Alright time for my by-weekly VR novel.
Raises:
A --> A+
This things the devil. I think people are well aware just how much of a threat this is and its starting to cross the line of extremely centralizing for the tier as if you don't have a hard answer that can go the grind game, you're in trouble because no matter if you're playing stall, balance, HO, webs, or whatever it may be, this thing only needs 1 free turn and you can auto lose just on the cremie match up alone. Its threat level alone is worth the A+ rank on the stored power sets but you can mix it up with other variations too with Dgleam, Mystical fire, and recover sets. I don't think anyone didn't see this nom coming.
A- --> A
My personal favorite rocker and something I basically made daniYSB spam during his seasonal run. Offense is back and its the best rocker the playstyle has access to because it fixes your rotom, mane, and Kanga match ups while also pressuring all our common removal options and abuses key walls like Garbodor. Heavy slams also really fun for Alcremie.
EDIT: I was running heavy slam on this for cremie but it turns out SD rhydon just hard checks cremie because you win the set up war against it. So its a lot more generically good than I thought because its just a hard kanga, rotom, mane, and cremie answer in your rocker slot.
B --> B+
This is honestly my pick for something that can go even higher than this but more people need to start using the Night Shade taunt toxic sets before I really start pushing this up any higher. Its so solid in the metagame right now as its a physical wall not bothered by knock off (which is huge) that also gives you a water immunity against stuff like Specs Poliwrath and Cramorant which is just a side bonus to what the mon already does. It also slaughters any Clefairy/fat type teams.
B --> B+
Solid little glue mon. Currently one of the better rotom answers and all around special sponge. Not a lot to say about the little pancake that people don't already know. Its just good and widely used.
Drops:
A -->A-
Trend of teams straying away from this continues. Still good but generally not as favored by teams in the meta as these bulky pivots just aren't seeing a ton of play right now.
A --> A-/B+
So touching on the point of bulky pivots not really being as favored lately compared to when this was first ranked in A ages ago, Wishi also has the unfortunate downside of other water resists taking its place for a lot of teams. Things like Cram, Specs Poli (which while not super common yet has gotten a lot of important tournament wins this past week and I expect to start picking up even more), Jellicent which I think will only get even more common, and even stuff like Jynx, cuno, clef, and Ferroseed. I think we have plenty of amazing water resists to chose from right now and holding an A rank for a mon like this just is a product of a past meta sticking around on the VR despite the meta moving on past it.
A- --> B+/B
This one hurts my soul a bit as an avid stall lover. But this meta has just not been kind to the poor thing and full stall has seen a drastic drop off in both play and success in the tier. Its still a perfectly fine playstyle but I wouldn't call it one of the top tier play styles right now even tho I think it can be a good tournament pick because in a tournament you don't need to account for every random on and can more tailor a team. But as a general playstyle I think its rather hit or miss.
A- --> B+
Same story as Pyuk but it does have the saving grace of Audino balance teams still holding on to a bit more relevancy, but I don't think that's enough to keep it from dropping out of the A ranks.
A- --> B+
Thievul pretty much replaced this. And with Tangela being everywhere you don't even get the luxury of clicking SD and expecting to break. Knock into Leaf Storm still does 75% to Tangela so its still mildly annoying, but its really not as great as it was when it first rose up. Its also absolute Cremie fodder despite being a dark type thanks to it just getting LO recoil stalled.
B+ --> B-
This was good for like a week before Cram and Rapidash really showed up so it snuck all the way up here and has remained under cover ever since. I've tried to experiment with this mon so much but its just so lack luster in almost every way this meta.
Raises:
A --> A+
This things the devil. I think people are well aware just how much of a threat this is and its starting to cross the line of extremely centralizing for the tier as if you don't have a hard answer that can go the grind game, you're in trouble because no matter if you're playing stall, balance, HO, webs, or whatever it may be, this thing only needs 1 free turn and you can auto lose just on the cremie match up alone. Its threat level alone is worth the A+ rank on the stored power sets but you can mix it up with other variations too with Dgleam, Mystical fire, and recover sets. I don't think anyone didn't see this nom coming.
A- --> A
My personal favorite rocker and something I basically made daniYSB spam during his seasonal run. Offense is back and its the best rocker the playstyle has access to because it fixes your rotom, mane, and Kanga match ups while also pressuring all our common removal options and abuses key walls like Garbodor. Heavy slams also really fun for Alcremie.
