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Relic Team:) , My first competitive original team so yeahh:) pls rate

I know you say you hate the pitiful HP Flying on Keldeo, but Icy Wind is even weaker. AND less accurate. If you can explain why you have that there, I'll listen, but I'd personally say change it. Icy Wind is pretty bad in singles.

Also, Air Balloon on Aegislash is pretty situational, and in my opinion, just not that good in general. I'd go for leftovers personally, or even weakness policy. In defense mode he can take an earthquake pretty well if invested in defense, and hit back harder than he ever could if invested in attack. Just a thought. Also, is pursuit trapping the Lati twins really necessary? You don't really have a glaring Latios weakness with ScarfChomp and Ice Beam on Deo-S both. If I were you, I'd replace pursuit with either Swords Dance or Substitute. But you'd have to adjust the EVs to accomodate for the different sets.
 
Hey man I pretty much stole your team but with my changes and it's kicking all sorts of ass. Hope you don't mind ^_^
 
Hey you asked me to rate this and I forgot n_n but here I am now!

Anyway the team is pretty solid for the most part, you have good wall breakers and cleaners and a Pursuit Aegislash to help you clear out opposing Latios/Latias for your Keldeo/Charizard Y core which is good. This team really hates opposing Keldeo though, as it can 1-2HKO everything on your team, and even in the sun, Specs Hydro Pump is going to hurt like hell. Furthermore, I don't really like Excadrill on this team. On the one hand it does check Aegislash decently with Assault Vest, but I don't see it being useful for much else. For these reasons, I would change Excadrill to Defog Latios. Latios, I think, fits your team much better than Excadrill does. It can Defog away any hazards that you might have up, and beats most Stealth Rock users aside from Tyranitar. On top of that, it provides a check to Mega Venusaur, which can be useful since you're not running HP Flying on Keldeo. The most important thing it does for your team, though, is check other Keldeo. However, this leaves your team a bit weak to Aegislash, so I would recommend you use Bisharp over Aegislash. Bisharp is, in my opinion, the bestter Pursuit trapper. It may not be as bulky, but its Pursuits are much more powerful. Not only do you have to worry about Pursuiting Lati@s, but Chansey on stall will take next to nothing from Aegi's Pursuit. This way you can slowly wear it down for Zard Y while also being able to take out opposing Aegislash.

Anyway, I hope I was able to help. Good luck with the team!

Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Thunderbolt
- Defog

Bisharp @ Black Glasses
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Serious Nature
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch
- Iron Head
- Pursuit
 
Darkerones said:
Alright man I got your VM so I'll do my best to improve your team's efficiency.

You really should be running King's Shield over Iron Head and Leftovers on your Aegislash if you arent already. Iron Head is alright but youre already a straight up counter to most Fairies without it (they cant touch you) and you still won't enjoy taking on Tyranitar. It just isnt hitting much that Shadow Ball wont already, especially not with that EV spread. King's Shield is what makes Aegislash such an impressive offensive pivot and without it you may as well be running Slaking because you'll be forced to switch after every time you attack (I'm kidding dont run Slaking lol). Air Balloon is also nifty but Aegislash much prefers the passive healing, and most users of Earthquake like Excadrill still have little issues beating you with another move (Rock Slide) then Earthquake,especially without King's Shield. You need it healthy to absorb Draco Meteors dont you?

I love the idea of Deoxys-S on a Zard Y team, but you really do need to run Naive with 252 Speed EVs to outspeed opposing ScarfChomp as well as Scarf Lando and OHKO them with Ice Beam. the spread will be 24 Atk/ 232 SAtk/ 252 Spd, and add Knock Off > Stealth Rock to better take on opposing Aegislash and revenge the Lati twins, making ScarfChomp somewhat redundant on your team since Deo-S is already a great revenge killer for your team with my set. Instead, why don't you run a Lead Chomp with Stealth Rock > Outrage or Dragon Claw and Fire Blast > Stone Edge with a Naive nature and 4 Satk/ 252 Atk/ 252 Spd with a Life Orb. Its a much more reliable hazard setter than Deoxys right now and now you take advantage of the sun and you have a way to beat Defog Scizor and Lead Ferrothorn that you otherwise only have Zard to beat them. If you don't mind the power drop (especially in Fire Blast) Focus Sash is also a decent item for it.

