 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 Battle Series. We are here again today. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris and we'll be continuing on with this dual primal team that you can see on your screen in front of you now. As always, the team is down in the description below. There is a role-pist and a poker-pist. If you'd like to try the team out, do let me know. But if you just want to have a look at the details of the team, then check them out and you'll know what we're going into the battles with this week on the channel. Like I said in yesterday's episode, we'll probably be changing things up as we go up into the latter parts of this week. So if you've got any burning desires to see anything played, do let me know and I'll make sure we do try and cover it as best we can. As always, if you do enjoy this sort of content, please remember to drop a like on the video. Do subscribe to the channel and as always, leave your comments. Like I said, do love hearing from you and sometimes because of my sickness last week, I'm not always able to get back and respond to each comment, but I do read them all and I will make a point of leaving a little like and heart next to all the comments because I do appreciate them all if I haven't got time to go through them and actually reply to all of them, which at the minute seems a bit stretched. But we're doing all right with the team this week. We made some changes from last week. We've got the inclusion of Bronzon and Ceblei, which did some work in our first game yesterday for sure. We didn't bring it to a second game and made some dodgy decisions, but you can go back and check that episode out if you haven't caught already. But we've got a first opponent of the day, so we'll hop straight into team preview. My first opponent today, we're running a team of Groudon, Tapufini, Salamence, Tapulele, Duskman, N'Krosma, and Incinero. So we've probably got Duskman and Ultron N'Krosma as a variation on this team alongside that Tapulele and then the Groudon supporting the rest of the team from a restricted standpoint with support from Tapufini, Incinero kind of standard and then the speed control going to be the Salamence. So Trick Room is kind of appealing against this team. Bronzon has an all right time outside of the Incinero as long as we can keep the rain up. Because Bronzon doesn't really care about Duskman and N'Krosma at all. So that's definitely something we can play on. So Kyogre, Groudon, going to be pivotal for us in this match. I do want to bring Saber-Lie as well and kind of Saber-Lie. The Lele could be a bit of a problem. But if we see the... Yeah, I'm going to bring... What do we do? What do we do? What do we do? Let's bring Saber-Lie, Kyogre, Bronzon and Groudon just in the nick of time as well. So Yuki VGC, good luck and hopefully it's a good one for us today. The lack of us bringing Salamence this week already is worrying me. But Salamence is always a good Pokemon to bring against the Poison Groudon. The Ultron of Krosma and Tapulele scare me a little bit. But we'll see what my opponent goes for. So we're seeing the Tapu-Fini and the Krosma come out of my opponent. I've got to worry about the Farium-Z from this Tapu-Fini onto our Saber-Lie for sure. But we do have to fake out this first turn that we can play around with. The other thing I think is... Did we get the Groudon baited in here? That would be something I could definitely see my opponent doing. I'm going to fake out the Fini though and I'm going to bring in Bronzon for Kyogre. I'm not really too worried about this Nekorosma right now. Obviously with the Misty terrain up as well, there is a little bit of an issue with us being able to gravity set and then go for any Hypnosis support at the minute. So we'll have to try and wait for that terrain to expire before we can go down that route. And I think the lack of Kalko for us as well is a little bit of a problem. It makes Tapu-Fini a lot harder to deal with. Nekorosma is just going for the Protect here as we're going to see the Tapu-Fini. Maybe try and go for an Aegis Madness here, I don't know. But this next turn I feel like we've got a nice way of going for... Did we go for a foul play out? Are we just switching to our own Groudon? I kind of feel like I want to just switch into Groudon here and just Trick Room. It's just the only thing that might be a little bit of an issue is the Finney either going for a taunt in the Bronzong or a Nature's Madness into the Sableye slot. We'll go for the Trick Room and we'll bring in Groudon. I want to preserve Sableye for later in this game anyway because I think a late game fake out support is always going to be nice to try and help us set up Trick Room again if we do need it. We're going to see Groudon