Sandslash
No. 0028
Type: Ground
It climbs trees by hooking on with its sharp claws. Sandslash shares the berries it gathers, dropping them down to Sandshrew waiting below the tree.
Base stats
| HP | 75 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 100 |
| Defense | 110 |
| Sp. Attack | 45 |
| Sp. Defense | 55 |
| Speed | 65 |
Total 450
What to answer with
Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.
- Fire — Cover 2 weaknesses (Grass, Ice) — It learns nothing of that type
- Bug — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — Leech Life
- Fighting — Covers 1 weakness (Ice) — Focus Punch
- Flying — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — Aerial Ace
- Poison — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — Gunk Shot
- Rock — Covers 1 weakness (Ice) — Stone Edge
Abilities
Evolution line
Moves
- Aerial Ace
- Agility
- Amnesia
- Body Slam
- Brick Break
- Bulldoze
- Crush Claw
- Curse
- Defense Curl
- Dig
- Double-Edge
- Drill Run
- Earth Power
- Earthquake
- Endeavor
- Endure
- Facade
- False Swipe
- Fling
- Focus Blast
- Focus Punch
- Fury Cutter
- Fury Swipes
- Giga Impact
- Gunk Shot
- Gyro Ball
- High Horsepower
- Hyper Beam
- Knock Off
- Leech Life
- Low Kick
- Metal Claw
- Mud Shot
- Mud-Slap
- Poison Jab
- Poison Sting
- Protect
- Rapid Spin
- Rest
- Rock Slide
- Rock Tomb
- Rollout
- Sand Attack
- Sandstorm
- Sand Tomb
- Scorching Sands
- Scratch
- Shadow Claw
- Slash
- Sleep Talk
- Smack Down
- Spikes
- Stealth Rock
- Stomping Tantrum
- Stone Edge
- Substitute
- Sunny Day
- Super Fang
- Swift
- Swords Dance
- Take Down
- Tera Blast
- Thief
- Throat Chop
- X-Scissor
What the optimizer would run
Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)
- Role
- Setup sweeper
- Ability
- Sand Veil
- Item
- Life Orb
- Nature
- Adamant
- EVs
- 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
- Moves
- Earthquake, Agility, Rock Tomb, Focus Punch