This meta is about to get shaken up again in a few days, so I thought I'd put my final personal VR together just for fun. I'll be giving explanations for some mons that I want to touch on. (NONE OF THIS IS ORDERED)
Between its ability to wall almost everything, threatening Toxic on other bulky walls and provide Wish support, it's really damn good. With Tera Poison especially it becomes really annoying as it turns its common weaknesses into resistances and makes Toxic 100% accurate. Love using it but hate playing against it.
Both amazing fighting types at the moment. Flamigo has an insane STAB combination and can pivot (also has recovery if you want that), whereas Aqua Tauros has an incredible ability in Intimidate, is faster, and has a solid defensive typing. These two are amazing Choice item users and Aqua Tauros can even go the setup route with Bulk Up. Definitely the most defining fighters right now.
Might be wondering why it's in A+ instead of S, but it's just mainly down to what I define as an S rank mon. I see S ranks as mons who are very good at what they do and are very splashable. Toxtricity is certainly very strong, but it's quite slow and not that bulky, which in my opinion offsets it to the point where it is not an S rank pokemon as sometimes you would rather have a faster breaker. In my opinion, a pokemon does not have to be S rank to be considered "broken".
It's probably because I'm a noob but I still hate playing against this guy. It was definitely overshadowed by Snorlax (
I honestly think it is very possible that these two coexist together because of their difference in roles. Alolan Decidueye is a lot more threatening offensively because of it's very strong STAB move in Poltergeist, where it can Tera Ghost too boost its power while also powering up it's strong priority in Shadow Sneak. Hisuian Decidueye however has solid defensive merit, with its crazy signature move Triple Arrows and Knock Off resistance. It notably checks mons like Brute Bonnet and Copperajah very well, which Alolan Decidueye can struggle to do.
I'm ngl I thought this mon was complete trash , but I have been playing on the high ladder against this mon and it's very annoying. Now that stuff like Piloswine and Glastrier are a lot less common it can utilise it's defensive typing much better while also spreading burns making it a pretty solid Defog mon. Don't use Perish Trap though it sucks.
"omg is this guy still coping with conda, give it a rest". Listen just hear me out. Sandaconda is not an amazing pick my any means right now as it is very exploitable with Rest and invites a lot of very threatening mons in easily, making Stealth Rock users such as Palossand more ideal. HOWEVER, there is one thing that Sandaconda has which is really important. It is one of the only mons in this tier which has a 100000-0 matchup against Umbreon (provided it has Coil obviously) as it doesn't care about status and Umbreon is not hitting it hard at all with Foul Play. As a Coil user in general it is still quite decent, maybe even a bit overlooked but obviously very specific.
In terms of notable NFEs not on here:
Duraludon -> A-
Rhydon -> A-
Porygon2 -> idk but maybe B- or smth
Probably a lot to disagree with as I am definitely overrating and underrating a lot of mons but who cares lol. If you got any additional questions hit me up in NU discord or if you see me in the PS room. S/O to WilhelmTheOkay as always for making this.