 Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great. And for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. Today on the channel, we are kicking off our series 10 content. Now, it is a little bit premature. We have got three weeks until the rules officially update on the ranked ladder. But why not start content on the channel now? We're predominantly going to be on showdown a lot of the time, but we will be jumping in on the switch and doing the free ranked ladder over there. Hopefully we'll find some games and we'll be playing. There is a bunch of tournaments being organized at the minute. So we'll be playing some of those. So some of the content, some of the teams will be featuring on those. The poker pastes and the rental codes will be uploaded starting Monday. We'll start all of that juicy content. And I am aware that we haven't really had much content this week on the channel. Hence the reason for me wanting to put something up today. I've literally been in my spare time as we trying to figure out series 10, get my head around it, see what's being played and try and formulate some good ideas going forward. So I've got a good grounding to kind of provide content for you guys going forward from next week. So that all kick off on Monday looking forward to it. But here we are today. I put a poll up earlier in the week and a big shout out to each and every one of you. Thank you so much for clicking on the poll, coming, interacting with it and choosing an answer here because we got I put the the the the feelers out to see if you want to see series nine or series 10. Now there is a few of you that want series nine content kind of going forward. But the majority of people we had 805 votes. That's amazing. So like I say, massive shout out to everyone. And hence the reason why I'm putting this video up today, just to say that we'll be continuing on with series 10 as we go forward. We might drop in some series nine if there is relevant stuff. But going forward series 10 and I am loving the format so far. So today we're kicking off with this team. Volcarona is one of the the Pokemon that I I've absolutely loved playing in series 10. So far, it's been amazing with the grassy seed as well. Just boosting that defense. We've got quite a bulky one here, but you can still take advantage of the quiver and so the spread basically allows you maximum bulk. The speed stat allows you to get the jump on Zashin after a plus one, which is nice. And then a combination of heat wave and giga drink give you quite nice options, especially with the grassy terrain to hit opposing threats. Then we're moving on. Obviously we need grassy terrain if we've got the grassy seed with the rillaboom. This is pretty standardish rillaboom, but pretty bulky at the same time can still hit hard with that miracle seed. Protect U-turn grassy glide fake out. I found that protect is pretty, pretty important on it for certain situations, just for being able to kind of maneuver board positions and get yourself into a winning spot. Then we move on to Zashin. Now, this is a little bit of a weird Zashin spread. You can take a water spot from Kyoga. Now, this I don't know if it's optimal or not. It's been playing pretty well. It's something I'm testing. It's early stage of the format and why not test out some crazy ideas? But it has been playing pretty well for myself so far. I'm not sold on it 100 percent, but it's something I've been playing around with. The extra bulk gives you a lot of benefits, especially when you get the substitute up. You've got double fake out to kind of support that, especially against things like Regi Alecki that can't break the sub if they're not holding something like Magna or Life Orb, which is really nice. So that's on that side. You've got Main Chou, who is another Pokemon, a bit like Volcarona, like shot up the usage stats for a few reasons. Got that inner focus ability, cannot be intimidated, takes care of Incineroar pretty well, can knock out with close combat, unless they're like Max bulk in defense. Can't be faked out, either. Can get the jump on the fake out on things like Gothatel, Incineroar, Rillaboom, which are super popular at the minute, and got some nice coverage moves, especially that one in Wide Guard. A lot of the big threats in this format are firing out spread attacks, so that is really useful. Rocks like that is necessary, I feel, for things like Volcarona, because otherwise you're going to be really stuck for being able to kind of damage it. Four times weak to Rocks, so you're going to need some sort of way to get around that. Focus Ash is quite standard on it. It's going to be probably the most used item on it, to be honest. It does take away from other Pokemon like Urshifu that normally do like to rely on that, which is just a little bit of conflict within this team. But all in all, very, very strong Pokemon and very good option in the format at the minute, to keep an eye on that one. And then we move on to another bit of a weird, weird build. But one, again, why not try things out in the early format? I couldn't have the Focus Ash on it, and I did think, and I've thought for a long time, a Southwest Regi Alecki could potentially work at out speeds, Shadow Rider Calyrex, with this speed investment. Modest just gives us a little bit more power, can take a water spot from Kyogre straight up and does all the nice things that you need Regi Alecki to do. And then we're moving on to Urshifu Rapid Strike. It completes that Firewater Grass Core with the Rillaboom and the Volcarona. Standard spread here, Impish Nature for some reason. I don't know