Need help choosing a good lead for this team.

Azelf @ Focus Sash
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Stealth Rock
- Taunt
- Explosion
- Psychic

Experimenting with some different leads. Right now it's this one. Basically, it's a standard suicide lead. I'll go to Flygon to scout, and scare things out.
What do you think of changing the lead to something different.
If I change to a Swampert lead, I'm changing flygon to a support Latias, or Blissey.
If it changes to Infernape, then I might change Flygon to Porygon 2
Any other ideas? I want my second pokemon, to basically help the lead if it's not a suicide lead. If it is, I want something that can scare out a good portion of pokemon that come in after you explode.

Flygon (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 80 HP/252 Atk/176 Spd
Naughty nature (+Atk, -SDef)
- U-turn
- Earthquake
- Draco Meteor
- Outrage

Stays with Azelf because after it explodes, this thing scares out, and scout teams pretty well. Scizor might come in for Flygon, if it's a suicide lead. Then it can revenge kill, and work as some kind of weak SpecMence.


Rotom-h @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP/168 Def/88 Spd
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Will-o-wisp
- Thunderbolt
- Overheat
- Light Screen

Standard. Best chance against Scizor I have, unless I change some things up. Lost some synergy, when I took out porygon z for Lucario, but still does what it needs to do. Should I keep Light Screen, or put reflect in?

Lucario (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Extremespeed
- Crunch

Main sweeper. Comes in on Ghost attacks directed toward Rotom, and Blissey, when it has toxic. This could also be changed if I need to.

Celebi @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP/220 Def/36 Spd
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Leech Seed
- Grass Knot
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Thunder Wave

Main defence against Salamence. Leech Seed, helps recover some HP that I'll lose from all of the switching I do, while Thunder Wave cripples everything that could hurt my pokemon later on. Other then that, it's pretty standard.

Heatran (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Explosion

Revenge killer. Takes fire attacks directed at Celebi, and Lucario, and sometimes at Flygon.Takes Ghost attacks to, and scares them out. Pretty standard too, but I'm going to change it to ether a different set, or take off explosion if I decide to keep Azelf.


From what I see, I'm:

special defensively weak

Mence weak, unless it's locked into outrage.

Lucario Weak when it has a sword dance, and not burned, or paralized.

Haven't played much more things I couldn't handle.
 
In my experience, leading with a Scarf Flygon actually works. U-turn can break sashes and send in your "lead that isn't" which could set up SR, etc. If you meet something that would break your lead, send in a counter. Its easy to predict and useful in itself. If you do this, Swampert might make a nice choice in your secondary "lead support" spot.

On Heatran, Dragon Pulse can be useful because it hits all non-Steels neutral, and no Steel type would be crazy enough to switch into a Fire Blast.

You definitely have a Mence problem. Consider a Porygon-2 in your Celebi's slot.

http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/porygon2
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@ Leftovers
Trace
Bold
252 HP/216 Def/40 SpA
-Thunderbolt
-Ice Beam
-Recover
-Thunder Wave

Comes in on Mence or Gyara and KOs back with the appropriate BoltBeam, after Tracing Intimidate. Recover keeps it alive, and Twave cripples random other things coming in to spoil your fun.

Hope this helps.
 
Luxor maniac has a point, not only Pory2 gives a check on Mence but it also deals with other threats like Gyarados and Heatran tracing their ability and forcing them out or KOing them. It walls Vaporeon and the now common SpecsJolt.
 
I was think about Porygon 2 actually, I just didn't know where to put it. I'll try it over Celebi, it rarely gets used over my other pokemon.

And I'll try the Flygon lead too, with Swampert.

It might get rid of some other problems I had with this team. It's gets alot worse, when something dies. It's because of how much each pokemon relys on a certain one to hep it out.
 
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