Plz Rate my team for competitive online playing

Question

This is my very first post/question so plz correct me if I've done something wrong.

Currently I'm planning on creating a team for online battling on omega ruby.

Shuckle
Item-Leftovers or rocky helmet (Not sure which)
Evs-252 Def, 252 Sp Def, 4 Hp
Nature-Careful
Ability-Contrary
Moves-Toxic, Power split, Rest, Shell Smash

Used as a wall. You maybe wondering why I'm using power split but its to cut down the opponents att and sp att while increasing shuckles def and sp def.

Salamence
item-Salamenceite
Evs-126 Att, 126 Sp Att, 252 Speed, 4 Hp
Nature-Bashful or modest. Bashful for more att and modest for more sp att but lower att. not sure which would be best for salamence
Ability- Intimidate
Moves- Draco Meteor, Earthquake, Hydro Pump or Double Edge, Roost

Used as a physical and special attacker.

Ferrothorn
Item-Big Root
Evs-252 Def, 252 Sp Def, 4 Hp
Nature-Sassy
Ability-Iron Barbs
Moves-Leech Seed, Stealth Rock or Spikes, Toxic, Explosion or Payback

Used as a staller. Big root to increase the amount of Hp regained for leech seed. Not sure whether explosion or payback since explosion if about to die or payback as ferrothorn is most likely to move last.

Magnezone
Item-Lagging Tail
Evs-252 Sp Att, 126 Def, 126 Sp Def, 4 Hp
Nature-Sassy
Ability-Analytic
Moves-Thunderbolt, Toxic, Flash Cannon, Tri Attack

Used as a pure Special Attacker. Lagging tail to ensure I get the extra power from the analytic ability.

Tyranitar
Item-Not sure
Evs-252 Att,126 Def, 126 Sp Def, 4 Hp
Nature- Adamant
Ability-Sand Stream
Moves-Outrage, Dragon Dance, Stone Edge or Earthquake, Crunch

Used as a Pure Physical Attacker. Dragon Dance to set up sorta.

Arcanine
Item-Not sure
Evs-252 Att, 252 Speed, 4 Hp
Nature-Jolly
Ability-Intimidate
Moves-Extreme Speed, Outrage, Flare Blitz, Close Combat

Used as a physical attacker and speed. I know arcanines max speed won't be as fast as max speed garchomp or salamence but it should still be able to outspend quite a lot of other pokemon.

If you have suggestions or opinions about changes i should make to anything to tell me. I wanna have a op team to use for online battling.

Answer 1

Here are some ideas, changes will be in bold.

Shuckle
Item-Leftovers
Evs-252 Def, 252 Sp Def, 4 Hp
Nature-Careful
Ability-Contrary
Moves-Toxic, Power split, Rest, Shell Smash

This is fine, I wont change anything here.

Salamence
item-Salamenceite
Evs- 252 Sp. Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP
Nature- Modest
Ability- Intimidate--> Aerilate
Moves- Draco Meteor, Hyper Voice, Hydro Pump, Flamethower

You have more physical attackers, go with fully special Mence, EVs to maximize damage, use this variety of moves for coverage.

Ferrothorn
Item-Rocky Helmet
Evs-252 Def, 252 Sp Def, 4 Hp
Nature-Sassy
Ability-Iron Barbs
Moves-Leech Seed, Toxic, Power Whip, Protect

A true stalling set, takes away opponents HP with leech seed and toxic as yours goes up through leech seed. Use Protect in order to gain HP back. If you want Stealth Rock, or a damaging move could replace toxic. Power Whip so your not taunt bait.

Magnezone
Item- Choice Specs
Evs-252 Sp Att, 126 Def, 126 Sp Def, 4 Hp
Nature- Modest
Ability-Analytic
Moves-Thunderbolt, HP Fire, Flash Cannon, Volt Switch

Can really hurt their team with the choice specs, HP Fire is used for coverage, and modest for the extra power.

Tyranitar
Item- Life Orb
Evs- 252 Att, 252 Speed, 4 HP
Nature- Adamant
Ability-Sand Stream
Moves-Earthquake, Dragon Dance, Stone Edge, Crunch

Use Dragon Dance to set up, with life orb, he will be doing massive amounts of damage. Stone Edge and Crunch are STAB, Earthquake is nice coverage.

