My favourite mega evolution has always been mega gangar. I love its design, its stats, shiny, but most importantly, its ability. Shadow tag is the foundation of perish trap, my favourite pokémon strategy up there with hyper offense. I don't have enough space here to explain it, so you go look it up. With gengar as my basis, I set out to find the next thing needed on perish teams: pivots. Specifically, morpeko, who gets two important moves in fake out and parting shot. However, this gave me a rubbish matchup into garchomp, so I had to switch to incineroar. This is because of incineroar's ability intimidate. With parting shot, fake out, protect and darkest lariat because alolan muk still haunts me, I set to work on a garchomp counter. To do this, I gave incineroar the shuca berry and trained gengar specifically to survive a 252+ garchomp earthquake. With my team garchomp-proof, I was confident in this matchup and started on the next part: weather. Weather is an element we saw in Wolfe Glick’s 2016 team with mega gengar and origin kyogre. Nowadays, weather in perish trap is defined by 2 pokémon: ninetales and politode. I hate politode, so I don’t want it as it makes the team more generic and predictable. Ninetales is nice, but not good enough in my opinion, and so I went with sableye. Sableye has been defining screens and support in champions, and with rain dance, how could I not add archaludon. Now, I know you’re thinking its horrible and unoriginal, but you’d be wrong. I started with Aaron Zhang’s set to get used to it, but began running a near max special defense/defense arch with aura sphere over flash cannon, and sableye with no screens, instead encore, disable, will-o-wisp and rain dance. The team was coming together. Another part defining good teams in champion’s is a second mega evolution. I was struggling with pivot pokemon like incineroar and basculegion, so I added blastoise mega to hit them where it hurt with aura sphere, dark pulse and water spout. Along with this, I added sinistcha. It was going great, until it started becoming a task to keep blastoise around. Neither it nor sinistcha were contributing enough, so I swapped blastoise for mega meganium. This just made my charizard matchup worse. I tried so many megas- delphox, frosslass, charizard, garchomp, steelix, tyranitar, but all attempts were in vain. It was so difficult to find one, until I saw the winning team of the Victory Road May Challenge, which contained hisuain zoroark. It was just what I needed. Adding zoroark meant I could win games in team preview, by scaring off opponents basculegions and the like. I didn’t even bring it much, but the next pokémon I did, and it’s one of my new favourites. Kommo-o was here originally, but the fairy weakness was a problem, however, gallade let me cope with the crippling dark type weakness. 32+ sharpness black belt sacred sword always KOs 32 hp chople berry kingambit. I’ll leave it there, as now i didnt even need to always run perish mode, and I didnt need a second mega either. I’m immensely proud of this team, as I put in so much effort to make it work and it paid off. It basically just wins in team preview because everyone thinks its hard perish with Aaron Zhang’s arch/sable duo. Anyway, drink water, be good to your parents, follow , winner of May’s team of the month, send me your teams for said competition and have a great day. 5 paragraphs and hours of working on art went into this project, so your support is always appreciated and never goes unnoticed. If you want to try the team, here is the link to the poképaste. Perish trap is difficult, so be warned: https://pokepast.es/6f8cfb04130aad08
