 With the release of Sword and Shield on the 15th of November, I've jumped onto my sketchpad, put together three new designs for you to represent your Team Starter, Team Skull Bunny, Groovy Gang or Team Sobble. Hop over to the Teespring Store now, you can grab a 10% discount with the Discount Code Starter. Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 Battle Series. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris and today on the channel we're going to be continuing on with this team that we kicked off with in yesterday's episode. If you missed yesterday's episode and you'd like to check it out, I'll pop a card up here for you to go back and check yesterday's episode. I would be full coming into this one because it was a cracking episode. It was a great one for us to kick off with this week so there was an amazing moment with Tabakoko in our game too that I would suggest if you haven't seen it go on miss. But getting on to the team as always it is down in the description below. There is a link to the actual team report from Yuki that we're playing this week. I had a lot of fun with it yesterday. I'm looking forward to exploring a few more of the elements of the team like the comma oil particularly and maybe making a bit more use of the crowbar bow that further ado. Let's get into it today. Let's get some music on and as always my friends if you do enjoy this little content please remember to drop a like on the video. Do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and leave your comments down below. Let me know what your thoughts on this team, on this particular build, if it's your favorite Zerndon build or if you prefer a little bit more of a standard variant or if you've got a favorite Pokemon that you like playing with this restricted pair. Anything I would love to hear from you and obviously keep on coming with the team, the team that you are. I want to know which you are if you team score Bunny like myself because I'm a traitor, I'm a traitor I've been told I'm the person that makes Sobble cry because I change teams but I just the Bunny and the fire it's just too attractive. Are you Grookey Gang or are you the Sobble squad or team Sobble whatever whichever one you are let me know down below I would love to hear. Anyway we are going into our first battle we've got a first opponent pretty high rated Japanese player so we'll get into team preview. And they are running a team of Rayquaza, Kyoga, Tabukoko, Teppofini, Incineroar and Ferridon. Don't know why I've got the cinematic voice coming on today it's like this summer coming to it. I'm sorry I'll plug it in I'll be serious. The last week on the channel doing the Ultra series we've got to have a little bit of fun. Okay so we've got Rayoga, standard kind of call we've got Tabukoko support there really good because it offers a terrain support it's obviously a very fast pivot as well to help alongside that Kyoga get the Rayquaza in. Overwrite the weather so you can spammy water type attacks potentially got speed control there with Electric Web we've got to be careful of that. Teppofini is another one with speed control you've got the standard Incineroar support there it's just good and it does offers fake out support intimidate support it's a fire dark type it's just generally very good and then the Ferridon stuck on the end as a trick room kind of counter. The one thing I would say is making use of R speed control would be quite good but we've got to be very careful of the Tabukoko. Gengar is going to be quite nice for us here does well against the majority of the team. So Gengar I think we'll bring do we want to bring Koma here? Maybe we're going to have to quickly quickly tap in with everything I don't know why I'm bringing I don't know why I'm bringing the Koma at all I don't know why I'm bringing it there's a Rayquaza there it's going to just stomp on us with Dragonous End but you never know we can maybe pressure parts of the team there's two Tapus as well so it's like literally the worst Pokemon to bring to this game but we were rushed it's our own fault but we were rushed so we'll get into it at least we are bringing the Koma oh we did say in yesterday's episode we'd like to explore the team a bit more set it to there again you know we'd like to see how it does and oh it's not doing so well is it it's not doing so well but but it's fine it's fine it's all right we've got to watch out for the Ferrium on the Koko of course the Dazzle as well the everything on the Rayquaza I think the one thing that if I'm my opponent I kind of want to get rid of the the Gengar as soon as possible because it can it can restrict our ability to their ability to to take advantage of the weather I'm gonna mega evolve with Gengar obviously I'm gonna protect all this turn and do it switch you know do I just go for the Z move and just go crazy um I feel like I kind of want to just Z move it really I'm gonna just I'm gonna do it we have to cut the Z move of course because it is copyrighted and but are we cheeky enough to get the Z move off I mean I feel like it's gonna go terribly wrong but it might go really well so we'll see uh we'll mega evolve get a lovely shine Gengar onto the field and the Rayquaza gonna pop up turn into the mega Rayquaza and start doing some stuff I mean if we can catch you with the Z move depending on how it's built it