 Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel for anyone new to the channel. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode we're going to be featuring a rain team and continuing on with our BGC 2021 content. As you can see, the team is on your screen right now. This is a team that will be featuring today. As always, there will be a podcast down in the description and we will throw a rental code up at the end of the episode in case you'd like to take this away and try it for yourself. I'm pretty excited to try this team out. Rain is definitely one of my favorite archetypes, definitely favorite weather. If you've known me for a long time, so I'm looking forward to trying this one out today and showing that Rain has a real good place in the format. We'll jump into the games and we'll explain the team as we go. So without further ado, let's jump into our first match of today. Okay, our first opponent up today is playing a team of Latias, Metagross, Reggie, Alecki, Urshifu, Hitran and Wimsacott. So straight away, you can see they've got that prankster tailwind on the Wimsacott there. It's going to provide speed control for the entire team. It's going to make it difficult to perform well with the Politoed Kingdra because with that tailwind support, then the Latias becomes a bit more of a threat to Kingdra. In particular, Reggie Alecki again is one of those Pokemon that can cause us all sorts of issues as well. I do think Kingdra is very good in this match, but maybe it's a Pokemon that we bring maybe late on in this game. Now, what are our options here? I think, you know, really, like having fake out support with Rillaboom isn't a bad option at all. What other options has my opponent got really on the team? I'm not really sure what the Latias does in this build, but we need to be quick on what we're going to choose. I think I'm going to leave Kingdra. I'm going to leave Rillaboom. I'm going to bring Politoed. And what's our last Pokemon going to be? Bottom Heat or Reggie Steel? I think Reggie Steel is pretty nice here. Now, actually, change my mind. I think Rotom Heat is a better one. It gives us a nice switch into stuff like Heatran, stuff like Reggie Alecki. And it gives us a bit of more firepower against the Metagross and the Whimsicott. So it makes a little bit more sense to bring that in this match. Whereas Reggie Steel could be good, but it's going to be threatened heavily by, you know, the Urshifu and especially a few of the other members. If things get boosted up, you're looking at the Metagross probably with weakness policy at a margin. But you can never quite tell. So we'll get into this first one today. We'll see how the team kind of gets on here, but it's going to be a little bit awkward. I think things like Whimsicott always make when you're utilizing a weather and a kind of a weather abusing ability like Swish Swim or Chlorophyll. It makes it a little bit more difficult to really get the most out of it. But we do have the opportunity here. We do have the opportunity right here to go for fake out into the Whimsicott and go for Max Airstream, which is a nice option for us to kind of kick off with this first turn. Now what is the Metagross going to do here? And does the Whimsicott actually stay in? Now what we need to do is just take a look at my opponent's team. Do they have really anything that is going to benefit coming in on an Airstream? They could have Heetran. Don't mind that. They have Reggie Lecky. Not too bad. I think I'm going to go for it, you know. I think I'm going to go for... The problem is doing it this turn is if the Whimsicott has Protect, which it likely has. And then they just get the Tailwind up the next turn anyway. But on the off chance that they don't have Protect, it's always good. Like say if they don't. If they don't have Protect and we are able to remove the Whimsicott right now, it takes away their entire kind of form of domination over this rain team. It takes away the Tailwind. So the riskier versus the reward is pretty reasonable, I think. And that's what you're kind of trying to weigh up in most situations. It's harder to gauge in the best of one because you're going to be surprised by certain moves, certain plays, certain strategies and definitely certain combinations. But in the best of three, you know, it's always a good thing to use in any match. But it's harder in best of one, I feel, than it is to kind of... Yeah, so this isn't the worst thing in the world. So we're going to see a Helping Hand come out. The Fakeout breaks the Sash, which is the main thing for us here. And then the Kingdra is going to get its Airstream up, which is ideal. So the ideal situation for us right now is to lose the Railer Boom. So we get the Free Switch into Polito to get our Rain up. And then the next turn we've got an amazing way for us to utilize and take advantage of Kingdra's like big, big power, the Mind