see a bit more of it. I have not run into a single Arceus-Steel team since the last slate other than one I made, but didn't end up using for NDPL. If the same trend continues I'll probably vote it to C-/D in the future.
Zekrom at C is me having some faith. It is a breaker that locks you out of Ultra Necrozma and is inherently inconsistent due to requiring it to time that Devastating Drake perfectly. It is viable, but I also wouldn't be bothered if it dropped to D.
C+ was jumping the gun. Mega Tyranitar stall is ok, but outside of one team Adem showed me before NDPL I havn't really seen any any Mega Tyranitar teams that I liked. I don't even remember what the team was, but remember thinking eh it could work. If someone makes a decent Mega Tyranitar team it can rise back up. Until then it is fine in C as Mega Tyranitar stall is one of the best punishes to bad/lazy teambuilding. I'm not really sure why, but a lot of teams lean wayy too heavily on LO Yveltal for fat/stall and Mega Tyranitar stall eats these teams for breakfast.
It has usable role compression but the bulk really does let it down. The typing + Intimidate really make you forget that this has the same bulk as Marshadow until Overheat rudely reminds you. Lando is just sort of whatever. It has its place as a mon that will probably pop up once or twice a tournament and be a servicable pivot for a BO team.
Intially I wanted to rise this to C+. After a bit more time to think about it, that stems from being pleasantly surprised that Grimmsnarl wasn't complete dogshit when a couple of people wanted some screens teams during NDP/FL. It isn't a bad screener, but screens also are not great. Grimmsnarl still has trouble justifying itself over Deoxys-S as it really really wants all of Taunt, Parting Shot, Spirit Break, and to a lesser extent Thunder Wave with only two slots. Pivoting is great, but you want Spirit Break to actually threaten the Dark-types you can't pivot against, but the Prankster Taunt is also invaluable. The more I think about it, Grimmsnarl was more of a shiny new toy as I have not used it much since whenever the last time I wanted to confirm it really was as dogshit as it seemed.
Trick Room is a bad, mostly skilless strategy, but it is viable. Furthermore, the offensive environment does make it slightly better and Hatterene is mandatory on Trick Room. Every other mon has a case to be excluded except Hatterene.
With webs trending upwards a bit maybe Ribombee deserves a rise to C. Webs lead that screws over Webs leads while Shield Dust ensures it will always have 2 turns to do stuff v Ho-Oh is pretty nice. The movepool is shockingly deep, but at the same time Ribombee could easily find itself UR.
I guess I'm one of the few believers. When I look at the C/C- ranks Kingambit kinda feels like it slots in. It isn't a great mon, but it does have a place on a couple of fat teams as an endgame wincon. It is something I'd probably use and recommend before pretty much anything in C- and some stuff in C.
Coil Zygarde + Primal Kyogre check is still pretty valuable. It loses 1v1 to Dragon Dance Zygarde, but I'm still something of a believer. At the same time I wouldn't be surprised to see it UR at some point in the future.
It doesn't love offensive Ho-Oh becoming more common, but it is still beyond a nuisance to defensive Overheat Primal Groudon + defensive Ho-Oh structures. Those are still common enough to justify a ranking imo, but I'm not sure they will be in the future.
I'd be fine if Dialga dropped to D. Asked Dialga's biggest defender why it shouldn't be and yeah I guess Specs is usable. It is safe until 2025. That Sami is willing to load mons like Darmanitan-G and Cyclizar instead of building around Dialga says a lot though.
I've never liked this mon. A HO lead that beats most other HO leads and importantly has a good matchup into Deoxys-S is definitely a niche. I'm fine with Iron Treads being UR, but when I look at the company it keeps C- is fine. It has its niche and that niche has some value.
I'm sure Sami will be happy to have helped boost Flutter Mane a bit rather than get Galarian Darmanitan ranked. I still think this mon is terrible, but it being worse than Trick Room feels kind of wrong. It may genuinely be though. I would be far from surprised if Flutter Mane falls to D by the end of the generation, but floating somewhere near the bottom of the VR seems more likely.
Should always be seen with Melmetal and can be justified on non-Melmetal Trick Room. It is difficult to do so imo, but people do.
