SKARMBLISSCRESS PWNS! Balanced OU team

Should I replace Cresselia with Suicune or not?


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this is a great balanced team tha works really well. Three walls and three Sweepers. THe team is:

SKARMORY, BLISSEY, CRESSELIA, HEATRAN, GENGAR, and DUGTRIO


Skarmory@Leftovers Keen eye, Impish
252 hp, 64 atk, 176 def, 18 spe
~Roost
~Drill Peck
~Stealth Rock
~Whirlwind
This guy's my lead and stealth rocker. He almost always gets steath rock up since he can only be OHKO'd by a special fire or special electric move.
He can wall most leads, and if someone tries to use a fire or electric move I can switch in Heatran or Dugtrio. Whilrwind is great against Ninjasks, switching them out before they can Baton Pass.

Blissey@leftoversNatural cure, Calm
252 def, 40 spA, 216 spD
~Softboiled
~Aromatherapy
~Seismic Toss
~Toxic
Great special wall, using Toxic and then sitting around till they die. If someone tries to use a fighting move on her, switch in Gengar and hurt someone. Can also heal my pokemon of anly status, which is very helpful.

Cresselia@leftovers Levitate, bold
252 hp, 252 def, 6 spA
~Thunder Wave
~Moonlight
~Physic
~Ice beam
This thing can wall just about anything that Skarmory or Blissey can't, particularly Salamence, Infernape, and Electivire. Being able to paralyze them comes in handy alot, and it's nice that she has two attack moves, unlike Skarm and Bliss. I need help: should i replace Cress with suicune or not? It would give me a water resistance which i otherwise don't have.

Heatran@Choicescarf Flash Fire, Naive
252 spe, 252 spA, 6 hp
~Dragon pulse
~HP grass
~Flamethrower
~Earth Power
This guy works great on my team. He can switch into fife moves directed towards skarm, or bug, ghost, or dark moves targeted at cress. He can then go first, because of his scarf, and often get a KO. He can then switch out for gengar(fighting move), or one of my walls. Also makes a good revenge killer, although i usually use Dugtrio for that purpose.

Dugtrio@Choiceband Arena Trap, Jolly
252 atk, 252 spe, 6 hp
~EQ
~Night slash
~Aerial Ace
~Stone Edge
This guy can revenge kill most things, and if he can't revenge kill a pokemon, either Heatran or Gengar can. He also likes to switch in to Electric moves targeted at Skarmory, and then his great coverage and speed, coupled with his choice band, often get him a KO. After the kill, I usually switch back out to a wall.

Gengar@choice Specs Levitate, Timid
252 spA, 216 spe, 40 hp
~Focus Blast
~Thunderbolt
~HP ice
~Shadow ball
130 base spA, 252 EV's and choice specs=pain in the house. Using the same strategy as my other sweepers, switches into a fighting move directed at Blissey or Heatran, or a ground move, and then pwns.

That's my team. The main way it works is wall until an opportunity arises to safely switch in a sweeper, get a KO, then switch back in a wall and repeat the process. If one of my pokemon gets killed, I can easily revenge kill with a sweeper.
Thanks for reading this RMT.
Any comments you have on ways to improve my team are greatly appreciated.
 
Thee choiced Pokemon is just stupid, and I highly doubt this team works as well as you say it does.

Why naive on Heatran? Use Timid, you don't have any physical moves on him.

Don't use Psychic on Cresselia. What coverage is that giving you? Use Thunderbolt or something to take care of Gyarados.

Dugtrio needs Choice Scarf, not band. A lot of things that need to be revenge killed are choice scarf users themselves, and with a scarf most things will be outspeeding Dugtrio.

Stop saying sweeper, none of your team is a sweeper. A sweeper is defined as something that stat ups and can kill around 2 or more Pokemon before it goes down. Your team is just filled with three walls and three random revenge killers.
 
First off, 3 choice items isn't stupid. Its perfectly fine as long as it can fit into your play style. Yes change Naive to timid and psychic doesn't work well on cressy, as mentioned it has bad coverage. Switching Band to scarf isn't the best idea, considering you lose out on a lot of guaranteed KOs. It is the most used item on Dugtrio for a reason.

Skarmory isn't that great of a lead, but I can't see another lead coming on to your team that wouldn't mess up the synergy of it.

On a side note, a sweeper doesn't have to set up, just has to be a decently strong Pokemon designed to go on the offensive. Will it actually 'sweep' teams? Probably not. But it can come in late game and clean up. And it doesn't really matter what he calls them, as long as he understands what role they play on his team.
 
Well, to be honest, I see a really big weakness against T-Tar, specially DD variations since, after your Dugtrio is gone, or he has managed to get 2 DD, he will run rampant through your team, sure, you have FB on Gengar, however, what will happen if he comes in a Shadow Ball? He will use that chance either to A) Set up once if he has scouted your team, or B) Pursuit you to death
 
I use teams with 5-6 Choice items and they win so thats not the issue. I see subgar pawnching all you'r Pokés. To fix that, use FT or IB on Bliss.
 
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