Team Tactics: Trick Room Bronzong
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Last week we discussed the tentacled rage bucket of madness known as Trick Room Octillery. Unfortunately, Octillery needs a set-up for Trick Room as he cannot learn it himself. This is where the defensive monster bell from Pokéhell known as Bronzong steps in. Slow as molasses and tough as nails, he is perfect to set-up Trick Room as it's move priority forces it to go last, regardless of speed.
Abilities
Bronzong's Dream World ability is Heavy Metal. While it sounds like it should be accompanied by an amazing hair metal guitar solo, the ability is a mess. It doubles Bronzong's weight. Which means that moves like Low Kick and Grass Knot will do twice the damage. It also has the nice effect of increasing the power of Heavy Slam. Unfortunately, Heavy Slam is a variable attack power move depending on the opponent's weight, so it isn't really worth it. Avoid this one.
IOTW: Macho Brace
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An odd item to focus on in terms of battle uses, I know, but stick with me. We're going to look at the advantages of the Macho Brace, and not even the ones regarding EV training ones.
Macho Brace's most common use is for speeding up EV training, because it doubles the EVs that the holder earns. What I'm going to focus on in this article is what most consider its negative side effect, that it halves the holder's speed.
