Is my OU team even viable?

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    I just got back into competitive battling, and haven't played for several months. I really don't remember much about team building, so I kind of threw something together.

    Azumarill

    Choice Band

    Huge Power

    Adamant

    252 Attack 252 HP 4 Sp. Def

    Aqua Jet
    Waterfall
    Play Rough
    Ice Punch

    Pretty typical azumarill, but I like to run Ice Punch, because nobody expects it. Aqua Jet for priority, Waterfall for STAB, Play Rough for STAB and defense against dragons.


    Conkeldurr

    Assualt Vest

    Iron Fist

    Adamant

    252 Attack 252 HP 4 Sp. Def

    Drain Punch
    Mach Punch
    Knock Off
    Fire Punch

    My healer-tank-damage-dealer, as they say in Payday 2. Drain Punch for STAB and self healing, Mach Punch for priority, Knock Off for coverage and ability to remove items, and Fire Punch for coverage.

    Dragonite

    Weakness Policy

    Multiscale

    Jolly

    252 Attack 252 Speed 4 HP

    Dragon Dance
    Dragon Claw
    Earthquake
    Extreme Speed

    I love this set so much. It's the typical Weakness Policy Dragonite, I don't need to explain why it's awesome.

    Pinsir

    Pinsirite

    Moxie

    Jolly

    128 HP 252 Attack 128 Speed

    Quick Attack
    Return
    Earthquake
    Swords Dance

    My mega and premiere sweeper. Quick attack for priority, Return for STAB and damage, Earthquake for coverage, swords dance to setup with.

    Garchomp

    Focus Sash

    Rough Skin

    Jolly

    252 Attack 252 Speed 4 HP

    Dragon Claw
    Stealth Rock
    Earthquake
    Swords Dance

    This is kind of a filler. I don't know what else to put here, so I just put in a garchomp because garchomp. Again, I'm bad at teambuilding.

    Skarmory

    Leftovers

    Sturdy

    Impish

    252 HP 128 Def 128 Sp. Def

    Spikes
    Whirlwind
    Defog
    Roost

    I don't really want this pokemon on my team, but I needed some kind of entry hazard and spinner/defogger. So I just put Skarmory here. Spikes for obvious reasons, whirlwind to stop people from setting up, defog for clearing hazards, roost for self healing.


    I know this team is probably bad, and I want to change a lot of things, but don't know where to start.
    Please help me with this, I will instantly swap out or completely start over anything.
     
    Archer99 said:
    Well, Your team is ok. I just found a couple of things

    - Run Knock Off or Superpower on Azu
    - Ice Punch is better for Conkeldurr, It allows you to hit Lando on a swich.
    - Dragonite is kinda bad. You can replace it with other poke. I let you some suggestions on the spoiler. You already have Garchomp as Dragon, So I'm going to put something to counter fairies, You have nothing against them.

    Spoiler:

    - Garchomp could work with scarf too, You don't have nothing to outspeed a boosted poke. Or for Revenge Kill.

    Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
    Ability : Rough Skin
    252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 SpA
    Nature : Naive
    - Outrage
    - Earthquake
    - Stone Edge
    - Fire Blast
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    Superpower is still useful on Azumarill if you really hate Ferrothorn that much. It runs 28 Speed EVs to outspeed Relaxed/Sassy Tyranitar. Also, it has no reason to use Ice Punch now that it gained the Fairy type to better handle Dragons; Waterfall still mauls Gliscor and Landorus:
    -Waterfall
    -Aqua Jet
    -Play Rough
    -Superpower/Knock Off
    Nature: Adamant
    EVs: 228 HP/252 Atk/28 Spe
    Item: Choice Band
    Ability: Huge Power

    You might as well as run max HP/max Defense on Skarmory; what purpose does your EV spread even serve?
     
    First off i don't get why you run defog+spikes skarm, isn't that counter productive? lol. conk is also your only answer to thundurus, so you might wanna remember that, this team lacks bird spam check so you are naturally very weak to talonflame and even opposing mega pinsir because for some weird reason you have not fully invested your pinsirs speed. mega slowbro/ manaphy even proper stall in general can easily take this team out, lastly your team falls to mega swampert+kindra or rain teams in general. mega diancie is becoming kind of popular and that can potentially remove like four of your mons clean out but since u have azu as a revenge killer i woudnt really bother myself with much of that.

    I think sand can benefit this team p well, ttar>chomp and exca>drgonite is a p good option. ttar also acts as a check to talon lol. while in sand exca can remove so many of your threats like mega zard x, mega diancie, mega pinsir. this team still cant deal very well with rain teams, and pinsir seems to be your main sweeper, and azumarill and conk take on important threats to the team, so its up to you what you want to change what you dont want to lose to. your still weak to rain teams, so i would look into that lol.

    so i have put the changes in the spoiler
    Spoiler:


    also if you want you could look into scarf ttar to check all types of birdspam but that's up to you.
    you might wanna think about your team from scratch again but hope i helped n_n

    EDIT: For future reference if you are going to change your team around please update the op, otherwise its kinda ass to figure out what u have and what u dont.
     
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    srinator said:
    First off i don't get why you run defog+spikes skarm, isn't that counter productive? lol. conk is also your only answer to thundurus, so you might wanna remember that, this team lacks bird spam check so you are naturally very weak to talonflame and even opposing mega pinsir because for some weird reason you have not fully invested your pinsirs speed. mega slowbro/ manaphy even proper stall in general can easily take this team out, lastly your team falls to mega swampert+kindra or rain teams in general. mega diancie is becoming kind of popular and that can potentially remove like four of your mons clean out but since u have azu as a revenge killer i woudnt really bother myself with much of that.

    I think sand can benefit this team p well, ttar>chomp and exca>drgonite is a p good option. ttar also acts as a check to talon lol. while in sand exca can remove so many of your threats like mega zard x, mega diancie, mega pinsir. this team still cant deal very well with rain teams, and pinsir seems to be your main sweeper, and azumarill and conk take on important threats to the team, so its up to you what you want to change what you dont want to lose to. your still weak to rain teams, so i would look into that lol.

    so i have put the changes in the spoiler
    Spoiler:


    also if you want you could look into scarf ttar to check all types of birdspam but that's up to you.
    you might wanna think about your team from scratch again but hope i helped n_n

    EDIT: For future reference if you are going to change your team around please update the op, otherwise its kinda ass to figure out what u have and what u dont.
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    Thank you for the help! I will try it out now.
     
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