Stone coming out. Okay, well Helping Hand boosted. It's not going to be quite enough. It does a nice chunk of damage. It does remove our grassy terrain, puts the psychic terrain up on the field, which is going to further boost the Metagross. So I think immediately we need to switch out Railer Boom here. We want to be getting the rain on the field. Depends what comes in next to the Metagross. That'll be a big kind of pointer for what we want to do. But you've got to keep in mind that Railer Boom is going to be with that speed boost here. Okay, now I think we go, where do we want to target? I want to target into the Yershafu. It can't suck a punch here because of the terrain. And I really want to remove it from the field now. Now the Whimsicot probably has the sash. So I don't think Yershafu has a sash. It's more likely that the Yershafu has the band. So I'm going to airstream the Yershafu. We get rid of that. We bring in Poly Todd. My opponent's got two Pokemon left then. I'm assuming they're going to target down the Kingdra this next turn. And then we perish song and we win the game. So if everything works out like I've just planned in my head, then it should be quite straightforward. But it's not always as easy as that. So let's see how it plays out. Yeah, no protector. I'd imagine it is Bandershafu. It's sash! It's sash! Oh my gosh! It's sash! Okay, well it's still not the worst thing in the world because we are going to be able to get Railer Boom onto the field. Overwrite the psychic terrain. We're going to lose Kingdra here no matter what. Wicked Block coming into the Kingdra. Yep, and a Mindstorm will be going into the Poly Todd. I'd imagine. So Kingdra not getting the most out of its Dynamax turns here in all honesty. I mean we have picked up a knockout. We nearly got two taking the Yershafu down to its sash. Poly Todd should take... Yeah, Poly Todd. Poly Todd is a massive tanky Pokemon. But that was very close. Too close for comfort. Now we'll get Railer Boom onto the field. Yeah, because I think if we remove the Railer Boom, what we could potentially do is switch, predict the protect from the Yershafu, right? Because we got fake out and we got grassy glide. I think what we potentially could do is switch into Rotom here. It's pretty risky because if the Yershafu does attack into the Railer Boom slot, I don't really want to protect Poly Todd. I mean, do we protect Poly Todd? Because the thing is, I don't think we protect Poly Todd here. If Poly Todd goes down, that's fine. I think we can win out this game without it. Yershafu going to switch out. Okay, that's fine. I'm really lucky you're going to come in. If we can get a burn onto the Metagross, that would be incredible. But I think the Metagross is going to be able to pick up the knockout onto the... Oh, we actually had to beat it. If we can get the burn here, that's huge. Come on, Poly. No. Okay. Okay, into Rotom. Okay, we'll activate our Citrus Berry, which kind of helps. The rain is not helping right now. I've got to admit. But we still might be able to do something here. I think we go for another skull. Do we go for a skull? Do we go for the nasty plot? Probably not, because the psychic terrain is up. I think we'll go for... We could perish here. That is an option. But it's likely that the Regi Alecki is going to... Yeah, I think we'll go into Railer Boom. I think we'll go into Railer Boom here. Protect our Rotom Heat. I think it's our best option. And then we've got the ability to have that fake out support to maybe get a nasty plot up. Stole out this rain. But the big thing here is we need to keep Railer Boom healthy for when that ocean food comes back onto the field. So we've got the grassy glide. You know, that is going to be really imperative to us. They're going to have Sucker Punch, for sure. But if we can just stay out of Sucker Punch range, we're in a good spot. And we're probably going to see his head. But I mean, you've got to kind of be worried about the Rotom Heat as well here. You know, we're going to see an ElectroWeb come out. It is going to lower the speed on Railer Boom as we do hit the field. And there's his end headbutt. And it is into the Rotom. So that makes a lot of sense. Now, what are we doing here? How many turns of rain have we got left? I think too many turns of rain, if I'm completely honest, to really make use of a nasty plot. Two turns. Okay. Well, yeah. I think we'd do a nasty plot. And I think the problem is not faking out the Regi Alecki here. Is it ElectroWeb's us and lowers the speed? So Rotom's probably then going to be slower than Metagross. And then Metagross probably going to be able to pick up a knockout onto us. Metagross probably protects anywhere this turn, I think. So it might be worth calling the protector on the Metagross, faking out the Regi Alecki and trying to get a nasty plot up. Hoping the Metagross protects. I think that's what we've