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JED

The Aurora Gate Call
In combat this team has done fairly well- Please help me with any little changes needed

Machamp (Adamant) @Choice Scarf
No Guard
EVs: 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 6 HP
-Dynamicpunch
-Ice Punch
-Fire Punch
-Thunderpunch

Gengar (Timid) @ Life Orb
EVs: 252 Speed, 252 Sp. Atk, 6 HP
-Shadow Ball
-Focus Blast
-Energy Ball
-Hypnosis

Blissey (Bold) @ Leftovers
Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP, 252 Defense, 6 Sp. Def
-Softboiled
-Seismic Toss
-Aromatherapy
-Thunder Wave

Vaporeon (Lax) @ Leftovers
EVs: 252 Def, 252 HP, 6 Sp. Atk
-Wish
-Protect
-Baton Pass
-Surf

Tyranitar (Adamant) @ Leftovers
EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Speed, 6 HP
-Brick Break
-Substitute
-Crunch
-Dragon Dance

Forretress (Relaxed) @ Shed Shell
EVs: 252 Defense, 252 Atk, 6 HP
-Gyro Ball
-Explosion
-Rapid Spin
-SR
 
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I'd go with Spikes/SR on Foretress, your team already is weak to Hera giving it a free Guts boost will end you.

Shed shell is probably the better option for Forry, having it eliminated so easily by Magnezone is a huge problem, especially considering he's your best bet at stopping a lot of the physical threats. Also Wish support from vaporeon makes up for the loss of lefites recovery.

As for Vaporeon I don't see the point of BP at all, I'd just put on Hp[Electric] or Ice beam. ScarfChamp makes for a good revenge killer, I think Gengar makes the better lead as leading with Champ makes it obvious he is choiced.
 
Some of your EV spreads leave six points off, and all your spreads are 252/252. Your Forretress would be relaxed. there is no need for Baton Pass on Vaporeon, since simply switching would Pass Wish, too. Give it Ice Beam instead.
 
My only qualm with that would be the fact that the pokes i'm switching to would not be able to take the him- but i'll consider that.

I prefer champ as the lead over gengar because gengar is decent to switch to in times of need (ground and fighting have no effect, as you know). And generally, most people tend to either switch on a machamp or have a starter faster/slower than it.

I like both of the forretress ideas- smart ones

And if I have 252/252 the other 6 are in HP (vaporeon has 6 sp. atk)
 
if you're really gonna use machamp as a lead, leading gengars and maybe even yanmegas will have their way with him. even with the scarf letting machamp outrun gengar, it'll probably be sashed, i've seen too many sashed gengars so that's what i'm going on. you'll hit them hard, they'll survive, and then because of your no guard, their hypnosis will ultimately get rid of machamp. also from what i know, not many gengars, if any, carry psychic.
 
shadow ball should OHKO machamp.... no need for hypnosis.

But anyways, I'd just switch to blissey or something. Even though blissey can't hurt a gengar, it can still force it to switch or t-wave it. Even if it gets hypnotized and attacked by focus blasts, it can then switch to gengar and gengar should be faster (unless they are a timid gengar with 31 speed ivs)
 
Whats the point to scarfing an Adamant Machamp? it doesnt even come close to outspeeding a poke with Base 95 running Max Spd, though seldom, just used as an example

Jolly nature puts you ahead of of the base 105's at least, and most importantly Garchomp

Fire Blast > Fire Punch will hit pokes harder bar Bronzong, Celebi and Jirachi, who still wont be OHKO with even Fire Punch IIRC, then status you afterwards and the later two will heal off the damage
 
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