OU Team

crystalvelox

Heatran @ Choice Scarf
Timid
252 Sp Atk/ 196 Sp/ 60 Hp
Fire Blast
Earth Power
Stealth Rock
Dragon Pulse

This will start as my lead. It's one of the best lead counters as it causes either a lot of switches on common leads or really damages a lot of them. Dragon Pulse over HP ice as HP ice is the preferred and therefore more expected. Dragon Pulse provides neutral damage to most things that would have resisted ice. The EV spread out runs everything single pokmone except for the normal, speed and attack deoxys along with electrode and ninjask. Other choice scarfers as well.

Gengar @ Choice Scarf
Timid
252 Sp Atk/ 252 Sp/ 4 Hp
Thunderbolt
Shadow Ball
Focus Blast
Hypnosis

Typical moveset not much else better. Get with Heatran for Revenge killing because the 2 take care of most of each others weaknesses.

Lucario @ Life Orb
Adamant; Inner Focus
252 Atk/ 252 Sp/ 4 Hp
Adamant
Sword Dance
Extremespeed
Close Combat
Crunch

Typical set up because again not much else is better and don't need an agility set up because of Gengar and Heatran. Crunch provides ability to hit ghost and stuff that stop this strategy.

Salamence @ Yache Berry
Adamant
136 Sp/ 252 Atk/ 120 Hp
Dragon Dance
Dragon Claw
Fire Blast
Earthquake

I had garchomp on the mind when I decided to use this. Provides ability to outrun a lot of things and hit almost as hard as garchomp. Most excellent to use after something has KOed one of my pokemon. Intimidate will lower others attack power and if it's weakened most likely switch out, free DD turn set up. With Yache Berry and it's already good bulkyness can survive another attack and make another DD set up.

Heracross @ Choice Band
Adamant; Guts
252 Sp/ 252 Atk/ 4 Hp
Megahorn
Close Combat
Night Slash
Stone Edge

Counters the blissey threat my team as by thunderwave weakness and being walled. Night Slash over pursuit because I think this to be more effective in hitting switches which with 2 revenge killers it's more of a benefit to weaken the other team and as many pokemon as possible.

Suicune @ Leftovers
Bold
252 Def/ 252 Hp/ 6 Sp def
Surf
HP Electric
Sleep Talk
Rest

Helps counter dugtrio, rain dance teams and starmie which big threats to most of my team.

Note: I didnt know for sure if it was allowed to have movesets that included platinum moves or not yet so I excluded them. If it is allowed then outrage over dragon claw on salamence and ice punch over crunch on lucario. If it is not allowed ignore this comment entirely and don't post anything regarding this.
 
Yeah I guess I didn't really think about it when I gave it that much in speed. Extra speed is pretty much useless. I believe I'll go with that EV spread and nature, keep yache berry.
 
I see that you need some other wall/tank. Perhaps something like donphan?
Give suicune some more sp.def evs, so that it can take special hits better. With donphan, you can go with something like this:
Donphan @ leftovers
Impish
252 HP / 6 Atk / 252 Def
EQ
Roar
Stealth rock / roar
rapid spin / knock off.

You can go with rapid spin, although i don't see your team has any problems with Spikes/stealth rock.
Heatran resists SR and Toxic Spikes, Gengar resists spikes, luke resists SR and TS, salamence is immune to spikes, while heracross & suicune can absorb them. You can switch donphan with maybe lucario, since you can hit hard with it, get a priority move, and help your team take electric type moves, which otherwise seems troubling to your team. Also, if you go with SR, you can get a free slot on heatran, and go with HP ice/Explosion.

