 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 gonna be continuing on with a VGC series 9 content and featuring a very unique Pokemon that we've not played here on the Channel before but it is as you can see on your screen after Zalt and one of the fossil Pokemon that was introduced with sword and shield and The main reason for kind of using it is because it does get the hidden ability slush rush Which doubles its speed as long as the hail is on the field now We do have a hail user within nine tails a lot of nine tails And it can provide a lot of support obviously with Auroraville and some other cheeky texts that we've got on there That we'll go on to later on the team rest of the supporting cast is going to be made up of incineroar type of finny Obviously kind of staples in this format give us the terrain give us intimidate support and give us nice switches as well Especially for that Octo Zalt and then we've got stack attacker It is primarily going to be our trick room kind of Pokemon kind of counteract trick room if we want or set it up or reverse it Whatever a stack attack it does pretty well And it does decently well against most of the fire threats in the format that are going to give Octo Zalt a little bit of an Issue so to speak and then we're running off the team with Dragapult one of the fastest offensive Pokemon in the format And it pairs up nicely with that a lot of nine tails as well because we do have the weakness policy on it there So it gives us really fast offensive option if we need it especially with the ice shard from Alolan nine tails As always the poker paste is down in the description. We'll have a couple of games with the team now Hopefully it's a lot of fun and we'll wrap up with the rental code at the end of the episode So hope you enjoyed today's episode Let me know if you've been trying out Octo Zalt though because it is an interesting Pokemon Especially with that slush rush but without further ado friends. Let's get into our first match of today Okay, first we've got Z playing a team of of What is it pin church in regi a lecky laparice incinero or shifu and whimsicott I want to say pukimuku there, but it's not it's not quite the same But pin church in gonna bring the terrain obviously helping out the regi a lecky given a really fast offensive kind of mod to the team But they do have laparice as well And the one thing that the terrain and octo Zalt probably like to see is that terrain of these the electric Terrain and the laparice which you can do a lot of work against and We've got to watch out for tailwind on the whimsicott it is gonna be able to kind of get the tailwind up pretty freely We could lead incineroat to kind of get around that fake up pressure there The intimidates gonna be nice against something like in the the urshifu Mitigates the kind of incineroar lead from my opponent as well. It gives us a nice pivot out onto the laparice I kind of yeah, you know incineroar makes a lot of sense here We could go octo Zalt as well. The only problem is with leading octo Zalt is that I'd feel like Incineroar will come out and it can cause us a few issues, but We'll go with it. Anyway, we'll bring nine tails as well Actually, you know what? I'll lead nine tails. I'm gonna bring incineroar on the back I think it's a better switch in general and then we will go with type of finny Which I feel probably gives us a nice way to change the terrain if we need it And it gives us a good switch into things like laparice and also the urshifu as well So let's see how we get on this first one. Hopefully it's a good one because you know I was thinking about putting the octo Zalt team together and I was like Is it gonna work? Can it work? We needed to work for the video for obviously for the episode And if it does obviously then it's great because you guys can go and have fun on the ladder with it and hopefully and it inspires some ideas and things like that, but We've got to get through this laparice first which seems like on first appearance leading with the whims of cut You've got the tailwind there. It appears as though it will be tailwind and a very offensive laparice probably life-al So it's gonna be able to get it to raw reveal up But we're gonna be able to get our raw reveal up as well And we can also go for a max lightning Which might not be a bad idea to one because I don't feel super threatened by the the laparice here the only issue would be if we went for a raw reveal and They go for the the geyser the big geyser which would stop us being able to to get our veil up I'm gonna try and get it up. I'm gonna hope they go for the resonance turn one But we'll see we'll see we'll see what they go for I mean gone for the resonance turn one makes a lot of sense But against two ice types unless they're mistakenly Thinking the octopus all is a dragon type, which you know you could easily mistake it for I guess I've done it myself, so I Can't blame anyone else that does and in this situation it would work out pretty well for us But we'll see how much this bald beak does we've got the life up on On our results, so we should be doing some good damage again that electric train up