 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. Hi friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris and today we're going to be continuing on our battle series with this brand new team. As you can see on your screen in front of you right now as always the team is down in the description below. There is a link over to the team because this team belongs to Yuki Zaninovich, who I played in the World Championships, got through day one and managed to get to day two with this build. So we had a request through on my Instagram actually from Zach. So big shout out to Zach for asking if we can play this team going into this week. And here we go Zach, we're going to give it a go. But very interesting build, we've got the Mega Gengar, the Zernius Groudon as a restricted core. We've actually got Coma All, which is a Pokemon that we don't generally see too often in this format, but it did have a little spike in usage pre-world. So interesting Pokemon to try out, Crobat and the Emungus. So three poison types on the team. I don't know how I'm going to cope well against Psychic Spam, so hopefully we don't come up against any blatantly what's going to happen though. But it seems like a really nice team. You've got the trapping element with the Gengar, you've also got the boosting with the Zernius, the standard stuff there, the Groudon, and then also the boosting element of the team with the Coma All. Crobat's really good at shutting down opposing, boosting things with his tailwind, and just generally can't be faked out and help set up things around the team. So quite nice. And then we'll redirection with the Emungus, quite self-explanatory here. Once we get things set up, we want the Emungus next to it, so we can redirect any threats and stuff from there. So I'm going to be exciting to play this team. I'm looking forward to it. On another note as well before I forget coming into this. So there was a little trailer promo spam before the video. It's not really spam because I drew those designs and I put them together. And I think they're really nice, but my t-shirt did arrive and we are Team Score Bunny for the win. So it's a super nice tea. Obviously if you want to grab your cell phone, whichever kind of team you want to represent, actually why am I hiding it? We need to get this tea out. If you want to get one, the links to the Teespring in the description as always. There is a promo code for 10% off at the minute. So if you put the promo code starter in when you're over there, check out. You'll get 10% off your order. Win-win. So if you do grab one though, make sure to drop me a message on Twitter or Instagram. Just let me know you've got it. Send me a pic. I would love to see it and tweet it out, Instagram it out to the world. So without further ado, I guess let's jump into it. So it's going to be a lot of fun. This is also going to be the last week in the Ultra Series on the channel. I'm going to take a bit of a break before Sword and Shield comes in. We'll still have content on the channel so don't worry about that, but we're not going to be playing any Ultra Series after this week. So this Friday coming, it will be the last time I will be doing this battle series, which is very sad because it's been something that we started on the channel when we first began like three years ago and we've been doing it solidly since and it's been an incredible ride on the DS. I'm excited to move over to the switch, but yeah, it's just going to be sad. I'm going to be sad to say goodbye to the DS. I really am. It feels like that is just where Pokemon always belongs, but it's found a new home now. It's going to be kick ass on the switch. It's going to be amazing. All the stuff that we've seen so far from this game is incredible. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. We'll still have the Flinch Squad circuit matches through the weeks. Obviously they'll be on the DS until we finish that circuit and move on to Sword and Shield, but this Friday will be the last one. So make the most of this week and I will definitely be doing the same. We've got a first opponent in the episode of Claudio and we'll hop straight into the team preview. So Claudio playing a team of Zernia, Sakaoga, Medecross, Tornados, Incinero and Amunus. So if you guys did ever watch the channel first when we started the Ultra Series, this was a team I actually made at the very beginning of the Ultra Series, exact same sake. So whether it's the same team or not, I don't know. There have been variants of players that have kind of taken this on and used it throughout the season, but I am very familiar with it. So Groudon is going to be incredibly good for us. We need to watch out for the Tornados, especially with the pranks, the taunt there, and shutting down our Crobat's ability. I'm just going to try and see if I can find the team pace because I'm not massively familiar with the team. So knowing what we've got, we've got the Flyinium Z on it. So what do we want to do? We need Groudon. Gengar is not bad here to be honest, to do some trapping. We need to be a bit careful around the Tornados for sure. But we could go Gengar and then do we want to go Groudon? Hmm. We go Groudon, Zernius, and then we'll go Amungus because I want a sponge. I want a sponge! I know I want a sponge to come in to switch in when Kyogre hits the field because undoubtedly we're going to be in that bold position where Kyogre probably will hit the field at some point. Groudon's out and we need a good switch in and Amungus fills that job perfectly. And it also helps against Zernius as well, if we do see it through setup. We're going to see it until Tornados come out. So I've got that handy handy intimidate on to