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This is a variation on FA-L, with Amphy and Flygon powering Lugia. Kyogre isn't all bad, but what does it threaten in this environment? You might want to think of swapping the Kyogres for Groudons, Lugias, and/or Lati@s *.

Flymence can tech all those in, but it loses at least eight card slots to Salamence. Which again begs the question, with Flygon/techs handling so much of the environment, what does Salamence help you do so well that it's worth eight deck slots? It doesn't OHKO lots of things, and it isn't...

Marowak kind of fell apart as a Metagross killer because it can't OHKO Metagrosses with a metal unless it sticks a Cursed Stone for longer than a turn or spreads some bench damage first. Have you considered Raichu d, for the same reason 2005's Delta SD turned into Raieggs? Raichu has...

Well, with Latilock everything beats Banette any more. Poor Banette; nobody loves you. This isn't a criticism of this deck in particular but the archetype as a whole, so it's a bit OT, but... Why bother with Salamence d at all? What does it help you with? Flygon d and Mew d handle...

Plus, Queen is OHKOed by every single deck in the environment (save possibly lol Stantler/Dewgong/Marowak; never want to miss a chance to make fun of that deck), so it's not much as a secondary attacker.

Either of the other Meganiums would be a better idea. Meganium d might be worth it as a singleton if you see fighting weak in your area (Steelix comes to mind; Shiftry is grass weak).

T3-T4 is the standard speed for tier 3 decks right now, which is right where Flymence fits. (Tier 3, IMO, is "Too slow to compete with Delta/Destiny/Bandoom, not as consistent as Metanite, and hosed by Flygon's toolbox.") I think I was being a little too harsh in my first post, though.

Nyerg. Flygon/Ampharos is really only worth trying if you're getting a HUGE benefit from it (like using it to power Lugia in FA-L), whereas Arcanine wants to set up fast and swarm. You've got no synergy here. Are you married to using Arcanine as your attacker? This seems like a more-awkward...

It'd be like playing with theme decks. If you were playing your opponent's weak, you'd just win. Pokemon with no engines and no techs would be pretty boring. Plus, DP is a pretty bland set; you'd have Infernape dominating the environment until Mystery of the Lakes hits. That'd be one lousy...

TTar EX d is tradeable, but not really playable. It's kind of Base Set Charizard-y that way.

Also, when talking about diversity, consider how many of these decks are less archetypes and more vague descriptions of decks built around an engine. To take two examples... Destiny is Mew/Ray EX d/disruptive basics, with a lot of variance in the choice of basics. Flygon is Flygon d/any basic...

If you want to build Destiny, DF is the way to go. While Destiny uses Stantler, Mew EX LM, and some other stuff, many of the key cards (and key EXes) are in DF. Plus, all of the DF EXes are playable and tradeable (possibly excepting the so-so Tyranitar EX d).

Yeah, because Pokemon without Rare Candy, Switch, and any card drawers besides Prof. Nakamudo is going to be awesome! Don't be dumb, they're not going to have a one-set format.

There's a reason it's called FA-L.

Raieggs is about as cheap as decks get. You're gonna have to get Transcievers, though, since the handful of decks that don't use them are abusing top-of-the-curve basic or stage 1 EXes.

How, exactly, is it faster than Metanite (worse starter, no Delta Control, more bad starts) or Flariados? After those, what's left?

And sentence that begins with "Play it with Flygon d and Ampharos d" needs to end with "then get ready to lose a lot."

Depends on what else they're running with it. There's a lot of things you can tech into Flygon for other decks that wreck Dustox as a happy side-effect.

What can it outspeed?