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Yes, I'm sorry. I bow before his fluffiness.

So it seems I'll be going with Galvantula mainly because I successfully bred a good one first. I'm making a Trick Room theme, so Eel might have been the better choice due to being slow, but I don't know if Trick Room teams are supposed to form EVERYONE around it, or have something(s) that can operate outside of it.

Looks like I'll be testing the latter.

I actually used a pretty good Trick Room Team.
I used to use it on my HG, then I forgot about it for a while, and in BW, I've been using it again.
Open With a +Spd Ala, and a +Def Shuckle.
Ala goes first, uses Trick Room.
Two other Pokemon attack
Shuckle goes last, uses Power Trick.

Now, Shuckle has intense Speed/Attack
Uses Earthquake
Annihilates stuff.

Ala too, though.
Alternatively, I also have Rock Slide, in the case of a Bird Pokemon on the opposing. (Also Saves Alakazam)

BW added the feature of that balloon item, making Earthquake not hit Alakazam, unless one of the other Pokemon hits him, too.

This tended to actually work really well. My other 4 were Pokemon that would have also benefitted from Trick Room, for the most part. Slowking, Spiritomb, slow Pokemon.

I'm training a Crobat to use, too. Not nessecarily for that team
Since this is a teambuilding thread, and maybe someone besides Hash could benefit from it. whee
I've never used a Crobat. What should I do for it's moveset? It's -Atk +Spd, bad nature, I know, but it's a Nuzlocke.

I'm leaning with:
Confuse Ray, Toxic, Fly, and Bite
If I finish and switch it to BW, I'm gonna get rid of Fly, and Learn Acrobatics,
And get rid of Bite and learn Poison Fang.

Crobat can only learn Heat Wave via event.
ANd it's Atk and Satk are actually exactly equal, since I don't really EV train.
And I can't get Brave Bird, since it's a Breeding move, and I hatehaetaheatahetahat happy evlolving Pokemon.
Maybe
Toxic, Venoshock,
and like.. X-Scissor and Shadow Ball.
Maybe Swap one of the last two for Air Slash. Probably X-Scissor.
Toxishock is pretty great.
Or have a second mon set up the Poison, and just have Crobat with a barrage of attacks.

Anyway
Meganium, Crobat, Arcanine, Ariados, Kingler = Current Team
Kicking a** and taking names.
Except Clair. I"m scared.

True enough, although it's interesting to note that Reu is so slow, that the only thing that should ever outspeed it in TR is a Ferrothorn (which I also have).

Unless someone comes up with an uber gamebreaking Munchlax.

The other option would be to drop TR set up on Reu and use the Calm Mind Staller instead.

Calm Mind | Recover | Psychic/Psyshock | Focus Blast

Speaking of Psyshock, I'm wondering if I should use it myself over Psychic. Not too sure.

It's not supposed to go first, otherwise that would eat one of the 5 turns that it lasts.

I mentioned that my set up 'Mons could set it up multiple times because they're both spongy on the defenses and can take some hits.

The only time having Trick Room used first would have been useful is in Double Battles.