now is always gonna be useful Especially for that next turn, you know Right well, let's see it's gonna be a laparice gonna be the Gigantamax Pokemon which makes you know all the sense in the world here It's weird as well because we like wimmy laparice isn't a combination that we've seen I don't like that I personally haven't seen for a long time, so It's quite nice to kind of see it back in action I do like the combination a lot the fast offensive laparice is always quite threatening there is the tailwind Let's see what it's gonna go for The guys out here Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. I'm going after the nine tails as well. Yeah, just to waste our aurora veil Do I mind us going for that? Not particularly because we're gonna be able to you can see the life up there So it's fine our aurora veil does fail, but our shivering Octo's alt is gonna be able to do some Massive damage, so that's good. And what we could do the next turn is Do we just save the weather for later, maybe It's a difficult one because do I go after the laparice here because they're gonna go at resonance for sure It's whether or not I go max hail storm into The wimmy or not, but I still have to switch. I think yeah, I think what we'll do is Do we just go after? I'm not too worried about the wimmy here. I want to get rid of the wimmy the next turn I think so we'll go after the laparice and we will switch into Let's switch into Finney because I don't want them to go for another geyser and Incinerate caught up by that and I think intimidate and fake out be more useful late game with knowing what they've got in the back You know things like Urshifu Stuff like that and we can make sure they would get rid of the whims are caught the next turn Anyway, regardless of what happens and they go for the max guard. Okay Should have went for this turn never mind never mind It's this women gonna do then energy ball Okay, well the air the old Incinero switch there would have been the better one, but you can't always rely on whimsicott not having energy ball I Think what we've got to do here is go after the whimsicott because we don't want another tailwind going up That's the big big big thing for us now. We could go for a calm mind Could go for a calm mind We could just go for a moonblast They're gonna go for a resonance whatever so I think yeah, they go for the resonance They have to go for it this turn they could go for thunder, but it doesn't really help them out a massive amount. I Think at this point in time. It's better for us if we Just get rid of the whimsicott get rid of the tailwind and then we can utilize the slush rush later on in this in this game They are gonna see a switcheroo, which is not ideal. It's not gonna be any jack button a lagging tail on to Finney okay, I mean out of everything that's like way better because The one I think it's a little bit of a misplay from my opponent Can you kind of want to take a life up off the old girls old and you definitely want to To give it the lagging tail so then the slush rush isn't really an issue anymore and type of Finney with it Doesn't really matter too much To be honest and we'll get the max hail storm into this women I'll take it down to a sash, which we know it actually doesn't have anymore. So it's just gonna be a clean kill So it's a bit. Yeah, it's not ideal But I mean we're still in a decent spot this next term with the tailwind running out. We've still got Nine tails in the back if the weather does change although, you know, we've just set it up for ourselves So we've got that slush rush going they have got the resonance up So we've got to keep that in mind for this next turn or the next five you would say because they have got the life up So, um, I think we'll be well at the minute You can't say it's still pretty early on in the game But I feel good about the position that we're in right now, especially with Reggie lecky coming on to the field Because that's their tailwind ran out. It should have done. The one problem is we want outspeed Reggie lecky With or does all that's the only issue. So let's see and they've got one turn a tailwind left, okay Well, we can just go stomp in tantrum and I think we just protect the finny here The interesting to see what this lapras decides to do does it go after or does alt Because the Reggie like he's not really gonna be able to touch the or goes or or does alt It's such a mouthful as well of a Pokemon, you know At least I think it is But we'll see we'll see what my opponent is deciding to do here Like what does he got in the back as well? They must have I think they've probably got a ship to that'll be my bet but Don't tell I don't I'm gonna be surprised if they just let us take the lecky down here, though Come for the Thunderbolt are they going for the double up? Okay? Well that makes sense The blizzard And blizzard can we take it though? That's the thing the life or will take down the lapras We just need one hit Okay Yeah, the lapras gone we do take the double up Then you could have attacked here, but we were too we were too scared to go for the attack Octos all wow not even getting claws to a knockout onto the Reggie