Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-36515094-20190922185214

The ranking council has decided to move down Al Canine to SS-. His stats overall are low now. His speed especially is bad for a denier. He doesn't even have his speed higher than 3,500 so he is pretty slow. He has really high stamina costs, his cooldowns kill him (and CDA is the most common and best form of denial in the game so he gets killed by it), and his guard down hater strategy to help his teammates takes 2 turns to come into effect so it isn't that practical. Heck, his overview even states that he is outclassed by deniers like Sunblast and Pierceid.

He would be lower in the rankings if his skillset wasn't so good. His skillset basically is saving him from going lower. Him being SS- doesn't mean he's bad, it just means there are better options