 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 battle series My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode we got a bit of a special team for you It is a team built by a good friend of mine Stu. He is a UK player He's top cut a bunch of the rose tower trainer circuits this season done extremely well in the sword and shield Format ID he's got some great finishes in previous formats as well and definitely a player to watch out for so big shout out to Stu Thank you so much for and obviously sending the team over and allowing us to play and it's a special in another sort of way as well Because it is featuring a Pokemon that got a little bit of hype to start a series 6 But hasn't actually seen as much play as what maybe some of us expected and that's common Oh, there is still plenty of time in series 6 for this Pokemon to make a splash But I'm excited to kind of play today Obviously this group the team is on the screen in front of you right now with the talent flame the coma all Clefairy melodic Durant and Luxury so some really nice picks in there and some decent Pokemon as well So it's gonna be a very exciting. I guess it's a play this one There will be a poker paste down in the description below and as always there will be a rental team Code at the end of the episode so that further ado let us hop into it I think we'll choose some different music today because I think we've been stuck on the the same Eternatus 3 I've no idea what this one is. I was trying to look for Marnie Marnie's always my favorite So we've got K Arthur up first is our first opponent playing espion talent flame Rotom more Urshifu per marina and Riperia so I mean what what's my opponent trying to do here? Obviously there's no trick room mod on my opponent's team It looks more like a tailwind variant with the talent flame being there the predominant speed control user on the team So that's something we need to keep in mind here and maybe match with our own tailwind as well The right period obviously going to be probably lightning rod I would imagine to kind of support something like the primary now and the primary that does cause a few issues for comma or Certainly other than that a comma or doesn't do too badly here at all Obviously has to watch out for the espion. It's whether or not we can kind of get set up with a throat spray or not I don't know Once you don't feel like Durant's great as a lead Luxor is nice, but we Need to watch out for the right period of course, but the intimidate is really quite useful. I think we'll actually go Luxor a Yeah, I mean Luxor a let's just check some moves we haven't got long to select our options. Yeah, I think yeah We'll go Luxor a The assault vest gives us a bit of stability Um, I think we'll go comma or and I think we'll go Fairy because it does give us a little bit of a helping hand against something like the urge to feel that we may see Right, let's get into it. I feel like the Luxor a can help deal with the primary now Especially with the assault vest there. Um, I've got a bunch of instructions from street stew So I should be able to get some results with this one today. Obviously Um on the ladder best the one you can never tell You're always going to come up against something like a bit obscure sometimes So we'll try and see if we can get around this obviously the intimidate here going to be Mega useful against the urge to feel we do pressure it as well Uh with Talon flame. So that's quite a nice. Um Start for us at least we can match tailwinds as well because you've got a gale winds intact Um It's well it should feel variant is this let's have a quick gander. It is the the dark fighting type. Obviously If it does wild charge, um You know, we have to be careful because it can't it obviously it will be it will still be critical hit hitting us So I'm going to switch looks right out preserve that intimidate for a little bit later on We may need it for the primary now I get Clefarian to the field at least we've got moon blasters and An offensive option there and I think we do match the tailwind from my opponent's talent flame because it's likely that's what they're going to go for here We do have the option of course to go uh max and go for an attack into talent flame, but I don't know if it's worthwhile just yet as we see their talent flame protect We are going to get our tail wind up and we'll see what my opponent goes for with the wicked blow Maybe into our talent flame. Honestly, it would make a lot of sense to try and get rid of our speed controllers early on It's possible and that's what we see but not quite enough to take us down talent flame still going to be in a nice position Now my opponent does have the option to tailwind here. Um, so it might be worth us just using a little bit of room uh To go for a brave bird into the opposing urshifu here because they can brave bird themselves and take our talent flame down So we want to try and just mitigate that allow our talent flame to get an attack off into urshifu We'll help us deal with it a bit later on as we do see my opponent set their tail wind up So i'm gonna have tail wind and then a turn additional turn Extra than what we have but we do get