 Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. And today we're going to be continuing on our VGC Series 8 content, playing a Groudon team. So we're back with Groudon and Venusol, but a little bit of a different build here. We've got the Stack Attacker inclusion to give us a bit more support in the Trick Room areas. It supports the Groudon, it supports the Stack Attacker and we've got the Thunderous in here as well to give us a little bit of support against primarily Intimidate users, you know, because we're very heavy on the physical side of things, especially with the Groudon and the Stack Attacker and the Thunderous, but that Define ability does help us out to no end and helps us get some checks against things like Charizard that could be a little bit problematic. So the team's really nice. As always, there will be a poker paste down in the description below if you want to check out the details, try it out on Showdown or anything like that, be my guest. And if you stick around until the end of the episode, as always, we'll have a couple of games of the team now talk about how a pilot and things like that. The biggest part of it is going to be that Grim snarl screen support, which is so kind of pivotal to a lot of this format, in particular this team as well to help it kind of operate as well as we want it to. So hope you enjoyed today's episode as always and hope you stick around until the end to grab the rental for this one. So without further ado, let's find our first opponent of the episode. First opponent today is running a team of General Tappu, Feeny, Cartana and Clefairy. So it screams to me that the Whimsicott's probably got fling and some sort of berry to activate a weakness policy on the Lugia. That would be my first guess, I think, out of everything. Thunderous here has a great time again. It's pretty much everything on my opponent's team. It's not very much that my opponent's got that's going to be able to really create a big enough dent in it, especially with screen support. It's not very much that screen support. So I think we've go down the route. I mean, we could go first off Incineroar, but I think Grimsnell's screen support is going to be more pivotal than anything. I think we'll finish off with Incineroar and maybe even maybe even being this old, but I think Groudon's probably a better player in the lead game. It helps us out with a bunch of stuff. And with the Intimidate support as well from Incineroar, I think that's probably a good way to go. I mean, we could for go Incineroar and just go Venusaur. It helps us out against the type of finny a bunch, but I think my opponent's going to really struggle against the Thunderous, especially because we've got the Max Steel Spike that we can kind of nail down onto the Clefairy if that is brought from my opponent to utilize that redirection there. I think my opponent goes for though. Obviously got to be very conscious about the Lugia getting boosted up. The problem with Lugia is I do love it but it's very underwhelming as well because even with the weakness policy boost it's not getting the damage that you would kind of expect from some other restricteds once they've got that weakness policy power up. So, let's see. Well, Lugia and Wimmy coming out from my opponent. I guess the biggest problem here for us would be potentially eject button onto Thunderous from the Whimsicott. That could be a big problem. And if we lose the ability to Max early on here and cause us all sorts of issues. I think we go for Max Airstream here into Wimmy and Lugia going to be predominantly going to be Special Attacker you know. So, we'll go for the light screen support here because they may go for Airstream as well. I just worry about the eject button fling switcheroo whichever one we see from the Whimsicott that would be my biggest problem here. If we lose Thunderous. It's not the end of the game. It just makes it way more difficult for us to kind of progress a little bit further forward than we would like to. Lugia going to Max Maybe we would have been better off going after the Lugia as well you know but we'll see what my opponent goes for. I think getting the Airstream up now is always going to be valuable. It's always good looking at trying to capitalise in these situations you know with your speed control when you've got the opportunity. Wimmy going for that protect. Okay well what we're going to see from the Lugia then. We do get a light screen up which is a pretty free turn for Grimsnall here. There's the Airstream It keeps us just ahead of the Lugia if they decide to go Airstream as well even though they've got Tailwind which it can just trigger the next turn if they want. But we can always Thunder Wave the Lugia you know. There's the Airstream. Okay that's fine now I think the next turn we do we go for the Thunder Wave into Lugia and then we go for Max Max Airstream into Wimmy and it kind of slows down that Lugia a bunch it just keeps us ahead of it. That's the main thing you know it's still probably got its multi-scale, well it's definitely got its multi-scale intact but if this Whimsicott wants to go for a fling here it's kind of pinned to the point where it's not going to be able to there's the Tailwind. It's more expected as well and getting the second Airstream for ourselves kind of keeps us at least up to pace with everything else with Thunderous so Lugia just going to be difficult to take down honestly it's going to be it's always an obnoxious Pokemon to deal with because they have access to recovery it's probably got weakness policy as well so we do have the option on the next turn where we can suck a punch and this is the thing you know it's very underwhelming like it's not like that's a stab attack it's so underwhelming coming up Aeroblast you would imagine but it's just very underwhelming with its power I know we got light screen up at the same time but you know that's one of the pluses for Lugia you know it's got the ability to stick around long enough it doesn't need the damage output necessarily as much as everything else you know okay well max lightning let's go for that could we suck a punch break the sash on the Lugia we're going to