If one wishes to use OU Pokemon to support Sunflora, one must be careful that Sunflora is not outclassed by Celebi or Shaymin. Celebi is most commonly used as a support Pokemon, utilizing Leech Seed, Thunder Wave, Grass Knot/Leaf Storm, and Recover. Since it rarely uses Psychic, an excellent partner for Sunflora is DD + 3 Atks Gyarados due to its ability to attract this specific Celebi. Sunflora can switch into almost any Celebi, barring of course Swords Dance variants, due to its resistance to its Grass STAB moves and its ability to shrug off paralysis due to its already low Spe stat. If your Gyarados switches in and is met with a Celebi, you are almost guaranteed a free Sunflora switch and Substitute.
Keep in mind, however, that Sunflora will need major support in eventually taking out this Celebi, so be sure to utilize something such as DD Tyranitar or SD Infernape, along with the Sunflora/Gyarados pairing in order to provide extreme threat to the OU Grass-types. SD Infernape is probably is the best pairing with Sunflora due to its ability to OHKO and outspeed Celebi and Shaymin and its ability to 2HKO Vaporeon, which can stall out Sunflora if given the chance.
One other thing that Sunflora greatly appreciates is paralysis support, which is most reliably provided by Rotom formes, Togekiss, Blissey, and Jirachi (with Body Slam), in OU. This paralysis support isn't necessary for Sunflora to sweep, but it is extremely helpful just in case the opponent has a surprise Heatran that doesn't automatically switch into Sunflora once it comes out.
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