rmt smogon ppl

well heres my team



dragonite @ focus sash
adamant
6/hp 252/attack 252/speed
earthquake
fireblast
focus punch
outrage

outrage kills anything not named "steel type"



weezing @ leftovers/choice specs
bold
252/hp 252 def 6/spatk
pain split
sludge bomb
flamethrower
explosion

my physical wall
pain split to last longer
and explosion for my last resort
since wezing has no strong physical move except explosion(i think)i made him special sweeper


starmie @ choice specs
modest
6/hp 252/spatk 252/speed
surf
ice beam
thunderbolt
psychic

my special sweeper.


gyarados @ leftovers(any suggestion about these 1 i dont know the proper item for this guy)
adamant
6/hp 252/atk 252/speed
waterfall
ice fang
earthquake
dragon dance

dragon dance for extra atk and speed
ice fang for other dragons
earthquake for his mortal enemies
waterfall for a strong stabed move



weavile @ focus sash
jolly
6/hp 252/atk 252/speed
ice punch
brick break
aerial ace
night slash

the ace.


blissey @ leftovers
bold natural cure
252/HP 252/DEF6/SPEF
seismic toss
softboiled
thunderwave
stealth rock

special wall


i know its bad but rate it anyway pls
 
1) As DFA said, the Blissey set is really bad. I would choose Aromatheraphy over Stealth Rock, or if you cant be bothered to do any breeding, put in something such as Ice Beam. I don't see the problem of having T-Wave, but most Pokémon will still outspeed Blissey, even if they have half speed. If you want just for the chance of them not being able to hit you, then go for it.

2) Choice Band Weavile. Its gonna outspeed everything, and with the attack boost, it'll probably KO most things before they can attack.

3) Drop Gyara for another special attacker. I can't think what right now, but I would advise you to do so.

And finally, 4) Drop Focus Punch on Dragonite for Dragon Dance. If you do, also change the item to Leftovers or something.

Otherwise, I think your team is looking fine.
 
allright. before I get started, your badly written bump was made 3 hours after you posted the team. it's supposed to be 24 hours. be patient.

now that that's out of the way, I agree with DFA on quite a bit of stuff. dragonite is way too bulky to properly utilize focus sash. he'll be taking more than one hit, and after he takes the first one, sash is useless. you'll be much better off using a yache or lum berry, or even a life orb. absolutely no choice specs on weezing. he's your just about only answer to physical threats barring insane prediction with gyara's intimidate coming in on nve moves, which is hampered greatly by stealth rock and lack of defensive ev's. speaking of stealth rock, you've got 3 pokemon weak to it and no resists. weavile's sash is ruined by stealth rock. replace the sash with an expert belt or a choice band, as sashed weavile is only really viable on the swords dance lead set, where life orb is probably more viable anyways. gyara's ability to sweep is greately hampered by stealth rock, especially since he's going to be hit pretty hard without any defensive or hp ev's. taking away a quarter of his health per switch in is not something that you're going to like. by the looks of it, you've gottyranitar problems as well. without lefties recovery, stealth rock is going to hit gyara that much harder. you've got no way to deal with tyraniboah, who can kill your whole team without much trouble if he runs boltbeam. your best answer is weavile, who can't switch in on sub or focus punch. he's also going to take a lot from thunderbolt. moving on, specs shaymin will kill everything on this team if he has hp ice, and everything except nite if he has the standard hp fire. you have some guys who can kill it, but nobody who can reliably switch in. 'nite can come in on those who pack hp fire, but nobody likes taking any specs attacks, especially without recovery and a stealth rock weakness. you also happen to be weak to lucario. the swords dancing variant can kill this whole team with stealth rock support in one or two hits except maybe weezing, who is pretty easy to dispatch considering the fact that you carry explosion and possibly even choice specs and that he lacks reliable recovery. but then we look at specsluke and the problems double. he kills the whole team without set-up, and you have no means of reliably revenge killing him, as he outspeeds all but two of your pokemon, and he can switch out of them. nobody can switch in, so every time lucario comes out, just about another pokemon dies if he predicts well. you can predict around it, but as a few pokemon die, this becomes exceedingly hard. standard dd salamence with one dance can sweep this whole team with stealth rock support, and everybody except blissey dies to the specs one, but after blissey is gone, you have nobody who wants to switch into a draco meteor. nobody can really switch into a mixmence draco meteor, as blissey dies to brick break and then you have the same problem. moving on to gengar. nobody can switch into a specs gengar, but the lo variant will give you problems, as blissey won't take focus blasts forever and if she's your last pokemon, can't do jack squat back to gengar. nobody likes sleep on this team, which is something gengar packs. just about everybody except blissey dies to one of gengars common attacks. timid gengar outspeeds everyone on this team except weavile, who doesn't enjoy switching in on a focus blast while not being able to pursuit gengar anyways. scarfchomp runs through this team like an angry child with a pair of scissors. starmie can switch into outrage and then kill, but weavile can't switch in. those are your two ways of killing garchomp, and neither of them can really switch in. sd yache chomp kills this team once one of them is gone. dugtrio, while nobody can really "counter" him, takes out blissey and starmie, which are important to cover many of the threats I've already listed. shoice specs or scarf porygon-z absolutely rapes this team beyond belief once blissey is dead. resttalk machamp just about walls this team barring starmie's psychic while being able to take out many pokemon with dynamicpunch/ice punch, though gyara can take this well. if he has stone edge or thunderpunch, you're screwed. if he comes in on a starmie locked into ice beam or thunderbolt, somebody is going to die. if you let curselax get in one or two curses, even weavile's brick break isn't going to do too much to it while it can just about kill everyone, since you lack a phazer or strong stab fighting move. zapdos can kill off most of this team while only having to fear ice punch from weavile who is killed by thunderbolt. bulky zapdos stalls this team with roost or resttalk while nobody can do too much to it. cresselia, who can also run charge beam/ice beam with resttalk absolutely walls and kills your team. gyarados can come in on 'cune, but he doesn't like repeated boosted ice beams, espeically if he cam in on stealth rock. yanmega doesn't like blissey, but can sweep this team otherwise. the reversal set kills everyone without too much trouble. you've got quite a few gaping holes to common pokemon. let's review:

