Clawitzer Terrain Pulse Team Help | Pokémon Champions
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is analyzing a unique Clawitzer Terrain Pulse team featuring Hatterene, Farigiraf, and Mawile. This discussion focuses on optimizing Trick Room strategies and terrain synergy for Masterball rank play. Members are invited to test the provided rental code and share feedback to help refine this competitive VGC team build.
i tried to make a team around clawitzer's terrain pulse, since it seemed really strong on paper. for this i wanted two terrain options, which i picked to be electric since its easy to bring on the field with raichu-X, and psychic, since I've seen expanding force doing some good damage. in order to make use of expanding force i picked hatterene as another damage dealer and to set the psychic terrain. farigiraf protects against priority attacks and can set trickroom when needed (clawitzer is pretty slow, hatterene is extremely slow, enemies may tailwind to outspeed raichu). outside of trickroom i planned to redirect attacks away from clawitzer with rage powder or follow me. in the end i chose sinistcha with follow me. and since i had a trickroom plan anyway and i wanted a strong mega threat outside of raichu and also a physical attacker since my team seemed to special-sided who also shouldn't be flying so they can benefit from the terrain, i picked mawile to round up the team. clawitzer has aura sphere as coverage over dark pulse or dragon pulse since mawile already has dark moves and i wanted to keep opponent dark mons in check. farigiraf is build to survive kow cleave and another similar strong physical attack so it can set up trick room. hatterene is build to survive sneeslers dire claw and still set up psychic terrain (except when sneezler has life orb, then hatterene cant be saved). other than that i think the movepool and EVs of my pokemon are pretty basic. i am trying out this team in low masterball rank but it isn't doing as well as i hoped so id like to know if there's something that can be improved. here is the rental code: 0E8GJ3WJA3
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Could you send the team in Showdown format or Pokepaste as Im trying to see the moves but half are unkown to me?
Would it do if I switched the game to English and just made screenshots again?
Im not sure how that works but if its possible its great
english version 🙂
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Thank you so much ❤️
Now lemme see
Actually I really like the idea for this team as its very fun idea and it can work but you need someone else isntead of Raichu X as the rest of your team is on the slow or very slow side and Raichu is max Hp it wouldnt matter if it was a bit more supportive
Also a question are you planning on running this team in Regulation M-C ?
in m-c i'd probably change it a bit. add a pokemon with grassy surge ability, maybe switch clawitzer for mega blastoise who has a similar ability
I really like the idea with Clawitzer
Im asking because If you run it In reg M-C it would be even better as you could run Indeede and Rillaboom to easier time setting terain up
what does indeedee do?
Sets up pshycic terrain
On switch in
same as Rillaboom with grass
seems, very useful for my idea. i'll do that when i get them
And I like it even better than Raichu
yeah, raichu is mostly for the terrain. i would have prefered it if it didnt took a mega slot just for that
You could even add a Psyspam mega that works with Indeedde
i have thought about mega meowstic, but ultimately decided against it since its just too weak
and it would make half my team psychic, which seemed like too much of an exploitable weakness
Lemme see what I can do
i looked at indeedee. it seems i want a female one since that one has better defenses and HP
Yea I agree its the better one
Also you would switch farig out than as you have priority bloking with psychic terrain and it is redundant to have 2 things stopping priority
yeah. its just useful for the first round right now, when terrain isnt up.
Yea thats true
I agree
so this means indeedee would be the new support mon and i need a new psychic attacker for expanding force
if thats still worth it
I mean Hatterene is doing enormous damage with dazzling gleam expanding force in psychic terrain
Plus you would have Clawitzer hitting really hard
so keep hatterene and just switch out her terrain move and the farigiraf?
Rillaboom would be consistent damage
Yes I think so
Seems the easiest change
Also than I would look at Sini
I do love it but It doesnt fit the team the best
what would be better than healing and redirection? wide guard? screens? no further defensive support?
i had the problem of an opponent counter trickrooming me, so maybe get taunt so this doesnt happen?
Indeddee has follow me
So it can be redirection needed
ah. thats good. and it really makes the biggest reason for sinistcha dissapear
Maybe having Imprision on pokemon that have both taunt and trick room on it to stop them from using it on you
You could add Torkoal than
As a great spread Fire attacker
but that sacrifices two moves on a not-so-common situation
Imprision makes any Pokemon they have to not use moves that the Pokemon who used Imprision has
So if it has protect taunt trick room and imprision
i have never used a hard trickroom team. maybe this precaution is neccessary
No mon on their team can use that 4 moves
This is good one to start
Im not no expert on it
But I can help a bit
who should use trickroom when farigiraf is gone?
You can have it on Indeedee Hatterene
Best two choices
better hatterene. else i wouldnt be able to set up trick room on grassy terrain since it would always get overwritten
I think you should run it on both
As you would run a hard trick room team
Wdym?
if the pokemon has both psychic surge ability and trick room, it would either need to be faster than rillaboom and come on the field at the same time, or rillaboom would need to switch in later so the psychic terrain doesnt overwrite the grass terrain
so i am using 4 moveslots in my team just to make sure that i REALLY can set up and keep TR.
(one of them being the first TR)
seems like a high investment. but if trick room is worth it thats okay
As you will be playing hard trick room yes you absolutely need trick room to be up
The one who is slower gets their terrain
So if rillaboom and indeedde enter the field at the same time grassy surge will activate and then psychic surg
So you want to be slower for that
Yes seems a lot but people have sucess with it
Or instead of Torkoal go og route with Armarouge
Yea you would have still many psyhic types you could go with spme coverage for dark types
Mr.Witzer 🥹
