 Hello friends and welcome to another VGC 2020 episode with myself, Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode we're going to be diving straight into series 6 which are the new rules update for the online ranked battle ladder. If you are unfamiliar with these I did a video covering these new rules that will be taking effect from the 1st of September. I'll link a little card up the top in the corner here so if you want to check that out go across there then come back to this video because we're diving in like I say now. Now the rules haven't officially kicked off so we can't go on the ranked ladder but I've been working my butt off trying to put teams together to help you guys out going into this new format and so be prepared for teams coming this week and prior to the season starting so we're gonna be playing on casual ladder we can't guarantee that we're gonna be able to find opponents but as normal in these videos we'll play a couple of games with the team that will be featuring and then I'll do a rental code at the end of the video so at least we've got one team that you guys can jump straight on to the ladder with if you want to start practicing and getting a hang of the new format so the first team that I'm gonna feature is gonna be this one and literally look guys we've got one two three four five six six teams that I've got ready lined up to do episodes with prior to series six starting so you'll have rental teams to go into this series with and then a special episode on Monday next week which will be the 31st stay tuned for that one there won't be any battle video in in that episode but we're gonna take a deep look at the series six rule set and I've got about 14 team pastes for you guys to have access to so you're gonna have a bunch of stuff to help you all get ready so make sure you do keep an eye out for episodes this week of course if you enjoy this sort of content please remember to drop a like on the video and if you're new to the channel make sure you hit the subscribe button and make sure you hit the notification bell as well because you'll get a notification when these episodes specifically with the series six teams are coming out and you'll not miss them so you're already going into this new format okay this is a team that we're going to be featuring today it's pretty fun one it's based around a core I I personally think is going to be very strong going into this format obviously we've lost venus or rillaboom so gastrodon of course is going to be a very strong pokemon I did talk about how predominant I think these bulky water types are going to be in series six within that kind of overview episode of the new rules and so gastrodon makes sense with that storm drain being able to really disrupt those water types and stop them doing what they normally like to do we've got covenite as well steel type flying covenite obviously another really good pokemon uh rotom heat I feel it gives us a nice option if we see things like sun teams which probably will be quite prevalent a moongus it's going to be probably the premier uh redirector of this format and one of the probably the better grass types that we've got access to so we've got moongus in the team then the star of the show I hope is going to be high dragon I think high dragon is incredibly good it is one speed stat faster than urshifu as well so it does give you a little bit of an advantage there and then sylvian as well running the team off so we've got a nice fantasy core with the sylvian high dragon and the corvik knight and then that nice fire water grass core kind of merged in there with the gastrodon rotom heat and the moongus so without further ado my friends I've never played casual ladder before so it's going to be interesting I'm hoping that we uh in my mind I'm thinking we'll probably get opponents that are practicing as well or at least I'm hoping that we do and the preparation for all of these episodes is because I'm actually going to be away and I'm not going to be around next week so I won't be able to do any content which is a little bit unfortunate especially with the new season starting so hence the reason why I wanted to get all this stuff up prior to series 6 starting it not only helps you guys out but also allows me to have some content on the channel while I'm away for a week so got a first opponent who isn't running a series 16 typical but it's not the point we'll see how the the team functions we've got obviously blast toys incinero rillaboom incinero and rillaboom both their band as well as the indeedy but I guess the blast toys the the disc globs and um draggalgy are still accessible can we do some stuff yet I feel like you know hydrogen still has a really good match up against the majority of stuff here um and sylvian's not bad as well I think we need to be careful with the rillaboom of course if we want to bring gastrodon because gastrodon does an incredible job against pretty much everything on my opponent's team so if we can check the rillaboom we're kind of all right really I think I'm going to go with hydrogen and sylvian it's kind of the premise the main lead of this team so we'll go with that I will bring gastrodon as crazy as it sounds and um maybe covenite is the better one to bring as our last one uh I do kind of like rotum heat but at the same time um it's probably not super necessary okay I think we have to be careful about not maxing early on with hydrogen we've got to be pretty smart with this team because