Cradily is Viable lol

Hell all,
I would like to make a post on a mon that I have used for my entire time in the NU tier and have had repeated success with. It is one of my personal favorites: Cradily

This mon is currently in the C- range and I think it deserves to be at least in the C+ if not B- range. It is able to complete so many roles effectively allowing it to be quite unpredictable which makes it a game of finding out what the cradily plans on doing. It is often known to be a lead that sets up rocks and has quite reliable recovery. However it is capable of doing so much more.

One set that I like to use is a mixed specially bulky weakness policy set that can hurt most of the top threats in the tier. (Stone edge, Giga Drain, Sludge Bomb, Recover) When people come across this set they will often taunt first to make sure cradily is unable to use rocks which will give cradily a free turn. Also when people are not expecting the weakness policy they will often throw random super effective attacks to wear it down but in turn allows it to be both bulky and offensively threatening. One common situation is against typhlosion who almost always carries focus blast. If it does manage to hit the blast cradily comes back with little damage and 1HKOs with stone edge. Or if it is against a flying type and they decide to u-turn out it will also get a boost.

Big deal. So it get's the boost. Now what is it going to do? Well because most of the top threats in the tier are weak to rock and grass it is able to kill things such as Shiftry with sludge bomb (shiftry can not put cradily below half without using swords dance so cradily can recover to take the knock off if it still has i's policy), Archeops (1HKO with stone edge before boost can't be touched by it after boost by using giga drain), Seismatoad (obvious reasons), any fire type (it can take any hit including specs eruption, then hit down the typhlosion so i's eruption is useless nd start recovering up), and any of the water sweepers, Sceptile (wp + sludge bomb vs focus blast), It can stall with tomb making them both die (unless crotomb), it can stall with weezing, easily kills rhydon, can wreck pyroar cause specs pyroar fire blast still doesn't touch cradily and can be eaten up by something with flash fire, can take a hit from accelgor and kill, can do damage to slurpuff, dragalge, and liepard before switching out, and is a perfect wall against things like ludicolo. Weakness policy stopping ludicolo from doing damage with ice beam.

+2 252+ Atk Feraligatr Ice Punch vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Cradily: 316-374 (84.2 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO          Lum berry ice punch gatr
+2 52 SpA Cradily Giga Drain vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Feraligatr: 338-398 (108.3 - 127.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Obviously it will kill if using life orb ice punch, but there is also the really common return set which can't even touch cradily.

+2 252+ SpA Gorebyss Ice Beam vs. 248 HP / 208+ SpD Cradily: 280-330 (74.6 - 88%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
+2 52 SpA Cradily Giga Drain vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Gorebyss: 366-432 (145.2 - 171.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

+1 252+ SpA Vivillon Bug Buzz vs. 248 HP / 208+ SpD Cradily: 270-318 (72 - 84.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock       It can also resist sleep powder
0 Atk Cradily Stone Edge vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Vivillon: 628-744 (208.6 - 247.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO                                          Not even counting the weakness policy boost

The only things that will get passed cradily are barbacle after it has smashed, life orb gatr ice punch, and if gorebyss decides to use baton pass. You will need to learn to play around these things and keep hazzards off of your side of the field so it does require reasonable support.

It will not be able to live any stab se physical attacks from common things such as sawk or primeape. It is generally not set-up fodder because the vast magority of things that set up in this tier are either water type (Omastar, Barbacle, Ferealigatr, Samurott, Gorebyss, Carcosta), bug type (Vivilon), or just really frail (Mismagious, shiftry, ect...). However it does tend to be walled and set up fodder for steel types like pawniard and klinklank. Most of it's counters are steel type or AV hariyama. These are things that you might want to work around when team building.

It is largely outclassed by vileplume for a good amount of situations but it does have the rock type allowing it to be it's own niche. By definition B rank is "reserved for Pokemon who cannot sweep through or wall significant portions of the metagame, but can properly fulfill a given offensive/defensive niche. Support Pokemon in this category have flaws that prevent them from doing their job or are setup bait for dangerous sweepers. Pokemon who are partially outperformed by a Pokemon in A or S Rank, but are otherwise very dangerous, may also fall into this category."

Cradily is a threat and does not fit in it's current just above useless catagory.