Rate my Gen 8 STEEL Monotype team!

Question

So this team is mostly Ou with only one UU, Aegislash (its everywhere in my team lol). I would like to see if there good to handle any PS! battles or not so here they are:

Aegislash (M) @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Stance Change
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
IVs: 0 SpA
- Swords Dance
- Shadow Claw
- King's Shield
- Close Combat

How this works: So I used King's Shield at the first turn, then Swords Dance. Shadow Claw to deal Ghosts and Psychic and Close Combat to YEET Dark and Normal types.

Ferrothorn @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Knock Off
- Leech Seed
- Protect
- Thunder Wave

How this works: I stall with Ferrothorn like Toxapex. Thunder Wave to lower a speed of a Pokemon, Knock Off to remove items and Rocky Helmet since my Ferrothorn dont attack.

Magnezone @ Focus Sash
Ability: Analytic
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Rain Dance
- Thunder
- Flash Cannon
- Volt Switch

How this works: Sets up Rain Dance at first turn, allowing my team to get less damage to Fire, and of course for Thunder, Flash Cannon for nothing and Volt Switch to switch to a better advantage.

Excadrill @ Expert Belt
Ability: Sand Force
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Sandstorm
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Iron Head

How this works: So this sets up Sandstorm if my Magnezone died, the three attacks I have is boosted by both Expert Belt and Sand Force allowing to hit Excadrill real hard.

Heatran @ Air Balloon
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Magma Storm
- Flash Cannon
- Protect
- Earth Power

How this works: So if I ran to a fire type team, I switch to Heatran to take over all of the target's fire attack, and also a trapper.

Corviknight @ Leftovers
Ability: Mirror Armor
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Iron Head
- Body Press
- Bulk Up
- Roost

How this works: I spam Bulk Up until I get to 4x (if I can) then Body Press to hit the advatgaes of Fighting really hard, Iron Head for nothing and Roost for more HP.

So if there's wrong with my strategies, please give me some good movesets, what items for my team and the Pokemon to switch with. Thank you! :D

Comments

I don’t think that heatran needs an air balloon because the steel covers that,but the rest is fine!

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Air Balloon is good so Heatran can switch into Ground moves at least once, and it isn't immediately destroyed by the 4x weakness. What exactly does Steel cover that makes the item a bad choice?

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This team needs a lot of improvement, I'm too lazy to answer this right now though.

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So my team is fine?

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I think it's not bad , but i also suck at pokemon
I think switch Magnezone for Magneton w/ Eviolite.

Answer 1

Hello!
I'm going to try to help you with your team :)
- First impression of the team:
Well, I see good things and good sets, but I see things like Rain Dance Magnezone, which, while I understand your strategy, will never work on high ladder.
I will also change it and share the Poképaste(s) at the end, so you don't have to read through all of this, but if you want, you can read these "tips":

• Aegislash
  Pretty good set overall,but you need to give him bulkier EVs.
  Go for max HP and Attack EVs, with an Adamant Nature.
  He is slow even with max Speed investment, so if you can get a Swords Dance + Weakness Policy, you can get insane kills and he can become a good win condition, even if he is your Fighting check.
  So just go for Max HP investment + Adamant Nature.
  Then you should also use Shadow Sneak for priority.
  I think you can remove King's Shield, because it's quite predictable, or maybe Shadow Claw.
  Shadow Claw is good for Psychic teams, and Psychic kinda loses against Steel anyway.
  For a Ghost Monotype, you can just spam Shadow Sneak at +2 (or 3) and win.

• Ferrothorn
  Pretty nice set overall, I'm not a fan of Protect but you can use it. I personally would use Gyro Ball over it, but it's good like that.
  Protect works better with Leftovers for passive healing, so you could maybe replace Protect or use Leftovers, otherwise you can keep it like that, it's good :)

• Magnezone
  Well as I said, sets like that won't consistently perform well on high ladder.
  I can understand you maybe think that's good or something, but I would instantly replace him.
  You can use him with Specs as a really good pivot, or with Air Balloon + Substitute + Iron Defense.
  I think the best option would be to use Celesteela instead.
  Magnezone gives you a 4x weakness to Ground, while Celesteela gives you an immunity and it's also good for Fighting-types.
  You can use the Autotomize set, but also an Assault Vest works well in Monotype, trust me, I saw some really strong players using it over there.

So I would just go for AV Celesteela or Autotomize Celesteela.
Remember that AV celesteela is insane against Fighting-, Water-, and Steel-types.

• Excadrill
  Kinda nice, but that Sandstorm gimmick probably won't work.
  As you know, you are really weak to Ground and Fire.
  You should use him with Rapid Spin and Focus Sash.
  He can really facilitate wins with that set, allowing him to go +1 Speed and destroy Fire and another Monotypes.
  I know it from my experience,so try it :)

• Heatran
  Pretty nice set, if you use him like a trapper you should actually be a little bit bulkier, but you also need to hit hard cause he is your only Fire-check.
  If you find a Fire team, don't waste time with trapping and just go for kills with Earth Power.