obviously we're facing pokemon that we wouldn't generally face now I have tested this actual team on the shodan ladder and it's performed super well in series six environments against series six teams um but I obviously haven't played it against series five teams because just seems a little bit crazy so here we go anyway we've got blastoice indeedy coming out for my opponent we're gonna see the psychic terrain um get thrown up now one option we do have is we could just get rid of the indeedy we're gonna see a shell smash from the the blastoice which is not going to be ideal at all um but um we could max we could go for dark pulse um we could go for the weakness policy now is there any way this is going to not work out because I don't feel like my opponent's going to go for their trick room mode so I think actually you know we're gonna be maybe all right maybe um I just worry about the blastoice getting the shell smash and then going for an ice tech ice type attack into high dragon which wouldn't be great um and it might be worth not maxing here to be honest just going for the dark pulse into the blastoice and then going for a hyper voice as well and then if they do follow me then we'll be able to get rid of the indeedy um okay we're gonna see it switch out so this might work out pretty well for us here uh because Incineroar gonna come in and unless my opponent protects the blastoice here then uh we may be able to actually just remove it from the field so that would be super nice of it'll be very close to going down unless they do that um okay well I didn't really expect them to go for the max turn one I kind of thought we'd see at least a shell smash first okay well let's hope that we don't lose high dragon because that wouldn't be good but I mean if we do we do we get uh we'll be able to get gastron in it would just be a shame because we're not gonna yeah there we go we're gonna lose it no okay that's a little bit of a shame okay we're gonna have to try oh we survive it but we're gonna go down to the hill I mean this high dragon is pretty bulky which is good always good um problem is our weakness policy is procced which is a little bit of a waste of course we are gonna see the life orb on this this blastoice we do get a hyper voice off which is always nice and proc our throat spray on Sylveon which is good so I mean Sylveon in a decent position here um high dragon like I said does go down now I don't think we bring out gastron just yet I think we kind of bait my opponent a little bit um by thinking they're safe to go for the water type attack this next turn because I think they're gonna fake out um I'm gonna fake out Sylveon for sure I would imagine um so what we'll do is we'll um we'll switch Covenite out straight away um into Gastron and I think I mean we could hyper voice again but I think they do fake us out actually I I think we just go for the hyper voice because if we get the hyper voice off if we don't see a fake out here we do punish my opponent and fake out damage it's not going to be something that's going to lose us the game hopefully so D max cannon aid here we go there's the gastron coming in doing these things so we're not seeing a fake out from the Incinero we are going to be able to get this hyper voice off plus one doing some really nice damage probably see a parting shot and then we're going to ooh just a flair blitz crazy crazy crazy man um I was expecting a parting shot into the Rillaboom but that's that's good for us now my opponent only has one turn of their max left so we're not in the worst position here they're not going to go for a water type attack we can just pull a double protect if we want um because I think the likelihood is they're going to go for um the the max hail I would imagine um and it's whether or not we want to just I think probably recover with gastrodon um yeah we'll recover with gastrodon um and then we'll just go for a the problem is gone for a protect if Rillaboom's in the back and it comes in now then we're in a little bit of an awkward spot where we I think we just hyper voice to be honest recover and hyper voice because I don't want the Rillaboom coming in and then us not being able to protect on their fake out the next turn that would put us in a way more awkward spot I feel so um we'll just go for the hyper voice we know we're faster than incinero so if the incinero sticks around we'll be able to uh to get that attack off I don't think a max hail's gonna knock out a sylvan even though the blastoise is um life-orbed but we'll be able to take down the blastoise anyway and we'll get some nice damage onto this uh in DD here okay so we are gonna see the hail storm okay that's fine that's like that's like super fine so we'll get a big chunk of damage onto both pokemon here particularly in DD down to half health um and we're sitting in not a bad position because we've got the recover off with the uh the gastrodon now and it's all about whether or not the um the Rillaboom comes in now whether they brought it um I don't know I mean were they thinking like the threat of having Rillaboom on their team was just enough to um actually the psychic terrains up so what am I worried about they have well I'm just realizing that now this is a thing like um I did see a tweet recently uh from one of the game developers from Game Freak asking about improvements uh for the game going forward and I definitely agree with the fact that um I would personally love to see um some sort of improvements around uh