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Hey Smogon!
Many players will have already braced themselves for the inevitability of Dual Screens + HO Trick Room involving the five Trick Room setters/abusers and one solely abuser. It's disappointing to see how much usage the Balance playstyle has gotten as for late—and for a throwaway match at a non-traditional current meta no less. But I decided to pull out all of the stops to maximize this team's efficacy. One can only hope the current meta does not go the predictable route with this team by having Rare-Standard teams bowl over well-poised creatve and innovative teams in a few minutes and kill whatever heat these peculiar teams have left. This Screens HO Trick Room has been a revelation on Ladder and the current meta, making the absolute most of every opportunity given to it. A scenario in which players use unexplored teams to unload furious vengeance on this very team would not only intensify the rivalry, it would allow it to build real heat for itself ahead of the inevitable blow off. Moreover, this team fought through tremendous competition in Ladder against a plethora of playstyles but skipped out from the difficulties and uncertainty rather than forfeiting a match. The result? A massive amount of points on ladder, the start of one of the most historically significant runs in Pokemon Competition history. Will that happen to any elaborate team? Most definitely not. What could, though, is a masterful build that sees a player achieve its biggest stardom to date under the Pokemon umbrella. Especially if the Pokemon community continues building sympathy for it, intentionally or not. This team has intesely been battling it out on the ladder, with a whole lot of things being on the line. The conclusion of the battles saw the Screens Trick Room finish off its rivals normally with pokemons being behind Screens. A red-hot angle usually reserved for the High Ladder, it added another element to what has quickly become, arguably, the best Screens Trick Room in the entire meta-game. Lastly, the fact that I have taken upon myself the mission of showcasing this team via RMT for you guys, only created more excitement for an Archetype that has far exceeded even the loftiest of expectations. The work of the Trick Room setters/abusers involved has a lot to do with it, but angles like getting a win with the assistance of both suffocating offense and supplementary bulk in Screens only serve to lend credibility to it.
The Team
This Hyper Offensive Trick Room team is packed with surprises as top pokemons change sides and make shocking appearance on a Trick Room team. It's the most jam-packed edition of the Trick Room playstyle in months, with the landscape of the meta changing intensely. Over the course of a few days laddering with the team, the fun-loving face became a cruel and undesirable one, while the conniving villain team took on a fan favorite playstyle (Balance) with an unstoppable will to fight. A vast variety of teams have lost, with Stall coming up short, Balance teams failing to capitalize and an annoying Sticky Web team now serving as an auto-loss. The stable might reform to a better degree, but they already look to be imploding due to rising tensions. These moments defined a fascinating Screens Hyper Offensive Trick Room team that created several unforgettable takeaways for the meta's direction going forward. Every time this team runs into a battle, the 5 hard-hitting Trick Room users plus a subpar bulky pokemon in Meowstic hypes the respective match itself, despite the opponent's best efforts, they are mostly unable to keep up and fall to The Dominator Trick Room team after using Trick Room non stop to continuously attack. While the Trick Room playstyle has long needed a change, it's a shock to see such a sudden turn. It felt like the current meta just needed the Trick Room in opposite roles and pushed the reset button. Normally, a turn of this magnitude would take more setup. The Screens HO Trick Room, with a snide player behind it, will fit much better on Ladder from now on. It's a monstrous force who can throw around opposing pokemons with ease, and it sounds way better wearing teams down by repeatedly using Trick Room and start an offense off as opposed to being Cresselia and Uxie's relyant. This was the right move even if it was oddly timed. This could have a huge impact on how the meta shapes up in the coming months, with Screens HO Trick Room at last poised to make a major impact.
Team Building Process
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Team Breakdown
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Gamma Crusis (Hoopa-Unbound)
Life Orb
Magician
252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
0 Spe
Hyperscale Fury
Zen Headbutt
Power-Up-Punch
Trick Room
Hoopa-U has gone through extreme lengths to prove it belongs in the OU Tier. It’s bounced around from HO teams to Balance teams. However, there's something a bit off with Hoopa-U, something difficult to pin down. A legitimate argument could be made that there may be some sort of complicating factor as well. Something not readily apparent. Hoopa-U has somewhat begrudgingly played the role of an offensive-oriented savant pokemon with a versatile spread. That style of overly slow hard-hitting attacker has fallen more and more out of fashion as the meta game has unfolded. Hoopa-U appears more like a potent attacker of the past—out of place and out of time when compared to the “unicorns” of our current Meta. Hoopa-U has never proved that it is a viable multidimensional offensive threat—in part, because of the way it has been used. That’s because it’s plagued with a strongly negative physically defensive and Speed stats. It's best offensive asset is Hyperscale Fury and yet debilitates its physical defense at -1 stage of Defense. But it’s also proved to be one of the largest black holes offensively, busting through ladder with its dual stab-moves, making it difficult to anchor a modern offense. In Hoopa-U’s mind, it’s dutifully fulfilling a role but feels like it’s more dynamic than a Weavile-type. More offensively multidimensional. Closer to a Kartana, which can mix it up inside and out. These days, if a pokemon is not sufficiently fast and thus hangs too much from one of its defensive stats, it's on the outside looking in. This is why, I, BanDisnDatnMe, think Hoopa-U deserves the opportunity to show more of itself on the battle field.
“This is just my opinion, but you should throw Hoopa-U a bone here and there,”. “It’s working on the main things and why it got its max and understanding what the main focus is. In my opinion, throw Hoopa-U a bone. Let it blow a couple of pokemons here and there.”
On the Replays section, Hoopa-U has shown glimpses of what it can do. Whether Hoopa-U will diverge from who it has been on the battle field and become a prolific potent physical attacker is left to be determined. That motivation is palpable. Hoopa-U is ready for its redemption tour. And it fully intends to be there as a former Ubers pokemon back in ORAS, where it all started.
Hyperscale Fury - Paired with Life Orb hits very hard, 2HKOing walls such as physically defensive Skarmory and Hippodon and often 2HKOing Pyukumuku; it also heavily dents Feraligatr, KOes Tapu Lele, and beats subbed pokemons such as Serperior and Blacephalon.
Zen Headbutt - Hits Fighting-types such as Mega Heracross, which would otherwise be solid checks to Hoopa-U.
Power-Up-Punch - Hoppa-U's best Attack-boosting move. It enables Hoopa-U to break past physical walls that are too passive to stop it from setting up and puts a lot of pressure on defensive teams in general.
