Pokémon Champions: Trick Room Team Test

Im so used to seeing intimidate mawile that i forgot it gets hyper cutter lol

I only just realised and it’s a game changer

Swapped some stuff tho

Ursa > specs Tork
Mawile> hyper cutter crab

Slightly more explosive tr

A team you’d enjoy I think gorey

One sec I’ll get paste

It’s ok
It’s enough to get to master rank in champions

Not tournament level

One sec getting it

Crabominable (M) @ Crabominite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 HP / 248 Atk / 1 Def / 8 SpD
Brave Nature
- Ice Hammer
- Protect
- Superpower
- Upper Hand

Mimikyu @ Mental Herb
Ability: Disguise
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 HP / 76 Atk / 116 Def / 1 SpA / 60 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Trick Room
- Shadow Sneak
- Curse
- Protect

Farigiraf @ Throat Spray
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 252 HP / 1 Atk / 156 Def / 100 SpA
Quiet Nature
- Trick Room
- Hyper Voice
- Psychic
- Protect

Azumarill (M) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Huge Power
Level: 50
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 236 HP / 252 Atk / 1 Def / 18 SpD
Brave Nature
- Aqua Jet
- Liquidation
- Play Rough
- Ice Spinner

Torkoal @ Choice Specs
Ability: Drought
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 1 Atk / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Quiet Nature
- Eruption
- Heat Wave
- Weather Ball
- Earth Power

Scrafty @ Figy Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 HP / 180 Atk / 1 Def / 76 SpD
Brave Nature
- Fake Out
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Parting Shot

Have you seen the mega abilities leaks?

they were jusst handing out contary like a teacher giving homework lol

Yep

And it’s really good

I did test close combat

But once that crab is +1

Im scared bc it gets superpower

It just kills bulky neutral targets

Yeah super power is the way

I swear im so dissapointed by pyroar

they wastes all it's extra 100 bst by giving it +20 in each stat AND GIVE IT AN ALMOST USLESS ABILITY

Also ice hammer lowers your speed. I swear if i see someone try to get the crab to +6 😭

lol I was. So they tucked ursa in the back
I knew it would outspeed

So I started using ice hammer to get my speed up . I was +1 when tr ended and the bear still outsped

I think it was invested

it has 40 speed and +1 would make it 60 if your not investing tr making it lose any speed

so it would speedtie

Oh that’s messed up
Well yeah I’m also super unlucky at the moment

Every flinch I’ll catch and stuff

Any miss I can miss I will miss

=sandstorm + rockslide meta

so it outspeed ursaluna outside and inside youd need to invest a little into speed

Legit like 2

Pretty cool

my luck is the exact oposite rn, in singles if my opponet is at +6 defense i crit, and in the same match glaceon blizzards froze my opponent 3 times

Oh wait nvm, i mixed up the stats with mega golisipod lol

it has 33 speed and youll need a lot more speed invested

What about +2?

ursaluna has 60 at base

Crab only needs one super power then he can ohko all targets with ice hammer

ill see calcs

It seems to actually work and outspeed

Testing it again now against a friend who wins tournaments back to back and it’s going really well

Almost won the bo3 but crab hammer accuracy I think did lose me the set

Some recommend spinner over hammer

Think I gotta swap scrafty for incin

To much flying weakness

https://replays.vgcpast.es//Gen9Pre-ChampionsVGC/Gen9Pre-ChampionsVGC_shiny9595_NewTyphlosionUY_battle-gen9prechampionsvgc-383764-e4vb7pasmj5aw3tvxljiy9bryiiwmxipw.html

seeing how people are hyping mega staraptor i can see scrafty failing alot

funny how it's 4x weak to fairy and that isn't its biggest problem

Yeah but it underspeeds incin in tr I think ? And gives me more offensive pressure in my lead

Like if I’m leading with a bulky incin and a farifiraf I worry I have no way to deal any damage in my lead
It can largely reduce incins hp with a cc at -1
And has helped a lot with arch aswell !
The coverage is nice but his been one tapped by a mimikyu a couple times

it's quite slow, at 58 speed so now that i think about it, scrafty may be on more teams than incin but incin will be the faster pick for outside trickroom if you care that much more about speed

It matters because I find myself in incin fakeout/parting shot wars
But still the fairy weakness is crazy

fake out tends to go last which is bad, but you want parting shot to go last so you can safely bring in a glass canon or smth

I need to find how to push it to 1500 like the old tr team

It’s at 1300 atm

Feels kinda capped around here maybe 1400 if I did heaps of battles

what format is this?

i couldnt find the champions one to test my teams lol

One sec
I’ll grab the thingy

https://showdown-vgcpast-es.psim.us/ showdown mod server with the format using all the mons revealed to be in champions if u wanna use it

thx, ill be testing it

oop looks like im not the only one using clawitzier anymore lol

Haha lucario z is a good candidate for mega launcher ability lol

i dont think it makes sense thematically, the only pokemon that have mega launcher are clauncher, clawitzier, and mea blastiose and its because they all-well obviously- have a big launcher

They do have launchers lol but I did notice clarion learnt a weird amount of pulse moves

same amount as clawitzier, but i think the idea was "Oh the fighting type that works well as a special attacker"

Yeah it all kinda sucks due to lack of info but I swear in less then a day the update on home is due and data miners will get all the info

im interested in mega starmie and mega raichu y to come

oh and drampa isnt working well with the team i made so i switched it for mega crambominable like you did

https://pokepast.es/89a6e4e02274d4cd this is what i have

Slowbro is a underated trick room setter

Just needs some fake out and/or follow me

I might swap ageislash for scrafty

ageislash just isnt ouputting enough damage

and seems to be more of a burden