 Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. For those of you who are new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris, with seven World Championship invites under my belt and a top eight finish as my best finish in the 2014 World Championships. And I'm going to take all this information that I've got from my time playing into today's episode. Well, we'll be playing a team that was suggested by one of you fine people. It was Poker Smash, who suggested a team based all around Gengor. So that's what we're going with today. We've got a few Pokemon that we don't regularly see in the new series seven format. We've put a team together around these Pokemon, and we're going to be playing them in today's episode. As you can see, the team that we'll be featuring today is going to be Gengor, Windsor Cut, Charizard, a Bisharp, a Riperia and a Dracovish. So we've got the G-Max Charizard. It's kind of going to be the centerpiece of the team. Now, the one thing I would say about the Gengor is that was a Pokemon that was requested, but it isn't really a Pokemon that you can build a team around. It's it's just there's too many Pokemon in the format at the minute that make it very difficult for Gengor to perform. But I believe it can perform very well in a specific niche role and with combinations like Bisharp that we've seen have good success in the past and then combine it with nice speed control and some other options here. I feel like the team can perform pretty well and it's going to be interesting to see how these maybe older faces in the format kind of perform in series seven. So as always, there will be a poker face down below in the description. There will be a rental code at the end of the episode, if you guys would like to try this team out. But if nothing else, it's going to be a little bit educational. It's going to be a little bit fun and it'll be nice to give G-Max Charizard a run out after not really saying too much of it in series seven. So without further ado, friends, let's get into our first one today. So up first, we've got a team of Urshifu, Raichu, Zaptos, Metagross, Regi Alecki and Tabakoko. Now, initially, you would think, OK, not the best team to see if you've got Charizard because obviously the Regi Alecki going to outspeed us and the Tabakoko going to outspeed us and cause us a lot of issues. And even with the tailwind, Charizard is not going to be able to get the jump on something like Regi Alecki. So speed control here is really important for us. And obviously the Alolan Raichu as well does take advantage of that electric train. But we do have Whimsicott to provide that tailwind support that we kind of can take advantage of. We also have Raipiri as well on this team with the choice band. And that can actually be a real asset to us. It can do a lot of damage to my opponent and cause my opponent all sorts of issues. Now, I think the big thing to realise here is that Whimsicott, if we lead it, my opponent is probably going to lead off with the Raichu and have that fake out support, which is going to mean that Whimsicott could get taken down early on, although they're going to have to lead something like the Glaring Zaptos or maybe maybe the Metagross to actually take the Whimsicott down. So I think we're not in a bad spot, but we're not in the greatest spot either. So I think what we'll do is we'll go Whimsicott, go Gengar, go Charizard and we'll go Raipiri because I feel like those four can kind of do a really good job against my opponent's team. It's going to be an interesting one, obviously, like with this team as well, it's not something I would jump on immediately as a competitive team. But it's got a lot of elements within the team that can work very well together. I think like the Whimsicott with the tailwind is probably something that is being used, but probably a bit overlooked at the minute. And I think something that can be very, very powerful in this current format. You know, that instant tailwind, the ability to actually taunt and shut down opposing Tornadus, which is probably the more reliable Pokemon that people are kind of leaning towards at the minute. So it's got a lot of it's got a lot of options that it can go for here. So we do see my opponent lead out with the Raichu and that Galarian Zapdos. We do have to worry about helping hand as well. But we do have the option where we can bring in Raipiri straight off the bat and we could go for an icy wind. The only issue going for an icy wind would be if we go for that, we'd proc the defiant ability on the Zapdos. And there's also the risk if we go for a shadow ball, we could lower the special defense on the Zapdos. So the best option for us here is going for that sludge bomb into the Zapdos or going for the shadow ball into the Raichu. But I think we'll opt for damage onto the Zapdos here. Not too worried about the Raichu. It could fire off a psychic into Gengor, but at the same time, I think you really want to be trying to mitigate the tailwind support here that we've got potentially coming out from the Whimsicot. We are going to see the Zapdos actually go for its max unless it is the Raichu. I think it is the Zapdos here. We'll probably see an airstream and that will be into our Raichu here. So I definitely expect fake out. That's the thing I would expect here because you want to remove