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Azelf is fine as a lead and I know you love your Explosion Stealth Rocks. However, I recommend another "Suicide" Lead because you have a rather large Yanmega weakness. An HP Ground Yanmega can beat everything on this team except a full health tentacruel with little or no trouble. The frightening part about it is you have no priority moves or sleep talker. An Aerodactyl in this slot will resolve that problem somewhat. Other than that, perhaps a good ol' fashioned Zong may do the trick. Just keep this in mind.
Priority Moves have been a problem for this team on a few occasions, but I don't know what I would a priority user over. For sleep I usually just work around it, like having them sleep Zelf or something after SR is set. I addressed the lead issue already, and if Bronzong or Aero prove to be more effective, one of them will be the new lead.
MOP Cross is fucking sexy! I was using it last night. Minor nitpick, but I recommend dropping his speed to 232 EVS so you can put another 20 EVs into defense. Why? 295 doesnt outspeed anything significant, but 290 will outspeed Yanmega before he protects, and after he protects with your Salac. The 24 Defense EVs will decrease the chance Gliscor has of breaking your sub. Mine kept breaking last night and it pissed me off, but I had better luck with the change.
EV changes will be made on that, as the extra def will help while the speed doesnt help to outspeed anything it cant already.
Magnezone - I know you are going 188 speed, but why not just raise it to 204 speed EVs? If you shoot for 202 you may as well hit 207 or 208. Your team will like you when you can get that extra hit in on Suicune and Cresselia.
Good idea, I will fix that.
Bulkymence - Sexy.
Lol
Tentacruel - Fine.
Cool
Deoxys-E - fine I guess. I'm honestly a little worried about Gyarados because some Gyarados users attack first to see what your counter is and Deoxys-E isn't taking a Life Orbed Waterfall very lightly. If somehow you can leave off an attack, Recover may help you feel "safer" but its up to you. Just be careful.
For Gyaras I also may switch into Salamence, as it can take an Ice Fang while it roosts.
Other than that its a cool team. And congrats on winning the tournament!
Thanks!
anyways, as far as the team itself, what worries me is that you're heavily overtaxing magnezone. like, your 3 potent sweepers are all walled by their assorted steels, and if magnezone isn't taking them out, they could stick around for a long, long time. I mean, I guess you could blow up on them with azelf and then sac one of your guys to bring them down, but that involves heavy sacrifices, and if the opponent realizes how important it is for steels to be gone (as all teams with magnezone are) for your team to work, they'll be much more wary about when they'll be keeping the steels in and when to switch out. anyways, theorymon jargon aside, another pokemon that worries me other than assorted steels is mamoswine. he effectively 2HKO's or OHKO's every member of this team without too much difficulty, outspeeding and ice fanging (or worse, blizzarding) salamence for the kill, ice sharding low health heracross, eqing random shit that is weak to it and doesn't outspeed him, and ice sharding deo for around 50%, so he better be at full health, or at least near to it if you want even a chance to revenge kill him. then of course, he can always switch out and whatnot, so that won't really help. I guess azelf could try and blow up on him, but he'll be scared shitless of fire blast and psychic on that puny special defense, so he won't want to stay in. anyways, with a few minor changes, nothing too drastic, you can work to solve these problems decently well. first of all, fire blast over taunt on azelf (should you choose to use him and not aerodactyl, though ideally I'd like you to try fake out infernape), with everyone expecting it nowadays, I don't see you getting too much mileage out of it, and fire blast gives you the extra pokemon that can hurt a steel type that is expecting an explosion. fire+bug gets decent coverage as well. next, you should at least try fire fang on mence, just to try it out, as the only guy who resists it is heatran, who you can bring tentacruel in pretty much all the time, except in the case of LO tran, who should be really getting worn down from attacking and then taking random hits here and there. of course you have to predict the fire blasts and hp ices and not come in on earth powers, but that's pokemon. and to help "deal" with mamoswine, you should really give deoxys recover as raikoulover suggested, keeping him healthy and in shape to beat out mamoswine should the need arise. not too much drastic stuff. I'm glad this team finally worked out for you!
Mamo was always a major problem with this team, which is why I think Zong would be probably the best at lead, although I still need to test it.
