Ok. Before starting on the team, I'd like to say, can't anyone from the thread actually outline what a good analysis would include at the end of the week? Because I'm not even sure what I should do to analyze it better. Whatever.
What do you think was the main/inspiring idea/goal Dice had while making this team?
Hipster. Just hipster.
In all seriousness, I believe Dice wanted to create a sun stall team that deals with the main sun checks/counters.
Is there a discernible core he tried to build it around?
We all see the forry/tran/slowbro core. He also uses yache garchomp to deal with potential revengekillers such as mamoswine and scarfrachi. Mamoswine, terrakion and latias are threats to sun teams. Using yachechomp, slowbro and magmastorm heatran respectively, he can deal with these threats.
What are the strong points of the team?
The strong points are the surprise factor and the core. The core, as mentioned earlier, resists about 15 of all 17 types(16 if air balloon is counted, though rock still isn't resisted by the core, garchomp resists it)
Also, this team fucks up common sun checks and counters. Latias is messed up by the heatran set(trapping+toxic+taunt) whereas slowbro checks the mess out of terrakion. Yache garchomp at +2 can lure in mamoswine, a threat to sun teams, to revenge kill it, only to be OHKOed by a +2 earthquake.
What are the weak spots?
Well, the team only carries one rock resist and no ground resists(heatran's air balloon will have to pop sometime) , making pokemon such as SD rock gem terrakion and mamoswine problematic. The team cannot preent hazards from being spun by starmie and a few team members such as ninetales and venusaur abhor hazards, which spinblockers can easily spinblock against forretress.
How could his use of certain EV/moveset twists help his team vs specific threats or archetypes?
Well, he could make ninetales max SpDef to act as a special sponge. The EVs do allow him to outspeed jolly breloom, a dick to his defensive core, and will-o-wisp it, as well as absorbing spore, but venusaur could deal with breloom and ninetales has chesto anyway. His venusaur set can easily wreak havoc on weatherless teams and heatran gives the middle finger to sun teams even with dugtrio.
How does he use some underrated threats to give his team an advantage?
While I haven't used or even heard of one or two of these movesets, magma trapper heatran with a twist as well as chestorest ninetales who fucks breloom up are underrated if at all used. Slowbro is a great defensive pokemon that deserves its spot on this team.
Anything else you might want to talk/ask about.
Y u call urself dice
Loljk nothing.