 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. Today, we're going to be continuing on with our Series 8 content. Big shout out before we get into the details of today's team because I did ask on Saturday's video about if you'd like to see Series 7 slash Series 9 or if you'd like to see out Series 8. The kind of consensus coming back was to see Series 8 out. We've got a couple of weeks left, so we may as well do it. Have a bit of fun while we're doing it. I did mention this a while ago. If you've got rental teams that you would like to see featured on the channel, let me know down in the comment section below and I will try and feature them. There was a bunch that I didn't get to feature in the last kind of segment that we did of rental teams. So I would like to see if I could approach that again, get those featured and give Series 8 a good send off. So today we're going to be featuring a restroom team. It's from a Japanese player called Kuro. I will leave all of their socials down in the description and their blog post about this team in particular, but they finished 75th overall in the PC4 qualifier as well as the Japan National Championship qualifier as well. So really good rating in the end. And a really interesting team. Some interesting picks. You've got the Landerous incarnate form. You've got the Milotic as well, which we very rarely see. Togekiss as well, kind of underplayed, but the restroom as well. That's not commonly seen too much, but predominantly here for kind of the sun matchup you would imagine. Heatwave, Draco, Meteor and Earth Power. Lots of nice options there to hit opponents with and do some big damage. Looking forward to playing this team today. I hope you enjoy the episode. If you want to try the team out and if you do, definitely let me know down in the comment section as always. We'll have a couple of games of the team now. We'll pilot it, show you how it plays and then we'll feature the rental at the end of the episode. So without further ado, friends, let's get into this first one today. Also, friends, if you noticed in the intro that I have this huge bandage on my finger, it's because yesterday I had a bit of an accident when I was putting some fence posts in my garden and there was a sledgehammer involved and it involved jamming my finger in between that and a steak. So yeah, I probably really damaged my finger. I'm kind of hoping it just gets better on its own, but I'll probably have to go and maybe get it scanned later this week. We'll see how it goes. But if you were wondering why I've got them wrapped up like crazy, that is why if you want to see a gruesome picture of the finger, I'm sure I can work that out. Let me know. I might drop it in the next one. But I'm fine. But yeah, it's it's pretty painful, but that is the reason why. Anyway, we've got a first opponent of the episode up. They are playing a team of Tornados, Oshifu, Rotomheed, Lapras, Landeras, Therian and Zashian. So it's kind of your standard lapdog team with the exclusion of having the Tornados in there, which gives you like really good speed control, especially with the lapras that you would assume on this build is kind of probably going to be weakness policy. Maybe, maybe. But yeah, it's going to be difficult to kind of manage speed control. Isn't something that we've got like an abundance on this team, because you know, it makes it very difficult to kind of utilize really. I'm going to be important for us and I think I think Reshiram is quite important for us in this one as well. You know, yeah, yeah, let's go Reshiram. Let's go Reshiram. Let's go Reshiram. Let's go Malut. Did we go Malotek? Malotek? I like Malotek here. I like Rillaboom and I think we need Landeras, you know, for the end game against Zashian because of the scarf there and the lack of speed control that we've kind of got on the team. You're relying mostly on this team with a lot of the priority that you got from like Rillaboom from the Oshifu. You got the scarf and the Landeras as well. So that gives you a kind of good kind of speedy mode to the team with the priority. You got the redirection which helps out a bunch and then you're kind of relying a bit more on something like Reshiram to function just because it's kind of like that anti meta pick at the moment. So we do see Zashian come out with Tornados. So there's likely going to be a tailwind here. Now we could initially just go for like a Max Wyrmwind isn't the worst player because it weakens the Zashian but at the same time, we've got to think is it worth getting rid of the Tornados at this point? Probably not like now because we then give my opponent kind of like that free switching when they get the tailwind up which is probably what they're going to go for. Although taking them down to the Zashian isn't a bad idea and then we could potentially just go muddy water and the Zashians are going to be hating as hard. Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that. Let's do that. Let's Max with Reshiram. Okay, so what's coming in? Okay, that works out even better that we're going from muddy water then and we're going to see the Tornados Max. Okay, well that I didn't expect that you know on the Lapras team especially with stuff like Rotom Heat you kind of think well they're probably going to be the Pokemon that come they're probably going to be the Pokemon that Max but not the case. We're going to see an airstream though. I'll be into Milotic. I would imagine maybe Reshiram but they're not going to do too much damage to Reshiram and it is going to be a problem for my opponent to deal with of course because you know you're looking at things like Rotom Heat that aren't really going to be able to kind of damage super well like Reshiram and so it's going to kind of be one of those Pokemon that you want to remove as soon as you can but yeah the Milotic going to be there the big target here for the Tornados. The muddy water is just a big damage that we want on to the Rotom Heat and being life-holded as well we should be able to well it depends how much damage this does. I don't expect this to be getting close to a knock up but you never well okay okay it's not bad it's not bad. Let's see what this Milotic can do can surprise us I'm sure but they lack of speed control from my opponent. Wow we actually nearly take down both Pokemon. I mean that's that's pretty incredible that is pretty incredible. The thing to watch out for here I think is like I really want to go max woman into the Rotom but they could easily switch a disaster and back in here and I think what are we better off doing are we better off preserving I think maybe we go go into the Tornados. We just go for another worm wind hmm probably not and I think maybe protect Milotic here because otherwise Milotic just goes down okay if they nasty plot here that's gonna get a little bit tough but I don't know if they do oh they're just gone all around protects. All right well a round of protect it kind of it works out all right because yeah this this works out fine because we need to deny the tailwind from my opponent that's the one thing that makes it difficult to utilize lander us and if you get a weather up here as well definitely helps us out yeah we'll just we'll just get rid of I mean they've got the room here where they can nasty plot for sure they can go ice dream Milotic nasty plot not really oh huh they go after restroom getting damaged there which I guess makes sense oh okay hmm okay they're life or I should have really picked up on that in the previous turn because we could have just why I'm ended because I don't know if the Max Flair is going to be enough to get the Rotom obviously resisted but it does set up it does set us up is actually enough okay the restrooms just that that good that good well okay so we've got lander us to come in helps us out a bunch against the session is she a force this earth power going to be enough at this point the thing is we could bring in really boom here which definitely gives us a little bit more leeway and means that we got a clear a target to kind of a wind condition where we've got we don't need to concentrate too much down on the session this turn because we've got the fake out pressure and his restroom going to be able to take a wicked blow that's the big thing here because our main goal now is get rid of the ocean food and then lander us potentially just beats beat session and you would think if you're my opponent you probably want to protect session I mean the big thing that we got here is his heat wave so we don't really need to choose a target it's just who do we kind of fake out I think I think I think we fake out like I want to figure out she put it's got the sash so it feels like I'm going to fake out session because my opponent might call a bluff here no they do not they do not call a bluff they just double protect okay well that's fine we can't really protect in front of ocean food so we can potentially double into the ocean food here with a grassy glide in the heat wave but I don't suspect that we'll be able to get our attack off unfortunately you know yeah I think we have to just heat wave and grassy glide I mean we could would have we could have wood hammered into ocean food we probably got room to wood hammer this turn because I think all the attention from my opponent is like so directed over to that restroom it does give really boom a little bit more room to kind of function here and maybe a wood hammer plus grass glide would be the ticket to where to get rid of the ocean food but to grassy glides will be enough we know that you know we survive have they doubled up into us have they and it's a crit as well restrooms a beast restroom is actually a beast they have doubled up so that's that's fair play to my opponent that ocean field go down next turn and an earth power like you say should be enough to get the session I'm hoping I'm hoping that's the whole plan of this team you know but I think even if not I think earth power and then grassy glide will be enough so I think we're going to be all right regardless so it's like having that that plan for the end game with the lander is always helps out and I do really like it is a kind of a tech a tool share force is just ridiculous ability coming off you know same type attack bonus earth power of a decent attacks that anyway so sitting here they're the ocean food I think the the zashian is going to try and go after really boom here potentially but not going to have the chance not going to have the chance because that is just a ridiculously strong move yeah and now and now grassy glide it probably picks up the knockout but the games kind of over now because there's no way I should be deals with both of these by itself so yeah it's it's really like I really love this team built like the build of this