F.E.A.R the pinecone!

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Hello Smogon! Qwsd9 here with my first RMT, I have been a long time lurker on smogon and have been dabbling in competitive battling since Gen 3, i have been using this team for a while now and have been somewhat succesful but i would love some feedback on how i can improve it. So without further ado the team!

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Pineco (M) @ Berry Juice
Level:(1-4)
Trait: Sturdy
EVs:
Hardy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic Spikes
- Spikes
- Pain Split

Ah pineco my lead, basically a hazard version of Aron with Shell Bell. Pineco unlike it's evolution Fortress, is guaranteed at lest two entry hazard setups, as long Pineco isn't poisoned, frozen, or burned. All three of the current entry hazards at at Pineco's command, I usually lead with stealth rock to catch any Dragonites from being able to use multiscale. The option of using Spikes or their toxic version are up to you. Pain Split turns Pineco into an annoyance that constantly gets to use sturdy.

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Scrafty (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Moxie
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Drain Punch
- Crunch
- Ice Punch

Scrafty my physical sweeper, I truly love this pokemon, its quite amazing how many teams i have 6-0 swept with this little lizard, i usually only need one dragon dance as moxie boosts his attack after every OHKO making scrafty deadlier. I use Drain punch over hi jump kick as drain punch negates the effects of life orb and i absolutely despise it when hi jump kick misses and messes up a sweep.

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Heatran (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Rash Nature (+SAtk, -SDef)
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Explosion
- Dragon Pulse

Heatran is an excellent revenge killer as he checks alot of the current meta game such as Scizor, Lucario, Infernape, and Dragonite. Explosion is for any blissey or chansey that thinks they can wall my special attacks, Fire blast is STAB earth power for coverage and dragon pulse for some neutral damage.

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Gliscor (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Toxic
- Protect
- Earthquake
- Ice Fang

Gliscor is my defensive wall, not much to explain. I chose toxic over swords dance as i prefer his stalling capabilities to his sweeping and he checks excadrill fantastically.

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Thundurus (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Prankster
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Nasty Plot
- Thunder Wave
- Thunderbolt
- Focus Blast

Thundurus is my special sweeper. He can switch in nasty plot and sweep with relative ease. I chose thunder wave over taunt as i prefer the paralysis in a speedy metagame.

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Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Trait: Download
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Recover
- Toxic

Porygon2 is my special wall, Porygon-2 with Eviolite is pretty awesome. Gives it stupidly good Def and Sp. Def. i chose porygon2 as my special wall because of its recovery move, good coverage and its not completley incompetent as an attacker unlike blissey.

Well thanks for reading my RMT any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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with all the hazards you useing you might want a spinblocker.if you want a offensive spinblocker then go with either disable or pain split gengar here are the sets:

gengar@leftovers
Trait:Levitate
4Hp / 252Spa / 252Spe
Nature:Timid
Move:Substitute
Move:Disable
Move:ShadowBall
Move:FocusBlast


Gengar@LifeOrb
Trait:Levitate
4Def / 252Spa / 252SPe
Nature:Timid
Move:Substitute
Move:Pain Split
Move:ShadowBall
Move:FocusBlast

or if you want a defensive spinblocker then Eviolite dusclops sounds nice with it's bulk

Dusclops@Eviolite
Trait:Preussure
EVs:252Hp / 80Def / 176Sp.Def
Nature:Calm
Move:Wil-O-Wisp
Move:Pain Split
Move:Night Shade
Move:IceBeam
one of them could go over porygon2?
 
Though Pineco is a pretty cool gimmick, I would recommend Deoxys-S over Pineco, as Pineco is complete Taunt bait and setup fodder. With Focus Sash, Deoxys is also probably going to get two hazards. Also, I see a slight Rotom-W weakness. If Rotom can Trick away your Porygon2's Eviolite, it can really hurt your team. Deoxys can remedy this, too! I recommend a set of Psycho Boost/Superpower/Stealth Rock/Spikes with either a Focus Sash or a Life Orb. I recommend a Life Orb as Deoxys is reasonably bulky and can get down some hazards as well.

move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Spikes
move 3: Psycho Boost
move 4: Superpower
item: Life Orb
nature: Rash
evs: 28 HP/48 Atk/224 SpA/208 Spe

This EV Spread is pretty cool. 48 Atk gives you an OHKO on 252 HP Tyranitar right off the bat. That SpA and a boosting nature gives you enough power to kill Rotom-W in an instant, and the speed will give you the drop on Scarf Rotom. The rest of the EVs are placed in HP because they can be. You can bump the Speed to 212 EVs if you feel like outspeeding neutral Salamence, Volcarona, and Jirachi after a boost, but nobody uses that, so no point. The last of the EVs are invested in HP because they're leftover. You can still bluff the normal set, so both SR and Spikes are on that set. You will not always get both hazards up anymore though, but you are not Taunt bait and can still lead the game with momentum.

Second, Scarf and Specs Politoed absolutely murder you, especially the Scarfer. I think Calm Mind+Roar Latias could be helpful here. It beats CM Reuniclus (Scrafty doesn't OHKO), can phaze out Trick Room Reuniclus, and can beat Politoed. It's not useless at attacking, either. Calm Mind/Recover/Rawr/Dragon Pulse will work I think. Max HP and Speed, though you can put some Special Attack on it if you feel it's not hitting hard enough.

Heatran might want Hidden Power Ice over Explosion and a Timid nature to revenge Adamant Dragonite as well, but that's up to preference. DD Dragonite is already worn down pretty well by your team. I would recommend getting rid of Explosion, though. It is not a good move anymore.
 
Thanks for the suggestions i think i will try dusclops over porygon2 and and deoxys over pineco and see how they go, and HP ice over explosion on heatran. Keep the suggestions coming!
 
The following Gliscor set looks really annoying if you want to abuse stalling.

Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Nature: Impish
EVs: 252hp/184atk/72spd
-Substitute
-Earthquake
-Protect
-Toxic/Taunt/Ice Fang

You can literally stall things out with this set by spamming Substitute and Protect. I havn't seen this thing; I just thought it looked annoying. You did say you wanted to abuse Gliscor's stalling capabilities... so here you go.
 
Regarding pineco

i recommend using DEOXYS-D

now some of you may be thinking what is this guy thinking about

but actually 85-90% of the time gets up 3 layers of spikes

Deoxys-D @ leftovers
252 hp 200 def 52 spdef
calm

recover
spikes
taunt
toxic/filler ( i use ice beam for pesky gliscors that taunt me)

you can run a few more speed evs to outrun faster taunters
 
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