Putting my favorites to good use (vs ou)

Hello everyone and welcome to my (OU) RMT!
This is a team that I have made, that basically consists of my favorites, but it´s supposed to be able to counter most OU teams anyway.
My main problem is things that can set up and then sweep (Jirachi comes to mind)



The team
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Team Building Process
So I started by rounding up all the pokes that I liked, and here is that list.
You may pick pokes from this list when changing pokes on my team
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Starting off with a core of my Favorite favorites
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This leaves me with 3 pokes already weak to fire, so a Water poke is the next logical step. And sadly my Frosslass has to go.
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Next step was the offense, so here comes a wall breaker.
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As the core is pretty sturdy, I thought that some wish support would be nice
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So now I also have 2 pokes weak to fighting, so time for a ghost!
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Gengar was nice and all, but I needed some more bulk, so make way for Duskie
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Swampert (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP/4 Atk/252 SDef
Relaxed nature (+Def, -Spd)
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Ice Beam
- Roar

Swampert seemed like a pretty solid lead, being able to set up Stealth Rock and Roar away anything that tries to set up on it.
Its main weakness apart from the obvious grass weakness is of course speedy taunters.
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Venusaur (M) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP/4 Def/252 SDef
Calm nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Sleep Powder
- Energy Ball
- Sludge Bomb
- Leech Seed

Don't underestimate this guy, hes a valuable asset to my team,
and brings a lot to the table seeing as this guy is the only means of dealing with a strong grass type hence, he carries Sludge Bomb.
You are welcome to help me improve my team, but just saying "switch Venusaur for Roserade" ain't the kind of help I'm looking for.

So this is how it works; Put something to sleep, Leach Seed on the switch, assuming SR is up (which is usually is considering my lead)
the pokemon that decides to switch in has already taken some damage, and in some cases healed venusar some as well.

Some might also argue that Celebi does this job a lot better, and there for think Venusaur should be discarded entirely.
But the thing that puts venusaur above Celebie in my eyes are the ever increasing presence of bug moves such as U-turn and X-scissors.
Celebie also fears Pursuit and Shadow Sneak, which Venusaur shrugs of.

"Venusaur can come in on some of the major physical offensive threats of the meta-game like Gyarados, Electivire,
and Medicham along with special stars like Raikou, Zapdos, Jolteon, and Suicune and foil any chance at a sweep.
Venusaur’s ability to sponge hits from both ends of the offensive spectrum while still maintaining his own offensive capacity with dual STAB sets him apart." - Smogon.com

I'm using BlackSludge instead of leftovers here, just because Venusaur is a pokemon many people would like to trick to equipping a choice item. But by trying this they will get a bad poison instead :).

Energy Ball is for coverage and of course STAB, which does surprisingly a good amount of damage to anything not resisting it.
And last but not least, Sludge Bomb.
Not only is this move my 2nd STAB move, but it also takes care of pretty much anything els that resists my grass attacks,
with Venusaurs great defenses I can even take on a celebi and come out on top.
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Nidoking (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Poison Point
EVs: 252 Atk/88 Spd/168 SAtk
Naughty nature (+Atk, -SDef)
- Earthquake
- Megahorn
- Ice Beam
- Fire Blast

Now dont get me wrong here, I really love this poke.
The look, the feel, the attacks, everything is great, however...
I feel like this guy is as of now my weakest link. He has saved my quite a few times thanks to his versatile move set,
but I just feel that he dies to easy. Its kinda like a hate-love relationship, if anything needs changing, this is probably a good place to start.

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Dusknoir (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP/252 Atk/4 Def
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Substitute
- Sucker Punch
- Focus Punch
- Fire Punch

Thanks to Dusknoir's many immunities and of course the ability to take a few hits allows him to setup Substitute,
and then deal large damage to the opposition from Dusknoir's often underestimated Attack stat, and its impressive physical move pool.
This set often comes as a surprise to most people who I fight. Often switching in something thats weak to fighting, or even Gengar to counter it.
Gengar is OH-KO´D by Sucker punch, Tyranitar is OH KO´D by Focus Punch.


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Cloyster (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Shell Armor
EVs: 252 HP/252 Atk/4 Def
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Avalanche
- Ice Shard
- Payback
- Explosion

The star of the show!
This is my all time favorite pokemon, to bad he kinda sux :D.
Oh well, lets have a look at this beast shall we.
Instead of going with the usual Utility set with rapid spin, I felt like doing something els, since the star should not be forced to take a boring move set.
So I felt the Choice Band set was for me.
Cloyster is slow as dirt, so Payback and Avalanche was 2 obvious choices, and with the CB he really packs a punch if he survives the opponents attack.
CB Ice Shard is awesome, and OHKO´S all dragons, and does very good on everything that its effective against.
As most of my team lacks speed, this guy can act as a revenge killer or just blow up in someones face!
I totally love him.


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Umbreon (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 HP/164 Spd/92 SDef
Careful nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Wish
- Payback
- Protect
- Toxic
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A standard Umbreon set, Payback is there because its slow as dirt, and I wanted at least some means of attack.
Toxic wish and Protect really doesnt need an explanation.
I hope you will overlook the shortness of this section, but I cant really think of anything useful to say.


Anyways, rate away, and any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks for your time!



 
Cloyster is not weak to fire.

You have no ground resist. Earthquake is the most common pokemon in the tier.

You have no dragon resist. Although you have cloyster for revenging mence, dragonite, and flygon locked into outrage, latias (and kingdra) fu-er, messes this up all over.

NP Mixape can outspeed and OHKO everything here (except maybe dusknoir, who can't do anything to him), sets up on umbreon and cloyster locked onto ice shard, resists ice shard and sucker punch, and, uh, can outspeed and OHKO everything here.

Swap Umbreon my special recipe of a wishpassing, sub-cm latias!
Latias
@ Leftovers
128 HP / 128 SpA / 252 Spe
~ Substitute
~ Calm Mind
~ Wish
~ Dragon Pulse

It can pass, it can wall, it can sweep. So yeah.

Now, you need a steel type, and perhaps a revenge killer for gyarados, who sets up on, um, everything. Use Scarf Jirachi/Venusaur, who has, uh, no notable resists compared to the rest of your team, and beats Gyarados better. I think.

There are better wallbreakers in ou, like, uh, Salamence or Tyranitar.

Lastly, my rates suck, so beware.
 
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