 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 Battle Series. My name is LeoSanonos Osiris and we're going to be continuing on with this team that you can see on your screen in front of you. Right now which is Ray Ogre team, as always the team is down in the description below. There's a roll pace and a poker pace if you'd like to try it out, test it out. And if you do, let me know in the comment section how you're getting on with it, what you like about the team, what you don't like about the team and what you've maybe changed up about it to suit your own playing style. So we'll just kick straight into it today, we are 6-0 at the minute. I'll hop over to the right screen and we'll get some music on and as always if you do enjoy this sort of content please remember to drop a like on the video, do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and as always leave your comments down in the comment section below we'll go with. The CrosmerVision1 has the tractor kick us off today. Tim's been doing really well so far this week and like I keep saying we are quite low lighter at the minute but regardless of that the team feels nice, it's flowing nice. We haven't seen too much of the Rikwaza. I feel like the restricted kind of that's been putting in all the work this week so far as the Kyogre which is kind of obvious, a bit surprising that we've not been really utilizing the Rikwaza as much maybe because of the band. I feel a lot more comfortable with the sash always but the band gives you that just just that much more damage output and it is very very it's kind of surprising as well especially in a best of one format. Even in a best of three you can utilize it pretty well but yeah there's options I think to maybe look at changing up that restricted option there alongside the Kyogre and obviously we've seen how well Jim's beck did with the reindeer combination, the zonius and the Kyogre in his build which you could easily change this team into. You maybe want to look at adding in something like a moongus if you were to do that but it's very flexible and I think this sort of build is it covers most things in the format right now and does quite well so it's a good starting team I'd say for those of you that are getting back into Pokemon at the minute and want to look at kick starting into the season. Now it's going to take a little bit longer to find opponents. Some reason today is not the day to be looking for opponents so what I'll do I'll cut it right now and we'll come back when we find our first opponent of the epitode. We've got faces our first opponent of the episode from Australia, sunny old Australia so we'll get straight into it. Would you believe it talking about that reindeer core exactly what we bump into it's fate. So we've got zonius, kangaskorn, incineroar, kyogre, stack attacker and tornadoes we've got options of speed control here straight away identifying those we've got the stack attacker with the trick room can help support incineroar and kyogre and possibly kangaskorn also a good deterrent against opposing zonius and then you've got the speed control on the opposite end of the spectrum with the tornadoes offering tailwind there a bit undeniable tailwind as well supporting again pretty much the majority of the team the big thing that we need to watch out for is that zonius for sure and trying to stop it setting up and going for the kangaskorn obviously offers fake out support and is the mega of the team so something else we need to watch out for there right what do we want to do man I feel like Cartana in this match could be extremely good outside of the tornadoes it hits everything for really good damage so it's definitely something I want to bring here tornadoes could be very good for us just for speed control shutting things down yeah I'm going to bring Cartana tornadoes as lead I think we want to bring our own kyogre and what else do we want do we want our own rikwaza rake could be really good here actually even though incineroar of our own could be extremely useful I'm going to up the rake just because I feel like we can probably do enough throughout the game to put things in extreme speed range to try and bring rain in the late game and sweep up hopefully that's the plan but we'll see what happens so I think this is the highest ranked player we've played this week maybe I don't know we're going to see kangaskorn and zonius come out for my opponent which is fine kangaskorn can only fake one thing out it's likely going to be the tornado potentially so I'm just going to go for the tailwind and I'm going to go for a smart tailwind and smart strike yeah tailwind and smart strike zonius switching out which is fine incineroar coming in that's fine as well let's see if we get faked out into tornadoes here maybe the cartana maybe it's just a hack into cartana who knows who knows but getting the tailwind up is going to be quite important for us especially with cartana on the field especially if we've got a switch into kayaka this next turn to protect our cartana we do have the fake out to contend with there's a smart strike kangaskorn just going straight up for an attack here and double edge coming out this will be into tornadoes but that's fine because this will just proc tasted berry which is super fine you don't mind that at all kangaskorn's taking a lot of damage there as well I think what we'll do