 Hello friends and welcome back to another Pokemon bgc 2020 battle series episode My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today on the channel We're gonna be playing a team that I have been wanting to try and put together for a long time now It's made up of three cores three If I can count three cores and we've obviously got the dragon pulse the colossal and the fast mode there We've been on on the channel previously playing a very slow trick room colossal But we're playing the faster variant in this team then we've got a hard trick room mod behind that We've got the hatterine and the indeedy and then the star of the show not the dust globs But the dust globs is a big part of it, but the snow lax We are playing a curse lax now This is a Pokemon a set that was very strong and previous generations like a long time ago You may have come across the term curse lax and I'm not talking 2017 It's way before that and and I think it will actually work quite well in this format Maybe not as an upfront kind of dynamax Pokemon It's obviously got the option there But I think to slow games down and just be a real nuisance in the trick room You get a couple of curses up and you're gonna be hitting super hard You're gonna be tanking things because of the thick fat ability. There's a lot of fire There's a lot of ice going around at the minute So helping storm lax out and generally it is bulky anyway So that is why I've put this team together It makes a lot of sense, you know, you the snow lax has a lot of trouble with fighting types in the format And we've got plenty of things to kind of put those those Pokemon up So hopefully the team works well It's gonna be a lot of fun There will be a rental code at the end of the episode so you guys can grab this team try it out on the ladder be a lot of fun and Yeah, let me know what you think of it because I always love snow lax I tried the belly drum set earlier in the season and you know, I wasn't really too keen on it And you can always try this with the G max snow lax I've not opted for that in this team because you know most of the time we're going either G max colossal or G max Hatterine I didn't think a third G max on top of that Although we have got three cores so it would make a lot of sense that we do that So maybe later on if we make a variation of this team will put the G max in there Anyway, we got a first opponent of the episode playing a team of the Grim snarl ludicolo Iggy slash the Gengar hit my top and tug of kiss. So What's this team trying to do and obviously you've got the disruption there with the Grim snarl the screens the light screen Reflect T wave force be control and Gengar probably there with icy winds sludge wave. It could be G max Gengar You know, it is available now and What have they really got to Get around colossal draga pulled well, they have Not so much to be honest because we could get I think the thing is like we could get our G max move off and get the the damage rolling. Um Gengar's got to be threatened by draga pulled for sure. We've got the Sasha in there. So it's not we're not too worried. Okay I'm gonna just dive in colossal draga pull. Let's go dust globs and snorlax in the back And um, that's the thing with this team as well. It feels very linear with what you do It's got three different modes, but you can lead with any one of those modes depending on the team match up And then have the other mode in the back. Um, so it's a really it seems super straightforward super simple Um, like it maybe shouldn't work. We've just taken three potentially good strong cores Put them together and let's see what happens, but honestly, it's not really the case um I promise I promise There is method in the madness and I think it should work. So we've got gengar. We got ludicolor coming up up top. Um Now really I pro I probably would prefer to get rid of The ludicolor if I can here. So we'll go for the the surf and then we'll go for the g max Volklif the issue is the ludicolor maxes Um, and then takes colossal down. Okay But that will not be the end of the world because we just want to start the damage rolling because like really our end game At this point is going to be the snorlax get the snorlax in under trick room start cursing up Um, and we've got rest with a chest or berry so we can actually get We don't need to worry about having super berries or anything like that Um, we can just start getting our damage rolling straight away. So There's the ludi. Yeah, he's coming out Big boy ludi. All right. Well, I mean we're going to get decent damage onto it. It makes sense that you go for this Um, we are going to lose colossal of course But it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. And we'll chip the the sash on the gengar, which is nice Um in the next turn we probably will be able to get the gengar with our draggapull anyway, so It will not be the end of the world And like I think having something like dust globs in the back There's the surf Doing some fat damage to everything Um, but prox are weakness policy boosts us speed drastically and will be the fastest thing on the field for at least this turn. Let's see how this goes First body Okay Activation of that that ability is crazy. It activates way more than I think it should Okay, so it's not the best damage, but I mean it's decent. All right. It's not the end of the world now We will lose focus blast