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First of all, I am not good at team building. Feedback will be much appreciated.

Imperial Rage (Gyarados-Mega) @ Gyaradosite
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Waterfall
- Dragon Dance
- Ice Fang
- Earthquake

Dino-Soar (Aerodactyl) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Unnerve
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stone Edge
- Dragon Pulse
- Roost
- Stealth Rock

Volcano (Heatran) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Flash Fire
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 Def
- Overheat
- Flash Cannon
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Earth Power

Zeus (Thundurus-Therian) @ Leftovers
Ability: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Thunder
- Focus Blast
- Nasty Plot
- U-turn

Da Fat Cat (Clefable) @ Lum Berry
Ability: Magic Guard
IVs: 0 Atk
- Soft-Boiled
- Blizzard
- Heal Bell
- Moonblast

Fun-Guy (Amoonguss) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Effect Spore
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Giga Drain
- Spore
- Synthesis
- Clear Smog

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Nicknames are up to you. Your team is not bad by any means but it could be improved with obvious fixes. If these fixes don't improve the team, I'll test it out myself and look into the problem in details.

Gyarados

  • Crunch > Ice Fang
    You need the Dark-type STAB as it is Gyarados' selling point as a Dragon Dance user after all: it makes him capable to take out bulky Psychic-types such as Jirachi and Slowbro. From this point on, I can recommend the second change quite easily:

Aerodactyl

  • Change to Excadrill with this moveset:

Simon Drillmont (Excadrill) @ Leftovers
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rapid Spin
- Stealth Rock
Threatens Fairy- and Electric-types which Gyarados despises, provides Rapid Spin support and gives you Stealth Rock, all in one slot. Value! If it does not work, get rid of Stealth Rock and add another physical attack like Rock Slide, or Toxic to threaten bulky walls.
Why Aerodactyl doesn't work: He stacks the Electric-type weakness with Gyarados. Besides, it's counterproductive to invest in health and give a Focus Sash so your Aerodactyl set is very flawed.

Heatran

It's good. However, I generally prefer Volcanion as a Choice Specs user, but in this team it is fine to use Heatran as he doesn't stack the Electric weakness, and act as a lure to Ground-type attacks for your Gyarados to safely come in.

Thundurus-Therian

Gyarados is a lure to Electric-type attacks which Thundurus-Therian could take anytime so essentially Thundurus-Therian is in a great place in this team. However, your moveset is flawed because it is counterproductive to boost your Special Attack only to use your physical attack to get out of the matchup, essentially canceling both the Nasty Plot boost and the fact you're specially invested. I can understand why U-Turn as it does work on Ground-types but instead why not killing them?

Zeus (Thundurus-Therian) @ Leftovers
Ability: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
-Agility
-Thunderbolt
-Hidden Power Ice
-Focus Blast / Nasty Plot

By virtue of his amazing typing, Thundurus-Therian can force switches against a variety of threats, which give you the time to setup an Agility boost. The rest is straightforward: Click Thunderbolt unless you predict Steel- / Dragon- / Ground-type Pokemon coming. Nasty Plot is listed as an alternative to Focus Blast if the coverage is not needed, but don't get greedy and addicted to boosting.
The catch is, you should use Agility against faster teams and Nasty Plot against bulkier teams, allowing Thundurus-Therian to work as a stallbreaker, sweeper, Thunder Wave absorber all in one. Value!

Clefable

Standardize it.

Da Fat Cat (Clefable) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 172 Def / 84 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Moonblast
- Thunder Wave
- Soft-Boiled
If you need a cleric, use Chansey instead. Blizzard is unneeded and inaccurate. Lum Berry is also useless since Clefable is meant to absorb Toxic and Will-O-Wisp incoming and take no damage from them. This set has studied EVs that allow it to dodge the 2HKO from specific attacks.

Amoonguss

Fine.

That's all.

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Thanks Muget! As you said, you prefer Chansey for a cleric, so I brought in Blissey. I made this move set.
Big Momma (Blissey) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 200 HP / 176 SpA / 132 SpD
Calm Nature
- Hyper Beam
- Protect
- Soft-Boiled
- Heal Bell
Since that Blissey is not much of a special attacker, I put in hyper beam (I like attack moves). Recharging isn't a problem because I have soft boiled and can easily heal.