I´m not gonna sugarcoat iit.
- Diancie is a solid physically defensive mon whose secondary typing is very useful in the Dark matchup and gives you a small glimmer of hope in the Fighting matchup, one of the Four Impossible Matchups for this type (Fighting, Steel, Water, Ground).
- S tier mon on this type. You need this for sand and every serious rock team should have a tyranitar. I've chosen Assault Vest for this team and pretty much walls every special attacker that doesn't have a STAB super effective attack (which you're probably thinking ?? since it has 7 weaknesses but it takes hits very well and hits back decently hard in return)
- Always been the better form in this meta sorry not sorry. For a type that has fundamental issues, you need as many wincons as possible and Dusk does not have Sand Rush. This lycanroc can go Adamant and outspeed the entire tier under sand while having a great damage output with good coverage in Close Combat and Play Rough and priority in Accelerock to revenge kill weakened threats. Its also your other shot at beating Fighting as Play Rough spam will ohko the frailer mons on the type like Valiant.
- Rock's special wallbreaker and Spikes setter. Mainly used as a suicide lead in most circumstances so you can possibly force tspikes up with its ability.
- God-send mon for the type. Fire is generally useful for rock to have access to threaten Grass and Steel teams and the other Fire type on this type was .. Enough said tbh. The Fire typing also offers a neutrality to the aforementioned types and prevents Scizor Bug from getting the win instantly. Choice Scarf is very threatening, offsetting Arcanines average speed tier and basically making grass a free win (Not much of an achievement since grass is a bottom tier type but let rock get its wins.)
- I haven't been too impressed with Kleavor overall as a mon tbh but this type already struggles with varied options so here it is. It does hit hard and Stone Axe means I don't have to waste a slot on rocks on Diancie or Glimmora.https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9monotype-1898354089-o8j194nqxlqrtmy0a3aorb0bha7811vpw - Vs Psychic
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9monotype-1898345754-e88hs9fmclx1nw4kt4ooee4yz3kp6v5pw - Vs Electric where CM Diancie 1v1ed Coil Eelektross
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9monotype-1898342899-q1e31uqdap29unwrhicstygdym13s0jpw - Vs Ghost. Rock actually pairs well into Ghost despite the Gholdengo on most Ghost teams. Counterplay was dicey since they decided to crit my arcanine.
Definitely the best version of the team so far. The 1000-1300 range is a mixed bag to solo rock with but there's so many bug teams low ladder.
Urshifu water
(still great team tho!)