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Valda (Gyarados) (F) @ Gyaradosite
Ability: Moxie
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 148 Atk / 108 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Iron Head

Neptus (Swampert) (M) @ Swampertite
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 192 HP / 196 Atk / 64 Def / 56 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Dive
- Hammer Arm
- Ice Punch

Astrid (Kingdra) (F) @ Scope Lens
Ability: Sniper
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest Nature
- Focus Energy
- Dragon Pulse
- Flash Cannon
- Surf

Raiutom (Rotom-Wash) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 40 Def / 168 SpA / 48 SpD
Modest Nature
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Discharge
- Hydro Pump
- Light Screen

Kinder (Azumarill) (M) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Huge Power
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Belly Drum
- Play Rough
- Waterfall
- Dig

Saline (Vaporeon) (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
- Acid Armor
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Ground]

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Could you provide reasoning for those EV spreads?
Not saying there's anything wrong. I've just never gotten the hang of complex spreads
I think you should replace your Swamperts Dive with waterfall

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Hey!! So first of all I would like to say that I have a mono water team of my own so hopefully that means I know what I'm talking about but I'll try not to portray my answer as the only right answer if you get what I mean. Since there's no such thing as a perfect team in Pokemon.

So first of all you seriously need a politoed on your team to get the rain up, I would maybe replace azumarill as I don't really think it's needed.

Politoed@Leftovers
Ability: Drizzle
EVs: 252 HP/252 SpD/4 SpA
Calm Nature
-Scald
-Toxic
-Protect
-Ice Beam

Now that you have rain up you can sweep using Swift Swim. Swampert should be max speed but you can keep it adamant. Replace dive with waterfall and hammer arm with protect so you get your boosted speed when you mega evolve. Alternatively you can replace protect with Stealth Rock

Your Kingdra set is nice and works well with your team, but I do have a potentially better set that works with the rain.

Kingdra@Choice Specs/Life Orb/Expert Belt
Ability: Swift Swim
252 SpA/252 Spe/4 HP
Modest Nature
-Surf/Hydro Pump/Scald
-Flash Cannon
-Dragon Pulse/Draco Meteor
-Signal Beam

Again, your rotom W set seems nice but you have trouble taking physical hits on your team. More just switching in to physical hits. A defensive set would probably work better.
Rotom-Wash@Leftovers
Ability: Levitate

252 HP/252 Def/4 SpA
Bold Nature
-Hydro Pump
-Volt Switch
-Will o Wisp
-Pain Split

Your Gyarados set is great. It's a needed Pokemon on a mono water team as it takes grass hits well. I also have one on my team but it's a defensive set that still hits hard. I could give it you if you want but you seem to have a nice strategy that works well already.

Vaporeon is also a great Pokemon. I have a specially defensive Tentacruel in this spot but this works well too. I think you should change the set slightly though.

Vaporeon@Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
252 HP/252 SpD/4 SpA or your current EV spread
Calm/Modest nature
-Scald
-Wish
-Acid Armor
-Ice Beam/Protect

I think that makes for a pretty good team. You have some great sweepers that utilise the rain and also some defensive pivots to balance the team out. I hope I helped. Let me know if there's anything you need :]

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Water ftw ;)
Thanks for your suggestions. I'll be sure to try them out when I get the chance :)
Actually if you wouldn't mind, what's your setup for Gyarados? I'm mostly using Pokemon Showdown atm since it's a lot easier to setup a team this way and to see if the team works. If you're interested at all I could list off my mono water team on my XY game (although it's fairly similiar, just with Lapras replacing Swampert and the movesets and stats are a little different). I changed my Swampert to it's Mega and lowered Gyarados's Attack and Speed by a little bit so I could max out her special defense but I'm curious as to what set you have for your Gyarados.
Gyarados@leftovers
Ability:Intimidate
252 Atk/252 HP/4 Spe
Adamant nature
-Waterfall
-Ice Fang
-Crunch
-Thunder Wave

It works really well for tanking physical hits and still hitting back hard with max attack. And it can T Wave stuff to cripple things. And it can switch in to grass moves. It's worked for me pretty well anyway