 Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. In today's video we got some big news in regards to the brand new ranked battle rules that will be kicking in series 13 on the 1st of September. This might have some big implications towards VGC, the official circuit as well and maybe indicates what the rule set will be going into the brand new season when that starts in September. We'll discuss everything in today's video, go through the new rule set, what the implications are and have a look at some of these new Pokemon that we're going to have access to. Before we get into it today, make sure you drop down there and hit that like button. Also, if you're interested in this sort of content like it, then do subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so you don't miss any of this content. So earlier this morning, we had an update from our good friend Joe over at Zerobi posting a update on the new rules. As you can see here, Pokemon Sword and Shield ranked battle series 13 rules announced allows all legendary and this is the big one, mythical Pokemon with no restrictions. Runs from the 1st of September through to the 31st of October, so not a massive amount of time, two months. But remember, come November we will be getting those brand new games, Scarlet and Violet, so the rules will be shifting around or they're about that time anyway on to the new games or we expect them to. So if we take a further little look at the new rule set, like I say we've got the dates for when it will be applied from the 1st of September through to the 31st of October. The restrictions for doubles is what we're going to concentrate on the pretty much standard across the board though for singles and doubles if you're interested in singles as well. Available national polka decks if they have the Gala mark or battle ready mark. So that's the mark that you would get when you go to Winden and you can talk to that NPC character and you'll put the battle mark on from a Pokemon traded in from another game. Then you've got Pokemon Limits, team of 4 to 6 Pokemon, kind of standard level from 1 to 100 which we know kind of standard VGC or doubles rules. All Pokemon then set to level 50, 20 minute timer as normal, your time is going to be 7 so not really much changing there. And 90 second timer, 14 preview and turn time 45. So all pretty standard stuff as we know. So we'll get into the juice of it. The 13th ranked battle series focuses on Pokemon of the Gala Pokedex, the Alivoma Pokedex and the Crown Tundra Pokedex and any other Pokemon obtainable in the games. It allows you to utilize any number of restricted legendary Pokemon. So any number of the restricted, the box art legendaries, your Rayquaza, Kyogre, Groudon, you could have all three of those in the team. You could have even Mewtwo on top of that and all of them. You could have a team full of restrictors if you want, pretty much just in layman's terms. And for the first time, this is the big one, allows the use of mythical Pokemon. Now in VGC and doubles ranked, we've never been able to use mythical Pokemon before. There's always the premise that they won't allow them because they're kind of gift Pokemon. So it puts a lot of players at a disadvantage because if you've missed an event for a mythical Pokemon, then you're not going to be able to kind of utilize them in an official format. So hopefully this indicates as well that we will be getting some events happening in-game soon to get and obtain all the mythical Pokemon, making sure that all the player base has a fair chance to be able to obtain these. It would be a big indicator just knowing from what the Pokemon company's kind of remit is from not allowing mythicals in the past. Now if we go down here, we've got a full list of the restricted Pokemon that are going to be able to be used and the mythical Pokemon as well. You're going to have got Mew, Celebi, Jurachi, Victini, Helio, Genesec, Dianse, Volcanian, Magina, Moshero, Zeraora, Melmetal and Zerud. So we've got a huge bunch of all of these mythical Pokemon that we're now going to have access to. And you can see here from the update on the Pokemon Home app as well where this news kind of broke. You've got a list of all of the restricted Pokemon, including your Ho Ho, your Lugia, Mew2s. Pokemon like that, your Boxart Legendaries, and then all of the mythical Pokemon that are going to be accessible in Pokemon Sword and Shield that you're going to be able to use, which we've just went through a list as well. So also just a side note, if you want to get these rules in game, you can come into your copy of Sword and Shield right now, go into the menu, into the Versus screen and then into Battle Stadium. This will connect you to the internet as you know. And then when you come through to the next screen, you'll be able to go down onto the Download Rules section, which is here. If you just click on here, this section, it'll just automatically update your rules that you've got downloaded to your system. And this will give you access to the new rule set, the Season 13 Ranked Battle Rules, which will allow you to start playing games in game right now with friends, obviously tournaments as well. And without having to wait till the 1st of September until this rule set is actually implemented onto the ladder. So if we go over to Pokemon Showdown, I've got a full list of all the mythicals that we're going to have access to in the game that you're going to be able to use. I've just kind of quickly went through some of the more highlighted moves that you'll be able to use with these Pokemon that might be interesting. So Mew is going to be a huge, big, big player, I think, in this Mew's great. It can learn any TM in the entire game, so you're going to have access to a bunch of different strategies with it. It obviously gets transformed. One of the big ones that I like, Level Up Move Transform, is something that is very, very useful. You're going to be able to transform into a Poison Pokemon or transform into Partner in Pokemon if they boost it up. And it also has Speed Control in the form of Trick Room. It does get, I just wanted to drop this in because for VGC kind of specifically, body press, iron defense is a pretty big kind of part of a lot of strategies. And Mew is one of those Pokemon that gets access to that. Also gets soft boiled as well, so it has a form of recovery. So Mew is an exceptional Pokemon with those base 100 stats right across the board, which is kind of common in a lot of the early mythicals. Celebi as well is there. It also gets access to Trick Room. It's got a bunch of support options. I don't know how prominent Celebi will be, which makes me a little bit sad because Celebi is definitely one of my favorite mythicals. But for competitive purposes, we might not see it too much being that psychic and grass type as well, which isn't the best of typings. Going to get Geraci as well. We've got Seren Grace. We all know about, or maybe you don't know about, but obviously the chances of the flinch happening are boosted by Seren Grace. That might transition over into doubles as well. You've got Victini as well, psychic fire type. Very good typing. It's going to be a big, big mythical in this format. You're going to have big threats like Melmetal. You're going to have Zashin probably still kicking around. And McGearn as well with that fire type in that Victini offers. It's going to be a very strong opponent and also gets its signature move, V-Crate as well, which is base 180 power, which is absolutely nuts. And that's some nice secondary effects with it as well. Kelio is going to be another mythical that will be appearing. Kelio, again, a very strong Pokemon, one of my all time favorites. Going to be very exciting to use this Pokemon as well. Gets access to Aquajet. It's got access to loads of fighting type coverage as well, as you can imagine. Justified ability. So you do have that ability to kind of beat up it and kind of set it up if you want. We've already started to see some combinations with it and things like G-Max Colossal as well. So you've got that Aquajet to proc the steam engine ability there and start sweeping with Colossal like we've seen in the past. Going to have Genesect as well. It's got the download ability as well, which is quite a decent ability for Genesect playing off your opponent's defense stats. And then you're going to have its kind of signature attack, which is Technoblast, going off its special side of its stats, which is a kind of strong split between both its physical and its special. But you do get access to the burn drives, which you can get the fire, ice, the douse, which is water, and then the shock, which is electric, which will chain Technoblast into one of those types respectively and is a 120 base special based attack. So decent stats as well to back it up. The only drawback I would say is going against the other mythicals. There's 99 speeds that doesn't help it massively, but still fast enough against a lot of the other Pokemon in the format. Then we've got Deansay as well, Rock and Fairy. Got its signature attack, Diamond Storm, which is 100 base. Rock type attack, which is pretty nice. Has a 50% chance as well to raise the user's defense by two stages, which is pretty good. So you could also combine that with something like body press that it does get access to and play off that kind of combination if you want, because it does get access to it. Clear body as well means that it's stats caught below, which is always nice. Volcanion, another really interesting mythical, really interesting type in fire and water type, and has a water absorb ability. So you could play with something with surf next to it just to restore that HP that it's got and it has that signature attack steam eruption as well, which is pretty much just like a worse accuracy, stronger, Skulled attack with a 30% chance to burn. But I think with the typing here, fire and water, very interesting Pokemon to be good to see how well that does. And with the surge of kind of steel types in this format and with the kind of dominating ones that we're going to see from the mythical side of things, I'd imagine any sort of fire typing will be quite useful in this format anyway. Then we come to McGirna. McGirna is an absolutely ridiculously broken mythical and probably going to be one of the top tier ones that we'll see. I will do a tier list on the mythical. So if you'd like to see that, please drop a comment down below. Let me know and we'll get that out as soon as possible. But I would say S tier McGirna is going to be sitting right there. It's got the soul hard ability. So when any Pokemon on the field faints, it can be a partner Pokemon. It can be a opposing Pokemon. It will get a special attack boost, which is absolutely nuts. So you could knock out your partner in Pokemon, get a special attack boost, knock out both opposing Pokemon, get two special attack boost. So you see what I mean. And it's got some pretty big attacks as well. It gets flash cannon to play off its steel typing. It's got Fleur cannon as well, which is a signature attack from it. 90 accuracy does have some drawbacks with that Lauren, a special attack by two stages, but it does get access to things like dazzling gleam as well. So if you can boost this thing up, you can really start the snowball with McGirna and you can kind of start to see how well it would perform in a doubles format. Next one is more shadow. I love more shadow. Got that technician ability there. So anything under 60 or on 60 base attack, it will get a 1.5 power boost to those. It's got a signature attack in spectral thief, which steals boosts from opposing Pokemon and then gives them to itself, which is quite useful, especially against things like McGirna that are kind of reliant on getting boost and having that ability to kind of snowball in battle. Marshadow is one of those Pokemon that can potentially come in and slow things down. Does have the fighting and ghost typing as well, which is pretty unique. So a very interesting Pokemon and something I see getting a lot of play. Then you got Zeraora, Vault Absorb signature attack is Plasma Fist and Zeraora has a ridiculous speed stat, 143 base speed, which is absolutely nuts and decent attacks stat as well, but Plasma Fist turns all normal type moves into electric for that turn and has 100 base attack as well, electric type attack. So Zeraora really interesting Pokemon, some really good attacking options as well and something I can see getting a lot of play throughout the format and then we come to Melmetal, another one of the mythicals that's going to be now available for us to use. Iron Fist boosts a punch based attacks giving a 1.2 power boost. It's got the signature attack, Double Iron Bash, which hits twice, 30% chance to make the Tog of Flinch as well, 60 base power there, but it is a physical attack coming off that huge 143 base attack stat. It has got very slow speed, so that is a great Pokemon to play in Trick Room. If you remember back, I did a mythical battle with Lou and I cast a kind of cast or off battle for Players Cup 3, I think, and I used a combination of Mew with Trick Room and then Melmetal to kind of play in Trick Room and then use Transform to have two Melmetal's on the field, which is pretty cool. So if you can search that, you'll be able to find that battle. It's a good example of how to use Melmetal in Trick Room. But again, very strong Pokemon. Has a lot of moves that it can take advantage of. Also got Body Press to play off that base 143 stat. Pure Steel Typing as well, which is nice. And then we round off with the final mythical that we're going to have available to us, which is a Rude in... Bit of an interesting one, one of the newer mythicals that we got access to in Sword and Shield, Dark and Grass Typing. Has a bunch of good moves. Could be a good Max Mon. It has access to Acrobatics. It gets Solar Blade, which you can play with maybe Groudon in there to get the kind of instant attack off with that. Good base power on that attack. Darkest Lariat. And then also gets Grassy Glide, which you could play in conjunction with playing it as a Max Mon or playing it alongside something like Rillaboom if you've got a team concept like that. But I would say probably not one of the stronger Pokemon in the format for the mythicals. Put it a bit alongside something like Celebi. But like I say, it'd be interesting to do a tier list of these new Pokemon that got available to us and see whether or not they... where they sit in the table. But it kind of wraps up all the rules. We're going to have access to all of the restricted Pokemon as well. Like I've said, the box art Pokemon that we already had access to, but there are no restrictions on how many of these Pokemon you can use in a team. So it's going to be very hectic, very fast paced and very hard hitting. I'm excited for it. The first time that we're going to be able to use mythicals in an actual VGC kind of format. Whether or not these rules are kind of pushed through to the official format through from September, when the new season starts 2022-2023 season, begins in September. We haven't got any sort of official confirmation of that yet. But it'd be very exciting to see this as the new VGC format to kind of see us off until Scarlet and Violet is releasing we get those new format rules for those new games when they drop. As soon as we get any official confirmation on any VGC news in regards to these, I will let you know on the channel. So like I've said before, make sure you are subscribed. Hit that notification bell so you stay up to date with when any of this news drops and we'll update it. Like I've said, I will be doing content on this new rule set. It's very exciting. It's going to be fun to play with the mythicals. I definitely don't want to miss out on that. So we'll be doing a lot of content around different mythicals, how they can be interacted within teams, what they can bring to the party and how to use them and things like that and doing some teams as well. So let me know your thoughts on the new rule set down below. Are you excited for it? Are you not really looking forward to it at all? You just burned out from Sword and Shield, waiting for Scarlet and Violet. Let me know down below. I would love to hear your opinions and thoughts on this new news. And also, let me know about that TLS. I've mentioned it a few times, but I would like to hear. So we'll get something up later in the week or maybe even a little bit sooner, depending on if you'd like to see that. But thank you for tuning in, friends. Hope you found this useful. Please remember to drop a like on the video. It does really help. And I will see you all for another video very soon. So until then, take care. Bye-bye.