 Hello friends and welcome back finally to our VGC daily battle series we are now in the 2020 season we're in the run up to London world championships next season which is very exciting in itself and we're going to be back with our daily battle series Monday to Friday every single week playing different archetypes delving into the VGC scene and hopefully helping you guys out getting prepared for those big tournaments in the run up to the new year because when the new year comes around obviously we're going to have sword and shield released and the rules will be reverting on January the fourth to the sword and shield new games the system everything switch everything it'll all be changing up so very exciting but until then we've got the ultra series rules they have been confirmed for this portion of the season so this this half until sword and shield comes out so we've got plenty of time to look at different archetypes and as always if there are certain archetypes and builds and pokemon that you'd like to see featured on this series do leave a comment down below because i love hearing your ideas your thoughts what you want to see and i will make sure to try and feature as many of them as possible going forward but kicking into it today we're going to be starting off with a ray ogre team so i've got to give a big shout out i put a tweet out last week and asked what you guys would like to see and uh Dempsey our good friend will who's also a patron of the channel suggested that we start off with ray ogre and you know what i haven't played ray ogre the entire ultra series that we were doing the daily battle series in the 19 season so i thought why not revisit it come back to it and it's shown throughout the the vgc 19 season how strong an archetype it is it's one of my personal favorites as well from the 2016 season and it's strange that i've never really looked at it all played with it on the channel so i thought let's get into it today let's play for the next week at least and we may play it next week we might change things up but this is an archetype that i've thrown together it's uh and it's got a few differences from your kind of standard builds and we'll see how we'll get on as always the team is down in the description below there is a raw paste and a poker paste of the team for you guys to try out and just check out the details if you want but to run through everything before we get into it we've got blue orb obviously on kialga we've got the farinium arm or the farium on tapoco choice band on ray quasi i'm really loving that item at the moment a standard incinero berry with snarl flablets fake out u-turn and then we've got tornadoes it does help out with tailwind gives us a bit of speed control helps us shut things down with that priority pranks the taunt we've got hurricane benefits from the the rain as well just generally a good support pokemon gives us another ground immunity as well and also takes advantage of the delta stream that ray quasi throws up when it mega evolves and then rounding off with cotana pokemon i've loved all ultra series so i just want to kind of carry that on and bring it into the team it makes up that firewater grass call that we've got with the incinero on the kialga so balancing the team out we've got to watch out for trick room teams i think to begin with but we've got to really utilize tornadoes taunt fake out incinero and try and get around things that way so we'll say how we get on against the trick room teams if you come up against any this week and we may change things up going into next week or just move into a different archetype altogether we'll be back with streams on thursday this week and i swear we'll be getting into the games very soon so eight p.m this thursday come along to my twitch channel osiris studios the link is down in description as always and it'll be great to see you catch up and we'll be starting to play some more vgc getting forward i see the rule the the the ladder the ladder has reset so our rating has reset which may be not a bad thing although we were doing pretty well after the end of our roulette series let's go with aether foundation is the music to kick us off today flawless flawless record at the minute let's see how we can get on with this hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent of the episode and i tell you what we'll do we'll just cut straight to it from now and we'll come back when we do bump into our first opponent and we've got a first opponent of the episode we've got thomas i didn't see where he's from but wherever you're from thomas you're welcome and it's going to be a pleasure to play on the channel so let's hop over into team preview so thomas kicking us off today with a team of lunal our tapu finis salamence incinero stack attacker and groudon very familiar six making up the world champion winning combination that we saw at the world championships recently um whether it's the same build or not is another question but these pokemon are very strong i think it is the ad stack attacker right i'm just with my mind playing on me anyway what do we got to do we've got to make use of kayaga for sure because groudon obviously the big threat on my opponent's team will prevent kayaga being able to operate as well as you kind of want it to uh lunala is the other thing because it can offer speed control um alongside that salamence and the stack attacker and if it is the similar build to the world championships winning team the tapu fini does become a bit of an issue as well i think i would like probably tornadoes that uh prankster taunt is