 Hello friends and welcome back to another VGC 2020 battle series episode My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode I'm going to be featuring a team from very good friend of mine and top VGC player shared You might also know him as Kunal And he's passed me over this team because we were talking about the Primerina desclops in Ferrothon core very strong core and a prominent core that you're probably gonna see quite often at the minute And I did feature it It was included in my G max colossal team that we just featured last week on our showdown episode And but we wanted something a little bit different and he kindly passed this over to me to use I'm just going forward though If you guys have teams that you would like to see me feature in this series on these episodes Do leave them down in the comment section below leave a poker paste or anything that you would like just even a single Pokemon with EV spreads and a move set that you'd like to see featured I'm more than happy to do that We've got new rules starting this Friday the 1st of May so season four series four starts We've got the new G max Pokemon introduced match up Gengar and Garbados So we'll have a lot of fun with those Pokemon when they do get introduced I've got some really cool ideas for match up. So looking forward to trying a super fun crit team But without further ado, my friends, let's hop into this And get underway. So written's not great written's not too bad We've not really been concentrating too much on laddering this series I think I've been put off a little bit by The disconnect rates that you kind of seen some players having issues with Other than that, I've obviously been working still So I've not had a massive amount of time that I would have liked to but hopefully next week I will be starting streaming again Tuesdays Thursdays over on Twitch. That will be every week So come over there will be playing VGC every Tuesday evening and Thursday evening So do come by it'll be great to see you and hang out and play some Pokemon And I've got a first opponent playing a team of ex-cadrill Tyranitar Breaverie the Incineroar Rotomwash and Clefairy circle fairy another really strong redirection Pokemon that you're seeing quite a lot at the minute Obviously with that friend guard boosts the defensive capabilities of its partnering Pokemon. Um So we've got the sound call we've got speed control with the Breaverie We've got a kind of a trick room check in the Clefairy potentially because it can get access to after you and Helping out its partner Pokemon in the sloth situations and the Intimidate fake out support from the Incineroar and then the Rotom I'd say What are we gonna do here? Primarina is like really good if we can just kind of keep a check on the Rotom honestly And I think what we'll do is I would go for Arcanine Kind of put off leading Arcanine honestly because I just don't want to proc Let's go Primarina nimic you Barathorn and let's chuck the teetar in there Yeah, yeah, let's do that. I teetars pretty decent against most things on this team that aren't Dynamics Rotom and the ex-cadrill so Nice thing about really kind of approaching Clefairy is you because of the redirection to a little bit like how you approach Togus any of the redirection you kind of want to be able to Kind of put spread moods on the field as soon as possible to kind of get around the redirection Got lots of options in this team obviously heatwave on Arcanine I have a voice here with Primarina and the rock slide with the the Tyranitar. Okay, so Do we just max? The thing is that the worrying thing like what we could potentially do is hide max guys are into the bravery and go for a trick room Because that should get rid of the bird Unless it does max itself, but I don't really see it maxing I see something more like Tyranitar maxing here It's likely there's got a weakness policy That's like this kind of standard that you're seeing on Tyranitar. Maybe that the shift has the week's gone, but The bird the bird is the dynamax. Okay, so we've got max s food probably what we're looking at so I Don't mind this too much to be honest, especially if we get a trick room up, which we're likely to do It's unlikely that my opponent's got a way to actually knock mimic you out They can definitely break the disguise but T-tiles Especially not max not gonna be capable of taking down the mimic you over the door But we'll be able to say a lady a lovely lady primarina in action here. I love primarina It's such a great Pokemon very strong Pokemon as well VGC at the moment So we're gonna see the airstream, which is fine. It does a decent chunk of damage Boosting the speed, but that just helps us out like way more because I've had trick room Oh, no way. I want T-tiles. Okay. Well that kind of Scuppers our plans a little bit. I ran to taunt T-tiles 2014 Don't like this. All right, um, I think we're gonna have to at least mimic you still got a disguise, right? All right, did we get rid of