 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 Battle Series. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today on the channel I'm going to be playing a team that I took to a PC and MSS over this past weekend down in Openton. I finished 3-2 in the MSS so just missing cut there. I think I finished 11th but a couple of matches definitely could have won one of them and the other one was just a really well played zoned on team that I just didn't feel like I had the resources to kind of overcome and it just whittled the team down which is a little bit of a shame but a positive in a way because it's something I can look at at the team and see where we can go and maybe change things up to make that match up a bit more favorable a bit more open so we can we can maybe overcome that in the future if I do decide to go on and use this any further then the PC happened after that didn't change teams decided to stick with it one more pop and finish second in the PC only getting defeated by a Chansey Anisella-Sneela-Matti running that and I couldn't break it down the defensive wall there was just too much with light screen support I even game 2 I went for double Geomancy and it still wasn't enough to break through the team but second place wasn't too bad got some points came away and the team did itself very proud so as always the team is down in the description below there is a roll pace and a poker pace check it out and try the team out if you want ask me any questions if you've got any about the team or the build in general but we've got Assault Vest, Evelto we've got Zernius standard Serena is a little bit different got the focus session there wanted to try out Endeavor with that Endeavor Faint if we ever have a one-on-one situation with any sort of Pokemon you can always win out in that situation unless psychic terrains on the field and then we've got a little bit of a problem but majority of the time you can kind of maneuver yourself around to get yourself in that end position where Serena can clean things up if you have brought it also nice with that Queenly Majesty ability just to support against any fake-out pressure that you may see Incinero standard there but we've got Roa on it I think we didn't really need the dark type of attack since we've got Evelto to deal with that side of things and we've got Scarf Landeress it was probably the MVP of the weekend and then Tapu Finney so the team all in all really nice XY isn't something that we see commonly used in the ultra series did really well in Sun and Moon series but as soon as the ultra series came around it kind of fell off a little bit so it was nice to bring this back especially with so many Lunala, Duskman and other dark weak Pokemon in the format at the minute Evelto did really well when I did bring it but some matches where I felt like I couldn't bring it and I think that's probably why you're not seeing it so commonly used in the ultra series but I would suggest giving it a go it's still a very good Pokemon and I can do a lot of work against a lot of other teams that it doesn't struggle against so much but we will jump straight into it today hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent and as always my friends if you do enjoy this sort of content please remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and leave your comments down below in the comment section and we'll get into this first one today we'll pick some music but it was just a really nice weekend honestly it was it was great seeing everyone down there so some of our patreons our flinch squad members down there will costar and craig all then and manage actually face will and craig so that was really nice at the event overall um but of course I've come away from it thinking I wish I could have done a little bit better but um the pc went on to like half 10 11 o'clock on Saturday night which was just crazy so I was pretty wiped out I didn't get back to my hotel till about 12 o'clock and then up again uh really early to get across to the venue for nine on Sunday morning so I was pretty wiped out on Sunday didn't feel great and uh changed up teams um but didn't perform as well and I was off to a very slow start that day so came away with uh not as much cp as I would have liked but it was it was nice seeing everyone and I think a nice um a way for me to kind of get back into the swing of competitive Pokemon at least I had a nice finish on the Saturday that's the big thing but uh we'll get into our first match today and uh hoping to team preview okay so our opponent is running a team with a velto groudon uh tap cocoa stack attacker incinero and lucario so lucario probably the mega on the team here and one thing that we need to watch out for does have access to redirection but whether it's got it or not is another question then you're gonna have probably tailwind and trick room elements on this team tailwind from the velto and then the um the trick room from this stack attacker um now the one thing I would say here is that there's probably five out of the six pokemon my opponent's team are all physical type attackers maybe the velto's mixed um but our double intimidating it can be really really valuable for us um I don't think we're gonna see the stack attacker lead and we've um had a little bit of a disconnect on our end so um I'm just gonna go for incinero I think we'll go zonius we'll need some sort of um other thing is I could probably go eval tol lander us here or eval tol incinero lander us and zonius I think that's what I'd go for but I don't think we're gonna be able to