Can you give an honest opinion about my team?

Question

Now I just made this because these are my favorite in order from first to last. This is on Ultra Moon.

Luxray: My favorite pokemon since DP&P
Nature: Bashful
Characteristic: Somewhat vain
Ability: Intimidate
Item: Magnet
Move-set:
Thunder
Wild Charge
Throat Chop
Ice Fang

Noivern: I liked Noivern since x&y but haven't utilized him until now
Nature: Hardy
Characteristic: Quick to flee
Ability: Infiltrator
Item: Black Glasses
Move-set:
Hurricane
Flamethrower
Dragon Pulse
Dark Pulse

Salazzle: My new favorite poison type. I was breeding for a good nature when I randomly hatched a shiny female, so I added it to the team
Nature: Modest
Characteristic: Likes to thrash about
Ability: Corrosion
Item: Poison Barb
Move-set:
Heat Wave
Dragon Pulse
Venoshock
Toxic

Lycanroc: Dusk form is definitely one of my favorites, but I don't know a good move-set for him
Nature: Hardy
Characteristic: Quick tempered
Ability: Tough Claws
Item: Lycanium Z
Move-set:
Stone Edge (7PP)
Iron Head
Brick Break
Thunder Fang

Haxorus: Hard hitter attacker
Nature: Docile
Characteristic: A little quick tempered
Ability: Mold Breaker
Item: Dragon Fang
Move-set:
Earthquake
Iron Tail
Poison Jab
Dual Chop

Torterra: Favorite starter pokemon and team tank
Nature: Bashful
Characteristic: Strong willed
Ability: Overgrow
Item: Big Root
Move-set:
Earthquake
Iron Tail
Crunch
Giga Drain

That's my team, tell me what you think. Rate 1-10

Comments

We give different advice for different formats, so if you want to use this team in singles, doubles, and triples, then you should post 3 copies of this team, 1 for each format.
Are there any Pokemon, moves, or abilities that you can't use? Do you use any other rules?

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Well yeah but it's rules that a lot of people follow such as no legendary or mythical pokemon, no super beasts/ guardians, and no friendly fire without consent of the ally. (though if someone has like telepathy it's okay) btw why does  everyone ban baton pass? Aren't moves like volt switch better

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Do you want other people to rate this team for singles or doubles? Remember, if you want both, you should post 2 copies of this team (in 2 separate threads).
By the way, here's why baton pass got banned in some Smogon formats, though I don't know about whatever format you're playing. https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/baton-pass-in-sm-ou.3604290/

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Baton Pass is overpowered because it also passes stat boosts. So if you used Swords Dance and then baton pass, the Pokémon you switched into would be +2 in attack. This can be used to accumulate stat boosts over a battle and then go into a Pokémon with an insanely strong stored power or simply pass speed boosts to Pokémon like mega mawile, mega heracross, xurkitree, etc. who are really limited by their speed. Also I don’t understand those rules of yours. Most of the tapus and ultra beasts are perfectly balanced, with Pheromosa and maganadel being the only overpowered ones (and neither are overpowered in triples, only in singles). Most legendaries and mythical are weaker than regular Pokémon as well, it’s only box legendaries and some mythical like Arceus and genesect that are really overpowered. So not to be rude but your rule set makes no sense and doesn’t follow any Smogon or battle spot rules.

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Baton Pass is banned because it passes Stat boosts, substitute, and a fer other things that it makes hard for anyone who doesn't use Baton Pass or Unaware to break, and therefore is so centralizing that It makes the game not fun. When the game isn't fun, less people play it. Using Baton Pass is like using the Stone Goat thing from Worms Clan Wars; it is an unhealthy practice for most metagames. :P

Answer 1

Ok so from what I can tell this really isn’t meant for competitive since you’re bringing up levels. My bad for assuming that. Still, if you care about the quality of your team you must be doing some PvP battles. As for your suboptimal moveset choices, there are quite a few. There’s no reason to have both thunder and wild charge on luxray, and throat chop is probably fine but IMO crunch is a better choice, and to replace thunder, maybe fire fang. Noivern’s moveset idea is generally fine but I would recommend Draco meteor over dragon pulse, also focus Blast would be better for coverage than dark pulse despite the bad accuracy. For Salazar venoshock is only really useful when the opponent is poisoned, but since Salazzle is so frail it will rarely get a chance to use toxic safely. Lycanroc is generally fine but drill run would be better than iron head, and I personally prefer fire fang over thunder fang (though thunder fang is perfectly fine as well). I really think one of the best aspects about Lycanroc is accerlerock though so it would be nice to find one way to fit that in. Iron tail and poison Jab both do the same thing for Haxorus: eliminating fairies. So you don’t need both, replace one (preferably iron tail) with dragon dance. If Torterra is the team tank you really need a form of recovery, so replace iron tail with synthesis. Since you’re doing triples stealth rock isn’t too important.

So you don’t have to change all of these if you don’t want to, as I would imagine breeding new Pokémon with the correct abilities and hidden powers and stuff would be tedious, but I would recommend at least making changes for some of these.

Luxray @ Flame Orb
Ability: Guts
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wild Charge
- Crunch
- Ice Fang
- Fire Fang

Noivern @ Choice Specs
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Hurricane
- Flamethrower
- Focus Blast

Salazzle (F) @ Poisonium Z
Ability: Corrosion
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Flamethrower
- Sludge Wave
- Hidden Power [Grass]

Lycanroc-Dusk @ Life Orb
Ability: Tough Claws
Happiness: 0
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stone Edge
- Drill Run
- Fire Fang
- Accelerock

Haxorus @ Focus Sash
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Poison Jab

Torterra @ Leftovers
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 248 HP / 56 Atk / 68 Def / 136 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Earthquake
- Toxic
- Synthesis