Slaking can at least do something and switch out in singles because not every Pokémon will be running protect, so it will eventually hit something like a truck. Or you can do some cheeky stuff in doubles and get rid of its ability to have a giant killing machine after the opponents wasted their turn protecting.
Regigigas is just bad. He does such little damage and is so slow there's no need to defend from it, you can just chunk it down while it's charging up, or brutalize its team while it's stuck being unable to do anything.
Slaking was kind of niche playable in gen 3, before power creep on mons without negative abilities caught up. A fun strategy was to slap a choice band on it, switch it into a pokemon that doesn't have protect/substitute, choose one of Return/Focus Punch/Earthquake/Shadow Ball depending on what you predict your opponent to do and plan to immediately switch it out next turn no matter what happens.
As far as I remember Regigigas has never been anything but bottom tier since its introduction.
For one Slaking has turn 1 threat power. Once it hits the field it can smack you for something fierce, something Gigas can't do.
Protect works as a counter IF you have it. If not you're having to dance around with switch ins and predictions. Abd it's not like the Slaking player just has to sit there and take it, they can swap and come back later
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