name: Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Fleur Cannon
move 3: Focus Blast / Flash Cannon
move 4: Thunderbolt / Ice Beam
item: Fairium Z
ability: Soul-Heart
nature: Quiet
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
ivs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Twinkle Tackle allows for a one-time KO on many common neutral targets such as Gliscor, Clefable, Manaphy, Tapu Lele, and Landorus-T. Once used up, Fleur Cannon can still be used as a powerful STAB move with no major drawback, as claiming a KO will give a Soul-Heart boost, which counteracts the Special Attack drop. Thunderbolt deals solid damage to Toxapex and Celesteela while also allowing Magearna to not waste its Fairium Z on Pokemon like Tornadus-T. Focus Blast is a solid coverage option that allows it to break through Steel-types. If Magearna's teammates can cover the breaking of the bulky Water-types and Steel-types, other coverage moves can be looked at. Flash Cannon can be used as another solid neutral STAB option that doesn't lower Special Attack, while Ice Beam hits Ground-types like Landorus-T and Gliscor, allowing Magearna to preserve its Z-Move.
Set Details
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As this version of Magearna benefits from underspeeding opposing Pokemon, a Quiet nature with 0 Speed IVs is preferable to become as slow as possible. Fairium Z allows Magearna to deal massive damage to neutral targets, which helps make use of the limited turns of Trick Room. Electrium Z can also be used to break past Toxapex and Celesteela, while Fightinium Z threatens Heatran and Ferrothorn.
Usage Tips
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Trick Room Magearna typically forgoes its defensive duties in favor of becoming a dangerous late-game cleaner. It takes advantage of its solid bulk to help it set up Trick Room after the opposing team is weakened into range of its attacks. As a result, it doesn't really want to switch into hits early in the game, else it becomes too chipped to sweep. Once Trick Room is set, you want to prioritize OHKOs on the opponent, as its turns are limited. This might entail using Magearna's Z-Move immediately in order to start stacking Soul-Heart boosts.
Team Options
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Strong Psychic- and Fairy-types are great partners for Magearna. Choice Specs Tapu Lele is great in this regard, as it deals solid damage to Steel-types that check Magearna, such as Heatran, Ferrothorn, and opposing Magearna, as well as providing Psychic Terrain to block priority such as Ash-Greninja's Water Shuriken, as well as stopping attempts to stall Trick Room turns via Fake Out from Mega Medicham and Mega Lopunny. Mega Mawile does similar things in regards to overwhelming their shared checks and can potentially benefit from the Trick Room that Magearna can set. Spike setters such as Greninja and Ferrothorn also make great teammates, as Spikes further chip the opponent’s grounded Pokemon. Rotom-W is also a good fit alongside Magearna, as it checks Heatran and Ground-types like Landorus-T while spreading burn on Magearna answers such as Toxapex and opposing Magearna. Although uncommon, Magearna can also be used as a Trick Room setter on full-room teams as its defensive typing can allow it to set Trick Room multiple times since it doesn’t need to preserve bulk to sweep as its teammates typically serve that role.
[SET CREDITS]
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move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Fleur Cannon
move 3: Focus Blast / Flash Cannon
move 4: Thunderbolt / Ice Beam
item: Fairium Z
ability: Soul-Heart
nature: Quiet
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
ivs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
=========
Twinkle Tackle allows for a one-time KO on many common neutral targets such as Gliscor, Clefable, Manaphy, Tapu Lele, and Landorus-T. Once used up, Fleur Cannon can still be used as a powerful STAB move with no major drawback, as claiming a KO will give a Soul-Heart boost, which counteracts the Special Attack drop. Thunderbolt deals solid damage to Toxapex and Celesteela while also allowing Magearna to not waste its Fairium Z on Pokemon like Tornadus-T. Focus Blast is a solid coverage option that allows it to break through Steel-types. If Magearna's teammates can cover the breaking of the bulky Water-types and Steel-types, other coverage moves can be looked at. Flash Cannon can be used as another solid neutral STAB option that doesn't lower Special Attack, while Ice Beam hits Ground-types like Landorus-T and Gliscor, allowing Magearna to preserve its Z-Move.
Set Details
========
As this version of Magearna benefits from underspeeding opposing Pokemon, a Quiet nature with 0 Speed IVs is preferable to become as slow as possible. Fairium Z allows Magearna to deal massive damage to neutral targets, which helps make use of the limited turns of Trick Room. Electrium Z can also be used to break past Toxapex and Celesteela, while Fightinium Z threatens Heatran and Ferrothorn.
Usage Tips
========
Trick Room Magearna typically forgoes its defensive duties in favor of becoming a dangerous late-game cleaner. It takes advantage of its solid bulk to help it set up Trick Room after the opposing team is weakened into range of its attacks. As a result, it doesn't really want to switch into hits early in the game, else it becomes too chipped to sweep. Once Trick Room is set, you want to prioritize OHKOs on the opponent, as its turns are limited. This might entail using Magearna's Z-Move immediately in order to start stacking Soul-Heart boosts.
Team Options
========
Strong Psychic- and Fairy-types are great partners for Magearna. Choice Specs Tapu Lele is great in this regard, as it deals solid damage to Steel-types that check Magearna, such as Heatran, Ferrothorn, and opposing Magearna, as well as providing Psychic Terrain to block priority such as Ash-Greninja's Water Shuriken, as well as stopping attempts to stall Trick Room turns via Fake Out from Mega Medicham and Mega Lopunny. Mega Mawile does similar things in regards to overwhelming their shared checks and can potentially benefit from the Trick Room that Magearna can set. Spike setters such as Greninja and Ferrothorn also make great teammates, as Spikes further chip the opponent’s grounded Pokemon. Rotom-W is also a good fit alongside Magearna, as it checks Heatran and Ground-types like Landorus-T while spreading burn on Magearna answers such as Toxapex and opposing Magearna. Although uncommon, Magearna can also be used as a Trick Room setter on full-room teams as its defensive typing can allow it to set Trick Room multiple times since it doesn’t need to preserve bulk to sweep as its teammates typically serve that role.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/tph.528048/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/zinnias.569291/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user3.103/
GP Team
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