[SET]
Trick Room Support (Smeargle) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Own Tempo
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Follow Me
- Fake Out
- Spore / Wide Guard
- Decorate
[SET COMMENTS]
Being able to learn almost every move in the game, Smeargle is a great support Pokemon for Trick Room teams, letting it be setup way more reliably and helping its teammates inside of it. Smeargle has a good matchup into Calyrex S due to its natural type advantage, being able to pressure it with a Spore or protect its teammates with Wide Guard. Follow Me allows Smeargle to protect stronger partners such as Calyrex-I and Ursaluna-B and allow the former to setup Trick Room or get strong attacks off. Spore lets it put some pressure instead of just constantly using Follow Me and Decorate, and Wide Guard gives it a much better matchup into Calyrex-S and helps with many other common spread moves in the format. Decorate is a strong move to pair with Calyrex-I, allowing it to deal a massive amount of damage with its attacks. Focus Sash helps with its very low defenses, heavily increasing its survivability. With minimum speed, Smeargle can underspeed your own Calyrex-I and get a Decorate off before it can move while in Trick Room, getting the attack boost on the same turn where it uses Glacial Lance. Tera Grass helps with Amoonguss which would otherwise threaten Spore into it, and makes Surging Strikes from Urshifu-R a 3HKO.
Smeargle pairs well with strong and slow Pokemon such as Calyrex-I and Ursaluna-B, and Trick Room setters like Farigiraf, being able to support them with Follow Me and Decorate. The lack of offensive pressure from Smeargle can make it useless while on the field quite often, since its only tools are supporting moves. Smeargle can also struggle with opposing Fake Out users such as Incineroar due to its low speed and can get completely shut down by Taunt.
[SET CREDITS]
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Trick Room Support (Smeargle) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Own Tempo
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Follow Me
- Fake Out
- Spore / Wide Guard
- Decorate
[SET COMMENTS]
Being able to learn almost every move in the game, Smeargle is a great support Pokemon for Trick Room teams, letting it be setup way more reliably and helping its teammates inside of it. Smeargle has a good matchup into Calyrex S due to its natural type advantage, being able to pressure it with a Spore or protect its teammates with Wide Guard. Follow Me allows Smeargle to protect stronger partners such as Calyrex-I and Ursaluna-B and allow the former to setup Trick Room or get strong attacks off. Spore lets it put some pressure instead of just constantly using Follow Me and Decorate, and Wide Guard gives it a much better matchup into Calyrex-S and helps with many other common spread moves in the format. Decorate is a strong move to pair with Calyrex-I, allowing it to deal a massive amount of damage with its attacks. Focus Sash helps with its very low defenses, heavily increasing its survivability. With minimum speed, Smeargle can underspeed your own Calyrex-I and get a Decorate off before it can move while in Trick Room, getting the attack boost on the same turn where it uses Glacial Lance. Tera Grass helps with Amoonguss which would otherwise threaten Spore into it, and makes Surging Strikes from Urshifu-R a 3HKO.
Smeargle pairs well with strong and slow Pokemon such as Calyrex-I and Ursaluna-B, and Trick Room setters like Farigiraf, being able to support them with Follow Me and Decorate. The lack of offensive pressure from Smeargle can make it useless while on the field quite often, since its only tools are supporting moves. Smeargle can also struggle with opposing Fake Out users such as Incineroar due to its low speed and can get completely shut down by Taunt.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/thacrow.660956/
Quality checked by:
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