My new shoddy team

[shiny meta]

hi all this is my second team i've posted on smogon (the last RMT I had no idea about competitive battling)

anyway team overview

Lead

Primate
scarf, adamant
252atk/252spe/4hp
-close combat
-fire punch
-stone edge
-ice punch

comments: this thing is great as a lead, immunity to sleep and enough attack to 2KO most common wall leads help it as well.

Weakness: psychic, flying
Covered by: heatran, bronzong

Bronzong
leftovers, bold
252hp/252def/4atk
-gyro ball
-hypnosis
-earthquake
-stealth rocks

Comments: standard
Weakness: fire
covered by: heatran, poliwrath, flygon

Heatran
choice scarf/timid
34hp/252sp.atk/224spe
-earth power
-dragon pulse
-flamethrower
-overheat

Comments: pretty standard scartran, 224 speed evs allow it tho outrun adamant scarfhera.

Weakness: ground,water,fighting
covered by: flygon(ground),poliwrath(water)

Poliwrath
leftovers/careful
252hp/58stk/200sp.def
-bulk up
-hypnosis
-brick break
-ice punch

Comments: this and scizor are the main things im trying to set up so yeah.

Weakness: flying, electric, grass, psychic
covered by: bronzong(fly/psychic), heatran(grass/fly/psychic), flygon(electric)

Flygon
life orb/jolly
252atk/252spe/4hp
-u-turn
-heatwave
-earthquake
-Outrage

Comments: u-turn scouts, heatwave for skarm/zong and other two for stab.

weakness: ice, dragon
covered by: heatran, bronzong

Scizor
focus sash/adamant
252hp/252atk/4spd
-bullet punch
-quick attack
-superpower
-swords dance

Comments: late game sweeper. SD up then sweep with Bullet punch, using the other moves when required

Weakness: fire
Covered by: heatran, poliwrath, flygon

Use of team:
turn 1: usally use the best move for the situation on primate
or switch to a resist of i know im screwed

turn2: if primate is still alive just keep doing damage until it dies
if primate is dead usually switch to bronzong and use rocks or use u-turn fygon.

other turns: zong sets rocks then chips away at health until a counter comes, scarftran and flygon are used to scout their pokemon and force swithes racking up stealth rock damage. once i have enough info to know i can set up poliwrath/scizor i find a good switch and start to set up.
so anyway what do you think. i normally win about 85% of my matches so the team seems to be working. Comments?

 

[Adam Blade]

Well, there is a lot to fix here...

Primeape doesn't need all those elemental punches. Try Stone Edge over Thunderpunch. It covers Flying-types better than Thunderpunch and has a nice critical hit rate. Drop Fire Punch for Payback or Counter. With a Focus Sash that should work nicely. Brongzong is very messed up here. Zon should not be used as a CMer. Change the nature to Sassy and the EV spred to something like 252 HP / 211 SpD / 48 Att with Gyro Ball / Hypnosis / Earthquake / Stealth Rock. I sometimes use Heatproof to suprise people,but I see Levitate fits here. NEVER put two of the same type moves on a Pokemon if they do the same thing. Drop Flamethrower for something like Hidden Power Electric to surprise Gyaradaos. Poliwrath looks like it works like Bronzong. You don't need two Pokemon on a team doing the same things. Drop Hypnosis for Waterfall since the Platinum changes have made Hypnosis 60% accuracy. Flygon looks standard I suppose. Scizor seems weird,but I have no time to fix it now.

Note,this is my first rate so its not that great.
Overall I say 5/10.

Good luck with the rest of your team.

 

[Imran]

I would consider running Choice Scarf > Focus Sash on Primape, simply because once the sash is gone (and remember a lot of leads these days are made to counter sashed pokemon) then POrimape is running unboosted attacks withough anything else. I guess if you dont want to be locked into one move and you think the extra speed is unessecary then go with Life Orb, but ScarfApe is going to do you better in the long run.

I also don't really see an overall "Strategy" in your team, I guess getting Flygon in on things that dont scare it such as Celebis Thunder Wave etc... and then U-Turn to keep constant pressure on your opponant. I guess generally weken down stuff to be able to set up either poliwrath or Scizor Late Game, but you havent really told us how you are going to accomplish that.

First of all you seem to have 3 sort of "Set-Uppers" and they just seem to sit there waiting for something to revenge them. Especially CM Bronzong, I never really had any luck with that as it doesn't seem to do much but it there. If you could provide us some deatils about how you would play this team, or something in that vein it would make it a lot easier to rate.

 

[shiny meta]

Well, there is a lot to fix here...

Primeape doesn't need all those elemental punches. Try Stone Edge over Thunderpunch. It covers Flying-types better than Thunderpunch and has a nice critical hit rate. Drop Fire Punch for Payback or Counter. With a Focus Sash that should work nicely. Brongzong is very messed up here. Zon should not be used as a CMer. Change the nature to Sassy and the EV spred to something like 252 HP / 211 SpD / 48 Att with Gyro Ball / Hypnosis / Earthquake / Stealth Rock. I sometimes use Heatproof to suprise people,but I see Levitate fits here. NEVER put two of the same type moves on a Pokemon if they do the same thing. Drop Flamethrower for something like Hidden Power Electric to surprise Gyaradaos. Poliwrath looks like it works like Bronzong. You don't need two Pokemon on a team doing the same things. Drop Hypnosis for Waterfall since the Platinum changes have made Hypnosis 60% accuracy. Flygon looks standard I suppose. Scizor seems weird,but I have no time to fix it now.

Note,this is my first rate so its not that great.
Overall I say 5/10.

Good luck with the rest of your team.

the comments on primate, zong and poliwrath seems reasonable but on the point of heatran. heatran has overheat and flamethrower because they serve different purposes, overheat is for doing huge damage quickly while flamethrower is used as late game to remove damaged pokemon. scizor is pretty standard for platinum now though.

EDIT: Updated the comments that other people gave

 

[Adam Blade]

the comments on primate, zong and poliwrath seems reasonable but on the point of heatran. heatran has overheat and flamethrower because they serve different purposes, overheat is for doing huge damage quickly while flamethrower is used as late game to remove damaged pokemon. scizor is pretty standard for platinum now though.

I can see where you are coming from,but I have to go now. I'll explain more if anything comes to mind.

EDIT:
And I agree with Goldfan. You need to explain there roles more.