i am new to this forum and to the competitive world of pokemon (platinum version) i hope to revive and Ev train a lileep to get a great cradily, but from other forums people say that just one steel type and cradilys down and all that bad stuff. Is cradily really this bad because i have put a lot of time in to digging i have gotten almost every fossil except the 1 i want **** root fossil. Well anyways if Cradily is "that bad"
plz give me another annying staller i can always breed another umbreon.
Here is what i plan to do if cradily is a good pokemon

Nature: which ever one helps defense
item i think it is the smooth rock or what ever rock makes andstorms longer because of the sp defense boost
The moves are unknow so suggestion would be appreciated thnk you for the people who find this post and reply

oh and wat is a good Ev spread i was thinking 252sp def 252? 4 hp (maybe)

Cradily is okay but it gets killed if they have the right type