 Hello friends and welcome back to another Pokemon VGC 2020 battle series episode My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode. We're gonna be featuring a team I am super excited about and it's gonna be all based around perish trap Perish song and as you can see the team is on your screen in front of you There's always there will be a poker paste down in the description below and a rental team at the end of the episode So do stick around for that We'll play a couple of games to pilot the team showcase it a little bit show you how it works And then obviously you can go away and try it out for yourself But as you can see the team on your screen right now consisting of goth hotel the Alolan Marowak Mungas the goth Rita the Scrafty and a zoomer all is it goth Rita or is it I'm not sure anyway It's the pre-evolution of goth hotel and it has you're like there It's our second shadow tag Pokemon that we've got available to us and the team just to keep that that trap Going because shadow tag acts as an ability it traps in the opponent It doesn't allow them to switch so if we can get the perish song set up next to that trap It means they're not able to switch out and if we can stall it out long enough We can take down their Pokemon without touching them at all now perish trap is one of my favorite archetypes I don't think it was really that viable in series five or any of the previous series up to now But with a lot of the hard hit as in big kind of Pokemon going out on that ban list Coming into series six I think it gives a lot of room now for things like goth hotel to perform a little bit better And we are seeing an increase in its rise of usage stats. So that kind of makes sense Doesn't it so I think it's gonna be a lot of fun today. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with it I hope you guys if you try the team out obviously, let me know down in the comment section below and We'll just jump into it straight away have a couple of games and see how we can get on with it Obviously the premises trap our opponents in get something like a lot of mawak or a zoomerill out onto the field Get the perish song set up as soon as possible try and get a trick room set up as well and go from there It's okay. We've got our first opponent up straight away. Cutie and playing a team of dust globs Hatterine Renew necklace the Volcarona, Dracozalt and Doraladon so Okay, well, I don't mind this too much. I mean do we need a trick room? Maybe not and We definitely won't Perish song as soon as possible though I feel like Maroak is a really good lead here for us was got to tell to be honest like we could just go for Fake out and perish turn one and then try and stall them out that way I do worry a little bit about the the Hatterine and Have I got room for a zoomerill here? Maybe maybe not though. Let's go scrappy and got the Rita. It is got the Rita. There we go I did get it right. Okay, and I'm not too worried now It's such a weird team because primarily through sword and shield with the Dynamax mechanic You're kind of building teams with at least a Dynamax Pokemon in mind now I built this team completely without any thought of I'm not like I don't have an idea of I'm ever gonna Dynamax a Pokemon There might be situations where I may want to late game where the parish song is set up And I think okay the extra bulk will be nice if we Dynamax here or give us the turns that we need to stall out a Pokemon So, you know, even though it kind of acts against you in some respects where your opponent can get set up It does kind of help you out as well. We do need to be careful about the renewal place here So I think what we'll do is we'll go for the fake out into the Renew the case and we will just we'll just set the parish parish up straight away and start the count And I don't really want the renewal because chucking a shadow bolt into My wife the problem is obviously with fake out support here With the ability to Dynamax they could Dynamax the renewal because right now and just go for a huge Attack into my wife, which wouldn't be good, but we're not gonna see that. Thankfully. They're gonna try and get their trick room Up I feel we do see the struggle bug which don't mind at all. You know that the one thing about parish song is It doesn't care about Like it doesn't care at all about damage Your your main goal is just clicking the parish song button and then it's all about trying to outmaneuve your opponent It's not about getting damage onto the board It's not about attacking physical attacks special attacks or anything like that It's just trying to maneuver for three turns around what your opponent is trying to do now I think what we'll do is we'll just protect goth hotel here And I feel like I need to really preserve Marac because I think the one thing that we've got to worry about with Marac is it's a Primary parish song Pokemon so to make real use of this. We're gonna need to have it around for the next turn And you know what we could do actually could just protect protect here rather than switch protect protect I think is a better play because I don't see that I see them going for the trick room now And Yeah, and we'll see what my opponent does probably they're gonna heat wave trying to get damage out now And we'll see the trick room I think now that who expanded force ha so they're not even gonna set