 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 battle series My name is Lee also known as Osiris and on today's episode. We're going to be featuring a team with G max Perish trap Gengar. It's going to be a lot of fun I hope you enjoy it stick around till the end of the episode and there will be a rental team for you guys to Try this team out for yourselves and before we get into anything today I just need to say that the whole basis of this team is based around Gengar and Lipod now I can't take any credit for this combination It was a Japanese player on Twitter if I can find their their original post I will post their handle down in the description below and all credit goes to them So the basis is you can G max with Gengar, but once you G max you don't have access to Perish song You can trap your opponent with the signature G max move, which is the G max terror But unfortunately because you've got two more turns potentially of your G max form You can't press that Perish trap button opponents are trapped. It's really clunky It's not working his streamline as something like mega Gengar that we've seen in previous formats But the ways are way around that we've got copycat on Lipod So we can press the Perish trap button and max guard with G max Gengar and then copycat That will then perish song the whole field So it's a really good way of trapping in your opponent and then obviously protecting Gengar while getting the Perish song set up with Lipod The rest of the team we've made up with Incinero or Gothatel obviously to help with our trapping with the shadow tag there We've went for a another Perish song user in Lapras. It gives the team another mode as well with the the G max Lapras there and you can see the kind of trends around Lapras You've got the Gothatel that kind of replaces the dust globs with the trick room there supporting that side of it You've got the Incinero with the Intimidate support another partner that you commonly see with Lapras and then the Concord there as well Another partner for Lapras helps out the Gengar as well because the the Gengar Lipod struggle against Tyranitar Concord there does a great job against those kind of threats So hopefully it's gonna be a lot of fun. Hope you guys enjoy today's episode Like I said, there will be a rental team at the end of the episode so do stick around for that Without further ado, we'll get into it because I've bubbled on and now the annoying thing is as well I'd already recorded this episode with two Insanely good battles last night went to render the video and realized that I hadn't got my mic on So I've had to kind of ditch that if you guys would like to see that episode because the games were Literally some of the best games we've probably had all season. Let me know. I'm quite happy to dub over it I just felt a little bit uncomfortable because it's little of me stick sticking down in the the corner And it'll be like a bad Bruce Lee movie with the the dub in there Would you guessed it? Okay. Well, we've got Okay, well, you know This is this is all right So we've got a bit of a mirror here for that first opponent today playing Gengar and Lipod the Covernite the flapple or Appleton, sorry renew the place and the Snorlax, okay Well Gotta worry about the trick room, but not so much because we've got mega Gengar The only thing that can't switch out once we trap them is the opposing mega Gengar And if it doesn't have a sash then we can get rid of it pretty quickly We've got thunder wave on our Lipod so we can paralyze it and hit first And we've got sash so I feel like Pretty comfortable going with Gengar Lipod lead. It's what we go in the back and you know what I think I Really would like Lapras just for the second Perish especially if we've only got two Pokemon left Maybe got the tell as well. It's just the hour You know if it was flapple I'd probably be a little bit More in doubt, but because it's Appleton. It's not gonna hit as hard as flapple. It's not as offensively threatening I think we've got a little bit more room especially with Lapras to set the Perish song up and maybe stall out at least one turn against it because Well, we need to saw two and I confident we could potentially take two turns Especially if you can get in a position with got the tell to stop it if it does come might not even come back to We'll see. Okay, so Lapras and Lipod for my opponent Okay, well They could potentially fake out a Lipod out they could I don't know if it's really something you want to do Like there's always that rule isn't it don't fake out a big good user Bless you're certain, but then it's it's never really the best place I'm gonna thunder wave the opposing Gengar and just go for the max terror The other play we've got here is just going for the foul play and then the max terror obviously Lipod's slow then Gengar so we would be moving after it, but it would mean that We would potentially be able to take them down if they are sash, but let's hope that they're not sash Let's hope we can get the T wave off and then We can we can win the Gengar war because once their Gengar's down then the next turn we can potentially Well, we've got the Lipod trapped in then And depending on what the Lipod does this is all going if we've got the Gengar then we can maybe go for the Max guard perish Hoppy cat play Right. Well, let's see what happens. So Big out. No It's not what we wanted to see. You're not playing by the rules. Come on. Come on. Okay. Well, we do hit first They're gonna be enough. Oh They are sashed They're such we're suched Everybody's suched. Okay And they're going for the terror as well Okay, well Alright, so we're both flashed Hmm Like they're probably gonna match See we could max guard here, right and then I'll play the Gengar the chances are that they max guard as well Let's just do this. Let's just go for the copycat play Because then the next time we can if they do max card this turn And then we can go for Okay, well, I'm gonna