BLOOD TOTEM
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Overview
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Excadrill packs a great Attack stat and a decent Speed stat. These are complimented by too fantastic abilities in Sand Rush and Mold Breaker. With Sand Rush, Excadrill becomes a fearsome sand sweeper that can clean up lategame or punch holes early on. Mold Breaker allows Excadrill to beat traditional counters such as Rotom-W and also hit Pokemon such as Latios which would usually be able to switch into Excadrill with ease. Thanks to its typing, Excadrill finds itself with numerous useful resists as well as an immunity to Thunder Wave and a STAB-boosted Earthquake. However, the typing also leaves Excadrill weak to bulky Water-type Pokemon and the Rain archetype in general. Excadrill is also prone to Intimidate and burns and often struggles with common Pokemon such as Landorus-T.
Mold Breaker
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name: Mold Breaker
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Rock Slide
move 3: Iron Head
move 4: Drill Run
ability: Mold Breaker
item: Choice Scarf
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
Moves
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Sand Rush
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name: Sand Rush
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Rock Slide
move 3: Iron Head / Swords Dance
move 4: Protect
ability: Sand Rush
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
Moves
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Other Options
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Checks & Counters
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Excadrill packs a great Attack stat and a decent Speed stat. These are complimented by too fantastic abilities in Sand Rush and Mold Breaker. With Sand Rush, Excadrill becomes a fearsome sand sweeper that can clean up lategame or punch holes early on. Mold Breaker allows Excadrill to beat traditional counters such as Rotom-W and also hit Pokemon such as Latios which would usually be able to switch into Excadrill with ease. Thanks to its typing, Excadrill finds itself with numerous useful resists as well as an immunity to Thunder Wave and a STAB-boosted Earthquake. However, the typing also leaves Excadrill weak to bulky Water-type Pokemon and the Rain archetype in general. Excadrill is also prone to Intimidate and burns and often struggles with common Pokemon such as Landorus-T.
Mold Breaker
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name: Mold Breaker
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Rock Slide
move 3: Iron Head
move 4: Drill Run
ability: Mold Breaker
item: Choice Scarf
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
Moves
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- EQ drops it like it's hot
- Rock Slide hits flying-types that are immune to EQ
- Iron Head is single target STAB move that drops fairies
- Drill Run doesn't fuck your own mon but fucks one of theirs
- Iron Head / Drill run bypass Wide Guard
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- Scarf because gtg fast
- Adamant because gtg hard
- Max Spe / Atk to compliment role
- Non scarf is viable, switch Drill Run for protect
- Mold Breaker is gr8 to expand Excas ground coverage. Brings down washtom etc
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- Use to clear out Rotom-W / Ground weak mons to sweep with another mon later
- Revenge kill slower threats
- Clean up lategame
- Watch out for Wide Guard
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- Flying-type Pokemon are immune to Excadrills EQ
- M Pinsir is nice because Feint to break wide guard, also good vs Fighting-types that Exca hates
- Shaymin-S helps w/ bulky waters
- Talonburd slams Grass-types
- Gyarados can set up some DDs while Exca does some plowing
- CHAR Y, Immune to EQ, doesn't afraid of anything
- Lando-T slayers like scarf gene are neat
- Wide Guard support protects partner from excas EQ and from opposing EQ
Sand Rush
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name: Sand Rush
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Rock Slide
move 3: Iron Head / Swords Dance
move 4: Protect
ability: Sand Rush
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
Moves
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- EQ is a spam-able STAB spread move that dishes out tha damage
- Rock Slide dunks standard Flying-type / Levitate switchins, also carries a tasty flinch chance
- Iron Head is an alternative STAB move that provides coverage against Fairy-type Pokemon and dealing more damage to Leviate users such as Latios than Rock Slide.
- Swords Dance is for the BOOSTO and lets you deal with Intimidate and sweep.
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- Max Spe so you're fast even out of sand
- LO for extra damage
- Sash makes it easier to SD
- 200 Spe beats Gyarados outside of sand and Jolly Scarf Terrakion in sand. Lets you invest more in HP too n_n
- Can use Drill Run but EQ is a big draw to the set
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- Try to remove Pokemon with Intimidate so that Exca can plow through easily
- Be wary of Wide Guard
- Clear out Flying-types before attempting tha sweep
- Try to bring it in with lots of sand turns left
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- TTar for sand, Mega TTar is particularly for weather wars
- Togekiss redirects Fighting-type attacks, also provides good HH support.
- MGar traps Intimidate mons and weather setters
- Wide Guard support protects from Heat Wave / EQ
- Rotom-W or Skymin help w/ bulky Water-types and are immune to Excas EQ
- Thund / Thund-T take out Toed / Zard
Other Options
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- MAGNET RISE
- SR
- Sub
- Sandstorm
- X-Scissor hits Cresselia
- Lum lets you absorb brn
Checks & Counters
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- Intim + burns
- Lando-T
- Fighting-types - MACHUUUUU PAUNCHUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
- Other weather
- bulky waters
- Char Y
- Wide Guard
- SPEED CONTROLUUUUUUU, especially TR
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