Mega Slowbro Trick Room Team Review
Summary
In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments a member posts a Mega Slowbro Trick Room team for review. The announcement covers a Slowbro mega core that stacks Iron Defense and uses Body Press, supported by Sinistcha as secondary Trick Room setter, Kingambit, Primarina, Glimmora, and Incineroar. Feedback is requested to address typing and matchup weaknesses.
I've been working to make Slowbro a viable mega on a team for about a month, and I would appreciate any input that would improve my current list. I'm pretty new to VGC, so any suggestions are helpful.
Slowbro @ Slowbronite
Ability: Oblivious
EVs: 32 HP / 2 Def / 32 SpD
Relaxed Nature
- Trick Room
- Iron Defense
- Body Press
- Slack Off
Sinistcha @ Kasib Berry
Ability: Hospitality
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Def / 2 SpA
Relaxed Nature
- Trick Room
- Matcha Gotcha
- Rage Powder
- Protect
Kingambit @ Black Glasses
Ability: Defiant
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 1 Def / 1 SpD
Brave Nature
- Sucker Punch
- Kowtow Cleave
- Iron Head
- Protect
Primarina @ Leftovers
Ability: Liquid Voice
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 SpA / 2 SpD
Modest Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Moonblast
- Ice Beam
- Protect
Glimmora @ Focus Sash
Ability: Toxic Debris
Level: 50
EVs: 32 SpA / 2 SpD / 32 Spe
Timid Nature
- Power Gem
- Earth Power
- Sludge Bomb
- Spiky Shield
Incineroar @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 SpD
Brave Nature
- Fake Out
- Parting Shot
- Darkest Lariat
- Flare Blitz
The core of the team focuses on keeping slowbro on the field, stacking up Def boosts with iron defense, and sweeping with body press. Sinistcha helps keep sowbro alive, and serves as a secondary trick room setter. Kingambit provides coverage for ghost type matchups and annoying fairy types with high Sp. Atk. Primarina is a decently powerful special attacker with good offensive coverage, but suffers from a shared typing with slowbro. Glimmora is mainly for the Mega Charizard matchup, but I've found toxic debris to be effective when stalling with slowbro. Incineroar is just incineroar (fakeout support that lowers opponent damage output).
Weaknesses of the team mainly center around typing, but also the playstyle, which had been difficult to engineer.
Am I the only one feeling that
Glimmora is heavily out of place here
i feel if Glimmora is going to be your second mega you might want a tailwind mode so you do tailroom
??
Why not use stored power and alcreamie ?
could get rid of glimmora
also makes it so you cannot be encored, taunted, ect
that way you don’t waste a round on the mega and make a partner setup
I think that could work too cause Glimmora kinda seems like a dead weight(more than it already is-)
You could lead into TR and decorate, protect decorate
and then stored power
you can even keep the body press tech
Or consider the tailwind mode if you're adamant about Glimmora
So you go tailroom
I like tailroom personally
Yeah, Glimmora is definitely the weak link
So are you suggesting running TR, stored power, body pres, and protect on the slowbro?
Thanks, I hadn't tought about armarouge
I'll test it
Entire teams folds to yard
Ngl
Your only year answer
Is amouruge or however you spell it
Even with wideguard you dont stop solar beam or weatherball
I think you need more controlling to yard
The slowbro set is a choice
that doesnt explain the situation
I think prima is good but maybe use g chomp
I think you can always specifically ev sinistcha etc for things
I think you can swap prima for g chomp
Idk how i feel about the armarouge
I dont think you need it but also there probably should be a dual mega option
Farig suits the team if you really wanna lean into the tr mode
Prob bo1
Like noone plays bo3 here
Its okay tbf
Very annoying if your opp misshandles it
T tar doesnt help reallt
I brought a mega slowbro team to the Los Angelos regionals side event if you want to see it. It wasn’t body press but might be good to help with partners
My personal favorite slowbro set is calm mind + scald since it makes both defenses quite high, then you just heal
Of course
An idea is simple beam audino who goes trick room then simple beam. After you get +6 you mega and click body press
Curse is weird since iron defense is probably just better
I think a better set would be iron defense / stored power / body press / slack off
Stored power can reach good base power after setting up
Literally just run g chomp and another mega
Ye run dual mega
Do we need weather? What matchups does it help?