boost it if we do which I kind of would like to avoid if possible we could bring an Incineroar here probably better off doing that just kind of slowing the game down a bit although it's pretty slow at the minute anyway you know and imagine the finny to maybe protect let's see what it goes for but the Lugia are going to struggle hard to really deal with the thunderous yeah there's the protect but I mean we're going to be able to deal with finny the next turn with a wild charge and a fake out so we put on a lot of pressure I think the thing to do is be mindful that I could be in the back so maybe getting Incineroar off the field as soon as possible is probably the best thing for us to do in all honesty let's see where the Lugia goes and there's another airstream oh it's paralyzed that's terrible terrible for my opponent we do see that there is the leftovers there on the tapio finny and that's the end of our max turns for me and my opponent so a parting shot into Lugia I think is probably the best play because you've got to be mindful like I do think that the I do 100% think that we do see a weakness policy on that Lugia so if we can just weaken it a little bit more keep Incineroar on the back going to help us a bunch we don't need to worry about specs on the type of finny or anything like that but the finny might switch out here you know but whatever comes in is going to take a decent chunk from the wild charge and the battle is cancelled so we locked it out pretty early it would have been nice to see what my opponent had in the back but very good game to my opponent thunderous makes it difficult life very difficult for Lugia and especially with the screen support there we've got a very good example of how the team can kind of function straight off the bat not saying that I restricted but we'll move on to our second game and hopefully we can feature Groudon in that one ok up next today we have a team of Solgaleo Spectre Grimmsnall, Tapu Finny Reggie Alecki and Rotem Heatsaw that combination Solgaleo Spectre we know all about it it is going to be that bulldoze combination where they approach the weakness policy and Solgaleo just starts destroying things what's the best approach for us in this match I mean if we can get our trick room up it would be phenomenal because I don't think that my opponent has gone very much they can really deal with in regards to that I mean we could go Venusol Groudon it's not a bad option just get some damage into the Solgaleo really initially you know it's it's quite oh we could put the spectre to sleep and then just go to town with Groudon couldn't we that might be a nice way to approach this one I think it will lead Venusol Groudon here I've got to watch out for the willow whisper from the spectre on to Groudon of course I think we go in Cinerol and do we want Stacks or Grimsnall Stack Attacker is really tempting here because we could probably position it pretty well in this match it's just the fact that yeah we'll go Stacker let's go Stacker let's go Stacker yeah we've got a it's going to be tricky I think we just need the right board position to get Stack Attacker in get the trick room up and then from there it's easy for me to sit here and say yeah just need that trick room up but it's a lot more difficult getting it up in certain situations it's going to be the big thing that my opponent is going to always try to prevent as well imagine we'll see Solgaleo and Spectre come up from my opponent ooh no ah we should have led Stacks okay well I mean it's you know what this isn't terrible at all because we've got the opportunity to get a big max attack off with with Venus or straight away into that into the Tap of Finny which is always very useful so G-Max Vine Lash get that taken away and we could Solgaleo's dance as well which puts us in a phenomenal position it really does yeah I think we do that I think my opponent's got to switch out I think well they've probably got screen support but I mean if the screen's up Tap of Finny's going to take a bunch of damage it's not really going to get much damage in return it's going to be in a really awkward spot the next turn Thunder Wave could definitely be something that we see from Grimsnall you know it's not, well let's not discount that and they could fake out Groudon as well there's plenty of options where they could go um but Venus Venus Solgaleo has surprised me to not end throughout the entirety of the game shield I think it's G-Max he's just incredible Sun's just become so much more powerful and prevalent you know and it's nice to see we do see a trick is it the lagging tail there we go it is stealing our life up how dare you do that okay well that's not so good that's really not great that kind of makes Venus Solgaleo redundant here but at the same time Groudon becomes a lot more of a threat you know with the sword stance um and I think now we just concentrate on just bulking Groudon out because uh if we've got um Max I think we got Max Quake here and just boost the special defense because really what's my opponent got especially is it more physical more physical based yeah more physical based threats I guess the Rotom could be a bit more of a pain for us to deal with uh but there's no way like they've not got a switch in for the Presbythblitz unless they bring the Rotom in and the Rotom that's one thing that could maybe cause Groudon a few issues but we do have the rock slide you know um I think we maybe go for a lash into the Grimstall here and just precipice because that'll clear the field whatever and whatever happens light screen expected what's the finny gonna do we out speed is a finny which is always useful uh and the Venusaur not even able to get an attack off right well let's see what my opponent goes for now oh the lagging tail you hate to say it you hate to say it because now we can't even put the spectra to sleep so Galeo's gonna come in uh we need to lose it somehow um so Galeo spectra if that's in the back we're in big trouble telling you now there's one oh it's Rotom okay that's not so bad that is not so bad um could be could be worse could be worse could be worse could be worse we'll go for max quick and we'll go for what are we gonna see what are we gonna see I think we need to max quick into the so Galeo regardless because why god could come out it might be better rock sliding and go on max quick if Venusaur can stick around I don't think we're gonna be able to because I think the Rotom max is here because max flare and we may see a wide guard as well from the so Galeo who knows uh so I think Venusaur's uh numbers numbers up in this one but what's so Galeo maxing okay problem is going for max quick into the so Galeo as well is we probably proc a weakness policy which is not ideal but we'll be going last so at least you know okay well are they doubling up into Groudon we're not gonna be we should have protected here we're not gonna be able to get the max quick off and we're just please target Venusaur Rotom please please please or at least if we can flinch the Rotom here that would be amazing just a berry big fat berry we need trick room more than anything flinched okay that helps this isn't gonna help we've not got a life orb anymore especially defense boost not so useful against the plus two so Galeo that we've just propped the uh the berry on there it is it's like for a minute have they not got weakness policy of course they have of course they have GMAX fine lash might come in useful yeah maybe maybe we've got any switches at all I don't know if we have what have we got in the back stacker and incidental okay I think we need to just try and buy that time a little bit you know we've got sleep powder we could take advantage of we could try and get a sleep powder and try try protect Groudon Groudon is that gonna be a good idea protect it we've got to stall these max turns out that's the thing we've got to try and get incidental out into the field with that fake out so stacks can get the trick removed do that then we can win this game Steel spike where you going into Groudon ideal okay Rotom you need to miss you need to miss the uh the overheat you need to miss the overheat into Venusaur you too well there's a citrus berry so that gives us a little bit of hope but if they overheat into Venusaur we're done which they probably will yeah there's no way without the sash we're not going to be able to do that um there is a there is a bit of hope here you know I think that that really isn't actually stacks I mean we got the shucker but I don't think we're going to be able to take a max quake let's bring stacker in let's think about this let's think about this now Rotom minus 2 not causing us any issues here at all we trick room we press up his blades and if we get the trick room up Groudon goes down we're in a great spot because they're not maxed anymore stacker deals with the Rotom incinerole it's going to find it difficult to deal with the silver layer but we do have access to fake up for at least a turn now if they go off the stacks which they do Groudon doesn't need to worry too much about the Rotom it's minus 2 we get a precipice blades off into the soga layer yeah that's fine we could have rocks laid here but we're not going to get the damage on to the soga layer which we definitely need the damage on to you know I was a plus 2 precipice blades going to be enough to get the soga layer plus 2 defense I don't think so so and you hate to see it you hate to see it precipice blades I hate you so much the sun fades as well nasty plot coming out well incy where are we going to go the fake out is most obvious on to silver layer here and first the rock slide I think we have to do that and then hope that we can take a plus 2 earthquake because Groudon outspeeds Rotom we may just see a double protect though it's going to be tight and it all comes down to what my opponent clicks button wise but I think missing the precipice blades there is huge for us I don't think we take it down but the additional damage really swings the game a little bit more into that little step closer to closing it out so there's the protect okay is the Rotom going to protect as well no the rock slide here will take the Rotom down at least Groudon is going to glasses on so that's good an precipice and a flablet I don't think I really don't think a flablet is going to be enough to take down this so go low kind of just got to hope that Groudon can take an attack because a precipice blade single target will take this down are they going rock slide that's so risky that's so risky you're going for the flinch just Earthquake there's no reason not to unless you just don't think that the Earthquake would get the Groudon which it may not and we just win so out of nowhere we're able to pull it back a very good game to my opponent and the team pulling out two wins today which is always good a bit if you're in that last one but I think a really nice game and hopefully you guys find it entertaining as well so we'll wrap it up there we'll get you the rental code for today's team hopefully you friends all enjoy it okay friends here is the rental code for today's team it is the Groudon Incineroar, Venusaur, Stack Attacker Grimsnull and Thunderous Incarnate hope you enjoy the team hope you have a lot of fun with it if you do try it out on the rank ladder if you do of course let me know down in the comment section below it would be great to hear and we do have a lot of rental code teams that you've submitted to play so we'll be doing those next week if you've got any more you'd like to see featured drop them down in the comment section below I've just taken a little bit of time to feature some teams that I've had sitting around that have been playing with Offscreen for a little while and just taking the opportunity to play them on the channel this week while we've got a bit of time so I hope you've enjoyed them and like I say with the rental codes that have been submitted we'll be featuring a bunch of those next week if you've got teams that you'd like to see featured then drop them down below and we'll make sure to feature them as soon as possible but with that friends thank you so much for tuning in today I hope you have a great rest of your day whatever time of day it is and I'll catch you all for another episode very soon so until then take care of yourselves and bye bye