 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're gonna be featuring a team based all around G max Pikachu with the recent event that we had in the wild area where we could catch G max Pikachu Finally in sword and shield it now has access to that hidden ability lightning rod Which makes it a lot more viable within this VGC 2020 format So what better time than to put a team together based around this Pokemon and have a bit of fun with it So as always there will be a rental team for this specific squad at the end of the episode So if you want to try that out stick around to the end and you can grab that one and try it out And if you do try it out do let me know what your thoughts are around this team It would be great to hear and if you've been playing around with G max Pikachu of your own I'd love to hear some of your builds that you've been playing around with so we've got today the the Pikachu With the the lightball which was a pain to get honestly It took me ages to get the lightball, but we've got that it doubles Pikachu's special attack and attack So we'll probably more gong special attack with this Pikachu here We've got the extra speed control support from the whimsy cot there then Draco vish the diggers be Garados and the toga case making up the rest of this squad So I'm gonna be a lot of fun We'll click into it now and hopefully it doesn't take us too long to find our first opponent of the episode I've been playing a few games off-camera with this team just to try it out and it is a lot of fun It's difficult to get to work and you can't always go the Pikachu mode But I do try and force it a little bit and I probably will for this episode because it's all about the Pikachu, isn't it? We've got a first opponent of the episode anyway, and they are playing a team of toxicity the whimsy cot drag-a-pop toga kiss Papa surf etched for fetched surf etched and the dust globes. So What are we looking at speed control from the whimsy cot and toxicity going to be a bit of a pain something that we can't Paralyze because of its electric typing But everything else kind of doesn't want to be paralyzed in this team and even if they do they've got the dust globes So I guess that makes it a little bit more tricky to get around diggers be looking really really good here and Honestly if we can get like some speed control support with it. It's gonna do a lot of work I think the issue is the the opposing speed control from That the wimmy on the opposite side of the field Hmm, okay Now do we go It's be control with wimmy or do we go with toga kiss redirection diggers be just clear the way a little bit And I think wimmy's nice because that if they do lead dust globes We have got taunt there. So that could be a nice option there. I Don't know if I want to lead pika Do I want to lead pika? Pika could be good leads. It could be a good lead, but I feel like Yeah, we'll go pika but diggers be and We will bring toga kiss this one and we'll not time out. We'll try not time out. Okay So we'll see how we get on in this one Hopefully you can get the big W. That's what we want. That's what we want with the pika And I want to get like I don't want to go through this whole episode where I wasn't bringing the Pikachu But at the same time I do want to show some value to this content where we can actually play the team where we're not just forcing Pikachu and Wimmy every game is a lead here But turns out it's not too bad an option here. Um, so You can probably get the paralysis on both Pokemon right now we can tailwind match their tailwind go Do we just do it? Do we just do it feels like it's too easy here, and we shouldn't be doing this But like let's just let's just go for it. Yeah GMX vol Christ watch it be weakness policy to this now I've jinxed myself and like it's not gonna be You've got the RNG gods on our side as we always do so let's let's hope the RNG god shine down Kindly on us in this battle, especially with a shiny GMX Pikachu In this Pikachu, I actually ran into a random raid Online like last week, and it was just a shiny I was like, oh my god because I had such a difficult time getting my own with lightning rod, so oh No way That is so risky. They just taunted our whimsicott. I can't believe they just actually did that like really because like if they lose The speed tie there. It's so risky and Like they blocked that tailwind great, but like like 50% of the time that isn't gonna work and I mean It's worked out here great, but we did it down to a kiss. So we've got a new toga kiss counter right here Which is great. So we actually have the dragon pull coming in now. Um, hmm And we've got no option to protect on Pikachu, which is a little bit of a shame We could potentially just double in to dragon pulls here to be honest get some nice damage onto it There's always a chance that it is weakness policy dragon pull as well Like we should probably take a look at my opponent's team a minute to see if there's any I mean the dust clubs could proc it there I don't know if they're gonna though are they? Let's go moon blast and I mean, yeah, if we can get the paralysis onto the dragon pull that's huge for us I don't know if we're gonna be able to we're gonna see a max. I think Could see max. So there we go Feel like dragon pull probably is able to knock out Pikachu Like that's a one big drawback with G max Pikachu is and you can bulk it out defensively But you're gonna lose speed or power really. Oh That's not what we want to be seeing not the fake tears is special special dragon pull is it max worm wind coming out Okay, this is what I mean like it's just not the bulkiest of Pokemon at all Just a little bit of a shame and but it's not the end of the world right now Hope he could you do get the moon blast into the dragon pull So probably take it down the next turn, which is which is ideal and we can bring in toga kiss now And we do have the the thing is with toga case. We're probably going to I'm probably gonna lose it to big tears and Max phantasm I would