Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-39230426-20191021155123

Hornet --> SS+

The Ranking Council, after looking over at everything Hornet does, at face value he is easily an SS+ worthy monster. His stats are phenomenal, with a massive base 3,608 Speed stat, which is the most important stat for a Support like Hornet. His fully upgraded trait is one of the best looking traits in the game. Hardened + AoE Dodge is already great enough, but to pack on a SC Anticipation makes it so Extra Turn mons need to be careful and keep an eye out for him. And if monsters like Helgudin, Wyrmlad and O'Reilly showed off why AoE Dodge is such a phenomenal trait to have, then Hornet having it, paired up with his skills and what he's capable of, is another example of a SS+ worthy monster.

As for his skills, he's primarily a Curser first and foremost, so he'll be draining the enemy's HP over time while also throwing around plenty of nasty Negative Effects including PER, and a Support secondarily with his 2 awesome Team Support skills. I think it's safe to say that any monster with an AoE PER + Nanovirus or Positive Effect Block is a menace to deal with as they can easily shut down Mega Taunt Tanks. Since he deals damage by the percentages, his damage output isn't affected at all by his Strength stat, Damage Reductions, Damage Protections, or anything, meaning he can easily fend for himself if he's the last one alive on his team. His other awesome Curser abilities include throeing around every type of Blind including Total Blind (so he is actually capable of denying fully offensively based monsters), Major Damage Reduction to stop Attackers that deal most of their damage with raw damage output from KO'ing your team most of the time, Guard Down to allow your team to never miss a shot, and Shock to shut down Extra Turn users. His 2 Support skills are also incredibly useful, providing your team with good NER to keep those negative effects from hindering your team. One of them gives your team Positive Effect Protection, so you need to be PER'd twice by enemies for them to fully delete your Positive Effects. His other Team Support skill also gives your team Control Immunity and Torture Immunity on top of the NER, so it's basically Mirak's The First Law on steroids.

Tl:dr: Hornet is awesome and is worthy of SS+ just at face value. If he isn't proving to actually be amazing in the game after initial release, then he might be dropped, or who knows? If the opposite occurs he might be raised. For now tho, SS+.