Iron Ball or berries for a trick room malamar?

I have a relatively fast team, but I’ve decided for the sake of my Abomasnow, trick room is a good idea. My Malamar is the one using trick room, so would it be better to have it hold the Roseli or Chople berry for its weaknesses? Or should I have it hold an iron ball? It has average to low speed with a base stat of 73. Halving that to 37, would that be worth it? Or does it desperately need one of those berries given its average-ish defenses (86/88/75)? For your convenience if you’d like to check it, here’sMalalmar’s page.

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If your using Malamar with Trick Room give it theIron Ball.

If your using a Pokémon with Trick Room you want it no have little to no Speed at all if possible.Malamarhas an averageBase Speed Statof73so there are stilla lotof Pokémon that will be able to out speed it under the effect’s of Trick Room.

Common threats includeScizorwho has aBase Speed Statof65andSylveonwho has aBase Speed Statof60.Both areSuper EffectiveagainstMalamarand will be able toout speedit under the effects of Trick Room.

If you give Malamar theIron Ballit willreduceit’sSpeed Statby50%allowing it to out speed a lot more variety of Pokémon under the effect’s of Trick Room.

Iwouldn’trecommend giving Malamar aberryas a held item over theIron Ballbasically because it can only be used to negate the damage ofoneSuper Effective Move after that it isconsumedandcan’tbe used again in the battle.

Hope I helped :)

Iron ball. You only use berries once unless you have a ton of them.

I think you should make your Malamar hold a Roseli berry

You said that your Malamar had a low speed stat so there is no point of you using a Iron Ball

There would be no point in holding a Chople berry because Malamar doesn’t have a weakness to Fighting types

Roseli berry would be the only listed item that would actually help you, by lessening the damage taken from one supereffective Fairy-type attack.