Why make this an RMT if you made it in under 4 minutes?
Anyways, first things first. The Politoed, no offense, is an abomination. Try Scald / Toxic / Protect / Perish Song. You just don't run an offensive set with defensive EVs...
Your Jirachi is extremely susceptible to status conditions, I can see Jellicent or the like smoking this guy. Get Substitute plz. And Body Slam > TWave, Jirachi is already weak to ground, why make it even weaker.
Run Max Speed on Latias or be screwed over by every single base 100 Pokemon in existence.
I thought every kid starting off with weather knew that one should never, ever, EVER use Scrafty in Rain. Seems I was incorrect. Rain does absoloutely nothing for this guy, and DD Scrafty sucks anyways. Its Speed is abominable. That's combined with the fact that you're using Moxie over Shed Skin, which is a terrible choice. Scrafty will be wrecked by anything carrying status. Changing the item to Lum Berry will help if you're hell-bent on keeping Moxie.
Not much to say on Rotom-W. Pretty generic rain abuser. Why the weird EV spread though? Just wondering.
Volcarona...wowwww. This thing is SO bad. I mean, at least use a Pokemon in Rain that doesn't get its best attacking move's power cut in half, and the power of moves that hit it super effectively multiplied by 1.5. Why would you even consider this? I mean, you think this thing can pull off a sweep? Yeah, enter Gyarados. There are more counters, like Jellicent (which by the way will destroy your entire team with proper support), but I'm not going to list them all. This is just a bad idea. I understand you're trying to be original, but sometimes originality has to take a backseat to practicality. You don't even have a spinner, which means if the opponent has Stealth Rocks up, which they most likely will, then your Volc takes 50% on entry. That sucks. Replace this with a Tornadus or something.
Overall, it honestly looks like you just picked 6 Pokemon you thought would do well in rain, and then threw them together on the same team. The synergy just isn't there for me, I'm sorry. Adding a spinner will help this team immensely. I recommend Tentacruel, because it gets a Rain Dish bonus and can set up Toxic Spikes as well. this team needs some serious playtesting and modification, but I see potential somewhere in the distance. Just keep trucking.
Okay, I'll try to hit this on point by point.
" Why make this an RMT if you made it in under 4 minutes? "
I figured, " Why not use the RMT " to get the team ironed out a bit, then start looking at actually improvements. So I threw it on here to see what would be said so I could polish it up a little bit before I actually used it on someone and looked like a fool. Because that usually isn't a good feeling.
Although looking at it now, it does seem to be a bit of a silly way to do things, keep in mind, I'm new to the site. Although that is no excuse, sorry if I made a bad impression on anybody. But I'm definitely not a stranger to competitive battling, been doing it a while. I came here from a bit of a different site, you might have heard of it, " The Pokemondb "
Anyway, I always used the RMT section there to get improvements before testing out my teams, but we had a different set of tiers, in which Jirachi and Latias were both uber. So I never really used them, ( Didn't do a lot of Uber battling really. )
" Anyways, first things first. The Politoed, no offense, is an abomination. Try Scald / Toxic / Protect / Perish Song. You just don't run an offensive set with defensive EVs... "
Scald and Toxic? Isn't that a bit contradictory?
I've found myself using Hydro Pump on my Politoeds without Sp Atk investment a while ago, and thought it was kind of stupid, although look at it this way. 120 power move, + Rain boost ( 50% ), + STAB ( 50% ).
Normally by the time all of that's calculated, he has no trouble doing some serious damage, while Perish Song was something new I'm trying out.
Although I will try your set out on him, I've grown fairly attached to the one I'm currently using, only with Hypnosis or Toxic.
Also, why would I try to Toxic stall while wearing myself down with Perish Song?
" Your Jirachi is extremely susceptible to status conditions, I can see Jellicent or the like smoking this guy. Get Substitute plz. And Body Slam > TWave, Jirachi is already weak to ground, why make it even weaker. "
I had a friend of mine point out the T-wave < Body Slam thing, I'll definitely change that up. What I replace for Substitute? That sounds like a fairly nice idea for him.
" Run Max Speed on Latias or be screwed over by every single base 100 Pokemon in existence. "
Now, should I just screw Latias and go for Latios?
If not, I'll just do that, but what Ev's do I change for max speed?
" I thought every kid starting off with weather knew that one should never, ever, EVER use Scrafty in Rain. Seems I was incorrect. Rain does absoloutely nothing for this guy, and DD Scrafty sucks anyways. Its Speed is abominable. That's combined with the fact that you're using Moxie over Shed Skin, which is a terrible choice. Scrafty will be wrecked by anything carrying status. Changing the item to Lum Berry will help if you're hell-bent on keeping Moxie. "
Yeah, I was hesitant to even try using him.
And Jolly + Dragon Dance gets his speed relatively high, along with Moxie boosts keeping his attack great, but the points about status, are definitely true. I might just go back to my standard Toxicroak here.
So I'll probably just play it classic there for croak.
Although, I've learned from multiple experiences, that sometimes carry a pokemon that doesn't necesarily benefit from the rain, just for team coverage and not being screwed by other weather, can be a good idea.
Either way, Scrafty doesn't seem to pull it off.
" Not much to say on Rotom-W. Pretty generic rain abuser. Why the weird EV spread though? Just wondering. "
I've found that being an amazing bulky sweeper spread.
Even with 252 Ev's in speed, he's not gonna outspeed other sweepers with Specs equipped, but I love having specs.
He really got turned into a Tank breaker / Bulky Sweeper.
The defensive Ev's let him not be completely screwed by sweepers he can't outspeed, while having that massive Special Attack and epic rain support lets him break down tanks fairly easily, while still having a chance of survival.
" Volcarona...wowwww. This thing is SO bad. I mean, at least use a Pokemon in Rain that doesn't get its best attacking move's power cut in half, and the power of moves that hit it super effectively multiplied by 1.5. Why would you even consider this? I mean, you think this thing can pull off a sweep? Yeah, enter Gyarados. There are more counters, like Jellicent (which by the way will destroy your entire team with proper support), but I'm not going to list them all. This is just a bad idea. I understand you're trying to be original, but sometimes originality has to take a backseat to practicality. You don't even have a spinner, which means if the opponent has Stealth Rocks up, which they most likely will, then your Volc takes 50% on entry. That sucks. Replace this with a Tornadus or something. "
Do I
think it can? I've swept people with this thing on numerous occasions. Now, I normally had a spinner on those occasions, due to my throwing this team together too fast, I completely forgot about that.
But look at it like this.
I lose Flamethrower / Fiery Dance. That's Fire type STAB. But I gain a 120 power coverage move, and a powered up and more useable HP water to drain the life out of any rock type thinking they're smart coming in on me.
There's nothing un-practical about it, didn't have to be original.
And oh yes, I'm totally going to stay in on a Jellicent, Special wall and super effective typing. I've got Rotom-W for that situation, Gyarados as well.
( Notice that Rotom-W completely walls out the average Gyarados )
Although, I have been considering using Tornadus, in all of my past experiences, I've swept more and more people with this thing, than I ever have with a rain support Tornadus.
