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[Flame Strike]

Hi! Returning after a lot of time to competitive mons, and I want to build around my boy Excadrill, but I'm having a lot of issues.
What are the most common defensive cores for sand teams? I tried everything combos ranging from SpDef Ttar, Alomolola, Hydrapple, Moltres, Clefable, but it still feels having huge holes against things like AoA LO Zama, mixed IVal and LO Raging Bolt.
Also, when building these kind of teams, I feel the lack of firepower to break through Excadrill checks just to be able to cover most of the insane amounts of threats the metagame have.
Any advice on how to build a proper sand team?

 

[1LDK]

Hi! Returning after a lot of time to competitive mons, and I want to build around my boy Excadrill, but I'm having a lot of issues.
What are the most common defensive cores for sand teams? I tried everything combos ranging from SpDef Ttar, Alomolola, Hydrapple, Moltres, Clefable, but it still feels having huge holes against things like AoA LO Zama, mixed IVal and LO Raging Bolt.
Also, when building these kind of teams, I feel the lack of firepower to break through Excadrill checks just to be able to cover most of the insane amounts of threats the metagame have.
Any advice on how to build a proper sand team?

Hey, welcome back, before starting, I have to warn you that sand's viability is low and can feel clunky to use, nevertheless, I will try you to help you as well as I can

The pool in sand is limited since you always want ttar + excadrill, then after that you need an oger-w check, an idbp roar zama check and a way to bypass both corv and skarm, this is super hard to fill for sand since most of the pokemon that can do this are vulnerable to sand chip. for defenive cores, hydrapple, chesnaught, your own corv, sinistcha, gliscor, primarina, pecharunt all can work




these 2 sands have been seen in OLT to a decent degree of success, I don't have the pastes for this but If I'm not mistaken you can find them in the OU room in pokemon showdown

 

[leng loi]

Hi! Returning after a lot of time to competitive mons, and I want to build around my boy Excadrill, but I'm having a lot of issues.
What are the most common defensive cores for sand teams? I tried everything combos ranging from SpDef Ttar, Alomolola, Hydrapple, Moltres, Clefable, but it still feels having huge holes against things like AoA LO Zama, mixed IVal and LO Raging Bolt.
Also, when building these kind of teams, I feel the lack of firepower to break through Excadrill checks just to be able to cover most of the insane amounts of threats the metagame have.
Any advice on how to build a proper sand team?

1LDK gave a good answer but I'd like to add that Tyranitar's main usage in the current metagame is without a Sand Rusher. It role compresses very well between rocks, ghost resist, knock off, etc. while also being a pain for Sun and Veil. As such, it has been used on several bootspam balances to good success.