Trick room is a strategy in doubles based on getting up trick room and using slow, bulky pokemon to abuse it. Trick room only lasts 5 turns so you need to have multiple setters on the team to accomplish your goal. In this guide i will list all possible trick room setters/abusers. I will also list what the perks of using those pokemon and my experience from using them myself. The general rule is pokemon under 80 speed can function under trick room
Trickroom Setters
Let's start this off with the trick room setters as they are the most important members of the team. If trick room is down some sweepers can run priority helping them out while trickroom is down but you generally want to keep trickroom up for almost the entirety of the game
Xatu: Xatu breaks the speed rule but is one of the few pokemon that can set up trickroom without fearing taunt because of magic bounce. It also has access to u-turn allowing it to switch out into a trickroom abuser.
Prefered moveset :ev's 252 hp 252 spdef 4 spatk.
Trickroom,U-Turn-dazzling gleam,roost Item leftovers,sitrus berry Nature Sassy. Ability magic bounce
Reuniclus: It acts as a abuser and a setter which is nice but ill but him in this section. Reuniclus is very bulky and has a low speed stat which allows it to survive quite a bit while setting up trickroom and stay in to abuse it for the turns after setting up.
Moveset: ev' hp,96 160 def 252 spatk/172 hp, 28 def,252 spatk, 56 spdef
Prefered moveset: Psyshock/psychic, focus blast,trickroom,protect/shadowball
Item: life orb Nature Quiet. Ability magic guard
Slowbro: Slowbro deserves a honorable mention because it will be switching kind of often to set up trickroom. It's ability regenerator helps with this by recovering it's hp 33% upon switch out. it also has enough special attack and low enough speed to abuse trick room without any special attack investment.
Moveset: Evs 244 hp,156 spatk, 108 spdef
Prefered moves: Trickroom, scald, Psychic/Psyshock, Protect/icebeam/flamethrower
Items: Mental herb/sitrus berry Nature: Quiet/Sassy/Relaxed Ability Regenerator
Chandelure: Yet another trickroom setter/ abuser at the same time! If you have any fire weak pokemons such as escavalier you can switch into chandelure and grab a flashfire boost.
Moveset: Spatk 252,HP 252,6 Nature: Quiet. item: Focus sash/Life orb
Prefered moves, Heat wave,shadow ball, protect, Trick room, Ability Flash fire
Hypno: A personal favorite of mine! Hypno is bulky enough to take any hit and set up trick room. He also has insomnia and inner focus two great abilitys for his role. insomnia prevents smeargles and other spore users from setting up on him. inner focus prevents fake out from preventing trickroom use.
Moveset: Trickroom, Hypnosis/safeguard,Psychic,protect/substitute. ev's: 252 Hp, 196 def,60 spatk : Nature Relaxed. Abilitys: Inner focus,Insomnia Item: mental herb
Exeggutor: A very strong pick for trickroom setter/abuser. Its low speed high special attack and decent bulk make it a good pick. Harvest adds to this bulk recycling the lum/sitrus berry.
Moveset: Evs, 232 hp, 252 spatk,24 spdef Ability: Harvest Nature: Quiet
Moves: Trickroom,Psychic,Gigadrain/leafstorm,sludge bomb Items: Sitrus berry,Lum berry
Slowking: Another great bulky trick room setter with regenerator. Functioning similarly to slowbro, he can abuse trickroom while keeping bulkiness.
Porygon2: It has outrageous defenses and is able to set up trickroom easily, it also has good coverage with it's moves and recover to keep alive.
Moveset: ev's 252 hp,252 def,4 SPdef Ability download Item Eviolite Nature relaxed
Moves: Trickroom,tri-attack,recover,protect
Grumpig: It functions similarly to hypno but has thick fat and adds resistances that it wouldn't have normally. It also has access to magic coat to bounce back predicted hazards.
Moveset: ev's 252 Def 252 HP 6 SPatk Item mental herb Sitrus berry or lum berry
Ability Thick fat, Nature Relaxed
Claydol: An interesting pick as it's bulky and support's it's team with trickroom and rapidspin. It's attack isn't the greatest but it has levitate for dodging teamates using earthquake.
Moveset: Ev's Spdef 252,HP 252, Def 6 Item: Mental Herb Lum berry Sitrus berry
Nature: Sassy ability: Levitate Moves: Trickroom Rapid Spin Psychic Protect
Dusclops/Dusknoir: These get the same analysis because either can be used the same way. Dusclops can be bulkier because of eviolite but dusknoir can use mental herb or other options. Mainly they are similar but the choice between them is preference based.
