85. Thank you @Xigbar and @Limbow for documenting. Like Sandstorm, it's also used in stall teams. First segment Hippowdon @ Smooth rock Sand stream Slack off. Cerricola • 3 yr. For example, Sand Rush Excadrill is very common in Sand teams because it gives Excadrill great Sweeping opportunities with Swords Dance. 6 Excadrill. This build works best as a Lead, using Dynamax to boost Tyranitar's natural bulk even further and fire off powerful Max Moves that support the team and weaken the opposition. My team plays well within itself, but Rain Teams, even with dual-Sand Streamers, are a tremendous wall of a problem to my gritty veil, as well as many other Pokemon that I have come across. This is my current SandStorm Team and it has some weaknesses that could be fixed. Kayla. It boosts the power of Water-type moves and lowers the power of Fire-type moves. A Flare Blitz abuser like Darmanitan. 25% of both Pokémon's health each turn. - Crunch. - Earthquake. The other 2 teams use Pokemon which can hit common TR setters like Reuniclus for super effective damage, or stop a Trick Room set up with taunt. If multiple Pokémon with weather-generating abilities (Sand Stream, Drizzle, Drought or Snow Warning) enter the field on the same turn, each weather condition will. Was wondering. Another potential offensive Sand abuser is Mega-Garchomp, which can fire off extremely powerful Sand Force-boosted attacks and rip through teams, though. Pretty sure at this point with all the guides around most players know how to deal with it. Drizzle/Dought would be hard to pull of because of their clashing effects, where as Sandstorm/Rain can have can both have bennifits on a single Pokemon on your team. Sand Force | SM | Smogon Strategy Pokedex. Harsh Sunlight. Mostly to be used in sand teams as this set gives Tyranitar the most possible switch ins. 0 of this team has been replaced except this guy. Please ensure your post includes the format, e. Role: Entry remover and hard-hitter. This set should be used in Sandstorm and after a teammate has fainted. So it shouldn’t be too difficult. The thing with Garchomp is that while it loses speed, it's stupidly fucking powerful. The Core Benefits of Using Rain Dance: Water-type moves increase by 50%. Apr 9, 2020. The answerer would be expected to update their answer. Scares Pokémon to switching with Pursuit, and a sweeper. EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe. With AV, during Sandstorm Tyranitar is incredibly bulky and it can't even take super effective hits if they're special. Competition Archive. Ability: Sand Rush. Rate my gen 8 VGC team! (season 9) (Imma be honest, I'm quite new to this; I've only started battling in community-hosted tournaments as of late, so if the team is straight up bad, I completely understand xD) I've been genuinely struggling to make a good sandstorm team. - Talonflame. The basic sand team structure of Tyranitar, Landorus-Therian, Ferrothorn, and Rotom-wash give so much flexibility in the choice of the last two slots. - Stone Edge. Ok, lets start with the head of the team: Tyranitar - Earthquake - Stone Edge - Crunch - Ice Fang Item Attached: Assault Vest Ability: Sandstream EVs and Nature: EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) Reason: It has the main purpose of this team as an. EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe. The sandstorm weather condition. 2. Sand teams also require a check to rain teams; so, Tapu Koko and Tangrowth were added to check and counter such Rain threats as Pelipper, Swampert, and Tornadus-Therian. I use it for strictly offense and it works perfectly. ago. Tyranitar @ Choice Band. Moves. This is why you'll commonly find Ferrothorn, Amoonguss, or even Mega Scizor on these team archetypes. -- % Z-Sand Attack: Detailed Effect: Evasiveness ↥: Boosts Evasion by 1 stage: Base Critical Hit Rate: Speed Priority. And Excadrill is still the best physical weather sweeper in the game! Excadrill's high Attack, combined with moves like Earthquake, Rock Slide, and Iron Head. Sand offense rarely relies on sand, but instead uses Tyranitar's ability to neutralize opposing weather and trap problematic Pokémon, such as Latios, Latias, Celebi, Jellicent, and many other Pursuit-weak Pokémon. 82. Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk) - Earthquake. Especially if you add Tyranitar because you'll have to tank a lot of fighting type moves. Garchomp can potentially get as much as two Swords Dance boosts in Sandstorm thanks to its Sand. I would like to. Drilbur As just mentioned, Drilbur is without a doubt the most threatening Pokemon sand teams run. The 15 Pokemon listed above are surely not the only ones who fit well on hail teams—the list would contain hundreds of more Pokémon if all were listed. Considering BW introduced some extremely powerful and versatile Fighting-types, this is a grave issue! Often, these will switch into Tyranitar without breaking a sweat. Moves: Swords Dance, Close Combat, Extreme Speed. The most used Pokemon for Gym Rebattles. 1. I also run it with yawn, just in case the opponent wants to try something funny and set up in front of it. At the end of each turn, it damages all Pokémon that are not Rock, Ground, or Steel types. 50. Tyranitar (252 hp, 252 atk, 4 def) Assault vest - sand stream - adament ; Stone edge, Crunch, Earthquake, Fire punch. I created this little team for fun. The Pokemon featured in hail have all great uses, and what makes this style so great is the versatility of the team blueprints and Pokémon that can fit on it well. Cerricola • 3 yr. Offensive Eviolite Hippopotas—with maximum HP and Attack—is also viable, but either way, Hippopotas is always the most important Pokemon on any sand team, as without it, you will never be able to apply either offensive or defensive pressure. Multiscale and sand don't mix that well but since you don't want to bring skarm the ground immunity from Dragonite will bring some relief on your defensive mons, and it will help a lot against rain with gastrodon. It deals 1/16th passive damage every turn to all non-ground/rock/steel types while granting rock types a 150% boost to their special defense. Once you hit end game the simplest gym rerun team has two typhlosions built exactly this way to make it work. Modest Nature. Its typing has problematic weaknesses but is an excellent offensive combination with credible defensive merit, resisting Grass, Steel, and most notably Fighting against Breloom and Scizor. (Inadequate description? Let us know in this forum. Invite all your friends, and let's play some. ・Decreases damage of Water-type moves by 50%. - No mention of Excadrill or Mega Garchomp who are the best Sand Sweepers. These teams are usually based on momentum and pack a U-turn user or two, and rarely switch. - Rotom-W, Magnezone. He is also a great way to beat opposing Hail and Sandstorm teams. In my opinion, Haxorus is the best Hax pokemon OU ever. Flame Body is a good defensive perk, making up for Volcarona's low natural physical bulk by potentially. ironwater. It can attack with Bone Rush and Payback for attacking moves. Effect In battle. First, its ability Sand Stream alone tremendously shapes the strategies and team choices in the metagame. I guess the format would be a no legendary ou tier. I need a little help with finding another special attacker in my team. Posted December 11, 2017. I kind of have trouble taking powerful water moves with this team. Tyranitar is Lycanroc's current best partner, who naturally. Rock slide . Effect. He's really helpful on this team. 0 coins. r/pokemmo. The rain weather condition. Having. Scizor. The Pokemon featured in hail have all great uses, and what makes this style so great is the versatility of the team blueprints and Pokémon that can fit on it well. Garchomp - “This Match Is Too Fun!”. Recommendations. Iron head. In addition, sand has a lot more room for creativity in teambuilding. Infernape is a dolis pokemon a Sandstorm team to have clean-up the game. Assuming you don't have a Kyogre (likely as it's only really late game you can get one), then you'll want to get a Politoed with the ability Drizzle (it's its Hidden/Dreamworld Ability, so use a dream stone). #1. Sand is an effective weather for BO, thanks to its premier abuser in Excadrill, which can completely destroy teams with a fantastic Attack stat and doubled Speed in Sand thanks to Sand Rush. Steelix. It's likely to happen when you are not used to the your team setup and gyms' team setups. After adding the first 3 pokemon and seeing they are all weak to fighting, and knowing that sand teams are often weak to rain, I decided to go with a slightly unorthodox choice of slowbro. Your team needs more defense, I will put there a ferrothorn that's cover well grass and water, other options are cradily with 50% spdf boost with sand or a gastrodon. Don't try using the move Sandstorm and a Smooth Rock instead, because setup is too tedious to work. If you can get one early and then pay to reset its EV's it will make your life easy later as well. g. ・Changes Weather Ball into a Fire-type move and doubles its power. Tyranitar's great mixed bulk and boosted special defense in Sandstorm make it one of the better