might go down Gengar protect yeah you could have targeted into the Colcon went to the speed tie but what's the okay okay this isn't all bad I mean they've probably targeted the Gengar with this and then just drag assented into a drag assented dragon assented into the Comma all that would be my best bet so here's the Z move and let they're gone into the Comma all now they're gone into the Gengar of course they are they want to get rid of it don't attack don't attack us Drake on me yet no you've got Drake on me here and you've got a tapu finny on your team you're mad you're a mad man okay well the Rayquaza is pretty useless now because of that drop all I mean it's not really is it still a dragon assented it's got the other spectrum all right right well what we could potentially do is just zone out away out of this mess um do it oh do we go grow out on I mean we could go Xerneas and get a GMC up I feel like we can win a speed tie against the Colcon we've got to do something here I don't really feel like I want to play like carefully with this team either I feel like I'm really reckless with it it's probably a real bad drawback it's gone for the speed tie which we've already said we didn't want to go for those sludge bomb there and let's get that fat GMC up with Xerneas come on Gengor win the tie come on you know you can do it Gengor you know you know you want to that does so much damage as well this is like the weakest Xerneas ever look at any breaks and now we're gonna go down and of course yeah it's a brilliant switch by my opponent but I mean I mean like yeah what what can I say yeah we'll we'll lose but I know from 2016 okay I had to train my ferrithorn a particular way to take an earth part in a moon blast and you had to have a lot of bulk it had to be sassy you had to have a lot of bulk in there because I remember that was one of the criteria in my 2016 team if anyone remembers the the original assault vestry aqua's are back back in the day and it was one of the things I did with my ferrithorn because I always kind of got in a position where I was like out in front of a groud and I could overwrite the weather with Kyogre's rain and the primordial sea but I could never get around the earth part moon blast so that was a that was a definite thing that I loved that to make sure I could calc and I don't think my opponent here is going to be able to calc against that I think we'll pick up the ferrithorn with a moon blast and an earth part and I can see the kyogre coming in on that requires a slot 100 percent we'll double the ferrithorn I think we've got to tie in all our attention now our opponent could see through this and just protect the ferrithorn and yeah I mean it's gonna be I mean if we get the ferrithorn it helps it's still going to be really difficult to deal with a requiser and a kyogre not so much the tapococo I feel like we're set up really well against the tapococo like bring us all the tapococos in the world and we'll we'll nuke them it's tapococo coming back in and ferrithorn protects okay well it's it's I mean we could have erupted there but it's so risky like thinking that the kyogre is going to come in have the broad kyogre they've got a broad kyogre right you just don't not bring kyogre to this match up now we can go for the earth part in the moon blast here or do we go dazzle and go eruption does the coco switch out I don't I feel like that play no we have to go for it we have to go for it because I just even if the requiser comes in it's fine take that down we have to go for it here comes the kyogre yeah like I don't know why that wasn't the initial switch but my opponent kind of scouting out what we're gonna do but if they don't take this we're back in the game at least yeah we should be the thing is it's going to be difficult still because the requiser is probably a salt best I think with the the the set that it has we're modest as well so we should do just down to an earth power come on groudon do it please do it for me come on groudon we could still do this we could still do it it's fine okay we've still got to deal with kyogre in front of our groudon it's a special groudon it's not so hot but if we can get the opportunity to double in to the kyogre it might be what we need I'm just wary that the type of coco will might see a protect on the kyogre but at the same time I'm gonna earth power kyogre and I'm gonna dazzle I don't think that will be enough to get the kyogre but it kind of covers the protect and the dazzle should get the type of coco anyway okay we get the coco I don't think an earth power is going to be enough to get this kyogre really don't come on crit or something please what's about origin bullshit can't even miss should have moonblasted but then we take an attack from coco so we're kind of in a similar position and now extreme speeds gonna do its thing and clean this one up and I mean after such a terrible start and comma all you know I'm gonna say it now I just it's never I'd never seen how comma all works in this format and I'm not saying it anything bad because you know what it's it's just one of those you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna moonblast this requires I because in case it doesn't go for the extreme speed it's blatantly gonna and the kyogre might protect but no it's not gonna happen the kyogre could miss if we hang on not gonna