the Whimsicot. Yep, we do get the sludge bomb off into the Zapdos. Not really doing too much, but hoping for that poison, which we don't get, unfortunately. And there's the airstream into Raichu, which we take pretty comfortably. Now, we do need to worry about the potential max knuckle coming out from the Zapdos this next turn. Which which definitely will be a bit of an issue, especially because we don't have protect on Riperia. The one option that we do potentially have is we can get Whimsicot back onto the field now and go for a shadow ball into the Raichu. Now, there could be a little bit of an issue here where my opponent kind of doesn't go for the max knuckle and decides to go for the airstream into the Gengor to try and get a bit more speed control. The issue is now they're going to get to plus two and that will match our tailwind, which makes it a little bit more difficult for us. Wow, we're going to see a surf from the Raichu, break sashes on everything, which isn't ideal. Cursed Body does disable the surf, which makes things a bit easier if we do want to get the Raiperia back onto the field. We're going to see a max darkness and it's going to be into that Gengor. OK, I mean, either way, it's not too bad because we don't see the speed boost there from the Zapdos. And it does open the door for us to get Charizard onto the field and that's a big thing what we want to do now. And my opponent's max turns are nearly gone. So the Charizard is going to be our like our pretty much a wincon in this one. So we're going to have to get a tailwind up. Right. I don't know if we're going to be able to get a sunny day up, but we will try. We'll try. And we probably want to go for just a protect here, I think. Yeah, we'll just go for a protect because what we can do the following turn is get right here onto the field and right here in the tailwind. It's going to be a lot of things on my opponent's team because we are very speedy right here and the combination of Charizard right here is a really good kind of board position for this team in particular. That's kind of what you'll kind of get the tailwind up and get those two next to each other on the field so you can choice band earthquake and then just heat wave or go for the G max attacks as well. So that's their nice options. You're going to see the Airstream is going to be into the Whimsicott here. So they are going to be able to match our speed control with the tailwind. But yeah, we don't take that, which is a little bit unfortunate, but not the worst. Like I say, it would be nice to be able to get the sunup to get that G max like the solar power boost, but it's not going to happen. Even with the Cobberberry, we just can't take that. But we do get right here onto the field and we do have lightning rod on it. So it means that the cursed body from that Raichu will come into effect and it's not going to be able to take us down with the surf. But the problem is that if we don't, I'd speed the Zapdos now with Charizard because I would imagine it is a speed tie. Then we are in a bit of trouble. So we'll go for the earthquake and we'll go for, do we max here? Or do we just go heat wave? I think we max now actually. We could go for an airstream or airstream. I think airstream is not a bad option because then whatever comes in, at least we've got kind of a speed advantage on them when the tailwind does end. Because the tailwind isn't ever going to end. We just need to win the speed tie here against the Zapdos. They got two airstreams up, so they're plus two. We've got the tailwind up, so we're plus two. And it's all going to come down to a coin flip. Hopefully Charizard can pull through and get the, get the win the speed tie. That will put a pulse right back into the game, 100%. We do, there we go. Okay, so that tailwind coming in super handy. There's Zapdos going down. We get the speed boost, which we'll put right here to plus three, which will definitely make us faster than that Raichu. And we'll be able to get an earthquake off, take that down, and then we're in an amazing position. And this is what I'm talking about before where we can get this board position. Wow, a period. Still not at speed in the Raichu on plus three. That's not ideal. We do see an expanded force, but that's, that's all right. We can deal with that. But Charizard going to be able to, it will add speed Regilecki now for sure. So depending on what my opponent has, or it's Metagross and Oshifu, we're like so fine with this. We just earthquake an airstream the Oshifu and it's pretty much done. Yeah, so this is quite a nice example. And we haven't really utilized the Charizard's fire type in as much as we wanted to. But I mean, yeah, getting rid of that front two, which did cause us a lot of issues. So fair play to my opponent there, but I mean that back two, and that's the kind of board position we keep referring to, you know, that's what we want to achieve throughout the game. It's that board position against certain teams. Obviously the team's got a lot of different mods, so we'll try and feature a few of those as we go on to our next one here as well. Okay, up next we have Glastria Spectria, Rotom Heat, Reggie Alecki, Oshifu and Clefairy. So we've got quite a few different things going on here. Obviously that the first thing that jumps out to me is the Spectria and the