Weakness Policy users in the metagame. This thread serves to be a place for successful UU teams intended to help new players get acclimated to the metagame and different playstyles. Chỉ có 2 sự lựa chọn cho bạn, đó là Tyranitar và Hippowdon. on singles, you may have less benefits from Sandstorm, so keep that in mind. Excadrill is the main sand sweeper on this team with sand rush and swords dance being able to easily go through a lot of pokemon and also is the hazard removal method for this team. This set is such a powerful pivot because it's a fantastic way to threaten bulkier teams with Magma Storm + Taunt + Toxic while simultaneously having the utility of checking Pokémon that otherwise very easily get out of control, such as Swords Dance Mega Scizor. Firstly, I'd replace Cradilly with Ferrothorn. Sandstorm (Japanese: 砂あらし Sandstorm) is a type of weather introduced in battle in Generation II. Speed. Sandstorm. Choice Scarf Nature: Jolly EVs: 252 Atk 252 Speed 4 HP Item: Choice Scarf Rock Slide Crunch Superpower RicardoSilva7631. SpA. After time of not publishing anything, today I will show an sand team for Gen 8 OU. If your team needs a powerful physical or mixed sweeper, Garchomp is always a good choice! A Tricky Sweeper in Sand. Instead of going over the individual Pokemon, I feel like the strategy overall needs a big overhaul. Basic Sand Team. Excadrill is the best choice for physical attacker in this team thanks to its Sand Rush Ability doubling its speed during Sandstorm. Posted February 24 (edited) Cost: 82k-160k (This varies based on markets and if you need to use an Ability Pill) Gyms: All but Castelia and Hearthome. Ability: Drizzle (obvi) Item: Damp Rock. However, Sandstorm teams that use lots of Steel have to be weary of Fire-type Pokemon, and opposing Water-types are also a problem as they knock down Ground and Rock-types somewhat easily. An issue as such shouldn't arise. My sand setter. This is a Sandstorm/Gravity Gym running team that can Consistently clear 27 of the 30 gyms, allowing you to pick. For example: A trainer has a team of 6 Pikachus Levels 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40. Effect. Join. stuuful12. Sand teams could be played in a more balanced/stall way chipping the opponent or going straight for the sweep with sand abusers (excadrill). So I tried to create a sand team but it didn't really work out. Dragon Dance. Item: Life Orb. can really help a team out. Outside of battle. Tyranitar has two types, Rock and Dark. Atk. Valheim. BearKuda • 1 yr. How to Build a Team with Lycanroc (Midday Form) Lycanroc is an excellent choice to be a Sand team's Sand abuser. 40. The only other Mega pokemon which can even abuse Sand is. Sand Balance is a pretty viable team archetype in this tier, and this team has potential. The rest of the aforementioned Pokémon, however, can be revenge killed by Excadrill, but only if the sand is up. Most of its underside is light yellow with a white underbelly. Harsh Sunlight. chrysal-sensei • 8 mo. Infernape is a dolis pokemon a Sandstorm team to have clean-up the game. Lucario: Inner Focus / Steadfast: 70 / 110 / 70 / 115 / 70 / 90: Undefeated Gen 9 Sand OU Team. Eduard's character is a reference to Darude's "Sandstorm". Earthquake is a suprisingly powerful STAB that prevents this set from being taunt bait. - Ice Punch. The most used Pokemon for Gym Rebattles. See full list on smogon. I thought it would be superior to Cyclizar in this team because of it's steel typing. BestDatrix. straight-forward set on this team is my Excadrill. Rain or Sun teams. Giratina (Origin Forme, of course – Altered Forme is awful). Unless your team includes a Giga Drain user, Hippowdon will have its way with your team by letting Life Orb and sandstorm damage accumulate while phazing boosting sweepers, or by hitting your Pokemon surprisingly hard off base 112 Attack, wearing your Pokemon down before you can remove it. Tyranitar @ Leftovers @ Sand Stream Careful Nature 228 Atk, 140 Def & SDef-Earthquake-Dragon dance-Crunch-Stone Edge The lead of my (near) Perfect Sandstorm team, T-Tar. Test1az. This Pokemon heals 1/4 of its max HP when hit by Water moves; Water immunity. So, I've never played any content of Competitive Pokemon, but now in this game, I'm feeling something about it. Can't believe I'm still updating this post haha. Sand Stream Pokemon Một team sand tốt cần thỏa mãn một yêu cầu là phải có pokemon có ability sand streams. If I feel like I. With AV, during Sandstorm Tyranitar is incredibly bulky and it can't even take super effective hits if they're special. Sand While Sand Stream is