I try to build all my teams to be based off of an OU metagame, so I guess I mainly run OU. Most of my work on this team has been theorymonning though, and with only a little bit of play testing. As I said, I have been super busy. Running my poison team to fit as close as it can in OU as possible. And I try to do the best I can with semistall, considering that poison is a crap attacking type.
Yeah, with a full fire team, you only have 5 pokemon who can use SR, 1 spinner, and NONE can learn spikes or T-spikes. Youre stuck with HO, no matter how you look at it really.
Ninetales... eh... Its worth a try. It DOES get energy ball (something only Shandera gets as well), and it would be nice to put a stop to infinite rain... Overall, its worth a test.
And yes. LOTS OF BALLOONS!