see that at least we get the perish on to the opposing lie pod We'll see what the opposing lie pod does as well. It'll be interesting to see they do They go copycat. They just gonna copy copycat. How does it work? No, they go for the perish as well. They knew that we were gonna go for the max guard. They knew it Max starfall. Okay Interesting. Gengar does get access to dazzling gleam, but we do have the Roselli Berry on our lie pod So we should just about be able to take that which is quite handy. Um, I think they I Think they protect this turn I Want to go into the Gengar I really do but it's sort of it's that they they max guard here I feel like they do max guard Yeah, but I think they're the kind of priorities to take our Gengar down, right? mmm We're not gonna be able to kill that the lie pod sure Right, we'll just go for that. We'll go for that. Okay. We'll go for the tea We'll go for the double in on the Gengar. Okay. Well, we get it. No the misty terrain it protects us Okay, well, they're just gonna do the same as us. So it's all good. I forgot about the misty terrain Ah, all right. Well, okay. Well, they take down a lie pod. I kind of prefer that honestly because um They're gonna lose their lie pod anyway, and we still get to keep our Gengar They're just copycat. I wonder what the set the lie pod got. Okay. Well, I Didn't expect to come against the mirror like literally Um No way it was just like the thing. I just didn't expect it was the thing I least expected to be honest The misty trains up we've got access to fake out so we can take advantage of that a Gengar is gonna revert to its normal form now Okay, this is why isn't it we can't potentially parent song again That kind of like to keep Gengar that's the only thing So, what are we better off doing? Because I think yeah, I Want a pair of song where am I faking out? We're gonna fake out the lie pod or It's likely the lie pod has taught so we want to we want to shut that down Appleton it's probably good. Oh, it's protect. That's perfect. Perfect. Okay. Well, we get this place This is great and you get to keep Gengar now And all right. Well Things just took a little turn for the better for us. So right and Gengar lie pod gonna go down the next turn and We want to switch in to laparous here and We'll just protect with goff hotel because this Well, we still got a stall at the Appleton, right? but Long as laparous doesn't get taken down this next turn then we're still in the decent position And it depends what the last Pokemon as well is so Let's see. Let's see. Let's see I'm so sad that episode there. It did previously like Just is no good with the mic. It's annoying having a mute button on your mic I wish you didn't have it there or I wish I could just Snap it off And but never mind the games are so good, but hopefully we have just as good games in this episode I'm confident that we will do right got the tail protecting on our side of the field So for an end damage copycat coming out I'm gonna fail because it goes into the protect and then the leech seed. So that is literally Ideal lie pod going down now. So my opponent down to that last two Pokemon right Hmm and we do potentially have a play where we could depending on okay Snorlax. Hmm. I think we set the perish as soon as possible You don't want to set the trick room because the Appleton slow the Snorlax is slow and Belly drum scares me on the Snorlax really does but it's all I think we're all right because we've got the Gengar in the back As long as we can get a pair of song up It's fine like we don't care about leech seeds at this point Belly drum would be a little bit scary Because we've got to get through three turns We may as well attack here with bottle. There's the Belly drum. Okay Okay, so Where you going Snorlax, I think the thing that scares me most is probably Earthquake from the Snorlax because it hits everything Okay, well the leech seed like I say it doesn't really matter because we're just stalling out and Now got to tell be down to I think Probably need to switch got to tell out this next time. So Lapras is three got tells one. Snorlax is three. Okay, right? We protect with Lapras We switch got to tell out to Gengar And then Gengar hopefully goes down here we can bring got to tell back in we can the Appleton and be gone We can fake out and attack with Lapras then double protect the next turn anyway All going well That's how it should go. Okay hopefully, hopefully Apple acid, okay, well gets rid of the Gengar which is ideal. This is exactly what we want And the Snorlax gonna go for darkest lariat. All right. Well, that's that's super fine And now the leech seed gonna take a little bit and but it's fine still fine Appleton going down and Snorlax will be on too. So like I say all we need to do is fake out attack and Then we should be able to Get our first victory which is ideal. Okay, so we're off to a good start I think the thing that is fear and master because of that that previous episode was so good Was I was just so scared of like coming into this and it just being a complete disaster because it's it's always a chance when I come On always a chance that it could be a complete disaster But we're at least we're off to a good start and we're off to a good start in this episode. We've got at least one win So that's perfect pleased to show you guys that we came through on top there the mirrors a weird match up but Yeah, I like I because this is such a new combination. We've just had gmak Gengar like introduced to the format So something I expected to kind of see So soon on the ladder, but I guess it's kind of picking up a little bit of steam and the other good thing about this Episode I guess is it's gonna make you guys aware of what this this kind of combinations capable of and So that would be good. So you don't get caught out by it so hard We've got Bolo up next as our next opponent. So let's see what they're running. Okay, Delmais It's full of ghosts Like the the one