Happy Holidays
Clarex, here's your Sandy Shocks team!
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This mon actually had some good usages in Pre-HOME, so i decided to search for some old spreads from back then, but i ended up finding a more interesting one instead.
neomon made this set, it beats all Iron Valiant variants as well as outspeeding Corviknight, with the rest of EVs in SpA to secure these match-ups. I didn't mention Primarina because of This Calc:
208+ SpA Protosynthesis Sandy Shocks Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 72 SpD Primarina: 320-378 (87.9 - 103.8%) -- 25% chance to OHKO, this is only against Specs though, you're good against other prim variants since you have Protect for Custap Berry, which also helps against Skeledirge. I was also considering making a Weakness Policy set for the longest time due to screens being able to cheese Primarina and Manaphy, but the Encore games are too strong, so I discarded it.
Volcarona helps hit Grass-, and Ice-types as well as beating Ogerpon, this also patches up the giant Spectrier and Hoopa-u holes that i was figuring out how to even clear, overall this was the perfect fit to the difficult problem that was presented to me, I also decided to give it Substitute over Giga Drain, since your purpose is to just use the berry to beat Ogerpon, you can use a different move other than Giga Drain, I chose Substitute in order to have a slightly better Donphan match-up.
Finally, I had the idea of putting Ogerpon-W as a pokemon in the team in the first place but I had little idea on how to integrate it, but I think I ended up fine. Rock Tomb is obviously for opposing Volcarona (no way they're charti surely) and you beat every Primarina, FOR SURE THIS TIME, as well as other grounds like Ursaluna as long as they're not packing Counter and a ton of physbulk.
The main obvious counter is Donphan, since you have to guess whether it's going to Head Smash or Earthquake your Volcarona and if you have to Substitute or not depending on their decision (also if it's like Rock Tomb or Expert Belt or both it's ggs). As mentioned previously, physically defensive variants of Ursaluna are also trouble due to their positive match-up against Offensive Ogerpon, unless you can somehow setguess and go for Rock Tomb into Encore until they are in range for Ivy Cudgel.
That's it for me, have fun with the team!
