my first team

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So this is my ideas for my first team, I apologize if it really sux, but please bear with me even if it is extremely predictable and bad.

1. Sceptile @ Leftovers
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 56 HP, 75 Atk, 125 Def, 252 Spe
~ Leech Seed
~ Substitute
~ Leaf Blade
~ Toxic
I’ve always wanted a lead Sceptile, and so far, I have loved the leech seed + substitute+ toxic combo. Often times I can get one pkmn seeded, the next toxic’d on the switch, and then a simple leaf blades ftw. I’m also considering a special Sceptile w/ HP fire and grass knot, so tell me which you think works better.


2. Gyarados @ Life Orb
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 6 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Spe
~ Dragon Dance
~ Ice Fang/Outrage (from Platinum)
~ Waterfall
~ Earthquake
All-out-attacking Gyarados, and I must say, with the Outrage move tutor possibility in Plainum, it has become even more beastly in my opinion.

3. Metagross @ Choice Band
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 252 HP, 240 Atk, 18 Def
~ Meteor Mash
~ Bullet Punch
~ Earthquake
~ Explosion
Typical Gross, though at one time I considered the possibility of fitting thunder punch somewhere on his move set.

4. Dusknoir@ Leftovers
Nature: Impish
EVs: 252 HP, 6 Atk, 252 Def
~ Pain Split
~ Will-o-wisp
~ Shadow Sneak
~ Thunder Punch/Fire Punch
By far my favorite new evolution from 4th gen, Dusknoir is just plain awesome. The one thing that I am not sure of is which elemental punch to put on, thunder punch takes down Gyrados and Milotic faster but fire punch go to town on more steels that resist it. The main beef I have with fire punch is that it makes Heatran so much deadlier w/ flash fire.

5. Umbreon @ Leftovers
Nature: Careful
EVs: 252 HP, 252 SpD, 6 Spe
~ Curse
~ Toxic
~ Payback
~ Baton Pass
Typical Curse passer, most likely target would be Metagross.

6. Porygon-z @ Focus Sash
Nature: Timid
EVs: 6 HP, 252 SpA, 252 Spe
~ Nasty Plot
~ Tri Attack
~ Dark Pulse
~ HP Fighting/Ice Beam
Great Special Attacker, although I feel as though HP Fighting would be a better choice over ice beam to get rid of dark and steel types, many of which can wall porygon.


So like I said before, if my team sux, please help me improve it in any way possible. Like I said above, this is my first team, so its highly probable that it is not very strategic and is more or less a complete mess. Thanks!
 
Don't ever put yourself down, just by looking at this team I know you can do well but it just needs some fixing!

To be honest I don't really think Sceptile is a good idea at all, and certainly not as a lead. I would suggest replacing Sceptile for Gyarados as your lead, you could always run Outrage, but I would suggest putting Stone Edge somewhere as a must on Gyarados, it will help you with opposing Gyarados and Salamence that try to come and intimidate you, and you should be running Adamant > Jolly. Sceptile can be replaced by something that can break SkarmBliss and other annoying stalling combos from stalling your team, such as a Heracross or Lucario, either one of these 2 will do a much better job than Sceptile would do for this team, I can assure you. I don't really like Umbreon here, I'm not really feeling it baton passing in DP, it may have good defenses, but Taunt really fucks him over, and it's attacking movepool is very limited, so it has little to do back, and without a Rapid Spinner, many pokemon, Gyarados in general get limited switch ins, which means Gyarados won't be able to do much and you will have problem with spikes too, so I would suggest adding a Starmie over Umbreon, Starmie will help you with Infernapes and Gyarados, and Rapid Spin and be a good special attacker in general as well.

You need to fix up how you CANNOT take hits from the special side of the spectrum, meaning things like the new Shaymin-S can give you many problems. Heatran, one of the most used pokemon would work great here, replacing Metagross with Heatran would work, Scarfed Heatran can work here, it will still be taking blows from special attackers, but RestTalk Heatran will be a status absorber, be able to take bigger blows, and still be able to stand high in your team, so either one will work. If you want to try RestTalk Heatran, I will suggest using 252 HP /48 Def / 208 SDef @ Modest (Rest + SleepTalk + Lava Plume + Earth Power), a very effective EV spread that I have used with success, so give Scarf and RestTalk a try.

I feel like im forgetting something %_%
 
U have 2 huge weaknesses: Like venom saidu have a weakness to skymin and i noticed the scarftran weak and a glaring x three fire weak, so i suggest something like zapdos with HP ground, I dont have an idea...
Any suggestions?
 
first of all thanks very much.

just wanted to say that the few times that i have tried out this team so far, umbreon has actually been my main special wall, and it did seem to work out pretty well. I do however believe that i should probably run wish over toxic on it.
 
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