Trick Room - Often makes Hoopa-U the fastest Pokemon on the field, which is perfect for a late-game sweep after a Power-Up-Punch boost or two.
EV/IV Spread - Maximum investment in HP improves Hoopa-U's overall bulk as much as possible. 252 Attack EVs along with a Brave nature let it hit as hard as possible in its attempt to sweep late-game. The Brave nature also couples with its 0 Speed IVs in hopes of making Hoopa-U the fastest Pokemon under Trick Room at all times.
Rigel (Meowstic)
Light Clay
Prankster
252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold (+Def, -Atk)
0 Atk
Reflect
Light Screen
Yawn
Trick Room
On the battle field, Meowstic is as much artist as orchestrator, a sculptor of a mind-bending movepool, physics-defying late-game plays and Replay-worthy finishes. A Pokemon iconoclast. No one sets Screens quite like Meowstic—not in today's meta, nor in yesterday's. Where others see an impenetrable barrier—a Stall-team, a semi balance team—Meowstic sees an opening, a chance to do something dazzling. And quite often, it does, even if it sometimes makes the pokemon purists wince.
"You can see it in the way it supports the team," Mirbro Tirantlo Blanc says. "It's free, it's untethered. It comes out, I don't even think it knows what it's gonna do."
It takes a certain creativity and confidence to dissect a Pokemon with the Prankster ability, or design your own strategy, or make a RMT out of an Archetype you created. It might be the most unconventional of all the unconventional things I've done.
No, I counter, "I think it was one of the best things I've done, honestly."
Few Pokemons arrive in this game fully formed, as design or as pokemons, but those early impressions often stick and create a lasting haze, obscuring their steady growth. Not a day goes by that Mewostic doesn't do something that makes everyone stop and say, "Wow."
If you love Meowstic's game, plays like this are proof of its genius ability Prankster, not just the movepool such Prankster pokemons require, but also the vision and audacity to try them at all. To the Meowstic skeptic, it's just proof of its tunnel vision—an inability to see beyond itself.
If it seems as if the pressure and scrutiny that dogged Meowstic through its XY/ORAS years changed it, it did. There's a self-awareness about Meowstic now, a realization that it might have mishandled certain battle scenarios. It seems more at ease, more comfortable showcasing its strategy, less concerned with perceptions from doubtful players.
Everybody can't expect Meowstic to lead a team to mid 1900's and then come back to the drawing table and disregard its level of greatness when it comes to setting up Screens and care about what everybody else says, it's just impossible.
BanDisnDatnMe: "So I try to tell these young players in here that you're looking at a pokemon that has been through the wringer of being one of the top-tier Screens setter in this meta. Meowstic's been underranked, It's been overranked, It's been overrated, It's been underrated, It's been everything that you can think of, every word of comparison. So at the end of the day, just find a balance in it."
Reflect and Light Screen give Meowstic's teammates invaluable support by significantly decreasing the damage from opposing Pokemon's attacks. This support is extremely helpful for setup sweepers that rely on taking an attack and boosting.
Yawn - It's the favourable status option; other than sleep being a powerful tool, it forces sweepers out hoping to use a boosting move to choose between switching out (thus making damage with its augmented attack) or being put to sleep.
Trick Room - When using Trick Room, depending on the matchup, Meowstic can be used aggressively early-game to set up Screens and set Trick Room for its team, or it can still be preserved for set up Screens on a foe that the rest of its team is not likely going to be able to keep in check.
EV/IV Spread - Maximum HP investment is important to take hits while setting up screens, and a Bold nature helps agaisnt the likes of Taunt users such as Mega Gyarados, Tornadus-T, and Tapu Koko. Light Clay increases the duration of Light Screen and Reflect. Prankster gives priority to all of Meowstic's support moves, except for Trick Room which has a priority of -7, so will be used after all moves with a normal priority. A specially defensive EV spread can be used to lessen the damage taken from special attacks and Secret Sword.
VY Canis Majoris (Victini)
Figy Berry
Victory Star
252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
0 Spe
V-Create
Bolt Strike
Power-Up-Punch
Trick Room
Joining a fast-paced, less decorated Trick Room team has given Victini the latitude to lead and express itself in a way it never could in a Trick Room dominated by Alolan Marowak and a crowd of standard Trick Room abusers. Critics would point out, rightly, that those virtues haven't always been evident. Everything is peachy keen for this Victini set if the bad match-ups bug doesn't hit. For most, this idealism is nothing more than false euphoria that will be weeded out by the meta's diversity reality checks. For others, the buzz is warranted. Star pokemons, fringe star pokemons and afterthoughts-turned-building blocks come out of nowhere on every BanDisnDatnMe's RMT. Attempting to suss them out is an early-October rite of passage. Role reduction is a ubiquitous danger on these type of teams. Victini's rise was empowered in part by Rain team's absence. Victini is adaptable enough to ignore the complications tied to the Trick Rooms' depth.
Doubting Victini is good for the soul. Pretty much everyone—myself included—has been quick to consider Alolan Marowak on this slot. And why not? A more open-ended access to terrifying Sword Dance arrangements should go a long way.
Except, what if it doesn't? What if Victini is the ritzier version of Alolan Marowak, a pokemon that has been considered among most the greatest Trick Room abuser?
Maybe Victini is above this distrust. It sure seem to be. Its offensive, defensive and speed prowess is the real deal. Neither Victini nor Hoopa-U (both of them Power-Up-Punch users) are a flash in the pan. And yet, other conditions of the Victini's identity could burn out. Victini might not flirt with meta-average efficiency from Trick Room.
Victini is the swing piece of the team. Meowstic's encore efforts are more pivotal to maintaining this team's standards, but Victini's development is Screens Trick Room's flavor enhancer. And it's up to the occasion.
V-Create - An encounter with this set will show just how hard it is to switch in to V-create when boosted by PUP; V-create blasts through standard physical walls, such as Skarmory and Ferrothorn, and even OHKOes defensive Gliscor in sun at +1 stage of Attack. Not even Hippowdon can switch in safely, as it is 2HKOed by +1 Atk V-create. Hence, the stat drops of Defense, Special Defense, and Speed that occur after using V-create are not very easy to take advantage of, as many Pokemon will be outsped by Trick Room, and since it counts with defensive support in Screens, that could even lead to the Figy Berry's activation, which in most of the cases will put you in position to capitlalize as you maintain momentum.
