 Hi friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 Battle Series. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today on the channel we're going to be playing a brand new team taking into this week. It is on the screen in front of you right now as always the team is down in the description below. There is a raw paste and a poker paste of the team for you to check out the details and try out if you would like to but we're going to be taking, sorry about that, every quasi and ground on onto the ladder this week. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's a combination I've been wanting to try for a long time and it's going to be exciting to try it out. We've got the standard kind of requiser at the minute with the 50% berry, sword stance, dragon ascent, extreme speed, protect. We've got a mixed kind of ground on naïve with precious blades, earth power, eruption, protect, kind of standard incineral with the berry. We've got Suicune, really nice member of the team, players very nicely with the requiser as well with the airlock ability and delta stream. A really nice check for Groudon, obviously speed control there with tailwind. Then we've got Tabacoco, we've got the pharynium, it helps us against other opposing threats, you know, ultra necrosis and things like that. It can be a little bit problematic for the team and then stacks with our trick room element of the team if we need to go down that route. Groudon can perform in trick room depending on what we're up against but does come in handy against things like zonius in general that otherwise would be a little bit harder to deal with. So without further ado my friends, we will jump straight onto the ladder hopefully it doesn't take too long to find upon it but as always if you do enjoy this sort of content please remember to drop a like on the video, do subscribe to the channel for more pokemon content and as always leave your comments down below because I do love hearing from you and I will try and get back to each and every one of you as soon as I can. I am wearing finally it arrived this new flinch squad hoodie and you can see it's got like the print in the hood it's super nice it feels super nice it's really really nice I love it I love it it's got even got the little flinch heart on the back of the sleeve here it's just yeah it's a really nice hood and if you did like it and you wanted to grab one obviously there's a link down in the description to the teespring site where you can pick one up and rep one at events or just in general because you just love being part of the flinch squad which you all are anyway we are looking for our first opponent we've got a music lockdown sitting on a rating of 16.43 so not too bad not great though we really want to be pushing a bit higher than that especially because we're going to be getting towards the end of the ultra series very soon and I know we're going to be running officially into January but I mean when sword and shield comes I think what we're going to do on the channel is probably leave most of the sword and shield stuff and go straight head first into um sword and shield when it does come out it's a bit of a shame we did find an opponent but they uh they dropped off they saw us and they fled um okay let's go back into this it wasn't us this time um but yeah like I say I think because I'm just so hyped for the games I'm literally so hyped for the games I can't wait for the 15th it feels like it's forever away but it's really not it's only a few weeks away now um so when we do that I'm going to be doing all sorts of content on sword and shield obviously it'll take a little bit of time to get a team together but I'm going to be trying to get that initial team started as soon as possible but at the same time you think like I'll be working on that we'll probably have showdown showdown guys get that stuff up and running like super quick so we'll probably just do showdown teams and things like that to begin with and I'll do the in-game content as and when I can um but I'm I've got like a week off work to just plow through as much stuff I can get done as possible and hopefully that sets us up for going forward into sword and shield and then obviously when January the first comes around we're gonna have our first official tournament it's gonna be interesting to see how they uh they set the tournaments up especially with the switch console there's no IR ports or anything like that so that there's still questions to be answered I think with how tournaments are gonna be ran on the switch it's gonna be interesting to say the least but um I'm sure they've got something in mind and all planned and ready to go but I um I can't wait I literally can't wait and if you guys want to keep up to new uh up with news because one of the things I've just not got time for on the channel here is to do uh news videos like if I did this full time it would be no problem but having a job and things like that it cuts down the time that I've got to actually record content so I really want to cover news on uh sword and shield but I do that over on my uh Instagram if I can even think this morning my brain's a little bit lethargic I swear uh but yeah if you want to follow me over on Instagram it's at Osiris Studios over on Instagram I put up all the news when it comes out and all the the little tidbits of information that we're getting about sword and shield and obviously about the battle content and things like that we're not going to find an opponent anytime soon so rather than me dribble on for a little bit longer we'll cut the video now and we'll come back when we find our first opponent of the episode we've got Luca up as our first opponent today so we'll hop straight into team preview and see what he's got so Luca running a team of groudon salaments in Sinemotepufini Lunala and Stack Attacker so that very common groudon Lunala call it was the call that won the world championships this year so we know what it's all about it's got trick room it's got tailwind options there uh very solid team defensively and defensively very threatening so what are we going to do against this team I think if trick room goes up it's going to be it's going to be difficult for us to deal with