Resource 1v1 Scarlet and Violet Viability Rankings

[SomeRandomDoodle]

UR --> C / C+

Exeggutor-Alola @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Harvest
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 240 Def / 16 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Protect
- Leech Seed
- Substitute
- Psychic Noise

speed for dondozo rest dumped in def and hp leech turn one then spam protect into sub if they are faster. if they are faster leech, then sub, once they break your sub, sub again. psynoise is for sneasler galar and harvest + sitrus is op

 

[BigChuchu]

UR --> C / C+

With all due respect to a fellow Exeggutor enjoyer, I think your post is more appropriate in the Set Dump thread. You can't be seriously asking to move it straight to C just because that one set happens to beat some Sneaslers (itemless Gunk Shot still has a 32% chance to kill you).

If you want to use PsyNoise with Harvest, consider using regular : slightly faster, has more resistances, and PsyNoise is STAB.
But for Sitrus Harvest strats in general, remains the best: faster, bulkier and with less weaknesses.

I played with Exeggutor-A a lot, I found a small niche with Haban vs Archaludon (Bulldoze>DMeteor), but now it just gets bodied by everyone. Its typing and stats are just unfortunate.

Sharing my set to add to yours

Exeggutor-Alola @ Life Orb
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 76 HP / 112 Def / 68 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Draco Meteor
- Calm Mind
- Protect

Max speed for slow Prim/Volcanion/Ursa. Protect for custap. Bulks max specs Volcanion Overheat after Calm Mind (parano calc?), and jolly band Urshifu-RS Close Combat (you obviously fold to Ice Spinner).

 

[neomon]

gm, I am here to write up my changed votes post PL

Rises:

A+ -> S-
even stuff that beats it by type advantage needs to EV either to live Custap/AV, the set diversity combined with its bulk and attack is enough to make it stand out as one of the top threats in the metagame

A -> A+
I don't like using this, nor building with it, but its impact on the metagame is hard to ignore, the speed and defense allocation makes it so stuff without type advantage can basically never beat it reliably, this is especially op vs people that dont like bringing the good mons (hoopa, crown, ursa, what have you)

A- -> A
I have underrated this mon for a while, but its very consistent in what it beats and for me, it's the third best fairy in the tier by a big margin, i think non lefties or LO are not good though

B -> A-
B was honestly quite low for it, but mostly because I was not really a believer in non choiced sets and the choiced sets are the worst part about dragapult. Wisp WP and Curse both have merrit individually, though i believe wisp is better, curse can be annoying aswell

A- -> A
running bulk on this is optimal, funny enough, fancy and i both prepared bulky cb hax for the semi series and i think currently thats whats optimal and the most annoying at the same time, scarf is pretty, whihc makes this fairly one dimensional, but the bulk can be chosen for literally anything (specs volcanion or spect, booster hands, band donphan,...)

Anti Hands

Haxorus @ Choice Band
Ability: Unnerve
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 8 Atk / 156 Def / 72 SpD / 20 Spe
Impish Nature
- Outrage
- First Impression
- Scale Shot
- Earthquake

B+ -> A-
Good typing and easy to use, haban can patch up some sketchy hitlists while band and LO are just generally good vs the metagame at hand

B+ -> A-
Great typing and deceiptively hard to beat, its biggest downside is that some matchups can be unreliable between endure and sub, and that it in principle wants to run taunt as well. LO is also decent, even if quite a bit worse than just the liechi and normal gem ones

C -> B
We need fire types, and this one is probably the 4th best, after volcarona, volcanion and skeledirge. i think it still has flaws that put it behind the other fires (needing to run flame charge for corvi and serp as opposed to volcarona and skeledirge, and the water resist in volcanions case) but in principle it still gives us something that feels quite rare in the metagame, between being good into almost all the fairies, steels and hoopa at the same time

C -> B+
This is also a massive rise for me on my VR, but this is mostly due to me not using it a ton before umbd and PL. I think this mon is convincing in the mus it does have, and while i sometimes feel like water veil might just be the generally more consistent ability, the matchups unaware just locks up vs random boosters (id meta, sneasler eg) does also feel good and quite rewarding in the builder


Drops:

S- -> A
while it patches up a lot of hitlists, it really reduces down previews to massively annoying almost coinflips