the the brave bird into urshifu, which is nice Uh, obviously taking it down to its sash and revealing that as we do go down to the recoil. So Um, we are down at pokemon already Not ideal, but not the worst thing in the world as we see just a fire punch come out and I think I don't really want to get komo or out onto the field yet Although, you know at the minute it feels like a good opportunity to get the uh, the clangorous soul off and then max And just go to town kind of from there because the follow me support that we got from claferia is offering us um amazing support right now for us to actually be able to do this. Um Whether or not we just want to attack though and maybe get the throat spray Uh active, I don't know. I feel like maybe because we've got the intimidate here. We could go for um clanging scales Um Oh clangorous soul that we go for clangorous soul. I mean it would be it would be good It puts us in an amazing position. Um, although It might be better just to get the throat spray going here and then max the next turn if we want And we may even end up maxing luxe rate if there's something like primarina in the back, honestly Uh, I think we'll just go for the attack here. I think it might um service a little bit better than losing hp Um and and getting this off and maybe seeing something like primarina come in which will make us probably want to um Change our board position. I think so jill wing beat coming out I mean claferi's just with the intimidate support there to beast It's going to be able to take a bunch of attacks from Uh, either of these pokemon. We do see the double up into it and even with the critical hit We could blow we are able to take that pretty comfortably and we'll get this clanging scales off Get rid of the osha foo and get a nice chunk onto the talon flame And the issue is obviously we do reduce our defense stat, which isn't ideal Uh, but we do get the throat spray boost, which is which is ideal Especially gone into this next turn. So the splash special attack boost Um, and we'll see what my opponent brings in now. We've got one turn of tailwind left So we need to keep that in mind As my opponent's got two turns left. So Uh, we do need to be just mindful especially after this next turn depending on what they're bringing out Imagine it be primarina, uh, manual honesty Uh, but we will soon see we'll soon see you, won't we? Um As they're just making their mind up. I mean, they may not have brought the primarina would Surprise me. Okay. It's the espion. Huh That does surprise me that really does surprise me. Um, okay So I think one one thing we could potentially do is go protect. Um, and we could max here and go Could just go yeah, I mean, are they baiting us? That's the other thing. Are they bait like They're gonna have expanding force, but they're not going to be able to expanding force with clifaria on the field I do feel like going for protect here with clifaria is not a bad option. Um, although We could just follow me We'll probably take a dual wing beat honestly and max wormwind into espion um Depends what the espion is obviously carrying but I feel like we're gonna it's all about comma on this episode So why not let's go for the max here. Let's try and and chop a few things down You know if my opponent's last pokemon is the uh, the primarina then, you know, I think luxe rate is gonna have It's gonna have an all right time against it. It's not gonna be doing amazing work, but um I think we'll be all right. Nonetheless. We'll just have to wait and see we'll see we'll see Famous last words. It's all about checking the dual wing beat here if we take this with um Oh, we avoid that's perfect for us. So we get the max wormwind into the espion I think it's gonna set up a trick room, you know, it looked like it was maybe trying to because espion normally Without speed comma all um Considering that their tailwinds got one more turn our tailwind has pitted out But the fact that we've still got clifaria on the field that talent flames down to minus two now We're sitting in a nice position. It's actually right period. Which is ideal I do although although if it does have weakness policy, it's not so great. Um, I think what we'll do is protect um, and we will go for a We'll go for a wormwind into the talent film Just get rid of that because I wouldn't mind keeping clifaria around on the field at the minute It has got the friend guard It does make the end game a little bit trickier with luxe array Of course with with riperia thing is I don't want to attack into it straight away with, um Max knuckle or anything like that because there's always a potential. It's got weakness policy Even though it's probably lightly sashed. I would imagine um The defense drop on comma or is a little bit worrying now Especially if they don't target into the clifaria So we're kind of banking on my opponent gone after the clifaria Trying to get rid of it as we do see a flare blitz it is into the clifaria So that's a that's a nice call from us. Um, we do still add speed the right period So whether or not it is a tailwind variant because they kind of make up of my opponent's team when you look at it With no trick room options. Maybe