Team Need Help

[Steelrage]

Yeah, I know its a lame title.
Also, my strategy is to a. set up rocks and spikes causing a lot of residual damage and b. sweep with one of my two sweepers after rocks + spikes are set up.
Anyways here are the pokemon:

Metagross @ Lum Berry
Adamant
-252 HP, 252 Atk, 6 Def
-Meteor Mash
-Stealth Rock
-Explosion
-Bullet Punch

I run max attack since I haven't seen a duggy in a while. MM for damage, Rocks are self explanatory, BP for sashes and Explosion for the kaboom! factor. This is easily the most expendable member of my team and I really am looking for a replacement that can do basically the same job.

Vaporeon @ Leftovers
Bold
252 HP, 188 Def, 68 Sp. Atk
-Surf
-Ice Beam/ HP Electric
-Wish
-Yawn

My wishpasser and poke that forces switches. Yawn is great at forcing switches, causing heavy damage due to my entry hazards. I'm considering HP Electric for Gyara over Ice Beam but haven't decided yet.

Skarmory @ Shed Shell
Impish
252 HP, 200 Def, 16 Speed, 40 Sp. Def
-Spikes
-Roost
-Brave Bird
-Whirlwind

My spiker and physical wall. 16 Speed beats other Skarm to the Whirlwind and I use Brave Bird over Drill Peck since Skarm needs the power. Shed Shell since Magnezone is a bully :(.
Rotom-H @ Leftovers
Bold
252 HP, 136 Sp. Def, 120 Def
-Shadow Ball
-Thunder Wave
-Rest
-Sleep Talk


My status absorber and mixed wall. Remedys my Zapdos weak and cripples many pokes using T-Wave.

Flygon @ Choice Scarf
Jolly
252 Atk, 252 Speed, 6 HP
-EQ
-Outrage
-Fire Punch
-U-Turn

Usually, if I get annoyed at something I send Flygon in. CS>CB because I usually have SR and spikes support anyways. Fire Punch kills those cocky scizor:)) while the rest of the moves are for STAB and scouting. Also, with three electric weaknesses he gets a LOT of free switch-ins.

Empoleon @ Petaya Berry
Timid
252 Sp. Atk, 232 Spd, 12 Sp. Def, 12 HP
-Agility
-Substitute
-Surf
-Ice Beam/ Grass Knot

This guy is 100% beast. He's swept a lot of teams for me. Agility on a switch then sub till petaya activates. I'm leaning toward Ice Beam because killing Dragons is more important (in my opinion) than killing bulky waters.

Pokemon that I have trouble with:

Zapdos: I have to hope Gross has set up SR then try exploding. If gross is gone, then I can only try revenging with Flygon's Outrage. EDIT: My counter is now Rotom-H.

Infernape: If he gets a NP and carries GK I can only revenge with Flygon's EQ.

There it is! Knock yourselves out.

 

[Overcast2020]

Metagross is a good lead. As you probably have noticed there are sevral versions of leadgross but yours does just fine.

Vaporeon is good. I really cant say weither you should go with HP Elecric or Ice beam. Your team doesnt have any problems with either Gyarados or Salemance. Since Defensive Gyara sets are getting more and more popular, I would go with HP Electric.

Skarmory is a good member to your team. Since just about all skarmory are running 16 Speed Evs I would consider runnning 20 just for fun.

To help remedy your zapdos/Infernape problem I would definetaly replace your Spirtomb with a rest-talk Rotom. I suggest this set:

RestTalk
-Rest
-Sleep talk
-Shadow Ball
-Will-O-Wisp
@ Leftovers
Bold
252 HP / 120 Def / 136 SpD

For Flyon, I would definately replace Fire Punch for Fire Blast. And probably go with a +speed -Def/SDef nature.

Empoleon is fine. It is a very efficient late game sweeper IMO. Again with Ice beam and Grass Gnot, both do just as well so I'll leave that oneup to you.


Overall this tram needs some work but itt has potential.


By the way, try longening your post as the mods might close it under rule 3.

 

[Steelrage]

Okay, I'll add the Rotom-H. However, I'm going with Thunder Wave over Will-O-Wisp since Skarm walls all physical attackers that don't know fire or electric moves and Vappy can take care of fire moves. (Rotom obviously takes care of electric moves)