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Trying to Prepare for competitive. Rate my team please :)

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All Level 100 and Ev'd out.
Blaziken
Samurott
Metagross
Elektross
Hydreigon
Archeops

I'll post attacks for each later. Still sorting that out for counters and such. Any suggestions much appreciated, trying to build a solid team.
Also the blaziken does have speed boost and he was my favorite starter from all gens.
 
Hi!

Have you researched the competitive battling metagame? It's very important to understand, and you should build your team around that. Unfortunately, Blaziken is banned from standard (Overused or just OU) battles. Furthermore, Samurott, Archeops, and Elektross typically are considered very weak pokemon in the standard metagame. Not to say you shouldn't use them, but for someone just breaking in to the game, you might want to try something more common just to get a feel for how teams work, what counters are especially problematic, etc. Also, when you post a RMT thread, there is very little help people can give unless you write out all attacks, EVs, abilities, held items, and then (this is the most important part) you write out a description of each which tells people what this pokemon does for your team, why you chose the attacks, EVs, etc. So, I highly recommend you view this page and click around some articles until you get a sense of what the metagame is like. Good luck!
 
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I recommend reading the articles here on team building and tiers before you start because your team implies a lack of understanding of them.

Yeah I've been out of Pokemon since 3rd gen just got back in and still learning all the new stuff. Thanks I'll go look into those.

Hi!

Have you researched the competitive battling metagame? It's very important to understand, and you should build your team around that. Unfortunately, Blaziken is banned from standard (Overused or just OU) battles. Furthermore, Samurott, Archeops, and Elektross typically are considered very weak pokemon in the standard metagame. Not to say you shouldn't use them, but for someone just breaking in to the game, you might want to try something more common just to get a feel for how teams work, what counters are especially problematic, etc. Also, when you post a RMT thread, there is very little help people can give unless you write out all attacks, EVs, abilities, held items, and then (this is the most important part) you write out a description of each which tells people what this pokemon does for your team, why you chose the attacks, EVs, etc. So, I highly recommend you view this page and click around some articles until you get a sense of what the metagame is like. Good luck!

Thank you much. :) I'll do some diggin. Appreciate your guidance.
 
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@Wreckma ;
I've merged your two mosts together; in future, please try not to double post.
Also, I'm going to leave this thread open for now. Please edit your first post and give full details on your team, as it's competitive. In addition to the excellent resources other users have provided, I'm going to ask that you read this page and incorporate the information there into your posts.
Thank you!
 
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