B- -> C+
While this is a demon on paper, building actual good teams with this is impossible since, if you're running something like LO, which flips the most natural disavantageous mus it has, it suddenly doesnt beat the stuff realiably that you would expect choiced pzs to beat

B+ -> B
i cant really explain it but it just feels a lot worse than it did a few months ago, i dont have a good reason for it though

B+ -> B
this mon cannot beat anything reliably at all, combined with pure dark just not being mega nice as a type, if you run anything, i suggest running mixed life orb

Mixed LO

Darkrai @ Life Orb
Ability: Bad Dreams
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 48 Atk / 220 SpA / 240 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Ice Beam
- Rock Slide
- X-Scissor

Nom (im not actually sure this has been posted before, i just see i cant vote for it on the VR sheet)

UR -> C+
The typing is good, and while it doesnt really fit on very many teams, its certainly better than any of what this is,

Ive only seen AV run in practice and in theory, but im curious if anybody actually bothered to use anything else yet

 

[delemon]

Not allowed to play in pl noms

UR -> B/B+

Spoiler

Basculegion (M) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Adaptability
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 56 HP / 252 Atk / 168 Def / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Aqua Jet
- Night Shade
- Phantom Force
- Wave Crash
Optimized for darkrai + banded pult well keeping max attack idr the rolls but they're good.

Beats prim, crown, corv, metagross, val, ursa, goodrah, alolatails, canion, volcaorna, most pults, sylv, wake. Can run other sets like lo which could force 50/50s on spect with shadow ball, be better into hoopa, beat pecha among other possibilities, but av is the best set currently.

C- -> B+
In the same tier as kingambit and latios is insane. Between lefties, amulet and scarf you end up beating a lot of the meta currently, mainly the dragons and volcarona/volcanion.

C- -> C+
Well its really weak the typing helps a lot against dragons, hoopa, ground types if you are balloon, and iron valiant. Can also run non balloon items like lo since drago is gone making it a lot more techable.

Spoiler

Tinkaton @ Life Orb
Ability: Mold Breaker
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 120 HP / 156 Atk / 200 Def / 4 SpD / 28 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Play Rough
- Gigaton Hammer
- Encore
- Swords Dance

UR -> D
Those who know

A- -> B
Very inconsistent and there's almost always a better fairy, like ninetales, primarina, or even florges, to run over it. Being inconsistent into prim also makes running this a lot harder.

 

[Mentality]

This is the most fun this tier has been in a while

I'll explain a few of my rankings. Entire C rank is only good if you're running a tech on them.

S

Single best mon in the tier, by far. You don't really need more than the standard sets. Encore Disable (high def, high spdef, mixed), band and specs are enough. Add subversal and more niche stuff like attack booster or WP and you have the most solid top tier. Its only issue is that unlike the other two, there are a few too many mons that beat it consistently.

Controversial probably, but this mon has so much set diversity and power. AV, Balloon (offensive and Idpress), resist berries, WP (broken set, especially impish), scarf, etc. Spdef and Def variations of ecah of those sets have very variable matchup spreads, and against someone who abuses it, this mon is impossible to account for consistently without being pidgeonholed into a few mons.

S-

Spdef band is broken, Defensive band is broken, Custap is powerful, Defensive LO is great, IDpress is great, the rest are usable. Water types in general are broken and this is one of the best glues in the tier.

PLEASE STOP RUNNING ACROBATICS, ITS BAD. It also isnt as pidgeonholed into sub and dd as you would think. Accounting for speed booster can be rather annoying.

Best ground type in the tier by far. Its bulk alone makes it worth it, along with consistent matchups into many top tiers. I like LO and Band the most, but scarf and av push it much higher for me.

Broken dragon type with an insane amount of set diversity.

A+

You force so many things and then you punish people for the things you force. Scarf is a personal favorite of mine, but band and av are what gives it so much power imo. Attack booster itself also has a lot of options in the 4th slot.

Run max speed stall more, chesto and sitrus are good. Offensive sets are also good.

This mon is kinda broken on paper still. I like taunt+counter, WP and Custap a lot.

A

Yeah im not sure why this mon is ranked so low. Its on easily the level of sylveon and better than every other fairy. You beat other fairies, you can beat volcarona, charm beats the ground types. Whats not to love?

Impish grassy seed is broken. LO is good. Subseed can be funny.

