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Excadrill Movesets and Best Build

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This is a complete guide on how to build your Excadrill for Competitive and Ranked Matches in Pokemon Legends: Z-A! Read on for tips on the best Nature, EV spreads, Movesets, and Held Items to use with Excadrill, as well as its strengths and weaknesses.

Excadrill
Pokedex

Mega Excadrill

Alpha
Excadrill

Excadrill
Build

List of Contents

Base Stats, Type and Weaknesses
Best Builds
How to Use Effectively
Best Teams
Counters for Excadrill
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Excadrill Base Stats, Type, and Weaknesses

Excadrill Battle Information

Excadrill

Mega Excadrill

Dex #121		Base Stats
Excadrill
		Stat	Value
		HP	110
		Atk	135
		Def	60
		Sp. Atk	50
		Sp. Def	65
		Speed	88
		Total	508
Type Effectiveness
Weak to:
Weak to:	(2x)
Resists:	(0.5x)
Resists:	(0.25x)
Immune to:	(0x)

Dex #121		Base Stats
Mega Excadrill
		Stat	Value
		HP	110
		Atk	165
		Def	100
		Sp. Atk	65
		Sp. Def	65
		Speed	103
		Total	608
Type Effectiveness
Weak to:
Weak to:	(2x)
Resists:	(0.5x)
Resists:	(0.25x)
Immune to:	(0x)

What is Type Effectiveness?

Best Nature for Excadrill

Best Natures
Jolly （+Spe, -Sp.Atk）	Adamant （+Atk, -Sp.Atk）

What are Natures?

Best Builds for Excadrill

Build Name	Strengths and Weaknesses
Mega Excadrill Build ★★★★★	Strengths: • High Attack and Defense. • Great dual STAB and access to powerful Ground and Steel-type moves. • Mega Evolution will give you a boost in Speed, letting your moves recharge faster. Weaknesses: • Low Special Defense means it's susceptible to special coverage moves such as Earth Power and Flamethrower.
Regular Excadrill Build ★★★★☆	Strengths: • Has more options for Held Items such as Life Orb, King's Rock, and Focus Sash. • Still boasts respectable Attack and powerful STAB moves. Weaknesses: • Lower Physical Bulk and mediocre Speed. • Outclassed by its Mega Evolution and faster Ground-types such as Garchomp.

Mega Excadrill Build

Mega Excadrill

Held Item

Nature

Excadrite

EV Spread

252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

Moveset

Summary

Strong dual STAB options in Earthquake and Iron Head.

Can take down grouped up opponents with Earthquake.

Rock Slide can hit Flying and Fire-type Pokemon for super effective damage.

Mega Excadrill is a fast and surprisingly bulky Pokemon that can threaten common meta picks such as Mega Charizard X, Mega Chandelure, and Mega Gardevoir. This build invests in Mega Excadrill's Attack and Speed to deal as much damage as possible with its moves.

Held Item

Item	Effect / Location
Excadrite	Effect: One of a variety of mysterious Mega Stones. An Excadrill holding this stone will be able to Mega Evolve during battle. Location(s): • Mega Shard Exchange at Quasartico Inc. for 360 Mega Shards

The item chosen for Excadrill for this build is Excadrite so it can mega evolve into Mega Excadrill.

How to Get Excadrite Mega Stone

Moves Breakdown

Earthquake	Powerful Ground-type STAB that can hit grouped up Pokemon.
Iron Head	Strong secondary STAB move that hits Fairy-types for super effective damage.
Rock Slide	Coverage move that hits Flying and Fire-type Pokemon.
Swords Dance	Allows Excadrill to boost its attack further.

This set focuses on having Mega Excadrill deal as much damage as possible with Earthquake and Iron Head. Rock Slide is its coverage move to hit Flying and Fire-type Pokemon, while Swords Dance allows it to further boost its massive Attack.

Other Viable Moves

Protect	Completely blocks an attack and is good if you're expective a super effective move.
Dig	Weaker than Earthquake, but gives Mega Excadrill a few minutes of invincibility allowing it to evade attacks from enemies.

EV Spread and Nature

A full 252 EVs are put into Excadrill's Attack and Speed to make it hit as hard and fast as possible. The extra 4 EVs are placed into Def to help round out its bulk.

A Jolly nature is preferred to help further increase Excadrill's Speed stat.

Key Damage Calculations

Damage Dealt by Excadrill
252 HP｜252 Atk Defensive EV Investment: 4 Def Item: Metagrossite	Earthquake 164-195 (87.7 - 104.2%) 31.3% chance to OHKO
252 HP｜252 Def Defensive EV Investment: 252 Def Item: Meganiumite	Iron Head 92-110 (49.1 - 58.8%) 98.4% chance to 2HKO
Damage Received by Excadrill
252 Sp. Atk Offensive EV Investment: 252 Atk (Modest) Item: Dragoninite	Fire Blast 101-122 (60.8 - 73.4%) Guaranteed 2HKO