Palossand

Sand Castle Pokémon ^#770

Palossand is known as the Beach Nightmare. It pulls its prey down into the sand by controlling the sand itself, and then it sucks out their souls.

This Pokémon lives on beaches, but it hates water. Palossand can’t maintain its castle-like shape if it gets drenched by a heavy rain.

- Water-Compaction
  Raises this Pokémon's Defense by two stages when it's hit by a Water move.

- Sand-Veil
  During a sandstorm, this Pokémon has 1.25× its evasion, and it does not take sandstorm damage regardless of type. The evasion bonus does not count as a stat modifier. Overworld: If the lead Pokémon has this ability, the wild encounter rate is halved in a sandstorm.

Once it has whipped up a sandstorm to halt
its opponents in their tracks, this terrifying
Pokémon snatches away their vitality.