Well i've edited my spread to take the current polls into consideration.
The link to my previous spread is listed below
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1290696&postcount=104
This is what i've come up with.
95 / 76 / 109 / 90 / 80 / 105 = 555
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Hp: 95 - My original spread had base 90 HP, but in I needed to make the pokemon more biased towards defense so I started by reaising the HP of the pokemon by 5 points, overall I think its still a rather balanced number for HP allowing it to take a few hits without being overly defensive.
Attack: 76 - I find it more ideal for this pokemon to be specially orientated offensively so I lowered the Physical Attack stat in respect of this. The original spread had base 60 Attack but the polls are saying that pokemon is likely to lean slightly towards Defense and base 76 Attack is the lowest my spread can actually use to shift it's ODB towards defense.
Defence : 109 - I'll repeat exactly what I said in my earlier post here.
Special Attack: 90 - I had previously given this poke 100 base attack as I believe this pokemon should be Special based as far as offense goes as it adds a unique charateristic to it. (how often do you see a special Ground type) Special attacks also seem to represent the poison type better as well. with base 90 Special Attack it's not going to be sweeping anytime soon, however it wont be simply a pushover in terms of offense.
Special Defense: 80 - I previously had base 90, enabling this pokemon to take some of the weaker Special hits and survive the occasional super effective hit. I had to lower the Special Defense stat to take the polls into consideration, but Base 80 is still quite enough for taking weak to moderate Special hits and ensures this pokemon has a weaker defensive stat that opponents can prey on if they aren't able to take it out due to it's relatively high Physical Defense.
Speed: 105 -As for Speed i'm simply going to quote what I had in my original post as I haven't actually changed that.
The link to my previous spread is listed below
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1290696&postcount=104
This is what i've come up with.
95 / 76 / 109 / 90 / 80 / 105 = 555
![](http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1757/bstthinght4.png)
Hp: 95 - My original spread had base 90 HP, but in I needed to make the pokemon more biased towards defense so I started by reaising the HP of the pokemon by 5 points, overall I think its still a rather balanced number for HP allowing it to take a few hits without being overly defensive.
Attack: 76 - I find it more ideal for this pokemon to be specially orientated offensively so I lowered the Physical Attack stat in respect of this. The original spread had base 60 Attack but the polls are saying that pokemon is likely to lean slightly towards Defense and base 76 Attack is the lowest my spread can actually use to shift it's ODB towards defense.
Defence : 109 - I'll repeat exactly what I said in my earlier post here.
The original had base 110 Defence and it was only lowerd by one point to accomodate the limit Doug implemented of a base stat total of 555.This things needs to be able to take a hit or 2 and ground types primarly have higher Physical Defense than Special Defence so it seems pretty ideal as a usable base stat. It also helps with taking hits from the pokemon that it's type makes it ideal to counter like Lucario and Heracross.
Special Attack: 90 - I had previously given this poke 100 base attack as I believe this pokemon should be Special based as far as offense goes as it adds a unique charateristic to it. (how often do you see a special Ground type) Special attacks also seem to represent the poison type better as well. with base 90 Special Attack it's not going to be sweeping anytime soon, however it wont be simply a pushover in terms of offense.
Special Defense: 80 - I previously had base 90, enabling this pokemon to take some of the weaker Special hits and survive the occasional super effective hit. I had to lower the Special Defense stat to take the polls into consideration, but Base 80 is still quite enough for taking weak to moderate Special hits and ensures this pokemon has a weaker defensive stat that opponents can prey on if they aren't able to take it out due to it's relatively high Physical Defense.
Speed: 105 -As for Speed i'm simply going to quote what I had in my original post as I haven't actually changed that.
Fairly high speed is important but i feel going as fast as 110-140 is as I mentioned unecessary. I settled on 105 as it allows this pokemon to still outspeed the likes of quite a few pokemon like Lucario, Salamence and even Garchomp to quite possibly try and set up some support move or attack them if it chooses.