Just beat Dahlia in the battle arcade and nabbed myself my first gold print. Before I continue my run, though, I need some advice. I always had trouble with deciding on a lead, so they tend to keep flipflopping. My ideal lead is a nice mixed attacker that can do lots of damage before dying and letting my other two team members clean up, or at the very least something that can patch up holes in my team.
Firstly,
the permanent members:
Hitmonchan***Triple H
Iron Fist
Adamant
IVs: flawless except for special attack obv
EVs: 170 HP / 252 Atk / 88 Spe
Set: CC / Ice Punch / Mach Punch / EQ
In the beginning of my run, I just slapped random shit from my box together that I don't use very often, and to my surprise, Hitmonchan always preformed amazingly. It has excellent coverage, and with this analysis spread has decent bulk. I used the Agility set EVs because this was originally bred for use on an NU team to abuse Iron fist Mach Punch and I felt that a lot of other things will outrun Hitmonchan anyways. The HP has actually saved my ass several times, such as in the match against Dahlia, in which it was my last Pokemon against her Togekiss, and I survived Air Slash with 6 HP. I prefer the slightly better speed and attacking power over Technitop, and this has preformed too well to be dispensable.
Latias
Timid
IVs and EVs: unknown, received in a trade from Negator with Choice Specs, so I presume it is near flawless with Specs set EVs
Set: Trick / Draco Meteor / Dragon Pulse / Surf
I use this on a regular OU team for Specs, and since I don't have AR, I'll have to get this cloned before I replace Trick with Recover so no one give me shit about that please. Trick did have some use once, though, when the AI got a Life Orb from the 'give items' event, and I was able to give it to myself for awesome sweepage later on. I don't think I really have to talk about how Latias is good, is decently bulky, blablablabla. I will speak on how Hitmonchan and Latias work together well; I never have to worry about stupid crap like Umbreon that has cropped up a few times, and nearly every special oriented ice type is kept away. I prefer her better defenses to Latios' greater attack; they've saved me a few times.
Now that you have a general picture of what I use that works, here are the
failed experiments, the replacements for what I need help with:
Flygon***Holy!
Rash
IVs and EVs: too lazy to post, but for mixed set
Set: Draco Meteor / EQ / Fire Blast / Roost
Used for one round towards the beginning. Didn't do shit. Replaced quickly.
Dragonite
Quiet
IVs and EVs: Too lazy to check, received in trade from friend, presumably near flawless and with mixed set EVs
Set: Draco Meteor / Fire Blast / EQ / ES
The problem with this was that it offered no extra coverage besides Fire Blast, and extra priority. It did better than Flygon, but the enemy AI kept sending things with ice moves that did a large chunk, so most of the time, I just fired off Draco Meteor and let it die.
Registeel***Cubicle
Careful
IVs: 31 / 30 / 30 / 25 / 31 / 30
EVs: 252 HP / 100 Atk / 158 SpD
Set: Iron Head / EQ / T-Wave / SR
The rocks are just there since I use this for UU on Wi-Fi as well, nothing much to replace them with and I used them a few times to rack up some damage and saved me from a goddamn Yanmega once. Probably my most successful lead, my usual strategy with this is paraflinch with T-wave and Iron Head. I'm still uneasy about it, however, and a lot of things like to Focus Blast/fire move to leave a dent in it when I'm not necessary prepared to switch in Latias (ex: Gengar, Mismagius at 100%). It has some nice synergy with the rest of the team, resisting Psychic, Flying, Dark, and Ice, along with Fighting, Fire, and Ground taken care of, but eh. tl;dr, depending on what the opponent runs, it's hit and miss.
So yeah, that's all. Any helpful commentary on how I can finish my team will be appreciated. I have a lot of Pokemon, so I can conceivably get my hands on most anything suggested. Someone said
Electivire would be nice, and given that bulky waters and Staraptor give me headaches, that might not be a bad idea. Thanks in advance.