the bird? Now, what do we get rid of the T-tiles? Mmm Because we'll take another airstream. It's kind of tempting to get rid of the T-tiles to be honest Like and then get dust clops onto the field Are we having the dust clops? Have we we need to we need to do something? Okay, okay. Okay, let's go Let's get a terrain in effect on the bird. I haven't brought dust clops It would have been a great Pokemon to bring here. Um, let's bring in pherothon because We're gonna need to reset if we want to go down a trick room. We're gonna have to reset this taunt Pherothon's likely to it's gonna take an airstream here No, okay, I don't know if we're gonna be able to take an attack on the T-tile. That's the problem And maybe be being better off going max guard Oh, it's fine. It's fine. I'm worried about dodging these rocks lads like a ninja. Okay I'll get rid of the bird I guess the problem is Really, um We can't get our trick rooms to up until the T-tiles remove from the field. Um But it will depend on at least you've got the rain up which helps support the first one a little bit now Body pressure take the tyrannotile down Okay, so we get a little bit fortunate. I like a lot fortunate there the rocks I missed we would have been probably better off Uh max guarding and then attacking with a mimic you into the bird But I don't know if we would have been able to take it down. That's the problem there Tauntita tauntita very good Very good. Okay incineroar coming in. Does that have access to that fake out? Of course Uh primarin isn't a a terrible position right now. Um, I'm kind of tempted to Honestly switch into Mimic you here and go body press Because we could potentially see a fake out superpower into the marathon, but it's more likely you probably see fake out and Rock slide to get rid of the primarina But I doubt I think they have to fake out the marathon here Yeah You see the superpower. That's not ideal, but it's not the end of the world. That's the rocks life We thought we will lose our disguise Um, but to be honest, this is probably better than losing mimmy uh the primarina And I know it's solo health at the minute and you think uh, maybe it was worth keeping it But if we can get our trick room up, it's gonna be it's gonna be decent against the majority of what my opponent's got right Are we faster than tyrannotile? I don't know if mimikyu is Potentially is you know, if it's not like we could kind of taunt it before it taunts us um And then switch into our own teetal Yeah, I'm gonna do that I'm gonna try and see it's gonna be like if we are slower then it's gonna mean we're gonna have to adjust our board again But I think we've got the pokemon to be able to do this if we can taunt the teetal then we can potentially Get rid of the incineroar with our own teetal and then get Our ferrithon in a really strong position under the trick room to start doing some some work Okay, so what we're gonna see Rotom The taunt's not so bad into the rotom actually because it does prevent Um the nasty plot and that's something that we don't really want to be having to worry about too much So I don't mind the taunt going into that slot at all We'll probably see a flare blitz From the incineroar into our taranatal. Oh taunt everything's got taunt This guy just doesn't want anything To get set up right. Well, huh? I think we can just start chucking out some rock slides to be honest with our taranatal With rotom if they want to go hydro pump into That's that's there enough and we could potentially double up into the rotom I think that's what we'll do like our main objective here if we get rid of the incineroar Just ferrithon wins this match like that's our clear win condition. So that's the thing we've got to be trying to aim for um If the incineroar switches out here then teetal comes in it's going to take Some decent damage with the rock slide and the main thing is we're not going to be propping a weakness policy If we see the teetal on the other side where the rotom is then it comes in and takes a player rough um Which can do some I don't expect it to pick up a knockout But it's going to put it in it in a dangerous range, you know So actually the fastest thing on the field the rotom is pretty slow. Okay hydro pump No Come on. We needed that to hit. We needed it to hit Ah, and then everything would have been gone So unfair when you won't When you want hydro pump to hit those odd occasions. Okay. I'm pointing. Oh, well, we get the flinch on there We're getting some serious roles here to be honest. Um Right. Well I think we're pretty safe from wrapping this one up like the incineroar's got a hard switch out here. I think um But if it does that's a thing like the the rotom Is risking proc and our weakness policy because with the signed up the uh, the hydro pump isn't going to be taken down our at our at our at our See, okay, they're up you connect We actually pick up the knockout. Okay with a crit. Okay RNG has been my friend will do Yeah, I feel kind of