1st Team on Shoddy I'm in wisconsin so help me please

Davey Jones

A sweeper team that needs a lot of work.

Azelf @ Focus Sash
Levitate
Ev’s: 252/Spe, 252/SAtk, 6/Atk
Naive (+Spe, -SDef)
-Stealth Rock
-Explosion
-Fire Blast
-Thunderbolt

Description: Pew pew are some choice words for him, i like the speed and rock lead, usually takes down at least one guy on the other team with a combination of focus sash and explosion. bolt blast is the new bolt beam with all the zongs floating around with the same gyarados coverage.

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Sand Veil
Ev’s: 252/Spd, 252/Atk, 6/Hp
Adament (+Akt, -SAkt)
-Outrage
-Fire Fang
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge

Description: I really prefer to make teams without garchomp, but he just seemed to be the perfect fit. With all the attack crazy chomps running around I think that bringing the scarf back will be a nice curveball to serve up. I’m not crazy about using two dragon moves but its nice to have a STAB without locking into the death trap that outrage can become early game, suggestions are appreciated.

Gyarados @ Life Orb
Intimidate
Ev’s: 200/Spd, 252/Atk, 56/Hp
Adament (+Atk, -SAtk)
-Dragon Dance
-Stone Edge/Ice Fang
-Earthquake
-Waterfall

Description: The standard gyarados, stacked with damage and ready to hit the dance floor the only thing that really gives him too much of a problem is celebii. Not sure what to go with either Stone Edge or Ice Fang it’d be nice to have a gyarados counter, besides waterfall does around 70% to a garchomp who probably has a yache berry on him anywho. The spd evs are to out speed most other gyarados that I might come across.

Heatran @ Choice Scarf
Flash Fire
Ev’s: 252/SAkt, 252/Spd, 4/Hp
Modest (+SAtk, -Atk)
-Flamethrower
-Explosion
-Dragon Pulse
-Earthpower

Description: I don’t see much point in running lava plume over flamethrower, both blissey and celebii have natural cure, and those are the most common tanks seen. The rest seems pretty standard with nice type coverage that packs a punch.

Deoxsys @ Life Orb
Ev’s: 252/SAtk, 252/Spe, 4/Atk
Hasty (+Spe, -Def)
-Thunderbolt
-Ice Beam
-Superpower
-Shadow Ball

Description: A necessity for any sweeper team. Its type coverage speed and power make it one of the most feared sweepers in the game. To be honest I don’t know the numbers when it comes to a superpower to blisseys dome if someone could share the ev/damage count on that match-up I’d greatly appreciate it.

Lucario @ Life Orb
Ev’s: 252/Spe, 252/Atk, 4/Hp
Jolly (you know what it does)
-Swords Dance
-Close Combat
-Extreme Speed
-Crunch

Description: I’m going with jolly to out speed other lucs which seem to be everywhere now-a-days. After 1 swords dance there usually isn’t much trouble with the amount of damage your doing anyway. Crunch for random ghost/psychic predictions allows you to at least STAB or have something super effective on almost anything.

So that’s the team, I’m stuck in Wisconsin as of right now so if you could give me something to do (rate, critique the team) I’d really appreciate it.
 
Swampert cannot handle both Gyarados and Bronzong when it's choosing between both Waterfall and Stone Edge (the two moves required for both of the opposition), and on the actual concept Swampert is poor at that: Waterfall 4HKOs Bronzong (let's not forget Stealth Rock up is the primary objective, giving Bronzong 4 turns atleast) while Stone Edge is a 3HKO on Gyarados with Intimidate factorized. With this offensive team perhaps Swampert isn't the ideal choice to set-up Stealth Rock. Azelf with Thunderbolt / Fire Blast / Explosion / Stealth Rock with Focus Sash seems more suited for this team. It's a fast Stealth Rock, can 2HKO Bronzong and OHKO Gyarados (if that's of any importance), and can explode when you feel that Azelf has played its part in the respective match. Maximize both Speed and Special Attack, with a Naive nature.

To ensure opposing Gyarados don't outspeed you, I would transfer those remaining HP EVs into Speed. This alternative guarantees a speed-tie with any Gyarados opposition that runs maximum Speed. Jolly Gyarados is not regular and is barely used, if at all, so it's not to be considered.
 
Yea your probably right i had azelf there initially, and thought that swampert could handle some outraging chomps, but i realized ive got plenty in the faster pokes with both ice and dragon moves.
 
Hey brother, dude wisconsin is freaking awesome go Packers baby, id be glad to help a great man like you.

Yeah, i definately like the idea of taylor by adding Azelf over Swampert, even though swampert is a nice pokemon.

For scarf Chomp, you might as well put on Fire blast\fang. Like you said early game its a nightmere but early game they should be switching into their counter anyways, which 9\10 is steel or cressy. Therefore crunch is another option there to hit him on the switch, but since you have SDluke anyways id just go with the fire attack. Blast hits skarm harder, Fang hits zong.

For Heatran, if HP ice is available go for it over Dragon Pulse. Since it will primarily be a "surprise" revenge killer i assume you would want the 4X super effective on things it will most likely be killing, (sala nite chop). Overheat is an option over flamethrower because without specs heatran needs a little boost, its hard to 2hko something but if they switch into a counter overheat will at least dent them more than flamethrower would. Also Modest is a bad nature for him with explosion, for some reason i see alot of people running modest explosion Heatrans and idk if im missing something but lowering his attack doesnt really help. So naive or rash nature will do here.

For gyara, i would go with the bulkdos set, it has much more longevity, which is going to be needed since you dont have a spinner on your team.

Otherwise it looks pretty good, maybe ill cya round sometime :p
 
I'm not so sure I can help with the Wisconsin thing, sorry =/

I think I would go with the Lum Bronzong lead, since it can set up SR and use Hypnosis, which might as well be a KO with this team's ridiculous offense. It can also explode to get you out of a tight spot.

Although Azelf works, it has very similar coverage to Deoe, and I think that something with a unique support pool would be more useful.
 
Fire Blast > Fire Fang on Garchomp for sure, or else you will be dealing very little damage to steels like Forretress and Skarmory, especially the latter who can just Roost off the damage.

Other than that watch out for the lethal combination of Pursuit+Infernape, as it absolutely destroys this team. Once Deoxys-S has used Superpower once, Tyranitar will be able to easily survive, come in, and kill you. Watch out for Weavile doing this as well. Immediate threats to Deoxys-S are Scizor and Metagross, and if they have Infernape, look out, because you will lose, unless they don't switch out of Scarf Chomp(they should since many either have Scarf or Yache Berry).

Other than that pretty standard stuff.
 
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