How is my VGC team? How Should I Improve it?

Question

Gliscor @ Leftovers
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Toxic
- Rock Slide
- Protect
- Ice Fang

Sableye @ Sablenite
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Taunt
- Snarl
- Recover

Ludicolo @ Assault Vest
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 220 HP / 124 Def / 132 SpA / 20 SpD / 12 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 7 Atk
- Giga Drain
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Fake Out

Heatran @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 176 HP / 252 SpA / 80 Spe
Modest Nature
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Flash Cannon
- Protect

Thundurus (M) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 244 HP / 108 Def / 64 SpA / 72 SpD / 20 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 Def
- Thunder Wave
- Taunt
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Ice]

Mawile @ Mawilite
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Play Rough
- Sucker Punch
- Iron Head
- Protect

I had an idea for Gliscor. Since Poison Heal makes it so good I thought it would be great with leftovers and Poison heal. So I thought of the Mega Sableye and Gliscor Combo so if you toxic Mega Sableye it would magic bounce back to you. I tried to Make A team around the combo. Mega Mawile is there if the combo can't be done.

Comments

There are two and a half major flaws with this team, as well as some smaller ones.

1 - Gliscor is much less glorious in VGC than singles. First, it has no offense. It gets neutered by the simplest Intimidate. Games don't last long enough to take advantage of Leftovers or Poison Heal. Finally, everyoine and their grandmother have at least one Ice attack. Solution? I would suggest Landorus-Therian: same typing, Intimidate, speed, and power.

2 - Mawile shouldn't really be used without Trick Room, if it should be used at all. Which brings me to the half-problem…

2.5 - I can't really tell what the team members are supposed to do. Why Ludicolo over something like Milotic or Ferrothorn? Why specifically did you choose Heatran? etc.

If you could include brief descriptions of why you chose each member, that would help a lot.

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Actually, Mawile works just fine under Tailwind and T-wave support as well, but agreed with the other points. Also include reasoning for those EVs if possible.

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Yeah, TW is good, but he didn't have it listed. Thunder Wave is a bit shakier since Thundurus won't come to every match that Mawile does. Replacing Gliscor with Politoed would be beneficial, letting Ludicolo abuse Swift Swim and putting Mawile in her second-best element: Rain.

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I put in the heatran for to help out sableye from Fairy types. The ludicolo is there as great support against landorous's, Rain Teams, fake out support and supports the team in general. The thunderous is there to be as a prankster stoper, and supports Mawhile with the thunder waves. Sableye was there as a offesive snarl user so if you are able to setup you get an oppurtunity to do major damage.

Answer 1

Well, if you ask me you should get rid of mega sableye. Sableye is used more for using it's prankster and annoying people. With magic bounce it just doesnt work. And you already have thundurus so you don't even need a prankster pokemon.

Also if your using mega mawile it needs to be on a trick room team or you can use tailwind. Without trick room it's sort of usless. And trick room can also help out your heatran and sableye.

Finally, gliscor really isn't that great in vgc. Many people still use him, but i think he is much better in singles.