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I posted this yesterday and no one rated it at all.:pirate:
So I am posting again to try and make people make this team better.
What I was thinking when making this team is to set up safely and sweep teams with my 2 sweepers. It's been really successful for now, but I know it can do better, so plz rate and I am open to any suggestions.

Aerodactyl Anti SR@focus sash
252atk/252spd@jolly
Pressure
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Crunch/Eq
Stone Edge
SR
Taunt
A not so needed member of my team since my team has no one weak to SR. Offers the taunt support all teams need. Crunch for Azelf or Eq for heatran, Stone edge for STAB and flying types that I hate a lot(Zapdos, Sala, Gyra).

Rhyperior Tank@leftovers
Solid rock
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132hp/126def/252sp.def@impish
rest
sleep talk
stone edge
Eq
The sleep talker with some special defense bulk to block heatrans, able to survive a SD LO CC STAB from luke. Made to block phsical attacks and heatran's fire blast.

Umbreon Set up Helper@leftovers
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76hp/252def/182sp.def
mean look
baton pass
yawn
protect
My set up helper, traps preys(mostly bulky water or a fire breathing heatran) and goes to Kindra to DD up or Hypno to Setup for belly drum. Really important in my team. Mostly traps bulky waters. But I don't know which moves to choose from in the last 2 slots, yawn or wish or taunt or protect.

Rest DD Kindra@chesto berry
Sniper
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166hp/160def/96sp.def/86atk
rest
DD
waterfall
outrage
Really easy to set up with this set, has always gotten at least 2 DD every single one of it's battle. Ice shard from mamo only do about 20%.

Hypno Belly Booster@salac berry
Foreswarn
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belly drum
baton pass
hypnosis
sub
A belly passer to go to kingdra or scizor, once it's successful, my opponent is so gone. Although hypnosis is unstable, it's the only sleep move it has.

Scizor@LO
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252atk/56spd/202hp
bullet punch
x-scissor
super power
SD
A pretty normal scizor, SD is for when the passing fails and scizor is all on it's own. It has problem dealing with scarf tran since it can't outspeed it. Not much to say, a power house.

Can go list:aerodactyl,rhyperior

Plz rate.
My first RMT.
Not detailed, I know, I will do better next time.
 
Aerodactyl and Scizor are standard, no need for us to make note of them.

Umbreon, in my opinion, is an awful pokemon in this metagame. Taunt alone shuts him down, and with high power sweepers that are super-effective on him (Heracross, Scizor, Infernape, Hitmontop to name a few), he won't live long. I almost think Smeargle does Umbreon's job better, too.

Rhyperior's weaknesses (regardless of Solid Rock) still make him pretty fragile, so a Rest-Talk set really doesn't help here too much. Rest Talk Zapdos may work in his place; It counters many of Platinum's new threats very well, and should you follow my advice below, you can have a dangerous Thunder user on your hands.

You can put Life Orb on Kingdra, Adamant nature, and Rain Dance > Rest. He will sweep more efficiently this way. If you choose this, you can move you Speed EVs elsewhere. I recommend Draco Meteor or HP Electric if you don't want to change your EVs or want a Rain Dance spread, but really thats what Kingdra is good for.

Hypno would like to be replaced by Jirachi (Wish) or Gliscor (if you want attack boost passing). Otherwise, he really doesn't seem to be doing much here. Note Lee's edit here that Hypno cannot legally Baton Pass and Belly Drum on the same moveset.

You lack a special sweeper, and Skymin really ravages through this team. Zapdos is a good solution to both of these problems.
 
da gold sun said:
Aerodactyl and Scizor are standard, no need for us to make note of them.

Umbreon, in my opinion, is an awful pokemon in this metagame. Taunt alone shuts him down, and with high power sweepers that are super-effective on him (Heracross, Scizor, Infernape, Hitmontop to name a few), he won't live long. I almost think Smeargle does Umbreon's job better, too.

Rhyperior's weaknesses (regardless of Solid Rock) still make him pretty fragile, so a Rest-Talk set really doesn't help here too much. Rest Talk Zapdos may work in his place; It counters many of Platinum's new threats very well, and should you follow my advice below, you can have a dangerous Thunder user on your hands.

You can put Life Orb on Kingdra, Adamant nature, and Rain Dance > Rest. He will sweep more efficiently this way. If you choose this, you can move you Speed EVs elsewhere. I recommend Draco Meteor or HP Electric if you don't want to change your EVs or want a Rain Dance spread, but really thats what Kingdra is good for.

Hypno would like to be replaced by Jirachi (Wish) or Gliscor (if you want attack boost passing). Otherwise, he really doesn't seem to be doing much here. Note Lee's edit here that Hypno cannot legally Baton Pass and Belly Drum on the same moveset.

You lack a special sweeper, and Skymin really ravages through this team. Zapdos is a good solution to both of these problems.
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Actually, there isn't much heracross around since platinum came out.

I didn't put on and speed evs on kindra, i put special defense. And I wouldn't use rain dance on kindra since DD already boost speed, and LO would be an awful choice on a bulky kingdra since it just ruins the bulkyness, the point of the kindra is to DD and stay in for as long as possible while sweeping a team with rest.

Hypno actually do a lot in the team, it belly drums and passes to scizor or kingdra to sweep(yes bp and belly drum is legal together, it worked on shoddy). My opponent is screwed once I pass a sub and belly drum to scizor. I do not need wish support because the team is suppose to sweep as early as possible, and even if hypno fails, there's still SD on scizor as backup plan.

Skymin doesn't screw my team since Skymins attempt to switch into EQ from rhyperior, so I would just stone edge for the kill. And my aerodactyl doesn't really suicide, I always switch it away after it stops rocks, because it's the fast thing on my team and it really helps with flying type that I hate, so I am not scared of skymin.

My team don't really need a special attacker since to much people use blissy to stop skymin and it wouldn't really do anything, all they need to do is switch in blissy and I am forced to switch so it doesn't really help.

I might switch out rhyperior for another sweeper like luke or something.
 
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