Bird Pokémon team. What do you think?

Question

MAIN TEAM

1. (M) Skarmory (Steel/Flying) – Hazard Setter
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Att / 252 Def
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
Item: Custap Berry
-Whirlwind
-Spikes
-Stealth Rock
-Iron Head

Sturdy + Custap Berry enables you to use at least Stealth Rock and one Spikes. After that you have the choice to set up another layer of Spikes, use Whirlwind to damage your opponent one by one or use Iron Head to inflict more damage.

2. (M) Swellow (Normal/Flying) – Physical Attacker & Scout
Ability: Guts
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Att / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature (+Spe, -SAtk)
Item: Flame Orb
-Protect
-U-Turn
-Facade
-Brave Bird / Endeavor

Flame Orb activates Guts which activates Facade. Protect to safely get the boost from the Flame Orb. U-Turn for scouting. Brave Bird / Endeavor as a last resort.

3. (M) Decidueye (Grass/Ghost) – Hazard Remover / Trapper
Ability: Long Reach
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
Item: Leftovers
-Defog / Curse
-Roost
-Leaf Blade
-Spirit Shackle

Decidueye is a great Bird Pokémon for removing hazards since he won’t receive as much damage from Stealth Rock as the others. Curse combined with Spirit Shackle is also an excellent combo. Roost for healing (especially if you pick Curse over Defog). Leaf Blade is very useful against those Rock and Ground Pokémon.

4. (M) Staraptor (Normal/Flying) – Physical Sweeper
Ability: Reckless
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Att / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Att, -SAtk)
Item: Life Orb
-Roost / U-Turn / Pursuit
-Close Combat
-Brave Bird
-Double-Edge

Reckless activates Brave Bird and Double-Edge which both deal massive damage. Close Combat for coverage and Roost for healing since you’ll receive quite some recoil. You could also pick U-Turn over Roost to escape quickly when you know you’re screwed. Pursuit is another great choice.

5. (M) Talonflame (Fire/Flying) – Physical Sweeper
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Att / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature (+Spe, -SAtk)
Item: Flying Gem
-Swords Dance
-Roost
-Acrobatics
-Flare Blitz

Swords Dance for raising you Attack. Gale Wings + Flying Gem + Acrobatics = major damage. Flare Blitz for STAB and Roost for healing your recoil damage.

6. (M) Braviary (Normal/Flying) – Physical Tank
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SDef / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
Item: Leftovers
-Substitute
-Bulk Up
-Roost
-Brave Bird

Use Substitute so you can set up your Bulk Up. Then attack with Brave Bird. Leftovers and Roost for healing.

SUBSTITUENTS

(M) Mega Pidgeot (Normal/Flying) – Hazard Remover & Special Sweeper
Ability: No Guard
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
Item: Pidgeotite
-Defog
-Roost
-Heat Wave
-Hurricane

Defog for removing hazards. No Guard provides a 100% accuracy for Heat Wave and Hurricane. Roost is always nice for some healing.

(M) Noctowl (Normal/Flying) – Wall
Ability: Insomnia
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
Item: Leftovers
-Hypnosis
-Reflect
-Night Shade
-Dream Eater / Roost / Magic Coat

Hypnosis + Dream Eater is a nice combo. Reflect so you’ll take less damage from Physical Attacks. Night Shade is your way to do damage. You could also pick Roost / Magic Coat over Dream Eater.

(M) Hawlucha (Fighting/Flying) – Scout
Ability: Limber
EVs: 252 Att / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
Item: Life Orb
-Detect
-Encore
-U-Turn
-Flying Press

Detect + Encore for breaking Stealth Rockers. U-Turn for scouting. Flying Press is a great move since it’s both Flying and Fighting.

(M) Toucannon (Normal/Flying) – Physical Sweeper
Ability: Skill Link
EVs: 4 HP / 128 Atk / 124 Def / 252 SDef
Adamant Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
Item: Leftovers
-Swords Dance
-Bullet Seed
-Rock Blast
-Beak Blast

Swords Dance for setting up a great Attack stat. Skill Link makes sure Bullet Seed and Rock Blast hit five times. Beak Blast is a great pick for burning your opponent and dealing some nice damage.

Oricorio (?/Flying) - Special Sweeper
Ability: Dancer
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spe
Item: Leftovers
-Teeter Dance / Substitute
-Calm Mind
-Air Slash
-Revelation Dance

Teeter Dance / Substitute to set up Calm Mind. Air Slash and Revelation Dance for STAB.

