Volcanion, while it is very hyped right now, is still a very important force in the OU metagame. It pairs extremely well with what is arguably the best mon in the tier, Clefable, and is also able to handle it and similar faries with little to no trouble. You claim that it's beaten by garchomp, and while it is true that garchomp can act as a decent check to volcanion, there is absolutely now way that it can switch in on steam eruption- the same goes for Lando-T. It's ability to spread status against fatter builds with not only steam eruption, but also the threat of sludge bomb poisoning a key bulky water, such as slowbro, invalidating it as a counter. Furthermore, Volcanion is a very important mon for keeping Pokemon such as BD azumarril from quickly cutting down offensive teams. While it does have an unfortunate weakness to hazards, it tends to synergize decently well with top hazard removers offensively, easily handling bulky steels for latios and ferrothorn for starmie. Its bulk, especially physically, is excellent, allowing it to go 1 for 1 even against very powerful physical attackers such as Mega Lopunny and Mega Metagross. However, I feel that Volcanion's biggest attribute keeping it in A+ right now is how important it is to the metagame right now. It's added a new dynamic of a good water immunity of offense, keeping some scald users from threating the rest of the teams with burns. Being a pokemon that can spread burns is a scaldlike manner yet still walk all over fat grasses is an enormous boon- teams can no longer slap a celebi, Amoongus, or even on their teams and call it a day against water types, which is a very nice example of teambuilding restrictions that volcanion causes. Not so much that it banworthy by any stretch, but enough to make you keep it in mind when building any bulky team. I think that ethanlol made a nice point when saying that you don't risk much when using volcanion, as its weaknesses aren't too troubling to cover since it already synergizes well with what covers its weaknesses (Like latios's ground immunity) Most of the time, you are sacking a mon when volcanion comes in and, unlike some other wallbreakers, it can come in quite nicely on many stall oriented mons. Amoongus, skarmory, mage sable, and even scalds from certain bulky waters are all invitations for Volcanion to come in, although it doesn't like the potential item removal from Msable. My point is that volcanion, while it is admittedly quite hyped, is still a very important mon in OU, and for the time being, should remain in A+. On a side note, I wouldn't have reacted as forcefully if this were a nom down to A, but A- is certainly far too low for a pokemon like volcanion.I think Volcanion at A+ is pretty overrated. I think it should be A-. It is powerful and it makes waterspammers think twice before clicking the Water move but it is relatively slow and it can't capitalize on much. A wallbreaker that loses to Garchomp. Rotom, can't safely switch into Lando (or even get lured by a 263 speed set), gets bopped by Earth Power Heatran, switches into Slowbro to find itself unable to do much back (though it does pressure Starmie if it is not Thunderbolt ot Toxic). It is also weak to Rocks, has offensive checks like Latios, Keldeo and Torn (though burns are always annoying) plus many fast mons just kill it (especially with its Rocks weakness). It can switch into grass-types like Amoonguss, Mega Venusaur and Ferrothorn though which is important, I'm not saying it's trash by any means (A- is very far from trash) but I just don't fear it as much when teambuilding as other A and A+ Rank mons. How many of your old teams changed when Volcanion came around because of it? Not many I would guess except maybe some Mega Venusaur teams.