A-

This mon is really good between stall, band and av. People also get 3-0d by bulky physical fires a lot.

Run more blastoise please. Its bulky and it hits like a truck. High def LO is my favorite.

Only this high because it can hax everything in existence

B+

entei's younger brother which is better into physical attackers and dragons

The grass type that beats fairies and other grass types. Its not bad.

Run av and watch it nuke things

Spdef Specs is good

These two mons are rather similar. Run bulky band more on haxorus, run resist berries on bax.

Not too good but you can finesse people between IDpress and Band

B

Countercoat isnt the only thing you can run on it, more offensive av sets can be rather good

Tom numbers propaganda mon, but bulky shell smash mons are good.

Dark types are too good

Tickle + Encore beats more than you would think. You can genuinely drop population bomb and go chople sometimes.

Just run the move substitute and beat things.

Both of these mons are bad. They always do the exact same thing, with very little room for creativity. They function as decent glues but nothing more than that.

 

[bea]

if a pokemon isn't here its probably D rank atm (latios is cool but i cba to fix my VR)

posted this in cord so might asw post it here too, list heavily inspired by PL and while I wouldn't implement all of these there are some I agree with

Iron Valiant: A+ -> S-

pretty clear that this mon is back to top form, still a mon that you can cover in the builder solidly but has many positive building options

Sylveon: A- -> A+

its a pretty reliable pokemon that has flexibility in how you handle certain pokemon, def up there as a fairy

Goodra-Hisui: A -> A+

due to it's great typing it has a lot of ways you can go around using this pokemon while not sacrificing too many matchups

Iron Crown: S- -> A

maybe A is harsh and its more like an A+ pokemon, but this never really felt super great to load up and while WP is strong its very much prepped for + spa booster gives you some pretty great matchups that makes fitting WP difficult

Ursaluna: A+ -> S-

this pokemon just keeps on getting improved on and overall techs more then its getting teched, brought alot for a reason

Raging Bolt: A+ -> A-

this pokemon isn't terrible but I think it lacks flexibility + I find that even nonsolid teams can handle raging bolt just by virtue if handling the other major dragons in the tier due to it's middling speed (someone will run timid and we will see something cursed happen)

Moltres-Galar: B+ -> A-

has some actually great matchups especially with the usage of Life Orb, hurricane is hurricane so naturally this lands in A-

B+ ranks (Great Tusk, Zarude, Florges)

all 3 of these are pokemon that I have used/considered using a fair bit and beat relevant pokemon while also having multiple sets that can work

Basculegion: UR -> C+

I would not be surprised to see this pokemon end up being even higher then what I put it, AV gets alot of good matchups

 

[Murm]

Post PL VR Shifts
yes it's been a while my bad
Rises:
Hoopa-Unbound A+ -> S
Pecharunt A -> A+
Raging Bolt A -> A+
Ninetales-Alola A- -> A
Spectrier A- -> A
Dragapult B+ -> A
Garchomp B+ -> A-
Roaring Moon B+ -> A-
Urshifu-Rapid-Strike A- -> A
Walking Wake B+ -> A-
Zapdos B+ -> A
Annihilape B+ -> A-
Serperior B -> B+
Great Tusk B -> B+
Porygon-Z B- -> B
Entei C+ -> B
Rhyperior B- -> B
Dondozo C+ -> B-
Porygon2 C -> C+
Sandy Shocks C- -> C
Ting-Lu C -> C+
Florges D -> B-
Magnezone C- -> C
Muk-Alola C- -> C
Talonflame D -> C
Torterra D -> C-
Blastoise D -> C-
Blaziken D -> C-
Gardevoir D -> C-
Klefki D -> C-
Sableye D -> C-
Sinistcha D -> C-
Kommo-o UR -> D
Venusaur UR -> D
Regieleki UR -> D
Basculegion UR -> B-
Shaymin UR -> D
Drops:
Iron Crown S -> A+
Cresselia A- -> B+
Darkrai B+ -> B
Ursaluna-Bloodmoon B+ -> B
Heatran B- -> C+
Fezandipiti B- -> C+
Ninetales C- -> D
Granbull D -> UR
Lilligant-Hisui D -> UR
Clefable D -> UR
Electrode-Hisui D -> UR

Kry and Frailty have also stepped down from the VR Council, thank you for your contributions.