Are either particularly bad for slowbro if he resists both? I think a9 is better for screens since lass can’t really touch slowbro
I know yard has solar beam and lass has shadow ball
But a9 screens + encore them into non-spread move isn’t good even if slowbro dies
Try to use Alolan ninetales instead of ttar. Screens just make bro bulkier and harder to take down
Sinistcha protect -> life dew
Sneasler protect -> coaching (optional)
Farig hyper voice -> psychic to beat a basc scarfed into last respects
Ninetales set blank -> snow warning / sash / aurora veil / blizzard / encore / protect
Try the stuff I sent
Oh and make sneasler 32+ speed
Yeah, let’s you go 32+ speed and 32 spatk
The most chances to outspeed opposing sneasler since we’re dropping protect
At least tie opposing jolly sneasler
Then it’s fine
I think we don’t need coaching since it only works on slowbro
Excluding the defense buff we have no other physical mons
I just tested a bit with the zen headbutt set and curse felt wierd
I don
Being honest, body press isn’t the correct way to run him
what do you do?
you're the regional guy right
I just felt like body press streamlines his use as a bulky stick
cause his attack stats aren't sanything special
Throughout my testing I did find that he works best in TR (kind of a no brainer)
I started with an amnesia + iron defense set, but dropped amnesia for TR
I don't know what setters are really good to pair with bro, so I just gave it to him
The best way I found was calm mind scald disruption. Incredible natural physical bulk plus calm mind special bulk makes him a Great Wall that spams scald
I like that actually
cause getting a burn makes him beetr against physical
I played him on htr with golurk as a secondary mega. I can give a mock-up if you want
Yeah, I wanna see the build to get an idea
or something like it
When I was making the BP spread, showdown recommended special bulk ev
part of the reason I dropped amnesia
but i think calm mind changes that
I know next to nothing about optimizing ev spereds unfortunately
I just put 32/32/2 for verything
https://pokepast.es/4a28ab8d425a7515
Body press you go 32/32/2 always
Here’s my favorite mega design wise. Sadly he ends up being a bad aggron
Nah dw, everything helps
Its all about improvement tbf
See like
Ive topped tournaments
But thats because i practiced and improved
Ive learned for example to read way better
I just played 11 games with this, netting a 36% win rate
my best leads were fakeout + TR
I might not understand how to play this version, because slowbrow was barely brought and didn't feel good to play
https://pokepast.es/a793d6ba5a736fb2
https://pokepast.es/83adbc8ce291f73c
Slowbro psychic -> Stored power
Farig Psychic, imprison -> Helping hand, Rain dance
Sneasler u-turn -> Coaching
Ttar empty -> Knock off, rock slide, high horsepower, protect / focus sash
Archaludon emplty -> E-shot, Flash Cannon, Dragon Pulse, Protect / leftovers
https://pokepast.es/96d8892766fa987a
Something like this would work better I think
Not sure what should go in last slot
Releasing double colbur 😭
I like arch to capitalize off of rain dance
the thing is that other rain teams screw me, so tyranitar helps
especially against the bird
as far as incineroar, I'm liking sneasler more becuse of coaching and coverage for dark types that I'm therwise lacking
But your team seems to be a trick room team with sneazler ?
Also I don’t imagine sand helps much in rain.
I wouldn’t expect you to have such a rain problem
https://pokepast.es/146c4de3e4353923
Yeah, sneasler plays a little awkward inside TR, but I thik the pros of having it when TR ends justify having it onboard
I could be coping
I've just had some scary mathups into fairy types
Yeah incin can nuke them all with helping hands flareblitz too
Intimidate basically gets me out of to many situations
You boost slowbros special defence
Lowering foes attack sounds pretty cool tho awkward into kingambit but incin can deal with him with a flareblitz tho
I think the duel weather kinda spreads you thin
https://pokepast.es/2159ddc16c1cbaaf
Also before I judge to much how do you go with it ?
