TeamVolcan
Team Building Process
I've made quite a few Generation V teams, however I've never gotten around to making one including Volcarona (formerly Urugamosu). I guess I've always seemed to brush him aside as his 4x Stealth Rock weakness is a real turn-off. But after battling against some of these some more, I found out how threatening this thing can be if you don't have a proper counter to it. That's when I decided that I have to base a team off this menace.
Now I need to get another pokemon in that can either spin away rocks, or prevent them in some way. For now, I'm going with the simple mechanic of preventing them through the uses of the lovely new ability Magic Bounce. Now this ability is only available to two pokemon currently: Espeon and Xatu. I figured I'd go with Espeon to minimize Stealth Rock weakness in the event that it appears.

Time to decide on a good offensive combo for Volcarona. SDGarchomp seems like a good fit, as he complements Volcarona's coverage and resistances quite well.


Now to start thinking about threats now that I have the base to my team. Terrakion is sort of handled by Garchomp...if he was scarfed. But sadly he is not. Therefore I need to find something to handle him as he's certainly the most threatening pokemon to a Volcarona sweep. I decided on Azumarill as it has access to Aqua Jet, a rather useful priority move for taking down Terrakion after a Rock Polish. It can also take care of Mamo, by chance he tries to come in and revenge with Ice Shard.



Gyarados and bulky waters basically wall my entire current team, especially Burungeru. Therefore, I have opted to take a gander at Thundurus, who not only provides a check to those pokemon, but also has access to a priority taunt which can assist in the prevention of Stealth Rocks. In theory, he seems like the perfect pokemon to finish off my team.




I then experimented with many many leads, ranging from Machamp to Zoroark (actually, those were the only two leads I tried before realized Burungeru really, really hurt me). So I decided to take a look at me and realized that Azumarill wasn't really doing his job. I decided to replace him with the next best thing that could handle the same threats: Breloom. On top of that, I wanted a lead that would benefit the team and I decided to go with SpecsNinetales for some sun support (and now that I no longer have Azumarill, he won't suffer from the sun). The sun also helps by removing Volcarona's water weakness.





As per Dark Azelf's suggestions in the post below, this is the new team.





After attempting Vrai's suggestions in this thread, I have decided upon this team and it works quite well:





Ninetales@Leftovers
Timid Nature [+Spe; -Atk]
Ability: Drought
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Speed

Flamethrower

Toxic

Protect

Substitute

Volcarona@Life Orb
Timid Nature [+Spe; -Atk]
Ability: Flame Body
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Quiver Dance

Fire Blast

Bug Buzz

Hidden Power [Rock]

Starmie@Life Orb
Timid Nature [+Spe; -Atk]
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

Rapid Spin

Psyshock

Grass Knot

Hidden Power [Fire]

Sawsbuck@Life Orb
Adamant Nature [+Atk; -SpA]
Ability: Chlorophyll
EVs: 136 HP / 252 Atk / 116 Spe

Return

Horn Leech

Jump Kick

Swords Dance

Heatran@Air Balloon
Timid Nature [+Spe; -Atk]
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

Fire Blast

Earth Power

Hidden Power [Ice]

Stealth Rock

Thundurus@Leftovers
Timid Nature [+SpA; -Atk]
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

Nasty Plot

Focus Blast

Thunderbolt

Hidden Power [Ice]
I'll edit with proper descriptions when I'm bothered. I've basically told you why the pokemon is on the team in the team building process, so. Yeah. Anyway. Go ahead and rate. I may add a threat list later (which is probably me just kidding myself).