Ok sorry, but the reason I didn't put tyranitar is because it didn't fit the theme well enough and it was to used to be put with machamp, ursaring, etc. You can still say it though.
Aww thanks, Orion. You really can't find a safe switch-into ursaring. I'll explain in my opinion why I think it is the best attacking normal.
The four normals usually put up against ursaring in this debate are: Tauros, Dodrio, Zangoose, and Slaking. I'll save slaking for later. You shouldn't really compare them to ursaring. Ursaring has a better movepool. Outside of hidden power and normal moves they all learn: Tauros's movepool consists of Ground, Steel; Dodrio's movepool consists of flying; and Zangoose's movepool consists of ghost and fighting. Ursaring gets Earthquake (which dodrio and zangoose lack) AND focus punch (which tauros and dodrio lack). Ursaring also gets swords dance which further boosts his beefier attack and tauros and dodrio can't swords dance. Zangoose can, but it is debatable since zangoose is as frail as **** and can't earthquake. Speed is fixed by agilty/speed boosting passing or paralyzing while keeping zangoose alive is harder. Slaking seems to be the fittest challenger. While slaking has better stats, ursaring is a lot easier to use for a little less of the benefits. Slaking is a hard choice bander (the only set it can use, unlike ursaring) to use due to truant and ursaring is much, much easier to use while still killing ****. It is like user-friendly. Oh yea, loss of shado ball means nothing as you are only using it for gengar and a few other ghosts which are easily beaten by their counters and pursuiters. Stab and maybe boosted return smacks around every psychic but metagross and jirachi who fall to earthquake. (Lunatone and Solrock can hardly take return and take a lot of damage from focus punch). Ursaring has the better ability. Guts is an awesome trait that allows it to switch into crippling thunder waves or will-o-wisps that the others can't and get a major attack boost. CB guts ursaring has an attack stat of about 880. This exceeds cbking's 690 by almost 200 points. Remember this phrase: "A burned Tauros, Dodrio, Zangoose, or Slaking is laughable. A burned Ursaring is one of the greatest forces to reckon with".
Snorlax doesn't fit in since he is more defensive (and ursaring is much cooler).
Most people don't use rhydon and don't think about him tbh.
