Earthquake Spiral: BW UU Sandstorm Guide

Introduction:

Differences Between OU and UU:

Effect of Sandstorm:

• The Special Defense of Rock-type Pokemon is increased by 50%
• All non-Rock-, Steel-, and Ground-type Pokemon and Pokemon without the ability Magic Guard, Sand Veil, or Overcoat take 1/16 damage at the end of every turn.
• The evasion of a Pokemon with the Sand Veil ability is increased by 20%.
• Solarbeam's Base Power is reduced from 120 to 60.
• Synthesis, Moonlight, and Morning Sun only recover 25% of the user's HP, as opposed to the standard 50%.
• Weather Ball's base power is doubled to 100, and becomes a Rock-type move.
• All Pokemon with Sand Rush have their speed doubled in sandstorm. In addition, non-Rock-, Steel-, and Ground-type Pokemon do not take residual damage from sandstorm.
• All Pokemon with the ability Sand Force have their Ground-type, Rock-type, and Steel-type moves boosted by 30%.

Dry Hippo:

Sand on the Offensive:

Pokemon to Consider:

Direct Abusers:

Aerodactyl: CB set is fine, better as supporter

Aggron: Rock Polish is alright

Cacturne: That grass typing is enough I guess

Kabutops: Great support Poke with SR and Rapid Spin, good vs Rain

Rhyperior: God

Stoutland: CB Set is nice

Immune to Sandstorm:

Alakazam: Excellent Support fighter

Bisharp: Its okay I guess

Cobalion: Does great with CM set, SD okay too

Empoleon: Pulls its weight, does a great job against Rain Dance teams too

Escavalier: One tough SOB

Flygon: Pulls its weight in battle with Choice sets, great ground immune

Golurk: Helps vs Fighting types

Mamoswine: Excellent, helps answer to Hail as well

Nidoking: Brings Diversity (Special Attacker)

Other Offensive Pokemon:

Azelf: Brings very useful Resistances, don't use support sets though, Sand screws those up

Azumarill: Helps with revenge killing

Chandelure: Pretty much a must have for sand, does awesome against Hail

Hitmontop: Provides so much useful support its not even funny


Mismagius: Incredible incredible resistances

Rotom-H: An awesome pokemon for combating Hail

Snorlax: Strong SOB

Sand on the Defensive:

Pokemon to Consider:

Direct Abusers:

Cradily: Beast. thats all I can say

Gligar: An excellent way to deal with annoying fighting types

Omastar: Provides consistent useful support, helps against rain dance

Regirock: Decent tank

Rhyperior: Is there a better sand abuser than Rhyperior?

Immune to Sandstorm:

Claydol: Useful Resistances

Ferroseed: Helps against bulky waters

Registeel: Awesome, needless to say

Nidoqueen: Very useful for sand stall

Sigilyph: An incredibly useful status absorber/ fighting check

Other Defensive Pokemon:

Blastoise: Rapid Spin, helps against annoying Ground types

Deoxys-D: Been providing valuable support for the team

Dusclops: Spin. Blocked.


Froslass: Spikes support, combats Hail teams


Mew: Good stallbreaker/ check to fighting

Milotic: Needless to say, a great poke

Roserade: Very useful for taking out waters, provides Spikes

Slowbro: Good Fighting resist

Shaymin: Great against Bulky Waters



Spiritomb: Spin. Blocked.


Suicune: Useful Bulky Water

Zapdos: Defensive sets work fine

Into the Future:

Sandslash: COME ON! NEW AREA! HAVE SANDSHREW!

Threats to Sandstorm:

Hail:

Abomasnow: Hippo is scared

Froslass: HOLY CRAP! FUCK FROSLASS! THIS THING IS JUST VERY GAY, IT'S LIKE IMPOSSIBLE TO KILL WITHOUT ROTOM-H

Mamoswine: Blizzspam annoying

Rotom-F: Blizzspam annoying

Walrein: You should be shuddering in fear when you see this vs your sand team

Rain Dance/ Sunny Day:

Kabutops: Blahblah SD Waterfall

Kingdra: Blahblah Hydro Pump

Lilligant: Blahblah Quiver Dance

Ludicolo: This thing can go die in a hole

Omastar: Shell Smash is gay

Sawsbuck: very gay

Tornadus: gay

Bulky Waters: All of them can go die in a hole

Azumarill:

Blastoise:

Empoleon:

Milotic:

Slowbro:

Suicune:

Other Threats:

Donphan: Loses 1v1 to Donphan, but walls lots of others

Ferroseed: walls shit and Power Whip=annoying


Gligar: walls shit

Heracross: Shit your pants, this is why fighting resist is a must

Hitmontop: Annoying as fuck, spins everything and Kills most of them too

Machamp: Very very very very very very annoying

Roserade: FUCK ROSERADE, GAYEST THING ON EARTH

Shaymin: Annoying as fuck

Sableye: Needs to die in a hole

Tangrowth: Walls too much shit

Whimsicott: Can go die in a hole

Teambuilding:

- Enough abusers
- lots of hazards, regardless of offense/ defense
- Fighting resist
- Get somebody to kill Ice types
- Get shit to beat bulky waters
- Get status absorbers

Example Team:

Finishing Words:

Have just gotten started with testing out these Pokes, if there's any Pokemon you feel should or should not be on the list, feel free to voice your opinion.

Zapdos is not immune to Sandstorm.

DetroitLolcat said:

Zapdos is not immune to Sandstorm.

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Oops meant to have it in Other Defensive Pokes

Are there any other Pokemon people thing I should test? Would really appreciate imput here

do we really need a whole article for one weather in one tier? Why not just add it into the Sand article we already have?

UU Sandstorm plays very differently from OU Sandstorm. OU Sand must constantly keep Drizzle and Drought in consideration, which is why things like Rotom-W, Latias, and Heatran are on every one of those teams. UU Sand on the other hand, has Hail and Rain Dance+Swift Swim teams first in mind instead. The supporting pokemon are therefore very different, Fighting is a significantly more useful type for UU Sand to combat Hail teams, whereas in OU, the Fighting types there were Terrakion and Lucario, only because they're Terrakion and Lucario. UU Sand also currently has more direct abusers such as Rhyperior, Stoutland, Carracosta, Aggron, and when the time comes, Sandslash. OU is just Landorus and Terrakion. If anything, Sand is more of an actual weather in UU. Because in OU, Sand is being played more because Tyranitar checks tons of shit. As well the OU Sand Article has only a small blurb about UU Sand in it and neglects great UU Sand Abusers like Empoleon and Carracosta.

Yes, well why not add in UU parts for every section in that article like we do for Pokemon that have multiple tiers in their analyses and last gen's articles?

IMO it would be more organized to have a new thread and then just combine them on site with credits. The OU article is already in GP, so it would be confusing to add new stuff. Plus, it would be easier on GP checkers.

@OP
For Kabutops, you should mention the support role it can play with Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin and sandstorm boosting its base 70 Special Defense. Combine that with good Defense and Attack and you have something pretty versatile. This also gives you the ability to run offensive Hippowdon and still have a reliable source of Stealth Rock.

Mew -> Defensive
Roserade -> Defensive
Suicune -> Defensive
Spiritomb -> Offensive/Defensive (sets such as CB are an amazing check to Alakazam, which can be a big problem to Sand teams, and is a great spinblocker for defensive teams)
Snorlax -> Defensive (Seriously, this thing NEEDS to be added)

Its late, so these mons are mostly off the top of my head, but I'll try to add more tomorrow if I can. Just try them out if you can, i'm sure they won't disapoint.

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