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Hello friends welcome back to another episode here on the channel I hope you're all doing great as always and for anyone new to the channel my name is Lee also known as Osiris in today's episode we have got something very special lined up we've got a best of three match against a good friend of mine Fevzi who I'm sure a lot of you already know streams a lot and he has a YouTube channel as well where he puts up content as well and it's always amazing high quality stuff and he is honestly one of the top VGC players now he reached out to me thankfully and I've got to give him a big shout out for this because it's something that I've wanted to do for a while but the opportunity has come up now and we are gonna be able to do a best of three so this is what we're doing we're doing series 10 tonight hopefully you enjoy it as always if you do and please leave a comment down below let me know your thoughts on the battle afterwards and I'll quickly go through the team that we're playing now this is a little bit draft league-y like we are playing in the x9 league together but unfortunately we aren't playing in the the run-up to the playoffs so maybe we see each other again in the playoffs and this is just a warm up hopefully that would be great wouldn't it but today I decided to play a shadow Calrack's team something a little bit different something I do love and especially got a lot of fondness from series 8 had a lot of fun with shadow rider Calrack so we're playing this today and we've got the expanding force astral barrage got no PP ups if you're asking why I've only got 5 pp that might come to bite us but I can't do anything about it at the minute and then shadow ball to get around things like wide guard that we're seeing that quite prevalent in the format the minute just a life up just to give that extra damage that you kind of want from this huge Pokemon and then I'm going with whimsicott as well because it gives us that great option of speed control with tailwind we get help in hand their moon blast just helps us against things like a shifu that could otherwise be a little bit problematic and then protect it's really important you know when we you we're not going to always have our terrain up on the field and Faker is super prevalent in this format so protect quite handy just to ensure that you can maybe get a second tailwind off and then our next Pokemon is Draco Vish and I didn't mention the item on with me we've got a focus that should make sense on this Pokemon helps with the longevity a little bit because it's so frail and then we're going with Draco Vish really interesting Pokemon in this format I've not explored a great deal but I do like it a lot obviously with that vicious rent and the mystic water especially when you've got tailwind support it can be very dangerous and we have obviously vicious rent psychic fans helps with screen support and things like that and then superfan really helps just chunk things down if fair if we can't really make use of vicious rent in certain situations and then we'll move on to Tapulele come with the old good old choice scarf tapulele it gives us an option of terrain and it gives us an option of really fast defense as well as supporting the Shadow Calorax as well as a way to hit like things like a shifu that can be again very problematic for us there's the move set it's pretty self-explanatory psychic because we can't get expanding force I wish it did and in another way I wish it don't as well because it would be just so bust wouldn't it and then we got moon blast dazzling gleam for the spread and then shadow ball helps us get the jump on shadow calorax with the scarf and can then it gives us the opportunity to knock it out with the shadow ball which is always very nice so then we've got enti our fire type of the team with the soul fest love enti I think it's really one of the best fire type uses in the format the only thing that draws it back a little bit over things like in cinema is it doesn't get access to intimidate which is the only drawback really but it's still very good got a lot of good options snarl extreme speeds dump and tantrums taken fire it is a pretty standard set got max speed on this one just to ensure that we're taking advantage of that base 100 speed jolly nature and the assault vest we've got a little bit of bulk in there not got max attack just to get a little bit extra out of that assault vest and then we've got P2 now the reason for P2 is because in opposing shadow calorax matchups especially if they've got regi alecki or if they've got whim's a cot it comes down to speed ties a lot of the time and you don't really want to risk that P2 opens the door a little bit in that matchup in particular where we can get the trick room off we can threaten the opposing shadow rider calorax and it's just generally good if we're facing opposing tailwind and it's not a preferable option for us to go forward with or if there's just a lot of speed control in my pollens team probably going to a really nice option here obviously got that download ability and if you're like the download just gives you that a little bit of extra attacking part if you're in the right kind of situation so there is a team this is what we're going to be going up against well we're going to be taking against fevzi today in our best of three match I really do hope you enjoy the match and we'll get into it in a moment