 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode here on the channel My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode We are gonna be doing something a little bit different from usual a little bit special We're gonna be covering and kind of reacting to a match that I took part in in the 2014 world championships in Washington DC It's a match between myself and Barys Akos It is round three of the world championships and for those of you that don't know I'm sure many of you do know Barys But he is the he's got a huge personality in larger than life German player like accolades coming out of his ears. He's got like amazing player He's got like national championships top eight at worlds regionals the list goes on and on and on So very well decorated player had an amazing career when he was playing And it was it was a real pleasure to play him at the world championships Very nervous at the time for myself Obviously I played Barys I think in the 2013 world championships the year before in Vancouver And it didn't go very well Barys kind of handed my butt to me that in that tournament But coming into this one it was a little bit different I had kind of I don't know I felt coming into the 2014 world championships Like I had something to kind of prove got my invite the year before For the 2013 in Vancouver and didn't really perform as well as I wanted to So I was very determined to kind of do well in this tournament And it turned out pretty well I ended up finishing top eight in this tournament finishing seventh overall And it's probably to this day my best finish in any tournament And probably my best kind of accolade that I've got personally And I just have a lot of fond memories from that year at world It was an amazing experience made a lot of friends as well that year And do look back on it very fondly And for that reason I kind of wanted to cover this match And it's weird that this match is available Because this was streamed by the Pokemon company It's a live stream going out But none of the VODs are actually available now And it's only because this French I believe they're French Poker blip Poker blip or Poker bip I don't know which one they are And they actually done I think it was a French commentary coverage of the event So this is the recording from from their side Their perspective Now the commentator is a commentator in my match We're Dwi and Justin Finn I don't think Justin doesn't commentate anymore Unfortunately he's a great guy And Dwi obviously does amazing commentator So we're going to look at this We're not going to have any commentary unfortunately But hopefully we can share this together and react to it Because like I say coming into this match I remember finish my round two this tournament And I remember just like kind of packing my stuff up And Barysh came across to me and grabbed me It's like come on we're on stream we're on stream And I was like oh no no I don't want to be on stream I don't want to be on stream especially against Barysh Because all I had in my head was like I knew this this more while And got the telco was going around the tournament Like people were talking about it I was like I know Barysh is playing that I don't know really what it's do And I don't know the team archetype is very new No one had really been playing it prior to Worlds At least that I knew of And I hadn't played it at all I hadn't practiced against it So I was worried about that And I was also like the last year I played them It didn't go so well So had all these thoughts gone through my head So I wasn't feeling the best about going into this match But we got up onto the stage You'll see this in a minute as we'll start off From the beginning you can see there's the stage there And then coming into the team preview here So just a little bit of backstory about 2014 as well 2014 was the year that Mega Pokemon were introduced to the format in X and Y Which is an amazing thing Obviously Mega Kangaskorn was the big mega It kind of dominated the entire season Winning regionals, nationals Like everything it won So coming into Worlds It was definitely a Pokemon that had a big target on its back And everyone was kind of gunning for it And you kind of were expecting a lot of Mega Kangaskorn But it turned out there wasn't really that many Mega Kangaskorn And I don't think any cut There might have been one that cut I'm not 100% sure though I don't think any cut But a lot of Mega Mobile To kind of counteract the Kangaskorn As you can see Barus's team here Is a polytore of the Kingdra Which is a really nice rain call Rain very strong that year as well Not so much with the Kingdra You normally saw Ludicolo So the Kingdra was a nice pick Obviously faster than Ludicolo as well So it gives you like a little bit more offensive option there But without the fake out And then you've got Moel, the Kangaskorn Both Mega's So a double Mega team Really nice flexibility as well With the trap from the Gothatel And then rounding off with Zapdos So a really nice team And pretty scary to kind of face off against in team preview Now my team I had three of the same Pokemon as Barus I had the polytode The Moel and the Zapdos But instead of Kingdra I had Ludicolo Instead of Kangaskorn I had Garchomp And then instead of Gothatel I was playing Taranitor So I was playing a sand and rain kind of call This year And I figured like double weather Give me the most flexibility Most options to play around I definitely wanted to play Mega Moel As my Mega It was something I played at the very start of the format And I kind of fell in love with From the