Pokemon Soul Silver Team ratings for Competitive Battles?

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(Warning - Experienced Pokemon players will answer this one)
Greetings everyone! I had MIRACULOUSLY came in contact with a Pokemon who had the Pokerus (A virus that doubles the amount of EV's recieved in battle for stats upon leveling up.) I've just got done smaking the elite four and doing some EV training. I am slowly getting tired of fighting against computers and players who don't know the game mechanics... So, I intend on fighting against the best of the best by competing against the more intermediate players! I am gonna need your help, however... FEAST YOUR EYES ON THESE!! 

- Drapion/ LV: 58/ Nature: Adamant/ Ability: Sniper/ Item: Scope Lens
Toxic Spikes, Pursuit, Earthquake , Cross Poison
- Sharpedo/ LV: 53/ Nature: Mild/ Ability: Rough Skin/ Item: Razor Claw
Assurance, Payback, Ice Beam, Waterfall
- Salamence/ LV: 59/ Nature: Lonely/ Ability: Intimidate/ Item:  Metronome
Earthquake, Stone Edge, Dragon Claw, Dragon Dance
- Scizor/ LV: 55/ Nature: Adamant/ Ability: Technician/ Item: Life Orb
Baton Pass, Bullet Punch, Swords Dance, Roost
- Typhlosion/ LV: 57/ Nature: Naughty/ Ability: Blaze/ Item: Expert Belt
Thunder Punch, Earthquake, Roar, Eruption
- Jolteon/ LV: 57/Nature: Mild/ Ability: Volt Absorb/ Item: None
Charge Beam, Baton Pass, Substitiute, Heal Bell 

NOTES/Questions:
- I've only recently (albiet two years ago) realized the concept of EV rates, IV rates. I've covered the concept of natures long ago when Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald came out. I've also realized that a lot of experienced players are EXTREMELY creative and they know the game mechanics like the back of their hand.
- I am NOT counting on any inexperienced pokemon players for this question because they are most likely to say something like this: 
"omg yer pokemon r weak... ur scizor needs moves like metal claw bug bite fury cutter and steel wing... u also need mewtwo, lugia, mew, giratina all at level 100." 
Sorry but if I were to make such changes I would lose TRAGICALLY in a competitive match. 
- And no, I REFUSE to catch ANY legendary pokemon for three reasons: 1) Because, I hardly ever see any other experienced pokemon trainers with them  2) A lot of scrubby, inexperienced and/or younger players tend to use them on a daily basis, most likely because they don't really know the game mechanics at all or because they take their "legends" too literally and 3) Trainers with more than one legendary pokemon are often looked down upon. So no, I'll agree with any other pokemon except legendary pokemon.
- I guess my question is... Is this a good pokemon team for competitive battles? Which pokemon should I catch next based off of the previous strategy I decribed above? Which pokemon should be replaced? Are there any wrong movesets? I could just go to www.smogon.com to explore but I want to hear from other people's perceptive.

Awesome Shark. · Accepted Answer

Okay, first note - Salamence is banned, so beware, players might not want to match you because of that.

I have no complaints on Drapion at all.

As for Sharpedo, Sharpedo isn't exactly fast, and he is VERY frail, you're better off Scarfing it, like I did with mine, and because of how frail it is (slow + frail = bad news), it's really going to die in one hit (unless you're very lucky.), so Payback isn't needed. Replace Payback with Crunch. And because it's Scarfed, this will make Assurance pointless (sadly, as it's a good idea paired with Toxic Spikes.) Replace that with Earthquake.

Mence - Metronome..interesting. That's an item I've never seen in a competitive battle. Your Mence is pretty standard, so no complaints. You could sacrifice attack with defence and give him Yache Berry to counter his 4x ice weakness, but other than that, he's fine. If it wasn't for item clause, he'd be better off with Life Orb.

Scizor: Baton Pass I'm unsure of. Scizor doesn't exactly make the world's greatest Baton Passer (Ninjask/Mew took that job), and a Pokemon with a 4x weakness to fire (which is very common in a team) isn't upto the job. You're better off replacing Baton Pass with X-Scissor.

Typhlosion: I see Roar is there because of Toxic Spikes. However, I think you're better off replacing Roar with Sunny Day to seriously overpower that Eruption you have, and to weaken water moves against your Typhlosion.

Jolteon: I think you should breed for another Jolteon (though, I think you have to do quite a it of chainbreeding to get it) and give it Wish, instead of Heal Bell. It'd go great with your Sub/BPassing. As for the item, I guess Leftovers will help you out, because of the subbing.

Because of Salamence being banned, you MIGHT want to replace him with the next best thing: Dragonite. He learns ALL the same moves your Salamence can, the difference is Dragonite is just a quite a bit slower (80 base speed), but he's as strong as Mence.

Good luck with your team. Hope I helped you out.

Edit: Oh, as for your rating, I'd give you a 7. Your team had a decent idea going for it.

tamafreak110 · Answer

I totally get what u say I'm classified as an expert trainer because i don't use legendaries or hack my pokemon I train them fairly and as an expert I would say your team is very effective just some small changes your jolteon needs an attack move such as thunder I would say get rid of batton pass since ur scizor already knows it 
you shouldnt replace any pokemon yoir team is balanced out in speed,strenght and deffense

anuticciwb o3o · Answer

awesome shark pretty much wrote evrything there is to write...

but salamence is not banned, garchomp is the one banned

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