 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today on the channel We're gonna be featuring a team based all around the dragon type gudra Now gudra is a dragon type that in my opinion is a little underused in this format It is an incredibly strong tanky Pokemon that has some offensive pressure as well We went with an assault vest in this team build and paired up with the whimsicott there for the speed control And then partnering that with the ex-gadrill the persimian chandelier and rounding the team off with vanilla So it's a bit of a fun team that we're gonna be featuring today But I'm kind of hoping that we come up against some Sun teams because Sun at the minute is pretty popular and And gudra does an incredible job. It's got that SAP strength Ability, you know immune to grass types and particularly immune to sleep powder So making it very strong against things like Venus With the assault vest very strong against Charizard can hit back for good damage It's got the sludge bomb the max use there as well to boost its own attack And then we've got fake tears as well and the whimsicott to pair up with that nice tailwind So we've got a lot of options in the team As always there will be a rental team at the end of the episode as well as a poker paste in the description So if you guys want to try out the team stick around till the end of the episode and you can pick that up And if you do try it definitely let me know what your thoughts are on the team And I hope you have a lot of fun with it either way Now we've got our first opponent of the episode and running team of whimsicott malamar Exkidrill Sylveon Indeedy and Lapras, so we've got some shenanigans going on here. You know, you've got the Malamar. It's got that contrae ability so Any drops that it would potentially get are turned into boosts got to be very careful around that Pokemon in particular Not a great too many ways to hit that for super effective damage because we've not got a very type of our own in The team apart from the the whimsicott where we could potentially make use of it there Whimsicott on the opposing side of the field as well with a speed control potentially Victors charm to boost that malamar even further. So we've got to be very careful around that and this is where something like Redirection would be really useful for us, but we don't have that so we're gonna have to look at different ways to get around this Pokemon so And what are we gonna do? I think we want to lead with whimsicott for sure Um whimsicott and we could potentially there's no Yeah, we could potentially go we're gonna have to lock in really quickly. Um Oh, we're not even running out of time. This is a classic classic start to the episode giving ourselves a handicap to begin with and and literally just because i'm talking way too much but It's all right. We're leading off with the gudra and the whimsicott They're the kind of key parts of this team there where I started with the team We built up around that pairing up Um, some other interesting pokemon with these two to help us around some particularly difficult match ups Uh, as we were saying and we talked the majority of the time about that malamar that is what we're gonna see coming out first for my opponent Um, it's gonna be very very very very very difficult to deal with for sure. Um Um We probably want to get rid of the the opposing whimsicott as soon as we can Um in all honesty like if I can just double into that now They'll probably tailwind But I want to like if they do tailwind that's great because then they're not boosting there. They're malamar um Further than what we want it to um And if it is maxing that's fine because Honestly, it's not gonna have access to like superpower and things like that which would be more Threatening more more detrimental to us. I guess in this situation. So we'll see My opponent does from their end. I'm kind of hoping that we can get rid of remove the whimmy straight away That's what we kind of want to be doing. Hopefully the malamar goes for max darkness. Maybe max Like psychic. I don't know. Mindstorm. I don't know. I could try and set the terrain I guess it kind of prevents our whimsicott from doing very much Although we can't really do much to the malamar anyway because of its dark typing. Um, we are going to see a charm Which is not ideal. So there's going to be plus two attack straight off the bat This is why we want to get rid of the um The whimsicott as soon as possible because we're going to see the smack dog miss Three plus two just not great and does a massive chunk to agudra Um We are going to get the max use we'll get rid of the whimsicott And we still got access to our tail in this next turn. We really want it and we get the at least a boost special attack boost so That's good. I feel really threatened though from this malamar straight away and it's a bit of a pain it's like It's such a difficult pokemon to deal with especially when like it's fine if you've got a fairy type in your team Like 100% really like all day along. You like give me my mom you deal with it But when you haven't it does become a little bit more tricky So the ex seedrel hitting the field now And do we do we do we do we do we like I don't want to go for max worm men because the one problem with that is we go for that and then we boost the Marmar's attack even further. I think we've got to go