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With Ubers UU becoming an official metagame, would there be any interest in doing an Ubers UU for RBY, where we banned just the most broken Ubers like Mew and Mewtwo?
It was definitely known that Rhydon was physically bulkier as far back as 2010
https://rby2k10.proboards.com/thread/1111/physical-special-defensiveness
Rhydon did have its advocates in the old meta and was probably underrated in hindsight, but like Sevi says things like Earthquake 2HKOing...
Unironically looking forward to finally determining the worst fully evolved Poké in RBY
Charizard seems much worse than the others in its tier, E2 is where I see the last mons with (marginal) legitimate use in OU. Charizard is garbage, yes it has swords dance and theoretically can threaten Jynx...