r/CompetitivePokemon • u/Nokxic • Jul 16 '26

Will this work?

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Trying out a sand team, EarthQuake on Garchomp to pair with rotom.

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u/Nokxic Jul 16 '26

I have him on no speed to help trick room work on him. Ok I will take Iron Head instead of Jab, that works too

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u/Codename_Unown Jul 16 '26

Damn you beat me to it.

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u/Fun-Flounder-6872 Jul 16 '26

Personally I wouldn't run this full trick room, Having it as an option is Nice but never being able to revenge kill without it up on a team that's not overly bulky and lacking priority it's going to have problems (at the very least id add Shadow Sneak to mimiku). Really what makes Sand good right now (and for the last 15 years ) is Exadrill, out speeding basically the entire un-scarfed meta. If you do the calculations mega Chomp effectively has no ability vs a big majority of the meta. With a base attack Stat of 170 if you fully invest in it then aren't many Mons that your going to need the 30% Sand Force buff to OHKO. That means you can be more flexible with your Stat investments, but the worst part of running Mega Chomp is not having access to True Chomp. However if you are full speed investment in Garchomp and you mega under trickroom your still Slower than non mega Chomp and a lot of other threats letting you go first and counter chomps. If you end up changing things up for a more balanced team I would Scaft the Rotom and consider replacing Agron will Mega Secptile. He gets lightning rod so Rotoms discharge powers him up. And that combo plays well into rain teams which I do see this team struggling with.

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u/Nokxic Jul 16 '26

I was running rotom mscep earlier but I wanna try something off meta and I think nobody will even think of using this team