Replacing my Pelipper and Mighteyena

[ShockingAlberto]

My Pelipper and Mightyena have served me well up until I manged to get through the E4 without taking a hit, but now I see their stats are nothing to rave about. I'm about to start competitive battling, so I want to replace them, but with what? Here's the rest of my permanent team (the top force I have, basically), so you can judge what type I need the most.

Blaziken
Groudon
Manectric
Rayquaza

Any suggestions?

-- ShockingAlberto

[Togetic]

Two Legendaries?! But if you insist...

You could replace Mightyena with Absol

Absol: Leftovers
-Attack +Speed

Calm Mind
Swords Dance
Toxic
Filler

[Iveechan]

Wouldn't calm mind and swords dance take too long to set up? Absol doesn't really have any staying power. I say Jolly nature with swords dance, shadow ball, return, filler (maybe protect to waste pp...?).

Pelliper with Gyarados: dragon dance, EQ, hp flying/return, hydro pump... i think hydro pump is part of the standard.

[titandude21]

absol can't set up calm mind + swords dance, not to mention with your set you're giving up either baton pass or an attack.

i prefer swords dance, shadow ball, aerial ace/return, baton pass/substitute.

[ShockingAlberto]

Is there a replacement suggestion for the legendaries? If so, which one and with what?

I want to be competitive, but I want to be fair, too.

-- ShockingAlberto

[Togetic]

Oops I meant Calm Mind/Swords Dance/Baton Pass/Protect... sorry

[Caz129]

Legendaries are sortof frowned upon in competitive battling... Raquaza could be replaced by Salamence and Groudon can be replaced by Donphan (if you want basically the same types). Other good pokemon include Cradily, Metagross, Milotic, Gardevoir, and Zangoose.