Gliscor could give a nasty bite, RMT

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Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Adamant
252 Hp/230 spA/22 attack

-Ice beam
-Focus Punch
-Crunch
-Subsitute

Description: Nice tyraniboah lead gets screwed over by lucarios but I got some supporting pokemon in the back. Boah is good and is very capable of sweeping teams. Nice lead for this sandstorm team. Don't really want Hippowdon but it has been considered.

Try the anti lead Ttar as this one does get screwed over, it looks like quite a bit.

Next:

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Gliscor @ Leftovers
Impish
252 Hp/ 252 def/6 spD

-Ice Fang
-Roost
-Earthquake
-Stealth Rock

Description: Gliscor is great and walls common chomps and other physical sweepers. Sets up with stealth rock and Ice Fangs grassies and trapped-in outrage-. Gliscor is a nice physical wall. 6 spD is to survive some non STABed flamethrowers/energy balls. Earthquake is STAB to kill lucario and stuff. But yeah, overall, Gliscor is a beast.

Standard

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Dugtrio @ Choice band
Jolly
255 speed 255 attack

-Sucker Punch
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge
-Aerial Ace

Description: Most standard Dugtrio ever. Doesn't really need a description as much as I do. Dugtrio uses Earthquake because...its the best move on it. He uses Stone Edge for gyra, sucker punch for gengar and Deoxys-S, and Aerial Ace for some grass pokemon like celebi. Dugtrio MAY be replaced for Metagross/swampert/ or Deoxys-S to prevent Gyra vulnerablity. Need help with this people!

Hmm, Stone edge will take care of Gyarados, but not 100% certainly. I wouldn't suggest him though, because Weavile is pretty much Dugtrio with better moves and such.

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Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Jolly
255 speed 255 attack

-Outrage
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge
-Fire Blast

Descritpion: Uh oh, here's the most common pokemon in the game? Does it need an explanation. Oh, maybe for fire blast, it is for skarmory, at least to wear it down. Also foretress. We've ALL used Garchomp, and that's a fact. Possible replaced for Magnezone. NEED HELP WItH THIS TOO

Unfortunately he has been banned to ubers so lets try and replace him, shall we? Magnezone has always been a good pokemon, but Earthquake from most sweepers will OHKO him, as will Fire blast. How about you use something cool and strong... Cacturne instantly pops up in my head. Cacturne gets STAB Sucker Punch, as well as Seed bomb, Thunderpunch, swords dance and not to mention sand veil.

Play around with Cacturne a little, but remember that Thunderpunch and Seed Bomb are ILLEGAL together just so you know. I have actually used Cacturne for great success, 6-0ing many teams with him.



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Scizor @ Life Orb
Adamant
252 speed, 252 attack, 6 HP

-Quick Attack
-X-Scissor
-Iron Head
-Swords Dance

Description: Standard Scizor, its good, and quick attack does a lot. X scissor kills off a lot of physic walls like cress/celebi/uxie. Scizor also kills swampert after a Swords Dance. Scizor is standard, really good, and doesn't get affected by sandstorm. So, yeah...

Scizors always a good pokemon, but isn't Lucario's SD Extremespeed better? Luke also gets crunch to deal with Celebi and all those "physic" walls that you mention.

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Heatran @ Choice Scarf
Modest
255 speed 255 spA

-Flamethrower
-Dragon Pulse
-Flash Cannon
-HP Ice

Description: Standard Heatran my only special sweeper which is a problem. Need help with another special sweeper and who I should replace it with....Anyway....Heatran almost always gets a flash fire boost which is good and kills off a lot. Self explanatory here:


Ouch..you might want to adjust your moveset a little bit. Flash cannon? Big no-no. Where's his Earth Power? It gets STAB and hits things harder, not to mention covers quite a few types. I'm not too sure where your other 6 EVs went, but I suppose that it doesn't really matter.

NEED HELP WITH SPECIFICLY:

Who to add for a spA sweeper
Who to replace for this spA sweeper
Anything else!

Please RMT
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I see that this team gets wrecked pretty bad by Gyarados, the bulky or DD set, as after one DD your finished, and after 2 your team is royally....ugh...wrecked, shall we say? To fix this problem may I suggest a Deoxys E of your own? He'll end up fixing your special sweeper problem, and is an amazing late game sweeper, probably the best, as he can get in and wreck a Gyarados with a Tbolt. Replace Garchomp with Deoxys E and you'll be looking alright.

