Sooooo, as we are discussing B rank, I think two monsters probably need to move out, they are Gothitelle and Arceus-Electric.
Gothitelle just sucks these days. what does that thing even do? Trap a Latis? It will get mauled by Draco Meteor. Trap an Arceus form? Maaaaybe but they aren't as common/important these day since physical Arceus form(notably Earth and Normal) is getting more common, you can't trap Ghost and Dark, and Water and Grass dropped a lot in usage. I think its only real niche is to trap Lugia but that's about it. It literally loses to everything else as it has low base stat. I personally would even dump it to D, it is just that bad, but I guess a C- rank sounds more fair.
Arceus-Electric also loses a lot of its former glory. Groudon-Primal is on every team ready to destroy it, I guess you can try to use earth power, but you lose hard to SalaQuazza, Arceus Ground, Giratina-O, the lati twin and more. Checking Kyogre isn't as important as it used to be. The fact that earth coverage moves are much more common (Like Earth Power on Arceus-Fairy or Earthquake on Metagross) also does it no favor. And after all that you still have most of the old problems to deal with such as Darkari, Mewtwo, Mega-Gengar (it will at least stop ur sweep with Dbond), Tyranitar, Blissey, wasting your Arceus-slot, and so on. Checking Ho-oh is still cool though but you should consider Arceus-Rock first most of the time as it also resist Fire. A C+ seems more appropriate.
EDIT: Forgot to mention Excadrill too, it should also leave B just because weather is very difficult to maintain now and its Sand Sweeper set isn't very viable. It can still be used as a Bulky Spinner but that's kind of obsolete also with so many good Defog user nowadays. A C rank should be better for it.
Gothitelle just sucks these days. what does that thing even do? Trap a Latis? It will get mauled by Draco Meteor. Trap an Arceus form? Maaaaybe but they aren't as common/important these day since physical Arceus form(notably Earth and Normal) is getting more common, you can't trap Ghost and Dark, and Water and Grass dropped a lot in usage. I think its only real niche is to trap Lugia but that's about it. It literally loses to everything else as it has low base stat. I personally would even dump it to D, it is just that bad, but I guess a C- rank sounds more fair.
Arceus-Electric also loses a lot of its former glory. Groudon-Primal is on every team ready to destroy it, I guess you can try to use earth power, but you lose hard to SalaQuazza, Arceus Ground, Giratina-O, the lati twin and more. Checking Kyogre isn't as important as it used to be. The fact that earth coverage moves are much more common (Like Earth Power on Arceus-Fairy or Earthquake on Metagross) also does it no favor. And after all that you still have most of the old problems to deal with such as Darkari, Mewtwo, Mega-Gengar (it will at least stop ur sweep with Dbond), Tyranitar, Blissey, wasting your Arceus-slot, and so on. Checking Ho-oh is still cool though but you should consider Arceus-Rock first most of the time as it also resist Fire. A C+ seems more appropriate.
EDIT: Forgot to mention Excadrill too, it should also leave B just because weather is very difficult to maintain now and its Sand Sweeper set isn't very viable. It can still be used as a Bulky Spinner but that's kind of obsolete also with so many good Defog user nowadays. A C rank should be better for it.
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