 Hello friends and welcome back to another VGC 2020 Battle Series episode. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode We're gonna be featuring a team based all around Steelix So I'm very excited about this team for one reason and that is the Persica obviously the Steelix I'm very excited about as well But with that steely spirit Persica with the introduction of Sword and Shield was a Pokemon that I looked at and I really Wanted to fit into a team somehow and I feel like with series 6 kind of coming to an end soon and With more Pokemon being viable in this format because of the ban list It's a perfect time to actually build something around Persica and actually have it be effective in the format And I feel like it can be so we started with a core of Steelix It's gonna say mega Steelix there, but we don't have Megas anymore And then the dust globes obviously gonna be the trick room set of there and something that can bulldoze We've seen it before proc the weakness policy on that Steelix and then get it really going And then we've got the option then to switch in the Persica with that steely spirit and give it steel type boosts a 50% boost on top of everything else and making an absolute monster It's got body press as well to kind of fall back on when we're not Maxed and then the rest of the teams kind of just there We've made up with a nice solid firewater grass core with the moon. This it gives us redirection helps with Helps us with certain things. It could be a bit problematic in the format helps us set that trick room up as well Give us a sleep threat with spore and then primarily not with the assault vest and then the safety goggles rotum heat So this is the team as always there will be a poker face down in the description below If you want to try that out or check it out or just see the team and the details of the EV spreads and sets and things like that And then we'll do a rental code as always like we do at the end of the episode So we'll jump in and have a couple of games and hopefully it's a lot of fun. I am really pumped about this team I'm really excited about it. So hopefully you guys enjoy it. Hopefully we can get a good couple of games in Okay, we got our first opponent of the episode Alex playing a bravery Gothetel Urshfu Durant Primarina and Rotom wash. So what's going on here? I mean you've got the trapping with the Gothetel Which makes it a little bit difficult and Do have fake out support on persica that we could utilize do they have trick room probably on the Gothetel So they may go for the trick room. They could have taunt as well, which could be a little bit awkward Hmm It's gonna be best for us to kind of approach this really I think the Urshfu is obviously the dark fighting one which could be a little bit tricky Okay, I think what we'll do is lead Hmm, I don't want to lead Primarina could lead Primarina I guess just if they lead Gothetel with Rotom becomes very difficult I think we need to try and prioritize getting a trick room up. We'll go a mungus and That's got persica. Yeah And let's go Steelix in the back with What's our last Pokemon with a mungus? Maybe and Because we can just put most of the stuff to sleep. Yeah, let's go mungus It gives us a good answer to Rotom and Primarina as well. Okay now we could leave lead a mungus and Just go up here But the fact that they got fake out on Gothetel makes it a little bit tricky because they can just fake out a mungus and get rid of our rage powder and And then wicked blows from there, but we're not actually gonna see huh. That's interesting. Okay, I Don't mind that too much at all Gothetel and the bravery was kind of expecting the Urshfu so the but the Urshfu is definitely lurking in the back for sure The nice thing about persica is we do have the trick room so we can just go Fake out onto the Gothetel Go for that trick room That forces Gothetel it cannot it cannot prevent our trick room and it cannot taunt us So that's a nice thing and we do have you turn so the next turn Okay We do take that which is interesting And the bravery dropping into the fences, but we do get the trick room up Hmm I Kind of want I need to be a that's what we've got We've got taunt on our desk up so we can stop them reversing the trick room as we go for a U turn Into the Gothetel which is perfect. Okay, so this this the taunt was really here mainly for a mungus So if we set a trick room up, which we normally can With a lead like this and then we can always taunt the mungus the next turn Which allows our kind of trick room or to perform a little better So when we get steelic set up We were not disrupted by what the mungus is doing because we can just taunt it and They're the first turn in the trick room if my opponent brings it onto the field But in situations like this as well where you you're looking down at Pokemon that can kind of reverse your trick room It's really useful in these sort of situations But it's