XY OU First RMT w/ Balance

[Sammm]

Hello Everyone!
This is my first post and RMT on Smogon forums. Unfortunately, this is not a super unique team but contains common top tier threats and a balanced team. This is a simple prototype and hope your input helps to take this team to the next level. Thank you in advance!



Metagross @ Metagrossite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Meteor Mash
- Zen Headbutt
- Earthquake
- Pursuit

After many matches of getting beat by the presence of this bulky monster, I decided I wanted to try it. I love using Pursuit Pokemon so I wanted to run a Pursuit-trapping Mega-gross for threats to my team and the always annoying Lati@s twins. Meteor Mash and Zen Headbutt are used as simple dual stabs and Earthquake is used to take down Heatran, in particular. Max speed is used to speed tie Lati@s, Gengar, Mega Gallade, and out-speeding Keldeo, Garchomp, and other common threats.

Landorus-Therian (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- U-turn

Landorus-T serves as my Ground immunity and offensive pivot. It also serves as a reliable check to many offensive threats, mainly Talonflame, and sets up Stealth Rocks. 8 speed evs are used to speed creep Rotom-Wash's with little speed investment.

Keldeo-Resolute @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Scald
- Secret Sword
- Icy Wind

So far I noticed Bisharp wrecked my team and Landorus-T did not check that many Fire types so I wanted a Water type to take some pressure off of Landorus-T and a reliable check to Bisharp. Choice Scarfed Keldeo came to mind as well as providing a check to Mega Sceptile, which, somehow, always wrecks my teams. Icy Wind also allows Keldeo to slow down offensive threats like DD Zard X so Lando can KO with Earthquake.

Heatran @ Leftovers
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Gentle Nature
- Lava Plume
- Flash Cannon
- Toxic
- Protect

At this point I needed an answer to Thundurus. The best I could come up with was Heatran as it eats up Tbolt and HP Ice/Flying and is not too bothered by T-Wave. It does, however, get damaged by Focus Blast but that is a Thundurus set I can never seem to check properly. Flash Cannon is used for Fairies that cause problems and a reliable attack for Lati@s switching in. Toxic is used to wear down walls but I thought of it for Slowbros attempting to set up on it, specifically. Heatran also provides a check to more Fire types and Talonflame taking pressure off of Lando-T and Keldeo.

Celebi @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 188 Def / 52 SpD / 16 Spe
Calm Nature
- Perish Song
- Baton Pass
- Recover
- Giga Drain

Mega Slowbro is always bothersome without Mega Heracross or Breloom, enter Perish Song Celebi. Perish song also shuts down other CM users. Baton Pass is used to keep momentum and prevent Pursuit-trapping. 52 SpDef with Calm nature ensures a safe switch into Specs Keldeo's Icy Wind and retaliate with a Giga Drain. It also serves as a good switch into Rotom-Wash but increases the weakness to Rotom-Wash and Landorus-T core.

Latias (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Defog
- Healing Wish

Latias is my go to Defogger and I thought it would appreciate the trapping of it's counterparts. Healing Wish is a way to allow for reckless usage of Mega-Gross. Full EVs in SpAtk with a life orb provide solid hits with draco meteor and Psyshock takes down most resistances to it's primary attack.

I know there are a lot of imperfections with this team and I am eager to hear your suggestions!

 

[pi3rate]

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^^^ Some visuals for the other raters to have a look at. Feel free to use It since I did leave it there for a reason :]
On to the rate I feel like this team needs a solid set up sweeper specially because you have pursuit metagross which is really cool because it can trap Lati twins and Mega gardevoir which really benefits Sub+Cm keldeo which is fantastic seeing as Megagross has a perfect typing to switch into Dragon and Fairy moves. One thing Sub+CM Keldeo has a hard time dealing with is Latis Psyshock since it hits defense instead of Spdef so it will always OHKO even after the boost you get from a calm mind behind a sub keldeo still gets beaten by sound moves like hypervoice from Gardevoir which is why Pursuit Gross is a cool idea which benefits keldeo again. Removing the scarf is something good but bad at the same time being slower than mega lopunny and slower than 110s which means that scarf lando fits the spot perfectly seeing as how you have a solid check to birdspam being heatran I dont see why to keep defensive lando on the team so put a choice scarf on it. Celebi is cool specially cuz it can deal with rotom and keldeo but I am not to fond of it for now since Lati does the same job resisting what celebi resist too. Since you are lacking priority either I would put BP on gross or change celebi to breloom/dnite breloom being a good check to slowbro and dnite having the resistance and being capable of priority. In the end those were just some suggestions but you should keep celebi for now but I would just take off bp for u turn since you dont have a setup move and it is a way to gain momentum by breaking multiscales and sashes also since you already have giga drain and lefties i dont find a reason to why you would run recover instead of that celebi is capable of running thunder wave and heal bell to back up your team members for example keldeo switching into heatran,sableye,suicune scald,wisp and plumes and being capable of getting burns. The last move that I suggest in that slot is magic coat its pretty cool since against ferro you dont have to be forced to switch into tran to ohko but you can bounce back hazards so that you can keep momentum on your side so that you dont have to be forced to defog later.

SETS

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Heatran @ Leftovers
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 224 SpD / 32 Spe
Calm Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earth Power/Toxic
- Lava Plume/Magma Storm
- Taunt

The speed lets you outspeed taunt skarm and taunt it before it taunts you. I left toxic as an option because after you trap things like chansey with magma storm you can go for taunt and toxic to stall it out but again it is an option either you want to hit other heatrans and always hit with lava plume or would you want to not hit other trans trap things lose accuracy idk up to you but the set I left there is the best imo.

Landorus-Therian (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Stone Edge
- Knock Off

Keldeo @ Leftovers
Ability: Justified
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Scald
- Secret Sword
- Substitute

 

[Sammm]

First of all, thank you for the input, images, and sets. This was exactly what I was looking for and I truly appreciate the feedback. I agree with needing a set up mon and I think SubCM Keldeo is a good fit, especially since Megagross can tank a focus blast from MSceptile and ohko with Meteor Mash. I have been looking for revisions to Celebi so I think that is a great fit. Heal Bell works perfectly but Twave also can cripple mons. With all this being said, I think these revisions are going to implemented but I still am curious about Latias fitting on the team. I feel like it is just out of place.

P.S. How do I add in the images?