 Welcome to tonight's stream everyone. I hope you are doing great. We're back here with some VGC 2022 Series 12 content and tonight we're going to be playing a Kali Ice and Reshiram team. It should be a lot of fun. If you want to try the team, I'll check the team details out. It'll be linked down in the description below. There is a poker paste and there is the rental code as well. If you want to try the team out. Zashin Kayoga Latias, Garrados, Porygonzi and Venusol. Pretty seamless trick room up with Mimikyu here if you want. You've got to be careful around taunt, Garrados and things like that. And obviously sleep powder Venusol. But Reshiram and Kali do a pretty nice job. You kind of want to bring the Gastrodon for Garrados. But in the Kayoga, yeah, the Gastrodon is really nice. I think Gastrodon, Kali to be honest. Yeah, let's go with this. Okay, let's do this. It's like, I think the volatility of making like one critical mistake in a match. Like in a dynamax format, you get punished so hard for it. And it's been pretty evident in the last two games. How hard we got punished for those, you know? I mean, we might have to sack. We might have to sack the the Incineroar just to allow us to get the trick room up with Mimikyu. Because I think out of the two, you probably know you don't Max Kayoga. Surely not. Surely not. Because if you Max Kayoga, you know that the Gastrodon is a threat, right? So you probably want to avoid doing that and getting yourself kind of locked into a situation where you can you can just walk us by anyway. But then the sleep powder becomes a big issue from the Venusol. We'll try the trick room. So they may not Max anything here. But I think in the cause of stopping the sleep, which is way more of a threat to the whole thing, we'll we'll we'll fake out into the Venusol. Decatur and don't get the Venusol. The Venusol is really good. Yeah, they went for that. They went for that. They went for that. OK, that's not ideal. Venusol is really good at putting pressure on the Gastrodon when it kind of hits the field. That's the big thing. Yeah, we fake out the wrong one. Talked about the Kayoga, not Maxing, because it doesn't make too much sense. We do lose the Incineroar. We should mimic you should take an attack from Vino. And, you know, if you've got that sun team as well, like the Venusol has that potential of sleeper, you would imagine it's got sleep powder. So there's a Max Quake coming out. OK, at least it's not Max. Vine Lash, which would have been way worse, but we'll still probably have to contend with the Max Vine Lash, to be honest. But I would imagine next turn we will probably see the Venusol protect. But I mean, predictions aren't going so well tonight. You would imagine the Venusol is going to protect now, suspecting the weakness policy on the Calorax. And then we Max Quake into the Kayoga slot and just just to double check. They've got they do have flyers that they could bring in there. It won't be a good option for them. Could just protect the Kayoga. I mean, the big thing is they want to try and get the G-Max Vine Lash off, you know, so it's like, do we try and just prevent that? I think we do, you know, because I think really if we can prevent, yeah, the Kayoga going to switch, it probably protects. But if they don't, then we can punish it and we can get rid of it. On plus one, maybe. Garradil's coming in. That intimidate is a plus one going to be enough. It depends how how the Venusol is being trained, of course. Dipdax, it's been a while, mate. How are you doing? I hope you're well. Love watching the Japanese Trio play for Celtic. Yeah, Celtic, Celtic. Like the old firm Derby's as well are so good these days as well. Like, you know, like for a few years where Rangers were kind of out the leagues were never as good. Right, come on, plus one. We need it to be enough so we can avoid the Vine Lash stuff, shenanigans. And also if the Venusol drops, Gastron pretty much wins this game for us. So it's a big, it's a big, it's a big, it's a big. It's a biggie. OK, we get it. That's good. Which is nice. Jason, by the way, did you already compete in the VGC regionals? Been a while since last time I caught the stream. Yes. So I went to Liverpool regionals a little while ago and I finished six two in that event. So not enough to make cut for day two. You pretty much have to go X one. I think one X two got in to the top eight, I think. So yeah, I just needed one, one less loss that day. I was pretty pleased with how it played, to be honest. And the team, the team performed super well. I was playing well. So all in all, I was pretty happy with how, how it turned out. I just kind of wish it had obviously been a little bit different. It would have been nice to get into the top eight and like just push on a little bit more. But I can't really complain too much. And we just bring Gastrodon in and go. Max Hillstone into the guard. Oh, I think that's probably what we do. Just because