>>28393393You'd only really be able to do that with a scarfed slaking which would be even more useless than icicle spear cloyster outside of that one purpose. You're also giving the enemy team the initiative, if you're teambuilding and including something for the sole purpose of making it trade 1-1 there's frankly a problem.
That's how it kind of was with Tauros in gen 1, though Tauros was more of a menace than even Chomp was due to gen 1 hyperbeam mechanic.
>>28393534Salamence only gained his niche when they gave him draco meteor with the platinum move tutors. Early gen 4 he was almost never used. Keep in mind Garchomp actually outspeeds an unboosted Salamence and is also bulkier (95/80/80 vs 108/95/85) not taking intimidate into account. Garchomp also had sand veil which was actually the last straw in his banning because there was a non-insignificant chance that even if you built your entire team around dealing with Garchomp you'd still lose sometimes. Salamence has way better special attack though which made him much better at the mixed sets and made him more unpredictable (specsmence was my favorite)
I remember having a team with 6 ice attacks with Weavile AND Starmie, sometimes I'd miss the first ice attack on him and fail to take his Yache when he was swords dancing then he'd just kill what I had out at the time, then proceed to survive my Weavile's ice punch and sweep me.
