My first RMT on Smogon

Thoraine

Cloyster @ Razor Fang
Skill Link
Jolly 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

~ Shell Smash
~ Icicle Spear
~ Rock Blast
~ Razor Shell

Needed a strong sweeper to combat Dragons so I figured Cloyster was a good choice. I tried running with Azumarill but I felt he was pretty slow and kept getting outsped by stuff. I also usually Shell Smash at the wrong times and end up getting OHKOed. (Air Slash from Togekiss OHKOs Cloyster even before Shell Smash? That was a surprise.) Going Jolly because Cloyster is generally a slow pokemon until it gets off a Shell Smash, but it might not always have that opportunity, thus I run Jolly to hopefully outspeed some pokemon and hopefully OHKO it with Skill Linked moves.

Aegislash @ Spooky Plate
Stance Change
Quiet 252 HP / 252 Spatk / 4 Def

~ King's Shield
~ Sacred Sword
~ Shadow Sneak
~ Shadow Ball

Generic SD Aegislash felt lackluster so I went with the special set to mix things up and hopefully catch my opponent off guard. So far I feel it's power is a bit lacking... I felt my team was lacking in a mixed sweeper so Aegislash fit that description. Also, he can switch in and punish physical sweepers with a well timed King's Shield. I chose Spooky Plate to give it more power behind it's STAB attackes, since it doesn't have SD. Also I chose a mixed wall because WoW hard counters most physical sweepers and I'm using this pokemon as a prevention against that.

Excadrill @ Air Balloon
Mold Breaker
Jolly 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP

~ Swords Dance
~ Earthquake
~ Rapid Spin
~ Rock Slide

Rapid spinner to clear SR for Talonflame, and to deal with flying types mainly, like tanking a hit from Talonflame. Also able to deal with fire types and annoying stuff like Klefki and Aegislash with Earthquake. I'm not sure if I should go with Air Balloon or Leftovers. It's nice to come in unscathed on a predicted Earthquake but lacking recovery is a huge bane as well.

Gengar @ Gengarite
Levitate/Shadow Tag
Timid 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 HP

~ Shadow Ball
~ Sludge Bomb
~ Substitute
~ Disable

Deals with fairies quite effectively I feel. I used to have a Noivern on my team to synergize with him but I'm not so sure where to fit him in now. I feel Shadow Tag is a damn good ability but Usually I don't seem to switch into pokemon that are scared of gengar anyway. Also have problems with losing Ground immunity. SudDisable makes prediction much easier, Shadow Tag traps fairies, and if a counter switches in, I can possible pull off a OHKO while hiding behind my sub, or at least dent it.

Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Sand Stream
Sassy 252 HP / 252 SDef / 4 Atk

~ Crunch
~ Stealth Rock
~ Fire Blast
~ Earthquake

I opted to have Earthquake instead of Pursuit since I don't usually see a chance to use Pursuit, and since I'm using it as a special wall, it can tank most special Fire hits that my Excadrill probably shouldn't tank. I tend to lead with him to be able to set up SR ASAP, especially if during Team Preview there are pokemon weak to SR like Talonflame. However, I'm suspectible to Spore leads like Breloom and Smeargle so I'm hoping to fix that with some advice from the community.

Talonflame @ Sharp Beak
Gale Wings
Adamant (I honestly forgot the exact EVs, it's something like 48 HP / 252 Atk / 208 Spd)

~ Swords Dance
~ Flare Blitz
~ Roost
~ Brave Bird

Strong priority user to revenge kill stuff. Acts as a late game sweeper, and with +2 Attack I'm usually able to clear two or three pokemon. Roost is for recovering from recoil and I decided to go with Sharp Beak as one of the posts in the Analysis thread suggested, since being Choiced locked is frankly quite annoying, and was one of the reaons why I disliked Azumarill. He can't seem to OHKO much using Aqua Jet + Splash Plate but with Coice Band a lot of prediction and switching comes into play. I copied those EVs off the Analysis thread, I believe it was to outspeed Positive nature 105.

