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Hey there, nice balanced Sand team!

I think your team has a couple of problems. You don't seem to have any reliable way of getting past the most common walls in the tier- mainly Bulky water types and bulky Steel types. Rotoms that carry WoW look as if they are extremely tough to take down for this team- as only Loom can hit them for decent damage but Lum can easily be burned. Subdisable Gengar also seems like a massive problem- it can sub up easily against Breloom or Landorus-T and then disable Tyranitar's incoming Crunch / Pursuit and then proceed to KO with Focus Blast. Volcarona and set up sweepers in general look like big threats; Volc can set up on Loom, Latias, and Choice Locked Tyranitar, and once it gets to +1 it's GG, as it can pretty easily OHKO your whole team with either Fire / Bug coverage. SD Scizor can also be an ass- using BP to maim Mamo, TTar, Latias, and Loom, and using Bug Bite to KO Jirachi. The main problem with your team is that it lacks the bulk to be able to take powerful hits and it also lacks the amount of speed / power necessary to check these threats. None of your pokemon really have any immediate access to great power / speed / coverage, making revenge killing / cleaning up very hard. In order to fix this, a few changes have to be made. Latias is a good setup sweeper, and Breloom and Mamoswine form a great offensive core, but your team lacks power hitters and speedy hitters to cover the rest of the metagame.

So first of all, we need to put in a power hitter for your team, one that can hit very hard or with good coverage and prefferably quickly. I think using a Choice Scarf Keldeo over Jirachi is a good idea- and here are my reasons. Keldeo is probably one of the best revenge killers in the metagame right now- on par with Terrakion and such. It can easily revenge all Dragons, and TTar can help it by removing ghosts and psychic types. I do not see the use of Jirachi- as Tyranitar can sponge most special attacks anyway, and Latias can sponge those that Tyranitar can not (i.e. Water / Fighting / Ground / Grass coverage)


Keldeo @ Choice Scarf
Timid / 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hydro Pump / Secret Sword / Hidden Power Ice / Surf

Name any one setup sweeper, and Keldeo can probably beat it. QD Volc? HPump is an OHKO. RP Lando? Tank an earth power and OHKO with HP Ice. DD Mence? HP Ice. SD Scizor? Tank a BP and KO with Hydro Pump. Having a Keldeo will greatly relieve the stress on the shoulders of Mamoswine and Breloom, letting you use them to tear holes and weaken opponents. Keldeo's Speed and power make it a great revenge killer. It also has great synergy with the rest of your team- poison types such as Tentacruel, Amoonguss, or Toxicroak can be beaten by Latias. Psychic types and ghost types can be killed by Tyranitar. Keldeo's HPump is its primary STAB move, hitting much of the metagame quite hard. Secret Sword is secondary STAB- hitting your opponent's defense stat, perfect for killing special walls. Hidden Power Ice is coverage; it hits Dragons, Flyers, and Grass types. Surf is extra coverage for when you don't want Hydro Pump to miss.

Now, your team needs sone extra layers of bulk to take care of the loss of your steel type. I'd give Landorus-T a spread of 200 HP / 64 Atk / 244 Def Adamant with U-Turn over Substitute. This gives you much extra securance against fighting types / physical attackers like Scizor / Terrakion, whilst still giving you enough power to beat the shit out of all of them with Earthquake. U-Turn lets you scout and pivot, and it lets you use Lando-T as a great lead, giving you an option to set rocks or pivot. U-Turn also hits Grass / Psychic types for decent amounts of damage, and lets you scout switchins from Tyranitar.

Your evs for Latias and Tyranitar look a little weird; I'll get back to you on that.

EDIT:
So yeah your spreads are pretty weird. I don't exactly see the point of Latias's Speed ev's. You've set it to outspeed max speed base 87s, which there really are none of. A set of just 112 HP / 144 SpA / 252 Spe Timid to beat all base 108's, but you do lose quite a lot of bulk. Or you can drop the speed evs down all the way to 16 Spe Timid, which lets you outspeed max speed base 80's and 252 ev base 90's (adamant luc) The rest can be put into Def and HP for a final spread of 252 HP / 240 Def / 16 Spe Timid. As you can see, there are vast differences between power / bulk in these two sets, but I think ising either one is more efficient than what you have now.

On Breloom, you're best off with just 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly. The change in bulk isn't very big, but the speed difference lets you beat Adamant Mamoswine, which will be useful.

Also, you might want to beef up the descriptions on Breloom so this doesn't get locked.

Good luck!

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Hey,

Congrats on your peak. This team is basically a form of standard sand with the exclusion of Mamoswine. It's cool to see someone use Calm Mind Latias again, since it's an underrated set in the current metagame. Now onto the rate.

I suggest you change your Tyranitar's EV spread a bit. I really think Tyranitar, especially banded sets, need the speed and attack EVs to outspeed and OHKO Jellicent. Even though you have Breloom, it still can't switch in as you don't want it burned. Everything on your team doesn't appreciate getting burned really so being able to get rid of it as soon as possible seems like a good thing. Most Jellicent these days run 184 speed to outrun standard Tyranitar so running 108 speed EVs should allow you to outspeed every variant. Now, the absolute minimum attack EVs you should run on Tyranitar is 224. This way you always get the ohko on Jellicent with Crunch, as they mostly stay in trying to WoW you on the predicted Pursuit. This leaves 178 which still allows you to live two Draco Meteors from Lati@s'. You may also consider running Substite somewhere on Latias as the main enemy of this set is status like Toxic. But again, this is up to you.

