Competitive Information for Excadrill [Sun/Moon]
Ground / Steel
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Excadrill? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Sun/Moon Single Battles. The movesets and EVs have been specifically calibrated to deal the most amount of damage to the largest group of potentially common opponents and typing threats for the Sun/Moon generation metagame.
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Excadrill is a notable Ground and Steel-typed Pokemon. It's usual to see Excadrill show up as a Sun/Moon opponent. Excadrill can usually be found in the OU tier (Overused). Excadrill is weak to Fighting, Fire, Ground, and Water-typed attacks.
Item: Focus Sash / Leftovers
Ability: Mold Breaker
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rapid Spin
- Stealth Rock / Rock Slide
Physical Sweeper Excadrill (Popular/Trending)
Excadrill is an extraordinary Physical Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Leftovers are always a great recovery option to ensure Excadrill last longer regaining it's HP every turn. Focus Sash helps protect Excadrill from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out (usually Rapid Spin clear any hazards from the field). With Mold Breaker, Excadrill's moves and their effects ignore the abilities of other pokemon.
♦ Iron Head is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Steel-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Rapid Spin is a physical 20-base power Normal-type move (frees Excadrill from hazards, binding, leech seed).
♦ Stealth Rock is a status move (hurts foes on switch-in. factors rock weakness).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
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Item: Groundium Z / Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Force
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 20 Def / 236 Spe
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Drill Run
- Iron Head / Metal Claw
- Rock Slide / Return
- Shadow Claw
Physical Sweeper Excadrill (Sand Force)
Excadrill is a stupendous Physical Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Excadrill from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Sand Force, Excadrill's ground/rock/steel attacks do 1.3x in sandstorm; immunity to it. Rock Slide was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Drill Run is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Ground-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Iron Head is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Steel-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Metal Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 50-base power Steel-type move (10% chance to raise your Excadrill's attack by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Item: Groundium Z / Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Rush
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 64 Hp / 252 Atk / 116 Def / 76 SpD
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Drill Run
- Iron Head
- Return / Slash
- Shadow Claw
Physical Sweeper Excadrill (Sand Rush)
Excadrill is popular Physical Sweeper. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Excadrill from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Sand Rush, if sandstorm is active Excadrill's speed is doubled; immunity to sandstorm.
♦ Drill Run is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Ground-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Iron Head is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Steel-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Slash is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Item: Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Swords Dance
Excadrill Physical Sweeper (Uberdrill)
Excadrill is a marvelous Physical Sweeper. The purpose of this moveset is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Air Balloon makes the holder ungrounded, which means Excadrill is immune to Ground-type moves until the balloon pops when hit by a damaging move. With Sand Rush, if sandstorm is active Excadrill's speed is doubled; immunity to sandstorm. Works best in Sandstorm but still works incredibly well without it... Swords dance first turn and sweep the other trainer's team away.
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Earthquake is a physical STAB-boosted 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Swords Dance is a status move (raises your Excadrill's attack by 2 stages).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Excadrill? These builds have been optimized for Sun/Moon Double Battles. They have movesets and EVs specifically calibrated to generally work best versus multiple Pokemon at once as well as helping to support other team members and allys in the Sun/Moon generation metagame.
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Item: Groundium Z / Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Force
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 20 Def / 236 Spe
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Drill Run
- Rock Slide
- Iron Head / Metal Claw
- Return / Slash
Doubles Physical Sweeper Excadrill (Sand Force)
Excadrill is a notable Physical Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Excadrill from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Sand Force, Excadrill's ground/rock/steel attacks do 1.3x in sandstorm; immunity to it.
♦ Drill Run is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Ground-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Iron Head is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Steel-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Metal Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 50-base power Steel-type move (10% chance to raise your Excadrill's attack by 1 stage).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Slash is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Item: Groundium Z / Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Rush
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 64 Hp / 252 Atk / 116 Def / 76 SpD
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Drill Run
- Rock Slide
- Iron Head
- Return / Slash
Doubles Physical Sweeper Excadrill (Sand Rush)
Excadrill is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Excadrill from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Sand Rush, if sandstorm is active Excadrill's speed is doubled; immunity to sandstorm.
♦ Drill Run is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Ground-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Iron Head is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Steel-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Slash is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Excadrill learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
Sort and organize the learnset by move type, category, accuracy, and power. Bolded moves will gain the same-type attack bonus (STAB) if this Pokemon uses them.
Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Excadrill can perform in Sun/Moon. Not every combo going to be game-changing, but some can be pretty fun to play with. Sometimes these can be easily overlooked or forgotten, hence why we find and list them here. Discover what items, abilities, and moves this Pokemon can use in combination with each other to gain a strategic advantage in competitive battles.
Competitive SM Move and Ability Combos for Excadrill
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Protect
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Excadrill's stats
- Hone Claws
- Iron Defense
- Metal Claw
- Rapid Spin
- Skull Bash
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Excadrill
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Protect
- Rapid Spin
- Rest
- Rock Slide
- Rock Tomb
- Stealth Rock
- Swords Dance
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Excadrill in Sun and Moon
- Jolly Nature ( 0/252/0/0/4/252/ )
- Jolly Nature ( 4/252/0/0/0/252/ )
- Optimize Excadrill's EV spread for Pokemon Sun and Moon
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