Similar to the Demo Teams thread, this thread aggregates viability rankings from active participants of the metagame to give newcomers a better sense of what is viable in the tier. This thread will be updated whenever I receive VR changes from players who have given their input or new submissions from players who feel that they are qualified to voice their opinion, so feel free to contact me via PMs on Smogon if you want to contribute to this project
. As usual, many thanks to the players who were kind enough to guide me in this project - this would not exist without you.S Rank
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Note: This list is not meant to be an all-encompassing evaluation of Pokémon in the tier - you are highly encouraged to add Pokémon to the batch available in Glimmer's tier ranker if you would like to add a submission.
- No question at all this is the best mon to me. It's the main thing stopping ghosts, lele, and SD chomp from running completely rampant and is able to win pretty much every matchup by smartly chipping any would-be answers. Nothing except for pex really enjoys switching into it and pex obviously has so many ways to be abused.
- I genuinely have no clue how this mon ended up ranking first. Specs is the only really good set, other sets like hex pivot and sub are great into some matchups but struggle a lot vs teams you can't spread status vs. It also doesn't really do that much defensively - sure you can check waters like shifu with it, but it can only do this once for the most part. You would love to spam s ball a lot of endgames, but oftentimes there will be a weavile that just sets up in your face and wins the game endgame. It's a great mon for sure but in no universe is it the best mon.
- Great mon, but a bit overrated. Tends to be overly reliant on hitting focus blast and has the same issue as Dragapult where locking into psychic can lead to weav doing too much damage.
- Not a huge fan of Dragonite, tends to be very do-nothing in most matchups and becomes so much worse when it gets knocked. DD sets rarely sweep and bulkier sets mostly just click roost.
I hate playing this mon LOL. Feels like every matchup where you don't have slowking or blissey (bar superpower) just turns into a guessing game of trying to predict which coverage they're going to click. Oftentimes just turns into sacking your most useless mon every time it comes in. Luckily it doesn't do anything defensively so it's hard to build with and gets low usage.
- I don't think I've ever brought this mon in a tour game. Relies too much on hurricane hitting and also sucks into so many matchups (sand, koko, etc.)
Bit underrated in my eyes. Feels like a slightly worse version of Weavile a lot of the time and is especially dangerous with hazard stack.
Another underrated mon - big fan of pairing it with rocky helmet mons to weaken lando as they u-turn. Difficult to build with though, I've tried so many versions of zolt sands recently and always find myself weak to something.
