Rate my OU Team

Hey. So, my current team is as follows:

Origin (Mamoswine) (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Thick Fat
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash
- Ice Shard
- Earthquake
- Superpower

2fast (Breloom) (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Mach Punch
- Bullet Seed
- Spore
- Low Sweep

tl;dr (Scizor) (M) @ Scizorite
Ability: Technician
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- U-turn
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
- Pursuit

NOT RU (Whimsicott) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Prankster
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 128 Def / 128 SpD / 252 Spe
Calm Nature
- Encore
- Taunt
- Substitute
- Leech Seed

Generic Bird (Talonflame) @ Leftovers
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Careful Nature
- Bulk Up
- Will-O-Wisp
- Brave Bird
- Roost

NOT UU (Tentacruel) (M) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Rain Dish
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 240 Def / 16 Spe
Calm Nature
- Scald
- Rain Dance
- Rapid Spin
- Toxic Spikes

I usually lead with either one of the grass types depending on what teams are like. If there is an obvious supporting Pokémon lead such as Forretress, Mew, or Ferrothorn, then I usually send out Whimsicott. I can also scout teams with Whimsicott with a Substitute and a switch if required. I've managed to make something out of it repeatedly, with usually successful Subseeds or scouts for potential game changers.

I also usually lead with Breloom when there are many attacking Pokémon or an obvious Water-Type lead. Greninja users generally fail to switch out to an OHKO Mach Punch and Rotom-W is usually too slow to match up against a Spore. However, there is the problem of facing off against Pokémon with negating abilities (Vital Spirit), items (Safety Goggles), and types (Grass).

Tentacruel has been lowered to UU, but I still find it a great choice to use against Psyshock users or SR/SW. Rain Dance allows Tentacruel to live a little bit more while I set up Toxic Spikes and boosts up Scald to the power of Hydro Pump with the chance to burn as well. However, I often find Tentacruel being useful against Venusaur as it can heal back a lot of damage from the most prevalent Giga Drain, can have the ability Liquid Ooze, Rapid Spin away Leech Seed, and burn it with Scald. It also efficiently mops up damage from potential Sludge Bombs.

However, Talonflame is meant to scare people out. Note how Talonflame has a conspicuous lack of Fire-Type moves; this usually allows me to switch into Pokémon such as Scizor and Bulk Up on the switch. If I take damage, I can just Roost off and Will-O-Wisp physical attackers. Of course, Talonflame is weak to Rock-Type Pokémon and SR.

Mamoswine usually scares off Dragon-Type Pokémon and surprises Rock-Type Pokémon (such as Tyranitar) with Superpower. It also successfully sponges Electric-Type moves such as T-Wave. However, that is essentially the extent of Mamoswine's role as it is easily taken out by Grass-Type moves and Water-Type moves, such as Venusaur's Giga Drain and Rotom-W's Hydro Pump.

My final Pokémon, Scizor, comes out as my main attacker, using priority to take out weakened Pokémon, picking off switchers with Pursuit, and switching out from Magnezone with U-Turn. It's pretty cool.

So, basically, that's my team and my strategy. If you would, I'd like you (whoever "you" may be) to rate my team and suggest some additions, switches, or replacements. One weakness that I have found in my team is the lack of healers, so I'd like a suggestion for a healer.

 

Thx, Spammernoob. I'll try it out. Also, here's a replay, if anyone wanted to see it.
(It's 100 turns long.)
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-181757111

 

I went and replaced Breloom with Thundurus (regular) and replaced Encore on Whimsicott in favor of the all powerful, almighty Stun Spore. Here are the results:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-182151990

 

Well... to start off, Thundurus does hit a lot of things and gives me a little bit more coverage than Breloom. The current set that I use for it now (Knock Off, Superpower, Tbolt, HP Ice) is generally okay and I have had a couple matches with it other than the one that I uploaded here. However, I found myself now at a conspicuous disadvantage to Rotom-W and Greninja. Sadly, I somewhat relied on Spore/Bullet Seed and Mach Punch to take care of those respective threats. I even looked it up and Greninja w/ Life Orb outspeeds and OHKOs Thundurus.

However, that's not to say that Thundurus is pretty amazing. It reliably does 2HKO-OHKO on T-Tar, is fast enough to Taunt many different Pokémon, and can even destroy Gliscor with about a 50% chance to OHKO. I really did prefer the more supportive Breloom with its ability to take down Greninja and Rotom-W, two huge threats to my team once Whimsicott is taken down, but Rock Tomb sounds like a good idea in replacing Low Kick and giving it Scarf rather than LO. I'll check it out and be back with another replay.