bad for this guy, but I think well, this is the thing it happens Doesn't it we have to accept it when it's against us and then Reap the rewards and enjoy it when it goes for us, you know, sometimes it happens like that Um, but we definitely had a clear game plan in mind. So Put aside the rng there for a minute. I think we would have been all right anyway. Um We don't really need to Half around too much We can just super power player up and that should lock this game up. No need for pherothon, but it was there It's what counts Rocker weakness polyp. There we go. Okay Um, the nice thing is that mimikyu is actually faster than tyranitar now We know and the next player rough will be able to pick up the knockout Um, but a teeter is also faster than this. So Just makes cleaning this one up That little bit easier, but very good game to my opponent. Um, like I say, we've got a few of the favorable roles there But we'll we'll take those. Um, but the team feels super nice Um, and I think just generally it's a it's a very good meta team at the minute that we've got from shade. So It's just it's nice to showcase these teams as well Just show the different options and that's a thing like this with these pokemon as well You don't need to run in a specific direction. There's so many different options You can run with this sort of team with these sort of cores as well at the moment Right, we've got our next opponent Number 265. So he's pretty high on the ladder And playing a team of draggapult, togakus, dusclops, milotic, incinero, and pherathon. So Um, kind of a similar call to what we're running, but with the melotic over the primarina. Um, I'm not the biggest fan Of of melotic. I I I know exactly why it's good and it's amazing competitively, but It doesn't mean I like it and probably a lot of you don't like it But probably a lot of you love it as well. Um, I prefer primarina But on to this match not on to my opinion Mimikyu Mimikyu's like pretty good here Just shutting down things that could potentially set up The yawn the hypnosis the coil stuff. Um, so mimikyu also threatens the draggapult as well, which is quite nice. Um Could we go tyranital maybe? Hmm There is the worry about the incinero, of course I think we probably need arcanine Just to check the the pherathon like if I'm completely honest, I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that there. Um And then prim I think Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that A big concern is going to be the melotic Um Because you don't want to start giving it free competitive boosts with our arcanine So we've got to be too careful And I guess that's why again like that combination of melotic Pherathon works really well because you're looking at probably the two more popular Fire types in the format incinero and arcanine both carry intimidate Just like the perfect partner for pherathon really isn't it? Um, we do see the melotic come out with the the dust drops Now, where do I go? Okay, we're gonna see lumberry and the policy. Um I mean, I'm gonna taunt the melotic and more I'm more concerned about that Setting up coils hypnosis All that sort of stuff then I am worried about um a burn from The dust globs or trick room going up to be honest Uh now do we max or do we just Maybe buy that time a little bit and get some damage on the board I could crunch the melotic, but then we could potentially drop its its defense and boost it's competitive So I don't really want to do that. We could just go for a trick room and just kind of hope we maybe get A flinch onto the dust globs get some chip damage onto the melotic, but it is switching out So we're gonna see the pherathon come in here. Just fine. Um We also land a taunt onto the pherathon which stops it eye and defencing which is pretty nice Do you get an intimidate onto both of our physical attackers here? Um You know the leech seed in the eye and defense are the things that you want to be able to kind of stop on character on like straight away Um the intimidates not ideal But tyranitar, but it does give us an opportunity to potentially switch into arcanine now And because everything on my opponent side of the field slower than our tyranitar Um, we are going to get it in before the melotic can come back onto the field Thankfully, which is which is a huge thing for us um But at the same time we're going to have to worry about getting um It's maybe worth going for the double switch here to be honest We're bringing arcanine on um in the q slot and we'll bring We'll bring in prim on our tyranitar because if the pherathon stays in here It's likely to go body press into the tyranitar So we're going to kind of try and soft that up as best as possible really um I'm just trying to figure out now what the best game plan is and we know the sixth pokemon my opponent It's it's how we tackle the melotic um Like tyranitar's max moves aren't ideal There's a parting shot. We're getting into primarina. We're going to see the the melo come back