I have to say that Magnemite is one of the most important counters. It's role in countering snover is two fold in that it is the easiest fit onto sand teams - maintaining good bulk and offensive prowess whiles simultaneously avoiding sand damage. I know for a while people were running defensive Houndours to deal with snover on their sand teams. Aside from dealing with snover it also acted as a misdreavus check - another mon sand teams have a ittle bit of trouble with. Unfortunately it also doubles up on some bad weaknesses, such as ground, rock and water, which is the reason i think it fell out of favor. Combining these mons, I actually really like the idea of pawniard as a check to snover that can also handle misdreavus for teams without a snover. It maintains magnemite's resistance to Snovers stab, as well as Missy's and can hit both with SE STABs. Definitely an intereseting mon i wouldn't have thought of.
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