Now, let's see what your team can do to common threats:

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 [B][COLOR=Red]Common [COLOR=DarkRed]OU[/COLOR] Threats List[/COLOR][/B]

[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/azelf"]Azelf[/URL] - heatran can hit it hard, but hp fighting will be dangerous. Gengar can hit with shadow ball, although scarf can outspeed and KO. FS variants can also take the hit and then KO.
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/breloom"]Breloom[/URL] Heatran and mence take care of it. 
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/deoxys-s"]Deoxys-S[/URL] Gengar, although it can be kinda troubling for the rest of your team, thunderbolt for cune, superpower for heatran/lluke, psychic for hera/gengar. Be careful.
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/dragonite"]Dragonite [/URL]heatran takes good care of it.
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/dugtrio"]Dugtrio[/URL] you can outspeed and counter with your scarfs.
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/electivire"]Electivire [/URL]DDmence
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/gallade"]Gallade [/URL]you can usually outspeed and ko with heatran or gengar, provided he has no shadow sneak. 
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/gengar"]Gengar[/URL] DDmence, scarfgar otherwise (if it's not scarfed)
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/gliscor"]Gliscor[/URL] not that of a problem. 
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/gyarados"]Gyarados [COLOR=black]thunderbolt..[/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/heatran"]Heatran [COLOR=Black] suicune - scarfgar.[/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/heracross"]Heracross - fireblast[/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/infernape"]Infernape[/URL] suicune/ddmence
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/jolteon"]Jolteon[/URL] you can easily outspeed and ko with scarfs.
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/lucario"]Lucario Focus B/Fire B[/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/machamp"]Machamp switch scarfgar on dynamic punch, then..[/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/magnezone"]Magnezone[/URL] nothing hard, EQ/FB
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/mamoswine"]Mamoswine [/URL]Just predict him and then go with scarfgar
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/metagross"]Metagross outspeed and sweep[/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/roserade"]Roserade ^^[/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/salamence"]Salamence if you go with HP ice as said above, this won't be of much trouble, although otherwise it can hit you hard[/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/scizor"]Scizor - fire[/URL]
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/starmie"]Starmie[/URL] you can KO it with heracross
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/swampert"]Swampert[/URL] - won't be easy. You can hit it hard, but won't be able to OHKO it; it might kill some of your pogeys, but not that problem.
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/tyranitar"]Tyranitar[/URL] - heracross and luke, if you keep it
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/yanmega"]Yanmega - won't do [/URL]a thing on heatran, and you can dodge it's hypnosis with cune.
[URL="http://www.smogon.com/forums/../dp/pokemon/zapdos"]Zapdos[/URL] It might do some hazards to your team, as it can roost of your damage. You can't really switch on it's Thunderbolt easily without taking some damage.

I don't know what i'm doing, writing you how you can counter every pokemon :O
Whatever, i'm just bored, so..
Hope this helped?
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The problem with Dragon Pulse on heatran is that it fails to KO Dragonite nor Salamence, some thing you might want to consider killing :P I'd personally run HP Ice - since most things that resist ice is nailed by Fire/Ground anyway - there's no good reason not to run it.

You rely too much on revenge killing - especially with two Scarf users. I'd honestly just rip that scarf off Gengar, throw it leftovers and run Substitute over Thunderbolt. Gengar gets a lot of free switch ins, and Substitute helps him deal with a lot of problems that might switch in, such as Metagross and other friends with Pursuit, and lets you take a shot at so much more, all the while you can begin to pp stall certain variations of Blissey.

Get rid of Calm Mind and run HP Electric instead on suicune - or else risk being swept by Gyarados after a Dragon Dance - to deal with the fact that Scarfgar is no longer there to save you from a Gyarados sweep. I don't really like ScarfGar switchins to Gyarados anyway since most smart players will waterfall first - making quick work of Gengar. You lose out on Calm Mind, but you might have enough offense in the other 5 members.
 
Changed EV spread of Salamence to what was mentioned before. Yache berry has been helping a lot more than leftovers. I'll try using donphan and then your suggestions Tangerine. Sadly I need some more practice in predicting. I've been losing to trick room and baton pass teams. :/
 
Forgot to mention I was going with adamant not jolly on salamence.

Tried using Donphan, and it didn't really work out. HP electric on suicune is working as well. Substitute over thunderbolt on Gengar and leftovers just isn't working well.
 
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