Rate My Team, Been using it for awhile it usually wins

[vGX_ReVeRb]

Rate the below team... (the excess evs I forgot what stats they're in about lol so yeah)

Azelf@Life Orb

Hasty Evs 252 sp atk 252 spd

Flamethrower
Tbolt
Explosion
Psychic

Life Orb and max sp atk atk spd allow it to own gengars and OHKO skarms and scizors also, explosion for the blisses

Raikou@Leftovers

Modest Evs 252 sp atk 252 spd

Tbolt
hp ice
Calm Mind
Substitute

I HATE Suicunes so I got the counter...Raikou can switch into any Suicune...it also can OHKO gyrados's and mences, sub deals w/ status causers like dusknoir, I "Joe Biden'd" this moveset from some YT battler, probably mtgxerxes but I forget

Salamence@Lum Berry

Adamant Evs 252 atk 252 spd

Outrage
Dragon Dance
Flamethower
Earthquake

Send him out later on in a battle and the dragon dance outrage combo (friend w/ plat lol) can OHKO almost anything

Infernape@Life Orb

Hasty Evs 252 sp atk 252 spd

Flamethrower
Grass Knot
Thunder Punch
Close Combat

Beats Skarm/Bliss and will beat weavile and most swamperts

Swampert@Leftovers

Careful Evs 252 hp 252 sp def

Waterfall
Earthquake
Mirror Coat
Stealth Rock

Sp Def wall that can mirror coat those guys or, if they'll switch lay out rocks


Metagross@Life Orb

Impish Evs 252 atk 252 def
Bullet Punch
Thunder Punch
Meteor Mash
Earthquake

Defense wall. Bullet Punch will beat weavile, t punch for gyrados, Earthquake for a bunch of crap, meteor mash to be a stong atk

thx for taking the time guys...

[caleb723]

Hmmm. Alright, I'm not all that great at the whole RMT thing, but I'll give my personal opinions on it.

First off, I know you said something about the EVs, but it's hard to make a decision on any one of these Pokemon if their EVs aren't what you have them for. Still, I'll try. :-)

Azelf: Same as always. Good enough; because that's about all Azelf has. I like Azelf a lot, but my only problem with it is that it doesn't learn Ice Beam, so countering Dragons effectively gets somewhat annoying, because they tend to stick around even after a Psychic hit. If I used an Azelf, this would probably be its moveset.

Raikou: Props for using Raikou. Raikou doesn't get used that often, which is sad because I like it a lot. Anyway, about this one: I can't decide if I would use Petaya/Salac Berries, or the Lefties you have on. Though, I guess this is the only Pokemon you have who has anything outside of immeadiate sweeping priorities, so I guess Lefties is your best option.

'Mence: Personally, I don't get around the metagame all that much, so seeing a OUTRAEGOUS Mence is kinda nice. Is Mence solid enough to DDance on anything except a switch? I guess a majority of walls wouldn't be able to KO him, but... I don't like stat-uppers to begin with, so my opinion is somewhat moot on the matter.

Infernape: Yeah, he's fine for what you want to counter with him. I prefer Charizard over Infernape, so again, I can't say too much.

Swampert: Meh, all right. He can't do much against dragon types, and if all the EVs go into Hp and SDef, he won't be hitting a ton of damage on all that much. Swampert is probably your weakest link, but this is all opinion. I'd probably use the following EV set-up for the 'Pert you have:

Careful l 252 Hp, 136 SDef, 120 Atk (2)

Something like that. Though, now that I look at it maybe a little more SDef and a little less Atk... >_>

Oh, and give this bad boy a Focus Sash once in a while to get the KO on anything that the rest of your Pokemon can't deal with. :-P

Metagross: The only thing that I don't like about Metagross being a defensive wall is that he's somwhat lacking the Hp department. If he had a bit more Hp he'd be more efficient, but he can be taken down quickly by a non-STAB Earthquake if you aren't careful. Weaviles will switch out on him, so I'd take the Pursuit route over BP for Gengars, Starmies, Dusknoirs, and the Porygon Z's. All of these Pokemon should run from him, so if you don't kill them you can probably get a nice on them anyway. Though, P-P-PRIORITY is a nice thing to have.

Overall: I feel like your team is missing a solid wall to keep yourself from being run over by a sweeper or two, but I suppose that the metagame has changed a lot from when I used to lose in it all the time. Hope I was of some help; or at least made you second-guess yourself. :-)