the coyote hasn't got anything that really threatens the Gastrodon, whereas the guard does does carry something like power whip. So it could be a little bit of a threat if we leave it unchecked here and bring the Gastrodon in. But the Gastrodon switch now makes a lot of sense because it feels like all that we're going to see is some sort of big water type attacks coming out. Peru shot him a link. How you do in cool team interest in Mimikyu? Yeah, the the the safeguard seems to be like a thing that we're seeing a lot on these mimikus as well at the minute. But a bit of a kind of a realization. In the. In the first game where if you're yawned and you set the safeguard up after that, it won't prevent the this day's condition kind of kicking into effect. Just a little bit of a shame, but. How many turns of trick room we've got left? That's the big thing. I don't know if really they're going to rely so heavily on that Gyarados, though, to beat a Gastrodon. I think we got two turns left. Sashin has to protect, you would imagine. But I'd also imagine that the Gyarados would come in for the Kyogre here. I kind of want to yawn. OK, let's yawn into the Kyogre slot, because I think the Gyarados comes in there and let's max quick into the Sashin. Because I think they pull the switch from the Kyogre. Oh, no, they go the other way. OK. Is this Kyogre going to do? Is it maxing? It can't max. It can't max. No, it's not. It's just going for a water spout. Hmm, it's a little frustrating. It's a nice play from my opponent. Just a nice beam. OK. Ryan, how are you doing? Thanks so much for hoping and enjoying this tonight. Hope you're having a great day, mate, and enjoy the stream with us tonight. Yeah, we need to we need to yawn into that Gyarados slot with the last turn of trick room kind of happening right now. It'd be nice to have the mimicry on the field so we could kind of double trick room in this situation. Actually, what we'll do is we will get the mimicry back on because I do feel like the Gyarados is probably going to get a power whip off here. And a glacial lance just makes sense. And I don't think they're going to max the Kyogre here. Like definitely not maxing the Kyogre. Because one, they might switch it out to the Zashin, which would be good because that would mean we get rid of it on the protectant just to go to sleep. OK, just double protect. OK. The Dax getting back into VGC little by little. I actually want to build by last weekend. Didn't compete, but the tournament was so lively. Awesome to hear, mate. And great to hear that you went. You got to go to the event as well, which is super nice. William, who do you think winning the North London Derby? Is it is it not tonight? Is it tomorrow night? I thought it was tonight. I thought it was Wednesday night. North London Derby, but you're probably right. OK, let's wisp. And trick room. Gyarados can have taunt as well, but you're not knocking out a calyrex, but you are knocking out a mimicry. OK, so that's all right. Yeah, I thought I don't know. I got I got family members that are Tottenham fans, so I kind of have to side with Tottenham, to be honest, like in this one, even though they did give us a thrashing the other week. So, yeah, for for them, the moral support, I will say. That I am given I'm gone. I'm giving Tottenham Tottenham the support for this one. Right, let's ice beam and let's just glace your lance here as well. OK, here we go. Yeah, Zashin's going down. So they're going to get another intimidate off of the Gyarados, but the chip that we're getting on the Kyogre the whole time is kind of nice as well. Should be good with a hill chip. Yeah, so to be nice if this knocks out because it means we get at least a boost to kind of compensate against the intimidate to keep getting from the the Gyarados. Yeah, there we go. Wow, to so much to Kyogre. You know, I really like Gyarados in this format as well, especially when you kind of consider like a lot of the the Sun teams like are popping up everywhere. And I think it has a lot of legs. Like it's just a switch in for Zashin as well. I know I talked on Monday night about a mungus with Rocky Helmet. But if you think like the resist, it's got to Zashin with the intimidate. It's not a bad item to think about on on something like Gyarados. The only issue is a lekkie. A lekkie kind of makes life very difficult. But you could say the same thing about really been making like difficult for Gastrodon. And Gastrodon still manages to do well. So I think it's just about playing it in the right situations. But I do really like Gyarados in the format. I think it's really, really good. And it's going to Max. It's going to Max 100 percent. Let's you own it and Glacier Lance. And that should kind of keep us covered a bit. William, I don't know. I reckon Spurs are going to win. Going to be a good game, regardless. Always is. Yeah, it's going to be a great game. And Bruno, how are you doing? Nice talking to you the