Offensive Trick Room (OTR) Magearna
[SET]
Trick Room (Magearna) @ Fairium Z
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Trick Room
- Fleur Cannon
- Focus Blast / Flash Cannon
- Thunderbolt / Ice Beam
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Twinkle Tackle allows for a one-time kill on many common neutral targets. Once used up, Fleur Cannon can still be used as a powerful STAB with no major drawback, as claiming a kill will give a Soul-Heart boost. Thunderbolt deals solid damage to Toxapex and Celesteela while also allowing Mag to not waste its Fairium Z on Pokemon like Tornadus-Therian. 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 waters and steels, other coverage 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 the grounds, allowing you to preserve your Z.
Set Details
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As this version of Magearna benefits from underspeeding everything, 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 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 it's defensive capabilities in favor of becoming a dangerous late-game cleaner. It takes advantage of it's solid bulk to help it set up trick room after the opposing team is weakened. As a result, it doesn't really want to switch into hits early in the game, else it become too chipped to sweep. Once Trick Room is set, you want to prioritize OHKOs on the opponent, as it's 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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Magearna 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 the steels that check magearna, as well as providing psychic terrain to block priority such as Ash-Greninja's Water Shuriken, as well as stopping attempts to stall TR turns via fake out from Mega Medicham and Mega Lopunny. Mega Mawile does similar things in regards to overwhelming their checks and can potentially benefit from the trick room that Magearna can set. Spike setters such as Greninja and Ferrothorn also make great teammates. Rotom-Wash is also a good fit alongside Magearna as it checks Heatran and ground types while spreading burns on Pokemon such as Toxapex and opposing Magearna.
[SET CREDITS]
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[SET]
Trick Room (Magearna) @ Fairium Z
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Trick Room
- Fleur Cannon
- Focus Blast / Flash Cannon
- Thunderbolt / Ice Beam
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
=========
Twinkle Tackle allows for a one-time kill on many common neutral targets. Once used up, Fleur Cannon can still be used as a powerful STAB with no major drawback, as claiming a kill will give a Soul-Heart boost. Thunderbolt deals solid damage to Toxapex and Celesteela while also allowing Mag to not waste its Fairium Z on Pokemon like Tornadus-Therian. 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 waters and steels, other coverage 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 the grounds, allowing you to preserve your Z.
Set Details
========
As this version of Magearna benefits from underspeeding everything, 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 used to break past Toxapex and Celesteela, while Fightinium Z threatens Heatran and Ferrothorn.
Usage Tips
========
Trick Room Magearna typically forgoes it's defensive capabilities in favor of becoming a dangerous late-game cleaner. It takes advantage of it's solid bulk to help it set up trick room after the opposing team is weakened. As a result, it doesn't really want to switch into hits early in the game, else it become too chipped to sweep. Once Trick Room is set, you want to prioritize OHKOs on the opponent, as it's turns are limited. This might entail using Magearna's Z-Move immediately, in order to start stacking Soul-Heart boosts.
Team Options
========
Magearna 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 the steels that check magearna, as well as providing psychic terrain to block priority such as Ash-Greninja's Water Shuriken, as well as stopping attempts to stall TR turns via fake out from Mega Medicham and Mega Lopunny. Mega Mawile does similar things in regards to overwhelming their checks and can potentially benefit from the trick room that Magearna can set. Spike setters such as Greninja and Ferrothorn also make great teammates. Rotom-Wash is also a good fit alongside Magearna as it checks Heatran and ground types while spreading burns on Pokemon such as Toxapex and opposing Magearna.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/tph.528048/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user2.102/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user3.103/
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