tyranitar
shaymin
lucario
salamence
gengar
garchomp
dugtrio
porygon-z
machamp
snorlax
zapdos
cresselia
yanmega

those are a lot of common pokemon, and they all give you very big problems. I'm just about sure you didn't look at the threat list provided by jumpman, and you should do that with every team you make. now, I can try to help you deal with all those, but it's quite hard to help you cover that many pokemon without completely changing the team. first of all, dragonite is a mediocre lead at best, and it doesn't look like it'll be doing much after that. replacing him with

Metagross @ Choice Scarf
Adamant
252 attack, 228 speed, 24 hp
~ Meteor Mash
~ Ice Punch
~ Pursuit
~ Earthquake

the ev's hit 384 speed, outspeeding jolly weavile. this guy helps you a lot. He gives you a switch to tyraniboah and cb ttar barring earthquake. metagross can easily kill tyranitar with stab SE meteor mash. this makes your shaymin weakness a bit more apparent, but it gives you a reliable pokemon that can kill shaymin in one turn with ice punch. metagross can switch into specs lucario without dying and sd lucario without the boost (come in as he swords dances), and can outspeed and respond with earthquake for the ohko. if someone has already taken the sleep, gengar can come in on just about anything and pursuit gengar to his grave no problem. metagross doesn't counter garchomp, but he has 130 base defense and resists outrage, so any garchomp locked into outrage dies to ice punch without even the chance to switch. metagross has the same problems with duggy as he has with garchomp, but if duggy is locked into anything other than earthquake, metagross can come in and force a switch, making the opponent have to predict perfectely to not lose a pokemon. metagross resists tri attack and ice beam while being able to kill porygon-z with meteor mash no problem. this makes him a pretty good switch to anything z tries to hit you with. nobody enjoys confusion, but gross can take everything else with his beefy defense and hp while being able to hit back with meteor mash, which is something that machamp doesn't like too much. though the fire blasting machamps can hit metagross hard, so I wouldn't rely on gross or switch him in immediately. machamp is still a threat. curselax still poses problems, but if he doesn't pack fire punch, metagross doesn't take too much from his attacks. metagross is not only good physically defensively, but also specially, so he can hit zapdos harder with ice punch than zapdos can hit him with thunderbolt. cressy doesn't enjoy meteor mashes, but she can throw up a reflect or thunderwave, neither of which metagross enjoys. yanmega can take an ice punch from metagross but dies to two, so that's good. bug buzz, in the meantime, won't kill you at the same rate without some form of a boost.