our Groudon. We'll probably see it pivot out here. Probably not going to fake out. I'd imagine we'll probably see it pivot out and then maybe the tailwind setup on the Tornados. We do need to be careful around the Flyinium Z on the Tornados. That's definitely something we need to worry about. But I think here for my opponent they're probably more more worried about getting the tailwind up turn one. So we come to my gear evolve and we cancelage bomb, Tornados, and oh we've got eruption. Hd, txt, txt. Do we erupt? Do we go for the eruption? Kind of tempted to just eruption, yeah. I'm going to do it. We're going to lock into eruption. We're going to try and take this Tornados down and once we can do that then we can really fully utilize Gengar. As long as the Incineroar does what we expect it to do. I am hoping that it doesn't just attack Gengar. It could be Z move. We could lose it for sure, but we'll see. I would say tailwind and then U2. That would be my best guess. Fake out? Huh. Okay, there's a tailwind. Well don't mind that too much either, the fake out there. Because it kind of traps the Incineroar in and we get some decent damage onto the Tornados and we can totally burn as these tailwind turns as well for my opponent. Now we've got to watch out this next turn I think for the Tornados going for a potential Z move. We could just double protect and just keep this Tornados and Incineroar trapped on the field and we'll go out and turn the tailwind and we'll see what the Tornados throws out. You've got to remember as well if the Tornados goes for a hurricane it's not 100% accurate with the rain not being up and it might. I doubt it protects. There's no way. Like Tornados very rarely carries protect. This is a QR code team though so you've got to think how old is it as well. That's the other question. Let's see what they do. Come on Claudio. Let's get a move on. All right here we go. Gengar protect. Broad on. Protect. Tornados Z move. Torn. Huh. That's interesting. The other reason why it's good to protect here as well. The poison will take down and activate a barrier if it's got one or not and it ain't got a barrier so to me it would indicate that it's probably going to have those Z moves. Now what I could do is I could bring in a Moongus here. Incineroar is going to go before ground on likely. The only reason I bring in a Moongus here is because if it does go for the Z move into the Gengar then I'm going to stay here and actually if we lose Gengar we lose Gengar. No, no, no, no, no. Let's not do that. We've not got much time. Let's switch into a Moongus and let's switch ground on out to Zonius. Can we lock it in? We're going to do it. Pull a double switch. We'll do it. We'll do it. Yeah. I just like to see the Tornados go down but I'm just too worried about the Z move and I definitely think that's what the Tornados has got and I feel like this is the turn. It goes for it now knowing that we've just protected and get rid of that Gengar. We've got the Sash on the Moongus. This is the reason why. It goes for a blind hurricane. Okay. There we go. That's what you're waiting for. The Z move is on the Incineroar. All right. If it's into, okay, it's into a Moongus. This is fine though because like the whole time we're just burning. We've actually got a great opportunity to set up a GM ANSI here and go for a redirection, rage powder, and get a GEO up. We'll do that. Yeah. So the Tornados does anything here. Then it will go down to the poison in the next turn and the tailwind ends this turn. So it's perfect timing. It's not that they're not going to get any more speed control up and hopefully if we see a taunt and an attack from the Incineroar, we're in a good spot. Especially if we can get a Gengar back on the field if a Moongus does go down and then if they do bring in their own Zoneus to set up, then we've got all the kind of, I guess, supplies, arsenal, whatever you want to call it to get rid of it before we can do anything. So here's a Moongus going for that cheeky old rage powder. Going to pull in those attacks from Tornados. I devoid. Oh. I shouldn't. This is what you get for using her again. This is like guarantee. I'm only laughing because this happens to me every time I'm out of the rain with Tornados and I use it. You guys know. You guys know. It always misses. Okay. So we get the GM ANSI up, which is super nice. I'm not going to bring, I'm not going to bring Groudon in right now because we want to wait till the Kyogre hits the field to bring it in. Tornados will go down to poison. That poison coming in super handy. One sludge bomb does the job. So Tornados going down the tailwind will end and I'd imagine my opponent might bring in their Kyogre here, but we're bringing anger regardless. So that is the Xenius. Zzomniar. Okay. Well, what do we do? Do we double tap the Incinero? Or do we sludge bomb Dazzle it? I think sludge bomb and Dazzling Gleam is probably the better call. It does allow my opponent the opportunity to get their GM ANSI up, but I think, okay, well we get a decent chunk of damage onto them anyway. Well, all right. Yeah, that's fine. And it'll be the Kyogre the last Pokemon. I just thought there maybe the Xenius might protect, but it is going for the GM. It'll come down to who's Xenius is faster. What's that? What is our Xenius is? Okay. So we're pretty fast, but we're modest. Okay. Not very defensive we go. So if we lose the speed tag, we could go down to a Moonblast. But we do have Groudon in the back as well. So let's see what Groudon is doing. Okay. Special Groudon though. Not the best against Kyogre on all honestly, but it's still fine. We've got three Pokemon. We can do some stuff. Are we switching Groudon now and just go for another Dazzle? That could be a good option. We keep Gengar. Yeah, let's do that. Let's switch in to Groudon and go for a Dazzle because the Dazzle gets the Xenius, which is the main thing I'm worried about at the minute. And it'll do a nice chunk of damage to Kyogre as well. So we'll go for that and preserve Gengar because Gengar should take a Sludge Bomb. Sorry, a Moonblast. It should do. Yeah, it's nice and bulky this Gengar. So it should take at least a plus two Moonblast. 