 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've got a fantastic team to feature and a big shout out to Evelyn Taylor, who is actually the person that provided this rental for us today. She reached out to me on Twitter last week asking me if I'd like to feature this team, either me or Aaron, and I don't know if Aaron's actually featured it yet, but I definitely jumped at the chance to feature this team. So this is a team that Evelyn played and ran in the Hatterine series. For those of you that don't know about the Hatterine series, it is a tournament set up for to welcome women and non-binary relating people into a tournament series, into a safe environment for them to get involved in the community, play Pokemon and VGC and things like that. It's a really nice idea and it's really nice to kind of finally raise awareness about it on the channel. I think it's something that can appeal to a lot of players, especially if they feel a bit more intimidated when it comes to these big events and want somewhere to kind of kind of start off and feel like they're not in an intimidating environment, which it never should be. But that's a conversation for another day. But it's nice to raise awareness of all the links to everything like that down below, as well as Evelyn's Twitter handle, give her a follow. She's an amazing player and obviously she did a great team report, in-depth team report over on Smogon, which I'll link as well, which is worth checking out if you're interested in this team. So getting on to the team, though, here is the rental for it. We'll have a couple of games with the team as we always do. And then we'll finish off with the rental at the end of the episode. So yeah, we've done but starting off with the double dragons. I love double dragons, obviously old school VGC player. Normally when we talk about double dragons, it is Salamence and Garchomp. But we're a bit more forward today. We're a bit more in the future and we've got Dragon pull upgrade and that. Well, I don't know if it's an upgrade, but it's a variation anyway. We've got the Dragon pull, Garchomp. I do love that combination. I think both Pokemon doing very well in the format at the minute. And then you can see the Terakian up next, which pairs very nicely with the Dragon pull. Obviously got really good synergy there between them. Anyway, and you've got that beat up combination that I'm hoping we can get going in today's episode, the Celesteela, which another really good Pokemon that's kind of really jumped at the users that's recently doing extremely well. And the Assault Vest variant is the option here with the energy ball, which is a little bit different from what you normally see on Celesteela. But a really good one as well. I think it gives you nice coverage against things like Rotom Wash, because that's something that I played in Place Club that gives you good match up against Celesteela. And, you know, the energy ball, it doesn't isn't as easy, you know? And then Incineroar and Amungus ran the team off where which are just a brilliant staple, support staples. So there is a team. Quick intro, explained everything. Once again, a big shout out to Evelyn. Hope you all enjoyed today's episode. It's going to be a fun one. And without further ado, friends, we'll get into our first match of today. OK, first up today, we have a Charizard Mama Swine, Windsor-Cot, Tapulele, Urshifu and Reggie Alecki team. So Tapulele is one of those Pokemon that I see popping up more and more, especially from Japanese players at the moment. So I wonder if that'll kind of start to seep over to our format as well in the next coming week. That'll be interesting to see. It's a nice offensive Pokemon plays well with Charizard as well. They cover each other's weaknesses pretty well. But you can see by the main kind of fire point for the team is going to be from that Windsor-Cot with the tailwind putting the Mama Swine or the Charizard, or even the Tapulele, for sure, into a really good position. Turn one with that prankster tailwind. Other speed control you've got is the Reggie Alecki with the electoral web. And then you've got Airstream support and it's about it for the team. So it doesn't really struggle too much in that respect. It's very good, very strong. But obviously if we had a trick room element, it wouldn't necessarily do as well. Now we could go with a beat up combination here, but there is issues around that. Obviously, of course, with things like the tailwind, it puts Mama Swine before the Tarakian and then that can cause us all sorts of issues. So I think something like Incineroar here is good. Something like Celesteela is is generally quite good. You've got to be very careful of that Charizard. So it kind of leaned more towards the Tarakian here. Celesteela will wrap up with and then I think will round things off with good old Garchomp. They can do a decent job against most of the stuff on my opponent's team. Got to be careful around that Tapulele, though, of course, and even to a certain extent, the Whimsicott that if you don't deal with it early on, quickly enough, well enough, then it can come back to kind of bite us a little bit because the Wimmy Tapulele like board position there won't be good for Garchomp if we've got that out on the field. But we are thankfully seeing that as a lead here for my opponent. Incineroar are in a really good spot and it gives us the option to switch straight into something like Celesteela here that will be able to like absolutely just have a field day in front of these two fairies. But we've got to be careful because I think the one thing that we want to do is try and