How to use Bronzong in VGC 2020?
Q1) Bronzong’s moveset?Q2) Viability as a trick room mon?Q3) Who can effectively be its teammates? (Hatterene is nice. However, it shares the same psychic typing. Not sure if it will be as effective).Q4) What are its prospects in this season? If it’s terrible, what can replace/substitute for it?
Thanks!
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Hello again! I’ll try and answer your questions.
- Viability as a Trick Room Setter
The two most popular trick room setters right now are dusclops and Porygon-2, both of which have more bulk than Bronzong. Plus, dusclops has basically the same utility as Bronzong- Trick room, weakness policy proc, ally switch and general annoyance, plus better bulk. However, Bronzong has access to his item slot, so it can use mental herbs/resistance berries to further help trick room go up. Not to mention his 2 immunities to ground and poison.
- Good Teammates for BronzongTo recap question 2, Bronzong is good for weakness policy Pokemon, slow Pokémon, and Pokémon with powerful all-target ground/poison moves.With all this, I’d say he could be a good partner for Rhyperior (and Steelix, but it’s not as powerful) to proc weakness policy and allow free earthquakes, and dragalge, to similarly proc weakness policy and allow free sludge waves. I’d argued that Bronzong isnota good teammate for hatterene as it’s already a trick room setter, so you’re better off with the usual hatterene+ indeedee support.
Overall, Bronzong is a solid Trick Room setter that’s usually outclassed by bulkier options, but it has some niche roles.
Hope I helped!