now, scarf metagross makes a much better lead than dragonite, being able to outspeed common lead pokemon and kill them. he also boasts pursuit, which makes him able to tell gengar, non-scarf azelf, and any other assorted pursuit-weak leads to go die. there are, however, problems with metagross. he opens up a rather large heatran weak that dragonite was (kind of) able to solve. metagross can't switch in on fire blast or earth power. gyarados at this point can't solve anything about heatran without defensive help. so let's look at some of the big threats now.

shaymin
cressy
machamp
snorlax

this list is much smaller than the last one, however, so we're doing good. so, what other pokemon aren't really doing much for the team? metagross does a lot of the things that weavile does, so we can probably replace him. let's see... an great smogon user named yagami light, or light, made a set for a nidoking, dubbed Crushking, to be used in OU that can "crush" walls. let's see, it does help you against a lot of these guys. let's take a look

Nidoking @ Life Orb
Lonely
252 attack, 174 special attack, 84 speed
~ Fire Blast
~ Ice Beam
~ Megahorn
~ Earthquake

super in depth information on crushking can be found here. crushking can switch in on electric attacks, which you have two weaknesses to, which is a very important big thing about him. he also resists fighting, which is nice. crushking can 2HKO cressy no problem with megahorn while cressy can't do too much back. crushking resists fighting attacks as well as stone edge (though gross can come in better on stone edge) and is immune to thunderpunch. he can hit back with megahorn on machamps weaker physical defense with his fully boosted high attack. if he packs ice punch, starmie can come in to kill him. this guy also gives you some insurance against heracross with a resistance to his stabs and close combat (though close combat still 2HKO's) and can hit back with fire blast. so now you're left weak to

shaymin
curselax
heatran

changing your gyarados to the resttalk version of gyara can help you to stall out shaymin's seed flare with a bit of luck, absorb sleep, and effectively counter heatran into the ground...here's the set.

Gyarados @ Leftovers
Adamant
252 hp, 96 attack, 80 defense, 60 special defense, 20 speed
~ Rest
~ Sleep Talk
~ Dragon Dance
~ Surf

this has the potential for sweeping late game as well. you have a reliable sleep absorber, gyarados is actually able to take hits from heatran for example, and even a bit from shaymin. this thing, with a few dd's is certainly a very bulky sweeper as well. now, of the pokemon I listed, you are only really weak to curselax. you aren't as worried about stealth rock anymore (two of your three weaknesses turned into resists), you have someone who can absorb toxic spikes, and you have a sleep absorber. What are you missing? A reliable phazer to take care of stuff like curselax that sets up in your face. so let's see. the most simple solution would be to put haze over explosion on weezing, as you'll be using explosion when you have low hp, which is also when you'll be using pain split. what you could also do to add a phazer is put in donphan over weezing.

Donphan @ Leftovers
Impish
252 hp, 252 defense, 4 attack
~ Roar
~ Earthquake
~ Ice Shard
~ Stealth Rock

this gives you a reliable phazer and access to stealth rock so that you can put ice beam on blissey, which is something that she really needs.

so you can change 'nite into scarfgross, made gyara the sleep-talker, turned weavile into crushking and put haze on weezing (or switched him to donphan to allow blissey to ice beam). that's all the advice I have to give for now.
 
Your lead seems kind of odd. Gyarados leads seem to mess up Dragonite, since it will lower the attack by half. I would use the Dragon Dance moveset, and change him as lead with Gyarados, either DD Gyarados, Taunt Gyarados, or CB Gyarados, if you really want to hurt leads. I don't like the Heracross weakness. I know you have a weezing here, but Gliscor could also cover other Major Physical treats better, and you have a Starmie, that can switch in to any opposing Gyarados or Infernape.

Weavile could have something else like a CB. Why? With all this Sandstorm going around, it makes Focus Sash unusable. I don't like how this team can't deal with SkarmBlissCress. If you look at it, the team get's walled. The only way to fix this is to put a good Physical attacker, such as CB Heracross, or SD Lucario, although you might need to Sword Dance once before you try to attempt this.

In all, these are my suggestions: DD Dragonite, and change it with Gyarados as lead. Gliscor over weezing with Ice Fang, for Garchomp coverage. Heracross/Lucario over Weavile.

I feel like I'm missing something, but idk what. Just incase you need the Dragonite moveset:

Dragonite @ Leftovers / Life Orb
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 108 Hp / 252 Atk / 148 Spd
Nature: Adamant
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage / Dragon Claw
- Earthquake / Roost
- Fire Punch / Fire Blast
 
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