Rift Hippowdon

## Rift Dex Entries

### Rift Dex - Code: Garna

Long thought to be lost to the calamity, this rift has bided its time within the depths of Zone Zero. Flora regrettably used its power to ward people away from Zone Zero.

### Rift Notes - Code: Garna

Gloria was found inside a Pokeball deep underground. One can only assume that it was owned by someone before the Calamity. Flora regrettably modified Gloria with Rift Matter, forcing Gloria to obtain the ability Accumulation. With this ability, Gloria always has three stacks of Stockpile. The sand from its body seem spew out endlessly, creating a never ending sandstorm.

## Statistics

Type: Ground / Poison

 HP:200
 Attack:152
 Defense:180
 Sp. Atk:152
 Sp. Def:142
 Speed:47
 Total:873

* Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.

Ability: Accumulation

## Battle Team

* Casual
* Normal
* Intense

Battled on the Desert Field in Double Battle format. A Sandstorm is active. Ren acts as the player's partner.

Battled on the Desert Field in Double Battle format. A Sandstorm is active. Ren acts as the player's partner.

Battled on the Desert Field in Double Battle format. A Sandstorm is active. Ren acts as the player's partner.

## Strategy

Let's get the cheese strategy out of the way immediately: Perish Song. Since this is a double battle with only 2 opposing Pokémon, they will not be able to avoid Perish Song's effect by switching out. You also have a lot of variety for Pokémon to use, given every Perish Song user can be caught at this point in time.

Now for actual strategies. Ren is an excellent partner for this fight, as every single one of his Pokémon has a super effective attack against the Rift, with the only exception being his Sableye, which can help by dealing constant Night Shade damage and by using Will-O-Wisp (although it will need to status Gloria twice if you're playing on Intense because of its Lum Berry). Silvally in particular is his most useful asset, able to Parting Shot their offensive stats into oblivion. Therefore, you can just abuse Ren's firepower while playing a bit more conservatively, or use his Parting Shots to make a sweep far easier. Great sweepers in this case are Dragon Dance Flygon, Swords Dance Gliscor and Cosmic Power crested Claydol. Speaking more generally, though, any Pokémon with supereffective STAB should be able to sweep well. However, keep in mind that if their offensive stats haven't been lowered enough (whether with Parting Shot or any of your moves) they can make their attacks even stronger than they already are, so try sweeping a bit later in the battle.

If you lack any sweeper, you can play more conservatively, as said before, or even go with stally strategies involving status. Soak + Toxic is reliable especially because Manuel's Swallow will be ineffective in the long run, but you can just go with constant damage moves like Curse and Leech Seed or by burning them.

Offensive approaches can still work fine. Ground-type moves and Scald are boosted by the field so if you can target any of the Hippowdons (preferably Gloria, as it doesn't have any kind of recovery) together with Ren, making short work of them will not be hard at all.