 Hello friends, welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series here on the channel My name is Lee also known as Osiris and we're finally here We're into series 7 the crown tundra has dropped and with it along comes a bunch of brand new legendary Pokemon and some new toys for us to play with including those legendary Galarian birds and the new Reggie so we've got lots of new things to explore throughout this new series and It's really hard for us to decide where to start off with now I have been working on a Reggie Gigas team and I was planning on kicking off with it But it's not quite right So I want to work on it a little bit before featuring on the channel and putting a rental team up for you guys Hence the reason why we're kicking off with Galarian Maltres today as you can see in your screen now Glaring Maltres being used quite a lot obviously the weakness policy on there to boost its Attack power and it's got berserk as well. So when you get below 50% It gets another special attack boost making it absolutely in crazy when it does get the kind of momentum Started in battles. We've got a support cast alongside it with tapu finni cartana sold vs. Garchomp Incinero and Thunderous theory in form so thunderous theory in form a little bit of an interest in one It's more of a supportive role in this team But I feel like it can provide us with a little bit of speed control with the thunder waves and taunt as well to stop Opposing things setting up and obviously the electric stab really nice in this format in general anyways We've got our first opponent the episode and as always there will be a rental code at the end of the episode of this team There'll be a poker paste down in the description below And if you do enjoy this sort of content, please remember to drop a like on the video if you're new to the channel Do consider subscribing for more of this sort of content Make sure you turn on the notification bell as well So you get the notifications when these episodes do go up We've got a lot of teams to get through in the next couple of weeks So it's gonna be a lot of content for you guys to enjoy and a lot of teams for you to use as well And leave your comments down below I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on the new format and what you've been enjoying playing so far as We're very in the very early stages of it obviously as well But our first opponent today is playing a team of Celestila Glastria the Reggie Alecchi Urshafu, Tepufini and Cracella, Cracella, there we go. And so pretty much mostly new Pokemon Excluding the Urshafu there. We've got trick room mod on the team with the Cracella That's probably gonna support the Glastria more than anything. So we've got to consider Ally switch there as well Unfortunately, and then we got other speed control. You've just got the fast mode the Reggie Alecchi and naturals Like speedy mode there with the Urshafu and then max airstream potentially on things like Celestila Let me need to watch out for as well. Okay Well, we need to pick pretty sharpish because we've not got very much time to do this And I think we'll bring Maltres in the back and I'm gonna have to just lock in very quickly here because we've run out of time Talked way too much through that team preview and my opponent's team But I guess that the part is that we talked through my opponent's team what the threats are there We know what to expect or at least what kind of to expect. So we'll see what my opponent brings I feel like we didn't bring Tepufini and Tepufini is always one of those Pokemon That's always nice to bring especially with the Incineroar We do have that nice firewater grass core on your team as well Which does there help us out a bunch But we do see Tepufini and the Urshafu come up for my opponent So I mean, it's not a bad lead from us at all We've got offensive pressure onto the Tepufini straight away with fake out thunderbolt into that slot And we could even double up into the Urshafu if we wanted because I feel like the Tepufini is So heavily threatened right now. It would make sense for us to go after the Urshafu But is that a bit too obvious? I don't know. Um At least we get the Intimidate onto it, which is also nice I think we're probably better off just going for a thunderbolt into the Finney honestly And maybe going for a parting shot into the Urshafu because I imagine Urshafu either to Protect or either switch out here So if we can get a parting shot into that slot anything coming in we'll be able to put down to minus one Okay, the Finney is gonna Okay, so we could actually just doubled into the Urshafu here come for the close combat Okay, we'll proc a berry here, which is fine So we'll be able to put it down to at least Minus one well minus two after the Intimidate, so it's not gonna be doing too much We'd still need to be careful around the wicked blow because it can still do a bunch of damage Finney protecting itself here obviously from that thunderbolt probably worried about the wild charge there But and that's a more common thunderous. They say maybe the more physical variants here or a little bit more and prevalent in the format at the moment What are we gonna bring in maybe the Maltreds? Maybe Maltreds isn't nice switching here I mean Garchomp isn't bad But Maltreds does put on a lot of pressure on to the Urshafu as well, you know And we could double up into the Finney this next turn as well if we feel like that's that's the better play But also we could double up into the Urshafu as well, you know See what my opponent's got to bring in potentially They've got no electric immunity I mean they could bring in Cresselia in one of those slots, but I mean if they do I Probably better off getting rid of the Urshafu here and all honesty, but I Really feel like the