All dragon dancer but Tyranitar can outrun everything else (besides Deoxys E) in one dragon dance, so it's only natural. However, one thing is that ALL dragon dancer are physical, so a physical tank is by far your best choice against one. The thing is that your Skarmory got no hp so that's why it falls quickly. Also, Skarmbliss is now old and easily defeatable (I keep whining about it, but then I can certainly defeat one if I use a OU team... UU team I'm still working on it). The introduction of rock slide through FRLG is what leads the strategy to a major downfall. Salamence learning rock slide is by far Skarmory's greatest threat.
Crobat- standard
Breloom- now I can see what you're trying to get with substitute, but however, in practice where the opponent can switch away the spored Pokemon and sleep clause will mess up your strategy. Change substitute to mach punch so you got another quick attacker to destroy reversal/flail. Also, a little trick to use is just to focus punch 1st turn without spore if the opponent is slower than you. They will switch to something with anti-sleep, allowing you to focus punch the living daylights out of it. Finish it off with mach punch next turn ;p A rather good strategy to use for the meantime unless the opponent got Gengar.
Blissey- a great moveset certainly. I'm sure you know that you can always get seismic toss instead of ice beam if you want (ice beam is more anti-puncher, while seismic toss is just better in general.)
Skarmory- protect is just USELESS here. THough you can leftover abuse, you don't want to give your opponent a chance to rest up as well, or even worst, a chance to dance up or calm up. Use HP Physical for another attack instead, preferably HP Ground. Recommand you to actually take speed and atk instead for EV, with a speed boosting nature. Now before you question why for this weird setup, listen first.
Skarmory should be sufficient to handle Gyarados, as Gyarado's standard attack are only HP Flying and earthquake. However, Gyarados seeing Skarmory will know that you're trying to roar it, and it'll probably unleash a taunt asap. First turn for Skarmory should be just drill peck immediatley to break the taunt (and a small dent in Gyarado's HP, but it should be in green still due to intimidate messing you up.) Use roar on the 2nd turn instead, where it's not as likely to taunt you again. As for Salamence, you're just messed due to some fire blasting ones. Those with rock slide also do neutral damage to you, which will probably mean that you survive at the cost of losing like 70% of your hp at least.
Arcanine- lol I have no idea why Swamperts/Quaggys aren't expecting hp grass, as all fire/water types use hp grass. CERTAINLY take intimidate. It is the difference of surviving a rock slide with 40 hp left or not. As for item, salac seems fine. It's either salac or petaya anyway.
Starmie- choice band? It doesn't boost sp.atk as its just giving you a free howl. Change that to leftovers.
The problem with salamence is that Salamence alone destroys ALL of your Pokemon but Starmie. Here's the analysis.
Crobat cannot OHKO Salamence in one round due to intimidate (neglecting the choice band bonus), and therefore can dragon dance one round, activate liechi, then rock slide you.
Breloom- don't even need to explain... HP Flying OHKO.
Blissey- you can't OHKO Salamence with one ice beam, which results in the Crobat scenario then.
Skarmory- discussed it a bit already... rock slide doing neutral damage will hurt you a LOT
Arcanine- dead in one earthquake
So you see, Salamence can solo sweep your entire team (after one or 2 dragon dance, Starmie gets OHKOed as well.) A chance of team member is certainly necessary to get out of the mess. The movesets are already the best they can do already. It's the team setup that's the problem.
Crobat: can be replaced to Aerodactyl. Does the same thing, but you do have a STAB rock slide to start off if you meet up with Salamence before it begins dancing (after a dance, Aero goes down by rock slide as well). However, doing this will result in your team having Gengar vulnerability (as you lose shadow ball then)
Breloom: in terms of usefulness, I don't like it. Very stiff and predictable moveset... though it's useful against anything that's slower than Breloom. If it does meet up with someone that's slower than breloom, it's almost gurantee that someone dies.
Skarmbliss: if you're willing to sacrifice a small tanking power in order to shoot down Gyarados and Salamence, take Regice or Milotic instead. Regice can handle both dragon dancer with tbolt and ice beam, but in return you get some nasty poor typed junk. Milotic can handle Salamence with extreme ease as long as Salamence got no more than 2 dance, but gets messed by Gyarados unless you got toxic (and even with toxic, Gyarados can sweep for quite awhile before toxic ends it.) Skarmory can always shift to Weezing, which IMHO is superior over Skarmory due to subpunch invulnerability and will o wisp/haze (and tbolt to severely hurt Gyarados, allowing Arcanine to finish it off with extremespeed next round.) Torment is very underrated on Weezing, who puts Gyarados/Salamence to a near complete stop if used correctly (and if they didn't get too much dances)
Arcanine- it's just fine.
Starmie- fine
The main problem with dragon dancer is that it's automatically gg if anyone got 3 dragon dances. You'll have to know when is it time to force a sacrifice by doing as much damage as you possibly can, and then let Arcanine come out to extremespeed it off for good. The better choice will be never give it a chance to even dragon dance, of course, or paralyze/will o wisp it before it can do anything.
