 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 as always my name is Leigh also known as Osiris. In today's episode as we continue on with our VGC series 9 content we're going to feature a team based all around Virussian. So we've had some beat-up teams in the past but I've very rarely seen Virussian as a pokemon used within the format and I do think it's got some potential obviously with the beat-up from the dragon the dragon bolt it can be quite deadly once you get it set up it's got nice typing obviously the grass and the fighting it is pretty unique and it does have some drawbacks as well obviously you've got that four times weakness to fly in which you have to watch out for but we do have uh ways of mitigating that to a certain extent we've got the the mimicu there that can set the trick room up for Glastria that can come in and kind of cause a lot of issues for those big predominant flying types that we've seen in the format. He try and makes up nice synergy as well with the Glastria it protects us against those fire type threats and then you've got the tapu finny which kind of wraps up that fire water grass co between the the the hitran and the virussian and then we go dragon pull as well it was the thing that we talked about the start to have that that beat-up combination with the virussian but it pairs up nicely as well with the mimicu the shadow sneak there to activate the weakness policy and then kind of start a stone roll with the the the dragon pull there so there's lots of interlocking kind of combinations with the team as always the poker pace will be down in the description and at the end of the episode after we've had a couple of games with the team we'll throw the rental up so you can try this team up for yourself so friends hopefully you enjoyed today's episode thank you so much as always for tuning in and without further ado we'll get into our first match of today. Okay so first up today we have a Galarian Maltres a confi Incinero, Rillaboom, Glastria and Urshifu so what are we looking at here you know the the thing is with the confi it does provide a support especially for that the Maltres but the one thing that we do have a stone edge on the virussian so if we can get that beat up off which we're likely able to do we can really start going for in this match obviously they do have intimidate that we need to watch out for from the incinero but the virussian going to add speed everything on my opponents team we'd have to watch out for the trick room i think from the confi that it does have access to to set that glastria up and that could cause us a few issues but we do have our own glastria to kind of come in and help mitigate things if we need to so straight off the bat we're going in with the dragon pulp virussian do we want hitran because hitran could be a really good option here for us um it helps deal with the glastria it helps deal with the the the rillaboom the incinero to a certain extent and the confi so it feels like a really solid option here um whether or not we go mimic you to maybe reverse the trick room or just give us a little bit um additional support against that urshifu that could be the one thing that does threaten us quite a bit or the other side of the the coin is we go tapafini which again deals with everything pretty well excluding the rillaboom here so i think we'll go tapafini it gives us a bit of a better option stability wise anyway uh then maybe the um the mimic you does because the trick room isn't going to be something that's really causes too much issues or at least it should be so let's see how we get on in this first one today but i can imagine we'll probably see something like maltres and confi from my opponent and that's exactly what we see so we're in a prime spot to just get this beat up off and just go max rockfall into the the maltres the issue is of course if they trick room um with the confi uh this turn it's going to be difficult for us to deal with the the the glastria of course that makes a bit now way more tricky but i think of all we'll do it this is what the team's about this explosive mode to kick us off with we'll go for the max rockfall as we do get the max so no switching out which is good to see i'm hoping we see maybe um the draining kiss into the maltres to proc their weakness policy that'd be great and then we get the beat up off knock the maltres out and then we got nothing to worry about going forward because then we can concentrate a little bit more down on that confi the next turn to deny potentially a trick room being set up from my opponent they are going max as well but i'm pretty sure that the maltres is not going to be able to take a plus for max rockfall from this verizion and it's it's one of those things you know where you're like verizion does not want to take or entertain any sort of like airstream or flying type attack at all but you know it's speed tier because it ties with the other the just the souls of justice pokemon and it puts it in such a great position in comparison to the rest of the format speed tier wise with that 109 speed stat that it's got access to so there we go we see the draining kiss proc the weakness policy on that maltres but i don't know if my opponent's expecting this we are going to be able to get our beat up off with our dragapult and proc and activate this this justified ability on verizion so there's two the only thing with this strategy is you're kind of like twiddly sitting twiddling your thumbs because the beat up animation takes forever to go through but we're on to our final one