and we'll be back when we get into game one right we are hooked up with fevzi obviously go and check the vote out on his twitch channel and I'll leave all these socials down below in the description for you to check out his youtube his twitch and his twitter I'm interested to see what he brings I always kind of think like fevzi probably bring something like wheezing which does scare me a little bit because obviously it just kind of kicks out all of our all of our different options you know going forward right while we've got whimsicott color X oh shifu rillipoom incinero anne ligo so this is tricky this is really tricky because obviously the mirror we talked about it a little bit in team preview and like p2 gives us a lot more options there against that so that definitely does help us there's no redirection on my opponent's team so um you know one of the options that we could go down is is probably going like trickery and p2 tapu lele is a lead it might work you've got to worry at that point though if if they lead whimsicott color X which I presume you would I think I'll go p2 lele we need the color X for sure so we're going to go color X in the back I think bring n tight and just this we'll just feel things out this this first game with this first game so it's always good and a best of one I feel you know you don't want to overcompensate too much you want to try and use a few things to your advantage to try and get a lead but you you don't need to worry so much like if you lose the first one it's all about getting as much information as possible right that's the big thing for us so we got whimmy and we got color X now color X has got to feel super threatened here now one of the options what we could do is just go straight for the trick room or we could go for the shadow ball um the tapu lele obviously if they do I think we keep lele to be honest for like a late game especially with the terrain up are we going to see an expanding force I don't know we may see really boom come in I think what we'll do is trick room we'll switch lele out and we'll go into enti because enti with the assault vest going to be able to take things a lot better we've got access to um snarl we've got access to sacred fire if we need to and it kind of checks the really boom that could potentially come in on that whimsy cot slot potentially the next turn so we can get the psychic terrain up after that but it kind of depends what what he decides to go for let's see but we want to protect the lele because we've got to stall out these these tailwind turns whatever we can't leave it in here like super vulnerable right when we're going out really boom the boom boom the big bad boom coming in so that's that's kind of fine I wonder if we'll just see astro barrage or um we may see torn from calorex you know my trick room itself calorex taunting uh protecting sorry taunting protecting that's what we like to see now here's the thing um do we switch lele back in and just go shadow ball into the calorex because that is definitely an option to get rid of the the grassy terrain as well um the thing you got to think about here is we're going to get faked out by the really boom but he knows that we're going to probably switch the lele back in um and it makes me think is the calorex going to switch out here knowing that it's super threatened and then the really boom just go for a big attack into p2 um whereas we could kind of call these bluff a little bit and just keep entire on the field and go sacred fire or we could go to be honest we could snarl as well that kind of covers everything uh but i'm gonna i'm gonna bring lele back in get rid of the grassy terrain while we got the opportunity to just shadow ball because if we can get the shadow ball into calorex we should knock it out and it has just protected so we'll see what's switching yeah it's switched okay he's not going to give it up that easy but we do get some nice damage onto the urshifu i guess which is good as the faker just covering that and there's the shadow ball so is it the water oh critical hit not ideal uh now we are scarved which is not ideal for us right in this situation um but we can try attack just check out is it the water it is the water so that's actually not terrible for us but again we don't really have the switches here you know what i mean where we could maybe keep lele in and just go dazzling gleam uh we may lose it as well which isn't which isn't ideal one little bit um but there's a try attack going to be able to get the the urshifu i don't know we've got to keep lele on the field because we can't switch into enti and take like a surge in strikes especially if we miss the knockout here which would be pretty terrible which yeah it's a bulky urshifu so i'm gonna see the knock off yeah you be all right and then close combat i think is what we'll see yeah and that will be enough but with the drops the dazzling gleam should be enough and we get rid of the one thing that like you know gives enti a lot of trouble so the dazzling gleam gonna come out we are locked into that of course but that's all right now enti coming in does have a really good time uh wimmy and calorex don't really want to face down against enti because especially in trick room where we've got the access to to snarl if we want and i think really the really boom has to switch out to whimsy cut so you can get your grassy terrain back for later in the game because it's more useful if you've got