 Hello friends welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel My name is Lee also known as Osiris today. We're going to be continuing on with our VGC series 8 content We're going to be playing another rental code today from one of our viewers So before we get into today's team a big shout out to everyone that has provided rental codes for the videos for the content Over the next couple of weeks. We have a bunch lined up for next week So very excited about those if you haven't already submitted a team and you've got one You'd like to see featured on the channel do drop it down in the comment section below I will make sure to feature it as soon as I'm able to if you do drop it though Just a little description about the team would be helpful not necessary But obviously any little information does help now. We've got the team today, which is from Justin Tang like I've said So very exciting to play this cure-and-white with the weakness policy the comfy there to help set it up Reverse trick room or set trick room up if you need it I like the team a lot He has mentioned that Zassian is a little bit of a tough matchup So again, Zassian teams you kind of need to try and get the thunder wave onto it and then from there It's pretty easy because you've got the Zapdos that can hit for super effective damage to cure them as well And then you've got incineroar that kind of helps with the mitigating its attack boost that it gets every turn Here is the rental code if you do want to try it out yourself there It is have fun on the ladder with it and if you do try it out Let me know I would love to hear and I'm sure Justin would like to hear your thoughts on the team as well I'll throw the rental code up at the end like we always do and we'll jump in and have a couple of games of the team And see how it functions so that further do friends. Let's get into the first game of today Okay up first We've got Kenji and they are playing a team of Lapras tornadoes really boom Zassian Urshifu and Hydragan so To kick us off with it a team concept a team matchup That's already not to be pretty hard is it's difficult for sure and the Zassian obviously causes a few problems the Hydragan and the Urshifu all causes issues because they're all faster than Curam So speed control is going to be really important for us in this matchup and the Lapras You know again, it's going to be able to set up screens up. We do have ways to kind of I Guess get around it We do have Cortana that we can make use of but you know You've got to be careful around the Zassian the Hydragan again It can Hydragan carry fire type attacks the Zassian with its with its fighting type attacks as well Do threaten us zaptos is a pretty good matchup here You know and that's the one thing I would say is that like zaptos can do some good damage to thunderous to tornado Sorry to Lapras Rilla boom the Zassian Urshifu so like zaptos is really key for us in this match So I think it's definitely something we want to bring And maybe with screen support as well it can do some work and I think Grimstone is going to be super imperative for us I think we'll go incineroar and now I kind of want to bring Cortana But I feel like we need to bring a restricted and if we can set up a good board position with like the thunder wave Disruption or speed control through max a stream if we go down that route then you know Curam's going to be in a good spot But we need to ensure that we've got that speed control advantage going into those final turns whether Zassian or the Hydragan's likely to be kind of sitting in a late game position, right? We'll get into this first one and we're going to see tornadoes and Doggo come out Zassian right well It's not too bad because we've got the week we can switch straight into You know what we could go for the thunder wave and switch into incineroar here. No, that's not a bad idea Because then we mitigate the attack spike Maybe minus well neutral you've got a hope that we can take the behemoth blade But is it worth is it worth the thunder wave to lose? and Grim snore so early, maybe I don't know I don't know we'll have to see Because then we're going to be relying on air streams if we get this off So we get the thunder wave off onto the Zassian so Justin Key point number one. Thank you for that info because you know it does make it a little bit easier to manage We're gonna see an icy wind come out doesn't really affect us too much behemoth blade likely to come out into the Grim snore You would imagine But the Zassian not gonna be in the most comfortable of spots now going forward, you know, we do still have Tailwind that my opponent can take advantage of but at least for the next turn we've got an opportunity where we can potentially Get Cure him onto the field Fake out the tornadoes and then just try and go after the Zassian Although might be better really if we get zapped us onto the field we can double tap into the tornadoes Which is always useful The Zassian's in a bit of because the big thing here the Zassian is pressured for sure and my opponent needs to get the tail wind up now if the Tornadoes doesn't have Protect then we can we can we can totally nuke at this turn which is useful It's just whether or not we want to go for the airstream here or not And I don't think we necessarily need to I think we've got max lightning into it just to ensure that we get rid of it And then we can go for the airstream the next turn and Try and position cure them onto the field. It's just gonna be difficult with the Zassian, you know But you could always double tap the Zassian and you know being paralyzed is always that One and four chance of it being fully paralyzed. So we might get some free turns here, which would be useful Yeah, no, no, no, no no protect. So that is that's really good. That's really good We do get the max lightning which is useful Okay, so Tornadoes the speed control gone Zassian