 Hello friends and welcome to another episode here on the channel. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode We're gonna be continuing on with our series seven content that we kicked off with in our last episode If you missed that episode I go through all the things that you'll need to do to access the alternative showdown server where you can start to Practice series seven or as close to a series seven format as that we've got at the moment I'll link the video up above if you want to go back and check all the details out there There is another team as well in that episode that you can grab and test out and start playing with on the ladder If you would like to start playing series seven, of course And the team that we're gonna focus on today is gonna be based all around Dragovish or at least that's where it started now the fossil Pokemon obviously with the introduction to crown tundra and that Ability patch that we're gonna have access to now where we can get hidden abilities without any any Hustle it's gonna be really easy an item will change a normal ability into a hidden ability So it's a it's a huge step forward for the entry level into competitive Pokemon And the amount of time that you're gonna save by doing this is just insane So the the fossil Pokemon obviously get access to the hidden abilities now Like I was just saying Dragovish gets access to sand rush So that's something that I really wanted to test out. So that's what we're gonna try today Obviously with Sandra she double your speed and whenever the sandstorm is up on the field and we need a sandstorm user So we've got Tyranitar to kind of pair nicely with that Tyranitar also very good in this format. I feel like dog types are extremely good But very few and far between there aren't that many great dog types But there are a few that can do a decent job and we've seen Tyranitar perform super well Throughout this own shield series so far with its dynamics ability and normally running the weakness policy And that's exactly what we went for here with a brave nature minimum speed to play alongside the dust clubs with that trick room mod Then another Pokemon new one that we're gonna see that I wanted to try out was thunderous It has got it's a defiant ability as well another hidden ability there which boosts it Well any time it stats a lord it gets an attack boost Which is just ridiculous like thunderous is very strong got a decent physical move pool as well can boost its speed Obviously change terrain boost its own attack and defense as well. So this spread here I need to give a big shout out to my good friend Luigi. He passed this over to me And he's been a hype and thunderous up a lot So the spread is his I've just dunked it in the team to use and it's been really effective So big shout out to Luigi for that and then rounding off the team with Incinero Obviously the good old faithful Incinero and among us for a little bit of redirection if we are gonna struggle Otherwise to set our trick room up. So and the team will be down in the description below There'll be a paste for you guys to try out. I Guess say if you need the address and things to get on this server It'll be in the description, but you could be probably better off going back and checking yesterday's video or last video Which I'll link again. 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So we've got our first opponent playing a pretty similar team to what we've got You know, I've got at least four of the same Pokemon that we've got Okay, but the tapulele there in place of probably our disclops and then the stack attacker in place of a mungus So trick room mod again, isn't too bad here and But our trick room mode is gonna be slower than theirs So maybe we want to kind of at least counteract that somewhat Thunderous isn't bad. It can hit a lot of things We'll cancel that what's what's going on. No, no, no, no, we don't want to quit. What are we doing? I don't know what's clicking around. Um, yeah, so let's just think about this like thunderous I like as a lead here for sure kind of Puts off my opponent bringing the Incineral at least when the funny thing is I mean the stack attacker has got trick room So it's gonna be the only thing that can trick room. We need to kind of kind of like that I'm gonna bring drink as all I think tea tar in the back and Probably desclops as well to be honest and mungus isn't bad, you know And good luck have fun To my opponent as well, so tapulele gonna come out Okay, we've got a couple of options here We can switch into tea toss right away and just nuke the tapulele and that might not be a bad idea Getting rid of the tapulele is gonna make things a lot easier later on in this game And really yeah, I am super tempted just to do that And even if it's scarfed lately We will outspeed it with Draco visha and pick up the knockout thunderous here on my opponent's end might max might go for an airstream Or to change the terrain maybe but Yeah, we get rid of the tapulele. It's a donk that max lightning coming out. We we don't take it which is interesting. Okay, so Thunderous getting itself set up there. So I think I'm gonna bring in desclops now Yeah Incineroar coming in So we'll protect tea tar and we will just trick room because I don't really feel like my opponent's got a way to stop Us now. Sometimes you could think maybe the thunderous might have taunt it does obviously in previous formats has been known to carry taunt to shut it down, but the more physical offensive Variance, especially now that the fine ability don't really have too much room for it And obviously you haven't got that prankster ability anymore So it doesn't make too much sense to run it on something like thunderous where you would normally see it probably more often not on something like Tornadis as an alternative so a parting shot coming up from the incineroar We need to be careful about Max knuckle from the thunderous That's the one thing and you know It's always safe to go after the incineroar here because incineroar can't protect the thunderous can and they also The the the incineroar can parting shot, which isn't gonna be great I think we'll take a max knuckle from the thunderous anyway, so we should be all right We'll just go for the Mac there the bulldoze the max bulldoze That's what I was gonna say and we'll get rid of this incineroar while we've got the opportunity to we're not gonna see the thunderous Go for a max guard here, which is interesting But we'll make quick work of it the next turn depending on what my opponent's last Pokemon is Yeah lightning coming out, but not really doing too much and you can see it's life over there so Thankfully teetard does all the work that we need it to now stack attacker is an Interesting prospect because it probably still under speeds tyrannot are Which is tricky so we could potentially huh Yeah, I think I think yeah, we definitely it's still definitely under speeds us Hmm Because we can't pull those again. I mean yeah, we can't cuz yeah, and the body press is a bit worrying That's the only thing it's like we need to get rid or I mean one thing we could do is reverse the trick room here might be a play That's got heavy slam, which is interesting Okay Reverse the trick room. I don't think the thunderous has got superpowers. So we're kind of all right And we'll just go for a max knuckle into the stack attacker We'll go for a night shade into the thunderous here. We might see the stacker actually protect here It could have chopple. I don't know what it has but there's a flash cannon coming out And so it's more of a special variant of their thunderous here, which is interesting get the max knuckle Oh, that's fine. The better play here for myself Obviously would have been trick room in that turn, but it's it's it's a little bit dodgy Considering that you know, they may protect the stack attack of air and then we're back in the same situation again So and good game to my opponent and we will move on very swiftly Hopefully we can get to see the dragon vision this episode. That's the kind of the main thing of the team but I do struggle sometimes to actually Always bring it. It's not always. It's not something that's the same of the thunderous There's there's a two months that That honestly if I'm talking honestly about the team here There's two months that don't get brought too often and the main core of the team is obviously incineral Amungus dust globes and taranatom We know how solid that is from previous formats and it's still performing as well as it ever has done So we've got all the genies all the genies up next Tornadoe standard us lander us Cortana incineral type of finish. So we've got that really nice firewater grass core there that was made popularized back in 2018 Oh 17 18, you know um Okay, well Trick room again is really good with the tea tar if we can get it set up I think that's it's obviously going to do a lot of work for us We have to be careful with our incineral just for the fact that you know, we don't want to proc the uh The defined ability on on either the tornado is all the thunderous which is likely to be on um So I think dust globes and moongus works pretty well Taranatar and then I think we do need incineral for the cartana And like once the defiant pokemon are gone. I think It can it can perform pretty well So we just need to deal with those defiant pokemon before bringing incineral onto the field So just it's just something to think about as well. It's going to be tricky I think already feeling like intimidated It's going to be like a lot trickier Renability to make use of in this format with the amount of pokemon that can kind of benefit from Um All of the the different abilities like competitive defiant and stuff like that There is a lot more pokemon to abuse and in the focus as well, you know I've seen a lot of like mammoth swine as well, which makes things very tricky Okay, there's the airstream and does take down the moongus, but that's fine Um, there's point in time because yeah, I mean they're trying their best to stop it But it doesn't work unfortunately. So we'll bring in tea tar, which is great Um, I don't think the lander is scuffed. So I think we have to bulldoze Hmm. It's tricky because the thunderous could max knuckle I think we need to get rid of the landeris I want to get rid of the landeris That's the thing. Yeah, I'm going to go after the landeris here Yeah, so there's a max guard. So hopefully this should be enough to get the landeris here Uh, because it's otherwise going to super power us, which is really bad news for us Uh, yeah, so we get rid of it. That's great. Then we can get rid of the thunderous the next turn Just perfect. So now we're coming in Uh, the thing is here. We could like I don't really want to take a parting shot Um from the incineroar, but I mean it Kind of doesn't matter too much in all honesty. Let's just nightshade and go the the rockfall Like the thunder is switching out. So we're forcing it out. Cortana coming in. Cortana is going to still take a Huge chunk of damage from this. Yeah, uh parting shot probably going to come out now. Yep Uh, but thunder is coming back in and we got one more turn of our max left And we still got three turns of two turns of trick room. So we're kind of all right. Um, I've got to go after The cortana here And I think we've got a pretty safe max knuckle into this slot because yeah, even if the incineroar comes in We get the the attack boost and thunder is just gonna protect so Um, okay They can fake out this next turn Which is a little bit awkward for us because it is coming to the last turn of our trick room. Um We probably need to protect Let's go for a night sheared into incineroar and Just I mean no Yeah, because we can't this is really awkward because this is like ideally the trick room would have ended now but Um, not gonna be the case But let's just go for a night sheared into incineroar and protect tita Let's see what they've got to throw out. So if you've got superpower or not Yeah, they have okay. That makes sense Um, all right. Well super par We need to get the trick room up once we get the trick room up again We're kind of we're kind of an amazing spot. So we'll just Bring in incineroar get the I know we're propping the define, but we've got to we've got to do this Yeah, that's fine And get tita back onto the field and we should be able to close things up hit darkest lariat That's super fine. Now. We've got rock slide. We can just get rid of the tornado the thunderous sorry and the incineroar and um between Dust globs and tyranitar. We should be able to deal with the carton or anyway Even though we've got superpower. It's going to be it's kind of it's kind of fine Like we get rid of the incineroar here. The thunderous might protect. Okay. No That's fine they're trying to to make use of the The fake out this next turn, but it's not really going to help them too much because like dust globs can just go for the night sheared into cartana And we'll just protect tita just to be extra safe Okay, that's fine darkest lariat here could be problematic Yeah, that's a nice play by my opponent. Um, okay. Well, we superpower the cartana And then we still win win out against the the incineroar. We'll minus one attack But it's still kind of going to be all right because we've got one turn trick room left still Um, and a superpower will do the job. So that was a little bit tricky, but uh very good game to my opponent And um, let's see what we're looking at for time. We are doing Probably all right. Let's have one more and then we'll call it a day my friends Um, but yeah, hopefully we're getting a good idea of what the team can perform like The different calls in it and how the synergy works well and also Even though a lot of it might be the same We're getting to see different opponents and what our opponents are trying to do which is all good information for For you collecting information about what teams are being used and what combinations of stuff are being used And what could be tricky for us to play against Okay, metagross car chomp tapakoko incineroar melodic and togakiss Uh, I feel like thunderous is very good here thunderous and drake assault is a lead Could be good. And the one thing does worry me slightly is The tapakoko and then it makes me want to lean a little bit more towards um, our trick room mode again um Although drake assault isn't bad at all. It's just if we see Like thunderous drake assault is pretty nice Kind of covers more stuff as long as we've got the tyranitar in the back to bring in The togakiss could be a little bit tricky Which is why i'm kind of leaning more towards my trick room call And I don't feel like they've got taunt anywhere to stop the trick room. So we could go Don't hmm. Do we want incineroar in this match? Probably I feel like I want to bring drake of ish though. So we're gonna we're gonna force it into the game We're gonna force it. I think we need thunderous anyway. So um We'll bring thunderous Or do we do we bring a moongus a moongus is going to be better? Like Yeah, let's go does clops actually no, let's go dust clops um Thunderous Covers the togakiss a guest tyranitar and then drake of ish. Yeah, let's bring all the new the new boys Let's do it. Let's just do it for this one. Okay. Well, you can trick room and um, I mean What are you gonna do if you metagross? Incineroar, I mean we've got the attack boost which is the other nice thing now where we could just max And keep our trick room mod for a late game and just go after the metagross to be honest Might not be a bad idea Like switching in drake of ish here and going for an airstream. It's quite a nice play It's just whether or not they're gonna go for max hailstorm which I can imagine them doing um Just if we airstream now into the incineroar And then get drake of ish in we can deal with the metagross the next turn which might be the better play Just a worry that togakiss comes in I mean if it does that's fine. Yeah, we'll do that and then we've got metagross dust clops in the back Yeah, because then we get drake of ish in for the speed boost. We should add speed most things on my opponent's team Uh, we'll out speed the core core as well Which is good Yeah, so I'll speed everything after an airstream, which is perfect So it's just about what the metagross goes for and some metagross aren't running ice punch But the majority are so just like be be aware that that's something that metagross is running Um, it deals so well with stuff like garchomp landeris all the genies pretty much zapped us Dragonite list goes on and on and on. Okay. Well, let's turn our time on because our opponent is taking their time After we've just been deliberating a little bit ourselves. So hopefully they speed up a little bit Um, yeah, I think the one thing to take away from the early format is definitely how strong metagross is Metagross is a very scary pokemon. It's very good. Um, yeah, so there is Now we don't quite get the incineroar here, but do you see a taunt which is fine And there's a hail storm which is super fine because now we just go after The metagross. Um, I mean we could go after We'll probably yeah, we probably have to double the metagross the worrying the the worrying thing here is if we Don't go after the incineroar. Hmm. They're probably potting shot into adreco vish Which is that really That bigger deal the other thing is they could just target thunderous and protect metagross Like that's what I would probably do here um Let's go fishes rend and let's go max knuckle into incineroar and let's boost our attack and get a plus one Onto drake of ish and that might be enough to get metagross with the fishes rend and the choice band. Let's see Could be metagross is so bulky anyway Okay, so there's a plus one Okay, well, I mean we're gonna get the metagross the next turn 100% even though they got the defense boost. We do lose our max mon, but Not the end of the world. I guess we'll get dust globs back in their taunts gone So I mean we've got east ag gone for us Just a melodic becomes a little bit more problematic now for us. I feel um without thunderous Should have doubled the metagross to be honest Who knows we probably would have lost it anyway. Yeah, and this makes it very tricky. Okay. Well It's kind of all right. I guess because we'll go for the metagross They're gonna follow me and we will Do we trick room here? It's just kind of then relying on Now let's go let's go Now I think we need to trick room. I would get the opportunity to Yeah, okay, we get the metagross. That's perfect. Yeah, okay. That's the the better decision for sure trick room and then depending on what they've got left Like if it's hmm could be gar chomp, I guess it is gar chomp, huh? It's gonna be hard to switch in um Hmm. Yeah, it's gonna be very hard. We'll go we'll double into the gar chomp here because Yeah, okay. Well, there's a night shade And there's the earthquake. That's what we're worried about a little bit. But then we get tyranitar into the field now I don't Do we need I don't think we need to bulldoze here. I think we could bulldoze Because chomp's not going to be able to knock us out if we bulldoze we get rid of the toro kiss We do some decent damage to chomp. Yeah, where's bulldoze? Yeah, okay, perfect And we might even flinch the gar chomp, which would be Tremendous, but we don't but now we're going to be able to get it with with a crunch They've got to go for a double protect and even then that's going to be difficult to beat the dust clops as well So, uh, it's worked out all right in the end. I think so Um Yeah, at least we've got to see a little bit of dragovish and thunderous there Which is always good. Which is part of the plan and we get some nice Juicy points good game to my opponent and that about will wrap everything up for us today I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. I hope you've enjoyed seeing the dragovish do its thing Um, obviously there are a bunch of item choices. You can go on it I just felt with the the the sandbrush boost you could get the choice band going I think it makes up and it's quite a nice option there Obviously doing some serious damage that was maxed metagross as well So it's doing some serious damage there. So and thunderous obviously is such a nice pokemon anyway But uh, I don't know Well, try the team out and let me know what you think that'll be the big thing So as I said earlier, please drop a like on the video Do subscribe if you're not already and leave a comments down below And I will look forward to seeing you all for another episode very soon. So until then take care of yourselves and bye