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The reason Mega is vastly preferred over base is that you get the benefits of similar sets and items without dealing with the drawbacks, similar to Latios. The jump in bulk also makes it a better trade machine (try Jolly with enough speed to deal with Zapdos on offense, lowkey decent). Yes...
I don't know, Heatran still has really important defensive utility in checking stuff like Latios, Volcarona and Lele. Yes, Magma Storm is a bitch of a move and yes, all of them can beat it with certain sets but it does the job at not letting them click their most scary moves (Luster, Z Bug...
:blaziken::charizard-mega-y::great-tusk::raging-bolt::slowking::terapagos:
After SD Blaziken failed many times I went with Banded in Sun.
Mostly standard Zard partners with the change of King instead of Bro, since Diancie was a big problem for the team. Not a perfect answer but it does enough...
https://pokepast.es/df66cb56fb2c125a
garg checks stuff like diancie, kyurem and volc
gliscor vomits spikes and does gliscor things (bastard), enough speed for modest tran
av lele checks latios, val, even diancie on a pinch
zapdos for kartana, punish uturn (this could be boots pagos tbh)
latios...