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Metagame Palafin Cresselian on TR

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Hi there and thanks for your interest in DOU! Unfortunately we don't allow individual threads for teambuilding help in the DOU forum (all new threads need to be approved by the mod team), so I'll have to archive this thread. Feel free to ask for advice in the smogon doubles room on PS, the DOU Discord, and the Doubles Overview thread, or post your team in the DOU team bazaar.

As for your team, you have some pretty solid basics, but it can already be difficult to run Palafin in this format, and probably even more so on a Trick Room team like this one. However, you are lacking a bit of damaging options so I suggest changing one of the Trick Room setters to Diancie, a Pokemon that is generally very effective at both setting Trick Room and dealing damage inside of TR. You could also consider dropping Palafin for something like Ogerpon-Wellspring, which tends to be a more flexible option.

You might also want to consider optimizing some of the sets. Having something like Life Orb on Ursaluna-Bloodmoon would give you some more immediate offensive pressure, and Booster Energy Iron Hands isn't really a common set- you might get more value out of that pokemon by making it either Assault Vest or Clear Amulet Swords Dance.

If you want to see some examples of successful TR teams, you can check out the Sample Teams thread, some recent team dumps following Smogon Champions League, or the aforementioned Team Bazaar. Hope this helps!
 
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