very beginning of X and Y So it was something I wanted to go with And I love polytode Ludicolo was one of my favourite calls From early generations And even into X and Y So as you can see We're going into it There's the players down in the bottom corner There's Barush on the right And then myself on the left there As you can see Big zoom up of me I don't know if I look much different Probably look a lot different than Barush there They're looking all like he does Glowing, glowing But yeah I was seriously nervous about this match I was like I really didn't I wanted to do well And I thought Round three I don't want to lose That's the big thing And I knew the goth hotel was a big threat In Team Preview So I had to My only thing that I could lead Here to kind of get around The goth hotel Give me a pivot out Was my Zapdos It was fast and it had Volt Switch So I knew that would give me An option to kind of reposition I couldn't exactly gochomp here Because the Intimidate really does Kind of slow the momentum down With gochomp from the opposing Moel And I thought if I get in a trick room situation I'm trapped with gochomp on the field Against a Moel in trick room It's like it's going to be game over Especially Intimidate So my idea was really to Try and pivot out with Zapdos Get gochomp in And just use my Moel Intimidate To kind of slow Barush's Moel If it came in And anyway Leading the Zapdos Give me a decent-ish kind of matchup Against the Raincore as well As we'll see in a little bit But this is the first match We're going to see both Moel's Mega Evolve And I think mine Mega'd before his So indicating that his is the slower one So if the trick room does go up Like we're suspecting here Then it will get a little bit tricky for us So we do go for the Vault Switch Suspecting that you know The Gothetel's going to trick room So that's the slot that we can definitely pivot out on And this gives me the opportunity To get gochomp on at the field Which is amazing And the thing is you would think Okay well Gochomp's not in the greatest position here We are in a trick room Against a Mega Moel But I built this gochomp Specifically for the World Championships Thinking that Moel could be quite a popular Pokemon And it was actually built to take Mega Moel on Like one on one and always win Because we're holding a Rose Ellie Berry And gochomp's EV to take a play rough And then a Sucker Punch from a Moel Unintimidated as well So we've got the Intimidated onto His Mega Moel right now So I felt really comfortable in this position I know the Moel's just protected as well So I've got a pretty free Earthquake This turn As we see a fire fang from his Moel into mine We do protect and the psychic doubling in On our Moel But we do get that Earthquake here And we do get some nice big fat damage Onto both Pokemon And put both the Gotha Tel And the Moel into very close KO range So one more Earthquake will do the job But I can't really Earthquake this turn Because of my Moel out on the field And it's kind of a bit counter productive If I do go for an Earthquake here Just because we'll just be damaging our own Moel Which won't help But we do see the fire fang It's a nice tech as well It wasn't really something you saw very often on Moel's But for the Moel Mira It's a very good option We go for that Iron Head It's in low enough range to pick the knockup out there Obviously being part fairy as well It's not resistant It's just neutral And then a Dragonclaw Cleans up the Gotha Tel Removes the trap And we're sitting right now In a very good position But I don't really know if you can see I'm very very kind of like I'm not very reactionary Like I don't react very much in matches at all Like you never would see me pop off Or anything like that Very rarely anyway And I like to just try and concentrate Until that very last turn Why I definitely know I won Because otherwise I feel like in big high situations like this I get very complacent Like I don't want to get complacent And I feel like if I get ahead of myself That's what will happen And I can let my opponent back in So if I stay very very concentrated In my head Then it works at least for me So we've got the Zapdos And the Polytod coming in Now we're still in Trick Room So we're not in the best position at all Gotchomp Not in any good position Against an Ice Beam Potentially Polytod And Hidden Part Ice From the Zapdos So we do protect here We see the Ice Beam From the Polytod We do underspeed the Zapdos Which is nice And manage to get a play rough off And do some good damages The Zapdos does take more while down But I think here I'm thinking that I've probably got Tyrannotor in the back So I can bring T-Tor in now Which gets rid of the rain It gives us a little bit of a better option Against the Polytod And definitely a better option Against the Zapdos Yeah it is the Tyrannotor And it's strange Because I wasn't running a protect On my Tyrannotor I wanted Thunder Wave And I wanted Taunt Which seemed like the craziest Options ever To run on a Tyrannotor And I think I had Assurance in Crunch Sorry Assurance in Rock Slide Was the Mild Move Set With the Lumbary And the Taunt was there To really help me shut down Opposing a Moongus I didn't want to get like Spored And was it a Moongus Or was it I don't know if a Moongus was Oh a Moongus was in this I'm pretty sure There's a Moongus in Smiggles as well So I could always get the I'd always wake up And then be able to taunt Opposing Smiggles And obviously taunt A Moongus before they could do Anything like that But we get the Rock Slide off Take the Zapdos down Obviously