is kind of in an awkward spot. It's neutral It is paralyzed which makes it a little bit more manageable, I guess But we still can't keep ignoring it every turn because you know, it's gonna check out big damage after big damage Close combat gonna come out. Oh, and it actually picks up the knockout. That's an adamant one Oh, it's a crit might not even be adamant that crit is horrible Okay, because most of the time Incinero is kind of able to take that on neutral, you know, you do need a bit of investment But it's always a calc worth looking at. So, ah, this is tough. It's tough But curing can Do some work. We'll have to just see what we can do. I have to see what we can do depends what comes in to be honest I dragon Okay, well mmm It's tough it is tough because the high dragon probably maxes here Well, you need to protect Get an airstream off into the high dragon and then the next turn Yeah, they're gonna max the high dragon Okay Yeah, it's tough because we only got one turn of max after this. You don't imagine the Zassian here probably goes after the cure The thing is if we can like obviously it's it's kind of self-explanatory But if we can remove these two we've pretty much got the game locked up, but it's easier said than done, you know I think we need a little bit Well, we just need to see what my opponent does here because if they've not got airstream then we're in a decent spot Because we can get the high dragon the next turn with the curing Zapdos can then go max flare into the Zassian You probably lose curing on the back of that as a max wormwind Yep, don't mind that too much though Actually, maybe a max flare takes the Zassian because of the the defense drop from the close combat, you know Potentially We do get the weakness policy So an earth power would take the Zassian there there as well So we've got a few options behemoth blade because they're not really Concentrating too much down to the Zapdos here kind of giving us a free run where we can get I think it You know an ice beam would probably get the high dragon, but you know, I really don't want to risk it I mean, it probably does doesn't it it's stab stab plus two We've got a massive special attack. I Reckon we get them. I reckon we get it the other option it yeah, and we have to max flare. I think yeah Let's do that. Let's do that. Just drink on me I can miss so it is a little bit risky where the ice beams a little bit more, you know, I guaranteed We just need this to pick the knock up up Which it does come on the comeback is on here. We go so the ice beam all we need now It's to get our ice beam onto the high dragon and we're in the money in the money. Okay? That's such a big knockout So is that okay, there we go. Here we go. Okay. We get the crit. I'm pretty sure plus two with stab I like ridiculous attacks that we get it anyway so I Don't think the crit matters too much and they got a crit against the iron scenario So it kind of evens up a little bit. Well, that's that if this matter this this is where more important right Okay, we've got ocean food coming in. I think we're gonna be fine We're gonna be fine now because we just double tap with an ice beam I'm pretty sure it's the air the dark one No, it's the water one. It's the water. So we don't want to be ice beam in it. We can earth power it and We can thunderbolt it as well So there's the war one but the Sun's up which helps us out massively and we're gonna be able to lock this one up with Zapdos Zapdos putting in the work today. So there we go and the curam as well Obviously can't can't discount what curams efforts have been in this one But Zapdos doing some amazing work. Obviously we had a discussion on the stream last night But which which what do I prefer Zapdos or thunderous now a lot of you know, I've played a lot of thunderous on the channel a lot of thunderous on stream But I would always pick Zapdos. I don't always pick Zapdos. It's always it's my boy My boy Zapdos. He's yeah, he's the one is any I love Zapdos. It's very cool And I do want to feature glaring Zapdos as well and soon on the channel So that is something I am working around And we will feature at some point and I'm gonna probably Ablood tonight stream on the channel because I'm taking part in the weekly tournament that we hold over on discord I'll throw the code up at the end if you want to check that out or just join in. It's a good practice weekly So good game to my opponent and we will jump into our next battle of the day Okay up next today. We got Marley playing a team of eval to melodic Charizard right you Metagross and Whimsicott, okay, so the restrict it's gonna be the eval toe Um, I think your matches up not too bad against it. Obviously is a bit slower than it So we need to try and get a speed control Under control like just make sure I speak controls all right in this match And Zapdos again is a very good Pokemon The only issue is the the raichu which protects like pretty much everything week to the zapdos single target attacks It makes it a bit difficult to bring this speed control. They're quite useful from it though The other thing that we could think about is maybe comfy. Comfy could be useful. It's just if we see something like Tailwind the curem white is is kind of threatened by the Metagross and the Charizard But the thunder wave thunder wave we can't really make too much use of either because And the raichu like the raichu is the big thing that we need to get rid of like early on But if you set a trick room up the Metagross is likely slower than everything so unless a tailwind gets set up Which we could kind of maybe Be it early on I think zapdos is probably not a bad option. We could get the sun up potentially I think we've got incineroar We'll bring comfy and curem in the back for this one and we'll see what we can do Yeah, it's a tricky one this because the raichu really over complicates everything, you know It's like, you