wow its been a while since i've posted here. i guess THATS a result from playing so much pokemon lab. . . anyways i know i may not have enough posts, but it has been stated that that can be overlooked for a good post. hopefully this will do.

so i have used this team on the pokemonexperte server of pokemon lab. its been doing well, winning more battles than losing. the main goal is to let gengar and starmie sweep the opposing team while everyone else beats what they cannot. anyways, here is my team

@ focus sash
snow cloak
Adamant, 252 att, 252 speed, 6 def

Stealth Rock
Ice Shard
Earthquake or Stone Edge
Endeavor

here we have my lead mamoswine. its a solid lead, consistantly setting up my stealth rocks and being able to take down many common leads as well. mamoswine can also come back in later on to threaten dragon types, heatrans, or act as death fodder.

This is a standard moveset, nothing really wrong here if you want to keep it as your lead. However I feel adamant tops jolly when it comes to the nature. Mamoswine isn't really slow, but compared to the other leads it will rarely outspeed the most common ones. Since the Endeavor/Ice Shard combo is meant to take the pokemon to 1 HP with the sash, it makes more sense to add more power to your STAB priority attack. While the ever powerful EQ gets STAB from your typing, stone edge effectively deals with Gyarados leads and will prevent them from setting up the DD on it where as EQ takes on common Heatran leads.


@ life orb
levitate
timid, 252 sp. att, 252 speed, 6 def

Shadow Ball
Focus Blast
Hidden Power Fire Explosion
Thunderbolt

gengar here is one of my main sweepers. the idea is to send either him or starmie in early during the match to start a sweep. their best counter will come in and be weakened/beaten. gengar gets good coverage and functions effectively to beat almost any pokemon that goes up against him

Again, really standard moves. However if you plan on taking this pokemon to the DS obtaining HP Fire with a good base power is easier said than done. With Gengar's speed, it would be more efficient to add Explosion to it as a farewell gift. With such power combined with the Life Orb you stand a good chance of taking out a Blissey with it.

@ Leftovers
natural cure
timid, 252 sp. att, 252 speed, 6 hp

Hydro Pump Surf
Thunderbolt
Ice Beam
Recover Rapid Spin

starmie, my other main sweeper. starmie is another fast, threatening pokemon in OU and with gengar, the two make life tough on teams without a sold check or counter. i've been considering using surf over hydro pump since starmie is aiding/aided in a sweep and because accuracy is vital. thoughts?

STAB Hydro Pump is always nice, but in my opinion the risk outweighs the reward as Starmie in reality is a very fragile pokemon. BoltBeam is a standard and a must, however I think starmie is the best OU spinner in the game. I have used starmie quite a bit over the years it has been popular, and I know first hand how frail it is. This being said, recover in my opinion is a weak move as you lose the same HP you gain every hit you take after you use it. Leftovers replaces the recover option as starmie still has impressive power with BoltBeam and STAB Surf. This set takes back its sweeping ability but gives more depth to your team being a spinner.

@ Life Orb
blaze
Hasty, 252 Atk, 192 speed, 66 Sp. A

Flamethrower Overheat/Fire Blast
Close Combat
U-Turn Stone Edge
Hidden Power Ice Grass Knot

infernape is a solid revenge killer that works well on my team. infernape can close combat all weaviles and ttars that eliminated my starmie or gengar. close combat also demolishes blissey and snorlax with ease. flamethrower is good at beating scizor, hp ice gets dragons, and u-turn is good for scouting.

Well as you can see I did some work on your infernape. Understandable that you would want it as a CS revenge killer, but since you already have 2 pokemon that are special sweepers it makes more sense to have a mixed physical. Having 2 frail pokemon with life orbs and a lead that is designed to go to one HP it's not an extremely safe idea to have 2 pokemon in the late game that will be held back by a choice item. Grass Knot covers the oh so common swampert switch with the others cover weaknesses to pokemon you mentioned. As overheat is your only special move, it works well with its power and STAB, if you don't like that Fire Blast is a must.

@ Leftovers
natural cure
Bold, 252 HP, 220 Def, 36 Spe

Leaf Storm Grass Knot
Earth Power Recover
Hidden Power Fire
Trick Thunderwave

celebi is my second revenge killer. she is able to also hit many threats. originally a shaymin, i switched because celebi got trick and air slash on shaymin wasnt good enough to make me keep shaymin

Anything with a CS can be a revenge killer, and there are many that are better than Celebi. This set is a standard defensive Celebi, with its typing it can safely switch in to most Physical sweepers that got setup on your team and take them down a notch. This set can even address your Gyarados problem as TW can slow it down and grass knot will deal a good chunk of damage to the heavy pokemon even if the move is of neutral typing. HP Fire deals with steel switch ins and Recover makes it last.

@ Choice Band
technician
adamant, 252 att, 252 speed, 6 hp

Brick Break Super Power
Bullet Punch
Bug Bite U-Turn
Swords Dance Pursuit

scizor helps hold the team together well. beating up both weavile and ttar with ease as well as threatening the opponent's team. scizor can easily find a way to get in a swords dance and try to wreck the other team as much as possible so starmie and gengar and sweep better.

