Other XY BattleSpot Singles Team

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Just wanted some other opinions on improving my team.

Garchomp @ Garchompite
Ability: Rough Skin
Nature: Naive
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Stone Edge
- Crunch

Garchomp's primary role is a Phsyical Sweeper. Un-Mega-Evolved it can out speed a decent out mount of the competition, and the extra bulk of Mega-Garchomp helps out the lower speed. STAB Earthquake is its main move, and I chose Dragon Claw over Outrage to prevent getting locked in.

Azumarill @ Assault Vest
Ability: Huge Power
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Atk / 16 SpD
- Aqua Tail
- Play Rough
- Superpower
- Double Edge

Azumarill is set up as a bulky physical attacker. It has good typing, Fairy makes it immune to Dragon while Water eliminates Fairy's Steel weakness. That it can take several hits while dishing out good damage makes it good at weakening up the opposing team, OHKOing some with super-effective hits.

Aegislash @ Leftovers
Ability: Stance Change
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 176 HP / 252 Atk / 40 Def / 40 SpD
- King's Shield
- Shadow Claw
- Iron Head
- Sacred Sword

I like Aegislash because of its ability. It can initially about out an opponent on a switch in with King's Shield, while also debuffing them. Plus in Shield Forme it has the bulk and defense to take a hit before putting out good damage in Blade Forme.

Alakazam @ Life Orb
Ability: Magic Guard
Nature: Timid
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
- Psychic
- Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
- Dazzling Gleam

Alakazam is set up as a special sweeper. It has good type coverage on its attacks, so it can hit most opponents for at least neutral damage. Magic Guard also lets it switch in without fear of hazards while also negating Life Orb's HP reduction.

Kangaskhan @ Kangashkanite
Ability: Parental Bond
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
- Fake Out
- Earthquake
- Crunch
- Return

Mega Kangaskahn makes a good physical attacker, helped out by it's good Atk stat and Parental Bond giving it basically a 50% boost. Fake Out gives it a nice first attack move that can hurt Focus Band users. Plus it's STAB Return can do good damage against targets that don't resist Normal attacks.

Scizor @ Focus Band
Ability: Technician
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
- Bullet Punch
- Bug Bite
- Superpower
- Swords Dance

Scizor makes a dangerous late-game sweeper, but can do good damage at any point if the opponent lets it set up. Focus Band gives it the opportunity to set up with a Swords Dance, and it's STAB + Technician boosted Bullet Punch can OHKO a good number of opponents as a priority move.

 

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A lot of your mons need an overhaul here.

Garchomp is one of, if not the best Pokemon in Battle Spot singles, his best attribute is arguably his speed tier. Sitting at base 102 let's him outspeed the whole crowded base 100 tier, and using Mega Chomp wastes that. A Life Orb grants him similar power so it is much better than Garchompite, however your Alakazam is currently holding one. If you can free it up then give Chomp the orb, or you can use a Focus Sash, Lum Berry, or even a Choice Scarf or Band. Crunch is a weird option, it doesn't really hit anything better than his other options at all. Stone Edge is a fine choice, alternatives are Rock Slide and Rock Tomb (which works really well on a Focus Sash set). Dragon Claw is OK, but you can't overlook Outrage's power. If you don't want to use Outrage, then I'd recommend Dual Chop since it has the same power as Dragon Clas but let's you fight through Focus Sashes and Substitutes... Finally, Naive doesn't make sense if you don't have an special attacks, so I would go Jolly instead. Since I've suggested a bunch of changes I'll post a full set you should try out.

Garchomp @ Focus Sash
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Rock Tomb
- Stealth Rock

Assault Vest Azumarill is a fine choice for BS Singles. I would recommend first optimising his EV spread though. EVs work a little differently at level 50 as they increase your stat once for every 8 EVs you put in after the first 4 (assuming a perfect 31 IV). So 240 HP is inefficient as 236 gives the same stat, you should either drop it to that or raise it to 244. 16 SpD is the same, it needs to be either 12 or 20. I recommend an EV spread of 228 HP / 252 Atk / 12 Def / 12 SpD / 4 Spe. Double-Edge is pretty worthless on him. If you can get Knock Off tutored onto him by someone with an ORAS game then that would be great! If not, then Aqua Jet is another option which can be used in the last slot.

