Hey guys, I just wanted to make a post about cleaning up the C-ranks because there's a lot off stuff that's currently ranked that shouldn't be. In the grand scheme of things, this honestly isn't that important so please hmu on discord if you want to discuss the noms I made instead of posting here because I don't want to spend 5 pages debating about mons that are all bad regardless of their ranking. There's also gonna be a couple mons that are in the upper ranks in this post to, so I'd prefer to discuss those instead.
Unrank - This thing is really bad and never should've been ranked in the first place. It's a slightly faster, weaker overall Tapu Lele with the inability to use items or Z-moves. Zygarde usage dying along with the fact that you're never actually staying in vs stuff like Zardx means that its speed tier isn't even that important anyways. The fact that the best Magearna set atm is AV isn't doing this thing any favors either rofl.
Unrank - Stall is significantly worse than it was before the Dugtrio ban and there's no point in using Togekiss even you're using it to break stall. It's a shitty stallbreaker because stuff like Kartana and Tapu Bulu in the upper ranks forces stall to use Zapdos as is, so it's not like this thing is breaking through stall anytime soon anyways. We shouldn't keep this thing ranked just because it performed well in a tournament game 8 months ago...
Unrank - In a metagame with multiple Fake Out users like Mega Medicham and Lopunny along with Greninja that can just flinch through your suicide leads, Shuckle's ability to set up Webs anyways is a huge help and frankly outclasses this thing altogether. I get that Spore is cool, but the fact that this thing is significantly more unreliable at performing its role on a playstyle that's already hanging by a thread means it has no reason to be ranked.
Unrank - Excadrill is a way better suicide lead, by having some defensive utility in checking stuff like Tapu Koko while also spinning away opposing hazards. Not to mention that this thing was literally only used on xtra birdspam, which is super dead atm with the dropping in the viability of pretty much every member of the team and with other HOs like Gondra HO and Kanto HO being discovered as better routes to take for building non-cheese HO in the current metagame.
To B- Rank - Obviously Toxapex is our balance overlord atm and has insane usage right now, but everyone knows that and while it's a large reason that Mega Charizard Y isn't very good atm and why it should be ranked 2 ranks below Zardx (aside from the fact that zardx is only 2x weak to rocks after the mevo). However, I'd like to focus on how poor this metagame's hazard removers are. Mega Scizor, arguably the best Defogger in the tier, can't be used with Mega Charizard Y, which is a huge negative for it. On the other hand, solid defensive removers that could potentially get rid of rocks for Mega Charizard Y, such as Mew, Tapu Fini, Zapdos are all dropping off in viability to a point where hazard removal is really bad for the most part right now. Obviously there's solid offensive removers in Kartana and Latios right now, but defensive Defoggers for the most part are suffering right now and make building with Mega Charizard Y a lot more constricting than it was a while ago.
To C+ Rank - Choice Scarf Terrakion is fucking awful right now. The main niche that Choice Scarf Terrak had before was OHKOing Volcarona through Charti Berry, but Charti Rona is fucking dead rn, meaning that shit like Nihilego, Infernape, Keldeo, Gren, etc. are all way better as Scarfers than this thing due to having either better STABs, coverage, or broken hazards. SD sets can be cool paired with other breakers like Mega Charizard X and can put in some work vs balance, but those teams oftentimes pack multiple checks for Terrakion (the one hazard stack balance welliou and a couple other ppl used in snake has both Alakazam and Kartana for example). This thing is just generally a super suboptimal in the current meta and I'm just not a fan of it atm.
To B+ or A- Rank - Hawlucha is a fantastic late game win condition atm that can bust through the vast majority of teams right now. Oftentimes, you can look at snake games and both teams can get 6-0ed by Hawlucha at preview. The rise in defensive and Choice Scarf Lando-T lately over Z move sets means that the thing can be used as setup bait for this thing, which means that a Pokemon that would normally be a solid offensive check to this thing has turned into a liability vs it. Also Zapdos dying off is a huge help to this thing because it's one of the only reliable defensive answers to this thing. If you pair Hawlucha with Spikes stacking, particularly from Ferrothorn, it can just blow through weakened teams at +2. Having this thing in B rank is honestly an insult to something as good as it is. Obviously this thing has drawbacks in terms of being fairly frail and liable to getting revenge killed by priority after some chip damage, but it's still a fantastic choice atm.