ha Okay, um doubling into colossal. You don't really need to do that I think you could have targeted the draggapull down maybe there. Um Um But never mind never mind never mind. There's the rain. So ludi's super fast, but it's all right because we've got um We do have When it is light bulb, okay, and there's the local if damage so We'll get dust globs in because dust globs should take a height. It should it should take An attack and we could dragon darts here um I think we're probably better off dragon darts Just like the only issue is we won't lose. Um We probably won't take the gengar down on the dragon darts where we will with a phantom force But going for a phantom force allows my opponent to kind of switch the gengar out the next turn where we could take this opportunity to get dragon darts out onto the field um And get a trick room up Or we could just phantom force Uh It's tricky. I mean we could surf as well. Let's just dragon darts Um, and we I mean we could ally switch as well But it's better off if we go for the trick if we can get a trick room up that helps us out so much Max hail. Okay. Well, that's into draggapull. I think the thing to fear here would be uh torn from the gengar Of course if we say a taunt That changes everything Um, the hail is going to come down to the ludi's not as fast this next turn Uh, we will lose draggapull, but it gives us a free so if we can get a trick room. It does give us a free switch into um small axe Yeah, not quite enough Okay, but ludi might actually go down with the hail chip. We'll just shadow ball Perfect excellent. This is what we want. Okay. Um these two pokemon might go down here So the residual damage And the hail chip So we'll see we'll see we'll see it's gonna be enough either way the ludi is gonna be Very close to going down the next turn anyway Gengar definitely goes Oh, it's so close. It's so close. Okay. Well gengar goes down. So that's fine Right, there's at least two pokemon down now. We can bring in the star of the show So I I guess, you know, like our return isn't that bad. Um here For like our two leads for kind of their two leads. All right, so we've got the uge slash coming in. Um It's not exactly the pokemon you want to be seeing right here Because it's normally got stuff like close combat. Um Things like that, which isn't ideal, but We'll just go for I mean we will not reveal the allies which just yet We'll go for a nightshade into the ludicolor just to get rid of it. We don't want any more max moves We don't want any more rain or anything like that. So So just remove that from the field. Let's see what this Aegislash goes for We do get the curse up. So that's good Tenshi will pressure the Aegislash if it attacks here Depends not many carry king shield though. That's that's the thing like is it gonna We'll take the close combat now Oh sacred sword. Oh, that's that's that's a better option there because it ignores the boosts and stuff like that So that ain't so ideal. Hmm That might not be your standard Aegislash really because Do we attack into it the next turn Hmm Oh, it's tugs Tugs. All right. Well, we're gonna see follow me And now we could pull an ally switch and arrest Probably the best thing to do. I think yeah Yeah, we'll throw the ally switch out now because it starts it kind it puts my um, okay. Well, that's that's still super fine So, yeah, we're we're getting the knowledge of the the king shield there So we who know went oh and double protect. All right I had imagined The toggle kiss to just follow me the next turn The thing about the ally switch here is now as well It throws a few questions into my opponent's mind about what we're gonna do this next turn um now I think a nightshade and A double edge will probably get the toggle kiss That would be my guess But do we want to concentrate a bit more down on the Aegislash? The thing is we can't really with the following potentially there. That's the problem, right? That's the the whole crux of it like we need to get rid of the toggle kiss before we can get rid of the Aegislash Because we really ideally want to be high horsepower and into the Aegislash, but that's just not gonna happen So we'll go for the double into the toggle kiss And then we should still have one turn a trick room left which will allow us to get the Aegislash So I don't really see a problem here the double edge. We've got one curse up. We're gonna be hitting like a Okay We don't need we don't need we don't need anything else It's fine. It's fine. And we'll take a sacred sword as well if it does come into the slot and my opponent guesses correctly Uh, but it's kind of done now because you know a nightshade is going to be enough to take it down and We're not in any sort of danger because the iron head would take that pretty comfortably Okay, so we'll we'll expect to see a Like how many turns of trick room if we had two it would be ideal honestly So how many turns of trick room? Yeah, we've only got the one which isn't ideal at all. Okay, but we're gonna be fine Whatever happens here now we could curse We're probably better off going for a curse to be honest Oh shadow sneak. Ah not even not even going for the king shield. Okay Probably playing on the fact that we might ally switch and curse or Rest or something like that, but it's fine at the nightshade here will be enough to get The edges lash and that will wrap up game one. There we