lucaris Sandstorm

[lucari]

TEAMBUILDING PROCESS

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Sandslash because I like it and its what the team is based around.
Tyranitar because it starts sandstorm and in my opinion is a lot better than Hippowdon.
Mamoswine protection from grass and ground.
Ferrothorn as a wall and to set up spikes counter ground.
Ferrothorn was too predictable and every battle I used him in my oponents all had a strong fire type move that OHKOed it Steelix is less weak to fire and manages to get more hits in.
Gliscor to stall and set up whilst healing itself and sweep.
Landorus to revenge kill.
Cradily for water coverage.

A video of the team in action click


Tyranitar (M) @ Chople Berry
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 64 SAtk / 192 SDef
Sassy Nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Stealth Rock
- Crunch
- Fire Blast
- Ice Beam

Tyranitar starts the sandstorm for Sandslash and Landorus and takes out dragon types such as Garchomp who benefits from my sandstorm and Dragonite and Haxorus from the Glacial Cataclysm teams I have trouble with. Stealth Rock is obvious. Crunch is a reliable STAB move. Fire Blast takes care of the rest of Glacial Cataclysm teams.


Sandslash (M) @ Lum Berry
Trait: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Night Slash

Sandslash is my primary physical sweeper. Sandslash is very underated in my opinion and because it is hardly used on pokemon online has proved to be a great sweeper because of people making bad descisions by thinking they can survive a hit and being outspeeded by Sand Rush. Night Slash is a great unexpected move as well.

Steelix (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 96 Def / 160 SDef
Relaxed Nature (+Def, -Spd)
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Gyro Ball
- Toxic

Steelix is a great wall that can take tonnes of hits but I don't think he has any good recovery moves (correct me if I am wrong).Gyro Ball is extremely powerfull and can 1HKO a decent amount of pokemon.(I am thinking of switching Stealth Rock for something else because I have never needed to use it because Tyranitar has it.)


Cradily (M) @ Leftovers (needs changing so only one leftovers is used)
Trait: Storm Drain
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
-Toxic
-Energy Ball
-Hidden Power Fire
-Recover
Cradily is there to switch in to water attacks and to take out Ferrothorn.



Gliscor (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 184 Def / 72 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Facade
- Ice Fang

Toxic Orb and Poison Heal make him almost invinsable Facade gets a boost from Toxic Orb as well. Earthquake is a reliable STAB move and Ice Fang takes care of Dragonite and Garchomp.


Mamoswine (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Thick Fat
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Crash
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge

Thick Fat helps Mamoswine a lot. Ice Shard is a great priority move. Icicle Crash is a strong STAB move as is Earthquake. Stone Edge is able to take out Chandelure if it traps him.

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Plaid]

Your entire team is physical and every one of them is weak to water attacks. You have major, major type imbalance. Also, since this is Dream World, you're going to have a lot of problems with TechniLoom since you have several weaknesses to Fighting moves. I'm honestly not quite sure why this is in the Dream World metagame, to be honest... Is Sand Rush on Sandslash not yet released?

Anyway, Water weaknesses is easily your biggest issue; Keldeo is another Dream World Poke that can pretty much just kill your entire team. You'll also have trouble with Starmie, Politoed, Rotom-W, and anything that uses Hydro Pump as you have no safe switchins, and only Lando or maybe Sandslash has the possibility of revenge killing, at which point the Water Poke can just switch out. You really need to rework pretty much the entire team, I'm afraid, and include some special attackers and water resists. I'd recommend things like Ferrothorn or Gastrodon to resist water, and some Dragon types like Latios or Latias would not be amiss either. I'd probably recommend a CM Latias with recover since you're going to need it to take hits for the rest of your fairly fragile team.

Anyway, there's more I could say, but this really needs quite a lot of work. Sorry.