Clefairy lead because that is going to be very difficult to deal with. They're very difficult to manage just because that redirection there with the Clefairy that supports us, the Spectria that can do so much devastating damage. But on the one hand, it is a bit of an issue. The other hand, we have got Gengar and Bishop. Now if my opponent decides to lead Oshifu and Clefairy here, that becomes a little bit more tricky for sure, but we still have ways because what we want to really do is concentrate down and getting rid of the Clefairy first and then the rest of the team can come in and kind of deal with the other Pokemon there. I don't really feel like there's a trick or a mod per se on my opponent's team. The other thing we need to worry about a little bit is the Rotom Heat because that is going to be a big issue for Charizard. Now I think Charizard Ryperia again is going to be very good, but the problem is I think we might be better off going for something like Whimsicott up top. Oh, actually let's go. Let's go Gengar. Let's go Whimsicott. Let's go Charizard and let's go Ryperia. Yeah, let's go with that. I have to fit those four Pokemon in because I feel like we need the Ryperia here to deal with both the Regilecki, take away that kind of threat that it poses to the Charizard and also get rid of the Rotom Heat. Like without the Rotom, without the Ryperia here, we're kind of relying on Gengar and Gengar was probably a Pokemon that's going to go down very early in this game after we've utilised it for that speed control and things like that. So it gets pretty tricky quite early on. Okay, well, we do see Regilecki and the issue food for my opponent. I don't mind this too much because we've got the option to go for the tail wind straight away. And we could just go Icy Wind, which really just then enforces the fact that that Charizard could come on the field and really start doing some work. And I think that's not really a bad idea because then if we do lose Gengar, that's not the worst thing in the world. And again, we want to try and set that board position up for the late game. I mean, we could go for a Moonblast as well with Whimsicott, just Moonblast the Urshifu and Icy Wind and then Tailwind the next turn. It's not a bad option as well. We probably still lose Gengar here and potentially through, I think we got Tailwind this turn because we don't want to take a sucker punch and electro web, like we can take this but we'll get our Tailwind up now and then we can get our Icy Wind off. Hopefully, we might just lose Gengar. I know we do. Okay, this is perfect. And now Whimsicott gonna be in a nice position to take down the Urshifu the next turn if it is Sashed, which I don't know if it is. It might be Skaft, maybe Skaft. And there's the electro web. Okay, that's kind of mitigating Icy Wind, but we've got a Tailwind up, we're still plus two. Still in a great spot. Now we could bring in, I think we do bring in Charizard here and I think we switch, hard switch straight to Ryperia because what's my opponent gonna bring in like for the Urshifu? Probably the Rotom Heat, I'd imagine. So we could go for the G-Max Wildfire. Like that's an option, like G-Max Wildfire into Regi Alecki. Yeah, G-Max Wildfire into Regi Alecki and I think we've got Moonblast into Urshifu and that should deal with the Urshifu anyway. Sucker Punch is always gonna be an issue because we know that Urshifu is locked into it. So it makes sense, like we're gonna take an attack from it, whatever we do. We don't have like ally switch or redirection here to kind of get around that. So it's better if we remove the threat that, you know, so we don't get doubled into here. We're gonna take one attack at least. So we should be all right taking a Sucker Punch anywhere with Charizard. Yeah, there it is. The main thing is that we get the Wildfire off to get rid of the Regi Alecki now and then we start the G-Max Wildfire. The Moonblast should take down the Urshifu. And we'll just note that my opponent is ranked at the minute. I know it's early ladder, but they're ranked 51st on the ladder. So if we can clinch a win here, this is pretty good. And I think the team's performing pretty well. I think it's just having that understanding of maybe the hyper offensive nature of it and kind of making decisions where you get like one attack off or you get the alternate off. And each option is gonna pay off for you overall if you get what I mean. You're all gonna see Spectre and the Clefairy come in and we need to get rid of the Spectre. We need to go for the Sunny Day. Sunny Day, get the Solar Power gone because then if we do see redirection from the Whimsicott, at least then we're gonna be able to remove it from the field and we should probably not take a helping hand, Shadow Ball I don't think from the Spectre. That's always the option. But I mean, we have targeted the Spectre. So if they went helping hand to be kind of sneaky to try and get around us possibly targeting Clefairy, that's always something I would try to go for. Your opponent can catch you out with maybe an icy wind, but in this situation, we're not relying on that too much. So it's always good to target the big Pokemon that's the immediate threat at least. Spectre is not the most bulky of Pokemon either. So if you can get the Sunup and get an attack into it, then that'll be