An honest question about Rayquaza

It still has the highest neutral DPS in the game after Deoxys-A which makes it the fastest practical generalist. MM won favor for being more bulky and having more resistances which adds to its bulk. Against Palkia it will be a go-to counter even against Draco Meteor since it's DPS is so much higher than anything else.

The effectiveness rebalance hurt its foothold as being the top counter to itself. Jynx, IB Mewtwo, Piloswine, and Weavile all enjoy higher DPS than it now while lacking a weakness to Outrage. Mamoswine, Glaceon, and Regigigas do too but they're unreleased right now.

I have a maxed Rayquaza I've used in PvP. Giratina's spammy attacks have spoiled me since Rayquaza takes noticeably longer to use Outrage but if unresisted it obliterates damn near anything.

All in all I think it's lost some footing since many dragons are doubly weak to ice, but it's still a beast. Am looking forward to its return, whenever that may be.

Rayquaza is still the best lazy counter to most gyms. Going through your boxes, making custom parties and switching every other Pokemon isn't worth the minor performance upgrade.

Rayquaza will be the preferable attacker against most Dragon raids that don't have a double weakness. This means Palkia, Zekrom, Reshiram, Kyurem (EDIT: Not Zygarde, it's double weak to ice) out of future legendaries, as well as some of the Ultra Beasts in gen 7 which may or may not become raid bosses.

Rayquaza is completely worthless in PvP. Its stat product isn't actually that great, it has a stupid good attack stat, which makes it great for PvE, but it's pretty glassy for a legendary. Dragonite for example has a better stat product and Giratina significantly better. But the moveset is the real killer, DB/DC is simply so much better than DT/OR.
And due to its attack oriented stats, Ray is even less qualified for Ultra league than it is for Master.

The worth of raid generalists has definitely gone down the drain, but Rayquaza looks to be useful against so many high-profile future raid bosses that I think it's a solid long-term investment. Whether it's better or worse than Metagross as a gym generalist is pretty irrelevant, gyms are so easy that it doesn't make a real difference. You can use anything with reasonably high neutral DPS as a generalist and it'll do ok, and Rayquaza has the best possible neutral DPS.

It’s completely is useless just like Machamp, any Mewtwo that doesn’t have Shadow Ball, Salamence, Hariyama, Gyarados
Shadow Claw Gengar, Blissey, Roserade, and the many many more Pokémon that only you seem to think suck.... Personally I’m going to take a page out of you book and max out and army of Aggron, Metagross, Tyranitar... Because obviously they are the ONLY Pokémon worth investing in

I caught a 93 when they first came out, never bothered powering it up.
Already had 2 strong Dragonites. I still don't have a Salamence haha Been saving up the candies for community day. Dragons don't really interest me that much personally. You don't really need a flying type, and Rayquaza never lasts long with me in battles. They always get taken down rather easily, usually by my Blastoise blizzard.
It's probably fine, but I've never been on that bandwagon.

I care less about how good Rayquaza is and more about how hard the duo is. My piloswine army is ready for the free rewards.