Trick Room Team Help and Type Overlap Advice
Summary
Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments thread discusses whether type overlap is bad and offers team-building advice. Members ask about formats (Ubers vs National Dex), replacing Hoopa with Malamar, running Malamar and Ursaluna in a Trick Room core, and tips to learn Trick Room play. This announcement helps players adapt teams, choose formats, and improve competitive strategy.
this is my current team any tips would help!
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No it is not bad
Uh for where is this team
Do you have any tips for this team? im kind of new to team building
What format is this tf
uhh ubers i think
cuz hes tuff asf
Whats wrong wihty mini hoopa in ubers tho?
my team doesnt work on national dex so i got no choice
What would you replace?
id like o keep malamra
hes my main guy
would gengar as a replcement for hoopa work?
whats a gamemode i dont have to use that many legendaries
whats the standard format
id like to run gengar and malamar and ursaluna u think thats viable in that format?
is malamar the weak link
ik how to use him effecively
ruh roh
but im the gengarglazer6000
thats me
so malamar and ursaluna needs a trickroom team/
you think hearthflame ogerpon is bad with this team
so ursaluna and malamar the only ones i can use
the rest gotta go
are malamar and ursaluna in that format
if they are how do iplay it
alright no need for gengar
i can scrap him
alright i have malamar and ursaluna
id need a trick room setter
who would that be
alrighty thanks
last thing
my friend really likes snoralx
like he loves him
what format
yes
its not me i swear
thankl you so much
do i just replace hoopa with malamar?
alright thank you man
io only like the tiny one
the big ones ugly
alright thank you alot! have a good day
but
hes not tuff
i only like tuff pokemon
no
they have to be cool
alrighty man have a goood one
toodles
WIAT.
so hoopa bound is no bueno in this team
😔
kidding kidding
hey sorry for being a bother but you got any tips on how to learn to use the trickroom team you gave me the one with ursaluna
can we make it tommorow? i have to study
Im very late to this convo but to answer your question… yesn’t. Typestacking is not inherently bad, there are often teams built around pokemon with multiple types slowly wearing down a shared counter over time. For example rillaboom on paper has a good matchup into many common water type attackers, but it doesnt have infinite HP. If you have 2-3 water types on the same team, one of them is gonna break through eventually because the rillaboom will (ideally) eventually be weak enough that the last one can break through, even if it is a losing matchup on paper. This is offensive typestacking.
Defensive typestacking is the kind thats bad. When you stack multiple defensive pieces of the same typing, youre not really overwhelming your opponent with the typestack, you just have multiple defensive pieces with shared weaknesses, which is generally bad
On this team specifically i dont even think the typestacking is the problem necessarily, hoopa and malamar are just not very good pokemon
alrighty thank you man
hey so sorry but is mawile able to fit into this team? i really like mega mawile and its a pretty slow mon
so i cant play ou?
wait that one snorlax team my frtiend uses will i be able to 1v1 him
he already doesnt have a mega though no? in nat dex
okay SO. what megas would suit his team and for mine who should be gone
alrighty
i thought u could only use 1 mega
wait for nat dex is hoopa bound usable or is he just cheeks
ohhh
what format is he usable i need to use my goat
