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This was going to be a secret team but it kinda needs help i was going to defeat the DB league and take over the world with it... i shoudnt have said that...
anyway here is mt Darkness team...

darkness... (Ninjask) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Impish Nature
- Baton Pass
- Protect
- Substitute
- Swords Dance

Trio 2 (Gengar) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Sludge Bomb
- Giga Drain

Trio 3 (Gyarados) @ Leftovers
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Adamant Nature
- Substitute
- Dragon Dance
- Bounce
- Waterfall

Trio 1 (Hitmontop) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 252 SDef / 252 HP / 4 Atk
Careful Nature
- Rapid Spin
- Toxic
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge

Trio mascot (Hydreigon) @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 200 Atk / 200 SAtk / 108 HP
Hasty Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Roost
- U-turn
- Crunch

Meow (Blissey) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 Def / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Bold Nature
- Aromatherapy
- Seismic Toss
- Protect
- Toxic

NOTE: it MUST have hydreigon :3 it is my mascot :3333

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I like it. Just don't ever use any dark types. They aren't very good.
Dark types are good. They hit both psychic types and ghost types which are both highly common pokemon in the metagmame. There are many powerful Dark types, like Darkrai, Bisharp, Hydreigon and several others.
I just meant there aren't very many good dark type moves, other than taunt.
foul play, dark void, nasty plot, night slash, sucker punch, crunch, pursuit, switcheroo
o.o all of those moves are fairly common, dependant on the tiers.

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Team analysis

Well as you really want a rate, I guess I will go ahead. As you might have noticed after battling a few times with it your team has quite a disturbing weakness to strong physical attacker and tbh not many Pokemon are capable of stopping it barring Hitmontop who isn't as useful as it is in UU.

Overall your weaknesses are well covered by all the Pokemon, however there is one Pokemon that finds a delight in taking on your team and that one Pokemon is Toxicroak who can start demolishing the important factors of your team when it is at 3x. However the Sword dance version isn't as threatening as the Bulk Up version who is with this also more frequent.

Type-wise you seem decently covered but you would have to rely on Pokemon that can easily be killed off so I do have to say that I will be remodeling your team but I will keep your mascot and Gyarados.



Team rate

First of all Ninjask is an unreliable Pokemon to use as you are not guaranteed to perform a successful Baton Pass and in the 5th Generation competitive battling as it can easily be stopped and seeing as you aren't carrying Toxic many Pokemon can set up on it and kill the switching-in Baton receiver. For this reason I recommend you replace it with a bug that has great utility in the 5th generation OU, Scizor. I suggest making Scizor your physical attacker over Gyarados as I will transform Gyarados into a more useful wall and Scizor is just more reliable for that raw instant power

Scizor @ Choice band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 192HP / 252 Atk / 64 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Pursuit
- Bullet Punch
- U-turn
- Superpower

A Choice band set is relatively one of the most excellent sets Scizor could ever wield. There isn't much to say just that Scizor is a much more reliable physical attacker then Gyarados and a way more useful bug then Ninjask.


Well Gengar looks fine to me. I was planning to replace it with Jirachi but now it brings you less weaknesses then Jirachi and as a scarfer it is much more reliable as it can outpace more with relative ease. And I also don't want to spoil this "darkness theme".


Ok, I decided that Gyarados is still very vital to your team as it helps quench the power of physical sweepers exceptionally well. Gyarados's sweeper set has been used so often on Showdown that it is so easy to counter and besides that you could appreciate some physical bulk and Gyarados makes on bulky Pokemon and with Intimidate, it can cripple sweeps easily and with this also serves as a very nice Toxicroak counter.

Gyarados @ Leftovers
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Spd
Impish Nature
- Thunder Wave
- Dragon Tail
- Substitute
- Waterfall


Although Hitmontop still has a decent utility in OU, it really just belongs in UU. It used to serve as a prime Tyranitar-lead counter but Hippodown is just used much more nowadays and with this Hitmontop has really lost it's utility even as a spinner. So for this reason I recommend that you replace it with Starmie as it is faster, hits harder, brings extra coverage when battling the weathers and has a much higher chance to successfully spin. I would say LO Starmie is what you would need as it hits things very hard on the special side, something you seem to be lacking barring Hydreigon's presence and Gengar's.

Starmie @ Life Orb
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Thunder
- Rapid Spin


Like I promised and on behalf of your request, I decided to not move Hydreigon from the picture. Mixed sweeper Hydreigon is fabulous however I do think making it have a little more investment in special attack by changing it;s nature from Hasty to Rash would benefit you more. I have noticed that you have difficulties keeping Hydreigon alive due to so many Pokemon being faster then it now that it has no investment in speed, so I think the following set is what you need:

Hydreigon @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Rash Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Superpower
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake

Yeah I believe that Earthquake would be more useful on this Hydreigon as right now most of your Pokemon aren't exactly capable of dealing with Heatran that well as they are threatened to be outpaced. Life Orb

4 Atk Life Orb Hydreigon Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Heatran: 374-442
(115.78 - 136.84%) -- guaranteed OHKO


Yes as much a little countering my will I do believe that replacing Blissey with Celebi would be more optional. Despite being the Wall-o-Wall in Ubers, in Ubers danger lurks from behind every corner and I see it is your intention to make it a semi-physical wall but with the Gyarados she isn't really needed and she just brings unnecessary weaknesses. This is why I believe Celebi would be more optional as it's typing is bluffing and it forms a major threat to many weathers especially sand. It's perfect bulk cannot be overlooked so Celebi all the way.

Celebi @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef
Calm Nature
- Psychic
- Stealth Rock/U-turn
- Thunder Wave
- Recover

Well Stealth Rock or U-Turn whatever you think you need most for the rest this set is extremely annoying to deal with and leaves many opponents depressed when they realize that they can't kill Celebi with a STAB Shadow Ball >:)


Well this was all I have to share with you and I hope it has a form of utility for you. If you have any questions are anything you want to ask, please feel free and leave a comment,
Valet

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What no Scarf Scizor :P
I was hoping for LO/Sdance Scizor.
Massively weak to Bug now. And you also made the team weak to a Poke it should never be weak to, Terrakion.