just the terrains being a bit more uh visible uh okay I think we'll go for a scald into in DD and I'm just going to protect because I don't know the speed of this in DD if it's faster than us I don't really want to take um a boosted expanding force Sylveon's quite important to us now we know we can net the incineroar if we get into a decent position um and then we've got Covenant in the back I'm sad that High Dragon hasn't had any any um any action this game but we got one more game to go on this episode anyway friends and I guess that the good thing about this is it's a good example of how the team can kind of function without the High Dragon and the other parts of the team can function pretty well now um obviously you've got to ignore the fact that my opponent hasn't uh got Rillaboom if you're going into series six so this is how well a series six team with Gastron can perform in because it's not really got the threats like it previously had uh so yeah there's the expanding force and the u-turn okay so we're gonna see if it is uh the Rillaboom or not as their last Pokemon and even if it is right now I don't mind because we've got we've got Covenant in the back we don't really care too much about that um yeah it's the the boom there we go the boom boy um okay okay I mean we're we're doing all right aren't we um the grassy terrain will be pretty useful for us and I don't think Incineroar or Rillaboom are going to be able to be Covenant to be honest um we've got to be careful of course for the um the Flair Blitz from the Incineroar uh it's always going to be a threat but um I think if we can deal with the Incineroar then I think the game's kind of locked isn't it now the next turn we've got to worry about um fake out for sure uh that is going to be a problem that is going to be something that my opponent is going to be using uh because of that psychic terrain now not on the field um and it's going to be interesting to see how many turns of hail left I think we've only got one because I'm kind of thinking now do we do we um do we sack Gastrodon and just try and go for a Skull into Incineroar um I just wonder how many yeah one turn of hail left it's just if we can get that Incineroar into quick attack range which I don't really expect that we're going to be able to the other option here is we could Dynamax and go into yeah actually we'll do that we'll do that because I don't think the Rillaboom might be able to actually take us down still you know but I think it goes grassy glide if anything um I scald and I'm going to go I'm going to go protect I'm going to go protect because we can we can max Kovonite at the end of the day and Kov should outspeed the Incineroar okay we uh we do go for the double protect there and uh do get punished but I think Gastrodon might be able to can we take this bladlet you can there we go this is all we needed this is all we needed and we got it okay so it should have actually been thinking a little bit more because we double protected with Sylvia and we could have just went quick attack into the Incineroar there um even though we wouldn't have been able to get that attack off so the hail does stop we still got Gastrodon on the field staring down on Rillaboom it's like it's worst nightmare ever but we got Kovonite to come in and because we've saved our max until this very last turn I think we're going to be fine to uh to wrap this one up so that is going to be ideal um I can say all these pokemon that I'm featuring now on the team I personally feel are very good what are we doing what are we doing we're not maxing Gastrodon we'll try for a sneaky skull there and try and get um a burn but I don't think uh I don't know yeah the battle's cancelled so there we go my opponent's saving us some time but a very good game to my opponent and uh even though we are going up against the series five team which I thought we might not I was kind of hoping we weren't uh we do come out with a win and uh that is always going to be always going to be something that we can be happy with so do we want to continue we do want to continue let's pick some uh mustard mustard too let's go with that music I do love the new music that we got on the Isle of Armour I'm really looking forward to um what we get from um the Crown Tundra right we've got our next opponent Renetto uh obviously in the series I may as well just jumped on the rank ladder to be honest rather than casuals because I was kind of hoping that we'd run into some other stuff other than series five teams but people are still playing series five so that's fine I guess getting the last out of these pokemon we got cinderace rillaboom both going to be banned we've got um what's that one called it's the uh the pom pom puff grass type pokemon I can't remember the name they're completely gone colossal uh falafel and intelion so um I mean is it gmax colossal I don't know if there's really many ways to proc to self-proc very well but um okay it's going to be tough the cinderace makes this very difficult for sure I don't think um gastrodon probably not a great pick here to be honest they don't have a fairy type so I mean we can go hydra again we can go sylvia and we can try and pull this strategy off we can try um I think overnight again and we'll go gastrodon actually yeah we'll go gastrodon uh just for the colossal um just for the colossal they got two grass types so we'll bring a gastrodon what we doing what are we doing what are we doing anyway anyway I'm kind of not really