whether or not you want to go for that or maybe something like allies with sure and Something in regards to that. Okay, so we're gonna see the bravery it is gonna max Imagine it goes for a max knuckle It's probably gonna go for a max knuckle into the person card imagine let's see They'll get the taunt into Gothetel at least we know that thing can't protect anymore And we'll get the U-turn which should do some nice damage Yeah, and does the life will actually take us down. Okay, that's perfect. That's perfect because now if they max knuckle They cannot yet That's ideal, okay, that's perfect and they trying to reverse the trick room, but they can't and now we can bring steelics in And steelics can do some Fat work. Okay, so we can't get rid of the Gothetel Because I mean we can we don't need to though and I'm gonna Bulldoze and I'm gonna go for an iron head Because you don't have a rock type attack on steelics. Unfortunately And I really needed to keep the body pressed there because I think it's so so useful and Rotten making its way into the field, which is fine The bulldoze just affecting our steelics Which is it doesn't really matter at this point like we kind of prefer it not hitting the bravery because obviously we Proc the defiant which would not be good, but they're gonna have to go max knuckle And we're boosting our defense the whole time. So we should be in really good shape. I think going forward Obviously the Rotten does cause us a few issues and that also causes us issues as well But I mean the bravery is not getting any use out of its max turns, which is interesting as we'll go for the steel spike again the next turn, but we can and Potentially go for I Mean we could max guard to be really safe And get a mungus in next to dust clops, but I don't know how useful that would be and I Just don't want steelics to be burnt. That's the only thing I will go for a night she had into Rotem Let's see hasn't got willow isp. That's the question probably got hydro pump though And that still will hit us for decent damage But we've got two turns of our max left. So let's see what we can do ally switch. Okay We're not getting any Any use out of our night shade because it doesn't affect the bravery. We'll get the steel spike regardless Still doing all right damage the thing is what we want to be doing is getting plus two on our defenses They're gonna max knuckle. I think So that so our body presses when we come out of this are gonna be hitting super hard. Yeah, there's a max knuckle doing literally no damage Zilch, okay So it's probably the the Rotem's probably not got willow isp so we can quite safely and Say that now I'm gonna go for I'm gonna chase down the bravery again I'm just gonna go for the world and the max steel spike again They can I'll I switch all they want after this we can stop putting body presses out. I will be plus two and It's not gonna be a great deal my opponent can do to get around that they can I'll switch on that But then it's not really gonna help them too much So bravery switching out to rent coming in. Okay Again Durant coming in. I'm not really like Steelix doesn't really can brush Durant off So easily We get the night shit is it citrus berry? No berry Okay, steel spike is gonna be wow. I mean that's huge damage or resist and Durant's Defensively bulky. So yeah, that's nice. That's really nice damage. Um hydro pump Okay, not so good not so good. I mentioned some back to normal Okay, now we can't afford to lose Steelix So we need to hmm Kind of think we have to potentially How many terms of trick room we've got left we've got no trick room turns left we out of trick room are we? But we need to trick room Let me just check that we 100% showing on trick room. Yeah, we're not okay So trick room and protect here And we get this trick room up There's the iron head trying to get the flinch on to dust globs We are plus two and it's life off. So it's probably in what's very close to being in Nightshade range now okay, so Get the trick room up perfect Okay, so I think I just literally go nightshade into Durant and I go body press into Rotom and then We should be it's all about whether or not we can take down this Durant really can we take it just misses out It's so close. This will get the the Rotom But it's just like the hustle might come in and save our bacon here, you know Box slide that's the wrong call 100% wrong call Because you would never have taken the Steelix down with that And then you lose your Durant. Okay Okay, we can pick up a victory here. We've got goth hotel and we've got Bravery, okay that's fine super fine, um Yeah, we can I think we taunt the goth hotel Probably protect this turn just because they might have fake out and I think they probably do And we don't want to lose Steelix just yet Because if we lose Steelix and we can't deal with the bravery then we are We're done because all we've got in the back is a moongus and it does not win against