[NU] This team needs fixing

[Baze Badger]

I'm fairly new to pretty much any meta game that's NOT OU. NU is proving to be my favorite, because my favorite pokemon can actually be competitive. Unfortunately, to put it frankly, I suck. So, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Raichu (M) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Lightningrod
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 Atk
Hasty Nature
- Hidden Power [Water]
- Volt Switch
- Thunderbolt
- Fake Out

First up is my Raichu. Raichu is a hit and run attacker. Choice Specs boosts special attacks by 1.5x, meaning that Raichu can actually deal decent damage to an incoming opponent. I can faint an opponent with Volt Switch, and have a free switch to another pokemon, or deal serious damage to an opponent and switch into a good type matchup. Thunderbolt is an excellent move on Raichu, providing STAB, accuracy and power. Its usually used in late game. Hidden Power Water is reserved for Raichu's most common threat in NU, Camerupt, it also works great on other ground and rock types. Fake Out is obviously used once before I switch into something else, but I haven't found it very useful thus far. Not sure what to replace it with though. Finally, lightningrod is used as a switch-in opportunity, but surprisingly they aren't many electric types used in NU.

Cryogonal @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Freeze-Dry
- Frost Breath
- Flash Cannon
- Toxic

Cryogonal. Once Rotom-Frost until I realized that Rotom-Frost's only ice type is Blizard. As you can see, it is a bulky Special Sweeper, with Levitate for great switch-ins and leftovers to recover health. Freeze dry is a decent STAB option with coverage over water types. Frost Breath is always a critical hit and negates defensive stat boosts, Flash Cannon hits rock types and other ice types, and Toxic takes care of stallers.

Gogoat @ Leftovers
Ability: Sap Sipper
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Horn Leech
- Leaf Blade
- Leech Seed

Gogoat. One of my favorite Gen 6 pokemon, it functions as my main Grass type. Earthquake handily takes fire types (if it can outspeed them that is) Horn leech recovers health, Leaf Blade deals serious damage and leech seed is good for walls.

Garbodor @ Black Sludge
Ability: Stench
EVs: 252 SDef / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Calm Nature
- Toxic
- Gunk Shot
- Giga Drain
- Haze

Garbodor is my main wall. Its moveset is pretty self explanatory. Toxic is always nice to have, Gunk Shot is a great STAB and deals damage to grass and the rare fairy. Giga Drain regains health while haze neutralizes stat boost such as the ever common shell smash. Stench give me the slight but still present chance of flinching, which is always nice.

Archeops
Ability: Defeatist
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Jolly Nature
- Acrobatics
- U-turn
- Rock Slide
- Dragon Claw

Archeops give me two great types, rock and flying. It has no item to boost Acrobatics, Rock Slide, as its go to attack, U-turn to switch out of dangerous situations and for type coverage, and Dragon claw also for type coverage. It's EV trained for Special defense to try and take ice type moves.

Volbeat (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 SDef / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Calm Nature
- Light Screen
- Tail Glow
- Bug Buzz
- Baton Pass

Last is Volbeat. This is my lead. Prankster means gives light screen Tail Glow, and Baton pass priority, focus sash means I survive to pass my special attack boosts on to Raichu or Cryogonal, and Bug Buzz can be a pretty tough hit to take after a tail glow or two.​

 

[Brawlfest]

I'm sorry, but simply put this team has too many problems to fix. In order to make the team competitively viable, I would have to change all 6 pokemon, and at that point it would no longer be your team, something I am unable to do. I will help you point out everything that needs changing, but I advise heading over to Battling 101 and signing up for the program, because you need a push in the right direction my friend! :]

Problems:

• Fake Out on a Choice Specs Attacker (Should be Focus Blast on Raichu), HP Water (Should be HP Grass or Ice)
• Crogonal moveset (Recover is mandatory, and so is Rapid Spin.) Flash cannon is a terrible coverage move which should be replaced with HP Ground or Toxic, and there is no need for 2 STABs. Also there isn't need to invest fully in speed 192 Speed Timid is more than plenty to outspeed the metagame. Oh and 4 HP investment means you take 25% from Stealth Rocks, so you should move it to 4 Def, which decreases it down to 24% allowing you to switch in 4 full times.
• Gogoat should always take advantage of Horn Leech as a STAB and therefore Leaf Blade is useless, Rock Slide or Substitute should probably be used in that spot.
• If you aren't setting spikes, there isn't reason to use garbodor. It is almost 100% outclassed by Weezing who has Will-O-Wisp, a more reliable STAB, better defenses, Levitate, and recovery.
• Archeops should never not run roost. Ever. Unless you are Zeb and run Taunt. Dragon Claw legitimately sucks, because it doesn't earn you any coverage you dont get in Edgequake, so the easiest option is to run it over that. Also, Earth Power should be used over Acrobatics with a Life Orb to get your maximum possible coverage.
• Volbeat sucks outside of weather teams.

Honestly just by naming those pokemon, I would remove Raichu and Volbeat who are near unviable on standard teams, and the rest of your team is outclassed in what they are currently doing anyways. (Gogoat is beat by Sceptile and Gourgeist as offensive and defensive subseeders, Crogonal is currently being used by you as a special attacker a role better filled by Jynx who runs circles around it, your "Wall" garb is 100% beaten by weezing who gets will-o, defenses, levitate, and recovery.

Do note that you should definitely head down to Battling 101 because they are always ready to give newcomers a helping hand!

Cheers, welcome to RMT.

 

[Baze Badger]

I'm sorry, but simply put this team has too many problems to fix. In order to make the team competitively viable, I would have to change all 6 pokemon, and at that point it would no longer be your team, something I am unable to do. I will help you point out everything that needs changing, but I advise heading over to Battling 101 and signing up for the program, because you need a push in the right direction my friend! :]

Problems:

• Fake Out on a Choice Specs Attacker (Should be Focus Blast on Raichu), HP Water (Should be HP Grass or Ice)
• Crogonal moveset (Recover is mandatory, and so is Rapid Spin.) Flash cannon is a terrible coverage move which should be replaced with HP Ground or Toxic, and there is no need for 2 STABs. Also there isn't need to invest fully in speed 192 Speed Timid is more than plenty to outspeed the metagame. Oh and 4 HP investment means you take 25% from Stealth Rocks, so you should move it to 4 Def, which decreases it down to 24% allowing you to switch in 4 full times.
• Gogoat should always take advantage of Horn Leech as a STAB and therefore Leaf Blade is useless, Rock Slide or Substitute should probably be used in that spot.
• If you aren't setting spikes, there isn't reason to use garbodor. It is almost 100% outclassed by Weezing who has Will-O-Wisp, a more reliable STAB, better defenses, Levitate, and recovery.
• Archeops should never not run roost. Ever. Unless you are Zeb and run Taunt. Dragon Claw legitimately sucks, because it doesn't earn you any coverage you dont get in Edgequake, so the easiest option is to run it over that. Also, Earth Power should be used over Acrobatics with a Life Orb to get your maximum possible coverage.
• Volbeat sucks outside of weather teams.

Honestly just by naming those pokemon, I would remove Raichu and Volbeat who are near unviable on standard teams, and the rest of your team is outclassed in what they are currently doing anyways. (Gogoat is beat by Sceptile and Gourgeist as offensive and defensive subseeders, Crogonal is currently being used by you as a special attacker a role better filled by Jynx who runs circles around it, your "Wall" garb is 100% beaten by weezing who gets will-o, defenses, levitate, and recovery.

Do note that you should definitely head down to Battling 101 because they are always ready to give newcomers a helping hand!

Cheers, welcome to RMT.

Alright thanks for your help. Although, i won't be replacing the entire team, as there comes a point where it's just about performance in battle which really takes the fun out of it.