now that puts us a plus four and like i say the the max rockfall should be enough i'll be very surprised if this maltres survives this i don't think there's very much chance that it will survive it and verizion not known for having a huge attack stat but you know when you can combine it with the beat up it becomes very threatening very quickly so as you see the quick work of that maltres we might get a few games in today depending on how this one kind of pans out it's not over just yet my opponent's still got plenty of options to kind of come in and cause us issues but like i say i think the next thing that we want to try and do is get rid of that comfy as soon as possible because that is causing us a few issues potentially we're threatening that trick room there but we'll see what my opponent opts to bring in next but losing your maltres like that especially after your dynamax it it's not not not the best situation as we do see an intimidate come in from that incineroar now there is the temptation to go after the incineroar here um i'm not gonna lie like i would be um you'd be crazy thinking not to go after the incineroar but i think i'm gonna go max uh overgrowth or max leafstone whatever we're talking about and um did we switch dragor putt out at this point maybe bringing something like tapafini or hitran maybe tapafini is not a bad idea it gives us a little bit it's a bit more stability in a uh a trick room environment although it might be better yeah i think we're bringing hitran let's just let's just make sure that we're doing this right so yeah hitran and then we go max overgrow into the comfy because i don't think the incin- oh battle cancelled we didn't even need to take that long okay good game to my opponent but that's that's the power of verisian here so get up to a good start like i say we'll probably get a couple of games or a few more games in today so we'll see how it goes we'll jump straight over to our next opponent but good game to our first one of the episode okay up next we have a cinderace thunderous incineroar tapafini glastria and porygon 2 team now there are a couple of issues here for our verisian mod because verisian is not going to go want to go head to toe with with thunderous for one uh or the cinderace both at speedus naturally and uh you know we can't take the risk against potentially a defiant thunderous that could pop up and cause us all sorts of issues um they have a solid trick room mod which makes it very difficult to kind of function against um i just need to remind myself of the mimikyu set do we have taunt and trick room on here because that helps us out a bunch yeah we do against that porygon 2 um gives us the option where we could potentially go like mimikyu dragapult as a lead um because then we got the option where we can potentially shut down the porygon 2 if we want to and we can proc our weakness policy if we're in a favorable position to do so i do think verisian is a good late game pokemon potentially um so we will bring that and i think maybe tapafini you know because once once the thunderous is gone they really struggle to to damage the tapafini um he try and there's an argument to bring it of course uh i think for the glastria in general it's not too bad but i think fini overall probably fits the bill a little bit better in this one so see how we get on in this one maybe we can make that turn one switch to verisian and go for the beat up straight off the bat maybe we could do it but it's nice to see the other mods of the team against obviously other other kind of builds and see how it kind of functions and operates and see how you approach different opponents but we are seeing thunderous and the cinderess come out here turn one for us okay well is it defiant is it defiant the problem with draggapult is obviously when you go for these max moves with draggapult like thunderous is like where we can airstream of course um might not be a bad idea shadow sneak airstream shadow sneak max airstream they're likely to airstream anywhere with the thunderous uh the only thing i would worry about here would be sucker punch from the opposing cinderace and where we could really catch my opponent off is go for trick room and then switch into tapafini here if you did suspect that which you know there is a part of me that thinks that could be a possibility um but we're locking with what we've got and we'll see how we get on with draggapult draggapult pokemon i do love as well you know it's seen a bit more a bit more usage recently as well i think in a lot of teams um it's still very strong pokemon and what are we gonna see what's it gonna be is it gonna be the cinderate it can't be the cinderace it might be support thunderous though you know it might prankster so it might make sense we do see the big cinders max darkness is going to be a bit of an issue a bit of an issue especially if we see thunder wave mark from that thunderous all that all that because i don't think a max airstream is going to be enough to get it plus two i'm just going to see it chomp down on the lumbary i'd expect seeing a lot more of this swagger kind of abuse with these genies you know um yeah there we're losing draggapult here i think i can guarantee that we're losing draggapult here actually because they're plus two max darkness into us it's not we're not going to be able to survive that unless they don't go for the max darkness um as you don't have it not all cinderace do okay they go for the max airstream as well plus two now we should take this okay um not ideal but not the worst now thunder wave