[Meta Thread] Dragonstrike's Pokerole Test Game: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Spiritmon]

Sandstorm doesn't really do anything but gives + 2 Special Defense to Rock Types (Which may or may not be stackable with Move/Item Buffs) , does chip Damage, and triggers Sand Abilities. There are no Moves but Shore Up that benefit from Sandstorm, so unless one of your Pokemon has Sand Force/Sand Rush you're not going to get much from Sand but the benefits I've already listened.

In general, it seems that Rain/Sun and Sand/Hail are balanced enough, with the Non-Damaging Weather giving Buffs/Debuffs to their respective Type targets and getting a few Moves that benefit from them, Hail doing chip Damage to non-Ice Type and buffing Attributes directly and making Blizzard/Aural Viel usable, while Sand gives Rocks + 2 Special Defense and hurts anything but Steel, Ground, and Rock types, which means a more balanced/diverse can be built around the Weather. Still, I do wish their was a Move that benefited from a Sand, but its not strictly speaking necessary for it to be good.

Well, don't have Sand Rush or Sand Force. The weather I mentioned it's a Cocancer. He has all three types of weather moves: Sunny Day, Sandstorm and Rain Dance. It was one of the strategy I build while making my team, since I was trying to balance with the core types: Fire(Antarki), Water(Daikatuna/Greninja) and Grass(Cocancer). 

He has Harvest, Sand Veil a Chlorophyll. My strategy with is set the weather I need most to increase one of the types. Or do chip damage with Sandstorm. He has Giga Drain and Absorb as STABSs/Restoration moves (regards of the fact he has more physical power than special). And since I guy who value moves to counter weakness, I give him Stone Edge to counter Flying/Ice types.

Unfortunately he lacks of stronger Physical grass moves or Ground STAB. Kogeki strategy is adaption. Is around have more than just one type of strategy: Types change with Protean. Deceiving and protection with Light Screen/Reflect with Dramsama. Pure power with Sheer Force. Prankster shenanigan's with Antarki. Weather change with Cocancer. And so long. A ninja must adapt depending of the situation and I try to be loyal to that as possible.

That's why I asked about Sandstorm. A buff in Rock type moves could make up for the lack of STAB moves, or at least grant +2 Accuracy in Rock moves, like Rain Dance give +2 accuracy to Thunder and Hurricane.

But that's just a idea.