why is having another spinner in the tier bad? gholdengo already pulls enough weight on the hazard meta as is, so adding another spinner that beats it is a net positive, no?
Rapid Spin is the most versatile move in the game. It can:
-Revenge kill, or chip the opponent and facilitate a revenge kill next turn
-Make yourself much harder to revenge kill
-Make it much easier to click a setup move
-Remove hazards
-Be used as a bluff
And often, it does all of these at the same time.
There is not a single other move in the history of the game that compresses so much function into a single attack. It was fine before but it is now incredibly easy to click. Great Tusk and Iron Treads in addition to the less used Quaquaval and Excadrill have the coverage and stats to beat any spinblocker that stands in their way, except for maybe the Chas assuming that they switch in for free. Offensively, the war between spinners and spin blockers is heavily weighted in favor of the spinners, to the point where spin blocking with either Pult or Ghold is nearly impossible long term, forcing either a Tera (which can potentially just be muscled past anyway because what actually wants to be taking a Headlong Rush or EQ) or a sack. Any team that doesn’t have a defensive Pokemon and actually wants to stop spinning more often than not has to rely on sheer luck and positioning because, I’m going to say it again, Great Tusk is nearly impossible to OKO, meaning that even if you get heavy damage on it and kill with priority next turn, it still managed to remove hazards which is more often than not enough to win a game.
And the worst part is that you can’t really even bring this obscene spinning consistency up, because if you consider Great Tusk to be anything other than the Messiah and Savior of Gen 9 OU, you are labeled as a blasphemer.
Adding Terapagos would only further skew spinblocking to be defensive since now you just straight up can’t use your Ghost STAB against it, and even Specs boosted MIR/Draco is doing jack shit to a Terapagos with Tera Shell intact, and it can easily retaliate with Ice Beam or Dark Pulse. Pecharunt and Sinistcha would rise in usage which would make the meta even more bland, fat, and unintuitive, because who the fuck enjoys playing against anything with Recover or Strength Sap?