the trick room up Which is a little bit of a worry because I think the one thing that got more concerning to me over anything else is them Getting their trick room set up because it may hinder our ability to To get the damage we like get the position that we need Marac in next turn and to get the trick room set up now I'm I am mindful. Mmm. Do we go for? Do we switch the goth hotel out here? I definitely want to switch Marac out because we've got it Like I say keep that parish song and going I think we could just go for a psychic into goth into Volcaroni here Just we could go for a double protect But I don't think there's any need to and I don't really worry too much about goth hotel going down With goth the reeter in the back Because we've got that second track need to preserve our Marac now the thing is here Scrafty will take the hit and then it's gonna get pushed straight out with the eject button So it does mean this is quite nice in situations. We've got a physical like physical threats on the field where you can bring it in and Scrafty avoid okay Never mind never mind never mind okay The psychic coming out and we should take the expanding force if that's what they go for they may go They have yet and it's not really gonna do too much to goth hotel either. So everyone's parish drops to one count So this next turn We can actually decide to sack goth hotel if we want or we can bring in goth the reeter I think we'll bring in goth the reeter here And we'll go for a fake out into the Volcaroni not too worried about the renewal because I think if it had shadow ball It would have went for it by now would have made sense to go into the the Marac with it And it would have made sense to go into the goth hotel with it because they think you you target the goth hotel hard to get rid of the trap and So we'll get that fake out don't really care if we get burned either to be honest Like like we all wouldn't like I say we're not worried about the damage I put it's the utility of the Pokemon that we've got focus blast coming up There we go it actually makes contact as well Not gonna be enough to take a scrappy down But puts us in a really nice position this next turn to get Marowak back onto the field now I'm not gonna take any damage because both my opponents have attacked and and then we're in a great position this next turn to Get Marowak's parish song Set up once again and then go from there So you can see there's a first parish ending on the Volcaroni making easy easy work of that and the renewal And then we've got I've been you know, we do have fake out support as well from the the Gotha Rita as well So we can make use of that We've just got to be a bit mindful that whatever comes in next From my opponent will be able to max and if it's a hat You've got to imagine that might be the thing that does a lot. It is the dragoz old. Okay Uh, which we don't worry about too much and the Doraladon. Okay, so I think what we're gonna do now is play a cheeky game of ally switch And I know what you're all thinking. I'm not the biggest advocate of ally switch, but I think it's a tool that you probably need And with parish song Um and some situations it does create the ability to allow you to um Not get tanked so hard. Now. I think if you're Doraladon here I think you go after the Marowak because you know, that's the polka one with parish song So if you can get rid of the parish song You can pretty much win this game now. This is where the ally switch comes in here very handy although Store water is a bit of an awkward An awkward ability, isn't it? So, um, we may not be able to do it. Anyway, uh, we'll try. We'll see what happens We'll see what happens. They may have just targeted the uh The the got the got three uh high horsepower coming in. Okay, so that's perfect And max were mined. Okay, so we hopefully do take this Yeah, we do take it. Okay, so that's perfect. I mean I've got a very bulky Marowak You'll be able to see from the poker pace what the bulk's like on these pokemon And I think the bulk is massively important now. We're in a great spot We are in an absolutely amazing spot. We get a parish song up We can just protect this next turn then the turn after that we switch out If we take knockouts we take knockouts But the game is pretty much over now because they just aren't gonna have the firepower to uh to take These two pokemon down this turn Without some major rng Um Look here, you're gonna need a crit into the marowak. You're definitely not going to take down both pokemon here So we're in a great position. We still got four pokemon and this is really ideally where you want to be with parish And you can see my opponent knows it's it's going to be over. So there's the uh the battle cancelled My opponent was pretty highly ranked, you know, they were like 397th on the ladder So it's not like they've got a team to to just say oh well We didn't go up against a great opponent They're obviously doing super well at the minute and I mean parish best of one as well is way more powerful than parish Best of three of course because your opponent has in a best of three time to adjust a little bit and Kind of make a game plan against what you do and a lot of the time in parish with best of one is you're taking them catching them off guard really And if they get their leads wrong a lot of the time it's it's almost too