Hi Welcome to my sand team just deserts. The team starts off with the obligatory "sand setter"/excadrill core and followed by the almost as obligitory "my little pony". The rest of the team rounds it off with a speedy volt turn core in lando-t/m-manectric and gengar. Now without further adue the team
Tyranitar @ Smooth Rock
248 Hp / 80 Def / 180 Spd
Relaxed
-Stone Edge
-Pursuit
-Ice Beam
-Stealth Rock
Tyranitar the godzilla pokemon joins the team with his support set. Since excadrill is running Swords dance and lando-t is running a choice scarf, this set is preffered for it's longer lasting sand and ability to set up SR with ease. In addition to this tyranitar acts as a counter to threats such as the lati thanks to his excellent mixed bulk and great offensive movepool, with pursuit for trapping, stone edge for that rock stab and ice beam suggested by nedor for coverage, often against pokemon with an ice weakness like garchomp and landorus. The eves are the standard support set build, with a relaxed nature for good mixed bulk, as sand stream already boosts his special defence.
Excadrill Life Orb
4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
adamant
-Earthquake
-Iron Head
-rapid spin
-Rock slide
Excadrill is the only viable sand sweeper in over used, but his positive traits make it more than worthwhile to invest in a sand team over the like of rain, with many more weather boosted sweepers available. First and foremost is his excellent 135 attack, next comes a stellar steel/ground typing which is good offensively and defensively, a decent 88 speed allows him to outspeed a vast array of threats in the sand and finally his movepool has all the right tools for him to get the job he and his team needs done. The nature of adamant was suggested by hector as excadrill is no longer running swords dance so appreciates the increase in damage output f, and the eves are straight forward max attack and speed to outpace virtually all of the metagame. The moves chosen are straight forward ; earthquake and iron head for stab, Frustration for coverage and rapid spin to remove hazards from the opponents field. Finally life orb allows him to pose an immediate threat before a boost.
Keldeo @ Choice Specs
4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
-Scald
-Secret Sword
-Hidden Power flying
-Hydro Pump
Keldeo has always been a good partner for tyrnitar and vice versa. while scarftar is normally the bst pair with keldeo, any tyranitar with pursuit also for an effective team mate. With tyranitar removing threats such as latios and keldeo dealing with the likes of heatran and gliscor. The set has been changed to the crushing choice specs set, taking advantage of the powerful stab combination of water fighting to break past walls with ease. Hidden Power flying allows keldeo to lure and pick off weakened mega-venasaur, Hydro pump allows keldeo to plow past walls, secret sword allows keldeo to hit the blobs and other specially orientated walls on their typically weaker defence, and scald allows for stab water burn move. A timid nature allows for maximum speed and eves max special attack and speed for maximum offensive capabilities. changed suggested by hector, nedor and notfalse.
4 Def / 252 Spa / 252 Spe
Timid
-Volt switch
-Thunderbolt
-Hidden Power Ice
-Flamethrower
Mega-manectric joins the team as a speedy volt turning electric type. With the team with no love of water type attacks and a mega slot conveniently free, manetric is here to put pressure on water/flying types, as well as pick off weakened threats and pivot around. The eves and nature allow for maximum offensive pressure, with max speed to outpace the majority of ou and every unboosted non mgea in the tier. The move set allows manectric to pivot with volt switch, hit hard with stab electric thunderbolt, hidden power ice for chomp and the other 4x ice weak pokemon, with flamethrower to deal with the teams lacking fire type stab to deal with steels, not named heatran.
Skarmory
@ leftovers
252 Hp / 60 Def / 196 SpD
Careful
-Spikes
-Taunt
-Roost
-Whirlwind
Skarmory suggested by hector, joins th team with his flag ship mixed specially defensive set. Skarmory acts as the tams supporting back bone, having good synergy with tyranitar and manectric, while checking numerous threats and setting up additional hazards. The eves were suggested by hector to allow a good mix of special and physical bulk, with a base 140 defence, skarmory still reaches an impressive 331 defence with little investment, allowing patching of skarmorys meager 70 defence with a careful nature and the rest of eves in Hp and Spd. Skarmory's move set lacks any attacking move, leaving him prone to taunt, however the utility of the set more than makes up for it. Spikes allows skarmory to provide the team with additional hazards to wear threats down, taunt allows skarmory to stop other non attacking moves, whirlwind allows skarmory to force sweepers setting up on skarmory out and provide additional damage by forcing pokemon out and into SR + Spikes and finally roost allows skarmory to recover damage.
Amoonguss @ Black Sludge
248 Hp / 184 Def / 56 SpD / 20 Spe
Bold
-Giga Drain
-Clear Smog
-Hidden Power Fire
-Spore
Suggested by nedor and hector, amoonguss joins the team. With the mixed sets ability to do the 3 c's check counter and cripple threats to the team such as azumaril, amoongus provides invaluable support to deal with these otherwise crippling threats. The sets eves are as standard suggested by hector and nedor for the standard mixed set. The move choice allows for an attacking stab healing move in giga drain, clear smog rids any booosts from the oposing pokemon, useful for the likes of CM clefable, Hidden power fire allows amoonguss to hit the 4x fire weak pokemon that wall amoonguss very hard and finally spore cripples non immune pokemon with turns of crippling sleep.
