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I've got a nomination of my own after playing around with this mon a ton.
--->A-
My post a few pages back couldn't be more off the mark, Manectric is a fucking demon to face with your standard Lati/Lando-t/Steel offenses and can smash through most offensive teams with ease. 90% of offensive teams that I see these days either rely on Latios and/or a scarfed Lando-T to check Manectric, and that's just laughable. While Roost Latios is a pretty solid Mane check, if it's the only thing stopping a Pokemon from overwhelming your team, then that's laughable. First of all, Manectric can just Volt out into a mon that threatens Lati out and force it to switch, which means that it gets 2HKOed by HP ice upon switch in, so lol @ having that as your primary Manectric check. If you have a team with mons that Lati can roost up vs, or your opponent elects to use Latias over Latios, then you can just run one of our Pursuit users since they are both super splashable on offensive teams and can open the floodgates for Mane to bust through offense with ease, and mitigates the need to predict Lati switch ins with HP Ice. Aside from that offense, Manectric actually does really well vs birdspam, and its speed tier is critical vs those teams because unlike Zapdos, it doesn't need to take a +3 Ice Beam from Manaphy, it doesn't need to take a Banded Flare Blitz from Talon, and it doesn't need to worry about Pinsir packing random coverage moves for it, and beating birdspam is extremely good for an offensive threat these days. Obviously Manectric doesn't do very well vs fatter teams, but the spikes stacking teams that Mane is usually on have an excellent matchup vs stall, and there's plenty of offensive Pokemon in the A-ranks that are cheeks against stall (M-Gross, Azu, Excadrill), so its weakness to stall really shouldn't stop it from rising. Obviously Mane has its flaws, but they're not enough to stop it from being ranked in A- when Mega Latias, Terrakion, and Gliscor are there imo.
My post a few pages back couldn't be more off the mark, Manectric is a fucking demon to face with your standard Lati/Lando-t/Steel offenses and can smash through most offensive teams with ease. 90% of offensive teams that I see these days either rely on Latios and/or a scarfed Lando-T to check Manectric, and that's just laughable. While Roost Latios is a pretty solid Mane check, if it's the only thing stopping a Pokemon from overwhelming your team, then that's laughable. First of all, Manectric can just Volt out into a mon that threatens Lati out and force it to switch, which means that it gets 2HKOed by HP ice upon switch in, so lol @ having that as your primary Manectric check. If you have a team with mons that Lati can roost up vs, or your opponent elects to use Latias over Latios, then you can just run one of our Pursuit users since they are both super splashable on offensive teams and can open the floodgates for Mane to bust through offense with ease, and mitigates the need to predict Lati switch ins with HP Ice. Aside from that offense, Manectric actually does really well vs birdspam, and its speed tier is critical vs those teams because unlike Zapdos, it doesn't need to take a +3 Ice Beam from Manaphy, it doesn't need to take a Banded Flare Blitz from Talon, and it doesn't need to worry about Pinsir packing random coverage moves for it, and beating birdspam is extremely good for an offensive threat these days. Obviously Manectric doesn't do very well vs fatter teams, but the spikes stacking teams that Mane is usually on have an excellent matchup vs stall, and there's plenty of offensive Pokemon in the A-ranks that are cheeks against stall (M-Gross, Azu, Excadrill), so its weakness to stall really shouldn't stop it from rising. Obviously Mane has its flaws, but they're not enough to stop it from being ranked in A- when Mega Latias, Terrakion, and Gliscor are there imo.