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After going positive in world cup (unlike everyone else on my team), and building extensively for myself and for the south SS core, I have developed some VR noms I would like to share.
Regidrago to S: Regidrago is currently one of the most constricting mons in ss, both in the teambuilder and in battles. It's only truly countered by fairies and a handful of other steels/ices (haxorus, [haban]kyurem, registeel, spd band metagross, avalanche/band glastrier, celesteela, leech seed ferrothorn). All of its sets are outstanding in the current meta and it almost never has a bad matchup on preview.
Togekiss to S-: It's a fairy with good matchups into other fairies and is techable (lots of normal options like scarf/maranga but also many other techs like babiri specs n stuff) broken woah
Ferrothorn to A-: One of the few mons in ss 1v1 that can pretend to beat dfs cores. Ferro is super anti-meta and it's able to wall a fair share of the lower tiers. Fires are not really good right now and a fair amount of the mons that can run fire coverage generally really want to have something else in their moveslots (toge, zera).
Tapu Lele to A-: Taunt cm, in particular, is a spectacular set right now and all of its tech options (scarf, custap, id, specs, natures madness) added together create a very versatile mon that reaches kyurem levels of flexibility. Its options are arguably unexplored but fairies with good matchups into other fairies are just good and taunt cm alone justifies a raise.
Kommo-o to B+: Kommo is in a great spot rn despite fairies being omnipresent. Haban and yache are both very splashable, effectively checking sylv ursh glastrier steels and pult/gdarm. Its matchup spread being weird isn't nearly the problem it once was with mons like arcanine and nihilego being on a general decline.
Entei to B+/A-: Best fire and not a lot else beats croz sylv and gdarm in the one slot. -airfare
Lando-T to B+: AV is a great glue but this mon just does not compare to the rest of the A- rank. Most of its other options like band tend to be super lackluster and generally face competition from garchomp and zygarde.
Naganadel to B-: | 57 | Naganadel | 4 | 1.15% | 0.00% |
I don't trust this mon to check anything, every relevant dragon except hydreigon (:joy:) has a pretty good set that beats it and it doesn't really work as a blanket fairy check due to it losing to sylveon. Non-specs sets are in theory an option to fix some issues but they just don't do enough damage to break through most of the metagame, especially as teams are trending fatter.
Regieleki to C+:
Slowking-G to C+: compared to other blanket fairy check special attackers (zone, venusaur, naga), Glowking is able to beat several mons that they tend to struggle with such as trick cress (hex), ferrothorn, volcarona (power gem), and tapu lele while also having a good matchup against stall thanks to its access to trick. Its niche isn't spectacular but beating fairies is very valuable right now and it has enough on its competition to justify C+.
Sawk to D: Look at the vr and look at sawk. It beats very little reliably and is outclassed by most other fighting types. Sawk on deez nuts
Thanks for reading friends