EnGarde
Not Dead Yet
I'm not an expert on BP teams, but I would imagine that the geomancy smeargle is a problem. By running geomancy, smeargle needs to hold power herb, which makes smeargle prone to OHKOs because no focus sash. Is that your problem? Because that's what I'd be worried about.That is kinda what I have been doing. I have pretty much two separate 3-man teams. One is a quick pass Scolipede with two receivers (Whom are counters to what I have trouble with in BP) and the other team is a Geomancy Smeargle BPing to Espeon. I usually go with the Smeargle/Espeon team unless I see a certain 4 or 5 specific Pokemon. Talonflame is a huge problem for me.
If you want to keep smeargle, I'd recommend toning down to quiver dance (which lets you hold focus sash), and since this is battle spot, make sure your smeargle has moody to try and drum up some good moody boosts to pass to espeon (stat drops below 0 don't drop the power of stored power, if that's what you're using with espeon to attack--which you should), which gives you a reason to stall a bit with spiky shield.
Truthfully, though, I'd focus on pairing scoli and espeon, since those 2 have more synergy. Try to get +2 defense +2 speed from scoli to espeon, set up a bit with calm mind, and then wipe the board with stored power. Have a third that can receive from either espeon or scolipede, or that also has baton pass and can heal up the other 2 with wish (like vaporeon or sylveon).
As for talonflame: good counters include rotom-w and rotom-h, zapdos (part of dEnIsSsS's original BP team) as well as ttar (though your teammates have to watch out for sandstorm damage there). You could lead with a counter if you see talonflame in team preview.
Lastly, have you read up on the different types of bp teams from the OU world? (they've since been banned, but ehh) Here is a link to the original iteration, and there is a lot of information in this thread discussing the effectiveness of baton pass after the nerf.
EDIT: Just found dEnIsSsS's RMT for the 1-man bp team. Linking that as well, in case someone else want to try and modify a BP team for battle spot. :)
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