 Hello friends welcome back to another episode here on the channel I hope you're all doing great and as always for anyone new to the channel My name is Lee also known as Osiris today We're back with our VGC series 10 content finally It's been a little while on the channel. I've been actually away on holiday for the last week So I haven't played any poker. I didn't touch Pokemon at all So I've missed it looking forward to getting back into the mix of things this week And this was actually a team that was planned to be played prior to me going away on holiday But I couldn't get the rental team in time to actually record it but it is from a very good friend of mine Johnny Hacks is his handle on nine and David it passed me over this team And obviously I jumped at the chance because it has got Rayquaza in there And being one of my favorite all-time legendary Pokemon, I jumped at the chance to play it So the team as you can see it has got the kind of common features that we're seeing trending through the VGC series 10 Format at the minute in Senoraw, Rillaboom, Alecki all kind of common support Characters that we're seeing in teams and then you've got the Stack Attacker and Mungus kind of combination as well Give that trick room mode as well the redirection with the rage powder And then the Stack Attacker to kind of just dominate in trick room So it's a really nice team you go kind of a fast mode Speedy mode I should say with Rayquaza, Reggie, Alecki speed control there as well And then your Solvess gives you a little bit more stability to still hit hard take advantage of things like extreme speed and The Dragners sent which are probably the two big moves that Rayquaza is going to utilize the crunch in there It's pretty nice for things like a Shadow Rider Cal-Rex that we're going to see They're quite a lot predominantly and and it's going to be interesting to see how the team kind of fairs up against something Like Zashin because Zashin does feel pretty hard Into this team and now I haven't spoke to Johnny about it But you're gonna be relying on things like Reggie Alecki things like Incinero to really do the damage You want to something like Zashin which could get a little bit tricky So hopefully we come against a Zashin team in today's episode. Here's the rental code We'll have a couple of games of the team now as we always do and then we'll wrap up with the rental at the end of The episode so hopefully you enjoyed today's episode give Johnny a big shout out down below because he is he's a great Guy and I really appreciate the team that he's passed over so without further ado friends Let's get into our first game of today's episode first up today. We have a Kingdra in DD Kyogre Incinero Urshfu and Polytod team So we've got a full rain team here You got the polytod and the Kyogre bringing the rain helping that Kingdra with its swift swim ability You got redirection there with the Indidi with the psychic terrain and the follow me Urshfu and imagine it would be the dark type But it may be like the water type as well Just taking advantage of the rain and then you got Incinero for that Intimidate support and now Rayquaza here amazing because it is the one thing that's gonna prevent my opponent from taking advantage of The rain getting those water type Tack boosts and also taking advantage of the swift swim and things like that So ray is a must here even though it is a restricting we're gonna bring it anyway And I think we probably want to go like Regi Alecki. I think here really boom and then Do we want Incinero in this battle really or do we want something like a mungus that could come in and just kind of Soak up the pressure a little bit double grass feels good The Intimidate might be useful, but it's only really useful like if you look at it It's only useful against the Incinero like it's not super useful against the Urshfu and at all And the rest of the team are all special attackers. So I think something like a mungus here could probably Perform a little bit better than the Incinero in this situation And we don't really to worry too much about that Incinero If we need to we can probably turn the rain on and switch Rayquaza out if we're worried about a flare But it's coming in and do and work against us. So I think the big thing here going into this first one is Just making sure that we kind of protect Rayquaza as best as possible Okay, Kingdra coming out And naturally Rayquaza gonna outspeed Kingdra So it just depends on what speeds that Johnny's got on this ray whether or not we'll be able to out speed it or not I mean the thing is though you got to look at is like ice beam is definitely a threat from the Kyoga But the Kyoga is threatened by a Regi Alecki The thing is we can just go Dragonclaw and Electra web here And we'll get decent damage onto the Kyoga and we'll also be able to to slow everything down Just to make sure if we are a little bit slower than that Kingdra We'll be able to to just Get that speed stack down a little bit further with the Electra web and get rid of the big threat, which is the Kingdra right now and We should take an ice beam from the Kyoga I'm pretty certain of that and without the swift swim boost from there the the Kingdra Then we'll be all right. Okay, so white herb Kyoga wants to reset that speed drop, but oh My god. Okay. That is too close for comfort. I mean the EVs there are particularly good Johnny I will just say like Hats off for that taking that ice beam from the Kyoga um, but that is a little bit too close for comfort now because If there's your food comes in or if Incinero comes in they both have priority attacks