Beheeyem
[Overview]
- 125 Special Attack and low speed makes it ideal for Trick Room.
- Telepathy and Ally Switch give it something over Musharna and Reuniclus and allow it to be an effective Trick Room supporter.
- 40 Base Speed, fast for Trick Room with a neutral nature, allows it to Imprison Trick Room teams and setup Trick Room against faster teams.
- Kind of frail and not as reliable at setting up Trick Room as the other popular starters.
[SET]
name: Trick Room Support
move 1: Psychic
move 2: Ally Switch / Shadow Ball / Thunderbolt
move 3: Trick Room
move 4: Protect / Imprison
item: Sitrus Berry / Mental Herb / Lum Berry
ability: Telepathy
nature: Modest
evs: 252 HP / 148 SpA / 108 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
- Due to Beheeyem’s fragility it isn’t the best Trick Room lead, however it’s a great back up pokemon with 125 Special Attack.
- Ally Switch, unique to Beheeyem, switches Beheeyem's position with your other active pokemon which can be a great defensive move and due to its exclusiveness, is usually unexpected.
- Shadow Ball and Thunderbolt for coverage allowing Beheeyem to possibly OHKO Chandelure and Tornadus who don't invest in HP.
- With Imprison, it makes an effective lead against other Trick Room teams being able to almost totally shutdown Musharna and Reuniclus knowing Psychic, Trick Room, and Shadow Ball.
- The EV spread allows Beheeyem to take a Shadow Ball from a modest Chandelure.
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- It's important to note that Ally Switch has +1 priority.
- All items are pretty self-explanatory, Lum berry being there to prevent Amoonguss from stopping Beheeyem from setting up Trick Room and unfortunately, standard Amoonguss survives Beheeyem's psychic
- Modest with no speed out speeds minimum speed Jellicent out of Trick Room.
- Scrafty makes a great partner if running Ally Switch as Beheeyem can take Fighting-type attacks while Scrafty takes almost nothing from Dark-,Ghost-, and most Bug-type attacks.
[Other Options]
- Disable is incredibly helpful lasting four turns.
- Beheeyem has an unusually high base stat attack of 75 for a specially oriented Psychic-type and Rock Slide may sound like a poor choice, but it allows it to deal spread damage to Chandelure, Thundurus, Tornadus, and with 20 Atk EVs always 2HKOs Volcarona holding Charti Berry, who would otherwise be a serious threat.
- Simple Beam can be used alongside a stat upper or to cancel an opposing pokemon's ability.
- It gets Nasty Plot and it's a great way to punish people who Protect trying to stall out Trick Room.
- If you have no use for Telepathy, Synchronize is its other ability, but when running Trick Room, Paralyzing your opponent with Synchronize can be worse than just taking it yourself.
[Checks and Counters]
- Volcarona, Hydreigon, and Chandelure all threaten to KO Beheeyem with their powerful and super effective Stab attacks.
- Taunt users are a threat without Mental Herb
- Because of its 40 Base Speed, it’s outspeed by a lot of common pokemon in Trick Room such as Reuniclus and Amoonguss, both of whom can seriously impede or hurt Beheeyem.