entire team I think it's really unique and it's not something that you kind of like see that often because it's not packed out with speed control it's not packed out with like support tools and things like that it's got very kind of direct ways to dealing with Pokemon and kind of like I don't know getting a good return on whatever you lose you know in situations so very good game to my opponent and we'll jump into our next match of today game next we've got a whimsy caught a shadow right a calyrex a cinderace regi a lecky a tapu lele and a lander as theory and form a really nice looking team I love this concept I love the cinderace in there to protect the the shadow right a calyrex it's got sucker punch it's got a lot of utility it's very fast Pokemon in general got the regi a lecky which helps out a bunch the whimsy caught obviously there for the speed control with tailwind taunt helping hand the list goes on tapu lele and these kind of builds is generally specs so we've got to be very careful around that because it can hit like an absolute truck then you got the intimidate support from the lander as well which is normally a solvest right how are we going to approach this one because this is this is obviously very difficult we do have urshifu and I think urshifu is a nice Pokemon but I don't think it's the one that we bring I mean you can lead it but there's so many things that are faster than us that make it very difficult to utilize you know I think let's go melodic let's go melodic and now let's go melodic and yeah let's go melodic urshifu restroom and I think boom boom big old boom boom to round off the team yeah let's see how it goes all right well you know like in the episode I said series 8 we've only got a couple of weeks left it'd be interesting to see if you all would like me to go through the restrictives that I haven't featured yet you know this there's ones like Requiser this don't don't wings the cross mother's a bunch of them that I haven't featured on the channel so if you'd like to see me feature those going forward for the remainder of series 8 let me know it could be quite a lot of fun right with me and Cinderella's like that the main reason I wanted to leave melodic was we kind of we're able to get a light screen up and my opponent's big thing here is they're going to go hard after the urshifu with the wimmy and the cinderace and we don't necessarily have the best switching and I don't really want to bring restroom in it's so early I mean the other thing is you know we could just go max max geyser into cinderace and go sucker punch because they potentially are going to go they're potentially going to go tailwind here and they're not going to expect the melodic to max and I think the melodic gets a completely free turn here there's no way they concentrate down on the melodic at this point you know they have to go hard they have to go harm into the urshifu here because they know the sash is there they need to remove it to the car X has a way easier time at the end of the end of the game the problem would be obviously here is fly but are we going to see a fly maybe not if we do a bounce I mean I jump kick doesn't miss doesn't miss because it's the dodgiest move ever it's gone the curse of the commentator here we go once again if you're bad I love cinderace so much but you love to see it happen you love to see how it's so evil so evil okay yeah I'm sorry I apologize apologize let's step back a minute because I know how I know you know why I laugh so much is because I know how annoyed I get in those situations when it's me and it gives me that like you know I'm totally relating to that player but also kind of finding the funny side of it where I'm like I am like so annoyed so annoyed like it's kind of funny I don't know if you get that yeah I do feel yeah you got to feel for your opponent when these sort of things happen and I mean the Lele's in it and an awful spot isn't it because we're just going to switch in boom get rid of the terrain get rid of the Lele and yeah because like a life up guys there's no way it's not picking up the knockout on Lele unless it's Lele Max's but I think at this point you probably wait and max the the cowax when it it's a field so there's a big help and I mean it is specs so you've got a the expanded force is going to come out isn't it what's eye shock still there's a fat chunk of damage doesn't it not quite enough please we get to max melodic in this one you know I do I do love melodic it is it's a very cool Pokemon it's a very cool Pokemon it's very underused and life orb you know I've got a real affinity to the life or variant and the first regional where was it where was it where was it with Borkum somewhere in Germany of Sword and Shield that I went to manage to get out to it and I played life of melodic and it was so good that tournament and barely missed X2 X2 finish and just was just just missed and I mean what we'll do is we'll go Hailstorm and we'll go for a fake out yeah I mean we may as well stop the whammy here if we can the calorex is going to max you know it's coming but against a good old Urushi Fu I don't think you're going to be able to beat it because we've got the sash there so we've got like all the security in the world we need because one wicked blow is going to be enough and if you get the Hailstorm up it just means that you know we broke a potential sash on on the horse because