Bolt Strike - Used to hit bulky Water-types, OHKOing even the bulkiest of Toxapex and Tapu Fini after a couple of PUPs and 2HKOing Rotom-W and Heatran without a Defense and Special Defense drop. While the unreliable 85% accuracy might make you wary of using it, remember that Victory Star boosts it to a much more reliable 93%.
Power-Up-Punch - Victini's best tool in these matchups, allowing it to break past its traditional checks after a boost, so it should try to use Power-Up Punch on a predicted switch-in. Power-Up Punch is very useful as a coverage move and allows Victini to wallbreak more easily.
Trick Room - Valuable tool against offensive teams, as it turns Victini into a powerful late-game cleaner, making it the fastest Pokemon on the field in some cases.
EV/IV Spread - A Brave nature with a 0 Speed IV ensures that Victini outspeeds as many Pokemon as possible under Trick Room. Victory Star allows Victini to possibly get undodgeable Bolt Strikes. Maximum HP and Attack EVs allow Victini to tank as many hits as possible while hitting as hard as it can. Figy Berry gives Victini as much longevity as possible.
Eta Aquilae (Mega Mawile)
Mawilite
Huge Power
252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
0 Spe
Play Rough
Fire Fang
Sword Dance
Sucker Punch
Mega Mawile is already there on Offense. It makes life hell on all the tapus and has the Typing and potency to comfortably bust through all type of playstyles. No one should expect it to down threes, but it's more than its shaky Special Defense stat. Better Trick Room chances of occuring alone is Mega Mawile's ticket to substantive playing time. Meowstic needs an attacking partner in crime. For all of the questions about its longevity, Mega Mawile is just that. If it starts hitting some Play Roughs or sniffing a 95% percent accuracy rate from Fire Fang, Screens Trick Room will give off juggernaut vibes.
Play Rough - Hits anything that doesn't resist it for extreme damage after a boost.
Fire Fang - Fire Fang is preferred over Thunder Punch on most teams, as it hits Skarmory, Celesteela, Magearna, Kartana, Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn really hard.
Sword Dance - Boosts Mega Mawile's Attack greatly, which allows it to muscle through nearly every would-be defensive check barring a few Pokemon with the Unaware ability.
Sucker Punch - Compliments Play Rough and Fire Fang nicely, providing almost unresisted neutral coverage, gigantesque Base Power, and priority, preventing Mega Mawile from getting revenge killed by faster threats, including Mega Pinsir, Zygarde, and Kartana.
EV/IV Spread - The given EV spread is used so that Mega Mawile can maximize its bulk and power, while having a Brave nature and 0 Speed IVs allows it to outspeed nearly everything in Trick Room.
**This slot can also be occupied by Sitrus Berry Azumarill to make the team more resistant to Ground and best Ash-Greninja easier**
Azumarill
Sitrus Berry
Huge Power
252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
0 Spe
Aqua Jet
Play Rough
Belly Drum
Knock Off
Wezen (Magearna)
Fairium Z
Soul Heart
252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet (+SpA, -Spe)
0 Spe
Fleur Cannon
Thunderbolt
Aura Sphere
Trick Room
Everything about Magearna's game is particularly flashy, which is sort of the point. Magearna is a pokemon that effectively straddles the line between Power and Bulk.
"Look out," CamilaCruz Cami Neko<3 told me with regard to Magearna. "I think she's next."
Is anyone out there brave enough to go against the Trick Room's latest decree? Well, you shouldn't be. Magearna has become an obligatory inclusion in these exercises not because Trick Room demands it, but because it deserves that near-universal trust.
A majority share of its potential used to be rooted in the eye test. It still is in many ways.
Magearna has a great feel for the game when walling potent attackers and set Trick Room up to start offense off. It isn't always totally comfortable facing some Specially Defensive bulky pokemons and finishing through Special Attack drops from Fleur Cannon, but it leverages its gifted ability Soul-Heart to prolong the sweeping spree almost at will. That fluidity is atypical for a pokemon with such superb offensive and defensive EVs, and it has afforded it rosy projections even when the kill-relyant boost doesn't quite align with Trick Room. That changed on this Screens Trick Room team, as it can now be largely used as the team's offensive lifejacket.
Playing with others Trick Room setters should get Magearna over the hump. It'll have more turns to attack in face-ups and with velocity, and any extra boost from Soul-Heart should come as higher-efficiency standstill opportunities.
She is, in fact, next.
Fleur Cannon - Very strong coming from Magearna's high Special Attack and does heavy damage to most Pokemon that don't resist it, easily blowing away any Dark- or Dragon-type and doing up to half to Reuniclos and Clefable. However, it comes with the drawback of lowering Magearna's Special Attack two stages, which is typically compensated by Soul-Heart to a lesser degree.
Twinkle Tackle - Indispensable nuke capable of blowing away Clefable, Mew, and Zapdos, without a mere boost.
Thunderbolt - Can be used for its immediate damage on Pokemon such as Celesteela and Tapu Fini, and it also slightly eases the Toxapex matchup.
Aura Sphere - Aura Sphere is a drawback-free move with decent power. However, Focus Blast is a very viable, albeit inaccurate alternative, as after a Soul-Heart boost, it can OHKO many bulky Pokemon that Aura Sphere cannot.
Trick Room - Trick Room helps the team and allows Magearna to move first on the next turn, making Magearna a great boosting sweeper in tandem with Twinkle Tacke, Thunderbolt and Aura Sphere.
EV/IV Spread - Fairium Z is best used with Fleur Cannon, in order to kickstart Soul-Heart and sweep teams late-game. A Quiet nature and the given EVs maximize Magearna's Special Attack and contribute to its bulk to maximize its offensive prowess while making it as slow as possible.
Kocab (Necrozma)
Weakness Policy
Prism Armor
252 HP/ 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet (+SpA, -Spe)
0 Spe
Photon Geyser
Heat Wave
Earth Power
Trick Room
Weakness Policy Necrozma might be the most popular Trick Room abuser on this Screens Trick Room. It isn't hard to see why. Leveraging its relentless ability Prism Armor to better activate Weakness Policy is an art form on its own, and Necrozma plays offense with zero fear. Necrozma still checks in as the Screens Trick Room's more appealing breakout option. It has more layers to its game. It doesn't boast the 3-kills-per-game cachet of Magearna, but it has the resilience and potency to ship away foes and manufacture high-end looks for itself and its poke-mates. Necrozma's offensive panache sometimes gets lost in the whirlwind that is Chansey's Special Defense.
