Hey, I'm new to VGC and I made a team. I did some research on the format and I watched a few videos talking about why certain moves are used, why EV spreads are done in a certain way, and what items to put on what. After constructing my team and playing with it I noticed that sometimes my team just falls apart when I send out some pokemon out together and I wonder if there are other options I can use under my nose due to my lack of experience.
Pokepaste link to the team: https://pokepast.es/5f675ed9bbfadb3f
When I first made my team I plugged in a Togekiss, Dragapult, and Excadrill core because I heard that these pokemon paired well and covered each other's weaknesses. Togekiss is a bulky pokemon with follow me drawing in attacks from other pokemon, Dragapult has an offensive choice specs set often 2 hit KOing opposing pokemon, then there's Excadrill with 3 coverage moves and a focus sash because it's a frail pokemon and faints to supereffective hits.
Then there are the supporting pokemon that I chose Scrafty, G-Weezing, and Milotic. Scrafty was chosen because I wanted an Intimidate ability like Incineroar with dark type coverage but I wanted fighting STAB like Conkeldurr. So I put an AV on Scrafty to give it some bulk and moves that I thought were useful and Thunder Punch for coverage because I didn't have an Electric-type attack. G-Weezing I picked because I remembered it in a trailer when GameFreak was hyping up the game. It shuts down certain strategies like Justified+Beat Up or Chlorophyll in sun. It disrupts the opponent's play or techs they try to pull off and I clutched a few games because of it. Milotic I put on there because in a type calculator it said I need a Water-type for both offense and defense. When looking at the Water-typed pokemon I thought that Milotic will be able to set up Coil+Hypnosis easier when paired with Togekiss's Follow Me.
The reason why I feel my team is off: Whenever I pair Togekiss+G-Weezing I'm at an immediate disadvantage against common pokemon like Rhyperior and Excadrill for example because Togekiss is weak to Rock and Steel and G-Weezing is weak to Steel and Ground which they both at least have two of these types in their coverage. In the few scenarios where I feel both Milotic and G-Weezing at the same time, I can't pick them because Milotic even though it's very bulky in nature it becomes very vulnerable setting up without Follow Me and Max-Airstream for speedy Hypnosis if I think it's needed. So I never pair Milotic+G-Weezing together and Togekiss+G-Weezing together. Maybe I need to take G-Weezing out for something else or replace Milotic for a different Water-type or maybe use a different move set; I don't know what to do. BTW I'm also thinking of removing U-turn on Dragapult for Thunderbolt or something how does that sound? I am also thinking of running CC instead of Drain Punch on Scrafty for more power.
Pokepaste link to the team: https://pokepast.es/5f675ed9bbfadb3f
When I first made my team I plugged in a Togekiss, Dragapult, and Excadrill core because I heard that these pokemon paired well and covered each other's weaknesses. Togekiss is a bulky pokemon with follow me drawing in attacks from other pokemon, Dragapult has an offensive choice specs set often 2 hit KOing opposing pokemon, then there's Excadrill with 3 coverage moves and a focus sash because it's a frail pokemon and faints to supereffective hits.
Then there are the supporting pokemon that I chose Scrafty, G-Weezing, and Milotic. Scrafty was chosen because I wanted an Intimidate ability like Incineroar with dark type coverage but I wanted fighting STAB like Conkeldurr. So I put an AV on Scrafty to give it some bulk and moves that I thought were useful and Thunder Punch for coverage because I didn't have an Electric-type attack. G-Weezing I picked because I remembered it in a trailer when GameFreak was hyping up the game. It shuts down certain strategies like Justified+Beat Up or Chlorophyll in sun. It disrupts the opponent's play or techs they try to pull off and I clutched a few games because of it. Milotic I put on there because in a type calculator it said I need a Water-type for both offense and defense. When looking at the Water-typed pokemon I thought that Milotic will be able to set up Coil+Hypnosis easier when paired with Togekiss's Follow Me.
The reason why I feel my team is off: Whenever I pair Togekiss+G-Weezing I'm at an immediate disadvantage against common pokemon like Rhyperior and Excadrill for example because Togekiss is weak to Rock and Steel and G-Weezing is weak to Steel and Ground which they both at least have two of these types in their coverage. In the few scenarios where I feel both Milotic and G-Weezing at the same time, I can't pick them because Milotic even though it's very bulky in nature it becomes very vulnerable setting up without Follow Me and Max-Airstream for speedy Hypnosis if I think it's needed. So I never pair Milotic+G-Weezing together and Togekiss+G-Weezing together. Maybe I need to take G-Weezing out for something else or replace Milotic for a different Water-type or maybe use a different move set; I don't know what to do. BTW I'm also thinking of removing U-turn on Dragapult for Thunderbolt or something how does that sound? I am also thinking of running CC instead of Drain Punch on Scrafty for more power.