for the Max Flare, I hope it's not Sashed Exkidrill and go for Tailwind, where that wins the cut. If we can get rid of the Exkidrill here, well we're going to see it protect. We are going to probably lose Gudra in the process, but we potentially break a Sash on the Exkidrill. That's not the worst thing in the world. Okay so it's not too bad. Marmar, Max Rockfall, huh? Okay well I'm going to boost the Exkidrill speed, but it doesn't actually take down our Gudra. Okay so we do actually get through the turn, which isn't the worst thing in the world, although Exkidrill now going to be in a position to pick up the knockout onto our Gudra this next turn, because it's going to be, uh, going to be Sand Force for sure. Now what Pokemon have we got in the back? Because we didn't select the Pokemon, did we? So it doesn't make it that good either. We've got Exkidrill to see me in. But the weakness policy on Exkidrill, so we could potentially get our weakness policy cropped, and then we've got to hope that we are going to be faster than the opposing Exkidrill, which we might be. If that's Sand Force and it's Adamant, we're jolly. Max, oh you know when the tail wind up, it works alright, it's not the worst thing in the world. Now do we preserve our Whimsicott and bring in Persimian to sack that? Persimian, what can we do to the Malamaw? We could knock it off. Maybe that's not a bad idea, because we bring the Persimian in, hopefully we take, like we get through this turn. Okay, then the next turn we take down the Exkidrill, get a knock-off into the Malamaw. Get rid of whatever item it's got, do some decent damage, put it into Moonblast, kill range, get Wimmy back in, knock that thing out when it's not Dynamax anymore, and happy days, that's that would be ideal. Doesn't look like that's gonna be what's happening here as we see an earthquake come out from the Exkidrill, and it's gonna be lipled. Max Mindstorm, it's into Exkidrill, okay, that's perfect, alright, that's not the worst thing in the world. Unless that is like, well no, no, unless it is Jolly Sand Force, Sand Rush. I don't think it's gonna be, I really don't, I really don't think it's gonna be Jolly, like you just got Adam in Sand Rush, that is the optimal like nature, unless you're in this exact situation, and then, and then you're better off going for Jolly, but I think we might, with the tail wind up, we might have to beat it. The problem is if they protect here on our tail wind. Gonna go into the knock-off, I'm gonna just go for the play that we talked about, I think that's the way that we can get back into this game. So we do actually have to beat the opposing Exkidrill, that's perfect, okay, ideal, get rid of that threat, there's a Sand Rush, so it was Adam in, unless we did speed time, get the knock-off, and do decent damage now, it's in Moon Blast Range, we'll get rid of the Solvus as well, now we probably will lose, oh, oh, okay, Simeon going down, I prefer this because I kind of want to keep Exkidrill, like out of the two, Exkidrill is probably the one that I'd prefer to keep. Now the Marmal's definitely 100% in Moon Blast Range now, so it all comes down to what my opponent's last Pokemon is. We'll get the Rank Master, Whims are caught in, right, come on, could be worse, it definitely could be worse, do a Rock Slide or do I just Iron Head the Lapras? Rock Slide could miss, I'm gonna Iron Head, and I'm gonna go for the Moon Blast into the Marmal, and hope it doesn't have, yeah it does not protect, okay, so we'll get rid of the Marmal, thankfully, okay, but it's not over, we've got to deal with this Lapras now, Lapras is like one of those Pokemon that you just don't want, you know, we want the flinch, that's what we want, we want that flinch, come on, get the flinch, we get it, yes, come on, the RNG gods are constantly shining down on us, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, okay, we're fine now, because the Moon Blast and Iron Head will be able to get it, and guys it's all about believing in the RNG, that's all you got to do, you got to believe in the RNG and the RNG will come to you, it's like a weird religion, if you've got pure faith then you'll always get it, you get the special attack drop as well, which is a little unfortunate for my opponent, yeah, and then we do pick up the wind, so whoosh, come through, unscathed, get past that Malmo, so scary in the beginning, and considering that we didn't even lock in a team to start with, that was pretty lucky, but I mean we'll take it and I guess it shows that the team can work with that mode for Pokemon as well, so we get a good old bomb mushroom for our troubles there, and we'll move on to our next opponent and hopefully we can keep the streak going, hopefully we can, that would be ideal, come on, come on, but I do really love Gudra, I would like to, like if you've played Gudra this season it'd be great to hear your opinions on it, like drop a comment down below and let me know, I do really like it's one of those Pokemon that I always look at and I always think I need to build around Gudra and I never do, and it gets to the normally the end of the season and I'm like why haven't I touched Gudra, it's such a good Pokemon, and then you see players coming along with it at certain points, especially when sun is such a powerful thing, and it does so well, so it's good to get into it now and let's