Scarf Lele is still a threatening cleaner, but the meta adapted to it and the pokebank release have given us even more tools to handle it.I saw that with the release of bank, Tapu Lele dropped down a bit in OU rankings, with people saying her scarf set is outclassed now but the stall breaker set being scary still. Does this apply to battle spot singles as well? Basically I want to know whether I should be going for Timid or Modest when running myself ragged trying to nail HP Fire on Lele (already lost like half a day to it). After seeing everything, I am leaning towards Modest, but am looking for some confirmation on this matter. Bonus points if it's the preferred nature for doubles.
When building a battle spot singles team, imo, you still have to respect Scarf Tapu Lele's power. For example building mons to outspeed it when going +1 (i.e. Flare Charge CharY running a Timid nature instead of a Modest one). So yeah Scarf Lele is still a viable pick and can be a pretty good Choice Scarf user in the proper team, but it's no anymore the "braindead" click + win call that it was in the prebank meta.
If i were using Scarf Lele, i would be using a Timid nature on it, since it outspeeds threats such as Pheromosa, +1 Adamant CharX, +1 Modest CharY and so on..
Anyway Scarf Modest is good, and can be used, but imo Timid is better; this obviously for Singles.