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excadrill
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Excadrill

Subterrene Pokémon

GroundSteel

It can help in tunnel construction. Its drill has evolved into steel strong enough to bore through iron plates.

Base Stats

HP 110
Attack 135
Defense 60
Sp. Atk 50
Sp. Def 65
Speed 88
Total 508

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Subterrene Pokémon
Height 0.7 m
Weight 40.4 kg
Base Exp 178
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

excadrill Front Front
excadrill Back Back
excadrill Front Shiny Front Shiny
excadrill Back Shiny Back Shiny
excadrill Official Art Official Art
excadrill Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Sand Attacker
Item
Groundium Z / Steelium Z
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Excadrill is a fast, threatening attacker with Sand Rush, which allows it to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame under sand. It can also function as a setup sweeper with Swords Dance, which lets it easily punch holes in opposing teams. However, being reliant on sand is a significant flaw considering the prevalence of opposing weather teams in Doubles OU. Also, by nature of being a fast attacker, Excadrill is very susceptible to opposing speed control. On top of all this, it's checked by a number of DOU's top threats such as Landorus-T and Celesteela. Overall, Excadrill performs excellently on sand teams, but otherwise, it shouldn't be used over other Ground-types such as Landorus-T and Zygarde.

Most Used Moves

Iron Head
99.5%
Drill Run
46.4%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
40.3%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc