 Ron. 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. In today's episode, we are going to be covering all of the news dropped very, very recently in regards to series 10, the new ranked ladder rule set that will be starting on August the 1st. So let's get into today's episode, let's talk about it. Obviously, we are currently in series nine. We know the rules for that. If you don't, the link in the description will show you all about that. It's a current rule set on the ranked ladder. But getting into this video, obviously last night or early this morning, I don't remember which one. We had a tweet from Serabie and I'm sure there was a tweet from Play Pokemon. I'm pretty sure there would have been. In regards to the new series, which is series 10 and the rule update, which we've been kind of hanging on to for a little while now. So here is the tweet 11 hours ago. So it wasn't too long ago. Pokemon Sword and Shield ranked battles series 10 has been announced. It allows one legendary Pokemon per team, but does not allow Dynamax. Now, that is a pretty big rule change. Now, if we head over to Serabie, you can see all of the details for series 10 and all these links will be linked down in the description below. If you want to take a closer look at them yourselves, you can see it will be season 21, but it will be series 10. The rule set, the series run for three months. The seasons run for a month, if that makes sense. So this rule set will last for the next three months, starting August the first. That's when you can see this rule set comes into play August the first at four MUTC. So that's when everything will change over on the ranked ladder. You can see the singles rule set and the doubles rule set are being updated. We're talking more about the doubles here today because we are more centered around VGC here on the channel. But both the rule sets are exactly the same. So Pokemon restrictions, you're going to have available National Dex Pokemon. If they have the Galao mark or the battle ready mark, which you can get from Wyndon. So it's kind of stuff we already know. Pokemon limits a team of four to six Pokemon from level one to 100. And then all Pokemon will be capped down to level 50 when you get into battle. So you can't, you don't need to worry about leveling or anything like that. In particular. Now the restricted Pokemon, one of the following per team, you are going to be able to have one of these restricted Pokemon per team. So it's going to be very similar to series eight in that respect. These Pokemon, as we know, if you don't, they are Mewtwo, Lugia, Hoho, Kyogre, Groudon, Rikwaza, Dialga, Palkia, Giratino, Reshirom, Zekrom, Curem, Xerneas, Iveltal, Zygoth, Cosmo, Cosmome, Sogaleo, Lunala, Nekrosma, Zassian, Zamazenta, Eternatus, Calyrex and Calyrex Forms. So please, I don't have to do that again. They are the Pokemon. They're the restrictors that you're going to have access to. One of those per team. And then the only other restriction that we've got in this new series is going to be Dynamax. The Dynamax mechanic is not allowed. Battletime 20 minutes, your time seven minutes, Team Preview 90 and your turn 45 seconds. The 10th ranked battle series focuses on Pokemon of the Gala, Pokedex, Alavama and Crown Tundra Pokedex and any other Pokemon obtained in the game. It allows you to utilize restricted legendary Pokemon once in your team. It goes beyond what other rulesets did and banned Dynamax. That includes Gigantamax, of course. So this is the list that we've just been through, the restrictive Pokemon that you're going to have. So it's all the box art legendaries from the previous generations and including this one. And then these are the banned Pokemon. Obviously the only Pokemon that are banned are going to be the mythical Pokemon, Muse, Celebi, Zirud, Zeraora, Melmetal. The typical mythicals that we're never allowed to use, unfortunately. Which I wish we were at some point, but never mind. I don't think it'll ever happen. And then banned Gigantamax Pokemon. So obviously being Gigantamax Pokemon, the Dynamax mechanic banned Gigantamax ability banned as well. That makes a lot of sense. So all of the Gigantamax Pokemon are banned. Now this is Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise. You know the list of all the Pokemon that have the capability to have that Gigantamax ability. They are all banned. But it does not mean that you can't use something like regular Venusaur, regular Charizard, regular Blastoise. Now the rules are a bit iffy on whether or not they've got the Gigantamax symbol. If that will make them ineligible to be played on the rank ladder or whether or not that will just be kind of over luck. Then you'll just not have the ability to press the Gigantamax or Dynamax button. So you're still going to be able to use things like Venusaur, things like Charizard, things like Blastoise, but a free Pikachu if you want. And all the other Gigantamax Pokemon, you just won't have the ability to use them in their Gigantamax forms if that makes sense. So that is a basic overview of the rules. Now what do I think about the rules? Now I'm happy with the rules set being changed. And I think banning Dynamax Pokemon is probably a good step forward. It's a nice change, right? It's a change from a ban list. And it's kind of a big kind of shout out from TPCI Pokemon Company to all the people in the community, the players that have been shouting for Dynamax to be taken away for a long time, because for one reason or another, they don't like it. And you know, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, whether they like it or not. There are a lot of players that do like the mechanic. There are a lot of players that don't like it, but there's a big call for it to be taken away because of various reasons. And now it has been. Now I think great. I want a format where I don't have to play Dynamax. I think it will be interesting, it'll be fun, it'll be different. I think that's great. But the one thing I do dislike about it is the fact that they've brought back the one restricted option from series eight. And I just think it wasn't necessary. There was no necessity in doing that. It just wasn't necessary. Like give us the format, give us like series seven, series nine without Dynamax. Let's play that. And then if you want to change it before we get Diamond Pearl Platinum, the remix, or Shine and Pearl and Brilliant Diamond or whichever way around they are, then change the ruleset then to be this format and introduce one restricted. You know, that like in my opinion, that would have been the best way to go about it. But that I don't make the decisions, unfortunately. But I just think, yeah, there should have been some further restrictions added. I think there shouldn't have been the restricted Pokemon to start with. I don't see the needs to add them in to the format. I really don't. And the other thing is, I think there's a lot of issues with certain Pokemon that haven't been nerfed as well. Now we'll get into them in just a second. There's obviously a few Pokemon that are going to be like top tier in this format. Let's just shift this along so we can actually see the Pokemon. One is going to be Zashian. Zashian was incredible in series eight. And that was in a format full of Dynamax, Gigantamax Pokemon, and it thrived. It did amazingly well. It was the top of the issues that started for most of the series seasons that we had in there. And it doesn't have the ability to Dynamax or Gigantamax itself. So now it's kind of even in the playing field on that regard. But at the same time, it's just going to get better because it doesn't have to contend with Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokemon anymore. Everything's on a level playing field, making Zashian even better. Obviously with the Intrepid Sword ability that it does have access to, boosting its attack anytime it enters the battlefield, makes it very dangerous and increases the need for Intimidate Support, Willow Asp Support. It's a very centralised Pokemon. One of the reasons why I don't think the restricted format should have really come back in this style. I think a full GS Cup would have been different. But as the one restricted, it's just my opinion of course. A lot of you might disagree with me, but a lot of you might agree with me. The next Pokemon is obviously Urshifu. Now the issue with Urshifu is obviously it's got the Unseen Fist ability. Both the Fighting Dark and the Fighting Water have the ability to ignore, protect. And that isn't so bad in a format where you've got Gigantamax and Dynamax Pokemon where you can Max Guard and that ability doesn't really come into effect because that ability can't hit through the Max Guard. It can only hit through regular Protects and similar moves, Detect, King Shield, so on and so on. So yeah, this Pokemon in a non-Dynamax format is absolutely bust and it means that you're going to have to really have a lot of ways to deal with it well. Because now you're not only thinking of the Protect issue that you're going to have, you're going to have no Airstream anymore. You're not going to have that inflated HP stat that allows you to take attacks better from the Dynamax or the Gigantamax to deal with something like Urshifu that has these ridiculous attacks that have that guaranteed critical hit chance. I mean the list goes on and on and on. I'm not going to stick on this subject for too long because I don't think I necessarily need to. I just need to highlight that it's going to be a bit of an issue and it's just one of my areas where I think the real set could have been adapted a little bit better to kind of create a bit more balance going forward. And obviously Pokemon that maybe struggled in the format previously because of weaknesses to let's say the influx of Max Airstream because of the importance of Max Airstream is one of the best Max moves that we had access to for speed control was so important to teams. Now that's kind of gone. So Pokemon that really suffered because of that grass types, fighting types for one Urshifu in that list maybe. You know they're all going to be benefiting from this, the lack of it. Things like Landeras are really going to suffer because now Pokemon like Rillaboom are going to be like even more top tier because Landeras normally a really good check in the format. It brings that ground typing with Earthquake. It's its only really physical option to use a ground type move and when it's Max they can use Max Airstream. We can use Max Quake. Now you're not going to be able to utilize Landeras in that way because of grassy terrain that can come onto the field from Rillaboom. Rillaboom still got access to all of its tools. It wasn't really a Pokemon that we saw Max too often. It was utilized as kind of a support Pokemon fake out grassy glide hitting really hard wood hammer etc etc. It doesn't need to worry about having them really having a Cobra Berry anymore because that grass that flying threat has kind of been negated to a certain extent. So Rillaboom going to be very good. Gothetel is a Pokemon that has been banded around quite a bit early doors especially when you pair it with something like Zashin and then you have something like Urshafu Rillaboom in the back as a kind of cleanup crew. So that's definitely something that I can see having a lot of usage. Now things like Thunderous, Pankster Thunderous is going to be very good again because you're going to have big threats like Kyoga, Regi Alecki. They obviously can't Max anymore but they can still hit pretty hard but things like Eerie Impulse are going to be really really good support especially for things like Groudon now that can kind of get that sun up over right the weather. I'm going on a bit of a tangent. I'm just trying to throw some ideas out here what I've been thinking but I think this particular core Rillaboom Groudon Thunderous Pankster with the Eerie Impulse Thunderwave can be very very very strong in the format and I think is a start of a good core. Obviously you're going to need speed control but you've kind of got to wave that with the Thunderwave on Thunderous anyway. The other thing to think about as some other Pokémon are going to be obviously one of the other most broken restrictors that we've now got access to is Calyrex Shadow Rider because of its Astro Barrage, it gets its psychic typing, it gets expanding force, it's absolutely busted, it gets draining kiss for some reason so you can hit Urshafu and then you compare it with something like Indeedy Female for that redirection support or Tapu Lele for ridiculous damage output with a Choska or something like that and you can just go like Dazzle, Astro Barrage is a combination there or expanded force, expanded force. So yeah I think that's going to be a really strong combination in the format. I think other things to look at from previous formats that we've had access to Kyoga are going to be good with something like maybe Tornadis. Again that's going to be a pretty strong pairing with the Praxa Tailwind. Obviously Hurricane to take advantage of the rain and then Kyoga with its ridiculous move and walk aspout which can just take advantage of the rain and just start cutting through teams pretty easily. So that will be a combination that we see. I think Regio Leckie still going to be very good but I think we'll revert back to more of the focus sash depending on how popular Kyoga gets but again Regio Leckie very good in this format. Obviously it doesn't have access to the Dynamax ability but that electoral web is really really really strong especially when you're putting it next to something like Urshafu which is already quite a popular combination. These two still work very well in this format where you've got the electoral web and then you've got the Urshafu to just absolutely decimate whatever's in front of it as a combination. So there are a few things to think about at least obviously because we're a little bit away from series 10 kind of coming into effect now. We're only on the 1st of July. We've got a whole month left of series nine. I'm not going to go into too much detail in this particular video because I feel like it's a subject we can really take a deep dive into and it's something that I'll probably do in a later stage nearer the time of series 10. Obviously we'll have all that preparation for series 10. I'll make sure to try and get a bunch of rental teams ready for when this series starts so you can try and hit the ground running with it. But the biggest thing I think that I would like to leave a note on for this video. I have been a little bit negative about about the new ruleset and I don't mean to be. I think there's massive positives to it. I think there's huge positives. I think the Dynamax being banned as a mechanic. I think that's such a big thing. I think it's a great thing but at the same time I do think it's like one step forward, two steps back. And you know I don't want to leave this on a negative but I do think it's going to we might get into the format. We might get two, three, four weeks into it and I think the realization of this is very centralised is going to be a very select number of Pokemon that are going to be utilised and it'll get stale very quickly. Could be a possibility. Who knows? I could be completely wrong. I'd love to hold my hands up and I will hold my hands up and come back to this in like two months time and say wow I was so wrong about this but I'm kind of being a little bit cautious about it right now. I'm just feeling like the restricted element of this with the Urshifu issue. Maybe a little bit too much but there's always an answer to everything you know. So we've got to stay positive about it. It is going to be the ruleset. It isn't going to be changed now. We've got to just be positive, move forward and look at it and see how we can adapt to it, how we can build in it. What will be successful in it and how much fun we can have playing it because that's the main thing. If you don't have fun in it, there's no point in playing it. That is the bottom line of it and I definitely will have fun in this format for sure. I'm excited to get into the format. It is different. So looking forward to doing a lot of content on the channel but the big thing like I say I want to leave this video is for you guys to let me know your opinions on series 10 and what your thoughts are on obviously the restricted side of the format and having one of those per team and obviously having the Dynamax mechanic completely removed. How do you feel about that and do leave your comments down below and I'll make sure to try and get back to each and every one of you but we'll wrap it up there friends. Thank you so much for tuning into today's video. It is a little bit late going up today but I have been at work all day so I've just got back from my long cycle in the hot weather which was glorious because it's summer so it's really nice and I just wanted to throw this up as soon as I could. So I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope it's been informative. Start the conversation down below and I will see you all for another video very soon. Until then, take care of yourselves friends and bye bye.