SM OU Next Best Thing, Week 16: Excadrill

[Cdijk16]

Week 16: Excadrill

Excadrill is a solid pokemon in SM OU thanks to it's good defensive typing, useful abilities, good stats and access to Rapid Spin. It can make use of an offensive Stealth Rock lead set that also denies hazards with Rapid Spin or be a threatening sweeper with Sand Rush on Sand teams.
Your goal this week is to post creative and viable movesets for Excadrill that are NOT listed as sample sets in its SmogDex entry. You have 7 days from now to post sets, after which the voting phase will begin.
Deadline: 17th April 2024 11:30PM, GMT + 5:30.

 

[clematis]

FlingScadrill (use in Sand Only!!)

Excadrill @ Hard Stone
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide
- Fling

A much less good but oh so funny version of Sand Rush Excadrill, this set trades Swords Dance and Rapid Span for access to a Hard Stone-boosted Rock Slide and a 100 Base Power Fling, which is a hilarious trick to obliterate things like Rocky Helmet Tornadus-T, and the Lati twins, which otherwise sit in front of Excadrill and can be a pain to deal with.

 

[HydreigonTheChild]

Excadrill @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Toxic
- Substitute

this excadrill set takes advantage of pokemon like tang, phys def lando-t, zapdos, tapu bulu, and more by just using sub on them. Sub allows it to take advantage of people trying to stall it out and allows exca to hit safely behind it

Toxic gives it the ability to wear down things that might be hard for sand like tangrwoth or phys def lando-t which can be very annoying and once they are put on a timer it is much easier to take them down

 

[Cdijk16]

Submissions for Week 16 are now closed. The voting phase has now begun.

The submissions are:
1. Fling Excadrill by Clematis
2. Sub Toxic by Hydreigon > Latias

Deadline: 25th April 2024, 11:30PM GMT + 5:30.