we haven't really seen it anywhere else yet so helping hand boom boom boom it's fine and we're not going to be able to stop the whammy this time but we do do a nice chunk of damage to it and the max mind stone coming out now this is not what we want to see no no okay that yeah that's not not ideal because now the Urushi Fu is in a terrible spot where we can't get our terrain up I don't think can we we still got three Pokemon right so we can we can switch around switch around doing stuff there's a grim near coming out and that makes things difficult and we still got three Pokemon so we use yeah we we need to keep the problem is like getting Urushi Fu in yeah I'm going to bring Reshiram in and I'm going to switch Rilla Boom out and I'm going to bring Urshi in for Rilla hope that Reshiram gets knocked out and then we got Rilla Boom Urshi Fu with a terrain up to kind of close the game out that's what we want but it's quite it's quite predictable because I think my opponent can kind of kind of see into that you know we'll go for a heat wave in the rain not the most ideal scenario the worst sit the worst possible outcome here is if they go the double up into this Urushi Fu here with like a moon blast max phantasm yeah and it's happening isn't it it's happening like a dazzling gleam that would be that would be so bad that would be so bad because there's the crit it's almost like do you leave Rilla Boom out in the field at this point you know yeah that's terrible that is actually the worst I mean we're going to get the heat wave and remove yeah the yeah okay well yeah I don't really think okay well they have to go for Max Mindstorm here and I think they go into the Rilla Boom so do we grassy glide and just Draco Meteor because I think that combination probably will be enough to maybe enough to get it maybe I don't think it will be I don't think it will be grassy glide you see if we've still got the grassy terrain up this next turn then we're in the money but I don't think we're going to be able to it's all about this Draco Meteor isn't it from what I felt was like a super good place we're in a super bad place and this is the danger of this team you know that's like Shadow Rider Calyx come on Reshiram let's just nuke it with a Draco Meteor that's that's prove that you are there I think we're going to get it you know I think we get it yes come on Reshiram that is a way to end this match 100% over excited over excited but very nice with and against the very scary team indeed so yeah good game to my opponent so for our third and final upon the episode this could not be more fitting really we've got a very similar team we've got nearly a mirror match here with a Rilla Boom Incineroar Whimsicott Togekiss Reshiram and Glastria so I'm thinking like our best kind of lead maybe like Reshiram and Togekiss they've got speed control which gives us like it puts us in a massive disadvantage for sure but it's not like we can lead something like like Rilla Boom into Reshiram you know I think the redirection definitely helps us out a bunch do we want a run Rilla Boom like Rilla Boom is always good I think just for the fake out and then the grassy glide pressure that can kind of put on it's kind of what it comes down to is our last Pokemon that we kind of utilize is going to be something like Urshifu something like Landeris it feels like it could be a very good in an end game situation particularly if the speed controls kind of been lost from my opponent so I'd preferably go with Landeris it feels like it's going to be a difficult match for sure but I always feel like that with this team like we've covered like the way that the team doesn't really have too much in in regard to speed control and I feel like when you come up against teams with like heavy speed control like that immediate speed control like with Whimsicott or Tornados or something like that it feels like you're at a complete disadvantage straight away but we're going to see the same lead from my opponent is what we're going with they got a nice shiny Reshiram I don't know if I like I think I'd prefer regular Reshiram to the shiny one the gold bands are kind of cool but it's the all white the all white is just just nicer isn't it and right well we do we can't really go for follow me I mean we can we could help in hand hmm do we just follow me and just try and blow up the the opposing the opposing talk is because it could go up in hand but there's the all I think there's the chance that they set the sun for us which could kind of come back to bite them but whether they do that or not because I think their best option is going to be max flaring into our talk is trying to get some damage onto it to remove it from the field but I don't know if they're going to I don't know if they're going to go for that it looks like they're faster than us as well so potentially they do and then I might give us a light like if we can remove the talk is it definitely gives us a bit of room no problem would be the next turn if they bring in like incinero and then you got the fake out to get to get around or follow me okay let's see how this plays out like the best case scenario for us is they go max flare into our talk is they redirect we go max flare into their talk is but we got the sun kind of boosting us allies which coming out they got the exact same talk is kind of shenanigans going on that's not ideal maxi flair yeah well