Necrozma has not been developed out of necessity and by design. And the variance in its role compared to those of other potent special attackers will only mushroom with Magearna and Mega Mawile sponging up hits from Dark-type and Bug-Type moves and touches off the pokemons on the shelf. That shouldn't scare anyone away from purchasing Necrozma stock. It has struck a balance between complementary bulk and conventional attack mode.
Imitating a Stored Power version works for Necrozma. It can take another step toward offensive stardom without demanding an expanded role. But this Screens Trick Room may give him one anyway. Its depth beyond the Screen setter (Meowstic) is not a given.
Necrozma's defense will balance out whatever voids wind up sticking in its offensive repertoire. It can hang with both Heat Wave and Earth Power.
Good luck finding a better Weakness Policy user. It's among the best Weakness Policy holders in the meta at derailing Balance teams and HO teams on close-outs (Under Weakness Policy activation).
Photon Geyser - Alternatively, STAB Photon Geyser functions as a strong neutral attack against foes like Volcarona, Tapu Fini, and Zygarde.
Heat Wave - An excellent choice in the third or fourth slot to lure and beat many Steel-types that feel confident switching in after Photon Geyser has been revealed. Celesteela, Magearna, and Jirachi are all 2HKOed by any combination of Necrozma's moves that involves Heat Wave, while even 252 HP Jirachi can be 2HKOed by Heat Wave without the precense oh hazard.
Earth Power - An excellent coverage move in either case, hitting every Steel-type but Skarmory and Celesteela, which are covered by Heat Wave, and Rotom-W, which can be dealt with by Photon Geyser stalling.
Trick Room - Allows for Necrozma to outpace normally faster threats, allowing it to clean opposing teams late-game.
EV/IV Spread - Prism Armor allows Necrozma to activate a one-time +2 Atk and +2 SpA in Weakness Policy to a better degree. A Quiet nature with 0 Speed IVs allows Necrozma to outspeed most Pokemon under Trick Room while maximum Special Attack EVs allow Necrozma to hit as hard as it can, and maximum HP EVs allow it to be as bulky as possible.
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Threats
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Zygarde
A way I derail Zygarde is I always keep Screens up so that the bulky Trick Room abusers come in and set up Trick Room with ease. If there's a scenario where there's no screens, then what must be made is there're a couple of pokemons within this team that can actually wall it no matter whether they're x2 weak to Thousand Arrows. Intimidate from Mega Mawile's pre-evolution would normally help to keep it away. Magearna can take a hit on non-Choice banded Zygardes. Necrozma is the most convenient to use to set up Trick Room and maintain momentum. Meowstic is undeniably the best option when it comes to just set up screens on Zygarde or just Trick Room.
Ash-Greninja
Ash-Greninja may not seem like a real threat but its Water Shuriken hits most of the pokemons of this hard, and take in mind Water Shuriken even outspeeds Meowstic. Its Hydro Pumps are normally annoying and only Magearna, Hoopa-U and Necrozma could take a hit from that being screen-less. Dark Pulse also cripples Meowstic even under screens and hits Necrozma and Victini tremendously hard, but we got Mega Mawile and Magearna on the shelf for those type of scenarios.
Tapu Koko
This team is Ground-less, Volt Absorb-less and Lighting Rod-less, which means that Electric moves will always hit, but with early Screens up, there's not such a thing Tapu Koko can actually do, as it will ost of the times be outsped and outclassed by our Trick Room abusers.
Manaphy + Screens
To derail Manaphy all you gotta do is to make sure you give the respective team it's in a good fight and always setting up Trick Rooms. Other than that, you can outshine Manaphy by simply setting up Screens and Hoopa-U would pretty much live a +6 surf under the rain and without rock damage and set up a Trick Room turning the match in your favor.
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Chansey + Toxapex
This core while annoying can also be dealt if you put some thinking into how to deter the stall team they are in. My best advice is to be wary of letting your physical attackers faint as they dismantle Chansey's capabilities and for Toxapex try to wear it down by using Photon Geyser from Necrozma, Zen Headbutt from Hoopa-U or just Bolt Strike from Victini and so on.
AV Magearna
AV Magearna is somewhat a little threat, as you're forced to just use both Heat Wave as Earth Power to kind of make it short-lived. Other than that Both Mega Mawile as Victini can truly annihilate AV Magearna.
Replays
How to derail Stall:
Mirror battles:
Against Rain team:
Against Sticky Web:
New!
Double Screen/Aurora Veil Offense:
New!
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Balance team:
TR
New!
Against Sun Team:
Epic comeback:
Weakness Policy Occurance:
Bonus replays [Must watch]
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Hey Smogon!
Many players will have already braced themselves for the inevitability of Dual Screens + HO Trick Room involving the five Trick Room setters/abusers and one solely abuser. It's disappointing to see how much usage the Balance playstyle has gotten as for late—and for a throwaway match at a non-traditional current meta no less. But I decided to pull out all of the stops to maximize this team's efficacy. One can only hope the current meta does not go the predictable route with this team by having Rare-Standard teams bowl over well-poised creatve and innovative teams in a few minutes and kill whatever heat these peculiar teams have left. This Screens HO Trick Room has been a revelation on Ladder and the current meta, making the absolute most of every opportunity given to it. A scenario in which players use unexplored teams to unload furious vengeance on this very team would not only intensify the rivalry, it would allow it to build real heat for itself ahead of the inevitable blow off. Moreover, this team fought through tremendous competition in Ladder against a plethora of playstyles but skipped out from the difficulties and uncertainty rather than forfeiting a match. The result? A massive amount of points on ladder, the start of one of the most historically significant runs in Pokemon Competition history. Will that happen to any elaborate team? Most definitely not. What could, though, is a masterful build that sees a player achieve its biggest stardom to date under the Pokemon umbrella. Especially if the Pokemon community continues building sympathy for it, intentionally or not. This team has intesely been battling it out on the ladder, with a whole lot of things being on the line. The conclusion of the battles saw the Screens Trick Room finish off its rivals normally with pokemons being behind Screens. A red-hot angle usually reserved for the High Ladder, it added another element to what has quickly become, arguably, the best Screens Trick Room in the entire meta-game. Lastly, the fact that I have taken upon myself the mission of showcasing this team via RMT for you guys, only created more excitement for an Archetype that has far exceeded even the loftiest of expectations. The work of the Trick Room setters/abusers involved has a lot to do with it, but angles like getting a win with the assistance of both suffocating offense and supplementary bulk in Screens only serve to lend credibility to it.