especially with the groudon um the Lunala have we got away to deal with it straight away I don't really feel like we have um I mean we can go something like tap a call called potentially and in sineral um it's just a bit more difficult if we see in sineral Lunala come up for my opponent um but then if the trick room does go up at least we've got stacks that we can potentially utilize and benefit and the thing is like Suicune's pretty solid anyway so we could bring Suicune to deal with the likes of groudon and Stack Attacker with intimidate support it's going to make things a lot easier for us so um I think what we'll do is go in sineral Suicune um do we want our groudon probably and we could go we could go groudon in sineral and ray and then leave stacks at home which I don't really feel great about but I want to bring my restrictors so I don't know it means even one of my restrictors at home and I feel like both can do really well in this battle um you know if we had raw and Suicune it's another option it would be a good way for us to prevent the trick room going up but we don't have it unfortunately we're gonna see salamence and Lunala come up for my opponent it's not too bad I wonder if it depends as well if the Lunala is holding um the the cobra berry or the kasey berry um and salamence is going to come out uh without groudon and our Lunala um now we could get a big powerful fat eruption off if we wanted to um I don't think there's any point of going for a tailwind right here because the trick room threats just pretty obvious and that's the last thing we want to do salamence is putting a lot of pressure onto a groudon as well like with hyper voice or a double edge can do some decent damage here um we could just snarl and then switch into in sineral and then at least the next turn it gives us a little bit of um room to maneuver around with fake out support and then the salamence the intimidate support as well we are going to see incinerole come in for my opponent okay so that's the worst thing in the world they're preserving their intimidate as well with salamence we don't see a mega of all which is smart um and we'll just take groudon out the fire and line because the last thing we want is if this Lunala is z move we don't want to to be losing it early on all right so we'll get an intimidate onto the opposing incinerole which is useful and we do get a snarl and reveal that it is the cobra berry on the lunala so we do reduce the the special defense and going before the lunala indicates it's gone for a trick room here it kind of makes incinerole's life a little bit easier i would say that's not though hmm that's interesting so we're just going to see when we guys beam it probably into the incinerole slot where the groudon was yet but we take that pretty comfortably here um and we're in a nice position now where we can fake out um the opposing incinerole we could go for a scald into that slot as well um and just a knockoff into the lunala or we could just double into the lunala thing is though i really don't like leaving incinerole out on the field i'm kind of more tempted to go for you turn into your opposing incinerole just so we've got the the pivot out um and we kind of keep momentum going on our side of the field i'm going to see the lunala switch and salamence hit the field once again and i wonder if we're just going to see a u turn from the opposing incinerole as well you know the interesting thing is we would kind of put off going for a tailwind but if we'd went for it we would put us in a way better position especially this next turn where we can potentially get groudon back onto the field stop firing off some big eruptions uh we'll get a u turn into the opposing incinerole it'd be interesting to see what it goes for it's probably going to just u turn as well um do you bring in rea or groudon maybe better to bring in rea to be honest because both intimidators are out in the field now so rea is in a way better position to actually start doing some damage and doing some work and there's a u turn from the incinerole he's gone into the suikun and maybe we see lunala come back out onto the field now but if we can keep lunala checked you kind of think like my opponent really got that many great options to um we could snarl and just drag an ascent into the suikun uh to the lunala kind of tempted to do that to be honest i mean we could go for a sword stance but i'm not really in a position now where we want to keep rea quasi on the field and i think that incinerole probably come in for the salamence no no no okay unless the salamence has drake amethia that would be bad okay i mean getting rid of the lunala is like a big goal yet because i think like once the speed control goes down that means we can utilize tailwind on as suikun so there's the delta stream let's see what the salamence goes for it is going for go for a tailwind so that's fine because we can match that and we should be able to get rid of this lunala dragon ascent should do a nice chunk of damage and hopefully put the um the lunala in range for a snarl to pick up the knockout oh i don't know if it's gonna you know we know the z moves not on there so that is kind of something we've got going for us i guess that is enough okay great okay maybe we get a little bit lucky there um the only problem here is it opens the door for my opponent to bring the ground on in and take advantage of this tailwind but we're not in the worst position either because we can bring in incinerole get an intimidate off and tailwind ourselves and then we've got that extra turn of tailwind and as long as incinerole can stick around for a turn when we switch it in it means we've got fake out support as well um the ground on coming in obviously now it will overwrite our delta stream uh so we do need to to reposition our requiser anyway but uh it makes sense to do that regardless just because um of the fact that we have just dragon ascended and we want to reset those drops so like i say what we'll do we'll switch requiser out so we've got that delta student to bring back in uh they're on and then we will tailwind ourselves and bring incinerole onto the field and you know suikun is bulky enough there is no way without like a double crit here