probably is an option that's going to come out for my opponent we're going to go for the trick room i mean the other option is what we do is we switch mimic you out now into tapu fini and then we go after the thunderous because then they can't thunder wave us with the terrain up and then we've got a way to set the trick room up uh and deal with that cinderace because the cinderace is locked into going after the draggapult here and i think if we can remove the thunderous it frees up tapu fini not have to worry so much about that eerie impulse that could really make it very difficult for us to kind of set up and shut down my opponent's options so we'll get the terrain up which definitely helps us against the one thing that can cause draggapult a lot of issues no thunder wave though interesting interesting this should pick down the thunderous yet so a lot of the defense that on that cinderace in turn they're going to go for um they're definitely going to go for the airstream into draggapult i'd imagine if you max fireball huh are they leaving are they leaving the draggapult alone i can't imagine that they're doing that what why would you i don't know why i don't really understand i don't understand why you would go after the mimic you when it disguises up especially because the cinderace is going to outspeed the thunderous in most case scenarios unless it's a slow cinderace fini coming in okay hmm we took an absolute fat chunk of damage from that cinderace because it is plus two of course i could protect here and the fini could have the opportunity to go for an attack into draggapult did we just double the fini i think doubling the finis the most reliable route here because the cinderace i'm not really massively concerned with um i can't max wormwind yeah i think we just found 1000 once again and that cinderace might be minus two defense in range four shadow sneak but it does switch out so we're gonna see the final member of my poke my opponent's team it's going to be the incinerable okay there we go is this is this fini just going to protect here i mean i kind of don't mind if it does it means that draggapult gets at least another turn but oh dear that is just disgusting damage isn't it that is just disgusting um wonder if we could i wonder if we could i wonder if we could get the beat up off with draggapult into the verisian be so good if we could you know but the problem is the problem is when i say that right is that the cinderace is gonna outspeed verisian so we can't really do that you know we need to get rid of the the cinderace um i don't think it's got suck a punch because i think it would have went for it before now um especially that second turn maybe not the first turn but definitely that second turn um so i think what we'll do is just as a safe guard can't mimic you uh no what we'll do is we will switch verisian in and we'll go for a dragon darts and that should be enough to get the cinderace unless we see this sucker punch but we do get another battle cancelled so on the streak today but very good game to cruise um and a nice win for us to tot up and we still got room still got plenty of time for one more today friends so what a treat on this friday afternoon we're going to be able to finish up with another one let's see if we can get this verisian going again with the beat up combination but nice to see the draggapult kind of take center stage in that one so we'll jump straight into our next game of today's episode okay our third and final opponent of the episode is up and they're playing a team of urshufu rotem heat uh toga kiss rillaboom spectria and the landeris therian now i'm just going to remind myself i'm pretty sure i sped this draggapult to be yeah one point faster than uh the spectria which makes us it makes it a little bit easier to deal with of course but we do have to worry about other things if you go down the draggapult route like the urshufu i do feel like the verisian is very good here the only issue would be obviously spectria coming out uh with willowisp and then obviously the other issue uh that gives verisian a lot of problems is going to be that landeris therian um because we cannot we cannot uh knock it out uh in one hit with like especially if max is in front of us that causes all sorts of issues i wonder if it's worth maybe leading something like mimikyu draggapults here rather than the verisian maybe go verisian route like late game potentially um and then go on like glastria mod because glastria is pretty good outside of like the rotem heat um mimikyu can do good damage to the urshufu and we do have the option where we could potentially yeah spectra causes us all sorts of issues but i mean spectra urshufu is probably our worst lead here i think let's go with this let's go with this that's that's three different kind of teams three different mods that we're playing although we're kind of going with a similar draggapult mimikyu combination here but we do have the glastria this time which you can come in and i think do some work for us if we needed to let's see the willowisp worries me from the spectria but we do have we did have access to finny we haven't opted to bring it here we're going to see the spectra in the togo kiss um that makes things a bit more tricky for us in regards to uh getting our shadow sneak off but we do have the option to get glastria onto the field the big problem for us would be um would be of course the willowisp into draggapult or the taunt even into mimikyu um um or the togo kiss even maxing or the togo kiss going for yeah anything this is why