I also think you would be better off changing your Landorus-T's EV spread. Your team is pretty easily swept by a Swords Dance Toxicroak at +2, even with Latias (it gets OHKO'd at +2), as only Mamoswine can do something in return but is OHKO'd after 2 Stealth Rock switch ins by sucker punch. This is why I think your Landorus could use the extra speed needed to outspeed Toxicroak. Running a Jolly nature with 112 speed EVs is enough to do that. This will cost Landorus-T some attacking power so you might want to consider replacing Substitute with something like U-turn or Swords Dance as it won't be doing as much damage anymore unboosted.

Lastly, I don't see the point of 224 speed EVs on Breloom as the main reason to run Jolly is to outspeed Adamant Mamoswine so at the very least run 240 Speed EVs so it can do that. Also lastly just an optional thing to do is replacing Substite for Thunderbolt on Jirachi and giving it a Hasty nature. This way you have another way past Skarmory aside from Hidden Power Fire'ing, Ttar's Stone Edge and trying to burn it with Fire Punch. This'll cost it some physical bulk though so it's up to you if you feel it's worth it or not.

Hope I helped. Good luck.

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The team looks good to me there is just one thing I would change Subrachi to SubCMrachi since u have only latias as a spec attacker so here is the set I would run:
Jirachi @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252Spd
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Calm Mind
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Cannon

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Hey!

Solid team team you have here, it's the standard Sand team which is common on the Ladder, except for Mamoswine and you're using an interesting set of Calm Mind Latias as well, however, let's go with the rate. First of all, you should try Choice Band Tyranitar with 104 EVs on Speed to outspeed some fast versions of Jellicent [which are very common nowadays to outspeed Scizor and some Tyranitar too and to Will-O-Wisp them before they Pursuit Jellicent] and to Pursuit it before Jellicent Will-O-Wisps your Tyranitar and you should follow Eranu's suggestion to use Tyranitar with 224 EVs on Attack, which allow you to get the OHKO on the standard Jellicent with Crunch. You can also try a more defensive Tyranitar instead of your current one with an EV spread 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD, with Crunch, Pursuit, Superpower and Stealth Rock, with a Careful nature and with Chople Berry; this EV spread allows you to beat threats such as Alakazam, Gengar and Reuniclus more easily [a more defensive Tyranitar would help you against Volcarona too, which is a threat for your team since it can setup on Breloom, Jirachi and Latias quite easily and then it can be very troublesome with its coverage moves] since they are all big threats for your team and since your current Tyranitar sometimes can't be a reliable check to the Pokemon I mentioned you should try this Tyranitar and see what happens, if you want to try how work on your team Chople Berry Tyranitar remember to change Landorus-T's set accordingly.

Personally, I'd use a Double Booster set with a moveset of Sword Dance, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Rock Polish, with an Adamant nature and with Yache Berry [you should also use Leftovers or Life Orb if you prefer them], which allows you to have a strong physical sweeper to sweep opponent's team, you can also decide when use Sword Dance and when use Rock Polish [for example if you're versus a stall team, Sword Dance is better than Rock Polish and if you're against a offensive team Rock Polish is definitely better than Sword Dance] so Double Booster Landorus-T is an adaptable sweeper too. If you decide to keep your Landorus-T conversely, I suggest you to follow Electrolyte's suggestions about it because they are all very good and they can improve your Landorus-T a lot for the reasons which Electrolyte explained on his rate.

After that, your team lacks a revenge-killers and a fast Pokemon in general to beat threats such as Dragonite, Salamence, Sword Dance Scizor and Lucario more easily. Therefore, I suggest you to change Jirachi's set in a Choice Scarf one, a standard EV spread of 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe with a moveset of Iron Head, U-Turn, Fire Punch and Ice Punch, with Jolly nature and with Choice Scarf should work fine on your current one, also, your current Jirachi doesn't fit very well on your current team in my opinion since the set you want to use needs some paralysis to work fine and this team hasn't move such as Thunder Wave and Body Slam so on this team the Jirachi you use hasn't the support which it needs and this is another reason to use change Jirachi's set in a Choice Scarf one, which allows you to revenge-kill fast threats more easily and it gives you a fast Pokemon in general which can be always useful during a battle. You can also consider, as Electrolyte already suggested you, to use Choice Scarf Keldeo instead of your current Jirachi which is a great Pokemon for your team too so my suggestion is to try both Choice Scarf Keldeo and Choice Scarf Jirachi and see which works better during your battles.

Before I go, I suggest you to follow Eranu's suggestion about Breloom because it's good as always. You should also try to use an Adamant nature instead of Jolly nature on your Breloom which would allow you to hit harder with Breloom's STAB, this is optional however, if you prefer Jolly nature you can keep it. Congrats on your peak by the way.

Good luck!

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Lol I recognize this team as the one that I managed to get two rock slide flinches on latias with Terrakion and hardwalled breloom with flame orb Sigilyph.

The really funny part though was bluffing a slow/defensive jirachi and iron heading mamoswine for the KO :P

good team but when your pokemon have counters, they have very good counters (ie terrakion for latios, sigilyph for breloom, rain ferro for Jirachi, etc)

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