Hope I helped!
 
Garchmp is an Uber so remove it. You need a special wall such as Shuckle or Claydol. There is NO way for you to stop a RD team and they would just run right through you and be asking themselves,"where's the competition?". So perhaps a Vapporeon (while it doesn't benefit from SS it's Leftovers will heal off the damage and it can wish heal your team). Hope this helps. and yes, I coppied your sig
 
You got the common sandstorm weaknesses. In a Sandstorm team there is never a good idea to only use Pokémon with an immunity to sandstorm as most of them share the same weaknesses. As you can see, 5 of your Pokémon is weak to either Ground or Ice, so Bronzong is often a obligatory pokémon in a sandstorm team as he resist both. Since you'll have to replace Garchomp anyway I propose getting Bronzong.

Another big weakness is Gyarados, obviously. A DD Waterfall will without a doubt run over your team. Vaporeon could be quite an efficient member to your team imho. Not only does it handle Gyarados with ease, but Vaporeon provide som extremely useful Wish-support which allow you to heal your Pokémon, and makes it easier to play around threats like Metagross.

Your Heatran-set seems a bit odd imo. Flash Cannon isn't doing much good really, and making room for Explosion seems more reasonable I believe. ScarfTran can easily pull off some explosions, and they can definitely turn a game around.

I also feel Boah is a bit outdated. :/ STAB Focus Punch is basically as powerful as a neutral Focus Punch, and behind a Sub you got a lot better options really, like setting up a couple of Dragon Dances.
 
Nothing here really stop Ice / Ground attacks from taking out this team in a blow, something like Mamoswine and Weavile. I would really suggest taking out Scizor for a Bronzong right now, and replacing Tyranitar for Bronzong as for leads, this will help you get an early SR up and possibly sleep a pokemon which is always helpful, or another alternative would be packing a Gyarados which will Intimidate these 2 into switching out, but I would really go Bronzong since Stealth Rock will help you by Weavile and Mamoswine taking 25% from SR on the switch ins, and will provide a handy combo with Bronzong + Heatran. With this, making Tyranitar a Choice Bander or Dragon Dancer would probably be the best idea, you could keep Boah but I would rather put a Choice Band on him to cause more havoc.

Gyrados and MixApe can be problems here as well, nothing on the team is prepared for these 2, Gyarados for the most part. I would suggest a Bulky Water here, Vaporeon would be a good choice, it can fully counter Gyarados and MixApe, be a Wish Healer, and the Bulky Water + Gliscor combo is always cool. Vaporeon would be looking something like Vaporeon 172 Hp / 252 Def / 84 SpAtk @ Bold with HP Electric / Surf / Wish / Protect should be the best to use, HP Electric and Surf to counter and Protect to heal itself. Vaporeon should replace Dugtrio, as you can handle Heracross and Deoxys with Gliscor and Bronzong, so you should be allright.

Heatran would probably be better off with Flamethrower / Earth Power / Dragon Pulse / Explosion, Explosion for last options. Adamant > Jolly on Garchomp as well.
 
Bring Scizor back, he's godly. And if you get your hands on Platinum, Bullet Punch owns.

X-Scissor for Celebi, and Roost.

With Lucario, your team has 2 4x Ground weak, and 2 2x ground weak. Once your lead is gone (which happens a lot), you let DDTar get 1 DD up, there is no Pokemon at all that will save you if it has Ice Beam.

EQ kills everything, and Extreme Speed is resisted. Ice Beam kills Gliscor. Dugtrio doesn't even OHKO with EQ, (or does it)?

If you do keep Lucario, Bullet Punch > Extreme Speed just for this reason, and to hit ghosts.

I don't think Magnezone is needed if you're using it for Steels, since you have plenty of fire and fighting moves.

On Heatran, Earth Power is needed, and explosion is reccomended over Dragon Pulse.
 
Why Magnezone? You don't have any trouble with steels anyways. That is pretty much a pointless slot if you ask me. It looks like you're trying to make a sandstorm team. If so, use Hippowdon. If not, I think that you're worrying about sandstorm damage. Don't. It won't really matter that much if you can take control of the game. Get some diversity instead of using steels and such. Like someone previously stated DDtar will wreck you.
 
i reccomend that you include hippo instead of ttar and fitting cradilly in there to spong special hits run standard toxicstall cradilly. BTW standard LO gengar only does 45-52% with focus blast so you have a mostly reliable gengar counter with it. and did i mention he counters gyarados?
 
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