>Critical hits weren't based on speed anymore
>Hyper Beam didn't reset on KO anymore
>Steel type completely fucks STAB over
>Tyranitar also there to fuck STAB over
>Special split so it couldn't run Thunder / TBolt / Blizzard anymore
>Fighting types actually becoming relevant because of Heracross, Breloom, Blaziken, Infernape, Lucario, No Guard Machamp, etc.
>Suffers the same movepool problem pretty much all physical normals do, where they just have the cookie cutter physical attacker moveset so they're pretty much never worth running because they miss SE STAB
Normals had a hard life. Even with the insane recent powercreep, most early Gen meta starlets still hold up somewhat (Mew, TTar, and Zapdos are OU, Zam has bounced around OU and UU for generations, Gengar is still only UUBL after the Levitate gut, Latis are UUBL, Jirachi is UU, etc.) but every normal that isn't a Chansey has really hit the shitter. The only other type I'd think would be in consideration for "most nerfed type" would be Dragon but even then it doesn't come fucking close.
