My First Competitive team.

[ScaryTrees]

Any suggestions for alternate moves for anyone? All pokemon are hatched and EVed already except Chandelure so there's still room to replace it if need be.

Leafeon
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 252 Attack
252 Speed
4 HP

Swords Dance
Leaf Blade
Synthesis
Return

Absol
Trait: Super Luck
Nature:Jolly
EVs: 252 Attack
252 Speed
4 HP

Sucker Punch
Psycho Cut
Swords Dance
Substitute


Gorebyss
Trait: Swift Swim
Nature: Timid
EVs: 4 Defense
252 Special Attack
252 Speed

Surf
Ice Beam
Shell Smash
Baton Pass

Donphan
Trait:
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 252 HP
252 Attack
4 Defense

Earthquake
Stone Edge
Fire Fang
Seed Bomb

Jolteon
Trait: Volt Absorb
Nature: Timid
EVs: 244 HP
132 Special Attack
4 Special Defense
128 Speed

Wish
Volt Switch
Thunderbolt
Hidden Power (Ice)

Chandelure
Trait:
Nature: Modest
EVs:

Flamethrower
Shadow Ball
Energy Ball
Hidden Power (Fighting)

[azeem40]

What tier?

[Bigmiga80]

on absol i think is best to put dark pulse instead of substitute

[Aurath8]

Absol @ Choice Band
Jolly
Super Luck
252 Atk / 252 Spd
-Sucker Punch / Night Slash
-Superpower
-Psycho Cut
-Stone Edge


Absol is a bit too frail to be using a SubSD set, nor does he get good enough coverage between just 2 moves. Superpower goes very well with your Dark STAB of choice and Stone Edge goes well with Superpower.

You could use X-scissor over Synthesis on Leafeon to get some extra coverage, stopping you from being walled by the likes of Cradily. Besides you have Jolteon's Wish.

Vaporeon would probably be a better Wishpasser than Jolteon. Despite the investment you're still not passing on very large amounts of HP.

[Bigheaded]

I WILL WARN YOU NOW! this post contains a lot of suggesting that your team needs a huge amount of work and/or thought.
Seeing this is clearly "hyper offense" as it's called i will give you a guide to it:
http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthr...ffense-5th-Gen
Your team lacks a LOT of what hyper offense is all about though.
I think you will find huge difficulties against teams which are designed for competitive play and will find yourself unable to damage all sorts.
From the looks of your team, my guess is you've gone for a "no legendaries" nintendo style team? i.e where they ban legendaries even if they're actually quite weak.

As an example, your Donphan will deal basically nothing against a skarmony, even with fire fang, who will set up multiple layers of spikes roost up to heal then whirlwind you out. This means you either hope for a burn to annoy him slightly or switch out and get whacked by stealth rock, seeing you decided to not get the main move on donphan of rapid spin.


So a summary of what's wrong:
No suggested items, they are CRUCIAL.
Lack of any form of entry hazards, Weather, reflect/light screen, phazers, walls, Synergy (an offense starmie will be able to kill everything here), spinners (well you have a donphan, but no rapid spin ^^ )
I'm not quite sure why you have a shell smash gorebyss, they will see this in the team preview and seeing gorebyss is known for smashpassing, they will be ready with a mach punch when you send it out, seeing you lack all entry hazards.
The pokemon selected arn't actually very strong in most cases.
As examples, leafeon is easily countered by skarmony/any physically defensive steel.
Absol is a lot weaker than a great deal of other pokes such as dragonite, and has poor coverage. Also, in a game where fighting types are currently being used a lot, he is weak to it.

I did apologise in advance, but i decided the best way would be to be brutal about it. I hope this helps and you didn't think i was aggressive here. I simply wanted to give you an idea how complex pokemon is now.

Not all players are that good, but you will find people will learn and use what is working on other teams.