we're slower Than the Zapdos as well And then we switched out Garchom Keeping for later The dimensions turn back As we get a Zapdos onto the field And now we can just Thunderbolt And take the Polytod down Pretty easily And that's like a nice Easy game won for us I feel like we do have a good match-up Against the Barrages team as well So we get the little cheeky handshake there But yeah Like I felt good about that It was nice to get the win Obviously to take that first game But it's like it's still not anything Like I always feel like If sometimes if a game goes that well Early on You know the second game Is going to be like that much harder Because your opponent at this high level As well they're going to be Throwing everything at you To claw the game back And if you lose that second game I feel like it's almost even more difficult To win the third game Where your opponent's got all the momentum Going into that third game Coming off a win in the second one If that makes sense anyway So it's like even higher stakes Going into the second game for me Just to try and lock it up Because if you can just nick it here I still have a lot of tricks on my team That I haven't revealed in game one Which is very nice Like we haven't revealed the Roselli Berry We haven't revealed the item on Tyranitar And I don't think we've revealed the item on Zapdos either Which is a big key imponent Because we're running Scarf Zapdos as well And I don't think I'm making that many waves At the tournament yet Just round three that I have Need to be worried about people Scouting my team or none Like what items and things I'm running So I'm probably at that stage of the tournament Where I'm kind of just mowsying along And no one's really noticing So that's quite like a benefit for me So we actually see him changing up here With the Kingdra and the Polytod Which makes things a little bit more awkward for us Especially for... We really need to just get rid of the Kingdra If we can get rid of the Kingdra Things become a lot easier for us The Polytod I'm not too worried about Because I think we've got Tyranitar I think we've got Tyranitar and Garchomp in the back I think we've got the same two in the back But I just need to get rid of this Kingdra This is the big problem for us They need to get rid of the Kingdra Once that's gone Like we've got the fastest thing on the field then Because with my Zapdos It's scarfed, it outspeeds Max speed, modest, ludicolor in the rain So we always get the jump on that But that doesn't give me the jump on Kingdra So in this matchup This is where it was very awkward for me Because I was like Okay most of the time I can kind of catch my opponent off guard They're going to let their guard down with the Polytod Potentially because the ludic can hit us first But in this situation I can't actually Outspeed the Kingdra Which is a little bit awkward Now we do see it go for a muddy water And it does big big fat damage So I don't know whether that's specs or not I would expect it to be choice specs No it's life orb, sorry Life orb Man life orb does so much damage Does so much damage You get the play rough off and manage to survive We've got quite a bulky Moel And the Kingdra is down there So I think if we hadn't had as much bulk in our Moel And we wouldn't have been in such a good position Because that probably would take down no Your normal 252 HP Moel pretty easily there The thunder obviously going into the protect there Of the Polytod And the interesting story here I'm going to stop here Because this zaptos Right, we've taken quite a hefty amount of damage With our zaptos Now this zaptos Right I wanted for this tournament I wanted if you look at the team We've not got very much coverage against grass types And I was worried about Venusaur in particular And I was like I need an answer against mega Venusaur I know Moel doesn't do a bad job But I can't just rely on that 100% of the time Because they're going to have probably fire types To kind of cover the Venusaur and things like that So I was like okay Where can I fit something on my team To kind of help with the grass matchup The Venusaur matchup And I was like well Titor We could play Icebeam But then it disrupts the move set that I've got already And I'm really kind of set on the move set Rock slide assurance T wave and taunt I didn't really want to change that And I was looking around the other team There isn't really many options Ludicolor Polytod isn't really a matchup You want to bring against mega Venusaur So I was like The only option is zaptos And hidden power flying So I was like okay I remember booting up my Y copy And I'd already caught zaptos in my X So I was like okay I need to try and reset for hidden power flying Zaptos And I'm not even exaggerating here It was like literally three weeks of soft resetting For the zaptos And I had no luck I had no luck getting it Literally on and off Like I used to commute like three hours a day to work And I like was soft resetting on the way there We're home And like I had no I literally didn't get it Flew out to Vancouver And it was the night before we had to lock our battle boxes For the tournament And I still hadn't got it And I was like panicking at this point I was like I'm literally not going to get it for the tournament I need it for the tournament And I need this This hidden power flying zaptos It was a weird spread I think it's like 31, 31, 31, 30, 30, 30 So you needed all odds and then all evens I'm pretty sure that's what the mix was there So it was an incredibly difficult spread to get And it came to like an hour before