I've tried battling a bit and it seems I don't know how to deal with Aegislash. I have always lost to him. I usually send out someone with Earthquake once I see him come out but by then he usually Swords Dances and proceeds to sweep my team. I don't have a strong Dragon type on my team at the moment either. I used to run Weakness Policy Dragonite, but even with Multiscale he gets low pretty quicky from a SE hit.

I'm also not usually sure on what to lead with. I usually try to lead with Tyranitar to get SR up on the field ASAP if I see something that is weak to SR like Charizard / Talonflame on team preview. Also, I feel I'm not taking much advantage of new pokemons/typings available in Gen 6. It still feels like a very Gen 5 team even with Aegislash and Talonflame.
 
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Pretty good team, although it does seam to be pretty weak to pokemon like terrakion (who will probably now carry earthquake) and in general is weak to the stone edge earthquake combo which is pretty common. Now I tyink you should lose the tyranitar I feel like it isn't benifiting all these pokemon too much and replace it with skarmory, the reason for this is that it shares a nasty fighting type weakness that a lot of the rest of your team has. I think you should run a normal physicly defensive set. Or if you want a defog set as insurance in case the excadrill dies. The second change I would make is changing aegislash to a focus sash alakazam. The reason is that you already talked about how the damage output on aegislash was kinda disapointing, and i think you need a revenge killer focus sash alakazam fits that role quite nicely. as for smaller changes I think you should Change your cloyster's hold item to a focus sash, this will let your cloyster live even after a bad prediction however if you do change this you might want to change razor shell to ice chard in order to not die to priority moves at one hp.
Hope this helps, good luck
 
Just a few nitpicks, but I'd recommend replacing alot of the items on your team.

If you're having trouble with Cloyster getting OHKOed, then swap out the razor fang for a Focus Sash.

If you're going to use a special set for Aegislash, then replace Spooky Plate with Weakness Policy so you can get a boost in.

Lastly, Sharp Beak doesn't provide a great damage boost to Talonflame, and does absolutely nothing for Flare Blitz. If you don' like being choice locked, then opt for Life Orb. It'll give the the extra oomph you need to grab those KO's.

If you want Noivern back on your team, then I'd suggest replacing Cloyster, and then giving Gengar Dazzling Gleam or HP Ice over Disable to counter dragons. Dazzling Gleam is more recommended, because having HP Ice lowers your speed and Gengar has enough SAtk to where he doesn't need to hit for 4x damage.

Also, 4 members of your team are weak to Earthquake (five if you count Gengar-M).

edit: Also, I agree with newtonja on Tyranitar. Skarmory would definitely make a good replacement.
 
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Yeah I'll definitely try changing Cloyster to Focus Sash. The thing about losing Tyranitar is that I don't think I'll get a Skarmory with Stealth Rocks from a previous gen.. I'll think about it some more.

Didn't notice the crippling weakness to Earthquake, which is definitely a common move. I'll try switching out some of my other pokemon. I'll probably just put Dazzling Gleam on Alakazam instead of Gengar. Maybe take out Aegislash in the process.
 
Thoraine said:
Yeah I'll definitely try changing Cloyster to Focus Sash. The thing about losing Tyranitar is that I don't think I'll get a Skarmory with Stealth Rocks from a previous gen.. I'll think about it some more.

Didn't notice the crippling weakness to Earthquake, which is definitely a common move. I'll try switching out some of my other pokemon. I'll probably just put Dazzling Gleam on Alakazam instead of Gengar. Maybe take out Aegislash in the process.
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Well this is a pokebank ou so skarmory does get stealth rocks, and you might want to be carefull, i'm not so sure about the alakazam now thinking about it, since it shares a lot of weaknesses with gengar, but at the same time it does provide I think some needed revenge killing, but if you are going to not change the tyranitar don't add alakazam because then your team would be ravaged by scizor but if you do change tyranitar to skarmory then scizor shouldn't be a big problem.
EDIT now that I am thinking about it even more I realized that I would have made you super vulnerable to rotom W, so keep the sash idea and replace the tyranitar but not with skarmory, sorry about that but most of my other advice holds up, just try to find a physical wall that doesn't get destroyed by rotom w
 
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