happen and no but the one thing is comma all has no right to being in this this matchup I don't know why I clicked it in the team preview we rushed through it I'm gonna hold my hands up and say it was our mistake but we did all right to kind of bring it back and we we got the kale on the ferrathorn which is all that matters right it's all that matters it's all that matters okay and excuse the hat I've literally just gotten from where I first cycle home like seven miles and it was freezing tonight and it's the first time this evening on my cycle that it's been pitch black dark as soon as I left which is really depressing it's not depressing it's just like it's so nice cycling when it's light and it's just yeah it's not so nice when it's dark and it's been really cold today really cold like freezing cold like cold I have like these thermal gloves that I wear and I'm cycling picture it picture it they're great they're huge they look like like I don't know I'm like sausage fingers all over and but it was so cold like my hands are actually like painfully cold through the gloves so I'm figuring it must have been like super cold anyway we got KC up next so we've got another ray to deal with but we'll hop into team preview and see what we can do KC running the team of I've got a friend called KC he is running the team of it's not it's not my friend but he is running the team or she is running the team of Zernius Rekwaza Amongus Cartana Incinero and Tapu Fui so kind of standard x-ray core the only difference is you're seeing kind of the double grass type there that you wouldn't generally see the Cartana would normally be a Nilego but I do like the inclusion of Cartana here it does give you the team an option of speed control which I think it's one thing this team really does lack and has lacked throughout the format to really give it that extra dimension so if the Cartana has got tailwind can prove quite useful here because it's not so reliant on the icy wind support from the Tapu Fui or the Geomancing from the Zernius straight away I'm gonna say that we're not bringing Comma on to this match I am bringing the Gengar though for sure um we do want to bring Zernius I definitely want to bring Groudon and what's our last Pokemon do we want Amongus do we want Crobat Crobat could be nice if my opponent gets set up and there's not really much of my opponent team that can really threaten the Crobat too heavily the other thing is the the flying name Z might be useful for something like Amongus late game so we're locking and we'll go with that you must see how we get on but we're gonna get a win I feel like this is the one this is the one we're gonna get a win it's the standard at the minute isn't it it's like win one lose one although we had that great episode on Friday where we had the Groudon just four on one we haven't seen that you need to go back and check last Friday's episode it is titled for the one or something like that or four on one I don't know um but it yeah it's it it's pretty good you need to go check check it out it's uh it's like the best boy Groudon doing these things it's great anyway we need to concentrate on this match because we've got that standard Zernius Incineroleed from my opponent um hmm did we just protect Gengar or did we just go for the taunt I think we'll probably better off just go and mega evolve let's go for a taunt into the Zernius they may switch out um and we'll try our luck and get a geomancy up now because if Tapu Finney comes in and we get the geomancy up oh it's Cortana don't mind this too much either um but we may just see a fake out from the Incinerole you've got to think as well that we might see a roll uh snarl as he moves into Gengar he knows but at least if that Cortana has got tailwind like we were talking about before we've shut that down we do get the geomancy up it's kind of making me feel like this Incinerole's got roll don't have roll don't have roll totally ruins everything although we will be able to get Groudon in which that was a pretty good time against both these pokemon there he is come on Groudon come in yeah there's the boy he's like need anything to that deer that deer is useless let me handle it let me take down these boys right okay so I think what we will do is we'll double tap the Incinerole we'll go for an eruption and a slouch bomb into that slot we're probably not going to take the Incinerole down or doing that which is the other thing um the only thing we could potentially do like the Cortana can't protect either um you could just icy wind and then go for an earth power I just want to get rid of the Incinerole and it's not going to go down to it like it's not going to go down I'm going to go sludge bomb and I'm going to go eruption I want to get rid of this Cortana you could sludge bomb and then earth power but the thing is it's not going to take the Incinerole down and get the chip on to it get rid of the Cortana that's a better move here and it's not slashed so that's a good indicator we're probably taking attack from the Incinerole now you think that's not the worst thing in the world um and the gang are still proven to be a bit of an issue for my opponent because without being able to deal with it effectively um we still threaten the likes of Zernius pretty hard now the Rayquaza coming in does change a few things um but we do have Corbat