My first OU Sand Team!

[Cpickens70]

Tyranitar (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 64 Atk / 192 SDef
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Crunch
- Stone Edge
- Pursuit
- Stealth Rock

I lead with tyrantiar to setup early stealth rocks
and get up sandstorm other than that not really much to
say about him

Heatran (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Lava Plume
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Grass]
- Dragon Pulse

I play heatran to counter certain problems like ferrotthorn
and magnezone. He is also great to switch in on suspected
toxics and will o wisps not counters ice pokemon great making
him and gliscor a great team.

Scizor (F) @ Life Orb
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 216 Atk / 40 SDef
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- Bug Bite
- Roost
- Swords Dance

Scizor makes an awsome pysical sweeper. He counter terrakion
threatening to ohko with bullet punch also after 1 or 2 swords
dances he can ohko almost anything that doesnt resist it and roost
help keep him alive with after taking life orb damage

Terrakion @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Justified
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Close Combat
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- X-Scissor

Terrakion is the revenge killer of the team. He is the best thing
to switch to after either a ko or volt switch and can kill blissey
or ferrothorn in one hit with ease. Also scarfed terrakion makes a
great counter for a banded one or for heatran or tyrantiar.

Rotom-W)@ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SAtk / 4 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Hydro Pump
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split

I chose rotom to play a bulky roll on the team to help counter water types
and psychical fighting types with will o wisp. The fact that he gets hurt by
sandstorm is almost an advantage considering I run pain split and hydro pump
can also be very deadly if the opponent is using a drizzle politoad.

Gliscor (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 184 Def / 72 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Toxic
- Protect
- Earthquake
- Roost

Finally I play gliscor as a physical wall that makes a great counter to
machamp or heatran (as long as the dont have HP ice). With toxic, protect,
and roost gliscor can make a great wallbreaker as well as quickly wear
down physical sweepers.

Overall this team has proven quite well in testing its obvious weaknesses
are bulky waters like jellicent and vaporean. Any tips would be appreciated
Thank You! =)

 

[Sewa]

I'm not a rater, but I'll give you my help :3

Rotom EVs are wrong. Timid nature (on Heatran) doesn't lower SAtk.
To help you against bulky waters, I recommend you to play with substitute on gliscor over roost. While Roost seems the best choice, while you land you have the chance for being hit by supereffective scald, while with sub/protect, you don't lose life by switching between the two moves and better pressure water types. Or if you want to switch a poke, Breloom can be used instead of Scizor. It provides you a better priority than Scizor (with which you can scare Terrakion), a chance to sleep a poke and a way to scare/kill bulky waters

I find the team a little weak to keldeo: with the proper move it can KO 4/6 of the team. Particularly, with specs it can come in on Scizor, T-tar and Heatran (bar HP grass) and dent or just kill any poke in the team.
Also, if running offensive Heatran, why do you play with Lava Plume? Flamethrower or Fire Blast are superior choices for an offensive set.

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Gliscor (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 184 Def / 72 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Toxic
- Protect
- Earthquake
- Substitute

Breloom (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Mach Punch
- Spore
- Bullet Seed
- Swords Dance

 

[Blurpleberry]

I recommend trying out Nasty Plot Lucario in place of Terrakion because not only does he out-speed and OHKO (after a Nasty Plot boost) Tyranitar, Ferrothorn and Heatran as well as stripping 68.4% - 81% off of standard Blissey , but he also out-speeds and OHKO's Modest Hydreigon as well as out-speeding everything up to Neutral natured base 110's.
As for your bulky water problem Jellicent is always OHKOed by Dark Pulse after a Nasty plot boost. As for Vaporeon Scald does not threaten to shut down lucarios sweep because he does not fear being burned and he can simply 2HKO back.
Here's the set

Lucario(Terra Who?) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 4Hp /252 Spa / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
- Nasty Plot
- Aura Sphere
- Dark Pulse
- Vacuum Wave

Don't let the Nasty plot throw you off Lucario does't need to set up to wreck havoc he can immediately come in and revenge kill with his stab priority vacuum wave or simply outspeed and KO with either Aura Sphere or Dark Pulse which afford him nearly perfect neutral coverage. One of the most useful advantages is the ability to bluff a physical set and catch an unlucky Ferrothorn off guard. He also boasts a useful set of resistances as well as 2x Resistances to Normal, Grass, Ice, Ghost, Steel and Dragon as well as 4x resistances to Bug, Rock and Dark as well as an immunity to Poison, Lucario will have no trouble finding a switch in to set up on.
lastly Lucario receives near perfect neutral coverage with his Dark/Fighting combo.

 

[Dr Ciel]

Hey there. That's a pretty solid sand team you got going on. I have a whole ton of suggestions that you can try to help make this team even better. But enough talk, let's get to rating. Firstly, I can see a huge weakness to mixed Infernape, as it hits all but Rotom-W hard. To help with your Infeznape weakness, I'd suggest that you use a Special Defensive Hippowdon over Tyranitar. Taken from a special defensive point of view, Hippowdon can function as a reliable mixed wall, catching a lot of special attackers off guard while still walling the physical attackers in the tier. Moving on, I suggest that you use a Bulky Rotom-W set over your current one. With a bulky spread Rotom-W can take quite a few hits, while still utilizing its high Special Attack to take out most threats. Another change that can be made to this team is using a Bulky Band Scizor over your current one. When equipped with a band, Scizor can revenge kill a lot of Pokemon in the current OU meta, mainly the biggest threat in the tier, Terrakion. Well, that's all I got to say for this team. I really hope that I helped a lot. Have fun and good luck with your team!

Hippowdon

Hippowdon (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Stealth Rock
- Slack Off
- Earthquake
- Whirlwind

Rotom-W

Rotom-W @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 112 HP / 252 SAtk / 144 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Hidden Power [Fire]

Scizor

Scizor (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 40 Atk / 216 SDef
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Pursuit
- Superpower
- U-Turn
- Bullet Puunch

 

[Cpickens70]

I appreciate the feedback and just to be clear I made a few mistakes it suppposed to be 252 satk not atk on rotom and also timid not jolly on heatran. Not sure how I missed that. But Ty sewa for catching that.

 

[destinyunknown]

Hey,

You have a cool team but there are some things that you could change to improve it. First of all, you should change Heatran's nature to timid, as it doesn't lower your special attack as jolly does (heatran is a special attacker). I also recommend usin Fire Blast instead of Lava Plume, since Heatran enjoys a high powered STAB attack when running an offensive spread, as it hits the opponents much harder.

Since your team is weak to Bulky waters, as well as Keldeo and rain teams in general, you could consider using Celebi instead of Gliscor. Celebi can still act as a check to Fighting types pokemon and a sponge for Ground types moves. while being a status absober and a breloom check, meaning Gliscor won't be missed. Here's the set:

Celebi@Leftovers | Natural Cure
Modest Nature | 248 Hp / 224 SpA / 36 Spe
Leaf Storm / U-turn / Hidden Power Fire / Recover

Finally, you should consider changing your Terrakion set to a Choice Band one, as it will help Terrakion taking down defensive pokemon suchas Skarmory or Gliscor, helping Scizor to sweep and letting you beat stall teams, which give your team a lot of trouble.