other day on Twitter. How is your wall hanger holding up for a start? Doing all right, mate. It's still it's still there. There is no hole in the wall, but great talking to you as well, mate. I hope you had a great time in Indy and the result was good and just had a really fun weekend. It sounded like a lot of fun. Felipe, do you see this is the trend tonight? He did already Max. The Vino felt like a different match. OK, too much to talk about the Northland and Derby. Not enough to talk about the end of the Pokemon. Well, at least we've wrapped this one up. I still like Gyarados. I think it's a really good Pokemon, but that should be that with a gastro and Cali. And there we go. Good game to my opponent. OK, we've got the Rinyosun team up next. So let's see what we can do against this. Not going to be easy, but not going to be impossible either. I think in general, it's like super, super important in this game for us. Let's go Reshiram. I think it's a nice lead. Cali is really good if we can get the trick room up, of course. Do we go on Memo Q as well? Maybe let's do that. Meme Cali. Yeah. OK, John, I want Gigant, Max, Dynamax and Megas. I mean, that would be really cool. I think they like I think there's some people like Custom Firmware kind of saw that Megas were kind of coded into the background of Sword and Shield data. So there was some pictures going around very early Sword and Shield days where you had like Megachorosod X and things like that in their Dynamax form, which was pretty cool. Pebham, that's how they're going to fix this abomination. Yeah, I think I think, yeah, I probably both A and B, Pebham, I reckon is the way to fix it, like, honestly. Right, let's. I mean, if the Grim Snull decides to trick us, they get in this office and they're pretty useless for the rest of the game, right? I think we pot and shot out into the Gastrodon. Do we just try and get? Do you think it will Max Quake? I don't think it will. Hmm. We just drop a Draco onto it and just get some damage onto it. Squirrel, how are you doing, my friend? I hope you are well and having a great day. Thanks so much for coming in this stream, ideal. Right, well, we see in the Gastrodon go for this Yorn, whereas at Yorn and into probably the rest of them, I would imagine gives a pretty free switch to the Kali. Right, and I think Megas would be cool, but it shouldn't be able to Dynamax Megas that would be broken. It just won't make us for the genies, especially my Thundy. Yeah, I love. Yeah, I think like having Megas, right, did we get? Trousy, yeah, that's what happened. Yeah, yeah, I think Megas and having them. I think protect and let's try and get in, see alongside. Russia, I'm here. That might work a bit better. Yeah, I think like no way you want to Dynamax Megas. That's just that is not it would be cool. Very cool to see don't go as wrong, but like competitively, it would just be it'd be disaster, disaster. Power creep would be unreal. Could you imagine it in like a restricted format as well? Be nuts. Yeah, Megas are 100 percent Nova. See where we see the yarn going into this. I kind of just want to get a glissier lance off if I'm completely honest, like I don't really care about the yarns. The gastronome gone for yarns is not really something I'm too worried about. We'll go for the fake out into the Grim snarl. Might have been better to kind of potting shop, but I kind of worry about this Grim snarl having something like foul play that could be a little bit annoying to deal with. And also the trick there as well as a little bit frustrating to deal with and just getting damage on the board is always a good thing. And yeah, the yarn coming out. OK. Dynamax mega requires my God, could you imagine? Absolutely nuts. We could have got a trick room up there as well. So I'm going to pull the rest of them in. And I think what we'll do is we'll go for a the end of the potting show on to Gastronome. Ryan, do you like dynamic speed mechanic? I do. I love it. I think it's something that Pokemon's missed for years. So to have it finally introduced, I think it's really good. Yeah. And it makes a lot, a lot more Pokemon in previous gens. If that was the case, it would be a lot more viable, you know? Groudon hitting the field just in time for Reshiram to come in. Imagine Dynamax mega can going for two max moves in a row. Oh, my God, that would that would actually happen as well. That would be that would be horrendous, horrendous, wouldn't it? It would be horrible. Yeah, two max knuckles in a row, plus two mega can. Oh, and next, is that like a zashing or something? Just getting those boosts as well. And they got Mimikyu here and try and get a trick room up. It's probably not a bad time to try and get the trick room. Activated, though. So light screens up, we've got to remember, they made T-Wave. But I mean, we don't really mind the T-Wave. If they are going to max quick, that's the only problem. Like we could max wormwind now. And trick room