we need finny i think to sport the glastria a little bit better okay we need to make our minds up we need to make our minds up i think we just go find some force into the spectra and we try and and and get our trick room up we try we try we try if we get a trick room up we're halfway there but we are going to see the spectra go for its max it may be going after the uh the draggapult here i would imagine it probably is i would imagine it probably is but we don't want to pull the trigger just yet we might see a helping hand max phantasm you know that might be an option when my opponent kind of tries to to fire that off into the draggapult turn one follow me don't mind that because we'll disappear bye and uh this phantasm the thing is i don't think you go for the phantasm into the mimikyu because it's a waste of time just going for max move into the disguise and get the trick room up which is ideal because it means that we'll move uh last this turn with draggapult which puts us in a pretty nice spot to get some fat damage onto onto a bunch of things especially that torochus i think we could shadow sneak but i think they're probably going to follow me anyway um the other option is what we do here is we get glastria onto the field right now get the phantom force and then the next turn we've got a good switching from draggapult to mimikyu so that disguise just gets bust but we can stop pressure on my opponent we're not worrying about that that willow usp yeah they have to follow me in this situation that's why it allows us to get the glastrian for kind of for free almost although they go for the phantasm anyway into glastria which oh my god yeah i actually forget that we're um they would do that why would you do that but they would do that uh the critical hit not ideal especially because we got the light the uh the the solid fist um okay i think the big thing for us is to try and get rid of the the torochus here if we can uh i think we do switch into mimikyu to take that attack a little bit better we've botched this up a little bit i don't think we can max glastria at this point just too too low health too low health we'll go off to the torochus this could really backfire if we see protect here which we may do um but they may not have protect as well so we'll see we'll see we'll see how it pans out yeah are they gonna go just after the glastria hmm we botched this up slightly max phantasm into onto the mimikyu okay so it's not it's not the end of the world that's the end of their max turns at least we'll be able to get rid of the the mimikyu this next turn unless they switch it out which they're likely to maybe do i think so we could potentially double up into the spectra and then cover that that potential uh switch out torochus because the torochus is so threatened right now right like we we go we go yeah we go we double in on the spectra it's unlikely the spectra has protect but switching in glastria like we did probably not the best play in all honesty knowing that the dragapult couldn't be attacked that turn you're gonna have to get some kind of uh value for your turn so getting rid of the disguise in that situation makes a lot of sense and then potentially should have got the glastria so it was a bit freer you know um never mind spectra going out wrote him heat coming in going to be able to sap up these tacks pretty well and we're not taking advantage of being able to get rid of this this torochus and the icicle crash avoiding okay we do survive though so that's that's a huge huge bonus for us we can go for the toner can we go for taunt because we're gonna be um are they just gonna go are they just gonna go for a nasty plot okay we taunt them anyway so we stop that we'll go for an icicle crash this time around hopefully it connects i don't think it will i think they protect again stall out this trick room it makes a lot of sense to do that but if we can get rid of the torochus it makes this match up so much easier for us because then you know dragapult can kind of come in and have a little bit more freedom to uh to close this one down yeah there's a protect i mean if they nasty plot here then that's it's not not the worst case scenario but they're likely just thunderbolt i think into the glass chair yeah get rid of that threat okay okay um we do get taunt onto the rotom now we could and the damage is twist back to normal okay could we now utilize dragapult i think it's not a bad play because we just shadow sneak max phantasm into the torochus we don't worry about what the rotom can do it's likely gonna switch anyway have we revealed the shadow sneak i don't think we have yeah we just do this yeah and they can't they can't dazzling gleam us because if they do then we get the shadow sneak off and if they redirect then the rotom's not really doing anything other than dealing with potentially um the mimikyu so let's see it's a bit of a mess this game to be honest we set the trick room up to try and get glass rain to kind of do a job and it's kind of just done the job of of stalling out my opponent to the point where we can get this board position back without the spectra on the field um so yeah it just feels a little bit messy but we'll see can dragapult be the savior here and then it would be nice to finish off the game with the verusian it's where with a beat up combo but we will soon see now we should be able to remove the torochus from the field now it just all depends on if we see follow me or not i think but i mean oh no we get it okay that is that is what we like to see they're going for the dazzle then