not get into the trap of not going into team preview until it's like 20 seconds left, so we've got our next opponent Whimsicott Lapras, Incineroar, Durant, Gothatel, and Snorlax, so kind of a hybrid trick room, Tailwind team, lots of bulky Pokemon, big threats in the Durant of course, fake out in the Incineroar and the Gothatel, I'd imagine we'd probably see Gothatel Durant lead here for my opponent potentially, what are we gonna do though, what are we gonna do, couldn't bring, would it be better to bring Shandler here maybe, but she gets to Durant potentially, because we could go with Shandler Gudra, and then me and Pissimi in here isn't bad, but I don't expect my opponent to lead Incineroar because we've got that, I think let's go with Winnie and Excudrill, yeah okay let's lock in, I feel like team preview, I feel like I need another 90 seconds in team preview, I talk way too much and yeah I'm just trashing the place now, yeah I talk way too much, I'm talking way too much today, it's probably because I'm quite excited to get recording again today because it's been a little well it's been nearly weeks since I've put a battle series episode up, so obviously I enjoy these days, hopefully I can get some more time to do more of these videos, I've got like a bunch of teams ready to go, I just need some and literally just need a bunch of battle points so I can get some mints to get these Pokemon ready, so starting next month they're going to be exciting, we've got the Durant and the Whims are caught up by my opponent, they've got to go into Shandler right, they've got to go into Shandy, they have to, they have to, like I'm going to come into Excudrill, I'm going to Max and go Max Flare into the Durant, because we should take a Max Rockfall, if that's what comes out, we might see a Max Quick from the Durant of course, so that's a like it's a definite possibility and if it is that you know you have to just take that on the chin and it's like we've made that decision, I'm kind of wanting to keep Shandler around rather than lose it, it's a nice trick room option for us if we need it and it's a nice way for us to reverse the trick and we do see it come out from my opponent, you're going to see the Durant Max, I mean if we get this Max Flare off into the Durant even with a special defensive boost, I can't see it surviving that, like unless it's like seriously invested, um I just, yeah I don't know, doesn't feel like it's gonna, we're going to see Tailwind, tickle, okay well we're losing Excudrill, that's fine, that's fine, Max Quick, no Max Rockfall, that's better, that's better for us, because the Max Quick would give the special defense boost, we don't want to have to deal with that and it does mean that we uh, that good old Excudrill lives to see another day, so that is ideal for us as we get the Max Flare off with our Goudre doing some work and uh, wow, wow, it actually takes it, ha, let's focus Sasha, okay that's a cheap, that's a cheap move, how dare you, I'm not allowed to do that, um all right, uh I think we just rocks, did we rock slide at all, just iron head with Durant, um we're gonna rock slide, it's a little risky because we could miss the Durant but I don't feel like we're gonna and I'm gonna go for a Max Wyrment into Durant, wow, we're gonna switch out, they want to preserve it for later, okay, that's interesting, it comes in, Snorlax, all right, that's fine, I'm gonna see the Wimzacot couple, no tickle, just feeling, feeling very generous with these tickles today, this Wimzacot, okay well, we've got a rock slide, it's not gonna do much, it chips down a little bit, nice damage onto the Snorlax there with a crit and a bit of damage onto the Wimzacot, Max Wyrment here is pretty nice because now it does put the Snorlax, it does increase its attack, I'll put that minus one there, and we're in a really, you know, we're in a really nice position this next turn to potentially go for a Max Ooze, we're gonna see the Snorlax go for a belly drum, for sure, it's definitely what I'm gonna see, it's just kind of like we could get rid of the Wimzacot, it's probably better if we do, we'll go for the chandelier in place of the extra drill, we set those tickles and we'll go for a Max Ooze into the Wimzacot, get rid of it, and then we've got our own Wimzacot in the back, I do think that the Snorlax is gonna go for the belly drum here though, you would imagine that's the set that it is, especially with the berry, do you see another tickle here, it's all the Wimmy's doing so I don't mind that, we do get a special attack boost onto our chandelier, interesting to see what the Snorlax goes for, likelihood is though, we're gonna have to probably sacrifice something to switch the Shandy out to get Wimzacot onto the field so we can get a tailwind, that should give us, ooh, yarn Snorlax, nice, I like, I like, okay I do like that a lot, our Goudre is in a tough spot here, especially if Duran comes in now, that's gonna be Lackress, really don't mind that actually, because I can just switch our Goudre now and get X-Gadrill onto the field, just heat wave, I mean why would I not do that, plus one with our chandelier, chandelier is like the most ridiculously strong special attack, oh one of the the strongest special attackers in the game, we've got the sun up as well, so we're gonna be doing a lot of damage, Shandy can take this home for