the espion. I guess does it even get trick room? I have no idea You would imagine it may do because it's a psychic type. I should really know. Um You would think it was more of a Uh, a tailwind ripere with with lightning rod rather rather than, um Anything else now that tailwind does end. We've got one turn of max left We could potentially just helping hand And go for a worm wind and put it down to minus two which might not be a bad idea in all honesty I don't mind if it's gone for the defense boosts either. Um honestly, because uh, you know at this point We're going to be hitting it on the special side with aurora sphere So we don't really necessarily need to worry too much about it's um, it's defense stat And that's a nice chunk of damage. So I think aurora sphere will probably pick up the knockout um Onto it this next turn as we do see a steel spike from the ripere is going to be it's into come on again So, I mean we still get clefairy. We still got that clefairy support Um going into this next turn and now definitely a helping hand aurora sphere is going to be enough come on putting in the work Game one. So that is ideal for us And I'm sure stew won't feel too left let down by this one Which is the main thing always when you're playing someone else's team and especially You can't create there and you're featuring it. You never want to let the person down that's provided you with the team So, uh, it's always nice to um to get a cheeky win to kick us off today So very good game to my opponent and uh, nice to see the coma or doing some work But I think that the real solid show really was the the Obviously the luxer I played apart with its intimidator did help us out early game But the clefairy coming in and showing how good um a support option that can be for Teams in series six, you know the redirection the friend guard It's just so good. And I still think it's been Overlooked Uh, we should have looked we should have looked at if it had trick room. We should have looked should have looked. Sorry never mind. Okay Well, we'll have another matchup soon. So let's pick that music. Where's money. Where are you money to there? We go. We locked it in we get this one for the next one And yeah, so we're gonna have a bunch of teams this week for series six So we'll have those coming up on the on the channel this week Because they're keeping out for those and we've got some stuff planned for uh in and around players cup Which I'll be starting this Friday. So um do keep an eye out for those We've got dexter morgan and this user really does ring a bell Um But I don't know who pretty sure. Well, they do they do ring a bell. I don't know who it is Anyway, they're playing a team of primarina comfy. Oh, can I gudra amungas and snorlax? So they've got that it's straight away like jumping out to me. They've got the the comfy gudra combination there Um, which are probably weakness policy. Maybe it's all best, but more likely weakness policy in this team It gives it a real kind of offensive threat um Got a trick room mode as well with the comfy that we need to be careful of especially with things like primarina and amungas and snorlax. It can all Be problematic for us. Um I do like dirant I really do like dirant here. What set are we running on dirant? Let's have a look Okay, so we haven't got max lightning. Um, which makes it a little bit more tricky to uh to bring with the amungas uh, we definitely need To try and stop the uh the trick room the comfy doing things so that would be helpful Uh redirection is not going to be any good here, but the koma might be all right. Although It may be a better late game pokemon. We're running out of time. Let's go to rant Let's go look sorry and let's go koma all and I feel like I probably would want to bring clefairy here, but Running out of time talking too much. We're gonna lock in and we're gonna see what we can do with this next one So good look have fun dexter And um, hopefully you guys enjoy this next one So like i'm saying it, uh, just prior to the team preview there players cup stuff We've got lined up uh this week. So some some interesting things and I think you'll enjoy it So do stay tuned for that. I think it'll be it'll be uh, it'll be a lot of fun Right. Well We've got the amungas and the schnolax I feel like they're probably gonna rage powder and try and get a belly drum off, you know before they max Um, that would be my big big bit Now whether or not we want to like I feel like because we've got safety goggles on and talent flame We can ignore the rage powder. So we can talk the schnolax. It does put us in a little bit of an awkward position where Um, maybe we just protect Durant here because there's always a chance they may not rage powder And they may just go for a spawn. I don't want Durant being put to sleep So let's just play a little bit safer here. There's a rage powder coming up from amungas We can taunt at the next turn. We just need to get this taunt onto schnolax now As uh, yeah, I kind of we got it right. We called it right So it does try to get the belly drum up, which is ideal. So now we can taunt the amungas Um, and we can start like what's what's the the premise of my opponent's team