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Banned deucer.
[OVERVIEW]
name: Defensive Trick Room Setter
move 1: Gyro Ball
move 2: Zen Headbutt / Explosion
move 3: Trick Room
move 4: Protect
item: Safety Goggles
ability: Levitate
nature: Relaxed
evs: 252 HP / 116 Def / 140 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Other Options
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- Bronzong is, at best, a mediocre Trick Room setter.
- It lacks the massive offensive presence of other setters such as Hoopa Unbound, Reuniclus, and Gardevoir.
- It lacks the combination of pure bulk and recovery like Porygon2 and Jellicent.
- It faces severe competition from Jirachi, who boasts the same typing while having more well rounded stats and a better supportive movepool with Follow Me.
- It runs into similar problems that most Trick Room setters run into, namely Spore, Taunt, strong Dark- or Ghost-type attackers, etc.
- It often becomes a momentum suck, since it doesn't deal much damage and can only really hit Fairy-types for meaningful damage.
- Even neutral targets take pitiful damage from Bronzong.
- What Bronzong does have, however, is a superior defensive typing and ability.
- Steel-typing is a huge boon in a metagame where top tier threats such as Kangaskhan, Diancie, and others run rampant.
- Bronzong's ability Levitate allows it to ignore the Ground-types which would otherwise check it, unlike Jirachi.
- Bronzong can provide great momentum with Explosion, which other Trick Room setters can not.
- Although Bronzong firmly holds its own distinctive niche, you may want to consider using a different Trick Room setter.
- Trick Room teams lacking a bulky Steel-type or teams that are weak to Diancie benefit from its use.
name: Defensive Trick Room Setter
move 1: Gyro Ball
move 2: Zen Headbutt / Explosion
move 3: Trick Room
move 4: Protect
item: Safety Goggles
ability: Levitate
nature: Relaxed
evs: 252 HP / 116 Def / 140 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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- Gyro Ball is Bronzong's primary STAB, hitting Fairy-types such as Gardevoir and Diancie hard.
- Zen Headbutt allows Bronzong deal with Fighting-types such as Keldeo and Breloom and beat Amoonguss 1v1.
- Explosion is an alternative over Zen Headbutt, allowing it to deal meaningful damage and create momentum when it would otherwise be dead weight.
- Furthermore Explosion gives you a free switch into a Trick Room attacker of your choosing.
- Use it cautiously, however, since it comes at the cost of Bronzong fainting.
- Trick Room is an absolutely necessity; if you aren't running Trick Room you should not be using this Pokemon.
- Protect let's an ally deal with an opposing Pokemon that severely threatens Bronzong.
- Be wary because using Protect wastes precious Trick Room turns.
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- 252 HP EVs maximize overall bulk.
- 140 Special Defense EVs allow it to take a Dark Pulse from Hydreigon.
- The remaining EVs are dumped in Defense.
- Safety Goggles lets Bronzong ignore Spore and reliably set Trick Room.
- Levitate gives Bronzong a very useful Ground immunity, allowing it not to worry about Earthquake and Earth Power, which would otherwise severely damage it.
- A Relaxed nature is used to boost Defense, make Bronzong as slow as possible for Trick Room, and boost Gyro Ball's power.
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- Bronzong works well as a lead to get Trick Room set up straight away.
- Once Trick Room is up you should probably switch Bronzong out and bring in a strong attacker so you can make use of your limited Trick Room turns.
- Explosion can be used to do this while getting off big damage.
- If facing a Taunt user Bronzong and its partner should play around it while still trying to get Trick Room up.
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- Fake Out support allow Bronzong to safely and reliably set Trick Room.
- Kangaskhan's raw power helps make up for Bronzong's lack thereof, and it can take opposing Fake Outs if it's running Inner Focus.
- Scrafty provides Intimidate support and checks Dark- and Ghost-types both offensivly and defensivly. Bronzong also beats Fairy-types.
- Fire-types make good partners since they can beat the Steel-type that otherwise wall Bronzong.
- Heatran in particular is a great partner, since it can fire off incredibly powerful Eruptions and appreciates Trick Room support.
- Volcanion beats Fire-types as well, and in return Bronzong can OHKO Mega Diancie.
- If using a full Trick Room team, Bronzong definitely needs another setter to work beside in case it gets knocked out or has an unfavorable match up.
- More offensive Trick Room setters such as Hoopa-U and Reuniclus work well.
- Dark killers
- Sylveon makes a good partner since it hits like a truck and appreciates Trick Room support.
- Scrafty (see above)
- Ghost killers
- Scrafty (see above)
- Hydreigon cause perfect synergy + Zong beats Fairies
Other Options
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- Alternatively, Heatproof can be run over Levitate since your opponent will most likely not target Bronzong with Ground-type moves (expecting Levitate), but this is not advised since it makes it much less good of a switch-in to Diancie, Landorus, and others.
- Gravity removes your opponents' Ground immunities and allows your allies to hit more inaccurate moves, although it should only be used in conjunction with Heatproof since Levitate will be rendered useless under Gravity.
- Sunny Day can be run to boost the power of allies Fire-type moves, such as Heatran's Eruption. It also helps against Rain teams.
- Skill Swap is a useful, albeit situational supportive option with a variety of applications.
- You can use it to replace an opposing Pokemon's ability and essentially neuter it, for example by taking away Kangaskhan's Parental Bond or Sylveon's Pixilate.
- You can use it to give Levitate to one of your allies, granting them a useful immunity to Ground-type moves.
- You can use it to shuffle around Intimidate if either you or your opponent has a Pokemon on the field with that ability.
- Sitrus Berry gives Bronzong a burst of recovery, but is generally not advised since losing immunity to Spore really hinders its effectivness as a Trick Room setter.
- Colbur Berry allows Bronzong to take strong Dark-type moves such as Hoopa's Hyperspace Fury and Bisharp's Knock Off, which it couldn't otherwise.
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- **Steel-type Pokemon**:
- Aegislash, Bisharp, and Heatran all threaten Bronzong immensely and take negligible damage from its attacks. Furthermore, Aegislash and Heatran can freely set up a Substitute in front of it.
- **Dark-type Pokemon**:
- Dark-types like Bisharp, Hydreigon, and Scrafty can heavily damage Bronzong or even OHKO it. It also doesn't like losing its Safety Goggles to Knock Off, since then Amoonguss or Breloom can put it asleep and prevent it from setting Trick Room.
- **Ghost-type Pokemon**:
- Ghost-types such as Aegislash and Gengar threaten Bronzong with super effective damage, similar to Dark-types. Gengar in particular is a good answer to Bronzong, since Mega Gengar can trap it, kill it, and prevent it from setting Trick Room latter, while regular Gengar can simply Taunt it.
- **Fire-type Pokemon**:
- As long as Bronzong isn't running Heatproof, Fire-types such as Charizard and Heatran can threaten it quite a bit, and they also resist Gyro Ball.
- **Taunt**:
- Taunt users like Thundurus, Keldeo, and the aforementioned Gengar make Bronzong a sitting duck, unable to use three of its four moves.
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