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Stop posting in this thread with overexaggerated and flawed arguments without any basis or I will violate you. If you want to smarten up and actually be logical about this (adding a few actually metagame-relevant calculations would be a good start!) that's cool. I don't even mind an argument for a rank absol, but you provide basically no actual evidence. "It's too weak" isn't an argument when you don't actually have any examples (and how in the world can you get off with saying that a decent STAB move off of 130 base attack is weak?).
Weak when compared to Braviary or Ludicolo or Zangoose or Emboar or even Samurott. Or Relicanth.
Alrighty then, I will.
252+ LO Absol's STAB Night Slash Vs. 252/252+ Amoonguss:
147 - 174 (34.03% - 40.28%) damage, 3HKO (with low damage rolls and leftovers recovery 4HKO).
252+ LO Absol's Superpower Vs. 252/4 Regirock:
201 - 237 (55.22% - 65.11%) damage, guaranteed 2HKO if it wasn't for the attack drop. Factoring in leftovers and the attack drop, without SR even two max damage rolls won't 2HKO Regirock with no defense investment.
252+ LO Absol's Superpower Vs. 252/252+ Regirock:
160 - 189 (43.96% - 51.92%) damage, possible 2HKO. With SR + Leftovers it's a 70.94% to 2HKO. With the attack drop it fails to 2HKO even with max damage rolls and SR.
252+ LO Absol's STAB Sucker Punch Vs. 0/4 (scarfed) Emboar:
131 - 155 (36.29% - 42.94%) damage, 3HKO even with SR.
252+ LO Absol's Superpower Vs. 252/0 Eviolite Gurdurr:
143 - 169 (38.24% - 45.19%) damage, 3HKO even without attack drop.
252+ Gurdurr's STAB Mach Punch Vs. 4/0 Absol:
188 - 222 (69.37% - 81.92%) damage, possible OHKO with 1 SR switch in and 1 round of LO recoil.
252+ LO Absol's STAB Night Slash Vs. 252/252+ Alomomola:
136 - 161 (25.47% - 30.15%) damage, with four max damage rolls and an Alomomola that gets parahaxed multiple times or otherwise fails to make a move, only receiving recovery through leftovers it's a 4HKO.
But Absol's not a wallbreaker, it's a revenge killer:
252+ LO Absol's STAB Sucker Punch Vs. 0/0 Ludicolo:
250 - 295 (83.61% - 98.66%) damage, 74.36% chance to OHKO with SR.
252+ LO Absol's STAB Sucker Punch Vs. 80/0 Braviary:
237 - 279 (65.65% - 77.29%) damage, 15.38% chance to OHKO with Stealth Rocks.
However, remember that...
252+ CB Relicanth's STAB Head Smash Vs. 0/0 Ludicolo:
419 - 494 (140.13% - 165.22%) damage, guaranteed OHKO.
And...
252+ LO Kangaskhan's Drain Punch Vs. 4/0 Absol:
286 - 338 (105.54% - 124.72%) damage, guaranteed OHKO without SR
252+ LO Absol's STAB Sucker Punch Vs. 4/0 Kangaskhan:
225 - 265 (63.92% - 75.28%) damage, failing to OHKO even after an SR switch in and a round of LO recoil.
Absol packs a punch against offensive pokemon, sure, but he's seriously lacklustre at breaking down walls. Of course that's not his job, his job is to use the prediction-heavy and obvious Sucker Punch to take out fast offensive threats. That's an important role, to be sure, but it shouldn't make a pokemon S-Rank. An S-Rank pokemon needs to be able to go on a rampage through an opponents' team (like Zangoose or Ludicolo) or be able to consistently perform its' role with little to no risk (Regirock), or wall the opponent without worrying about becoming setup fodder (Musharna... Mostly).
As I've said before, Absol doesn't have the speed or the raw power to sweep teams, it relies on prediction to take out opponents and is too frail to take a hit if you miss predict. It may have great neutral coverage, but Superpower is only good for two hits, three tops. It's true that Dark / Fighting gives fantastic neutral coverage, but SPower and SPunch are just too easy to play around.
Its prowess at removing, or at least halting, faster sweepers and its' ability to hit the Psychic, Normal and Rock types in the NU tier for heavy damage are very welcome, but Absol is still too situational and too risky to be S-Rank. If Night Slash had 100 BP, or if Sucker Punch was a Dark typed Extremespeed, or if Superpower was Close Combat things might be different, but as it stands I vote that Absol is
A-Rank.