Trick Doom (I'm terrible at puns)

[acestriker19]

Trick Doom at a glance

Trick Room Setters

Porygon2

Cofagrigus

Reuniclus

Trick Room Sweepers

(The mega mawile image pasted way too large and was annoying me so I got rid of it)
Mega-Mawile

Exploud

Conkeldurr

Team Summary​

As you can probably see this team is based on perpetually setting up Trick Room, then attempting aggressive sweeping. The sheer power of Pokemon like Conkeldurr, Mega-Mawile and Exploud along with their decent defense yet awful speed make these three Pokemon powerful trick room sweepers. This team has absolutely no real stalling power lacking both a rock/spike setter or a single Pokemon who can apply a status condition.

This team is an adaptation of my UU Trick Room team from 5th Gen. The only two Pokemon who are still on my team after the transfer to Gen 6 PokeBank OU are Porygon2 and Cofagrigus. I've been playing with this team on Showdown and have made a lot of changes to it over that time... but I've hit a wall and can't really see a way of improving this team without creating holes in it. I'm hoping that a second set of eyes can see what I can do to improve this team.

In-Depth
(Unless a Pokemon is carrying a Hidden Power then it has ZERO speed IVs, if not it has the lowest possible speed IVs with the corresponding Hidden Power)

Porygon2 @ Eviolite | Trace
Sassy Nature | 252 HP EVs / 4 SpA EVs / 252 SpD EVs
Thunderbolt / Ice Beam / Recover / Trick Room

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Porygon2 is by far my favorite Trick Room setter and an essential part of my team. Eviolite skyrockets Porygon2 defense and special defense to incredible levels making it capable to tanking most anything to set up Trick Room. My Porygon2 is oriented to Special Defense because it gets terrific synergy with Cofagrigus who is very physically defensive. The Trace ability allows Porygon2 to set up trick and play mind games with an otherwise predictable poke. Tracing immunity giving abilities such as Flash Fire from Heatran to make Lava Plume and Will-O-Wisp useless and forcing a switch to set up Trick Room. My favorite is predicting a toxic from a Gliscor and tracing Poison Heal on my Porygon2 for free leftovers recovery.

Cofagrigus @ Leftovers | Mummy
Quiet Nature | 252 HP EVs / 4 Def EVs / 252 SpA EVs
Trick Room / Shadow Ball / Hidden Power Fighting / Nasty Plot
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Cofagrigus is a Pokemon that has not translated as well to PokeBank OU but is still a capable member of my team nonetheless. Cofagrigus and Porygon2 have great synergy with each other with Porygon2s only threat being a physical fighting type move which is what Cofagrigus has an immunity to. Then the opponent either switchs anticipating the Will-O-Wisp or attacks with another move for very little damage allowing Cofagrigus some free time to set up. Cofagrigus' ability is the solution to a lot of the problems I face using a trick room team such as Talonflame, Kangaskhan and Azumarill. Though it is also and double edge sword because if I'm playing poorly I can accidentally transfer mummy to one of my physical attack Pokes both of with need their abilities to sweep. Cofagrigus also lacks any decent recovery move and because of this he is usually the first Poke to die on my team, because of this I've been thinking of running a move defensive trick room set with Will-O-Wisp and Pain Split instead of Nasty Plot and Hidden Power Fighting.

Reuniclus @ Life Orb | Magic Guard
Quiet Nature | 252 Hp EVs / 252 SpA EVs / 4 SpD EVs
Trick Room / Psyshock / Calm Mind / Hidden Power Fire
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Reuniclus is my solution to stall. Magic Guard allows Reuniclus to switch on Poisons and Burns that would be a severe detriment to my other two Trick Room setters. I've tried a variety of all-out-attacking and calm mind sets on Reuniclus and this is the one I enjoy the most. Reuniclus' Psyshock is mostly to deal with Blisseys and other Specially Defensive walls that would waste my time If I had to switch to Mega-Mawile or Conkeldurr to deal with (not to mention the Stealth Rock damage). Calm Mind allows Reuniclus to quickly deal with special walls like Blissey without recovery moves like soft-boiled getting in the way. The Hidden Power Fire is my trick up my sleeve and destroys U-Turners like Scizor and Genesect who think they can come out on the last turn of Trick Room and U-Turn next turn with no downside. The only real downside to Reuniclus is how easily it is wittled down by priority moves or pursuit trapped by Tyranitar and I cannot see any real solution to this problem without severly hindering the benefits of Reuniclus.