in fake out and aqua jet That will make quick work of this requires and we know that the Kyoga is naturally going to add speed Um, something like the rate anyway, so I probably want to adjust that board position here I think something like a moonga is coming onto the field now. Um Gives us a bit more flexibility And we probably don't want really boom kind of coming in taking an ice beam because that's probably what we'll see Although I could imagine we'll probably see something like maybe even like fake out into Reggie a lecky And then an origin pulse could be the place. So um, we'll go for this will preserve very quasi for later on because And I may just go for the ice beam though, you know, I'll just fake out into ray And if they do then at least the movies can can catch the Incinero, which I believe it does have rocky helmet I think it has rocky helmet See fake out into lecky. Yeah makes sense And there's the water spout the spout Full rain boost, but not that much HP. So We're sitting all right now because I mean we've got The ability just to spore into the Incinero slot and then we can just go for a thunderbolt I mean we could potentially go for a vault switch But I don't feel like it's super necessary here and the Incinero is not threatening a knockout onto a lecky Like the worst thing you can do is protect Kyogre here and go for parting shot. Um Which we're not going to see we're just going to see the Kyogre drop So that makes quick working, you know from like a team that would be pretty threatening with the you know the rain up Um with the kingdra under rain next to a kyogre. It's pretty offensive pretty threatening Um the ability airlock really kind of comes in pretty clutch in this situation Um And it's nice being able to kind of dictate the weather how you want like for for this instance where the Incinero Flablets would normally if not would have been a knockout there with the flablets Now it's not really an issue. Um where we can ignore it and um, we can just go for I just go for a clear smog and just a thunderbolt. I think Into the polytode and that's pretty much game because we still got really boom in the back We still got Rayquaza in the back Rayquaza can come in dragon ascent Unintimidated into the Incinero. So we're we're we made pretty easy work of Of this first team today, but it shows how good Ray is against these particular kind of weather teams, you know Um polytode gonna have that berry. Is it a wiki? It is a citrus. Okay, the skull coming out into um Reggie will do a nice chunk of damage no burn And Incinero was doing a sleep So the clear smog will put it in range for an electro web the next turn so we can pretty much just switch to Do we even need to make the switch? Hmm Clear smog we just electro webbing clear smog Save a bit of time because the electro web will be enough. I mean, we could have vault switched out onto the polytode um Makes things a little bit more tricky I guess, you know because Incinero can wake up here and can pick up the knockout on to read your lekkie, but As I say, I'm not like massively worried about what my opponent can do from this position with with the Pokemon that they got, you know, they don't really have a way out from here This chip is just nice to put it in dragon ascent range. Um that crit there and Does it stay asleep? It does stay asleep. So the rain finishes now. So that's that's it for the rain and I think a combination here will be enough It's more than just go for the same again. I mean, we could vault switch here and just get really on to the field Probably the better players Honestly, just go on thunderbolt into incinero just getting rid of it that way Um, because the chances are we'll wake up this turn it will But the recoil if it does go for flabbit into that lekkie, um onto the really boom now We'll be enough to not pick up the knockout. So it kind of the swings and roundabouts It kind of works out all right for us really I shouldn't go down to a flablet Um, unless they talk it into the amungus Here we go. Where you going into the amungus? So just opens the door for ray to come back in and we can finish off with a dragon ascent So that's perfect for us because It's all about the ray today. Isn't it? It's all about the ray 4 hp survival. I'm pretty sure that's probably one of the the key calcs That you look at definitely. I know when I used to run a solvest ray back in 2016 That was definitely a calc that you looked at but you had there was different mechanics back then because you had Uh things like the airstream that you got from mega ray quasi that kind of reduced the the ice weakness Which made mega ray even more powerful. So you could kind of calculate a bit against that protect incinero What where did that come from? Well, we don't want to grass a glide here because we could chip a berry and it could just put the incinero out of range We don't want this battle going on any longer than it should a dragon ascent should be more than enough to pick up the knockout here Uh, and well would hammer we should outspeed the incinero with with boom But who knows this is a pretty offensive team that we're kicking off with today So, um, you don't know how my opponents evade everything So we do pick up a win ray off to a good start in this one today Very good game to my opponent and uh, we'll move swiftly on my friends to game two of today's episode Next we have a talon flame an indeedy male a tapu finny a guiratina um Grim snarl and a espion Interesting team especially with the guiratina there. Uh, it's very cool not a pokemon you see too often here But what has my opponent got gone