 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 Battle Series. If you're new to the channel, welcome My name's Leigh also known as Osiris and today we are going to be playing a G-Max Toxicity team. Now it's been introduced in series 3 of this format. It's something I've really wanted to play around with Since its introduction into Sword and Shield we can finally use it now I don't feel like the team's quite there yet But we're gonna give it a go today and we'll polish it off by the end of the week And then have the rental code ready for you guys to try out yourselves So the team consists of Milotic, the Incinero, Toxicity, the Dragapult, Excadrill and Togekiss. So there we go. We'll jump into it I've got a few obscure items on things like the safety goggles on the Togekiss. It just helps redirection pulling Helps get around sleep powder and things like that because Venusaur is a problem at the minute as well as things like Rosarade That we featured last week on the channel. If you haven't seen that would like to check that out. There's a rental team there for the Rosarade team I'll link it above now So that really helps out there. Dragapult kind of helps against the psychic threat You've got Excadrill which helps against the ground threat, the steel threat that Toxicity has It's got a lot of real Problems Toxicity to get going. So that's why I think the team's not quite there yet I think but rather than sit in front of a computer for the next two hours Changing things in and out. It's best just to dive head first then test the team out See where the discrepancies are and then we can change things going forward. So we've got a first opponent spider of the episode They are running a team of blast toys excellent Indeedy, Raichu, Incineroar, Venusaur and the Pelipa. So they do have Rain here with the Pelipa To support the blast toys lots of starter Pokemon for sure So you're probably looking at blast toys with these shells smashed. That's what I would imagine we'll probably see and Toxicity has a little bit of a hard time against the Raichu for sure But it's not really threatened too hard outside of the Indeedy which we can potentially deal with within Incineroar Although we probably don't want to be bringing Incineroar to this match really do we? Just because of the rain threat from the blast toys and the Pelipa We need to make some decisions on Pokemon that we're gonna bring. So we'll bring Toxicity, Dragapult or bring Milotic and I think we'll bring Let's bring Exkudrill Exkudrill gives us a nice option against things like the Incineroar of Raichu We've got the sash there. So it gives us a little bit of a buffer as well This feels like a really awkward team to play against and it's got lots of setup there It's got the automatic rain. You'd imagine there'll be weather ball on stuff Blast toys is gonna be scary because it's probably gonna be the shell smash variant and we're probably gonna see Follow me in DD But what we could do here is just overdrive Because it is a double target type attack So we'll get big damage onto the blast toys before it can really do anything We are seeing the psychic seed on the indeedy Favorite item of mine from indeedy and I think we probably have to go for a Shadowclaw into the indeedy and double into both with an overdrive and So we can't G max this turn hopefully Tox can get through this turn so we can potentially G max the next turn That would be ideal, but I don't think we're gonna be able to deny the shell smash unfortunately But we'll see so nice damage there with the the dragon claw. So you have a drive gonna be enough There's some nice damage that blast toy store, doesn't it and we get the throat spray boost So we're sitting in good shape for this next turn and there's a shell smash It's a white herb as well, I bet it is Exactly I ran I was playing in the extreme speed a Singles tournament over the weekend. It was so much fun You only got to use one Pokemon at a time But I played white herb on it and that was there. Yeah, that was that was a lot of fun Okay, and I don't know what we can do now. Hmm Do we fancy force do fancy force? Oh, do we just drag in claw? We just drag in claw the indeedy just to get rid of it. I think might be a good idea to try I really want it. I'm gonna I'm gonna cheat. I'm gonna. Yeah, I'm gonna go for it I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna gonna go for the gigantic max We're gonna try and see if we can do it. Okay, we're gonna see the indeedy switch out. We're gonna see it's gonna be the right you Okay, well the blast toys is gonna Dynamics Yeah, we probably would have been better off bringing the melodic in here, but We know it's not even water spout and the other plus is However, this ends up we at least get to see g max toxicity, which is probably one of the coolest g max pokemon. There we go See if we can take an attack Oh, why didn't we just use max ooze? Okay, well here's the max geyser. This is into a tox. It's gonna be us done. We're not taking that plus two Okay, well the rain is up. We'll get some damage onto the right you Which helps toxic did very little in this match, but We've still got a game to go after this. Okay. Well the right you hangs on with its sash um Drag up ups definitely in danger of getting taken down this next turn for sure I mean melodic is probably the best choice here. We're better off keeping xcudrill sash