counting these matches because we shouldn't really be playing these pokemon um it's just like I say I'm going away next week so I'm not going to be able to get the content up that I want to next week on the channel so it's a nice opportunity for me now to get stuff up get you guys some teams while I'm away and then by the time I come back hopefully I've been able to to brew up some more teams and we can get some really cool content going in series six okay we got um I mean James Pond these are great names the broly name I love I love this guy whoever it is props on the names okay so um I think am I worried about in teleon not massively because if it maxes then I'm not super worried about it we could actually yeah this is what we'll do we'll go max flare into really boom and we're going to quick attack our own high dragon we're going to max proc our weakness policy get the sun up um and then go from there you've got to worry about ice beam of course from the in teleon coming out um which is kind of negates the fact that we may not have needed to go a quick attack into high dragon but we'll go for anyway just to make sure that we do get it propped I really want to get high dragon um at least getting a few knockouts in this match fake up perfect perfect perfect that's what we like to see um okay quick attack and it does far too much damage far too much damage with that fake out as well um okay ice beam we do take it thankfully well we're going to get at least one knockout that's going to be uh that's going to be one knockout we're going to be able to get and it's going to be the real boom so it does make things a bit easier for um gastron later on in this match but it's not going to be like straightforward you've got to worry about cinderace coming in now and obviously taking advantage of the sun uh the next ice beam of course is going to take down a high dragon which is not going to be great but um maybe we can utilize sylvan and maybe a little bit of a different way okay okay flapple coming in um i have two hyper voices should get the flapple is it going to set up though because i'm kind of tempted we could potentially switch out here into covernight of drag the gastron um covernight's probably the better one to switch to um and we could potentially go for a yawn into um yeah let's go covernight and let's go yawn into um intelion mr james pond over here i think that'll be the better idea if we can shut down the intelion i mean it gives our other pokemon a little bit more leeway to kind of come in and do some stuff it's a shame that we're going to be in such a bad position with um with high dragon but um we are going to see grassy oh my god no way flapple it's legal in this new format damn grassy glide that's banded for sure that is banded wow we've got no protect anywhere i mean we can't we we need to get rid of this thing right now like literally right now we need to get rid of it um and i don't know if a oh i think we just i think we're just gonna flat out lose this because we have to protect gastrodon here um we have to go for a brave bird if they max the flapple that makes things a bit more difficult for sure um and uh two ice beams is definitely gonna pick up the the covernight wow we're just being stomped on okay well a lot of these other than rillaboom other than rillaboom the flapple actually you know what you can't really get grassy terrain in series six unless you're setting it yourself and i can't see many people setting it themselves so um yeah i just i think it'll be i think it'll be fine like flapple is that was disgusting that damage is nasty that's like hustle boosted as well and without the life or recall there you'd think that is banded so yeah it's gone for that if they go max geyser this opens up yeah okay that opens up the door for us because they gotta go max geyser again the next turn the sun's up so we will take a covernight we might have enough room to get rid of this flapple which would then open the door for gastrodon to do all the work if once the two grass types are gone okay we're in business boys we're in business flapple gone there we go that's what we like to see gastrodon going to be able to to wall out this now because they can um attack with our ice moves but um ah we love it we love seeing the colossal although not so much because it's probably got solar beam but uh it it will be all right i think i think it will be all right so what do we want to keep here do we want to keep high dragon or do we want to keep covernight i think probably if we can get rid of james pond it would be better um but covernight's probably faster so what i'm going to do is go high dragon i'm going to kind of hope hmm what we could do is just got earth power into um colossal now i've got to concentrate down on pond haven't i the pond man it's never gonna water type attack though is he i've got to go after the colossal i think i just got to do the colossal stuff it's just snipe shot will go through our storm drain which is a little bit unfortunate i think we're going to see uh max hill come out here so this probably will remove the weather ah we're seeing it protect how dare you okay um max phantasm huh okay so that will lower our defense and go for the earth power well grassy terrain is definitely helping us out here is that a physical colossal it probably is right probably means it hasn't got solar beam as well so that kind of helps us out a bunch um i think we recover here to be honest if we're gastrodon it's just the