UUbers Excadrill (Sand Rush) [Done]

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Sand Sweeper (Excadrill) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head / Rock Slide

[SET COMMENTS]
Excadrill is a niche but solid mid-game wallbreaker and late-game cleaner for sand offense teams. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially secure OHKOs against bulky offensive Pokemon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Poison, which it could not do otherwise. Rapid Spin allows Excadrill to boost its Speed outside of sand and provide support for its teammates by removing entry hazards. Rock Slide gives it strong neutral EdgeQuake coverage. Air Balloon gives Excadrill many entry points against Earthquake and Earth Power from foes like Great Tusk and Landorus, respectively, which allows it to get off a Swords Dance more easily. Tera Flying acts very similarly, removing its Ground and Water weaknesses and flipping its Fighting weakness into a resistance, which is very valuable against Fighting-type coverage from the likes of Palafin-H, Deoxys, Mewtwo, and Zacian. Excadrill greatly appreciates automatic sand setting from its best teammate, Sand Stream Tyranitar. Excadrill also greatly appreciates Spikes support from Skarmory or Magearna, which gives it an easier time securing KOs. Excadrill is difficult to outspeed, but running Adamant means Booster Energy Iron Boulder and Roaring Moon can outspeed and KO it with Close Combat and Earthquake, respectively, so Excadrill appreciates the support of Clefable and Landorus-T, as they can take said attacks for Excadrill. In terms of defensive counterplay, Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Rillaboom can survive a hit from Excadrill and KO it back, and Skarmory, Corviknight, and Landorus-T all stop it in its tracks due to their solid natural bulk and typing, so consider teammates like Kyurem-W and Chi-Yu, which can form potent wallbreaking cores with Excadrill and create chances for late-game cleaning.

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[SET]
Swords Dance (Excadrill) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head / Rock Slide

[SET COMMENTS]
Excadrill is a niche but solid mid-game wallbreaker and late-game cleaner for sand offense. (the atk stat/cover legendary stuff is just fluff, and it's kind of contradictory to say adamant doesn't miss any relevant speed tiers but then also talk about how adamant means it loses to booster mons later) Sand Offense in the tier as it has an excellent 135 Attack stat, which is good even in a tier filled with cover legendaries, especially when it can run Adamant as it doesn’t miss any relevant speed tiers with Jolly. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially secure OHKOs against bulky Pokemon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Fire, which it could not do otherwise. (would write in a mention of why rapid spin is so important after the SD sentence) Iron Head allows it to hit the few fairies in the tier for super-effective damage, notably Zacian-Hero and Clefable, while also allowing a strong super-effective hit vs. Kyurem-White, another tier staple, whereas Rock Slide also hits Kyurem-White but gives it much stronger neutral coverage overall with the combination of Rock and Ground attacks. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially allows it to secure OHKOs on bulkier Pokémon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Fire, which it could not do otherwise. Air Balloon gives Excadrill many entry points onto the field against Earthquake and Earth Power from foes like Great Tusk and Landorus, respectively. (does landoT run earth power in this tier? correct this if so) in the tier, such as on Great Tusk’s and Landorus-Therian’s Earthquake and Landorus-Incarnate’s Earth Power. Tera Flying acts very similarly, removing its Ground and Water weaknesses and flipping Excadrill’s Fighting weakness into a resistance, which is very valuable against Close Combat from the likes of Palafin-Hero and Zacian-Hero. Excadrill naturally greatly appreciates automatic sand setting from its best teammate, Sand Stream Tyranitar.(add), who sets sand upon switching into the battle. Excadrill also greatly appreciates Spikes support from Skarmory or Magearna, which gives Excadrill an easier time securing the necessary KOs. Excadrill is difficult to outspeed, but running Adamant means Speed Booster Energy Speed Iron Boulder and Booster Speed Roaring Moon can outspeed it and KO it with Close Combat and Earthquake, respectively.(add), and in the way of defensive counterplay, a lot of Pokemon can live one hit and strike back hard due to Excadrill’s poor bulk, as well as (rewrite this to give examples of which Pokemon live a hit + hit exca back hard, "a lot of Pokemon" doesn't really tell us anything) Skarmory, Corviknight, and Landorus-Therian all stopping Excadrill in its tracks due to their solid natural bulk and typing, so consider teammates likewhich Kyurem-White and Chi-Yu,which can form potent wallbreaking cores with Excadril and create chances for late-game cleaning. help to alleviate with their incredible wallbreaking potential alongside benefiting from Excadrill’s wallbreaking in turn as Excadrill weakens their team enough to where either one can clean up.


