because all the old analyses were either a) for ubers, where fire fang was comparatively less useful (cannot beat lugia without stone edge), or b) choiced sets, where there's room to run stone edge. in OU, when you can only run one of rock or fire coverage, garchomp benefits much more from the fire coverage, which, with a boost, can break through most defensive steels. the things that are hit hard by stone edge and not by fire fang are generally hit hard enough by garchomp's dragon stab as it is.
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