my team of tricks

the dead mans oddysey

my trick room team


1. Starmie:
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Moves: rapid spin
Scald
Psycho shock
Protect/substitute/ice beam
Item/s: leftovers/ shed shell/ life orb
Nature: timid
Ability: natural cure
Ev spread: 4 hp/ 252spA/ 252 spe
Anti- set up
comments: starmie (my absolute fav water type), is my lead because it can stop pokemon like ferrothorn setting up stealth rock and spikes, while at least doing normal damage to most pokemon. it also comes out on top in most cases thanks to its atsounding speed. if i ever gets a status condition, just swicth it out. giving it Scald (or boiling water) allows it to burn it's target's, and help it fend off threats like klingklang. giving starmie psychoshock allows it to target pokemon like blissey, a reall threat to this pokemons integrity. now, giving starmie protect or substitute is good for stalling, but it helps to have ice beam in case of thundurss. for obvious reasons, leftovers or shed shells are to heal starmies, less than impressive HP. but by goving starmie a life orb, and with no means of recovery, it greatley decreases your'e survivability.


2. Cofagrigus
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Moves: trick room
Shadow ball
Psycho shock
Substitute/ toxic
Item/s: leftovers/ life orb
Nature: calm/bold
Ability: mummy
Ev spread. 252 hp/ 200 def/ 52 spD
Role: set up
comments: ahh, cofagrigus. the most highly regarded ghost in my books. whit it's high defence, its a perfect candidate for setting up trick room. as its speed is so low, ive decided, he should be the main event in my pokemon team. having shadow ball, allows cofagrigus to put a massive dent in the opponenents head. whilst psycho shock is puerley for extended coverage. and giving it substitute, you can evade to opponent, and with toxic, well, toxic is toxic. giving cofagrigus the leftovers is a more reliable choice as using substitute, does drain away youre HP. but having a life orb, you scrap substitute and raise your attacks power.


3. Chandelure
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Moves: Trick room
Shadow ball
Heat wave
Protect/ will-o-wisp
Item/s: quick claw/ focus sash/ life orb
nature: modest
Ev spread: 104 hp/ 152 def/ 252 spA
Role: hard offense + secondary setup
comments: a pokemon with an immense special attack! i just couldnt have my team without it. giving chandelure trickroom is it's insurance incase cofagrigus's trickroom wears off. shadow ball is for stab, whereas heatwave is there for extended coverage. it also does wonder's i double and triple battles. giving chandelure protect is nice for receiving you're own free turn's but will-o-wisp is for flawless defensive coverage, as it is extremely frail. giving it a quick claw is to allow it to go first in case it's own trick room wears off and it neads to set up another. but a focus sash is the same as a free turn! but with severe damage. and giving chandelure a life orb means it's attack power is bootsed to an almost unmatched amount, but is a sure fire way to lose this vital part of the team.

4. Scrafty
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Moves: drain punch
Bulk up
Crunch
Dragon tail
Items: leftovers/ life orb
Nature: relaxed
Ev spread: 252 hp/ 252 def/ 4 spD
Role: mixed wall
my absolute favourite pokemon (since last week) is just an amazing addition to the team. giving scrafty drain punch allows him to counteract the lfe orbs effects if he's holding one. giving bulk up, well, gives him extra bulk and attack.
giving scrafty crunch is reeally good as it can lower the foes defense, but payback is a viable option as it's power doubles if he's attacked first, allowing you to deal a total power of 120 if trickrooms effects are no longer functiong. and dragontail. i just find it, in a word, PERFECT. it allows scrafty to swith out pokemon (like volcarona) before they set up on you. this works extremeley well under trickrooms effects. if you give scrafty the leftovers. it will just allow you to survive longer, but with the life orb. as explained earlier, allows scrafty to have higher attack power, whilst being able to counteract it's damaging affects, if you use drain punch. all in all, he's just perfect for this team.

5. Rueniculus
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Moves:
Trick room
Shadow ball
Psychic
Fire blast
Items: life orb/ leftovers
Ev spread: 252 hp/ 252 spA/ 4 spD
Role: hard offense/ secondary set up
comments: rueniculus. the one that surprised us all. it is deciptively bulky, with its base hp at 110. and its stellar 125 speccial attack power. by giving rueniculus trickroom, it can out speed almost anything under its effects. whilst holding the life orb, all its attacks are boosted in power by x1.5-x2 (im not enireley sure about this). fire blast is to cover bug types that may threaten it, even under trickrooms effects (e.g. escavilier).
psychic is just for stab. and shadow ball is for extended coverage. this pokemon'ssuprising bulk and offensive capabilities should help it last the entirety of trickrooms effects (5 turns). this is the most powerful pokemon you can have in youre arsenal of trick roomer's.