the most common weather ability seen in OU, it's not really used for the effect. Seismitoad and Mamoswine are also incredibly uselful. Clefable is the main stealth rock setter of the team and is a pokemon commonly seen on most stall teams because of its ability to support the team with moves like heal bell and stealth rock. The Pokemon Go group for Victoria BC! This group is to team up with others nearby, as well as to help others find rarer Pokemon. Although already a threat to Sandstorm teams, Snover. Sand Stream. Under the sun, it'll one shot a lot of targets, even do tons of damage to those that resist it. The reason I chose to build around Sand is because it has amazing matchup against lot of Pokémon, such as the Dogs, Lapras, Thundurus and Zapdos, Incineroar,. Hippowdon có HP và Deffense stats khá tốt, và nó. While the bans of Drought and Drizzle slightly complicated things, Sun, Rain, and Sand are all powerful playstyles in the metagame. From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if a. I am currently 9-0 with this team, and while this Gen just came out and there aren't a lot of formulated teams that have come out yet, this team seems to be unstoppable simply because of 1 pokemon, Houndstone. Official group for Pokemon Go Victoria, BC in the Saanich area Pokemon Go: Saanich Victoria, BC is a pokemon fan group working towards bringing people. ago. Yesterday i saw that sand stream was banned from smogons UU, so im wondering how things are working / will work in here. Type: Grass/Fairy. Mar 23, 2018 #3 Similar to RyLon's post, this is a good team, but has a. Overall it looks like a solid team but it all depends on what sets you end up running. Role: Sets sandstorm and rocks. I am new here and if this post in the wrong place I apologize. Help with my Pokemmo sand team. As I was trying to further enhance my sandstorm team. i'm thinking of making a weather based team, but I've no clue which one to pick. . I made a few budget breeds and some quality breeds. End game team ideas: Sun team . Weather Team Counter. There is no Excadrill to abuse Sand, Lycanroc is underwhelming (wait you don't even have Lycanroc), and Great Tusk is a body to literally most of the team. Yeah I think Rough Skin. -Torkoal: Used because of drought, I like it physical just for all the moves it gets. best alolatales team ever created, i used this team on ladder when mewnium z was legal, but made some adjustments for current meta (mega swampert over mega sharpedo and latias over mew). The main purpose it has on this team is for setting up sand, but it's also super useful due to the high damage output coupled with the large amount of coverage it provides. – Sand Ruch doubles the speed of the user. Is anyone able to give some advice on how I can fix my team without starting over? It isn't because of fighting type, but it could work for garchomp or one of the fysical tanks. However, other than very restricted formats,. Ability: Technician. - Crunch. Modest Nature. Have both with perfect IV’s and EV’s how should i finish the team? Advertisement Coins. Garchomp's sand veil ability is something you can't really rely on. Steelix. Sand Throw. Base 135 Atk, and Base 176 Spd in sandstorm makes this almost unstoppable if it gets any SDs in. Like sandstorm, hail takes away 6. Posted February 24 (edited) Cost: 82k-160k (This varies based on markets and if you need to use an Ability Pill) Gyms: All but Castelia and Hearthome. Toxic stalls non-steel types with Toxic and hit's foes that are steel with Earthquake. - Crunch. Setting sand, great bulk and attack power, and the Assault Vest + EV spread mean that Ttar is excellent at surviving special attacks that don't hit its weaknesses. Interesting, thankyou for your detailed reply, in terms of a pure team your team definitely looks very good!Team. Choice Scarf Snover outspeeds both Sandshrew and Drilbur, removes the Sandstorm that feeds the Sand Rush duo's blazing Speed stats, and OHKOes them with Blizzard. Kyogre is the OG rain-setter, at one point being the only Pokemon with Drizzle as an ability. This guide is meant to help beginner's to gym rerunning build a team they can use to start accumulating wealth in game. Reason I am going with sandstorm is because I wanted some kind of base to. This Pokemon takes no damage from Sandstorm. ago. Due to its flexibility, Gliscor finds itself on many archetypes in OU, ranging from bulky offense to stall. PO Sand team. ago. Well, this team is a Sand-Mixed Lapras + Zacian team. How do you feel about. - Rock Slide. Tyranitar is the most common setter, but some teams prefer to use