Bye Bye Linoone?

[Dumdadum]

Hii.. just thought I'd pop in and ask for help, whoo. Anywho, I got Sapphire and I've been playing it.. I've reached Victory Road where I'm currently starting to train (they're only lvl. 42, ack!) And.. well, I've decided to change some of my beginning pok?mon for more powerful and cooler ones. I'm training an Absol to replace my mightyena, and I'm pondering if I should say cheerio to Linoone too, he's picked up enough Full Restores to last me a lifetime (I tend not to use items cause I'm cool like that) And he's not that great, just the speed thing is appealing about him. And pickup, I guess.

So anywho, do you think I should rid of Linoone? My other pok?mon are like this:

Skarmony -- Lvl. 42 -- Steel/Flying
Gardevoir -- Lvl. 42 -- Psychic
Machoke -- Lvl. 42 -- Fighting
Swampert -- Lvl. 42 -- Water/Ground
Linoone -- Lvl. 42 -- Normal
Mightyena (Absol) Lvl. 42 -- Dark

Eep.. that lineup isn't so good (No worries, I don't usually Skarmony first.. that's asking for trouble) And I think I've got a reasonable variety of like.. uh.. elements in there.
So yah.. if I should change my Linoone, what to? (please say dragon) and what other pok?mon should I switch them to.. and such? (Machoke is awful really, I want to change him maybe.. but I've already taught him earthquake)

So.. yah.. I'd love a dragon pok?mon but I don't know any in Hoenn.

 

[Random Plushie]

If you want a dragon you could always get a Salamence. Just never use it against Glacia. ^_^
For some reason I'm dying to tell you to put a Camerupt in there. You know, to add fire to your element pool. But I don't give very good advice, so.. XD

 

[Insanity Mawile]

Drop Linoone for a fire type. Unf. most of them are slow. Magcargo, Camerupt are the only ones I can remember.

 

[Dumdadum]

A fire type? Oooh.. okay then, if you say fire type then I'll go for it.. I have a vulpix.. I don't know where to get a fire stone though, moop..

 

[Ice demon]

breelom > machamp.[Please tell me u can trade]
But since ur so far already then...might as well leave it as is.Take note tho for future games.
Drop mightyena and absol isn't that hot either....If u really want a dragon type go for salamence.Altaria is fairly inferior and u already have a ground type in swampert [good call by the way..make sure he has something like - icebeam,surf,earthquake,rest/some physical move/roar]
Skarmory can actually be played first without much problems.Just lay down spikes and start roaring.[problem being cradily tho]
Vulpix is a cool pokemon.Only problem being that its purely utility.Its special attack is sucky.So don't expect it to OHKO alot expect if u get it to a nice high level [actually everything i've said is useless cuz high levels are all that are required.But who doesn't like a nice team?]