(OU) Offensive team gyarivire combo

[misnos]

This team is based around the electivire/gyarados combo, but the point of this is is not to just have electivire get motor drive or to have gyarados dragon dance. I was looking to have those two options but still have a nice team surrounding them, but that was not just there to attract electric moves for electivire or water pokemon for gyarados. I feel machamp is a little out of place, and am lacking another special attacker. I am not positive what to do, although I really like this concept. Thanks for your help in advance.

Electivire-@ life orb adamant
252atk/252spe/4hp
Thunder punch
Ice punch
Earthquake
Cross chop

Electivire may not be the strongest choice as an attacker, but the move pool allows me to hit super effective most of the time, and with a motor drive boost coming off of a thunder wave or an electric attack aimed at gyarados he can be pretty effective. Cross chop also is useful as it nearly OHKOs blissey which is en easily finished off..

Gengar @ life or-- timid
252spe/252spa/4def
Thunderbolt
Shadow ball
Hp fire
Focus blast

This set is similar to the electivire as it gives great type coverage. Gengar is used to protect blissey, as well as play the roll of spin blocker. Hp fire is there for steels, scizor and metagross in particular. Gengar is the only special attacker on the team and is therefore very useful, but losing it can cause problems if it is KOd early on.

Blissey @ leftovers--bold
252hp/252def/4spd
Aromatherapy
Seismic toss
Thunder wave
Soft boiled

Blissey is used mostly to take ice beams directed toward gliscor and thunderbolts to gyarados when electivire is down. Blissey also is used for aromatherapy because burns can be deadly to this team with 4 physical based attackers ( including gliscor). Thunder-wave is nice to hand out to help electivire and machamp, because their speeds are lacking.

Machamp @ lum berry--adamant
240hp/252atk/4spe
Bullet punch
Dynamic punch
Stone edge
Payback

Machamp is my main counter to blissey, it also can OHKO gyarados. Payback allows machamp to take out ghost types that frequently come in to take dynamic punch. Bullet punch is nice to have around to clean up anything that is in range, and is nice to have due to mach amps low speed. This ev set is fairly common, it allows machamp to outspend others with 0 eves in speed.

Gliscor @ leftovers-- jolly
252hp/252spd/4def
Taunt
Earthquake
Stealth rocks
Roost

Gliscor is the lead. Gliscors speed is nice other than against azelf. Taunt will stop others from setting up entry hazards, and allows me to set up stealth rocks with ease. Earthquake is there for a stab attack once gliscor has filled it's role. Later in the game gliscor is used to to lure out ice users which gyarados can normally come in to setup on.

Gyarados @ life orb-- adamant
252atk/252spe/4def
Waterfall
Dragon dance
Stone edge
Earthquake

Gyarados is great for drawing in electric type attacks for motor drive, it also plays well with machamp due to machamps resistance to stone edge. After a DD, gyarados typically can do great damage to the opponents team. While this gyarados is fairly standard, I think this one fits best with my team.

 

[aVocado]

Organize your RMT, put Gliscor in the top so we know it's your lead.

Anyway, this team is straight swept by Dragon Dance Tyranitar and basically any Dragon Dancer with Taunt or a Lum Berry, they can set-up on Blissey and then proceed to sweep your team.

For that, i suggest using Specs Jolteon over your Electivire.

Jolteon @ Choice Specs
252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD
Timed
- Thunderbolt
- HP Grass
- Shadow Ball
- Baton Pass

You also need Stone Edge on your Gliscor or else you'll be walled by any Levitater or Aerodactyl leads, but it's up to you on which move to give up. You can replace Earthquake with Stone Edge but then you'll be STAB-less, as Gliscor needs both.

You can also edit your Machamp's EVs, an EV spread of 74 HP / 252 Atk / 184 Spe with an Adamant nature will outspeed 16 Spe Skarmory and hit it with a heavy DynamicPunch. And an EV spread of 128 HP / 252 Atk / 128 Spe will outspeed 0 Spe Skarmory.

You also need a reliable Revenge-killer to revenge-kill DD Dragonite and Gyarados, Jirachi or Flygon can work.

Flygon @ Choice Scarf
252 Atk / 4 HP / 252 Spe
Jolly
- U-Turn
- Dragon Claw / Outrage
- ThunderPunch
- Earthquake / Stone Edge



or
Jirachi @ Choice Scarf
252 Atk / 4 HP / 252 Spe
Jolly
- Iron Head
- ThnderPunch
- Ice Punch
- U-Turn / Fire Punch / Trick

 

[Venser]

Main things of note:
1. Leadachamp in a non-lead position.
2. Electivire in general doesn't pack very much power. When you consider that his most powerful STAB is base power 75, and his other coverage moves are all either weak or inaccurate (Save Earthquake, of course), a replacement is sometimes useful.
3. Only one special attacker, which means that Stall causes you problems.

Suggestions:
1. Change Electivire to a Charge Beam/Life Orb Jolteon. Volt Absorb allows you to heal up any damage you take from switching in. The set I recommend is:

Jolteon @ Life Orb -- Timid
252 Special attack/252 Speed/4 HP
Thunderbolt
Hidden Power (Grass)
Shadow Ball
Charge Beam

This gives you a special set-up sweeper, which decreases your dependency on Gengar and tears just as many holes in OU. However, now that you have two special attackers, Blissey starts to cause problems for you. To deal with this, I recommend changing Gengar to the offensive sub-split version listed on the analysis.

@ Life Orb--Timid
252 Special Attack/252 Speed/4 Defense
Substitute
Pain Split
Shadow Ball
Focus Blast

Shadow Ball and Focus Blast garner the impressive perfect neutral coverage necessary on special attackers. LO+Sub makes prediction easier, and whatever you lose you can just heal back with Pain Split while damaging them at the same time. This is guaranteed to beat Blisseys one-on-one.

The next issue is that you are using a Lead Machamp outside of the Lead position. Try moving your machamp to the lead position (don't change anything), maybe add 4 or 8 Speed EVs, taken out of attack, but that's up to you. Now that you have a lead Gliscor outside of the lead spot. My recommendation is to change the Gliscor to the Anti-stall, which is

Gliscor @ leftovers-- jolly
252hp/252spd/4def
Taunt
Earthquake
Toxic
Roost

This allows you to cause stall problems, as well as helping with things like DDtar and DDdos, which can do a lot of damage to you after 1 Dragon Dance.

So, in short:
Change Electivire to a Charge Beam/Life Orb Jolteon
Change Gengar to a Subsplit Gengar
Move Machamp to the Lead position (no changes)
Make Gliscor a Britscor (Stallbreaker).

 

[aVocado]

Just because Machamp isn't the lead doesn't make it bad at all, so Machamp not being a lead isn't a "main thing to note."

And his team will lack SR if he removes it from Gliscor.

 

[Venser]

Teams don't need SR, but it can help. Good point, I missed that though. The point with the lead machamp being outside of the lead spot means that you have a basically-useless move in the form of Bullet Punch, which isn't very good outside of picking off focus sashes, which is why subachamp is for non-lead machamps.

Actually, now that burns are not completely devastating to the team, maybe consider dropping Aromatherapy for Stealth Rock on Blissey.