 Hello friends and welcome back to another showdown special with myself tonight So we are going to be trying out this alternate Crosma and Zernia's team I've just put it together because it's something I wanted to try and it was mainly the lie pod and the duskman together because It's been picking up a bit of popularity on the ladder lately. I'm sorry. I don't know who kind of created this pairing But it is really interesting. You see in the unburden ability on the lie pod not the prankster and The duskman here and normally running something like Power Gem Dark Pulse and Photon Geyser But I've kind of opted just to start out with when I'm playing around with this team with Earth Power Sunsteel Strike So and although we've got the Amungus to deal with opposing Zernia's I do like just having the Sunsteel Strike as an option there anywhere Alongside the lie pod which kind of complements as Zernia's as well So the team is always down in the description if you want to try it out test it out And we'll just hop into it and play some games So at the minute are this week on the channel playing dual primals. It's a lot of fun So I'm one of the things I want to do in the the last stages of this ultra series before we move to Sword and shield is test out as many archetypes as possible So we may end up bringing a more refined variant of this team onto the channel But we'll see if you'd like to see a refined version obviously will probably play a few episodes Sure done with it first. Do let me know down in the comment section and we'll make it happen So we've got Hoho and Zernia's for my opponent Kangaskhan, Incineroas, Pontcast, Tornadis and Cartana See we'll go lie pod we'll go Zernia's The Hoho is going to be a bit awkward for us to deal with for sure I think I want Ultra and Acrosma and probably Silence Yeah, let's speed the Kangaskhan whether it's in a focus or not. Who knows I'm gonna fake out the Zernia switch into an Acrosma It's a nice option there for us and we'll keep the GM ANSI for later on this match You've got to imagine there's the Hoho on the back and probably the Incineroa as well My opponents may be concentrating a little bit more around getting the Zernia's boosted up support and with the dual fake out They've got access to Although Cartana does well against our team to be honest If we can kind of remove the salamence becomes a lot easier. There's a fake out into the Zern and fake out Yeah, just trading but the Zernia's is it is really quite pressured right now from Acrosma so and imagine one of the things we could potentially do is fake tears into the Kangaskhan and Go for a photon geyser into that slot Which I'm kind of tempted to do honestly, I honestly think the Zernia's leave it protect or switch out I don't think yeah, there we go switch out into Incineroa Let's see what this fake tears does okay double edge it will take down a lipod, which is a little bit unfortunate for us But this should take down the Kangaskhan Which I don't know if that that trade is really The trade we want to be making to be honest Thing now is we can go for a you can go for a tailwind Or do we just switch into Zernia's and then Geo ourselves I Think I'd prefer to keep salamence for later on especially if the whole is kind of lurking in the back The only other thing we could do is mega evolve double edge and just double in to the Zernia's here Just to make sure that we're getting damaged because the fake out onto the across one is kind of obvious here And by doing this at least now We will lose ments. We'll go for a tailwind And I'm gonna actually call this by saying the Zernia's will protect you and the Incineroa trying to take down that across Trying to double in but that's that's still fine. That's still fine because now a double edge you'll take down the Zernia's And we can ultra burst and go for an earth part into that Incineroa So this kind of works out a little bit better for us And yeah, there's the protect on the Zernia's here. Probably safe for the layer blotch. Oh Or a crit just to just remove it from the equation and essential strike will now take down the Zernia's for sure We just is essential strike gonna be enough that's the problem I'll go for a double edge into Zernia's And we'll go for the Z move like that burns the sky and tools here Oh So this should be a pretty clean game for us here I think though the pivotal move was obviously that turn where we've got the tail wind up with ments Made so much difference a good game to my opponent. We have left, but it's fine. And so we'll just move on to our next one Yeah, it was actually I was listening to the hyper voice if any of you don't listen to the hyper voice and like podcasts Steven Morioca and Alexander Hill do an amazing VGC podcast and they have a host of amazing guests on there And they would they were discussing the live pod and does moon across ma And it's like oh Because I haven't been on the ladder for a little while so I'm a little out of touch getting back into the swing of things now And when they were discussing that's like that sounds very interesting. So Hence the reason why we're here this evening with it. So let's see. Hopefully it works out like I say I think the build is probably Needing a little bit of work to be honest like I say I've just thrown it together, but The ideas are there and but this is the the whole thing about testing isn't it? So we go got the tell ground on top Coco tabulele metagross Andy built a very nice call one of my favorite combinations restricted wise and The goth it tells a bit annoying to deal with But we're gonna see tabulele I think lead So the cross my hand goes on yes Well, I thought I thought might be nice And Xerius and I think probably Men's all my moongas could be good here. We'll go men's though Okay, we're gonna see metagross and I mean To be just a part of the metagross or since you'll strike the lele We can just file play The metagross to be honest Yeah, it's a damage off. That's fine play Blast Bosh-bosh get rid of the lele. That's good for us Comes in Potentially a good ultra burst And protect and bring immense I'm just protecting just bring immense to be honest. I'm not really too scared about the potential Sub on the ground on I think it goes precipice here Yeah Okay Let's just try and get some damage on to the ground on with an earth power Megavolve and go Flamethrower on to metagross this flamethrower is coming in quite handy But our opponent has disconnected as a minute to reconnect. So um, I Think we would have been able to close this one up pretty pretty comfortably from here to be honest after the Yeah, the lele going down there doesn't really feel like my opponents got much to deal with What we've got left in the back anyway with sonius there, so We'll add a game good game to my opponent unfortunate that they did disconnect Hopefully it's not their Wi-Fi and they have a Little more luck if it is going forward. So yeah, we'll move on like I say and find an exit. Oh, what is this? Yes, Psyduck and it's definitely got swift swim We've got the Kyle Galunala combination here tap a lele a mega mobile and Togemaru, so we're probably looking like a trick room team slash kind of auto speed with Psyduck Okay, like hard good Lele gonna be definitely coming out and we've probably won something to help us a trick room among us makes a lot of sense here Do we want? Xenius like Xenius is one of those Pokemon. I was like bringing this just a lot here that just Makes it very difficult to get it going, but at the same time. I'm like, yeah, let's just bring it. Let's just bring it man Lunala Lele this is where the Dark Pulse would have come in really useful I mean we could ultra burst And Foul play Sunseal strike We could just taunt the Lunala and Sunseal strike the Lele Yeah, I feel like maybe a trick room gets set up here. I'm tempted to no, I'm not gonna see that. Okay No Okay Let's bring in Xenius. Let's bring in mungus for life hard. Let's keep that around for later and It's got Geomancy Geomancy man. Um, okay, there's the moon blast and What we're gonna see this Lunala go for PsyShock Got it. Got to do it. Got to do it man. Um Do we switch back in to lie part and protect Xenius here? Because we're gonna see PsyShock's all over the place. I reckon and It's not really gonna help us though. Is it? I Mean we can just rage powder. It's probably better and Just got from moonblasting to Lele PsyShock will take him in the stand. Unfortunately. I think we're gonna lose this one to be honest Yeah, 100% Well, we've got we can't fake out Fake tears It's just the problem is I don't think Like foul play the Lunala with a dazzle Potentially work for a moon blast and help them all while protect. I don't think it does though Protect white guard I'm gonna lose. It's not coming back from this lie part. This is the world Unfortunately a good game to my opponent. It's trying to get some time Onto the key augura, but never mind Yeah, let's have a look where did we go wrong? Yeah, I had a tone. I think yeah Yeah, might have been better ultra bursting and then Double in the Lunala really Is a bit of an oversight for myself. I think a little bit Gone in a bit deep anyway, we've got our next opponent which is ground on dawn wings. Okay Again not ideal for us But not the worst as well like Lily's just so prominent Stacker Gonna bring a movie is because I think if the trick and does go up Moongus. There's a really nice job here Again, do we want it like Zern is good here? It's just that Stack attack that gives us a few issues, but it's not the worst is it? It's not the worst at all. So we'll go with that and we'll see how we get on Just wait for our opponent chilling out Yeah Well, well, I do like this call don't wings is really nice And I think don't wings is actually quite a good call at the minute It works with light part as well quite nicely and it's probably something I'd maybe prefer It's like I don't know I don't know See don't wings is gonna be quite difficult to take down Right now. I mean a foul play will do a hefty chunk of damage The nice power do a nice chunk to the stack. It's like a for sure And there's a trick we've been set up. Okay. Well, it's not the worst because we can Get rid of the don't wings Like the smart thing would be probably rock slide Devil into the lie products like old gyro ball power the lie part Expecting an across map on our end to protect or switch out like we're doing But at least we know the the the stack attack hasn't got safety goals And there's no way. Okay. Well, I don't really mind that too much So I'm coming in that's fine a little bit of damage on to this Just big foul play right on I think you've got to fake out the moongus Would better to just bring in Like You have to figure out a moongus could we just bring in zonius take a bit of damage with them and then go from there Yeah That's that's not ideal like the crit that isn't amazing is it? Well from another foul play We'll just protect zonius because it's not there's no point of just letting it go down. We'll probably lose live part here And but it would open the door for a moongus to come back in And we can put the ground on to sleep Probably the ground on and then bring in the cross map falls in use keeps on this run for a little bit later on and then at least with Dustman even though it's pretty tight at the minute We know that we can get the stack attack Prevent it from setting up another trick room the next turn At least with the ground on a sleep. It's not really doing too much And I think we'll probably see a gyro ball come out from the stack attack And it's next turn maybe a rock slide as well to to ship down the moongus stop getting the spore off But yeah, we just about take it there's the ground on Shipping shipping. Okay. Um, let's pull the stacks will ultra burst and we'll go for an earth part into greater I think grad on is probably in range now for an earth part And I feel like from this point even though everything's quite low health on our end with the moongus support We should be able to clean things up The incident was gonna be a bit awkward to deal with once it comes in with fake out But other than that people be The incident was gonna be a little bit annoying to