OU Team using the new core

Question

In case you missed it, I posted an answer on the question "What Are The Sturdiest Cores You Have Found?" showcasing the combination of ferrothorn and slowking. If I can, I'll post some replays on the question "Post Them Battle Replays Here" showing what Ferroking can do. In the meantime, criticize to your heart's content.

Excadrill @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide

Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 100 Def / 156 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Leech Seed
- Spikes
- Gyro Ball
- Power Whip

Slowking @ Leftovers
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Toxic
- Slack Off
- Scald
- Psyshock

Talonflame @ Choice Band
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Brave Bird
- Flare Blitz
- U-turn
- Steel Wing

Manectric @ Manectite
Ability: Lightning Rod
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Flamethrower

Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Unaware
EVs: 252 HP / 68 Def / 188 SpD
Calm Nature
- Heal Bell
- Soft-Boiled
- Thunder Wave
- Moonblast

Comments

Lmao i think you should study up a bit on the metagame and its trends before you make more baseless (and quite silly) statements. MAero is a very core breaking mon, a complete terror vs balance and Hyper Offense.

Also, VoltTurn is nice and all for your edit... except you have no way to remove hazards. That's really not a solid choice, especially when both of your switching mons dont resist SR, and not to mention that both of them arent really all that bulky (in respect to switching in against Bulky Offense).

If you could provide some replays on this rmt, it would be much appreciated to see how risky/safe you play, and what your thought process with your team is. A couple of battles give a better understanding of a team than an rmt paragraph (which is merely a theory of how a mon should always work, and doesnt portray a real battle scenario very effectively).

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I. FIXED. EVERYTHING. I dropped infernape so I could have a spinner. I looked at who gets stealth rock and rapid spin and the one who suited my needs the most was excadrill. Now that I don't have to worry about hazards, I can use talonflame instead of scizor, eliminating the whole mega evolution debate. I also switched out vaporeon for clefable, and I changed the EVs and item on ferrothorn. Also, don't even try to get me to switch to m-aerodactyl. It's in UU for a reason. There are much better "core breaking" mons out there, especially mixed attackers like tyranitar, infernape, and zoroark, just to name a few. I will edit the question soon.

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Wow this team was alot better than last time I saw it.
Anyways, I just want to make a few suggestions on Slowbro:
 - Thunder Wave > Toxic because it cripples Speed-reliant Pokemon and Speed-boosting Pokemon, such as M-Charizard X.
 - You could put Ice Beam or Fire Blast on the set, but it doesn't really matter; it just gives extra coverage.

Talonflame:
 - A choice band set seems kinda iffy to me. But if you really want it, go ahead.
 - It should have Steel Wing > Return because it gives coverage against Rock-types.

Manectric:
 - Overheat > Flamethrower is an option, so that you get the extra-power. You can easily switch out with Volt Switch, so in this case the Sp. Atk drop wouldn't matter as much.

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In addition to my previous comment,  Focus Sash on Excadrill isn't really needed; I suggest putting something like Leftovers, so that it increases Excadrill's longevity.

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Toxic builds a lot of damage along with leech seed, so i'm going to keep it on slowking. I've tried steel wing before, and I didn't have very many chances to use it. Return hasn't been useful either, so I'll take your advice and replace it. I'll use a Sitrus berry on excadrill. Thanks for the help.