Pokémon Rate My Team
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Hello, I am starting to slowly get into competitive pokemon and need some opinion on my team. (I edit my team sometimes if I forget small details or teach new moves)

Primarina (F) @ Mystic Water
Ability: Liquid Voice
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Voice
- Protect
- Blizzard
- Dazzling Gleam

Tyranitar @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Rock Slide
- Lash Out
- Body Press
- Protect

Arcanine (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Flamethrower
- Thunder Fang
- Snarl
- Extreme Speed

Dragapult (M) @ Aguav Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Dragon Darts
- Phantom Force
- Protect
- U-turn

Dusclops (F) @Eviolite
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Trick Room
- Will-O-Wisp
- Night Shade
- Bulldoze

Excadrill (F) @ Soft Sand
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- High Horsepower
- Iron Head
- Protect
- Swords Dance

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What's the point of having Sand Rush on Excadrill if you don't have a Sandstorm setter?
Should I add Sandstorm to its moveset?
Excadrill can set its own sand if it Dynamaxes with a rock move. I used a set like that quite a bit at the start of this gen. It does potentially limit your Dynamax options, so pairing it with Tyranitar is usually favored, but it is an option that I found successful for a while.
I think generally I prefer to put throat spray on my Primarina, but mystic water can work for sure too, especially if you ever have to switch it out

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I’m new to VGC as well, but it is my understanding that VGC moves much faster than Smogon singles so there is less need for tanks like your Snorlax. I’d suggest swapping it for Tyranitar for your excadrill’s sand rush ability. Most people run lash out/rock slide/ protect/ coverage move of your choice.

Both primarina and Tyranitar are fairly slow, so you could run trick room on Dusclops and maybe bulldoze to lower speed/activate a weakness policy on Tyranitar? You’d have to lower both of their IVs to 0 and give them speed lowering natures. Most people run frisk in Dusclops but pressure can be good too.

Dragapult looks good, but why Draco Meteor? I’d suggest protect instead. Alternatively you could run fly for a max airstream speed boost.

Excadrill also looks good, but I’d recommend giving it a focus sash so it can swords dance without worrying about getting OHKOd. Earthquake could be used to hit Tyranitar for the weakness policy boost, but it would do a LOT of damage so you might want to switch to high horsepower.

Primarina doesn’t need hydro pump if it has liquid voice, so I’d give it protect as well.

Finally, Arcanine looks good but snarl is mostly used for the sp. atk. drop, so you don’t need to invest EVs into it. You could consider making more of a support mon, with will-o-wisp, snarl, safeguard and flamethrower/protect since the rest of your team (other than Dusclops) is pretty offensive.

This is a PokePaste of your team with my suggestions. As I said , I’m new to VGC too so I don’t expect to be of much help, but I hope you can get some use out of my thoughts!
https://pokepast.es/7c6af4268a6d78b8

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