Pokémon Rate My Team
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There are only 3 Pokémon that I will for sure use on my competitive Sw/Sh team, but I am not sure what the others should be as I am new to the competitive battling scene.

Here is my current team:

Name: Shuckle
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Bold
Held Item: Mental Herb
Ev spread: 252 HP, 200 Def, 12 SpA, 44 SpD
• Sticky web
• Stealth rock
• Encore
• Infestation

Name: Dragapult
Nature: Modest/Timid (undecided)
Ability: Infiltrator
Held item: Choice Specs
Ev spread: 252 Spe, 252 SpA, 4 HP
• Dragon pulse
• Shadow Ball
• Fire blast
• Thunderbolt

Name: Togekiss
Nature: Timid
Ability: Serene Grace
Held Item: Choice Scarf
Ev Spread: 252 Spe, 252 SpA, 4 SpD
• Dazzling Gleam
• Air Slash
• Fire Blast
• Aura Sphere

Here are the Pokémon that I am looking for:

Physical sweeper (already considering Life orb Mimkyu)
Defensive wall/additional physical sweeper
Dedicated dynamax Pokémon

If you have any suggestions for these three spots I am looking to fill, please share them with me. If you think that I should change my team up, please share your reasoning with me as well. Any input is greatly appreciated.

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What format are you playing?
I am playing single battles in Pokémon sword (hopefully this answers your question because I don’t fully understand all of the Showdown Formats like UU and OU) I do know that my three Pokémon are valid in gen 8 OU battles in Showdown
Yup, I understand!
man if mega garchomp was here this team would be soooo good

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Hi! First off, if you’re using sticky webs, you’ll want Pokémon that can take advantage of them. Basically, Pokémon that benefit from a speed boost. I’d say that Water Urshifu would be fantastic, it will outspeed Cinderace with webs and can OHKO with Surging strikes(with choice band/life orb.) I’d say life orb as you have two choice items already.

Next, you want to hit Flying Type Pokémon and Levitators that are immune to webs like Rotom and Togekiss. I’d say that Mold Breaker Excadrill is good, it would also benefit from webs as its kind of mid-speed and can also learn Rock slide to hit flying types other than Togekiss.

I’d say that you don’t need another wall if you have shackle, especially in 3v3, so a dedicated Dynamax Pokemon is probably better. Excadrill is a good max candidate, but if you want another, Cinderace is a no-brainer, as it’s the best Pokémon in BSS right now.

Finally, looking at the elements you already have, I’d drop the sp. attack EVs on shuckle (it won’t be doing much damage anyway) and give it toxic over encore to increase chip while they’re trapped in with infestation. For Dragapult, modest should be fine since you have sticky webs. Also, Draco Meteor is usually stronger. For Togekiss, you might not need scarf because of webs, but it’s up to you.

This is a PokePaste of my suggested Team. Hope I helped!

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is air cutter on togekiss in the pokepaste intentional
Oops, I misclicked. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your advice. I have two additional questions: since both infestation and toxic are egg moves for shuckle, can one shuckle learn both of them? If so, how? And secondly, if I wanted a no-legendary/mythical team, would Life orb Mimkyu be a viable replacement for Life Orb Water Urshifu? If it isn’t, what would be?
Happy to help! You can breed a shuckle with infestation by putting a female shuckle and a male dewpid/araquanid that knows infestation into the nursery. Their “child” will be a shuckle that knows infestation. Breed until you get a female one, and put THAT one in the nursery with a male skorupi/drapion that knows toxic, and it’s offspring will know both infestation and toxic. You can use Rapid Strike Urshifu in Battle Stadium, but if you didn’t want to I’d say dracovish would probably be better as it would also OHKO cinderace. You already have a ghost type and a fairy type.
Guts Obstagoon is also a good Sticky Web abuser.