The Team
This Hyper Offensive Trick Room team is packed with surprises as top pokemons change sides and make shocking appearance on a Trick Room team. It's the most jam-packed edition of the Trick Room playstyle in months, with the landscape of the meta changing intensely. Over the course of a few days laddering with the team, the fun-loving face became a cruel and undesirable one, while the conniving villain team took on a fan favorite playstyle (Balance) with an unstoppable will to fight. A vast variety of teams have lost, with Stall coming up short, Balance teams failing to capitalize and an annoying Sticky Web team now serving as an auto-loss. The stable might reform to a better degree, but they already look to be imploding due to rising tensions. These moments defined a fascinating Screens Hyper Offensive Trick Room team that created several unforgettable takeaways for the meta's direction going forward. Every time this team runs into a battle, the 5 hard-hitting Trick Room users plus a subpar bulky pokemon in Meowstic hypes the respective match itself, despite the opponent's best efforts, they are mostly unable to keep up and fall to The Dominator Trick Room team after using Trick Room non stop to continuously attack. While the Trick Room playstyle has long needed a change, it's a shock to see such a sudden turn. It felt like the current meta just needed the Trick Room in opposite roles and pushed the reset button. Normally, a turn of this magnitude would take more setup. The Screens HO Trick Room, with a snide player behind it, will fit much better on Ladder from now on. It's a monstrous force who can throw around opposing pokemons with ease, and it sounds way better wearing teams down by repeatedly using Trick Room and start an offense off as opposed to being Cresselia and Uxie's relyant. This was the right move even if it was oddly timed. This could have a huge impact on how the meta shapes up in the coming months, with Screens HO Trick Room at last poised to make a major impact.
Team Building Process
Here I will show you guys a short glimpse of what the intial thought of the team was. I was basically running a Cresselia + Uxie TR setters core, coupled with some highly offensive pokemons in Mega Mawile and Marowak-Alola. To add more uniqueness to the team I opted to go for a unorthodox Magearna Double Screens set using Light Clay and Explosion as a get away to consume turns. It went like this: Reflect, Light Screen, Explosion and Trick Room with a 252 HP / +120 Def / 136 SpD. Yet again for innovation only I went for a Electrium Z Thunder Xurkitree's set: Thunder, Energy Ball, Tail Glow and HP Ice. This team clearly got me at mid 1800's but that was pretty much it.
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After seeing how terrible my match-ups were becoming and how the was being worn down with ease, then moved forward to an Uxie-less Trick Room using Screens on Meowstic as opposed to Magearna, using Magearna Fairium Z as opposed to Screens and to seal the deal a decent LO Crabominable set. As expected, this team couldn't help but bring me losses after losses, I couldn't tell what went wrong by that time,
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After seeing how terrible my match-ups were becoming and how the was being worn down with ease, then moved forward to an Uxie-less Trick Room using Screens on Meowstic as opposed to Magearna, using Magearna Fairium Z as opposed to Screens and to seal the deal a decent LO Crabominable set. As expected, this team couldn't help but bring me losses after losses, I couldn't tell what went wrong by that time,
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Here's when things got a little bit tricky. I came to a realisation that Crabominable was good but it was simply being taken down by Mega Pinsir. I could still suggest Crabomibale over Mega Mawile but given the circumstances that Mega Mawile wins the Hazard damage game and its typing is better then I will still give it the jump on Crabominable. So Marowak-Alola wasn't getting any better as it didn't have a solid Trick Room setter except for Cresselia. Hoopa inmediately popped to my mind as I was up to the mindset that the more offense the more effective the team was gonna be.
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In the wake of Marowak-Alola and Cresselia leaving the team, I added yet more offense to make the team more offensively oriented. This version of the team was all the way 6 Trick Room setters. There was no reason for all of the pokemons to run Trick Room. Mimikyu was only there to ensure a disguise-Trick Room. But other than that, it was just there occupying a slot Mega Mawile is more suitable for.
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Team Breakdown
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Gamma Crusis (Hoopa-Unbound)
Hoopa-U has gone through extreme lengths to prove it belongs in the OU Tier. It’s bounced around from HO teams to Balance teams. However, there's something a bit off with Hoopa-U, something difficult to pin down. A legitimate argument could be made that there may be some sort of complicating factor as well. Something not readily apparent. Hoopa-U has somewhat begrudgingly played the role of an offensive-oriented savant pokemon with a versatile spread. That style of overly slow hard-hitting attacker has fallen more and more out of fashion as the meta game has unfolded. Hoopa-U appears more like a potent attacker of the past—out of place and out of time when compared to the “unicorns” of our current Meta. Hoopa-U has never proved that it is a viable multidimensional offensive threat—in part, because of the way it has been used. That’s because it’s plagued with a strongly negative physically defensive and Speed stats. It's best offensive asset is Hyperscale Fury and yet debilitates its physical defense at -1 stage of Defense. But it’s also proved to be one of the largest black holes offensively, busting through ladder with its dual stab-moves, making it difficult to anchor a modern offense. In Hoopa-U’s mind, it’s dutifully fulfilling a role but feels like it’s more dynamic than a Weavile-type. More offensively multidimensional. Closer to a Kartana, which can mix it up inside and out. These days, if a pokemon is not sufficiently fast and thus hangs too much from one of its defensive stats, it's on the outside looking in. This is why, I, BanDisnDatnMe, think Hoopa-U deserves the opportunity to show more of itself on the battle field.
“This is just my opinion, but you should throw Hoopa-U a bone here and there,”. “It’s working on the main things and why it got its max and understanding what the main focus is. In my opinion, throw Hoopa-U a bone. Let it blow a couple of pokemons here and there.”
On the Replays section, Hoopa-U has shown glimpses of what it can do. Whether Hoopa-U will diverge from who it has been on the battle field and become a prolific potent physical attacker is left to be determined. That motivation is palpable. Hoopa-U is ready for its redemption tour. And it fully intends to be there as a former Ubers pokemon back in ORAS, where it all started.
Hyperscale Fury - Paired with Life Orb hits very hard, 2HKOing walls such as physically defensive Skarmory and Hippodon and often 2HKOing Pyukumuku; it also heavily dents Feraligatr, KOes Tapu Lele, and beats subbed pokemons such as Serperior and Blacephalon.