hit the field from my opponent so that's fine. This is where the Nature's Madness would come in a little bit more problematic for us because then Groudon's a lot more susceptible to get knocked out by precipice blades or an Earth Power from my opponent if we've taken damage already and why the foul play into that slot would have maybe been a little bit smarter. Okay, we'll see what my opponent goes for. This is again where the Skill Swap comes in. It's quite a nice option for us. Nature's Madness into Groudon. Okay, not ideal. I mean it's not the end of the world because if Groudon does go down then we do have our Kyogre to come in. I am going to go for a precipice blade and I don't think I'll go for the gravity because the levitate right now is kind of helping us out quite a lot. We could lose Bronzon, that would be the only issue here. Yeah, you're going to have to double up into Bronzon like Nature's Madness and Fire Punch and that would leave our Groudon kind of free to just get another precipice blade off the next turn. So I don't know whether you would do that. I don't think that's like high on the priorities list right now. And then the Kyogre switch is something that we could do so it's going to put doubt in my opponent's head, I'd imagine. So we'll get Jarobor doing decent enough damage and there's a precipice blade so we'll get good damage onto the opposing Groudon and oh, we pick up a knockout. Is that a crit? Okay, well we get a little bit lucky there. I'll take it. We proc the barrier on the finny, nasty crit. There's a niche as madness into the Groudon again. Okay, so whether they were going for the Fire Punch into the Bronzon or not, that's another thing. We could probably go for the gravity now though or maybe just go into Kyogre. A nice option might be going for the gravity. Yeah, we'll go gravity with Bronzon, protect Groudon. I don't want Groudon going down here and even though we are intimidated, I think the next turn we could potentially switch in Kyogre. Or we could just stay in to be honest and precipice Jarobor as long as Bronzon sticks around this turn. The other option is obviously switching Groudon out to Kyogre here but then if we do that we're kind of falling into the trap of maybe taking another niche as madness from the finny onto Kyogre and just weakening our restrictives which we don't really want to do. I've just got to get around this fake out here from the Incinero which is not coming out, it's just going to attack. So we'll get the gravity out with our Bronzon, Dog Slariat. It's going to be into, oh it's going to be into the, yeah okay, there we go, niche is madness into the Bronzon. Nice thing is if, when's the missile terrain run out? And is the Incinero actually slower than our Groudon? Because a lot of players are running a little bit speed crept Incinero here. I'm going to try and go for the Jarobor and precipice blades. If we lose Groudon we lose Groudon, it's not the end of the world. And precipice blades isn't going to pick up the knockout onto Incinero anyway. I wouldn't have thought after an Intimidate but we'll see what my opponent goes for. Jarobor, yeah we're slow, but are you going into Groudon this turn? You've got to, yeah you've got to. Oh we take it! Incinero's weak, I'm going on strong. There we go, okay that's nice damage onto both. And niche is madness coming out into the Zong. But the Zong's going to be in a decent position now, yeah we can start putting stuff to sleep now, so we can go for the Hypnosis precipice blades. Hypnosis into Incinero precipice blades now and we've got one turn of Tringram left so this is the last one. Neither Pokemon can really protect here so we can protect that Groudon from the incoming. Incinero, the Duskbane coming in on a precipice blades as well, which we know can't really miss now. The Hypnosis hits which is perfect and we might be able to get another trick room up to be honest. Yeah I would imagine we'll be able to now. I've got such a headache today, like as I mentioned in yesterday's episode I'm feeling a lot better than I did last week because I was off work but my head is banging today. It wasn't too bad when it's recording yesterday's episode but going straight into this one it's like oh I just want it. My head feels like it's going to fall off. Right okay it's up with Finny coming back onto the field. This has worked out pretty well for us. Oh Groudon, can we get another trick room up? I don't know if we can. I really don't know. Like do you double in? I don't know if you do. I'll go for a trick room. I'll try and get a trick room up with Groudon. Groudon, let's do this. Ah the forfeit comes out. Okay I mean the critical hit onto the ground on was pretty big. It kind of swung the match really in our favour so we've got to