The team:
Before MMawile came out I was playing a lot of TR and was super hyped to make a TR team with MMawile. I couldn't make it work. With standalone TR Magearna being super good I added a slow MMawile and kept building from there.
Magearna @ Fairium Z
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Trick Room
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Flash Cannon
- Fleur Cannon
The set I was using on my TR teams. It's fairly straight forward, min speed and 0 speed IVs to be as slow as possible for Trick Room, this lets us invest into hp with makes this thing fairly bulky, allowing it to survive things like EQ from a deffensive lando-t every time, EQ from an offensive lando-t 30% of the time, Choice Scarf Garchomp's EQ and Ash-Gren's Hydro Pump.
Z-Fleur Cannon is a heavy nuke that easily ohkoes anything that's not too bulky on a neutral hit. HP Fire hits steel types that resist both stabs, it destroys MSciz, heavily dents Ferrothorn and is a 2hko together with Twinkle Tackle on Mega Metagross nearly every single time at 100% and everytime after rocks.
Mawile @ Mawilite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Sucker Punch
- Play Rough
- Thunder Punch
- Fire Fang
The other Trick Room component. This puppy allows you to make use of your Trick Room turns if Magearna were to die before they end. Min speed and 0 speed IVs are to make the most out of Trick Room. The hp lets it take hits much better overall and survive specs Hydro Pump 100% of the time from Greninja before it's Ash-Gren.
I'm running 4 attacks because its job is to sweep under TR and not to break things. Thunder Punch and Fire Fang are there to hit most of the things that resist Play Rough. Sucker Punch allows Mawile to remain a threat against faster Pokémon even when Trick Room is down.
The idea of the team so far was to get Trick Room up safely and sweep. Because of this I wanted spikes and something to weaken bulky Steel Types that could give both my TR mons some trouble. Brokean Greninja does both.
Greninja (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Spikes
- Water Shuriken
- Gunk Shot
- Hidden Power [Fire]
There's not much to say about this set. Spikes, Gunk Shot and HP Fire are as standard as it gets, allowing greninja to get up hazards and beat some of the most common hazard removers and most common switchins to Ash-Gren. Originally I was considering Hydro Pump for heatran or Ice Beam because it's the standard set for a reason but in the end I chose Water Shuriken because my team ended up being too weak to DD Lando and Pheromosa.
Landorus-Therian @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 208 Def / 28 SpD / 24 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Next thing were rocks. Landorus-T provided my team not only with Stealth Rock but also a way to heavily dent opposing Landorus to help MMawile and let Magearna kill them for sure without having to use the Z-Move. It also gave me a good ground immunity which helped because my team was really weak to ground so far and an electric immunity too. Intimidate is also really good because it allows Magearna to set up a Trick Room against things like offensive Lando-T, or banded Zygarde. Rocky Helmet also helps chipping MMetagross for the rest of the team.
The EV spread is really standard. 28 SpD evs allow it to survive lo hp ice from Koko every time. The speed is there to speed creep over other Landorus and hp ice them before they do. You can also run a relaxed nature to get slow u-turns instead of hp ices. In that case the speed evs would go into Deffense, unless you want to speed creep over other Relaxed Landorus.
Next I wanted something that could switch into special attacks, made me not insta lose to Pheromosa and was a ground immunity, because so far Lando-T was very pressured if the opponent had something like a Scarf Garchomp. Originally I thought of AV Tornadus-T for this, and while it had good coverage, good utility in knock off and gave momentum with U-Turn, I ended up too weak to things like Greninja, Pheromosa and Keldeo. That's why I ended up using Mantine.
Mantine @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Toxic
- Roost
- Defog
This thing is much better than I thought it'd be. It stops most Keldeo sets, Volcarona, most Pheromosa sets, it can try to get a last ditch effort burn on Mega Metagross if it's not using Thunder Punch. Defog might seem weird because I'm also using spikes but it can be a life saver allowing Magearna to survive an attack and set up Trick Room. Toxic is really good because this team is not too fast so sometimes your way to deal with a setup sweeper is to toxic it and stall it with roost and sacking other mons until MMawile's Sucker Punch kills so they can't play 50/50s and stall you out of Suckers.