go. Okay Her slacks got our first win. Come on There we go. Okay, let's see if we can carry this on Okay, so we've got our next opponent of the episode You can see they are running a team of arcanine, doraladon, clifari, venus, Malamore and the mimikyu. Right. So what are we looking at here? You've got trick room mode with probably the mimikyu Malamore and Well, definitely clifari Maybe not even a trick room mode. Maybe you're just going straight up Normal mode and then you rely on the clifari with maybe something like after you To support the rest of the team Could it be max arcanine because then you can get the sun up, I guess To support the venus or if not, you're looking at max venus or and then max doraladon With like the support casts of mimikyu and stuff like that It looks pretty good for dragapult and colossal as a lead to be honest here Um I think I'm kind of tempted just to go that lead to be honest Yeah, we'll go with that because I don't really see what my opponent's got to kind of Get around that. I know they've got the the redirection with the clifari, but um It can't stop us proc'ing a weakness policy getting a max gigalith off Um Yeah, and then if we go just club snorlax in the back Yeah, that works. I mean, I haven't got too much to really I mean other than the malamore Like that's the big that's the big thing you want Oh no, oh no, I don't know if we locked in in time. So I don't even know if we've got the snorlax I hate that you can't you have to press the okay button to lock in your team Like all previous pokemon games you could just select the pokemon and whatever you had selected when the timer ran out It would just it would lock those pokemon in for you But now for some reason you need to press okay, otherwise it just picks the top four which is just it's a little bit frustrating Um, especially one that was like a big mechanic in the past. Um Now we've got probably indeedy Yeah, and hat in the back, which is not brilliant really. Uh, it's it's definitely not the end of the world But it's not ideal. Um Where do we go? Where do we go? Where do we go? Do we get rid of the malamore first? I think that's probably the one thing that causes us more problems than anything else. So we'll get rid of that All I wanted in this episode was to show off snorlax and We've been we've been got by timer But I guess it shows at least an example of the other cause working together in the team. Um So we'll see what happens here protect from the arcanine Super fine It's a malamore going to try and go for trick room. I think it probably is isn't it? Are you going to be able to take this attack? Plus two I None dynamics. I don't know if you're going to be able to I feel like we'll be able to take it down. Let's just a super fat Super fat malamore. I don't know if it's going to be, you know Really don't feel like it's going to be able to take this Nope Oh, well, I mean you do get the crit I would be interested to know If that took it I would think it probably took it down. I don't know if the crit really mattered there Um, anyway, we've got Call set up. So this might be quite a quick game Uh, because we can take down the arc the next turn or whatever comes in really Duraludon. Okay. Well, this thing is probably going to max, isn't it? We'll just dragon darts Um, I'm going to go max flat into The Dura Dura Ludon And a heavy ball nice choice This is a 3 now And I don't know if the Duraludon will actually be able to take a combination of the max flat and the dragon darts like It's even though it has max it depends if it's a solfest or not. I guess that'll be the the question um Yeah, I mean That's a big fat chunk of damage, isn't it? That is a really fat chunk of damage and then I mean the dragon darts one into arcanine and Uh, you he takes it he takes it. It's fine. It's fine. It takes it. Okay. So the eject button arcanine. Okay um So what comes in What's a Duraludon go for here? That's Venusaur We set the sun up. No Okay So into dragon pulp, that's fine. That will just proc our focus sash Uh Venusaur on the sun. It's not faster than colossal. I don't think so break a potential sash there Ooh, Duraludon gonna go down this next turn. Um, so we'll just dragon dart again And we will go for a another max flat into Venusaur. Hope that we're faster than it I'm kind of I'm confident that we're gonna be faster than Venusaur on the sun I don't know though. I don't know. I've not played fast G max colossal Like I've been playing trick room all season. That's all I've been playing I don't agree with the max god there because you go down to the residual damage. Anyway, uh, we do see the sleep powder come out It is into colossal It's not the end of the world though Get the dragon darts and like I said the Duraludon will go down to the max vocal if residual damage the rocks this next turn a nice chunk of Dragon dart damage there and the Venusaur is going to be very close to going down as well one more turn so It's pretty much game over for my opponent. Unfortunately This lead is just Just dumb sometimes because if you don't have an answer to it, then it's it's extremely hard to get around I mean, you can see how explosive it is from the start. You've got like Dragapult next to it as well just chucking dragon darts out So it's a really good example of just kind of spamming a combination. Um and getting around it that way So how can I'm gonna hit