problem is we've got the opportunity to probably go after the colossal now we'll protect we'll protect we'll be a bit cheeky here we'll try we'll probably lose high dragon i think um max hill yeah and that gets rid of the sun okay which is fine now i think the intelion probably well they have a couple options here they can go for gastrodon this next turn and they do have rocks like okay um i've got to double into the intelion this next turn i think that's what we're going to do i think well do i do that actually do i do that or do i recover with gastrodon and roost with corvonite or brave bird i think recover with gastrodon brave bird into the intelion i think because like a one-on-one match with with their colossal i'm not really too concerned about it's just whether or not they pick up on the snipe shot um now and i think you probably go for a flare blitz if you're a colossal i don't know maybe um okay well yeah we'll go for brave bird into pond and we'll go for a recover as well because i suspect they will go ice beam into um gastrodon it's the like the intelion feels like there are only way to beat it like quickly otherwise the the colossal is not really doing too much there we go okay so there's a protect hopefully we see ice beam into gastrodon it would mean that we get another turn okay we're not going to see that corvonite actually oh come on then we've got the lumberry it's all right it's all right it's all right we've got the lumberry i was going to be like dammit we've got the lumberry it's fine it's fine we will lose corvonite here but this is all right we should have really doubled in um to pond but never mind it's all right the hail damage is going to do enough put gastrodon in a nice position now where we can um because i don't think the colossal is going to have to like if they're going rock slide they're not going to have two ways to get us how many turns of hail left because we could be really cheeky and just go protect here um because it's going to be two turns of hail i think before they go down three turns okay so what we could do is um just protect here and then not worry about attacking into james pond over there uh or the intelion and just attack into the colossal because the hail will take the uh the intelion down anyway yeah it's not going for the sniper shot which is kind of interesting whether or not my opponent realizes that's uh something they can do around the uh the storm drain or not maybe not uh yeah so it will go down this next turn we're not going to go down to an ice beam and we're definitely not going to go down to a combination ice beam and um rock slide so we'll just earth power the colossal and that should be game hopefully and um what was the dire situation looked like it um it might turn out to be all right and there's the earth power yeah so we'll be good to uh get the colossal and then gastrodon's doing so much work in both these games and there's been two glass types in this team and and they're really booming the last one so if we can do it here we can definitely do it in series six gastrodon here we go good old gastro so friends time for the team i guess so we'll uh we'll hop over and get the rental team for you guys and um you guys hopefully will have a lot of fun trying this team out remember the rules don't start until um the first of september so that will be next tuesday uh so you won't be able to play ranked battle ladder rules with the new pokemon with the old ones banned until then so this team won't you can play it on the ladder but you're going to be playing up against um a lot of teams that are probably not um as fair because they've got all the the pokemon aren't binding you know what i mean um okay so uh yeah let's just i mean just let's get rid of this one i think this is yeah we'll just get rid of that one because i mean i'm gonna be getting rid of all of the series five teams soon and these will all be series six teams so um i will be as i said doing more episodes throughout this week leading up to tuesday next week uh with the series six teams so that's my aim to try and get you guys in a place ready to just start testing um and that's going to be the the first thing that you want to do into any new format is just to start playing learning the format and making sure that you are aware of what's being used what's being played trying new things out to try and get yourselves into a position where you're having a lot of success in that format and you do that by practicing playing trial and testing and doing all that stuff so hopefully by me providing these teams for you this one included um it's going to be a big big help and that's the main thing that i'm hoping for from this little series of videos that will be doing like i said there'll be five rental teams and there will be a poker paste compendium episode on monday the 31st with about 14 poker pastes in there for you guys to try out and test out for teams in this format so hopefully that is enough to help you out but we're going to end it there friends if you've enjoyed today's episode i thoroughly enjoyed it so thanks so much for coming out and viewed it with me do drop a like though if you have enjoyed it do subscribe to the channel if you are new make sure like i said earlier hit that notification bell so you get the notifications when these series six videos go up and i'll leave it there so take care of yourselves friends be kind to each other as always and until the next one i'll see you then so then bye bye