Excadrill

Excadrill sits at 1.79 percent usage and rank 65 in singles, placing it in the lower band of the regularly-used tier. Its Ground-Steel typing grants a 0.25x resistance to Rock and full Poison immunity, giving it a durable defensive backbone. Offensively, the 135 base Attack anchors a STAB Earthquake plus Iron Head and Rock Slide trio, while Sand Rush and Mold Breaker split the metagame into sand-team and standalone sets. Sand Rush doubles its middling Speed, while Choice Scarf covers builds that operate outside sand.

Playstyle：Choice Scarf holds 54.6 percent of item usage, making Excadrill primarily a revenge-killer that outspeeds the field and clicks Iron Head or Earthquake on the way in. Focus Sash at 25.9 percent backs all-in sets that set up Swords Dance or fish for Horn Drill. Life Orb, Soft Sand, and Shuca Berry trail at 7.3, 6.0, and 4.6 percent respectively; Soft Sand specifically patches Speed outside of sand, while Shuca Berry patches the Ground weakness against Ground-type switch-ins. Mold Breaker at 67.5 percent over Sand Rush lets Earthquake ignore Levitate or Lightning Rod, while Sand Rush at 32.5 percent commits to sand. Jolly and Adamant spreads together cover over sixty percent of sets, pushing both Attack and Speed to the maximum.

Doubles is where Excadrill lives: 4.46 percent usage at rank 32. Sand Rush claims 96.4 percent of ability usage, and Focus Sash 84.7 percent of items, locking the set into outspeeding the field under sand while the sash guarantees a single turn of survival. Iron Head, Protect, Rock Slide, and High Horsepower cluster near equal shares, with High Horsepower replacing Earthquake to avoid friendly fire — a signature doubles adjustment. Adamant dominates the spread data at 47.8 percent, confirming the pure-physical-output role.

Playstyle：Protect at 24 percent is the defining doubles inclusion — Excadrill must read opponent protect cycles before committing under sand. High Horsepower at 20.1 percent and Rock Slide at 20.3 percent split the offensive role nearly evenly, the former guaranteeing a STAB hit and the latter delivering spread damage across the doubles field. Earthquake falls to 8 percent because doubles cannot control ally positioning. The Adamant 47.8 percent spread pushes Attack to maximum while gutting bulk, a clear commitment to one-shotting rather than tanking hits.

Mega Excadrill sits at a 0.06% singles usage rate, ranked 194th, firmly on the fringe. Its Ground-Steel typing grants a dense resistance profile, but the combination also hands opponents a full immunity to Electric and Poison, a 4x weakness to Rock, and 2x weaknesses to Fire, Water, Ground, and Fighting, all of which are abundant. The set leans on a setup turn to function, and the meta offers few safe entry points.

Playstyle：Iron Head (25%) and Earthquake (24.8%) lead as near-equal STABs, with Swords Dance (20.5%) showing nearly half of sets commit to a setup turn. Megahorn (20.4%) covers Grass and Psychic targets. Every set holds Excadrite and runs Piercing Drill. Jolly (46.3%) and Adamant (35.4%) split the speed-creep contest. The top teammate cluster, Mega Garchomp, Mamoswine, Torterra, Diggersby, and Swampert at 16.3% each, signals a Ground-anchored squad built around Ground-type matchup control.

Doubles usage sits at 0.11%, ranked 181st, again a fringe pick. The Ground-Steel typing creates constant spread-move friction: Earthquake, High Horsepower, and Drill Run all hit adjacent Ground-type teammates like Mamoswine or Swampert. The 4x Rock weakness and 2x Fire, Water, and Fighting weaknesses demand heavy support from the rest of the team.

Playstyle：In doubles, Iron Head (24.5%) and Protect (24.3%) lead side by side, Protect jumping massively in priority versus singles. Rock Slide (19.6%) and High Horsepower (17.1%) form the anti-Fighting and anti-Fire backbone. Swords Dance collapses to just 2%, essentially cut from the set. Jolly dominates at 61.7%, with Adamant a distant 7.6%. The teammate pool, led by Incineroar (6.5%), Basculegion (5.5%), and Kingambit (5.3%), builds around Incineroar's Fake Out support for an offensive shell.