from my opponent to take the suikun down like no way especially like it's such a bulky pokemon this is what makes it so good i feel you know it's one of those pokemon that's quite reliable really consistent and uh it does everything it kind of needed to when you need it to do it we're gonna see a double edge into incinerole probably gonna lose incinerole now if we see a precipice blades which we do uh suikun avoids because it's just a ninja we're gonna lose incinerole but that's perfect because now we are going to be able to bring in our requiser but to be honest we could just bring in our our own groudon and then we kind of pin the opposing groudon um with that earth part which should be enough to pick up the knot i don't know if it's gonna be enough actually you know i'm gonna bring in rey because then we pressure the opposing groudon right this is what we do um we go for the ice beam into the salamence and i think we sort actually if this is like the world championship winning team that groudon's probably got um it's probably got dragon claw so i'm gonna scold into it hope that as suikun's faster than it which i would assume it is and i'm still gonna salt stance with requiser that salamence is minus one salamence gonna switch out incinerole gonna come onto the field i thought really the better switch out of everything would be the groudon switching out so you can get your weather control back so you're not threatened as much from the suikun and we are gonna get the sword stance up i don't think a dragon claw minus one will pick up requiser anyway um but we do get the scold into the groudon and i think that's pretty much seals the game for us now oh the groudon hangs on it is gonna get the dragon claw oh yeah but minus one you see it's not not really doing as much as it's an effective attack but um i think now like my opponent's pretty hard pressed to really do very much i mean they can go for you turn here we can just freely snarl and i think what i'll do is actually go for a dragon sent into the incinerole it's got a faker salamence but it might be cheeky and think i'm not gonna go for the faker i'm gonna try and get a double a double intimidate here we are gonna see the groudon switch out and this salamence come in did you see faker yeah we do bish bash bosh okay that's fine um because we should be their tailwind should end now so it puts us in a position where yeah we can ice beam the ments and just dragon a sent the incinerole and then this kind of closes it up um this is the one thing i really like about this team as well it feels very good at like controlling the field um and you don't really feel too anxious at any point where you're you're gonna be in a really bad losing position and i think this weekend really plays a big part in that because of how bulk it is in the support options that it gives you so let's see what my opponent does and may protect the salamence here makes sense to but i mean if they don't the problem is the delta stream is up like if we really want to play this a little bit better to deny the the the tailwind completely we'd switch area quasi out but i really want to just get rid of the incinerole yep and we'll probably not get rid of the salamence though that's the only drawback but i don't really worry about the salamence too much to be honest this should still be a nice chunk of damage yeah we're not gonna pick up the knockout but it's definitely an extreme speed range um and now our tailwind runs out but we've got extreme speeds i mean i don't really know what my opponent kind of does from here uh because it's not all i'll take the ground on down with we could and it's not like we're gonna go down to a um drain claw right okay when we could tailwind ourselves if you want it but i don't know if it's really that necessary um all right let's go for a nice beam into ground on and extreme speed into salamence i mean the worst thing here that could happen is that uh the salamence protects the ground on goes for a drain claw into the ray quasi but even then they're gonna lose their ground on this should be enough to get the ments yep and the ice beam will probably lose ray to dragon claw oh no let's go for the precipice okay sweet coon just doesn't want to get hit by these precipice blades and there we go we've picked up a nice win for us to kick off with today so that's really good for us my friends and the team perform really well um really quite comfortable but a very good game to luka and um i think getting rid of the lunala like we said earlier on it was like a main prerogative to get rid of the lunala uh the trick room would have been a lot trickier to deal with and then the tail went there but um thankfully we got through it and we came out on the right side of things so we will hop straight onto the ladder and we'll try and find our next opponent the ladder just feels like there's less and less people on here all the time now i don't know if it's just the times that i'm playing because i know a lot of people still play ladder and still seem to to ladder up pretty quickly so there must be plenty of people on it might be the times i'm playing but i mean there we go we've got our next opponent from japan 17 56 rated player playing um well we'll jump in the team preview and we'll have a look playing the team of ivelto took a tomorrow tepafini katana gengar and kayoga so really nice call call that i think's got a lot potential at the minute in the current format uh you've got the ivelto and kayoga a restricted combination it's not something that we've seen since very early on in the format to be honest but ivelto can offer tailwind support as well as that katana that can do that as well tepafini got soft speed control with potentially icy wind there gonna be the mega on the team of gengar so we'll try to trap us in and then talk tomorrow with its fake out support and light and rod that kind of takes tapakoko out of the game but because we have the pharium on tapakoko it is something that we can potentially uh utilize to take down ivelto and get around the the talk tomorrow that way we've got to be worried about the gengar though the gengar does cause us a few problems um i am going to bring tapakoko because i think tapakoko is going to be