intact Especially because the right you's probably got fake out Uh, now we could protect with draggapult. I think it's probably the best option here because we don't want to I really want to try and get an icy window off That would help us massively because then I think we probably had to speed the blastos with draggapult so I'm gonna see if we can pull this off I'm not worried too much about melodic going down here. I don't think it will Just draggapult is it gonna be able to I mean we do take that It's the right you going for is it going for a nuzzle And there's a boost for a good old melodic. There we go. That competitive boost is gonna help us out a bunch And a ball. Okay. Well, we'll take this Not ideal We do get rid of the um the problem is now that indeedy comes back onto the field um Hmm So really what we need to do is phantom force Into the blastoise and get rid of the indeedy That's a venus or ah Ah, okay. Um, right. Well, we will go for that phantom force into the blastoise um Do we just do we just take the hit and lose melodic here? I mean we could try for another icy wind Uh Breaking a potential sash on the venus sole if we can get it off. I mean that's huge for us, but if not, then Okay, that's perfect. That works out perfect. Perfect. Please try and put our draggapult asleep Sludge bomb. Okay. Do we take this? Nah, no chance That extra drill coming in now Um, the only problem is Well, I guess we just iron head The venus sole hope we get a flinch. I'm just worried about the venus on now putting a draggapult asleep um But yeah draggapult should definitely have to be this blastoise Uh So we'll go for the iron head into the venus sole Icy wind is like 100 percent what we needed so we might be able to do this still Gonna be very close. Gonna be very very close Like I say if we can get a cheeky flinch here. I've heard if we clap our hands twice and it does work We'll try it I'm willing to give anything you go right now Whoever thought we'd see like the start a two-starter pokemon like this venus on blastoise if you'd asked me like three generations ago if you'd ever see venus on blastoise in competitive player It would have been like no Never never Okay, there's a phantom force. We do pick up the win Uh the win we pick up the knockout But we need we need this flinch Come on Okay, well It the venus sole is definitely in phantom force range The problem is going for the phantom force now Uh, we need to drag and claw the indeedy and iron head again Um, because the indeedy go down Dragon claw iron head Probably won't pick up the knockout. We should be all right. I think Is this psychic so Um, yeah, I think we we should be all right Because either way whatever the venus all takes takes down Whatever we've got left should potentially pick up The knockout. Yeah, so I think the worrying thing is that the indeedy protects here Uh, the venus all puts a dragapult to sleep. Hmm. That could get a bit tricky, but we're not going to see that so Dragapult doing dragapult things Because it's so good Okay, I'm a bit sad that we haven't actually seen much of the tox residue to the g max and then just went down Okay, there we go. So good game to my opponent. We managed to come out of it on the On the the winning side, but um, yeah, we haven't quite managed to um Execute what we wanted to there um Okay, well We got an attack off with tox. I guess that counts, right? You get a calcium. Awesome I'm like brock in pokemon sword and shield at the minute. So These items are very handy for me right now Man, what happened to our rating? I've like not played really at all since I recorded the last episode with the um Who we were playing the rozzer rozzer weird team We got was that up next playing um, what looks a lot like Fezzy's team that he played in marmal here with the gigana max lapras the alchemy Incinero took a kiss dust globs and conquer. So I think it might be this team maybe so let's see What can we do against this team? I feel like toxicity has a decent time here. Uh, there's not really too much that like Immediately threatens us and we can do quite a bit of damage early on. Um So let's go tox Do we want to go We could go tox or we could go incinero I feel like because we haven't got the parting shot on incinero. We're probably better with tox Thing is we don't want to lose talk. I guess too early on Because I kind of want to keep it full The conch later in this match. So I'm gonna lead incinero. So we got at least got the fake. I just stopped the alchemy early on um Dragapult melotic Melotic could be decent dragapult Hmm It's going melotic here Okay So let's see how we can get on with this one. This feels like a good time for toxicity So let's see if we can do some stuff with it for a change Still got time. We'll make this in the 30 minutes. I promise you all right Lapras alchemy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay Do i'm just max use Into the alchemy double into it. I do i'm max stun shock Just to get massive damage onto the lapras before it gets Before it gets a shield up hmm What am I more concerned about the alchemy boost thing is going to be a bit of a problem for sure But I don't know if the max use will get it. Let's go stun shock. We could get paralysis. We could get um Poison so we'll do that. We'll go for the fake out into the alchemy And we will have to be the lapras so we should get some Decent damage onto it