on they got screen support potentially from the grim snarl Got to watch out for trick there, but unlike you with the psychic terrain But you never know do you um Then probably suck up maybe suck a punch maybe suck a punch take advantage of the The guiratina with weakness policy that's kind of what it shouts to me a little bit I think the espion obviously with the psychic terrain. That's a pretty scary mode Tailwind on the talon flame is pretty awkward to deal with I think incineroar makes a lot of sense here. We've got taunt there We've got fake out that we can take advantage of especially with the things that are flying that are going to try and set stuff up as well um Do we want rays good against the guiratina, but we need to be in a good position I think we need to think a little bit more about a trick room mode in this game I think stack attack is extremely good here. Um What's going to stop stacker? I mean in prison is going to stop stacker I think being able to override the psychic terrain is pretty useful as well So that's what we're locking with I feel like the trick room mode here is going to be super good for us Tapu finny's a little bit awkward for ray to deal with but I mean It's not going to like taking a dragon ascent either way So if we can get a little bit of chip onto it or if we can get the position where we've got ray Really boom out on the field then we can deal with the finny pretty easily from that that perspective So see what the lead with it is going to be the grim snarl and the tapu finny and we are bringing our ray And are incineral so I'm going to moon blast are they going to moon blast or are they going to go for a calm mind? I mean we could potentially just launch A dragon ascent into the finny just to get some damage off into it, you know um fake out dragon ascent Do we worry about the trick? I do worry about the trick a little bit from the grim snarl. I definitely do all the lagging tail as well I don't really want to get lagging tailed um Onto my ray I hate lagging tail and that would really upset me, but I'm going to take the risk. I mean switching relay boom here for ray I think is probably the better play. It kind of mitigates the lagging tail coming on to our Ray quasi which we were so worried about which is going to happen, but there we go. Here it is At least grim snarl isn't going to be able to do anything else now because it's got the assault vest And it's going to be pretty useless for the rest of this match. Um, we do have the lagging tail Which isn't ideal, but we do have the extreme speed. We can still take advantage of an extreme speed here pro Is it going to be enough? It might be enough, you know it could be enough. I think extreme speed probably gets the finny Like I say the grim snarl can It is minus one Okay, what we're going to do is parting shot. We're going to go extreme speed. I'm going to rely I'm going to I'm going to believe in ray here and go for the extreme speed into finny And say we can pick up the knockout onto it, which we can there we go We're going to take a spirit break, but the grim snarls minus one. So you got to think Okay, that's not too bad and actually will be Minus two now. So the spirit break isn't going to do as much damage, which is The only thing that grim snarl is going to have And it's all snarl now with the assault vessel. It's just Rudely stolen from us. Come on. We want stacks on the field I think right now because then we can set the trick room up and just set up a stacks kind of sweep from this point Yeah, okay Geez minus two it still does enough, you know like you forget how much of a like a monster grim snarl is at times, you know It's a strong pokemon Right. Well, what's coming in there? It's guiratina. Okay Now we could just protect we could protect and we could switch into incinero um We could trick room and switch into incinero. I think we trick room and switch into incinero. We don't necessarily like The only thing that would bother me would be like willow isp on the guiratina into stacks, which would not be ideal But the misty terrain is up so I think we're kind of all right doing that Really aren't we? We're all right. We're all right See what this guiratina goes for goes for the willow isp But we are protected By the terrain so that definitely is a bit of a mistake on my opponent said And I mean I didn't even really think about it till we pulled the switch and I saw the the kind of tints of pink around the battlefield so Okay, did we just go I mean I might even worried about the I'm not even worried about the um I'm not worried about the grim snow one little bit. We're just going to rock slide and we're going to go for a Do we go for a taunt? Or do we go for part? I think parting shot into guiratina is probably a better player because then The guiratina cannot cannot Um really damage put the have the damage out put the it kind of needs Um, I love shiny guiratina though. It's a very cool shiny. It's very cool shiny grim snow switching out And indeedy coming in okay So the part in shot the better option because you can get really boom onto the field overwrite that psychic terrain Which makes things a little bit easier for us Especially if they go for uh another willow isp here, which they're undoubtedly going to go for um Into stacks Unless they miss unless they miss This is where you want your own tapu finny to kind of come in. Um, okay, I'll bring boom in get rid of that psychic terrain But even burn I think stacks is going to be able to kind of Do enough to stuff like indeedy and grim snow when they come back onto the field Um, and the guiratina won't