Landorus-t has always been a top-tier ou pokemon since BW, its fantastic typing Ground/Flying combined with its very good stats make him a very solid and versatile Pokemon in the current ou metagame, due to U-turn is a really good pivot, and thanks to intimidate its able to deal with a lot of physical threats in overused.
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 212 Def / 28 SpD / 16 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Knock off / Stone Edge / Toxic
- U-turn / Swords Dance
This is the most common set for landorus-t, this is a defensive setter set which exploit landorus-t's defensive capability, Earthquake its the main stab, stealth rock is here since this is a defensive set used to support the team, Stone edge as 3rd slot is really fine to deal with flying type the likes of mega Pinsir, knock off is a interesting move if the team has already a bird check, and finally its used to weaken Rotom-w, Ferrothorns, and to remove Specs or Scarf from keldeo switching in, another option is to use Toxic, which is really good to cripple bulky waters the likes of rotom-w, other Landorus-t and Tangrowth, as 4th slot, u-turn to grab momentum, swords dance is an option if the team suffer a lot ferrothorn, Clefable and defensive mega Scizor, the ev spread is pretty clear, 28 evs in spd allows Landorus-t to always live a hp ice from koko, the rest in physical bulk to deal better with mega Charizard x and Excadrill.
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Stone edge
- Superpower / Knock off / Explosion
This is a Choice scarf Landorus-t set, the choice scarf allows landorus to outspeed a lot of faster pokemons the likes of pheromosa, Greninja, mega Alakazam, Tapu koko, tapu lele, we'll see the moves, first of all, there is Eq, always the premier stab, useful to hit hard frail pokemons or to revenge kill, u-turn to gain momentum, after that, there is stone edge, which is cool to hit mega Pinsir outspeeding it, in the 4th slot, there a are a lot of options, Superpower, is a really interesting move on scarf Lando, which allows him to hit Kartana, mega Gyarados, Porygon-z before z-conversion and Ferrothorn, knock off is the second option, hit hard latios and latias, and it provides utility for the team, removing items from the opposite pokemon, finally, we can use explosion, which is cool to catch rotoms and to gain momentum, an onorable mention to hp ice, which is a very cool option to deal better with opposite Landorus-t, ev spread pretty standard to optimize its offensive capability, unfortunately scarf Landorus-t is no longer an excellent set as it was in Oras Ou, since with the coming of the sun and moon, scarf Landorus got new switch as buzzwole, celeestela and tapu bulu.
Interesting set options are: offensive rocker, which is really interesting because can both set rocks and hit hard tapu fini, buzzwole grass types the likes of tangrowth and tapu bulu using supersonic skystrike, also landorus-t can run a double dance set, which is really cool to deal with bulky and fast teams due to swords dance and rock polish, good partners for landorus-t are hazard setters the likes of ferrothorn and clefable that can help landorus to put pokemons in range of earthquake, good wallbreakers the likes of bisharp, gyarados, weavile are a good partners since can put a lot of pressure when paired with Landorus-t, and finally, magnezone its a good partner for landorus-t due to its ability to trap steel types the likes of celesteela, skarm and mega scizor and to put pressure to water type pokemons as well.
However, Landorus-t is really weak to common water and ice type attacks from the likes of tapu fini, manaphy, weavile, mamoswine, but it is always a good choice to get advantage from Stealth rocks, ground & electric immunity and for the offensive pressure that him put, What are you waiting for? Give it a try!