Helioptile - Okay so you know how I said Frillish is the best mon in the tier? Well, guess who is immune to both of Frillish’s STABs and hits it super effectively. That’s right, Helioptile is the best Frillish answer in the tier and best Electric-type in general. Ever since Elekid left, it seems like people just don’t cause about Electric types anymore or at least they don’t think the Electrics of the tier are very good. So many teams find themselves without an Electric immunity, and that suits Helioptile just fine as you can just freely Volt Switch all over them. And even if they do have an Electric immunity, Helioptile doesn’t really care anyway thanks to Surf just bopping any Ground-types and you can still make momentum plays thanks to U-Turn. Helioptile is great, more people should use it.
Snover - With the new shifts, including the reintroduction of Frillish, I think Snover reclaims its status as the premier Hail setter over Amaura. Its Grass typing is way more valuable in a tier with as many bulky water types as are available in LC UU, and it at least allows Snover to sometimes pretend to have defensive utility as well.
Houndour - To me, Houndour is the most threatening of the Fire types in the tier and thus, finds itself ranked just a bit higher than its competition in Salandit and Torchic. Fire/Dark STAB is such a difficult combination to switch-into and beyond that Hound has a plethora of options to fill out the rest of its set. Sucker Punch is really useful for the few mons that outright outspeed Hound, and Flame Charge is another option for dealing with those mons that only check via speed. Hound is also a great Z-move abuser; running Firium-Z for either a ridiculous nuke or a Z-Sunny Day set, Grassium-Z is great for luring Shellos, and Z-Dream Eater can catch something like Skrelp by surprise. And that’s not even getting into the support options Houndour possesses like Destiny Bond, Will-O-Wisp, Pursuit, and Taunt.
Nosepass - When doing this, I would check the actual VR to get a rough idea of mons to put around each other and I was shocked to find Nosepass nowhere near the list. The Nose is one of my favorite rockers in the tier; the guy is crazy bulky, it’s the single best bird check in the tier, it has Volt Switch and EdgeQuake coverage, and you can TWave things if you want to as well. Nosepass should absolutely be ranked and I rate it really highly among the utility tanks of the tier.
Tyrunt - Tyrunt got really good after the July shift, and I thought it was already underrated. Tyrunt theoretically has a variety of options. You could run a more defensive or utility-focused Tyrunt where he’s your rocker or whatever, but why would you do that? Tyrunt is great because of his Dragon Dance set; run that. And not the weak SturdyJuice variant, no. Z-Outrage is THE set. +1 Adamant (cause you ain’t no bitch, actually though, you get better rolls) Z-Outrage OHKOs everything. Literally (figuratively) everything that is not a Fairy or a Steel. I’m talking: Pancham, Shellos, Frillish, Lickitung, Munchlax, Koffing, Hippo. All of them drop to a +1 Devastating Drake. This set is great. Use it.
Goldeen - I like Goldeen a lot. It has really useful coverage for a lot of teams, between its Water STAB, Knock Off, Drill Run, and Bounce or Poison Jab, you basically can just mess up anything your opponent tries to throw at you. That’s not even the best part about Goldeen though. Goldeen is a Water-type that also is an Electric immunity; so Helioptile can’t do anything to Goldeen except try to U-Turn out. With an Eviolite, Goldeen is decently bulky and you can really take on a lot of popular builds and cause them a lot of problems.
Honedge - Honedge is fine, I’m not the biggest fan tbh. Its typing is pretty great defensively, but not really offensively. It’s not that strong unless you get a couple of boosts because of the low base power of its STAB moves. Honedge also doesn’t check Taillow or Archen ‘’that well” cause it can’t really switch in unless it's physical Taillow. Idk, I’m just not high this mon, but other people seem to be and it's not bad or anything so I’m putting it in A-