grassy terrain active to kind of clean up the the calorex that we've got i would imagine so there is maybe the opportunity where we could switch lele out here and just snarl it's very risky though they still got their tail wind up no they haven't tailwind have they they didn't tail wind they didn't did they tail went did they i don't know can't remember let's see no there's just trick room they're gonna protect i think they're gonna protect the problem is right um the problem is do we call the calorex protecting here because they're just gonna knock off lele and we can't afford i think we've got sacred fire into boom and we just dazzle just dazzle boom's gonna get the knock off but it means that next turn lele is actually slower than the calorex which is it doesn't protect oh they knock off the anti that's not good that's not good okay that's not ideal we get rid of the rele boom but that is not ideal i mean we still got our scarf but in this situation where we're going to take an astral brage and just get absolutely knocked out yeah not ideal and now we just lose to to whimmy yeah yeah nice call from him because we could have snarled in that situation but we chose not to we thought the calorex might protect um the only thing that we've got going for us now is um well no they just protect i think they just they just protect now and then they tailwind the next turn so they double protect then tailwind and then we just lose we got no way to um to get around this so i think he takes game one it's a pretty quick one we just have to astral brage that's all we can do and if he attacks here then maybe maybe we're gonna speed tie but that's the best it's gonna get in this situation not ideal but i mean he played it super well we could have snarled there i think it would have been the better option real boom would have stuck around on the field of course um but end tide probably would have still been around for this next turn and then the calorex would have been way less powerful and probably not picked up a knockout um did we see the whimmy just go for a moon blast yeah i mean if the whimmy isn't isn't sashed it's got to be sashed though it has to be sashed if it's not sashed we can we can remove it from the field and then we can still have that speed going into the last turn but i don't see i don't see it not being sashed not on this team wow and it's absolutely fat it's a fat whimmy as well so yeah that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it we'll lock in we'll give them we'll give them we'll give them the the pleasure of being able to knock it out because it's always bad when you when you see like um when you forfeit there we go and there's a tailwind yeah it's just locked in very precise okay well we learned a few things going into that first one it was very quick very fast paced but i think it's the nature of this this match i think the p2 is a big player for us but i think we need to protect it a little bit better against something like um the real boom because the real boom the knockoff causes all sorts of issues and you can see what an advantage with that we have under trick room so it's really about trying to get that trick room up maybe not early game but late game you know so wimmy lele let's try this cal-x and then do we go p2 like p2 it's going to struggle against a lot of these team whereas enti has options to kind of hit most stuff except the ashifu you know i think we go enti let's lock in but i think we have to keep pace like we can't go down the the trick room i don't think not this again unless we do and then it really restricts our options where we maybe don't then bring lele and i kind of feel like lele's are like a big tipping point in this game you know where we got the scarf on it we can guarantee if we get the tailwind up we're gonna be able outspeed the cal-x and just really pressure it but we do see the ashifu and we do see the incineroar which is fine um they can't tailwind but the incineroar can do a heck of a lot of damage this turn you know but i mean we can just go after the the ashifu if we want like a moonblast moonblast moonblast into that slot we don't really need to worry about like it's just the thing like the the ashifu probably protects right and we want to try and preserve our psychic terrain for later on in this match and we could potentially see the ashifu just switch to rillaboo which again might not be a bad thing but then we do see the the faker from the incineroar come in i mean one thing we could potentially do is just switch into enti keep our tailwind for later it's probably not a bad idea and then just go for a psychic into the the ashifu i think because with the terrain boost we should do a bit more to it and i don't think it'd be able to survive where it might be able to survive a moonblast but we do see it switch out rillaboo i'm gonna come in and the psychic will be nice damage uh although i think moonblast would have been a bit more powerful hopefully we see a fake out from the incineroar no fake out it's just gonna be um i think a parting shot yeah into lele yeah makes sense and ashifu i think we'll come back in yeah and this makes it a little bit more tricky for us of course because now we're fake out a bit and he knows we're gonna switch the lele out so you can easily just well you have to still i think you still have to fake out lele here so it does open the door for us it's just where the ashifu attacks into like we can