still so we could bring Corbat back in um we do have on Zernius uh so I think we need to watch out for um potentially there's a move on Incinerole as well uh could have it there but I honestly don't think it does I think with roll I think you probably drop in the dark type attack it will make the most sense um then we just reposition ourselves um I think you tall that the gang are here um but then you've got to turn to fake out and the ground on do you just bring in I think we bring in Corbat right now because then we can set up a tailwind and put ourselves hopefully and a good drive I don't know but we've got my opponent like kind of pinned in here anyway so it's not the worst thing in the world okay it's unlike going to fade away as we switch out and Corbat hits the field and Rayquaza of course gonna go for that mega evolution not hanging around burst up and get ready to chuck out some big damage imagine you want to go for I'm hoping that it's an assault vest variant which is kind of what you see generally on these teams could be sword stance variant and if we're allowing the sword stance to go up now wouldn't be the best but we are just seeing an air fight into Gengar and a U-turn into Gengar so doubling up there um okay now we could I really want to keep Gengar around for later on I'm gonna bring in Zernius and I'm gonna go for I'm gonna go for the tailwind my opponent can't really switch out and if they got earth power into Gengar again that's fine Ray revealing that it has protect okay so that's that's better for us really way better and I'm probably seeing another U-turn come out from the Incineroar oh of course Fleeblitz this time into Corbat get some damage onto it that's strong enough but a moonblast will take that Incineroar down now um and a moonblast would probably do quite a decent number I'm not really worried about the Incineroar to be honest I'm more worried about the the Rayquaza I'm gonna I'm gonna go for the uh the z move we'll go z move and we'll go moonblast into the ray and let's make sure that we take it down come on camera don't do this are you not focusing focus and if the Zernius comes in and requires his place then I mean we pick up a kill I think either way so we're gonna take down a restrict unless you get it over attacks like that's the only thing and I don't think it's worth risking at this point but here we go supersonic skyscrapers haven't used the Z move in such a long time so nice to see it and uh Corbat gonna do it'll be interesting to see how much this does say about 50% maybe like Corbat's not the weakest of Pokemon very far so it's in type attack bonus we're gonna get with this so yeah hopefully 50% I'd be happy with that whoa more more you're outstanding literally like doing up and above Corbat really taking the game to my opponent we're gonna see you turn potentially yeah and so my opponent's got the the fake out and geometry boost but at the same time it doesn't really matter um too much because you cannot fake out a Corbat unfortunately for my opponent because of its magical inner focus ability this magical purple bat has I don't know why it's so magical it'd be great to have like I'm gonna say everything gets a fairy typing doesn't it I don't know what typing would you like to see on Corbat hmm or typing would be good on it I wouldn't really want to take away its flying type the poison is really good as well actually I wouldn't actually change it I don't think and you'd have to change it completely like maybe electric flying could be good but then it's use against like berries wouldn't be as good so we'll just keep it we'll keep it it makes more sense to do that could we go for the double geo in this match do some showboat and I don't think so I mean we could try it couldn't we um and go for a cheeky old taunt into the zenius I think we'll get faked out here into our zenius to be honest we'll probably just get attacked take out yep and we'll get the taunt so that's fine I mean at least we'll deny an opponent's geomancy the thing is it could have been a bit smarter and just protected there but they've actually went for the geomancy um they can't protect now so we can just um super fang moon blast and that I think probably should put the zenius uh might pick up the knockout but we're never gonna know because the forfeit comes out and good game KC but uh I told you I told you it was one win one loss today it's always the way it goes on a Tuesday it's just a Tuesday bump isn't it anyway my friends I'm sorry I'll stop I'll be serious for a minute thank you so much for tuning in I really hope you've enjoyed today's episode it's been a bit mad especially the comma all game game one why we brought that I have no idea I'll be still thinking about that tomorrow morning when I come back to do some more recording for this week um but like I say thank you so much for tuning in I hope you've enjoyed today's episode as always it's a pleasure we'll be back tomorrow with more uh content uh with this team and hopefully we can explore it a bit more and hopefully we have the opportunity to bring that comma on do a little bit more work with it and change my mind a little bit on how useful it can be in this format have a great day morning noon and night whatever time of day it is wherever you are and I'll see you in the next one. Until then my friends, take care, bye-bye.