Zen Headbutt - Hits Fighting-types such as Mega Heracross, which would otherwise be solid checks to Hoopa-U.
Power-Up-Punch - Hoppa-U's best Attack-boosting move. It enables Hoopa-U to break past physical walls that are too passive to stop it from setting up and puts a lot of pressure on defensive teams in general.
Trick Room - Often makes Hoopa-U the fastest Pokemon on the field, which is perfect for a late-game sweep after a Power-Up-Punch boost or two.
EV/IV Spread - Maximum investment in HP improves Hoopa-U's overall bulk as much as possible. 252 Attack EVs along with a Brave nature let it hit as hard as possible in its attempt to sweep late-game. The Brave nature also couples with its 0 Speed IVs in hopes of making Hoopa-U the fastest Pokemon under Trick Room at all times.
Gamma Crusis (Hoopa-Unbound) @ Life Orb
Ability: Magician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Hyperspace Fury
- Zen Headbutt
- Power-Up Punch
- Trick Room
Ability: Magician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Hyperspace Fury
- Zen Headbutt
- Power-Up Punch
- Trick Room
Rigel (Meowstic)
On the battle field, Meowstic is as much artist as orchestrator, a sculptor of a mind-bending movepool, physics-defying late-game plays and Replay-worthy finishes. A Pokemon iconoclast. No one sets Screens quite like Meowstic—not in today's meta, nor in yesterday's. Where others see an impenetrable barrier—a Stall-team, a semi balance team—Meowstic sees an opening, a chance to do something dazzling. And quite often, it does, even if it sometimes makes the pokemon purists wince.
"You can see it in the way it supports the team," Mirbro Tirantlo Blanc says. "It's free, it's untethered. It comes out, I don't even think it knows what it's gonna do."
It takes a certain creativity and confidence to dissect a Pokemon with the Prankster ability, or design your own strategy, or make a RMT out of an Archetype you created. It might be the most unconventional of all the unconventional things I've done.
No, I counter, "I think it was one of the best things I've done, honestly."
Few Pokemons arrive in this game fully formed, as design or as pokemons, but those early impressions often stick and create a lasting haze, obscuring their steady growth. Not a day goes by that Mewostic doesn't do something that makes everyone stop and say, "Wow."
If you love Meowstic's game, plays like this are proof of its genius ability Prankster, not just the movepool such Prankster pokemons require, but also the vision and audacity to try them at all. To the Meowstic skeptic, it's just proof of its tunnel vision—an inability to see beyond itself.
If it seems as if the pressure and scrutiny that dogged Meowstic through its XY/ORAS years changed it, it did. There's a self-awareness about Meowstic now, a realization that it might have mishandled certain battle scenarios. It seems more at ease, more comfortable showcasing its strategy, less concerned with perceptions from doubtful players.
Everybody can't expect Meowstic to lead a team to mid 1900's and then come back to the drawing table and disregard its level of greatness when it comes to setting up Screens and care about what everybody else says, it's just impossible.
BanDisnDatnMe: "So I try to tell these young players in here that you're looking at a pokemon that has been through the wringer of being one of the top-tier Screens setter in this meta. Meowstic's been underranked, It's been overranked, It's been overrated, It's been underrated, It's been everything that you can think of, every word of comparison. So at the end of the day, just find a balance in it."
Reflect and Light Screen give Meowstic's teammates invaluable support by significantly decreasing the damage from opposing Pokemon's attacks. This support is extremely helpful for setup sweepers that rely on taking an attack and boosting.
Yawn - It's the favourable status option; other than sleep being a powerful tool, it forces sweepers out hoping to use a boosting move to choose between switching out (thus making damage with its augmented attack) or being put to sleep.
Trick Room - When using Trick Room, depending on the matchup, Meowstic can be used aggressively early-game to set up Screens and set Trick Room for its team, or it can still be preserved for set up Screens on a foe that the rest of its team is not likely going to be able to keep in check.
EV/IV Spread - Maximum HP investment is important to take hits while setting up screens, and a Bold nature helps agaisnt the likes of Taunt users such as Mega Gyarados, Tornadus-T, and Tapu Koko. Light Clay increases the duration of Light Screen and Reflect. Prankster gives priority to all of Meowstic's support moves, except for Trick Room which has a priority of -7, so will be used after all moves with a normal priority. A specially defensive EV spread can be used to lessen the damage taken from special attacks and Secret Sword.
Rigel (Meowstic) @ Light Clay
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Reflect
- Light Screen
- Yawn
- Trick Room
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Reflect
- Light Screen
- Yawn
- Trick Room
VY Canis Majoris (Victini)
Joining a fast-paced, less decorated Trick Room team has given Victini the latitude to lead and express itself in a way it never could in a Trick Room dominated by Alolan Marowak and a crowd of standard Trick Room abusers. Critics would point out, rightly, that those virtues haven't always been evident. Everything is peachy keen for this Victini set if the bad match-ups bug doesn't hit. For most, this idealism is nothing more than false euphoria that will be weeded out by the meta's diversity reality checks. For others, the buzz is warranted. Star pokemons, fringe star pokemons and afterthoughts-turned-building blocks come out of nowhere on every BanDisnDatnMe's RMT. Attempting to suss them out is an early-October rite of passage. Role reduction is a ubiquitous danger on these type of teams. Victini's rise was empowered in part by Rain team's absence. Victini is adaptable enough to ignore the complications tied to the Trick Rooms' depth.
Doubting Victini is good for the soul. Pretty much everyone—myself included—has been quick to consider Alolan Marowak on this slot. And why not? A more open-ended access to terrifying Sword Dance arrangements should go a long way.
Except, what if it doesn't? What if Victini is the ritzier version of Alolan Marowak, a pokemon that has been considered among most the greatest Trick Room abuser?
Maybe Victini is above this distrust. It sure seem to be. Its offensive, defensive and speed prowess is the real deal. Neither Victini nor Hoopa-U (both of them Power-Up-Punch users) are a flash in the pan. And yet, other conditions of the Victini's identity could burn out. Victini might not flirt with meta-average efficiency from Trick Room.
Victini is the swing piece of the team. Meowstic's encore efforts are more pivotal to maintaining this team's standards, but Victini's development is Screens Trick Room's flavor enhancer. And it's up to the occasion.