keep Tarakian for that potential Charizard that could be kicking around in the back that would cause us all sorts of issues. So I've got a few options here. We can we can't go for Faker. Obviously, we can go for Flareblitz, Taunt and all the potting shot. I feel like a potting shot into the Tapulele might be not a bad idea. Then we can get something like Tarakian back on to the field if we want. And then it allows us to switch Incineroar back in or we can go for the Garchomp as well, which may give us a slightly different option. You know, but you've got to watch out. I think the thing that the big thing to note here is the Tapulele and most of these kind of builds is normally specs. So it is going to be pretty hard. The one positive that you don't get from Tapulele when you're facing it, those have to worry about expanding force because it doesn't get access to that move. Yeah, travesty, travesty, because I think if Tapulele got expanded force, it would be everywhere. Unfortunately, it didn't. I would have loved it to, you know, I think it deserves to. We're seeing the moon blast into the Celestino here. And we do take a pretty hefty chunk of damage there. But it's not terrible. I think the thing that we want to try and do is remove the whims are cut from the field as quick as we can, you know, we'll just bring in Terakian. We've already shown Terakian to our opponent, so there's no point of revealing our last Pokemon. We can keep them guessing for a little bit longer. I think we pull. I mean, we've got a couple of options here. We can potentially. Just protect, just protect Terakian here. It's not a bad play. And then just go for the flash cannon into into the Tapulele. We don't need to max and I don't think we max because I think if we max, we kind of limit ourselves on what we can we can do going forward because maybe the Charizard hits the field, right? And then if we're Max or Celestilo, we're kind of limited. Terakian not on the greatest of spots. So it's kind of better almost if we just buy that time a little bit. Do you see the Moon Blast come up from Tapulele into the Steel and Us switches, though? So the flash cannon should pick up the knock out here. Oh, Tapulele just hanging on. It does mean that we're going to have to probably switch Terakian out to Incinero here. Could Max Rockfall? We could Max Airstream as well. I think at the tailwind setup, I'm sure they have, right? They got the tailwind up. So what we want to potentially do is go and Max. No, no, no, no, no. Let's just go for another flash cannon into Whimsicot and switching Incinero. Like I said, I don't really want to pull the trigger too quickly on Maxing, like there is the temptation here to just Max Celestilo. But I do worry about potential Charizard in the back and I don't want to get rid of the Lele in particular. Too quickly, because it means that my opponent can get that Charizard onto the field. We kind of want to remove the Whimsicot before this tailwind ends. So we're in a good spot now where we can kind of do that, where we could Max Celestilo this next turn and then that would put us ahead of the potential Charizard coming in. And we can't get, like, sidelined by, like, what, yeah, I think, OK, what we're going to do is putting a shot onto the Tapa Lele, Max, Max Airstream. The tailwind ends. We're going to put ourselves at plus one. We should have to be the majority of things on my opponent. So the field, except, except the Regi Alecchi, of course, which we can't get the jump on. It doesn't matter how many speedboosts we get. Well, I mean, if we get, no, I don't know. I don't even know. Well, with three, with three, I don't think it would. We need, like, tailwind behind us, as well, I think. Regi Alecchi's just so ridiculously fast, right? But we'd at least outspeed the Charizard if it comes onto the field without that tailwind support. We've got to watch out for ElectroWeb if that is the other thing to think of. Charizard's definitely in the back. You can, you know it. The sunny day coming out, you can feel it. There's a moon blast again at being to Incinero. But this is all right because we'll get Tarakian onto the field and we'll get the Airstream. So it's not the worst. And if Incinero goes before, no, I didn't think so. Be nice if Incinero went before us there because then we can Ponding Shot get the speedboost onto Tarakian as well, which just gives us a little bit more leeway going into the next turn at least. But it's fine. I don't expect it to be Scarfed Lele though. I don't think it's Scarfed Lele. It is minus two now, regardless of whatever it is holding. I'm sure it's a Specs though, I'm pretty sure. Pretty sure it's Specs. So we'll get Tarakian back onto the field. And like I say, we've got the Garchomp in the back just in case the Regi Alecchi decides to pop its head up at any point and then we can kind of protect Celestila. That way their tailwind pitters out. Plus one with Celestila. And I really suspect, well maybe not the Charizard now, not the Tarakians out on the field. It's probably like, I don't really wanna come out. Wanna come out just yet? It does well. Brave, brave old Charizard. We just click the rock slide button and we'll go for the Max Rockfall as well. Cause we, like I said, we'll outspeed the Charizard with Celestila. We've got the Assault Vest. We'll take away this Sun. Double rock into the Charizard. Don't matter what kind of Charizard it is. Even if it's got the Charity Barrier it's going down this turn. Unless I'm pleasant. Well, if I'm completely surprised, I don't think I will be. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, this is why I would have expected maybe something like the Regi Alecchi to come in here. That's what I expect my opponent to have in the back. Could be Urshifu as well. You know, Urshifu probably doesn't wanna come in. But I think since you've got the Sun set up, it's, you wanna try and make the most of your Charizard. But unfortunately not gonna be the case with Celestila proving with that very well timed airstream where we're getting the jump and tracking, doing all the work that we needed to. And then my opponent down to the last Pokemon soul. Yeah, you know. I think the thing is like, when you've got something like Celestila you've gone up against it. You've got to really try and get your speed control up and then make use of your big powerhouse Pokemon like your Charizard. You need to get it onto the field in a trick room. And there was plenty of times where my opponent had the opportunity to do that where we're switching around because we're in an awkward spot with what we led potentially, you know. We'll go for a cloth combat and an airstream and that will be game. Unfortunately for my opponent, a pretty quick one for us to kick off with the day. But very nice one, all the same. So good game to my opponent as they cancel the first battle but we get to have a good showing from the Terraccan from the Celestila to kick us off with today which is always nice. So with that friends, we'll jump straight into our next game of the episode. Okay, next up today we have a Reggie Alecky, Whimsicott, Mammothwine, Maltres, Dragovish and Chandler. So all the things that you don't want to see you've got the imprisoned trick room there to stop any potential trick room set up although we don't have it. You've got lots of speed control while that's a big thing for us here supporting. Predominantly gonna be the Maltres, the Mammothwine and the Dragovish. Dragovish, one of those Pokemon that we just don't want to have to entertain really especially in the tailwind because it can do all sorts of nasty things to us. I think we really need to concentrate on shutting down the tailwind early doors if we can and we need a Pokemon that's gonna kind of support us well enough in being able to do that. Obviously if we bring the Dragopult the Maltres causes us a few issues. The Tarakian, obviously the Mammothwine causes a few issues. Celestila feels like the best kind of bet although doing that a lead of either Reggie Alecky or Chandler could cause us a few problems in that respect but I think we've got switches haven't we? We've got switch ins for those problems. I think Garchomp is needed here just for the Maltres and the Reggie Alecky. Gotta be careful around the Mammothwine in particular and then it comes down to our last Pokemon. Do we want Mungus for the redirection which could be really useful against something like Dragovish just protecting other Pokemon as well from things like Ice Shard especially if you've got Garchomp on the field. I don't know, we'll see what my opponent leads. It'll kind of surmise if we want to max early on with Celestila and kind of start stacking those air streams, beast boosts if we can or if you want to switch things up to the Garchomp maybe. I think the fall we've got kind of help out a lot and this is one of those teams that we've seen a lot of like the Pokemon like Maltres, things like Glaring sorry Glaring Maltres and the Mammothwine kind of pick up a lot of usage recently, you know it makes sense to see the Reggie Alecky come out with the Whimsicott. Now they've got a couple of options here where they could potentially help in hand into the Incineral slot expecting us to switch Celestila to Garchomp. I feel like we pull a double switch here if I'm completely honest, I think we go Garchomp and I think we preserve Celestila for later on this game bringing Mungus because if they go help in hand Thunderbolt or help in hand max Lightning into the Celestila at least Mungus is going to be able to take that a lot better and if they do try and kind of scout us out with going after the Incineral thinking that Celestila is going to switch to Garchomp then at least we kind of catch them out in that respect we're just going to see a protect here from the Whimsicott and the Thunderbolt into yeah Mungus. Now the problem is now we can rage powder but the issue with rage powdering right now is we can't really get around the Whimsicott because it is a grass type and it is immune to powder moves and I'm sure you all are aware of that but we'll try and get Incineral back onto the field because then it gives us that active fake out which gives us a little bit of room around the Whimsicott in particular, we don't worry so much with Garchomp in front of the Regi Alecchi at the minute but we can't really stop this tailwind and the one player would be worried about here is Tailwind Volt Switch into Mamoswine now we're just going to see the Thunderbolt which is fine it's not fine because it does a ridiculous amount of damage but it doesn't look like we're going to see yeah the tailwind just yet and we do have the opportunity where we can potentially I don't know if I want to max don't know if I want to max maxing maxing kind of limits our ability on what we're about to do we could just because the Rockfall is not going to get the Whimsicott and there's likelihood that you just protect or we could fake out onto the Regi Alecchi this turn let them tailwind I don't know if they Moonblast do they Moonblast no they do they Moonblast they go off to Garchomp oh that's a bit annoying huh okay that's not ideal Whimsicott this is a problem with Whimmy okay let's go Moongus Incineroar going to go down now that's