pull a double switch pull wimmy in for enti and calorex onto the lele slot that could definitely be an option it's just so risky like with that that rillaboo have a knockoff oh it's calorex okay again though it's this makes it even trickier because now we've got the shadow ball that we can go into the calorex with but we know there's no whimsicott so i think one thing that we can yeah we've got to get the lele off the field we've got to get the lele off the field i think we get lele off the field and bring whimsicott onto the onto the field because at least then you know we've got the sash there and i think you go in this situation you probably fake out enti and go astro barge like the worst case scenario for us would be i think you turn on on rilla but then we would get the snarl off so it's not the worst but then you kind of just cycling that intimidate which then forces us to bring the lele in the next turn yeah no you turn incinero yeah but i mean we get a snarl off onto the calorex here which is which can be quite nice unless it protects here that and that that's not ideal now goes astro barge so take the wimmy down to its sash and do a good fat chunk to uh to enti as well but this snarl's gonna do some nice damage in return so that's that's good the calorex gonna switch out this next turn i think we could potentially just protect wimmy and go for sacred fire into the calorex slot and maybe expect like the rilla boom to come in there but again does it or is it gonna be the osha foo i mean even if it is the osha foo if we get the burn on it that's pretty handy the only issue would be i mean if they they fake out enti then fair enough right if they fake out enti fair enough i still think we'll take an astro barge but i think you're more likely to probably fake out wimmy or go for a point shot into the enti so we should get an attack off before you do anything and i don't think i think you want to get the calorex off the field now because of that snarl okay no switches yeah there's uh the uh potting shot coming out sacred fire should be enough here and we do take it with enti just about but we should be able to get rid of the calorex that's not ideal that is not ideal that is not ideal that's really not ideal okay okay okay okay it's fine it's fine um um lele i don't really want to bring in lele just yet i think the thing is with bringing in lele is the fact that um if we bring lele in now we can't really change the terrain they got a really easy way to change it although they can do at this turn where they just go for an attack into whimsy cut um but they can't leave the calorex on the field that's the big thing i think the potting shot of snarl with with incinero yeah i don't think they leave the calorex in because potentially what we could do is just go protect no we need the damage we need damage on we need damage that's what we need and we need to tailwind yeah we need the damage on the field we need the damage on the incinero because we're gonna struggle to take down that incinero now without enti and i know we're pretty low health anyway okay the calorex protecting this turn yeah yeah the tailwind i still mean we've got helping hand of course but it depends what the incinero's got as it got a dark type attack let's see incinero taking that pretty well as we kind of expected it to and flablets i mean the recoil's kind of okay that that works out all right for us because now we can lock i well we have to lock into moonblast i don't think we can lock into shadow ball so we got to lock in moonblast astro barrage is a moonblast gonna be ah maybe maybe you know maybe moonblast astro barrage will be enough to get the incinero i don't know i don't know i don't think it will be can we do it from this point if we can get you know we haven't had uh a snarl on to us yet so we're kind of still sitting in not a bad spot got a moonblast star the incinero and just hold it wow we can get enough damage on to it really that's the big thing um it is pretty chunky though let's see just need to do like what 50 50 percent damage i don't know if we can even do that to be honest calorex gone out really boom coming in yep hopefully astro barrage will be enough to do a big significant chunk of damage to this again we remove the incinero now we're in a great spot like honestly we're in a fantastic spot because calorex can then just take down oh we might get it you know if that doesn't activate yeah i think we've got it maybe able to do this okay now we're going to get faked out this next turn but calorex going to be able to pick up the really boom it's going to be hot though to get the urshufu do we get do we got world plus one so maybe plus one astro barrage will get the urshufu now maybe because you got to fake out the lele right got to fake out the lele we've got to take this to a game three we have to take this to a game three we've got no more options left this is it it's the urshufu okay if if a plus one astro barrage can get the urshufu then we are in business if not game over then it comes down to speed ties so there's a chance there's a chance but you never wanted to go to a speed tie really do you never really want it to i think it might come down to a speed tie anyway because i don't know if a moon blast will be enough to get the the color it should be right but you fake out lele here you have to i mean you could grassy glide of course grassy glide aqua jet might be might be a play as well that we