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>better than rock in every way, from offensively to defensively to making more use of the rock-specific weather condition
>formed an important cornerstone of gen 1, from it being used by the main villain and being the primary element of early created kaijus like nidoking or rhydon, whereas rock is the type used by the irrelevant first gym who doesn't have rock moves
>forms an important part of the series' lore and history, with numerous important legendaries being ground type while a few minor 'legendaries' are rock
>the earth element is immediately evident on most of the designs which have the type, while most rock types are either literal rocks who could be ground type anyway or don't resemble 'rock pokemon' at all like lycanroc
>rock consistently repped by subhuman shitskins, trannies or fatties while ground is used consistently by chads
What's going on there rockbros? Trying to paint us groundalphas as the 'why did they make this' type isn't going to work, you know?