Finney is the biggest problem out of everything because it does threaten Maltreds pretty hard as well. We'll go after the Finney here We'll double into it go max a stream and send a bolt It's gonna switch. Okay, and that's still fine. It means it puts Maltreds in a great position this next turn I Wonder how much this damage is gonna do to the Regi Alecki though because Regi Alecki is not the bulkiest of Pokemon Let's just say that and thunderous should that speed it after an airstream boost It's just whether or not we can take a wicked blow Wicked blow, but the Urshafu might protect here. You know, it's gonna be it's gonna feel very threatened Yeah, so there's a protect from the Urshafu Screams at us through that protect and so we get a free turn into the Regi Alecki here And I'd imagine you know this is gonna be I think it probably be in Thunderbolt range this next turn in all honesty Mmm Probably not probably not and the Maltreds definitely isn't gonna be able to knock it out this next turn But we can double into the Urshafu for sure with another airstream and then we will get the jump on Unless they got Electro web, but if they got Electro web Just whether they set screens up with Regi Alecki, that's the other thing they could set screens up I'm gonna double into Urshafu because I just feel like Yeah, they can proc our weakness policy if they want. Oh, they just go straight for the Thunderbolt. Wow, it specs Okay, that's that's not so good, but we will get rid of the Urshafu here as long as yeah We're not gonna see a sucker punch and that might have been the play from my opponent To get some like last dish damage off So we get a berserk and we get our weakness policy propped as well, which is amazing because now With another airstream, we will be able to outspeed the Regi Alecki with our Maltreds for sure Because I should put our speeds that up to about 280. I think around no no put our speeds that up to three Two six two six eight I think which actually and if they are jolly then we still don't get the jump on it, but thunderous will Okay. Well, we'll just have to see Glastria coming in Okay, well, they're probably gonna max aren't they It's really really really really really really difficult now because Regi Alecki if it does that speed Maltreds, and I sure it's so early on in the format I'm not like a hundred percent sure what they were gonna be able to do or not And we have to attack into the Glastria like in all honesty Let's go Thunderbolt into Regi Alecki and let's go for the darkness the darkness hope that we can get the Glastria That's what that's what we've got to do. We've got to go for it Okay, well they're maxing something. What is it gonna be? It's Masterbolt. It's the Glastria. They're gonna max that okay Well, we all plus three like if we get the max darkness into it It's gonna do a good chunk I don't expect it to pick up the knockout, but it will do enough for something to come in in the late game and clean up Well, then we probably will lose thunderous here No, it's oh, no, it's alright. It's alright. Will this be enough? It's enough. Okay thunderous done Done its job. Okay. That's good. That's good. That's good. And if Moltres gets left alone here We can probably two-shot this Glastria. Okay, and a bit too Bit too excited, but half it's not bad. It's not bad. It really isn't But we are gonna lose something here for sure What we're gonna lose Yeah, the Moltres and honestly, I kind of don't mind that I kind of don't mind that because We've got Incineroar to come in next And they got taffy finny It's gonna be very tricky for us like Especially with that chilling there. That's the problem. I think we've got a double I think we've got to double Glastria here with Flair Blitz and a Thunderbolt and Hope that the minus one special defense that it's it's got is enough for the Thunderbolt to do damage because I just Think the taffy finny is gonna have to protect you Let's hope let's hope This is enough of a combination. I don't know if it will be might be it should be maybe maybe maybe not But none what the damage from that Moltres did. I really don't feel like it's gonna be oh Flair Blitz is nowhere near gonna get it. Is it muddy water coming out? Oh, they're not even protecting. I mean it makes sense for them not to Incineroar takes it We get it. There we go. That's what we like to see. It was enough. Okay. Now. We're in a good position now We're in a beautiful position It's thunderous thunderous has done amazing here. It is a support thunderous, but like it goes to show like I Can still do a really good job okay, so I think Thunderbolt and Earthquake gonna be enough or stomp and tantrum should say because we've got the assault best car chomp will Be enough to actually get the finny here. So that'll be ideal. I Mean we can even poison Jabbit To be honest But we're better stomping gone stomp stomp stomp Cuz Thunderbolt's gonna do at least 50% We could even rock slide if we want to go for the flinches, but I mean we'll take a moon blast It's not it's a very bulky finny. That's the thing you can tell from the muddy water damage Wow, okay We don't even need to worry about what the finny is gonna do because this combination is gonna just deal with it Pretty easily so very good game to my opponent And a nice way for us to kick off today At least we got to see the the Maltres do some work and it was against a pretty scary team The regi a lecky was was was tricky to deal with for sure playing a team of Grim snarl Regi drago dust clops hatterine a dragonite and Arcanine so what is going on here? We've definitely got some trick room stuff going on obviously with the hatterine and the dust globs. That's definitely a mode there and Outside of that. I don't really know we're probably looking at like thunder wave support Maybe