really okay breaking swipe. It's fine We'll lower attack Is this guiratina really pulls that much of a threat? Because we just grassy glide and we grassy glide and jarra ball here I don't know what speed guiratina is, but that they indeedy is kind of like a bit of a sitting duck right now I mean it can go for Do we just wood hammer? I think we just would hammer just kiss the real boom comes. Uh, yeah the uh the grim snow comes in So jarra ball should do a good chunk to the guiratina not a massive amount, but a good bit of damage I'd worry there in case the um the the grassy glides not enough Um, and then we just take unnecessary damage from the the indeedy when we don't really need to I'm gonna break and swipe again, which is fine Because like I say the grim snow the grim snow we don't worry about we like we do not care about It's got spirit break and it cannot break stack attacker. So that's the that's the that's the thing so we can just Wood hammer and jarra ball into the guiratina this next turn And with the moveset that we've seen so far it would be very surprised if it's got protect so I guess bird breaks not going to be enough to get the ready boom anyway. Um We just wood hammer While the grassy turns in effect and jarra ball and that should be enough to get the guiratina And then the stack the the the grim snows pretty easy to deal with after that spirit break coming out Not enough to get a good old really boom Um, and then yeah, we can just grassy glide and jarra ball So sometimes the lagging tail does kind of the trick lagging tail does come back to bite you a little bit Because it's not really worked out super well for something like grim snow here. Um, although Especially with like onto the rate a raise just a great example of We don't want to jarra ball our own our own really boom. What are we doing? Why is my controller doing this? What are we doing? We want to jarra ball The grim snow we want to grassy glide as well. I don't know what my controller's doing I don't know whether my fingers just have like a mind of their own here. Um, I'm just going Yeah, we just need to be self-destructive here minus two. So it should be enough Not quite not quite. We take another spirit break for our troubles, but um, this takes us down We get ray back on the field and ray can finish up once again with that extreme speed It's going to be able to uh to deal with grim snow Even if it's got sucker punch because we get the priority bracket a little bit higher I see my fingers just don't want to listen to my brain right now But at least we get two wins today And that's pretty nice for a team that I think is actually really quite good and exciting I like Rayquaza. Um, and I've I've really enjoyed kind of playing around with it So a big shout out to Johnny again. I think the assault vest is really interesting. Um And I do think it's got potential in this format Especially where you've got quite a lot of weather teams But you've got to say that like it's going to be harder against zashing course it is zashing With play rough as well becoming way more popular. So that makes it even more difficult. Um, whereas it was Already difficult with just behemoth blade, but you've got the like the star attack on top of that Which makes it even more difficult a good game to my opponent We'll wrap up now friends and uh with the rental code and wrap up this video friends Here is today's rental team big shout out to Johnny once again Thank you so much for providing the team for us and for allowing us to feature Rayquaza on the channel It's been very exciting. I've really enjoyed today's episode and I hope you have as well And if you do try the team out, please let me know down in the comment section below What your thoughts are on Rayquaza and the team if you do try it like I say And one of the reasons why I put this up obviously being away for a week Um, I feel like I'm a little bit behind with everything's been going on in the format in the meta game as well So it's going to take me a little a few days to kind of catch up and get my grounding with everything But in the meantime, what I wanted to do is end this video today and ask you all What kind of teams you'd like to see going forward? Would you like to see us concentrate a little bit more on rental teams from tournament winning teams tournament Performing teams or would you like us to just concentrate a little bit more down on the meta game? Build some more meta centric teams and see how far we can kind of push teams and feature just new trends that are kind of popping up Every every every day every week As we see the the format ever change, you know in series 10. So that's a question for you today friends Um and if you do leave a comment down below It is much appreciated because I want to provide content that you want to enjoy We want to get some sort of benefit from enjoyment from and at least at the end of the day some sort of kind of Step forward in the the format as well to kind of help you out and things like that So if you'd like to see team building videos on myself putting things together to kind of how I would approach the format And things like that going forward Let me know happy to do all sorts of things going forward with series 10 It's a fun format. I am enjoying it and will be definitely streaming More of series 10 in the coming weeks as well as a nuzloc that will be starting probably tomorrow night So thank you so much for tuning in friends. Have a great rest of your day I look forward to reading through the comments very soon and until our next episode take care of yourselves and I'll see you all later