got to kind of bank on here. Oh, Regi Alecki protects. Okay. So we get that 50-50 wrong. Yeah. Completely wrong. Okay. Well, get the nasty plot up. But what's this Metagross going to... It has his end head, but the Rotom. Oh, it's not. It's gone after the Rillabooom. Okay. I guess the Rillabooom is a Pokemon that's like a bit more problematic for my opponent to deal with. It's the one thing that's kind of keeping check the... And what I'm going to do is switch in Polytode right... Do we switch in Polytode right now? Or do we just go for a grassy glide into Regi Alecki? Because I don't think... Yeah, Regi... Yeah, the Zen head, but the combination is not going to take down. Yeah, I think what we'll do is... Do we just go for the overheat and the rain onto the Metagross? Yeah, let's just do that. And let's go grassy glide. Let's do that. Okay, Metagross is going to protect here. We're going to see an ElectroWeb. But two grassy glides will take down. Yeah, two of these will take down. Okay, we're going to see the Vault Switch. That's fine. Wow, that's not so fine. That is really not so fine. Because now it becomes a bit more awkward for us dealing with the Urshifu, because the Urshifu protects this next turn. But then if it doesn't protect... Okay, if it doesn't protect, it has to suck a punch. It has to suck a punch the Rotom. Or does it protect? Yeah, I think we're fine either way, I think. Because if you suck a punch, really boom. And then Zen head butters. We still got the grassy glide. We're still going to be in a good spot. But then Reggie Aleckey coming in. It's going to be the thing. And Reggie Aleckey just beats Rotom. Okay, I think we have to... Is that the play? Is that the play? Grassy glide? Or are they going to go for a protect on Urshifu this turn and get Zen head but into really boom? They're going to do that. They're going to do that. Let's go... Ah, no. No, no, no. I'm not risking it. I'm not risking it. I'm not risking it. They might protect here, but I think... Yeah, I'm not risking it. I'm going to just go a grassy glide. We've got to protect the Rotom at the end of the day. Yeah, suck a punch. Yeah, okay. Well, we get that right. And then the Zen head but will come in to the really boom. But we're still going to have enough to take down the Reggie Aleckey when it comes back onto the field. So that's fine. And then the overheat just takes down the Metagross because we haven't been electro webbed with the Rotom heat yet, which is the big thing. And for them to get an electro web off, it means they need to take a grassy glide and they're not going to be able to do that. So yeah, here we go. We're going to be just be able to click in both of these. And that should wrap up the game for us. So pretty tricky against this first one. A lot of mind games going on here, but confident now. If the Reggie Aleckey's got protect, it causes a few issues, of course. And especially if our grassy terrain is going to be ending soon. Well, hopefully the Reggie Aleckey hasn't got the protect. And it's got some screen support. Yeah, I don't think it's got it. So it helps us out. So as long as Rotom heat hits its overheat, here we go. We are golden. There we go. Good lad Rotom heat. And that deals with the Metagross nicely. And we wrap up a very, very close game to kick us off with today. But a nice example of how the team can kind of work in other mods, not just the rain course. So yeah, Kingdra did a nice job early on. It's just a lot of guessing games, but it's always like that in the best of one. But it's always nice to kind of come out on top of those. Okay, so next up we have a team consisting of Nyligo, Galarian Maltres, Cinderace, Mamaswine, Spectria, and Whimsicot. We've got another Whimsicot to deal with. So it's going to be not so fun. But we have got lots of things going on here. You've got probably, I think, weakness policy Maltres. I imagine with the eye shot there from the Mamaswine, it makes a lot of sense to have that option there. You've got Trick Room potentially on the Nyligo, but it's probably going to be one of your most standard Nyligos with the Power Herb and the Meteor Beam. Cinderace, interesting. It's a good Pokemon still. Spectria with no redirection is interesting, but you've got fake tier support potentially on the Whimsicot. So that is something that we'll need to watch out for as well. Now, what is the better way to approach this match? Because potentially Trick Room could be a better way to approach this one in all honesty. And Reggie Steel could do a number on the majority of this team. I think that's what we might actually go with. I think we'll go really boom got the tell to help us with that Trick Room setup. And we'll go Reggie Steel in the back. And I think we 100% need Polytod for support here. Yeah, we'll lock in with us. Leaving the Kingdra out. Wow. Okay. Well, we brought Kingdra to Game 1, so it kind of worked