Valmanway
My jimmies remain unrustled
The reason why Rhyperior was dropped to UU is because of his bad defensive typing and poor special defense, even with Solid Rock patching up weaknesses, as well as terrible speed. While Volcanion's weak to Stealth Rock and lacks reliable recovery, he has a much more well-rounded stat spread, tanking physical and special attacks alike, and his base 70 speed isn't the worst (if you tie with Skarmory in speed, you're doing alright for a wall), and you can't say his typing doesn't help defensively, bringing critical 4x resistances to Fire, Ice, and Steel, as well as Bug and Fairy resistances. Sure, EdgeQuake and Electric weaknesses hurt, but checking/countering Mega Scizor, Mega Mawile, Azumarill, Greninja, offensive Deoxys-S, Gengar, Mega Charizard Y, and Talonflame at once is too good to dismiss just like that, not to mention taking on opposing walls such as Ferrothorn, Skarmory, and Heatran by himself is very convenient. Plus, switching in on Water-type moves with Water Absorb is decent recovery that presents a free switch and basically negates Stealth Rock damage if you predict correctly, but if your opponent doesn't want to use a Water-type move, you could predict that and use that to your advantage. I know it's too early to tell where exactly Volcanion's place in OU will be, and we do need to do tests in order to see how things will play out, but he looks amazing on paper, and he really does show promise.This happens every single new generation. 'Look at this slow bulky mon, look how it can 2hko everything with a choice ite-WHAT DO YOU MEAN RHYPERIOR IS UU'. I know that's a bad example, but this happens every single time.