is we will switch in we're switching very quasi at this point while switching kayaka just I feel like tornadoes takes another another bunch of damage here cartana probably gets faked out I'm going to switch in kayaka I'm going to go for a smart sacred sword into the kangaskorn I'd like to keep tornadoes if I can for when that zonius crops back up again we've got that priority taunt to shut down the gym and see that'll be ideal we get the kayaga onto the field it's obviously protecting the cartana from potential flablets coming out now kayaga probably will take a double edge here we're still going to be in a decent position next turn if that is the worst so kangaskorn's switching out actually we're going to see zonius come back onto the field I wonder if the incineroar goes for the flablets here that'd be interesting it might u-turn we are going to see sacred sword into the zonius not really do that much damage in u-turn yeah that makes sense because now now the kangaskorn comes back onto the field but if you don't fake out the kayaga you take a pretty strong water-spot attack but I think my opponent probably wants to stall out the tailwind they're doing a pretty good job of it as well we could bring in rey but it's just going to weaken our I'm going to smart strike into the zonius I'm chasing the zonius all the time the smart thing here probably is to sacred sword the kangaskorn although the fake out like I said can only really come out onto one one of our pokemon so if that zonius does stay in and they fake out the kayaga then we do get a smart strike it's going to be intimidating so we're not going to be doing as much damage but it makes more sense to stall out these tailwind so it's kind of baiting us out with I'm going to see the fake out into the kayaga here for sure and this is what I mean about the sacred sword into the kang here would have been made more sense I think but we're still in a decent position this next turn kotona is double intimidated now well that last turn the tailwind up I think should I just leaf blade sacred sword I think sacred sword and skull the kangaskorn that should be enough to get it I'm not really okay I guess I don't know if we do oh it's into the kotona maybe thinking that we would switch there tailwind is going to pitter out for us now though hmm but we still have to beat the kangaskorn so we still got the opportunity to put a lot of pressure on here with a skull into the incinero and a sacred sword into that kang the question is though whether the kangaskorn switches out into into zernius because I don't think the one thing we could potentially do is skull into that slot and sacred sword into it as well we kind of cover bases there if it does switch out into zernius at least we get some nice damage incinero switching out and kayaga coming in I like you're going to get a skull into the kayaga we could pick up a burn there which would be nice and this should pick up the knockout give us a beast boost as well onto our kotona and get rid of one of those intimidate drops as well minus two at a minute which isn't ideal and we'll get a skull into the kayaga at least we know my opponent's 4 pokemon the worrying thing now is that we probably see the zernius come onto the field we do pick up the burn as well onto kayaga and the zernius probably comes in we've not really got anything to get around the geomancy setup which is a little bit awkward for us because what have we got in the back I mean we got ray one of our options definitely could be doubling into zernius here the problem doing that is I feel like if you kayaga you potentially switch out into incinero we still don't really get any further down we just double into zernius here because I kind of prefer to get it in extreme speed range if it does stay in I'm gonna just double into it knowing that we've got ray in the back yeah there's the incinero coming in and that's why we could have scolded that slot we could have done it's no good saying it because we haven't done that but I mean as long as the zernius goes for the geomancy here it's not the end of the world yeah so there's a smart strike minus two dot and then the geomancy coming out yeah and the scald if we get the burn you know this kind of clinches the game for us I think if we get the scald burn here I think we'll be able to close this one up pretty easily because the burn chip will put that zernius 100% in range for ray quasi coming in and what we need to try and do is just time it right so that the incinero hasn't got an active fake out when it comes onto the field so we do get the scald into the the zernius getting a nice bit of damage but it's still in extreme speed range so that's not the end of the world what do we do here though because we've got to make a decision to probably sack something we could potentially protect I think I'd like to keep kyogar around for the incinero in particular and I definitely want to I'm gonna sack tornadoes out of everything they've got normally if I wouldn't have the ray quasi in the back I would probably say let's sack the ray slot if you get what I mean because then we've got the speed control with the tornadoes we can bring it in, get the speed control up and then hopefully have enough in the tank from there to with cot honor to close things out but with the extreme speed from ray I think it changes the dynamics of the game we're gonna see