why that's wrong. It should be Jolly, Max Speed, Max Attack. And because we can't really utilize the Focus Ash, I didn't really feel comfortable with the band in this specific build. You don't have Tailwind or any really dedicated speed control to allow it to kind of function well. I felt like LumBerry made sense. There's a lot of Volcarona going around trying to catch you out with that flame body ability that it has there to catch the burn, especially if you're hitting it three times with Searching Strikes. The LumBerry kind of alleviates that. You've got to watch out Volcarona though with that Gigadrain as well. So Urshifu can find it difficult. You're going to need some sort of support alongside it to get it going, but the LumBerry felt like a decent option overall. So what we're going to do friends, the poker paste is down below as always. I know this has been a big long intro, but it's good sometimes just to explain the team a little bit and then we'll jump in, have a few battles, talk about the former. And like you say, this is just an episode to kind of get the base of Series 10 kind of going. So yeah, you're going to see some popular calls at the minute. Obviously Shadow Rider Calorax, one of those big, big Pokemon that's going to be a huge problem, especially paired with Lele. Normally called in specs is kind of being the more predominant item that I've seen on it at the minute. Obviously Tailwind and Reggie Aleckey and Enti is definitely a Pokemon alongside Volcarona that I think is an incredible Pokemon in this format. So Tailwind going to be a bit of an issue. I think we'll leave mine shower because it gives us the wide guard support and fake out if we would like to utilize it. I think Zashin's not bad. He's put Rillaboom in the back behind it and I think, I think, I think maybe Aleckey just for some speed control later on because we want to catch that, that the Calorax and with the Assault Vesit gives us a little bit more, a few more options. Okay, we can stop the Tailwind if we want or we can set up our substitute. We can't fake out the Enti, which is a problem. We could fake out the Whimsicott, prevent the Tailwind coming up and just switch straight into Aleckey but we're not in the best place to do that. We could also Rock Slide or just go for a close combat into the Enti and now let's fake out and let's Behemoth Blade. If we get burnt, then that's fine. We'll get rid of the Whimmy and that Tailwind support. We won't, we won't. The eject button is there on the Whimmy. We're gonna take a Sacred Fire but I'm pretty confident we may be able to take this, you know? Oh, it misses. I don't know. I don't know if we take it or not. Probably not. Probably not. I'm probably over exaggerating. That's a bit unfortunate for my opponent because we lose Zashin in that scenario there. So the psychic terrain up, not the best to start but this is showdown. This is showdown, isn't it? It's a bit more fast paced even though I feel like I'm dragging it out a lot. No Tailwind up, just yet. We've got a wide guard. Are they gonna kind of suspect to go for that? I mean, one of the things we could do is just wide guard and bring in Reggie Aleckey. We will be able to take the Sacred Fire from that side. I wonder if they toggle it down in the mind shell. No, they go that way. Okay, that's fine. I don't think they keep the Kalorex in on the field, to be honest. I think we could probably double in on Enti and just vault switch. Close combat, yeah. We don't really have the switches. This is where Urshifu would have been better but at least getting rid of the terrains at plus. Get that close combat off. Near enough KO there, which is nice. Mind shell the target this time to get the burn. No burn, no burn. Okay, well Enti, we can probably grassy glide there and switch into Zashin. Yeah, let's just do that. Ooh, going for that cheeky old extreme speed. Well, that's all right. I mean, we've got the mind shell on the back so it kind of helps us out. Ooh, and they're not even going for a tail end. I guess they don't really necessarily need it, you know? Just making sure that they get the mind shell in any situation. Just gonna, oh, this could be iffy, this could be iffy. I think we lose Rillaboom here. Yeah, Zashin hangs on, which is good. Which is nice. We'll get rid of the wimmy and then Alec can come in and then just elect your web and we can just behemoth blade. So that's all good in the hood. They needed the tailwind. If they'd got it up, they may have done it. And I think that sacred fire early on probably helped them out a bit. So Rillaboom, Incineroar, Urshifu, Landerous, Zashin, and Regi Alecki. So, you know, you're gonna see very familiar things in the format at the minute. You're gonna see the Zashin normally paired with things like Rillaboom, Incineroar for sure. More than likely, Regi Alecki gives that a little bit of speed control. And then these two slots are kind of changing a bit. You sometimes see Volcarona or Entire over the Incineroar. Urshifu can be either form. So, I think Mindshell here, we've already mentioned how it's good against kind of getting the jump on opposing fake out mons. It could go down a Volcarona route, to be honest. Volcarona is pretty good here, to be honest. We have to be careful around the Landerous and potentially the Urshifu there will bring Rilla and we will end off with Zashin. Okay. So, I think we fake out the Regi Alecki and just Quiverdance. They've got no way to knock anything out here with their Zashin. They are plus one, but I'm not too worried about that. They protect. The problem is obviously that with the Regi