Strong Fire stab is also ubiquitous, coming hit the common Steel types in the meta. There are some forms of counterplay naturally available here, Rock types give the type combo a hard time both defensively and offensively, a few others are fairly present such as Raging ...
Even more defensive things like Venusaur, Swampert and Chesnaught work here because their offences are still decent and they have an alright matchup at worst against their region's bosses, but Serperior just falls flat; especially when compared to the raw power of Emboar and the only good ...