All of OU bar 16 Pokemon are Rock or have a type advantage over Rock.
Poor Terrakion, most of OU hits you SE. I can't think of any other Rock-types though.
All of OU bar 16 Pokemon are Rock or have a type advantage over Rock.
Tyranitar, but that just makes a whoppin total of two rock types.Poor Terrakion, most of OU hits you SE. I can't think of any other Rock-types though.
I'm pretty sure SmashPassing is illegal in NU anyway.
And, in all honesty, Gorebyss isn't hard to counter. For example, it's walled by Quagsire, Regice and (should anyone ever use it) Mantine. It's also outsped and OHKO'd by many scarfers, such as Rotom-S
Tyranitar, but that just makes a whoppin total of two rock types.
In a way, though, that Rock typing can be a blessing as well. Terrakion's Rock typing is what gives it the incredible power and coverage with its STABs to singlehandedly wipe out teams. Tyranitar's Rock typing, in tandem with Sand Stream, is what makes it one of the best special tanks in that game, easily one of the best answers to the Latis and other random Psychics/Ghosts out there.
Yeah, forgot about the whole HP Grass thing. Haven't played NU in an age.First of all SS BYSS is legal in NU. Also, i don't think you can call Quagsire wall for Gorebyss because all common sets run HP Grass, which is 2HKO. And if you were to look at NU usage statistics you would see things you mentioned in pretty low percentage. Mantine is unable to do anything bar Toxic, so even if he can take hits, he can't do anything back. Regice is, however, good for that, but the fact that NU most common Pokemon are Sawk and Magmortar doesn't make life easy, even if you have that huge base 200 SpD stat. And the lack of spinners in tier and commonly seen SR hinders you. As you mentioned Scarf Rotom-S is truly one of the best things to deal with Gorebyss even at +2.
And now I would like to say something about metagames itself. Haven't played OU for a while, but I really like the metagame, since I can't say there is something broken at all. The new OU's are doing increadibly good in their new playground. Since I used Mamoswine and Donphan, and numerous other UU's and lower tier Pokemon in OU before tier change, I can easily say that those Pokemon are worth being where they are now. What about NU metagame? I really like how's it going right now. I started playing NU when Gorebyss were on every good or better team. However, just after several weeks before tier change, I could hardly feel his presence at all. A lot of new Pokemon rised from then. That's why I think that NU is, I might say, best meta so far. I just like the diversity in there. Lot of unused stuff that makes players find new ways of dealing with several threads. As for now in my opinion NU is where I'm gonna stay for a while (though I'll still play all other tiers)