 Everyone and welcome to a episode of I guess VGC. We're gonna be playing and some ladder matches online And I'm gonna I'm kind of still in two minds which team to play so That ranking right there. I haven't played for like a week. So that's why Everyone else has got to master tier got there in like the first couple hours. So it's why yeah We got I got a couple of teams like I was saying I'm kind of in two minds Which one I want to play and I Would like to play this one. I think I'm gonna play the intel on one. This is another one. We'll keep for another time It's really good to play it a bunch with it on the ladder on showdown So I've got in game so we can do that might play that on stream. So We'll see what happens. We'll kick off with this one and as always at the end of the week, I'll share the the Rental team I guess it's not a QR code team anymore. Is it so we'll hop on we'll see how we're getting on But the Encelion is it's a really interesting Pokemon It wasn't something that I thought would be that great when the the new Pokemon got released But it seems to be it seems to be pretty good. So let's check out our opponent running wrote on w Ludicolor Durant Togokis Grim snarl and ex-goodrel and I have how about even introduce myself I'm Lee. I also known my handle Osiris and so You might know me you might not know me. I've got a decorated history in VGC decorated as I've been playing a long time I've had some good finishes finished probably my best finish is gonna be seventh place at the 2014 world championship. So I top cut there and did all right and I've had good finishes in other events as well But nothing since 2018 where I finished second in Sheffield regional. So unfortunately, I Haven't had I haven't played didn't really play last season. So that's one of the reasons why but hopefully this season will be back On it and doing some good stuff. Okay. What do we want to do? Like we're worried about the Durant, of course because the Durant causes is all sorts of issues and I do want to lead and tell you on I think because there's no like immediate speed control There's obviously the the grim snorler that could be a bit of a problem And but I think I've got Arcanine just for that intimidate Do I want to bring in? Oh, we've got to be quick. Let's bring D'Armanitan and Rapuria. Let's go with that. I guess Rotem cut could have been really good there as well You know for the the ludicolo and the Rotem W But we'll run out of time because I'm talking far too much, but the battle will be Very entertaining. I can guarantee you that guys. I can guarantee you. I will try my best to make it entertaining. So Let's see. There's that Grimskull, the Tower Master and the Rotem. Okay So that kind of makes sense, you know, seeing the Rotem come out for the Intellion, of course Does he Rotem, Dynamax here? I kind of bank on seeing it probably does, right? Because we could potentially keep Rotem, our Intellion for later Do we want to actually Max here? Probably not. We don't want to take a Thunderbolt I predict they go Thunderbolt there and they probably I mean, they might like double it into the Arcanine to get rid of it If they've got the Durant sitting in the back, which would make a lot of sense We could bring in D'Armanitan, which would take a Hydro Pump. So I'm gonna pull a double switch I can't see my opponent going for a Hydro Pump into Intellion. It just doesn't make sense So we'll get right period. We need to try and like make ourselves a little bit of room, I guess Because one of the the issues is the Thunder Wave there coming out into Intellion and Double in in on it. So we get away with it. Now we could Max for sure And double into the Rotem Any problem is I Don't really want to take a Hydro Pump. I Probably will take a Max Hydro Pump from Rotem and I'm gonna go for it. I think we'll go for it And we'll go for you to into Thing is the Grimstone's gonna It's definitely gonna paralyze D'Armanitan for sure. We'll go for it. We'll just get the chip in I really need to get rid of the Rotem. I think not bringing our Rotem cut is a big issue obviously. I think If you brought that it would have made this whole pairing a lot easier to deal with but Let's see what's up for the challenge to try and get around it Now we should take a Hydro Pump Shit There's the Thunder Wave. Are we avoided? Wow, okay, and we'll get some decent damage up because we are choice-bounded and Procacitrus Berry man that does so much damage. We'll get our canine in for D'Armanitan Because there's a chance like if they go if they don't go Hydro Pump They probably want to be targeting D'Armanitan with I guess an attack or a Willowisp To kind of shut it down for later on in the match. It's suspecting that it's potentially scoffed, I guess But we'll bring Arcback in And the Snarls will help support. Yeah, there's the Willowisp. Oh Rhyperia dodging like a madman. Okay, so that's bye bye Rotem Wow, my opponent's not having the best of times here. I mean missing T-Wave and The the Willowisp, that's pretty brutal, but I mean you paint you're playing quite passively here, so I guess This kind of thing will happen and imagine the Durant of B What comes in next and you know the last minute last minute change I changed ice punch And put that on Rhyperia and I had fire punch. You've had fire punch right now. It would have been so good Okay, Ludie coming in Not ideal but not the worst We just got for another Mockball and just got for a Snarl. I think yeah in