The only things that make sun stall worth using are cresselia and sableye. In the sun, sableye can spinblock against any spinner safely, and cress is almost a full stop to any dragon. I had relative success using an altered version of stunt's team a while back, making dark horse HoF with it. Though ninetales is irrefutably worse than ttar or politoed, it does have an interesting niche for stall. If you have rocks up and w-o-w politoed on the switch (or have spikes up, OR politoed is poisoned from tspikes), rain teams actually struggle immensely to get a foothold against sunstall, since rain is utterly crippled by the sun, but sun stall doesn't rely as heavily on the sun as an offense team does.Grrrrrrrrrrr I give up on Sun stall, its interesting but at the end of the day I'm down one poke with Ninetales. What really puts Rain/Sand stall in another league is how Politoed and Tyranitar/Hippowdon can contribute something to the team, especially Hippowdon. Politoed is a decent bulky water and has access to some niche moves like Perish Song and Hypnosis (rain taking away steels fire weakness is huge). Tyranitar makes an awesome counter to the Lati's which can give stall trouble and Sand adds to that ever important residual damage. Ninetales? Gets wrecked by SR and is hard to maintain her weather when the opponent doesn't have to fear getting KO'ed by a powerful Sun sweeper. Ninetales takes as much hazard damage with SR as a Tyranitar/Politoed with 3 layers Spikes/ SR+1 Spikes.
This. I've been sticking with my original style of hyper offense and I've found it very difficult. I've used 5 sweepers plus a wall and while the sweepers haven't been to weak to succeed (I've always had enough attacking power), I've been hard pressed to find one wall to fill my needs. I've tried Ferrothorn, Donphan, and I'm now using Cradily as Rotom-W was wrecking my team and Storm Drain Cradily seems to be a pretty good counter for it. But still I haven't had much success. I'm thinking I might try Deoxys-D and then if that doesn't work switch to a more balanced playstyle.Balance and stall seem like the ways to go with this sort of challenge, given that the most powerful sweepers are banned.
Pocket? I don't know who that is lol anyway Cradily works as a good Rotom-W counter but unfortunately doesn't do that much besides have decent bulk UNLESS my opponent is using Sandstorm in which case he's actually really useful to have@winter: cradily is p cool, pocket would be proud!