What's the morale for Rotom-Heat? I haven't really seen it be used outside of teams absolutely needing Arctozolt counterplay. Also, the Koko drop is weird, what was the agreement for that if you wouldn't mind going into detail?
Already asked @ both of them and, as I said, please no repeats. See my last post for the answers.
What exactly is the heattom rise for? Like somebody else said, it only really checks Zolt.
Again already asked and, as I said, please no repeats. See my last post for answers.
I’m curious as to why Nidoking is still a B+ mon. It just seems like it gets outclassed by other offensive mons due to its mediocre speed and bulk.
It is fringe B+, but it is cool that it abuses Fairy types and is a special attacker that can really damage Slowking-Galar, which is pretty unique right now. I think that the less we see slower balances, the worse off Nidoking is, but they still pop up sometimes. BO teams being more common absolutely lead me to believe it is going to see B in the near future, but cannot be sure.
Why did Excadrill not drop at all but Zolt did? I see no reason why Exca should be two tiers above Zolt especially when they both are primarily sand abusers and Hippo and T-Tar both just dropped as well.
Excadrill can Rapid Spin, be a lead on hyper offensive teams, and has the Steel typing + an Electric immunity to at least provide a disruptive defensive presence. Dracozolt lacks those tools to back it up as a fit on Sand teams. Neither is very good right now, but Excadrill is slightly more practical at the moment and we dropped it multiple times recently, so it was not needed to bottom out further yet.
Outrageous, disgraceful, absolute travesty. You will be hearing from my lawyers shortly. I’ll make the nom again after the 48 hours tho, my goal is the A ranks by the end of the gen.
As far as questions go:
1. Why did porygon 2 drop? Seems as essential as it’s ever been as a pult check for trick room.
2. Was there any discussion about dropping Slowking further?
Trick Room teams have been less consistent with more Protect/Baneful Bunker and other hyper offenses seeing more usage, but we made it clear to still have P2 ranked for the sake of that niche.
Yes, but it did not quite have the votes as there is still a clear and distinguishable niche for it.
serious question, i feel like C+ is too too low for this, is there any reason why it didnt rise higher to at least B?
It is still really only viable, let alone consistent, with large amounts of support such as Zapdos-Galar abusing Landorus-T. It is a very lackluster hazard remover due to how fragile it is and how it loses to many common hazard setters such as Landorus-T, Garchomp, Ferrothorn, Heatran, etc. and there's not much else going for it either. It is true a couple of teams make use of this strategy, but until it has a larger niche, it is hard to see it all the way up in B.
What are the reasons for Tyranitar and Buzzwole dropping?
Both already answered and, as I said, no repeat questions. Read my last post for the explanations.
why did ttar dropped and why clef is still a it is the worst in A
Former is already answered and, as I said, no repeat questions.
Clefable is one of the few status soakers in the metagame and it provides a huge amount of utility between potentially removing items, setting rocks, clearing status, passing Wishes, etc. all while being a soft check to Kyurem, strong check to Dragapult, and making teams a lot less reliant on Defog/Rapid Spin. Clefable's usage is still pretty high and while some cores can take advantage of it, many teammates help dissuade this problem. Clefable is still a very good Pokemon in the tier and had minimal, if any, support to drop right now.
Although I disagree with a couple of these, whats the reasoning behind Glowking and Bulu drops in particular?
You're entitled to disagree; this is just the summation of the votes from the council of players who actively play the metagame and follow the trends. You, of course, can feel your own way and that is the beauty of posting in threads like these and having our own playstyles. I hope you share your stances when the thread opens to nominations!
Slowking-Galar is still really solid, but a lot of offenses are going physical heavy with Dragapult as the most common special attacker while balance builds have been using Slowbro with different specially defensive presences more and more. Slowking-Galar still does a great job and this was a fringe drop honestly, so I could see it bouncing back, but for now it is closer to A than A+.
Tapu Bulu just does not see much usage or have much niche. It is really strong and hard to switch into when it runs offensive sets, but it is slow, does not provide much defensively, and reliant on support. You have to go well out of your way to build with it, which is a big ask for a Pokemon that is already pretty average.
from C to C+
- This drop was a real shocker
- I don't know how did it Glide down below B+
- What has made it hotter in OU?
- Why has this OU Rockstar fallen into a Dark canyon?
- Why is it losing ground in OU?
- Why is a mon considered broken by most of the community still frozen in A+? Wasn't there enough pressure to push it to S-Tier?
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, and 
. Did the council discuss these three? I thought that as 
has just risen a subrank, maybe the other Ghost-types would be discussed too. And 
