 Hi friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series. My name is Leigh Alton and I hope you're all well Looking forward to some VGC today And but we are in series 3 not season 3 series 3 of the the sword and shield VGC season And the rules have just updated on the 1st of March now I will link the rules docked down in the description below It'll tell you all of the new G max Pokemon that are allowed in the format now that you're That are accessible as well as all the Pokemon that are now Obtainable from Pokemon home that you're allowed to use in the format. So like I said, that will be linked down below You've got things like Incinero, Venusaur, Blast Toys, you've got Primarina, Lola and Persian There's a bunch of Pokemon that are now allowed as well as the new Gigantamax Pokemon like Hadarine, Lackriss It will be featuring today Orbeetle does so many and it's really exciting to actually get into this new series to actually start playing with these new Pokemon because the team concepts are going to be crazy. There's lots of things to test out But today like I said, we're going to be concentrating on Gigantamax Lappers It is now Available and in the rules we can use it So we're going to be playing around that it is going to be the centerpiece of this team The team concept is made up of Exgeril, Rotomahite, Togekiss, Whimzakot, Hitmontop and the Gigantamax Lappers So we'll just jump straight into a game and we'll get underway And we'll explain the team as we go along So it's pretty nice, Gigantamax Lappers has a G-Max resonance as its G-Max move and as it's kind of G-Max effect It summons the Aurora veil to the field for five turns. Now Aurora veil for those that you are new to VGC or don't know what it is It's basically like a light screen and a reflect all in one move where it cuts the damage of a special and Physical attack by half for five turns. So it's really really powerful and it's as a side effect for Lappers It's incredibly strong. We've went with a weakness policy Lappers in this team paired it up with a Primarily going to be pairing it up with the Solfess Hitmontop. So let's see if we can get that going in our first match We've got Fox up first playing a team of Durant, Tyranitar, Togekiss, Incineroar, Conklder, and Whimzakot So we've got plenty of speed control on my opponent's side of the field You've got the Whimzakot for that prankster tailwind and things to kind of counteract Tailwind if a trick room goes up with with things like Conklder, Incineroar, and Tyranitar there And imagine that the main max Pokemon on this team are going to be Durant Probably the primary one then T-Tar possibly got the weakness policy there and then Conklder are going to be a Third option for my opponent I'm not really going to worry about what my opponent is going to be doing because I'm just going to lock in And go for our strategy here, which is the Hitmontop Lapras. Try and get through as many things as possible early on Get that G-Max Resonance Roraville set up and then kind of have stuff in the back that we can kind of clean up afterwards The Conklder like initially I would like to go Rotom Heat and Excadrill But the Conklder makes me feel like I need to bring Togekiss. So I'm probably going to go Togekiss and Excadrill in the back And we'll lock in The one thing that I found in testing as well And it's it's a bit weird because I've got the Whimsicot on our side of the field as well But I very rarely bring Whimsicot to the to the battles and it's definitely a slot I feel that could be Change for something else that gives us a little I do feel like we struggle a little bit against Conklder and Tyranitar particularly like weakness policy Tyranitar, but And maybe that's a slot where the Whimsicot could be changed for something else That's just initially testing but as always we'll do the two battles today We'll do another episode later in a week and I will share the ransom team with you in that later episode this week So do keep an eye out for that so you can test this team out yourself and have a go with G-Max Lapras Yeah, I think we need to get rid of the Durand. We'll try and stop I Mean do you do you do you do we just mark punch ourselves or do we stop the tailwind because we can stop at this turn But we can't stop at the next turn unless we double into the Whimsicot There is a chance that the Whimsicot could potentially have protect as well because more Whimsicots are carrying protect so um kind of tempted to go mark punch into Just for the fact that I want to get more damage onto the Durand, but the thing is I feel like max resonance is probably enough to get the Durand It's so weak and yeah, so the whimmy is just switching out We would have been better better off going for the mark punch I think or at least mark punch into maybe the Durand just to get some damage off onto it, but You could say It's just making those decisions and trying to get them right Durand in the heavy ball there nice ball All about the special balls these pokemon are in and definitely one of those trainers Is it shiny durand? I'm pretty sure it is Was it shiny? I didn't really pay too much attention. Anyway, we do see the Durand um go for its Dynamax The Incineroar switching and just get the Intimidate off onto as other field not really going to affect Alapras primarily a special attacker. I'm going to be kicking myself a little bit if we do miss out on the The Durand here, which we do, you know, uh, it's not going to be ideal But we'll see how this turn plays out because the mark punch would have definitely probably guaranteed The KO into the Durand and it would have been maybe the better option to go with here It's going to be minus one. So Alapras taking that a little bit A little bit more comfortably and the the next turn the big thing is that we're going to be able to have a Aurora build up so it does mean that we will be able to take and Another one but actually as it turns out