give that for my opponent but outside of that the team did pretty well and get a nice little victory for us there today and it's that same four that we brought to start with yesterday so proving again that it's kind of doing the work. Right on to our next our next match and I don't know if you guys remember I was talking a while ago before we started this series again going into the new season. I've talked about all these nice new overlays but I'm sitting on them for our Sword and Shield content so when we come back with Sword and Shield we'll have all these shiny new overlays and the team preview and things like that will look way nicer so it'll be really good. I'm kind of looking forward to getting them going but also as well I'm definitely going to have more showdown shenanigans going on so episodes of that will be happening this week. Obviously I wanted more last week but because of how I was feeling I didn't really have the time and obviously the stream on Thursday just didn't happen because I was in bed so this Thursday fingers crossed finally we'll be back with streams and we'll start doing some streams so do keep an eye out on Twitter do follow me OsirisVGC is my handle and I will let you know when I'm going live and if the stream is 100% going ahead I will tweet out in the morning say streaming tonight playing X or Y or an X and Y team I don't think it will be that though and then we'll go go from there so we've got our next opponent 1770 rated players so this should be a good one. Okay so they're playing a team of Aroquaza, Kyogre, Zapdos, Farathorn, Incineroar and Gengar so probably double mega on the team although I'd kind of be inclined to say that if there's only one mega it's going to be the Rayquaza but then the Gengar could be a variation just regular Gengar with focus sash or scarf common items that you normally see Zapdos is going to be the speed control setter on the team it's got tailwind then you've got the check for the trick room going to be the Farathorn so the Incineroar helps out there as well. Trick room going to be really good for us here just worry about the Farathorn well not so much but only if we're bringing the Kyogre. Bronzong's good here for sure Saberlai could we go Saberlai Bronzong lead I think Saberlai is going to be decent for us here for sure it helps us against the Gengar and with the quash it's pretty nice do we want any other sort of speed control here I mean Kyogre's good and Groudon always going to be good and kind of just tempted to go with these four and see if we can get the win which I feel like pretty confident that we can so we'll go for it leaving Salamence and Cocoa again but we'll see these four seem to be working so I mean when something is working why change it why change something that's broke that's it so we'll see okay so Bronzong Saberlai for ourselves and we're gonna see Gengar Incineroar okay well Gengar's probably got taunt to shut down our Saberlai um well shut down our Bronzong I'd imagine and we don't want to get baited in by bringing Groudon onto the field right now 100% not um we could we could go for kind of I don't really want to just get taunted on Bronzong we could bring in Kyogre like Kyogre's not a bad Pokemon to bring in for Bronzong and we could just fake out Incineroar because the Gengar mega revolves I don't mind getting trapped in with Kyogre as much as I would with with Groudon Groudon's like the one Pokemon we don't want to get trapped in against this call and if they go mega Gengar we're probably quite safe in thinking that it requires us not come to this match yeah so if we see a taunt here from the Gengar into our Bronzong slot this is perfect because the next time we can quash the Gengar and we can water spot and everything's good in the world there's a fake out into the Incineroar oh it's into Sableye ha we could have went for the trick room ah okay um thing is though we can switch out as Sableye because we are pot ghost so we're not trapped I'm gonna go for the water spot um do I go for a foul play into Incineroar rather than switching out because I feel like maybe something comes in on that slot rather than the Incineroar staying in I think the Gengar definitely protects 100% and like say if it is the requiser for some reason we catch it with a foul play it'll be pretty nice yeah okay what's coming in okay I'll go I mean I don't like a foul play here is going to be really nice anyway worst thing we're going to take from the Gengar is going to be a sludge bomb but it's likely to protect so I would imagine so we'll get some decent damage onto this Kyogre which is pretty huge for us going forward in this match and you know like is the requiser going to be the fourth pokemon or not if I'll play some nice damage there onto that Kyogre yeah