My first OU team.

[Echronus]

Hey guys this is my first competitive OU team I've made and am looking for some suggestions on what can be changed. I'm down for almost any changes as this is my first OU team I've made and have been successful with.

Paco (Breloom) (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Technician
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Mach Punch
- Bullet Seed
- Swords Dance
- Spore

So this is my lead, I usually go for a spore to grab my near guaranteed swords dance. As most people switch a pokemon who's asleep. Or if i see they have a grass type I predict the switch and go for a swords dance while they switch. When my swords dance is up i can almost K.O. anything that doesnt have a resistance to fighting, grass, or is specially defensive.

Feaos (Charizard-Mega-Y) (M) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Flamethrower
- Focus Blast
- Solar Beam
- Roost/Dragon Pulse

Not much to say about this guy he's a special attack sweeper. Other than that I like to use him before I throw out Umbreon to get the sun boost for moonlight. I've tested and it seems roost can be viable but the problem is Charizard Y is so squishy that ive died after a roost. Any other suggestions on his fourth move would be great, I like dragon pulse but it usually doesn't quite hit as hard as I'd want it to on dragons.

Gryber (Excadrill) (M) @ Air Balloon
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide

Excadrill is my physical sweeper that is a bit bulkier and quicker than my Breloom. His movepool is designed to take out those pesky fairies and I've recently added rock slide to counter Talonflame and other Charizards, as they can wreck havoc on my team with their decent weakness to fire and flying. Mold Breaker and Balloon is certainly cookie cutter so i wont bother to explain it's usefulness :P

El Muerte (Gengar) (M) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Levitate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SpA
Timid Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Sludge Bomb
- Focus Blast
- Thunderbolt

Similar to my Charizard Y, he is a quick special sweeper, but i designed his movepool to take out other ghost, psychic, water, and normal types Charizard didn't get to himself. With the ban of Mega-Gengar I decided to go with black sludge as I've seen a bit more people using Switcheroo like moves. Black sludge will just poison them which is quite humorous. Overall he's my Swiss Army knife Pokemon, he usually has a move to take out a Pokemon that the rest of my team can't

Emena (Umbreon) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SDef
Careful Nature
- Curse
- Foul Play
- Moonlight
- Heal Bell

I guess you would call Umbreon my multipurpose tank. She has foul play to take down buffed sweepers who are giving me problems, she has heal bell to heal her own status or any other pokemon in my party, and has some stalling capabilities. Heal bell is certainly useful since you can cure any sweepers who were poisoned or burned midway through their sweep. She may slow down my rather hasty team, but she's well worth it when she heals everyone and wares down the opposing team; usually by passing any status with synchronize. Also as stated earlier, she has good synergy with Charizard Y since moonlight gains a healing boost in the sun.

Scarlet (Latias) @ Wise Glasses
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Psyshock
- Draco Meteor
- Defog
- Surf

I recently replaced my Scizor for Latias, and i have to say i'm liking the switch so far. Latias is my defogger and revenge killer. The main moves are Draco Meteor and Defog (obviously) and the rest i placed for mere coverage. Surf is there because i have no one on my team that has a move to counter fire who isn't susceptible to fire themselves (a.k.a Excadrill), so it's nice being able to take out a Charizard or Talonflame without taking enormous damage first. Psyschock is a STAB move that's useful in case Gengar is already dead or it's not safe to use him in the act of defeating a ghost type. Something you guys will find strange is the Wise Glasses, it's my first time using them. If you don't know it boost all SpA moves by 1.1. I originally chose life orb but the damage you take just doesn't feel worth it, besides, is that extra 0.2 of a boost of damage really worth it? Especially on a Latias more or less designed solely to disable entry hazards and screens, and kill dragons.



Thank you guys, any help would be much appreciated :)

 

[TheAntler]

First things first, you're gonna want to make your descriptions longer or the mods will lock this thread. Second, your Charizard set is pretty strange. I'd suggest running this one instead:

Charizard @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
Timid
252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD
-Fire Blast
-Solar Beam
-Focus Blast
-Roost

Air Slash isn't that great of a move on YZard, since it doesn't give him much coverage, and Fire Blast does way more damage than Heat Wave. Lastly, running Roost is a really good idea since he takes 50% from Stealth Rock, which almost every team runs.

Another thing, you might want to run Rock Slide over X-Scissor on Excadrill, with 252 EVs in Atk. And you're gonna want to add the other 252 EVs to Gengar's description.

 

[Echronus]

i took all your choices into consideration, but as for charizard what will i have to counter dragon?

 

[Echronus]

First things first, you're gonna want to make your descriptions longer or the mods will lock this thread. Second, your Charizard set is pretty strange. I'd suggest running this one instead:

Charizard @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
Timid
252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD
-Fire Blast
-Solar Beam
-Focus Blast
-Roost

Air Slash isn't that great of a move on YZard, since it doesn't give him much coverage, and Fire Blast does way more damage than Heat Wave. Lastly, running Roost is a really good idea since he takes 50% from Stealth Rock, which almost every team runs.

Another thing, you might want to run Rock Slide over X-Scissor on Excadrill, with 252 EVs in Atk. And you're gonna want to add the other 252 EVs to Gengar's description.

also the evs were a typo sorry

 

[Petrico94]

Flamethrower is always better than heat wave, that 90% is just begging to miss. I would also replace dragon pulse with roost but it's not as important. Excadrill could also be a spinner if you don't want to worry about stealth rocks. But I guess Scizor with defog could handle them fine. It's ok to have two megas but be careful who and when you use them, Charizard was NU before two megas were added while Scizor has almost always been OU.

And if you're paranoid about dragons, you could replace someone with the new fairys like Togekiss and Sylveon as special or Azumarill for a physical.

 

[Echronus]

Flamethrower is always better than heat wave, that 90% is just begging to miss. I would also replace dragon pulse with roost but it's not as important. Excadrill could also be a spinner if you don't want to worry about stealth rocks. But I guess Scizor with defog could handle them fine. It's ok to have two megas but be careful who and when you use them, Charizard was NU before two megas were added while Scizor has almost always been OU.

And if you're paranoid about dragons, you could replace someone with the new fairys like Togekiss and Sylveon as special or Azumarill for a physical.

ive changed it too fire blast as of right now, and I am very paranoid of dragons haha, but i was thinking instead of a fairy maybe change up scizor for latias?

 

[Echronus]

Update: Scizor swapped for Latias.^

 

[Frozen Arrow]

Hey I have had a look at your team and here are the things I suggest:
Gengar should use Dazzling Gleam instead of thunderbolt so that you have something to counter Dark/Fighting pokemon.

This is optional but you could switch Excadrill around slightly to be more bulky by using Shadow claw instead of sword dance and running Assault vest on it so it can survive longer, it could then afford to run adamant and a different EV set.
Finally with so many rotoms being around, Energy ball might be a viable option for Latias instead of Surf, but again this is dependent on typical teams you face.
Hopefully these can be helpful :)

 

[Echronus]

Hey I have had a look at your team and here are the things I suggest:
Gengar should use Dazzling Gleam instead of thunderbolt so that you have something to counter Dark/Fighting pokemon.

This is optional but you could switch Excadrill around slightly to be more bulky by using Shadow claw instead of sword dance and running Assault vest on it so it can survive longer, it could then afford to run adamant and a different EV set.
Finally with so many rotoms being around, Energy ball might be a viable option for Latias instead of Surf, but again this is dependent on typical teams you face.
Hopefully these can be helpful :)

Thanks for the Gengar suggestion, and ill try out Excadrill with assault vest as soon as possible because it seems that, that would be more viable more often than balloon swords dance (: