Competitive VGC Trick Room Team Build & Strategy Guide
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is diving into a unique Trick Room team composition featuring Farigiraf, Hatterene, and Torkoal. This discussion highlights unconventional EV spreads and move sets, including a support-focused Farigiraf and powerful attackers like Drampa and Mawile. It is a great resource for players looking to refine their competitive VGC strategies and explore off-meta team building.
Farigiraf @ Colbur Berry
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
EVs: 20 HP / 12 Def / 32 SpD / 2 Spe
Calm Nature
- Imprison
- Trick Room
- Helping Hand
- Protect
Incineroar @ White Herb
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 28 HP / 32 Atk / 4 Def / 2 SpD
Brave Nature
- Fake Out
- Flare Blitz
- Darkest Lariat
- Close Combat
Hatterene @ Life Orb
Ability: Magic Bounce
Level: 50
EVs: 28 HP / 4 Def / 32 SpA / 2 SpD
Quiet Nature
- Psychic
- Dazzling Gleam
- Mystical Fire
- Trick Room
Drampa @ Drampanite
Ability: Cloud Nine
Level: 50
EVs: 28 HP / 4 Def / 32 SpA / 2 SpD
Quiet Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Earth Power
Torkoal @ Charcoal
Ability: Drought
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 SpA / 2 SpD
Quiet Nature
- Eruption
- Heat Wave
- Weather Ball
- Earth Power
Mawile @ Mawilite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
Level: 50
EVs: 28 HP / 32 Atk / 6 SpD
Brave Nature
- Play Rough
- Sucker Punch
- Sucker Punch
- Rock Slide
Wait we are using blaze incin now????
No no ahahaha
Holy fuck lol
I my to make sure that’s fixed
Been running blaze for a day lol 😂
new meta trust
I thought it was some anti kingambit tech ngl
that could be funny, especially with cc on it
Thought about it but to many other interactions appreciate intimidate haha
Why no dragon move on drampa?
Dragons like dragoning
Liking the coverage to much. Huge special attack stat
With helping hand it gets a ohkos
On a lot haha
i didnt even realize it didnt have a dragon move lol
Wait farig has no attacks XD
It works so good lol
I have seen bulky farigs bfore, never seen one with literally no capability of attacking on its own
that isnt the weirdest thinf on that team...
It’s going good ! It’s rank 10 thousand rn hahah
Idk why it works but it does lol 😂
tbf, i run this Farigiraf @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 23 Def / 1 SpA / 10 SpD
Quiet Nature
- Trick Room
- Psychic
- Thunderbolt
- Energy Ball
i could never, even something weak to break sashes is enough for me
I ran life orb farig for a while so I was on the complete opposite spectrum
i also tried nasty plot farig, it was fun and unexpected but it was more unreliable
Kinda really using it as indeedee
Noticing it go something like trick room > imprison
Maybe protect first then swap between helping hand and protect keeping imprison up for as long as possible
Also tr ends and it helps with mawile
They must attack lol 😂
i just do whatever happens. id say 40% of my games i dont even bring my back mon and win with incin and farig lol
happens a lot into rain
Weird hey. I need to lead incin into basc a lot of the time to just to reduce its attack stat
Makes everything abit more safe haha
Ig the team works but freaking breaks every principle that I adhere to when teambuilding
I’m hearing it from a lot of people lol 😂
Almost taunting people with the team at this point hahahaah
energy ball, thunderbolt, and darkest lariat usually beat rain fast
thats the wahhhh gaurentee
Torkoal never needed protect and it’s like they really do the same thing but have different coverage
So I just use them the same
Seems to work
Am thinking about protect over mystic fire on hat tho
I think it might bring up quality
Maybee
fun fact, torkal has the same physical attack as special attack, you you could do something funny with that
I played against this one opponent who got from 1000 to 1540 in showdown with sylveon + floette spread move spam
Yeah I did that once with hat and floette
It’s awesome
I try explain it to people and half the time they don’t understand haha
wait for xernus + floette with geomancy and calm mind.