100%. So if we can get rid of the Kyogre, then we can close this one up. So get the Groudon in, get the Sun up on the field. We'll see the Moonblast come out. It doesn't speed us. Hopefully we can survive it. Come on, come on Xenius. It takes it. You get a special attack drop, but still should be enough to get the opposing Xenius. Which it is. Okay, there's the ice beam. Predicting the switch. Very nice, very nice play for my opponent, but unfortunately, I feel like it's going to be a little bit too tough for Kyogre to come back in this one. And we are going to be able to wrap things up with the restrictives of the team, the Xenius and the Groudon. So very good game to my first opponent in the episode. Nice one for us to kick off with today as well. So yeah, it's always tricky. I think in these matches where you don't know where the Z move is, and it could be on a number of different Pokemon in the team, you kind of go down the route where you make the assumption it's normally on the tornado, so we'll stick with that. But you know, on those teams as well, it makes sense to have it on the Incineroar because trick room is super problematic for those teams sometimes, especially if you can't bring new movies to a certain match. Anyway, we will continue. And we'll hop over to our other screen. We can take a look at our score at the minute. It's a 16-69. It's a nice, nice round number that we've got there for us right now. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent. And yeah, I'm just going to think of things to chat about right now that we can expect in the next few weeks from the channel, especially when Sword and Shield comes out. So when Sword and Shield comes out, I am planning on doing a playthrough. As soon as it comes out, I've got time off work, which is great. So that means I will be doing lots of streams with Sword and Shield. And my streaming schedule, I'll make sure to post that on Twitter, on Instagram, wherever I can. I'll make sure you guys are aware of it as well, so you can come by the stream. It would be great to hang out with as many of you as possible. And so we'll be doing that. We'll be getting into doing competitive battles as soon as we can. If Showdown's up and running, obviously, like I've said before, we'll make sure to get that booted up in place until we can build a team and play online and do that. I'll probably do an update video of the 2020 season rules to just reiterate everything because we should get an idea of the rules very shortly after Sword and Shield comes out, especially with the battle facilities online. And then we're going to do a flurry of other stuff. So we'll have guides. I'll find out about breeding stuff, so we'll do that. It'll all be good. We're not finding an opponent. But I'm excited. I'm super excited for Sword and Shield. Let me know down in the comment section below, what are you most looking forward to with Sword and Shield? Are you not looking forward to it at all? I've got to admit, and you will all know by now, I am super optimistic about most new things that we get in Pokemon. And there's a lot of controversy at the minute about being too positive about the game or maybe being over positive for a reason. But being on the channel for so long, I hope the majority of you know that this is just who I am. I'm just saying what I think, like I am so hyped for these games. I'm always super positive about anything new. But I'll straight away say if I don't like it when it comes out or not. I mean, take the Slephalon for a perfect example of this Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. The Slephalon gets, we've got Mogar. Awesome. It gets announced for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. I'm behind it, 100% love the design of it. It comes out, and I think it's trash. And I don't quite happily openly say that as well. But never mind. So we've got Mogar. Malcolm is a great player from Australia. It always makes really unique teams. So we'll hop over to Team Previously, what he's got. It's really nice to be able to feature him in today's episode. Okay, so we are going up against Alolan Raichu, Aerodactyl, Lorepony, Tapu-Kalko, Lunala and Zernius. Man, this just looks nasty, doesn't it? It's like the most super hyper offensive team you'll see with Zernala tagged on the end here. So lots of fast fake-out that we can't really get around trapping. I don't know if it's really the best way to go because of the psychic typing on the Raichu that really does cause us a lot of issues. I mean, the one thing could potentially do is maybe go Crobat and try and get his tail wind up with Groudon. It's definitely an option. But the psychic typing on this team make things very difficult for us. I'm going to lead off with Groudon and Crobat. I've definitely got to bring Zernius and I think maybe Gengar is a last port of call. We just don't want to see any sidecups or stuff. This is going to be really tricky, but we'll click in, see how we get on. Good luck. Malcolm. We'll see how we get on. This feels like a really tough matchup. It really does. Just because everything's super speedy and like the Crobat and the Gengar, we're just staring down speed ties against a lot of the stuff on his team to make