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I recently decided to start running a Baton Pass team. In the past, Baton Pass had to deal with threats such as Taunt, Encore, and Phasing. 5th gen hurt Baton Pass even more with Prankster and Dragon Tail/Circle Throw. Thankfully, it also came with a boon in Magic Bounce to counter it and other...

I think you need another dedicated Rain Dancer. As a whole this team is rather frail and slow without Rain, so I think a bulky Rain Dancer like Bronzong, Jirachi, or Zapdos would work well over Gengar or Scizor. I would even advise replacing the other one as well. Between these two replacements...

Thanks for the advice Plus. Those changes leave me pretty LO Jolt weak, however, who I've been seeing a lot lately, while making it harder to kill off Tyranitar. They also don't really address my Shed Shell Steel, SubPetaya Empoleon, or Blissey issues. Originally, I ran Scizor>Salamence, but...

Starmie is NOT a SD Luke counter because +2 Extremespeed OHKO's it unless you're running a really defensive spread (which can be worn dowbn by entry hazards). There really isn't anything that will replace Gliscor to fix your bulky Water weakness while not opening up holes for SD Luke unless...

Infernape with HP Ice/Fire Blast/Grass Knot/Close Combat outspeeds and OHKO's everything on this team. Your only chance is to wear it down with switches or take it out with priority, but it will still kill at least one of your Pokemon and do some severe damage to the rest of your team. Other...

This team is absolutely wrecked by Gyrados, Infernape, HP Fire Celebi, Suicune, and many more. I think the key here is to remember that not all members of a Sandstorm team have to be resistant to Sandstorm. Do that and you're left with too little type variability defensively, which is definitely...

Oh, I used to have a Scizor on this team an forgot to edit that part out. Dugtrio only comes in on revenge and OHKO's Breloom with Aerial Ace. Recover is necessary over Wish because the instant recovery allows it to set-up CM on Ice Beams and Shadow Balls. 0 Sp. Att Ice Beam will OHKO even my...

This team incorporates two of my favorite Strategies, trapping and Sub/CM. It has peaked in the 142X range on Shoddy. There are so many things that the combination of Magnezone and Dugtrio can kill off. Scizor, Tyranitar, Jirachi, Heatran, Infernape, Lucario, Skarmory, Starmie, and Breloom are...

I'm really not all too convinced that your team isn't vulnerable to the DD Gyrados and CM Latias you've mentioned. You have no safety net should your counter to either one of them goes down, which is pretty plausible as many teams will run Magnezone with CM Lati or some Pursuiter with Gyrados...

I really don't think you should be so reliant on Rain as without it, you have no Pokemon outside of the choiced Scizor that function properly. ScarfTar switches into your two main Rain Dancers (Azelf and Rotom) with no threat to itself, negates your Rain and Pursuits you to hell. You don't...

The lack of any sort of electric resist or immunity means things like Jolteon or Magnezone throwing around STAB Thunderbolts will really hurt this team. If they manage to get a sub up, you're in even more trouble. All you can really hope for is a revenge kill with Aerodactyl, but with no spinner...

With no recovery, no spinner, 4 Stealth Rock weaknesses and the fact that Stealth Rock is on almost every team in today's metagame, your team is in trouble right off the bat. Things like Heatran, Lucario, Metagross and Tyranitar have field days with this team. In my opinion hail teams cannot be...

Magnezone says hi to your team, trapping and killing half your team leaving you with 2 choice users and Tyranitar. Therefore, Skarm wants Shed Shell as the only one of the trappables who Magnezone can switch in freely against. No one likes switching into a Scarf Heatran who can OHKO everything...

You're incredibly Dugtrio weak who can pick off half your team with AA and EQ. SpecsJolt laughs at your feeble attempt to cover up your weakness to it as it can 2HKO pretty much everything on your team with Thunderbolt and only Gengar and Lucario can hit it first, but must come in on revenge...

Latias likes setting up on ScarfTran? Gyrados? Salamence? I don't think so... Maybe Jolt and Vap, but its not like I them out with Porygon2, its just another counter. It also attracts choiced Fighting attacks like light attracts bugs. It's even a funny as heck switchin to Scarf Flygon, who...

Bump. Threat list added. Any ways to beat CurseLax/Rain Dance more easily?

Though not very common, Dugtrio is a huge danger to your team, taking out Tentacruel, Tyranitar, and Blissey with CB EQ, without you being able to make the opposing team pay much in return. All you can do is set up entry hazards and pray they don't get spun away while you get Duggy in on Roar or...

Hmmm... you're right, I might have overreacted to his issues. But I fear you might've underreacted. How does that team beat the standard Surf/Ice Beam/EQ/filler Swampert? How does it take a Machamp? Though I missed this weakness too, you still leave him with no safe switchin or reliable...

How do you beat a Vaporeon or Suicune? Sure, you can switch to Lanturn, but that's just asking for them to bring in a Ground, and force something to eat an EQ. If Tyranitar can get in on Crobat when it doesn't U-Turn or Latias and either DD up if Ludlicolo is weakened or force something to...

Yeah, I agree with PhilosophicalPsychologica on the Suicune/Electivire combo not being as effective as you might think. Especially with Suicune not having Rest/Talk, it's incredibly vulnerable to Toxic. Considering most Suicune are CMers, most people woulnt try to Thunderbolt it straight up...