screen support from the Grim snarl to support things like the regi drago the dragonite And then you've got the intimidate support there with the arcanine Now what do we want to go for cuz I feel well tap a finny here is very good in this match Obviously regi drago one of the drawbacks with it is it doesn't get very much coverage. So it's a nice Pokemon to have Access to so I think maybe are we gonna look it? Could bring Maltres up top and kind of tempted to bring Okay, we'll bring incinero finny. It's a solid lead. I think we bring Maltres in the back and potentially Cortana is not bad here, especially for the hat especially with the sash gives us a little bit of room to play around it. Um But also go chomping not bad But I've probably the carton of the best out of all three between the go chomping the thunderous here Thunder is not gonna be too useful In all honesty, like we can't taunt the hatterine Eerie impulse. We can't because of the magic bounce We can obviously get away with those sort of disruption moves on dust globs But I don't think dust globs gonna be too much of an issue, especially if we've got Maltres in the team So it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see how we go forward with this one And obviously we need to watch out for the dragon energy Which is like the new dragon type eruption move from regi drago, which is also boosted by its its new ability as well And but obviously tapu finny helps out a bunch with that with the the misty terrain making and kind of weakening that attack Straight off the bounce so we will lead off with Incineroar and a tapu finny I think we've got a pretty easy time going for a calm mind here We don't really need to worry too much about the regi drago at all And we could potentially party shot out onto that slot because it's so threatened right now I don't think it's really gonna be doing too much And we might just see a trick room from the dust globs trying to maybe set up a board condition for Maybe hat that's gonna come in here But it is gonna be arcana and so that's super fine as well I mean this team generally when you look at my opponent's team does struggle quite hard against and against the Calm mind type of finny variants. So I don't really know what they've got in a way to to get around that Okay, so we're gonna see an ally stretch so it's Straight off the bat starting this format as we left off in series six I like switchy It's gonna be fun in games, it's gonna be fun and games so we'll get the parting shot I mean it just allows us to just re reposition our board. We can maybe even get something like hot on out And now just to put a little bit of pressure on we could get the maltres in in all honesty Moltres is gonna be quite a nice Pokemon to throw in now We could even we've got room to nasty plot if we want Or just go for max darkness into the dust globs and Kind of double down into that one. I am scared of the trick room being set up in all honesty So going for max darkness and maybe a muddy water isn't the worst play That combination should get rid of the dust globs and get rid of the trick room here So then we'll go for it. We have got the weakness policy We've got the option to go for a nasty plot But I feel like if we go nasty plot now we give my opponent the opportunity to set the trick room Get the hat on to the field and start doing a lot of disruption now really for Cortana to kind of win this game We just need to get rid of the arcanine from that point Cortana should have a pretty easy time This is not gonna really worry about the the Regi Drago So let's see. Oh, it's not nowhere near enough damage. We need the nasty plot. This is the thing I've got quite a bulky maltres I Don't think mine like so that the muddy water way plus one there minus one So it's kind of like a plus two almost, but it's not gonna be enough Get rid of the arcanine, which is great, but we're gonna see the trick room set up here, which isn't ideal Yeah, that's it, okay Well, the other option on tap a finny is you can always kind of like not run protect and run something like taunt It gives you a nice option to shut down Situations like this. Now the Regi Drago are gonna come back in but again, I'm not really seeing What kind of pressure it's putting on my opponent because we just go for the max darkness again into I Mean they're probably gonna max the Regi Drago in all honesty Let's do this let's moonblast the desktop slot in case we see an ally switch, which I would imagine we may do Oh my mentor. Oh, okay That's not so good That's a nice that's a nice little trick there But they are gonna take a moonblast for their troubles even though we are down to so we'll put a stent of minus one On our tap a finny special attack ultra is gonna be able to take that because it's just a tank Anyway, the moonblasts should still do a chunk of damage and probably enough to put it in range for a max darkness To actually take the Regi Drago down and then my opponent's got one Pokemon left Which is most likely gonna be that Hatterine. I'd imagine a Regi Drago actually taking that Surprisingly, this is the thing with Maltres. It needs the buzzer or it needs the the weakness policy boost and to actually That's dragonite Okay, well this just got way way easier and We probably want to max guard here and I think Maybe muddy water. Oh, we could calm mind to be honest. Let's have a look Could calm mind it breaks the multi-scale. That's a thing. Mmm. Actually, we'll just calm mind here Just to get a special attack backup and a fit state. We'll see what My opponent's gonna max probably gonna be the dragon. Is it gonna be the dragon? It has to be the dragonite. There's no point of maxing Drago here. It's solo health The interest and see what the dragon eyes starts chucking out and dragon eyes not