 

[Murm]

I am stepping down from Viability Council Leader, and bern is now leader!

 

[bern]

Some important news before WC starts.

Mentality, Nuxl, RADU, and gorilaa are now part of VR Council!

 

[frogfacts]

Gallade UR > C/C+ or smth

Gallade (M) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Psychic
EVs: 112 HP / 216 Atk / 180 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Leaf Blade
- Shadow Sneak
- Sacred Sword
- Triple Axel

Gallade (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Psychic
EVs: 64 HP / 252 Atk / 24 SpD / 168 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Leaf Blade
- Sacred Sword
- Shadow Sneak
- Psycho Cut

Here are a few sets I've made: with the combination of its high special bulk and good Attack stat + Sharpness, you can make Gallade beat a surprising amount of top tiers like Primarina, Hoopa, Iron Crown, Ursaluna (non-Custap), Corviknight, etc. And I'm pretty sure the AV set can reliably beat Raging Bolt, but I might be lying.

Another mon I also wanna nom is Baxcalibur. It's currently C- tier, but I've built with it and used it for LT, and I have had a lot of success with it. The set is just max/max Band, but you get a lot of good MUs and your dragon mu and lando mu also improves alot cause of ice shard + it's easy to build with. I think it could easily be like B-/B tier it's definitely not a C- tier mon.

Some other mons which have kinda crazy placements on the VR are Iron Hands (which Radu already said in the 1v1 cord why is it B+????), and also Meowscarada and Zapdos are overrated, but Zapdos-Galar is underrated asf.

 

[SomeRandomDoodle]

Basculegion b- -> b+/a-

this thing is just so good I spam its av set on every single team and is very consistent, beats most ghosts, prims, hoodra, and many more. Also its just way better then stuff like Kyurem, Lando-i, Whimsi, and Rhyperior in my opinion.

Shaymin d -> c-/c

anti-hands

Shaymin @ Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 12 HP / 240 Def / 252 SpA / 4 Spe
Modest Nature
- Seed Flare
- Dazzling Gleam
- Earth Power
- Quick Attack

This pokemon is not the best but can do some stuff, it feels decent at least and deserves to be higher then d at least. Furthermore this mon is very flexable, with sub seed sets, physical attacking, and special attacking sets.

iron hands b+ -> a-/a

why is iron hands this low. This mon is very fat, beats a lot of the metagame. Has sets other then booster energy you can find here https://pokepast.es/901edea327893885. (not mine someone elses, the person linked it in the 1v1 chat and I have found this very helpful)

tyranitar b- -> c or lower

I never see this and when I do its very underwhelming. I don't think it deserves b- tier since I think mons like Florges, Belli, and Dondozo are far better then it.

these are my opinion and may not be correct

 

[bern]

September VR Shifts
idk if i'm doing these monthly but we just had 4 players join so naturally there's a ton of changes.

Rises:
Iron Valiant A+ -> S-
Spectrier A -> A+
Iron Hands B+ -> A-
Entei B -> B+
Zarude B -> B+
Dondozo B- -> B
Tinkaton C -> C+
Baxcalibur C- -> C+
Blastoise C- -> C
Maushold D -> C-
Shaymin D -> C-

Drops:
Hoopa-Unbound S -> S-
Corviknight A+ -> A
Raging Bolt A+ -> A
Meowscarada A -> A-
Volcanion A -> A-
Zapdos A -> A-
Annihilape A- -> B+
Moltres-Galar A- -> B+
Serperior B+ -> B
Landorus B -> B-
Rhyperior B -> B-
Whimsicott B -> B-
Tyranitar B- -> C+
Porygon2 C+ -> C
Clodsire C -> C-
Enamorus C- -> D
Gardevoir C- -> D
Latios C- -> D
Torterra C- -> D
Cobalion D -> UR
Grafaiai D -> UR
Kommo-o D -> UR
Salamence D -> UR
Slaking D -> UR
Slither Wing D -> UR
Tauros-Paldea-Blaze D -> UR
Thundurus D -> UR
Venusaur D -> UR

As only 2 members have voted on Gallade, it hasn't been placed on the VRs yet.

 

[Sinik]

As only 2 members have voted on Gallade, it hasn't been placed on the VRs yet

Wake up

 

[bellchime]

shoutouts glitched for making this into a tiermaker image ty glitched

ranked everything B- or higher on the VR sheet right now.

