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ORAS OU Please help me improve my team

Hi everyone I recently made a team, does well on the ladder but currently weavile, talonflame, blissey/chansey really check this team. Also find fake out return mega lopunny hard to deal with.


Charizard-Mega-Y (F) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVS: 0 Atk
Timid Nature
- Fire Blast
- Solar Beam
- Ancient Power
- Focus Blast

Charizard Y is usually my lead, destroys skarm, ferothorn, swampert, blastoise, keldeo,non scarfed tyranitar, non scarfed lando, gardevior/gallade, non ancient powered heatran, alot of pokemon basically. Even water types cant switch in on it, solarbeam even kills slowbro milotic in 1 or 2 hits. Standard ev spread, timid nature with max special attack and speed to make it a solid sweeper. 4 Def evs to help with priority moves.


Thundurus (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 30 Atk / 30 Def
Timid Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power Ice
- Grass Knot
- Focus Blast

My Second all out sweeper pretty standard check. Grass Knot for swampert and quagsire, hp ice for lando and dragons, I tried superpower but It wasnt helping with chansey at all. So I went with focus blast for the occasional dark pokemon.

Clefable (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Unaware
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 216 Def / 40 SpD
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Moonlight
- Thunder Wave
- Moonblast

Went with unaware because It really checks dragon dancing pokemon and other clefables. Its a pretty standard set, also went with flamethrower over moonblast once, it helped with surprise kos on scizor and ferothorn but heatran completly walled it, and if i have calm mind boosts up, I would like to stay in, cause even a flash cannon from heatran doesnt hurt much after CM.

Landorus-Therian (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 128 Spe / 128 Def
Adament Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Rock Slide
- Knock Off

My thundurus, raikou, manetric check. Gets the surprise KO'S since its scarfed, gets them before they get me with hp ice. The evs allow it to outspeed unboosted pokemon rest go into attack and def

Latias (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 72 HP / 184 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Defog
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Healing Wish

Pretty standard Latias set, provides power, defog support, and healing wish to bring charizard y or another pokemon back to full health late game.

Scizor (M) @ Lum Berry
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk / 144 Def / 112 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
- Pursuit

I love this pokemon, the evs help it outspeed a non speed heatran and can on the switch kill it superpower. Also checks bisharp, helps check weavile with bullet punch, mega diacie and fairies in general. Great pursuit user

Possible changes:


Swampert (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Def / 16 SpA
Relaxed Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
- Scald
- Protect

I thought about using swampert over landorus, sure I wouldnt get the ko on threats like raikou and mantetric but it would hopefully force a check and help with chansey/blissey with toxic? plus stealth rocks are nice but since latias usually defogs in general I don't bother with stealth rocks in the first place.

Thoughts:

I know this team has a huge weakness to ice, and other then scizor I can't check weavile much, only early game when scizor is full hp. Swampert would help check weavile cause weavile and make it easier for scizor to kill with bulletpunch or even pursuit cause weavile usually just switches out.

Taunt over focus blast would help with blissey, but even then, thundurus wouldnt be able to kill it in time, and takes alot of damage from life orb recoil.

Im really open to suggestions, want to improve this team.

Charizard-Mega-Y (F) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Fire Blast
- Solar Beam
- Ancient Power
- Focus Blast
Charizard-Mega-Y (F) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Fire Blast
- Solar Beam
- Ancient Power
- Focus Blast
Charizard-Mega-Y (F) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Fire Blast
- Solar Beam
- Ancient Power
- Focus Blast
 
This isn't much of a rate, but you dont really have a reliable win con, or any means to stop somthing from setting up on you, as well as no meaningful special bulk. As of right now you are really beaten up by some stall teams and setup sweepers.

In general I would take Nasty Plot>Focus Blast on special sweeper Thundurus, as it allows you to set up and sweep much more effectively, as well as Roost over Ancientpower on Zard Y.

I wouldn also swap Clefable for a standard Chansey set, as like I said, right now you have nothing with any meaningful special bulk.

Chansey (F) @ evolite
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Def / 252 SpD
Bold Nature
- Soft-Boiled
- Heal Bell
- Toxic
- Seismic Toss
 
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Clefable usually stops set up sweepers, since its unaware, their boosts dont do anything. Great to counter dragon dancers, and it really helps slow down the enemy team with twave. Plus its my only switch in to mega lopunny, chansey would get destroyed. Ive never been beaten by set up sweepers but I have lost to stall. How else can I improve this team?
 
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