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Haxorus @ Choice Band
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Superpower
- Iron Tail

Magnezone @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Magnet Pull
Hidden Power: Fighting
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Cannon
- Hidden Power
- Magnet Rise

Chandelure @ Choice Specs
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Fire Blast
- Shadow Ball
- Energy Ball
- Psychic

Mandibuzz (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Overcoat
EVs: 200 HP / 56 Def / 252 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Foul Play
- Toxic
- Protect
- Roost

Excadrill @ Focus Sash
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide

Emboar @ Assault Vest
Ability: Reckless
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Hammer Arm
- Flare Blitz
- Wild Charge
- Sucker Punch

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Overall I’d say this is a very cool offense team with some pretty unusual but good sets, I have a few suggestions but they’re pretty minor.

With the magnezone I much prefer hidden power fire to destroy ferrothorn (HPs 60 base power isn’t normally enough to quickly beat ferrothorn without losing an item/ getting seeded).

Chandelure could run trick instead of psychic to cripple specially bulky switch ins like chansey/ blissey.

I’m not completely sure what mandibuzz is really doing in this team as it is the only purely defensive mon which is preventing the team from becoming hyper offense without enough bulky switch ins to make it balance. The two ways to fix this would be to replace it with a more offensive fire types which I don’t really recommend, or instead replacing emboar with specially defensive clef which I believe would overall tie this team together really nicely. It would replace emboar as a special wall with more reliable recover to stay alive a lot longer, and at the same time complete the classic fairy, dragon, steel core. I would run magic guard with lefties (wish, teleport, moonblast, protect).

With a clef instead of emboar I think the team is starting to look rly nice and cohesive, with the only issue being the lack of something rly fast or with strong priority to revenge kill. For that you could easily just replace specs with scarf on chandelure.

Overall I think it’s a rly solid and well thought out team tho with some rly scary threats. The more versatile magnezone set and using haxorus over more standard dragon types I think is rly clever with this team.

You could also run a mega in one of the slots but I’m not sure how that would be achieved without somewhat losing the teams coherence so that’s not necessary.

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I did have hidden power fire at first but during a match I somehow failed to one-shot a Bisharp and was swept (my Emboar fainted before it came out).

Disregarding that, you're saying that the only changes I should make are replacing Emboar with Clefable.
Pretty much, I think it makes the team rly scary once you have one of the best fairy types to round it out