Lower Tiers DPP LC Viability Ranking

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Thanks to femboy for the art​

Welcome to the DPP LC viability ranking project. In this project, we will "tier" every Pokemon based on usefulness. The old thread had not been updated in many years and the metagame it reflects has changed significantly, so we are starting anew!

VR Council

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Melon
Imanalt
Fantos13

S
Munchlax
Gligar
A+
Gastly
Snover
Chinchou
Croagunk
Bronzor
Duskull
A
Houndour
Staryu
Machop
Stunky
Koffing
A-
Diglett
Mantyke
Mankey
Elekid
Tailow
Kabuto
Aipom
Ponyta
Zigzagoon
Aron
Cranidos
Voltorb
B+
Abra
Drifloon
Porygon
Wailmer
Wynaut
Dratini
Buizel
B
Pineco
Carvanha
Magnemite
Doduo
Bagon
Glameow
Growlithe
B-
Magby
Teddiursa
Tentacool
Slowpoke
Phanpy
Eevee
Chimchar
Krabby


Thanks to all who contributed to this project, and anyone interested in submitting their own list can contact me. There are hopefully more old gens LC resources to come!

 

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Post LCWC Shifts:
B --> A
A- --> A

Be sure to check out the DPP LC replays in the LCWC Thread!

 

[Mister Magnus]

Nominating Digglet to raise to A its capacity to trap munchlax makes it pretty much a factor in every single game, it has enough u comtility, dig alone liberates like every single elite special attacker and Sweeper in this tier which makes it on pair with the Pursuiter as viable trappers in this tier, it is also extremally spammable, way more than other mons in the A- tier

 

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Squeezing in some rank changes before DPP cup

B- --> B+
A-
B
B+ --> B-
B --> A-


- Rain is better than ever and Buizel is a strong enough feature on the standard version.
- Crani was a major oversight on the first ranking (oops), scarf head smash tears apart plenty of teams. It tends to lose to sash leads and has some bad mus, which is why it isn't as high as the very splashable mons above it.
- Growlithe has been seeing use as a good anti-lead against people spamming balance.
- Krabby has been suffering as more and more people prep for rain.
- Voltorb is crucial to rain and screens and is pretty decent even outside of cheese

Diglett was not voted to A this time, and even though I did vote to raise it I was definitely unsure about it. Diglett would be the least splashable Pokemon in A rank; You can depend on every other Pokemon in that rank to do some work in every matchup, but Diglett has several matchups that it struggles greatly in (snover lead teams, for instance). You could argue it makes up for this with how well it does in some matchups, but the rest of the council thinks that A rank and above should probably be reserved for staples of the metagame.