the Ludie might Might max But because of Sansa we've got the special defensive boost at least this turn, so We should be alright It's just whether loot like I Don't even think Max Max Ludie probably does take down Arcanine It's whether or not you want to take down Arcanine or not and maxing here means they probably haven't brought Durant to this match So I'm happy about that. I don't really like seeing Durant at all So Ludie It's probably gonna try and set its reign up, but we're gonna deny that with Rhyperia, and I think we should take Max Geyser as the Reflect coming out smart Grim Snarl play We get the Snarl off which is nice, so that's that's really really useful for us And and by attacking last we're obviously gonna deny the rain being up So if they do go for the depends it might go for it Yeah, they go for the max guys are trying to get that rain up, but we should take this especially after the snarl Well, okay, it's into Arcanine, but I mean you're kind of leaving the Rhyperia alone Probably because they don't want to pop and miss policy Honestly, I don't really mind I don't really mind losing the Arcanine I don't think unless the Durant is in the back. The reflect is obviously I mean in massive from my opponent right now But we keep the the sound up release one more turn anyway And we've got one more turn until we Undyne a max Don't matter time of course. It's gonna be the one Because a u-turn should take out the ludicolor for sure right now And they'll probably try and see with don't matter time, but I mean Not not really so we'll double into Ludi the only issue is yet if they max guard, which they potentially could do I Could see them potentially doing that. It's our last turn of our max Dynamax turns so I mean it would make sense And then the next turn you're kind of in a good position to throw out max guys around to like either target I guess there's a thunder wave. It will connect this time Hopefully we move if we move we're paralyzed excellent Excellent, that's what we want to see Okay, that's not ideal and we really isn't ideal. Oh, no we do. Okay. Okay. I take it back. It's fine. It's fine It's fine. Now we get Good old and tell you I mean I Literally thought we We've got fully paralyzed that turn never mind ignore me. It's been a long day. It has been a long day I will say that so get rid of the Ludi on our last turn of our Dynamax like I say I think my opponent would have been better off maybe going full Mmm Max guard there At least we would put them in a fetus there going into the next turn and Domana times trapped in then They're still in it like a really tricky position, but I mean It's not that bad and you can see like the pressure like they know that the weakness policies on right here They don't want to proc it, but I mean the same time you kind of better off just attacking into it because Your last book once don't because what hope do you have not not a lot to be honest? Okay, so we'll rock slide and Intelli on's gonna get tea with for sure for sure So we'll try we'll sack. We'll try and get darmin to kind of just take that tea with and see if we can At least get some damage out with with right here here before and tell you on does get Fully paralyzed by the the tea wave steps. There's it to get it doesn't mean coming out Dom just takes a crit on my period. That's super luck Okay, the reflect is gonna be massive for my opponent. Yeah, that's the thing The sand chips nice. We're gonna lose darmin at town here. Unfortunately There's not really much we can do to get around the tea wave The best them like the one hope we've got is if we can Just not be fully paralyzed and get an ice beam into the toilet kiss and that'll be enough with the rock slide for sure It's like more than enough. So Pending RNG we should be all right here. I'm hoping oh Not going for the tea wave I think that's a bit of a bad move to be honest because we're gonna get a life-warped ice beam into this Okay, so if it hasn't got citrus or a super barrier, it's kind of done for now You're banking on going for an air slash into right here, which isn't yet No crits this time rock slide hits and that's it. So that's I guess a nice Open up for the team nice and easy for us to kind of get it at least a win off the mark anyway And I'm not really shown any of the mods in the team yet but Except that it kind of works I guess and so we'll go for another now I'm not going to be risking anything really here. We'll go for that and Snipeshat, okay Snipeshat is cool move the main premise of the team is obviously using the Intelli on because it's such a good Dynamics Pokemon you've got the the snipe shot which you know obviously helps against Gastron initially But you've got the the max guys that can protect stuff on the team from fire type attackers You've got the air slash which gives you the instant boost and that's the premise behind running choice band Domana tan so we can get the speed boost before pretty much anything else can attack and then Domana tan can just Donkon stuff and You normally see like in tele on with a Vanillax and that was initially the kind of the starting point But I felt like the tele on could support bandit Domana tan really well, and I love Domana tan It's like one of the only Pokemon in the game that we've got access to they can one shot Toga kiss and Toga kiss being such a problem at The moment I think it's like it's a genuine Pokemon to think about and I don't know why it Not more people are playing it to