EDIT: I was running heavy slam on this for cremie but it turns out SD rhydon just hard checks cremie because you win the set up war against it. So its a lot more generically good than I thought because its just a hard kanga, rotom, mane, and cremie answer in your rocker slot.
B --> B+
This is honestly my pick for something that can go even higher than this but more people need to start using the Night Shade taunt toxic sets before I really start pushing this up any higher. Its so solid in the metagame right now as its a physical wall not bothered by knock off (which is huge) that also gives you a water immunity against stuff like Specs Poliwrath and Cramorant which is just a side bonus to what the mon already does. It also slaughters any Clefairy/fat type teams.
B --> B+
Solid little glue mon. Currently one of the better rotom answers and all around special sponge. Not a lot to say about the little pancake that people don't already know. Its just good and widely used.
Drops:
A -->A-
Trend of teams straying away from this continues. Still good but generally not as favored by teams in the meta as these bulky pivots just aren't seeing a ton of play right now.
A --> A-/B+
So touching on the point of bulky pivots not really being as favored lately compared to when this was first ranked in A ages ago, Wishi also has the unfortunate downside of other water resists taking its place for a lot of teams. Things like Cram, Specs Poli (which while not super common yet has gotten a lot of important tournament wins this past week and I expect to start picking up even more), Jellicent which I think will only get even more common, and even stuff like Jynx, cuno, clef, and Ferroseed. I think we have plenty of amazing water resists to chose from right now and holding an A rank for a mon like this just is a product of a past meta sticking around on the VR despite the meta moving on past it.
A- --> B+/B
This one hurts my soul a bit as an avid stall lover. But this meta has just not been kind to the poor thing and full stall has seen a drastic drop off in both play and success in the tier. Its still a perfectly fine playstyle but I wouldn't call it one of the top tier play styles right now even tho I think it can be a good tournament pick because in a tournament you don't need to account for every random on and can more tailor a team. But as a general playstyle I think its rather hit or miss.
A- --> B+
Same story as Pyuk but it does have the saving grace of Audino balance teams still holding on to a bit more relevancy, but I don't think that's enough to keep it from dropping out of the A ranks.
A- --> B+
Thievul pretty much replaced this. And with Tangela being everywhere you don't even get the luxury of clicking SD and expecting to break. Knock into Leaf Storm still does 75% to Tangela so its still mildly annoying, but its really not as great as it was when it first rose up. Its also absolute Cremie fodder despite being a dark type thanks to it just getting LO recoil stalled.
B+ --> B-
This was good for like a week before Cram and Rapidash really showed up so it snuck all the way up here and has remained under cover ever since. I've tried to experiment with this mon so much but its just so lack luster in almost every way this meta.
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to A
to STAY, 
to S-
to STAY
to A+
to B+
to B
(Electric) to C
Dugtrio-Alola B- to C-
Unfezant UR to C/C+
-1 252 Atk Unfezant Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Qwilfish: 136-162 (40.7 - 48.5%) -- 67.2% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
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Electivire UR to C-
Lurantis C- to C
B -> A-
B -> A-
UR -> somewhere in C and maybe higher kek.
UR -> C+
C -> UR
C+ -> B-
C ->B
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hurt, as it was able to get chip with rocky helmet damage and stifle attempts at healing itself with leech life. it's an obscenely great wallbreaker with the guaranteed defense drop from fire lash, ability to recover with leech life, access to knock off, and strong coverage in power whip, all coming off of a whopping base 115 attack stat. it is even able to break for itself early game with knock off so that it can get the upper hand later. it can even run coil sets, turning it from an all-out attacking behemoth to a deadly wincon in the right matchups.
), and even if you end up losing your boots, you arent fully at a loss just yet. it boasts some key resistances, namely to fighting and a 4x resist to grass, as well as an immunity to fire if running flash fire, which help it come in vs very common mons like 
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A->A+ This mon was already pretty great and after these shifts, garb, one the best spiker was lost; arct and slash struggle against it(not enough damage by arct and too much recoil for slash); Thwack became better.
B+->A-/A Gurdurr's phy bulk + mach punch + guts are more than appreciated rn. Why? There's one less problem for it with departure of garb; the new threat drops; jelli has risen to beat the drops whose wisp is setup for gurdurr.