Moveset ev's (dusclops): Hp 252,Spdef 252, Def 6 Ev's (dusknoir): Hp 236,Def 36,Spdef 236
Moves: Will-o-wisp,Trickroom,night shade,Helping hand ability Sassy Item Eviolite(dusclops) mental herb/lum berry sitrus berry(dusknoir)
Musharna: One of the staple trick room pokemon because of it's great bulk access to helping hand and the ability telepathy. A good play you can do with musharna is pair it with a exploud. Have exploud protect 1st turn while you set up trickroom. on the second turn use helping hand on exploud and then have exploud boomburst.
Moveset: Ev's HP 252,Spdef 252, Spatk 6 Ability Telepathy Ability Sassy.
Moves: Helping hand Psychic trick room and protect.
Bronzong: Although the nerfs to steel hurt bronzong i feel like he can still be one of the better trick room setters. with access to heatproof or levitate they have to guess it's third weakness. it's also very slow with gyroball for damage.
Moveset: Ev's Hp 252,Atk 6, 252 Spdef Ability Levitate/Heatproof Nature:sassy
Moves Trickroom Protect Gyroball Lightscreen/explosion.
Gothitelle: Gothitelle is a great user of trick room with shadowtag and is semi bulky. It has good special attack as well which let's it hit really hard.
Moveset: Ev's HP 252,Def,96,Spatk 164 Nature: Quiet Ability Shadowtag/Frisk
Item: Mental herb
Trickroom Setters
Let's start this off with the trick room setters as they are the most important members of the team. If trick room is down some sweepers can run priority helping them out while trickroom is down but you generally want to keep trickroom up for almost the entirety of the game
Prefered moveset :ev's 252 hp 252 spdef 4 spatk.
Trickroom,U-Turn-dazzling gleam,roost Item leftovers,sitrus berry Nature Sassy. Ability magic bounce
Moveset: ev' hp,96 160 def 252 spatk/172 hp, 28 def,252 spatk, 56 spdef
Prefered moveset: Psyshock/psychic, focus blast,trickroom,protect/shadowball
Item: life orb Nature Quiet. Ability magic guard
Moveset: Evs 244 hp,156 spatk, 108 spdef
Prefered moves: Trickroom, scald, Psychic/Psyshock, Protect/icebeam/flamethrower
Items: Mental herb/sitrus berry Nature: Quiet/Sassy/Relaxed Ability Regenerator
Moveset: Spatk 252,HP 252,6 Nature: Quiet. item: Focus sash/Life orb
Prefered moves, Heat wave,shadow ball, protect, Trick room, Ability Flash fire
Moveset: Trickroom, Hypnosis/safeguard,Psychic,protect/substitute. ev's: 252 Hp, 196 def,60 spatk : Nature Relaxed. Abilitys: Inner focus,Insomnia Item: mental herb
Moveset: Evs, 232 hp, 252 spatk,24 spdef Ability: Harvest Nature: Quiet
Moves: Trickroom,Psychic,Gigadrain/leafstorm,sludge bomb Items: Sitrus berry,Lum berry
Moveset: ev's 252 hp,252 def,4 SPdef Ability download Item Eviolite Nature relaxed
Moves: Trickroom,tri-attack,recover,protect
Moveset: ev's 252 Def 252 HP 6 SPatk Item mental herb Sitrus berry or lum berry
Ability Thick fat, Nature Relaxed
Moveset: Ev's Spdef 252,HP 252, Def 6 Item: Mental Herb Lum berry Sitrus berry
Nature: Sassy ability: Levitate Moves: Trickroom Rapid Spin Psychic Protect
Moveset ev's (dusclops): Hp 252,Spdef 252, Def 6 Ev's (dusknoir): Hp 236,Def 36,Spdef 236
Moves: Will-o-wisp,Trickroom,night shade,Helping hand ability Sassy Item Eviolite(dusclops) mental herb/lum berry sitrus berry(dusknoir)
Moveset: Ev's HP 252,Spdef 252, Spatk 6 Ability Telepathy Ability Sassy.
Moves: Helping hand Psychic trick room and protect.
Moveset: Ev's Hp 252,Atk 6, 252 Spdef Ability Levitate/Heatproof Nature:sassy
Moves Trickroom Protect Gyroball Lightscreen/explosion.
Moveset: Ev's HP 252,Def,96,Spatk 164 Nature: Quiet Ability Shadowtag/Frisk
Item: Mental herb
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