Please stop implying that the playerbase is incompetent or stupid for wanting action on Gliscor by saying "HO brainrot".
The offensive landscape of SV OU is SIGNIFICANTLY different than that of previous generations. Gliscor has always been a mon that can create a lot of free turns by virtue of it's bulk and typing, but in this gen it got spikes which makes the free turns it creates to generate incredible amounts of value. Spikes and Toxic make it very difficult for offense to break Gliscor, and you'll often see it funnel a lot resources from them,slowly killing momentum from the offense teams. Secondly, the actual offensive mons we have in this meta are simply worse into Gliscor than those that existed in previous gens. Valiant, Iron Moth, non sub Zamazenta, Sneasler, non taunt RM, Dragonite, to an extent even Kingambit, none of these are good into Gliscor.
Previous gens had Ash-Gren, Keldeo, Ice Beam Clef (Clef can't fit Ice Beam much), strong ice punch pokemon like M-Lop and M-Medi, Kyurem, Weavile (I am aware of the uptick in Weavile but it still remains niche), viable Crawdaunt, specs Tapu Lele, Tapu Fini to set Misty Terrain and block Toxic, more viable Rotom Wash, Ferrothorn to set on it and punish stay ins with hazards not to mention HP ICE Zapdos,Tornadus etc and there was better removal to stop them from being worn down easily. Our breakers that can push past Gliscor include Ogerpon (which is absolutely ripped apart by hazard, is very prone to Toxic and is probably problematic in its own right) , Walking Wake (which is now used less outside of Sun and HO , and often carries Specs and Booster so yeah still ripped apart by hazards), Greninja (downtrending) and Enam-I (fallen off an absolute cliff, weak to SR and can't break SpDef) . Oh also Gliscor can simply Tera out of the weakness to it's breaker, toxic it and laugh as the breaker dies painfully.
Also how is it "HO bias" if Gliscor's stranglehold extends over to Balance, hell it affects balance way worse. All balance must be built around being very resiliant towards hazards and toxics, and the best way to do it is to build your own Gliscor balance. If you're building anything remotely bulky right now you better have a good fucking reason to not run Gliscor. Right now is the most homogenized bulky playstyles have ever been, and it's almost singlehandedly due to Gliscor. We've seen teams abusing Gliscor to the fullest which don't have Ghold on them at all, and there's been replays where that thing sets all three spikes over and over despite them being spun away by Tusk or Court Changed by Cinder as it spreads toxics all over and eventually wins the hazard game, WITHOUT Ghold. Let me tell you, pre DLC at least Tusk wasn't dogshit at spinning cause there was no Gliscor that always beat it.
So please, the playerbase isn't stupid that we can't break a defensive pokemon, our options of breaking it throughout the course of a game are more limited than ever before, and it's negative effect is far more pronounced on Balance than Offense.
Have a nice day.
Add that to the list of "Pokemon with Potential".