B- is really things that could go below B- tho and also bax + gallade + blastoise + treads should probs rise a bit (they're not ranked here tho bc I'm lazy or w/e)

call me bad or smth for my takes below or smth

ALSO pls standardize day/month/year or month/day/year on VR voting like what is 10/5/2025 is that october or may like..

 

[frogfacts]

#ban pecha broken and uncompetetive pokemon in 1
hoopa not even a S tier but im a sheep
val is ass
glastrier is good
hoodra is broken
-frogfacts

 

[glitched]

https://tiermaker.com/create/sv-1v1-viability-rankings-tiermaker-16157830

i have made this to make good looking viability rankings it took me 25 minutes lmk if u want a mon added

 

[deddd]

willing to act post this since im not building / playing any more sv this year at least

Notes:
I have a rly low opinion of prim since its slow and just can lose to so many strong physical attackers(bandtusk, bandorus if you dont run enough bulk, haxorus, ursa, can die to chien a lot). I think its set variety is really scary but building with it feels so much like yeah I hope my opponent doesn't bring the ground type that kills me instantly. Also idk why i would ever bring specs prim when specs mana exists. Ig roaring moon?

I think both shifus are really strong. Love running av/custap on dark and running band/lorb/berry on rapidshifu. Dark just feels like really reliable into hoopa + steels(besides corvi lol if no boosting item) and av being able to do things like cheese atales and beat standard bolt feels so good. Also subversal is always scary as fuck. Watershifu is definitely a bulky boosting item merchant -- running things like bulky cb iron head just feels so great into atales. Also just beating every ground basically for free.

Bulky band haxorus is insane. being able to beat hands with this mon while sacrificing relatively little is so crazy.

Ik ppl have soured a bit on crown but its still such a headache to defeat, especially weakness policy(why did we stop running ts). Speed and Spatk booster are also a headache to deal with and av is solid if you run actual spdef.

Iron hands and Bolt are basically both statchecks but Iron Hands access to heavy slam and ice punch are really what make me favor it a lot. Also jolly hands is the funniest shit ever. Bolt does have tech(lol bold wp) but its so commital whereas iron hands you can kinda play around w the ev slider and moveslots.

Canion and wake despite being things i would never bring are quite strong. not much to say since these mons r linear asf but they get the job done.
In a similar vein stuff like meowscarada chien pao sneasler are always going to be p strong in my opinion because they just shit out damage and you have to account for them and some teams really hate bulking for them.

Basculegion is a really nice glue. I think most ghosts in the tier are really good bc they often synergize really well w the dark types you want to run(shifu, hoopa, gren(LOL), moltg). The entire pl we ran like malig gunk pech b/c losing to encsable is rly cringe.

Shitter mon notes:
treads is not bad
blastoise is very strong and very funny
Darkrai is good if youre willing to ball with 70% thunder and 70% focus blast
Bellibolt sucks
slaking just beats hoopa since custap steals ur band
band zarude is p good
landoi misses out on every kill that it wants to get

 

[Mentality]

Samurott-Hisui UR to B-/B


Samurott-Hisui @ Choice Band
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 140 Atk / 152 SpD / 216 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Night Slash
- Aqua Cutter
- Sucker Punch
- X-Scissor
speed for hoopa bulk for spect i think.

its not that good but its a water/dark type that beats some top tiers, this set is unoptimised anyways. AV is probably worth looking into.

 

[bern]

October 2025 VR Shifts

Rises:
Hoopa-Unbound S- -> S
Ursaluna A+ -> S-
Zapdos A- -> A
Basculegion B- -> B+
Rillaboom B- -> B
Iron Treads C- -> C
Gallade UR -> D
Latias UR -> D

Drops:
Iron Valiant S- -> A+
Urshifu-Rapid-Strike A -> A-
Scizor B+ -> B
Ursaluna-Bloodmoon B -> B-
Tinkaton C+ -> C
Glastrier C -> C-
Iron Boulder C -> C-
Porygon2 C -> C-
Empoleon C- -> D
Klefki C- -> D
Maushold C- -> D
Shaymin C- -> D

Samurott-Hisui has been added to the sheet, Munchlax has been removed from the sheet.