as well, because there's no chance they bring in zashing in this situation. I don't think anyway. DK traded in Mr. Huge spot when you cut your grass earlier. Dude, I used to do that all the time. I'm so lucky now. We've got like, we've just got like fake grass in the backyard. And it's it's really nice. It looks super nice all the time as well. Like it looks like it's like perfect. It's actually really cool as well. Like it's like it feels like super nice. It's a weird thing to kind of discuss on stream. But it's, yeah, it's surprisingly, surprisingly cool. Surprisingly. A pair mega mega can with orangary with instruct. My God, can you imagine how nuts that would be? There's that spirit break coming out from the Grim Snow. Like that my opponent's not really committed to a max yet. I mean, we can burn the ground on this next turn. So we're not really too worried about it with those max quakes. If it does decide to go down that route, I think we just start max flaring now. Let's go after the Grim Snow and get rid of that. Better than to be fair. I would like a format without gimmicks and restricted for a long time after the very long period and successive formats of restrictives. Yeah, I do. I feel the same. You know, I think if we had something like like that's why I think when BDSP dropped and there was all of the kind of rumors around or kind of the clamor more from from players like, you know, wanting BDSP is that the official VG format. I don't know how many people realistically wanted that to happen. But I was definitely one of those players and I really, really love BDSP doubles. I think it's like it's a really, really good format. And I think it would have really been something very, very fun to to do for VGC. It's a very different game when you haven't got the gimmicks, Bebham. And it's when you haven't got Max, you haven't got Megas, you haven't got Z moves. It's like that that thing, though, you can have a bad matchup, but you can still win like a bad matchup by just play outplaying your opponent with your team and outmaneuvering them, if that makes sense. OK, hmm. Do we just got another Max Flare into the Grim Starts? Oh, do we go for? I mean, what potentially is going to come in there? You know, the Gastrodons in the back, which could come in. We could safeguard now as well. It would give us a little bit of protection against the Gastrodon when it decides to come on to the field again. Yeah, let's go for that. Let's go for it. And I'm a favorite non-competitive Pokemon. Favorite non-competitive Pokemon. Probably Vile Plume, you know. I talked about this last week on stream. I love Vile Plume. I really do. I don't know whether it's like you could class it as competitive or not, but it's not something you ever really see in VG. So maybe like the one-off team. Like a thumbnail, like, you know, like that click-bit thumbnail that you see like Vile Plume ripping a team apart, maybe. But like that's maybe like once in, like, I don't know how many years of playing VG. And I could be making that up as well. So I definitely say Vile Plume, I think. Vile Plume would be my choice for that one. What about you? Aero Blast, which format should follow after series 12? I would say a non-restricted format with no Dynamax. Which they could potentially do, but I don't think they ever will do, if I'm completely honest. I don't think they'll ever do that. With the amount of streams that they're going to have for events going forward, even if it stays like Sword and Shield till November, you're going to have a bunch of streams. So I don't think they'll not they'll do non-Dynamax if that if that makes sense. Could we do this? Because 100 percent. The Zashian is going to protect here. And if it doesn't, we get the Willowis Boff and Kali's a nice switch in. Where we can just put a bunch of pressure on my opponent. Series 12 is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know. I still like series 12. I think like compared to like the other series you've had, I think in the Sword and Shield. So it's kind of nice for the first time where, OK. You're propping my own weakness policy. Thank you very much. Yeah, I think when you compare it to like the other Dike series, series 12 is pretty good, to be honest. But it's been weird Sword and Shield. They, you know, they just. You know, had like new series, like new rules set every three months. It's crazy. We've never like had anything, anything like that before. This is our last turn of trick room it is. Are they going to switch out the Zashian here to save it being burned because they just protect it? Because we could double trick room here. It's kind of risky, not going to lie. It's kind of risky. And I think it's safer just to Glacial Lance and Willowisp regardless here, because then we can just protect. Yeah, we could have done it. But I still think this is this is probably safer to do because the Glacial Lance will probably take down the ground on. Maybe not