I remember when I first entered competitive battling and I was wondering why flying type attackers were nowhere. I knew they were fast and strong Pokemon, but they were nowhere to be found.Wasn't it always practically the best offensive typing available, only hampered by SR shredding anything with a Flying STAB and being overshadowed by rain-boosted Water attacks?
Rain nerf, rocks nerf, now it's all bird turf. I can deal with that. At least Flying-types are fragile.
Then I thought it was because it had sort of redundant coverage with fire. Then I met stealth rocks >:(