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Boy you're in for a fucking truckload
>Recharge moves now actually waste the turn recharging regardless if you KO a mon or not, effectively making Hyper Beam useless
>Special split cut his respectable by pre-EV stat system's standards, on top of Blizzard being nerfed to Focus Blasst accuracy
>Crits are no longer based on speed so the other half of Tauros' firepower is nerfed hard
>Steel-type is a new type that walls the everliving jesus out of normal types
Oh but you might say that Tauros has EQ, right?
>Scizor is neutral to EQ, Steelix has a gargantuan bulk that he can live and instakill Tauros in return
>And then there's Skarmory, the ULTIMATE COUNTER OF ALL TIME to everything Tauros has
>Sleep Talk and Leftovers are absolutely everywhere and given the nature of GSC's bulky format, Tauros is not going to cut in
>A fuckton of mons got setup moves, with Curse being the most uniquitous setup move in GSC, but Tauros has fuckall to setup [Unless you're a retard trying to make Berserk Gene work]
RSE was a bright time for Tauros because at least Choice Band, Intimidate and EV's having a cap so everything wasn't bulky and strong at the same time, but by then powercreep was watching up because the elephant in the room is still there: Tauros had no setup move while everything that had stats that make Tauros look PU in comparasion had a broken arsenal of things at their disposal. Plus, by this point is when Fighting-type pokemons were starting to get better and better moves, which segways perfectly to....
>Gen 4 and anything beyond. ULTIMATE POWERCREEP. Close Combat, Stealth Rock, BST 600's being the standard for OU or anything in general, broken abilities, choice scarf making his impressive 110 base speed irrelevant now that shit can go fast at will (inb4 scarf tauros, enjoy your miserable 100 atk), choice specs, life orb.
>Megas and Dynamax being denied on Tauros despite being a popular Kanto mon
>Ultimatedly relegated to a joke roadblock