the issue all right let's go Garchomp to Celestila and Inse to Moongus and that gives us full protection and a good board position where we can maybe airstream the following turn max airstream into Whimmy Rage powder with a Moongus because we're in a bit of a bind against this Whimmy that's just deciding to be a bit more offensive my opponent getting so much damage on the field so that's Specs Alecchi as well like is it I don't know maybe Magnet okay and there's the Moonblast so now we go for the airstream this is where they tailwind I think and we rage powder the other thing that they could potentially do is is max Rage Alecchi here and get the electric train up so they can just nuke the Moongus to follow and turn it although two Thunderbolts is gonna get us regardless of what what they do you know so let's see if we can we can pull ourselves out of the Maya in this situation against these two really frustrating Pokemon okay help in hand well no tailwind which makes things a little bit easier we do get the rage powder I'm hoping that we're going to be able to take a Thunderbolt Regie Alecchi's so bust isn't it yeah we just about just about let me get the Whimsicot finally thankfully gosh gosh gosh gosh and I mean the next turn we can go rage powder and go into the Alecchi the issue would be if we see Mama Swine come out onto the field now and then Ice Shard causes a bit of an issue because then Ice Shard gets rid of the Moongus and then obviously if the Regie Alecchi decides to max and go after the Regie the Celestila then that's the Dracovish okay still kind of one of those situations where it's very similar to before because we're going to take a Thunderbolt whatever we do I think we've got our Airstream again Airstream should get Alecchi if it doesn't max and we rage powder what's maxing it's going to be Regie Alecchi Regie Alecchi it will outspeed the Dracovish it will outspeed the Dracovish yep and we're not going to be able to get the knockout onto at this turn I don't think not so good not so good unless the Dracovish outspeeds and then the Alecchi's quite slow no not happening and that's not what we want to see that is definitely not what we want to see unless a plus one will get the Regie Alecchi maybe maybe I don't think it will though oh it does okay very surprised by that very surprised Celestila doing all the good stuff so we get rid of the Regie Alecchi which is amazing we're going to take a big old fat vicious rend oh psychic fangs we're going after the the mungus there potentially well well well maybe maybe maybe maybe we just bring in Garchomp now I think we just bring in Garchomp because we can max Airstream it protect if we need to oh yeah okay that's a little bit marked for key hmm well we know the Garchomp will add speed the uh the Dracovish we can just go full do we go for a Rockfall Steel Spike Steel Spike is probably better yeah Steel Spike and go for an Incinero switch we can get an Intimidate onto the Dracovish but we're obviously not going to be able to onto the the mammoth swine but we'll be able to get a Steel Spike defense boost which will kind of put Celestila a bit out of reach for both these pokemons to be able to kind of hit um so protect from the mammoth swine that's fair enough yep and take a nice fat chunk there get that defense boost and then now what we get another psychic fangs is it locked in is it locked itself into psychic fangs that would not be ideal um if it has that's really bad news for it we'll go for an S slash into the Dracovish and we'll go for a fake out into the Mammoth because it looks like they're banded yeah okay well that wraps it up and that we see a nice bit of the team there as well so a very good game to our opponent and two nice games today we get to see a bunch of the team which is always good and we'll wrap up now with that rental code friends okay friends here is today's rental team a massive shout out again to Edlin for providing us with this team and anytime you have a team that you'd like to see featured everland this is just a one-off just to say that anytime you do have a team we'd love to feature it it's been a lot of fun playing this team today obviously didn't get that beat up combination off like we would have liked to but if you do try the team out and you get it and successfully get that go on then let me know because it is a hard one to get off now everyone's kind of aware of it people know how to lead against it it's not as easy and it feels like more of a late game thing to try and to try and utilize but I think the team in general is amazing the seller stealer works so well with everything the moonga still proves like it's one of the best pokemon in the format I think it's supporting especially alongside the incinerator just so good disruptively and giving you room to kind of get your big powerhouses on the field and start doing stuff I love the life up dragapult as well because you've got the beat up option there but you've also got the option where you can max dragapult in certain situations where it's more favorable and the garchomp with the white herb a nice option there to kind of get around the intimidate support that your opponent's going to kind of throw out at you on the garchomp most of the time really great team had a lot of fun with it hope you've enjoyed it friends if you have leave your comments down below and definitely give Evelyn a follow over on twitter and check out the Hatterine series if you're not familiar with it already so thank you so much have a great rest of your day we'll be back soon with more vg action so until then friends take care of yourselves and bye bye