Trying to build my first competitive team

[Wasian]

Im trying to build my 1st competitive team based around mega mawile. I was thinking of putting a blaziken with speed boost and have it baton pass to mawile after using a couple power up punches. Does that sound ok or do you think thats a bad idea?
Any suggestions?

 

[Mewtwo1]

I would use this link as a starting point. http://www.smogon.com/dex/xy/pokemon/mawile/

 

[ruel]

trick room would be the best option id say since mawile is very slow if u do baton pass setup it would take too long to setup

 

[Wasian]

I completely forgot about trick room for some reason lol but thats a really good idea. Know any good trick room users?

 

[Ary]

Are you even following site tiers? speed boost blaziken isn't ou here....

 

[Wasian]

I havent really checked the tiers yet i was just trying to come up with ideas first then go back and see what i could and couldnt use.

 

[Ary]

...before you ask for "competitive" help you should figure out the tiers and the tier the team will be based in. Its not just guess and check lol

 

[Wasian]

Alright sorry for asking...

 

[SuperDraco]

After you check the tiers, if your building a trick room team musharna is a great poke with access to trick room, recovery and support rooms ideal for vgc based events. Or instead of blaziken you could try Yanmega which also has speed boost.

 

[Matt_192]

Right, I'll carry on commenting because a few people here seem to have got the wrong end of the stick

Why are people going on about TR being a viable strat in this situation? He's speed boosting so he'll end up with around ~520 speed with no investment at +6. Also, this would be possible either in VGC or Ubers, although it may not be the greatest strategy ever. I would recommend using Substitute + Protect Blaziken for longevity, and you may want to consider Swords Dance as an option, although this does leave you open to common Taunt users.

@Ary he is allowed to ask questions you know - we're here to help, not to criticise.

I get people's point about this being difficult to set up and using TR as an alternative strategy, but there are a few problems with this:

• TR is a pretty awful strategy in Singles if you're trying to utilise both a setter and an abuser - you waste one turn straight away by switching and then you don't set up at all.
• It would be a better strategy in Doubles, making Blaziken redundant, but then you aren't getting any boosts. You could run TR setter + SD mMawile, but this leaves you pretty open to attacks for a full turn, in a meta where Will-o is extremely common, Taunt is extremely common and you can get hit twice in one turn.

 

[Ary]

Im not saying he cant ask lol but before asking for assistance he should get a general idea of tiers for wtever he is using this team for whether is showdown/pp/vgc and figure out in wt tier he wants to play in. Merely advise given in my own way.