be honest So we've got kids up next there's our next opponent a tyrannotar ex-cadrill and a standard sand coal You've got chandelier. I'm presuming it's gonna be anti trick room also sets trick room up for things like tyrannotar and Gastrodon Toga kiss support makes sense, and then the Rotom cut so I'd imagine We're looking at probably something like Weakness policy T-Tar is what I want to say It's that that would be my guess and that would probably be the main maximum The question is can we run in tele on as a lead here? Or do we want to go down? Maybe a trick room route? I Think I'm quite happy going in tele on to be honest Domana tan as well The only issue would be if my opponent leads sand Because the ex-cadrill if it's sandrush will get the jump on on and tell you on before you can do much But I mean if we've got if we've got Arcanine in the back At least we've got the Intimidate to kind of help us out and they're not gonna take us down once we're maxed So it should be all right, and I think our own Rotom cut here will be the one I'm still not convinced with the the the tagged on The disclops right here it makes sense for the team But I don't know if it's the right the right pairing to kind of round up this team It's kind of like why I probably I'm gonna have a few matches with it this week on the channel And we'll kind of come to a conclusion about whether we want to keep certain elements or change things up I would probably like to Showcase the minilabs in this team as well over the Domana tan. It's some point this week, so we'll do that But we're saying my opponent lead out with ex-real chandelure The stash is probably gonna be on the chandelure. I would say so we've got one more max Now we get rid of the chandelure that we've got hopefully extra now It's it's more likely that the chandelure is gonna be Gonna not have protect so that's the one I'm gonna double into go for you turn and I'm gonna max geyser So yeah, it's gonna be teetal Oh, it's not. Oh, no, it's gasser on and we've maxed for the baited us completely because snipe shot is gone So we're not gonna be able to do any sort of max geyser in We should get a u-turn off before the extra drill pen attack Potentially not Max here kind of scared. I kind of thought maybe the tyranitar would come in that slot Okay, so the extra deals just protects that's not the worst because I mean we're gonna get a max geyser is wasted, right? But we get wrote and kind So that is like not a bad thing It's just we're probably not gonna man look at that I was like if that wasn't a crit like bandarm is broke So bro, but I mean that damage is still pretty big And it kind of puts gas around a really bad spot and so Max darkness I think the gastrodome we could max ed Yeah, we've got max airstream might be quite useful and go for a Excalibur. Yeah, we'll do that. I think the gas around switches here for the tyranitar That'd be my best guess and the extra room might max it But if you yeah, I'm not seeing any switches though, which is kind of interesting What's maxing it's gonna be the gastro But we should get the speed boost I'd get the below the spot before it's able to move so that kind of shuts it down Unless it's a lump of course could be long, but they should take down gastrodome Yeah, and give us the speed boost and then a burnt exo drill I mean now we're able next turn to use our geyser as well like there we go one toasted exo drill Max rock ball setting up the sound for itself though, so it could potentially be Sandwich how to imagine it sandwich when you're seeing it paired with tyranitar. It is life hope as well so Then taking it bit of chip damage with the sand It's gonna be faster than everything right now Okay, but we can use our max geyser and I think we do All max guys at me to shandy I'm gonna actually bring it off and I will get an intimate it kind of puts exo drill down sir to minus three So it's not really gonna be doing too much upon it hasn't got a safe switching now for For the shander they're going out into the gastrodome, so we're fine The intimate is pretty useful onto that exo drill right now And it puts my mind at rest. I think knowing that the the exo drill Is the max poke one it's not weakness policy tyranitar that poke one scares me quite a lot And ideally what we want here is my opponent to use Max rock ball again Which hopefully they do and get the sander So that's shandal shandy goes down keep it coming out and we tank that because of the rain. It's nice and That's max way so Okay, special defense going on And the thing is the rain's up now, so we're in search a good spot like Arcanine we can snarl we can blame throughout one can't blame throw the chandelier because it the flash fire won't let up And but we can we can snipe shot the exo drill in the rain life hold I'd imagine even max Depends how it depends how? and it is Trained and We'll just go for a snarl and just get rid of the chandelier and the match canceled Okay, well, I think we're on the 20 minute 20 minute button, so and I Mean we kind of like that was a nice match We kind of got to showcase and tell you on there and we just overwhelmed my opponent I think they could have brought the tyranitar although they probably felt confident setting up their own sand I'm going from there the gastrodron probably been enough cover, but and the dumb quick did help us Out a bunch, but I think from that point we kind of overwhelmed my opponent. 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