they're going to set the sun up for us but I mean wow wow that does just ridiculous amounts of damage they're not able to remove us so we do get a little bit of a we do get a little bit of room to kind of function see what this does nada like literally zip it does nothing and it's probably worth can we make a call can we make a call because I think they've got to go max flare again they've got to go max flare again they don't know we've got allies which either and I don't know if they got allies which here do they go allies which again because I'm kind of tempted to allies which let's play them at the wrong game and then go max wormwind but there's always the fear that they're going to just redirect and things go pear shaped for us whereas if we get rid of the talk now I'm going to go for it you know I'm going to go for this and and say they're not going to allies which I don't think they are on a wee allies which I was like oh no we've done it we've done it it's went bad okay they dazzle they're faster than us that's like the worst case scenario the togs cast faster than ours okay that's not good yeah and now we're done we're done oh no we survive okay this is like legit a very good restroom and now we're going to be able to remove their restroom which makes things a heck of a lot easier but we are in dazzling game range because the talk is is oh no no no no no no no no not so good okay well hmm Landorus is like a savior and where's rock slide when you need it okay we're going to be relying on stone edge and I think we've got a we actually just attack here because I think like the restroom goes down to recoil damage regardless so I think we just go max flare and we double up with a stone edge into yeah talk kiss because then really boom has a way easier time when it comes in yeah so the restroom max guarding so if we can catch this talk kiss with a stone edge pick up the knockout that's huge it's not enough now the dazzle is going to get us hmm okay but at the same time it's kind of alright because really booms going to be able to come in grassy glides going to be able to to get the restroom stone edge gets the talk is we're just kind of locked into stone edge for the rest of the game which is not ideal and I like switches obviously an issue but I mean I like switch doesn't really help my opponent in this situation because they just I like switch and they don't do anything you know like they're clicking the I like switch button which is fine but you're pulling your restroom into like a stone edge damage and your talk isn't doing any damage so yeah it's not it doesn't really work out too well and for you I mean we could fake out here I don't think there's a need to I think we just grassy glide so tough this is so tough so tough and you know it's it's harder when you don't I'm not making excuses for myself but it is all it is always the case where you know when you pick up a team to play and you you don't know necessarily the the initial reasons why some things like got that speed stat for that specific reason it always it does it does get like okay well I mean if we get a crit if we get a crit star edge here we could and there's no sash no crit okay no crit not ideal and we just grassy glide again I mean they're going to tailwind right they're going to tailwind but everything so low health at the minute it's kind of alright like we just need to get rid of the talk is and the restroom so low health that'll go down to rest glide so they've got to stall out these the grassy terrain turns but by doing that they kind of lose their their tailwind and their son there's a tailwind we get another just free like this is where you really want the star edge crit to kind of come in like if we want to get a star edge crit ever ever in this game this is where you want to get it I'm wondering whether or not as well like it would have been better to lock into like sludge bomb here because sludge bomb probably would have picked up something like and the restroom would have picked up it would have dealt with the talk is just as well and then we ended like that that's very sad that's very sad that my puns done that but okay well we'll take it we'll take it and we'll jump across now and get that rental code for you all my friends right friends here is the rental for today's team a little bit sad about that last one but I mean that is three for three we did ask we put ourselves in his best position we could in that last one it would be nice to see it played out and if my opponent did have connection issues then that is a shame but I hope you've enjoyed today's episodes and if you do try the team out I do suggest giving it a try I think it's a really nice build it's a little bit different from your normal kind of constructs of teams and I think it does a really nice job in the current format as well so restroom is always a lot of fun to play it's a beast of a Pokemon and it's got a really good supporting cast if you do try it out as always let me note down the comment section below I hope you've enjoyed today's episode hit me up with teams that you'd like to see going forward it's always something I would love to hear from you all and we'll wrap it up there and I'll see you for another episode very soon like I say I got lots planned for this week so hopefully you enjoy all the teams it will be featuring and but until next time friends take care of yourselves and bye bye