like they do have the arcanine They're more they're probably more physically based Like gudras tend to be more physical. They've only got like The primarina, which is a special attacker So I think what I'm gonna do is Yeah, we'll taunt the amungas And do we go steel spike? Rockfall or quake? Maybe steel spikes the better option to go into the schnolax right now. Just get our defenses up um Okay, if the arcanine our q9 might come in. Oh, it's okay. It's primarina. That's fine All right, we can max quake the next turn the schnolax. I don't know what it's gonna do It's probably just gonna attack talent flame um I don't think it'll max but you never can tell In sword and shield the dynamics mechanic Definitely throws off a few A few things in this format for sure Um, so we'll get the taunt off at least the primarina is not going to be able to sing or anything like that Perish or anything like that. I guess so it probably will max the next turn now I would imagine Um, the steel spike damage onto the schnolax is incredible Now durand is incredible though. Durand is such a cool pokemon. I do love durand It's definitely and please it's kind of seeing a bit more usage series 6. Um, I do love it I uh And I am a bit biased to it, but I'm sure there's a lot of durand fans out there giga impact Okay, we might lose talent flame here Okay, no, that's that's so weak. I guess the defense boost It's not weak just the defense boost helping us out massively, isn't it? Okay, so I think what we're going to do is we're going to try and get luxury out into the field and we will go for a max quick into the Primal arena put the schnolax down at minus one We know it's in range from another steel spike if we go that direction. Um, but we want to try and get Uh, a special defense boosted here with um durand Maybe keep the talent flame for late game because it's obviously going to be useful against the the moon Yes, if nothing else, you know, just to taunt it and and shut it down I just ignore the the potential rage powders there, which might help us and obviously the tailwind which could come in useful late game of course as well. So um Get luxury on to the field. Okay, we're going to see the premiere and a switch straight back out the moon Who's coming back onto the field? Okay. I don't mind this too much because two max quakes is going to be more than enough to um To get the moongus, uh, the schnolax obviously has to recharge here. So that's fine. Um Yeah, I mean, we just probably go for another max quake into a moongus this next turn It may protect but I mean kind of pinning it at this point. Um, so they are doing a good job This is the issue now that the schnolax has um It's taunt has worn off. So we could have We couldn't have had a more awkward um Awkward turn I think the snow. Hmm. I don't think it's got protect. So we could attack into it and just remove it from the field But we're doing that Okay Let's double the schnolax Um, I'm gonna have to steal spike. I think there is the worry if schnolax switches out and the moongus goes for a Spall but it's yeah, it's gonna go rage powder And the defense boost is going to be useful, I guess But the thing is it's no lax now going to be able to get it's um, it's belly drum off Which is not great Um, and the schnolax is going to be the thing that max is for sure But it's going to be on very low health if we if we can do enough damage with vault switch here We can deny the belly drum Um, that's the thing. So it depends what luxe ray can do Yeah, okay, that's enough damage there. We're going to deny the belly drum. Okay luxe ray. You're you're you're the man All right, we'll bring talonflame back in the moongus gone now I mean my opponents are well installing out a dynamax turn. So that's the thing Yeah going for the belly drum, but it does fail. Unfortunately, they're not going to be able to get that off now our dynamax turns do end um It makes it tricky against the luxe ray Uh comfy coming in. Okay. This makes things even more tricky because um, they can Go for the floral healing into the schnolax. So I think what we're gonna have to do is go for a taunt into schnolax Um, because we're gonna try and belly drum again Um, and I think what we will do we could rock slide Probably better off just iron heading They won't want to get rid of the comfy here Yeah, I'm gonna go after the comfy because I feel like that's the kind of support network for my opponents team if the comfy's not there Can't can't recycle all this hp. Uh, they can't get it back Whereas if we're attacking into the schnolax leaving the comfy alone It does allow the comfy just to kind of like waste our attacks. Um Or so to speak, you know, that's why I always think like with pokemon like comfy, you know It's a good thing not to ignore them If possible probably gonna see a trick room though now as well. That's the other thing But we do hit the iron head and it is enough to get rid of the comfy So that is ideal for us now I'd imagine what we'll see now is the primerina max. There's another giga impact comes out Um, this this will be enough now to get the talent film, but it's not the worst thing in the world like I say Uh losing talent film now. I speak