Bravery Anytime Hey, well, there's the ally switch. All right. Yeah, that's fine I'm gonna get the taunt into Bravery at least we know that can't protect now And close combat, which is fine. Okay Now do we call the ally switch again? I think you're gonna ally switch again. I really do. I think you're gonna ally switch again But I just I hate playing the ally switch again. That's a thing. No, they've shown it They're gonna ally switch again. I'm gonna body press into the goth hotel slot. Come on I should have never played the ally switch game. I said this a million times myself Okay, we're gonna get imprisoned. It's just not ideal And close combat. Yeah, it's gonna take down Steelix Not great. Okay. Well, we do have a moongus to come in So we can put stuff to sleep So there is maybe hope and we do have the cobra berry Maybe we're relying on a moongus to do everything among us. Come on. You can do this right Now I think we just Huh, are they gonna ally switch? I don't know They are like switch here for sure. I'm pretty sure they do I mean, we could double into the Bravery just in case they do and we can spoil And nightshade that slot. Yeah, they're going for it Okay, well, we'll we'll we'll be able to take down the goth hotel now And then we can spoil the bravery. So that's the play Okay, so we catch them off and now we've got the task of a lifetime on because Can we take this bravery down with the little of the moongus? I don't know if we can. It's a lumberry Okay, of course it is. It's always lumberry, but we have cobra berry. That's all all right I don't know. I mean they have reduced their Man, okay, the recall damage is going to be invaluable here Right well The dimensions turn back to normal. So we need to trick room We need to protect I don't know if we're going to be able to do this. I really don't I don't think we're going to be able to Maybe we're going to have to play this like super well And like guess when it's going to wake up Pretty much we need a three turn wake and if we bank on that we might be able to do it I'm gonna brave bird so the recall again. We should take this. Yeah There we go. And now we can Oh We've got nothing we can do. I mean we can taunt the bravery. It's not really going to help too much They probably protect Yeah, they're protecting okay The thing is what we need to do with the moongus is get back enough health To take another brave bird, but that's never going to happen. Is it or at least Get it down to the point where the recoil is going to be enough to actually KO itself So like gigadrin needs to do enough damage and I really don't feel like it's gonna Right, there's the taunt and then we need to spoil Which we've gotten out and we've got like three turns of trick. You know two turns of trick room. So We just need two turns of sleep After this, so there's one need two turns um Trick room two turns. Okay We've got nothing we can do. I mean we can nightshade Okay, and we have to go gigadrin See how much this is going to do Gigadrin come on do a decent chunk. Okay. That's not bad actually come on. Come on. Okay. I'm getting like I'm I'm actually believing if we can just get the sleep turns we need we can do this Come on sleeping sleeping sleeping. Okay Right, we needed to stay asleep this last turn. So this would be Yeah, we needed to sleep this turn if we get this turn we can win this So we just need this turn for the bravery to sleep. Come on a moongus I think the recoil might be enough now for it to go down. It's asleep. Come on Okay, now we protect the moongus now we set up the trick room And we can actually just do this. Okay. This is ideal. Okay, perfect. Come on. Good game to my opponent We'll take it. We'll take it every day every single day. Okay, that's perfect Right, let's move on to our next opponent hot tennis is their handle They're playing a team of kingdra polytod blastoise raichu serena and volcarona. So it's a heavy rain team with the polytod kingdra there G max blastoise is probably the kind of partnering to that And then you got the raichu support with the lightning rod likely anyway with fake out nuzzle support Serena that's going to provide protection against priority attacks and then volcarona with redirection. I would guess So big thing we need to do is get our trick room up With disclopses can do pretty handily. I don't see my opponent Anywhere having taunt. So we're going to be we should be able to do that The thing that would scare me a little bit would be probably blastoise and polytod They maxed and went for that um steelix is going to have a harder time than usual um And we're probably better off bringing purory now as our last one rather than persica, but It's annoying because we haven't featured persica yet and I kind of want to feature persica Um, can we just forcefully bring it? I mean we could We need a mungus So it's like it's either we go from arena or persica And we want to win. So sometimes you just got