[OVERVIEW]
name: Offensive Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor
move 3: Flash Cannon / Iron Head
move 4: Protect / Flamethrower
item: Sitrus Berry / Mental Herb / Lum Berry / Adamant Orb
ability: Pressure
nature: Quiet
evs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 Def
Ivs: 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Set Details
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Usage Tips
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Team Options
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will get to this l8r
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Checks and Counters
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**Ground Types**: Most grounds, notably Pdon and Lando-T, can 2hko Dialga easily
**Steel Types**: Steel types like Ferrothorn and Aegislash can wall Diagla's STABs and 1v1 it.
**Fairy Types** Pretty much only referring to Mawile and Xerneas, both usually 1v1 it unless in a very specific condition
i think i need more lol
- Nice bulky attacker that has really nice neutral coverage with its STABs
- Access to Trick Room allows it to become a setter
- Can tank most hits and set Trick Room
- Steel Typing = trumps other dragons
- Weak to many threats in the metagame, i.e. Xerneas, Groudon, Kangaskhan
- His useful ability, Telepathy, can only be used if you run modest, meaning you either run Modest or you're forced to use that Pressure trash
- I think I need more cons lol
name: Offensive Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor
move 3: Flash Cannon / Iron Head
move 4: Protect / Flamethrower
item: Sitrus Berry / Mental Herb / Lum Berry / Adamant Orb
ability: Pressure
nature: Quiet
evs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 Def
Ivs: 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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- Trick Room allows for slower Pokemon to go first, so if you have a team of slow Pokemon Dialga can give them the speed advantage.
- Dragon Pulse is a decent STAB attack that provides neutral coverage against most things and super effective coverage vs other Dragons
- Draco Meteor hits harder than Dragon Pulse but has that crappy Spatk drop, which forces you to switch out, not ideal for getting the most out of your TR turns
- Flash Cannon deals with Fairies like unboosted Xerneas (you dont beat boosted Xern) or Clefairy
- Iron Head 2hkos boosted Xern which is nice
- Protect lets you scout out a threat or deal with a threat using your partner safely
- Flamethrower provides coverage vs other steels
Set Details
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- 252 Hp lets gives you as much bulk as possible
- 252 SpA evs lets you hit as hard as possible
- a Quiet nature with 0 spe ivs drops you speed as low as possible and grants an additional boost to your damage output
- Sitrus berry increases your longevity by granting you some additional bulk and allowing you to take more attacks
- Lum Berry keeps sleep from stopping your Trick Room, and also protects against some misc. statuses like burn, paralysis, freeze, and confusion
- Mental Herb allows you to Trick Room in front of Taunt
- Adamant Orb makes Flash Cannon an OHKO on unboosted 4/0 Xerneas
Usage Tips
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- Set up TR and start doing damage
- Just attack in front of Taunt
- Works well both as a lead and in the endgame, so switch out asap if it becomes dead weight
- Dialga has a lot of scenarios where it wins a 1v1 but only if it moves first, some of these scenarios being against Kangaskhan, Groudon, Kyogre, and Xerneas
- tbc
Team Options
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will get to this l8r
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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- Shuca and Chople can help suppress supereffective fighting and ground type attacks, but Sitrus is a lot more consistent
- Earth Power can be used over Flamethrower as a way to do some additional damage to Pdon as well, but Dragon Pulse usually 2hkos anyways and Ferrothorn exists.
- Gravity is a cool fourth move if you are running PBlade don as your second restricted, but thats kinda niche.
- You can also run Telepathy, but you need a Modest nature in order to do so, which hinders Dialgas effectiveness as a Trick Roomer.
- Sub lefties Dialga is kinda cool because Dialga has a ton of resists and can 1v1 things like Xerneas, Kyogre, and Groudon behind a sub, but that set is also really unreliable.
- Icy Wind is a cool form of speed control, but it's not so much worth putting on your Primal
- Thunder is a cool move for taking a chunk out of Kyogres
- Assault Vest can be used to take more hits from mons like Kyogre or Xerneas so that you can potentially win the 1v1
- Choice Specs and Life Orb give a really nice damage boost, although they are usually not as great as the Adamant Orb, which has no recoil and no sacrifice for using
Checks and Counters
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**Ground Types**: Most grounds, notably Pdon and Lando-T, can 2hko Dialga easily
**Steel Types**: Steel types like Ferrothorn and Aegislash can wall Diagla's STABs and 1v1 it.
**Fairy Types** Pretty much only referring to Mawile and Xerneas, both usually 1v1 it unless in a very specific condition
i think i need more lol
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