Arcanine
Item- Assault Vest
Evs-252 Att, 252 Speed, 4 Hp
Nature-Naive
Ability-Intimidate
Moves-Extreme Speed, Wild Charge, Overheat, Close Combat

The assault vest gives him very nice bulk, and more than covers the drop from his Naive nature. Overheat is STAB and since it is his only Special Attack, the stat drop does not cripple him, then proceed to use his nice physical moves. Wild charge was used over Outrage so he does not become confused.

So I hope you liked what I had to suggest, and have a great summer!

                    -Unstoppable

Comments

Wow so much info and Thx for the suggestions. Glad to see you understand my shuckle. Also using power split to lower the opponents att and sp att since shuckles has 56 att and sp att meaning it'll have a lower drop in damage.gonna try what you mentioned too. Hope my team wrecks opponents on online battling

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That Ferrothorn is Taunt bait :P And use HP Fire > Signal Beam and Volt Switch > Tri-Attack for a Specs Magnezone.

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Yeah im glad I can help. Ill change what you said Grime Time.

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Can you explain why I need HP fire? I think my HP is dark and CBA to breed magnezone again. Is there an alternate move to HP fire I can use?

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You could use Signal Beam as an alternate, but HP Fire is for killing Steel types which normally wall Pokemon like Magnezone, plus Scizor + Ferrothorn are so common it is a good idea

Answer 2

I will just make suggestions to each as I see them.

Your shuckle has no attacks, so if it gets taunted your finished with him. Consider adding some attack, even if it's just a sad one. Shell smash doesn't really help you either if you don't have any attacks.

I would change up Salamence to make it a physical sweeper instead. Replacing Draco-Meteor with Dragon Rush and using double edge or something that can answer Ice. I prefer a physical build as most Fairies will have a high special defense and fairies like to eat dragons :(

For ferrothorn I will just show what I like to do and you can make changes as you like.
Ferrothorn @ leftovers
Ability: Iron Barbs
Impish or Careful Nature
-Toxic
-Leech Seed
-Arial ace
-Ingrain

I don't play a magnezone much, but I would get rid of Tri-Attack. That moves power is terrabad.

Definitely use earthquake on Tyranitar. Consider a weakness policy or focus sash as the item.

I like the arcanine, but he is outsped by alot more things than you realize. If you want a fire type physical sweeper I would recommend Talonflame.

Comments

Thx for the advice. Once I change my pokemon to some of the things you've suggested I'm gonna battle u. Be prepared :)

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You do realize with contrary, shell smash is increasing defenses so that is fine. Never use Dragon Rush, it is a terrible move, if going fully physical go for Dragon Claw, or you could go fully special with Hyper Voice, Flamethower, Hydro Pump, Draco Meteor. For Ferrothorn Big Root + Leech Seed + Ingrain is good, but use a move such as Power Whip or Gyro Ball, Aerial Ace is sub par, if you want Payback is viable, but the STAB moves are better. Also you would want Protect to rack up healing from those HP gaining moves mentioned previously. For Magnezone you could try Signal Beam for coverage, but Tri Attack is okay if you cant get Signal Beam, also use a different item such as leftovers or even choice specs, he is already very slow and does not require the lagging tail to get the analytic boost. Tyranitar is good, go with life orb to deal some damage after you boost with D-Dance. Use stone edge over earthquake for the STAB boost. Although you could use earthquake over outrage. Arcanine looks good, since you have 4 attacking moves, choice band, choice scarf, or assault vest could be good items. Furthermore I would recommend Wild Charge over Outrage so you dont lock your self into a confusing move.

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Aerial Ace? Seriously? The only attacking moves Ferrothorn ever uses are Power Whip, Gyro Ball and the rare Iron Head or Explosion. Aerial Ace's only purpose on Ferro would be for hitting Fighting-types and it doesn't have enough power to KO most  Fighting-types. Also, Ingrain might seem like a good idea, but it renders you unable to switch out, meaning that if a fire or fighting type comes in, you're screwed. Here is a nice Ferrothorn moveset:
Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 88 Def / 168 SpD
Relaxed Nature
- Spikes
- Leech Seed
- Power Whip
-Gyro Ball / Thunder Wave / Protect
Sorry if the moveset isn't supposed to be in comments but I wanted to point that out.