>>52284110It’s because Landorus-T provides a lot of compression your team may otherwise need 2 Pokemon for
>One of the few Pokemon with a Ground/Fighting/Electric resist/immunity>Checks more physical attackers>Pivots around said physical threats with Intimidate and U-turn>Can easily fit Stealth Rock in its moveset>Fit in Defog as well>Strong Earthquakes so it’s not just a sitting duck and can threaten out massive threats but isn’t too overbearing>Fast enough so that many physical wallbreakers would need to use weaker priority or switch out tooWithout Landorus-T, teams would be running into situations where the meta would be more match-up dependent. You had 2-3 Pokemon who can do half of what Landorus-T does and then you lose to teams that specialize in the other half.
Like a more obvious example, if you went up against a Electric Terrain team with electric Spam, and your only Ground type is Quagsire or something, you’d be absolutely fucked. That Electric Terrain team would easily be able to take advantage of you having a slow mildly special bulk Pokemon that isn’t really threatening and can only punish forced switches with Scald and not U-turn, strong EQ, and Stealth Rock (technically you could use Stealth Rocks, but Quag is a pretty bad Stealth Rocker and would likely be something else).
How many roles it compresses is also a big reason why its popular. Most teams need something to fill a slot for what Landorus-T does, which is why moat teams resort to using it.
