Mega Camerupt Trick Room Team Guide | Pokémon VGC
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server features a deep dive into a competitive Trick Room team centered around Mega Camerupt. This announcement covers core synergies, including Torkoal for weather control and Sylveon for heavy damage output, while addressing potential weaknesses against rain teams. Community members provide tactical advice on optimizing movesets and team composition to help players refine their strategies for upcoming VGC tournaments.
This team is fun but I'd love to get some feedback.
Camerupt bullies Charizard and several flying mons. Deals with arch and is pretty safe to switch into.
Torkoal is the main Swampert answer and overall weather control. Also hits like a fucking truck and helps Camerupt heatwave hit harder
Sylveon is the garchomp answer mostly but it two taps incin and can yawn to force switches or nuke options as well. Ntm life orb helping hand fucking hurts
32+ SpA Life Orb Pixilate Sylveon Helping Hand Hyper Voice vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Multiscale Dragonite: 175-208 (105.4 - 125.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Farig is the trickroom setter and helping hand to make sure the three big hitters hit harder with spread damage. Ofc also gives protection from prio.
Sinistcha is the least used and shadow ball is now life dew to keep big hitters alive longer making sure torkoal, sylveon, and M. Camerupt lives longer
Staraptor is literally ONLY THERE to either hit final gambit and murder a problem or make them think it's clicking final gambit and then click cc on something like kingambit or brave bird into opposing sini.
Honestly
I know enough about hard TR to say that this looks REALLY solid
However, the matchup into rain looks pretty iffy
Thunderbolt on Farig would be nice
Arch kinda looks like a bit of a problem especially if they have screens
sparkles is right rain eats you pretty bad but you can play around them pretty well with Tork solarbeam and camerupt can kill arch
Sini can be swapped out with hatt and give her life dew and giga drain for water coverage Ive been playing with a Calm mind/nasty plot Coffragigus hes super hard to take down and its been pretty fun
I reckon last resort Kanga is better then Birb with fakeout pressure and it basically does the same thing as birb
I've seen Mamo going around in some TR teams lately to counter chomps and deal big damage to arch
the lack of a second mega upsets me but its not required ig i just love the ability to change strats based on match up but without one it allows you to really optimise your Camerupt match ups as you clearly have. theres not alot of room for improvement tbh
Yeah I'm not gonna lie I almost NEVER take sini unless I see raptor or a fighting type and I know sneasler isn't a issue and that's like the main fighting type so hatt could be interesting.
Only reason I won't do last kangas is because I use the birb dying to free switch tork or a big hitter and nuke a problem like peli or swamp
So far the rain vs this match up is like 4-1 only loss was because someone also had rain dance sableye on top of pelipper and was smart with their switches
hmm fair enough
I try to be smart. I know the match up into rain is basically determined on who sets the weather. I try and nuke peli with raptor early or ancient power it.
But I am interested in replacing Sini as it is my current lowest picked mon
one thing swap psychic for twin beam as it breaks sash
very useful as farig is usually opener
if u swap out sini then put hatterene as another tr setter incase oftaunt
bc u have magic bounce
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