incinero switch out we're gonna see kyogar come back out onto the field now we're kinda hoping here it goes down, if it doesn't it's not the end of the world because then we've still got tailwind we can take advantage of there's move last into that cot honor slot which now opens the door for ray to come in and even an intimidated extreme speed is gonna be enough and one of the things we can really play on here is the incinero coming back in on that kyogar slot which you've gotta imagine what my opponent will probably try and do switch out their kyogar get the incinero onto the field with the intimidate and then have the fake out the next turn to stop the ray being able to extreme speed but what I'm gonna do is scald into that slot mega revolve and extreme speed because if the incinero does come in on that kyogar slot now scald should be able to pick up the knockout we're not gonna see switch out though I wonder if we're just gonna see if the kyogar go for an ice beam potentially could there's a protect I'm gonna see an ice beam from the kyogar I think which is a nice alternative player for sure but then it does leave you a bit more open the next turn because an ice beam is not gonna take our ray down yeah unfortunately it won't take us down you can go for the double protect here that would clinch you the game um 100% what I might do is switch into no I'm not gonna switch into katana I do expect the incinero to come in now because the extreme speed just picks up the zonius like you have to go for the double protect you have to the other option for us would be doubling into the kyogar but that's extremely risky we leave the zonius completely open to just pick up double knockout here and then katana is left helpless in the back to come in we will lose this game I think overcommenting it's a risk we don't really need to take and this is a pretty safe play for us here so because for the double doesn't get it thankfully and that should be us in a nice position to close this game up we will go down to an ice beam here but we got katana now to come in get rid of the kyogar from my opponent's side field and then our kyogar we'll be able to get rid of the incinero side so we should be able to close this one up it was all important like that double protect there would have probably won my opponent the game and my opponent made the really smart decision there to make those plays and make that bold position possible potentially possible for them to close this one up and I think you've got to do that but we were fortunate that the double protect didn't happen and yeah we'll just protect the turn and go around and fake out because that's a big thing for us and then probably double into double into the incinero the next turn or do we do we yeah we do we definitely double into it I think the burn changes things on the kyogar where we should be able to one-on-one the opposing kyogar I think we're probably going to see fake out and probably an ice beam into our katana here and then this next and we'll probably see the kyogar protect and the incinero try and get the flablets into our katana and we will just go for the scald and the sacred sword into the incinero and that combination should be enough to get the incinero even around a berry there's the protect yeah so the sacred sword what are we doing prokna berry not even so got like hair in my mouth where's that come from that works out even better for us not prokna berry picking up the knockout onto the incinero there and making sure that we do get the kill and now puts us in a nice position to just leave blade katana putting in a lot of work in this match and pick up the victory here and I think yeah pretty happy with how we played this one very good game to face and a nice one for us to kick off with today so that's really good matches for fit and yeah continuing on in style so yeah very nice game for us to start with today so I'll hop over to the screen see what our rating is at the minute we should be creeping upwards towards 1600s which isn't too bad for us and I think 70 this week so it's not too bad to kick us off with this team and I do really like this team this team I probably will take to a promo challenge or an mss even in the coming weeks I think it's something that I feel like super comfortable with and even though you kind of know the ins and outs of it it's one of those teams where I think you can kind of find a way around most teams with the options that you've got there especially with the tornado so I think it does open the door up and I do it's weird I played tornado this very early ultra series and I kind of said like then it was like it would be still a very useful tech that we've seen how useful it was in sun and moon series but it kind of dropped off early ultra series and it's nice to see it kind of come back and let it ultra series especially doing well at worlds because it is a very good pokemon and it was right before worlds where it started to pick up all of that like popularity again and then imagine it'll probably continue as we got into the ultra series into the back end of the ultra series as long as you've got an opposing terrain control to get around potentially psychic terrain it's still really really powerful and that kind of undeniable tailwind is just so useful with the lack of trick room teams as well in this format you're not seeing too many of them