Excadrill
For the record I'd like to see this thing get banned, but I don't think it will happen just yet.
'Excadrill is Over Powered in my opinion but it is far less noticeable because it's much easier to counter one Pokemon than a whole entity of 'Drizzle' sweepers. Excadrill and Garchomp are the only sand sweepers both having similar counters i.e Skarmory, Gliscor and Brongzong, which therefore makes it's generally easier to counter than Drizzle. The reason why Garchomp's getting axed quicker is due to the fact it can beat its counters through hax which makes it more noticeably broken. Whereas Excadrill is fine and as long as you have a 'wall counter' left on your team.
(No Pokemon is faster than Excadrill in SS - not even choice scarf revenge killers. It has enough bulk to survive crucial hits and cannot be OHKO'd by OU priority moves such as iron fist mach punch Conkledurr. It resists SR, is immune to toxic and can't be paralysed/crippled by t-wave. The only way to effectively beat it is through one of its counters i.e Gliscor/Skarmory/Brongzong/Rotom-W. As long as you have one of these counters and it's still alive don't worry you'll be fine).
The truth is Excadrill is broken in its own right, however it is less noticeable and is manageable as long as your counter(s) is still alive. Additionally, we in fact generally over prepare for this Pokemon and thus it appears to be less threatening.'
The other problem with Garchomp is its superior type coverage. While excadrill can only use earthquake, rock slide, and sometimes x-scissor, Garchomp gets OUTRAGE (hitting everything but steel), and the best steel-killing coverage moves ever: fire and ground. There is no viable pokemon that resists all of those attacks. That, and garchomp has swampert's bulk, making revenging it harder than it looks.
'Well it's not a debate on who is more broken Garchomp or Excadrill.
But
Excadrill (ground typing wise) hits everything hard but Flying (immume), Grass and Bug anyway.
Pure Bug typing isn't used in OU and Bug/Steel takes neutral damage from stab EQ. Grass types are either hit hard with a super effective x-scizzor (except for those who are Fighting/Grass in OU) or hit hard with a 810att (SD) base 102 Return.
As for flying types they can be hit hard with a super effective rock slide.
If you noticed the four counters I've listed (Skarmory/Brongzong/Gliscor/Rotom-W), can handle Excadrill due to their typing or ability. Flying/Steel and Flying/Ground can not be hit super effectively and Brongzong and Rotom-W have levitate so cannot be hit with stab EQ.
Yes Garchomp is superior coverage wise but Excadrill is hitting almost everything in OU hard too.
(Forgetting about Hax) Garchomp can be revenge killed in other ways though because it is not the fastest sweeper, therefore you don't need to reply on priority. Excadrill cannot be out speed by any Pokemon in SS, including Scarf revenge killers therefore you have to reply on wall counters or priority. But like I've said OU priority doesn't kill it anyway. Max Att Conkledurr doesn't even OHKO with Iron Fist.
Finally, like it's not like we should be comparing the two. You don't say something is less broken, because 'this Pokemon' is more broken than it.
EDIT: Let's drop the Excadrill topic for now. I'd like to see it get banned, but I don't think now is the time for it.'
