>>31215479>Palossand can't kill Arcanine, Marowak or Lele before they can do anything, Dugtrio can while being 75 points faster. Is it really that hard to understand?yeah Dugtrio can do that, only if you got sand up and you are using a suboptimal set. That kind of stuff will win you some games, but won't be really good consistently
>Before you say "muh trick room" there are far better TR attackers than Palossand.That was my initial point. There are better things in general to deal witho those mons than special Dugtrio, but since you're using your gimmick Dugtrio anyway I don't see what's wrong about using the sandcastle in TR. Slap a life orb on it and then you KO Marowak, Lele and Arcanine before they move. Are you really gonna tell me TR is farfetched when you need sand AND specs on a 50 base SpA mon to do that? There are better things than Palossand of course, but it gets the same job done with a similar amount of support.
If you're worried about intimidate, Tectonic Rage would get the KO on the fire types, and Iron head would do a lot to Lele anyway, and without intimidate it gets the KO.
>>31215565Yeah if you read carefully you'll notice I say Palossand is in fact shit. The point is that instead of sand+choice specs, you can TR and use this instead and you can achieve the same things Dugtrio can. It's less than ideal, but it also works.
>If you're going to be so ridiculously slow you can even underspeed most TR users you better have the payoff to show for it. I think SpecTrio is stupid with how situational it is but at least it has the speed and potential KO's to show for it.Again, same as Dugtrio, you can slap a life orb on it and it will get some good KOs. Ghost and Ground are pretty alright in this current meta, and sure it won't take hits that well, but it will take most of them better than Dugtrio, which is what I was saying.
