My First Attempt at a Team

[rPSIvysaur]

This is for OU obv.

Heatran (M) @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Explosion
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Suicune @ Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Surf
- Hidden Power [Electric]
- Ice Beam
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Breloom (M) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 48 HP/252 Atk/208 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Spore
- Focus Punch
- Seed Bomb
- Stone Edge
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Blissey (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 24 HP/252 Def/232 SDef
Calm nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Wish
- Protect
- Softboiled
- Seismic Toss
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Skarmory (M) @ Shed Shell
Ability: Keen Eye
EVs: 252 HP/64 Atk/176 Def/16 Spd
Impish nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Brave Bird
- Roost
- Stealth Rock
- Whirlwind
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Forretress (M) @ Shed Shell
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP/112 Atk/144 Def
Relaxed nature (+Def, -Spd)
- Spikes
- Toxic Spikes
- Rapid Spin
- Gyro Ball
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It's probably horrible, but it's my first try
Critque please. Kthx.

 

[UltiMario]

1 word:

DDMence.

Destorys this whole team and doesn't afraid of anything, once it gets a Single DD off you're pretty much ****ed.

 

[Wave⁂]

I'm not sure what this team is trying to be. Mixed? Too much defense. Stall? Not enough defense.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

You could trying using CB Scizor. I don't know if you'd want to get rid of Skarmory, but if you had him, Stealth Rock out + Life orb damage + Bullet Punch = dead Salamence. You could also try Jirachi if you're anti-scizor as well.

<.< If you want to be really defensive though, a phazer never hurts. Swampert or something can survive a +1 LO (I think?( and Roar Salamence out. Due to 25% SR + LO for attacking, if he comes back out he'll be really wounded, a gradual kill type thing. I don't know though, Salamence is an ***.

You should post or edit rather, what the purpose of each pokemon is. It's really hard to tell what you're trying to do with that. (And it's better than my first team >.>)

 

[Gates]

It's not a bad team, it just lacks focus for what it wants to do and has a lot of unnecessary redundancies.

I assume that you're going the stall route since you have Blisskarm and Forry on your team, so I'll make recommendations based off that.

Why do you have Stealth Rock on both Heatran and Skarm? I assume that's a typo. You should put Spikes on Skarm and replace Spikes with Payback or Explosion on Forry to take the pressure off him. Earthquake may also be better than Gyro Ball since your opponent might bring in a fire type to try and nail you and if you predict this than you'll either kill (OHKO's Heatran) or severely damage (67-80% against Infernape) it.

Another redundancy is having WishProtect and Softboiled on Blissey. If you want your Blissey to do anything for your team as a whole besides wishpass, you're going to need to give it a status move. You already have Toxic Spikes, so I'd reccommend Thunder Wave since it will allow you to hit steel types and fliers other than Gliscor and Flygon.

As far as stall teams go, Crocune is fas superior to any other Suicune build. It absorbs sleep against Roserade, Smeargle, and Breloom. It walls both physical and special attackers. It's immune to status. It's one of the biggest threats in the format right now. Running another Suicune build over it (except maybe mixed Roar Suicune) is just foolish. From an offensive perspective, your Suicune is fine. From a defensive perspective, Crocune is waaaaay better. (Crocune = Resttalk+CM+Surf if you didn't know)

If you want a more diverse mized attacker though, go with a Rotom-A forme. Standard Rotom-A is best for stall but choiced is also good. Annoyer Rotom-S is mad cute for stall, but since you have Toxic Spikes there won't be much you can paralyze and thus get the paraflinchfusion.

For Breloom, you should also look into the regular subpunch build. I understand what you were going for here, but realistically you're only going to be able to fire off Focus Punch once with that build. For a more consistent ability to sweep, go with SubPunch Breloom.

I really want to say that you should use something besides Heatran as your lead, but your team is so unbelievably weak to fire it's hard to say what. Swampert is probably the best option. You would get 2 pokemon weak to grass but you already have 3 who are resistant so it's not a big deal. You would also gain electric immunity, which never hurts to have when Skarmory's on your team.

@ Shimazu - Swampert BARELY survives a +1 LO Naive Mence Outrage but EQ does less than 50% and Fire Bast doesn't do ****. Pert also doesn't need to phaze it either since he can just kill it with Ice Beam lol.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

I was just reading from Smogon, and dang, I totally forgot about Ice Beam. Lol, talk about being dense there. I didn't think about Crocune either..I never quite had a team where it worked out, the offensive subcune always worked better. I bet if I had done my walling team I could've used Crocune, oh well D:

 

[Gates]

Come to think of it, SubCune would probably also be better than what he has now. Not as good as CroCune though.

 

[rPSIvysaur]

So should I replace my Skarmory with Rotom-A or Scizor?
And I should definitely replace my Heatran with a Swampert?

Also I plan on switching Blissey's softboiled with Thunder Wave and Breloom's Stone Edge with Substitute.