is this supposed to be ou? blaziken is banned.
I play on my 3DS where Smogon rules do not exist.
heatran and slowbro are not offensive pokemon most of the time. if you can't take hits from them, then your team is probably a frail offense team.
True, my team is usually composed of hard hitting sweepers. However, I do have some highly defensive Pokemon who takes care of spamers such as Talonflame. Most of them do not do anything against Heatran. Only my Samurott has the defensive and offensive capabilities to handle Heatran. But still no good as nothing stops my opponent from switching to a Raikou with Assault vest.
in terms of heatran specifically, the best check is defensive starmie. natural cure allows it to remove lava plume burns or toxic poison upon switching out, it can rapid spin away heatran's stealth rocks, and it can attack it with scald for decent damage.
I don't have a starmie, so I'll think about training one.
It sounds like your strategy for getting past Heatran is team synergy (much like what your opponent's got goin on) and switch predictions. They were playing you like a violin and the mental game is very important. When you see a pattern start to develop on switches like this, it's often safe enough to bank on a prediction.
I tried this, but there's just too much going on in a battle for predictions. Most of the time, my opponent knows what Pokemon to switch to make me stuck and force a switch without truly knowing what moves my Pokemon has. Unless my opponent was 100% sure that I don't have knock-off, why risk switching in to a psychic type? Plus there were so many times I was 100% sure I had the advantage, but good ol' fashioned hidden power proves me wrong all the time. Not to mention the always lovely disadvantage of going into batle with 6 pokemon, but only allowed to carry 3. So besides predicting moves, I must also predict what Pokemon my opponent will use, and center my team against that team, just to walk in into a completely different team and not enough firepower to handle that team.
I wanna echo what Anti and skyburial have said. You seem to lack answers for stall and need to learn a bit about prediction. It's something I've noticed in your threads. Admittedly handling stall and being good at predicting is easier said than done, but even getting a little better at those things should help you a lot.
Yes, you are correct in your analysis that walls and stalls are not my favorite types of strategies. They drag on, they are annoying, never fun to deal with, and most importantly something that I was never good with. I have gotten better at this, but I always hate that dealing with it has always been up to chance, not skill. A well placed crit or a miss can kill off your strategy, then you have no choice but to forfeit because the RNG god said "no". Oh god, how many times did Serperior's Leaf Storm miss against Milotic just to get a crit Ice Beam in the face. How can Hypnosis with an accuracy boosting item miss 3 times in a row several battles in a row?
Anyways, I'll try to apply these tips to my future battles. But I would like to get a few more tips if possible.