generally quite good here especially if we can get rid of the talk tomorrow um do we want suikun or incinero i can cinero is decent it's not great against kayoga of course um but it's pivot pivoting ability is very good although we could just go ray groudon and suikun and i think that might be all right i i yeah we'll go with that i don't like leaving incinero behind but it's probably because i'm just i've been soul conditioned through the last two seasons playing vgc where i'm like incinero has to come every time but it doesn't it really doesn't and we're going to be the slow fake out user anyway so if we're bringing it just for that it's not really kind of justified um i'm gonna see valto and gengar i'm out okay that makes a lot of sense because the gengar kind of protects the valto um we don't really want to be soul stancing in front of an eval to either okay i mean one thing we could potentially do is go just dragging a scent into the gengar um i don't really want to risk a speed tie though um and it might be better to get something like suikun onto the field or we could just double protect but then koko's trapped so we definitely don't want that let's bring in suikun and um let's drag in a scent the gengar yeah let's go for that let's do that let's do that let's just hope that see valto hasn't got foul play which it blatantly has but i think if you're going to you probably have to attack here that's the only thing i would say you'd like to get around the koko unless you protect and then the eval to probably sets up tailwind let's see so the gengar gonna mega evolve sludge bomb all right yeah try and check that koko does it big chunk of damage to suikun doesn't it it's so powerful mega gengar all right is this gonna pick up the knockout i hope it does it does okay that's great we get rid of the gengar that makes our lives so much easier going forward gengar gone the valto goes for tailwind ideal okay that's perfect because now we can pretty much guarantee that we'll be able to get a tailwind up but suikun now i don't think my opponent's really got anything that would really threaten us too badly other than the katana of course there it is there it is there's a katana um all right speak too soon my friend i think we can get koko back onto the field um and do we protect reikwaza i mean we could get groudon onto the field now i kind of really would prefer not to bring groudon onto the field though um and we might be just better off protecting reik this is where in sinawar would have been incredibly good because it's such an easy switch in on both these targets but we haven't got it so we'll have to try and work around it a little bit that's it so protect the ray this turn we'll see what the katana does relief blade yet it's not gonna be great to dig with koko but we do take it and if i'll play it into the ray okay we have to stall out um these tailwind turns honestly i'm gonna switch ray out to suikun we set those drops and then we've got one more turn of tailwind to uh to deal with okay so let's we come back onto the field hopefully my opponent doesn't predict this there's a leaf blade here okay and if i'll play all right well suikun should take this yeah now let's go for do we bring groudon and rain i kind of want koko on the field the next turn so i'm wondering if we can bring possibly reik waza on to the field this side in place of the koko and then we go for a tailwind try and get a cheeky tailwind up with suikun because then if suikun goes down we get koko back onto the field and if we've got reik waza koko i think we're in a decent position to try and close the match up because we could just possibly dazzle and dragon is sent the katana depending on okay they're gonna yeah go for that and then we're gonna take a foul play okay okay now we have to get the koko back onto the field now it's weather or not um the katana's got tailwind i don't know if it will have though the problem is with the katana is that it could potentially have the sash which would make a lot of sense um all right we've just got to make a call i think now there's a katana have sash i would imagine it does i'm gonna double into the katana and the problem is as well like if we leave the veltola alone it could go for a tailwind which would be super bad for us um i'm gonna drag and send the katana and i'm gonna go for the z move into the veltola i'm just gonna do it because i think if we can remove the veltola now it's gonna make life so much easier for us suck a bunch crit do we take that anyway i can't believe that oh and then knock off we've lost so badly this is the work we can't do anything now well played to my opponent i mean there's a one of the drawbacks of not having a faster requiser as well uh because now it's so easy for my opponent just to bring in kayoga um and that is gonna be game but we'll see we'll see if we can play it out i mean i'm so sad about that i need to do the calc i'm gonna just i'm gonna lock in but i'm gonna do the calc um uh let's have a look okay so we'll lock into i mean press misplays it makes more sense and then we'll pull up the damage calculator and have a quick look what do we have like 32 hp oh god damn it okay good game to my opponent uh eval tool let's see just standard eval tool sucker punch um okay yeah it gets us like pretty much um yeah every time with sucker punch so it depends like if it was if it was max jolly it does if it is yeah it's gonna get us every time from that range so that's a little discrepancy on our part and i think that the whole problem there was the tail went going up and it's not matching it like we needed to probably leave suikun there and match the tail went and then we wouldn't be in such a bad position um like i think uh suikun ground on there would be quite good because then we can pressure the gengar um and then we've got the tail went set up as well so it's more of a lead issue thing there for us it's just really disappointing because we want to keep on the momentum with this team and we didn't quite do it there but uh we'll be back tomorrow with more games from this team i hope you've enjoyed today's episode my friends have a great day yourselves and i'll see you all for another one tomorrow so until then take care and buh-bye