get into because our opponent disconnected which is a little bit of a shame so we'll uh we'll hop back on see if we can um find our opponent or our first opponent pretty quickly that's a bit of a shame isn't it I am I was looking forward to that match because it's nice to play kind of like a similar mirror um and the the eval tol groudon is like if you're gonna see eval tol you're normally gonna see it paired up with groudon it makes a lot more sense to pair your eval tol with groudon because groudon covers a lot of the things a lot better than um what zonius does for eval tol um so um but never mind lander us kind of fills that role in for our team I will just say that hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent I'm just gonna cut it right now and we'll come back to when we do bump into our first one of the day and we've got our first opponent of the episode so we'll hop straight into team preview see what we're going up against and it is a team of zonius requires a persian incineroar tapu finny and stack attack us so we've got the x-ray call here um between zonius and requiser they got support and cast from persian um and then the incineroar offering fake out support fast taunt as well from that persian stop any setup from our end and then the tapu finny and then stab stack attacker who is probably going to be the trick room setter of the team um and also a good deterrent for things like zonius things like nyligo that would otherwise cause this team a lot of problems now the one thing that i would say on here is what we need to probably utilize our double intimidate especially for that requiser the stack attacker as well and the incineroar um but we also need to make sure that we've got our zonius checks in place um okay we could potentially go zonius incineroar serena and landeris now i don't feel like i need evalto here we're not really doing too much with evalto this is a matchup where evalto is not really needed um it's not really going to be able to damage the the finny or the incineroar very well uh the stack attacker it can do a little bit of work against but not a great deal we're going to have to rely a little bit more on our landeris for that um and the zonius we need as a news check so um something like incineroar that we've got here with the rory helps out in that respect so i'll click in and we'll get into this first one today i need to get a bit better with the clicky fingers i'm just the the screens it's too early in the morning i didn't have an episode up yesterday it was um i was kind of like after the weekend to go back i was um i was so wiped out so i didn't really have time to put one up yesterday unfortunately but we are back today and we'll be finishing up the week with this team so it should be a lot of fun hopefully it all works out pretty nicely so we're going to see um persian and zonius come out from my opponent um now do we trade fake outs or do we switch it into serena and go for a cheeky gmancy or do we just roll the opposing zonius and allow it to gmancy that might be a nice way to do it because we could potentially switch into um or we could protect we could geo i mean what's going to be better here letting my opponent geo up we could potentially go for the geo here it's just if they taunt us that's the only only issue is if they go for the taunt um into our zonius which would be a bit of a pain and if they detect maybe the serena switching then um we could get caught up by that i'm gonna go for it i'm gonna go for it i'm gonna go for the serena switching and the geo mancy i think we'll get it and if we can get this ooh zonius switches out stacks coming in that's not too bad you might see a taunt like a taunt would probably be a bit more in our favor now um but we are just gonna see the fake out so that's all right that's not the worst um we need to be a bit careful around this stack attack but we do still have aren't in a row to come back onto the field we're not probably going to be able to stop a trickery and groan up but we do have fake out we do have double intimidate which will help support our zonius a little bit more um and we also have open arm and blast as well we could potentially use um okay so i'll protect zonius i think we'll play a little bit more of a long game here i'm going to switch in incinero on our serena and we'll see what this stack attack does it probably goes for a trick room i would imagine probably the best player my opponent can do at this stage they might just go for an attack though uh if they do go for the gyro ball it puts us in a better position going into the next turn so we're not having to uh stall out the five turns of trickering they do get set up but like i say i think the best thing if i was my opponent right now i'd probably say let's get the trick room up let's start um pressuring this zonius so it's not able to just freely pick up knockouts here there and everywhere um so we'll switch in incinero we'll get this nice tasty juicy intimidate off onto the stack attack i'm not really worried about the Persian right now and we'll just throw up and protect just to get around any potential channel i'll i switch okay that's uh interest important shot coming out into zone okay well that's fine i mean if you don't mind that too much uh we'll just go for a dazzle just get some damage on this stack attacker and we'll go for a fake out into the stacks as well um you just want to start getting damage onto it really is the person sashed potentially i guess um but i don't know if that like it's going to get a parting shot off for sure if it is