Heracross A- → A
Even though stall has risen recently in usage and viability, it still struggles to find good responses to Swords Dance Flame Orb Heracross. Standard Fighting resistances and physical walls like Doublade, Alomomola, Quagsire, and Altaria Mega take extremely heavy damage or even 100% from boosted moves. While Heracross has problems with staying power, it still puts in good work versus balanced and offensive teams because they often totally lack switchins to even a +0 Heracross. Heracross is definitely becoming a mainstream attacker now.
Alomomola B+ → A-
The reliable stall core of Blissey + Alomomola + Quagsire is showing the metagame how dominant it is. As part of that core, Alomomola offers Wish support and the ability to counter stronger attackers like Choice Band Scizor and Life Orb Mamoswine. Alomomola’s utility is more appreciated than ever because of its ability to work well with Blissey and Quagsire.
Aggron Mega B+ → A-
It checks or counters a lot of prominent threats including practically all of S rank depending on their sets - even Gliscor can lose to Aggron Mega that run Ice moves. The average special defense and lack of recovery hold Aggron back from being a better defensive Pokemon, but it actually counters a lot of threats not by walling but by hitting back hard, being able to deal 70% damage to relatively study attackers like Latias and Serperior is quite nice.
Crobat B → B+
Offensive sets, particularly with Flynium Z, offer good power and Speed. For example, it OHKOs Latias with Z Brave Bird after Stealth Rocks. The ability to naturally check or revenge a large portion of the offensive metagame without even using Choice Scarf while also still providing utility through Taunt, Defog, and/or U-Turn, means Crobat is simply a good Pokemon in the metagame. The main flaw of poor coverage which leads to bad matchups versus few common Pokemon like Mega Aerodactyl and Rotom-Wash can be somewhat easily compensated for in a single partner like Seismitoad.
Snorlax B- → B
Rising because of ability to check and counter some special threats relatively easily that have been trending. Moltres, Manectric Mega, and Kyurem all have major difficulties with Snorlax because of its auto-recovery with Recycle + Figy Berry. However, Snorlax is still pretty susceptible to Knock Offs and status, particularly if it doesn’t use Facade which is a weak STAB. Lastly, while Normal + 1 coverage move isn’t bad, Snorlax still suffers from four moveslot syndrome to some extent, wanting both Fire Punch and Earthquake as coverage. These flaws prevent Snorlax from being mainstream, but do not hold it back from being both an extremely dangerous tank and tough to crack wall.
Volcanion B- → B
It checks quite a few prominent attackers like Scizor and Azumarill while holding tremendous offensive pressure in its flagship Choice Specs set. The overall good stats are somewhat offset by the Stealth Rock weakness and below average speed, but Volcanion still usually finds at least a couple chances to come in versus most teams and when it does, it has few reliable switchins bar Dragons and Blissey.
Quagsire B- → B
It is one of the extremely useful Pokemon on stall that is nearly as ubiquitous as Blissey. It also is a hard stop to a lot of the Belly Drum attackers that have seen a surge with Aurora Veil recently.
Necrozma C+ --> B-
Choice Specs sets have been used to some success and with Necrozma’s wide coverage, it does not have good switchins in the tier bar Blissey. The combination of potential sets Necrozma can run including Swords Dance, Choice Specs, support, and even Rock Polish increases the overall unpredictability and viability of Necrozma.
Linoone unranked → C+
The classic Belly Drum set is very dangerous behind Aurora Veil because the main counterplay to Linoone is usually not letting it set up, but the Aurora Veil support lets it set up relatively reliably. It still has trouble with a few Pokemon like Scizor, although Scizor will need Superpower to KO. However the power is great and thanks to Seed Bomb, not even Quagsire can reliably stop Linoone. The main reason it is being ranked fairly low is because the large amount of support required, but when it works, the payoff is great.
Tsareena unranked → C
It is surprisingly hard to wall since a lot of the physical walls don’t appreciate Grass moves and Power Whip off of a high Attack does very good damage. It has just enough coverage and utility moves to be considered viable.
