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I was pretty good at gen 5 ou on Showdown a while back, but I took a break when school started, and I didn't start back up until I was bored one day. I built this team to counter some of the popular Mega-Evolutions, but it morphed into a more mixed attacking and stalling team. So here it is. I am looking for suggestions, so it would be greatly appreciated if someone could take a look at it.

Alakazam (M) @ Alakazite
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Dazzling Gleam
- Focus Blast

Clefable (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Def / 16 Spd
Bold Nature
- Moonblast
- Hidden Power [Ground]
- Calm Mind
- Soft-Boiled

Aegislash (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Stance Change
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Sacred Sword
- Shadow Sneak
- King's Shield

Rotom-Wash @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 232 SDef / 248 HP / 28 SAtk
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hydro Pump
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split

Skarmory (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Def / 16 Spd
Impish Nature
- Brave Bird
- Whirlwind
- Stealth Rock
- Roost

Breloom (M) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Focus Punch
- Seed Bomb
- Spore
- Substitute

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Your team looks pretty solid at first glance, I would keep most of the team, but a better moveset for Alakazam would be Psyshock (This does stab and it doesn't take the opponents special attack into account), Signal Beam (Takes care of those annoying dark types) HP Fire (Takes care of bug types), and Focus Blast just for coverage. Another red flag on your team, is Breloom, I have tried to use Breloom, but he just isnt cut out for battling, even with his evs in speed. His defense is too low and he isn't fast enough. Especially with the 4x weakness to flying and all of those Charizards, Talonflames and Staraptors running around the battle spot. Other than that your team is good. Don't edit my stuff to try and take credit
Minor suggestions:
1. I can see Talonflame being a problem since your Rotom-Wash, your only thing that can really switch in against it, has invested in Special Defense.
2. You also have three Pokemon weak against fire, with only Rotom-W being the safe switch in. And if the opposing fire user is the other popular fire-flyer Charizard Y, it might get solarbeamed. You can switch out one of your fire weaks for Heatran or a Fire-type or Dragon-type (Salamence, also has the benefit of using Intimidate on Talonflame; Garchomp, who outspeeds Char Y and also has Rough Skin to inflict contact damage on Talonflame).
3. Why does your Alakazam have 30IV in Def? You should probably max it out at 31 unless you are going to use HP Ice.  And you might as well 0IV its attack as well. I kinda agree with Jordan's Signal Beam idea for type coverage instead of Shadow Ball, Aegislash can do the Ghost attacks. I will disagree with the HP Fire suggestion and keep Dazzling Gleam, but only because I am already suggesting a Fire type or a Dragon type that will likely have Fire attacks.

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