to do this. Okay I'm sad that we haven't been able to bring the persica Yeah Because it is a beast it is a beast And I would like to be able to use it. I mean we we brought it in the last one for sure, but We kind of wanted to feature a bit more don't we so okay. We've got blastoise and bocorona a lead It's a little bit awkward for sure because I think we're pretty safe though going for a trick room And maybe just protect a mungus here because then we can just start sporing the next turn um We're gonna see what's about maybe shell smash. Okay Makes sense And then what we're gonna see quiver dance. Maybe we're uh I wonder what we're just a heat wave. Okay. Just to get damage on the mungus Um, but does sclops gonna be able to take this pretty comfortably. Yeah, okay, so We get the trick room up now we can put Like we want to put the blastoise to sleep But the thing is I feel like we're probably not going to be able to put the blastoise to sleep Because we're going to see a rage powder come out from the vulcorona Which is going to mean if it's got safety goggles that makes it very difficult to play around especially with the mungus We're not going to get them the benefit of what a mungus normally can do and disrupt teams with the trick room up. So Hmm And if there is rage powder, which we've got to assume there is we're probably going to see a max hailstorm From the blastoise because it will max here a hundred percent Such a beast as well. It's difficult very difficult to deal with. Okay. So there's a rage powder We've just got a hold. Okay. Well, we're not seeing a blastoise max Um, we are going to get a nightshade. Which is good Um, and has it got the safety goggles? Oh, no, of course. We ignore rage powder Haha, I forget I forget Because we're a grass type. It doesn't affect us. So that's fine. Okay. That's perfect. Um Now we're going to get steelix onto the field Are we are we no, I don't think we are I think we go No, I think we're just going to try and deal with this blastoise if we can And we're going to giga drain And nightshade the blastoise because it's such a big threat Like we can't really deal with the blastoise with steelix as well as we kind of want. Um Okay, now it's in nightshade range. So that's perfect Heatwave coming out, which is fine So this term what we'll do is we'll nightshade the blastoise And we'll spoil the volcarona And then the following turn is where we can Get steelix in and bulldoze. Yeah There's a nightshade and And this is where we find out it's got the um The safety goggles And then we compounded sleep Okay So there's blastoise down, which is handy and the spoil. No safety goggles. Okay May have lump, but we'll see I don't think it does Yeah I only say safety goggles and I always presume it's safety goggles back in the day in like earlier formats. I used to play When volcarona was played a lot more new safety goggles would be a lot more The overused item on that pokemon. Um, again, I feel like We're probably better off just chipping away and putting the kingdra to sleep now Once everything's asleep, we kind of got to keep our mungus on the field to get our trick room set up Again, that's the only thing. Okay, the kingdra going to protect We just got to hope that the uh, the volcarona doesn't wake up. Okay, so there's the spawn to the protect Volcarona stays asleep. I don't think we're going to be able to pick up the knockout on volcarona the only thing Um, and uh, yeah, so we need to All right, we need to trick room now and we need to rage powder Because kingdra's gonna max Oh, it's not that's interesting. It's all wood max here And get rid of the um, okay. There's a hurricane. That's risky. You see you see I think you just You need to um You need it to max there now mungus are going to stick around a little bit longer But we get a trick room up which is perfect Okay um I think the kingdra probably protects here Which makes me want to bring steelics in And boulders while we've got the opportunity to and we just set a trick room up We might take a heat wave for our troubles or we probably will um But I think the kingdra protects if it doesn't it's likely to go wow it doesn't protect, huh? Not gonna go muddy water is it? Hopefully not. I'm hoping it goes hurricane like it has done the previous turn We're gonna see heat wave from the volcarona imagine That mean dust globs goes down and then we can get a mungus back onto the field Oh my god a heat wave took our steelics down Okay, that's not good That's quite possibly the worst case scenario here. Um All right. Well primarina is what we need And a mungus can come in We're not maxing just yet. We can put the kingdra to sleep and just hyper voice And with primarian aerosol fist I mean if they've got rain is like the polytore in the back Which you would imagine they have got with the kingdra. We're in a decent spot Regardless of what what happens now Just a bit sad that the steelics got taken down It