yeah and i mean we could have faked out that slot but i'd rather take a parting shot than take a chunk of damage from gyro ball the other option there would have been potentially just going for um to switch out into liner us and get a double intimidate off and then just wow we're not chipping in the the sash would still be active we could fake out into the Persian and then um yeah it's not it's not ideal it's not an ideal situation uh the opposing zoning is going to come onto the field now now i would like to try i think we're going to have to try and roll the opposing zonius out and moon blast the stack attack and hopefully take a minus one we'll take a minus one uh gyro ball we're going to roll the zonius and i'm just going to moon blast into the stack attacker unless we see an ally switch again which we don't which is good because that would have been bad that does enough and it does all get that the next turn there's a gem anti so as long as we don't lose incinero here which we shouldn't do unless we see like a connell crush which would be bad um we should be able to remove the opposing zonius from the field so getting rid of their boosts all right let's see gyro ball zonius should take this yeah just about um and if it is the ray aquasar in the back we're not really too threatened by um okay this is fine um now we just switch in serena and go for another dozen gleam and that should be enough to get the stacker and the persian and we get around the faker that way as well so prevent my opponent from really being too disruptive having the serena on the field yeah with that queenie majesty ability anything to worry about maybe is why god but like you've got ally switch gyro ball you've probably got star nedger rock slide and you've definitely got trick room i think on your stacker um like i would say probably more like to have protect them why god on this old build yeah so there's a dazzle this should oh we don't get stuck in here okay we actually missed the stack and stacker kill we needed yeah that minus one coming super handy um okay it's not the worst beast boost where we going defense all right right we've got to deal with ray can serena shine through in this match uh we'll bring in incinero get another into here onto the stacker attacker and it might be worth cycling in landers at some point the zernia is going to come back onto the field and we could always power up the stack attacker now um and just go for a faker into zernias but we've got to start thinking about our next turn i think more than anything else i don't think the trick room goes up now i don't think it really helps my opponent too much we'll bring in landers but i think we've got to be quite mindful that the raker as it could be in the back and we need to have at least one intimidator in the back when raker as it comes out into the field so we can cycle that intimidate we tough gonna be tough gonna be tough now but we'll see what we can do zernias protect what we're gonna see stacks go for variable it's good job it's like on minus whatever it's on i don't know what it is minus three wow okay um it's probably a good idea to start getting rid of the zernias because if we can start chunking the zernias um i can't really earthquake like earthquake would be nice here but i'm gonna just u-turn out on the zernias and flare blitz into it as well okay well that's fine because we'll get rid of the stack attacker with the the um the u-turn this should be enough to take it down hopefully yeah just about and then we'll get serena onto the field and we've got the intimidate in the back for when this ray comes in now the issue is serena sash will be broken here unless we see a moonblast into the incident which i'm kind of hoping we do that would be ideal because serena we really want its sash intact come on be into serena okay wow that does like nothing this is a bulky deer it's gonna be ray 100 come on my dude let's bring in that ray let's see what you can do yeah there's the ray okay now are you worried too much about right i mean where would you go where would you where would you target if you're my opponent would you go sold stands maybe because i'm tempted to go for another i'm tempted to go for the endeavor into the into the ray uh i'm gonna u-turn out onto the ray and i'm gonna endeavor it as well and i'm hoping we see like a dragon ascent into incinero and it's not banded ray because that would be bad but if you can get the endeavor off now because i don't think that serena's really putting any pressure on my opponent's overfield other than the fact that it's got queen your majesty and i don't think you're really worried about that right now delta stream gonna hit hit the field trying to send come on be into incinero please no for serena okay well it does take defense drop and we're only going to be able to get two intimidates onto the raid it is actually life or which is interesting the moon blast coming now from the zernis incinero taking a big chunk of damage probably in it trying to send range now i'd imagine we will take another moon blast but it's where the protect comes this next turn so we'll get landers in because we've got the active fake out can we do this it's going to be difficult we need incinero's berry to activate that's the big thing i think um and i'm gonna fake out the zernis because i think if you go for moon blast into landers then we can be picked up by an extreme speed so i think it's probably better that we rock slide we could always flinch can't we and we flip we fake out into zernis hopefully we don't lose this one i think it's