Hey, and no you are not breaking any rules lol :). I can't speak for everyone else but I can put my 2 cents in:
Around cycle 6 when I was trying to go for winners bracket on another account, I used this for a majority of time
http://hastebin.com/nudidoyoja.diff a sand archetype team that has bulky Roost Rona for stuff like ABR stall.
The reason why I had stopped using it, is because it wasent really as good vs all the Fighting type trends as well as Stalls with say, unaware clefable which was really common at the time. Also relying on weather as an offensive presence could be played around very well by the opponent, so it wasn't really all that reliable to me.
In general, I felt standard sand builds didn't have a solid match up vs the more popular teams of OLT. I hope I helped
Around cycle 6 when I was trying to go for winners bracket on another account, I used this for a majority of time
http://hastebin.com/nudidoyoja.diff a sand archetype team that has bulky Roost Rona for stuff like ABR stall.
The reason why I had stopped using it, is because it wasent really as good vs all the Fighting type trends as well as Stalls with say, unaware clefable which was really common at the time. Also relying on weather as an offensive presence could be played around very well by the opponent, so it wasn't really all that reliable to me.
In general, I felt standard sand builds didn't have a solid match up vs the more popular teams of OLT. I hope I helped