the Rockfall going to proc our weakness policy anyway So we don't really get punished too Badly for not going for that mark punch turn one and this should like I say pick up. Wow, it doesn't wow Wow Hmm, I would have thought that would have gone it but it seems like it does it Okay Well, I think We can definitely guarantee the Durant the next turn for sure It's whether or not we want to go for the the Incineroar Or not, we want to go for the max It might be worth like What's my point got because they got the Taranatar. I don't know if it's worth going for a guys that just yet Because they can overwrite the weather if they've got the Taranatar in the back pretty easily um Only thing it could do is weaken potentially a flablet from the Incineroar They do decide to go down that route. Um What are they going to go for steel spike probably if anything I don't think they're going to go for a Rockfall So we could have switched over kissing there, but it's risky because the steel spike could come out from my opponent The only other thing is it's likely that they may go Max quick into Into top because of the defense special defense boost if they don't Attack into the lapis, but they are going to go for the max knuckle We do see that pretty comfortably though uh x-square drill Sticks around and you can Live another day, um We do see the fake up from the Incineroar as well. So there's no risk of it going for a Flablet yeah, we are going to be able to get rid of the Durant now though, which is nice Um kind of sets us up nicely for the next turn as well, especially if the t-tail's not in the back. We potentially have max vortex Into the the Incineroar to take that down the next turn Especially with a weakness policy up But the nice thing as well is getting the him on top out. We do have the potential to switch it back in this next turn Um wind deco coming in Got to imagine that they're going to go tailwind I'm going to go for the max guys are into Incineroar and They're just iron head the wings a cup I think we're just going to yeah iron head the way mean just to get some damage off onto it. Really There's a tailwind What we're going to see the Incineroar go for here. I don't think anything takes down the lapis from the Incineroar Leblets, I think we take this with x-square drill even Yeah The rain and the aurora veil, of course, but I remember that The aurora veil up as well So we do get the wimmy down to its sash and and the max guys that should take down the Incineroar X-square drill is not in the best place right now So it's probably worth us switching it out the next turn because the women's going to be it's got the tailwind up It's going to be in a position where it is going to be able to Just pick off the x-square drill So it might be worth bringing in him on top of the next turn depending on what my opponent's last Pokemon is It's going to be that Tyranitar One of the things we can potentially do is go for A parish song with our lacrosse because it's our last turn of our G max so we'll revert now And with an Intimidate with the aurora veil up You've got to hope I don't know if we're going to be able to get the parish up, but we'll try we'll try I am going to regardless switch X-square drill out for hitman top I think the one thing that we're going to want to kind of hope for is that the whimsicott doesn't just have Moonblast which it probably does and that's going to be its Its option to go into the x-square drill So hitman top not really going to enjoy that But it's not going to go down to it because we do have the assault vest there on the hitman top and Because one of the options that I've gotten the hitman top for this team just to get around opposing I'm going to see okay Unfortunately, don't get the We do see energy ball come out It was brick break to get around opposing aurora veil set up from opposing g max lapras So that was one of the reasons I ended up with four attacking moves on hitman top and to get the the brick break off Consistently I felt like it made more sense um To have a little bit more staying power on the field The assault vest made a lot more sense in that situation. We've got iron head and we've got fake out You might end up rocking a weakness policy here. I wouldn't be surprised if we did, but I don't think we're in any danger of Of going down to be honest. I will just swap out x-square drill here And just go for a close combat. I don't think we're gonna see I mean, I could just protect x-square drill Be an option because we've got one more one more turn tailwind, right? as our aurora veil wearing off We're gonna proc the weakness policy anyway after the taranatoss attack thoughts It's fine. I think you want to prioritize pro at hard I think you probably do go rock slide for the flinch chance here Yeah, you want to flinch both targets if you can gives you a little bit more hope because then if you get rid of the x-square drill If we don't have protect It makes sense. Then you can uh, you can probably have a chance at closing the game out although I'll hit my top With brick break and mac punch doesn't really care what the the taranatoss doing It's a bit of a sacrifice not playing close combat, but I think the the support that break break gives you It's not only good against lapras. It's also good against Grim snarls and things like that They try to set up dual screens and you know meow stickers and new pokemon that's on the scene as well that learns Lightscreen reflect that can can play that so it works quite nicely Um, and there we go. So we do clean that one up and pick up a win pity We didn't get the perish song off with a lapras that would really just put the icing on the cake But good game to fox and uh, we'll move on To our next game and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent But um, one thing I would love to hear from you guys though Going into series three is how you've been finding The new pokemon what ones you've been