 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode We've got a bit of a treat for you with a very heavy base setup team It is going to be based more around the ability contrary As you can see we've got a two contrary users at the top of the team here in the Malamar and the Laurentiis and then supporting cast as we're going down as the Kangus corn the Meow stick G max colossal and Cobra lion so there is kind of Reminiscence of other teams that I've put together in series 6 in this team But as I say it is going to be very heavy setup based the two supporting Pokemon are going to be so important to the team Are going to be that meow stick and the Kangus corn they perform different roles in the different cores of the team and like I say as you get into the battles will go through the bits and bobs of that team There is a poker face down in the description below if you'd like to check out the details of the team Or try it out and something like Pokemon showdown and as always we'll throw rental up at the end of the episode after we've had a couple of games So as always if you do enjoy the salt content, please remember to drop a like on the video Do subscribe to the channel if you are new and Do leave your comments down below especially if you've got some Burning desire to see something played before we move into the crown tundra Which is little under two weeks away now And I will do my best to make sure we try and feature as many of the suggestions as possible So we've got a first opponent jay and they are playing a team of silvian cuba lion Urshifu Kangus corn polytod and novene so an interesting build. It looks pretty cool Um, you've got to suspect this maybe stuff like weakness policy on the novene You've got quick attack there from the silvian that they could make use of Polytod with the rain makes things very difficult to uh for us to bring the colossal for sure Even though that is quite a nice mode for us here um We could potentially go a cuba lion root again not the best but trick room doesn't seem too bad for us in all Honestly, if we can get trick room set up with me I'll stick it might be quite nice to to go down that route Um, mama has a hard time leading. I think though. That's the only problem with The silvian there even though we have got the assault. That's still going to take a bunch of damage Nonetheless, um, okay. I think I'm going to go cuba lion I'm going to bring lorantis And actually what I'm going to do. Okay We've got seven seconds. So we need to lock in I'm going to go kangus corn cuba lion Yeah, we're going to go Meow stick and lorantis in the back Okay Now I kind of like to bring mama here, but the inclusion of silvian on my opponent's team makes it very difficult Like the hypo voice is going to be doing so much damage Like I say even through the assault vest that we've got on it and we do have light screen support on a meow stick It's going to be very hard to get it going right, okay, well Kangus corn and cuba lion coming out from my opponent But Unless they have a scarf kangus corn like we've got we should be all right So I'm going to max I'm going to go from the max knuckle into kang and I'm just going to go straight for that beat up Now the beauty about kangus corn in this team and why it's in this certain mode with the cuba lion and colossal is because it gets Inner focus so it's a little bit like the sneeze all a bit of a throwback to that very early G max colossal team that we throw up for series six Um and we've scarfed it so inner focus means we can't be faked out It means we can always get a surf off always get a beat up off if we want to Which is really nice for us to to just guarantee the setup there Um, especially because sometimes the the kind of contrae Side of the team might not always be the more optimal one obviously it is a bit more niche So there are going to be times where you aren't going to be able to use it So falling back on these may be stronger Um set up mods are a little bit better And like I say with kangus corn we have scarfed it for the reason that we can always get the surf up before most things And the beat up off before most things so in this case, we should be all right. I think unless they're also running scarf kangus corn Maybe Let's hope they're not So they're maxing their cuba lion. We're maxing ours Uh, we should get a beat up off first. We should remove the kangus corn before they can beat their cuba lion up And there we go. Okay. They might just think we're winning the speed tie here Ha ha Maybe but maybe not as well Uh and kangus corn I think if their cuba lion is not boosted and not got a life off we should be able to survive maybe max knuckle Uh, but we definitely unless this kangus corn on my opponent side is sashed That would be bad But we'll soon find out as we get this final beat up off we get to plus four Which is perfect and um Let's see. Do we go next? Can we go next? We do. Perfect Uh, it's a chopper berry Is it going to be enough to take this though? Can it take it? Can it hopefully not? No Okay, that's perfect. Now we'll see their cuba lion probably go for another max knuckle I'm hoping it's into our cuba lion honestly and I guess because we've got the life up there It probably just pushed us over Getting that knockout onto the the kangus corn with that chopper berry They're going airstream which is interesting into kang so we take