Heracross deserves High Tier at best. The ever-present Scarf set is a decent late-game cleaner, but it's walled by so much stuff that pretty much everyone runs (Nidoqueen being the biggest one) that it doesn't function anywhere near as well as it used to. The sets DA brought up that are actually its strongest and by far most devastating sets, but no one runs them for the most part. It's just not that threatening anymore, and most teams have at least one or two checks for it because it's so common.
Lol @ Dusclops being Ambipom tier (because it totally is)
Good points. Vote taken.
Thoughts on Flygon?
Lol Ambipom tier. Honestly though, Dusclops is pretty decent, just outclassed by Cofa. Low tier imo.
Also yeah Ambipom is meh, its best vs offense with free hits on tech fake out, i dont think it deserves that low despite it sucking lol. Id say low tier too.
Regardless i feel Heracross is overated and overhyped. Its easy to wall and stop and i dont think it deserves to be #1 in usage by a long shot. Hitmontop, Cofa, Crobat, Gligar, Nidoqueen etc are basically on every team and essentially giving Chadelure a free switch in is really not intelligent. Even stuff like Qwilfish lol. :/ Moxie set is utter garbage unless your opponent sucks and has no resists...lol. High tier at most imo, its best set is the SDer and CBer with guts which no one uses...soo.
Also ill bring up Raikou, Togekiss, Zapdos, Meinshao and Yanmega for top tier unless i get any disagreements.
Specs tinted lense Yanmega bascially 2hko's the whole tier bar a few niche counters like P2, Lax and Crobat even 4x resists like Chandelure which is honestly ridiculous and has a great speed for the tier too. Really all you need is a good spinner to support it, its that scary.
Togekiss is just bs hax and insanely bulky. It can also support the team exceedingly well with Heal Bell and Wish and walls stuff like Shaymin totally.
Zapdos and Raikou hit stupidly hard and even things like Umbreon and Snorlax struggle taking repeated hits from them.
Meinshao is just awesome, hits really hard, resists SR and regenerator lets it live a retardedly long time. Also being one of the tiers top scouts, wall breakers or revenge killers and actually beats resists with HP ice unlike Heracross, it struggles with ghosts however.
And so we have a disagreement here.
Dusclops is not that great and deserves to be that low in all honesty, in a metagame run by entry hazards, it's weak to all of them and it's a wall. Not only that, it lacks reliable recovery which because limits it's walling potential, worst of all it kills any momentum your team has. It has zero offensive presence and things that don't fear a burn can setup on it, it also doesn't help it can't take advantage of Leftovers like most walls. I mean yeah it can take a hit well but the entry hazard/repeated hits will wear it down quickly and Taunt basically ends any use it has.
Ambipom should not that low. Honestly it can be played well and be meh rather then garbage. Simply spamming LO Fake Out is not the way to go though, it's best used to pick off weakened Pokemon. U-Turn/Return should be it's main moves otherwise, it's got such a bad rap because people think spamming Fake Out = win!.
Agreed Heracross should be top tier but every good team can handle it so it rarely succeeds. CBCross is an awesome status absorber and wallbreaker though.
Agreed with all your top-tier Pokemon except Yanmega. The best Pokemon in a tier should not require any support whatsoever to succeed and all the Pokemon you listed except Yanmega can be thrown into a random team with some synergy and have success. Yanmega needs a spinner to be used, with SR up it's basically deadweight as it will struggle to get even one KO before going down (plenty of Pokemon can survive one of his hits and KO in return). But I digress, when SR is down Tinted Specs Yanmega is amazing. Going to say High Tier.
And yeah Scarf MienShao is so good it's not funny, Reckless over Regenerator and you basically have one of the best clean-up sweepers once paired with a Pursuiter. Outspeed the whole tier almost and spam 152 power STAB HJK. Basically anything that doesn't resist it gets neutered.