playing around with the mouse going into the new format And what texts and things are you looking forward to trying out? And what do you expect to be really good going forward? We've got francesco up next Looks like he's playing mr. Wolfe's team Um, so this is a team that we've got Number one rank at the very end of season two. So when season two is at its It's hardest you put this team together and got rank number one right before the uh the season finished So massive props there really interesting team as well If you haven't checked it out do go and check out his channel. He's got some amazing vg content I got the toga kiss the gmax chorizard Um tokel the riperia disclops and then the leafeon which has got chlorophyll as well Uh, we'll go with our laprids and I hit my top again. I feel comfortable with those two Uh, the disclops riparian mods going to be very difficult for us to deal with but it's not going to be impossible um, hmm Rotium heat is very good here. I feel uh, I don't know what you've got for rotium heat actually must have some Well apart from the riperia, of course Got the riperia. That's probably one of the better answers out there. Uh, and we'll go with x good drill. I guess Do you want x good drill? I mean the sash gives us a little bit more security here and I don't really see what I mean toga kiss Does help us out for follow me But a lot of the opponent's attacks are kind of double attacks anyway So the only thing it's really helping out with more than anything is probably the leafeon which I'm not massively concerned about um But it's not going to this isn't this isn't going to be the easiest game in the world I think the toll kiss might have been nice for the situation when we get the lapras Set up I mean we got the tow kiss to bring in for the follow me support just to give the Lapras a little bit of a cushion going going forward, but you do see the toll kiss coming in and the dust clocks as well I mean here We could just go fake out into the kiss And g max resonance Oh, we could go mac punch Mac punch and g max resonance. I feel like that might be the play Yeah, I'm going to go for it. I just want to get rid of the total kiss to be honest And get out of our villa So that's what we will do Is the dust clock is going to do probably go for a trick I would imagine But what we want to try and maneuver ourselves into a position to do is probably get the the hit on top out So we can get it back in and intimidate by period because if we can get And We'll be hitting after the right period Depends if the the dust clock has got bulldozed obviously then Self-prox it's very so that's why getting the him on top out to get back in to get the intimidate So right period is only on plus one gives lapras away. Oh, no, no This is the worst the worst thing that could happen the yawn I always forget about literally always forget about yawn Okay, well, we've got one turn left with lapras. What can we do? Can we make it count? I don't know if we can That's why the fake out would have been better Fake out do that next turn We'd have to beat the uh toga kiss so we just get rid of it. Ah the fake out would have been the better player. We've got greedy Greedy Okay Well, I still think we'll take whatever attack from right period if it comes in Yeah I do I think if it maxes we see the bulldoze Will be fine And they think my best bet to get something and it's not going to take massive damage It's going to be the bottom And then we got the switch back into top the next turn But if my opponent's smart about them they probably just protect right period here maybe Problem is protecting here. You're still going to take a big deal of chunk of damage Um, even though you get this policy activated Because we are plus two that's the only thing unless the dust globs has haze and that could be a nice tech You haze protect you're going to take that much damage from the the max the hydra or whatever it is Or you do that Or you do that That's definitely one way to get around it. Are we avoid? We double avoid. Oh my god, and we get this up into the dust globs Nice damage is not going to kill though. Nice damage, but we are going to be asleep now. Lapras is taking a good old nap Hmm, okay. Well Now the right period definitely maxes Um, I think he chased down the Rotem to be honest We could potentially go allies, which just give ourselves a little bit of a chance He chased on the rock. Do you chase on the Rotem? I think you probably do so He's probably not my point It's probably better off getting the him on top and just to get the intimidate And then maybe switching out into ex-gaville the next turn so we can get him on top back in the next turn After that to kind of nullify the intimidate. It's a lot of turns and switching around But we've got to try and do something We know that lapras has got a guaranteed turn of sleep here The other option that we could have had turned one with maybe going It depends if you want our raw reveal up But the best option for us obviously in hindsight would have been the fake out and then the gmax resonant, but um We could have went Max aligning as well because that would have prevented the yawn from actually being able to take effect There's the bulldoze Hey, what are we gonna see? There's the weakness posting We just need lapras to stick around As long as possible these lapras stick around Yeah, there's max rock ball as much as this dude It's into top. That's way better. Okay. They are chasing. They are chasing the hitman top Okay Right. Well What are we gonna need like let's weigh up that Like what we need what we're gonna need lead game Um Problem is now we're not gmax so we've got as much Defense on our side, but we could wake up this next turn We get a high pump off but we need to make sure that we are targeting the right slot here. Um, hmm Do you think that the dust globs attacks because we could potentially Sucker punch the dust globs I don't really want