that pretty comfortably Now the cuba lion is going to be able to outspeed the kangus corn the next turn um Which we're making a little bit trickier Uh, especially if they're bringing in something that does threaten our cuba lion because they'll be able to yeah the urshifu ushifu I think we still go after um actually we could go now we couldn't go rockfall We could go steal spike into urshifu like what urshifu is it? I didn't really get a good clear picture. It is the dark okay, so I think we go knuckle into urshifu and we'll go for another beat up again We'll see if the cuba lion doesn't attack kangus corn we'll get another beat up off Even though it's Even with the boost the plus one so it's a very slow cuba lion. Um, it will Now come down to whether or not the urshifu is sashed, which I would imagine it probably Okay, we had a bit of a glitch with the video. Hopefully it's back. Uh, the cuba lions just went for the max and I got into a um Cuba lion here. I think it was cuba lion. I think it don't think it was kangus corn. They are sashed on the urshifu um I think they went into kangus corn. I'm not too sure though. I'm pretty sure. Uh, was it was it was it? Let's see Now it was into our cuba lion. So close comment coming out Oh, it does pick up a cuba lion, which is a little bit unfortunate We probably would have been better off there going after The opposing cuba lion and just getting the knock out there knowing that the sash was on the urshifu Um Okay, but we do know that kangus corn actually out speeds everything so We can go for A beat up into the opposing urshifu before it can attack us Um, and we can definitely get a trick room up because if they double into meow stick here, then we are in trouble. Um, but Thankfully they can't so we'll be able to at least see a little bit more of this team And hopefully get the laranthus into a nice position to do some work. Okay So all going well We should pick up the knockout onto the urshifu here and then we should get that trick room up with meow stick A little golden meow stick which are brought over from I can't remember. It's jen. I think my uh oris Cards so omega ruby alpha sapphire. I think it's back from those days. So um urshifu actually switching out which is I kind of don't mind if we see kangus congo down here Sylvan coming in makes things a little bit more tricky for sure Uh, but the beat up damage is obviously Um handy although it's not very much The kangus con at this point in time a bit of a dead weight. Hopefully it does go down Which yeah, that's perfect. So that opens the door for laranthus to come in Uh, we can start the charming. Um, and it might be worth charming the Cobble lion before we do anything else Um, because we get the trick room up now, which is perfect And the cobble lion's plus two at the minute The other thing is we could potentially do It's got well, we've got a few options here. We can go light screen To mitigate the damage from the sylvan. We can go charm into laranthus Might be better charming the laranthus Yeah, let's charm the laranthus and go for a superpower Into cobble lion because that plus two should get the cobble lion Hasn't got a defense boost. It's just got the attack boosts So the prankster charm You can say with the contrae should put us plus two which does plus plus two this will boost our defense as well by one Oh, no, we missed just barely. Come on. No way No way cobble lion takes that the hyper voice and we're probably gonna get if unless we see a bounce Okay, that's perfect. That's perfect because it gives us the time that gives us a bit of room Okay, now we can protect with laranthus and we can throw a light screen up That's what we need to do. We need to protect. Okay Okay It's not over just yet I'm hoping they're bouncing into laranthus because that's where we need them to to bounce Um, we'll get the light screen up that'll help us against the sylvan Um, it's gonna be tricky Hyper voice now. May I stick should take this? bounce Yeah, perfect. Okay. Now we can expanding force into cobble lion. We get that with That and I'm gonna say a plus two leaf blade should get the sylvan I'm hoping Because laranthus isn't like it's it's a decent it's a decent attacker. It should get it Yeah, okay Amazing amazing crit as well. Okay, that helps out a bunch The expanding force should get the cobble lion now and then all we've got to deal with is The urshifil and I think plus one defense. We should take a sucker punch And the superpower will be able to pick it pick up the knockout for sure because Yeah, it's like I'm one hp. That's just about Yeah, we can charm it as well just to make sure just to be sure And we can't charm it because it's a dark type So we can't do anything to it. How many turns of trick room we got left three? No one one, huh? They could protect here that that could be very bad That would actually be very bad um I think we just have to charm again, laranthus and hope that they do not Yeah, they could protect. They're gonna protect here in the last turn of trick room. We could lose this They're not protecting They want to suck a punch. I don't think it gets us. We're plus one defense. You should take it They haven't even done that Okay We'll take it. Come on. Come on, laranthus. We could do it. Okay. That's perfect Very good game to my opponent And a nice exciting one for us to kick off with uh today a bit