A- -> B+
C+ -> C/C-
C- -> C+
to A- or A
to B+
(Poison) to B+ or A-
to C+ or C
UR -> C- Metang feels okay on stall builds as it provides some backbone as a stealth rocker that has good coverage and good MUs against common defoggers like Articuno and Altaria. I don’t like how embarrassingly weak a defensive set is, though, especially against Pokémon like Qwilfish and Wishiwashi. My biggest gripe is how the Psychic typing messes things up: it provides the neutrality to fighting, but fighters can still beat it anyway and adds 3 additional weaknesses. It also shares the fire weakness as well, which complicates builds.
UR -> D (UR) Trick Room is really hard to use with all the priority, status, and entry hazards running around. This is especially true given how prominent kangaskhan currently sits here. However, against teams that rely on speed or weather, the archetype does...okay at disrupting the game plans? Carbink does its job as a suicide stealth rock + trick room lead decently, and can surprise normals looking to wall it with body press. Meteor Beam Cursola might face competition with Aurorus but the highest special attack in the tier is not something to underestimate. In case sweepers like silvally ground grow out of control, Perish Body can be a decent last ditch option to prevent things from outright ending on the spot.
UR -> D (UR)
UR -> D (UR)
UR -> C
UR -> D (UR)
UR -> D (UR)
UR -> Please Stop using them (UR)
B -> A-/A
B -> B+
UR -> C
down to B+
up to C+ 
A- > A: Really great rocker, completes a ton of defensive cores, and is a mandatory Ground-type to check Volt Switch, especially if you want to fit a different Silvally forme. Spoiler alert: a lot Silvally formes rose this update!
B+ > A-: This thing rose from a lowly C rank to one of the most notable special breakers / sweepers in the meta. 
B+ > A: A big leap, this cow is really milking the Centi ban and rise of offensive Ghost- and Grass-types.
B > B+: Shift Gear sweeps are happening more often now that the meta favors it, Sub Toxic sets are working, and it finds a home on bulkier / stallier teams as a wincon with great setup opportunities thanks to its defensive typing.
B- > B: While a little fishy, Malamar is capable of sweeping unprepared teams after its checks are worn down / it's in on the right wall.
B- > B: CB sets clean very well and wear down opposing Ground-, Grass-, and Electric-types no problem because a lot are neutral to if not weak to Dark.
C > C+:No Centi, relevant Water immunity.
C- > C: Gseed ban!
S+++++++++++++: You don't need me to tell you why.
C: Electric terrain + unique Speed and coverage for an Electric-type.
C-: Defensively, the Fairy typing is enough to give it a niche over Tangela sometimes.
C-: Seeing tour success so its not unviable per say.
A > A-: Less popular, harder to build around, all-around awkward to fit.
A > A-: More viable competition, meta favors it less as a stallbreaker.
A- > B+: Unreliable thanks to its frailty and the fact that so many teams rely on the defensive pros of a Grass-type in this meta; see Gourg-Small for example.
B+ > B: Way more Ice-types in the meta like Alolan Sandslash and it's just short of being a reliable counter to Fire-types.
B+ > B: Water immunities are a plenty. Clicking with Basc isn't easy nor always rewarding.
B+ > B: Flapple teams risk a lot due to Hustle, so the end up being just average. Also, why not use a more reliable wallbreaker?
B > B-: Rain and scarf sets aren't as relevant, better options, Poli + Gurdurr usage hurts.
B > B-: There's better Ground-types, but Ground-types are still pretty good.
B > C+: See above + more competition for it on teams outside of Gterrain.
C+ > C: Rain teams aren't that great, and Ludi is barely used.
C+ > C: Too much competition as a Ground- and Ghost-type, creates bad teambuilding weaknesses.
C > C-: No one is using these two, they barely have niches as sweepers but they're anti-meta enough to note.
C > C-: We have ample hazard removers, we don't need to use an NFE anymore.
C > UR: Bad Lycanroc lol!
C- > UR: It's only S rank in NU.
propoganda instead, it's cuter and has actual arms :)
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) but Tang is actually pretty hard to switch into as well. If you can take its stab giga drain, chances are, you can't take sludge bomb (see - grasses like opposing 
lets it revenge nearly everything, 
dents the entire tier, and wisp Hex offensive utility is just out of this world good. It also makes the most out of its 3 immunities, 2 of them being very important. 