it difficult. But we'll not let that stand in our way. We'll try our best to get around everything. We're going to see a lovely pink, shiny aerodactyl and very nice color themes here with the lower pony as well. Shiny. Matching a Crobat kind of. I mean, we're more purple than pink, but we'll go with it for this one. So Groudon going to hit the field. Are we really too worried about what we're going to do? Because we can't be faked out. It's just about whether the aerodactyl wins the speed tie. I don't mean still. We can get a tailwind up, right? So we will... If we can get a tailwind up as well, we've got the theme of the next turn that we can potentially throw into low pony. Do we protect Groudon though, or do we just attack and go for like an eruption? Just to get damage on the aerodactyl, really, that's the main thing that I'd like to get down. It's not going to be super effective, but yeah, let's do it. I mean, I'm not really too worried, honestly, by whatever these two are doing. So we'll see. Low pony might just fake out the Groudon. So low pony going to mega a hole. Just go straight for a return. So it's going to try and chip us to get the speed tie. Plus tailwind. Okay. Well, we get a free eruption. So that'll say good night to the bunny, and it'll do some nice damage to the aerodactyl as well. So we max the tailwinds, which is good. Eruption. It'd be interesting to see how much it does to aerodactyl. Dammit. There's so much damage to aerodactyl. Man, okay. Well, we have a bit of a speed tie with the aerodactyl as well, which is not ideal. I'm just going to check the easy. No, we don't use the speed tie because we're not max speed. Crawl back, but it's fine. So we're probably going to lose crawl back here to a rock slide, I would imagine. The problem is the Zernius, which is really annoying. I mean, we could go for a taunt into a trying taunt. You know, if we go for a rock slide, they could miss 100%. And we can go for another eruption, I think, and that should get rid of the aerodactyl. Rock slide. It doesn't miss, but okay. I'm going to see the geo now. This is the problem with not having a fast crawl back. If I'm building my team, I always would prefer, like it doesn't matter about the bulk. I personally don't think. I think like it's more important to make sure that you're just at least matching the opposing like 130. So you've got that speed tie and you use it at the very worst case scenario. But maybe that's not how the team was meant to be operated. So I can't really question it without speaking to you, and I haven't seen the full team report yet. So the team report will be linked down below as well. So you can check that out if you'd like to. Okay, so Zerny's got its boost up. Lunala's going to come in 100%. 100%. Let's get Gengar on to the field. The Psycuff is real, isn't it? It's actually Tapa Coco. Oh, okay. Well, well, well, well. I didn't expect that. So if we can get rid of this Tapa Coco, Gengar's in a very happy place. Now, if we use Groudon, like I think Groudon can take a Moon Blast from this range. Just whether or not we attack the Coco here. I'm just going to go for the Earth Power and I'm going to protect Gengar, the Mega Vault. Because if we can get the Coco here, I think we can close this one out. Let's see. Gengar, protect. Coco, attack. Moon Blast. Yeah. Can we survive? This is a big thing. Come on, Groudon, take it. Take it like a man. You took it. Psycho. No way. Oh, what? What is going on? I don't think this takes you down now. Oh, it just survives. This is the worst. This is the worst. Hmm. Did not expect that. Okay, so Coco got protect. It's got Psycho. It's going to have Dazzle and it's going to have Thunderbolt. And it's going to absolutely obliterate our Gengar right now. We shouldn't have protected. It was like the worst play. It was the worst play we could have done. Can we get a double protect off and go for another Earth Power into Coco? Let's try it. I think like otherwise, I think we're going to lose anyway now. Yeah. Because Electro Web, we probably could have taken this. Oh, it's Electro Ball. No, we don't do that. Oh, but it's Life Orb. Hmm. Now there's no way we needed to use that last turn. It's a sludge bomb in Earth Power. Because now it comes down to a poor Zernius by itself. Funny though, if we had like a Moongus here, we could have maybe done it. Hmm. Malcolm pulling out all the techs. I wouldn't expect that anything, anything less, honestly. We can't do anything. We'll try the Geo, but we'll never get it. We'll never get it. Moong Blast. Moong Blast and Electro Ball. Dang. Dang, dang, dang. I'll have to drop them a little message to say good game. But yeah, that was a good game. I mean like it's those kind of situations like what do you do against that? I'd love a better three in that against that team because then you know at least this is why it's so perfect for the rest of one ladder though, isn't it? It's great because it's just like unbelievable. But those moments are absolutely perfect when they do happen. So massive props to Malcolm. Good game there. And I hope you guys enjoyed today's episode. It has been a lot of fun. We've kicked off with the Zonedon team and hopefully we can get to feature a lot of the different elements of the team as we go through this week. We've got the coma all that we haven't really featured today. And I don't think we've seen the best of Crobat either. It has got the flying MZ on it. So I think if we can make use of that going forward, that'll be a lot of fun. So we'll wrap it up there my friends. Have a fantastic day, whatever you're up to, morning, day, noon or night. And we'll see you for another episode tomorrow. So until then, take care and bye bye.