know, you've got like lines of and ways to deal with the threats on the field in front of you But that lightning rod is it's like the big thing to get to take away first, but you don't want to kind of get too too preoccupied with it because like if you do that you leave things like sitting next to it alone now We're probably gonna see like a brutal swing here proc the Metagross weakness policy and And It go to town, but we can fake out raichu here to kind of prevent that And just go for a max flare into mmm. Do we go for max flare? Do we go after the raichu? I think I think we go after we go after the raichu here Go max flare into it and and fake out into it as well Because we don't want to proc the weakness policy without getting like the sun up We want to kind of get our sun up if we can we may see the Metagross Max here and go max quick into Incinero But hopefully we're able to take that it's non-stab, so we should be able to depend on the How the Incinero is trained It's apt us again going to be quite key for us in this match, you know So let's see what my opponent does because if they want to go for the brutal swing then you know It's quite it's a decent option for them to think about because you think if we're Incinero We're probably like well the partner's gone for a fake out here because the raichu is faster than that So my opponent is probably in that frame of mind of thinking when the Incinero is probably gonna likely switch out a potting shot Here I'll go for an attack into the Metagross So I've got the opportunity to go for that brutal swing Which is why I'm kind of going down this route to try and remove it because it's such a big threat We identified it early on you know In team previews being the one thing that really prevents zapped us from being able to kind of function as well as we want it to The thing is though we just need to make sure that the the Metagross is not getting that weakness policy proctor until Till we're in a position to kind of take it down So we're not really getting super punished for for activating that item. Yeah, they're definitely going for the brutal swing Yep. Okay. Well, this is fine And really what we want to try and do now is get the Incinero Maybe wow raichu takes it like an absolute champ. I cannot believe it Cannot believe it didn't go down to that Wow, I'm gonna see a rock fall as well. Okay geez Are you kidding you're kidding that does so much damage critical hit. That's really unfortunate. That is very unfortunate That's really unfortunate. Um, I think the only thing we can potentially go for here is is The double up into Metagross The flare blitz get the sun up and then the flare blitz But it's likely they go after like they cuz they can brutal swing here for sure, but they're likely to go more after the The Incinero, I think this turn than the Zapdos But if Incinero goes down here and Zapdos is still around then we get comfy in and then we can go for that floor healing Okay, like the web not ideal. No Zapdos probably gonna be slower than the Metagross potentially Yeah, Max quick into the game. Okay. Yeah Okay, well, I Guess they're not not the worst because we're still we're not out of it yet, but we're not I Mean we do have the the weakness policy will be setting up which is not ideal Let's see what this does proxy weakness policy, which is bound to No, no weakness policy. It's the souls best. Okay, then we can max guard and we could ally switch as well Do we have a switch? the best play and a floral healing floral healing still not a bad option because We're not gonna take I don't think we take a max Rockfall, which is what they're gonna go for isn't it? They're gonna go for the Rockfall 100% We could max guard and trick room Because that puts us in a better position especially after the electro web And then we we floral here in the next turn But I think you're probably if you're my opponent I think you just select a web again and just go steal spike into comfy Which is maybe where the the It depends if it's where the priority lies. Do you want to get rid of the Sun? I do want to get rid of the trick room. That's right. You know No, they're going after the zaftos. Okay. Well, the trick room is gonna definitely help us out now Because we've got the option to go floral healing And go heat wave Which is really really really good for us But it does depend what comes in in the back from my opponent, you know So Sun's still up. We'll go for that and we'll go for that floral healing in the zaftos Give it some life back because that's what we need and if the comfy kind of Sticks around That will be useful I could see it being taken down by the metagross because it's just like the support line You know for the zaftos rock slides probably not gonna take us down After this floral healing I wouldn't have imagined Being an assault vest variant that health is so nice bullet punch coming out. Okay, that's perfect. Yeah, that's ideal That's exactly what we want my opponent to be doing Get the heat wave off. I'll do a lot more damage to the metagross get the right you not enough But I mean now zaftos is gonna be back to kind of Fully kind of fighting ways. So what's the metagross is set? It's got stomping Rock slide bullet punch and must have iron head must have iron head Probably goes for that in the next turn on to the comfy. So whims a cock coming out Which is fine because we can just go for that heat wave again Get all our health back Yep The other option here is God drain and kiss into a women then heat wave But I do worry about a rock slide coming out from the metagross and we need to kind of like zaftos is quite important to us here I think Okay, whimmy protecting Which again fine fine and now if comfy goes down We're actually in a not a bad spot because curing can come in at London speed the whimmy So we could double tap that slot with a heat wave and ice beam The metagross will be in range to go