Pokémon VGC: Mastering the 'ZA' Mega Format Strategy
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server is diving into the unique 'ZA' Mega format, where players are assigned specific Mega Evolutions. This discussion focuses on optimizing a Mega Scrafty team, exploring strategic choices like Dragalge for steel-type coverage and balancing Trick Room setups. Join the community to refine your competitive builds and master this specialized format.
this is a format where we can only use za megas and everyone gets assigned one i got mega scrafty can someone help me with the team
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thats a list of all the megas
https://pokepast.es/f4f53e9d623dd089
heres the team
im not really sure about sinistacha but i need something to deal with water types specifically milotic and basc
and idk if i should use armarouge or hatterenee
This looks interesting
If you want to hard TR, I wouldnt recommend Gholdengo, straight up gone
Agreed
also I dunnoo about Fakeout on Scrafty
S Tier Move on any Pokémon, really, but considering you do want your psychic terrain active as often as possible
so what do i use to kill faries
I'll check what we can do, but Expanding Force will get quite some koes
except its secondary type resists psychic
true but considering how common rilla is psy terrain is often negated
also what 4th move would i run
Are you allowed to use a secondary mega
or just scrafty
just scrafty
than base Dragalge sounds like a good option
adaptablity
draco
sludge bomb
focus blast against steel types
protect
maybe add a lifeorb
wow thats a really niche pick
also focus blast? isn’t it like 50% accurate
im a fan of having options outside of TR as well
right now, if you fail to get TR up ur screwed pretty much
70%
Its still worth picking up, since you have no ways of hitting other steel types, like kingambit
yeah but with magic bounce hatterenee and indd its like impossible to stop
and easy to stall out or counter
u dont wanna hand out free wins
i could run max speed arma for an out of tr option
considering thats its bo1 ur right
yup
You could add atleast 1 or 2 Pokémon
maybe unburden psychic seeds and a chlorophyll user
iron ball fling sneasler for memes
yknow its actually the first thing i thought of
i even used it on a past team
i never used it but sounds funny asf lol
it also solves my basc problem
guaranteed ohko
i know the calc by heart
maybe go for it
it gives you some coverage you need
scarf rotom looks pretty good on ur team too tbh
wash?
yep
volt switch hydro pump electro web and like umm
electroweb for out of TR speedcontrol, trick to manipulate TR speed order or lock opponents into bad moves
thunderbolt
like
fling
dire claw
cc
protect/quick guard (in case of no psyterrain)
so i replace gholdengho with sneasler
i might do gunk shot
to ohko bulky floettes and sylveons
electroweb wont be enough for torkoal and hatterene, maybe scratching scraftys speed
28 speed scarf rotom outspeeds base 130s, could invest rest in spa and hp
but sneasler with fling unburden just seems like scrafty again they both do a lot of dark and fighting damage
yea but if he adds 1 more out of TR option its a good combo
wont work with iron ball sneasler tho lol
true
also
i would actually replace solarbeam with ancient power
its rather weak, but rock type coverage is a must rn
also the small chance of a pseudo boost is pretty cool
for what am i covering
what are u using the rock type coverage for
zard isnt here
flying types in general
in ladder its for salamance, chariY, pelipper and maybe more i dont remember
this is an all za mega format so only pelliper is a concern
eh torkoal ancientpowers dont do much against them and omniboost is bad since u start being outsped under TR by some things
i believe its min speed is like 30 that +1
you still outspeed pretty much anything
i could replace sinistacha with vileplume and have a faster gholdengo for something out of tr
indedee for support
and the 4 slot
so we got
vileplume
sneasler
torkoal
hatterene
indeedee
scrafty?
i like vileplume on this team actually
im not sure about sneasler
one more option is toxtricity maybe
yeah i had a team like this in mb
really?
its damage is pretty underrated
i lost every time i used vileplume lol
i mean iron ball sneasler is useless and all psychic seed does is kill faires since i cant fake out
i still need something for faires
dragarge could worj
but not out of tr
torkoal and hatterene should be able to take care of most fairies with neutral hits ig