and hard trick room is just not a thing that we're seeing at all I think the tailwind is a bit more of a viable option for most teams to rely on so we'll look for an ex-opponent as it has been the standard taking ages to find any opponents recently I'll cut this now and we'll come back when we find an ex-opponent of the episode and we've got an ex-opponent so let's hop straight into team preview alright an ex-opponent is playing a team of Kyogre, Yveltal, Tapulele, Gengar, Stack Attacker and Incinero now this is a team that did really well in the early portion of the ultra series and then fell off a cliff and we never really saw too much of it since then odd appearance here and there but this is a team that I feel does really well at the moment consisting normally of Tapulele being Scarfed, Mega Gengar to trap everything and then you've got the trick room element with the Stack Attacker alongside that Kyogre and potentially sometimes Assault Vest, Arnie, Veltal but sometimes there's a move there with tailwind support so you've got dual speed control options on the team very good team, solid team and it's going to be difficult to get around so I think Tapu Coco good options first I think I need Incinero on this but do I, do I, do I or do I bring Requaza Requaza could we potentially eat Kyogre I just worry about well I don't know if you're going to go with Tapulele to begin with really anyway um because we could go with Tapu Coco that's what it is and I think I'm bringing Requaza instead of Incinero it's a tricky team, always a tricky team I think it's one of the better built teams in the format probably doesn't get as much credit as it deserves I think it's a really really strong strong variant, probably one of the strongest that we've seen in the Ultra Series and one I'd probably like to see a little bit more of I always find it very tricky playing against it because it's just the dynamics of the team and how versatile it is we're going to see Tapu Coco and Kyogre come out for us and Ivelto and Incinero come out for my opponent so don't mind this too much that opponent has got a free pretty much kind of fake out and attack into Kyogre if they want here we could double protect but it would give my opponent the opportunity to set up their own tailwind and which is not really what we want to be doing they're definitely going to fake out into the Coco, I think they have to what options we've got in the back I don't really want to switch anything in so I think protecting Coco here and Kyogre is the best option for us and going for a thunder into Ivelto although it's probably just better do they go tailwind though, that's the thing I think you probably go Z move this first turn although probably not I'm going to go water spell and I'm going to go thunder I'm just going to double attack if we see Z move it's going to make this match way harder for us we don't actually see any fake out which is pretty nice for us so if we do see wow we get the Ivelto this is going to be a quick one which isn't the worst thing in the world my opponent predicting that we probably not attack with Kyogre but this is the thing that I'll always come back to if you've got the option to fake out the big threat on your opponent's side of the field and you don't do it and you can't blame anyone else but yourself because you give your opponent the opportunity to take down those Pokemon for you and you got punished for them making the straightforward play and people will say it was the most obvious play to make but yeah it was the most obvious play you could have got round that you could have faked out the Koko and if you got the Z move on your Ivelto then you could have went for that and that's a safe play so there is that argument there and always something to come back on you never really want to put yourself at a deficit at this early stage of the match because it gets so difficult from here on out and now we do see the Tapu Lele and the Kyogre coming from my opponent really what we can try and do is concentrate down on the Tapu Lele I think at this point as well we can probably sacrifice Tornelis by getting it in on the field so we can get Tapu Koko back in but we're just going to see the forfeit so that's what I mean like you lose so much resource at the start of the match it's near impossible for you to come back out and that is the decision making you know you think okay well if I make this decision it's a little bit risky you've got to think what's the worst case scenario in that situation is it all going to go tits up is it all going to go wrong if this doesn't go the way I want it to and if it comes back to that answer and you think yeah if my opponent does this and that and I don't prevent it and I lose both my Pokemon here I've lost the game then that is the wrong answer for you to really do especially in an early stage in a match like that so we've had really one really good game and one good example of not giving your opponent too much room early on so we'll end it there my friends hope you've enjoyed today's episode we have kept up with this flawless run at the minute so hopefully we can end up the week 10-0 imagine that so we'll see if we can do that tomorrow as always do leave a like on the video leave your comments and do subscribe to the channel I'll see you all for the next episode tomorrow so until then take care of yourselves and bye bye