so yeah, just wanted to showcase my ground mono team. I'm currently waiting around for episode 19 to drop.
Hippowdon
ability: sandstream
moveset:
- stealth rock
- earthquake
- sandstorm
- thunderfang
EV's: 252 HP, 60 def, 198 sp. def.
Item: smooth rock
Hippowdon is there mostly to get the prolonged sandstorm in right of the bat. and the required stealth rock off course.
for all the rest he's mainly cannon fodder and resetting sand storms.
Excadrill
ability: sand rush
moveset:
- sword dance
- smart strike
- earthquake
- drill run
EV's 292 HP, 252 atk, 66 spd.
Item: metal coat
Excadrill is one of the hard hitters in the team. STAB bonus on it's moveset and metal coat for that extra dmg on smart strike. trained it in HP because sand rush gives it insane speed (438 on sand rush) and it needs the bulk for getting a sword dance in.
Garchop (duuh)
ability: sand veil
moveset:
- crunch
- outrage
- fire fange
- sword dance
EV's 252 HP, 252 atk, 6 atk.
Item: charcoal
Garchomp is another obvious hard hitter in the team. it has charcoal to solely to boost fire fang and I'm waiting for life orb or muscle band to be introduced into the game. opted for hp rather than speed because his base speed is pretty good with 31 iv's in speed and a jolly (hell yeah) nature. same as for excadrill I got ev's in hp to get sword dance in easier.
Gliscor
Ability: Poison heal
moveset:
- roost
- facade
- poison jab
- sword dance
EV's 252 HP, 252, sp. def, 6 def.
Item: toxic orb
Gliscor is one of my personal favorites, so I couldn't not include it. it's excellent abilities as a lingering made me dabble with toxic a bit. but the whole team relies more on hitting quick and hard with fast setups. not wanting to rely on gliscor out-speeding anything I wanted to get all his ev's into defences.
Swampert
Ability: Torrent
moveset:
- hammer arm
- earthquake
- waterfall
- rock slide
EV's 252 HP, 168 atk, 70 sp. def, 20 def.
Item: choice band
well, obviously had to start the game with mudkip, and as it went on I was amazed at how bulky this guys became. So I gave it magma's choice band and some coverage moves to hit hard. it's type coverage and the given EV's make it very tough to kill.
Mamoswine
Ability: Thick fat
- Icicle crash
- ice chard
- earthquake
- knock off
EV's 252 atk, 252 spd.
Item: choice band
I often use mamoswine to switch when facing heavy ice hitters (blizzard has been a real pain in my butt). mamoswine also makes an excellent revenge killer with this movepool.
I also have some benched mon for reasons..
- krookodile
- camerupt
- golurk
- flygon
- whishcash
- claydoll
- steelix (steelixite)
- stunfisk
- rhyperior
so yeah, what you guys think of the dessert rats?