a little bit of a misplay where we didn't protect zern and then bring in serena on the on the persian i think it would have been better to potentially protect it that turn rather than let it go down to that gyro ball because if we just keep zernis around for like that one extra turn and we got the help and hand dazzle the next turn gets rid of that stack it's like a lot easier and we wouldn't be in this position if we've done that but um a little bit complacency from ourselves in that respect so we'll go for the rock slide um and we'll go for another flag let's into the zernis we need some flinches though come on big boy flinches come on come on come on yes okay well that's all right yeah going for the lander because yeah it takes us down and then i think we just lose now because we can't can't deal with the rear quasi with incident unless we can take down this now we can't and it doesn't even proc our berry so it's done it's done good game to my opponent and uh i think when you look at on on the face of it it was definitely that turn where we protected the zern we didn't protect the zern and let it go down to the stack attack we need to preserve it there and i think when you look at the like the rest of our teams makeup and how much we would struggle against the restrictives without our zernis uh it's a lot more obvious that we should have done that um in hindsight but never mind things to think about um and it's i think with this team as well every turn feels like it's super important in in these matches and like you get one turn wrong and maybe that means the team's not really um up to the task in this this format where you've got because you don't want to be playing a team that you where you have to be getting pretty much every turn correct um and i mean like that sounds a bit strange because really you want to be getting every turn correct when you're playing pokemon that's what you want to do you want to play every turn correct so you win the game but you it's it's impossible to do that in pokemon sometimes your opponent's going to do something that you don't expect and maybe rng crops up at a time so you need a little bit of room to kind of like a buffer almost with your team where it can kind of suck up a little bit of pressure um and suck up some maybe players which don't go your way and you can still kind of overcome things in the end but this team it did feel like that on the weekend as well it did feel like you had to get pretty much most of the time the the switch right or the the attack right or the protect right and uh if you don't then it's very difficult to kind of come back from in the situations anyway we will hop on we will try and find our next opponent and hopefully it doesn't take too long and we'll just cut it right now we'll cut it right now we'll come back when we do find our next opponent my friends and we've got our next opponent the episode we got meth vgc so we'll hop straight into team preview and it's going to be another x-ray call so it'll be a good one to go up again see if we can kind of overcome where we went a little bit wrong in our last match so their team made up of incinero requires a type of finny zonius bravery and the toga tomorrow so um oh the braveries making things very difficult for us to bring our um intimidate users so we're gonna have to really play around it another way i think i don't really want to proc and i think it's something that my opponent probably will bring to lead with i'm gonna lead with tapu finny zonius and i'm gonna bring serena in the back i don't think i bring eval tol again and i'm gonna bring incinero the reason i'm leading tapu finny zonius is because the toga tomorrow is likely to try and go fake out and nuzzle into our zonius um and if we've got the misty terrain in effect then it can't do that and if they try to go for the fake out turn one then we've got the serena switching and we also have intimidate with incinero in the back to kind of help us out in the late game so that makes a lot of sense you're going down a geomancy route here with the team so that's what we're going to do we're going to lock in there ready so let's get into it right we need a victory come on we can do this it's going to be tough like bravery is always like a pokemon it's a pain to play against because of that defined ability you've got to be very careful about um how you switch your board position around especially if it requires it comes up to the field uh but we are going to see that and toga tomorrow come out for my opponent um i mean it's not a bad idea to actually just switch in serena and go for the geomancy here i don't know if i think we'll 100% see a fake out and once you've got the geomancy we can get rid of the bravery the problem is if we see like a z move into zonius that could be pretty bad for us like once again we lose zonius um early doors and we don't really have too much to get around and what my opponent's going to do hopefully we see it something like a tailwind that would be a lot better for us um but we'll have to see what what they go for the bird scares me though 100% so we got the geomancy off we do see the fake out from the toga tomorrow so serena coming in pretty nice in that respect but let's see if it pays off in this next and there's a tailwind okay so that's fine that is fine now we can get rid of the the bravery uh toga tomorrow is not really causing us too many problems and i think what we might be better doing is going for a faint uh bravery is not going to be sashed no way we'll go for a help in hand dazzlingly what's the toga