thing the one type that we don't want to see they're gonna switch around freely against our Trapper and abilities. Okay, so we've got down mice mimikyu the tokes Gengar Machamp and Drampa the grandpa so Potentially to G max Pokemon on my opponent's team the Gengar and the match up both new Pokemon to the the series Just being introduced got heavy trick room options there Haven't you the Drampa love strict room so does down mice and mimikyu good set of there as well as that down I'm pretty sure down mice gets trick room and then redirection with tokes Um, are we better off going with Lapras in this game? And it might not be a bad idea although The mimic you scares me more than anything else if I'm like completely honest And I think if we went Lapras we could potentially Like I don't know how they deal with Lapras outside of there the match up Match up does scare me a little bit I've got to say match up to a kiss definitely is a scary thought and then Lapras is no good there So I'm gonna go with that trusted trusted lead there, and then we need to pick two more Pokemon I think we'll go off the tail and we'll go Lapras. Yeah Incineroar is not bad here Honestly, but it's always nice when you're playing like the main perish trap mod to at least have perish in the back So and if Gengar does go down at least you've got kind of the back of perish and trap user Perish is really hard Like especially perish trap is really hard to get going this format because of the Just the lack of perish song users that we've got in the format like you've really only got a few viable ones Gengar Lapras, Primerina, or probably your STR ones in this format you've got Cursala Obviously you've got like stuff like Evia Light Haunter if you want does have levitate so there is an option there But yeah, it is difficult. It is super difficult. Okay, so I Think what we will do is we'll go file play into Mimikyu As we've got no torn torn would be super useful and but if we see a trick room we can copycat at the next turn and Yeah, yeah, we can copycat at the next turn I want to break the discuss in the Mimikyu And I'm gonna go for the G max Terra into dummies Dummies might protect you or it might even max itself The sash just gives Gengar a little bit more security I guess against like just the one attack and I Guess this is the fear of Gengar being doubled up into this turn, which wouldn't be ideal And there's the there's the protect. Okay. Well, that's fine. I mean Gengar's not gonna get hit here I think we just see a trick room honestly The problem is going for the copycat this next turn it means that we've got to attack because if we go max guard then the Our copycat will copy the max guard Oh this policy dummies Which is not ideal I'll play we do we're gonna break the disguise in the Mimikyu. So that's that's good. It's good. Um I think we've got a hope that the dummies Attacks into Gengar and don't get doubled up into I think that's a big kind of hope here Um Because we've got a copycat right that'll get the that'll get the trick room As long as you don't see a shadow sneak like a shadow sneak would be really bad And the dummies is going to max for sure. It's got a weakness policy boost some trick room So as long as Gengar doesn't get doubled into here, I think we should be all right. Um, and we Should get the kill on Delmice um And it's tempting for my opponent, I guess Here to get rid of the live pod with the play rough like attack into it Um And you might even suspect a max guard on the Gengar Oh, actually it goes first. So we get the trick room off before everything else. This is ideal I forgot we've got the prankster This is the best trick room anti trick room tech ever. Okay Oh, this just gets better and I swear this just keeps getting better. Okay Nothing like realizing a mechanic halfway through the game. There's the player off as we suspected And the trick room is not even a thing now And we do take that because of the rose allie berry. So that is ideal I wonder if we see the toggle case come in now. Um potentially potentially But I really want to try and get rid of this mimic you. Um Which you can do with another max terra Poppy cat such a great great move. That's probably one of the greatest turns I've ever had in pokemon. I played pokemon a long time So surprised by that. Okay, drampa Grandpa is coming out cloud nine. Okay, so I think A faked he is here could be quite nice because we don't I I want to prioritize getting rid of the mimic you right so I want a max terra right now We want to take away the the option for them to trick room Like we've got trick room as an option in the back But we've not got the slowest pokemon like out of the two teams that we've got on the field at the minute Like drampa is going to be slower than lapras. Um, it hits like a truck Uh, it gets thunderbolts it gets energy ball. So it's not the kind of pokemon that we want to be um Allowing under a trick room for sure and it can potentially max my opponent hasn't maxed yet So they've still got their max. Um, as long as gango gets through this turn Then we've got the perish song button that we can hit and that's the big thing for us I think um, we're just doing a fake tears here because it makes Lapras's life a lot easier when it comes in against this drampa worst-case scenario max terra hopefully takes down the mimic you Um, yep, and then they've only got two pokemon left now. So we'll revert back to our normal form And then we can just hit that that perish song button and then just kind of switch around smartly How'd your pump? Okay. Well, we do dodge. So that's that's nice. We still got a slash intact Okay match. I'm coming in. Oh, okay. Well It's all right, isn't it? It's all right. It's fine. It's super super fine. Actually, um Can we just be that that? Yeah, we'll go for the big tears into match. Um Uh, oh, we could thunder wave it we could thunder wave it. I mean thunder waves kind of nice Um, because it could be it could be