u/AnnoyedAFexmo

Used a 3 smeargle baton pass chain and baton pass intimidate Mawile. Took around 10 hours and 160-170 encounters with no shiny charm.

Im honestly in shock I made a great push today on 4 hours of sleep but I wanted to share my team and break it down!

For a while I was using skarmory and Dragonite as my megas but they didn't feel impactful enough and relied on other Pokemon too much. Two days ago I switched my skarmory to Starmie and my mega glimmora for mega Heracross and realized that I had found what my rain team needed.

This team wants to use its powerful megas to blow a hole through any offensive Pokemon so the remaining Pokemon like archaludon can sit back and absorb the hits. This team is heavy on rain both defensively and offensively. It powers up mega starmie to absurd levels and it gets rid of boosts that would otherwise keep Pokemon alive from our onslaught.

We rely heavily on burning physical attackers and catching attacks to get our Pokemon in position. With the exception of popular Pokemon archaludon, kingambit, and basculegion, Mega starmie 1 shots nearly all Pokemon if there is rain between its 3 moves. There's an argument for adamant for that little bit of power to guarantee -to kill 1 attack mega Floette in the rain but I wanted to outspeed non timid talonflame and sneasler though that has rarely come up.

Mega Starmie has liquidation as its strongest water move, you'll basically never see the defense drop. If it doesn't resist water and another move isn't 4x effective you use liquidation. Zen headbutt is for venusaur, opposing waters and last ditch flinches. Ice spinner is for Dragonite, garchomp and whimsicott. I tried aqua jet but we're so fast already, it doesn't do a ton of damage and otherwise dragons wall us.

Mega Heracross picks up the slack. Mega Heracross can one shot with close combat kingambit through chople berry and most Maushold. It also one shots most archaludon unless they are extremely physically bulky or sturdy.

Skill link turns bullet seed and rock blast into delete buttons for many common Pokemon. With speed advantage you can cleaning knock out Mega Froslass through snow with rock blast, it also knocks out mega Dragonite through multiscale, is the go to attack against sinitcha and takes down other fliers.

Bullet seed deletes focus sash basculegion, opposing waters and Rotom. It also has a good chance of killing mega gardevior.

Main problem is if they have archaludon you give them a free +5 defense in the switch which means you have to use plan B for archaludon

Mega Heracross is trained to be 1 point of speed faster than modest max speed pelipper which also outspent many variants of archaludon. With tailwind it out speeds nearly every Pokemon. With max hp it lives 2 stacks of last respects from adamant basculegion. 1 point is put into special defense and the remaining 10 points and the nature go into attack

Archaludon has a slightly different spread. 7 points into special attack and modest nature kills Aaron Zhang's archaludon with either two special attack boosts or if it's soaked. That below. 4 speed out speeds common Mega meganium and many archaludon. 6 defense gives a good chance of army sneasler not 1 shotting archaludon with max hp and the rest go into special defense.

Electro shot is a given. Flash cannon is essential to tear down rocks and fairies, it's the backup killer of floette and sylveon. Draco meteor is a must have killing not only other dragons but also big hits on threats like Mega venusaur or when you're out of the rain and resisted. Protect and leftovers are a must along with stamina. You could pair it with your own Heracross to give +5 defense but I never found that set to necessary.

Whimsicott is trained into being extremely physically bulky with max hp, a defensive nature and 30 defense. As we don't have ways to lessen physical damage when we use it we want it to live all the rockslides and sometimes iron heads that it can. The remainder go into speed. Whimsicott is going to generally take a lot of hits so the bright powder can be incredibly useful. It can completely turn a game around when we evade a fake out or dire claw and makes low accuracy moves even more risky like hurricane and blizzard.

Taunt shuts down perish song, protects and set up. Light screen makes the mega floette matchup way way better but also has common utility. Moon blast hits for neutral and punished hydreigon and komm-o that otherwise threaten the team and tailwind makes mega Heracross, archaludon, and pelipper to out speed nearly any nontailwind ipponents primarily fast enough to to damage

Pelipper is max special attack and modest. It has two points in defense to help with rock slides from tyranitar, excadrill and aerodactyl. The rest go into speed.

It carries the focus sash which helps with a lot of Pokemon carrying electric moves and makes for much harder end games for opponents.

It carries wide guard for primarily floette and rockslide users. Soak to make archaludon and kingambit vulnerable to our archaludon and to take off stab from Pokemon particularly basculegion which then cuts last respects damage in half. Weather ball primarily kills Charizards and ttars but can in cheeky sun cases melt steels and wreck fires. Hurricane takes out grasses and primarily sneasler but other fighters as well. It's also a good hacks button if you need a confusion to win.

Sableye is primarily physically bulky but has a bit in special bulk too. The defense is statted to live I believe mega aerodactyl dual wing beat. It has a defensive speed reducing nature and the rest of the points go into special defense. You are never not using prankster with this Pokemon so speed is only relevant as who is the last to set up weather. It carries to sitrus berry for recovery which is procs often

Sableye is one if not the most crucial Pokemon to making this team work. Quash is pseudo speed control. Encore ends games and locks nondark fake out users into struggle if they can't swap. Encore is essential to leaving Pokemon vulnerable so mega Starmie can punch through them. Rain dance turns Mega Charizard matches into much easier games, turns off chlorophyll and sand rush allowing your Pokemon go always attack first. It turns mega Starmie from a merely strong Pokemon to a one shotting machine. Very vulnerable to nonprankster taunt but very good. Absolutely terrible in the Mega Floette match up or where constant speed is required however.

Team greatly struggles into dark types that we can't prankster, hydreigon and hisuian samurott pose pretty big problems for the team but can be worked around. Mega greninja and meowscarda are problems if they keep their dark typing however protean to a nondark type or soak can make them vulnerable to prankster

Archaludon is a huge threat if you can't get your archaludon or Mega Heracross in place. Floette is unsurprisingly the hardest mega matchup but far from impossible. Mega scovillian generally requires pelipper or a boosted archudon to get through it. It's so passive however it's rarely a threat.

There are 3 modes to this team

Floette mode is Whimsicott Mega Starmie Archaludon Pelipper. Can beat Mega Charizard but takes finesse

Counter rain team/Archaludon/Gardevior/most trickroom teams
Whimsicott mega Heracross Archaludon Pelipper

Main mode which I use probably 60% of the time
Sableye Mega Starmie Archaludon Pelipper.

Definitely baby prediction fake out mode. Since they can only hit sans scrappy your not Sableye Pokemon, you can safely swap into Archaludon for a free +1 defense boost that you heal off end of turn. Since I basically never lead Archaludon this is incredibly consistent.