>>47157195I guess it's more for variety's sake than anything, just so that it isn't the same physically defensive physical attacker rock-type we always get. It does have a relatively decent special movepool for a pure rock type
>power gem as all-around STAB>weather ball for sand synergy>meteor beam for setup>flash cannon>earth power>solar beam (although the common sandstream variant can't use it well, neither can the sand force variant, at least not in non-Z/non-dyna meta)If it was geared as a special attacker from the start I assume it'd get even more tools, like calm mind, energy ball and focus blast, probably.
