Teddeh would attest to the fact that Scyther/Lanturn/M-Pidgeot is a pretty cool Volt-Turn combo...although Pidgeot's power does leave a little to be wished for...still Hurricane is a decent late game win-con. And I also feel that Sand Offense(shoutout to Teddeh!) could be a dominant play style with something like:-
M-Steelix/Hippopotas/HW Mesprit/Doge/Hariyama/Ferroseed or Tangela idk; could be surpringly dominant. see it covers everything p.much, no fighting resist tho but Tangela can take Close Combats from everything so that's a moot point. Keckleon is gonna be fun to use now...90 attack hits suprisingly hard with a CB. NU prepare yourself. Based chameleon has arrived...also Pangoro is getting the banhammer lol nothing walls it now :(.
Belly Drum Slurpuff is gonn take souls..with only possibly M-Steelix as a check :(. Poisons get obliterated by the BD'd return...the power is real :)
1)Don't ever use banded kecleon, a regular set is better.
2)That sand team gets destroyed by mega pidgeot, late game after chip damage mostly, but early game too.
Not sure how I feel about sand offense with mega steelix. Sure its bulk is formidable and its attack is pretty above average with sand, but it still is too slow to outspeed its (very common) checks. This is not like rain where rain sweepers have not only better attack boosts, but huge speed and usually priority, meaning they can effectively sweep through teams, unlike steelix which gets a kill then gets revenge killed fairly easily. I just don't see why you would go through the effort to set up your passive-aggressive steelix only to get one kill then have to switch. Sand in general is okay, don't get me wrong, but it's not even worth it with mega steelix to me. Mega pigdeot would work though, as it's hurricanes are still 100% accurate and can take care of grass types for the team as well as fighting types that threaten Stoutland. In fact stoutland and pidgeot have great synergy together, better than steelix and stountland anyway. conclusion:
Mega pidgeot on sand > mega steelix.
Just some m-steelix calcs for funzies:
252 SpA Life Orb Ninetales Fire Blast vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Steelix: 354-421 (100 - 118.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ SpA Life Orb Exeggutor Giga Drain vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Steelix: 177-211 (50 - 59.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Sand Force Steelix Heavy Slam (80 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Exeggutor in Sand: 208-246 (62.8 - 74.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after sandstorm damage
I know some people were eager to run max spdef steelix-mega, but trust me the damage output on that thing is horrendous, even in sand. Also, this was a very biased opinion, so if there's a good side to mega steelix i'm not seeing, do share pls.