I'm not saying that I think U-turn is less than great when I can use it successfully, because it really is. Every perk jake mentioned of U-turn is why I always run it, the problem is I hardly ever get to
use it. I wish I consistently logged my replays so I could go back and see how often I hard switch vs how often I u-turn especially early game (in fact, that's something I'm resolving right now to do in the future so I can improve), but I would wager that it's probably 80% of the time that I end up having to hard switch. I will probably miss the coverage on Latios and Cress if I end up dropping U-turn but it's nothing I can't live without.
You're definitely downplaying Stone Edge
Qazoo306. It's necessary to dispatch a LOT of threats in one turn if you don't want to bank on the 30% flinch: Thundurus, Skymin, Rotom-H... You can't hit a zard next to Top or Aegis without it (versus wayyyyy too many people have I successfully kept Zard in on Lando because I had a wide guard Aegis) and you can't ko zard at -1 with RS.
As to jake with Superpower, that's another move I'm not willing to give up. Yes it's pretty redundant with EQ but it's pretty vital too. Sometimes your partner is simply not in a situation where they can afford for you to EQ, but you need to hit things; see
terraquaza's week 1 DPL match for an example. When you need a guaranteed kill on Rotom-W and nothing else is left which can do it easily, Superpower will finish it off from around 50%. Also, every TTar is WP, Ice Beam, or both, so you actually do need superpower to beat it (well, with Lando. you don't need superpower to beat tar because it's a piece of shit). But overall, of course, the reason for Superpower is it turns Lando from setup fodder for Kang into one of the best Kang checks in the metagame, so I wouldn't pass it up unless your team is 100% rock-solid against kang.
The reason I don't like knock off at all is that being locked into unSTAB knock off is one of the worst things in the world and guaranteed tosses your momentum; its only real benefit is that it lets you catch other Lando on the switch and serves as a coverage option for Latios that koes no matter what instead of only after chip, but again KOing latios means they get a free switch and as I just said being locked into Knock Off is free momentum for your opponent.