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mod check 1/1, just quickly cut this down and did a little bit of GP bc it was too long due to fluff

Some things to remember while writing:
- All sets must have a name (considering that Swords Dance is listed first, I edited in "Swords Dance" as a name for now; feel free to change that if it's wrong).
- Moves in a set must be in order of importance/relevance to the set. For example, this analysis has Rapid Spin as the second move but doesn't mention Rapid Spin a single time, which should never happen.
- Analysis of the moveset needs to happen in the order that the moves are presented. If Swords Dance is going to be first, it needs to be the first move you talk about. If Rapid Spin is going to be second, then there should be a statement explaining why it's so important to have (if EQ/Iron Head = Rock Slide are gonna be second, same reasoning applies).
- Try to avoid talking about dex info (stuff like "this mon has 135 atk" unless it's genuinely relevant to the analysis). In this case, I removed the 135 atk mention bc you already state that Excadrill is a wallbreaker.
- Don't put the accident on the word "Pokemon"

Common conventions/rules:
> https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spelling-and-grammar-standards.3712738/ (you don't need to check every single word you write against this since GP exists, but it helps to have an idea of what things should look like while you're still working on an analysis)

 

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Swords Dance (Excadrill) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head / Rock Slide

[SET COMMENTS]
Excadrill is a niche but solid mid-game wallbreaker and late-game cleaner for sand offense. (the atk stat/cover legendary stuff is just fluff, and it's kind of contradictory to say adamant doesn't miss any relevant speed tiers but then also talk about how adamant means it loses to booster mons later) Sand Offense in the tier as it has an excellent 135 Attack stat, which is good even in a tier filled with cover legendaries, especially when it can run Adamant as it doesn’t miss any relevant speed tiers with Jolly. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially secure OHKOs against bulky Pokemon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Fire, which it could not do otherwise. (would write in a mention of why rapid spin is so important after the SD sentence) Iron Head allows it to hit the few fairies in the tier for super-effective damage, notably Zacian-Hero and Clefable, while also allowing a strong super-effective hit vs. Kyurem-White, another tier staple, whereas Rock Slide also hits Kyurem-White but gives it much stronger neutral coverage overall with the combination of Rock and Ground attacks. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially allows it to secure OHKOs on bulkier Pokémon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Fire, which it could not do otherwise. Air Balloon gives Excadrill many entry points onto the field against Earthquake and Earth Power from foes like Great Tusk and Landorus, respectively. (does landoT run earth power in this tier? correct this if so) in the tier, such as on Great Tusk’s and Landorus-Therian’s Earthquake and Landorus-Incarnate’s Earth Power. Tera Flying acts very similarly, removing its Ground and Water weaknesses and flipping Excadrill’s Fighting weakness into a resistance, which is very valuable against Close Combat from the likes of Palafin-Hero and Zacian-Hero. Excadrill naturally greatly appreciates automatic sand setting from its best teammate, Sand Stream Tyranitar.(add), who sets sand upon switching into the battle. Excadrill also greatly appreciates Spikes support from Skarmory or Magearna, which gives Excadrill an easier time securing the necessary KOs. Excadrill is difficult to outspeed, but running Adamant means Speed Booster Energy Speed Iron Boulder and Booster Speed Roaring Moon can outspeed it and KO it with Close Combat and Earthquake, respectively.(add), and in the way of defensive counterplay, a lot of Pokemon can live one hit and strike back hard due to Excadrill’s poor bulk, as well as (rewrite this to give examples of which Pokemon live a hit + hit exca back hard, "a lot of Pokemon" doesn't really tell us anything) Skarmory, Corviknight, and Landorus-Therian all stopping Excadrill in its tracks due to their solid natural bulk and typing, so consider teammates likewhich Kyurem-White and Chi-Yu,which can form potent wallbreaking cores with Excadril and create chances for late-game cleaning. help to alleviate with their incredible wallbreaking potential alongside benefiting from Excadrill’s wallbreaking in turn as Excadrill weakens their team enough to where either one can clean up.


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mod check 1/1, just quickly cut this down and did a little bit of GP bc it was too long due to fluff

Some things to remember while writing:
- All sets must have a name (considering that Swords Dance is listed first, I edited in "Swords Dance" as a name for now; feel free to change that if it's wrong).
- Moves in a set must be in order of importance/relevance to the set. For example, this analysis has Rapid Spin as the second move but doesn't mention Rapid Spin a single time, which should never happen.
- Analysis of the moveset needs to happen in the order that the moves are presented. If Swords Dance is going to be first, it needs to be the first move you talk about. If Rapid Spin is going to be second, then there should be a statement explaining why it's so important to have (if EQ/Iron Head = Rock Slide are gonna be second, same reasoning applies).
- Try to avoid talking about dex info (stuff like "this mon has 135 atk" unless it's genuinely relevant to the analysis). In this case, I removed the 135 atk mention bc you already state that Excadrill is a wallbreaker.
- Don't put the accident on the word "Pokemon"