Zygarde @ Leftovers
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 240 HP / 212 SpD / 56 Spe
Careful Nature
- Substitute
- Coil
- Thousand Arrows
- Toxic
Last, but most definitely not least, I wanted to not auto lose to stall, and having another electric immunity that can take Koko's hp ice and kill it back is always good. This thing is a monster. The set is the one on the Smogon Analysis. Can beat many stall builds by itself and it also puts in a lot of work in other matchups weakening things for a sweep, poisoning to beat setup sweepers the same way I described with Mantine. This thing also gave me another check to many of the things that Mantine switched into, taking a lot of pressure off it, like Zard-Y, Scarf Keld or Volcarona.
I'm really happy with how the team ended up. Both The TR component of the team and Gren/Zygarde can sweep or break for the other component to sweep, so you can plan ahead to see what you're going to do.
I've considered are using Hydro Pump/Ice beam over Water Shuriken on gren to better deal with Heatran/Zygarde, which would make me much much weaker to Pheromosa and DD Lando, and Extrasensory over Spikes for Toxapex and Venusar, which would also make Defog better as I wouldn't be taking my own Spikes away.
Other change I've thought about is
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It helps a lot with Koko, but is weaker to things like Pheromosa, Heatran or Zard-Y. I might try it more extensively when Pheromosa gets suspected.
I've also considered running 14 speed IVs on MMawile to outspeed Toxapex outside of TR because I'm not going to be setting up TR against stall, but it would make the team a bit worse to Toxapex Offense, as Toxapex can stop MMawile under TR if it gets a burn.
Other change I've thought about is
I've also considered running 14 speed IVs on MMawile to outspeed Toxapex outside of TR because I'm not going to be setting up TR against stall, but it would make the team a bit worse to Toxapex Offense, as Toxapex can stop MMawile under TR if it gets a burn.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-549754839 Defog lets Magearna put in work.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550142433 Zygarde beats a bad offense team by itself.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550245586 Magearna weakens a team for Greninja to sweep.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550439592 Zygod beats offense again.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-551004616 Gastrodon version of the team.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547755631 Torn-T version of the team.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547884587 Toxic Stalling a threat until Sucker Punch wins.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547871844 Magearna breaks a team into Suker Punch Sweep.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-551222558 Tricky TR stuff with Magearna
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550917432 Defog comes in clutch + Toxic stalling in action.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550142433 Zygarde beats a bad offense team by itself.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550245586 Magearna weakens a team for Greninja to sweep.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550439592 Zygod beats offense again.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-551004616 Gastrodon version of the team.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547755631 Torn-T version of the team.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547884587 Toxic Stalling a threat until Sucker Punch wins.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547871844 Magearna breaks a team into Suker Punch Sweep.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-551222558 Tricky TR stuff with Magearna
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550917432 Defog comes in clutch + Toxic stalling in action.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550121639 vs Balancy thingy with MVenusaur
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547879316 vs Shed Stall
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550493078 TR + Toxic Stalling runs through Webs HO
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550992035 Magearna casually destroys sash spam HO.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547838626 Mantine the God vs Grease Fire HO
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547879316 vs Shed Stall
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550493078 TR + Toxic Stalling runs through Webs HO
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-550992035 Magearna casually destroys sash spam HO.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-547838626 Mantine the God vs Grease Fire HO
Mawile @ Mawilite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Sucker Punch
- Play Rough
- Thunder Punch
- Fire Fang
Magearna @ Fairium Z
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Trick Room
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Flash Cannon
- Fleur Cannon
Greninja (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Spikes
- Water Shuriken
- Gunk Shot
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Landorus-Therian @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 208 Def / 28 SpD / 24 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Mantine @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Toxic
- Roost
- Defog
Zygarde @ Leftovers
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 240 HP / 212 SpD / 56 Spe
Careful Nature
- Substitute
- Coil
- Thousand Arrows
- Toxic
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Sucker Punch
- Play Rough
- Thunder Punch
- Fire Fang
Magearna @ Fairium Z
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Trick Room
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Flash Cannon
- Fleur Cannon
Greninja (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Spikes
- Water Shuriken
- Gunk Shot
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Landorus-Therian @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 208 Def / 28 SpD / 24 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Mantine @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Toxic
- Roost
- Defog
Zygarde @ Leftovers
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 240 HP / 212 SpD / 56 Spe
Careful Nature
- Substitute
- Coil
- Thousand Arrows
- Toxic
So this is the team. I hoped you enjoyed the read and the team. Any suggestions to improve it would be really appreciated.
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