V-Create - An encounter with this set will show just how hard it is to switch in to V-create when boosted by PUP; V-create blasts through standard physical walls, such as Skarmory and Ferrothorn, and even OHKOes defensive Gliscor in sun at +1 stage of Attack. Not even Hippowdon can switch in safely, as it is 2HKOed by +1 Atk V-create. Hence, the stat drops of Defense, Special Defense, and Speed that occur after using V-create are not very easy to take advantage of, as many Pokemon will be outsped by Trick Room, and since it counts with defensive support in Screens, that could even lead to the Figy Berry's activation, which in most of the cases will put you in position to capitlalize as you maintain momentum.
Bolt Strike - Used to hit bulky Water-types, OHKOing even the bulkiest of Toxapex and Tapu Fini after a couple of PUPs and 2HKOing Rotom-W and Heatran without a Defense and Special Defense drop. While the unreliable 85% accuracy might make you wary of using it, remember that Victory Star boosts it to a much more reliable 93%.
Power-Up-Punch - Victini's best tool in these matchups, allowing it to break past its traditional checks after a boost, so it should try to use Power-Up Punch on a predicted switch-in. Power-Up Punch is very useful as a coverage move and allows Victini to wallbreak more easily.
Trick Room - Valuable tool against offensive teams, as it turns Victini into a powerful late-game cleaner, making it the fastest Pokemon on the field in some cases.
EV/IV Spread - A Brave nature with a 0 Speed IV ensures that Victini outspeeds as many Pokemon as possible under Trick Room. Victory Star allows Victini to possibly get undodgeable Bolt Strikes. Maximum HP and Attack EVs allow Victini to tank as many hits as possible while hitting as hard as it can. Figy Berry gives Victini as much longevity as possible.
VY Canis Majoris (Victini) @ Figy Berry
Ability: Victory Star
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- V-create
- Bolt Strike
- Power-Up Punch
- Trick Room
Ability: Victory Star
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- V-create
- Bolt Strike
- Power-Up Punch
- Trick Room
Eta Aquilae (Mega Mawile)
Mega Mawile is already there on Offense. It makes life hell on all the tapus and has the Typing and potency to comfortably bust through all type of playstyles. No one should expect it to down threes, but it's more than its shaky Special Defense stat. Better Trick Room chances of occuring alone is Mega Mawile's ticket to substantive playing time. Meowstic needs an attacking partner in crime. For all of the questions about its longevity, Mega Mawile is just that. If it starts hitting some Play Roughs or sniffing a 95% percent accuracy rate from Fire Fang, Screens Trick Room will give off juggernaut vibes.
Play Rough - Hits anything that doesn't resist it for extreme damage after a boost.
Fire Fang - Fire Fang is preferred over Thunder Punch on most teams, as it hits Skarmory, Celesteela, Magearna, Kartana, Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn really hard.
Sword Dance - Boosts Mega Mawile's Attack greatly, which allows it to muscle through nearly every would-be defensive check barring a few Pokemon with the Unaware ability.
Sucker Punch - Compliments Play Rough and Fire Fang nicely, providing almost unresisted neutral coverage, gigantesque Base Power, and priority, preventing Mega Mawile from getting revenge killed by faster threats, including Mega Pinsir, Zygarde, and Kartana.
EV/IV Spread - The given EV spread is used so that Mega Mawile can maximize its bulk and power, while having a Brave nature and 0 Speed IVs allows it to outspeed nearly everything in Trick Room.
Kartana @ Normalium Z
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 19 Atk
- Leaf Blade
- Giga Impact
- Swords Dance
- Sacred Sword
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 19 Atk
- Leaf Blade
- Giga Impact
- Swords Dance
- Sacred Sword
**This slot can also be occupied by Sitrus Berry Azumarill to make the team more resistant to Ground and best Ash-Greninja easier**
Azumarill
Wezen (Magearna)
Everything about Magearna's game is particularly flashy, which is sort of the point. Magearna is a pokemon that effectively straddles the line between Power and Bulk.
"Look out," CamilaCruz Cami Neko<3 told me with regard to Magearna. "I think she's next."
Is anyone out there brave enough to go against the Trick Room's latest decree? Well, you shouldn't be. Magearna has become an obligatory inclusion in these exercises not because Trick Room demands it, but because it deserves that near-universal trust.
A majority share of its potential used to be rooted in the eye test. It still is in many ways.
Magearna has a great feel for the game when walling potent attackers and set Trick Room up to start offense off. It isn't always totally comfortable facing some Specially Defensive bulky pokemons and finishing through Special Attack drops from Fleur Cannon, but it leverages its gifted ability Soul-Heart to prolong the sweeping spree almost at will. That fluidity is atypical for a pokemon with such superb offensive and defensive EVs, and it has afforded it rosy projections even when the kill-relyant boost doesn't quite align with Trick Room. That changed on this Screens Trick Room team, as it can now be largely used as the team's offensive lifejacket.
Playing with others Trick Room setters should get Magearna over the hump. It'll have more turns to attack in face-ups and with velocity, and any extra boost from Soul-Heart should come as higher-efficiency standstill opportunities.
She is, in fact, next.
Fleur Cannon - Very strong coming from Magearna's high Special Attack and does heavy damage to most Pokemon that don't resist it, easily blowing away any Dark- or Dragon-type and doing up to half to Reuniclos and Clefable. However, it comes with the drawback of lowering Magearna's Special Attack two stages, which is typically compensated by Soul-Heart to a lesser degree.
Thunderbolt - Can be used for its immediate damage on Pokemon such as Celesteela and Tapu Fini, and it also slightly eases the Toxapex matchup.
Aura Sphere - Aura Sphere is a drawback-free move with decent power. However, Focus Blast is a very viable, albeit inaccurate alternative, as after a Soul-Heart boost, it can OHKO many bulky Pokemon that Aura Sphere cannot.
Trick Room - Trick Room helps the team and allows Magearna to move first on the next turn, making Magearna a great boosting sweeper in tandem with Twinkle Tacke, Thunderbolt and Aura Sphere.
EV/IV Spread - Fairium Z is best used with Fleur Cannon, in order to kickstart Soul-Heart and sweep teams late-game. A Quiet nature and the given EVs maximize Magearna's Special Attack and contribute to its bulk to maximize its offensive prowess while making it as slow as possible.
