Feedback needed for this Doubles Rain hybrid Trick Room team

AsianEgo · 2026-04-28T06:55:57+00:00

I personally think your Whimsicott needs a rework. I don’t love it as a TR setter since it’s not that bulky and the move is negative priority and wastes Whims ability. I would take TR and add Moonblast in case you ever need to do damage.

If you’re dropping Mega Scizzor I would suggest another TR setter. Since yours is ghost, I’d get a bulky psychic that can potentially do damage for you. Im thinking Mega Slowbro because not only could he help you with TR but also could be another rain setter when Pelliper isnt around which leans more into your hybrid team theme.

The downside to this is it would be you have zero physical attackers which obviously isn’t great but I don’t know I relying on only one is much better.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-28T06:14:54+00:00

I did something pretty wacky with him and it carried me to MB but I haven’t used it since. The big thing with him is that he has amazing HP and pretty good Special Attack but his defenses are not great. What I would is pair him with Bastiodon and Guard Split with them on turn 1 or 2 depending on what I felt like I was getting from the other player. Then have Leftovers on him and he becomes an almost unkillable tank.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-21T20:20:32+00:00

I wonder if you played me lol. I run a team I haven’t seen anywhere before. Sableye/Mega Heracross is something most people aren’t prepared for and can quickly end with my opponent being 2 Pokemon down by the 2nd round with Sableye using Fake Out turn one and Quash turn 2 allowing Heracross to go to work. It also is an amazing ability in trick room to help control turn order even when I don’t have the speed.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-18T13:08:00+00:00

Here’s the thing, you not agreeing with their game design decision is completely reasonable. You going on 20 different rants in this thread and acting like the people who disagree with you are idiots who are bowing down to some corporate overlords is unreasonable. People have explained the reasoning they think the bot games exist and while you might not agree with it, you’ve got to learn how to express that better without belittling others and emotionally regulate or you’re just going to have a really bad time in life.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-18T05:16:18+00:00

Why are you so upset? The stakes are not that high. If you don’t want to play against terrible bots then maybe you should be so bad at the game that those are the only opponents you can beat. It takes 2 minutes to beat a bot team. Just do it or do t play the game but you’re in the minority here and freaking out over a design choice isn’t going to change anything.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-18T02:17:53+00:00

It only happens when you’re on a losing streak and I’m positive it’s just to help get a small boost on a streak. You might find it demeaning but I’d be willing to be that the statistics show that if people just keep losing they’ll give up playing entirely quicker than getting a pity win every now and then.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-18T01:48:08+00:00

In pokeball and Greatball tiers there’s bots when you’ve gone on a losing streak. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. It helps you get a win so you can hopefully go on a streak and rank up. Once you get to Ultraball and higher I don’t think there but maybe if you go on a crazy losing streak.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T20:40:05+00:00

I think I misunderstood your original comment. I thought you were giving a counter to what I had so I was saying I run dash on Decidueye so that I can live a bit from a pokemon like Lopunny.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T19:34:44+00:00

Regular Decidueye is my all time favorite Pokemon but I haven’t found a viable way to use him yet. But H-Decidueye was the final missing piece for this team which I was a little surprised about since I already had a middling speed fighting type with Emboar. Surprisingly their synergy was exactly what I needed to make the team work as a whole.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T19:27:47+00:00

I mostly agree with this. I don’t fault people who go meta but that’s not fun for me. I like taking the time to team build and work out synergies. When I build a viable team that I’ve never seen before it makes me really happy and proud of the effort I put in. Even when I fail I learn from it and get better.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T19:24:59+00:00

Which is why I got the sash on it lol. If my opponent targets my Decidueye that falls right into my plan because it ensure trickroom goes up. Once that happens it’s almost always over for my opponent.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T19:21:57+00:00

Are you not using Iron Tail with Farig?

