Gliscor

Gliscor is one of the best and most common Pokemon on sand teams thanks to its fantastic defensive utility, good support movepool, and ability to sweep with its Swords Dance set. Its typing and Poison Heal grant it immunities to common residual damage methods like Spikes, sand, and status, giving it incredible longevity. This longevity lets it make consistent use of its valuable immunities to Electric and Ground, resistance to Fighting, and general bulk to check common Pokemon like Tyranitar, Jirachi, specially defensive Heatran, Garchomp, Terrakion, and Excadrill. Its support movepool includes Stealth Rock and Knock Off, letting it make progress despite its lack of power. It can also run a sweeping Swords Dance set that leverages its defensive utility to find many setup opportunities against common Pokemon like Heatran, Jirachi, Reuniclus lacking Hidden Power Ice, and Tyranitar. This set also enables it to defeat less sturdy checks, like Rotom-W and Gastrodon. However, Stealth Rock Gliscor cannot threaten defensive Pokemon like Reuniclus, Gastrodon, Skarmory, and Rotom-W beyond using Knock Off. It also tends to get overwhelmed by common special attackers like Keldeo, Alakazam, Reuniclus, and Latios due to its average special bulk. It can get lured in and taken out by Pokemon running Ice-type coverage, like Tyranitar, Thundurus-T, Alakazam, Reuniclus, and Heatran. These aspects in tandem with its weakness to Water make it dead weight against rain teams. Gliscor also competes with Landorus-T as a result of its better offensive prowess and Intimidate.