What’s your rank and stuff ?
I haven't taken it on ladder, just testing in showdown
I'm not super high ranked anyway
Trust the incin
Can do parting shot over close combat
Honestly yeah
It fits the goal of my tem better like you said
debuffing opponent mons and stuff
You don’t usuallly need protect on farig in my experience
interesting
I accidentally put agility lol 😂
Ignore that
what would you put in the protect slot?
an attack i'm guessing
https://pokepast.es/a05b9be890d9c19f
I mess with twin beam
Earlier I thought about psychic noise, but it seemed a bit situational
Sinistcha and archaladon aren't that slow
this i true
Would it make sense to perhaps add a tailwind mon
People keep suggesting psychic noise but not often do I think it would be valuable
the effect only lasts two turns right?
I don't think it's quite what I'm going for
Oh ok
Well I mean if you want hard tr you could run another tr mega since dual mega is usually better than single mega
was going to say pelli could be cool last slot
drampa has been fun in this kinda set up haha
did you mean to put close combat on incin?
no id take it off
for parting
ok cause you mentioned parting
the last slot is kinda important tho i think IB is right a different mega would be best slowbro wouldnt be reliable into ever match
every*
Ye, but I feel like 5 spa attackers might be asking for trouble
indeed. crab and golurk are like the only physical options tho for mega tho right ?
Ye
in tr
Doesn't crab have hyper cutter bfore it megas?
yep
battled it today. they delayed mega to avoid my intim spams lol
Ye, so it is intimidate immune and given incin being kinda decent against hard tr, an intimidate immune fighting type would be good
Someone in here had suggested golurk as a second mega
his team kinda struggeld against dark types
at least when i used it
crab learns mach punch too
thats his advantage over golurk imo
The only thing is crabs typing means that it will feal more frail than golurk
I like crab to counter sinistcha
cause that always ends up outliving slowbro when I try to stall
so crab could give me a mode that tries to sweep fast wth TR
Ye
I don't know anything about good builds for crab though
Mach punch, cc/drain punch, mach punch, prot
Drain punch is better
ice hammer as well?
Ye sry
Yeah I’ve hammer march punch and I think close combat because his frail anyway then protect
when would I potentially want drain over cc?
Mirror matches against other tr teams I think haha
So you outlive them
hmm
I'm just trying to think which fits better
I really think when you hit with him you just wanna kill something
cc's better then
Yeah but upto you
I can iron it out
What do you think for the ev spread?
Drain punch gets boosted by iron fist tho
Oh shit ^
Max attack max hp sounds about right I don’t imagine you can ev him to tank things like Zard and stuff .
THE CRAB
I LOVE THE CRAB
Yeah, but arch should deal with zard
Actually he just built one ^
MR CRAB
oh nice, a crab enjoyer
I just randomly found the shiny ngl
fire
You could also maybe try ice punch if you don't wanna risk missing ice hammer but they both get boosted by iron fist so ice hammer prob better
I was at a golurk outbreak 😭
Also lose speed so its good tr
Idk how much you need to underspeed torkoal
Prob 2
I think two or something crazy
i didn't know that was possible
Ye 1 underspeeds
Idk why ice punch sounds better to me
Nothing best reliability haha
Beats *
Assuming both are min speed
The 10% chance to miss just makes me have vietnam war flashbacks to icical crash on my mamoswine
Yep same that’s my issue . A boosted stab ice punch sounds kinda awesome
I actually used avalanche for a while despite its negative priority due to the accuracy
75 base power
Iron first
Stab
It’ll hit like a truck no ?
Hammer also gets iron fist
Accuracy
No one wants to miss
Its only a 10%
Fair ig
Thats what they all say
id risk a 10% for a 25 base power increase
If it aint 100% its 50%
I just want to know my moves will do what I want them too most of all
You just spam eruption etc
You click heatwave
You cant be talkin bout reliable
I endlessly beat you today
And endlessly lost to IB yesterday
Because i made the team while in the bath tub
😭
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Ice hammer lowers speed
could be worth it
?!
No
I meant me lol
Oh
Yeah test it for abit and if you’re okay with it then use that for sure