• Corviknight
  Another good set, but I would use Iron Defense instead of Bulk Up and U-turn instead, or Iron Head or even Defog.
  I like pivoting and he can do that very well. Iron Defense + max SpD investment can be really dangerous for foes.

I hope it helped and I suggest you try these improvements, and if you don't like them, just go back to your team.

Here the Poképaste.

Comments

Iron Defense Corviknight would usually run Iron Defense + Body Press + Roost + Defog I think...

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Yes,if u see in the pokepaste i putted defog,also for excadrill's sash.

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Yeah, but they usually don't run U-turn.

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That might be, but U-turn is the second most used move on corvi, u can check pikalytics, and it was an idea, cause he is good at pivotting + in mono pivotting is kinda helpful on a mon that has an immunity and covers a team-weakness.
It was an idea, but as u see, i also putted defog cause it's more used.
Iron head doesn't do that damage and might be helpful most likely for Matchups where u already won with steel, like psychic or Electric or fairy.

So the only move u can use is actually body press then u have to use iron defense.
U have no defogger, only drill with spin, but he has to be more a win condition.

So U-turn would be helpful for gaining momentum against fightning and Ground teams (for other mono's also, ofco) but defog is more helpful. I hope u understand better my opnion now (?)

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if i have a sand force exca who would run sandstorm

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Sorry, I don't think I understood your point.

"Another good set, but I would use Iron Defense instead of Bulk Up and U-turn instead, or Iron Head or even Defog."

I thought you said, run Iron Defense + U-turn + Defog + Roost. This is not a good set because with Iron Defense you always tend to run Body Press, and the other moves are too good to give up. A usual Corviknight set would run Body Press / Brave Bird + Iron Defense / Body Press / Brave Bird / U-Turn + Defog + Roost.

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Maybe brave bird + body press + iron defense + roost

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Hello,yes i saw now.
I made a mistake,it was like
Use iron defense instead of bulk up and use u-turn instead of iron head.
Or even defog (instead of iron head)
It was supposed to be
roost,iron defense,body press and u-turn/defog

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AtraX Madara so i tested my new team it so outclaseed can u please fix it? thank you :)

edit: nevermind i edited my team and they works well thanks for the sets though

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Hello!
Sorry but i don't reiceve the notification of gmail.
That team should work good on the ladder, i saw many teams like that in top 200/100.
Maybe try to use it a bit and to get experience.
U kinda are good for any MU that u find.
 
The hardest one is for sure Fire.
Against fire u have to do cheap damage as much as u can, and try to win excadrill after a rapid spin.
U can also use Heatran for Cinderace (Using Protect on his High Jump Kick)

Fightning gets destroyed by celesteela Air Slash.
Exca still helps a lot and corviknight as well.

-Psychic and Fairy are really easy to beat.
-Grass Rock and Ice are also really easy to best.
-Water got destroyed by Celesteela
-Dark shouldn't be a problem, and with urshifu's ban it will kinda suck now.
-Electric also get destroyed by excadrill and melmetal.
-For other Steel types, u can use celesteela with Flamethrower :)
-Bug has also nothing that can be strong Against u,the biggest thread is volcarona so be sure to keep heatran

I think i covered everything, i'm from my cellphone so i'm pretty lazy to write from here, but i hope it helps!

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Ok it might work but does jirachi do good cuz i created a copy of my new team

Answer 2

Firstly you need a priority move on aegislash, since its slow as hell preferably shadow sneak and since blade form aegislash is not good in the bulk department sacred sword is a better fit than close combat as its really damaged by the defense drops.
Now for ferothorn 1st I would get rid of protect knock off and t wave and replace them with s rocks spikes and gyro ball. S rocks and spikes gives it to fire types that would otherwise shred or well melt it and gyro ball allows it to take advantage of its slowness
Next up magnazone Well personally I wouldn't run it at all and use a more useful mon like melmetal,celestella etc however assuming you want to keep your mon remove the rain, I see how it benefits you team but a sandstorm or sunny day setter walls this pretty hard. Give it air balloon instead to remove the 4x weakness or lagging tail for analytic second remove thunder and use t bolt and give it tri attack for the status
Excadrill time I do like this set but expert belt is only boosting it when it's super effective
Heatran oh boy if you have magnazone get rid of it if both of them are on the team since 1/4 of your team gets destroyed by any good e quake user but on its own jesus christ that's an asset
Corviknight decent set no complaints

Sorry if badly formated on mobile so my typing skills just backfliped out the window

Comments

Close Combat is an excellent move on Aegislash, it really helps against threats like Tyranitar and Indeedee. Why suggest Tri Attack on Magnezone when you could just use Toxic?

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Yeah and btw why remove heatran its for getting rid of fire teams plus it has corviknight that immune to earthquake