Sandstorm 5th gen.

[Satan Soul]

Hi Y'all, some of you might recognize me from the battle server, but most of you probably won't. So, before I begin, I'd like to say hi to the smogon community and hope they accept me as a respectable member. Many thanks to all of you who have, and hopefully will help me along the pokepath.

So here's what we're looking at:
A fifth gen. sandstorm team that's hit 1260 in rating b4 plummeting right back down to hell.
I have about 3 months experience with this team, so I suppose I meet the time requirements.....

Well, here we go?!?!?!?!


RMT 5th gen. Sandstorm

Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf
4HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
Sand Stream
-Crunch
-Pursuit
-Superpower
-Stone Edge

The Star of the set: “The sandstorm origin”. Max Attack and Speed EVs are self explanatory, Max Speed gives me the most potential to outspeed opponents (Up to 115 max speed positive nature) with Choice Scarf. Max Attack for Maximum damage on opponents, and 4 HP EVs to increase bulk. Jolly nature to further increase speed. Crunch and Pursuit are utilized for STAB moves and for escaping revenge killers, a combination of Choice Scarf and Superpower to deal with opposing Tyranitar and other pokemon that resist both STABs. Stone Edge which is utilized to deal maximum damage, especially to flying-types.

Landorus @ Leftovers
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
Sand Force
-Swords Dance
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge
-Substitute

Maximum attack and speed for the reasons listed above, this guy is one of my sandstorm abusers, and Sand Force serves it well at the most important of times. Swords Dance to push attack levels to extreme heights, and Earthquake and Stone Edge for STAB and perfect coverage bar very few pokemon. Substitute is utilized for scouting. This guy is my physical early game sweeper, and it does a good job in this area.

Thundurus @ Leftovers
4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
Prankster
-Nasty Plot
-Thunderbolt
-Hidden Power Ice
-Focus Blast

Maximum Special attack and Speed for the reasons listed above, this guy is my special early game sweeper, and does as well, in this area. Nasty Plot to raise Special Attack to a massive 698 Special attack, BoltBeam, or in this case, HP Ice, provides perfect coverage bar Magnezone, which Focus Blast hits.

Jirachi @ Choice Scarf
252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Adamant
Serene Grace
-Iron Head
-U-turn
-Fire Punch (Considering Ice Punch)
-Trick

This guy kinda works alone in my team, he sure pisses enough people off on a good day. It’s just me following IPL’s (kinda luckyish) win for ST7, but yeah, you’re standard haxrachi set, and it pisses more than enough people off. Considering Body Slam

Excadrill @ Air Balloon
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant
Sand Rush
-Swords Dance
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-X-scissor

This is one of my 2 late game sweepers. This guy, with a swords dance, reaches 810 attack, and its 3 coverage moves can KO anybody but Gliscor (Which Thundurus WILL deal with) Air Balloon is for those who only have Ground moves to KO Excadrill, therefore, while they break the balloon, you get an SD setup, and since your speed is at +2 , you have a +2+2 sweeping opportunity

Latios @ Leftovers
4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid
-Calm Mind
-Draco Meteor (Considering Dragon Pulse)
-HP Fire
-Grass Knot

This guy is the second of my late game and special sweepers. It comes in, scares something away, and cleans things up with its perfect coverage moves. This thing, if no other function can inspire fear. However, I do not feel that it’s living up to it’s reputation and am considering a change (prbly gonna get banned too)

Well, hope you like my team!

Considering
-Replacing Latios with a special attacker (for reasons listed and since it's possibly gonna get banned)
-Using KG's Ttar set instead of Scarftar
-Using Ice Punch over Fire Punch to KO the much dreaded Gliscor (However, Scizor, Nattorei and Forry would then provide problems)

Threats
-Gliscor: It's actually pretty obvious, it walls my whole team bar Thunderus, one more reason I'm considering Ice Punch
-DD Ice Fang Gyarados (It has supereffective moves for EVERY single one of my pokemon, nuff said)
-Opposing Excadrill, if either Landorus and Excadrill are not at full health, this guy will gg me without thinking twice.

 

[HardCore]

Ok this team is ok it could use a little work. I can see that's its offensive but its not full HO so you could use some bulk on your side...

Sp def rachi definately has a better luck aspect imo and for your team could run wish uturn body slam and iron head. This set is definately annoying and it supplies bulkiness to your team. You might even want to use stealth rocks over wish or uturn because a team that is this offensive could use the support from having at least Stealth rocks of the 3 different entry hazards.
You have excadrill so its not liek you have no revenger at all. Not to forget about the rest of your speed on the team. On this team you have nothing that can switch into latios or or jirachi multiple times without being crippled which would support using sp def rachi with wish support.

Adding rapid spin instead of x scissors on excadrill would be a nice change, because your team doesn't have any way of healing besides the possible wish set you could run on jirachi.

Cm latios is effective but LO recover latios is ready to go from the start so I would like if you considered using that instead of CM latios who has no source of recovery besides leftovers, but you are running sand. Based off of my usage of LO recover latios he has a lot of chances to recover and sweep again hopefully or break down pokemon that don't resist his stabs. On my LO latios I run surf psychoshock recover and dragon pulse. However if you do keep your set dragon pulse is definately a better option. Also change latios to latias because after a few switch ins because of rocks or getting hit latios is put in KO range for scizor which makes hp fire nearly useless because +1 won't KO sp def ferrothorn and fortress has sturdy to your team without entry hazards.

I hope these suggestions helped.. I'm kinda tired but good luck

 

[Satan Soul]

Wow, you must work great when you're tired, THANKS BRO!!! I'm gonna try each of these things out individually and all of them as a whole to see if it works and I'll get back to you 48 hours from now (approx.)

THANKS!

 

[imperfectluck]

You're especially weak to Water + Ice combos, and can't threaten bulky teams at all. All you have is a bunch of pure physical and pure special sweepers, which makes it easy to divide and conquer your team. Like you said, Jirachi works alone in your team, it doesn't support your team in any way whatsoever, and in fact, neither do Thundurus or Latios.