late at that point So we'll see what my next opponent does. They are bringing a team of confi got the tell Lapras drinkers alt and talent flame And I'm pleased we're playing urshifu in this second game because urshifu along with dynamax that I mentioned earlier It's a little bit problematic for parish trap urshifu is definitely a pokemon that causes a lot of issues for parish trap because Of its ability where it can hit through protect So you haven't got the ability to always stall as well as you maybe want to be able to do um Okay, so I think we've got to approach this a little bit differently this game um Trick rooms not bad here for us. I think the zoom rule is probably our best bet to be a parish trapper drinkers alt does cause us a lot of issues though in that respect so But I'd imagine they probably go lapras Although if if I was my opponent, I wouldn't I would be bringing the drake result a hundred percent of the time. Yeah um I think what we'll do is we'll go got the tell we'll go zoom roll We'll go scrafty and do we need a second trap here goth rita? It's probably good. I kind of want to bring Maruak amungus and goth rita here, but I think we'll try it with these four we'll see Um, I think that the inclusion of a lot of maruak for myself might be enough for my opponent to Like just think twice above bringing their drake results Potentially and that's what we're kind of hoping for here And this kind of falls back onto the whole best of one concept because in a best of three They're going to be able to figure out what the best combination of pokemon is They've got all the tools really to to be able to shut this down And they're making that a nice lead here a really nice lead now all they need to do really here is um Max with drake results Um, and I'm pretty sure they've made the perfect lead against this here. Yeah dog fighting I mean goth the tell is going to be able to set up the trick room for sure um Whether or not we want to bring in scrafty getting intimidate off Proc the eject button Um, and then get a zoom roll back onto the field. Uh, it's probably the best thing for us to do Now this is where maruak would have come in Incredibly strong because we'd have the ability to to uh, utilize or at least kind of pressure The drake resulted to not going for the max lightnings at least, but we'll see what it does. Um There's a wicked blow Maybe they're doubling in to goth to tell you know want to prevent the trick room completely Uh, but I can't I can't see them leaving Uh the zoom roll alone because then that would allow them to get um Now they are they're gone for it Wow, okay. Well, that's a nice play from my opponent once they want to get rid of the trap They want to get rid of the trap Thing is this next turn is we can set a trick room up now things are getting very tricky for us here uh, because Um, you can get a trick room up for sure We can fake out Yes, you feel and that's one too But it's going to take us a little bit of time to get our um A parish song up, which is exactly what my opponent's doing. Like they're making all the right plays. They've they've led super well And this is where maybe a moongus would have been a better play for us Uh in all honesty, like if we had a moongus here, we could then just redirect get a trick room set up Then get something like a zoom roll out into the field Uh, and then go from there. So at least we got a trick room up now The thing is what we could potentially do is actually go for um a drain punch into the urshafoo an ally switch Might not be a bad play Um, because at least like this isn't generally what we want to be doing with a parish song team We don't want to be going for damage. We don't want to be attacking. Um Really we want to be stolen out our opponent and Switching protecting doing all sorts of nasty stuff like that So I think we do have the option here where we can Try and get rid of urshafoo because urshafoo is such a a pain. There's no way it's going to wicked blow into Um scrafty. So I think either way we're going to the ally switch here going to be A decent option for us because then we're going to be able to get rid of the urshafoo At least there's a bald beak to be into scrafty Oh into the goth gothari Um and the wicked blow into scrafty. I would imagine yeah Yeah, okay, so I think Yeah, we're going to get a zoomer all back onto the field. So we do have the option now to go for The parish song if we want we've got the option to go after urshafoo as well if you want um I think we'll take a bald beak from the uh, it's minus one is life up though So we do have to be very careful around it and We do have the option funny enough to go max and play rough into the the direct result Um, which might not be a bad play, you know, uh, like we could do that And then bring in scrafty And then keep the trap and the the trick room For the late game I think we're going to have to go down a different route And I think this is the thing about parish song You've got to be like open-minded like if your original like your your game plans very linear You know what you've got to do But I think in situations like this with the problem pokemon like urshafoo Like we mentioned earlier in dynamics pokemon I think you've got to play a little bit like on the cuff on the fly. So you've got to try and um Take advantage of situations in the pokemon that you've