A Balanced Pokemon team to build around Giratina in Pokemon Platinum

[Lil' Nut]

Any ideas? Some one has to be better than me at this (I have all 3 starters, and have not beaten the Elite 4)

[The Monkey]

Magikarp used Splash. It was super effective!

[Fish-E]

The pokemon games are ridiculously easy, you should be able to smash your way through the elite 4 with just your starter and some revives!

Going off and catching the pixies (Azelf, Uxie and Mesprit) would help, as they're all level 50. It's been a while since I played Pokemon Platinum (years to be precise!) but I seem to remember them being available before the Elite 4.

[Buttered Biscuit]

i went through them with the following in order

1. tortaria
2. lucario
3. maniphy (ya you def dont got this)
4. garados
5. palcia
6. richu
7. ♥♥♥♥ ton of revives and potions

[\//\|>0R₩/\\/€ Sasha サー]

My team up is weird. In every game I choose:

Dragon type
Posion type
Dark type
Steel type
Ground type
Ghost type