Excadrill is a fine Pokemon but the specially bulkier set youre running makes you very weak to bird spam and Mega Pinsir and doesnt really contribute to the team's synergy in terms of offense or defense (Garchomp and Aegislash together already do Excadrill's job to be honest, aside from hazard control). I really dont see Assault Vest doing much either. It just looks like a weak link at this point and you aren't desperate to keep your own hazards up since you arent Hyper Offense.
Instead, I recommend a Defog Zapdos on your team, as it works great to deter Mega Pinsir and Talonflame that can threaten Keldeo and Charizard.

I recommend this set for your team:

252 HP/ 188 Def/ 68 SAtk/
Bold
Pressure
Leftovers

-Thunderbolt
-Roost
-Defog
-Toxic

The EVs allow you to OHKO Mega Pinsir then the rest in physical bulk. It seems really tempting to run Heat Wave but you really need Toxic to prevent things like XZard and MegaTtar from setting up on you for free, as you cant really count on Deoxys to revenge kill them reliably. Dragonite can also pose a significant issue due to having access to ExtremeSpeed and Toxic really cripples its sweep if it tries to set up on you, as opposed to it setting up practically cost free on Zapdos if you run Heat Wave. The rare Calm Mind variants of Sylveon and Lati@s thinking they can set up on Zapdos are also stopped by Toxic. Zapdos also checks Azumarril and opposing Keldeo (especially Azu because Deoxys doesnt beat it reliably), Pokemon that really harass this team if the sun runs out on you, which can happen more often than you think since you are not running an additional weather starter to reset the Drought counter, like Hippowdon or Tyranitar.

This last suggestion is minor, but there is little benefit to running Max Speed on your Zard since you outspeed very little relevant offensive threats after the neutral base 95 tier.
To make Zard a better wallbreaker for your team to take advantage of, run Modest with 40 HP/ 252 SAtk/ 212 Spd to just outspeed neutral Kyurem-B while gaining significant power, including the power to 2HKO Latios with Fire Blast. However, you have plenty to check the Latis so the reliability of Flamethrower may be preferable.

Hope I helped!
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testing these changes now, now that i'm a much better battler
i see the difference
 
Halcyon. said:
Hey you asked me to rate this and I forgot n_n but here I am now!

Anyway the team is pretty solid for the most part, you have good wall breakers and cleaners and a Pursuit Aegislash to help you clear out opposing Latios/Latias for your Keldeo/Charizard Y core which is good. This team really hates opposing Keldeo though, as it can 1-2HKO everything on your team, and even in the sun, Specs Hydro Pump is going to hurt like hell. Furthermore, I don't really like Excadrill on this team. On the one hand it does check Aegislash decently with Assault Vest, but I don't see it being useful for much else. For these reasons, I would change Excadrill to Defog Latios. Latios, I think, fits your team much better than Excadrill does. It can Defog away any hazards that you might have up, and beats most Stealth Rock users aside from Tyranitar. On top of that, it provides a check to Mega Venusaur, which can be useful since you're not running HP Flying on Keldeo. The most important thing it does for your team, though, is check other Keldeo. However, this leaves your team a bit weak to Aegislash, so I would recommend you use Bisharp over Aegislash. Bisharp is, in my opinion, the bestter Pursuit trapper. It may not be as bulky, but its Pursuits are much more powerful. Not only do you have to worry about Pursuiting Lati@s, but Chansey on stall will take next to nothing from Aegi's Pursuit. This way you can slowly wear it down for Zard Y while also being able to take out opposing Aegislash.

Anyway, I hope I was able to help. Good luck with the team!

Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Thunderbolt
- Defog

Bisharp @ Black Glasses
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Serious Nature
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch
- Iron Head
- Pursuit
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testing bisharp over aegi but went with zapdos as defogger
 
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