Red Raven
I COULD BE BANNED!
Gonna make some noms
Landorus-Therian
S -> A+/A
Landorus-T doesn't feel very broken or restrictive on teambuilding rn. once you've slapped on ice beam/ice punch on to something you can be confident that this guy is under control. lando-T w/o sash or yache berry may not even get to set rocks due to mamoswine/weavile using ice shard.
Chomp has these problems as well, but chomp has excellent speed whereas lando-T has mediocre speed. yes it has frail bulk and eh speed but gets great atk and immunites to flying and ground. A+/A material? Certainly. S material? Ehhhhhh... no.
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Charizard
C- -> UR
Wtf is this thing DOING on the ranks? I litteraly never see it and the one archetype it can fit on, sun teams, is outclassed by rain archetypes. Litteraly just a worse barraskewda which isn't the worst mon ever but when barra and rain beat both charizard and sun respectivley i dont thiink zard deserves to be ranked.
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Barraskewda
B- -> at least B+
Speaking of barraskewda, the thing is so cracked rn on rain. Ik it only fits on rain but when you destroy everything on rain thats material thats clearly too good for B-. if a politoed/peliper is alive when barra CC's your ttar out (if you have one) prepare to say goodbye.
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Pelliper
B- -> B+/A-
Back to talking about barra, barraskewda has difficulty reaching its full potential without this boi. (kingdra and semistoad do as well btw)
But when barraskewda enters the field in the rain, theres gonna be alot of destruction brought. (kingdra/semistoad too, albeit to a lesser extent)
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Tornadus-T
A -> A+/S
This thing has 2 ways it can go, both of which it does quite well. one is as a defog pivot knocker (tho I would suggest thundurus for that lol), and the one that thundurus is worse at, Nasty plot attacker that can to oodles of damage. Excellent material if you ask me.
Lando is not exactly a threat and it isn't supposed to be. I do think that Lando is underwhelming this generation but that's not the point. S ranked pokemon are supposed to be those that are easy to slap on teams, can run one or multiple sets and run them effectively, have little to no opportunity costs, and are way above their competition. Lando fits all of these criteria nicely. The only one that can give Lando a run for its money is Garchomp and they're both use very differently. Lando is almost always a utility mon while Garchomp is mainly a contact punisher or a wall breaker / sweeper, or both
Both Pelipper and Barraskewda are fine where they are. Yes, rain pokemon are threatening under rain but that's the keyword 'under rain'. Rain doesn't exactly have that good of a place since Rillaboom is common and Kyurem eats rain alive. That's not even mentioning that rain isn't that common because of how restrictive it is
Tornadus A+ is probably fine but definitely not S rank. Using it as a main wall breaker is not a good idea because of hurricane's accuracy and you do not want to rely on a 70% as your main method of breaking through teams. Even if you're not using offensive Torn it still has issues in checking the things it's supposed to check because of hurricane