New Sandstorm Balanced team

[Methmite]

Hey everyone. Again. I made some radical changed to my team, and I'm much happier with this team. As before, I'm still not cool enough to know how to make pictures, so sorry for the wall of texts.

New Team:
Lucario
Flygon
Skarmory
Hippowdon
Scizor
Swampert

Lucario@Focus Sash
Close Combat
Crunch
Extreme Speed
Counter
--I took him straight off the Smogon website. Its a really good lead that guarantees a kill, even 2 if you can predict well enough.

Flygon@Choise Scarf
U-turn
Earth Quake
Fire Punch
Outrage
--Again, off the website. I switched fire blast for fire punch for a couple reasons. 1) im only running fire so i have some cover on grass, which is a bigger bitch than it needs to be. Grass types have more spec D than Defence on the whole in OU and BL. 2) i have a good 3x the amount of attack than spec attack, so I'll deal more damage anyways. 3) 100% accuracy? when i was running fire blast, everytime i needed it, it missed. I feel like losing a little coverage on steel types is worth it.

Skarmory@Leftovers
Spikes
Stealth Rock
Whirlwind
Roost
--mid game spiker/stall. Works beautifully, and if worse comes to worse, i can just suicide SR's and spikes and be done with it, letting hippowdon stall.

Hippowdon@leftovers
Stockpile
Slack off
Earthquake
Roar
--Good tank, starts my sand storm, and can phaze like a champ. I've been able to knock ice beams down to 30% ish damage from starmies with just one stockpile, and phaze out any sweeps and such

Scizor@choiceband
U-turn
Pursuit
Superpower
Bullet Punch
--Again. off the site. Gives me a good revenger for types Flygon doesnt cover, and lets me spam u-turn between the 2.

Swampert@Chesto
Rest
Curse
Earthquake
Avalanche
-- there to sweep. 1 curse is usually enough to knock out anything not resistant to EQ.

One of the issues I have with this team is that my only sweep is a Curse one. I have no issue with curse sweeps, its just the lowering speed is sort of counter porductive. As usual suggestions are taken with love.

 

[haunter]

Please expand your descriptions as they're definitely not up to rule 3:

3. Have some actual words in your post beyond your six Pokemon and their moves. Not following this makes your post quite boring to read and rate. All Pokemon should have a good reason for being in your team anyway, so why not post that reason? If you are having trouble with this one, start by giving an explanation for each team member. Why are they there? What role do they serve? How do you get them in? Then, give an explanation of how you would open with the team and how you would go about using it. All of these things help people rate your team and allow us to offer more helpful advice.

This does not mean add one sentence saying "Standard x" or "all-around awesome" after each Pokemon. If you put thought into making the team, you can put thought into posting it.

Take a look at the RMT archive to see what kind of descriptions we are looking for. PM me the fixed descriptions and I'll unlock this thread.