guts, right? Uh, no, we're not gonna do that We're gonna fake tears it because we're just gonna activate the guts if it is guts Let's not be silly about this Let's just perish song and fake tears and then both pokemon on my point instead of the field are like at least weakened especially Um, majority of our team is is our special attack is anyway. We've got gango Obviously got the lapras and the Gotham tell Okay, and the sas really the sash really helps us out here You've got to double into the gango to get rid of it this turn if they don't then we've still got three pokemon To switch around with and that's more than enough for us to take advantage of um The perish the perish that we've got here. So, uh, we just got the fake tears into the match up Uh person there we go. Perfect Cheese strikes. So gengos. All right. Let's turn. Uh, we'll be into lipod Um, now the crit rate will go up on both the matchup and the draper Crit rate scares me a little bit Honestly, uh, what's a draper gonna go for? Dragon attack dragon pulse if it's got it. I would say more consistent than hydro pump flamethrower. Okay. Well, that's fine Everything right. Well, we'll bring Gotham telling at least we can like The very minimum we can um We can stop the draper attacking this term And I think what we'll do is just pick out into the draper and we will switch into Lapras But we just protect with gango Thing is we could see a max darkness come out here from the match up. I don't think it'll get goth hotel um It take yeah, we'll get lapras in because I think it's a good opportunity to get lapras onto the field And then we can protect the next turn with goth hotel. We still got gango in the back I think that's a better way to go Uh, then protect with gango here and then switch it into lapras the next turn So it's a pick out. Uh, we do start the draper attacking this turn max steel spike. Okay That's super fine like that's super fine And I think the thing they are with perish song is you really just got to calculate like these three turns in advance Um, like you've got to be thinking about what can I do what switches have I got available to me? When can I protect? And what can I do to make sure that I just lock this game out so my opponent's got no way back in Like now they've really got no way when we don't protect here They've got no way to kill the goth hotel. We're not in kill range They haven't revealed max darkness. Which is something that I would suspect to see on something like match up Um, but you know at this point like we've got two super bulky pokemon out on the field um And the perish songs are like really ticking down for my opponent So this the next turn what we can do is just pull what we did the last game and pull goth hotel out of here Or getting going back onto the field just attack the flapper. It's maybe into the grandpa Um, switch gang are in um, and then we've got goth hotel in the back to come in If if things go really bad, but by that point. I think uh, we'll win because we've got the double Um, we've got the double protect as an option anyway So yeah, uh, this is it. I mean like yeah, we just everything's down to one now So they're gonna just go down to whatever we don't even need to switch if you don't want to but um We will switch we want to preserve goth hotel and we'll go for a freeze dry into drampa lapis Probably likely to take a fighting type attack here. We could kind of try and Pull some shenanigans by switching gang are into lapis to take the fighting type attack But I mean there's really no need to risk anything right now Lapis faster than both the match up and the drampa the fake tears coming in super useful there So we might not even needed the parish after all but the dynamic punch taking little lepros down Um, unfortunately, and we're gonna see a You see I'm gonna lose gang are I think they come here. Heck yeah, we're losing gang are did good gang are though He did really good this episode Good gang are good gang are I honestly think I've really changed my mind When when I first can thought about g max gang are in this format. I thought Just not gonna be that good, but honestly, it's like I think this team has completely changed my mind So I definitely recommend you guys trying it out and I will say one thing about the team Does take a little bit of getting used to but once you've got the hang of it and once you've got the flow with it It really starts to feel very good and very strong and gang are feels great Honestly, don't be scared to bring it. Um and take advantage of the lap the lipod with the support there Um, but we do pick up another win. So that's excellent. That's really good So I'd kind of like matches yesterday's episode at least and very good game to baller Always great to play you and like I mentioned at the start of the episode my friends I did say that we would Reveal the rental team for you guys. So I'm just gonna hop in obviously doing the episode yesterday I already created it. So I'll save us a little bit of time I'll be able to just pull this up for you right now and If you do try it out, please Let me know what your thoughts are on the team I would love to hear how you're getting on with it the fun that you are having with it Hopefully and all those sorts of shenanigans. So have fun my friends. The team is great Honestly, I'm gonna keep working on this in the background playing because I'm just having a lot of fun playing it So I will be tweaking that along the way. So this might come back as An archetyped later on in the the series with a few changes And if I do make them we'll definitely revisit this over on stream or maybe a showdown episode So we'll see what happens. But thank you so much for tuning in Have a great rest of your day. If you've enjoyed the episode is always drop a like Do subscribe to the channel for more of this content more pokemon content In general we do news. We do guides. We do all sorts. 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