Damn this team has synergy

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Aerodactyl (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Stealth Rock
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Taunt

Standard lead. Use it like a normal Suicide Aerodactyl. Depending on the situation I can switch to Jolteon to take a electric attack, Rtom to take a explosion, or just let it die so any other pokemon can come in.

Jolteon (M) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Volt Absorb
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Baton Pass

This thing hit so hard. It's Volt absorb gives it a free switch in from electric attacks, and Thunder Waves. Type coverage lets it hit everything except for Magnezone, but Rotom, and Heatran can stop him. Celebi, Rotom, and Aerodctyl take earthquakes armed toward him

Rotom-h @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP/168 Def/88 Spd
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Will-o-wisp
- Thunderbolt
- Overheat
- Shadow Ball

Anti Spinner, and Fighting/Normal absorber. Weakens Physical attacks, and kills Steel pokemon. PorygonZ absorbs his Ghost weakness, Heatran resist's his dark weakness.

Porygonz @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Download
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Tri Attack
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Fighting]

Main revenge killer. Amazing type coverage, hits everything hard, and outspeeds nearly everything. Does great with Rotom, because of of standard Porygon resists ghost, and Rotom resists fighting. Can also switch into Celebi if needed.

Celebi @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP/220 Def/36 Spd
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Leech Seed
- Grass Knot
- Recover
- Earth Power

Standard support celebi. Earth Power is there for steels and Electrics. Fire attacks will be absorbed by Heatran, or Aerodactyl, depending on how much damage it took. Flying attacks will be taken by Heatran, and aero again.

Heatran (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Explosion

Revenge killer.Abosrbs fire, Dark, Flying, and whatever other attacks aimed at celebi. Switches to Rotom if fighting or Ground attacks are coming.
 
First of all, you have 3 choice users. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but you'll be switching an awful lot, which means that you probably want at least one spinner. Seeing as there's no room for a spinner on this team, you better take something off of someone. Honestly, Jolteon doesn't need specs. He deals enough as it is, I see that a yawnjolt set will help you pass subs to other pokemon, Rotom H most notably.

Why does Heatran want Hp Grass? Celebi deals with bulky grass types quite well. Just go with the standard Hp ice, stops dragons (obviously).
Thunder wave over recover for Celebi, you can leech Swampert and force the switch for SR damage, or keep sapping his health. Gallade isn't a popular pokemon, but his SD set could wreck through your team depending on who he sets up on. With this team having 3 choice users, Gallade will have alot of fun. He's not common, but if he does happen to show up, just be careful and make sure to switch in Porygon Z asap.

If you're using a suicide lead, why not Azelf? Azelf gets explosion over Aerodactyl, which could come in handy at any time. Azelf also gets Uturn, Psychic and Flamethrower, it just seems like such a better option. Overall your preference.
 
This team has a huge ddmence weak. the pokemon that survive its outrage after a dd: heatran and celebi, can barely dent it (other than exploding). Giving heatran hp ice will allow you to handle salamence more easily if its locked into outrage.
 
Heatran doesn't have HP ice? It's supposed to. I havn't actually used him in a game yet, so I thought he had HP ice.

Azelf has a 50% chance to go first agains other Azelf leads. THen I have to predict what they do, and ether use Taunt or Stealth Rock. If I go second, then if they use Taunt, I have to switch out, and they get free Stealth Rock, or they can Explode/U-Turn. I rather use Aerodactyl, so I almost always go first, and that gives me an easier time to know what I should do.

I didn't notice it too much, but 3 choice users and no spinner does seem like a bad idea. What should I get rid of? I'm thinking Jolteon for Donphan, or PorygonZ, for Starmie or something.

The team has a DDmence weakness. but Heatran, and Celebi might be able to stop it. If anything I can give something up so I can bring in Jolteon.

I like the fact that Jolteon hits so hard with Specs, but I may have to get rid of it in case I can't find a spinner woth using.
 
