I'd also like to give my opinion on a few rises and drops I think are well deserved.
Keldeo C+ --> C Agree
Keldeo is just mediocre, it's stabs that used to be extremely spammable are anything but that and the nerf to burn made old checks like Amoongus even harder to punish. It's also almost completely outclassed by Ash-Gren as an offensive water type thanks to Ash-Gren being capable of beating it's checks with spikes and having an even more spammable STAB combo.
Blacephalon C+ --> B- Agree
Blacephalon is another mon that has an amazing STAB combo, blacephalon would be complete garbage if it didn't have access to trick, which eliminates mons like Chansey and Pex as counters, since neither enjoy being choiced. It also has some decent defensive utility, since it's a decent check to the setup Magearna sets since the CM set lives all Z moves and scarf ohkos with fire blast.
Now, it's not perfect, as Tyranitar is a hard counter who also Pursuit traps it and it's weakness to rocks combined with the fact that's it's pretty easy to revenge kill hold it back but I still do think that it's nuclear power is enough to make it B- (oops).
Manaphy B --> B+ Agree
Manaphy is a pretty interesting mon, in that it's pretty much a hard Stall counter, while also having a decent matchup against Balance and Semi Stall on rain, which is pretty good. But the problem is that it's utility is exclusive to rain and it's BO and HO matchups are decent at best. I still think it's good but It's not worthy of anything higher.
Hydreigon B --> B+ Agree
It's great as both an offensive and bulky defoger while also having amazing coverage and decent defensive utility thanks to levitate and a decent typing, letting it resist volt switch and such and thanks to roost it can even switch into decently strong water type attacks.
Sure it has a few flaws, like it's speed not being the greatest and it's 4x weakness to fairy being annoying against Fini but it has enough utility to set it appart from other special attackers in the tier while also being decently powerful, which is why I think it's worthy of B+.
Zydog C- --> UR Couldn't agree more
Zydog is just bad, and has always been bad. It's defenses are bad enough that any setup set barely functions, and it's attack is low enough that not even band can save it. The only advantage it has over other grounds is that it has Thousand Arrows, which is pretty good, but that doesn't save it from being completely outclassed by Lando-T and Garchomp.
I can see why it got ranked but I think that it has proven itself as being bad enough to become unranked.
Keldeo is just mediocre, it's stabs that used to be extremely spammable are anything but that and the nerf to burn made old checks like Amoongus even harder to punish. It's also almost completely outclassed by Ash-Gren as an offensive water type thanks to Ash-Gren being capable of beating it's checks with spikes and having an even more spammable STAB combo.
Blacephalon is another mon that has an amazing STAB combo, blacephalon would be complete garbage if it didn't have access to trick, which eliminates mons like Chansey and Pex as counters, since neither enjoy being choiced. It also has some decent defensive utility, since it's a decent check to the setup Magearna sets since the CM set lives all Z moves and scarf ohkos with fire blast.
Now, it's not perfect, as Tyranitar is a hard counter who also Pursuit traps it and it's weakness to rocks combined with the fact that's it's pretty easy to revenge kill hold it back but I still do think that it's nuclear power is enough to make it B- (oops).
Manaphy is a pretty interesting mon, in that it's pretty much a hard Stall counter, while also having a decent matchup against Balance and Semi Stall on rain, which is pretty good. But the problem is that it's utility is exclusive to rain and it's BO and HO matchups are decent at best. I still think it's good but It's not worthy of anything higher.
It's great as both an offensive and bulky defoger while also having amazing coverage and decent defensive utility thanks to levitate and a decent typing, letting it resist volt switch and such and thanks to roost it can even switch into decently strong water type attacks.
Sure it has a few flaws, like it's speed not being the greatest and it's 4x weakness to fairy being annoying against Fini but it has enough utility to set it appart from other special attackers in the tier while also being decently powerful, which is why I think it's worthy of B+.
Zydog is just bad, and has always been bad. It's defenses are bad enough that any setup set barely functions, and it's attack is low enough that not even band can save it. The only advantage it has over other grounds is that it has Thousand Arrows, which is pretty good, but that doesn't save it from being completely outclassed by Lando-T and Garchomp.
I can see why it got ranked but I think that it has proven itself as being bad enough to become unranked.
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