 Hello friends and welcome to today's episode where we are gonna be kicking off with our series 7 content here on the channel My name is Lee also known as Osiris, and I hope you enjoy and find this episode useful It's not so much about a team per se But it's more to do with some resources that are available for you guys to kind of give you a little bit of a head start With the new format coming into effect on the 1st of November But before we get into that there are a few disclaimers here because obviously there is a lot of information yet to be officially confirmed We don't know any stats about the Galarian birds. We only know they're typing We don't know any information really about them outside of that We don't know anything about the new Regis or Galarian slurking So we have got a bunch of information there that's not been Released yet and we also only have information from our data mine earlier in the year that we're kind of basing all these assumptions off Which we don't know to be a hundred percent correct or not like the the move tutors that are available to the new Pokemon coming into the game that we got with the Isle of Armour and do we know about Move tutors that might be available in the Crown Tunder There is a lot of information there that is not been released yet that we have no idea and will not know about until the Crown Tunder is actually released So the format that we are going to be about to jump into could be very different But it's not really about that We have a facility now where we can play a lot of the new Pokemon together in a format against Other players that are playing the same format It means that we can start to learn what a potential meta game or as close to a series 7 meta game as possible Could be right now and so what you want to do as I said, it's on an alternative Showdown server at the minute It's not on the main one the official one and that's for good reason That is for all the reasons that I've listed below They don't have all of the information yet on the format on the Pokemon so they're not putting The format out and that makes sense because it's obviously Nothing's been a hundred percent decided yet. So if you want to play on this new Server you can hop over to Google and then just type in this address if you want which is the sports dot psim And that will take you over to this showdown server the alternative one that I'm talking about where there is a Series 7 ladder available for you to play on now the link to this server will be down in the description below So you'll be able to just use that and jump straight over to this server Once you're here what you want to be looking for in the format drop-down is the national decks DLC to Vgc format that's the one you want to be playing That's the one that you're going to be wanting to build your teams with you can see a little bit of a bigger Look at it. And once you're here, you can jump into the ladder now Like I say you need to have an open mind with this This is going to be a tool used for learning the format or potentially what the format will be like But more importantly, it's about trying combinations of Pokemon seeing what works with the new Pokemon They're going to be introduced Obviously with all of the old Pokemon that are coming back from the band list and the ones that we already have available to us That is going to be series 7 excluding mythicals and legendaries now The other thing just to mention before we jump into this today is obviously the ladder With the format that we've got available to us. There are just some discrepancies You're going to come across some teams that are just not series 7 legal at all I mean I put up a tweet earlier on today about a game that I was playing last night on this server Where I came across five Eternatus and one Mega Blastoise like that is just never going to happen in series 7 So with those players if you pair up with them or whatever just ignore those battles The majority of players are on this server are actually genuinely trying to practice series 7 with Legitimate or as close to legitimate as of right now Series 7 teams that we know of so you're going to be fine. And like I say, it's a great tool It's a great resource to have available to us right now to start testing Practicing getting familiar with the new Pokemon that will be coming into the format and the team that we're going to be using today I'll drop this down in the description as well with a poker paste It's something that I've just been playing around with the last couple of days. It is based kind of around metagross I just think metagross is it's so nice because I've played old formats where metagross has been a beast And it's actually it is a beast in this new format. I really love it. It's so good Especially with the dynamics mechanic and we're playing weakness policy on it Which will probably be one of the more popular items that you'll see played on metagross I would imagine of especially early format and With the clear body as well obviously ignoring any of those kind of stack drops from intimidate and speed drops from things Like bulldoze or whatever you want to pair up with it I've paired this up with tornadoes because it's obviously got that prankster ability got that prankster tailwind It's just invaluable for speed control. Um, I've got brutal swing as well, which is a nice Utility to use with procking metagross's weakness policy Obviously it hits everything on the field boosts the weakness policy and then metagross can literally just start Kowing stuff and boosting it itself with it's great dynamics moves that it's got available to with the steel spike And the max quake there Um, we play off the the zen headbutt as well with our indeedy who can bring the psychic terrain So we've got terrain control here. Uh, and this also pairs nicely with our kind of trick room model the team with gmax hattery um Obviously with the redirection allows us a pretty seamless way to set up trick room most of the time And then we've got talk alt to obviously come in and take advantage of the trick room as well And then rounding off with gmax minisoul Which is obviously Plays nicely with the talk