Common conventions/rules:
> https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spelling-and-grammar-standards.3712738/ (you don't need to check every single word you write against this since GP exists, but it helps to have an idea of what things should look like while you're still working on an analysis)

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Sand Sweeper (Excadrill) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head / Rock Slide

[SET COMMENTS]
Excadrill is a niche but solid mid-game wallbreaker and late-game cleaner for sand offense. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially secure OHKOs against bulky Pokemon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Fire, which it could not do otherwise. Rapid Spin allows Excadrill to boost its Speed outside of Sandstorm and provide support for its teammates by removing hazards. Earthquake means Excadrill has a strong STAB to hit Steel-Type Pokemon like Magearna and Solgaleo super effectively common ground weak pokemon like Magearna, Solgaleo, Arceus-Fire, and Arceus-Poison (Earthquake doesn't exclusively hit steels, so add examples from other typings) while Iron Head allows it to hit the few fairies in the tier for super-effective damage, notably Zacian-Hero and Clefable, while also allowing a strong super-effective hit vs. Kyurem-White, another tier staple. Rock Slide also hits Kyurem-White but (Since you're not using rock slide for Kyurem, as iron head is stronger, it shouldn't be mentioned under this move) gives it much stronger neutral coverage overall with the combination of Rock and Ground attacks. Air Balloon gives Excadrill many entry points onto the field against Earthquake and Earth Power from foes like Great Tusk and Landorus, respectively. Tera Flying acts very similarly, removing its Ground and Water weaknesses and flipping Excadrill’s Fighting weakness into a resistance, which is very valuable against Close Combat Fighting Coverage from the likes of Palafin-H, Deoxys, Mewtwo, and Zacian-H. (Mention all fighting coverage instead of just Close Combat, such as Focus Blast from Mewtwo) Excadrill greatly appreciates automatic sand setting from its best teammate, Sand Stream Tyranitar. Excadrill also greatly appreciates Spikes support from Skarmory or Magearna, which gives Excadrill an easier time securing KOs. Excadrill is difficult to outspeed, but running Adamant means Speed (you don't really need to say speed, since the topic you're discussing implies it's boosting speed) Booster Energy Iron Boulder and Roaring Moon can outspeed and KO it with Close Combat and Earthquake, respectively. In terms of defensive counterplay, Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Rillaboom can live a hit and KO back and Skarmory, Corviknight, and Landorus-T all stop Excadrill in its tracks due to their solid natural bulk and typing, so consider teammates like Kyurem-White and Chi-Yu, which can form potent wallbreaking cores with Excadrill and create chances for late-game cleaning.

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Sand Sweeper (Excadrill) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head / Rock Slide

[SET COMMENTS]
Excadrill is a niche but solid mid-game wallbreaker and late-game cleaner for sand offense. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially secure OHKOs against bulky Pokemon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Fire, which it could not do otherwise. Rapid Spin allows Excadrill to boost its Speed outside of Sandstorm and provide support for its teammates by removing hazards. Earthquake means Excadrill has a strong STAB to hit Steel-Type Pokemon like Magearna and Solgaleo super effectively common ground weak pokemon like Magearna, Solgaleo, Arceus-Fire, and Arceus-Poison (Earthquake doesn't exclusively hit steels, so add examples from other typings) while Iron Head allows it to hit the few fairies in the tier for super-effective damage, notably Zacian-Hero and Clefable, while also allowing a strong super-effective hit vs. Kyurem-White, another tier staple. Rock Slide also hits Kyurem-White but (Since you're not using rock slide for Kyurem, as iron head is stronger, it shouldn't be mentioned under this move) gives it much stronger neutral coverage overall with the combination of Rock and Ground attacks. Air Balloon gives Excadrill many entry points onto the field against Earthquake and Earth Power from foes like Great Tusk and Landorus, respectively. Tera Flying acts very similarly, removing its Ground and Water weaknesses and flipping Excadrill’s Fighting weakness into a resistance, which is very valuable against Close Combat Fighting Coverage from the likes of Palafin-H, Deoxys, Mewtwo, and Zacian-H. (Mention all fighting coverage instead of just Close Combat, such as Focus Blast from Mewtwo) Excadrill greatly appreciates automatic sand setting from its best teammate, Sand Stream Tyranitar. Excadrill also greatly appreciates Spikes support from Skarmory or Magearna, which gives Excadrill an easier time securing KOs. Excadrill is difficult to outspeed, but running Adamant means Speed (you don't really need to say speed, since the topic you're discussing implies it's boosting speed) Booster Energy Iron Boulder and Roaring Moon can outspeed and KO it with Close Combat and Earthquake, respectively. In terms of defensive counterplay, Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Rillaboom can live a hit and KO back and Skarmory, Corviknight, and Landorus-T all stop Excadrill in its tracks due to their solid natural bulk and typing, so consider teammates like Kyurem-White and Chi-Yu, which can form potent wallbreaking cores with Excadrill and create chances for late-game cleaning.