something to kind of underestimate as well It's got such a deep move pool. It can learn so many things and it can hit pretty hard I'm kind of hoping it's gonna go after the Maltres here So there's a dragon and she doesn't affect tapu finny and max rockfall. Is this into no, it's into finny Okay, yeah, it's still there's a respectable amount of damage Um But I mean we do have the next time we got the switch into it to incinerate We're gonna be super fine. We can get the the dragon. I down to minus one Take care of that ready Drago Because it's dragon dragon energy is doing literally zilch now anyway We didn't really get the most out of Maltres here to be honest, which is a little bit of a shame But I mean it happens sometimes, you're not always gonna have games where everything kind of performs super well Okay, yeah, let's just go for a moonblast into dragonite. The problem is if it's got weakness policy that could be a bit tricky But the sand chips gonna take down the Drago this next turn, so I'm not really too worried about Attacking into that like I say the dragon engine not gonna do too much damage It could go for drake or something into incineroar, but again, we do have the missy terrain up So it is weak in in that attack, so we don't need to worry a great deal about it and We should take this now with the intimidate onto finny this should just poke our wiki berry or The critters No crits. Wow big damage off the course. They got in a focus Okay, that's why we should have them. Yeah, this is this bad. That's bad. Yeah in a focus I'm assuming that they got multi-scale, but they definitely haven't it doesn't make sense with the Rockfall and Now the Drago going down here We should still be all right though I think dealing with the the dragonite We've got a few turns of trick room left and but other than that we should be fine I'd imagine we can bring Maltras back in and we can activate like allow them to attack us through protect I'll activate a berserk ability and we can get and The potting shot caught on her onto the field for the next 10 unless they do decide to attack into incinero here But I mean even if they do it's still going to be all right Because we should trick it So we'll get the potting shot and get the minus one attack, which is what we need And then we'll get caught on her into the field But I mean caught on is going to be able to take her a rockfall No problem We'll break the sash, but it's still no problem like this is why we want it into Maltras now We get the berserk and the weakness policy and then oh, they're not gonna go for it. They're avoiding it Come on. Come on. We wanted the plus three. That's all we wanted We'll get our berserk ability now activated is the week is the trick remains so this is gonna be pretty clean for us to kind of close up right now and we can just smart strike and go for a Signature attack from the Maltras So the smart strike should do 50 not quite but this should fury wrath Not quite enough. Did we to get we didn't get a berserk? Did we there's a fire punch, but I mean, okay I assumed berserk was at 50% but it must be it must be you must have to go down to 50% from an attack rather than 50% from weather damage. I wonder if that's like a new mechanic Which is kind of interesting but now I mean like obviously the inner focus we can't fake it out or anything like that But Maltras gonna add speed it anyway It could have extreme speed, but we can just go for flablets dragonite more difficult to take down than what I thought I do like it within a focus. I think it's probably the better ability The multi-scale there's so many things in this format that can break The multi-scale and then it's kind of redundant whereas inner focus continually is useful throughout a battle because of the intimate immunity Okay, friends here is the rental code for the team that we featured today of revolving all around that Galarian Maltras. I hope you've really enjoyed the episode and I hope you enjoy the team if you do try it out Obviously with the new format starting It is handy to have a new team available for you just to hop on the ladder with straight away if you're struggling to decide Around what kind of teams you'd like to play around obviously There's a few things that you could tweak on this team if you want to take some inspiration for yourself and move forward with it But in general the team is very solid and a very fun one to begin playing series 7 with Glaring Maltras. I think it's an incredible Pokemon I do think there are things where you could maybe introduce some sort of redirection to support it Especially with the nasty plot just to give it a little bit more protection there But I generally don't think you necessarily need it The other option is to take stomp and tantrum off gochomp and maybe go with earthquake there You've got two flyers on your team. So that is an option I just didn't want the conflict there if I had gochump out next to something like tapu finni And that would cause a few issues but other than that I think the team is pretty nice and I hope you enjoy it like I mentioned if you did enjoy the episode Please remember to drop a like on the video if you're new to the channel Do make sure that you do hit that subscribe button turn on notifications So you don't miss any of these new episodes and new teams it will be featuring and putting out over the next couple of weeks Especially with the start of series 7 will be playing with a lot of these new teams trying to get as many of them out as possible And leave a comment down below. Let me know how you're finding the new format and what things you are enjoying from it the most But we'll leave it there. Thank you so much for tuning in have a great rest of your day And I'll speak to you all very soon. So till the next one. Bye. Bye