I went to bed That night And I soft reset And I managed to get it But it turned out the zaptos had like zero special defense IV It had really bad speed This is before you could hyper train or anything like that as well So it was like it was really like it was terrible So I had to like rearrange the whole EV spread And I was just like Okay, well I'm going to have to sacrifice any sort of bulk I've got on the zaptos Which was a good amount of bulk And then just max out the speed to get the speeds that I need Because that's the most important thing And then just put the rest in physical attack Because sorry, special attack And just like forget about any bulk And just have to go into the tournament like that Because I've got no other option I can't afford to soft reset now After just getting it after like three weeks of soft resetting for it So it was like it was a night It was a bit of a nightmare But it worked out all right in the end But this zaptos Taking a lot more damage there from the muddy water So a little bit of a back story More well coming in now getting the Intimidate Which is really big on to our more well And we've obviously now got to worry about sucker punch But at this point I'm like does he have sucker punch Because he's got the fire fang Normally you have iron head, player off, sucker punch Has he dropped sucker punch and just got fire fang So it might mean that I can get a thunder off into this polytod So I can't really remember what I go for In my head I would be like Let's go for the thunder into the polytod Let's try and get rid of it And get some damage onto the field Because if zaptos goes down now then it's fine We've still got plenty of pokemon in the back to come in And it would mean that Garchomp could come in As long as we get some damage onto the opposing polytod now Without more while But no, we're not, we're switching out Okay, okay, okay We switch out for Tyranitar Okay, well that makes a bit of sense I guess just to get rid of the rain Does more while just protect here? Okay, polytod switching out And getting the gothatelle on the field Okay, I wonder if I was reading this at the time I feel like, I don't know I don't want to blow my own trumpet But I feel like this is maybe something that I was scared of If the gothatelle comes out onto the field And then I cannot switch around And he gets a trick room up in a more well In an amazing spot So we protect We see the more well go for rock slide Okay And it's not intimidated now Which is a little bit tricky Now this is where the Tyranitar comes into play Okay, so he's got the gothatelle out on the field He's going to go for the trick room Never suspect in a million years That we've got taunt on our Tyranitar And this is one of these specific moments Why I chose to run taunt And I think, you know, looking back at the tournament I think I did make some good picks With move selections on my Pokemon for sure I think they definitely came it They were really pivotal And how well my performance went that year So I can't really complain too much about it We get the taunt into the gothatelle Get a nice iron head into the more well And we take a play rough Which takes down Tito But it's done its job Okay, it's stopped the trick room going up And this means now that we can get Garchomp onto the field Which is amazing because we stopped the trick room And then, yeah, like I say Garchomp can come out onto the field now The more well is in knockout range So we can just I think switch out more well Of our own into Zapdos is a pretty safe switch Because then it allows us to go for the earthquake Pretty freely and keep more well Maybe for a little bit later on And then if the poly toad comes onto the field as well It does mean that Zapdos can put a lot more pressure onto it Rather than just having more well It's probably going to be slower than the poly toad And get knocked out from the range that we are right now So I think that's what we do next I'm pretty sure I should have watched this back first But I feel like it's better experience Like watching it together live Well kind of live, not live But you know because I it's been such a long time Since I've seen this match And oh my god Wait there, wait there Oh my god, look Okay, so have you read the title here Leap provost versus Boris Oh my god Boris Boris I cause How can they get this wrong? How can they get this wrong? It's barish Like on the screen How can How can they get that wrong? Sorry, sorry, sorry Okay, well we'll get back to to Lee versus Boris I don't even know if barish knows this is up I've got to point this out to him I'm going to have to send this to him Like that's never ever anything that I would have ever made a mistake for Okay, so we don't switch the more well out for Zapdos We just protect it and we go for that earthquake We are seeing the more well switch out though And the polytod come back in So it's quite important that we get decent damage onto the polytod We get very lucky there and get a critical hit Which like we do way more damage than we should have done To the polytod there which makes things a lot easier for us going forward See psychic into the garchomp And now we've got to be worried Because our special defense falls And obviously the polytod we've already seen has got ice beam This goth hotel isn't going to be taunted for that much longer So it's got like a maybe one or two turns where it's taunted So we need to make sure that we're getting damage onto it Like now really So we see protect from garchomp Might have to feel want to preserve that And we get the play rough into