Rain Ou Team for a Tournament

Hi, i'm peruvian, english is not my native language, so I maybe have mistakes in the writting.
I need my team for a Tournament (Item clause, freeze clause, oh-ko clause, sleep clause, species clause)
I use a rain team, but my team has problems with some pokemons, so I hope you can help me.
This is my team:

Politoed @ Sitrus Berry
Bold
252 Hp/180 Def/76 SDef
-Encore
-Scald
-Ice Beam
-Toxic

He has problems with ferrothorn, Tyranitar, Ninetales and pokemon with substitutes and he do little damage to the opponents pokemon, but he resist very well. I want a defensive politoed that can stay in the field to summon hi rain against the other weather inducers.

Rotom-W @ Choice Scarf
Modest
252 SAtk/252 Spe/ 4 Def
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Hidden Power (Ice)
- Trick

The classic Rotom-W, I like it and he do his job pretty well.

Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Impish
252 Hp/ 8 Def/ 248 SDef
- Stealth Rock
- Power Whip
- Leech Seed
- Thunder Wave

A mixed wall Ferrothorn, he only has 1 attack and he is the only pokemon in my team who put entry hazard in the opponents field.

Scizor @ Choice Band
Adamant
248 Hp/252 Atk/8 SDef
-U-turn
-Bullet Punch
-Super Power
-Pursuit

The standard choice band scizor, he has symilar typing with ferrothorn and he has good synergy with the other pokemons of the team.

Latios @ Life Orb
Timid
252 SAtk/ 252 Spe/ 4 SDef
- Surf
- Thunder
- Ice Beam
- Draco Meteor

Excellent coverage and good damage, Starmie has similar moves and more speed, but latios has superior typing and more special attack.

Toxicroak @ Lum Berry
Adamant
252 Atk/ 252 Spe/ 4 Hp
- Sword Dance
- Cross Chop
- Ice Punch
- Sucker Punch

My ferrothorn counter, he can set up without fear a thunder wave and ko ferrothorn with cross chop. His low speed and bad bulk make him easy to revenge kill and the unreliable sucker punch doesn't help. Cross Chop has poor accuracy and a fail can cost the life of the croak.

Counters:

Gastrodon:
He wall latios and rotom-w and he do very well against scizor and toxicroak.

Tyranitar:
An obvious counter to my team, he can freely switch thanks to his high special defense and change the weather.

Chansey/Blissey:
Only toxicroak can ko them and scizor has problem with super power thanks to choice band.

Tentacruel:
I don´t have earthquake in my team and volt switch can oh-ko him, so latios is the only pokemon who can kill him.

Ferrothorn:
The BIG problem of my team, Scizor can´t OH-KO the defensive variants and toxicroak only kill him after a sword dance. Ferrothorn counters politoed, rotom-w, latios and my ferrothorn if the other has spikes.

Alternatives to my team:

Breloom:

He doesn't take advantage of the rain like toxicroak, but he can counter Ferrothorn, Gastrodon and Chansey/Blissey pretty well.

Starmie:

I don´t have a spineer in my team, so starmie is a good option, he has a movepool similar to latios, but the rapid spin support make a good difference.

Gastrodon:

I can use him basically to counter rotom-w volt switch.

Virizion:
Similar to breloom he can kill the common counter to this team but he has a boosting move (sword dance) and a superior speed, but he lost the possibility of sleep the opponent.
 
Please expand the descriptions for some of your Pokemon, and read number 3 of the forum rules carefully please.
 
Hidden Power fire is often used on latios to counter steel types that resist latios' dual STAB and most of its filler moves. Try running Hidden Power Fighting or Ground to counter steel types instead of using Ice Beam on latios. Also, you can run Hidden Power Grass on Rotom if your worried about Gastrodon.
 
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