deal with for sure. Yeah, there we are. There we are. So I mean We've got no protect on a moongus. We'll protect necrosma I think that the worst case scenario here would be the stack attack of waking up and the fake out coming out The fake out's definitely coming out on to necrosma makes no sense and not to What my opponent's gonna do Like you might protect you might predict it like the protect on on necrosma not fake that slot out Like I don't mind that really at all It does mean that we get it does wake up, but no trick room crazy man. Okay, we'll get zonius in now We'll go for the earth part into the stack. It's like a We know the incident can't wake up this next turn because it's got that guaranteed turn of sleep And it's quite useful for us So we might be able to utilize a geomancy here. Get rid of the stack attacker The dong wings is gonna pop in right now, but it's such low health a moon blaster will take it out And an earth part should take the incident so like I said, even though we're so low health I think we've got ourselves into a position where We were able to utilize the moongus and really really well I don't know if this will be culture in a cross might could be this could scupper our plans if it is Because it can potentially take down as any us But we'll take down the incident or all we've still got a moongus to come in if that happens I think that best bet would be ultra burst. Oh, well, they can't really yeah They can try and take down Anna cross my Now that they go for the zonius and I think it's locked whatever happens now because we've got the rage powder Which they can't target and across my unfortunately, so we'll rage plowder Plowder will rage powder and will Sunsteal strike and that should be enough. There's the Z move Poor moongus, but it's putting all the work we needed to and Very tight game, but very good game to my opponent. We'll give them a good good game And sorry for hurting your rating and but yes So we've probably got room for one more battle my friends and then we'll call it a day But I hope you've enjoyed this episode. I guess it was just a loose end I want to try this this team out So it was just something I wanted to to bring in and show you guys and Hear your thoughts and see if this is something you'd be interested in seeing a little more of a refined Variation on on the channel but something along these lines So we've got another Familiar team. I think this finished in top four at the Sheffield regionals And I do apologize. I can't remember the the person's name off the top of my head But very interesting team dial guy hold on Incineroar landers theory Toffini and Venus I believe Venus or is mega on this team as well Again and again, we're seeing that the whole is a bit of a problem So that's something I would definitely look at going forward I'm gonna bring Salad yeah, definitely one salamence. I think the dial guy is gonna be Really obnoxious to do I think I'll bring Leipard Zernius. I might just like trying Like just blow through this team if I can get a GM on see up And then we'll go on across Matt and salamence. I'm not bringing Finney either. So that's definitely a slot I can look at Utilizing a little bit better. I think fake out the Finney or GM. I see hopefully we don't say raw and the dinner raw Not many players are running it now and I say that and this is the game where we'll see it But it doesn't seem to be Used as much as it used to be just trading takeouts here What's the type of thing he got has it got his or has it got light screen that's the question We could just go taunt and GM and see here though. So just to get around whatever it's trying to do and we'll get our Gio up and Nages madness. Let's how are you turn? Okay? I Don't mind this too much whole coming in What's a fake? There's a file play. Let's go file play into the whole on just protect you. Um File play should do a decent chunk of damage We're gonna see a tailwind maybe Okay, if my part can stick around this Oh, that's huge for us now fake tears and Moonblast will be enough to get the call. Oh, it's the wrong way around It's terrible. It's terrible That's what's wrong with it. It's all gone Pete tongue. Um, okay. Well lipod sticks around for a little bit longer It's not ideal. Let's bring in Let's try and fit tears the Finney will protect. There's the incident coming in sense If you use lipo here is screwed. Yeah, because now we can't protect on a cross map. Um We've got a double into the finni I think Ultra burst and go for a photon geyser. I think we've lost this one. Oh No fake out though. So we might actually be able to like the icy winds the one thing that does Give me a few problems Okay, the fake out there would have been better now. We're gonna see fake up come in now Okay, let's tailwind and protect I'm just gonna hide the boys and I'm gonna go for the Z move into the hall Just to get rid of it, it's gonna be that I'll go as the last one Hopefully we don't lose my cross my right now Yeah, we're done that'll get Hello dial there unless it's oh, it's Venus all oh We could actually win this one a double edging the Venus all will be enough We've got to worry about malicious moves out of darkest larry it from the incident Does the Venus all protect though now? I don't know. We'll double edge it to see Cuz I have a voice isn't gonna take it out double edges and either man, that's a bulky bulky Look at that Venus all taking that like a champ We are intimidated of course, but I mean that is that is some nice bulk there So very good example of how that team can operate good game and lots of issues there for us I think to consider taking this team forward, but I can say that'll be the last one for today my friends I hope you've enjoyed it. It's been a pleasure as always just chatting and I'll see you again soon I'll make some changes to this team and in the next one. We'll take this Concept a little bit further and see where we can take it Just to make it a little bit more solid against you of the the more Threatening things that we faced especially in this episode so until next time my friends. Take care and bye