Hippowdon or Gigalith. The only other Mega pokemon which can even abuse Sand is. Ability: Sand Force EVs: 252 HP / 8 Atk / 248 SpD Careful Nature - Earthquake - Slack Off - Stealth Rock - Toxic Kommo-o @ Throat Spray Ability: Overcoat EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Aura Sphere - Clangorous Soul - Dragon Pulse - Flash Cannon Dracozolt @ Life Orb Ability: Sand Rush EVs: 120 Atk / 136 SpA / 252 Spe. Crunch. Hey guys, after I finished pve content I wanted to go a bit deeper into pvp content. EVs allow it to effectively run a mixed set and hit important benchmarks in Speed, Atk and SpA against switchins like 2HKO non-SpD Landorus and the like. The one i think is going to be really good though . Immune to OHKO. Serperior @ Life Orb. Sand Force. - Fire Blast. Gliscor. As you can tell, I we. . Weather. -Topic about sandstorm team . Tyranitar's Rock type gives a damage bonus with most Rock moves, a 50% increase to special defense during a Sandstorm, and immunity to Sandstorm damage. Fire Punch allows Tyranitar to hit Steel-types like Ferrothorn, Kartana and Scizor,. Also in this team you can change garchomp for scizor, but you need to change skarmory with gliscpr cause fire. physical wall and maybe stealth rock (not sure if I use it here or in seismtoad) and other possible support like taunt, knock off. Effective on the grand majority of teams and is pretty versatile. Smooth Rock boosts the Sandstorm, and the EV spread lets him live a couple hits to set up Sandstorm and Stealth Rock. EVs: 248 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe. He specializes in the Sandstorm weather condition. Cerricola • 3 yr. So then I took all the members that actually did something and made it a semi-sand team. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The only good Mega Pokemon built around sand is Mega Garchomp right now. Sandslash's ability Sand Rush is what gets a lot of attention but I like Sand Veil more, the 65 speed of Sandslash isn't impressive and it's weakness to Water, Grass, and Ice aren't amazing. Ability: Sand Stream. S. Chip damage to pokemon that aren't Ground, Steel, or Rock type equal to 1/16 of total HP per turn. On Lele, I'm still not sure about the item. Toxic stalls non-steel types with Toxic and. - Bolt Beak. Sand Rush increases the overpowered mole’s speed in a sandstorm. With the pve content I earned about 1M money over the time but now I used everything to get a good team. HeIIraiser. I don't recommend Steelix. Ice beam . Name. On combining all of them, you will be ready for the competitive ranked battle. Impish Nature. This guy is the last tank on the team. Thinking about the type chart when teambuilding. that would end your sweep. Excadrill. The thing with sand this gen is that there are literally no mons who actually benefit from it. It isn't because of fighting type, but it could work for garchomp or one of the fysical tanks. Weather Ball team . Any dual weather team obviously needs 2 weather starters. Its. Just look at your team, your chien pao has to run goggles so it doesn’t get hurt by sand, but then it can’t run boots since it’s very vulnerable to hazards. In the description is a pokepaste with all the info you need. Pokemon to Consider for Sand teams. To be fair, I think this is a more solid version of the sandstorm balance above. Pretty standard Excadrill set. EVs: 252 HP / 160 Atk / 96 Def. Excadrill is currently a very powerful Dynamax user since there. Sandstorm. There are two primary advantages to a hail team. Nov 3, 2022. As you can tell, I we. commented Jun 28, 2022 by vy. Vibrava flaps its wings rapidly, creating a sandstorm that blows the opponent away. . Gen 7 OU and has all six Pokemon with completed sets. Rough Skin Pokemon making contact with this Pokemon lose 1/8 of their max HP. Sua habilidade Sand Stream faz com que uma tempestade de areia seja invocada no exato momento em que ele entra na batalha. Water Absorb. EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe. It evolves from Sandshrew starting at level 22. It was a brutal battle of sun vs rain vs sand, with hail teams not having much of an impact. - Draco Meteor. Having a ghost type will be a safe switch in, similarly with a flying type if you can predict them using a fighting type move or a ground type move. Counters: Skarmory ( taken care of by Magnezone ) and Gengar ( Stoutland screws him over if he goes for the Shadow Ball, which is likely ) A simple sweeper that hits like a truck. Sandstorm is easier to set up and is better defensively, while Rain Dance is a little bit more difficult to set up, but is better