controls and not really a priority Um, I think if anything we need to concentrate down hard on the primerina this next turn Schnolax is going to be minus two. It's taunted. It can't really do anything Especially this next turn it has to recharge. So Um, we don't worry about that too much. The primerina is the big kind of threat here So if we can double into it with durant luxury, we have got the uh, the special defense boost on durant already. So Um, that is definitely going to help us while charge. Or do we snarl? Maybe snarl turn one and go for a iron head into primerina here Prem's gonna definitely max 100 percent Um, and it's gonna hit us pretty hard. So the snarl support's definitely gonna help us here with luxe ray And then we can maybe We can maybe double into it with an iron head while charge the next turn We should take an attack from primerina here. Obviously the rain's not up yet Which I'd imagine the rain will be set this turn Um, so we just need to get enough damage onto it with an iron head now And then the next turn hopefully iron head while charge should be enough to get it Depending on how it's been ev trained, of course So there's the iron head. Oh, yeah, that's more than enough That is more than enough that we need. Uh, and we've got the snarl Oh, okay, that's bad because now luxe ray being slower. Okay. Well, that's not as bad actually Okay, that is not as bad because now Okay, that's fine and with komo on the back as well, you know, the snarlx isn't really an issue So we'll get the snarl. Okay. We really need a luxe ray to kind of add speed the primerina But with the assault vest there Um, and because they didn't attack the dirant that makes things a little bit easier for us for sure Snarlx recharging that turn will go for the wild charge now Um, and komo all gonna be able to add speed primerina. So worst case scenario is um They double into luxe ray again like the yeah, they double into luxe ray They're probably likely to attack durant here, but durant not worrying about its, um, its hustle ability Just hitting every iron head, which I was kind of worried about. I didn't really want to say it because as soon as I say it we'll miss um Going into the luxe ray, but again that snarl coming in huge there even with the rain boost not enough and Be able to take down that big dynamax Primerina so luxe ray putting in the work here snarlx gonna be able to get probably a giga impact off here um But I feel like this one we managed pretty well as a darkest lariat comes out Okay, this will pick up the knockout onto luxe ray, but it just paves the way for komo all to come onto the field and Help us clean up the snarlax as its taunt does finally wear off once again Um, and we'll be in a position now probably iron head going to be able to pick up the knockout But um komo all going to be able to do the same with an aurora sphere and I imagine we may see The battle cancelled. Yeah, there we go. Okay. It's a very good game to dexter always nice to feature um This sort of team and another win as well for for stu's team So as you can see we've had two really good games today. I'm super happy with the results, of course As you would always be with two wins. Um, but I mean it goes to show it's a good solid team It's got some nice options in it some unique picks with the luxe ray and things like that and some Obviously really nice item choices as well like smart item choices, you know, like how how imperative that um, the safety goggles were on Time flaring there to allow us to stop the snarlax setting up because if we don't have that there Snarlax gets its belly drum up and max is next turn and that match becomes incredibly difficult. So I mean Uh, really really nice options here. Can we view can we check we can okay? So there is a rental cord my friends big shout out to stu as well I'm right in the way of the the luxe ray, but we know we've seen it's got vault switch Snarl psychic fangs as well as nice for like screens and stuff that we're seeing Very popular at the minute with grim snarl lappers and stuff like that. So just generally a nice option We didn't get to feature the melodic, but you know melodic is what melodic is We've seen melodic a million times in in the sun and sword and shield formats So I'm sure you guys can kind of formulate what it's there to do and slow teams down And a bit more of a threat. So If you do try the team out big shout out to stew, of course But let me down in the comment section below if you do try it out come on Is a very cool pokemon and it was nice to see it featured today Especially in that first match where it did a lot of work But I think that's gonna about wrap things up for you Today and that's all I've got to say really but just a big shout out to shu Thank you all for tuning in as well if you have enjoyed the episode as always Please remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel If you're new for more of this sort of content and other pokemon content that we do here on the channel And I will see you all for another episode very soon. So until then friends take care of yourselves Have a great rest of your day and I'll see you for the next one. So until then take care. Bye. Bye