In the current metagame, I believe Tornadus-T to be one of the best Pokemon for its splashability, effectivity, and versatility (for as far as that goes). Tornadus-T's really solidified itself as a dominant force in the current metagame, between its Rocky Helmet and Flyinium Z sets, and even some rain teams opting for Life Orb, Tornadus-T is fairly versatile and fits on a variety of teams. Personally, my favorite set is the Rocky Helmet set with Taunt as it does an absolutely amazing job at shutting down certain balance and stall builds, which are pretty dominant in the current metagame. Its ability to check Kartana, Tapu Bulu, and Scarf Landorus-T in one slot only adds to its splashability as a lot of teams really appreciate having a check to these Pokemon and a Defogger in one slot, Zapdos also does this, but lacks the utility Knock Off provides.
Charizard Y benefits from a variety of current metagame trends, namely being: a lot of balance builds are still foregoing Toxapex for Gastrodon, a lack of Choice Scarf users that can sufficiently check it, and the surge of Pursuit trappers. With a wide array of balance builds still substituting Toxapex for Gastrodon, Charizard Y really finds itself an easy time to break up the team as these balance builds usually lack a good switch in for it. With some of the best Choice Scarf users being Landorus-T and Kartana it may prove to be hard for bulkier builds to actually deal with Charizard Y as Choice Scarf Kartana and Choice Scarf Defog Landorus-T fail to sufficiently deal with Charizard Y by virtue of its typing, Choice Scarf Greninja is still a very potent Choice Scarf user, but it very rarely fits on these bulkier builds that Charizard Y has such a good time against. Weavile and Tyranitar are in the best spots they've been in in a while and Charizard Y takes perfect advantage of that as they can efficiently Pursuit trap the Mega Lati twins, which Charizard Y greatly appreciates as it usually fails to deal with these Pokemon. On another note, Charizard Y has seen a bit of recent tour success in the first round of WCoP, having been used 6 times (every letter links to a different replay) and having won 5 of these matches, I think this really showcases Charizard Y's efficiency.
I'll end this post with something that has recently been touched on, removing S- rank. I think this is the right course of action as there is no longer as much of a gap between the viability of Pokemon in A+ and Kartana to warrant a higher ranking. What should happen with Heatran is fairly simple imo, raise it to S rank, Landorus-T is no longer the single best Pokemon in the metagame and Heatran has really caught up to it in terms of splashability and efficiency.
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