This is the main reason why I believe Foul Play is a good countermeasure for Aegislash. No offensive investment is needed to threaten Aegislash and you can put all that investemt into bulk to take its hits better. The best part is that most (bulky) users of Foul Play can handle both Stance Dance and Wallbreaker Aegislash; the former is threatened if it tries Swords Dance, and the latter is threatened as it cannot switch back into Shield Stance.
252+ SpA (150 Special Attack) (60 Ice Special) vs. 248 HP / 0 SpD Landorus-T: 384-456 (100.78 - 119.68%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Unless your team is having some troubles with Faries I'd suggest Sacred Sword over Iron Head because it hits Normals (immune to Ghost), and Darks (resist Ghost) and especially Tyranitar. I really don't think that any Steel type attacks are all that useful and they don't really give any extra coverage that Fighting doesn't already, besides Fairy which already takes neutral from Shadow Ball. Fighting really just hits more important Pokemon than Steel. Even though it's a dual STAB, Fighting+Ghost is an unresisted combination(also hits some of would-be checks/counters)
The set is really close to Ultimario's. Where you run max Speed max Special Attack with a minus Attack Nature. Personally I use it by switching Aegislash in after a KO or into a good resist/immunity then on their switch set up an Automatize. With almost everyone running the physical Swords Dance Aegislash people are generally taken off guard and Aegislash can usually score at least 1 surprise KO at worst and sweep an entire team at best, with enough prior damage/right pokemon taken out. It can, from my experience, take out around 2 pokemon, dying from either LO recoil or one of their pokemon tanking a hit. But by that point it has done the damage it needed.
King's Shield blocks all damages, so yes, Earthquake is negated.
Needs some prior damage, 2 layers of Spikes perhaps. Still does better than most, though.
I made a post about that on page 13 with the calcs and everything. Quagsire can even take a 252 Shadow Ball and hit Aegislash's Sword Forme for the OHKO.
Oh man ill go fix that. Sorry. But I did 252 Sp Atk evs with Modest nature in the calcs. It is a 2HKO unless you have 2-3 layers of Spikes and Stealth Rock on the field. As I said in my post you have to switch in Quagsire in after a KO when facing the special variant and tank a Shadow Ball and return with EQ for the KO. Making Quagsire far less effective at checking the Special/Mixed set. Being slower than Aegislash comes into play because that means that it will always get the hit on the Sword Forme allowing it to OHKO if aegislash stays in. As compared to a 2 shot if it were faster and had to hit the Shield.
