Sand Team Build
May 30, 2015, 06:33 AM
You're extremely weak to Fairy types and possess a huge common weakness to Fighting, Steel and Water types.
Here is a VGC Mandibuzz build. The analysis for it can be found here
Your team needs more bulky Pokemon. It is pure hyper offensive and these days people are playing more defensively, meaning that you are going to see a lot of Scrafty, Venusaur, Amoonguss and Cresselia, all which give your team trouble.
I suggest the addition of a Fire Type like Arcanine for Intimidate support or Talonflame for that priority Tailwind in case you can't bring Tyranitar to set up the sand and priority Roost. Fire types put the pressure on Pokemon like Breloom, Amoonguss, Venusaur etc and moves like Heat Wave pressure the opponent from making careless switch ins.
Not a bad team but you need to fix the areas like your common weaknesses, speed control and defensive play
- You don't need Swords Dance on Excadrill. It is powerful enough plus without redirection you won't have an opportunity to set it up.
- I suggest going for a Focus Sash on Excadrill. This way you don't lose it to a priority Aqua Jet, Sucker Punch or Mach Punch.
- I recommend distributing Tyranitar's EVs a bit better to survive Breloom's Mach Punch, Scizor's Bullet Punch, Azumarill's Play Rough and other attacks that can OHKO it with the spread you have. Also don't use Mild Nature, just go for Quiet or Brave, you need the defenses.
- Take off Choice Band on Terrakion and go for either Expert Belt, Stone Plate, Lum Berry, Focus Sash or Life Orb. You don't want to have your offensive support locked into a move since one bad prediction results in it getting OHKOd. Run Quick Guard, Protect, Rock Slide and Close Combat. Your team really needs the Quick Guard support since a good chunk of priority moves OHKO your team mates
- Run either Life Orb, Focus Sash or Draco Plate on Latios. Also Energy Ball over Roost to help you with your match ups against Rotom-W and Gastrodon, both who give this team a hard time. Go for Max speed max Sp. Atk. Latios is not supposed to be a bulky Pokemon, if you're doing it that way you're doing it wrong. That is what Latias was made for.
- Defog and Toxic don't work in VGC. Why, because entry hazards aren't used, neither is Toxic stall viable with the average time span of a VGC match.
Here is a VGC Mandibuzz build. The analysis for it can be found here
Your team needs more bulky Pokemon. It is pure hyper offensive and these days people are playing more defensively, meaning that you are going to see a lot of Scrafty, Venusaur, Amoonguss and Cresselia, all which give your team trouble.
I suggest the addition of a Fire Type like Arcanine for Intimidate support or Talonflame for that priority Tailwind in case you can't bring Tyranitar to set up the sand and priority Roost. Fire types put the pressure on Pokemon like Breloom, Amoonguss, Venusaur etc and moves like Heat Wave pressure the opponent from making careless switch ins.
Not a bad team but you need to fix the areas like your common weaknesses, speed control and defensive play
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