SoulGold Trick Room team: Reuniclus Showtime and the best slow partners

Reuniclus sets Trick Room the moment it enters, for free. That’s its Showtime innate at level 85, and in the Battle Tower, Factory, Pyramid and Café it works at any level. No setup turn, no Taunt to dodge, no Fake Out to eat. I built my favorite Title Defense team around it.

Why Reuniclus Showtime is the best Trick Room setter in SoulGold

Showtime sets a 5-turn Trick Room when Reuniclus enters battle. It’s the same timer as the move. Reuniclus is the only Pokémon in the game with it.

Showtime only sets the room if none is up. So it never cancels your own Trick Room. The Trick Room move works the other way: click it under an active room and the room ends.

Uncanny at 75 lowers both foes’ Sp. Atk by one stage when Reuniclus enters. You get the room and a free Sp. Atk drop on the same switch-in.

Reuniclus’s ability and innate ladder:

• Normal abilities: Overcoat or Magic Guard, with Regenerator as the hidden ability.
• 75, Uncanny: both foes lose one stage of Sp. Atk on entry.
• 85, Showtime: 5-turn Trick Room on entry.
• 95, Bulletproof: blocks ball and bomb moves like Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Sludge Bomb and Energy Ball.

Take Regenerator. Use an Ability Patch to get it. Every switch out heals a third of its HP, and every switch back in after the room ends starts a new one. That loop is the whole team.

Reuniclus is pure Psychic, 110/65/75/125/85/30. The 110 HP and 30 Speed are exactly what you want here.

The Reuniclus set

Move	Why
Psychic	Main STAB. TM29, Goldenrod Game Corner.
Focus Blast	Hits Steel and Dark types that wall Psychic. TM52, Vajra Desert East.
Recover	Learned at level 1, so grab it from the relearner.
Trick Room	Backup for when you can’t switch. TM92, Ecruteak City Mart. Only click it when no room is up.

Hold a Mental Herb so a Taunt can’t lock out the backup Trick Room. Mental Herb only comes as a rare held item on wild Sewaddle, Swadloon and Leavanny. If you don’t want to farm one, Leftovers from Goldenrod Underground Storage is fine.

I run Quiet nature, max HP and Sp. Atk, and its Speed IV taken down with the IV-lowering herbs from the Goldenrod Underground herb shop. In the room, the slowest mon moves first.

Where to get it: Solosis is 30% on Route 43, at levels 25 to 27. It evolves into Duosion at 32 and Reuniclus at 41. Neither evolution is in the wild.

The best slow partners for Trick Room

Every one of these has 50 base Speed or lower and an ability or innate that pays off when it moves first.

Pokémon	Base Spe	Ability and innates that matter	Why it fits	Where
Camerupt (Mega, Firetite)	20	Sheer Force; Heatstorm 75, Simple 85, Earth Eater 95	145 Sp. Atk, Eruption, Earth Power. Heatstorm sets Scorched Field, which powers Fire moves	Numel in Burned Tower and Mt Mortar Depths 1. Firetite in Mt Mortar Depths 1
Torkoal	20	Drought; Smouldering 75, Brimstone 85, Flameburst 95	Sun plus Eruption. Brimstone lets Fire moves ignore Flash Fire	Mt Mortar Depths 1, Lv 45 to 50, 5%
Mawile (Mega, Fairytite)	50	Huge Power; Dual Strike 75	Doubled Attack and a second hit on single-target moves	Mt Mortar 2F, 15%. Fairytite from Mr. Pokémon, Route 30
Hariyama	50	Thick Fat, Guts or Sheer Force; Iron Fist 75, Stamina 85	144 HP, Fake Out, Drain Punch, Close Combat	Makuhita, Route 34, 30% (evolves at 24)
Rhyperior	40	Lightning Rod, Solid Rock or Reckless; Tough Claws 75, Bulletproof 85, Rocky Payload 95	Rock Wrecker, Stone Edge, Earthquake. Rocky Payload adds 50% to Rock moves	Mt. Silver 2F and 3F, 15%. Rhydon in Victory Road, Protector in Kitakami Temple Storage
Ursaluna	50	Guts, Bulletproof or Unnerve; Strong Jaw 75, Stamina 85	Headlong Rush and Guts Facade with a Flame Orb	Ursaring on Route 45, 14%. Peat Block in Dark Cave North Side or the Indigo Plateau mart
Iron Hands	50	Quark Drive; Inner Focus 75, Scrappy 85, Defiant 95	154 HP, 140 Attack, Fake Out, Drain Punch, Supercell Slam	Meteor Island, Lv 56 to 59, 15%
Crabominable (Mega, Icetite)	33	Iron Fist; Thick Fat 75, Steadfast 85, Anger Point 95	157 Attack, Ice Hammer, Drain Punch, Close Combat	Crabrawler, Rock Smash on Route 40 or Cianwood. Icetite in Ice Path Depths
Aggron or Steelix (Mega)	50 / 30	Filter or Sand Force; Stamina, then Siegebreaker 95	Every hit taken raises Defense, and Siegebreaker hits off Defense	Victory Road
Kingambit	50	Defiant, Supreme Overlord or Pressure; Filter 75, Battle Armor 85, Analytic 95	Kowtow Cleave and Iron Head. Stop at 85: Analytic only fires when it moves last, and in the room it moves first	Bisharp in Nameless Cave, 30%. Level it holding the Leader’s Crest from Azalea
Drampa (Mega, Normalite)	36	Berserk; Drizzle 75, Own Tempo 85, Scrappy 95	160 Sp. Atk. Drizzle sets rain, so keep it off a Fire team	Mt Mortar 2F, 5%; Lake of Rage grotto
Cursola	30	Weak Armor or Perish Body; Reef Warden 75, Soul-Heart 85, Shadow Shield 95	145 Sp. Atk Ghost, and it learns Trick Room as a second setter	Safari Zone Low Right, 18%, and Rinto Village fishing. Galarian Corsola evolves at 38

Only one Pokémon can Mega Evolve per battle, so carry one Mega and pick the rest from the non-Megas.

Sample six for Title Defense and Elite Four rematches

This is the six I’d copy. It needs everyone at 85 for Showtime and the second innates.

Pokémon	Item	Ability	Key moves
Reuniclus	Mental Herb	Regenerator	Psychic, Focus Blast, Recover, Trick Room
Camerupt	Firetite	Sheer Force (Mega)	Eruption, Earth Power, Lava Plume, Fire Blast
Hariyama	Leftovers	Thick Fat	Fake Out, Close Combat, Knock Off, Wide Guard
Iron Hands	Assault Vest	Quark Drive	Fake Out, Drain Punch, Supercell Slam
Ursaluna	Flame Orb	Guts	Headlong Rush, Facade
Cursola	Focus Sash	Perish Body	Hex, Strength Sap, Ice Beam, Trick Room

Sheer Force boosts Earth Power, Lava Plume and Fire Blast but not Eruption. Use Eruption at full HP and the others after. The Flame Orb is a Route 47 gift, the Assault Vest is in Rocket Hideout B3F, and the Focus Sash is a one-time gift in the Kitakami Temple Training Room.

Gameplan: Bruno’s steel-and-rock rematch on Hard

Bruno’s second rematch team is Tyranitar, Skarmory, Excadrill, Aggron, Lucario and Steelix, all level 85. Fire, Ground and Fighting hit almost all of it, and nothing on it outspeeds you in the room.

1. Lead Reuniclus and Camerupt. Showtime sets the room before turn 1, and Uncanny cuts both foes’ Sp. Atk. It fires again every time Reuniclus comes back in, which is how you blunt Lucario’s Choice Specs.
2. Turn 1: Mega Evolve Camerupt and use Eruption at full HP into both foes. Reuniclus uses Focus Blast on Tyranitar or Aggron if either is out.
3. Turn 2: Camerupt uses Earth Power on the Steel type in front of it. Aggron takes four times. Switch Reuniclus out to Hariyama, and Regenerator gives it a third of its HP back.
4. Turn 3: Hariyama uses Close Combat on Tyranitar or Aggron, which both take four times. If Bruno keeps clicking Rock Slide, use Wide Guard to block it on both your slots.
5. Turns 4 and 5: keep attacking. Skarmory is immune to Earth Power, so hit it with Eruption or Iron Hands’ Supercell Slam.
6. The room ends after turn 5. Switch Reuniclus back in on the next turn, or send it in after a KO, and Showtime gives you five more.

Aggron, Skarmory and Steelix all have Sturdy, so expect them to live the first hit from full HP. Skarmory’s Tailwind and Excadrill’s Sand Rush only make them slower in the room. Lucario’s Vacuum Wave is priority and still goes first. The first time I ran this, Bruno was down to two before the first room ran out.

What breaks Trick Room

Taunt. Taunt can’t stop Showtime, because it’s an innate that fires on entry. It does stop your backup Trick Room move on Reuniclus and Cursola. Karen’s second rematch Gengar on Hard has Taunt and Prankster at 75, Koga’s first rematch Crobat has Taunt, and so does the Director’s Tornadus-Therian in Hard Title Defense. Mental Herb covers one Taunt. Past that, switch instead of clicking the move.

The other side’s Trick Room. Will’s first rematch team has Farigiraf and Exeggutor with the Trick Room move, and using it under your room ends it. His Reuniclus has Showtime too, but Showtime never cancels a room, so that one’s harmless. Farigiraf’s Armor Tail blocks priority, so Fake Out does nothing to it. Hit it hard on turn one instead. Getting my room flipped by Farigiraf cost me my first rematch run.

Priority moves. Priority ignores Trick Room. Watch for Vacuum Wave on Bruno’s Lucario, Bullet Punch on Scizor, Sucker Punch on Karen’s Kingambit and Absol, and Aqua Jet on Koga’s Overqwil.

Wrong innates. Analytic boosts moves when the user moves last, and in the room your slow mon moves first. That’s why Kingambit stops at 85. Mega Ampharos’s Polarity Shift swaps Speed with a foe on entry, which hands your slow Speed to them. Keep it off this team.

Running out the clock. Five turns go fast when the AI clicks Protect. Count the turns, and plan Reuniclus’s switch back in before the room ends, not after.

For the team built the opposite way, read the Tailwind team guide. For where Reuniclus fits in the six roles, start with how to build a team in SoulGold.