Need some help with my team...

I'm formatting my team to work around some troubles I've had in the testing I've done. So far the biggest threat I've seen is Heatran, and I'm currently working on that right now.

Tyranitar:
252 HP / 32 Atk / 224 SpD
Adamant
Chesto Berry
Sand Stream
Payback
Stealth Rock
Earth Quake
Stone Edge

Breloom
48 HP / 252 Atk / 208 Spe
Adamant
Toxic Orb
Poison Heal
Focus Punch
Seed Bomb
Spore
Substitute

Gliscor
252 HP / 40 Atk / 216 Spe
Jolly
Leftovers
Hyper Cutter
Swords Dance
Earthquake
Roost
Stone Edge

Latias
128 HP / 128 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid
Leftovers
Levitate
Calm Mind
Dragon Pulse
Recover
Refresh

Starmie
136 HP / 156 Def / 216 Spe
Timid
Leftovers
Natural Cure
Rapid Spin
Recover
Surf
Thunderbolt

Skarmory
252 HP / 72 Def / 184 Spe
Impish
Leftovers
Sturdy
Roost
Spikes
Taunt
Toxic

In order to counter Heatran, I'm thinking of swapping Latias for:

Suicune
252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold
Leftovers
Pressure
Surf
Calm Mind
Roar
Hidden Power Electric

any thoughts? input?

You could make Latias offensive, give it a Life Orb + Surf and use 4 HP / 252 Sp Att / 252 Speed. This will take care or most Heatran very easily.

If you're going to run Suicune I'd suggest getting rid of TTar because Sand Stream really ruins Suicune's survivability if it lacks rest.

I'd personally run Ice Beam > HP Electric on Suicune. You lack a reliable Dragon counter otherwise.

Gliscor seems out of place. I'd change it to a defensive oriented version, or find a different pokemon. Gliscor is just way too easy to kill off because of its typing and has too low of a base speed to sweep effectively.

Toxic on Skarm? Run Whrilwind.

Pretty good team, though it doesn't seem to be supportive very much. The only real support I see is Gliscor and TTar but you're running Hyper Cutter instead of Sand Veil so it doesn't really matter.

Gliscor's original use was to shut down Lucario, which my original team had a big trouble with. Which it does fantastically, by the way...

It didn't seem like a good idea at first, but Gliscor has shown a lot of promise against other pokemon too, so it'll be hard to swap it for something else


Offensive Latias sounds good, I'll swap that out and see how it turns out. As for TTar, I'll need another lead to replace it. I had a Metagross on Platinum that was rather successful in its work, would it make a good replacement?

Metagross
Clear Body
Jolly
Choice Scarf
252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Speed
Trick
Meteor Mash
Pursuit
Stealth Rock

Pseudo-lead, its purpose was to shut down common set up leads such as Azelf and Bronzong by locking them in support moves, using Trick to toss my Scarf on them. Pursuit punished any Azelf trying to swap out after being locked, and Meteor Mash for a STAB move. Stealth Rock is in there for obvious reasons.

thoughts on replacing TTar as the lead?

Gliscor can shut down Lucario with a better set. Otherwise it is dominated pretty bad by almost anything that outspeeds. The only thing I can think of that that set can hit is Gyarados, but it loses to many more things (as well as is stall fodder for Skarm and the crew).

That Metagross set looks nice. I'd try it.

well the biggest purpose of Gliscor is to shut down that Lucario the rest of my team is weak to, so as long as it can do that and other things, it's good.

How does this set sound for it?

Gliscor
Jolly
252 HP / 40 Def / 216 Speed
Sand Veil
Leftovers
Earthquake
Taunt
Roost
U-Turn

a little bulkier, screws any Skarmory like my own with Taunt, stall breaker, and still outspeeds your average Lucario. the set calls for Sand Veil, but if I'm taking TTar out then I have no other pokemon to throw out Sandstorm, should I swap for Hyper Cutter or get another Sandstorm? Or should I keep Sand Veil, and swap another pokemon with another TTar set that better compliments this Gliscor:

Tyranitar
Adamant
160 HP / 252 Atk / 96 Speed
Sand Stream
Choice Band
Stone Edge
Crunch
Pursuit
Aqua Tail

If it was me, I'd run Toxic > U-Turn but it's your prerogative.

I'd still use Sand Veil. If you're using Suicune don't use TTar (especially because there are other things that can fulfill its lead spot just as well), but sometimes other teams will be using TTar. Occasionally you'll get some epic hax and can really annoy your opponent.

I'm not exactly sure if I'll be running Suicune yet, it depends on how much a difference Offensive Latias makes


alright so this is what I've got:

Metagross:
Clear Body
Jolly
Choice Scarf
252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Speed
Trick
Meteor Mash
Pursuit
Stealth Rock

Breloom:
48 HP / 252 Atk / 208 Spe
Adamant
Toxic Orb
Poison Heal
Focus Punch
Seed Bomb
Spore
Substitute

Starmie:
136 HP / 156 Def / 216 Spe
Timid
Leftovers
Natural Cure
Rapid Spin
Recover
Surf
Thunderbolt

Skarmory:
252 HP / 72 Def / 184 Spe
Impish
Leftovers
Sturdy
Roost
Spikes
Taunt
Whirlwind

Gliscor:
Jolly
252 HP / 40 Def / 216 Speed
Sand Veil
Leftovers
Earthquake
Taunt
Roost
Toxic

Latias:
Timid
Life Orb
4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Speed
Calm Mind
Dragon Pulse
Surf
Recover


if Latias doesn't work, she'll be replaced with:

Suicune
252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold
Leftovers
Pressure
Surf
Calm Mind
Roar
Ice Beam


TTar is probably thrown out if I do keep Latias, because of her Life Orb