lecky, which is Okay The resonance there. That's the why that's the reason why the resonance. I'm still surprised though You know with a life or we should be doing more super effective and the last Pokemon is in Cyril, which? Yeah, it makes me way more reliant on Protecting this finny to deal with the Incinero here Okay, let's protect Let's Do we just sack nine? I think we just sack nine tails now Yeah, let's just sack nine tails We just need to pretty much get rid of this a lecky, which we could potentially do with with our own incinerole Intimidates not great onto octos all especially with the resonance up We do see the faker come into that slot and we'll probably see a thunderbolt Yeah into the nine tails, which then gives us a free switch into our own incinerole here So we've got the option then to go maybe bald beak Into the opposing incinero And Maybe double up into the incinerole this next turn, you know with a fake out into it unless the regi a lecky's like Specs Potentially could be should we just play it safer that is the safest option here is just to go for a fake out into the Regi lecky and then just attack into incinerole Probably bald beaks our best option here and Then just fake out I think yeah just in case it is bex because you can never you never know do you it is gonna pull the protect out But you know the other option is we go for the fake out and then the double up into the incinerole We still have octos all the next turn which definitely could help us out, but See how much this does It's a decent amount. It's a decent amount now. We will use octos all but We're gonna be in a good spot to Okay, the flare blitz coming out which is fine Take that pretty comfortably and There's this citrus berry Okay Like we're not like all we need to do is protect finny and then we go after the Regi Regi a lecky and it's kind of done Like I don't feel like Regi a lecky's gonna be able to take down incinerole this next turn Especially with the figgy berry here like that even the double up from the incinerole and the a lecky probably isn't gonna be enough The only issue is with the the type of finny is we've got the lagging tail, so It's gonna it's gonna well depends what they the incinerole's got if it's got something like snarl We could it could see this drag out a little bit more obviously with the leftovers that we had on there They were definitely more useful in this sort of situation, but we haven't got it We're just gonna lock into that flare blitz and we'll see you hopefully it should be should be enough to get rid of the a lecky and The incinerole kind of still sticks around On our side of the field at least Obviously the citrus berry on my opponent's incinerole making things a little bit tricky Still a bit confused as to where the lagging tail We just about take it And we get this the air will get the flare blitz and I think this might just take us over into our figgy But maybe can we take three HP? damage You do and it procs the berry so there we go. That's perfect for us And it's gonna be flare blitz versus flare blitz and muddy water Which we've got which definitely helps us out and then going for a flare blitz as well, which is which is fine and Just makes the recall a little bit easier for us to manage the opposing incinerole as the hill does stop And we'll be able to wrap this one up an arc dissolved Coming out on top after this first one, which is good Yeah, I'm still a little confused with the lagging tail, of course I think Going and switching it with the arc does all would have made a bit more sense than the type of finny But it then again taking the leftovers off the finny is always a good thing You know so a very good game to my opponent and nice one for us to kick off with today And we'll jump straight into a second game of today's episode came next We've got an Urshifu a colossal incinerole, Rillaboom, Reggie, Alecki and Glastria team So you can pretty much bank on it being a G max colossal team We've got probably the rapid strike Urshifu there a good supporting cast the regulars in incinerole with the intimidate Obviously fake out support pivot support Good switching for Glastria as well And then you've got the Rillaboom as well which helps deal with those pesky water types Reggie Alecki just gonna be a fast offensive Pokemon that you can utilize to use a speed control With electro web and just be a very fast offensive kind of threat And then Glastria kind of round and off the team The ice core doesn't feel so great here Although now the ice core doesn't doesn't not does not feel great as a lead Because the colossal just absolutely eats us for breakfast And there's not really any way I mean We could lead we could lead incinerole aug result and then have nine tails in the back and then have like tapu finny And that might work But are we leaving ourselves short anywhere? I mean I could I can see that working so I think Because this is all about aug result. I think that's what we do here the problem would be is If we kind of commit early on to dynamax and aug result too early on And they lead with Urshifu and they just protect turn one and we max and then we're in a terrible