Trapinch discussion, hey.

Epistaxis

Hey, trapinch is definitely the oddest NFE in the game, with 100 base attack, 10 base speed, arena trap and a bizarre movepool. He's also the only NFE that I know of that learns any moves over, say, level 80, hey. There hasn't been a single analyses over this little guy, strangely enough, but if you wanted a dugtrio for your trick room team, here he is!

Physical Movepool:
Body Slam
Crunch
Dig
Double-edge
Earthquake
Facade
Feint
Flail
Frustration/Return
Fury Cutter
Natural Gift
Quick Attack
Rock Slide

Special Movepool: (this is wacky)
Earth Power
Giga Drain
Gust
Hidden Power
Solarbeam

Support:
Attract
Captivate
Focus Energy
Sandstorm
Sunny Day
Toxic
Not much to see here, and hey, do you really want a supporter with 45 base defences?

Trapinch - @Choice Band **Trick Room
+Atk, - Spd
252 Atk, Rest in HP and Defenses
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-Crunch
-Quick Attack/Double Edge
Arena Trap, of course

Some limited options here, but you don't get any faster than this for trick room(Barring shuckle and munchlax)! Earthquake for STAB, obviously, Rock Slide pairs up well with earthquake, crunch for a lack of better options, quick attack in case you don't have trick room up or something. Before you scoff and go away, some quick calcs - Earthquake OHKOs Weavile, Alakazam, Ambipom and Metagross(Quite a lot more, too), does a number to standard garchomp, and 2HKOs Blissey without fail. (I'm just using random pokes for examples, by the way, but you get the point.) Rock Slide takes down Aerodactyl, 2HKOs Gyarados without intimidate, etc. Crunch... does not do much, but trapinch doesn't have much leeway with moves, and it can hit... claydol? XD Does a round on celebi, too. For anything that resists both earthquake and rock slide, double edge can nail it.

Trapinch@ Choice Specs/Leftovers **Special Sweeper?
+SpecAtk, -Spd
252 Spec, rest in Defenses and HP
-Earth Power
-Giga Drain/Solarbeam
-Gust/Sunny Day
-HP Ice or something...

If you really need a special sweeper on your trick room team... and don't care about winning or losing for some reason... Trapinch is the way to go! Giga Drain 2HKOs Swampert, or if you're brave you can Sunny Day and go for the 1HKO with solarbeam! (I'm sure your opponent WON'T try attacking you with swampert, either!) Earth Power comes close to OHKOing Metagross, but falls short... yeah, don't use this set. AquaSuicune would like to add that sunny day should not be used with choice specs.

Trapinch@ Choice Band **Bologopinch
+Atk, -Spd / +Atk, - SpA
252 HP, 200 Def, 56 Atk
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-Crunch
-Quick Attack/Double Edge

Same movepool as the first one, different play. Works outside trick room teams as well as a revenge killer. In a trick room team, you can switch in on Metagross Meteor's Mash and KO with earthquake... switch in on any of Weavile's moves save ice punch, OHKO with EQ... switch in on blissey's twave and 2HKO with eq (granted, that works for the first set, too) All of these can work without trick room, as a revenge killing switch-in, but it's better to stick with dugtrio for that. The extra defense really helps, but the attack drop could be problematic. Being able to survive one EQ from unboosted garchomp is also worth a mention, as you could send it out in a trick room team after one of your pokes die and 2HKO it.
 
Umm, Crunch can also hit Celebi for significant damage (2HKO). You might as well use Double Edge over Quick Attack with Trick Room to hit Breloom and Torterra harder.
 
Great Sage said:
Umm, Crunch can also hit Celebi for significant damage (2HKO). You might as well use Double Edge over Quick Attack with Trick Room to hit Breloom and Torterra harder.
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Hey, added. This guy deserves ice fang and stuff, but that'd make flygon stronger, too... pre-evos are so limited.
 
Trapinch has a mouth and gives Flygon Crunch and Bite, the same way Togekiss has no arms and yet gets Focus Punch from Togetic.
 
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19498

Here's the old Trapinch discussion I made. But there wasn't much in it so, oh well.

But, you should try to get as low of a speed IV as you can get, lol that way it will ALWAYS go first in trick room. Only Shuckle will be able to beat it, well Munchlax too, but no one will use him.

Also, you can always try to revenge kill a Metagross by EVing yourself sufficiently to survive a Meteor Mash, and OHKO with Earthquake. The Damage Calculator seems to indicate that a good spread if you want to do this would be:

Adamant
252 HP/200 DEF/56 ATK

If you take off the choice band and put protect on Trapinch, it instantly also becomes a great Slaking counter.
 
Bologo said:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19498

Here's the old Trapinch discussion I made. But there wasn't much in it so, oh well.

But, you should try to get as low of a speed IV as you can get, lol that way it will ALWAYS go first in trick room. Only Shuckle will be able to beat it, well Munchlax too, but no one will use him.

Also, you can always try to revenge kill a Metagross by EVing yourself sufficiently to survive a Meteor Mash, and OHKO with Earthquake. The Damage Calculator seems to indicate that a good spread if you want to do this would be:

Adamant
252 HP/200 DEF/56 ATK

If you take off the choice band and put protect on Trapinch, it instantly also becomes a great Slaking counter.
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I'll add that stuff in... but ANYTHING with protect is a good slaking counter, really.
 
I think ChoiceBand is the best choice.
Only 252evs in HP istead of defenses, just like Dugtrio. Only not embarrassing HP and better atk.
 
Epistaxis said:
I'll add that stuff in... but ANYTHING with protect is a good slaking counter, really.
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Slaking can switch out against everything else besides Dugtrio though, and you won't really see many Dugtrio with protect.
 
aquasuicune said:
I'm not understanding the sunny day option on the choice specs set.
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Trying to make the best out of trapinch's sad, sad movepool. Solarbeam can OHKO swampert if the opponent switches it in when you're sunny daying, and trick room's on... and I'll bet very little people know that trapinch has solarbeam. A terrible choice, but a choice nonetheless.
 
Lol, I have a trapinch on my trick room team. I played my brother. It was down to Mewtwo vs. Trapinch. He was at half health and paralyzed. I just crunched him to death. I got 4 crits, and he missed with blizzard twice, and was fully paralyzed twice. He disconnected. Lol.
 
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