awkward We probably did make a mistake in not targeting the cover line with our own cover line because I think if we get Well, we just want to make sure we remove it there. But the thing is I guess when it came down to the end game, it it wasn't as bad a decision because The ocean food was in a position if it still had its sash In that end game point where we were I don't think we win that because then our trick room ends And we're probably not able to take it down to its sash and then Uh, take take take it down after that, especially without our terrain up So I think overall it was probably the better decision that led us to win that game. So Can't complain too much. Right. We got our next opponent pH 27 Playing a team of lapras talent flame Raichu, urshifu, serena and raladon. So a pretty solid looking team pretty scary as well Got the tailwind there for their main speed control Uh, there's not a lot we can do to kind of stop that with the talent flame with its gill wings ability Raichu there as well with fake out potentially nuzzle support as well, which is going to make things very tricky um Now what route do we go down? Do we go down a colossal route here? Maybe the rant is in the back Uh, or could malamore do some work here? Maybe Maybe but it's about the speed control. It's about kind of stopping the speed control Um, in all honesty, and I feel like the talent flame leading it's probably got torn So it's probably going to be difficult to stop that The one thing we could potentially go for is colossal and cangas con because the lapras probably isn't going to add speed cangas con In a tailwind. That's the one thing I can probably say safely um Yeah, let's try. Okay. Let's try this. We'll run out of time as well I think we want me out stick and then maybe Uh, let's go with malamore in the back for this one because we've brought the lorantis So it's going to be nice to feature the malamore as well So we'll see what we can do. It's going to be a tough one though I mean, I'm already making it tough. I'm bringing colossal to a lapras tune But it might work out It may do depends on the speed of the lapras. Honestly, like if kang still out speeds it In a tailwind, then we're all good Oh Oh, we don't even see that. Okay. This is When a plan comes together Great. Okay. I like this lead a lot because Now what we do is just surf and we go after the old urshifu Is it watered urshifu though? Let's see. What are you urshifu? That's dark. So that's fine I thought it would be dark But for the surf, let's go for the uh max Flair sets the sun up as well. So we can get our rocks up the next turn Uh, get rid of this urshifu unless Unless the urshifu is also scarfed and then it would out speed our kang's con, which would well It would have to be positive nature So it would have to be jolly And scarfed which if you're scoffing it, you normally go adamant So it would have to be that to get the kang's con But it doesn't okay. That's perfect. So we get the surf break a sash And we'll get rid of the urshifu which is one of the most annoying pokemon to deal with in series six Because it's so good And serena i'm not really worried about i don't know what serena is going to do here It might high jump kick into kang's con it might go for The same into colossal But at the end of the day, it's kind of fine, isn't it? So we'll get rid of the urshifu here I'm hoping the colossal doesn't do too much work here So we can at least get marmar in that's gone for the power whip and colossal avoids. Okay So We're in a super nice position right now Uh, i'm surprised you didn't see the talent flame come out as a lead for my opponent. I really am I think the talent flame lapras would have been the best lead because you can pretty you pretty much force us to go for max flare Turn one if we stick with our colossal um Mod and then kind of go from there Uh, well, we just go And do do we surf again or do we bring in do we bring in meow stick now? I think let's bring in meow stick and let's go for the rocks Into serena. Let's get rid of serena. They're gonna tailwind. I think Ah, they cancel the battle already. Okay. Well, it does mean it does mean friends that we can actually squeeze in one more So there is a positive to come out of it. But I mean getting the knockout But First turn like we did on to the osha foo is probably my opponent's main way to deal with that outside of the lapras So it becomes very difficult. You can kind of understand the forfeit there So we've got a heavy rain team here pelliper king drip ludicolor um size metode roll corona and ferrathorn That's all i'm gonna say we need a trick room up for sure If we're gonna do anything in this game, I think I mean we could go colossal, but it's pretty pointless um Yeah, we need meow stick and what we're gonna lead meow stick and What's gonna be better? maybe In cover lines not bad, but it's not a great Maybe malamore malamore and then maybe laranthus in the back and What's that fourth one gonna be? I mean cover lines not bad It's a fourth one. It's got ways to hit most things on my opponent's team better than colossal as well So we'll go with cover line In the last slot Rain is not the team archetype that I wanted to come up against But we'll see what we can do if we can get a trick room up We're gonna be in a good spot. We've got light screen support as well Which would definitely help us