gotten your team and hope that that is going to be enough for you to I guess and get rid of some pokemon because if we can get my opponent down to their last two pokemon And we've still got a zoomer all intact and we've still got scrafty and got the reader if you've got three pokemon We can win the parish song Uh with the tools that we've got we've got double fake outs. So I mean it's an option there We'll see if my opponent max is here because that would be yeah Now that's um what I imagined them to do now with the trick room up. We're in not a bad position I'm not too worried about the uh the urshafoo right now It's gonna wicked blow probably you've got theta Um, and you never know because we've thrown the ally switch up already It does throw a few mind games like a cross onto my opponent's side of the field So whether or not they target right here is another thing coming. I think the ally switch is something that you definitely Say you could see coming out Um, but again, it's not a guaranteed and you can see the power like a zoomer in this team is not built to be Doing damage. It really isn't um You can tell by that there Yeah, they're going for the predicting the ally switch. So they're going into the scrappy here Um Thankfully we've got the drain punch that we can take advantage of onto the urshafoo Maybe the next turn although they have got the ability to switch now We could double up into the the drake result this next turn. Um, they're doubling up into scrappy slot Wicked blow but we do take that just about The big thing here is we need to preserve we need to preserve scrappy which we can do I think Um, but we've got to I think go for the starfall into the drake result And I think we've got to go a drain punch into urshafoo now urshafoo might switch might protect here. Um Let's see what they do. Um And I think it's going to be a damage roll whether or not starfall gets the drake results here I'm kind of in one in one respect. I'm like Okay, this is good to show like a different um a different mode of The perisong team, but at the same time. I'm like, I really wish we hadn't played this But I mean if you're going to play this team This is the sort of stuff that you're going to come up against down again Now you could argue that you could put a few more EVs into the zoom rail For this sort of matchup and this is what like to fine-tune in teams really does You know, you come up against things that give you a lot of difficulty And you fine-tune them Um, I think we take this Yeah, yeah just about just about okay, and we'll get the drake result the next turn. So we're not in any worry. We've got our Um, we've got a citrus berry. So that's that's useful. I mean a drain punch probably gets the drake result So whatever we do we could maybe concentrate down on um My opponent's pokemon next to it Lapras is going to be a bit of an issue if it comes in because obviously does have freeze dry So we'll hit a zoom rail for for super effective damage We do have scrappy which can hit it for good damage as well. It's going to be the goff of the tail. Okay I mean, that's not the worst thing. Um I could kind of cover my bases by going for the starfall into drake result and a drain punch into uh goff of the tail Because they they could ally switch here and that would help us get around the ally switch Like I say drain punch should get the drake result from this range um Like scrappy is not something to scoff at. It's it's still going to be hitting hard stab drain punch should be enough to get that Drake result. I'd worry if it didn't um They may max guard here, but I mean it's not going to really do them any favors may max guard and then trick room That could be the player that they go for um, and then they're in a great position going into this next turn um Okay, they're just going to fake out. Okay. That's fine. That is like super fine. Um Now what we want to do here is I think we've okay the dimensions seem back to normal not ideal for us Like in all honesty not ideal. Uh, we can't switch either We do have Okay, I think what we've got to do is How are they going to talk it? Where are they going to talk it? They're going to talk it is umeral Because I kind of want to protect and go drain punch and like if we can get the drain punch off Then I know aquajet Should pick up the knockout even if the drain punch doesn't but the drain punch should get the drake result here Yeah, should have been keeping an eye on the trick room turns as well I thought we had like one more turn rather than what we didn't now my pun Probably makes a smart playing goes for the scrappy here. I'd imagine Oh, there's the allies week. So we're getting we're getting our asses kicked Oh scrappy avoids. Oh, they got up to the scrappy. I mean, that's nice So we get a little bit of health back with scrappy, which is going to be useful Uh, they do target the scrappy here. I don't think an aquajet is going to be enough Uh, that's the problem and then if we If we lose a zoom reel then we lose our ability to um Our ability to perish song Uh, now we could rely on They don't really want to perish song right here because we kind of put ourselves in an awkward position kind of want to I'm gonna aquajet and I'm going to drain punch it again into that slot We'll see we'll see. Uh, like I say, I don't think aquajet's going to be anywhere near enough to get