SS OU Please help me improve my team

[Blazer2184]

Hello. I'm a beginner in competitive play and I don't know the metagame very well, so far this is the team I have built after a lot of edits, please if you have any improvements then tell me. Thank you in advance!


Dracovish @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Strong Jaw
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fishious Rend
- Crunch
- Psychic Fangs
- Outrage

After battling a lot of opponents, a common pokemon I have come up against is Dracovish. In my team, Dracovish in my team is here as a powerhouse to break through bulky defenses and demolishes quite quick and clean up after Venusaur. Psychic Fangs provides good coverage and also can break screens, while Crunch also provides coverage and power without locking in Dracovish in a move like Outrage.


Venusaur @ Life Orb
Ability: Chlorophyll
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Giga Drain
- Earth Power
- Sludge Bomb
- Synthesis

Venusaur is not who I originally was going to build the team around, but I ended up doing so and is the heart of this team as a result. I tried Solarbeam over Giga Drain orignally but Ttars and Hippowdon would sometimes remove my drought and so I went for Giga Drain. Venusaur is the heart of this team and it does the job well. Earth Power is good to get any Fire types who may switch in, and Synthesis regains a lot of health during drought. Sludge Bomb deals with any Fairies.


Ninetales @ Heat Rock
Ability: Drought
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Solar Beam
- Flamethrower
- Encore
- Dark Pulse

Ninetales is, of course, here to set up a drought for Venusaur to thrive in. It is a strong mon itself with coverage moves like Solar Beam to take out any ground or rock types that may switch in on Ninetales. Ninetales really helps out against Ferrothorn and other common mons like Corviknight.


Seismitoad @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Scald
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic

Seismitoad is here as a Dracovish counter. After experimenting between Seismitoad and Ferrothorn, i'm still unsure of which Pokemon is better to counter Dracovish, but i've gone with Seismitoad. Toxic is there to help wittle down Pokemon that may be hard to take down and Stealth Rock to get extra damage on switch ins.


Corviknight @ Leftovers
Ability: Mirror Armor
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Iron Head
- Defog
- Roost
- U-turn

Corviknight is quite important defensively in my team while also providing decent offense. Defog can remove any hazards as well as screens which has shown to be quite useful. Roost helps to keep Corviknight alive as long as possible throughout the battle, while Iron Head is a counter to Clefable or any other fairy type.


Aegislash @ Expert Belt
Ability: Stance Change
EVs: 150 HP / 94 Atk / 12 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
- King's Shield
- Shadow Ball
- Shadow Sneak
- Sacred Sword

This one I am not sure about and would take any suggestions given. I went for a mix of special and physical but, again i'm very unsure about this Pokemon. Aegislash can be a good Pokemon to switch into and can cleanup well and is good to take some hits from hard hitting Pokemon.

Weaknesses

Hippowdon and Tyranitar have proven to be an issue as they remove the sunlight.
Excadrill does quite well against half of my team, especially if Draco or Toad are down.
Hydreigon and Dragapult have also been quite good against my team as I don't have much to get rid of them quickly and they can take down a lot of my mons.

Thank you once again in advance! As I said earlier, I am a beginner in competitive play so if there are silly errors that is why, any suggestions are welcome and I would really appreciate them!

 

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[dreepYEETS]

So, your team is a little at odds with itself because a bunch of your guys don't like to be in the sun. You have double steal types, which leave you with a big fire weakness. And dracovish's entire thing is to just spam his stupid powerful water move, but the sun reduces the damage of water moves by 50%, pretty much crippling vish whenever weather is up.

It would be better to swap dracovish for a different breaker. Conkeldurr can OHKO excadrill, ttar, and hydreigon, which are mons you mentioned having trouble with, so that might be a good option.

If you decide to keep the aegislash, there are a few changes you should probably make to the set. For a special attacker with shadow sneak, life orb is probably the best held item. As a special wall breaker, aegislash generally forces your opponent to switch out, then hits whatever comes in with a neutral shadow ball for big damage. You won't be landing a ton of super effective hits, and when you do, whatever you hit is probably gonna die anyways, so expert belt isn't super useful. Also, use close combat instead of sacred sword and dump all your ev's into SpA and Speed with a mild nature.

And on your venusaur swap out earth power and synthesis for weather ball and growth. Growth doubles your atk and spA if you use it in the sun, so use that combined with the speed boost from chlorophyll to sweep. Weather ball will turn into a fire type move with 100BP in the sun, plus it gets the 50% boost from the sun, so that will be really good for beating all the mons that resist sludge bomb and giga drain.

 

[Blazer2184]

So, your team is a little at odds with itself because a bunch of your guys don't like to be in the sun. You have double steal types, which leave you with a big fire weakness. And dracovish's entire thing is to just spam his stupid powerful water move, but the sun reduces the damage of water moves by 50%, pretty much crippling vish whenever weather is up.

It would be better to swap dracovish for a different breaker. Conkeldurr can OHKO excadrill, ttar, and hydreigon, which are mons you mentioned having trouble with, so that might be a good option.

If you decide to keep the aegislash, there are a few changes you should probably make to the set. For a special attacker with shadow sneak, life orb is probably the best held item. As a special wall breaker, aegislash generally forces your opponent to switch out, then hits whatever comes in with a neutral shadow ball for big damage. You won't be landing a ton of super effective hits, and when you do, whatever you hit is probably gonna die anyways, so expert belt isn't super useful. Also, use close combat instead of sacred sword and dump all your ev's into SpA and Speed with a mild nature.

And on your venusaur swap out earth power and synthesis for weather ball and growth. Growth doubles your atk and spA if you use it in the sun, so use that combined with the speed boost from chlorophyll to sweep. Weather ball will turn into a fire type move with 100BP in the sun, plus it gets the 50% boost from the sun, so that will be really good for beating all the mons that resist sludge bomb and giga drain.

Alright thank you very much for your tips! i'll be sure to try everything out.