Help me perfect my team!

[JadeAnner]

So I've recently started a new game on Pokemon Black and was trying to decide on my final team. Here's what I have so far...

Dragonite
~ Outrage
~ Hurricane
~ Hyper Beam
~ Dragon Rush


Charizard
~ Heat Wave
~ Blast Burn
~ Flare Blitz
~ Flamethrower


Milotic
~ Surf
~ Aqua Tail
~ Hydro Pump
~ Hyper Beam


Luxray
~ Crunch
~ Thunder
~ Discharge
~ Wild Charge


Serperior
~ Leaf Blade
~ Leaf Storm
~ Energy Ball
~ Frenzy Plant


Espeon
~ Psychic
~ Psybeam
~ Double-Edge
~ Future Sight

What do you all think? How can I improve?
I'm trying to use my favourite Pokemon and not just the strongest.
Would Ev training really help when it comes to battles or does brute strength work?
Also, what kind of items would be good to give them all?

Thanks for looking/giving advice!

[StephF]

If you add an Ice & a Dark (or Ghost) type Pokemon you should be set.

:)

[Antemortem]

So I've recently started a new game on Pokemon Black and was trying to decide on my final team. Here's what I have so far...

Dragonite
~ Outrage
~ Hurricane
~ Hyper Beam
~ Dragon Rush


Charizard
~ Heat Wave
~ Blast Burn
~ Flare Blitz
~ Flamethrower


Milotic
~ Surf
~ Aqua Tail
~ Hydro Pump
~ Hyper Beam


Luxray
~ Crunch
~ Thunder
~ Discharge
~ Wild Charge


Serperior
~ Leaf Blade
~ Leaf Storm
~ Energy Ball
~ Frenzy Plant


Espeon
~ Psychic
~ Psybeam
~ Double-Edge
~ Future Sight

What do you all think? How can I improve?
I'm trying to use my favourite Pokemon and not just the strongest.
Would Ev training really help when it comes to battles or does brute strength work?
Also, what kind of items would be good to give them all?

Thanks for looking/giving advice!

Problems. Only one that I'll say right now: huge Dragon weakness. Sure, you have Dragonite, but that's weak to, say, every Dragon type that's faster which is 90% of them. Haxorus will murder this team with either one Dragon Dance or being Scarf'd or Banded. Movesets hold no bounds if your synergy is lacking. Get a Steel type. Ferrothorn over Serperior will do this team gold.

After you fix your synergy, I'll comment on the movesets, which aren't amazing.

[JadeAnner]

The only big weaknesses I could see was that of the electric and bug types. :/ I was gonna EV train dragonite to give it a bit of a boost speed wise anyways.

So I've got a pretty average team. What's wrong with my moves?

[na10]

the moves don't provided good coverage. multiple dragon moves on dragonite, multiple fire moves for char, psychic for espeson and so forth. you would literally have to switch on any pkmn who is resistant "to your pkmn" if that makes sense. Try providing more coverage. A water type for example, never goes wrong with an ice type move to handle grass types. 2nd, you have physical and special moves on each pkmn. You're better off attacking on the strongest stat. Drago should be with physical attacks, as should luxray. Espy, milo, and char on special. Serpy can strike from either end. that's for you to choose. Yes, there are mixed attackers (pkmn who use physical and special moves) but that's b/c they have high stats in both, like lucario. You know about EV training so that's good. Just note, that with a team with 2 OU's, you'll be expected to battle other OU users, and you'll be looked down upon, so to speak, when facing teams of lower tiers. So this means, you need to research movesets, EV spreads on sites like smogon to be competitive. I'm not saying you have to copy and paste sets, but just use them as reference. TLight is right in his point. I won't tell you to change pkmn b/c you've stated you want to use your favorites, so for that reason alone, you must put major effort into building your team. I respect the whole "favorites" factor and hope this helps.

[CMB]

ok first...
idk about you but i always give my draggys a fire move for steel types. Give that dragonite a flamethrower in place of the hyper beam or the dragon rush

the charizard... has 4 fire moves! :o ah.. u have to give him at least one flying attack (gets STABd u kno). chose 1 or 2 fire moves and change the others to have more coverage in other types of pokes.

the milotic needs an ice attack, like ice beam for example. the same problem of the charizard... 3 water moves? try to cover as much types u can in your team.

ok luxray has 3 electric attacks... same tip.

that serperior has to be the only grass poke I know that doesnt have a stat change attack... and 4 grass moves... same tip.

why in the world does that espeon have double edge? its a good poke, give him a focus blast or something against dark pokes.

believe me, you need other types of moves in your moveset. You will never know when your dragonite will be cornered by a steelix or when your espeon will be cornered by an absol, for example.