Rate my new OU Team!

DaChamp

I have made a new team, which I think is awesome =p, and I would like your opinions/suggestions on it. This is an offensive team and its strategy is to control until endgame and then sweep. Here it goes:

Lead - Azelf
Levitate
@Focus Sash
Timid/Max Speed and Spc. Atk
Psychic
Fire Blast
Explosion
Stealth Rock

Fantastic lead for this team. He is a suicide lead, get SR up and go out doing as much damage as possible. Psychic instead of taunt because my team is not that weak to rocks and he can kill Rotoms and Gengars that try to switch into explode. Also draws ttars whom my champ can setup on.

Stallbreaker - Breloom
Poison Heal
@Toxic Orb
Adamant/Max Attack, 12 HP, 244 Speed
Spore
Focus Punch
Seed Bomb
Substitute

A replacement for Machamp. It was sad to let champ go, but I figured breloom can do the job better with this team. He does a better job at hitting pokemon like spiritomb and gyarados than champ did. Also the 100% chance a pokemon will be sleep is a plus, especially against stall.

Special Sweeper/Tank - Suicune
Presssure
@Leftovers
Bold/100 HP, 80 Def, 228 Speed, 100 Spc. Atk
Calm Mind
Surf
Hidden Power Electric
Ice Beam

My mixture of Crocune and Offensive Cune. Current EVs allow it to take on top threats like +1 DDMence, Gyarados, Agiligross, and more while outpacing the fastest breloom. His job is to get out there early get a CM up and kill as much as possible.

Special Sweeper - Jolteon
Volt Absorb
@Life Orb
Timid/Max Speed and Max Spc. Atk
Thunderbolt
Shadow Ball
Hidden Power Grass
Charge Beam

Jolteon is an absolute menace mid-endgame especially since Latias is gone. He synergizes well with the team. He can even go through entire teams when certain pokemon are gone or weakened.

Physical Sweeper/Stallbreaker - Salamence
Intimidate
@Life Orb
Jolly/Max Attack and Max Speed
Dragon Dance
Earthquake
Fire Blast
Outrage

Salamence is one the most powerful pokemon in the metagame, and a staple of this team. He can get in on most of my teammates counters, especially metagross's, get a DD and wreck havoc. He also can break walls using FB on Steels and +1 Outrage takes out most other pokemon.

Physical Sweeper - Metagross
Clear Body
@Life Orb
Adamant/Max Attack, 196 Speed, 12 Def, 50 HP
Agility
Meteor Mash
Earthquake
Thunderpunch

Agligross is used as the late game sweeper. 196 Speed to outpace neutral +1 base speed 100s allowing him to not be revenge killed by some flygon. He capitalizes on pokemon that take out mence which are usually scarfers or scizor and gets a free agility.

Threat List

Bronzong - Not really a threat, but no one can OHKO and he can explode.

Celebi - Either gives status or beats my pokemon 1v1.

Cresselia - Probably one of the bigger threats, can't be OHKOed and it can heal and give status. It is eventually worn down however.

Dusknoir - Same as Celebi

Empoleon - He can be a threat if he sets up and suicune is gone, other than that he is OHKOed by most of my pokes.

Jirachi - Can't be OHKOed but is worn down.

Jolteon - Surprisingly Jolteon can be a pest, but he is set up on by Agiligross.

Metagross - Agiligross can be a major problem, but he can't set up on any of my pokemon without taking pretty good damage, and suicune beats him weakened.

Raikou - Raikou is a complete ***** to this team, probably the top threat. If he manages to get 2 CMs its pretty much GG. If gross or mence is gets their boosts he can't do much.

Swampert - He can be a problem, but he's eventually worn down and OHKOed if he takes on Jolteons HP Grass.

Weather Teams - Weather teams can be a problem with no weather inducer, but CM suicune does well against team.
 
Decent team but I think we can make it better. You lack some form of revenge kill and that could hurt alot since after suicune is worn down by stealth rock and other hazards a salamence can set-up in fron of your face easily. To correct this I suggest running a scarf jirachi or replace your salamence set with the mixmence set. Your machamp would also love leftovers since you already have substitute allowing him to avoid status already. Hope my suggestions helped.
 
hey, straight up on the azelf, he is good but you are really better off keeping taunt. i use one myself and most of the time it comes in alot more handy than haveing an extra attack, 9 times out of ten he will Taunt, SR and explode, RARELY. will swapping taunt for an extra move net you an extra KO when your already needing a turn to set up SR.

Good machamp, i like the EV's.

Suicune: i like the idea of making him a bit faster but still, he is better at walling than anything and really should be ev'd that way. nevertheless if your worried about BreFAg ruining a sweep by all means. My suicune is a Rest talker because in my opinion Kingdra can pull of the calm mind + rest talk set that Crocune is infamous for MUCH MUCH better (obviously DD instead of CM). i dont like the idea of crcune being Fucked by vapoureon or any other Water absorber.

Joleteon: im no expert on him but maybe you could consider charge beam instead of Sub or thunderbolt. one or two boosts would set up an ultimate sweep with Max speed and a timid nature. (although Life orb might be his demise).

Salamence: yep he is one of the most powerful in the metagame, i still prefer his bulkier brother Dragonite but hey, i generally prefer Bulk and raw power of Excessive speed. Still Mence does wreak havoc, If he has max att and speed and a DD under his belt it is a little un-nesseceray to give him a speed nature, The extra power of Adamant would help net a few extra Ko's.

Metagross: Good, but you already have two other people using life orbs and Mence is using a set up move. So How about you go with a Choice band set for raw power or a Scarf set as a bit more a revenge killer. I'm just something your team is lacking.

Overall: It looks pretty good. I would actually use a team very similar
Azelf with taunt.
Suicune for a more tanking set.
Maybe Jolt with a set up move.
adamant mence.
Choice set for Gross.

Those are the only changes i would make, its not a total overhaul just some slight mods. Still Looks good.
 
Thanks for the current suggestions, the insight helped a lot. This team is doing very good and approaching 1400 CRE pretty quickly. I encourage you to try the team, although it takes some skill to use efficiently. I understand your comments about a revenge killer, but as of now I haven't been swept. The team plays at such a fast pace that no one has a chance to set up and if they do not before suicune is dead. The main problems have been stall teams as Machamp just couldn't take the repeated damage, hopefully breloom will help this more. I also switched Substitute with Charge Beam as mentioned.
 
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