going to be very useful do i want to bring incinero i mean it's decent against lunala the intimidate it's very good against groudon stack attacker especially and then probably pair things up with my restricted duo in the back and that should be all right i think there is an argument that stack attacker could be uh katana for us could be good it does well against the stack attacker and the tapu fini um but i think we can kind of just plow our way through without it this one so let's get into it it's weird getting back into more serious content after we do in the roulette series and for those of you that didn't see any of the roulette series for like the last two months on the channel we've been playing around with randomly selected pokemon and it's been a lot of fun but i haven't really been playing too much series pokemon we did the um the showdown series while i was away on holiday which i will be doing a lot more of uh going forward um alongside this series but uh keeping out for that um but now getting back into it a bit more seriously i've gotta put my my brain back in and we'll start getting in we're gonna see salamence and incinero come out for my opponent um doesn't look like their incinero is faster than ours it definitely does so um we may want to i mean we could trade fakeouts here if we want our tournament this isn't sashed so there's no harm in us just going for a tailwind and a figure out onto the salamence here i think um the other option is always going to be going to try and uh you turn out here with our uh incinero which you know we'll probably do the next turn to try and get a bit more a little bit better board position preserve that intimidate as well for later on the game which is going to be quite pivotal for us um do a hard switch though because one of the things we could maybe see is the opposing incinero go for a flablet into our tornado switch will be ideal even though it has been intimidated uh just to get kyle going to the field would be nice but i think having the slaw incinero here makes a lot more sense because they're probably going to pivot out with their incinero if they go for the u turn um and our incinero will go last so it means we are able to get kyle going um after they they potentially get grout on it whether they do or not there's another thing we're going to see a tailwind from ourselves tailwind from the salamence uh let's see what this opposing shiny incinero goes for it's just going for a knockoff knockoff our berry um which you know what isn't too bad really to be honest uh now we can get kyle going because i think the one thing that you've got to really worry about if you you go down a ground on route against kyle auger is do you switch your ground on in knowing there's a rickwaza lurking in the back it's a big question um but yeah obviously one of the things i mean the other thing we could have done there was torn to the salamence and then get our tail wind up you know like we've matched tailwinds now salamence is definitely the fastest thing in the field it's a bit awkward uh the other thing what we could potentially do is switch tornado so i'll keep it for later so we've got that tailwind for later on get another intimidate onto the mens and go for an ice beam into that slot just to try and get rid of it because if we can eliminate my opponent's speed control it means later on when we've still got our tornadoes we can take advantage of that and still give ourselves a little bit of an edge in the the late game and that's kind of what we want to be doing so uh bringing it in incinero like i say uh probably see ground on coming here yeah that's fine um don't mind this too much because ground on coming out now is completely fine the other thing we could have done there was definitely was just switched in requiser and just water spouting but as i say i really want to prioritize getting rid of this salamence now it is a bit of a pain it's faster than everything on our team um if it's got dragon meteor threatens our requiser so and yeah as you can see it's protecting itself this turn um now we'll come down to i mean we do have fake out here but we could also i think our coyote is bulky enough to take a double attack if my opponent does stay in i'm gonna bring in rey and i'm gonna walk about we could have scolded it might have been the better idea we're gonna see it go out and then incinero come in but this works out better if coyote is faster than that ground on which it might could likely be who knows we'll soon find out but the switched array here is nice again it's it's meaning that incinero is in the back so we've still got access to fake out and we've still got access to intimidate as well uh we've got the requiser in the airlock ground i'm gonna protect here but incinero i'm gonna take a full power water spot it's not in the rain obviously so it probably will be able to take this depending on its bulk um but i mean we're in a really nice position going into this next turn for sure uh salamence likely to come in i would imagine this next turn um and that's not ideal for us because we like i said we want to be able to remove sb control um that's the lunala huh now we could just scald the ground on because lunala coming in kind of gives me the impression maybe you've got why god i'm gonna mega evolve crunch the lunala and i'm gonna go for that scald into the ground on i don't expect crunch to take down the lunala um but it will do a hefty amount and we'll unspeed it and when i'm just banking now on this why god coming out if you don't see it if we see a z move and then press his blades