Boosted dazzle spam
Imagine tapu fini gets in at the same time
Or even lele
doesnt lele have psyspam
and fini has misty terrain
Yeah but she also gets dazzle and a high special attack stat
She doesn’t learn expanding force
I believe
Or I could be wrong
interesting
Yknow I rly liked taunt incin for a while but I think the hard tr teams have somehow caught on to it
Cuz they just fake out my incin now
Well like if it’s king and incin lead I’ll fake out the incin
For tr security haha
Leading mega beedrill and taunt incin was fun, they couldn't stop the room from going up
The team looks more bo1 but I’m impressed with its bo3 also
I come 2nd with the energy ball drampa version
A few days ago
Nasty plot gholdengo
Tanked the fucking sucker punch
And killed me
In game 3
https://klipy.com/gifs/game-interface-video-game-56
Was super close
Since then i added sword dance
Because grimsnalrs teams play a passive turn one
Where I don’t even need fake out
Set tr and sword dance
- 1 32 Atk Adaptability Beedrill-Mega Lunge vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Farigiraf: 180-216 (92.3 - 110.7%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO damn, its not for sure but still close enough
Fuck ur screens
im telling you, use brick break
Maybe I’m thinking how she can be ran without play rough
unless you want to roleplay with rime time and use screen cleaner
Is it iron head
Fire fang
Rockslide
no. just no.
Nah
you love it and hate it at the same time
You and me both missed 3 times in a match
How can you consider it reliable at all
accept you cant hit it all
It’s like gg tho
I wanna win
lol
I feel like whenever I play against a mawile they miss atleast 1 play rough
no you dont, you want to play rough with your opponent
Makes me look at the other slow heavy hitters
Grass fighting dude
His typing
Is ideal
its 95% accurate and 95 bsp with stab, and huge power
your getting greedy
i'll keep you locked in a room with hydro pump if you dont use it
If it learn a less powerful more accurate physical fairy move
I’d run it
Thats the worst punishment imaginable
and yet sleep powders and will o wisps dont miss 
when my opponent uses them
Freaking rotom just an iron fumble with a better typing and worse stats
Well better defensively
but.... speed.
outspeed trick room at level 100
just pack it up and give the tourqes to more pokemon gamefreak
When you go so fast that even tr doesn't matter:
https://klipy.com/gifs/flash-run-JtW
the opposing icy wind: 
https://klipy.com/gifs/pokemon-angry-birds
I love how the earlier miraidon iron bundle teams where just willing to lose if they got unlucky turn 1
Like, if they don't get unlucky, its still not over, but if they get unlucky they just lose immediately
isnt that 95% of teams lol
cuz flinch = bad
Well no, cuz iron fumble would prob die the second it misses once
fair.
but still
I mean, ye, but its not necessarily game losing, ya just need to try harder
the situations i flinch in:
https://klipy.com/gifs/dragon-ball-dragon-ball-super-34
My bubble bug says no
I want to practice leading farig hatterene more even if I have to make hat more tanky
but theres no fakeout pressure and farig can get doubled on and die
when i used to be scared that someone was going to die when i led 2 tr setters, id just tr with both and pray one dies so the other gets the room up
Some teams can’t actually 2 shot farig haha
some. theres a lot more than youd think
especially with colbur
on ladder, i sometimes run cud chew and its really funny to see them no fakeout, try to double my farig, then i eat 2 sitirus berrys lol
Not being rude but without intimidate my araquanid has a gauranteed ohko on your specific farig set
And given that there a lot of mons rn whos damage output aint that much worse than araquanids, I'd expect most teams to be able to kill farig without fake out support
Yeah no it’s always intimidate lol 😂
Hmm like sometimes I could protect farig
Or protect farig
Well ye, but if you lead hatterene farig
Or swap in drampa
Like I just had too lol 😂
To hide hat from Zard lol
Protect farig or protect farig? Great choices
Hat lol -.-
In battle sorry lol 😂
But ya don't have protect on hat
No I am considering it tho over the mystic fire slot I don’t click it ever I am noticing g
