>>12081868All these pokemon you listed can OHKO Excadrill. (Except maybe Jirachi - though the water pulse variant does a lot, and can confuse). Who would even try to set up Swords Dance against them?
>And no, nothing can take a +2 STAB LO earthquake or Iron Head coming from base 135 attack.Gyarados. Rotom-W/H/C, Zapdos, Skarmory, Hippowdon, and lots of Balloon Pokemon (Heatran, Magnezone, and others). Besides, why do you assume he gets an automatic SD? He doesn't have many set up opportunities (which is why many people ran Air Balloon, further increasing the list of pokemon that can take its attacks)
> it's the fact that his sole presence in the metagame forced you to run either Infernape or Azumarill. On every single one of your teams. Or else you get sweeped by him. Again, not even close. Other weathers made Excadrill useless if you won the weather war Trick Room teams didn't care about him. Skarm or Gliscor walled him cold. As I said, he does not have many set up opportunities at all, because most pokemon either have a a move that can hit him super effectively, or otherwise cripple him (will-o-wisp, leech seed, spore...). Sure, you can set up on resisted choiced attacks, but it's risky and there aren't many of them anyway.
I'm not even going to comment on Landorus, since due to his much lower speed, it's easier to handle than Drill (Scarfers can outspeed him, for one).
