Sandygast

Notes:

Pilanscorch is composed of pile, pyro, ant, and scorch, and is pronounced py-LAN-scorch.

Palossand learns Infestation when evolved, and Pilanscorch learns Fire Ant Infestation, which is the same as Infestation, but is a fire type move and can cause burning.

Sandygast and Palossand still have Water Compaction as an ability, and Pilanscorch also has an Ability called Fire Compaction, which raises the attack stat two levels when hit with a Fire type move. This also makes the Pokémon immune to being burnt.

Pokédex Entries

Sandygast

Sandygast from the [insert region] region no longer reside on beaches, and reside in grassy plains infested with ants! If you peek inside its mouth, you can see a giant metropolis of all the ants at work. Peeking inside its mouth also sets the ants off, and they will all bite you until you leave.

Palossand

Living inside Palossand is every ant’s dream! Palossand supplies every guest with five star meals, suites, and of course, a queen to serve. Ants can only move into Palossand on one condition, if they can help fend off predators!

Pilanscorch

Exposure to a Fire Stone caused this Pokémon to catch fire, though it doesn’t seem to mind. The ants have now also turned into fire ants, with pain that lasts for a week if they bite you, and possible death if the whole group retaliates. Pilanscorch also loves throwing dirt and grass at its foes, which catch fire because of its fiery hands.

First, honorable mention to a shiny Cryogonal that escaped during a raid. Unfortunate, as I like its shiny.

Now, on to the spoils of the hunt!

Neither were conventional to hunt... I had to think a bit outside the box.

A pair I call, the Echo of the Sands.

Noibat's access to Supersonic and Absorb made this a bit difficuot initially. You'd be surprised of the course of a Days long encounter, how a -6 Accuracy foe, frequentoy lands attacks on a +6 Evasion mon. I had to stay in with a Garchomp, specifically made with Sunny Day abd False Swipe to lower the SoS caller's HP. Absorb is rather disruptive! Maje matters worse, confusion is dangerous... and a max ATK EV trained, Adamant Garchomp, takes some extreme confusion damage...

Nevertheless, after 4 days of mindless grind I can add this little gal to my collection.

[Note: I am not evolving her... I adore Noibat's shiny, but despise Noivern's]

Sandygast was obnoxious. Immune to False Swipe and Thunder Wave. Access to Mega Drain, and trapping moves boiled down to, moronic to even consider attempting.

It would be no exaggeration to consider this hunt, borderline impossible.

I disregarded all woes, and attempted to work the problem out. A challenge I attempted to decipher!

My goal was to find a False Swipe mon, who was either Flying or had Levitate, with Sunny Day access.

The stars had to align for this one.

But an old friend from gen 1, would be kickstart a would-be impossible hunt.

Scyther.

This old gen 1 mon had the qualities necessary to get through this. Paired with another unorthodox mon, Pelipper. It would break this problem wide open.

Soak converts the target into a pure Water type, meaning... Sandygast is now exposed to both Thunder Wave abd False Swipe!

After 3 days of mindless hammering away. I could add this excellent shiny to the family!

And, with a bit of transferring theyre now happily in Gen 8 with everyone else!

A pic of my figures

I'm looking for a shiny sandygast for my next playthrough if anyone has one would you be willing to trade it, I have a couple shinys that I'm willing to trade for it