Alecki, we're not gonna be able to add speed Regi Alecki after a plus one, that's just impossible. Can wide guard and we can just go for a heat wave. We could get greedy and go for another Quiverdance here as well, that's always an option, but it's probably good just to start piling the pressure on where we can with Volcarona and get yourself set up. It's very familiar, this pairing as well, it's back in the day, it was always Top Moth, which was Hitman Top and Volcarona, acted and had very similar interactions to how Mindshower and Volcarona act. Obviously, I think Hitman Top's still very good in this format now because it gets access again to wide guard. We missed the Zashian, that's no good. We don't like missing the Zashian, it gets a sacred sword, but I mean, look at the investment we've got there. We haven't even got a seed active yet, so you can see the defense investment that we've got, which is amazing. Just go for a close combat into the Incineroar, we'll just protect Volcarona this turn and we make pretty easy work. We do risk the substitute going up from Zashian, but I don't feel like it's got the room to be able to do that in front of a Quiverdanced Volcarona, so that is Max HP Incineroar. So we know that the, we can just go close combat, heat wave, that would be enough to get everything if we actually managed to hit, which we don't again. So this Volcarona is blind. Blind, I tell you, but we do get a critical hit, which makes up for a little bit, I guess, against the Zashian and then the boom coming in, boom, boom, shake the room. What we gonna do, what we gonna do, what we gonna do, where they gonna fake out? We'll go for the Rillaboom, we'll protect here. And then we can just fake out heat wave and that should be, that should be game. They can't sub at this point, so we're not worried from the Zashian's point of view. Yeah, they may double up into Rillaboom, but even if they do here, boom takes it, so. I'm pleased with getting these like little survival, which is nice because it does show that the EV spreads that I've got in the team at the moment are kind of working pretty well. We do see the boom go for, okay. Well, I'm gonna just do this, are they? I mean, a grassy glide, we just grassy glide here into this Zashian, that should be enough and just protect the Volcarona. And we're kind of drawing it out a little, but we still got a Zashian in the back, you know, so we're kind of all right. But there's Zashian, and let's go U-turn and switch on, oh no, they're gonna forfeit. Okay, so, Ludicolo is another interesting Pokemon. And this is the reason for Series 10, we've got like a new lease of life for so many of these Pokemon that have been forgotten about because of the Dynamax mechanic. It's honestly, it's so refreshing to kind of come in and play these formats once again. Okay, Ludi and Kyoga. So I want to leave with Rillaboom, I think I want to be able to change the terrain if we do see that. I think Reggie Alecki and Mianxiao, here's quite nice options here. Do I need Volcarona? Probably not, probably not Rillaboom Zashian, let's go that route, okay. So, oh, this is easy. This is easy, I tell you. Electraweb and Widegard, what they gonna do? What they gonna do? I've seen a lot more Shadow Rider Calyrex as well run in Sci-Shock as well, kind of sniping and getting around the Mianxiao because of things, you know, like they can't utilize expanded force, Astro Barrage, it's gonna be really interesting to see what turn the format takes over the next few weeks, and we'll probably be like, if you're starting to play Series 10 now as well, one of the big things that I think is the format's gonna be pretty well developed when the rules actually take effect on the 1st of August, so it's a really good time to start getting involved playing and I know a lot of people don't like playing on Shadow Rider and they prefer cart, but I mean, it's worth kind of just gritting your teeth through it for the next few weeks and just going with it. We do see, ooh, but there's that assault vest coming in handy against that Skaft Kyogre. That's, yeah, I mean, that's one of the bonuses there because I mean, we take that pretty well, to be honest. Just Electro Web again. I mean, we don't need to worry about wide guarding here because we can just close combat. I think we get rid of the NDD, yeah. So there's the Electro Web again, it does the Zapdos and we'll go for that close combat and that part normal type and NDD definitely helps out against stuff like Mianxial. See from the Zapdos, what are we gonna see from the Zapdos? We could, I mean, we can preserve Regi Alecki, I mean, for a little bit later on. We could potentially just go for close combat into the Kyogre, we'll be able to get it off before the Zapdos attacks. They go the Origin Pulse route, they do miss the boom, which is nice, but we do get that close combat and take down the Kyogre. All the same and a Hurricane coming out, okay, from the Zapdos and what are they gonna have left? Ludi, Ludi. Yeah, let's see. Regi Alecki might be the better player. Oh, it's Incineroar, okay. Well, still the better call overall. It's fake out and let's go for, I guess we just want damage on two. Like, we're not worried about the Incineroar, especially with the rain up, you know? We just want damage onto the Zapdos and I don't feel like the Zapdos is gonna be in a position to actually take down the Regi Alecki, to be honest. We can bring in Zashin now, can double up into the Incineroar and it's a pretty bulky Zapdos as well at the same time. So it's not gonna have the damage output that you would normally see on something. I