all and gives us a bit of coverage against some of the other weaker things that this team might otherwise struggle with Um, like I say the team uh poker base will be down in the description And that is something that I want to put down there as well If you guys want to jump over onto this server and start playing at least you got a team Straight away that you can just put in you might not be to your taste But at least you got something to get you started with there's nothing worse than coming on to a new server In a new format and sitting in a team builder for hours thinking What am I going to play at least now you can just use this jump in start playing And it'll probably inspire some ideas. You'll probably face other teams You'll get ideas if you're on you'll start playing things that you think in your head are the best things to play So hopefully it is all helpful and that is the main thing about this video It's making you guys aware of this server And giving you a little bit of a push in the right direction to get yourselves familiar and start doing this So we'll have a couple of games as always we always do we may as well And it'll give us a chance to see some of the at least a little sight into some of the teams that are being used at the minute on the ladder So we know a real way to deal with trick room. I mean magnazone is Good against our psychic call for sure. Um, it might be better off us going tornadoes metagross, you know They're probably gonna tailwind though. That's the thing and they're gonna out speed us if we go tailwind So this is where our trick room mod probably comes in a little bit stronger with tokel in the back that can deal with the magnazone and then To be born venus all here because venus all isn't bad against the majority Obviously tapu lele and cinderace give us a few headaches But it will all depend if that their speed control is around late game or not Okay, so we've got magnazone and cinderace. I think we've got a pretty seamless way to set up a trick room here So we can definitely go for that and you know Go follow me and no no no no no no no no cancel wisest. This is really annoying this overlay sometimes It clicks moves that you don't want it to click So you've got to really pay attention to the text here had a game earlier Where I was like g max fine lash the uh the gochomp And it like miss clicked max ooze and i'm like it's like the worst worst thing to happen So if you're using custom overlays, you should and just be careful because some of them a little bit awkward to Deal with now. This is ideal for us. Honestly. This is like perfect because now we get our trick room up We get tolkal onto the field. We're in an amazing position because we can Just go dazzle and eruption if we want or we could go I think Because the thing is the the magnazone's probably got the sturdy ability So we're gonna have to double into it really realistically Um, why are we yeah? We want eruption Is the cinderace gonna stick around? I don't think we need to worry about the cinderace I think we just max and go g max Well, let's go g max mindstorm and get rid of the the electric train get rid of that boost So we'll go eruption And mindstorm into the magnazone there Um sucker punch, which is fine We need to take away the boost the cinderace goes down. It's probably not enough. No, but I don't think magnazons Yeah, this deal spikes fine with the special defense boost that we've got there Okay, so we've got our terrain set up magnazone on the field Doesn't look like my opponent's got too much to come in now and really give us any problems with the psyche train up as well It's kind of like a deterrent for urshifu when it comes onto the field. So now we can just um Yeah, make sure we are clicking the eruption button and then go for that g max smite into the gar chomp And yeah, I feel like like hard trick room size bomb is very strong in this format as well Obviously, it's very early days. Um I originally was testing stack attacker where the metagross was and we didn't have the tornadoes in but um, yeah It's been really good But I've kind of preferred the metagross to stack attacker, which is strange I don't feel like stackers like the more the the best thing in the size spam team at least for me Other pokemon that I feel like are very strong that I've kind of jumped out at me. Uh things like, um Tapu finny have been incredibly strong. Um, and like no surprise really thunderous as well Another great pokemon. Uh, so there's lots There's just a lot of the new pokemon coming into the format as you can imagine because of how good they are Um, doing a lot of decent things. So good going my opponent will jump into another one I don't want to keep this video too long as well. So if you can keep it under 15 minutes, that'd be good And uh, this is one of the examples I'm talking about um You're going to come across players that are doing this on the ladder just to try and be top of the ladder or whatever But like I say, we're not on the ladder. It's not super important The most important thing is the information that you're getting back from the games from the practice that you're putting in So don't be precious about your rank in this ladder. It's not important The the most important thing about this ladder is don't get annoyed or triggered if you come across guys like this They're just doing their own thing and let them do their own thing All it matters to you is the information that you're getting From playing this ladder getting familiar with these new formats getting familiar with these new combinations new pokemon Outside of that like I say what I do with these teams just click off them forfeit It doesn't matter move on majority of the teams that you're going to come up against on the ladder Ha, okay, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be actually legit teams. Okay Um, like this is rare I was playing for a good Couple of hours last night and I came across one team that was like that the rest of the time It was all teams that are genuine series seven teams There are more genuine series seven players on this ladder than they're not But like I say it's good in a way that we've