Out with the old, in with the new: A SandStorm OU RMT.

Hey guys. For those of you that dont get the title, the team is called out with the old, in with the new because Excadrill just got banned to ubers, which was basically a staple on many SandStorm teams. My team includes a pokemon that was basically overshadowed by Excadrill and Terrakion, but has found a very nice niche in my sandstorm team with the unique move SmackDown. He is a sub + 3 Attacks landorus, which is very effective at taking out a lot of pokemon that are commonly found on teams, such as Rotom-Wash and Skarmory. Smack Down basically allows Landorus to hit these pokemon with Ground type moves after this, so Earthquake will be hitting them a lot more. Without further ado, here is my team!
Changes will be made in Red FYI.

I suggest you take the lefties off your reuniclus and replace it with life orb. Since you dont take life orb damage recoil will not be a problem. With lefties you dont pack as much of a punch wich doesnt help trick room reunilcus because it is not meant to live for long periods of time like its calm mind set, it is ment to get in set up a trick room, fuck shit up and you will have an easier time doing that with life orb.

Hey,

The two main threats I can see for your team are opposing Reuniclus and Choice Band Terrakion. The first is the biggest threat since it can threaten your team with its two popular sets, Calm Mind and Trick Room. You can beat Calm Mind Reuniclus if you get lucky with Focus Blast, if it misses Tyranitar, because Crunch is only a 2HKO. After that you'll have to use either Landorus or Heatran to kill it, which isn't guarenteed, and if Reuniclus is not on a sand team, you can lose the weather control because you sacked Tyranitar, which isn't really a good situation. Choice Specs Latios can also pummel your team after that. Trick Room Reuniclus is even worse to deal with, as once it sets up, it OHKOes Tyranitar, and 2HKOes the rest of your team, you'll have to win the mirror match with your own Reuniclus which is a 50% chance, and I call that playing with fire. Choice Band Terrakion is also a problem, as if it catches Tyranitar locked into Crunch or Pursuit, or even worse, if it gets the attack boost by switching on them, odds are it'll kill something on your team if it predicts correctly, as even Skarmory is 2HKOed. I think that your team would greatly benefit from Choice Band Scizor, as it can revenge kill Terrakion with relative ease, and it handles both version of Reuniclus pretty well, except random Hidden Power Fire versions. I'd remove Skarmory for it. Here's the Scizor set:



Good luck!

THANK YOU!!!!!
I have been using that EXACT same Landorus for months now, and I have never seen anything with quite as much wallbreaking power as him. I used to use him to beat the jirachi, rotom-w, gliscor combos single handedly.

As for my actual rate...
You seem to have a problem with opposing water types, and so of course rain as well.
Once Jellicent is gone, you're doomed.
I'd therefore recommend Ferrothorn > Heatran. This makes water weaknesses 2, and water resists 2. Just use typical set with stealth rock > spikes cuz skarm already has spikes. However, this leaves you pretty weak to Scizors, and I'm not entirely sure how to fix this problem. Skarm seems to fare pretty well against them, but enough passive damage from physical attackers will break him, and then Scizor destroys your team. Sorry. not sure what to do here. :/
I'd also recommend that you make your Ttar into a CB Tar that you seemed to have had originally based on what you said in the analysis. In conjunction with Reuniclus, he will be slow enough to "outspeed" many threats and do heavy damage.

Hey there.

CM Virizion is a major threat to your team since it can defeat most of your team quite easily, and is greatly helped by the fact that Reuniclus has no recovery move. Nasty Plot Celebi with both Hidden Power Fire and Earth Power can sweep you quite easily as well. Rotom-W is the largest threat, however, as your entire team can be easily OHKO'd / 2HKO'd by one of it's moves. I do not think that you particularly need Jellicent, so I suggest that you run a Calm Mind Latias in it's place.

Calm Mind Latias


CM Latias can take on rain teams just as easily as Jellicent, and can easily beat Rotom-W, Celebi, and Virizion as well. Hidden Power Fire lets Latias annihilate the combination of Scizor + Rotom-W after Scizor takes entry hazards damage.

Also, run a Quiet nature on Reuniclus, as TR Reuniclus benefits greatly from more attacking power. Finally, run a Shed Shell on Skarmory, as Drag + Mag teams can decimate you quite easily with Haxorous once Skarmory goes down.

Overall, solid team. Hope I helped, and good luck!

Rotom-W can Sweep your entire team
it OHKO your whole team and can really put a dent in Rain. CM Latias
can help you stop these threats, LO Latias can help you too with recover it can go a long way in your team.

Good Luck!

Thanks for the rate guys. I'll almost definately run the CM latias set over Jellicent, because it seems like a good choice and it has good synergy with Skarmory. That being said, i almost definately will not run the CB Scizor, however, i am thinking of going back to CB Tar, i have no clue though, i'll test some more. Finally, i will definately try out Ferrothorn over Heatran as well. Im definately going to go for the banded Tar now, since Latias outspeeds most of the Metagame anyway, so its not really needed to have a scarf Tar, when i can basically win the weather war if i switch in on them.

Hey, this team is pretty cool although I think that you could really use something that could more easily switch into choice banded Terrakion. Currently, pretty much your entire team is 2HKOed easily and the only chance that you have to stop it is by checking it with choice scarf Tyranitar. I guess Virizion is a slight problem to this team, as it can do big damage to most of your team members after a boost, but it won't really cause you very many problems most of the time. I would recommend simply shifting Reuniclus to the calm mind variant to help you check these threats. This way, Reuniclus can sponge hits from choice banded Terrakion a bit more easily. Your team sets up pretty well for calm mind Reuniclus to come in and clean up later in the match anyways. Heatran can destroy taunt + wow Mew, which can be a problem to Reuniclus, and Jellicent can burn Scizor and some Tyranitar which can also cause Reuniclus some issues.

Calm mind Latias would do pretty well on this team. Rotom-W is going to be a pretty large problem, especially variants that like to volt switch around as you are pretty much stuck just taking damage from it and not being able to do much of anything. If Latias is an option for you, I would try out will-o-wisp on Heatran. This allows you to lure in Tyranitar which can be huge trouble for both Latias and Reuniclus. Landorus already lures in more defensive Rotom-W pretty easily so Latias will just be giving you a switch a good 'mon to take a volt switch / hydro pump. Although if you're going to give Latias a shot, I would use the calm mind + roar variant over hidden power fire. Otherwise, you will have to play with Latias very cautiously in order to avoid a pursuit / crunch or u-turn battle with Scizor or Tyranitar. gl.

Bump! Just wanted to thank everyOne for their responses, and I have a question: should I run CM reuniclus if I have CM Latias???

Hey ITSU!
First off you have a fairly solid team here.
I don't really see any must changes