position Turned to where they've got the easy aqua jet max Steam engine weakness policy and things go downhill very quickly from there It's why you kind of want to tend to lead with like tapu finny in these sort of matchups But as you can see from my opponent's lead potentially why they're not leading with that that pairing because Tapu finny is kind of the obvious thing that we would lead and they're leading to kind of counteract that which makes a Lot of sense. It's in the Glastria and the Regi Alecki come out for my opponent now We could hmm They're gonna max the Glastria. I don't know I mean, we've got to be very wary about a max quake for sure That's something that we can't really get away from and do they just switch the Regi Alecki out I mean, what do they bring in for it? I mean probably in cinema, right? We could make some Do we go for the max and just start throwing damage down to the board I mean max quake's gonna be good I think we go for it and we'll just go for it even though I could see incinero from my opponent coming in They're still gonna take a lot of damage, you know from you know, they're probably gonna vault switch out We'll see the incinero come in but the incinero still even at minus one I'm gonna take a lot of damage from the the max quake from our result And it might put us in a position where we're gonna be able to pick up the knockout onto the next turn And if you think that the incinero is probably coming in there, it's unlikely that we see colossal As my opponent's kind of main option. So let's see Regi Alecki just protecting Okay, so this kind of working out all right for us up to this point And Glastria is protecting as well. Okay double protect just burning turns of our max and preventing us from getting that parting shot off Which is an ideal but the special defense boost is is really useful for us and Because I think the next turn what we do. I don't know if we go for I don't know if we go for the The quake again. I mean we could go for the quake again Just it's more likely that my opponent pulls Yeah Do we go for the bald beak? Now the only thing that the bald beak wouldn't be good against would be the Rillaboo But the bald beak will like the max light and we'll get Regi Alecki for sure here It gets a terrain up as well. And then with the terrain up We don't need to worry about the the the Regi Alecki in on the field colossal. Okay Not what we want to see but the parting shot there is really useful I'm gonna be like super useful as we see of all switch come out Come on be Urshifu be Urshifu, please because then we can switch into nine tails We can get rid of the Urshifu super quick Especially if the bald beak goes into it, and then we just parting shot out get nine tails in get the hail up and Baba Urshifu even if you've got a sash You're not getting through this turn and then you lose your way To set up that that pesky colossal that we don't like to see okay. Well, there's a sash this works out perfectly, okay? It's not over though. It's not over by any means You know because the colossal is still such a threat to us Even if it's like parting shot minus one residual damage At least it can't have that instant set up with the steam engine which is which makes things a little bit easier for us for sure Get the nine tails in we need to Okay, and that that will deal that will deal with that Urshifu Snow warning comes up, which is nice because now we can get our roll reveal up the next turn We've got a slush rush ability active We're sitting in a pretty nice spot to be honest We could go Blizzard we could go Aurora veil with nine tails this next turn But I think we definitely go for a max quick into that colossal. Whatever we do The interesting is the Alec you're gonna come in here. Yep I'm gonna try and get some damage on to the the nine tails. I think Yeah, we max quick into the colossal and we'll go for an Aurora veil because it's gonna be useful I think just the just to have that additional Defense gone going forward. We see the electric trains up, but nine tails not Mega worried at this point because we've got the sash. So we've got that little bit of security We can kind of fall back on here and The colossal gonna gonna go for that G max Of course it is my opponents in a super awkward corner here So they're gonna throw the rocks out so we need the Aurora veil up really because we'll probably Proc The weakness policy. Well, we're gonna proc the weakness policy I don't know if we're gonna be able to pick up the knockout though. That's the big thing for us So I like you going back last three are coming in at least we're not intimidating We don't have to worry about the the old Incinero popping its head up and Ruining a ruining all our fun So we do get some nice big fat damage into that colossal get another special defense boost Which is again gonna help us out a bunch We do activate the weakness policy, but thankfully no steam engine active and we should be able to get The Aurora veil up. Yeah before they can attack and we're gonna be faster than Pretty much. Well, everything on my opponent. So they feel gone into this next turn. It's Jimx player. Okay Well, we're