offensively. すなのちから. Sand has a lot more room due to the style. Hazards and spinner. If there’s one Earthquake user that’s seen more play than Landorus these last 10 years, it’s Excadrill. Game's Text: Boosts the Pokémon's Speed stat in a sandstorm. The effect lasts 5 turns, unless it is cleared via Air Lock or Cloud Nine or replaced by another weather condition. Monsters like Yanma, Murkrow, Gligar, and Piloswine can brag about being part of a fully defined evolutionary line. At the end of each turn except the last, all active Pokemon lose 1/16 of their maximum HP, rounded down, unless they are a Ground, Rock, or Steel type, or have the Magic Guard, Overcoat, Sand Force, Sand Rush, or Sand Veil Abilities. Sandslash can put his good defenses to use by serving as a solid Ground-type support Pokemon. So naturally, I felt I needed to follow up with another weather based team. Tyranitar and Excadrill are both in the games, and both share over 20% usage rates in VGC 2020. Sand Stream allows Tyranitar to support sand sweepers like Excadrill and Dracozolt. IndependenceNorth165. Tyranitar. ・Activates. Ability: Sand Rush. Sources of passive damage are abundant in the BW metagame, so sandstorm and Life Orb damage can very quickly take their toll, especially on top of Stealth Rock and Spikes damage. He does his job and stalls. - Retaliate. 202. Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same National Pokédex number on a team. - Fire Blast. = Works well with Sandstorm Team. Cost: 82k-140k (This variance is due to markets and bad/good rolls while breeding) Gyms: All but Castelia and Hearthome. Sideking (Topic. Creating a Team. kuplion. This is a Sandstorm/Gravity Gym running team that can Consistently clear 27 of the 30 gyms, allowing you to pick and choose which gyms you want to run. Hippowdon is the best sand setter by far and it’s not very close either, Tyranitar simply isn’t that good anymore and Hippowdon provides more defensive utility. Piece of Advice Sandstorm. Sandstorm already caused a myriad of effects when it was in play during earlier generations; however, Generation 5 adds new tricks and treats to sandstorm teams. In other languages. - Stealth Rock. Sandstorm team: Hisuian Arcanine, Toadscruel, Sand Shocks, Tyranitar, Garganacl, Orthworm. The Soft Sand has the effect of increasing the power of Ground-type Moves by 1. Firstly, Rock-, Ground-, and Steel-type Pokémon are immune to the end of turn damage. I completely agree that Excadrill and M-Garchomp are phenomenal for use in Sandstorm, it's just they have been for a while and so didn't get a mention. This team is focussed on wracking up repeated residual damage and abusing pokemon that take major advantage of the small push given by the opposing team being weakened down more. By Draconid, March 7, 2020 in Competitive Assistance. Add a Comment. However, Sandstorm teams that use lots of Steel have to be weary of Fire-type Pokemon, and opposing Water-types are also a problem as they knock down Ground and Rock-types somewhat easily. Bulky water types like Rotom-Wash are especially very popular on sand teams, as they offer some resistance to rain teams. If it goes right, will switch into Brute Bonnet. To create a Team, open the Team window using the Game Menu. All Competitive Builds. #1. Gastrodon. Due to Sand Rush, it easily outspeeds the entire Ubers metagame with an Adamant nature, save extremely fast Choice Scarf users such as Shaymin-S and. Gym Rebattles and money making. Hippowdon (F) @ Leftovers Ability: Sand Stream EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef Careful Nature - Slack. Gliscor is one of the best and most common Pokemon on sand teams thanks to its fantastic defensive utility, good support movepool, and ability to sweep with its Swords Dance set. This big guy basically does what any standard Hippowdon would normally do: set up sandstorm, rocks and take physical hits. Ability: Sand Stream EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def Impish Nature - Stealth Rock - Earthquake. – Sand Veil increase evasion of the user by 20% under sandstorm. Tyranitar is the OG sand setter, there's no way to avoid using it because of the sheer utility it provides. RELATED: Pokemon VGC: How To Build The Best Sandstorm Team. A better check to Sandshrew and Drilbur—and a Pokemon that poses a severe threat to Sandstorm teams in general—is Snover. The most basic Tyranitar set, a good one if bulk is your priority. Fire/Grass Solarbeam team . Also can change cradily for gastrodon, but the team will be weaker for plant, and cradily has more sp defense with the sandstorm.