really nice damage um now we could go for an ice beam into the Gengar and then switch into Groudon it's a little bit risky it is a little bit risky or we could just stay in and go water spot again or we could actually go scald now we'll go water spot and go foul play into the Gengar rather than risk the switching so there's the sludge bomb yeah we're faster so that's good a little bit more damage onto that Kyogre oh actually we take the Gengar down which is huge for us okay that's amazing and then the foul play we're actually faster than the Kyogre as well disable is a boss there we go so my opponent not really worried about the tricking going up kind of probably wanting the trick room to go up in this situation now knowing like their Kyogre speed um we're not taking any risks there and we weren't taking any risks because we got the sash on save life so we're not really worried and it's it's Zaptos and Incinero so Groudon going to be able to clean this one up pretty easily for us now um so we can just switch Kyogre to Groudon and go for a do we just foul play foul play with Zaptos or do we switch Zaptos out for Bronzon yeah we're going to just do that because now it's pretty much done it is done isn't it I don't think there's any really way for my opponent to kind of beat us at this point we can't beat Groudon and if we can get a gravity up it's over but I mean like Presbyts Blades next turn gets Incinero we can set gravity up and then just get Zaptos so it's all going to be it's all going to be it's all going to be fine isn't it there's a fake out yep tailwind tailwind yeah still go for Presbyts and I probably want to preserve Bronzon do we bring in save light yeah let's bring in save light it's the one thing so we're not losing a Pokemon we can probably win this for now if we do this this way Incinero where are you going heat wave ah so we'll probably lose save light here we'll double up into that slot here oh z move there we are it's the uh I think it's the right z move they're not the z move that we were using it's gonna there's the ring is it coming there the ring is here there we are that's this is what we missed last week so yeah we're gonna lose poor old save light putting so much work this game as well so done well we just need our precipice to hit there we go this Groudon is the best Groudon ever in the history of Groudon's hitting there's that the Incinero and um yeah we're gonna be able to get Bronzon in it'll take a heat wave easy um and we still got Kyle going the back there's no way the Zaptos beats us now poor old Zappy Zaptos is a Pokemon I really like there's a five bunch and we'll trick room and there's a four fit so very good game to my opponent uh two good games today um a lot better than the the the match yesterday so that's really nice for us to pick up two wins uh go into tomorrow's episode and hopefully we can continue on from there like I say pushing for the 1700 mark is the bare minimum what we want to do by the end of the week and it's proving I think as well the dual primal as an archetype is is totally viable in this format and something that I think a lot you should try out if you haven't already there's so many different combinations in this format it's really hard but I think if you want to play something different and just have a play around with something that not many other players have been utilizing it's a really nice variant and you see even against a really strong opponent like that 1770 rated so they're doing well on the ladder and we didn't really have too many issues against that team now it would have been different I think if we're in a best of three uh they'll bring the Rayquaza it would be a completely different matchup but with what they brought there it wasn't really too hard for us to deal with um but I think just kind of more evidence to show that dual primals is still a really good contender I think going into the latter stages of the ultra series for players such as that at least anyway in my opinion um we'll end it there my friends thank you so much for tuning in today I will be doing the rest of the recording for this week on Tuesday so I'm hoping to now and then I'm a lot better and the nasalness is gone I feel a hundred percent better and will be good to rock and roll for the rest of the week also do some showdown stuff I'll try and do as many as I can for this week if we could get one every day this week that would be amazing but I can't promise anything but we'll definitely have at least a couple so I'll get those done as well um and I'll see for those so uh without further ado have a lovely rest of your day have a great morning afternoon night whatever time it is wherever you are um and I will see you all for the next one so thank you for tuning take care and bye