Scizor is arguably the best revenge killer in the OU tier. With amazing resistances and the ability to switch in on nearly anything it is a real pain. Pursuit wrecks anything trying to get away from it, U-Turn to switch into something else, Bullet Punch takes STAB + Technician priority move to the next level, and since you will be switching out after you get your revenge KO super power is literally a super power move sure to OHKO anything weak to fighting and put a dent into anything not resistant.


overall, i think my team is solid but could always use some improvements. i find that spikes and toxic spikes are annoying for me. dragon dance gyarados is also difficult to deal with since neither celebi nor infernape carry any moves to defeat him with. after a DD, gyarados outspeeds starmie and gengar and can hurt my team a lot. i'm considering dropping celebi (maybe) and using someone who can help out against gyara and remove spikes, but i believe the former is more dangerous to my team. thanks for taking the time to reading and improve my team!

Jirachi @ Lum Berry
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 4 HP/ 252 Attack/ 252 Speed
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Fire Punch/Thunder Punch/Ice Punch
- Stealth Rock
- Iron Head
- Trick/U-Turn

This, obviously, is my lead. First turn is usually a T-Wave, unless the opposing lead is faster and can possibly OHKO (aka Infernape). Stealth Rock comes after the T-Wave, then use Iron Head to take advantage of Serene Grace. Magnezone is commonly used to counter T-Wave/Iron Head Jirachi, so Drain Punch is used as a second move to do damage to Zone (and also T-tar leads). Lum Berry helps against Machamp leads, as well as status leads like Roserade.

This has huge problems with Heatran and Infernape leads. Against Heatran, all I can do is set up SR and die, while against Ape it simply outspeeds and OHKO's. I've worked out a set to counter these, but gives me less of a chance to KO other leads quickly. An EV spread of 164 HP/194 Att/152 SpD would allow me to survive Ape's Fake Out (4.2% - 5%)/Overheat (80.1% - 94.8%) combo so I can T-Wave and SR, and it would also allow me to survive Heatran's Fire Blast (80.6% - 95.8%) and occasionally it's Overheat (94.2% - 111.5%).

If you would want to lead with a Jirachi I would have to suggest the standard Choice Scarf lead one. That way you are guaranteed to be faster than anything that leads against you, unless they have a higher base speed and have a Scarf. I would highly suggest Trick over U-Turn, as crippling something later in the match can greatly benefit you.

Shaymin @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Seed Flare
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]/Hidden Power [Fire]
- Rest/Leech Seed

Shaymin is my Team's main Special Sweeper. Seed Flare's 180 Base Power gives me a great STAb attack, and Earth Power helps against Steel and Fire types. Hidden Power Ice takes care of everything else bu Bronzong and Shedinja. The set is based off of the same idea subTran uses: which is that many pokemon will switch out when Shaymin is sent in, allowing me to set up a Substitute. Leftovers lets me regain some HP from the Subs I set up, letting me put up even more Subs.

Almost standard. Leech Seed works great on something that would normally wall Shaymin to death, Rest to get back health. The only other attacking move I could recommend is Hidden Power [Fire] for Pokemon like Scizor and Skarmory. You could switch out the Life Orb for some Lefties

Infernape (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Blaze
EVs: 4 HP/ 252 Attack/ 252 Speed
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Mach Punch
- Flare Blitz
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge/Thunderpunch

My Team's main attacking Pokemon. 196 speed with Jolly nature lets me outspeed most Ape variants. Life Orb gives my attacks extra Power, and Ape won't miss the HP since it's so Defensively weak. Fire Punch is used over Flare Blitz to prevent complete suicide when using my STAB attack. Close Combat is there for STAB as well, and Stone Edge helps against Gyarados, Dragonite, and the occasional Charizard. Mach Punch helps me finish off weakened faster sweepers, as well as helping to take out D-Dance T-tars and other pokemon who may have gotten Speed Boosts earlier in the battle.

On any physical sweeper always max out attack and speed. Flare Blitz is more powerful than Fire Punch any day. More power could always make the difference between a crucial KO or a loss. You could opt out Stone Edge for Thunderpunch.

Suicune @ Leftovers
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Substitute
- Surf
- Ice Beam/Hidden Power [Electric]

Suicune is my Team's main wall. After one Calm Mind, Suicune is easily one of the best Walls in the game, especially with a Sub up to protect from Crits. Surf is for STAB, while Ice Beam beats Grass types that can sometimes give Suicune problems. Suicune can beat a large amount of pokemon, even beating Blissey 1-on-1 99% of the time, since Blissey can't break its Subs with Seismic Toss.

Pretty much standard Calm Mind Cune.

Azelf @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 40 Attack/ 252 Special Attack/ 216 Speed
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Psychic
-Fire Blast/Flamethrower
-Explosion
-Hidden Power [Ground]/Grass Knot/U-Turn

My Team's Mixed Attacker. Psychic is for STAB, and T-bolt/Fire Punch can do neutral damage to everything except the Uber Lati's. Life Orb powers up its attacks, since it too is frail and won't survive much. When its HP becomes low, Explosion is always there to take its opponent down with it.