the polytod Okay, so we must have known That we were faster than the polytod Which is a big deal for us We see the skull come out into our more well Pick up the knockout But this is fine now Because this means that we just get zaptos onto the field And we've got the discquake combination Which is one of the main reasons why I wanted to play zaptos garchomp this year So running discharge on zaptos Garchomp immune to it with its ground typing And then we can earthquake as well It's a really old school combination But very effective as well So we can just literally earthquake and discharge And clear the field now And then more well can come in We know it hasn't got suck a punch And that pretty much wraps up the game from us From this point right now And I'm kind of feeling like Okay, nothing going seriously wrong Like misclicking or anything like that We should have wrapped up this one And that would take us to 3-0 With two more rounds Is it two more rounds? Two more rounds? No, 3-0 with three more rounds left To play in the qualifier rounds So this is equivalent to like day three What you get now But we didn't have like day We didn't have a day one It was just the lcq and then the main event So the goth hotel going for the protector And we'll go for a nice juicy discharge Which gets rid of the polytod And being scoffed at us as well Really helps us out And then the mobile just to come in As the taunt is worn off on the goth hotel Obviously I was a little bit worried I think at that point That the goth hotel may survive Like this combination Because the goth hotel can be bulky And if it survives then that would mean It would lose the game I'd lose the game If the goth hotel got to trick him up That would be it There's no coming back from this point So we've got ourselves into a good end position here Where like we should be doing enough With discharge and earthquake To kind of clean this game up So we do see More while going for that protect And that's the right player Because like I say If goth hotel can take this combination Which Depending on how it's built You know Depending on what happens So he takes the discharge pretty well We do get the paralysis He can see me there Just apologizing for the paralysis But I don't really think it comes into play Doesn't matter Because I think the earthquake Is more than enough to take down the goth hotel And then there's just a more while there But we do manage to wrap this one up Pretty easily I don't know if we see a forfeit I don't even Yeah, I think we just I don't know if we forfeit in these ones Because we are on stream So we'll probably finish it out As you're advised to On stream If you're on stream Finish your matches Don't forfeit Ever And that's Aptos Was on fire that tournament as well We get the Like discharge paralysis Is nuts as well So it's very handy But the speed tiers are Like the speed mechanics Are very different back here Than they are on Sword and Shield But we do wrap it up And honestly to this day now It's like it's still a match That I look back on very fondly And like I say It was a massive pleasure to play Barish And he's an incredible player So getting the result there Was like really nice And I think even after the match I was like I was still like a bit like You know Just don't know what's really going on Just focused on the tournament On my next match And just trying to do well And I think I play I'm not sure who I'm playing the next round Can't remember Might have been Colin Colin Hire Might have been No I think I play Colin Yeah I play Colin round 5 I play Colin round 5 I can't remember who I play around 4 And then I play Marcus Liu in round 6 I believe And then I finish I finish Swiss 5-1 I think 3rd seed Or something like that I can't really remember I think it was 3rd 3rd seed And then go on to play Judy And the The top 8 in the quarterfinals And Judy wins And then goes on to the final to play Sazion And that like Iconic final with Patrice and Sazion Kind of taking the championship that year But there we go That is it my friends It's that's been a really fun video I've really enjoyed it So there's many more matches out there That we could look at And do this sort of thing on But I thought this was quite a nice one To come in with Just talk about a little backstory of myself As well as some of my experiences And look back at an old match as well That I have like such fond memories of And just share that with you guys So I hope you've enjoyed it It's been a lot of fun doing it If you'd like to see more of these episodes And things like that in the future Let me know But leave your comments down below Let me know what your thoughts are on the match And if you ever did watch that live Or if you were involved in that season Or anything like that I'd love to hear your experiences from that year At the World Championships It would be a lot of fun to hear about those as well Or just that season as well Obviously the 2014 season was incredibly amazing We had a huge Pokemon boom that year With X and Y And it was a lot of fun And hopefully Even though we've got the current situation Going on at the minute in the world Hopefully we can get back to live events In very near future And kind of have these experiences again Because they're a lot of fun And meeting and making new friends And stuff like that But that is for another time So I'm going to end it there friends Hope you've enjoyed today's episode Really thanks for tuning in And I look forward to reading the comments And see you all for the next one So until then friends Take care of yourselves and bye bye