Rate/Help my team??(mostly help)

My team seems to be an OU/NU mix. I don't know which way I should go, what should be kept, what should be replaced, etc. Rate and advise as you deem necessary. I already believe this team is terrible so.... I can't feel much worse about it.

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Dragonite@muscle band
Adamant
Inner focus
323/403/225/191/221/259
31/31/30/8/16/31
252Atk/252Spe/??
Outrage
Earthquake
Aqua Tail
Fire Punch


Lucario@Wise Glasses
Modest
Inner Focus
281/230/176/361/176/279
31/31/31/31/31/31
252SpA/252Spe/??
Aura Sphere
Dragon Pulse
Psychic
Flash Cannon


Dewgong@Leftovers
Calm
Hydration
370/147/180/151/316/170
17/19/15/6/30/25
252HP/252SpD/??
Ice Beam
Surf
Take Down (To be replaced with Rest)
Aqua Ring


Charizard@Focus Sash
Adamant
Blaze
296/293/190/223/194/299
30/31/29/25/19/31
252Atk/252Spe/??
Crunch
Dragon Claw
Rock Slide
Dragon Dance


Electivire@Expert Belt
Jolly
Motor Drive
292/345/152/176/194/317
31/31/13/1/19/31
252Atk/252Spe/??
Thunder Punch
Ice Punch
Cross Chop
Earthquake


Zengoose@Shell Bell
Jolly
Immunity
283/324/125/135/149/272
27/26/0/26/24/0
252Atk/252Spe/??
Close Combat
Crush Claw
Aerial Ace
Swords Dance

So... yeah... how can you help me adjust what could possible be one of the worst teams ever?

You have a team of sweepers, other than dewgong. And dewgong isn't to good. Keep maybe 2 or 3 sweepers and add in walls/ a lead, etc...

Other than Zangoose's Swords Dance, you have no setup moves, and no defensive moves at all. This team is essentially six sweepers put together, with seemingly no strategy to be found.

You seem to have no strategy in the way you battle/ build your team.
A strong fighting type... takes out Dewdong, Lucario and Zangoose. Then say you have a Swampert with an ice beam and rockslide/surf... Bye bye to Dragonite and Charizard. Finally your Electravire would struggle against the swamperts rockslide also.
Your Team has a lot of weakneses that can be worked across your whole team.

I suggest replacing your Zangoose with a good "Annoyer", a pokemon that will poison, paralyze in time of need e.g. a Blissey with Toxic. Blissy has high HP and can sustain in battle long if raised well.
You also need some good Walls in your team, i would say get rid of Lucario and make a good wall :)

Nice to see you using rarely seen pokemon though such as Dewdong and Zangoose :)

ACE9 said:

You have a team of sweepers, other than dewgong. And dewgong isn't to good. Keep maybe 2 or 3 sweepers and add in walls/ a lead, etc...

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Human said:

Other than Zangoose's Swords Dance, you have no setup moves, and no defensive moves at all. This team is essentially six sweepers put together, with seemingly no strategy to be found.

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Arcanine_Fan1 said:

You seem to have no strategy in the way you battle/ build your team.
A strong fighting type... takes out Dewdong, Lucario and Zangoose. Then say you have a Swampert with an ice beam and rockslide/surf... Bye bye to Dragonite and Charizard. Finally your Electravire would struggle against the swamperts rockslide also.
Your Team has a lot of weakneses that can be worked across your whole team.

I suggest replacing your Zangoose with a good "Annoyer", a pokemon that will poison, paralyze in time of need e.g. a Blissey with Toxic. Blissy has high HP and can sustain in battle long if raised well.
You also need some good Walls in your team, i would say get rid of Lucario and make a good wall :)

Nice to see you using rarely seen pokemon though such as Dewdong and Zangoose :)

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Nice harsh critiques, just as I expected... But at least Arcanine_fan1 gave me a good nudge on where to go with myself. I'm terrible at choosing pokemon, as you can see. So I need suggestions I can expand off of. Terrible, I know, but I'm SO not good at making decisions on my own. Especially since my only ways of testing normally are kids who don't know what hey're doing. So thanks for the help. So basically I should just go OU?

Kirozane said:

So basically I should just go OU?

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Building a mixed tier team isn't a problem. The problem is that you need to establish clear roles for the pokemon on your team, and have a general strategy in mind going into battle. Examples of strategies include building a Trick Room Team, building a team around a weather effect, building a team to stall the other team out, etc.

Human said:

Building a mixed tier team isn't a problem. The problem is that you need to establish clear roles for the pokemon on your team, and have a general strategy in mind going into battle. Examples of strategies include building a Trick Room Team, building a team around a weather effect, building a team to stall the other team out, etc.

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I see... So basically I need to find a working theme and build off of it in a way that would benefit myself, yes?

OU's biggest threats will walk all over your team such as Salamence and Gyarados(if it gets a dragon dance off)

I suggest getting a Vaporeon or a Jirachi to combat Salamence and Gyarados. Also we need to know what you want to fulfill: Hyper-Offense, Set up a Lucario sweep, stall them till they quit, etc.

You could run six sweepers, perfectly viable thing called Hyper Offense, but they need to synch together and take out each others (and their own) weaknesses.

i would reccomend just scrapping your entire team and starting over again. when you create your next team try to have strategy in mind and have a role for each of your pokemon instead of just having every pokemon act as a sweeper. also be aware that you're team will have to have a counter for threats like salamance and gyrados.

Thanks for the virtually unanimous decision to scrap this team. I've already done so, actually. Constructing a new one... :3