hate these text boxes popping up that we'd normally see Zapdos in the earlier series have an access to and we can just, yeah. So that's another nice win. Basically this episode, just an introduction to series 10. Have a look at some teams, give you guys a paste of a team that you can take on the ladder, get started with straight away. As I said, we'll be down in the description below and have a look at some of the teams that are being played at the minute, kind of mid to near the top-ish ladder, because I think the ladder at the minute, yeah, you're looking at 1400 is top of the ladder because it's literally just got updated. So there's plenty of scope to kind of fly near that top of the ladder without very much effort. Okay, Wimmy, Dracovish, another one that's paired a lot with this Shadow Rider Calyrex and Tablelele, Moltres. Moltres good, I think, in this format, although difficult to say, you know. Okay, what we're gonna do, we're gonna go with Regi Alecchi, Mincio, Rilla, Rilla, Rilla, we need it for the terrain and Zashin, Zashin, yeah. Okay. So we can stop the Wim's a cut, attacking. We can stop that and we can get an Electroweve off, which is always useful. The Wimmy's likely to just, the Wimmy's likely just to protect it anyway, whether or not we wanna kind of, I think we Electroweve, yeah. We can stop at this turn, we can't stop at the next turn, which is a little bit awkward. We get some decent damage onto the Wimmy. They have to tailwind now, so we switch into Rilla Boom, we go for a close combat into the fish. Yeah, we take that pretty well, get the close combat, should put them in grassy glide range, which is nice. And then we can switch, I think probably better off, switching in Zashin for a Mincio. There's the Protect, ooh, Double Protect, don't mind seeing that. There's the Dracovish gonna be able to take this, grassy glide, I don't know, I don't feel like it is gonna be able to, to be honest. I think we just grassy glide and we just go for the Behemoth. Behemoth, bled. Okay, there's Incineroar, they'll be able to take this now, but it will be reduced damage, of course. We are able to take that, Behemoth Blade not doing the greatest damage. That makes it a little bit more tricky for us, of course, but we can protect this next turn, protect on the fake out. How do we, do we, do we protect on the fake out? How do we get them in-showing? Cause then we got the clear route to, yeah, we preserve Zashin, we have an active fake out this next turn. This makes it a little bit more tricky, of course, cause they're gonna try and get the tail wind up again, but we can go for a U-turn and fake out here. Let's say protect, of course. But I think they'll try and get, oh no, they go for that, they go for that. Okay. Weak and wide guard, I think we still U-turn. Because I think the Colorex is gonna be locked into Astro Barrage or Expand and Force, unless they do have the single target attack. Which they potentially could. Okay. Yeah, Expand and Force obviously without the terrain is that single target. So you do have the option there. Alecki's our only choice. I think we, I think we Electro Web and we get Zashin on the field. Cause I think the boom's gonna be a bit more useful for us with that priority grassy glide later in this game. Expand and Force into the Alecki. Yeah, that's fine. And Wimmy's probably in extreme speed range now. It may not be, but it will grant us the ability to kind of get Reg Alecki off the field and get something like really boom onto the field, which is now gonna be able to pick up the knockout onto the Colorex with a grassy glide. Minus one, we do have to watch out for of course. Cause I think Incineroar comes in here, like in all honesty. I really do, I do see Incineroar kind of coming in there. So we could grassy glide, hopefully we can still pick up the knockout onto it on minus one, which I'm hoping, I think we will and then go for the Sacred Sword. So yeah, we gotta just hope that this gets it. Okay, well, they don't even go for it but we'll get some decent damage on Incineroar at the same time. Going for that protect. So the tailwind kind of stolen out as well. Potentially what we could do now is switch into like Preserve Relaboom, switch into Mindchair, Protect. And then we got the Wide Guard, the next. Yeah, this is actually better cause then we get the ability to stop the tailwind again, which is always useful because they're minus one speed, which is helpful. So taking us down to our Sash, now we can fake out the Whimmy, then go for the Behemoth Blade into the Charax. The fake out should take down the Whimzy Cut. Yep, this should take down the Charax and this wraps up the game, pretty tight margins but you know, we're able to kind of close it up. It's been an enjoyable episode. Thank you so much for tuning in friends. Hope it's not been too much waffle for you today. It's been nice to kind of touch base at least with series 10 and provide some sort of rental poker paste for you guys to kind of jump in and get started. Leave a comment down below. Let me know how you find the series 10 already and what kind of teams you'd like to see kick off with next week, whether it be a Kyogre, a Serena team or anything like that or a Shadow Rider Calyrex or a Groudon, a good Groudon team that I'm working on. So that might be an option as well but I'm going to relieve it there. Have a great weekend, whatever you're up to. Let's all get behind England for Sunday. I'm so excited for that and keep an eye out for some cheeky tweets on Sunday night after the match and I will see you all later friends. Take care of yourselves and bye-bye.