in for sure um Hopefully we don't see power from the pherathon into the tyranitar That's something I kind of forget about because it's like the body press is so prominent the minute you kind of forget that it does Have access to these super strong grass type attacks as well um That wouldn't be ideal for prim primarina at all Okay, so I know it's gonna get filled once again Uh, it's just a body press. Okay, so that's that's fair now You've got to suspect that the pherathon switches out here like Has to has to Now we could safeguard Switch back into tita expecting the incineroar to come back onto the field on the memory queue Hmm We could heat wave Like we could max in heat wave, but probably not gonna do is too much good. I'm gonna safeguard Now we could max here and go max guys are into the pherathon slot it's not gonna be It's so risky though. That's the thing like um I think we'll go for starfall into the melodic one max. We'll go starfall I know we are minus one special attack here But I feel at this stage I need to start getting damage Onto this melodic Potentially the next time we can get arcanine off the field because like arcanines are You key to beating that pherathon like you just don't want to even entertain losing it right now because if we do Our chances of beating the pherathon are pretty slim We're like them we're relying on like super power from taranatul, which we can't even max now So we get the safeguard so we don't need to worry about the hypnosis at least for the next five turns Body water, okay Arcanine does take that should poke the agua berry The max starfall. I mean we're kind of doubling up with our terrain and our safeguard I guess we could have we we probably should have went for the the max guys are there into the incineral like honestly Um because we're going after the the melodic So arcanine wasn't really into much danger It's just that I guess I was kind of hesitant because maybe the melodic maxed and went into the arcanine Okay, well, we'll get mimikyu onto the field now Um, and we'll go for that max guys are into the incineral It'd be interesting to see if it actually sticks around. I can't imagine it staying around on the field Okay, melodic gonna switch out. Oh, it's coming in Pherathon again We're actually gonna be able to okay. No one else Is it gonna be the taranatul potentially what am I talking about taranatul for they are No, they are dust globs. Okay I mean, we'll get some decent damage into the dust globs Okay, now I think we've got a taunt for dust globs. We want to stop the trick room right now. Um I'm just gonna max guys are again into the dust globs and potentially get it in k l range for the next turn Because then you expect it has to switch out for the melodic there After this otherwise it goes down Pherathon what you're gonna do leech seeds. Yeah makes sense I mean the one problem with the pherathon when you look at like that standard leech seed iron defense body press set Is it doesn't really have very many ways of hitting things like piranha for super effective damage So you don't need to be as scared to sit in front of it as you may otherwise be um, okay So I think We are gonna see melodic come in here. Um, so I'm just gonna hyper voice And play a rough that slot We could double it with uh, okay Okay, so we don't see it coming and just gonna let their dust globs go down just fair enough Like the melodic is definitely the one thing that we need to be able to to handle now body press to print Just get an extra damage onto it. I guess it's the one check that we've got for an incineral Well, it's not really though. We got tyranitar as well But as long as they got melodic out in the field, it kind of pins us with Being able to bring in alcanine Yeah, so melodic coming back in Um, let's taunt the pherathon We switch here. I don't think we do Um, it might be better if we just try and get some damage I mean we could hydro cannon Not gonna be really getting the most out of It'd be better off going moonblast because I'm scared of dropping it. I like crocking air Let's just go hydro cannon like we're gonna lose primarina this turn anyway We're trying to taunt the pherathon. Okay. Well Hmm, if we just went for the hydro cannon into the incineral That would have been ideal. Never mind. Never mind I do prevent any parting shots coming out and we still got our disguise intact There's a muddy water. So we're not even gonna get an attack off with prim And then we are gonna lose our disguise I feel like we can get titan in here and really make use of it to be honest. Um And we're not protected by I think we need to taunt the melodic Does it sort of coil or does it just go for the max? That's the question The point is still got access to the max And a max popcorn, haven't they Hmm because we could potentially just taunt we could taunt the melodic. Um Just to prevent any like it's definitely gonna be a coil set. I think that that would be my best bet We kind of want a muddy water to