see another fake out some more okay come on be enough to get the urshufu please urshufu is so weak come on okay we've got we've give ourselves a chance we give ourselves a chance okay so we are plus three now but it means nothing because our tailwind is gone it's all down to lele really it's all down to lele um um and whether or not lele can can pick up the knockout with with the moon blast would be nice if you'd lock into like the uh the old shared a ball but obviously we couldn't oh i don't know i really don't know like this is the thing it might not even matter now it may not even matter we're still in tailwind they're gonna protect we've got no way to to do anything else but astro barrage and moon blast yeah he's got to protect here yeah and he gets a little bit of health back as well there's no point of us protecting either here because it's just going to come down to a speed type either way so we just end it a turn earlier if we if we just attack now and just coin flip coin flip it um because i just don't see a moon blast being enough to do the job the only the only thing could be is maybe a special attack drop and we are able to take the astro barrage but i still don't think with the special attack drop that we would be able to take it in all honesty so we just got to lock in and hope that we can go to game three for all of you fine people at home that's what we want let's see can we get a little bit justice for this sacred fire mess earlier come on special attack oh we get it we get it we get it we get it we get it we get it did we win the speed tie we win the speed tie there we go oh we might not even win the speed time might be a slow calorax we don't know that yet i'm pretty sure it was a speed tie i'm gonna say it's a speed tie because uh okay well we get a game three and that's what it's all about okay so that is brilliant we tie it up one one it's very tight every step of the way um and you can see how much like i think the big thing from game one is obviously the whimsicott for for fevzi obviously just wiped the flow with us made it very difficult we bring the whimsicott he doesn't and it makes it very difficult for him so you can see where how the whimsicott plays is such a significant role in this match and it's not just the whimsicott it's the fact that the terrain walls are so important um so we're locking we'll go for game three which i'm very happy about to be honest you know happy that we can take it to a game three i didn't want to come in after that game one i was like oh my god it's gonna be like an absolute body bag moment i'm gonna be like too odd it's gonna be a bad one and fevzi's gonna be like i'm never asking that guy back again i'm never asking him again so here we go good luck to fevzi um you know it's gonna be tough as it has been but you know no hard feelings if i lose because he's he's an incredible player and this is a very tough matchup so what are we gonna see i think we see pretty a pretty similar team except i think the incineroar doesn't come this time and i think the whimsicott comes again which makes me feel like lele is a great option um again you know uh if we can and i think we need the whimsicott for sure we need wimmy but i don't know if we lead lele here you know we could potentially i feel really like i want to bring p2 but i just think we need to protect it a lot more than we have been doing like whimsicott p2 gives him a lot of issues and i think calorax lele i think calorax lele i don't think we bother about the anti i think the anti is giving us too many issues and i think p2 could yeah i think we'll go with this i really believe in p2 in this matchup you know it complicates things for him it makes him have to think about trick room and readjusting and the calorax isn't in the safest of spots right so let's see if we can wrap it up with a p2 is it a mistake not to bring the anti maybe maybe not maybe not but maybe it is okay well he's led perfectly he's read my mind he's used the old sharingan to uh itachi itachi style to read us like a book but we're we can pull ourselves out of this especially attack boost for p2 knock off incoming and we've got no switches in so we have to literally sack sack p2 here do they fake i mean even if they fake out with me like what are they gonna do they're gonna stop the trick room for the tailwind for one turn right i think we double into the urshifu yeah yeah let's just double into it if we can get rid of the urshifu one less thing to think about on this horrible team which is really yeah i love the bulky urshifu though it's great it is a very good pokemon grassy glide okay it's a close combat going to be enough now okay well we get the moon blast i'm gonna try and tackle pick it up if he misses yeah okay well p2 hangs on that's good that's a good trade for us you see the thing is we don't need to we don't need to pull the switches because we i our hands are pretty tied with what we can switch in right like i think this turn i think we protect we protect wimmy because we can always go for tailwind next turn and we shadow ball into calvex and we protect i'm hoping we see a grassy glide not an expanding force into p2 to get the boost although it doesn't matter really you know it's gonna happen at some point the calrex as long as we've got like lele to come in and check it it doesn't unless he doesn't attack the p2 here of course he does okay that's terrible for us that's really bad that's really not great