Noms after making reqs
S- -> Ubers
Lmao who knew having base 200 spa w stab overheat and 100 speed wasn't balanced (its getting qbanned anyways thankfully)
B -> A-/A
Talked about this in a previous post but I’d argue after making reqs with a team featuring this mon that it has a valuable enough niche where it should be in the A tiers. Great movepool/stats/ability. Knock off/U-turn are self explanatory. Flower trick is probably its best move. Auto-crit with pseudo 105 BP hits really hard, and grass is a weirdly good attacking type thanks to the current meta. Ground type mons like Ting Lu and Great Tusk are extremely dominant, and are often stacked together on teams. Further, hard to break, extremely strong set up sweepers that like boosting their defense all are hit either neutrally by tera, or go tera water and are hit supereffectively by it, essentially making Meowscarada negate a lot of the tiers most broken, hard to kill mons: Annihilape, Dondozo, Garganacl, Hatterene (which doesn’t boost its Defense but still is pretty bulky and loves going tera-water). As well, Flower Trick lets Band Meowscarada ignore screens, meaning it can essentially either punish Grimmsnarl by 2shotting it after it gets up screens, or can Tera-grass to 1shot max hp/spdef Grimmsnarl (tera-grass only 2shots max hp/def grimmsnarl), allowing it to both bypass screens while its out and greatly limits Grimmsnarl’s effect on the match. This further works with how screens is often used to enable bulky set-up mons as mentioned above, meaning Meowscarada essentially works as an easy stop-gap to these mons. Gets priority in sucker punch, which is very good for speed boosting set up sweepers as well as revenge killing mons like scarf goldie and pult, gets play rough for stab fairy cvg on dnite/moon/chomp, gets stab uturn to function as a pivot. Biggest weaknesses are Shroom/Corviknight, which it knocks off and kills with chip or can pivot to mons like Gholdengo and fire mons like Cinderace/Skeledirge/Iron Moth. It’s speed tier is extremely valuable for outspeeding Iron Valiant, Roaring Moon, Annihilape, Cyclizar, Tusk, Chomp, and Iron moth.
It faces its biggest competition with speedy, pivoting physical breakers like Chien-Pao, as well as some pult and Roaring Moon variants, but has very valuable niches over these mons, namely its better matchup into the bulky set up sweepers, which are all likely most at home in the A+/S- tier, as well as its ability to ignore screens and knock off its switchins, and stab fairy cvg/uturns. I’d argue these are valuable enough where it should be closer to them in ranking. The niche of being counterplay into the set-up sweepers and screens alone is enough to warrant a rise in its rank.
A -> A+
Extremely strong. Curse/Rest/Talk/Wave Crash is a great bulky physical mon that is a serviceable Chien-Pao check and an extremely strong check to most of the really strong set up sweepers right now, blanking DD roaring moon/Dnite/Pult. Rest lets it serve as a status absorber, and Curse means its able to serve as a late-game wincon. A lot of teams straight up lose to this set. Ranked way too low imo for how strong the DD mons and Chien-Pao are right now.
A- -> A
Very good mon. Water/Electric is a great stab combo and levitate means its only weak to grass, it resists Ice for Chien-Pao, and the only mon that can blanks volt/hydro/wisp is shroom, which still dislikes volt and wisp. Very hard to kill right now, and makes great use of protect. Resisting fire for Chi-yu is also very valuable.
A- -> B+
Still decent, but I’d argue its best as a pivot. Blanked by a lot of strong mons like Dirge, Nacl, Clod and even Ting-Lu without using its tera, but still makes decent use of U-turn, and can start becoming hard to stop if it gets a lot of Fiery Dance boosts. Being able to beat Volcarona after it teras is really nice. Makes decent use of Tera-Fairy with Dazzling gleam.
A -> A+/S-
Salt cure goes brrr. Makes great use of tera water and is just very hard to switch into and hard to kill. Too fat and salt cure makes a lot of progress. Also gets recover.
A+ -> S-
Very hard to play around thanks to taunt BU, as well as healing from Drain Punch. Not much else to say that hasn’t already been said.
A-/A?
Pretty good. Good stats. Pyro ball is good stab, and getting access to stab Sucker Punch is really valuable.. Court Change is nice in a tier with less removal, and is annoying to play against. High BP moves means it hits hard. I don’t see SD being worth it at all but boots/band is probably pretty strong. Pretty similar to Meowscarada, but they have differing offensive and utility profiles.
Noms I agree with but don’t feel like talking about.
A- -> B+
A- -> A
A- -> A
A+ -> A-
Can see
being A
A -> A-
A -> A-