Wezen (Magearna) @ Fairium Z
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Fleur Cannon
- Thunderbolt
- Aura Sphere
- Trick Room
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Fleur Cannon
- Thunderbolt
- Aura Sphere
- Trick Room
Kocab (Necrozma)
Weakness Policy Necrozma might be the most popular Trick Room abuser on this Screens Trick Room. It isn't hard to see why. Leveraging its relentless ability Prism Armor to better activate Weakness Policy is an art form on its own, and Necrozma plays offense with zero fear. Necrozma still checks in as the Screens Trick Room's more appealing breakout option. It has more layers to its game. It doesn't boast the 3-kills-per-game cachet of Magearna, but it has the resilience and potency to ship away foes and manufacture high-end looks for itself and its poke-mates. Necrozma's offensive panache sometimes gets lost in the whirlwind that is Chansey's Special Defense.
Necrozma has not been developed out of necessity and by design. And the variance in its role compared to those of other potent special attackers will only mushroom with Magearna and Mega Mawile sponging up hits from Dark-type and Bug-Type moves and touches off the pokemons on the shelf. That shouldn't scare anyone away from purchasing Necrozma stock. It has struck a balance between complementary bulk and conventional attack mode.
Imitating a Stored Power version works for Necrozma. It can take another step toward offensive stardom without demanding an expanded role. But this Screens Trick Room may give him one anyway. Its depth beyond the Screen setter (Meowstic) is not a given.
Necrozma's defense will balance out whatever voids wind up sticking in its offensive repertoire. It can hang with both Heat Wave and Earth Power.
Good luck finding a better Weakness Policy user. It's among the best Weakness Policy holders in the meta at derailing Balance teams and HO teams on close-outs (Under Weakness Policy activation).
Photon Geyser - Alternatively, STAB Photon Geyser functions as a strong neutral attack against foes like Volcarona, Tapu Fini, and Zygarde.
Heat Wave - An excellent choice in the third or fourth slot to lure and beat many Steel-types that feel confident switching in after Photon Geyser has been revealed. Celesteela, Magearna, and Jirachi are all 2HKOed by any combination of Necrozma's moves that involves Heat Wave, while even 252 HP Jirachi can be 2HKOed by Heat Wave without the precense oh hazard.
Earth Power - An excellent coverage move in either case, hitting every Steel-type but Skarmory and Celesteela, which are covered by Heat Wave, and Rotom-W, which can be dealt with by Photon Geyser stalling.
Trick Room - Allows for Necrozma to outpace normally faster threats, allowing it to clean opposing teams late-game.
EV/IV Spread - Prism Armor allows Necrozma to activate a one-time +2 Atk and +2 SpA in Weakness Policy to a better degree. A Quiet nature with 0 Speed IVs allows Necrozma to outspeed most Pokemon under Trick Room while maximum Special Attack EVs allow Necrozma to hit as hard as it can, and maximum HP EVs allow it to be as bulky as possible.
Kocab (Necrozma) @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Prism Armor
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Photon Geyser
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Trick Room
Ability: Prism Armor
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Photon Geyser
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Trick Room
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Threats
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Zygarde
A way I derail Zygarde is I always keep Screens up so that the bulky Trick Room abusers come in and set up Trick Room with ease. If there's a scenario where there's no screens, then what must be made is there're a couple of pokemons within this team that can actually wall it no matter whether they're x2 weak to Thousand Arrows. Intimidate from Mega Mawile's pre-evolution would normally help to keep it away. Magearna can take a hit on non-Choice banded Zygardes. Necrozma is the most convenient to use to set up Trick Room and maintain momentum. Meowstic is undeniably the best option when it comes to just set up screens on Zygarde or just Trick Room.
Ash-Greninja
Ash-Greninja may not seem like a real threat but its Water Shuriken hits most of the pokemons of this hard, and take in mind Water Shuriken even outspeeds Meowstic. Its Hydro Pumps are normally annoying and only Magearna, Hoopa-U and Necrozma could take a hit from that being screen-less. Dark Pulse also cripples Meowstic even under screens and hits Necrozma and Victini tremendously hard, but we got Mega Mawile and Magearna on the shelf for those type of scenarios.
Tapu Koko
This team is Ground-less, Volt Absorb-less and Lighting Rod-less, which means that Electric moves will always hit, but with early Screens up, there's not such a thing Tapu Koko can actually do, as it will ost of the times be outsped and outclassed by our Trick Room abusers.
Manaphy + Screens
To derail Manaphy all you gotta do is to make sure you give the respective team it's in a good fight and always setting up Trick Rooms. Other than that, you can outshine Manaphy by simply setting up Screens and Hoopa-U would pretty much live a +6 surf under the rain and without rock damage and set up a Trick Room turning the match in your favor.
Chansey + Toxapex
This core while annoying can also be dealt if you put some thinking into how to deter the stall team they are in. My best advice is to be wary of letting your physical attackers faint as they dismantle Chansey's capabilities and for Toxapex try to wear it down by using Photon Geyser from Necrozma, Zen Headbutt from Hoopa-U or just Bolt Strike from Victini and so on.
AV Magearna
AV Magearna is somewhat a little threat, as you're forced to just use both Heat Wave as Earth Power to kind of make it short-lived. Other than that Both Mega Mawile as Victini can truly annihilate AV Magearna.
Replays
How to derail Stall:
Mirror battles:
Against Rain team:
Against Sticky Web:
Double Screen/Aurora Veil Offense:
Balance team:
TR
Against Sun Team:
Epic comeback:
Weakness Policy Occurance:
Bonus replays [Must watch]
CER0PR, Pinkacross, Limousines, CamilaCruz, AnnaKartanna, Storm Zone,Aurella, Essence, Mirbro, Borrower, branflakes, Dark Elegy, isuckstbattles, Posho, XxAwesomePlayzxX, HCJB, Tenebricite, manols, Crime♡, dia_sre, Fantastic_fuego, ilosetostalloroffense, Idud, nintendonoah, ZombieFriedChicken, hkjjljih, Austin Whitaker, StayHighAllTheTime, Lil Win
Kyurem Stall
Druddigon BP
Kommo-o Belly Drum HO
Double Blob Hyper Stall
Supreme Hazard-Less Setup Boosting Team - BUMMO
Tailwind Offense
Glare Offense
Block & Talk - Block Offense
Druddigon BP
Kommo-o Belly Drum HO
Double Blob Hyper Stall
Supreme Hazard-Less Setup Boosting Team - BUMMO
Tailwind Offense
Glare Offense
Block & Talk - Block Offense
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