Okay, got the tail going to protect here. I mean if hustle comes in like this will win us the game here if if if hustle misses See some not quite enough fall beak. It does hit. Where we going? Okay, now we lose the zoom reel. Which isn't great So we lose our perish Okay Now what's my opponent's last pokemon? We might might be able to do this. You never know Like the got the tails got no way to hit scrappy. We know that okay So that's something we've got on our side for sure. Um It is lapras. Okay. Is it we this policy lapras that would make things a bit more trickier I think we go Kind of want a trick room I do want a trick room because I think scrappy needs a trick room support And we could trick room and we could we could we could protect They don't want scrappy taking any unnecessary damage here And then we can get a drain punch. Okay, that's perfect. If they trick room though, that's not the best for us Let's see. I think they do trick room to be honest. They probably trick room my trick room Now they psychic. Okay, they're going after goth Rita. It's fine. They like to do no damage. That's that's super fine Let me trick room now. They're gonna trick room on a trick room. I think um Thing is I'd like to taunt the goth hotel um honestly I might ally switch and go for a taunt into goth hotel because I think like you either ally switch here You try and trick room. I think you try and trick room to reverse the trick room So at least then lapras is gonna be hitting first um Gonna be a long drawn out game though because we've got no way of of Really damaging the goth hotel without drain punch. So that's the thing It's just getting scrappy into a good position now where we can we can tank the hits from lapras But if it is it is weakness policy, then Makes things a bit more difficult. Okay, we're gonna see ally switch ally switch fine We get the taunt into the lapras. So now we know it cannot protect So that's that's a good thing for us hydro pump coming out. It's gonna be into the goth. I don't know. It's gonna be in Yeah, that's fine. You should take this. Yeah, okay um now We've got to do we taunt again? Uh, or do we I mean the goth hotel can't really do too much I mean it can psychic, but it can't really do too much. I'm gonna drain punch into lapras um And I'm just gonna protect off the reader It's what you get for running ally switch you get all these ally switch mind games So, yeah, we guess right. Okay, we're gonna get some nice. Oh, wow. That's big fat damage. That's what we like to see Hopefully it's not a weakness policy prop That's put us right back in this There we go. There it is. There it is my friends. There it is Okay, there's a psychic coming out into the protect. Are they gonna predict? I think they're gonna cover bases Yeah, they're gonna we take this. I don't think plus two we take this, you know, and that's it Yeah, that's a shame We ally switch there Which we probably should have and that's game that is game. I can't do anything I don't have an attack and move on goth rita So we're just gonna have to hit that forfeit button But I mean, I think we did all right We definitely had a win con there where we could have ally switched that turn rather than protecting But I I wanted to play into the mind game rather than go for the straightforward play And it didn't quite pay off for us. Unfortunately, so I think from the lead we did pretty well to get where we did in the game. It was more about I think in the end Preserving a zoom rail. If we preserve the zoom rail, we win that game. I think all day So, I mean, it's just one of those things, but it's a very fun team I kind of want to keep playing with it. Honestly, I have a lot of fun with perish. So, um I'm gonna continue to to improve the team So if I get it to a really good point in the next few weeks, um, I'll probably be playing it over on stream Um, because I do I do believe in it I do believe it's going to be a very strong mod to go forward with now What can I get rid of all these teams? I tell you what? I'm going to get rid of the Durant team for now and I will throw it up on my other cartridge So do not worry about that. Uh, it will be down. I will post an update with the new code So I will I'm going to get rid of the Durant Um, and then like I say, we'll throw it up all these teams will be slowly going down that we've put up over the last few weeks in place for new teams. So um If there are particular teams that you really want to see Uh featured and kept so you can use them on the ladder and things like that Do let me know down in the comment section below and I'll make sure to transfer them over to my second switch And I can upload them over there because we only get a certain number Even if you've got two games, they're split between both games. So I don't know how that makes so much sense Anyway, that's how nintendo and gamefreak have done it. But hopefully that's improved for gen 9. Anyway, there is the rental code I'm going to stop my rant. There is the team I hope you have a lot of fun with it if you have a go with it my friends And uh, if you do definitely let me know down in the comment section below Perish is a very good, uh, a good build and a lot of fun And you'll have a lot of fun on the ladder with it. So have fun And uh, yeah, that wraps up today's episode. 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