hit here because then our rock slides gonna do Crazy amounts of damage. It's the incineral switching out Fine Yeah, the melodic gonna max Okay, where are you attacking into though? If you're melodic if you go into tea tall, I don't think a max guy's that's gonna get us Um And a rock slide will do a nice chunk of damage Unless it's into the mimic you Yeah Okay, but we do take that that is not ideal Oh Okay Now we're totally pinned like I don't really know what we could have done. Otherwise like we're kind of relying my opponent's played the smart move there and not attack Into our tyrannotel um We need to taunt the marathon potentially Um We need to stand up But by doing that we're gonna there's like By getting the sand up we are gonna Basically proc the competitive on the melodic So it's like it's a bad turn at every point of this battle for us We'll taunt the marathon try and get around it that way Um, we've probably seen max guys are into tea tall that should proc our weakness policy Wow, they're not even doing that. They're just gonna go body press into tea tall. I think Yeah, because they don't kind in. Oh, no, it does go up the iron defense. All right Uh, we're playing on the back foot completely here Uh, yeah, we're just And they're not there is really very little we can do here. I think we have to Like you're kind of hoping Well, there is nothing there's nothing we can do here Incineroar comes in we're gonna see max guys It's gonna be into the arc an eye to get rid of it. So then ferrathon has the win con But they don't really need it even at this point Um You know and like looking back Already at this game like you can see where we like went completely wrong You know like my opponent was way more patient with their their dynamics turns than we were Um And by doing that it kind of puts them in a position. Well, you know, you never know actually we're there because Depends on much. I know a competitive boost of money water is 100 percent going to take down that tea tall In the rain But we can protect okay The problem is like is a Because we've been intimidated so plus one Super power will not be enough to get ferrathon and the body press will definitely get us. So whatever happens We can probably get the you can probably get the incident if we get a weakness policy boost survive We can definitely get the rock slide here into melodic. I just don't feel like we'll be able to take the boosted money water Single target as well in the rain. It's not happening The fastest the fastest drop in bar in history of vgc Okay, well very good game to my opponent They play that super well and kind of got us pinned into a position where we couldn't get ourselves out of Obviously the ferrathon melodic combination we talked about this start melodic I obviously mentioned or something that I prefer like personally like but You can see the use of it there and how good it is to kind of pin you upon it And we like we need the arcanine really in that situation to deal with it Because of how big of a threat it is But by doing that it really limits your ability to switch around the board as well because the melodic on the board Pretty much the whole time You've got to be really conscious about when you're switching in the arcanine to check the ferrathorn And to kind of force the switch out whilst also being able to react to deal with the melodic Which we just found extremely difficult and maybe we could have brought something like dust globs And got our weakness policy proct on our taranitor I don't know that it's a tricky tricky matchup that one And it just feels very clunky and hard to get around so And it's maybe how I've definitely probably how I've approached it There's probably better ways to do in it But I still feel like that combination is very tricky to get around without maybe A dedicated pokemon to be able to get rid of the melodic Maybe we used our own ferrathorn that would have been an idea to Probably give us a little bit more leverage there rather than relying on the arcanine We could have went for our body press setting up our own ferrathorn, especially with the rain from the primarina And thinking about that probably would have been the better way to go around it But anyway, we'll be back later in the week with more battles from this team Like I said earlier on in the episode, if you'd like to see me feature any of your teams any ideas that you have Do drop them down below in the comment section And I will definitely have a look at those and try and get as many of them featured as possible But yeah, looking forward to friday obviously the new rules come in So we'll have new content around the new gmax pokemon that were introduced The the gengar match up and the garbador as soon as possible Working on teams right now so get excited for next week. But for the remainder of this week We will have a more just series 3 stuff. So thanks for tuning in friends. Have a good one And I'll see you all for the next one till then. Bye. Bye