Tyranitar @ Smooth Rock
248 Hp / 80 Def / 180 Spd
Relaxed
-Stone Edge
-Pursuit
-Ice Beam
-Stealth Rock
Tyranitar the godzilla pokemon joins the team with his support set. Since excadrill is running Swords dance and lando-t is running a choice scarf, this set is preffered for it's longer lasting sand and ability to set up SR with ease. In addition to this tyranitar acts as a counter to threats such as the lati thanks to his excellent mixed bulk and great offensive movepool, with pursuit for trapping, stone edge for that rock stab and ice beam suggested by nedor for coverage, often against pokemon with an ice weakness like garchomp and landorus. The eves are the standard support set build, with a relaxed nature for good mixed bulk, as sand stream already boosts his special defence.
Excadrill Life Orb
4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
adamant
-Earthquake
-Iron Head
-rapid spin
-Rock slide
Excadrill is the only viable sand sweeper in over used, but his positive traits make it more than worthwhile to invest in a sand team over the like of rain, with many more weather boosted sweepers available. First and foremost is his excellent 135 attack, next comes a stellar steel/ground typing which is good offensively and defensively, a decent 88 speed allows him to outspeed a vast array of threats in the sand and finally his movepool has all the right tools for him to get the job he and his team needs done. The nature of adamant was suggested by hector as excadrill is no longer running swords dance so appreciates the increase in damage output f, and the eves are straight forward max attack and speed to outpace virtually all of the metagame. The moves chosen are straight forward ; earthquake and iron head for stab, Frustration for coverage and rapid spin to remove hazards from the opponents field. Finally life orb allows him to pose an immediate threat before a boost.
Keldeo @ Choice Specs
4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
-Scald
-Secret Sword
-Hidden Power flying
-Hydro Pump
Keldeo has always been a good partner for tyrnitar and vice versa. while scarftar is normally the bst pair with keldeo, any tyranitar with pursuit also for an effective team mate. With tyranitar removing threats such as latios and keldeo dealing with the likes of heatran and gliscor. The set has been changed to the crushing choice specs set, taking advantage of the powerful stab combination of water fighting to break past walls with ease. Hidden Power flying allows keldeo to lure and pick off weakened mega-venasaur, Hydro pump allows keldeo to plow past walls, secret sword allows keldeo to hit the blobs and other specially orientated walls on their typically weaker defence, and scald allows for stab water burn move. A timid nature allows for maximum speed and eves max special attack and speed for maximum offensive capabilities. changed suggested by hector, nedor and notfalse.
4 Def / 252 Spa / 252 Spe
Timid
-Volt switch
-Thunderbolt
-Hidden Power Ice
-Flamethrower
Mega-manectric joins the team as a speedy volt turning electric type. With the team with no love of water type attacks and a mega slot conveniently free, manetric is here to put pressure on water/flying types, as well as pick off weakened threats and pivot around. The eves and nature allow for maximum offensive pressure, with max speed to outpace the majority of ou and every unboosted non mgea in the tier. The move set allows manectric to pivot with volt switch, hit hard with stab electric thunderbolt, hidden power ice for chomp and the other 4x ice weak pokemon, with flamethrower to deal with the teams lacking fire type stab to deal with steels, not named heatran.
Skarmory
252 Hp / 60 Def / 196 SpD
Careful
-Spikes
-Taunt
-Roost
-Whirlwind
Skarmory suggested by hector, joins th team with his flag ship mixed specially defensive set. Skarmory acts as the tams supporting back bone, having good synergy with tyranitar and manectric, while checking numerous threats and setting up additional hazards. The eves were suggested by hector to allow a good mix of special and physical bulk, with a base 140 defence, skarmory still reaches an impressive 331 defence with little investment, allowing patching of skarmorys meager 70 defence with a careful nature and the rest of eves in Hp and Spd. Skarmory's move set lacks any attacking move, leaving him prone to taunt, however the utility of the set more than makes up for it. Spikes allows skarmory to provide the team with additional hazards to wear threats down, taunt allows skarmory to stop other non attacking moves, whirlwind allows skarmory to force sweepers setting up on skarmory out and provide additional damage by forcing pokemon out and into SR + Spikes and finally roost allows skarmory to recover damage.
Amoonguss @ Black Sludge
248 Hp / 184 Def / 56 SpD / 20 Spe
Bold
-Giga Drain
-Clear Smog
-Hidden Power Fire
-Spore
Suggested by nedor and hector, amoonguss joins the team. With the mixed sets ability to do the 3 c's check counter and cripple threats to the team such as azumaril, amoongus provides invaluable support to deal with these otherwise crippling threats. The sets eves are as standard suggested by hector and nedor for the standard mixed set. The move choice allows for an attacking stab healing move in giga drain, clear smog rids any booosts from the oposing pokemon, useful for the likes of CM clefable, Hidden power fire allows amoonguss to hit the 4x fire weak pokemon that wall amoonguss very hard and finally spore cripples non immune pokemon with turns of crippling sleep.
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