Azumarill recap:

• EVs: 240 HP / 252 Atk / 16 SpD > 228 HP / 252 Atk / 12 Def / 12 SpD / 4 Spe
• Double-Edge > Knock Off or Aqua Jet

Aegislash is a great Pokemon in this format. Firstly, let's optimise the EV spread since the HP and defences have 4 extra EVs. This gives us 12 extra EVs after taking them out, this can all be put into speed, or you can put 8 into HP for an extra point, and the remaining 4 in speed since they won't make a difference anywhere else, let's go with the latter.. So make his EV spread 180 HP / 252 Atk / 36 Def / 36 SpD / 4 Spe. I'm really not a fan of non-Shadow Sneak, non Weakness Policy Aegislash, since he lacks power without a boost, meaning he'll miss KOs on a lot of stuff, and lacks speed to grab 2HKOs. So without Shadow Sneak he'll be dying a fair bit before being able to finish stuff off. I recommend either giving him Weakness Policy or swap Iron Head for Shadow Sneak. Of course, you can do both of those if you want! Leftovers isn't such a great item in 3v3 since generally there aren't enough turns to earn much health back with them. Usually a Sitrus Berry is better in most cases, but Aegi can make use of it since he'll be stalling with King's Shield a fair bit. Ghost + Fighting is great neutral coverage so you won't really miss Iron Head too much (unless Fairies start killing your team, but you have Scizor).

Aegislash recap:

• 176 HP / 252 Atk / 40 Def / 40 SpD > 180 HP / 252 Atk / 36 Def / 36 SpD / 4 Spe
• Iron Head > Shadow Sneak
• Leftovers > Weakness Policy (optional)

Alakazam looks fine. If you want to use the Life Orb on Garchomp then you can use Mega Alakazam instead, or even Focus Sash. Modest Mega Alakazam is pretty great so I would recommend trying that out.

Kangaskhan looks OK, and it would probably work out for you, however I have a couple of suggestions anyway. Fake Out is useful but not as strong in Singles as it is in Doubles / Triples. That's why I would drop Fake out for Substitute. One of the easiest ways to check Kang is by Will-O-Wisping it (or even Thunder Wave), so if you bring Kang in on something that doesn't like it them you can set up a Sub on the switch out for free and not have to worry about status. Crunch is good for Dark-type coverage against Ghosts, however you can achieve the same coverage with Sucker Punch, which also gives a form of priority for Kang. Obviously it leaves you walled by passive Ghost-types who just want to spam status moves, but generally it is the preferred option. And finally, Return is cute but you can't look too far past Double-Edge for its raw power.

Kangaskhan recap:

• Fake Out > Substitute
• Crunch > Sucker Punch (optional)
• Return > Double-Edge

Scizor looks OK, except for his item! Perhaps you meant Focus Sash, because Focus Band only gives you a chance to survive a hit from full HP. Even if that's what you meant, a Sash is a weird option on Scizor. Not much can OHKO him from full health anyway except for Fire attacks. If that's the way you wanna go then maybe use an Occa Berry instead. However I think that a Lum Berry would be better to prevent a Burn which would cripple his sweeping power... I also think he benefits more from HP investment over speed, since he isn't the fastest thing out there and appreciates the bulk, that's why I'd move the speed EVs to HP.

Scizor recap:

• Focus Band > Lum Berry or Occa Berry
• 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe > 244 HP / 252 Atk / 12 Spe

Hope this helped! We also have an RMT thread in the Battle Spot forum if you want more specialised help. Unfortunately not a lot of BSS players frequent this forum so you may be able to find some more help there.

edit: GP 1/1