things could get a little bit more tricky for us but we'll see what happens uh there's the wide guard okay so it's kind of always good to just go with the intuition you know when you're in games like this um if it makes sense to you why some like your opponent's brought in a pokemon in a certain situation then um it normally is the the right thing you know you you're not gonna get it right every time oh dragon claw coming out not gonna be enough though to take down our ray unfortunately the scald will be enough to take down this ground on you did see a weakness policy activate on that lunala so we have to be a little bit careful around that a dragon claws another um tech that you you're seeing quite common they used on uh opposing um ground ons right now and especially in the world championships you saw a massive spike in its usage there to deal with things like salamence and a requiser which it does so well and salamence is going to come back in now we've got to be a little bit careful about the salamence it is going to be able to um to deal with uh thinking salamence has to attack now i think i'm going to switch in in general and i'm going to do i just protect kaiogar i think you have the hyper voice and i'd imagine the lunala to kind of probably attack into the kaiogar here we know it's not got the z move so can't really touch kaiogar there is the threat of a tail wind going up for my opponent um so if we leave requiser in right now the salamence six is down with the hyper voice it does add speed so that's a little bit of a problem um the lunala probably wants to try and protect the salamence by um by going for that plus two moon guys beam into the kaiogar or side shock uh there's the hyper voice uh it's not taking that moon guys beam yeah there's it there it into the kaiogar um okay so we do have fake out pressure now which you've got to think my opponent may want to protect the salamence um one of the things we could potentially go for is just a maybe you turn into the lunala switch out uh into i'm going to go into ray because i feel like everything that we've got we can sacrifice ray as long as we've got tornadoes we can get it in we can get ourselves uh that tail wind up and then kaiogar's in a really nice position to deal with both these threats so salamence protecting threat of the the fake out there so that's fine um moon guys beam be into the ray and uh we'll get ourselves back onto the field with kaiogar now and we've got that that bold position where we can um we can get incidental back out with the kaiogar fake out ice beam game's done so should be enough yeah and there we go lunala gonna go down and some pretty clean win for us for kicking off back into this series um which is quite nice so like i said we'll get the kaiogar onto the field we still got tornadoes in the back if we want but we know with the salamence protecting that last turn it makes that decision making a little bit easier going into this one where we know we've got that like they have to go for the double protect if anything um we also get another intimidate onto the um this salamence which is you know its physical side is pretty much the only thing that threatens the kaiogar so that extra intimidate here is useful and if they don't get the double protect then we get the fake out ice beam and pick up the the victory here so ice beam like i said and the fake out into this salamence and yeah like i say they pretty much have to go for the double protect and even if they get it here it's still it's still going to be really really difficult for them to close out with how bulky kaiogar can be and especially this one that we're running in this team uh you're looking like a super quick double edge to get us and then they've still got to deal with incinero and tornado so it doesn't look too good uh tom is just taking his time here to think about what he wants to do does he want to go for that double protect or does he want to attack or does he want to just click that forfeit button um we'll see what we find out uh there's the double protect yeah but it does feel unfortunately there's the fake out just in case he went for an attack um and there's the ice beam which will be more than enough to pick up the knockout and clinch our first victory of the episode which is excellent so very good game to tomis and a nice victory for us to get started with so we'll move on and um hopefully i can almost say it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent but um i always think it's really difficult like one of the reasons why i probably if i was playing more competitively last year and i really appreciate groudon as a pokemon and i was i love the fact that it won the world championships and groudon lunala obviously i did an article i was lucky enough to get asked to do a bit of an article on the uh the official pokemon site uh pre usnats and uh my my little pick was uh groudon and lunala i love that combination i really do and um i just think it's very difficult whatever you do when you're playing against uh ray auger it's just a hard archetype doesn't it we'll not go on battle royale music let's go with lucimine version one um yes but yeah i think you've always got the edge it's just um it's just very difficult isn't it but the dragon claw does help out there and if you position yourself well you you make sure you try and lure your your opponent into mega evolve in the rain then you can really use your weather then uh it's if your opponent's smart and doesn't mega evolve early on and you've still got that airlock to contend with the whole time it makes