L> Help Breeding a Pokemon Pal

Alright. Dragonite seems to fit more into a balanced team. If you want to base the team around him, well then, let's do it. 'Course, you can do a stall team, but Dragonite seems to fit more into a balanced team.

First is deciding if you want your Dragonite to lead or not. Dragonite makes a surprisingly *decent* lead. Scroll down to the Anti lead to read more. I'm assuming since you love Dragonite, though, you probably want your team to eliminate counters of Dragonite, so you'd bring out Dragonite last. You can achieve this by the Dragon Dance or the Choice Band set, but the Dragon Dance Set is more better for a late game sweep. The Choice Band set is more for the midgame, and really, it's just for ravaging and hopefully KOing Pokemon.

Right. Now you have your Dragonite and a Gengar. Now you need something to deal with some of those the counters to Dragonite, which include Suicune, Skarmory, Bronzong, Cresselia and Hippowdon. The first four are all stopped by Magnezone/Magneton, who hits the Water-types super effectively while trapping the Steel-types. Heatran would be a good idea of 2HKOing the last two, while providing another steel resist to help resist opposing Dragons.

Your team seems great so far. A revenge killer, two steels to revenge Dragons, and your main sweeper. However, there is a quite of a big weakness to Scizor. While one set of Scizor can't deal with all of your Pokemon, they each can KO a lot. Rotom with Will-o-wisp is a good idea, as it destroy versions locked into Bullet Punch or Bug Bite. Magnezone/magneton destroys versions locked into Purusit.

Now you need your lead. Quite frankly, any lead works fine for your team. If you want an Anti lead, you can just put Stealth Rock on Heatran. If you don't, well, Heatran could use the extra move. I'd suppose you do not want your opponent to set down rocks, as that'll hinder Dragonite, so Taunt leads, such as Azelf and Aerodactyl, or Rapid Spin leads, such as Starmie, will probably be the best.

The team I just thought of is probably not the best team ever. It will need tweaks. However, this is the simplest process on building a competitive Pokemon team.

Don't worry about Ubers, OU, UU, and NU. You probably want to join the OU metagame, which is basically a metagame with no overpowered Pokemon, such as Rayquazza or Mewtwo.

Most teams nowadays are balanced.

Oh thank you for your help. I find that really useful. What is a lead though? http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/starmie - TrickScarf Lead?

I'm assuming lead goes first for the opposing team. So an Anti-lead goes first as well to counter the opposing team's lead? Or do I switch in if I encounter a common lead pokemon?