Mega Blaziken Protect the President Team Help

does the strategy work in your games?

I think protect the mega works better on floette cause it can raise its spdef and heal itself, and delphox wins specific matchups bad for floette

to me it looks like blaziken would be better suited on offense, especially since both its stabs make it vulnerable

I mean yeah it’s been working pretty well

Double fake out support, redirection, and smart protects really let him stick around longer than he should

Part of it is also that intentional self damage pairs really well with Last Respects on Basc

yeah that makes sense

you could try sd kingambit, counters intimidate and +2 sucker punch can offensively keep blaziken safe

this team already has the structure for cm floette, so you could swap it with aero as a dual mega

Yeah I’ve been considering Gambit. Part of me is just worried that Zard would be a problem, but maybe swapping Sinistcha for Maus would help

Zard is also a large part of my reasoning for Aero, so wouldn’t Floette struggle there?

Maybe swapping SD for Thunder Punch would make that a non issue

yeah its not great into zard, but when I was running cm floette, gambit was really good into sun. if you can setup an SD, sucker punch will ohko zard and basc on sun teams

maybe sneasler instead of tinkaton if the team ends up too weak to sun, it can go rock tomb or something too

In that case, who would you swap for Gambit?

probably aero, but I would definitely keep watch on the sun weakness

do you use tailwind a lot? it feels a little redundant with speed boost

Well I usually only bring aero for fire matchups, my thought was to tailwind in the late game for Basc

But I haven’t run into Zard much because people are trying the new mons

yeah same, it'll definitely be more popular later

the team looks pretty good, I would at least test gambit for a bit and take note of what matchups are bad

Yeah for sure

or does tht not make sense

I actually haven’t considered staraptor

the mega is also neutral to rslide which is running rampant in the meta

Feels maybe redundant though

Like what important matchups would it cover that Blaziken doesn’t?

my point is that could cover many of blazikens matchups without having a weaker defensive profile right

ooh you have the option to parting shot your own staraptor asw since you run incin

I will say, though, double intimidate doesn’t sound so great with all the Gambit running around

it has contrary, where are you getting double intimidate from out of curiosity

Base Raptor has intimidate

Although you could just not

Idk what it’s other abilities are though

oh you mean if your lead is raptor incin? mb i assumed raptor tink

reckless is pretty funny if you choose to not mega staraptor and mega say aerodactyl but thats a pure kamikaze mon fs

i see i see

at the same time +1 SP shouldnt do much to a fighting type mega staraptor and if it doesnt click SP its dead im pretty sure

I mean it’s probably a pretty big chunk of change at least

Either way if I try it I probably won’t take the risk

Ah no that’s fair

The other problem he suffers is that there's not a good middle ground between his stabs base power, like, if you want to make him kinda Bulky and use his 200 (Adamant 2 SPs) Atk stat you can't use Close Combat because it lowers your defenses and Flare Blitz chips yourself out, and you're kinda obligated to use Drain Punch or Temper Flare, losing his amazing burst dmg

He works best as a trade bot Mega with Pokemon that can clean off nicely or as a cleaner after his teammates took out his other problem MUs

I ran 32 HP 2 Atk 32 Spe adamant with HJK Stone Edge SD and Detect and, with an Incineroar, he lives and kills a loot of things

I ran this on ladder and I got to 1900

https://pokepast.es/a6d87657d71994bc

Blaziken doesn't need Speed Control and Redirection Fake Out Healing can make up for lack of Speed Control for the other mons

Not that it matters too much anyway, since Blaziken speeds by itself, Sucker Punch moves first and Basc is a middle ground