out. We'll see how this four, this quad of Pokemon kind of get on in this one. So hopefully it does all right, because okay. But I mean at this stage of a season, when you look at it, it's always difficult. You're always going to face really good teams this stage of any season, because you're going to have very established players that are very, they play a lot of games. They're going to have teams that are, you know, like well built, well rounded, good against the majority of things because of the amount of practice they put in. So end of series always get difficult. You're never going to have an easy game in Pokemon. Right. Okay. Whimsacott and Mamaswine. Are we going to sacrifice Rillaboom so early on to get our, I mean, one option we've got is just going for a grassy glide into the Mamaswine. It's probably going to max though. And we got Trick Room. The other option is Fake Out. Fake Out and Trick Room. I don't mind that too much. I think that's not a bad way. We're not going to see the Mamaswine max. It's probably going to go after the Rillaboom though. Okay. We see an eject button there. Okay. Well, at least we forced the Whimsacott out. And I think we're going to lose Rillaboom. Okay. Well, Moltres coming on to the field. I shot. Okay. Well, we keep Rillaboom then. So that's, that's actually fine. It's not so fine in the respect that we've got Moltres sitting on the field and it's going to be able to potentially get, I think we have, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, they're going to nasty plot up. They're going to nasty plot up for sure. I think Mamaswine is going to protect as well this turn, which would make a lot of sense. I mean, they may not. I mean, a grassy glide and a side kick isn't a bad option to go for. I mean, Wood Hammer is not a bad option either. I'm going to see, I think it's going to be the Moltres max. I mean, I'd be happy if it wasn't the Moltres, but yeah, it makes sense too. Okay. We're going to see, I think an eye shot into the Moltres to activate that weakness policy. It'll take down, probably got the tell, I'd imagine here. This is not going to be enough. I don't think if it's Sashed, yeah, which it is. Psychic could be enough to take it down unless, yeah, they're not propping a weakness policy, which is good news for us really, because that's the one thing we want to try and avoid with Moltres. We don't want to allow it to get these boosts up unnecessarily. Max Darkness, coming in to cut the tail. And yeah, more than enough without a Cobra Berry, we're never taking that. And is it Life Orb or is it weakness policy? That's going to be the big question here, I think. Right. Well, no Life Orb, likely weakness policy. Rillaboom's still sitting healthy on the field. Now, Reggie Steel or Polytod in this situation, I think Reggie Steel is going to be the one to bring in. And we'll see what my opponent does. We may have to Max Reggie Steel, like straight away off the bat without getting body presses up. I think that might be a better way to do it. Okay. Now I do worry here a lot about the fake tears into Reggie Steel. That worries me more than anything, I think, because, ah, yeah, that's a real pain. Reggie Steel's, okay. Let's pivot out and go for the Max Steel Spike into the, I think we have to do this. I just worry about that fake tears support from the Windsor Cup. That's the one big worry of mine right now. There's my boy Reggie Steel in his dive ball, fitting for a rain team with Reggie Steel. He was destined to be on this team. There he is. What a lad. I do love Reggie Steel. I love all the Reggies. Honestly, I wish we could make Reggie Icework. I've been trying a lot, but it's just not. Okay, Switcheroo, what are we going to see? What are we going to see? That is better than fake tears. That is what we like to see. So the Assault Vest has gone to the Windsor Cup. Is it going to be enough to survive this? No. Okay, we're going to get a U-turn out onto the Maltres, which is, okay, the crypt may be matted there. We are, we are special Flash Cannon. So it maybe did matter. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. U-turn. It means that we've got at least fake up for later on in this game, and we can preserve that grassy terrain, and we can also get the rain up for any threats that threaten the Reggie Steel, any fire type attack as it might come out. Although I don't know if my opponent has any fire. So maybe it isn't so relevant, but we do get polytode out. It is going to be able to suck up some attacks, especially if we see like a Max Airstream or something like that. Way better than yeah, than what, what Rillaboom is going to be able to do as we see. Yeah. And then the nice thing now is we can perish song because my opponent's down. I believe to the last two Pokemon are they? Are they down to the last two Pokemon? I'm pretty sure they are. And then the perish song should be able to be enough