Excadrill

Popular pick

ground steel

Strategies

What it does

Sand Rush doubles Speed under sand. Earthquake deals Ground spread damage. Iron Head threatens Fairy and Ice types. Under sand it's one of the fastest natural sweepers in the format — no setup required.

Why it's threatening

Sand Rush needs no setup turn. The moment sand is active, Excadrill is outrunning most of the meta and threatening KOs with spread Earthquake. There's no warning — it immediately becomes the fastest threat on the field.

How to stop it

Meta answers

Rotom-Wash

electric water

Sinistcha

grass ghost

Hatterene

psychic fairy

Water moves deal 2× (Ground is weak to Water; Steel is neutral). Levitate users are immune to Earthquake. Overwrite sand with rain or sun to remove the Speed boost. Rotom-Wash is immune to Earthquake and deals 2× with Water.

Found in these teams

Weather

Control the sky, control the game — sun, rain, sand, or snow does your work for you.