Hey everyone, so here is a team I've been working on for a while now. It's a sandstorm team meant to abuse sandstorm. There really isn't much more that could be said about the team so lets get right into it.
At A Glance
Sets
(M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Slack Off
- Earthquake
- Roar
- Stealth Rock
Hippodown here is my first weather setter, who also doubles as my physical wall. he can easily shrug off any close combat, earthquake, or anything coming from excadrill or terrakion. Hippo can set up stealth rocks and also phase with roar. earthquake is so i can not be taunt bait. Sometimes on Hippodown i switch roar for ice fang because i end up not being able to break excadrill's balloon.
(M) @ Shed Shell
Trait: Regenerator
EVs: 244 HP / 96 Def / 60 SAtk / 108 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Spore
- Stun Spore
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Amoonguss is my rain counter and does a fair job of it. He can come in on Politoed and either Tank a scald or not get affected by a toxic. Amoonguss is also fun because he can use double spore which is fun to spread statuses when my opponent keeps switching around. giga drain is for health recovery considering i opted for shed shell instead of black sludge. HP fire is to hit scizor and ferrothorn and stuff.
@ Choice Scarf
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Iron Head
- Fire Punch
- Ice Punch
- U-turn
Jirachi is one my main sweepers. Iron Head with Serene grace gets a 60% flinch rate I believe. Plus Iron head is stab so that's cool too. Choice scarf so he can out speed threats and flinch hax them to death. fire and ice punch are for coverage when i need him to revenge kill in case chandy goes down. u turn is really mostly a filler.
(M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Shadow Tag
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Flamethrower
- Energy Ball
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [ice]
Chandelure is the revenge killer of the team. standard set here with choice scarf. I chose Timid nature over modest because chandy's speed with a scarf and hp ice is 387. A 252 speed dragonite with a nature boosting in speed is 388. so i need more speed if i wanted to get an hp ice in on dnite on the switch in. flamethrower is for stab and can handle most things i try to trap such as ferrothorn, foretress, and Scizor. shadow ball for more stab and energy ball for gastro and Swampert. Chandy also acts as a decent sun counter which is cool.
(M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 180 HP / 252 Atk / 76 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Superpower
Ttar is my second weather setter. I chose to double up on sand setters so i could almost guarantee the weather war to be mine. Plus, bandtar works really well even outside of sand so i wanted to use him. Pursuit is to catch chandy when he revenge kills one of my pokes. Superpower is just for a raw power move which ttar can appreciate with that 604 attack whit the given evs and choice band. stone edge is for stab as well as Crunch. I never actually use Crunch though so I'm considering maybe giving him another move instead, I have no idea what that move would be though...
(M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Sheer Force
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Rash Nature (+SAtk, -SDef)
- Earth Power
- Rock Polish
- Hidden Power [ice]
- Superpower
Here is the main sweeper of the team. I love rock polish Landorus for so many reasons. First off, he has a resistance to ground which 3 of my Pokemon are weak too, so he can come in on an earthquake and get a rock polish in. There's really not much to say about him because his role is simple and that is the late game sweep. he does especially well at this because he can easily tank a iron head or rock slide from Excadrill. Earth Power and HP ice are my two main attacks and Superpower is there in case i run into Chansey/ Blissey.
Threat List
Azumarill
Dragonite w/ substitute
rock polish Lando and Genesect
Chandelure
I'd just like to throw out as a side note that i was considering making Lando into a u turn lando instead, and then switching Jirachi into RP Genesect.
Any Advice you could give me at all would be appreciated, and I hope to be reading your comments soon.