Yeah, Jolly +1 Scrafty is slower than base form Aerodactyl and Crobat, both of which can murder you with super effective Flying STAB. Also any common scarfer would be above Scrafty's middling speed tier, meaning it's easily revenged.
I can be on board with all of those except for steelix. It's not amazing, but nothing beyond B- really is. With a decent movepool and a couple of solid abilities, It can definitely cause problems. For reference,Okay...so I'll be the first to post a few...again.
->D It's bad. It's really easy to deal with, since things like Mega Aerodactyl, Mega Aggron, Forretress, Alomomola, and Sableye are quite common. It has such a minimal effect on the battle for its cost of a teamslot. Technician Fake Out seems nice, but many people can see that coming from miles away. Almost any team will have a way to get rid of this thing. Combine that with the fact that it offers basically no synergy with the team, is frail, and in general is weak and you have a bad, bad, Pokemon.
->D/off the list Basically in the same boat as Ambipom. It is, to put it flatly, bad. It cannot spin very reliably at all, because Sableye can block it. But the main problem with it is that it is simply too weak to this metagame. Looking through the S and A Ranks, a vast majority of the Pokemon in those ranks can and will beat Claydol one-on-one. Claydol also suffers from this terrible inability to switch into anything reliably because of its poor defensive typing. Not to mention, Claydol has like no offensive presence, so it's extremely passive. Basically, it's setup fodder for everything. Defog has also made its niche much less important, not to mention we have Donphan and Mega Blastoise now.
->C- It's not really cut out for the metagame. Tons of things deal with it effectively, like Crobat, Hydreigon, Infernape, Heracross, etc. It has a really hard time sweeping teams, let alone nabbing a Quiver Dance. The HP nerf hit it hard, and its coverage is still as poor as ever. The poor thing just isn't really good at much this generation. Seeing as how Vivillon is currently C+, and Lilligant is worse, this thing should be much lower than Vivillon.
->Off the List (or D) This thing is garbage. It may have Contrary Superpower, but it has like no resistances to make use of at all. Its stats are also incredibly subpar, as it's really slow and not that bulky: not to mention it's pretty weak. Aromatisse has also become decently common on pink cores and owns this thing. It can be worn down pretty easily, and U-turn from Crobat and Hydreigon also hurts it. Not to mention Heracross is currently one of the most prominent Pokemon atm. This Pokemon is basically worse than mediocre and should be removed.
->Off the List Why would I use Steelix ever? I guess it's bulky...but it's weak...and does nothing really useful that isn't done better by another Pokemon. It has no reason to be used lol.
->C- Pretty much worse than Blissey. It has Dragon Tail though, and Body Slam is okay. This thing is still pretty much outclassed.
Yeah...basically all of these noms are to move things down, because at this point we're basically looking through a large pool of poor Pokemon that don't see much, if any use at all.
Why? The sheer force steelix I showed hits harder than mega agron unless megron is running heavy slam and gets a nice weight advantage on heavy slam and Iit has stab on earthquake as well to completely shame it. Obviously, filter and mono steel are great to have and make it far more viable than steelix, but I dont see why steelix should be consider completely unusable.Avalugg should drop to D/C- ran. I have no clue why you guys think this should stay C+ rank as in practice, it CERTAINLY does not pull its weight like other [official] C+ 'mons do. Sure, it has the physical defense to survive shit as strong as LO Sheer Force Flare Blitz from Darmanitan, but its combination of abysmal defensive typing + Special Defense seriously screw it over. (What special attack does it even resist??)
Calc proof: 252 Atk Life Orb Sheer Force Darmanitan Flare Blitz vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Avalugg: 322-382 (81.9 - 97.2%)
Claydol should be unranked. It's completely outclassed by Donphan/Forry, both of whom have superior defensive typing/physical defense and are thus better at spinning and checking a greater variety of threats.
Steelix should also be unranked. It's outclassed by both Rhyperior and Mega Aggron, and don't even get started on the Sheer Force set lol.
Might as well unrank Malamar too. Simply put, it's just not viable in this metagame at all because it's easily taken advantage of by a shitton of threats due to its piss weak offense. To put its weak offense into perspective, it can't even OHKO Infernape with Psycho Cut without Adamant nature and that nature doesn't even guarantee the kill either.
This is where Rhyperior comes in: it hits harder than Steelix in general with just max attack Adamant Nature, and that's already taking into account the Sheer Force + Life Orb on Steelix. Of course, Rhyperior doesn't have the Steel STAB, but it's not like Steel types are that useful outside of Fairies and certain rock types like Mega Aero, both of which Mega Aggron still eternally rape.Why? The sheer force steelix I showed hits harder than mega agron unless megron is running heavy slam and gets a nice weight advantage on heavy slam and Iit has stab on earthquake as well to completely shame it. Obviously, filter and mono steel are great to have and make it far more viable than steelix, but I dont see why steelix should be consider completely unusable.
252+ Atk Life Orb Sheer Force Steelix Iron Head vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Hippowdon: 118-140 (28 - 33.3%) -- 89.8% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Mega Aggron Iron Head vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Hippowdon: 97-115 (23 - 27.3%) -- possible 5HKO after Leftovers recovery
I gave them both max attack for comparison sake. Iron head did more to hippo in this instance than heavy slam for megron so I slapped that on to help it out a bit.
I agree with this. I think it was because people initially forgot about Combusken so it never got a rank to start. Even then, CB Ninjask is outclassed by CrobatSorry to stray off topic, but I was wondering why Ninjask is D rank and Combusken is unlisted. Combusken is like 4000 times better than Ninjask and should be ranked somewhere (I'm not sure where, but I'm pretty sure FLCL has used it in UU). Ninjask should also be removed from the list because it is 1) really bad and even if it weren't outclassed by combusken it should be unranked and 2) outclassed by combusken unless you are using like CB infiltrator in which case see #1.
Ninjask --> removed
Combusken-->somewhere