tomorrow gonna do like ironhead or zingzap maybe u-turn bravery could protect i guess but the bird definitely will go down to a help in hand dazzle 100% unless it's sashed but i would imagine toga tomorrow of everything on my points team it's more likely that's sashed than anything else so um you do get the dazzle help in hand get rid yeah wow the bird goes down without doing anything ironhead coming out not ideal but it's not the strongest ironhead in the world so not in the worst position um and then we still have access to our help in hand dazzles or help in hand wind blasts going into the next turn and we could even faint the toga tomorrow depending what comes in next to my opponent um but we'll see it is the ray of the zernius if you would imagine it probably is in the back tailwind is in effect so we have to keep that in mind if rick waza comes onto the field it's going to make things a little bit more difficult for us we probably have to switch serena out to incinero get intimidate off protect our zernius and then go from there but it is the opposing zernius must be timid i'd imagine um to try and get its geo off i'd imagine that's what it's probably going to try and do um but we will go for the help in hand again and we'll go for another dazzling gleam because the toga tomorrow will go down here uh if we outspeed the opposing zernius like it has to be a speed tie that's the worst so we'll lose a speed tie potentially it gets its geo off but we still get a plus two dazzling gleam off which will do a nice chunk of damage to it spiky shield coming out from the toga tomorrow we could have went for a faint there but uh don't really need to dazzling gleam gonna hit first and that's the big thing we need to get this damage off before that geomancy so that's really helpful and now yeah it does get its geomancy up but and now it is in tailwind but there's only one more turn of tailwind left so we can potentially stall things out a little bit get around this tailwind um and bring an incinero maybe this next turn uh because the opposing zernius is going to be faster than us for like one more turn so we will bring an incinero um and we'll just protect here with our zernius and then that stalls out that tailwind we've got access to fake out this next turn um and we can just go for a fake out dazzle and we've also got serena in the back to bring back in once the rear quasi comes out into the field because it'll try and go for potentially an extreme speed and we want to try and deny that so my opponent just thinking about what they're going to do come on my dude all right there we go serena out incinero in as long as incinero doesn't go down this turn i mean even if incinero goes down this turn it's not the worst but i'd imagine you probably want to try i don't know he probably dazzle here get rid of the serena if you can um and then an iron head follow up into the zernius incinero taking a nice chunk of damage there and then an iron head into incinero yeah so there we go let tailwind pit us out and i think one of the things we could potentially do is actually switch serena in right now or we could be really cheeky and go for a roll into the zernius expecting it to protect get rid of its it's uh it's geomancy yeah because i think ray comes in now oh it's a type of finny okay well this works out even better because no ray in this matchup and there we go okay this just kind of rub salt into the wound expecting the protect there means that we can go for the roll and it punishes my opponent for making that play we get some nice damage onto the type of finny and then yeah the next turn we've got the switch from the incinero back into the serena to stop that fake out and just dazzle again and that will finish up the game for for uh for ourselves so uh yeah we'll bring in serena and then we'll just click that dazzle button and that should wrap things up for us uh because the zernius is the only thing left for my opponent we've got no worries about ray coming back in but i think this is a really good example of how well serena can can help control the field on your your end because a lot of players will use uh fake out support and priority attacks to get around um boosted zernius to slow it down and try and get a board position back whereas once your setup and in a decent position if you can utilize serena well enough it really denies your opponent from building any kind of pressure against you or anywhere around your zernius setup and because zernius is such a ridiculously powerful pokemon um that really does help here we're probably gonna see a haze maybe from the the finny but from that initial damage roll that we did with the dazzle this should pick up the knockout here um yeah and then the zernius to come back in next to the toga tomorrow uh but we've just got the help in hand and i mean what we could do is just to close it out make sure the zernius does go for protect just to drag this out a little bit longer we could always go for feint which is another nice option with serena you know you'll kind of deny your opponent's ability to um use priority attacks but you've got your own in feint as well and it also breaks um protects so there we go really nice clean match for us to end with today especially after that first game where i think uh we just got a little bit complacent in that one turn um so we'll wrap things up there my friends thank you so much for tuning in i hope you've enjoyed today's episode and we'll see you for another one very soon so i'll be back tomorrow with more action from this team center lentic and bye bye