Will it work?

Hello, and thank you for taking the time out to read and (hopefully) help me with my team!
This is my first post, although I have been lurking around the boards and whatnot for a little bit. On to the Pokemon!
(Changes in bold)

Ninjask @ Lefties
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: HP-176 ATK-252 SPE- 80
Nature: Jolly
- X-Scissor
- Sword Dance
- Substitute
- Baton Pass
A fairly average baton passing Ninjask. I plan on starting with him,
getting a speed boost out of it, and hopefully a sword dance and/or substitute.
He then will baton pass to:

Lucario (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 6 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Close Combat
- Extremespeed
- Swords Dance
- Crunch/Stone edge
Lucario is here to sweep as much as possible, dealing with anything that comes his way.
Hopefully he won't die to quick, as he counters a lot of potential threats.

Gliscor (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 HP/4 Atk/252 Def
Impish nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Roost
- Aerial Ace/ Stone edge
My main physical wall, he can withstand quite a few hits.
He can also dish out some damage, and is great against Heracross.
Aerial Ace would be better for Heracross and a few others,
but stone edge might give me a better type coverage for him...

Slowking (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Own Tempo
EVs: 212 HP/252 Spd/46 SAtk
Calm nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Surf
- Grass Knot
- Slack Off
- Thunder Wave
My main special wall, he can hold his own against people,
and still dish out some damage. He also helps with some type coverage.


Ambipom @ Lefties
Ability: Technician
EVs: HP-108 ATK-150 SPE-252 (that any good?)
Nature: Timid
- Nasty Plot
- Baton Pass
- Swift
- Sunny Day
The concept here is for him to nasty plot as much as possible, then baton pass to Ninetails.
This obviously isn't only for late game sweeping, but I'll get into that later.
Also, if HE is my last pokemon, the swift is STAB'd and technician'd for
some fair damage. He sets up sunny day, then baton passes to:

Ninetales @ Wide Lens (or should I use lefties?)
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: HP-6 SPE-252 SPA-252
Nature: Timid
- Energy Ball/Hypnosis (not sure which)
- Solarbeam
- Fire Blast
- Nasty Plot/energy ball or hypnosis?
Obviously, Ninetales should get one nasty plot in from ambipom, and maybe one in from itself, setting up for a sweep.
sunny day + solar beam = instant doom to all type advantages, as well as good damage, and anti-weather effect.
Obviously increases the damage on the accuraccy-improved Fire blast for more face melting.


Tyranitar- Slowking can surf him?
Azelf- Lucario?
Electivire- not too sure here...
Gengar- Lucario?
Weavile- Ninetails, Ninjask?

well, the list doesn't look TOO big, adn i might be forgetting some pokemon
so how would you guys fix this? Any others I missed?
Any glaring weaknesses?
For my first one, I don't think I did that bad!:toast:
 
While I'm in no means a pro rater or anything, I really don't think anyone's RMT should be passed down to the second page without so much as a single reply, so I'll try to help.

At first glance, the biggest two problems I can see is that you have a huge Rock weakness and that you have barely any defense whatsoever.

Considering the former problem, my first suggestion is to replace one of your rock weaks, and Dodrio looks like it's the first to go: it gets walled by steels (namely Skarmory, who'll just WW your boosts away after setting up some, ugh, Stealth Rock), will die to the ever-popular Sandstorm when it gets down to 1 HP, and other pokemon would make better SD and Speed Boosts recipients (although I don't know how well leading Ninjask works nowadays). I would suggest replacing this with something that can still physically sweep but isn't weak to Rock or preferably resists it: Lucario seems like a great choice, since it gets some killer STAB moves, is immune to SS, resists SR, and has the same ATK as Dodrio (this does put you at three fighting and ground weaks, but I shall address that later). I would suggest the "All Out Sweeper" set, sans Swords Dance.

The second thing I wanted to point out is that you lack a reliable wall, and have no special wall. For a special wall, I would replace Lanturn, as annoyers rarely work too well in D/P and there are plenty of other things that could fill this slot. You could try Blissey as the standard special wall, which will help immensely against Azelf, Porygon-Z, and Gengar, although the added fighting weakness could be a huge problem if you don't adjust the rest of your team accordingly. If you want to be less orthodox and help with the fighting weak, you could try Slowking as a special wall instead, although this will not help you much against Gengar (lest it be scarfed) or Azelf if it is carrying Nasty Plot and Grass knot/Thunderbolt, but it will help better against the usual Infernape than Blissey can. In either case, you could still use Thunderwave to paralyze your opponent.

For your physical wall, I would replace Registeel, since it will now just give you added weaknesses and it cannot heal itself, making it harder to effectively "wall" the heavy hitters. For this slot, I think Gliscor would be an excellent addition: it will provide you a switch in to fighting and ground moves and can help you against Heracross, who could tear you up otherwise. It also gets a reliable recovery move. The added ice weakness shouldn't be too much of a problem since you'll have at least one resist (two if you have Slowking) and only one other weak (Ninjask was not made to take hits, anyway).

Now, for other matters, I'd like to address Ninetails and Ambipom. Ninetails is fine, but its moveset is a bit odd; why are you running Solar Beam/Sunny Day? For one, nothing else on your team benefits from Sunny Day, and second, you could get yourself killed trying to set up both Sunny Day and Nasty Plot. Change Solar Beam and Sunny Day to Energy Ball and Hypnosis.

Now, for Ambipom, if Ninetails has Nasty Plot, then I don't really see the reason you'd need Ambipom to pass them to Ninetails. So I'd replace this, but with what I'm not entirely sure...at the moment, all I can think of for a filler pokemon is Gengar, sorry.

Hope that helped a little. Hopefully, someone more experienced than I will give you a better rate.
 
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