the field? Um I mean You can't protect dragapult. It's gonna be the the sleep powder target this next turn and we could potentially just Be a little bit cheeky and switch in indeedy and uh go for Nature power into the arcanine just to get catch the sleep powder coming into the dragapult I suspect this next turn And to stop any damage coming out from dragon darts Well, it's not really gonna make too much difference because I think well the The vocal if Additional damage onto the venus or takes it down and then arcanine's got like well It's arcanine versus the world at that point, isn't it? So Thank you really much. You can do well earth par. Okay. Okay like that I'm probably coming back into it slightly eat wave Venus are going down though And then arcanine is just fodder full Dragapult and the sash is like super good on like this sort of build as well on dragapult It just gives you that security against any Sneaky scarf users that are trying to kind of snipe you before you get the surf off Um on dragapult um on colossal. I should say okay, so Let's go for a helping hand Dragon darts I do love dragon darts as well. It's like it's such a cool signature attack, isn't it? The really strong attack as well, especially with vg. It definitely was a vg design design move, wasn't it? And uh, you do me too. Okay. Well, there we go. Uh, good game to my opponent very quick one. Um, we got a bit Hacked out with our um choices there, but Never mind never mind So we'll go into our next one and see if we can get this snorlax working at least one more time Okay, so our next opponent we are going up against yuchen And they are playing a team of hitmontop tyranitar dracazalt the sylvian indeedy and oranguru So an interesting kind of concept here with my opponent got the trick room element with the oranguru Um, and that's about it for speed control outside of the dracazalt It could potentially max and go for max airstreams like we know it to um Probably pokemon that you're gonna see max dracazalt Tyranitar maybe sylvian. I guess it's going to be more dracazalt and tyranitar so This makes me want to go with probably more along the lines of Hmm Yeah, indeedy is going to be really important for us here because I think the thing that we need to keep in mind is the oranguru with instruct um Could be a little bit of a problem for us um So what We want to do do we want to go in db hats probably probably a better option here We just need to be careful about potentially oranguru reversing the trick room turn one. I guess um Hitmontop a little bit tricky for snorlax But hitmontop tends to lead rather than be in the back um So we'll see we'll see we'll see what we're going I think the thing that scares me a little bit is your oranguru. Um, if we can kind of try and remove that initially, um Then they've really got no way to reverse the trick room or support their pokemon as well At the indeedy obviously is a bit of an issue for us. Um With their redirection, which we're going to see right now Uh I mean we just get the trick room up, right? I think that's like That's like mission number one. Okay, we get we get our trick room up. Um I think we have to follow me here We don't want to be taking anything from the rackers all right now There's potential of like helping hand on the indeedy. Um We don't even need to max how to range straight away If like if we're in a decent position going into next earlier, there's the helping hand So we're gonna potentially lose our indeedy although the hustle ability It has got that could come into play and we could get a little bit lucky It'd be nice to keep indeedy for the next turn as well, but I don't See that happening. Yeah No way we take that Okay We do get a trick room up and now The follow me shenanigans will start from the opposite side of the field Um Oh That room service Oh Okay, um Let's get snorlax on to the field because we can start going for curses, right? room service rackers all That's interesting Super interesting that's g max Yeah, let the g max smite I'm gonna go into the rackers all uh if they don't follow me then I don't think rackers alt slow enough with one speed drop to under speed hat or snorlax in a trick room Um, I can see why it's a it's a good item, but I think you've got to pick it right I think something more like iron ball will give you a better chance of under speeding But even then they really need to be like around base 60 speed to kind of under speed base 30s Um Minimum speed so I don't think I think rackers all spot base 75 Just off the top of my head. I'm just trying to guess here. I'm spit balling, but I don't think it's going to be under speeding either of our pokemon Um, but here we'll probably see the indeedy go follow me. Um, jack as all Probably go ball peak But we want to try and get snorlax set up like tank this snorlax. Okay. It's gonna go max We'll do better. I guess because I mean Don't really rely on ball feet then But it's so good But we might get lucky with some um G max smite confusions We've not had the confusion hits. We've uh We've been clamoring for already today Had none literally zilch. So maybe this is the match That's all right. That's all right. So there's a confusion Come on get some hits hit yourself in confusion Indeedy do switched out with the eject button. Okay, that's an old trick of ours. Um Well, I mean they don't have the redirection support this next turn if