Rate my Champions Trick Room Team (Doubles M-A)

Question

The Crab (Crabominable-Mega) (M) @ Crabominite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Def
Brave Nature
- Ice Hammer
- Drain Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Protect

This is my primary mega. The strategy is to start with it in the back, and then bring it into snow with chilly reception. This boosts it's survivability, even letting it take iron head from kingambit. I opted for drain punch over close combat to be more survivable while still doing damage. It's usually a enough to click ice hammer anyways for most engagements.

Slowking (M) @ Colbur Berry
Ability: Oblivious
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Def / 2 SpD
Relaxed Nature
- Scald
- Helping Hand
- Trick Room
- Chilly Reception

This is my primary trick room setter that I start with whenever I use crabominable. The berry and defense stats basically guarantee surviving one hit. The ability stops taunt from working. One room is set, I can disrupt weather and switch into the crab. The other moves mostly just help a bit in a pinch and I'm not sure what's best.

Camerupt-Mega (M) @ Cameruptite
Ability: Solid Rock
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 SpA / 2 SpD
Quiet Nature
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Ancient Power
- Protect

I can take this mega whenever I need to face a sun team or mega floette. Ancient power hits charizard for 4x and the other moves are STAB.

Incineroar (M) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Flare Blitz
- Darkest Lariat
- Fake Out
- Parting Shot

No matter what setter I use, fake out support is important. I used a max attack set to support my team better in terms of offensive pressure.

Weakachu (Mimikyu) (M) @ Mental Herb
Ability: Disguise
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 SpD
Brave Nature
- Play Rough
- Shadow Sneak
- Swords Dance
- Trick Room

This is in my opinion the best setter in the format. Not only is the first hit it takes free, swords dance and priority STAB are a genuine threat. Mental herb stops taunt. I can take it as a primary setter for camerupt or a secondary one for the crab.

Kingambit (M) @ Black Glasses
Ability: Defiant
Level: 50
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 31 HP / 32 Atk / 1 Def / 1 SpD / 1 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Iron Head
- Kowtow Cleave
- Sucker Punch
- Protect

Kingambit is a nice final piece. Iron head hits faries, and sucker punch is still good when trick room ends. This is mostly a standard set except for the EVs which I saw on smogon. I don't get why they are good, so please tell me if you know.

Comments

If this is a trick room team, wouldn't you want Brave nature on Kingambit?

---

There is 1 point in Spe, so I think the idea is to outspeed no speed investment Kingambit outside TR. But why would you do that on a Trick Room team, I don't know

Answer 1

First off, I'd like to say I'm not an expert. I just think my rendition of your team might make it at least a little bit better.

Great team overall. I wouldn't say Mimikyu would be your best Trick Room setter, I think Farigiraf would work a lot better. I would recommend replacing it with Slowking with Galarian Slowking, so you can deal with Grass and Fairy threats like Rillaboom, Ogerpon, Fluttermane, and Whimsicott. I think Crabombinnable is a great choice, you would just have to be wary, as there's a lot of Fire and Psychic types in teams. I think Kingambit is a great choice. Kingambit has a great typing and counters a lot of Pokemon in the meta. It also has a great moveset. Personally, I would just replace Protect with Swords Dance I think Camerupt is a great choice, and you nailed its moveset. It does its job perfectly as a bulky special sweeper. I think Incineroar is about as good as it gets with this regulation. Champions restricts a lot of its supporting moves. Only thing I would do is change the 2 points in Speed to Special Defense instead, just for a bit of survivability.

I haven't played much Champions, but I hope I helped at least a bit.
Pokepaste: https://pokepast.es/c4e3ee34bafee027

Comments

Thank you for answering. I'm a bit confused on a few parts of the new team. For one thing, your slowking set lacks both trick room AND chilly reception. I understand a worse ability may be worth it for better coverage, but loosing weather control for imprison is a bit too much in term of cost to benefit. Another part is crabominable having ice spinner over thunder punch, nobody uses terrain in this format. I know that farigiraf was historically a good setter, but I think mimikyu is a better yet unpopular pick given it has a better ability and an offensive presence. I think the kingambit change might be good, so I might try that out. I think I'll also just wait for another answer to see a different perspective.