amazing. There we go, okay. So Sunup and Char should be able to, and it's gonna be interesting to see how much we do here. Gonna be interesting. I'm having doubts. I should have targeted the Spectre. I'm sure we did, yeah we did, we did. And you know what, I'm like talking and I'm like, did we target it? We should have done. Then it goes into the Clefairy and I'm like, come on, but we do. We target the right slot, so that's good. We do lose Charizard, but that's fine. The G-Max Wildfire Damage now is gonna be enough to kind of support. Maybe the rest of this tier, I don't know. The Grimnair boost there makes it very difficult. And we need to get, okay. It's gonna go down the next turn, whatever happens. We just need to remove the Clefairy from the field. The problem is I don't know if Ryperia, let's just have a quick look. I don't know if it's gonna add speed. We need to be over 100, oh 100 max. Oh, come on. This is where we need to be one point faster with Ryperia. So I think it's gonna be a speed tie and I'm gonna say follow me. And I think, I think Rockslide's fine and I think we go, because the Spectre is literally gonna go down this next turn to the G-Max Wildfire Damage and the Recoil from the Life Orb. So whatever it does, I think we've won this one. If we win the speed tie or not, we probably lose Ryperia if we don't and there's a Max Quake, which is fine, yeah. And I don't think Lefairy's got a way to deal with Whimsicott. And we're quite a bulky Whimsicott as well. We've got the Cobber Berry. Like I had to put the Focus Sash on Gengar. I felt like it had to have that item. Without it, it's very vulnerable in this format. It's vulnerable anyway. You've got things like Spectre, you've got things like Dragapult that make it very difficult for Gengar to perform, but I still believe it can perform a decent enough roll. It's got a good base speed. It's got very good attack. So it's a very good Pokemon. Now this will just come down to if the Clefairy has an attack, like I see Wind or something, then yeah. I don't know if it's gonna be able to finish us off, but the G-Max Wildfire damage here. So it's gonna help us out a bunch. We don't need the Tailwind support. So we can just Moonblast, Moonblast, Moonblast until we win this one. Hopefully win it anyway. Let's see. Hopefully the Clefairy hasn't got like some sneak attack. It's got Moonblast as well. That could be a little bit. I could slow us down a bit. Then go Icy Wind. Okay. They're gonna need to Icy Wind us quite a bit to, yeah, and I mean we take that pretty comfortably. The bulk, they're helping us out. Even though the Clefairy not the strongest of Pokemon. And I think yeah. Couple more Moonblasts are gonna do the job. But the G-Max Wildfire, like I said, is gonna help us out in abundance to pick up the knockout here. And there's the battle canceled. So two wins today, friends. And two really good examples, I think, of how the team can perform well. Like I've said, it's very hyper offensive. It's got some odd picks, but they're not weak picks. I don't think, I think they're very strong picks. So I think this team in general is definitely something I would recommend you all have a go with. Because I think the Pokemon that are in the team, I think can work very well. And G-Max Charizard really surprised me. We were on stream yesterday. And I was talking about G-Max Charizard. It's not something that I enjoy playing personally, or I haven't. But when I built this team and I've started playing it, I kind of started to be like, okay, well, I'm seeing the value in it now. I'm seeing like I really kind of can get behind it and play it. So maybe if you were the same before then, then you try this team out and it might have the same effect. But definitely Charizard's great anyway, isn't he? Let's get on the Charizard train. Not that I wasn't on it already, but you know, we'll do it. Anyway, I'm gonna throw up the rental team for you guys. I need to take down one of the teams that I have up. This team will be up for two weeks. So you'll have plenty of time to test this out. I have to take the Regirock one down. Now, if any of you out there, and I say this all the time, want this team put back up, I've got two other teams that I'll be putting onto another card. So I will add this if you want this up and then you can continue to play it. I love the Regirock team. I think it's one of the best teams that have made this format. Honestly, I think it's great. So if you do want it, let me know down in the comment section and I will throw that up for you. Don't make it public and we need to make room. I hate this. I hate that we've only got so many slots for rental teams. I wish we just had unlimited slots. It would be great. It would be definitely a feature I would throw forward to Game Freak for the next generations because I just think, especially when you're making teams a lot of the time, you've got so many Pokemon in the format, you wanna have a lot of teams to help out other players. You want a lot of teams to just test and things like that. I think it would just be a good facility to have a lot of and also the ability to record battles. But friends, there it is. I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you have enjoyed it, please remember to drop a like on the video. 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