rate my ou single battle pokemon showdown team?

Question

well, this is a team i constructed when i first started playing pokemon showdown and first started getting into competitive battling, and it ended up working really well! im just curious how good it actually is and how i might be able to improve it, thx!

Gengar @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Sludge Bomb
- Focus Blast
- Icy Wind

this is my primary sweeper when im not using my mega, its got a wide variety of attacks, theres not much more to say other than ive been able to sweep whole teams with just this pokemon

Rotom-Wash @ Chesto Berry
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 248 HP / 8 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp
- Rest
- Hydro Pump

generally just there to hender and annoy my opponents team with will-o-wisp and switching out with volt switch whenever it gets in a jam, and just in case it gets low on health it runs resto-chesto plus, it can take quite a few hits so it makes for a decent switch-in as well
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 184 HP / 252 Atk / 72 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Swords Dance
- Knock Off
- Roost

your basic poisen heal gliscor, its got knock off to hender my opponents, earthquake as his basic stab attack, if i can get the chance i can use swords dance to really boost him up and start sweeping, and just in case its poisen heal isnt enough it can always heal back up with roost

Skarmory @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 248 HP / 236 Def / 24 Spe
Impish Nature
- Brave Bird
- Stealth Rock
- Roost
- Whirlwind

this is basically my suicide lead, i set up stealth rocks and whirlwind for as long as i can, thats about it

Alakazam @ Alakazite
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Psychic
- Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
- Encore

my mega and my other sweeper, i like to think of him as basically a beefed up version of gengar, and so i treat him as such

Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Ability: Analytic
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 248 HP / 8 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Discharge
- Ice Beam
- Recover
- Toxic

if there were any pokemon on this team i would want to switch out, it would probably be this one, while it rains supreme in battle spot singles, its a very different story in pokemon showdowns ou, and despite this pokemon being my main wall, i find that he is usually taken out before i can even get the chance to attack!

Answer 1

Okay! Good looking skeleton, for everything, let's just break down a few different roles to make sure you cover all your bases and get you something swapped in for Porygon2.

So starting with Gengar, I'd highly recommend swapping Icy Wind for either Thunderbolt or Substitute, Gengar doesn't wanna stay in on much of what he'd be Icy Winding, and can't really pick up a lot of OHKO's with it.

248 HP / 44 SpA / 212 SpD
Modest Nature
for Rotom ^ I switched my specially bulky Rotom-W who ran that same set to that spread and found myself picking up a lot more clutch knock outs, the special attack boost really helps pack some extra punch.

Don't invest in speed in Gliscor, lol. The little bit invested doesn't really put him into a better place to outspeed much, so just go ahead and throw that full HP investment in there so he's nice and bulky.

I'd really really recommend a Ferrothorn > Skarmory for this, because defensive build Ferro works really well together with specially defensive Rotom-W and it'll give you a solid pivot.

Defensive Build (Ferrothorn) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Def
Impish / Relaxed Nature
- Leech Seed
- Thunder Wave
- Stealth Rock
- Power Whip / Gyro Ball

Very optional, and you can use the rest of my advice and ignore this point and the team will still gel fine, but I do highly recommend him.

Alakazam is good, I wouldn't recommend Encore though because there's not a lot of things that really wanna set up on him, so throwing Substitute or maybe something gimmicky like charge beam on him would benefit there.

I also would recommend Psyshock>Psychic because your team's overall physical threat is really low. You already have Gengar putting some special pressure there as well.

And then in place of Porygon, you really need some fire type threat for stuff like Scizor, Ferro, and threats like that, and something that can break walls and not have a super big fear of quickly getting taken down. Due to overall bulk and massive hitting power, I recommend Banded Entei for the job

Entei @ Choice Band
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Sacred Fire
- Extreme Speed
- Stone Edge
- Bulldoze

He'll Help round things out pretty well for you.

Hope even if you don't take all of them that some of the suggestions stood out as either ones you'd like to take or spurred some ideas to try some different stuff. Have fun with your team man!

Comments

Thx for the suggestions!