against the majority of this team They've only got one physical attacker there with the ferrathorn. So You know, it's not gonna be too bad And I don't mind facing ferrathorn with laranthus Because we've got the superpower and we can kind of just keep boosting our attack and our defense And over and over and over again until laranthus becomes an absolute beast We also got charm as well on meow stick so we can Pretty quickly like boost that attack stat to uh plus six But we'll see if we can get it going in this match. We've got pelippa and we've got The king you're coming out now. Do they double in to meow stick here? That's the thing Because I kind of want to get the trick room up first. That's the first thing we need to do But is it better to get a light screen up first? um Now we'll go for a trick room and we will go for Prr, we'll just go for a rock slide or do a start super powering You get a defense boost up I mean it'd be nice to rock slide and get The sash potentially the potential sash on pelippa broke. They may actually double in to meow stick here, which could be kind of bad for us, but Let's see the other option we got here is obviously of course I'm not seeing anything max, which is again interesting Um meow stick taking that pretty comfortably malmal taking that really well accuracy rising And a surf hopefully meow stick can take this come on meow stick. Please take it set this trick room Yeah, we'll take that. Okay. That's perfect. Um, we'll get the trick room up What is that is that an absorb bill? Yeah, it is Interesting. Okay, so the king dress plus one we do get the attack boost The the the sash broke on that pelippa and we're going to be in a nice position now where we could potentially I think we go for a light screen right now because it's going to support us for the rest of this game um Do we go for an attack boost though? That's that's the question. Do we just go for another rock slide? um I'm going to go rock slide because there is a chance we could flinch here if they don't max at all It's more likely they max the kingdom now though. I think um, but I don't mind if we lose both pokemon right now Um, we got laranthus in the back It's just it would be nicer to get laranthus in and still have meow stick on the field like that Ideally what we would okay. I'm going to see the pelippa protect If we can get a light screen out if we get a flinch here, that's huge for us. That is so huge. We stop that king. You're attacking. Um And we're definitely not missing with our rock slides after the accuracy boost, which is always nice So there is a decent chance we can flinch Potentially because we could get Okay, other muddy water no flinch and the muddy water hits. So not ideal lose both after the old azul bulb proking And now we're in a tricky spot because hurricane is going to be Real annoying to deal with we do have a light screen up, which is all right But we're going to have to go after the king here um probably Stone edge the pelippa for max max overgrowth Just if the king draw maxes as well, that's going to be really awkward for us Um, and i'm going to go for a stone edge into pelippa I'd imagine ah, we've got to take down the king draw. We've got it if we don't take down the king draw Then we're done. Then we are done But we'll see um If they max it I would probably not taking it down if they don't max we take it down That's the the simple facts of it. I think um, we should take a hurricane from the pelippa Pretty comfortably In when we are maxed unless the pelippa maxes as well. I don't see it going for that. Um, but cobaline Okay, so then I don't are they maxing we're in trick room. So we would go naturally first I'll have to see we've kind of got a hope that they're not maxing. That's the big thing here for us Well, we'll soon find out Okay, no maxing so we should get the king draw here and set our terrain up, which is nice. Um Yeah, and then Stone edge you'll take down the pelippa And we're in a decent spot going forward I just got to worry about if the ferrithon comes in obviously we can't stop boosting until we're not maxed anymore Which is one of the big drawbacks Okay No confusion, which is great stone edge and we hit so that's perfect With a life up guarantee to take that down Um, okay, so it's such a tricky game like the other thing we could have maybe thought about here would have been doubling in on the king draw Just in case it did max and then we could guarantee that we take Take it down, but a max airstream plus one probably do a heck of a chunk to lorantis Okay, so it's a seismotode coming out which is going to be the fastest thing in the rain and the Loot Polo. I think we got this 100% We'll go for the seismotode there in the grassy terrain. We should take it down Um, and I think another stone edge because I don't want to lower our defenses just yet on our cobalion The looting may max and go max hailstorm. There's definitely a possibility into lorantis, but We still got the trick room up. So we're still in a good spot. Um Cobalion gonna add speed both of these in the trick room with the rain up as well So we'd be in my opponent's best and like Like nature like intentions to get rid of the rain right now, especially with the trick room up I don't know what's gonna max. Is it the seismotode? Or is it the looty? I don't know seismotode may max No, it's a looty. Okay. I kind of don't