Please help me and my team

Sakuren

Sakuren

I'm very new to the competitive aspect of the pokemon games and I've tried everything. I've read the guides on here, on other sites, I followed the movesets on smogon, the tier system etc. and I keep losing which is really discouraging. I just can't seem to find a way to mold my team into one working unit and I really need some help so that I can bring out their strengths while covering their weaknesses. I know it's not the pokemon's fault, but my own. Can anyone help me understand how to build my team and what I should do to improve it?
Thank you!
I have three pokemon that I have decided on and in link battles you can only use three and I don't know how to feel the last three spots.
So if anyone has any suggestions that'd be very much appreciated.

Mismagius (Nasty Plot)
Ability: Levitate
Nature: Timid
EV's
Sp.A: 252
Speed: 252
- Psychic
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt

Milotic (Special Tank)
Ability: Competitve
Nature: Modest
EV's
Sp.A: 252
Sp.D: 252
- Recover
- Ice Beam
- Dragon Tail
- Scald

Arcanine (Physical Sweeper)
Ability: Intimidate
Nature: Adamant
EV's
A: 252
Sp: 252
- Flare Blitz
- Close Combat
- Roar
- Odor Sleuth

I'm not sure how to fill the other three spots. Should I add a support pokemon or another wall? Or?
 
Well for a quality team what people (and myself) find is best is to come up with a nice core, that holds the team together.
Regarding the pokemon you already have in this team, i suggest Rhyperior and Roserade as a core to tie together your team so far. This is because Roserade and Rhyperior work really well together when balancing weaknesses, they also balance the electric weakness of milotic and roserade balances the weakness to water for Arcanine. However i also suggest maybe using zapdos since water is not arcanines biggest worry, common ground attacks like earthquake are usually an issue so zapdos ties this together well.

In terms of the sets you already have, i have no idea why Odor Sleuth is on Arcanine, you also havent included items but i'll get to that. For a physical sweeper arcanine you aren't going to want roar, try Flare Blitz/Wild Charge/Close Combat/Extremespeed and use a life orb for your item to allow arcanine to hit really hard and sweep late game. I would suggest running a nature such as Jolly instead of Adamant to allow arcanine to have more speed as well as including 4 EVs in its HP.

For Milotic, the set looks fine, maybe toxic over dragon tail but that's entirely up to you. Use Marvel Scale for it's ability since it's all round better than Competitive, select leftovers for an item and put 252 EVs in HP, 252 in SpD and 4 in SpA with a calm nature.

For Mismagius, you might want to try substitute instead of psychic, shadow ball and thunderbolt provide more than enough coverage and setting up a sub will allow for easier setting up nasty plot. Leftovers for the item and include 4 EVs in HP.

If you want me to provide help for the pokemon i suggested, then i will happily do so.
 
That would be amazing! Thank you so much. What you said actually makes a lot of sense. So, should I breed the arcanine I have now with a Jolly Ditto I got from the safari with three IV'S?
 
I have a Rhyperior safari so I'm going to try and find one with good IV's then breed them. What nature should I go for? I also have a Roselia in my box and a 4IV ditto so I can breed for IV"s but what nature should I use? Are there any egg moves I should look for?
 
haha nice one :D Here are some sets i came up with!

Rhyperior @ Leftovers
Ability: Solid Rock
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Rock Blast
- Megahorn

Roserade @ Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Leaf Storm
- Sludge Bomb
- Sleep Powder
- Rest

Zapdos @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 84 SAtk / 248 HP / 176 Spd
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Heat Wave
- Roost
- Substitute

Not sure about egg moves, i suggest bulbapedia.net for that!
 
Oh and Dragon Tail has come in handy many a time because I usually put Milotic in first and every team I've fought so far has a dragon type and if they start with it they pull it out and put in something else so I use dragon tail to knock the new pokemon out and I keep doing that while using recover to hopefully get a swing at their dragon or fire pokemon
 
Up to you, as long as the nature isnt decreasing special attack or speed then you may be ok if this is just for in game!
 
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