Mawile @ Mawilite | Intimidate/Huge Power
Brave Nature | 252 Hp EVs / 252 Atk EVs / 4 Def EVs
Sucker Punch / Iron Head / Fire Fang / Power-Up Punch
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Okay, Okay I know what your thinking "Why no Play Rough or Swords Dance". It is true that these move would probably be more powerful my Mawile is built to keep momentum in Trick Room. My Mawile uses Iron Head to beat fairies and as a strong STAB with reliable accuracy. If the opponent switches into a Steel type like Ferrothorn or Excadrill predicting a Iron Head or a Play Rough I would be forced to switch even in Trick Room, therefore I carrry Fire Fang which has the potential to OHKO even the most defensive Ferrothorn and is a guaranteed OHKO with a +1 from Power-Up Punch.

252+ Atk Huge Power Mega Mawile Fire Fang vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Ferrothorn: 320-380 (90.9 - 107.9%)

Speaking of Power-Up Punch I personally find swords dance redundant on Mega Mawile as its attack is so massive that a +1 v. a +2 is not very consequential. The move also allows me to kill an already weakened Pokemon (usually sent out as fodder for a Trick Room Sweep) and buff keeping the sweep momentum in the short time that Trick Room is in effect. Then once outside of Trick Room Mawile can Sucker Punch to secure an extra kill or, if all of my foes walls are dead, sweep the rest of my opponent's team.

Exploud @ Choice Specs | Scrappy
Quiet Nature (Not really fitting) | 252 Hp Evs / 252 SpA Evs / 4 SpD EVs
Boomburst / Flamethrower / Focus Blast / Surf
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I'm going to be quite brief with this one. Exploud is slow and Boomburst is amazing. While having coverage is nice there is no reason to use any move other than Boomburst unless the opponent has a 4x resistance to normal (Steel/Rock Types) and with Scrappy not even Ghosts can wall Exploud. Exploud can just Boomburst and unless the opponent has a really defensive special wall then Exploud is going to 1 or 2HKO. The only way to kill Exploud in Trick Room is to wittle it down with priority. Exploud is my finisher who usually comes out in the end game and uses the last Trick Room to clean up.

Conkeldurr @ Flame Orb | Guts
Brave Nature | 252 Hp Evs / 252 Atk Evs / 4 SpD Evs
Mach Punch / Drain Punch / Earthquake / Ice Punch
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Conkeldurr is not great. I understand that Guts and Flame Orb is weaker than Iron Fist - Life Orb I need Conkeldurr to have a status to prevent Klefki from ruining my team with priority status and to stop Breloom from Spore - Swords Dancing. The Conkeldurr I have built is more to kill threats like this. Originally I envisioned Conkeldurr as the way to kill Heatran the bane of my team's existence but this has not been working out (see more details below). Conkeldurr dies from residual stealth rock, spikes and burn damage and constantly having to come out to threaten out certain pokes mainly fire types. I know Conkeldurr is a great Pokemon with incredible attack but I feel it gets walled to easily to be a really effective Trick Room setter and I feel that more and more I'm just using it to soak up damage and then Mach Punch and die so I can switch from Exploud or Mawile into one of my Trick Room Setters. I'm very open to suggestions for new sets, pokes or abilities to use on/instead of Conkeldurr.

Threatening Pokemon
These are the Pokemon that are consistently a problem for my team in the time I've been using it.
Heatran: This thing is a pain, sure Porygon2 traces Flash Fire and walls it allowing me to set-up Trick Room but Porygon2 cannot threaten it out, but to switch into the only poke that can threaten it out: Conkeldurr, I have to take Stealth Rock damage then burn damage and maybe even eat an Earth Power. Then my opponent switches into another poke (probably a ghost or Gliscor/Landorus-T) and I'm back to square 1 again even if I predict the switch and use Ice Punch. Heatrans still out there and I can't switch Conkeldurr in again to threaten it out because of all the residual damage. So I have to sit there with Porygon2 until my Trick Room runs out and my opponent switches and either threatens my Porygon2 out deals massive damage to it.
Volcarona: No matter what Volcarona does it usually has a guaranteed kill on my team, because I don't carry Stealth Rock Volcarona comes out with max health and quiver dances while I set-up a Trick Room with Porygon2. At this point I have to switch because I cannot afford to let Volcarona set up. I have to send out Conkeldurr as my only other Physical Attacker would die to a Fiery Dance. Conkeldurr then takes lots of residual damage, Earthquakes usually dealing around 75% to Volcarona then takes a fiery dance for lots of damage. Then Earthquakes again kills the Volcarona and takes residual damage and dies. THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST CASE SCENARIO.

Thank you so much for suffering this really long post and thank you in advance for your advice.

 

[acestriker19]

I'm guess I'll bump this post... also because I need to improve my original post as well (why did past me write larvesta instead of volcarona).

Here is the link to the importable if you want to use my team.

http://pastebin.com/KSimWGrq

I also just broke 1800 with this team so... at least somethings working.