us, pretty sure right now, so we'll get the X-Gadriller, we'll ignore that yarn, this is thick fat Snorlax which would make sense, you know, it's gonna be able to take it a little bit better, so wow we'll do some nice damage there and it is gonna be the yarn into the chandelier, so that's fine, kind of would prefer not to not have chandelier go to sleep, we're gonna bring in Wimmy, because this will give us the opportunity now to get the tail wind up with Wimsacott and even though we have got the plus one special attack, it is a little bit annoying that we have to reset that, but I mean the grand scheme of things is fine, like aiming to get Wimmy onto the field so we can get a tail wind up, so we can deal with the Durant better, because the Durant coming onto the field is pain in the butt because of its speed here, so we're gonna see a Hydro Pump, X-Gadriller does avoid but I'd stand by us taking that in the sun and that would only proc our weakness policy, so you know it does seem quite fortunate for us, I mean it's fine because now we just get a tail wind up and we go for, we just go for an iron head, we don't need to risk anything, we don't need to risk on for the the rock slide here, the Durant does protect and the thing is even if X-Gadriller goes down to a Hydro Pump right, it's fine, we get a switch into Shandriller and we can just get rid of the Elapris that way, so there's the iron head, Hydro Pump it does connect, but I mean we don't even need to do that really, you know we just bring in Goudre, we just moonblast the Durant and then we thunderbolt Elapris and Goudre can finish this game off for us, so that's gonna be pretty nice, right I do love you Goudre, Goudre is great, Goudre is so great, moonblast into the Durant, we'll be able to get rid of it there and then thunderbolt into the Lapras or to the Lapras have the weakness policy and just clean up this game, it's gonna happen, nah it's not gonna happen, it's alright, we've got fake tears as well, so we'll be able to deal this Lapras, whatever happens, I don't think it's gonna be able to knock out Goudre even plus two, that's decent damage, this is something like Lapras and there's the weakness policy, so we called it, we called it, is it gonna bite us, here we go here's a freeze drive, see some tasty damage there, it's good but it's not strong enough because now we can just go for fake tears and then another thunderbolt and that is gonna be game, so we do pick up two wins with the Goudre team which is amazing and we've got to kind of see some nice options there from the Goudre, also other members of the team performing really well you know, I'm actually quite happy with the two matches that we've kind of showcased today, it's showing the elements of the team and different parts of it, I think we featured all six, have we featured all six Pokemon in the team today, um maybe, maybe, maybe we left one out, I don't know but it feels like we have, like I said at the start of the episode I will be doing a rental code for this team and what I haven't realized as well, when you take a rental code away and don't make it public anymore which is really frustrating because you can only ever post six rental teams at one time, so the old rental teams that I posted from previous videos, I've had to take down to post new ones which is really frustrating because I didn't realize that in the time now people are watching old videos, so what I'm going to try and do is run through my shield copy and then all the old rental teams that I've had that are unfortunately taken down, I'm going to put back up on my shield copy and I'll post those out as soon as I've done that and so that is a way for us to have like at least 12, 12 rental teams at a time and you know the format will kind of move on so there will be points where all the teams won't be as relevant anymore, manage teams to share so we need to get rid of something here which is questionable which one do we want to get rid of because you know, I'm guessing players are using like all of them really, I mean the talk stress to team one is probably one to maybe get rid of, the Grim Snarl I definitely don't want to get rid of that just yet, the newer ones probably not so yeah we're gonna have to I think get rid of this one, don't make public and you know it's not like I've not got these Pokemon anymore, I've still got all the Pokemon, the teams are all there so it's just a case of me trading them over to shield and then creating the new rental teams so the one for this week is this one so we want to make this Guja team public and there we go so it should be good, Vanillux was the only one that we didn't really get to feature today which is a little bit sad because I do love Vanillux, it's a really good Pokemon and we can have a look at this one here and there is the rental team my friends so have a lot of fun with it if you do try it remember I did ask let me know what you think of the team have a lot of fun and I hope you do and leave a drop a like on the video if you've enjoyed this episode do subscribe to the channel for more of this content more news updates and things like that all Pokemon orientated and we'll be back very soon with another video and until then my friends all I'm going to say is thanks for tuning in have a great rest of your day and I'll see you all for the next one so until then take care and bye bye