down for another heat wave that the following turn Okay, they're just walk sliding which is fine, you know the thing that we really need to be doing here is is making sure that we kind of Still let these trick room turns long enough to get the metagross and just you know For a certain to like time like comfy if it's still healthy When our trick room does end in and they get the tail wind up then we're in a way better spot To maybe set the trick room up again, especially if the whimmy hasn't got taunt So that floor healing coming in so valuable here Mean comfy is like turn this game around for us completely, you know such a good Pokemon There's another bullet punch coming out the beery berry procken on the comfy here. So doing it's worth Good old comfy ticking just tickling tickling comfy As we get another heat wave off and zap does to its credit has not missed a single heat wave yet So, you know that is that is brilliant and the draining case gonna be able to get the whims you cut the next turn Yeah, it's not one for the tailwind, which is I like ideal and Comfy because it's a boss just takes that pretty pretty well and what's my opponent's last Pokemon? You've elbow. I would imagine a Veltel, okay Draining kiss. I mean does does yeah mean heat wave draining kiss. It's probably what we want, right? How many turns it's going that we got left Trick room one. I think the thing is here is probably Switch zaptos out Go draining kiss into the whims a cut because then zaptos the speed will be reset and We're gonna be able to outspeed daddy Veltel and put a bit more pressure on to it and When he's gonna protect it doesn't matter because unless well, yeah That's the bad thing if Veltel gonna protect as well. The bad thing there would have been if the Veltel attacked into the the comfy And that would have been pretty terrible But I think we're kind of alright like the Veltel is gonna outspeed curing here But I mean we're gonna be able to get an ice beam on to it It's not gonna be able to knock us out and the draining case will get the women before it's able to tailwind So we should be able to clean up with zaptos in The end anyway when we come back in with it This draining case obviously gets that Priority boost to plus three so it's kind of like the same level as like extreme speed So we'll get the the jump on the tailwind here from the wimmy which is always good. So pick up the knockout zaptos and Comfy kind of just dismantled my opponent's team, which is amazing to say, you know I a comfy one of those Pokemon. It's really slept on but it does such a good job when you when it does come to Come to a match Yeah, it's not not ideal, but I mean we're not an any any real Problems, you know when zaptos comes in we just need a bit of chip on to this you've out. Oh, wow better chip I say a bit of chip. I say and the freeze Just to rub the salt in Do have to I feel bad for my opponent now because that the freezes are pretty unfortunate But it doesn't really change the outcome of the game, you know the game would have been exactly the same Even if worse comes to worse We lose the the curing and the comfy we got zaptos to come in guaranteed to outspeed the available We've got like full health for it. So there's no way that you're gonna be term. I'll just throw out which is good Okay, so yeah doesn't do it doesn't remove anything So we get to see the game play out as it was meant to anyway So the freeze never existed friends and the ice beam like I say this should actually just take it down Even though we are minus two from the initial damage We did to about up there and yeah very good game to my opponent and what a nice game for us to kind of wrap up with today So just then thank you so much again for the team really good really exciting games today and really entertain I hope everyone that has watched this enjoyed them as well I'll hop over now and I'll remind you all of the rental code for today's team and before I forget friends this Friday over on At discord we are hosting one of our weekly tournaments. It's a friendly tournament, but it is series a it's a great place for you To get weekly practice. We are warning them like I say weekly every single Friday They'll be kicking off at 8 p.m UTC time and they'll be running till 11 You'll have roughly enough time to do about 15 matches in total and we'll post the results afterwards in the discord with the With the usage stats from the Pokemon that I've been using the tournament It's really good resource and if you want to get involved like I say the code to join the tournament this Friday the Fifth of March is up on the screen right now. So I hope you enjoy it Okay friends here is Justin's rental team for his cure and why team it featured today on the channel if you do try it out I hope you have a lot of fun We've got to see it in a lot of different scenarios today And you know even when things are starting to look at their worst The team has a way and has tools to kind of turn it around and really clutch it back and spin that momentum around Which says a lot about the team in general. I really like the build I like the item choices I think Justin's done a phenomenal job with this team and it's a lot of fun to play So definitely give it a go if you want to play cure and white This is definitely one for you to try out again big shout out to Justin and also for anyone else that has submitted those rental codes If there is rental teams that you want to see featured again Just drop them down in the comment section below with that rental code And we will feature them either here on the channel or we'll feature them on our streams So friends, thank you so much as always for tuning in. It's been a great episode today I really enjoyed it. Hope you have have a great weekend. We'll be back with more content very soon And until then take care of yourselves and I'll see you in the next one. So until then take care. Bye. Bye