 

Welp, you mean Sash? And I've been running Scarf this entire time... but hey, it's not that bad of a choice. I outspeed a lot of Pokémon. Of course, it's not exactly a good choice either... I keep forgetting I have sash and I lock myself into Spore.

I'll try out that Thundurus set.

 

There we go, a match in which Breloom and Sash save my entire game. Have fun watching his remaining Pokémon get destroyed by Breloom.
I must say, I didn't expect Breloom to do much. That's why I haven't been playing with that team for a while.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-182533125

 

Because my old teams were just not cutting it, I developed a new one. Check it out, please.

Firebird (Talonflame) (F) @ Salac Berry
Ability: Gale Wings
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 120 HP / 252 Atk / 136 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Flare Blitz
- Brave Bird
- Natural Gift

Yes, you read that right. Natural Gift, a move that is rarely seen on Drifblim for that Unburden boost, is on Talonflame. But why, might you ask? Let me just say one thing: It's a physical base 100 power Fighting type move. Case closed. (The others are pretty much standard by now.)

Voltegeist (Rotom-Wash) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 212 SpD / 44 Spe
Calm Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split

Special tank Rotom-W is here, and he (she? it?) is ready to wreck other Pokémon. Pain Split and Leftovers for recovery, all those EVs and its nature for tanking, and those speed EVs to outspeed max speed EVs Jolly Azumarill and burn it successfully. Plus, it can pull off Volt Switch to mess with anyone who uses Prankster. (Have I mentioned yet that Toxic Heal Breloom is actually pretty amazing against Sableye? See below.)

Flying Earth Man (Landorus-Therian) @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 240 Def / 8 SpD / 8 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Knock Off

Now let me ask you a question. When I say the word "bulky support", does Landorus-T come to mind? If not, good. That was not what I was aiming for DESPITE those EVs. Thought I really do consider it as more of a support now due to its ability and three (technically) support moves, it still does a lot of work and it really just demolishes. Of course, it's a bit of a situational Pokémon as it isn't as reliable as the previously used Thundurus. However, that SR and Knock Off are revolutionizing my game.

Newtype (Latias) (F) @ Light Clay
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Defog
- Recover
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Reflect

Latias has a weird role in my team. Though originally intended to be a Defog / Dual Screens support, I quickly realized that most of my Pokémon were specially defensive anyway and that I needed a reliable recovery move and a move that took down Skarmory. Thus, this weird and unorthodox moveset was created through necessity and combinations. As stated before, Latias has Reflect to lessen the pain of physical moves such as Superpower, Bullet Punch, and my personal bane of Psychic types, Pursuit. I'll admit, Scizor has destroyed many a Lati twin on their switch with Pursuit. If you don't believe me, look it up: Pursuit on the switch has immense power and when used by Mega Scizor, it'll OHKO most of the time. Let's be serious here though, even without a switch, it'll do a lot of damage. Reflect and Recover cover for that, and HP Fire hits back hard against Steel types like Scizor, Skarmory, and Excadrill. Defog is the obvious last choice for the unfortunate lack of a Rapid Spinner on my team. However, because only a few other Pokémon have recovery moves and/or items, I'm considering switching out Recover for Wish or even Healing Wish as a little farewell flip off to the opponent.

Zeta (Breloom) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Leech Seed
- Drain Punch
- Protect
- Spore


Hey, it's a status absorber! With a good Reflect boost from Latias, Breloom can usually switch in and get the Toxic Heal activated. Then, it begins to wreak chaos. Leech Seed, Toxic Heal, and Drain Punch give back nearly 50% of Breloom's health every turn depending on the Pokémon and Breloom can also Spore off threats and Protect for scouting and a little Leech Seed damage. However, Breloom isn't pulling its weight very well in the various matches that I've had, so I'm considering switching to a Drain Punch / Stone Edge / Spore / Substitute moveset with a larger focus on sweeping but still being able to recover its health. Plus, if I switch out Protect and/or Spore for attacking moves such as Bullet Seed or Stone Edge, Sableye is not going to be surviving this.

NT-D (Scizor) @ Scizorite
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Bullet Punch
- Pursuit
- Swords Dance
- Protect

Do I even need to say it? Clearly, it's different from my previous Scizor set. This one is all about da power. But hey, it still really sucks. It literally only has usage for priority and trapping Pokémon in and/or attempting a sweep with Swords Dance. I am most definitely changing this one. It doesn't even have a Bug type STAB, and that is really bad. What was I thinking?

 

Thx guys, I'll be sure to test every variant. In the time that I do, check out this replay:
replay.pokemonshowdown.com/lakevalor-ou-417