Comments

What format?

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Nice team. I think it's great.

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Single Battles.

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Is it for Wifi, Showdown!, or a tournament?

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Wifi battles on my 3DS.

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Is there anything you're not allowed to use? If not, replace everything on your team with legendaries.

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That wouldn't make it a ''Bird Pokémon team'' now, would it...

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Sure it would. Ho-oh, Lugia, Yvetal, and Lunala are birds, right?

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I'm not changing any Pokémon, I only want tips about this team.
Lunala isn't a bird though ;)

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You could have told me not to suggest changing Pokemon a lot earlier (such as in the question).

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I could have but I didn't.

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...and you wasted about two minutes of my time writing comments asking for this information.

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Or you could've just gave me tips about THIS team like I asked.
You wasted your own time so don't blame me for it.

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Part of rating teams is to suggest replacing Pokemon. If you don't want your Pokemon replaced, you should have specified in the question.

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You could've gave me tips about this team after I told you I'm not replacing Pokémon but you keep complaining instead.
I appreciate you're trying to help but I don't get why you have to keep whining about it...
Also why are you still replying if I'm wasting your time?

I get your point mate! Let's not make this any worse ;)

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By limiting yourself to bird Pokemon, you're already stacking weaknesses really badly, so the team should revolve around covering the shared weaknesses. Replace Braviary with Hawlucha to be able to beat rock and ice Pokemon slightly better. Using it as support is a waste, so I'd recommend this sweeper set.
Hawlucha @ flying gem
Ability: unburden
EVs: 252 Atk / 52 Def / 152 SpD / 52 Spe
Adamant nature
-swords dance
-acrobatics
-drain punch
-fire punch
The idea is to use swords dance and acrobatics. Because its speed is doubled, it can already outspeed almost anything even when it's without speed EVs. I gave it a few just so it can test for choice scarves. I put the rest of the EVs in the defenses because drain punch heals an absolute number of HP, so investing in defenses makes each point harder to lose.

On Skarmory, replace spikes with roost to heal it and possibly make it reusable. Decidueye doesn't really benefit from speed EVs, so move those to its defense stats. On Staraptor, replace life orb with choice scarf so it can revenge kill better. Talonflame is too frail for roost to be useful, so replace it with u-turn so you can use it as a pivot.

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Those are some good tips, thank you!
Replacing Braviary is hard though since it's my favorite Bird Pokémon. I guess I'll make him a substituent.

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I just added Oricorio as a substituent because I think I got a pretty good moveset for it. What do you think?

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Replace Swellow with the Oricorio and make it electric type.

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if you were going to go hardcore flying type, then I would recommend switching decidueye with pidgeot (preferably) or Hawlucha

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Um, this is a little off because Decidueye isn't flying, so you won't get as many flying types.  Switch Decidueye out for M Pigdeot.

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First, the team's owner is most likely not not on this site anymore. Please don't post on old RMT threads. Second, why would he want an all-flying team that can be swept by one electric type opponent?

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I'm still here ;)
I'm training bird Pokémon and Decidueye is a bird (even though it isn't a Flying-type).

Answer 1

hi! hi! I like your team <3 birds are cool

you have too many normal flying types in my opinion. getting rid of them and keeping one if a good option in my opinion. I'd keep Starapter. i'd also pick roost on it, and have quick attacker for the occasional faster pokemon. life orb + brave bird is gonna kill it despite roost, so maybe leftovers for recovery? You already have 1.2x power for it.

Getting hawlucha in there is a good idea for fighting type, so getting rid of braviary and putting him in there would help. changing detect to protect for more pp is essential. jolly would be better too. Hawlucha is more a sweeper than scouter, but it could work.

talonflame needs brave bird instead of acrobatics. roost and swords dance are good, but leftovers would be better for it. kinda like starapter. maybe consider having u-turn and taunt in you set? keeps others from setting up on you or more scouting opportunities.

oricorio-pom-pom is good for the electric type. i'd use it instead of swellow. substitute is better on it than teeter dance.

decidueye should be your special tank. heck, i'd suggest eviolite dartrix with curse and leaf blade + peck, with roost of course. making it your special tank would be nice.

defog can be on skarmory instead of whirlwind.

Comments

Both detect and protect are a waste of a move slot on Hawlucha because it can sweep more easily by knowing more coverage moves. Dartrix makes for a bad tank because it has too many weaknesses and isn't very bulky even with eviolite.