What type did you choose? I have a feeling it's dark. EDIT: Steel and dark. Psychic not very effective against steel and weak against dark. I'd get wasted every time.
Debatably, but he's a bug specialist. So he's probably going to suffer throughout, so I don't really have a major problem with it. We can put things like Heracross and Absol to vote though.
We'll see how it plays out. Remember that it's team Heef in this too, and last time I checked Heef likes birds.