before it gets its aurora veil up with its g max resonance Which will help us a bunch It's 50% though of the time that you get paralysis and poison. So it's not every time which It's a little bit. It's not the best g max move, but it can be quite important if you do get it um I was playing around with the the talks last night Uh completely different builds and I did get it pretty much most times that I used it Which was nice because it really starts to put you ahead in the match. Um And it was it was a complete mixture between the paralysis and the poison It would be nice if we just got like one or the other to be honest Um, and it was like guaranteed all the time like the Pikachu one But it may be then a little bit more broken Here we go. At least we're gonna get to see it I mean, it's not doing massive damage. Is it but do we get We got the poison And and the paralysis. Okay, there we go G max resonance coming out um See what the damage is like here. Okay. Well, I mean we take that pretty well like Thing is like Lapras isn't ever really going to be the most powerful or hard-hitting Pokemon ever um I think we need to get incineroar out out out of here right now. I will go for the max zoos and um I wish we had party shots It would it would be the thing to have right now. We'll go into melodic I Maybe suspect that we'll see um a max geyser into incineroar, but It's probably more likely gonna be into our tox and we could have max guarded here But I think it's worth getting some damage off into the the alchemy while we can We also get the the special attack boost onto both melodic and our tox but doing this so it's It's kind of beneficial doing it right now because there's not really much chance of the um melodic going down um actually thinking about the paralysis is Like actually way bigger than what I even thought it was because it stops the alchemy getting the um the decorate off before The lapras can attack which is pretty huge for us. And now we'll be able to get Maybe maybe can we get can we get the lapras? I don't know. It's gonna be close. We are plus one No, we're not gonna be getting the lapras. We'll get the alchemy though. Um We could max guard as well And then start attacking the next turn and just go for an icy wind Or we could just go for muddy water Uh, I think let's just oh, it's probably it's probably Water absorbed. So that's a little bit risky um, okay Let's go for max use Oh, we've not done anything. We've not clicked in we've just wasted our time Okay. Well, I was gonna max use there to try and get another boost onto the the melodic Um, we might see a max guard But we get the max guard off. What the heck is Melotic gonna do recover. I think so we're not I don't think we're gonna do anything here. Yeah So it's a bit of a dead tip, which is fine. Um, we should get lapras now though Because we got overdrive. We are boosted up So we should get the lapras Not g maxed So this works out a little bit better even though we timed out that turn This is why it's always worth having those protect at the top friends. Let's go the overdrive. Um It's got muddy water At least we know the lapras can't protect here. We probably still will see a trick room come out From the dust globs. I'd imagine There's the overdrive. This should take the lapras down. I'm hoping it does There we go. Okay. That's good. That's good Uh does a a little bit of chip to the dust globs. We eventually get our throat spray So that puts us on plus two so if we can stick around this turn Um, hi Why melotic why do you do this to us? That's why we should have used coil that previous turn and then that would have got rid of that that issue Uh, all right. I still want. Hmm. What do they got left? They got the alchemy Bonk It's a worth just I'm gonna switch toxicity out and I'm gonna bring an incineroar here We'll probably take a fighting type attack there, but I'm gonna go for a coil at the same time We've got the rain up and we are plus one with melotic. So we do have that going for us um At least the next turn we've got the fake out into the conch And I think oh Okay, there's a haze and the punch It's not what we want to be seeing but we do proc our berry. It's not the end of the world. We still got We're still kind of a little bit out of sight from the um The haze there is so strong. Let's go for the fake out and we'll try The problem is now we lose our accuracy boost, which is kind of what we were going for in the first place Um, we'll see There's the haze again Just trying to wipe out another coil. Maybe I don't know Come on. Let's just like hit the dust clops. It's not really that hard to hit it. Come on man We do nothing to that conch Especially without the boosts. We're not really doing too much at all Okay, um I think it's time for togis to come in and do some stuff I think we call a double switch And we just use tox is some fodder here Like we should be all right, but Okay, nice shade into the kiss And there's a drain punch into this as well doubling up into that slot. So that's fine Um, now it does gives the opportunity to actually follow me and just overdrive Which is maybe not a bad idea. Um just to get damage off but the thing is Do we see the double up into So I think we see a thunder punch, you know, really I really do we'll protect our kiss Uh, and we'll bring in instant roll. We've got a little bit of we've got time to kind of maneuver around