Alright, call me crazy here, but i actually think that Hitmonlee could justifiably be moved down to A+ rank in the current metagame.
Don't get me wrong, Hitmonlee is still an excellent wallbreaker, Rapid Spinner, and general offensive Pokemon, but looking at how the metagame has changed in the past few weeks or so i think its fallen a bit from S rank for a few reasons, listed below.
1) The departure of Shuckle
One of the reasons Hitmonlee was so powerful early on was because of the incredible support Shuckle provided it in both round 1 and round 2. One of Hitmonlee's main problems is its decent but not great Speed stat (talking about this more later). With the reliable Sticky Web Shuckle could set though, Hitmonlee outsped pretty much every grounded Pokemon and had no real problem simply charging through a large amount of teams. Hitmonlee no longer has this consistent advantage though, since Shuckle has left the tier and the other Sticky Web setters, while usable, simply aren't as reliable.
2) Awkward Speed Tier.
As mentioned above, Hitmonlee's Speed tier is kinda awkward and often lets it down a bit. Hitmonlee might be able to smash pretty much anything slower than it, but because of that really annoying Speed tier which puts it at a decent range but just below some really common RU threats such as Yanmega and Moltres, it often ends up getting outsped and revenged killed when fighting things such as Offense/Bulky Offense/some balanced teams.
3) Frailty
It's a pretty well known fact Hitmonlee is pretty frail, especially on the physical side. When it comes to taking physical hits, Hitmonlee has a very very hard time switching into anything with a physical attack or even stomaching resisted priority moves (+2 Zoroark Sucker Punch OHKOs iirc lol). This frailty makes it quite annoying to get Hitmonlee into the match a lot of the time, and it often has to come in after a KO or on a predicted double switch. Not just that, but it ties into the point above, that even if the opponent *doesnt* have anything faster than Hitmonlee, they can still take it out before it does too much damage if they have a form of priority, just as long as they can take a Mach Punch.
4) Metagame shifts
In my personal opinion, the metagame has shifted around a bit and people are more prepared to take on Hitmonlee's powerful High Jump Kicks, whether on an offensive or defensive team. Offensive teams are starting to use really threatening Flying-types such as Moltres and YANMEGA more often (the latter is especially important since it 4x resists HJK lol), that can help check Hitmonlee and can't be revenge killed by its Mach Punch at all. Not just that, but DOUBLADE is a very common threat regardless of playstyle in the current metagame, and spinblocks Hitmonlee pretty well even if its Eviolite gets removed. When it comes to more defensive/stally teams, there are still plenty of options, some of which were common even in past metas and some of which are getting rerecognized now. These Pokemon include but aren't limited to Physically defensive Aromatisse (don't give me flac about not being able to run specially defensive aroma to beat Hitmonlee, honestly i actually like Aroma better as a physically defensive mon if i can afford it, especially considering fairy is actually a lot better as a physically defensive type than a specially defensive one), Physically defensive Amoonguss, Gligar (rip Eviolite though), Qwilfish, Weezing, Golbat (rip eviolite again lol), physically defensive varients of Cresselia, Spiritomb, and more. Some of these are more niche than others, but they all have one thing in common: they have effective uses outside of simply beating Hitmonlee, and make a good choice on a team whether they're specifically weak to the kicking fiend or not. At least some of these (Aroma, Gligar, Amoonguss) are pretty easy to fit on Balanced/Stall teams too, at least imo.
So, do you think this is enough of a reason to demote Hitmonlee to A+? Do you have anything to add? If not, why do you think it should stay in S?
EDIT: also why did you guys spend a whole page talking about frogadier .__.