Mega Scrafty VGC Team Building: Swords Dance vs Thunder Punc
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community discusses a competitive team build featuring Mega Scrafty, Pelipper, and Slowking-Galar. This thread explores whether Swords Dance or Thunder Punch is the optimal choice for Scrafty within a Trick Room setup. Members share insights on damage calculations, coverage options, and team synergy to help refine competitive play.
Pelipper @ Focus Sash
Ability: Drizzle
Modest Nature
- Hurricane
- Weather Ball
- Protect
- Tailwind
Scrafty @ Scraftinite
Ability: Intimidate
Quiet Nature
- Knock Off
- Drain Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Protect
Primarina @ Light Clay
Ability: Liquid Voice
Modest Nature
- Dazzling Gleam
- Hyper Voice
- Reflect
- Light Screen
Archaludon @ Leftovers
Ability: Stamina
Bold Nature
- Flash Cannon
- Electro Shot
- Dragon Pulse
- Protect
Incineroar @ Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
Adamant Nature
- Darkest Lariat
- Fake Out
- Close Combat
- Flare Blitz
Slowking-Galar @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Regenerator
Relaxed Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Eerie Spell
- Heal Pulse
- Trick Room
screen setting prim?
yes it's in trick room so I thought it could work
and grimm does not fit on this team, nor does sab
also I have played with this team a lot and the screen prim seems to work
If you're worried about flying match ups like staraptor then thunder punch is probably fair
Yeah that and zard
but I'm also worried that it won't deal enough damage
have you put it into a damage calculator online?
why does sableye not work exactly
no
cause the calculator I used doesn't have that stuff updated yet
what calc should I use to do that
if you just look up pokemon damage calculator you can find a whole bunch like this
https://game8.co/games/Pokemon-Champions/archives/Damage-Calc
also if you use trick room farigiraf it can run thunderbolt and energy orb giving really good coverage for scraffy
nah bro trust me when I say heal pulse slowking is insane
2 shots none buly char
3 if bulky
and pretty much always 3 shots staraptor because of intimidate
so swords dance is better to run cause t-punch won't do that much anyway than thank u
also nattamara slowking gives me coverage for fairy types which is quite nice
this is with max attack on mega scarf idk your evs
yes I have max attack adamant
thanks guys