Melmetal does appreciate metagame trends to where I can see why someone would opt for it over Calyrex-I for the first time in a long time. This is mainly Zygarde shifting over to Dragon Dance sets which Melmetal deletes and the subsequent increase in Tera Fairy Coil Zygarde largely as a response to that which Melmetal also deletes. Trick Room is still bad and Melmetal is still bad, but slightly less bad than it used to be.
Rocky Helmet is used on Mega Tyranitar stall. LO is somewhere between mediocre and bad. These take a while to write and I don't always remember to edit everything, but as of this writing 3 votes are in and all are C- so it has a good chance of being ranked. That will certainly make some people happy. Can't really say I have much of a vested interest in this one and I don't find its absence on the VR egregious. I've spent more time thinking and building around mons such as Fezandipiti, Wo-Chien, and Ludicolo.
The Emoxu9 v Bobsican game showed what it can do v fat even if Gholdengo should not have been on that team. It is a great punish into some fat structures, but I'm pretty skeptical that it is worthwhile ranking. A lot of that niche requires defensive Ho-Oh to be common and offensive sets have been seeing more use for quite a while now. I initially had Gholdengo at C-, but after talking a little bit with Neon changed to UR. Sure Gholdengo may have that niche, but that has been of questionable value for a while. The passive teams it shreds have gone from uncommon to rare over the last few months. Dragon Dance Zygarde plays a role, but there are a lot of other things they don't like.
It is a primal check that still has trouble with the primals. I've played and watched a lot of NDUbers at this point and probably saw more Arceus-Dragon watching USM in UPL than I have in this tier since I started playing.
Kinda feels like there is something there. At the same time I have not really been impressed enough when I've run into it recently to rank it. It is more annoying than good on Trick Room and Trick Room is bad so that isn't enough to rank it. I don't feel strongly enough to vote it to D at this time. The set R8 was talking about was Tera Poison Shucca Berry if someone wants to work on that.
I kind of get it. I'm just not really sure I believe in it. Abstain felt the way to go as I'm not sure if it is usable, but bad cheese or just UR. Shed Tail + 121 Speed at a bare minimum give it some degree of potential. I'm just not really sure how I feel about it. Its mostly been discussed in the context of passing a boost to Lunala to take advantage of Shadow Shield, but Smeargle running Perish Song for Dragon Dance Zygarde already leaves me a bit iffy.
Zygarde with Substitute has been fairly common in the metagame lately, reducing 
Garchomp, but instead a Imposter+Transform trapper, letting it force foes to spam Struggle then faint while also retaining use afterwards depending on what it transformed into, and by extension also acting as a setup check when it comes to slower foes, overall being a stallbreaker that retains use against offense.
Fezandipiti, after using it for a while, I've noticed that it's really worse than the more standard Acid Spray + Moonblast variant, especially as thanks to Moonblast's slightly higher BP, PP, and most foes it wants to hit with that leaning defensively more on the physical side, resulting on that being a netically better move even skipping Acid Spray letting it overwhelm Calm Mind Arceus formes, especially as its lack of contact also eases the matchup against foes like 
Heavy-Duty Boots and lacks reliable recovery options, making it difficult to sustain its performance under such pressure.
Galarian Darmanitan: D -> C-
Wobbuffet, 
The bird is the word. Intitially I thought Fezandipiti would be some C rank shitter. The more I use it the more I think this mon is as Jumpheart said: 'The saviour of NDUbers.' Slower balances have been on the decline for quite some time and Fezandipiti breathes life in them as it is a full on Yveltal counter. Unlike the other Yveltal 'counters' of Calm Mind Arceus-Dark and Arceus-Fairy, Fezandipiti doesn't care if Yveltal uses Tera Fire or if Sticky Webs are up. One of the great things about Fezandipiti is how easy it makes removing webs due to Icy Wind.
I've still only seen Wobbuffet used by Bob. I'm not really much of a believer, but Shadow Tag is broken enough for me to have some faith in Wobb. It is probably a C/C+ mon if someone is willing to put the time in to properly explore and build with it. That won't be me. I'd much rather we ban Shadow Tag. I'll likely vote UR next slate.
