Is Sandstorm on Garchomp worth keeping?

Feb. 17, 2019

Playing on Platinum, so I can’t (yet) get Garchomp’s hidden ability so I’m left with sand veil. I rarely use it since Garchomp already has very good speed and atk stats. But when battling other people will I be needing sandstorm and the evasion it provides?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Sandstorm isn’t a good move in general, spending a turn to throw out some residual damage and a chance of an opponent missing is worse than just killing them with a better move. Yeah, it’s a waste of an ability, but a small handful of Pokemon around Gen 3-4 didn’t have a useful ability yet.

If you really want to use it, catch a Hippopotas.

If you were wondering about using it against others, considering Tyranitar and Hippopowdon are so common in DPP’s metagame and Garchomp’s ridiculous stats… Trust me, Garchomp was banished to Ubers for a reason, it’s disgustingly good even without sand.