VGC Team Building: Optimizing Trick Room for Tournaments
Summary
In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, members are actively refining competitive teams for upcoming tournaments. This discussion focuses on optimizing a dual Mega Trick Room team, addressing specific meta threats like Pelipper, sun-rain cores, and screen-heavy Archaludon. Community members share expert advice on item choices, type synergy, and tactical adjustments to improve performance in best-of-three competitive formats.
I’m entering my first tournament soon and I’m looking to make any necessary adjustments to the team. This is a dual mega team with both venu and steelix functioning inside of trickroom. The team has a ton of bulk which is nice because I don’t always have to rely on getting tr set up.
The team has gotten me to mb1 but there are some weaknesses. Most of my team struggle into pelipper if I do not have weather control. This is normally fine against pure rain teams as getting my weather isn’t too difficult; however, against the new sun rain teams it’s hard to keep tyranitar alive who is my main answer for peli.
Another problem is archaludon with screens set up. I can one or two shot arch without them but he becomes a pain with them.
The team does also have a problem with shared type weaknesses so if you have any suggestions about that let me know please.
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bo3 advice
Life orb incin??????
Man anything to kill the giraffe
Do wonder if you have found steelix fine cuz I did consider using base steelix with life orb sheer force cuz it has wide gaurd
But regardless
I'll say that type wise it aint rly that bad
Against screens archaladon I actually use curse sinistcha which can rly nicely beat it
Idk if scarf ttar is it in bo3
Not sure if it will work in bo3 but it aint that gimmicky so maybe
To easy to predict around and pivot to make you waste that move. Why not sash
Unless it has a specific job
?
Sash who
Ttar
I seen sash t tar on ladder the other day -.- I don’t think it’s very viable in bo3
Tho I thought the same thing about kingambit and I see it often
It's genuinely good
Especially on trick room
Ye but this aint hard tr
Ik you hard tr players would try choice band incin if that item was available
Nah because I want to fake out and THEN kill myself
I don't even play trick room any more haha
I do not think they should have removed parting shot from scrafty
Would have given it some more use in hard tr
Scrafty is still good I think but definitely a secondary mega yeah
Mega steelix has been good for me. It hits really hard even without sheer force up and I haven’t had too much trouble keeping it away from special hits
Yeah I am worried about that but my concern with sash is that I like to switch ttar in to change the weather which would often have the sash be broken
Maybe I could use something like chople or sitrus berry on it and make it more bulky
I did look at the movepool ant there aren't any physical ground type moves that steelix has which have a secondary affect so ye ig mega steelix makes sense
