Can Alolan Marowak work for ground type coverage?

I’m playing Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee. I’m using Marowak in my team for Ground type. I don’t like using one of the rock/ground type Pokémon in gen1, for the x4 weaknesses. And I prefer Cubone/Marowak to Diglett/Dugtrio or Sandshrew/Sandslash. Both visually, and move wise. I love the combo of getting high crit with Focus Energy, then getting two attacks off with Bonerang. Now, for the question. I know you can trade to get Alolan variants of Pokémon in Pokémon LG. I’ve already traded for an Alolan Ninetails. Which I actively use in my team, and has become quite useful, especially after learning Dark Pulse, from TM. It helped me blow through Pokémon Tower quickly and ideally will help make Sabrina’s gym easy. I initially immediately rejected the trade for Alolan Marowak, since I had him in my team for Ground type. However, I noticed that Alolan Marowak still learns a lot of ground moves. And wondered if it could still be worth trading it for the Alolan version instead? Are its ground moves still effective on it without the STAB bonus? I’m lacking fire type on my team, and might also benefit from having a ghost type on my team. My current team is:Scyther (got through Pokémon Go)ArbokEeveeGyaradosNinetails (alolan)Marowak(a non traditional team I know, but I don’t play PVP, and tried picking Pokémon I don’t usually use)

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You Have an alolan Ninetails that knows dark pulse to take care of pesty ghost types, so you don’t need to to run a ghost type, Marowak can already learn fire type moves and so can Gyarados so no need for a Ghost/Fire type Pokemon on your team,Marowak can cover all of its weakness with only 2 moves, leaving its move pool to be more flexibleYou’re better off leaving Marowak in there than for its alolan form.