>>41846414The one move hits harder than most Super Effective moves and requires no set up to just come out and sweep.
His weakness of speed is fixed with a scarf, and also indirectly gives him equal footing with dragonslayer-dittos. His defenses are mediocre-bad but it's often enough to survive some of priority hits. He also has great typing, only takes super effective damage from fairy and dragon.
What other counters are there? Water absorb? Hilariously, dracovish can have water absorb as an ability so you could hypothetically make a dracovish-countering dracovish set.