being drawn in okay well this makes things a little bit easier although we have to worry about we still have to worry about urshufu you know because urshufu can come in and do all sorts of nasty things to dragapult but we'll take we'll take a sucker punch we'll take a sucker punch um and a shadow sneak and a max airstream will be enough to get the urshufu uh because the thunderbolt shouldn't you know no way not getting the mimikyu from this range um and it depends like the spectra here now i think we go after this like if the urshufu comes in right we shadow sneak that we go after the spectra and then um verusian can close the game up for us that's that's how it's gonna work if it is urshufu spectra there's the horse and is that it no what's that oh no the rod the rodam's still out okay um all right for the rodam i mean what's the rodam doing i mean we just play rough the rodam in case the urshufu does decide to come in on that slot and we go from max phantasmin to the spectra there's like there's no there's no discussion here this is what we do okay well we see we see the protect that's fine that's fine that's fine that rodam because it's taunted as well not really causing us too many issues wow we get very close to a knockout there they're just gonna go for a thunderbolt again i imagine but the minus two defense that this rodam's on it's gonna take a decent enough chunk from the player off the air so that's good um and over heat coming out this is perfect actually because now this sets up the verusian to come oh we actually survive okay okay that that's that's ideal now we shadow sneak the spectra and we go for the max phantasm into the rodam and that makes it so much cleaner for us and then we still have the shadow sneak to kind of go into that last turn against the potential urshufu that's sitting in the back um it's been a bit of a dragapult show today but you know we still got the verusian we can still we can still wangle our way with it with it justified to finish this off depending on what the last pokemon is and we may need it you know still don't know that that fourth and final pokemon that my opponent's got so we might we may still be able to see this justified verusian close the day up for us but i mean shadow sneak there's no way that it's not taking the spectra down if something comes in like the urshufu in the back we we break it sash so that's that's great anyway um in the rodam yeah in a in a and a nasty spot plus two dragapult i gotta be able to kind of do the biz for us here and close this one up which is really nice so we'll see what this last pokemon is and uh finish up with the turkey today are we going to be able to close it out or are we going to see and we're going to see that third and final battle canceled message hopefully not but uh yeah the urshufu coming in okay did we sacrifice yeah we do it we do it okay we get the verusian in the only drawback here would be would be sucker punch taking us down um and i just hope hope it doesn't happen i'm kind of confident that we're in range to take the sucker punch but i could be wrong okay well that's still it's still fine because we still got close combat and we still got shadow sneak so regardless of whatever happens verusian is closing this one up today for us so there we go bish bash bush shadow sneak mimikyu actually has put in a lot of work today for us mimikyu's done really well i still feel like we we didn't make the most optimal plays um with with our first few turns setting the trigger up etc oh they're scarved that is interesting they're not the water type are they that will make things very difficult for us if they are but they're not i don't think no of course they're not the water type what am i talking about what am i talking about they suck a punched they can't be the water type they're just how did they outspeed verusian though how did they i need to check this verusian spread which i'll do before putting the rental team up but that that seems a little bit odd it's like a bunch how did they close combat before us suspect i'll check the team make sure everything's as it should be and then we'll jump over and get the rental code for you friends here is today's rental team there were a few issues and the answer to why that urge of you i'd sped us in the last one because we had a negative speed nature on verusian now that has been resolved we've nature meant today we give it the jolly nature so everything should be as it as it should be um obviously as well um we've got everything sorted as it is down in the poker piece below if that makes sense so sorry for the confusion there but crazy to think that we went through three games with verusian not even optimally trained and it still crushed it in today's episode which is amazing so the team is fixed all up together all nice and good you can see how it functions we've got some nice modes in there everything kind of interlocked like we covered at the very start of the video so if you do try the team out i hope you have a lot of fun with it it is going to be a fun team to play around with and verusian is just a pokemon that deserves a little bit of love so if you've got a spare moment and you want to play around with something a little bit more fun a little bit more offensive on the ladder give this team a try and if you do let me know down in the comment section below but thank you so much as always for tuning in friends have a great rest of your day have a great weekend and we'll be back with more action on the channel very soon so until then take care of yourselves and bye bye