It looks like a pretty fast Weavile can drop this team cold, after some Sword Dances, you'll be wishing you had something for it. I wouldn't worry much about this issue though, because with some proper prediction, you'll be able to take down Weavile with Heatran on a predicted Ice Shard / Ice-type move, but just be careful with it. If you want to handle your Salamence weakness better, you can always use Hidden Power Ice over Earth Power on Celebi, this was kind of a gimmick moveset for Celebi back in DP, when we had Garchomp running around, and I don't see why it wouln't work here, though you do have a Choice Scarf Heatran with Hidden Power Ice, so 2 Hidden Power Ice users isn't a bad idea. There is a problem I see, and its this team being walled by defensive combinations, such as SkarmBliss, you don't always have to have a safe answer to stall teams, but this team is walled by SkarmBliss itself, which is something that isn't supposed to happen. I honestly don't out of all Pokemon, you have Porygon-Z, sure it has good Special Attack, but its not worth it in the current DPP metagame. I would replace Porygon-Z with a Lucario or Heracross, if this team is on suspect team, I would strongly suggest Choice Heracross, either item works to take down Skarmory, Blissey, Cresselia, and Latias, or you can go with Choice Scarf, which will do the same thing except you lose the opportunity to 2HKO Skarmory, not much of a big deal. Lucario also gets a mention here, you can run him straight up Physical Sword Dance, or run Choice Specs Lucario, which is able to cause havoc if used correctly, your choice really, either one will do a better job with Porygon-Z.

Infernape seems troublesome too, I don't know whats the way out for this one. MixApe varians seem to be the ones that can mean real trouble. I'm pretty much tounge tied on what to tell you here, without breaking the "synrengy" of the team. You can pack Light Screen somewhere on Rotom-H, to soften up those Fire Blasts, which are the ones you have to worry about since Close Combat won't be doing shit, and then proceed to with the Thunderbolt spamming, hopefully doing a 2HKO. I don't see anymore problems, overall a good team.
 
How much do you think I need a spinner with those changes? I took out Porygon for Lucario, so most of my team resists Stealth rock, but I want to know if I should still try to fit in a spinner.
 
Yes I will attempt to remedy Yuki's vague rate.

Blissey does in fact wall this team into the ground, and any moderate stall team will beat this team before the battle starts. This is to say that your only physical attacker is a suicide lead which cannot kill blissey reguardless.

I would suggest putting either a swords dance lucario or a scizor over porygon z as it seems to be the least useful to the team. They would both give you a backup steel type and also could have speed with their respective priority moves. Scizor could run LR's bulky set with 252 hp 76 atk 176 sp. def and 4 spd iirc. Lucario would work fine with the standard spread of 252 atk 252 spd 4 hp.

DD salamence also hurts this team as after a dd it outspeeds the whole team and can ohko it as well. Heatran dies to eq, everyone else falls to dd LO outrages while heatran is 2hkoed to boot.

To fix this, my suggestion of lucario or scizor would help you. Either one can take out a weak mence with their respecitve priority moves, and switching into stealth rocks will not be kind to said mence. The priority move from scizor/lucario should be enough of a check on top of heatran. Heck mence has no real counters anyway.

Good luck with the team, and hope I helped

-chaos 9
 
I don't understand because all use Aerodactyl as alone Sasher for settare stealth rock, me useless this moveset, I would use only it and exclusively as Choice Bander.
 
Celebi does bugger all to Salamence, it's not going to stop it. Celebi can only paralyze Salamence, and this one doesn't even have Thunder Wave to do that. Lucario is OHKO'd by +1 Life Orb Outrage, Stealth Rock or not (102% minimum). Bronzong or the previously mentioned Bulky Scizor could greatly aid you because of this. I'd suggest Bulky Scizor over Lucario, actually.

The team is walled by Blissey because you have no Physical Sweeper. The Lucario replacement fixes it kinda but it's still only 1 counter, which gets killed by Thunder Wave and Flamethrower. For this reason, I'd reccommend that same Bulky Scizor over Lucario. You still have something to kill Blissey with, it's just something that doesn't care about Thunder Wave and only has Flamethrower to worry about. Still though, another strong Physical Pokemon would do well, maybe over Rotom.

Btw, I don't see a problem with Weavile in this team. Switch Heatran in straight away and he'll either live a Brick Break or give the Weavile a wasted turn SDing, then killing with Fire Blast. Scizor can also slaughter it with Bullet Punch and has resistances to the STAB moves.
 
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