Mega Slowbro VGC Team Building Guide | Pokémon Champions
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is discussing a unique Mega Slowbro team composition. This thread explores strategic synergies involving Sableye, Kingambit, and Sinistcha, while seeking advice on EV spreads and optimal move sets for competitive play. It is a valuable resource for trainers looking to refine their defensive setups and sweep strategies in the current VGC meta.
I’m working on building a good mega slowbro team and just need some advice on a few smaller parts of the team, otherwise I have it figured out for the most part. The team will be
- Slowbro
Holding slowbronite. Running iron defense, recover, amnesia, and body press. Probably regenerator
- Sableye
Item tbd. Running skill swap, other moves open. Prankster
- Kingambit
Holding leftovers. Running iron head, kowtow cleave, protect, and sucker punch. Supreme overlord
- H-Zoroark
Holding life orb. Running shadow ball, shadow sneak, protect, and hyper voice
- Sinistcha
Holding sitrus berry. Running rage powder, trick room, matcha gotcha, last open, probably protect. Hospitality
- Kangaskhan
Holding silk scarf. Running fake out and last resort. Scrappy
The plan is to give slowbro prankster with sableye then switch out sableye to sinistcha while slowbro sets up with iron defense and maybe amnesia if the opponent has a threatening special attacker. Once slowbro is set up it mega evolves(to get shell armor and prevent crits) and try to sweep with body press. Kingambit and zoroark are there to deal with ghost types(kingambit also to clean up late game). Kangaskhan is there for perish trap teams and just as good damage output. Sinistcha can use trick room if it’s necessary.
My questions are a) How should I EV slowbro. I figure max hp and split between def/spdf b) Is kangaskhan better with the option to mega evo? c) What other moves should I give sableye? Screens? Quash or torment maybe? and d) Anything else worth noting? Particular teams I should look out for(disregarding OHKO teams) Other moves or items I should switch around?
I’d probably start with these changes:
- Slowbro should run Slack Off over Recover.
That gives it the proper recovery move for the Iron Defense / Amnesia / Body Press setup plan. - I’d make Slowbro more specially bulky.
Iron Defense already fixes the physical side pretty quickly, so I’d start with something like 32 HP / 10 Def / 24 SpD with a Bold nature. - Don’t Mega Slowbro too early.
Use Regenerator and the Prankster Skill Swap plan first, then Mega later once Slowbro is ready to sit there with Shell Armor and avoid crits. - Sableye should probably use Focus Sash.
Skill Swap is the whole reason it’s on the team, so Sash gives it the best chance to actually get that off. - Light Screen makes more sense than Reflect on Sableye.
Slowbro already has Iron Defense for physical hits, so Light Screen helps cover the scarier special side. - Will-O-Wisp feels really useful on Sableye.
It gives you a backup way to slow down physical attackers before Slowbro is fully set up. - Quash is also worth using on Sableye.
It gives the team emergency speed control and can let Kingambit, Zoroark, or Kangaskhan remove something before it moves. - Sinistcha’s last move should be Protect.
Rage Powder is great, but without Protect, Sinistcha can get doubled and removed too easily. - Kingambit might prefer Black Glasses over Leftovers.
The team really needs it to remove Ghost types and clean late-game, so stronger Kowtow Cleave and Sucker Punch pressure is valuable. - H-Zoroark could run Taunt over Shadow Sneak.
Shadow Sneak is nice priority, but Taunt helps stop Haze, recovery, Trick Room, and other support tools that can mess up the Slowbro endgame.
