We had a recent discussion about Heatran. Then again, the same could be said for Porn Bunny and Cloud Bird Fairy Thing and that didn't stop anybody. I listed my reasons why Heatran should stay A+ and I don't want to repeat it. There are a few I want to respond to, though.
Megabro - Half the time you don't mega. You can try to call this a good thing by saying "Yeah, it's so flexible!" but then why not use another mega? The meta is too specially oriented for this guy - and the few physical attackers are dark types. IK you can recover off a knock off but what if the bisharp sword dances on you?
I've always been on the fence with Mega Slowbro, being able to catch the yes and no for both sides. Its Mega is incredibly bulky--bulkier than your base Slowbro, and has an immunity to critical hits. Sweet, right? This comes at a loss of Regenerator, which is absolutely irritating. Much of your switching capabilities are gone just from that, so why bother? You want to use Slowbro as Physical Tank? Partner it with Heatran and Tangrowth for a good core and use your Mega for something like Mega Scizor for defogging or something. Never really liked Mega Slowbro due to the loss of what made Slowbro amazing (hence why I rarely use Mega Alakazam over the regular one because you lose Magic Guard) but I can see either A or A- for it.
Celebi - Outclassed by mew unless you specifically want a keldeo counter. Quad weakness to bug hurts and grass typing doesn't really do much otherwise. But now that mew is in A maybe you can disagree. Like I said this is all my opinion.
Keldeo Counter? I use Gyarados for that, really. Celebi's advantage against Mew is that it shrugs status off more easily thanks to Natural Cure (Synchronize is hit and miss with me--thanks for the burn, Heatran!) and the Grass Typing gives it an immunity to Spore and Leech Seed, great combination. The problems arise when VoltTurn cores come into play, but Hidden Power Fire makes Scizor livid (or dead, whatever). Not to mention that Celebi can check multiple Pokemon despite being checked by multiple Pokemon itself--think of it like the type-opposite Tyranitar but used for a similar purpose.
Dragalge - Way too narrow of a niche. Do you really need TSpikes? Easily the best at that role but it seems way too slim. And since it doesn't have recovery, it gets whittle too easily so it doesn't really beat clef/alt.
Ah, Adaptability. You make Crawdaunt one of the finest and you give Dragalge usable offenses. Thanks. You don't NEED to run it for Toxic Spikes...Choice Specs is an option. Not the finest user of it--that honor goes to Raikou, but it's there. Keep it where it is for now, though.
Gallade - skill swap sucks. This guy has been overrated for far too long. I know medicham rose, but I'd rather use mega Chomp than this crap.
Let's not say things we're apt to take back now.
Kabutops - Worse than kingdra and the rankings should reflect that.
I don't know...Kabutops has Swords Dance along with great STAB options to work with, not to mention Rapid Spin (for some reason), so...I wouldn't discount the Fossil too much.
Pert - Takes up a mega slot.
gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8
Mega Swampert...does need a drop, though, and the reasons have been bashed in and drilled through, so I won't keep this one up. I will, however, mention that it could've been worse...could've kept Damp.
Seriously, though, let it drop.
Hawlucha - i've tried using this many a time but it's too underwhelming and frail.
Excellent reasoning. "I can't use it, therefore it's bad." Might as well argue that Magnezone should drop because I've tried using it and it's too underwhelming for me.
No, but seriously...it's B for a reason. It needs some support to muscle through the onslaught of Electric-Types going around, sure, but anything unprepared for it dies against it once it gets a Swords Dance boost behind its sub (then Unburden takes effect, which means bye-bye Alakazam).
Chesnaught - What? B-?? This thing is nowhere near that rank. The typing isn't that good even though it can sponge knock off since it can't even switch into weavile.
I personally use the SalacSubDrum set and it's bad some seriously good runs. The typing is done well by Breloom, so I don't see the problem.
Lucario - I know it can go either setup but it's just too slow. If its Espeed were Stab then this would be a huge threat, but besides sponging knock off it doesn't do much. It really has a hard time setting up. But it does beat Clef Tran teams, so maybe it can stay.
Now I--oh wait, this is not wanting a drop. Fair.
Tentacruel - lol a spinner not called exca or starmie. It doesn't even have recovery! And if I wanted tspikes, which I don't, I'm using dragalge. No.
Why not have BOTH a Rapid Spinner AND a Toxic Spike layer all in one Pokemon? Tentacruel is the one to do it, right? It's a niche, sure, but it's definitely unique.
Mega blastoise - I actually like Blastoise, but it isn't C+ material.
Yeah, but dat movepool tho. It died pretty quickly after release, but I think it's fine where it is.
Houndoom - What. Does. This. Do.
It. Dies. Every. Time.
Hoopa C - It's like a worse chandelure and chandelure is bad. Like in UU it can run nasty plot and claim that but here it's only niche is in Trick Room or as a spinblocker (lol). And it loses to exca so rip. I think unrank it unless you can prove that it has a niche Hoopa-U doesn't outclass.
It's not...ALL bad. I'd say C- and D is just fine. Say Chandelure is bad, though...that's just rude. The candles have had too much ripping from the Gen 1ers.
(and I would add Clef to the list but then you would really kill me lol)
No, we'd hang you and keep you alive for occasional hot pokings to make you squirm in pain.
Seriously, though, let Clefable be. Does too much for one Pokemon.