BSS Trick Room Scream Tail

[Photon]

[SET]
name: Trick Room Support
move 1: Misty Explosion
move 2: Trick Room
move 3: Encore
move 4: Stealth Rock
item: Mental Herb / Sitrus Berry
tera type: Water / Steel
ability: Protosynthesis
nature: Calm
evs: 236 HP / 236 Def / 36 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

* Scream Tail's bulk, Speed and diverse support options make it a great all-in-one Trick Room support Pokemon.

* **Misty Explosion** : Misty Explosion may limit Scream Tail's offensive reach, but it's key for bringing in sweepers safely after setting Trick Room.

* **Encore**: Encore is great at disrupting foes trying to set up in front of Scream Tail.

* **Trick Room Sweepers**: Ursaluna-B is the most popular partner for Trick Room setups, but other semi-slow sweepers like Basculegion-M can work as well.

* **EV Spread**: The special bulk guarantees that Scream Tail survives Shadow Ball from Choice Specs Flutter Mane. If using Sitrus Berry, the physical bulk guarantees that both formes of Choice Band Urshifu will fail to 2HKO Scream Tail with their signature moves.

Tera Types
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* **Tera Dependency - Low**: Scream Tail's bulk and typing make it easy to set up without having to rely on Terastallization.

* **Water**: Tera Water's Steel-type and Fire-type resistances can be key at surviving big attacks from Gholdengo and Chi-Yu.

* **Steel**: Tera Steel can help Scream Tail set up against Tera Flying and Extreme Speed Dragonite, while still providing a key Steel-type resistance.

Items
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* **Mental Herb**: Taunt Flutter Mane can be a big problem for Scream Tail, but Mental Herb can help guarantee that it gets to set Trick Room at least once.

* **Sitrus Berry**: Sitrus Berry's healing can give Scream Tail a stronger chance at getting both Stealth Rock and Trick Room down.

[CREDITS]
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[Omastar68]

Could perish song or roar be options?

 

[Theorymon]

The main thing I'd add is a few teammates to get people started with a Trick Room team, just because this is such a support oriented set. I think Ursaluna-B is the star of the show here obviously and should be mentioned, but you might also want to bring up Pokemon that don't need to invest in Speed and aren't amazingly fast, think stuff like Gholdengo or Basculegion (doesn't have to be those two, just an an example I thought of fast lol).

Otherwise this looks good to me, QC Approved 1/1 once you add a bullet point on TR teammates to use!

 

[Photon]

The main thing I'd add is a few teammates to get people started with a Trick Room team, just because this is such a support oriented set. I think Ursaluna-B is the star of the show here obviously and should be mentioned, but you might also want to bring up Pokemon that don't need to invest in Speed and aren't amazingly fast, think stuff like Gholdengo or Basculegion (doesn't have to be those two, just an an example I thought of fast lol).

Otherwise this looks good to me, QC Approved 1/1 once you add a bullet point on TR teammates to use!

Done, I added a bullet singling out Bloodmoon and Basculegion-M as those have been two of the most common targets in the present and past.

If we're good there, this is ready for GP.

Could perish song or roar be options?

Roar's negative priority is not a good fit with Scream Tail's Speed and usually just means you are taking unnecessary damage or force switching something in that's even worse to deal with. Scream Tail is bulky but there are plenty of heavy hitters that still give it problems, so its best to try and lure in a favorable matchup first so that Scream Tail can take advantage of it.

Perish Song has the same problem as Roar in that it doesn't provide nearly enough payoff towards accomplishing Scream Tail's setup goals.

Neither option is necessarily terrible in the right context; its more that Encore is far and away much more valuable on a set like this and just in general.

 

[Theorymon]

Whoops never tagged the GP team! GP Team

 

[autumn]

1/1 GP Team done

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[SET]
name: Trick Room Support
move 1: Misty Explosion
move 2: Trick Room
move 3: Encore
move 4: Stealth Rock
item: Mental Herb / Sitrus Berry
tera type: Water / Steel
ability: Protosynthesis
nature: Calm
evs: 236 HP / 236 Def / 36 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

* Scream Tail's bulk, Speed, (AC) and diverse support options make it a great all-in-one Trick Room support Pokemon.

