Sandstorm sweeper

Are there any good special sweepers other than Lucario that are immune to sandstorm? I have a great Lucario but my friends are finding ways to counter it and I need a replacement.

Gengarchomp said:

Are there any good special sweepers other than Lucario that are immune to sandstorm? I have a great Lucario but my friends are finding ways to counter it and I need a replacement.

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Simple Q&A thread >.>

But yeah, I'm thinking of tyranitar ;)

Glisctillery said:

garchomp is almost always seen in a sandstorm team

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That thing haxed me and made me lose the battle :(

Dugtrio might be the best. I love that thing ;) EDIT: Keep in mind while sand veil might be temptimg, always run arena trap on Duggy.

Thanks, but Garchomp and Dugtrio aren't the best Special Sweepers

There are very few pokemon that can special sweep...IO'd just use Zam. It might take damage from sandstorm, but it doesn't really matter since all hits are near OHKOs anyways.

Or you could choice specs a flygon or garchomp or something...

Alakazam with leftovers to cancel out sandstorm might work, but it might be even more fragile. I have been considering flygon, though.

Gengarchomp said:

Alakazam with leftovers to cancel out sandstorm might work, but it might be even more fragile. I have been considering flygon, though.

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Well sandstorm damage takes out 1/16 of your HP, which isn't much. If you specs it, it has 15 turns to attack, which is a lot. And wish support from Jirachi or Hypno would make any sweeper equal to epic win since you could wish away the damage.

unfortunatly, my Garchomp is my physical sweeper and Flygon appears to be my best bet, even with its lacking special move pool. The best I can come up with is this:
Flygon@ Choice scarf/specs
Nature:Modest/Rash
Moveset:
Flamethrower/Fire Blast
Draco Meteor
Earth Power/Earthquake (for Blissey)
Giga Drain/Silver Wind/Roost
EV's:252 SAtk, 252 Spd, 4 HP
I've just checked Serebii and it's the best sandstorm resistant pokemon in both Special Attack and Speed other than Lucario.

Flygon won't be hurting blissey. Actually, trapinch would be better for beating blissey. Strange enoughm it gets arena trap and has 100 base Atk, which a CBed EQ will 2HKO the puffball :0

Keep in mind that if you run Flygon and Garchomp, you're giving yourself a major Ice weak. I really would go with Zam.

Alright, I'll go with zam. Any moves I should use to take advantage of the snadstorm?

Anti-Pop Culture Warrior 13 said:

Flygon won't be hurting blissey. Actually, trapinch would be better for beating blissey. Strange enoughm it gets arena trap and has 100 base Atk, which a CBed EQ will 2HKO the puffball :0

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Whoa an unevolved poke with that much atk sweet. =p
But Trapinch has absolutely no speed so Trick room help is needed.

ultranerd57 said:

Whoa an unevolved poke with that much atk sweet. =p
But Trapinch has absolutely no speed so Trick room help is needed.

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Not against blissey, but yeah. It's meant for lower tiers anyways, I just thought it was kind of funny that it could destroy the puffball.

Zqam can't take advantage of sandstorm though. Just run the usual CM or specs Zam.

Camerupt has decent SATK, but it's pretty darn slow.

Your best bets are Nidoking, Magneton, and Heatran

I'd reccomend Magnezone for a Special Sweeper with Sandstorm resistance. His Special Attack is great, and his Defence is enough to survive anything Weavile can throw at you. I'd also suggest putting Explosion on it for taking out Blissey. It won't be able to get her in one blow, so make sure she has lost about a fifth of her health before you attempt.

Alakazam17 said:

I'd reccomend Magnezone for a Special Sweeper with Sandstorm resistance. His Special Attack is great, and his Defence is enough to survive anything Weavile can throw at you. I'd also suggest putting Explosion on it for taking out Blissey. It won't be able to get her in one blow, so make sure she has lost about a fifth of her health before you attempt.

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actually, for Sp Sweeping, some prefer magneton, for its increased speed, altho both of them arent fast

EDIT: oh, and lunatone is an option too

Lunatone can't sweep :/ Not in OUs anyways. Magneton is like a veruy solw sweeper. For me, it is halpful because it resisits boltbeam. But yeah.

Anti-Pop Culture Warrior 13 said:

Lunatone can't sweep :/ Not in OUs anyways. Magneton is like a veruy solw sweeper. For me, it is halpful because it resisits boltbeam. But yeah.

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Mm....well, Scarftran ahoy!

Actually, if you throw Rash, Life Orb, and 88 EVs into its attack, it'll OHKO Blissey with Explosion.