mind this Max hailstorm could be a little bit troubling for sure But I still think lorantis probably takes it anyway And seismotode protecting I'd be surprised that this doesn't actually just knock it out anyway Because it's four times weak. It's not the most defensively built pokemon. Oh, it's very close. Very close Very close It's done edge Doing a nice chunk of that life over there And the hailstorm there we go. Okay, we pulled it. Um, still all right though Yeah, I mean, that's fine Have we got one more turn with lorantis? I think we've got one more max turn So we should be able to take another one with lorantis before it goes like that should proc our berry as well um And the seismotode actually going down to the hill So it's kind of kind of productive for my opponent to do that Even though it made a lot of sense for them to do it at the same time I think they probably didn't expect seismotode to take as much damage Okay, but yeah, I think we're gonna be all right now We've got grassy glide as well once we aren't maxed anymore um And we should be able to do a nice chunk to the ludi here with this and we'll go for another starting edge as well into ludi The fact is I could click close combat, but I really Don't want the defense drops. That's the big thing for me right now Wow Wow, there's so much damage So much damage they're setting the rain back up, which is quite smart, you know Doing that for when the trick room finishes so that the the fastest thing Problem is we've got grassy glide and at this point lorantis is going to be actually able to just pick up The knockout with the grassy glide it's so low health if the storm edge doesn't but it does and we pick up another win So interesting way for my opponent to kind of play their team I think the king would have been the better thing to max and I think we would have really struggled if we did see the Kingdra max there. Thankfully, we got our trick room up though It probably was the one thing that put them off maxing kingdra um, the fact that that Meowstick was able to set that up and we didn't really see too much of marmal which was a little bit of a shame But marmal can be really threatening in its own right, you know, it's got the assault vest there We can take a bunch of attacks and it's maybe better to Have it in the back to bring in a bit like we did with the lorantis there But all the same the team is very fun. So I hope you guys have enjoyed it We had a couple of games with it. We've talked about how some of the the mods in the team work And I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun with it if you do try it out. Remember, it is a little bit more of a fun team Uh, it's not super serious But it's always good to take on to the ladder and just have a few games with for sure Now we need to take a team down, don't we? I love all all these teams are great I do love each and every one of them, but I think it might be time to probably take this one down Yes, I think so. Yeah, we'll take this one down And if there are any teams that I have taken down, obviously, let me know I've got a second switch I can put up all the teams on that if you'd like to see them played and we'll make this one public and then You guys can have a bit of fun with this one So, yeah, the contrary is a nice ability the down one downside to it is if you've got something like max knuckle on the Laurent is obviously when you do max it's going to boost your attack So it kind of is counterproductive in that way and that's probably one of the main reasons why we haven't seen it used so much In this format contrary is a really good ability But it is kind of counterproductive when you do start maxing and going for some of the the options there I do really like the Laurent is set though. You can set your terrain From the Laurent is yourself or you can set it with the colossal if you go with that mode first with the cangas con And one of the things I'd probably change on cangas con which I actually couldn't get I had no access to it at all And I don't know how long it would have taken me And I really wanted to just get this episode up would be circle throw on cangas con now It is an egg move and it would really help against opposing trick room Or things trying to set up in front of you at least you've got that scoffed circle throw to get them out Or a threat off the field before it can hit maybe a partnering pokemon So that's always a nice option So in the case of if they lead like primarina you can circle throw the primarina Because you should still outspeed like a primarina In tailwind with cangas con most of the time unless it's like super fast Um So in that case you can circle throw it out and like protect colossal even more Which is quite a nice thing to be able to do. So that would be over icy wind Um But unfortunately I didn't have an explode with circle throw and I didn't have a cangas con with circle throw So I couldn't put the egg move on the the one that I've got from pokemon home But if any of you want to change things up, that's a nice little option for you there But otherwise just have a lot of fun with the team. I hope you do and we'll end it up there So thank you so much for tuning in as always. Hope you've enjoyed this little episode today And we'll be back very soon with some more vg and crown tundra content. So until then friends. Take care of yourselves and bye