Oct 20, 2015, 10:01 AM
So far the team looks very similar to that of Aaron Zheng's trick room team, with all of your members so far being in his team. He rounded the team off with a sash Abomasnow and Specs Sylveon. His mentality with the team was to set up trick room turn one with Cresselia, which with its natural bulk is almost guaranteed with Fake Out support. With Mawile's massive attack stat he could easily take out key threats and with his last 3 he wanted strong spread moves (Heatran's Heat Wave, Abomasnow's Blizzard and Sylveon's Hyper Voice) and chose which one to bring based on match up.
This kind of team with its sheer offensive pressure is useful on the lower ladder against opponents who don't have an answer to Trick room, but once you get higher up you'll find people are more able to stall out Trick room turns and put you in a less favourable position. You also want to be able to clean up the opponents team outside of Trick room, so Sucker Punch on Mawile is most likely preferable over Rock Slide and simply have a Pokemon that walls Talonflame and Zard Y, such as in Aaron's case Heatran.
As for actually adding two members to your team, it depends how you want the team to function. Would you prefer to be a stronger trick room team but rather one dimensional, or more flexible with a fast mode for when Trick room is not favourable.
I also recommend taking a look at other options for EVs, move choices and items after you have chosen your last members to better take on key threats.
This kind of team with its sheer offensive pressure is useful on the lower ladder against opponents who don't have an answer to Trick room, but once you get higher up you'll find people are more able to stall out Trick room turns and put you in a less favourable position. You also want to be able to clean up the opponents team outside of Trick room, so Sucker Punch on Mawile is most likely preferable over Rock Slide and simply have a Pokemon that walls Talonflame and Zard Y, such as in Aaron's case Heatran.
As for actually adding two members to your team, it depends how you want the team to function. Would you prefer to be a stronger trick room team but rather one dimensional, or more flexible with a fast mode for when Trick room is not favourable.
I also recommend taking a look at other options for EVs, move choices and items after you have chosen your last members to better take on key threats.
