UR --> B-/B
This one I feel like kind of went under the radar, especially considering something like Bellibolt got ranked. Simply put, this is valuable defensively and fairly threatening if it can setup. It's pretty much the only thing that can legitimately wall Band Gapdos at least pre-tera and, while you'd be right to say that Band's lower speed makes it worse than Scarf, it can still be nice to have something that can actually take its hits. Obviously, it can also wall Scarf pretty well and can deal with Torn-T who runs similar coverage. Dancer is also very useful as, with a little bit of speed, you can copy Quaquaval's Aqua Step and Gyarados's Dragon Dance and become a consistent answer to them, assuming they're not running a ton of speed to outspeed some nonexistent scarfer. Aside from that, it's not a sturdy answer to that much, but it can serve as a Scizor check and can annoy some bulky passive stuff like Cyclizar and Slowking due to threatening setup. As far as threatening a sweep goes, it can generally deal with its natural answers through tera more effectively than it could pre-home. While Tyranitar and Quagsire are good counters, their drop in usage makes Oricorio have an easier time breaking through and we're seeing pseudo-answers such as Arcanine-H, Iron Treads and Skeledirge that are more easily pressured and broken by Tera Ground or Water. Even uninvested, Tera Revelation Dance is actually a great way to force Dirge to tera or to straight up beat it if your opponent's tera has already been used as it threatens significant enough damage to properly PP Stall Slack Off. Short of it is that pompom provides good defensive value to teams and that it's still a fairly scary sweeper thanks to a shift in most commonly used mons.
B --> B-
Honestly, I think I was overvaluing this when I originally ranked it, it was nice last month due to being a solid Meow counter and being a good Spiker as it could Toxic every hazard removal option. Both of these have changed this month with Meow rising and Treads dropping, making it much worse at what it's supposed to do.
B --> B+/A-
This, on the other hand, is a very good Poison type. If you're running physdef to make CM work or whatever, you have a very nice blanket wall for stuff like Quaval, Gapdos and even Boots K9, but there's more to it. There is a lot of room for creativity with Glowbro as its wide movepool gives it coverage to get through a lot of different mons and it can use more aggressive sets like Nasty Plot to break. It's also seen some good success on Grassy Terrain teams as it benefits from Grassy Seed and weakened Earthquakes to make setup easier. Finally, there are some QCQD sets that have seen use on HO and, while I don't consider them very good, they are a factor that could still be considered. Its main issue is that its STABs don't pair with its existing coverage that well so it can't hit everything it wants to and struggles to make progress at times, but with Regenerator and its solid defensive profile, it should still be able to put in decent work consistently.
This one I feel like kind of went under the radar, especially considering something like Bellibolt got ranked. Simply put, this is valuable defensively and fairly threatening if it can setup. It's pretty much the only thing that can legitimately wall Band Gapdos at least pre-tera and, while you'd be right to say that Band's lower speed makes it worse than Scarf, it can still be nice to have something that can actually take its hits. Obviously, it can also wall Scarf pretty well and can deal with Torn-T who runs similar coverage. Dancer is also very useful as, with a little bit of speed, you can copy Quaquaval's Aqua Step and Gyarados's Dragon Dance and become a consistent answer to them, assuming they're not running a ton of speed to outspeed some nonexistent scarfer. Aside from that, it's not a sturdy answer to that much, but it can serve as a Scizor check and can annoy some bulky passive stuff like Cyclizar and Slowking due to threatening setup. As far as threatening a sweep goes, it can generally deal with its natural answers through tera more effectively than it could pre-home. While Tyranitar and Quagsire are good counters, their drop in usage makes Oricorio have an easier time breaking through and we're seeing pseudo-answers such as Arcanine-H, Iron Treads and Skeledirge that are more easily pressured and broken by Tera Ground or Water. Even uninvested, Tera Revelation Dance is actually a great way to force Dirge to tera or to straight up beat it if your opponent's tera has already been used as it threatens significant enough damage to properly PP Stall Slack Off. Short of it is that pompom provides good defensive value to teams and that it's still a fairly scary sweeper thanks to a shift in most commonly used mons.
B --> B-
Honestly, I think I was overvaluing this when I originally ranked it, it was nice last month due to being a solid Meow counter and being a good Spiker as it could Toxic every hazard removal option. Both of these have changed this month with Meow rising and Treads dropping, making it much worse at what it's supposed to do.
B --> B+/A-
This, on the other hand, is a very good Poison type. If you're running physdef to make CM work or whatever, you have a very nice blanket wall for stuff like Quaval, Gapdos and even Boots K9, but there's more to it. There is a lot of room for creativity with Glowbro as its wide movepool gives it coverage to get through a lot of different mons and it can use more aggressive sets like Nasty Plot to break. It's also seen some good success on Grassy Terrain teams as it benefits from Grassy Seed and weakened Earthquakes to make setup easier. Finally, there are some QCQD sets that have seen use on HO and, while I don't consider them very good, they are a factor that could still be considered. Its main issue is that its STABs don't pair with its existing coverage that well so it can't hit everything it wants to and struggles to make progress at times, but with Regenerator and its solid defensive profile, it should still be able to put in decent work consistently.