Metagross Swampert Rain Team Preview
This has been sitting for two days while I was playing with Sceptile/Mawile, but finally started testing and it's strong so far.
I tried rain with regular Stamina Archie last season and found it really boring to play, too slow, very not my style - but Archie is still super good under rain, so I'm trying this Scarf set and it's doing well so far
Sash Poison Touch Sneasler sounded very fun to me so I'm giving it a try. Another good Grass counter besides Pelipper to protect Swampert is nice to have and love how he provides Fake Out and poison support besides strong fighting type coverage. I forgot to change Dire Claw to Poison Jab, but guess I'm doing it to reinforce the poison chance.
Had Taunt over Foul Play but 1. I hate not having at least 1 attack move and 2. Prankster Taunt is useless against Farig, which is the main mon I feel like Taunting. So I still feel weak against TR teams - open to ideas regarding that and anything in general
i’m running a very similar team to this. have you considered sinistcha to operate in TR with healing and redirection support as well as a way to turn off TR?
That would solve my TR issue!
Sinistcha is pretty amazing. I really like every mon in the team though - hurts to think of replacing any of them. I wish either Sableye could learn TR or Sinistcha could learn Rain Dance lol
i took screens off my team and ran a bulkier rain setter(politoed) and put iron defense instead of iron head
on metagross
made room for sinistcha and put more survivability overall
Between screens and healing I definitely don't need both, so I would replace Sableye over Sinistcha
Will think more about it, thanks for the suggestion!
idk if you’ve tried big root, but big root strength sap can heal sin from like 5 to fill off a physical attacker
Woah, I haven't tried big root yet, didn't even buy the item
Will look into that
unfortunately it doesn’t work with life dew, but still insane for keeping sin alive. Good luck!
scarf arc?
it works well?
So far so good! Probably probably don't expect it it hitting so hard right away lol
And Sturdy works well with it
Ok how crazy would be something like this so I can have Rain Dance, Trick Room and healing from the same mon:
Aromatisse @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Healer
Level: 50
EVs: 31 HP / 3 SpA / 32 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Moonblast
- Heal Pulse
- Rain Dance
- Trick Room
I'm also thinking on just screwing healing and screens and go aggressive Farigiraf with Rain Dance
But I do think it's important thst I have a secondary Rain setter but I also want to have an option against Trick Room
My farig is able to 2 shot most opponents
Ya want that?
Yes please! Sounds great
Farigiraf @ Life Orb
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
EVs: 29 HP / 4 Def / 32 SpA / 1 Spe
Modest Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Thunderbolt
- Trick Room
- Protect
If ya want something that is on the bulkier side, ask wahhh
Life Orb Hyper Voice goes brrrr
Very cool, will try it
Have you considered toxicroak over sneasler
I know it's now as fast but it has bulk and heals in the rain
Everytime I think of rain I think of Toxicroak, but I always assume it's just a worse Sneasler so I end up running Sneasler
The Sash Poison Touch set is really fun so far
Funny enough I just got the gold medal achievement for winning 100 battles with Sneasler
It's the goat
This team is super strong and consistent so far, the matches I'm losing are super close
I will want to try and test other teams though but guess I'll try climbing with this one at some point
Not been using Metagross much tho, Swampert is being the primary for sure