imagine although Toga kisses like we might be able to take that combination, you know, maybe maybe We're just gonna double up into the dragon pull again I'm not really too worried about the whimsicott like the thing is that the paralysis This would be a great time for it to be fully paralyzed like RNG gods if you're there listen Okay, well the tailwind I don't mind like honestly, I prefer that to Wow max lightning coming out I prefer that to losing toga kiss like at least this way we get to kind of hang on our Taunt should wear off this turn so it means we get the tail wind up the next turn then we got diggers be in the back and Oh, yeah, we do have them access to our weakness policy now as well, which is pretty nice There's moon blasters should take down the dragon pull and the the dozen gleam gonna do a nice chunk of damage to this whimsicott as well And then my opponents and got one Pokemon left and because they are taunted and they are paralyzed now Their taunt is gonna go After our tailwind which is ideal So it will be interesting to see what the last Pokemon is. Okay, it's toxicity, which is perfect for Good old digs to come in and do some work. So we'll tailwind and Yeah, we'll go for a dazzling game tokicus might add speed toxicity. It depends how it's been trained I'm not gonna count like count on us at speeding it though, but you never know Fully parallelized whimsicott would be great. No, no, no fully parallel like paralysis like where's Pikachu's power There's overdrive. Yeah, we'll take down our tokicus Do a nice bit of chip damage to our Whimmy but it's so fine now it is super fine because we get diggers be in I Don't feel like the toxicity's really got a way to do anything to us and Digs with these huge powers just gonna be able to earthquake and take Take everything down. So we will moonblast the opposing whimsicott and we'll go for that earthquake And I'm kind of opted for earthquake on diggers be here because we do have the Gyarados and we do have the Toxicus in the team. So we've got really quite nice synergy between at least two Pokemon that we can pair Next to diggers be that we can earthquake with quite freely and you know whimsicott It's kind of another Pokemon. It doesn't care too much about earthquakes It's still gonna take you know decent damage from it, but it's not getting killed from it It's not putting us in super detrimental positions. So I Felt like the earthquake was quite a nice option on diggers be and it gets around like redirection Follow me support from tokicus ex-cadrill. We get the fully paralysis. Yes. Come on There we go. That's what we wanted to see Okay, so no fake tears coming out this turn from the wimmy and Diggers be out speeding and gonna get this earthquake off Pick up the knockout and pick up the W for us. Yes. Come on So Pikachu did do some work didn't do all of the work I feel like wimmy probably did more of the work than anything else But Pika Pika definitely picked up the knockout on that tokicus at the start of the game So that was that was pretty big for us and So we can't take all the credit away from Pika and we got it gone So that was good. And you know what right thinking about it Tock is probably one of the most annoying Pokemon to face in this format, right? And we just care of it Super easy with Pikachu Pikachu just like why is everyone so worried about tokicus? I'll just get rid of it easy watch watch and then boom gone gone So Pika is good for that If nothing else It probably be good to have something like screen support. I think like screen support Pikachu would probably be quite good. Ah Okay, we got our next opponent playing team of Hatterine and their talk all giggle it orangaroo and The octopus which I can't remember for the life of me right now and the lie pod What is it called? Octillery? Octillery there we go. And super hard trick room team We got trick room users there with the orangaroo and the Hatterine and You've got the copycat as well with the lie pod that can be a thing so I mean we could paralyze stuff for sure, but is it really gonna be that helpful right now? Not so much Without like a steel type in the team it makes it pretty difficult to To deal with something like Hatterine and I mean, yeah, we've got I we do have taunt with whimsy cop, but I mean it's not really doing anything Magic bounce makes that very difficult. Let's go Pika up top We want to go maybe diggers be diggers be could be quite good here. Um, although not ideal We could go talk a kiss though Probably not the the greatest idea either. Um, let's go diggers be Toga kiss And the fit we're not gonna get it. We're not gonna get it. Oh come on We're going whimsy cop Pikachu. I'm just just dawdling far too much Yeah Hatterine is pretty difficult for this team to deal with because we're kind of relying on The taunt mainly to shut down trick room options where we can't really go for that here and And Yeah, we can't taunt the live on we can't taunt the Hatterine we can fake things out, but It's not really helping us too much Could you max ball crash for sure? I mean we could double into live hard. We could totally double into live hard Get rid of it Probably gonna fake out though. That's the that's the issue Like does it fake out or does it just go copycat? I think it just goes copycat and the hat goes G max max guard. I'm hoping that's what happens. That's what happens Then it makes it a bit easier for us if we just say fake out trick room. That's when it gets a little bit more difficult for us I mean we do Paralyze both targets so there is every chance that we could get Both Pokemon fully paralyze this turn. So, you know Okay, we're gonna see the max Great if it was live pod. Never gonna be those it Never All right. Well hat. Let's see that max max guard copycat combo. Let's see it. Come on Take out. No She's gonna it's good gonna straight up attack us Not ideal. Wow That's quite a lot like I'm always quite surprised by how strong Pikachu is especially with the light ball Okay Come on fully