still gonna be faster Because they haven't got there they haven't got their The steam engine I should why was my brain so slow today? I don't know what it is like I've been and this last week I've been away at my parents for the first time in a long time. So it's been really nice And I've done nothing for the whole week. No Pokemon. No, like I've been barely on social media Which feels really strange So spend like the last day and a half catching up trying to catch up with everything And obviously had to prioritize getting a content out for you guys today It is a bit late. I appreciate that It's not really I mean we just stomping tantrum It's not really much my opponent can do now and I mean we just fake out as well Just the the big key in this match was getting rid of the ocean food like we did You know the ocean food coming in us covering bases with that bald peak It really just made it very difficult for my opponent to kind of get any momentum from there And I think you know if the ocean food comes in a little bit later or at a different point The match could be totally different because you know how like devastating colossal can be yet We're gonna see the max guard makes a lot of sense I want to just try and get through this turn and it will double the power of our stomping tantrum I believe I think well, normally if you're hitting to protect, I don't know if it works into max guard But I mean we're in a great spot here Just to go for the stomping tantrum and just to flablet especially boosted by the sun We should be able to get the glass rain won't hit if the the alecky decides to pop in then we'll get that Stomping tantrum gonna pick up the knockout onto the colossal Yeah, and just not really allow it to get get set up or do anything And I think you know that the games that we've had today like Octozalt's done amazingly well like I don't think I could have wished for two better games for To feature it in honestly. It's it's been an amazing Pokemon We are gonna be left with the red alecky the electric terrain is up on the field Incineroar now gonna be threatened by that but Shivering quaking Good old octopus is gonna be able to close this one out for us pretty pretty easily so we'll go for the stomping We'll go for don't even need to bother parting shot We'll just go for a flablet Incineroar is probably gonna go down here unless they go after the octozalt But we just see the battle cancel it and very good game to my opponent like I say There's not one key moment with the the getting rid of the ocean food there And I think as well not seeing Incineroar and that match made it a lot easier for us to where to kind of get going with Octo fish because I Octozalt because I think with intimidate kind of cycling It makes it very difficult to kind of keep up the momentum with the the attack power that you need It's not the strongest of Pokemon because he needs the life up to boost it there But it worked out in the end and we had two really good games So we'll jump over now and get you all the rental code for today's team Okay friends here is today's rental code and if you do try it out I hope you have a lot of fun with it octozalt is definitely a very fun Pokemon very unique type Pokemon as well, you know So definitely give it a shot if you've got time and you're interested And I think ice is always gonna be a very cool type to a kind of an archetype to kind of play around with as well So shimmy didn't really get to see too much of the dragon pull today or the stack attacker But we kind of got to see the main element of the team that it was built around initially Which was the octozalt and you can see how well it kind of performed in these two matches Which was amazing like I've said I couldn't really ask for two better games to kind of feature and showcase octozalt in so hopefully it's enough for you guys That have watched it to have a little bit of inspiration or just feel the need to go and try it because if you do as always Please leave a comment down below Let me know your thoughts on the build if you've been playing around with it already or if you plan to or if It's helped inspire any ideas for your own team builds because that's the big thing I hope you're still all enjoying series nine at the minute We're kind of getting really underway with it There's lots of tournaments going on all the time and just in other news We've started a draft league over on a discord server So we'll be featuring matches from that in the coming week over well probably this week Later this week into next week with the the first and second rounds from them because we've got a lot of the content Being recorded from our players, which is great So we'll be able to do that as well as our main kind of VG stuff as well And I'll be starting streaming so keep an eye out on my socials Twitter Here on YouTube I'll post out when I am going to be doing some streaming which will be very soon So as always, thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you all keep them well and make sure you do take care of yourselves I'll see you all for another episode very soon. So until then friends take care of yourselves and bye. Bye