* **Misty Explosion** : Misty Explosion may limit Scream Tail's offensive reach, but it's key for inserting bringing in sweepers safely after setting Trick Room.

* **Encore**: Encore is great at disrupting opponents foes trying to set up next to in front of Scream Tail.

* **Trick Room Sweepers**: Ursaluna-Bloodmoon is the most popular partner for Trick Room setups, but other semi-slow sweepers like Basculegion-M can work as well.

* **EV Spread**: The special bulk guarantees that Scream Tail survives Shadow Ball from Choice Specs Flutter Mane. If using Sitrus Berry, the physical bulk guarantees that both forms formes of Choice Band Urshifu will fail to 2HKO Scream Tail with their signature moves.

Tera Types
======

* **Tera Dependency - Low**: Scream Tail's bulk and typing make it easy to set up without having to rely on Terastallization.

* **Water**: Tera Water's Steel-type and Fire-type resistances can be key at surviving big attacks from Gholdengo and Chi-Yu.

* **Steel**: Tera Steel can help Scream Tail set up against Tera Flying and Extreme Speed Dragonite (RC) while still providing a key Steel-type resistance.

Items
========

* **Mental Herb**: Taunt Flutter Mane can be a big problem for Scream Tail, but Mental Herb can help guarantee that you get it gets to set Trick Room at least once.

* **Sitrus Berry**: Sitrus Berry's healing can give Scream Tail a stronger chance at getting both Stealth Rock and Trick Room down.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/photon.516307/
Quality checked by:
Grammar checked by:

 

[Photon]

1/1 GP Team done

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[SET]
name: Trick Room Support
move 1: Misty Explosion
move 2: Trick Room
move 3: Encore
move 4: Stealth Rock
item: Mental Herb / Sitrus Berry
tera type: Water / Steel
ability: Protosynthesis
nature: Calm
evs: 236 HP / 236 Def / 36 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

* Scream Tail's bulk, Speed, (AC) and diverse support options make it a great all-in-one Trick Room support Pokemon.

* **Misty Explosion** : Misty Explosion may limit Scream Tail's offensive reach, but it's key for inserting bringing in sweepers safely after setting Trick Room.

* **Encore**: Encore is great at disrupting opponents foes trying to set up next to in front of Scream Tail.

* **Trick Room Sweepers**: Ursaluna-Bloodmoon is the most popular partner for Trick Room setups, but other semi-slow sweepers like Basculegion-M can work as well.

* **EV Spread**: The special bulk guarantees that Scream Tail survives Shadow Ball from Choice Specs Flutter Mane. If using Sitrus Berry, the physical bulk guarantees that both forms formes of Choice Band Urshifu will fail to 2HKO Scream Tail with their signature moves.

Tera Types
======

* **Tera Dependency - Low**: Scream Tail's bulk and typing make it easy to set up without having to rely on Terastallization.

* **Water**: Tera Water's Steel-type and Fire-type resistances can be key at surviving big attacks from Gholdengo and Chi-Yu.

* **Steel**: Tera Steel can help Scream Tail set up against Tera Flying and Extreme Speed Dragonite (RC) while still providing a key Steel-type resistance.

Items
========

* **Mental Herb**: Taunt Flutter Mane can be a big problem for Scream Tail, but Mental Herb can help guarantee that you get it gets to set Trick Room at least once.

* **Sitrus Berry**: Sitrus Berry's healing can give Scream Tail a stronger chance at getting both Stealth Rock and Trick Room down.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/photon.516307/
Quality checked by:
Grammar checked by:

Done, thank you! This is ready for dex.

 

[Theorymon]

Done, thank you! This is ready for dex.

Uploaded! Note that since Scream Tail sorta only came back into relevance in the past series, I left the other sets in Series 2 for now, but we can update those later.