Hello All --
Somewhat new player to Pokemmo here, this is my first post on the forums and I have about 250 hours played and started early Fall 2023. I'm trying to get into the PVP scene and feel like I'm starting to get a better understanding of ranked, current meta and how to be successful but acknowledge there's probably gaps in my strategy that I am completely unaware of. I've played around with ~10 pokemon but keep coming back to the initial six below. I'll include a few others if you think I should change things up. Would love to hear honest, critical feedback - I won't take it personally! Also if there's other pokemon you think I should consider, please let me know! Thanks for reviewing.
Lead:
Naughty Mamoswine
EVs 252 Atk, Speed
IVs 24/31/26/21/31/27
Focus Sash
Earthquake
Stealth Rock
Icicle Crash
Ice Shard
Ability Snow cloak (not taking advantage of this at all currently..)
Quiet Arcanine (I know nature here isn't ideal, not sure how big of a deal this is?)
EVs 252 Atk, Speed
IVs 24/27/30/23/21/21
Life Orb
ExtremeSpeed
Flare Blitz
Wild Charge
Close Combat
Ability: Intimiate
Adamant Metagross
252 Atk/Speed
IVs 31/31/14/10/14/31
Rocky Helmet
Earthquake
Meteor Mash
Bullet Punch
Psychic (should I change this to Ice Punch or something else for coverage?)
Ability: Clear Body
Timid Serperior
252 Sp Atk / Speed
31/16/18/31/4/31
Leftovers
HP Fire
Dragon Pulse
Substitue (not sure the strategy on how to use sub but was reading this may be a good idea)
Leaf Storm
Ability: Contrary
Modest Hydreigon
252 sp atk/speed
31/16/31/31/31/31
Choice Scarf
Charge Beam
Dark Pulse
Draco Meteor
Flamethrower
Ability: levitate
Impish Gyrados
252 Atk / Spd
31/31/23/20/28/31
Leftovers
Crunch
Waterfall
Dragon Dance
Thrash
Ability: Intimidate
Other Pokemon "PVP" ready with 2+ 31 IVs with their abilities:
Drizzle Pelipper, Magic Bounce Espeon, Pressure Zapdos, Rough Skin Garchomp, download Porygon-Z, Natural Cure Starmie, Flame Body Vocarona, Abomasnow
LMK what you think! Thanks so much.