I know you said you had 20+ of these prepped but i thought you were jokin.

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[SET]
Sand Sweeper (Excadrill) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head / Rock Slide

[SET COMMENTS]
Excadrill is a niche but solid mid-game wallbreaker and late-game cleaner for sand offense. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially secure OHKOs against bulky offensive Pokemon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Fire (was booped, mention something else), which it could not do otherwise. Rapid Spin allows Excadrill to boost its Speed outside of Sandstorm and provide support for its teammates by removing hazards. Earthquake means Excadrill has a strong STAB to hit common ground weak pokemon like Magearna, Solgaleo, Arceus-Fire, and Arceus-Poison while Iron Head allows it to hit the few fairies in the tier for super-effective damage, notably Zacian-Hero and Clefable, while also allowing a strong super-effective hit vs. Kyurem-White, another tier staple. (Self explainitory, add the Iron Head line before the Rock Slide sentence.) Rock Slide gives it much stronger neutral coverage overall and gives EdgeQuake coverage. with the combination of Rock and Ground attacks. Air Balloon gives Excadrill many entry points onto the field against Earthquake and Earth Power from foes like Great Tusk and Landorus, respectively (add how this gives it SD oppertunities). Tera Flying acts very similarly, removing its Ground and Water weaknesses and flipping Excadrill’s Fighting weakness into a resistance, which is very valuable against Fighting-type Coverage from the likes of Palafin-H, Deoxys, Mewtwo, and Zacian-H. Excadrill greatly appreciates automatic sand setting from its best teammate, Sand Stream Tyranitar. Excadrill also greatly appreciates Spikes support from Skarmory or Magearna, which gives Excadrill an easier time securing KOs. Excadrill is difficult to outspeed, but running Adamant means Booster Energy Iron Boulder and Roaring Moon can outspeed and KO it with Close Combat and Earthquake, respectively (so what can check these 2?). In terms of defensive counterplay, Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Rillaboom can live a hit and KO back and Skarmory, Corviknight, and Landorus-T all stop Excadrill in its tracks due to their solid natural bulk and typing, so consider teammates like Kyurem-White and Chi-Yu, which can form potent wallbreaking cores with Excadrill and create chances for late-game cleaning.



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[SET]
Sand Sweeper (Excadrill) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head / Rock Slide

[SET COMMENTS]
Excadrill is a niche but solid mid-game wallbreaker and late-game cleaner for sand offense teams. Swords Dance allows Excadrill to hit incredibly hard and crucially secure OHKOs against bulky offensive Pokemon such as Tera Ground Zacian and Arceus-Poison, which it could not do otherwise. Rapid Spin allows Excadrill to boost its Speed outside of Sandstorm sand and provide support for its teammates by removing entry hazards. Rock Slide gives it much stronger neutral coverage overall and gives strong neutral EdgeQuake coverage. Air Balloon gives Excadrill many entry points onto the field against Earthquake and Earth Power from foes like Great Tusk and Landorus, respectively, which allows it to get off a Swords Dance more easily. Tera Flying acts very similarly, removing its Ground and Water weaknesses and flipping Excadrill’s its Fighting weakness into a resistance, which is very valuable against Fighting-type Coverage coverage from the likes of Palafin-H, Deoxys, Mewtwo, and Zacian-H Zacian. Excadrill greatly appreciates automatic sand setting from its best teammate, Sand Stream Tyranitar. Excadrill also greatly appreciates Spikes support from Skarmory or Magearna, which gives Excadrill it an easier time securing KOs. Excadrill is difficult to outspeed, but running Adamant means Booster Energy Iron Boulder and Roaring Moon can outspeed and KO it with Close Combat and Earthquake, respectively, so Excadrill appreciates the support of Clefable and Landorus-T, (comma) as they can take said attacks for Excadrill. In terms of defensive counterplay, Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Rillaboom can live survive a hit from Excadrill and KO it back, (comma) and Skarmory, Corviknight, and Landorus-T all stop Excadrill it in its tracks due to their solid natural bulk and typing, so consider teammates like Kyurem-White Kyurem-W and Chi-Yu, which can form potent wallbreaking cores with Excadrill and create chances for late-game cleaning.

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