to kind of close this game out. And with the trick room up, we're in a great position to get that, get that up. Unless we see something that's going to make it difficult for us to do so. Okay, this is fine. This is fine. This is so fine. This is so fine. Last two Pokemon. Let's perish. Let's get that Steel Spike into that Nihiligo. Let's get the game rolling and let's get this Regi Steel rocking because either the perish is going to win or the Regi Steel is going to win. I've got no worries about this at all. The trick room was the right play from the word go. Okay, we're going to see the Nihiligo go for that protect. Well, we don't mind that. It kind of gives us a little bit of space to kind of get the perish up. We'll see what the the Airstream kind of backfiring on my opponent in the trick room. But as soon as this perishes up, the big thing that we need to do after this. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Man, speakers are way too loud. I'm sorry about that. But I do appreciate whoever was following me right there. Massive shout out to whoever it is. I can't see on my screen right now. But yeah, sorry about the bleed. I'll try and make sure and the actual recording. It's not not too bad. We'd see the max darkness come out. We get the perish song up, which is great. Now we're in a nice position to go after the Nihiligo now. It has just protected. We can double into it and then just just make sure that the the Maltres is in a good place to get taken down. It is going to be reverting back to its normal form, though. I think we protect. Do we protect Polytote here? Are we in any danger of going down to the Maltres? I don't think we are really at this point in time. Let's just double check. Trick room still up for one more turn. We're fine. Let's just make sure that we get rid of the Nihiligo. Nihiligo, one of those Pokemon that's very heavy again on the special defensive side. So I wouldn't ever be surprised if it took this. Yeah, it takes it pretty comfortably, you know. So we're going to probably need the rain boosted Skald of Polytote to take this down. Hopefully with the rain boosting it, it is enough. Yeah, just about. Yeah, so Nihiligo's a beast. It is a beast in its own right when it comes to special defense on the defensive side. They're not so good. And Polytote taking the Fire of Wrath, proc'ing that berry and making it pretty easy. So the next turn we can just go for a body press. We can switch Polytote out to really boom. We can lock up this game with the Parish. We can probably lock the game up with the body press, though, and Reggie Steel can take all the glory. But even if not, we've got the we've got the ability to kind of just lock it up with the Parish if we need to. I don't think we will. But I think the teams perform pretty well in this episode. I'm pretty happy with how things have went so far. So that's quite nice. And hopefully it's a good benefit for you guys to see how the team can function different scenarios, I guess. So like I say, we'll switch the Polytote out. Makes sense to just make sure that we've got kind of like something to come in with, at least protect the end of the game. Plus three, we'll body press. It should be enough, like I say, to get the Maltres here. And that should be the game. It's a game. But yeah, I do love rain. And you know, I think Kingdra has a hard time. Since Fairy Types will ever introduce, Kingdra has always had a much harder time to perform in the format. Ludicolo has not performed as well as what I expected it to in this format at all. Which is very surprising to me. Honestly, I really felt like Ludicolo. Wow. Wow. Reggie Steel so good. Yeah, it felt like Ludicolo could have been a really good Dynamics Pokemon. It kind of had its little moment at the very start of Sword and Shield. But it's never really shown since then. So bit unfortunate. Good game to my opponent. And now we'll jump over to get that rental team for you guys. So we'll be right back. Right, here we go friends. Here is the rental code for this rain team. If you do try it out, like I've already mentioned, I hope you have a lot of fun with it. It is an extremely fun team. I think it covers itself pretty nicely. It's got a lot of nice different modes to it. And it's a nice play on rain in general. As I said at the start of the episode, it is one of my favorite archetypes of the entirety of the Pokemon universe. And Polytod is definitely one of my favorite Pokemon. Definitely up there in the top five spot, I would say. So have fun with the team. I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. I hope it's been beneficial, educational and all of that good stuff. And we'll be back very soon with another episode. So just thank you so much for tuning in. Hope you've enjoyed it. Hope you have a great rest of your day. Take care of yourselves and I'll see you all for the next one. Until then, take care. Bye-bye.