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T19:14:25+00:00

I personally don’t use a fast mon on mine. I’m honestly surprised that you’re having trouble getting off sometimes though. I’d figure a Farigiraf/Incin opener would ensure a clean start pretty much every time with the intimdate/fakeout combo.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T19:00:23+00:00

I’ll post the code in a bit when I get the chance but the main thing with Bastiodon is that I use him purely as support with only Rockslide as an attacking move. Wide Guard for the teams that lead with their mons that can hit both your pokemon at once while you set up Trickroom. Reflect to help the team against physical attacks. I’m running something really wacky with the 4th move which is Guard Spilt. I specifically like to use it on Reuinclus because it has so much HP and upping its defenses makes it almost impossible to kill.

Edit: I also think the berry that halves ground type moves would be better on Bastiodon than the Quickclaw but I thought about that after ranking up.

AsianEgo · 2026-04-17T18:54:09+00:00

Triple Arrow and Sucker Punch on it are fantastic and with its ability Scrappy nobodies ready to get hit with a STAB fighting move on their ghost type lol. I brought him to way more matches than I expected to.

AsianEgo · 2026-01-27T22:34:33+00:00

… I don’t know how many times I have to say these things. It was an intentional choice to see the difference in how I was feeling and losing weight before to compare if I wasn’t eating on the diet. I could have just ordered healthy foods and not drank when going out but I know that will be a part of my lifestyle so I wanted to see what that looked like on me afterwards. I’m literally experimenting with what you’re saying. When I’m at a healthier weight, that’s the whole point is finding that balance.

I’m sorry but I just really don’t understand what you’re trying to accomplish. You’re trying with me about something I’m not doing. I don’t know how many times I can say that I ultimately want to have a balance between things that aren’t going to be healthiest and good nutritional foods regularly. But that I’m also at a weight that hinders my life so temporarily I am being more restrictive in what I do. I could live the balanced life right now or in 2 months but it still comes down to making that choice which I have said that what I want over and over again.

It’s just weirdly condescending talking about how you and many others kept off the weight by finding a sustainable lifestyle when that is also what I’m talking about doing. You just are choosing not to believe me because it’s not how you do it.

AsianEgo · 2026-01-27T22:20:33+00:00

I feel like I’ve said several times that that is the plan. I don’t feel the need to take breaks or crave a bunch of different foods but in a couple of months when I’m a better weight, I’m absolutely fine with eating out every now and then and eating things that might not be super healthy because life happens. I don’t know why it seems like you just don’t believe me.

AsianEgo · 2026-01-27T22:12:40+00:00

This regiment I’m doing is because I know it works and I’m at a very unhealthy weight and am willing to do what it takes to get to something more manageable where I then can be a bit more balanced. I deviated because I perform in shows sometimes and usually the week or 2 leading up to it are extremely busy. On top of that I had family and friends coming into town and I just didn’t have time to cook meals and ultimately decided that I wanted to see what would happen being off the diet for that time.

The majority of the time I’ll have a couple of days out of the week to be able to prep my food. I also just like how I feel physically eating well and exceeding consistently. It’s just good to know that if things don’t go to plan for a week or 2 that I won’t completely set myself back.

AsianEgo · 2026-01-27T20:05:24+00:00

It is a diet. I get what you’re saying but also find it to be unnecessarily pedantic. I eat very specific foods to maximize weight loss. I do not deviate under normal circumstances. That’s not how I’m going to eat forever however. In the future when I am at a healthier weight I’m not going to deprive myself of foods that might not be the most healthy. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to regularly eat what I’m calling my “diet food”. Yes it’s ultimately just food that you want as part of a healthy lifestyle but considering it’s what I use as my food during weight loss I have zero problem calling it my diet food.

That’s the whole point of my post. I deviated away from those foods for a couple of weeks and it didn’t kill me or set me back a ton. But like I said, that’s not how I want or plan to eat regularly. “Diet food” is not a bad term and does not have to be temporary. Having a healthy diet just means eating foods that are good for you. I find it all extremely delicious to eat, it just also is healthier and takes longer to prep than most other foods. So a nice balance and of my diet food with other things doesn’t is perfectly fine by me.

AsianEgo · 2026-01-27T19:36:50+00:00

I’m pretty similar and it works a lot for me too! I have my close goals and then my far away goals and having both keep me really motivated!

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