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I would say that Latios is an A-, access to agility and recover and its higher speed tier give it significant advantages on balance teams (which feel viable again btw) over Giratina-O in the role of levitate donor. It doesn’t have the support moves of giratino, but most balance giratino are running more aggressive sets anyway and perform the role less effectively than Latios would in my experience.
Giratina-O feels somewhat held back by speed right now, and its lack of reliable recovery prevents it from being great in a tanky set up role, leaving it only superior to other options in the role of semi-offensive support, with will-o-wisp and/or dragon tail alongside shadowball/poltergeist/shadow sneak and Draco meteor. It’s still good, but I think it might deserve a drop to A because it isn’t the obvious all-purposes levitate Mon anymore, and levitate isn’t an obvious include on every team.

I will also briefly suggest that nosepass is C or C+ tier since carbink does similar things with a slightly different (I would argue more detrimental) set of fragilities/dependencies.
 
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