got it for the video to show you guys that that's that sort of thinking pop Up, but don't get don't get like annoyed by it. You can just forfeit and move on Um, okay draggapult tokens he try and like I say one of my favorites rillaboom Incineroar and stack I really like the look of this team I think it's a very solid looking team very scary looking team Got trick room there. It's got the redirection speed control You've got potentially a weakness policy maybe on the draggapult. I don't know it can be more supportive And double fake out which is just really Good support option. Right. Let's get into this one. Um, what are we going to do now? Trick room mod isn't the greatest here, but metagross isn't too bad The thing is the one thing I would have to maybe rely on a little bit is if um I'm going to go tornado this metagross here Uh, we can I think we need indeedy for the the terrain support and probably Talk all in case the trick room goes up Um It's tricky though because I don't really Is venus or better? Maybe just in the back slot because venus or generally isn't bad against more stuff here um And it should add speed heat run as well and unless they've got max speed heat run Okay, so draggapult kiss we can tailwind Um, we could actually switch into indeedy here. It'd be kind of cheeky But it imagine they probably want to go they might even proc our weakness policy You know if they max pulse Which you would expect them to maybe do but they probably want to go airstream dazzle to kind of at least match speed Control if they're going to do anything. I would imagine max draggapult go airstream into Tornades and glean to get rid of it. But that will do us a huge favor if that happens because I meant across gets through this turn unscathed. We don't have a way to proc our weakness policy, which isn't great um But then we do get indeedy onto the field so we can then max and start taking advantage of our um Psychic terrain But there's the airstream yet and the dazzle No, just a slash. Okay, so that's fine. Um, okay now we get indeedy onto the field Because now they're going to be put off going for anything other than Um, they're not going to phantasm for sure. So we could protect here Take advantage of that max and go steal spike. Like do we go steal spike into the toggle kiss? Are they going to switch out into something like incinerole? I mean the defense boost isn't going to be bad anyway I'm going to attack into the draggapult because I feel like the the toggle kiss could switch out And we're not going to see that That's interesting going for an airstream again. It's just fine The defense boost like I say is going to be useful Uh, just a dazzle. All right. Well met across take that all day long And the defense boost is super nice as well So doing some nice fat damage to that draggapult, which is always useful So we'll follow me again and we'll go for a steal spike this time into the I'm going to go into the draggapult again because the thing is With the toggle kiss and It's not really putting any pressure on either our pokemon. I mean the dazzle crits are going to do a lot of damage I'm miss clicked again Okay, we've got to double protect somehow. This is what I mean about these themes They're like you need to be super careful about what you're actually pressing We do get the plus two defense, which is nice It sets us up decently against the draggapult now the draggapult has got phantom force now So it can dodge a final attack. So whatever comes in um It's more likely to be yeah, really boom makes sense So I think what we'll do is switch into venus or I think the draggapult's probably going to phantom force and we will We just max mind Good mindstorm. It takes away their ability to um, yeah, let's mind storm and make sure we are mind storming I want to switch into venus or and mind storm the really boom Like I'm not worried at all about the draggapult now. It's not posing any threat I don't think they're going to plant letting them my phantom force, but it's a two turn attack. Um I think They're more likely to fake out and dee dee maybe no just going straight for the heatran. Okay. It's got the balloon there But that's fine dragon darts super fine. Do not mind that at all Um, I'm gonna get the max mind storm up. They're gonna. Yeah I mean they're gonna try and get really boom back onto the field now Which is like it's all right um I think we could we could potentially just double into the heatran with a sludge bomb earthquake, you know Because if the real a boom comes back onto the field like draggapult could dragon darts. Yeah, it's gonna. Okay. That's fine We'll get rid Oh the heatran actually out speeds us what? Okay, well we get a weakness policy boost So we we'll get rid of everything. I didn't expect the heatran to out speed us like generally like heatrans normally run quite slow, but um Obviously Can't always rely on that. Uh, they are quite speedy pokemon in general and we'll just uh, yeah, well zen headbutt And that should seal the game up for a very close game But uh, yeah, there we go. We actually have speed there the real a boom so just be aware of the speed tiers on certain stuff and Yeah, that was a that was a nice game at least and um, yeah, we're going way over the time now So like I say, this was a bit of information for you guys To have in the video to give you a platform way you can come and practice. Hope you found it useful Really, I hope you do. There's a poker base down below of this team. So hopefully that helps you as well And um, we'll be back very soon with more series 7 if you'd like to see more content more teams and just going and playing on the ladder Please let me know down in the comment section below leave your comments And let me know because super happy to do more content like this until we get the official ladder Up and running and doing more stuff around teams and calls and different combinations that we can see at the minute With what we've got available to us. So yeah, I'm gonna leave it there friends Thank you so much as always for tuning in have a great rest of your day And I will see you for another episode very soon. So until then take care and bye. Bye