stall this trick room out The dust clops is going to be the problem out of everything really, isn't it? Um But if we get instant roll in here, at least we've got another fake out into the conch we can then Dazzle and that should be the last turn trick room then And then maybe with instant roll So in case we can dog a slur it dazzle or dog a slur it S slash and pick up the knockout onto the the dust blocks The conch on for the detect Okay, probably see a nice shade into instant roll. I would imagine Yeah, that's to try and get rid of that tox recipe. Yeah So the aurora veil finally off the oh Okay, let's just go dazzling gleam And let's go darkest lariat Into the dust clops and let's hope that that's enough. I don't really feel like it's gonna be but Yeah, the conch gonna switch out threatened by the fake out Um dazzling gleam Let's see We can land a crit here. That would be That's not enough dust globs is just too fat You know if we landed a couple of those those muddy waters that we'd miss both of them We probably would have been able to take it down here Right I'll crummy in um We really need to protect that a good old little toga kiss more than anything. I feel you know Let's go for another darkest lariat into the dust globs and try and take it down I think you double into the toga kiss knowing it how threatening it can be to the to the conch Yeah, there's a pain split there and dazzling gleam Insea be able to eat this up pretty nicely Okay Still got the issue the conch old oil to deal conch old air to deal with but it's it's getting a little easier If we can get through this trick room, I think we're gonna be Potentially or why potentially I think we have to pull a double switch this next turn now. Um Because I feel like these two are the probably the most important Components of the team. So we'll go into talks and then we're going to melottic as well The decorate here is a little bit scary though. That's that's the one thing We're giving room to this alchemy to start decorating this conquer And we really really don't want to be doing that Let's go under punch. Yeah I mean iron fist. It's always gonna take us down. Yeah for sure Um dazzling gleam No, there's no decorating going on. I'm pretty sure decorate does give you the um It does give you plus two and it's like a weakness policy, right gives you an an attack and Special attack Um, we could buy ourselves a little bit of time going recover here with with melottic um We could just go for a muddy water Now I'm gonna go for a cover because there is a chance that we could see maybe a double protect here to get around this fake out Okay There it is The surprise it took them so long to do it to be honest. I would probably done it the term before Oh, no, this conquer is very scary. Very scary. Um I think we just double the conch now and hope that our muddy water hits Muddy water is not gonna be enough to take down the conquer Okay, that's fine. That is fine. Okay. Well, we're gonna get enough damage off onto the conch. I think with the flare blitz I probably prefer it that way around And there's a life of let's see how much of flare blitz does our crummy paralyzed. So that's super super useful Is this gonna be enough No nowhere near enough We needed the burn dimension send back to normal now So I think we're gonna be all right because we can just dazzle get the conch It can mark punch iron syndrome for sure, but then the alchemy not really doing too much Um on top of that. So, uh, we'll just flare blitz the conch and go for No, we won't we're gonna flare blitz the alchemy and we're gonna go dazzle And that should wrap it up and toxicity Did some work in this game pulled through we hopefully fingers crossed got the win So that is good. But like I said, yeah, there's the detect Trying to get a bit more damage off. I think with this alchemy potentially before the conch goes down I don't know what the alchemy has but this is why I wanted to I did think the conch might protect here. It's a last ditch effort to try and do something Um But you can see the paralysis that we got earlier on coming in so handy You kind of shut the alchemy down stopped it really being able to be as effective as My opponent kind of wanted it to be So We'll just dazzle and flare blitz and that should be the game But we'll probably see in central go down to a mac punch. Yeah I imagine one last ditch effort No no mac punch And that is it so a very good game to my opponent played it very well We've got all the things that we wanted from toxicity in this one. I hope you've enjoyed it I am really chuffed because we've got to actually see the toxicity in action. That is the main thing So we'll be back later in the week with this team Maybe tweaking from the the the battles that we've had today And I'll have the rental team for you guys to try out later in the week. So, um Take care of yourselves, especially with what's going on. I keep saying this But make sure you are taking care of yourselves staying out of harm's way. Um and looking after yourselves Staying active and if you've got any questions about the team leave them down in the comment section below drop a like on the video If you do enjoy this all content Make sure you do subscribe for this all content and more pokemon content in general and I'll wrap it up there And see you all for the next one. So until I and my friends take care of yourselves and bye. Bye