was a bit of a risky turn to be honest Like I'm kind of playing off the fact of what my opponent did the last turn of trick room Where you know, they just brought the kingdra in Um, and they want to just protect stall the trick room turns out. I don't want to get put to sleep So I'm thinking Well, if you're kind of playing the same sort of game as you were before you're playing kind of defensively You're gonna you're gonna protect here. Um But didn't expect the heat wave to take us down. That was a big surprise. Yeah polytod. That's perfect And I think we just win with primarina now if I'm completely honest Kingdra gonna protect that's fine Because I mean the next turn we just spoil the polytod We just go for max starfall into the kingdra and we kind of win Because of all corona, there's no way it can deal with primarina in the rain Okay, let's go for that and let's go for the sport into the polytod. The other option is obviously going for Oh, no, no, no we spoil with with there among us before we get the s the terrain up So we're all good. Um, the other option is gone after the kingdra here putting that to sleep But it's not really a big threat. I mean it's a threat to among us But I mean at this point I feel like primarina can probably win this game itself The only issue would be the polytod with perish song, but we're going to be putting it to sleep now So it will give us a little bit of room To play around that and the volcarona hasn't revealed protect so if we can force that back onto the field Then we can get rid of it pretty easily in one turn. So Paris song isn't too much of an issue um Because by the time the perish song comes into effect the trick room should have ended will be the slowest things on the field So we'll technically win if the polytod's still kicking around at that point and that's a worst case scenario I feel so the starfall should take the the kingdra down Let's we see it maxi and it may be able to take it Yeah And then it will be able to get rid of our among us So probably is going to be able to take the starfall. I'd imagine Oh, actually max guards, but it fails because it's just protected. So that's a such a waste of a turn And we're getting that free starfall into it. And now, yeah, that locks the game up for us And whether or not my opponent thought okay, that just takes it down and clean. I didn't realize I thought we might need the life or but no kingdra is not as strong as what I thought Um, yeah now now we've just won this because polytod can't be permerina or among this by itself really A volcarona coming in and like we said before like volcarona hasn't revealed protect once So I don't think it's it's got protect. We could be wrong and it could have just been playing Quite boldly in the earlier turns Um, but I think that's gonna be it so Just go for the giga drain sad that we didn't get steelics going in this game But I guess the other elements of the team it's nice to kind of show those off We got the steelics going in the the the game earlier and it did a bunch of work. So um We played some tricky stuff as well like ally switch stuff and things that we kind of like More more awkward things and we've got through them kind of Pretty well So you can't really complain too much the team's done decently and I think it's got plenty of options I would have just like to have seen a bit more of the persica And but that'll have to leave that to you guys Take the team away and try it out for yourselves And uh, if you've got any cool persica stories Definitely leave them in the comment section down below. I'd love to hear all about them That mentions turn back to normal finally and we've got one more turn of our max we can Go for an overgrowth and we'll go for a giga drain And that will be enough to get rid of the polytod and there's the battle cancelled. So there we go two wins Two different mods of the team. I'm happy. Hopefully you guys have enjoyed this one And um, we'll jump straight over and get that rental code for you Here is the rental code for the team And like I say friends, I hope you enjoyed. Hope you have a lot of fun with the team I think it's got a lot of A lot of potential and I think it's going to be a lot of fun playing it on the ladder So if you do take it away and have a go with it, definitely let me know Hope you've enjoyed today's episode as always if you have please remember to drop a quick like on the video Really does help the channel out and like I mentioned earlier If you're not subscribed and you enjoy this sort of content in other pokemon content Make sure you do hit that subscribe button Turn on the notification bell and you'll get all the notice with when we upload So there is the team have fun with it and that wraps us up for today So take care of yourselves friends. Have a great day Whatever you're up to and i'll catch you all again for another episode very soon. 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