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This also brings me to another point which I didn't fully appreciate when I was starting. Dragon Dance Tar is immensely immensely threatening because it outspeeds the whole tier at +2 and can only be reliably stopped defensively by swampert (and to a lesser extent flygon and some other rarely seen options like donphan or whatever). An extremely common way games end in ADV is Tyranitar gets an entry on a mon that can't deny its setup, it clicks dragon dance as opponent switches to a soft check, it dances again and lives a hit or clicks rock slide and gets a flinch --> sweep.

The Ninjask in my backpocket

I also just want to add one more thing about setting sand. It is hard for a team to be extremely consistent, i.e. not have any wacky set that just 6-0s you from the start, if you don't have sand. Sand is the thing holding back a lot of things that would otherwise be giga threats like pinch berry reversal/flail sweepers, subcm suicune, curse rest lax (honestly all suicune and lax sets to some extent), rest zapdos, etc. Now, I'm not saying it's impossible -- and there are certainly notable players who load a lot of sandless to success. But for a lot of players they'd rather just load tar which is a perfectly good and solid mon than play GSC lite for 500 turns or randomly get 6-0'd on preview from some cheese.

Another thing is that by running Tar you pretty much invalidate a ton of the idiotic "Time wasting teams" without a clear wincon that you see every 50-100 games. Sandless+spikeless have to sit for ages against them. While that doesn't make Tar better exactly, you feel damn glad that you brought it around.