I dunno, people were predicting that physical Hydreigon would make waves when it got Dragon Dance last gen and that never really panned out. Special Lando-T’s going to be a lure set at best and I doubt it’ll gain enough traction to warrant, say, a C&C analysis.
Lando-T used to run Hidden Power Ice mainly to bean itself in Gen 7, and I've seen serious Gen 8 Lando-T sets whose main STAB attack is Earth Power (e.g. mentioned in https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/surprise-eruption-heatran-team.3709142/#post-9361234). Special or mixed Lando-T may not be a lure after all.
Nah, def not just you at all, this is a pretty common way to build safer teams tbh. Even in metas where more offensive builds are the way to go (like SV), you still want to make sure your offense has reasonable survivability vs opposing bulkier offenses, which means gravitating away from things like LO on Chien-Pao and toward options like boots. Also a big reason why tusker is so good, it's a strong mon that's fat enough to force trades vs opposing offense, and can spin to reduce the passive damage your other guys have to take in the long term. It's a lot easier to spare the health for a crucial pivot/tank if you haven't been taking 12.5 from spikes here, 10 from recoil there, etc
The ground-type scald has 80% accuracy.It's called sandsear storm . So you really can't rely on it and it's special so unless lando-i doesn't get sent to ubers which is highly unlikely that move will be pretty bad. Although lando does have a decent special attack stat i doubt it will use that. Although something like special or physical tera-fire sets with sd/np +agility sound insane. Although earth power+ smack down with np or agility sound good too.
Even if Lando-I stays (challenge=impossible), it won't be burning shit with that move due to Sheer Force. And no, Sand Force special Lando-I never was viable (physical one is still worse than Special Sheer Force).
you missed the conversations about it, you also missed the fact that is one of the most used mons in the meta, the most common sets are AV for gholdengos and Rocky Helmet/Lefties with body press, for defensive utitily, but Booster Energy, Choice Band and Choice Scarf are really viable too
It's Lando-T for SV: the mon that compresses roles so well that it centralizes the game (in a healthy way). Nobody's really talking about it because what's there to talk about? It's just a good, splashable mon that fits on any team.
Great Tusk @ Booster Energy
I’ve been liking Tera Grass more to really 1v1 Dozo. It has other benefits like Taunting safely vs Washtom, and beat Quaval or opposing Tusks
That's probably best yeah. Didn't really think about the tera type lol
Not to be late, but if you read even 10% of this entire thread you would see Great Tusk gets talked non-stop just do a search on this thread on 'great tusk'
It wants to run a lot of items. This is more niche, but you can justify it if needed. I wouldn’t say it’s reliable as a long term answer and you should live from healthy amounts regardless
We still don't don't know what moves will they get with the DLCs tutors, but double water/ice weakness in a team doesn't sound that good, especially with Chien-Pau in the tier.
If there's tutors, I don't think there's particularly anthing thats indicating that there will be rn. Also I'm not particularly saying you should run both of them on the same team, but that I don't think it'll be a matter of "don't use tusk, lando's better in virtually every way" or vice versa. I think it'll be more like Ting Lu / Tusk rn.
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I've used it. It's extremely niche, it's used to take Ice Spinner / Icicle Crash on Chien-Pao. I feel like they're are better items to run, it works for sure but it's not a common scenario that Tusk is constantly going to be dealing with in my experience. Like IMO Heavy-Duty Boots, Leftovers, Choice Band, and Booster Energy are all better options
Your battle still on 5 pm est time zone?