things very difficult but we've got our next opponent we've got metron vgc using a qr code team which um i'm not too familiar with it looks very similar to a very good friend of mine from australia um but it is made up of the medicamp the lunala the kyogre topical ghost nolax and gengar so it's maybe dual megas mega gengar and mega medicamp um or maybe just a different variation of gengar so that's something i'll have to watch out for uh the whole premise of the team is the tailwind going with lunala um and use medicamp to support that i think i'm going to go tornado this i really want to go tornado this kyogre here um could i punish or could i punish with requiser the reason i'd say this is because if you don't if you don't fake out the ray we you lose your medicamp um the only issue is leading this coco becomes a bit of an issue for us i'm gonna bring incineroan back and oh maybe cotona is better than incineroan this match up to be honest i just worry a little bit about the lunala but we do have ray and we just we've got to make sure that we're we're taking care of ray uh cotona with a sack oh where we go and screens all over the shop and i didn't even go into team preview there i don't think so i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm getting used to it getting back into the swing of things um yeah i just think it's going to be very difficult for us to actually prevent uh their tailwind setup and they're going to be in a position at some point where the kyogre's out on the field with the uh the tailwind up and um we're not actually going to see that which is interesting just did the only reason that incinero would have been good would be in this specific circumstance where we've got a nice switching um but unfortunately that is not the case so to be mega evolve i mean where you're going to fake out with medicamp i'd always i'd always think you probably want to fake out tornadoes um we could maybe get away with a cheeky earthquake here with ray you just got to worry about the pharynium but it's likely that it's not pharynium and it's more likely that it's the the z move is on lunala i really should swat up more on my kyoko team but that's what i think i'm gonna i'm gonna go for the earthquake i think we can probably get it off here and if we can it'll make this matchup so much easier for us the problem is if we lose ray here and this is a little bit risky um is the lunala matchup gets a lot harder because we've not got any um dark type attack to to hit it's super effective with so let's see let's hope they try and prevent us be controlled fake out yeah okay wild charge perfect so we're gonna actually get rid of the the koko here um and we'll do some nice damage to this medicamp i always want to put a p on the end of it medicamp medicamp as well um okay so what's my point of going to bring in next i mean they could bring in lunala for sure uh it's gonna be kyogre maybe they haven't bought the lunala i mean it would be a bit strange for them not to bring it but i think now if we get a tailwind up we're sitting all right we've got the option where we can tailwind or we could go for the hurricane but i think for the the actual well to be honest uh if we tailwind now we might lose Rayquaza here but i think it's probably worth it at this point because then we get our kyogre in and to get rid of uh Rayquaza you're gonna have to ice beam it and that means the tornadoes doesn't take any damage oh bullet punch interesting last ditch attempt to get some damage off we get the tailwind up with tornadoes um we'll get the earthquake and that should take down the medicamp and the the kyogre here so uh it'll not take down the kyogre but get some nice damage onto it at least we'll see what the kyogre goes for is it gonna go for a waterspout so Ray should take this yeah and tornadoes as well because this is a nice bulky tornado so if you use this before on the channel use this in the 19 season it's got a wiki berry it's uh yeah there's a lunala and what we can do now is just earthquake again and go for a taunt into the lunala just to prevent it setting up the tailwind or trick room whichever way you're gonna go it could be trick room you know um because there's a snorlax there as well but we just do see the forfeit because we're able to manage the field a little bit better and we got that turn one right and that's the that was the key there so I think that made it a lot easier for us to close up but uh very good game to my opponent and uh both opponents today very good uh we will wrap things up there though it's been amazing coming back into this series I hope you guys have enjoyed uh the the episode today and I'm looking forward to the rest of the week with this team which we will be playing with like I said earlier in the video though if you've got pokemon that you would like to see featured teams archetypes anything in particular do leave them down in the comment section below and more importantly if you've enjoyed this video do remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more pokemon content and as always leave your comments down below just let me know what your thoughts on today's episode what your thoughts are on coming back to this daily battle series the more serious one and uh just how you've been doing because it's probably been a little while for some of you since I've uh I've spoke to you and I will try and get back to you all as soon as possible but um we'll wrap it up there thanks so much for tuning in and we'll be back with more pokemon battles tomorrow so until then take care of yourselves and bye bye