paralyzed Never come on just this one time Man, we don't even take that Pikachu so weak So weak No trick room. All right. Well, it's not the end of the world just yet It's like okay. Well The fish is not a bad Pokemon to bring in right now Fish is not a bad Pokemon to bring in Just to get damage onto the hat. Honestly, um Let's go for it. And let's just try and get rid of the live pod Come on Come on. We'll probably see talk or maybe hit the field now and place a live pod Definitely could be an option if you go in the back There's something I would be thinking about Then just G max smite again into the fish and that gets rid of it first. This could be quite a short one Yes We get the funny power lies twice Come on break through that confusion with me. Oh With me the dream was nearly real. We get the fishes rend off Okay, well, it's not as much as I kind of expected it to do But We could maybe do we protect here? I don't know if we do is a moonblast going to be enough with a fishes rend to get it potentially potentially I don't think it is actually I don't really don't think it is like we could protect but the problem is protecting here Hey, we're gonna get we're gonna get confused Anyway, which is not ideal um Probably better off just doubling up into hat Honestly, I think that's the best way for us to do it You get it twice. Come on We snap out of confusion Oh, I think we might get it, you know with a high roll. I think we get the hat Yes, we get it. Come on Yes, this is awesome Okay, pika putting in all of the work here pika's like I'll show you some work. We'll get this done right well We still got diggers being the back We're not confused anymore. We've got rid of the biggest threat hat. So that's perfect Octillery we're gonna hit the field now What's octillery we're gonna do like what are you gonna do octillery? It's just a pure water type, isn't it? um, it's probably good to get rid of Lipod while we can so we'll get rid of that I have no idea what octillery does. I know it has moody But it's about it. We'll keep we'll keep the fish around for a little bit longer Big tears. Uh, okay. So I'm probably gonna double into that slot there Get the moon blast into the light hard And we'll see what this Octo who's this gonna do come on fire blast No We are so jammy. We are like the jam. I feel bad for my opponent. Do I do I though? Not really no No, I'm just taking it the RNG gods have said we we've got this. So this is fine Um gigalith coming in onto the field now. Now. What do I worry about more? The octillery for sure. Um, I think we go double into that thing Um, yeah, just because diggers we can then come in diggers be able to deal with gigalith Yeah, okay. We see the protector Fish's rent still should do some good damage to this thing and if they go fire blast again, then that is super fine Come on fish's rent pick up the knockout from there The fish is broken. The fish is just broken. Okay. Well, we get it And then yeah, we don't even need the diggers be so this is this has been this has been good This is like a super turn around because I didn't expect us to win this one I thought this one's gonna be super tough, but I mean really when we look at it if I look like All the luck in the world. Haven't we we've had all the luck. So I feel bad my opponent But we've had two good games today with the pica squad and we've got two wins. So that's all that matters my friends Um, and pica's put in a lot of work. It's got knocked out Very quickly in both games, but I think that's how pica works. You kind of Maybe reallyistically without the sash Like sash is probably a really good item on it to be honest because it then gives you the ability to probably get to G max vol crashes off, which you kind of want to paralyze the whole team if you can But you can see we're not taking any big attacks at all, which is the one drawback of it I still think it's a really cool pokemon. It's it's a nice pokemon to have a bit of fun with So like I said at the start of the episode We're going to do the rental team here for this this team if you do try it out Definitely, let me know and I hope you have a bit of fun. It's not a super serious team It's not going to be winning you any any tournaments or doing like you're going to have good streaks on the ladder with it But it's just a team. I have a bit of fun with And I think that's the big thing with pica chew And manage teams to share Um, okay, what are we going to get rid of? No, I don't like getting rid of teams. I really don't um Um, what about order options? I'm not good. Let's get rid of this one because this one Yeah, we'll create some space there because the the snorlax and stuff like that the hat It's it's recent, but it's it's kind of it's I think one of the teams you could get rid of here And then we can pull in this one Take this public And what I'm gonna have to do is get myself out of the picture here for a minute because I do notice in my last episode video was that I I kind of blocked the view of the whole um the rental code I might not now because um I have oh no, so that's all right If I just move my arm a slightly a bit over here and then there you go my friends There is the team so if you do try it out have a lot of fun with it It is a really fun team to play around with hope you've enjoyed today's episode as always if you have Drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel if you're new here for more of this content more pokemon news Guides updates all that sort of thing cover everything pokemon and we just have a lot of fun while doing it So it'll be great to have you join in and we'll wrap things up there We'll be back with another episode very soon my friends take care of yourselves If you're playing in the players cup this weekend as well the I see it is the um Qualifiers this weekend. Good luck. Let me know how you get on and we'll uh I look forward to hearing about all of your battles and success stories next week So until then my friends take care of yourselves and bye. Bye