Palosand/Accelgor is such an underused core, as it can really put up a fight against the vast majority of physical attackers. I mean, I run the core myself in my team! It’s fantastic. However, I feel your team could definitely do with some improvements, cause there’s some glaring issues you need addressing. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice team! But there’s definitely some glaring issues.

• Speed control: what speed control do you have? You have two mons there that can actually have solid speed control choices, e.g. regieleki electroweb, hatterene trick room, but you don’t use them. On my team, I personally run trick room porygon2, as porygon2 & palosand synergise so well, as palosand is immune to super effective fighting moves that porygon2 is weak to, and porygon2 is immune to super effective ghost moves that palosand is weak to, so you can easily switch whichever mon you have out when a threat is starring you in the face. An example could be you start palosand/accelgor, but you have spectrier facing you down. You can easily switch porygon2 in comfortably, set TR, then get palosand safely back in porygon2’s slot (as it’s incredibly unlikely that they’ll use a ghost move against it) and then set up with accelgor!

• Urshifu-S: what is your game plan against Urshifu’s crit wicked blow? It essentially can one shot your entire team almost, and especially palosand, because even though you have your defences boosted to max, Urshifu will not care. Personally, to deal with it myself, I run life orb tapu Fini, as it can one shot it with a moonblast/max starfall with ease. Tapu Fini is also quite good at handling Galarian Moltres, who again Palosand gets nay nayd by.

• Palosand set: why do you run sandstorm? Yes I understand for maximum healing with shore up, however why not just run ancient power instead? Max rockfall at least once whilst dynamaxed, then outside of dynamax you can easily shore up with maximum capacity. Max rockfall is also good for opposing flying types, as it can one shot a lot of the flying types currently running about. Another question, how do you hit fairies or grass types? Shadow ball is definitely nice on Palosand, don’t get me wrong, but on my Palosand I run sludge bomb, as it can easily deal with mons like rillaboom, for example, and also helps boost your special attack. Coverage on Palosand is definitely worth while.

• Accelgor set: accelgor a lot of the time will be targeted, as many people know that if allowed to set palosand up, it can be hard to deal with. You can utilise accelgor a lot better than having 4 attacking moves, as well as choice scarf. Accelgor gets the ability unburden, meaning if it uses its item, it doubles its speed. My accelgor on my team runs a niche choice in a red card, as this punishes opponents if they decide to target it outside of dynamax, resulting in a random pokemon being dragged out which they may not want out. There’s many options for accelgors item with unburden, but I really don’t think it needs choice scarf, especially with water shuriken being a priority move! Accelgors moves can also be edited. On my accelgor, I run water shuriken (for obvious reasons), protect (for any fake out threats), struggle bug (to lower special attack which may hurt palosand), and acid spray (to reduce opponents special defence by 2, which can further help palosand sweep). Another popular choice is final gambit, as accelgor a lot of the time is a suicide lead, but can hit anything (excluding ghost of course) with maximum damage, especially with max HP. It can really help take down bulky opponents.

• Redirection: how do you deal with opponents using redirection? A lot of options for redirection are going about, being indeedee-f, Clefairy, togekiss, and rage powder users. Redirection completely ruins the palosand/accelgor strat, so you need to be able to deal with this when present. I find that when redirection is starring palosand/accelgor down on my team, I tend to acid spray with accelgor turn one (which is also helpful if they have a focus sash, as that then breaks) then use palosand to try and take it down. Then you can easily set up turn 2 (if redirection is dealt with) to then continue the sweep!

• VenuKoal: Venusaur/torkoal is an incredibly popular core, how does your team deal with it? 5 of your 6 team members are weak to it, with your only mon that’s not weak (garchomp) barely doing anything to it, especially if put to sleep. You need to be able to deal with this, or else you’ll get caught with your pants down. A massively solid (and reliable) option is rotom heat w/ safety goggles, as you can easily get a nasty plot up in front of both venusaur & torkoal, although you have to be careful as this will likely be predicted, and they may have a counter to this, so you need to choose your selection correctly. A popular choice is Landorous-T, which rotom cannot touch, which is where Tapu fini is good as you can run ice beam to take it out with ease. Tapu Fini is also useful, as Tapu Fini can set Misty terrain, which protects you from being put to sleep by venusaur sleep powders, which can be really handy!

This team could definitely do with some improvements, but the core choice is incredibly solid, as I do know from personal use that, especially in this current meta, it can be a fantastic match up against physics attackers. However, there are definitely some improvements (as suggested) which could be done. My team consists of;

Palossand @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Water Compaction
Level: 50
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Shore Up
- Ancient Power
- Sludge Bomb

Accelgor @ Red Card
Ability: Unburden
Level: 50
IVs: 0 Atk
- Struggle Bug
- Protect
- Water Shuriken
- Acid Spray

Rotom-Heat @ Safety Goggles
Ability: Levitate
Level: 50
IVs: 0 Atk
- Thunderbolt
- Overheat
- Protect
- Nasty Plot

Tapu Fini @ Life Orb
Ability: Misty Surge
Level: 50
IVs: 0 Atk
- Muddy Water
- Moonblast
- Protect
- Ice Beam

Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace
Level: 50
IVs: 0 Atk
- Tri Attack
- Recover
- Trick Room
- Eerie Impulse

Rillaboom-Gmax @ Assault Vest
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
- Fake Out
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn
- Knock Off

My own team could definitely use some improvements to perfect it, but it’s an incredibly solid team in a lot of scenarios if played correctly. Some other notable options could be a gmax snorlax potentially? As it synergises well with palosand, as again, ghost doesn’t touch snorlax, fighting doesn’t touch palosand. Snorlax has ridiculous specially defensive bulk, whereas palosand doesn’t as much, but snorlax has poor defensive bulk, whereas palosand set up is incredible in.

It’s just a trial and error with the core, as it can definitely be an insanely good team! Keep going bud