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This is the effect it's having on the meta. Blissey is pretty lackluster outside in BW2, Ninetales and Tyranitar are weather inducers, Tentecruel is only ran in rain and sand, Jirachi needs to be in the rain to be a counter, and Volcanora requires spin support and works best in the sun. Which means Heatran, Rotom-H(nowhere near common and needs spin support), and Rotom-W(Giga Drain is common so this is iffy) as non-weather options.
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First of all, not sure what you mean by "the effect it's having"--these pokemon are all
completely viable in their own right, and it's perfectly natural for good OU mons that happen to check one of the most used and dangerous (yes, sect
is a threatening mon) pokemon in the OU meta to become more common (not that they really have, at least to my knowledge).
Anyway, it's true that the pink blobs are less used than in previous gens, but they're still plenty viable on stall teams (and honestly, that's really the only type of team they should ever have been used on). Tales and ttar are weather inducers--yes, you have to have a weather team to use them, but on the other hand, that makes them automatically some of the most useful pokes in OU and gives them a huge purpose totally outside of countering sect. Rachi was ever quoted as being a counter, but rachi is (very very commonly) found in rain, so rachi is a great gene counter for rain teams. First of all, volc can take any hit from +1 LO gene excepting thunder(bolt) even at half health (thanks to arcticblast for the calcs), but it's true that volc prefers RS support--if you're using volc though, RS is already mandatory. And it sooo does not need sun to beat sect--i could do calcs but pretty sure it OHKOs with like any fire move even in rain. Rotom-h is niche, as you said, but mostly it's just an example of an innovative sect counter. And SpD rotom-w easily takes a giga and twaves back, crippling sect. SpDtom is also a super useful set atm, as it and SpDrachi are torny's main counters.
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Y'know maybe it's just me, but I never really liked the "use Sp. Def Jirachi in the rain" counter. I'm not arguing for or against Genesect's brokenness here (in fact I'm pretty ambivalent) but I don't really like the idea of not only having to carry two pokemon for a reliable counter to one, but having to set up an entire type of team to go along with those two pokemon (you can't count on the Genesect user to be running Politoed). Granted, Jirachi and rain are pretty damn awesome and ubiquitous in their own rights, but it still kinda bugs me.
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That's a nice point, but I think the distinction isn't that people are saying to run a rain team with SpD rachi on it. It's more, if you're using rain, SpD rachi, which conveniently checks torny as well and fits nicely on rain teams, is a great sect counter.