6. Weavile
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Moves:
ice punch
Night slash
Ariel ace
Brick break
Item/s: life orb
Ev spread: 4 hp/ 252 atk/ 252 spe.
Role: last stand/ full frontal assault
comments: weavile. my last stand. even though his plethourogh of weakness is a set back, i cant think of a better pokemon as my last stand. my reason's for this are that his speed, OMG his speed is just off the hook! only surpassed buy areodactyl, electrode, and accelgor (as these are the only ones that come to mind). his attack is also very impressive. combined with all of that, he's just the perfect pokemon to ruin your'e opponent's tteam, although he doesnt appreciate being burned.

please vote! i really need an evaluation of my tricroom team.

 
bad, bad. 4 start you will need 3 trick room supporters, and weavile its not a suporter xD. In this team me only see the cofagrigus, but the rest it was untill for make a trick room. Read the trick room guide of smogon, this guide change your team to best than the team off the post actually^^
 
ok, for starters, you have three pokemon that don't fit. chandelure, starmie, and weavile. all three are fast pokemon and shouldn't be on a trick room team. cofagrigus, reuniclus and scrafty are good pokemon since they are all slow and can use trick room to its fullest. you should also have at least 3 trick roomers all of which are slow and bulky enough to take hits from other pokemon. cofagrigus and reuniclus are great for that, which leaves with a third slot for trick room. I suggest using eviolite porygon 2. this gives you three trick roomers who can take hits and still be able to attack. I also suggest giving your cofagrigus will-o-wisp over pysco shock otherwise ferrothorn can come in and start setting up on you. now you need three attackers. you are already using reuniclus and scrafty as your attackers which are both good choices, although you should either replace shadowball or fireblast with focus blast on reuniclus to take care of ttar and other dark type pokemon who will hardly take any damage from shadow ball. now you need two more pokemon who preferably are mixed attackers. your own ttar is an excellent choice since he sports both high attack and special attack. for the next spot you need to find a pokemon that functions well with the rest of your pokemon. one last thing, you need to put the pokemons abilities on there so we can help you with items and such.
 
jazzsax said:
ok, for starters, you have three pokemon that don't fit. chandelure, starmie, and weavile. all three are fast pokemon and shouldn't be on a trick room team. cofagrigus, reuniclus and scrafty are good pokemon since they are all slow and can use trick room to its fullest. you should also have at least 3 trick roomers all of which are slow and bulky enough to take hits from other pokemon. cofagrigus and reuniclus are great for that, which leaves with a third slot for trick room. I suggest using eviolite porygon 2. this gives you three trick roomers who can take hits and still be able to attack. I also suggest giving your cofagrigus will-o-wisp over pysco shock otherwise ferrothorn can come in and start setting up on you. now you need three attackers. you are already using reuniclus and scrafty as your attackers which are both good choices, although you should either replace shadowball or fireblast with focus blast on reuniclus to take care of ttar and other dark type pokemon who will hardly take any damage from shadow ball. now you need two more pokemon who preferably are mixed attackers. your own ttar is an excellent choice since he sports both high attack and special attack. for the next spot you need to find a pokemon that functions well with the rest of your pokemon. one last thing, you need to put the pokemons abilities on there so we can help you with items and such.
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UMMMMM CHANDELURE IS SLOW AND CAN USE IT AS A TRICK ROOM SUPPORTER
 
Uhh no trolling and I agree that Chandler might not fit as he has two ghost types which is dangerous maybe get rid of one for something like rhyperior? Always a fav in trick room
 
Bafuron The AfroBull said:
bad, bad. 4 start you will need 3 trick room supporters, and weavile its not a suporter xD. In this team me only see the cofagrigus, but the rest it was untill for make a trick room. Read the trick room guide of smogon, this guide change your team to best than the team off the post actually^^
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i only put chandelure there because he is a hard hitter, and yes he is moderately fast and i didnt check until recentely. and hes not bulky enough to use tricroom, hell get 0hko'd by pelliper before he can set up tricroom.
 
...have you actually played any games with this team? Your selection of Fire Blast on Reuniclus says otherwise... you'll probably learn more about the problems your team has and the solutions that are available through playing some games on it.

Also, there is nothing wrong with having a fast pokemon on a Trick Room team. Trick Room is not going to be up 100% of the time, and having a pokemon which can revenge threats outside of Trick Room is helpful. However, running more than one speedy pokemon is probably counter-intuitive and somewhat dilutes your team's purpose. Either make it a Trick Room focused team with one speedy pokemon, or a speedy team with Trick Room Reuniclus.
 
My god, I really didn't understand the Reuniclus set.
Without further ado, a good Reuniclus set:

Reuniclus@life orb
Quiet(+Sp.Atk, -Spe) 252 HP/252 Def/4 Sp.Atk
-Calm Mind
-Trick Room/Recover
-Focus Blast/Hp Fighting
-Psychic

I just added Trick Room there as this is a TR team, but really, he doesn't need it. The Defense investment is to take X-scissors from exca better, and CM takes your Sp.Atk to very high levels, so no investment really needed there.

You might also want to replace Dragon Tail for Ice Punch on Scrafty.

Hope this helped,
Cap'n
 
Reuniclus doesn't learn Fire Blast, and a pure LO offense TR set is brilliant for mid-game sweeping. Calm Mind on a TR set is just a waste of a turn and a liability. Also, having a fast pokemon on a TR team is useful just in case you have to sweep without Trick Room.
 
Your scrafty is called a mixed wall but he only seems to have physical bulk.
Put 252 SpDef EV's as you are gonna boost your defence with bulk up anyways.
 
Also I highly suggest get rid of Statmine and Weavile and put a Porygon2, that's a Pokemon that utilizes Trick room well. How about you use the red Mage set for it?
 
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