Nominating Ho-Oh to S-Rank.
Ho-oh is in my opinion the best Special Wall in the game.I gets reliable recovery in Roost. Amazing defensive stats in 106/90/154, decent offensive stats and a broken ability in my opinion in the form of Regenerator, with the introduction of Fairy Types it got even better. It can completely wall Xerneas if it is not packing Thunder, and takes like 37% from +2 Fairy Aura Boosted Timid Xerneas,it can also completely shutdown the blobs by substituting on their Wishes or on their status and the blobs won't be able to break the substitute as Seismic Toss does 100 damage and the Sub has more than 100 HP. Ho-Oh also has the ability to wall the likes of Darkrai and can also counter Mega Blaziken,Genesect as it won't get the boost it needs to beat Ho-Oh. Ho-Oh has 344 uninvested Special defense. Just to show how bulky it is, it matches a fully invested Special Defensive Rotom-W with Calm Nature and it has even higher Special Defense than Specially Defensive Heatran and that's without investment. And Ho-Oh doesn't have to limit itself to being defensive to work. It can also use it's very solid attack stat (base 130) to wreck havoc with a Life Orb and it's natural bulk can be a deadly combo.
Only drawback I can think off is his average physical bulk and his 4x weakness to Stealth Rock but it is extremely easy to get rid of hazards on your side of the field with Defog Support which is very helpful in the ubers metagame.
This is the damage Ho-Oh can do with Life Orb:
Ho-oh is in my opinion the best Special Wall in the game.I gets reliable recovery in Roost. Amazing defensive stats in 106/90/154, decent offensive stats and a broken ability in my opinion in the form of Regenerator, with the introduction of Fairy Types it got even better. It can completely wall Xerneas if it is not packing Thunder, and takes like 37% from +2 Fairy Aura Boosted Timid Xerneas,it can also completely shutdown the blobs by substituting on their Wishes or on their status and the blobs won't be able to break the substitute as Seismic Toss does 100 damage and the Sub has more than 100 HP. Ho-Oh also has the ability to wall the likes of Darkrai and can also counter Mega Blaziken,Genesect as it won't get the boost it needs to beat Ho-Oh. Ho-Oh has 344 uninvested Special defense. Just to show how bulky it is, it matches a fully invested Special Defensive Rotom-W with Calm Nature and it has even higher Special Defense than Specially Defensive Heatran and that's without investment. And Ho-Oh doesn't have to limit itself to being defensive to work. It can also use it's very solid attack stat (base 130) to wreck havoc with a Life Orb and it's natural bulk can be a deadly combo.
Only drawback I can think off is his average physical bulk and his 4x weakness to Stealth Rock but it is extremely easy to get rid of hazards on your side of the field with Defog Support which is very helpful in the ubers metagame.
This is the damage Ho-Oh can do with Life Orb:
252 Atk+ Life Orb Ho-Oh Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 252 Def+ Arceus-Ghost (39.8-47.5%) 44.5% to 2HKO after Stealth Rock.
252 Atk+ Life Orb Ho-Oh Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 252 Def+ Mandibuzz (46.2-54.4%) Guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk+ Life Orb Ho-Oh Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 252 Def+ Deoxys-Defense (47.3-56.5%) Guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock.