New here but I have a team ripe for the rating!

[egaddmario]

Rate my first attempt at a sandstorm team!

Aerodactyl
@-Wide Lens
N-Hasty, 252 Speed & Attack, 4 Hp
~Stone Edge
~Earthquake
~Crunch
~Fire Blast
A good opener, I think. It takes care of any Skarm and Bronz with Fire Blast. Wide Lens for accuracy boost because I hate missing.

Bronzong
@Leftovers
N-careful, 252 SpD, 92 Def, 100 HP, 60 Attack
~Hypnosis
~Gyro Ball
~Earthquake
~Stealth Rock
My SpD wall. Stealth Rock first, then Hypnosis...if they switch to a spinner, the most common ones resist Gyro which is why EQ is there.

Hippowdon
@Leftovers
N-Impish, 252 Hp & Def, 4 Attack
~EQ
~Ice Fang
~Slack Off
~Roar
My Def wall and sandstormer. EQ for everything, Ice fang for levitaters and flying types, Slack off for recovery, roar for peusdo-hazing...not much else to say!

Garchomp
@Brightpowder
N-Hasty 252 Spe & Att, 4 Hp
~EQ
~Dragon Claw
~Fire Blast
~Stone Edge
Haxchomp as I call him. Sandveil + brightpowder = good dodging. Fire Blast for steels like Skarm and Bronz

Lucario
@Choice Scarf
N-Modest 252 SpA & Spe, 4 HP
~Aura Sphere
~Dragon Pulse
~Dark Pulse
~Psychic
The Special Sweeper. Predict and Go! Not much else

Cacturne
@-Leftovers
N-Adamant 252 Attack, 52 Spe, 204 HP
~Substitue
~Leech Seed
~Focus Punch
~Sucker Punch
The Dusknoir punisher. Sub to block will-o-wisps, seed then if you predict a switch, FP, or SP if you don't...And Sand veil helps dodge moves to keep subs alive. Also, Sucker Punch is strong enough to KO some sweepers due to low defense on most.

And there you go! Rate and make suggestions (not on natures and EVs I just posted them because people like to know but they're already made so I'd rather not redo them entirely...just movesets, hold items, new member suggestions and removal of old ones, ect.) Thanks in advance!

 

[0RLY]

It's not that hard to redo EVs, just use a friendship berry to drop their EVs by 10, then just win 3-5 more battles to get the EVs in where you want them.

Since this is in-game, you can't change Natures and Abilities like a charm. My suggestion is to change your bronzong to this:

Bronzong @ Leftovers
Careful/any ability
252hp/doesn't matter (to save you some work)
-Hypnosis
-Stealth Rock
-Gyro Ball
-Rest/filler (Rest is here in case somebody burns your bronzong)

Cacturne is cool, I like using him too ^^. Make sure you change your HP EVs as necessary to make sure you get maximum leftovers recovery.

Since you have Wide Lens on Aerodactyl, you might as well give it Stone Edge instead of Rock Slide. Rock Slide: 112.5/100. Stone Edge: 150/88. Taunt may be a helpful move as well, since it's your lead and all. I would put it over either Ice Fang (because you already have a rock move to cover flying), or Fire Blast (since you have no sp.atk EVs). Your choice, though.

Garchomp could use Fire Blast over Fire Fang, for the same reasons as Aerodactyl.

You have 3 fire-weaks and 3 ice-weaks, so watch out for that.

 

[egaddmario]

For the Bronzong you suggested, I like what you have there but it's already lvl 100. Could I still change the EVs to put into HP if they're not already? Also, I like the Fire Blast over Fire Fang on Garchomp, which my friend's Skarm always seems to wall...not after I'm done with this!

Edit Is 257 too low for HP? My Bronzong has 328 Def and 361 for SpD, so I'm guessing I went 252 on both. Was that a bad thing to do? Oh, and Chomp's got the Blast now. The reason Ice Fang is on Aero is because of opposing Dragon types...is that reason enough to keep it?

 

[0RLY]

For the Bronzong you suggested, I like what you have there but it's already lvl 100. Could I still change the EVs to put into HP if they're not already? Also, I like the Fire Blast over Fire Fang on Garchomp, which my friend's Skarm always seems to wall...not after I'm done with this!

I never level my Pokemon all the way to Lv100 in d/p. The reason is, when you play a WiFi match, your Pokemon are automatically boosted to Lv100 for the duration of the battle. At Lv100, you cannot change your EVs, because you can't Lv up. It is significantly better to have more HP, because you get more Leftovers recovery.

Edit Is 257 too low for HP? My Bronzong has 328 Def and 361 for SpD, so I'm guessing I went 252 on both. Was that a bad thing to do? Oh, and Chomp's got the Blast now. The reason Ice Fang is on Aero is because of opposing Dragon types...is that reason enough to keep it?

Hippowdon has Ice Fang, and can take attacks from opposing dragons much more easily than Aerodactyl can. Hippowdon can switch in to attacks from opposing dragons, Aerodactyl can't. Besides, common leads aren't dragon types. Common leads are weather inducers, sleep inducers, stealth rock-ers, and baton passers. Aero can already EQ Ttar (not sure if it will KO), he can fire blast bronzong, breloom, and abomasnow, rock slide hits crobat, and all those annoying flying pests. Ice Fang hits hippowdon, but his defenses are so high, you'll probably get a 3hko. Crunch has more utility for hitting Gengar, at least. Crunch-160, Rock Slide-112.5, Stone Edge-150.

 

[egaddmario]

Well, I could use the berries to lower def (because its my sp def wall) and then up HP with HP Up until it has 100 HP EVs...would that work for Bronzong? If not I may have to make another, but I'd rather not because of its high IVs. I know they can be carried on, but it's just tedious work, y'know? Also, Cacturne's HP is now divisible by 16, with 304 HP...the EVs I removed went into speed, which is now at 161, any good? And I'll be sure to change Ice Fang on Aero to Crunch. Oh, and I'm working on getting Stone Edge at the battle tower for Aero instead of Rock Slide

 

[9Kplus1]

Just breed another one <_<.

 

[egaddmario]

Okay, so Bronzong has been fixed. It's HP is now over 20 higher, which is great! The set was fixed to provide support for the rest of the team. Aero has been updated with Stone Edge and Crunch instead of Rock Slide and Ice Fang

 

[0RLY]

Everything looks great, you should be fine from now on ^^.