to do that. I'd rather Think let's see my poor My opponent's got right potentially have The bottom's probably gonna be the better pokemon. So I think because we've got the Sasha next good drill We'll go for that. I'd imagine here anyway that my opponent probably goes max rock ball into the lapras I think our only hope is here that we wake up Uh, we survive this and we wake up And we get the hydro pump off and we are able to get rid of Wow. Yeah, there's no wow Wow. Wow. Wow Okay, there's the nightshade that breaks our sash, which is not ideal. Uh, we've got one more turn of Dynamax left It could bring Rotom and engulf the allies, which we haven't revealed that yet and we could or we can't earthquake That's the only problem Which we want to be doing Um To bring in Rotom and then switch to top and just protect the extra drill It's just we're not gonna be able maybe we'll get if top can come in here and take an attack Then we've got fake out into right here the next turn We can just get rid of the dust box to get rid of the trick room element for my opponent And then we'll take it from there It's not that easy But it's not over just yet Uh, I wish I just faked out the total of his turn one I think this would have been a lot easier if we just done that that's quick into the extra drill Still a lot of damage still a lot of damage Right shade We've just gotten just about enough health to take that the dust club is going to go down regardless this next turn um One of the things you could potentially do is just earthquake The only problem trouble is I feel like the right period probably protects. That's that's my only that's my only worry um I think we've got iron head uh Splots If we can get a double attack off into the right period that would help Doesn't protect Oh Oh Ah, we get a free iron head in so we're getting free damage off So this is like we doubled the right period anyway, so that pretty much wins us the game. I think um because now The mac punch and earthquake Oh, that depends what my opponent's got is their last pokemon of course this this this This is big if it's tolko then I don't think the right period has protect either Oh It's charizard no Uh, all right. Well, we're gonna see a heat wave regardless of what happens here um And I don't think we've got quite enough to um Could a mac punch. I don't think a mac punch gets to my period But a brick brick me It's probably better off going mac punch and go and protect Let's try that I don't want xc drill to go down just yet We're gonna be gutted if the charizard protects thinking it was sandrush and we're not okay Oh, we get that there's a heat wave It kind of comes down to rotum here really Yeah, it's the right one top We only had white god white god would have been incredible incredible as you go quick Okay, all right. I hate we've heat wave can miss heat wave can miss so the sandstorm does subside That helps our rotum out a bunch um Because it does mean that we can potentially over heat the right period and then we've got nasty plots So we can nasty plot Uh, we just need the overheat to actually get the right period and then we can nasty plot and potentially take down the charizard Uh, I'll go for a rock slide just in case heat wave misses. It's not the most accurate move in the world It does hit unfortunately xc drill gonna go down It's all about taking this right period down though. That's a big thing Come on rotum. Let's do this And we hit is it enough Okay, well we've got We probably need two nasty plots. I don't know if we've got room for it. We have got a citrus berry that will proc Um, maybe maybe let's see one nasty plot. Anyway, we can still win this We just need a heat wave miss. That's what we need heat wave miss We might be able to get two nasty plots actually. I think we can because I think that affords us This probably affords us What do we just go? No, I don't think you risk it. I think just two thunderbolts will be enough We don't need to risk it. We don't need to risk another nasty plot just to get the one shot Not worth it. Let's just go two thunderbolts and that should be game And this has been a slog, but we've managed to maybe maybe it's not over yet. It's not over I don't know if we're going to take the next one. You know, I really don't have this take down the charizard It's going to be so close. It's really going to be so close I think it comes down to a damage roll Maybe not even that though. I think the heat wave probably takes us down Ha Hasn't missed once either Nah, okay, well very good game to my opponent Uh, I think we did well to kind of get as far as we did after making a few errors in that match That we definitely highlighted as we went through. Um, it came down probably as close as it could have got Yeah, and even then we couldn't have afforded ourselves an extra nasty plot Could we because it would have been the same situation. We had to go for the thunderbolt So I think the end game we made the the the right decisions. Um So, yeah, but big props to my opponent shown off that team Anyway, hope you've enjoyed today's episode my friends a couple of really good games We'll be back later in the week like I said earlier on in the episode to feature this team once again with the gmax lapras It's a lot of fun and in that episode I will have the rental team for you Also, do keep an eye out for that one. Make sure you do subscribe to the channel So you know when that goes up Do hit the bell button so you get the notification when we go up with the video Do hit the like button as well. It really does help the video Let me know that you enjoy this content more than anything else and just um Stick around for updates on the new gmax pokemon coming into rotation Potentially on the 8th or 9th of march Um, and I'll be doing some stuff on that and plenty of other content in the meantime So have a great rest of your day. Thanks for tuning in. I'll see you all for the next one So until then to go