this track result hits itself in confusion then It's gonna be really really tough for my opponent I'm gonna get the curse up. All right. Come on Taking ages to get around to this turn, hasn't it? Yes, we get it. Okay. That's huge. That's huge for us. Um Now do we do we just go for the g max smite and to drag us off and get another curse up? Is it question? Or do we just attack into the orangary? All right, or do we just double into drag us off? Do max might not be enough to get it. You see Double into it Double okay. Well, we're just making sure that we're getting rid of this drag us off here Um, if the orangary tries to reverse the trick room, that's fine um That big hit of confusion it's pretty big for us, but this is why g max smite is a busted move in general Okay, what's orangary we're gonna do it is gonna reverse the trick, which is fine I mean, what have they got what have they got to come in? We've got to be careful with the instructive course That's head around the top, okay, but it can't max Probably want to g max smite um I probably we're probably gonna see I'm gonna double into the orangary here Because we're probably gonna see rocks like rocks like all super power super power Super power super power wouldn't be ideal especially into our poor small acts I don't know if it'll be enough to even take us down to be honest The one curse Guess it depends what the t-tars item is But the one hit Probably takes us my no, I think we take I would be confident to take that. Okay. Well, we're gonna see The indeed come back into play just fine Their sport are is gonna protect Such a great name. I think it's german, right? I think it's german Um, so we'll get the confusion onto the taranat which is pretty huge for us. Um Get rid of the indeedy and then that's the end of our g max turns Double edge not going to do anything into the taranat But we're not in the worst spot ever because we can potentially try and go for a trick room this next turn. Um Do we even need a trick room like at this point? They're like we probably do because the orangery probably goes instruct And I think we yeah, I think we go curse Let's go curse and trick room Let's try because I think they go they definitely got instruct crunch into a hat to stop the trick room or Instruct rock slide to get the flinches And I'd probably go instruct rock slide Okay, well you're gonna protect If you can get an attack off I guess Yeah, so there's I love that play. Okay, so it's protecting itself And it's going to be able to attack as well, which is pretty good. Yeah, that's it. That is a very cool I do like that. I guess they were probably going for more of the um More of a double iron head maybe into the hat there just to get it But it's still a very cool play, right and we did flinch All right, well I think we just attack into a orangery now with the snorlax and try and get a trick room off again I think hats probably gonna go Yeah, we'll go down here do a double iron head for sure And snorlax might not even get an attack off because we could get flinched again Like all these iron heads iron head flinches could just continually happen There's the instruct. Yeah, we're gonna lose hat Snapped out of its confusion. So no confusion hits there But we've got the one one hit of confusion that was really important, right? So we can't complain I am I think that's fair enough That's the iron head deal Nothing see how much this does Wow It's not like too strong. Okay, we're gonna take a bunch of recoil damage there. Which isn't ideal. Um But Yeah, well, we just get desclops in now and At least we can finish the episode with our curse likes winning us a game. Okay So this is this is all I wanted from today weakness policy on tesla So we gotta be a little bit careful. We'll go for the rest and we will go for a trick at a room. Okay Rock slide coming in with us rocks lights and fishing for those flinches I would get the rest. So that's that's good for us. So there's the rest Mm-hmm. You chow down on a nice tasty chest of berry snow likes Get all that health back. There we go And the beauty about the chest of berry is uh over the lumbary It's not ideal. Um is that, you know, the chest are only only pops up activates on um We'll go for another curse and we'll go for another we'll try the trick once again It only activates on sleep. So with the lumbar activates on any stats condition So we're really specific here. We only want really activating on that rest turn And it's obviously good against uh sleep spam and things like that. We do see in the format as well And my pony going for a crunch here. We are going to guarantee our trick room up now We're getting another curse up Um, and yeah, I think the next turn to avoid Avoid proclam weakness policy. I'm kind of tempted to go for um The high horse power but there's no need to we don't even need to risk it. Okay You don't need to risk it the sandstorm subside and we can just pain split And I don't I think this is what we do. I think this is the reason why I wanted dust globs here So we'll go double edge and um Because if we pain split now we'll be going after the the tea toast taking damage Which is no good. So we'll pain split with our snow lags and that keeps our dust globs helping We're not gonna get to see it. How dare you how dare you anyway friends? Thank you so much for tuning in. 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