both because they've got the reflect up. So we are plus two, but. Maybe the ground on goes down, maybe. Oh, we get the ground on. OK. But yeah, the safer place to. Oh, this is going to knock that out. Yeah, just to get the incineration now for the memory queue. What I was going to say is get the incineration and protect the calyrex, get the fake out. But the Gastrodon is going to be gone because of the the burn damage anyway, so that's fine. Dude, I think Colossal is at the weakest it has ever been since the G-Max, which is a lot. Yeah, I think so as well, mate. Yeah, crazy, because it's been so dominant, hasn't it? The Gastrodon does kick around. There's a trick remanding. I think Incinero is still fine to bring in here and get that that fake out support. I think the thing that would worry me a bit is if the Zashin has substitute, which could be a little bit awkward because if it subs here and we pivot into Incinero, we can't fake it out the next turn, and it kind of makes it a little bit more tricky. But we should be all right. I forget we've still got Reshiram in the back as well, which is nuts, dude, which makes me more enjoyable to play, to be competitive, completely honest. Yeah, I get that. I agree with that as well, dude, for sure. But like serious, like Soul and Shield has been a weird gen. Like I've really enjoyed it, but the power creep has just been. It feels a little bit too much. Like the power creep that we've seen has been a bit too much, in my opinion, I think, because. Like you've got Reggie Alecchi, which is just busted. You've got the Chalrex forms, which are both ridiculous. You've got Urshifu as well, which I mean, like there's no way Urshifu can go into any future gen where there's not Dynamax and have that ability. There's no way. And I mean, there's signature attacks as well, like. There's just, yeah, no chance of that, that that being a thing. Um, they're going to yawn us. But I guess it's all right, because we can then, yeah, we'll be fine. We'll be fine. Whatever happens, trick room up, here we go. Yeah, there's just too many things. I think that like in this, and then you got Dynamax on top of that, which I think would be all right. If we didn't have. Like, well, there's just so many things with Dynamax that you think they could have made it a little bit like the fact that you can't flinch for one is a big thing. And other things as well. There's there's so much with Dynamax that we could go into. But we'd be here hours, friends. But, you know, I just think all in all, when you look at like Sword and Shield, the power creep is ridiculous. And hopefully it doesn't like continue because you think like when you look at like TCG as well, like the power creep and that is just gradually getting more and more and more. Right. And hopefully VG doesn't follow that. Other games don't follow that. It'd be nice to have that like plateau for Gen 9, where it's a bit more like balanced even sort of thing. But I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. Beb, I'm not saying it's bad, but maybe it's me being done with Sword and Shield as a game. Maybe, dude, I think a lot of people feel the same way. You know, the game is still hunting up pretty well after three years. Yeah, I mean, the game's done amazingly well, like really well for the amount of time it's been out, you know. But I really enjoyed Sword and Shield as a Gen. I think it's really good. Gen, yeah, Gen 9 I'm looking forward to, but Gen 8 in all. It's been a pretty nice time, to be honest, like aside from like if we're just looking at it from like a game point of view, because we've had like Sword and Shield, we had BDSP, and then we had Legends Arcists as well, which is pretty cool. How many turns we got? Three. There's no there's no chance that they are sneaking out of this one, and there's no chance we're messing this up with a blue flare miss. DKTrain started playing VGC with Sword and Shield, so I'm definitely ready for Gen 9. Definitely ready, mate. Heroblase, I wonder what data game for users to balance their games between generations. They do, yeah, I wonder as well. I do wonder, but they definitely do. They make adjustments. Like you look at like Pokemon like Talonflame that were like once upon a time, like totally busted with like their Galewing's ability, which that got nerfed, and there's lots of examples of that happening, you know. So it'd be interesting to see what they do. I think Allies Switch is probably a big one. If you look at like busted things that like win tournaments, I think those showcasing moments are quite important. For Game Freak, I think they do look at those sort of things. Okay, good game to my opponent. As a rental team, for this team, if you want to try it out for yourselves, be my guest. Hope you have a lot of fun with it, and hopefully it inspires some ideas for your own builds as well, if not just trying out the Kalorax and the restroom. Take care, friends. Take care, bye-bye.