that's sub carax that's genius i love it right um gotta go lele gotta go lele now what's he got in the back because potentially if you we could double relaboom here but we would lose lele and that's the biggest problem right that is the biggest problem for us i think we need to we need to tailwind yeah the problem is if they just double the wimmy with grassy glide astro barrage we're done but we need the tailwind up but at least we then get rid of the the sub i guess yeah this astro barrage take a stand while sub sash and wimmy and relaboom will clean up i don't think it's got u-turn though it has got u-turn and this is where wimmy comes in yeah wimmy wimmy wimmy he's got the wimmy or he's got incinero i mean either way it locks it with incinero locks it the wimmy's of course makes it a bit more interesting because then it comes down to speed ties and all we can do is astro barrage a couple of times and then i hope we get the boosts and then hope we've got enough health to take a grassy glide from relaboom and we've got the boosts behind us and then we can knock it out in one hit that's what we've got to hope for speed ties gotta love it gotta hate it i should have brought this ashen team that i used in the stream on friday but i was like no i'll mix it up i'll mix it up i'll bring something different today i'll bring the shadow rider team it makes a lot more sense to bring that let's see what this wimmy's of course gonna throw out a tailwind of course yeah now we're on a timer because we ain't got as many turns and tailwind as they've got now we can take down the whimsicott yeah it comes down to a speed tie again like it comes down to a speed tie that's all it comes down to because whoever gets the astro barrage first is the one that is going to win this match because if we get it we get plus two we can get probably enough to take down relaboom we've probably got enough to take a grassy glide right so it literally comes down to a speed tie which makes these these match up pretty but the incineroar i think instead of the wimmy would have probably edged it from a lot easier i think it wouldn't be easier in a sense but i think it would have it would have given him a way to take a lot more astro barrage and put some big damage onto us to allow them the relaboom to come in later and grassy glide and knock us out um but it comes down oh he's playing it very very very smart very smart unless we knock out the relaboom here buddy just protect on that yeah this is the thing yeah this is that he's won it now he's locked it up i think uh yeah he's locked it let's get like a crit on the boom um there's no way we do this because he just protects on our last turn of tailwind we can't then protect and uh we're in we're in a boat bunch bunch of trouble bunch of trouble yeah we'll play it out though but that is locked it locked it uh the taunt there very very well played and really nice selection of moves you know you cannot you cannot deny that yeah it's just these sort of matchups that the mirror is just so backing forward like you know if you lose like resources like we did took down the p2 early you got a good return for it this makes it it makes it very difficult in the late game we've got one turn tailwind i mean we get the we get we get relaboom but i mean we can't we can't taunt after that and again it comes down this unless he wants to risk the speed tie right now i doubt he does now he's locking it up yeah grassy glide maybe take that so we would have got it i mean we'll get the relaboom here but it doesn't really matter one one little bit he's timed his tailwind perfectly so we can't really can't complain about it we get the boost but it's done unless a taunt really wears off right now which would be so handy but i don't think it is nothing i think we've got one more turn for one more turn it's on unless it wears off now come on come on come on my heart skipped a little bit there when that tailwind message came up i was like it's ended it's ended it hasn't though can we protect we can't protect it's not allowing us to i'm very good game to my friend uh honestly he's such a great guy i have a lot of fun when i see him in real life events you know we've been to many uh events around the world you know uh brazil uh international championships we've been in multiple regionals before and uh it's always a pleasure hanging out with him he's one of my favorite people to hang out with at events so being able to eventually get a match for them on the channel is a privilege and like i say all his socials are down in the description below so uh definitely check out his channel and all his other bits because he's just an amazing amazing player and you need to go and check him out you'll learn a lot from him honestly he's he brings a lot of value to this game and the community in general so friends i just need to give a big shout out fevzie wants more even though i have done already but he deserves it he's a good friend of mine and thank you so much to each and every one of you for tuning in i hope you've enjoyed today's best of three we'll try and do a few more of these on the channel over the next few weeks and hopefully you do enjoy these if you do let me know down the comment section and we'll try and arrange a few more but uh have a great rest of your day let me know your thoughts on the battle and i'll catch you all for another episode very soon so until then friends take care of yourselves and bye bye