Resource SS Ubers Viability Rankings v3

[Aberforth]

Shuckle has a niche as a hazard lead that has both sturdy and the mental herb item, essentially guaranteeing you either Sticky Webs or Stealth Rock on the field as it cant be taunted. Sticky Web as a playstyle is fairly unreliable in SS, between Heavy Duty Boots and more prevalent hazard removal, but Shuckle has a niche on those teams.

 

[Ur local kangaroo]

Shuckle is here for the memes right ? He can’t actually be... good can he ?

Shuckle is one of those mons that doesn't look like it has anything going for it on the surface aside from sky-high Def and Sp.D, but It could work on some specific teams, like on stall which it uses Shell Smash while having Contrary, or it uses Power Trick with sturdy, and there might be more sets, but that should list off what it could do.
(Note: Stall Shuckle will fall to status if it doesn't have rest, and Power Trick Shuckle will never work well without Trick Room, I should mention that these sets, especially the Power Trick set, can be really inconsistent, and the Power Trick Shuckle needs to be in Perfect condition too, so keep that in mind)
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(stall)
Shuckle @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shell Smash
- Toxic
- Infestation
- Rest
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(Power Trick)
Shuckle @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Power Trick
- Sludge Wave
- Ancient Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]

 

[LordWhis]

You learn something new every day

 

[Nayrz]

Another update! We lost a few members since the last update so we brought on Fc04 - welcome aboard! This update tracks the metagame that developed a lot during the recent UPL.

Sheet is here. It's a fairly barebones sheet so feel free to ask viability related questions in our SQSA or our Discord.

Update List:

Zacian-C: Moves above Eternatus in S
Kyurem-B: A >> A+
Necrozma-DM: A >> A+
Dracovish: A >> A-
Quagsire: A+ >> A
Volcarona: A+ >> A
Gothitelle: A+ >> A
Skarmory: A+ >> A
Gyarados: A- >> A
Dugtrio: A- >> B+
Galarian Darmanitan: A- >> B
Grimmsnarl: B- >> A-
Charizard: B- >> B+
Ditto: B+ >> A-
Urshifu-RS: C+ >> UR
Sableye: C+ >> UR

You might be looking at this and thinking "wait, that doesn't match the OP..." and you would be right! After I went through the internal noms and placed the results the almighty sheet came up with we ended up with 2 mons in A+, 12 mons in A, and 6 in A-, which just looks silly. We discussed our way around rebalancing the A ranks to be better spread out which delayed this update a bit more than intended. The OP now has these A ranks instead:

A rank redistribution

A Rank

A+

Necrozma-DM

Kyurem-B

Lunala (was going to be A)

Excadrill (was going to be A)


A

Blissey

Dragapult

Gothitelle

Tyranitar

Volcarona

Rotom-W

Skarmory

Quagsire

Corviknight

A-

Gyarados (was going to be A)

Dracovish

Grimmsnarl

Marshadow

Zekrom

Mandibuzz

Ditto

The Crown Tundra is coming soon! It's faster than we anticipated but we intend to do one final update to this thread before the new DLC releases. Keep an eye out for a speculation thread on the Crown Tundra metagame coming very soon!

edit: the speculation thread is right here

 

[The Dragon Master]

The updates nice but shouldn't Torkoal also be in b+ as it's the sun setter? If pelipper and dreadnaw are in the same tier, I feel like koal should too.

 

[Nayrz]

Final update! sort of.

The council felt that the current VR was reflective of the DLC 1 metagame and didn't want to alter anything before the DLC 2 drops (with one exception), so I'm just here to close out the thread.

Final Update

Torkoal: B- >> B+

In terms of a new VR, that will wait until the Dynamax test concludes and we have relative stablity in the metagame. If you are a bit lost as to the current plans for DLC 2, this post and the new NP thread that drops when the DLC does should make it clear. See you all there!