Metagross Swampert Rain Team Preview
Summary
In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments this announcement showcases a Metagross/Swampert rain team build. It highlights a Scarf Archie set, Sash Poison Touch Sneasler for Fake Out and poison support, and notes Taunt versus Foul Play tradeoffs. The post asks for TR counter ideas and mentions Sinistcha as a suggested solution and includes screenshots.
This has been sitting for two days while I was playing with Sceptile/Mawile, but finally started testing and it's strong so far.
I tried rain with regular Stamina Archie last season and found it really boring to play, too slow, very not my style - but Archie is still super good under rain, so I'm trying this Scarf set and it's doing well so far
Sash Poison Touch Sneasler sounded very fun to me so I'm giving it a try. Another good Grass counter besides Pelipper to protect Swampert is nice to have and love how he provides Fake Out and poison support besides strong fighting type coverage. I forgot to change Dire Claw to Poison Jab, but guess I'm doing it to reinforce the poison chance.
Had Taunt over Foul Play but 1. I hate not having at least 1 attack move and 2. Prankster Taunt is useless against Farig, which is the main mon I feel like Taunting. So I still feel weak against TR teams - open to ideas regarding that and anything in general
i’m running a very similar team to this. have you considered sinistcha to operate in TR with healing and redirection support as well as a way to turn off TR?
That would solve my TR issue!
Sinistcha is pretty amazing. I really like every mon in the team though - hurts to think of replacing any of them. I wish either Sableye could learn TR or Sinistcha could learn Rain Dance lol
i took screens off my team and ran a bulkier rain setter(politoed) and put iron defense instead of iron head
on metagross
made room for sinistcha and put more survivability overall
Between screens and healing I definitely don't need both, so I would replace Sableye over Sinistcha
Will think more about it, thanks for the suggestion!
idk if you’ve tried big root, but big root strength sap can heal sin from like 5 to fill off a physical attacker
Woah, I haven't tried big root yet, didn't even buy the item
Will look into that
unfortunately it doesn’t work with life dew, but still insane for keeping sin alive. Good luck!