The only thing I can say is that I wouldn't run a Mix Azelf the way you are. I would rather use the standard Smogon set. Even though it would be mainly special, and the only physical attack would be Explosion.

Gallade (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Steadfast
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Drain Punch
- Bulk Up
- Shadow Sneak
- ThunderPunch

The custom set of my team, gotten from someone from a different website. Bulk Up raises Gallade's high attack, while also boosting its poor defense. Thunderpunch takes care of Gyarados, and Shadow Sneak gives it Priority that beats Azelf, Starmie, and Gengar. Drain Punch is used over Close Combat or Brick Break beacuase it can restore the combined lost damage from Life Orb and opponent attacks (the damage is restored before the Life Orb damage takes place). This set, after one Bulk Up, can easily take out up to 3 pokemon.

I see no real problem with your Gallade. Really the only thing I would do is drop some HP EVs for some more Speed EVs.

well i am new to this forum however i have been playing pokemon for a while i have platinum my team so far is

mew lvl 68 hold mind plate quiet hp 222 atk 143 def 153 spatk 224 spdef 152 speed 183 thunderbolt, psychic, ice beam, fly

I'm new to EV's, so I might not use them right.
I havn't created this team yet, thats why im posting it here for help.
This is for Double Battling (Me and my friends always double battle)


Machamp @ Leftovers
Trait: No Guard
EVs: 252 Atk / 110 Def / 110 Sp.Def / 38 HP
Adamant Nature
- DynamicPunch
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Bullet Punch/Payback
No Guard allows these 90, 85, and 50 hit chance moves go up to 100.
DynamicPunch is main attack (i'll use some PP ups),
with Stone Edge and EQ as backup against anything Fighting is weak against.
Scary Face is just in case i want to slow pokes down.

Scary Face is just a useless move in any kind of battle. Replace it with Either Bullet Punch for priority or Payback for some extra coverage. Remove the Speed EVs for HP Evs to give it some more bulk, as well ass using Leftovers as the item.

Claydol @ Light Clay/ Lum Berry
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 80 Def / 176 SpD
Nature: Careful
-Reflect
-Light Screen
-Stealth Rock
-Rapid Spin/Explosion
Skill Swap Levitate to Machamp, so that it gains No Guard.
Rapid Spin if there are spikes.
The Sash is for getting in one more skill swap
Skill Swap also works on Most other of my pokes, giving them Levitate.
Hmm... I notice a weakness to ground on my team.

Do the changes on Claydol to give it bulk and let it play a support role for your team by putting up screens. Stealth Rocks is always good and should be on every team. Explosion there to go out with a bang, should switch into Metagross before you use it.

Rapidash @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Attack/ 4 HP
Jolly/Adamant Nature
-Flare Blitz
-Megahorn
-Double Edge
-Bounce/Iron Tail
Switch out Machamp for Rapidash.
Then Claydol uses Skill Swap again.
Rapidash uses Horn Drill till it dies.

I know you said you use this against a friend but OHKO moves are always annoying. Run this Choice Scarf set. It lets Dash get half decent coverage.

Metagross @ Life Orb
Trait: Clear Body
EVs: 80 HP / 124 Atk / 252 SpA / 52 Spe
Rash Nature- Meteor Mash
-Psychic
-Bullet Punch
-Grass Knot
Metagross is my favorite pokemon.
Meteor Mash and EQ for smashing.
Magnet Rise because my team is weak on ground types
Could change Hammer Arm

For something interesting run a mixed Metagross set. It gives you something interesting and powerful.

Arbok @ Choice Band
Trait: Shed Skin
EVs: 6 HP/ 252 Attack/ 252 Speed
Adamant Nature
-Poison Jab
-Seed Bomb
-Aqua Tail/Earthquake
-Crunch
Sweeper
Gunk Shot STAB, the rest to tackle any other types.

Run a standard Banded snake, works well enough.

Yanmega @ Timid Nature
Trait: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 SpAtk / 252 Speed/ 4 HP
Modest Nature
- Bug Buzz
- Air Slash
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball/Ancient Power
Sweeper, Toxic is for status messing.
BugBuzz and AirSlash is STAB
Psychic for diveristy

Yanmega looks good for the most part, I would remove Toxic as Yanmega doesn't have the bulk for Toxic Stalling. You could tack on Shadow Ball, or use Ancient Power for the off chance of all the stats getting boosted.

EDIT:
One more thing, is anyone going to post new movesets in the Psydex?
They end at the third series and only include 3rd series moves.
Maybe someone can create some fifth series movesets at least for the older pokes?
Just a shout out if anyone was time and skill to do that. (I'm lacking both)

also i would suggest switcheroo on arbok. a nice little surprise

If you've been playing for so long, why would you give a bad move like fly? It doesn't make any sense.

either LOOK IT UP or its the same as trick XD