woah my team is becoming a discussion thread.
and why dont u just get an endeavor sceptile to kill blissey? its much more effective than your CMzam
zam has more sweeping potential, and less counters then sceptile. Endscep is also extremely predictable as well, which is not something this team wants.
Secondly, I know Hey Oh might not seem like it but I think he is slightly above the level your aiming your comments at. They are not only completely obvious but also imply your complete lack of understanding of the advance metagame. Having a team of six individual pokemon which can counter everything is simply not possible. And I'm sure you know that. I hope you're messing around.
Anyway I don't mean to be harsh but posting your team here is a complete waste of time. It's fine as it is. The chances of someone finding a way to improve a team that they don't even know of a fairly good battler is extremely low. I'm guessing you just need reassurance. It's great as it is. You have thought about the evs, the counters, the abuse it does vs recovery and you have a balanced team. What more is there? You can over analyse a team to death but you're not gonna get too far with ways of improving it.
first paragraph is lol, and kinda not needed in the end of it. for the 2nd paragraph i decided to post for possible ideas to change, even pokemon completely which nobody has suggested. I do have an idea i might try after making this thread too.
looking back at this, how do you handle DDmence, or CBmence for that matter? Looks like it could pick apart this team after a DD.
mence cant come in vs zam/gar/kou at all. Its hard to come in vs metagross/lax, so only dugtrio is a safe switchin. At that point i have to predict whether lax/gar/meta is the best choice. Also keep in mind meta is bulky for a reason, ddmence is one of the reasons.
This team is apt to fail against a team that's even slightly defensive. No stability at all means you will get eaten up.
this teams needs very high level prediction and skill to beat those teams, fortunately i can usually do so.
I think he is refering to the fact that Skarm + Bliss + Clops + Pert would be almost an impossible unit for this team to break but then again, I like how he uses Zam to draw in Blissey so he can finish it with Dugtrio, and I also like lefties lax with fire blast for skarm. I do agree on HP Grass somewhere, perhaps even on raikou? I would think of it this way, you have 2 pretty good special attackers with ice punch, and one of them should be alive when blissey is dead thanks to dugtrio. So hp ice on raikou seems like it would be good for mence (but tbolt does a shitload anyway), breloom (not too worried about this, it cant switch into anything at all and raikou can block spore / leech seed anyway meaning all it can do is probably focus punch which you block by just attacking), and a few other pokemon like bulky grounds. But HP grass provides the same coverage on bulky grounds, mence and loom are already covered, but swampert isnt. Since swampert is a pretty common switch in to raikou it gives you the perfect chance to cm again. Usually they will switch out to scout for hp grass first meaning when you see a pert, you should cm (if you have the sub, attack if you dont). that basically means you could get 2 free calm minds and then a dead swampert. sweet deal if you ask me.
I like the heavy offense and suicide approach to the team.
thankyou for understanding the team and helping back it up. You are just about dead on with everything you said, i appreciate it. I generally prefer HP ice to beat celebis/flygons. Flygons are annoying since they can run from anything they dont like, and cm celebis are a bitch, and hp ice raikou will still beat it any day.
An offense based team, even one that implements explosion as its prime tactic does not and should not sacrifice all of its defense for offensive capability. Reflect on Metagross is about the only thing the team has for support and the move does not have a big enough impact on the other pokemons survivability to justify the teams weakness, especially if a swampert or another such pokemon is on the opposing team preventing Metagross from getting into play effectively. More EVs should be put into defense for all pokes even the weakest ones - in this case a little defense will go much farther than a lot of attack.
In terms of moves, I would suggest the following. Place Giga Drain onto Gengar in the place of the move of your choice (I would suggest Will-O-Wisp). Take the bulk of Snorlax's attack evs and put them into defense and a little into special defense and replace Return with Rest as Selfdestruct is going to be an autoko on most pokemon (bulkier ones that survive will be killed by other pokemons offensive movesets). The stab move is unnecessary in this case as Snorlax is trying to tank instead of sweep. Change Metagross's nature to +Defense or swap the evs around putting in a lot more defense (whichever is statistically most beneficial) as it is your only answer to a strong normal/flying type STAB attacker. I would not suggest changing Alakazam or Dugtrio as they are obviously not built to be defensive in the slightest and they play together nicely as well as fitting the role of sweeper the best. Your Raikou looks decent to me although there's something about it that bothers me but I can't place my finger on it.
the point of this team is to win before they really understand your team, never give them a free turn. Rest on snorlax really defeets the purpose of that. Meta has to hit hard with his attacks in order to eliminate quite a few threats.
I did some thinking and came to the conclusion that giga drain/hp grass is needed somewhere, and i thought of a possibitlity that nobody here thought of =/.
Giga Drain over tbolt on gar. Tbolt is really only for the waters/gyara/skarm. Skarm is obviously gunna run, and doesnt threaten the raikou sweep at all. Giga drain will still do some damage vs waters, but i do realize its quite a bit less damage. Fortunately raikou owns just about all of those waters it cant ko easily. Ice punch really is necessary for flygon/mence/celebi, and wisp is actually the move i use the most with gar, it helps soooooo much, i cant afford to replace it. I can just wisp threats like metagross that i cant really hurt, then go to my own meta and scare them away.
What do you all think of this idea?