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so I am new to competitive and I made a previous post of my gen 8 OU team and well that team sucks. Choice band sharp with swords dance, yeah dumb so I took some help and played some matches with this team on showdown and I want to know how this team is to you people. This team is tested, unlike my previous team. I did not change some pokemon, I just changed their Evs and Ivs and their movesets.

Garchomp @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Claw
- Stone Edge
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake

Bisharp @ Choice Band
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def
Adamant Nature
- Shadow Claw
- Iron Head
- Brick Break
- Knock Off

Magnezone @ Leftovers
Ability: Sturdy
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 Def / 4 SpA / 252 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Iron Defense
- Body Press
- Gyro Ball
- Teleport

Corviknight @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Iron Defense
- Body Press
- Defog
- Roost

Swampert @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Ice Punch
- Stealth Rock

Dragonite (M) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Multiscale
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Substitute
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Roost

sorry for my previous team, that team sucked and I had no clue what I was doing.

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Why Shadow Claw on Bisharp? Replace it with Sucker Punch. Brick Break is also bad, use Beat Up or Assurance.
Garchomp should probably be the sweeper set here, since Rocky Helmet is only for tankchomp and you already have Swampert for Stealth Rock. If you want the tank set switch out Swampert for something else.

Bisharp isn't the greatest on something that isn't a hazard stack or hyper offense, so I think your best bet here is to replace it. You could feasibly make it work but it would take a lot of replacements. If you want an offensive Dark type, try Weavile.

Magnezone is mostly fine, but you should have Thunderbolt instead of Gyro Ball and different EVs.

Corviknight should have U-turn and 88 special defense EVs for Tapu Lele.

Swampert isn't great, you should probably replace it with Landorus-T. Lando hits just as hard with Earthquake, can pivot, but has a much better ability.

Dragonite doesn't typically run Substitute, you're better off using Earthquake and Dual WIngbeat instead.

Updated team: https://pokepast.es/14d65799f7dba426 (it's hardly the best but I tried to change the team structure as little as possible for a better base to work off of. there are way too many set up sweepers)
I used substitute to set up with him, but yeah it's useless on him, replaced with dual wingbeat
i will  give bisharp sucker punch and assurance instead of brick break and shadow claw
the updated team here - https://pokepast.es/1a874324da371794

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This team is definitely an improvement over the previous one even though some of the choices are not the best. If you want to use a pokemon, you should take the time to look at its smogon analysis page. Since you are playing gen eight, just google '(Pokémon name) smogon ss' and click the first link that shows up. At any rate, I'll try to give this a go

Garchomp

This moveset is so gen six. You're better off running a moveset of Swords Dance, Earthquake, Fire Fang and Scale Shot with Yache Berry. What this set does is it ensures that the only ones who can wall you are Mandibuzz and Togekiss, who are basically non existent unless you're at > 1300 elo and that Rillaboom will be the only one that can revenge kill you. SpookyTerrain's idea of lum is not a bad one but the opportunities provided by yache is simply too good. Also, use a Jolly nature. There is nothing more depressing than seeing a Garchomp get outspeed by Urshifu

Corviknight

Ahh the best metal birb ever. Iron Defense/Body Press isn't a bad set but it's inferior to its standard spread because one of Corviknight's biggest perks is U-turn. In this meta, it's usually better to leave dealing with threats like Garchomp and Kartana to ones who are guaranteed to take them out. Instead, just give it a moveset of Defog, Roost, U-Turn and Body Press

Weavile <---- Bisharp

Atm, Bisharp sucks real bad. It's reliance on Sucker Punch as priority makes it far too easy to take advantage of. If you really want a dark type, just use Weavile. It's one of the best threats in the tier and more importantly, it works very well with yache Garchomp. One of the mons that Weavile is almost never gonna break through on its own is Buzzwole but with yache Chomp as a teammate, Garchomp can get rid of it for Weavile and in turn, Weavile can sweep in the event Garchomp is unable to

Toxapex <---- Swampert

Swampert isn't exactly a great mon in the tier right now. It faces stiff competition from Lando as a utility ground type and from Pex as a water type. Instead, use Pex in its place which is basically a glue mon. It can stuff a lot of offensive threats and has access to the ever irritating knock off

Landorus <---- Magnezone

On this team, getting rid of metal birbs and metal durian isn't an issue. Both of them straight up die to Garchomp so there is no reason to use Magnezone at all. Instead, use Landorus in its place since it can serve as a Tapu Koko check, Garchomp buffer and Heatran switchin all at once

Kyurem <---- Dragonite

Finally, your team still needs immediate power so why not use Kyurem. It's one of the biggest threats out there because STAB ice type is really nasty. Also, Dragonite sucks. It requires too much support to pull of and Garchomp is a far better option as a sweeper. I'll even make this Kyurem set much deadlier since it will still have a stab ice beam that threatens half the tier

Here is the paste. Do not tamper with the evs on Corv and Pex. Those are the standard ones that allows them to handle the metagame. Mix Pex allows it to handle Dragapult while the standard Corv allows it not to die to specs Lele's psychics, most of the time anyway. The team is vulnerable to specs Kyurem so your main goal should be to knock off its specs and leave it walled by Corviknight

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Just for future reference, please refrain from swearing in your answers.
I use smogon's website and I know about it, but thanks for the help

i will change up team:)
i actually won 4 games with this team, THANKS :)))
> This moveset is so gen six.

The ORAS moveset is actually very different from that. Helmet with Max Atk/Spe isn't recommended, and the moves are very different from the standard ORAS set.
I was referring to the moves and that Garchomp set has been around since forever. Only the item is odd but I'm not sure if that moveset is even used since tankchomp seems to be the best one afaik
Btw the paste has "on" at the end that you need to delete for the link to work.
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alright so after this discussion i have finally made my OU team

https://pokepast.es/f79b8bd3f3a27eb0

if there are any flaws you can tell me !

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