Hippowdon

Hippowdon is the single most durable weather setter, as it has titanic physical bulk and reliable recovery. Aside from being a useful asset in weather wars, Hippowdon is a capable mixed wall, capable of checking common threats like Volcarona, Magnezone, and Alakazam and Thundurus-T lacking Grass Knot with a specially defensive set that still answers Excadrill, Terrakion, Tyranitar, and Garchomp. It's also a solid Stealth Rock setter thanks to its ability to threaten Excadrill and Tentacruel. This defensive profile and better longevity makes Hippowdon a decent alternative sand setter over Tyranitar for bulkier sand teams that can handle Psychic-types in other ways. However, Hippowdon is much more passive than Tyranitar, and being unable to significantly threaten Psychic-types like Reuniclus and Latios significantly hinders it in most matches. It's also quite slow and will need to take two hits when switching in before it gets a chance to do anything, limiting the amount of switch-in opportunities it gets. It's forced out and set up on by common Pokemon like Latios, Reuniclus, Breloom, and Keldeo due to its common weaknesses and aforementioned passivity. It also faces stiff competition from Pokemon like Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Gastrodon, who all have secondary typings that let them check larger portions of the metagame while Gliscor and Landorus-T are also immune to Spikes.