 Hey friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series So we're gonna be hopping on to the rank battle in just a moment just to cover the team before we kick into it today We're gonna be playing this goth hotel team which consists of goth hotel the ex-good rail talk all Togokis hitman top and giggle it So we've got obviously as you can see the kasey berry on the goth hotel just to take and tank those ghost type attacks a little bit Better and help us set up trick room because you can see from the team. It's gonna be pretty trick room centric You've got the toggle and the giggle it there the giggle it with the choice band and then the toggle with its charcoal both boosting items Then we've got the weakness policy on the Togokis quite a popular item there between that the scope lens and the bivery berry I don't know which one's more popular probably scope lens, but I do really like the weakness policy We can self-proc that ourselves with a hitman top that provides fake out support along with the goth hotel And but it also has bullet punch so we can bullet punch her on Togokis once we've maxed and we also get the intimidate support from top So I'm quite nice overall, and I'm looking forward to trying it out. So without further ado, let's Select the team and get into it today. So We did play the intelligent team last week and in between then I jumped on Twitch stream last week. So if you're wondering why my ranking is so low and a Pretty much just jumped in with an idea on stream and we started tweaking it along the way So didn't go so well But it was a lot of fun if you are around a stream on Tuesdays and Thursday evenings 7 p.m. On a Tuesday and then 8 p.m. On a Thursday So we've got a first opponent and they are playing a copper jar a hat to earn or had to read How to rain is how we pronounce it really indeedy jellisoned Grim snarl and Conqueror so it's kind of trick room the trick whose trick room does better though I feel like if we can get gigalith in talk all in trick room We can do some work how to reins not gonna want to take anything from gigalith especially an iron head It's and the trapping element that we've kind of got access to as well really does help us out We've got to be careful around things like Conqueror that does really appreciate the trick room as well as that Hatterin and the Jellison there but and copper jar as well The steel type in there, but I mean copper jar doesn't really want to be facing down against talk all does it so Okay, do we deny trick room? I don't think we do. I think we just go without got the tell Do we want to bring toga kiss here? I mean toga kiss might be nice in the back is a late game thing to have in case Conqueror is a bit of an issue and let's go with Cocoal gigalith and Locked in just in time. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow On the on the money right there. So just locking in the time Let's see what get on with this one and I haven't actually played any games with this team So this is the the first game. So we're doing this together you and me friends. Hopefully it's good though I'm feel like a couple episodes this week with the team I'll obviously post the rental code for the team at the end of the week So do keep an eye of that if you want to try it out yourselves, but obviously The ladder is resetting. We are getting new rules and in just over a week So we need to we don't need to be so invested in this format right now with the new inclusions That we're gonna be getting at the start of March. So we'll see my opponent lead out with the jellicent and the Grim snarl And how we didn't lock in in time. So that's a little bit of a shame, right? What can we do? We've got blind hypnosis. We could go for we could go for a fake out as well with a goth hotel But only into the Grim snarl and the Grim snarl probably has got It's probably got fake out as well so I mean we can potentially go for a fake out and I think we Probably want to switch here to let's go into talk Let's go into talk a kiss because we get talk a kiss in and we can trap both the Grim snarl And the jellicent the only worry is here taking a big fat water spout now We're playing on the cuff here because we've obviously not locked in our team in time And team preview which is a little bit of a shame. Maybe we don't say water spout. That's my big worry here No, just a shadow ball and but with the conceit Barry will take that quite comfortably Next turn we can I guess do some stuff, but we can probably dynamax with the talk is it's just a shame that we haven't got You haven't got hitman top to self proc that's the only problem and now what do we do? We just go after the Grim snarl and Go for a blind hypnosis into the jellicent. They're like it's not a bad idea. It's not the worst I don't want to go for airstream because I think there is always a possibility of the jellicent We miss with the hypnosis and they go for trick room to counteract our airstream, which is something That would make sense for us to do we could see Grim snarl go for a combination of something like light Green I guess or Thunderwave into the talk is Thunderwave doesn't make so much sense right now because you've got such a heavy trick room orientated team I'm sorry to imagine screens. Yeah, there's the screen. Do we have to get around that a little bit and We'll get the starfall. I don't think this will take out but There's a nice chunk of damage down we do get the misty terrain up which I can't believe it I can't believe we've hypnosised. Ah, what do we do? What are we doing? We would have been better off gone for it just another shadow ball gonna come out what a waste of a turn with goth hotel But that's that's what happens when you don't pay attention people Okay, do we want to keep goth hotel around for a little bit later? We could get ex-good drill in And and do we the thing is I'd rather keep ex-good drill with its sash I think for what my opponent potentially could have in the back Now we could double into jealous and just go for a psychic and Do we want to go for an airstream I still don't really want to go for the airstream now I don't want to boost that speed especially just like just knowing what my opponent's team could be so if we can get The jealous into here that would be amazing. I don't think we're gonna be able to not buy in the light screen It's just so fat such a fat Pokemon We'll probably lose goth hotel here, but hopefully if we don't see a trick room Curse body kicking in and And a special attack drops. Let's see with a But yeah, that's fine because now we can get ex-good drill in Or we can get talk all in we do lose our only method of speed control for our goth hotel If we're not wanting to go down Hmm We could get ex-good drill in and we could go for a sword stance And then we become quite threatening then Let's do that. I think we've got to try and Get a mod together right now where we can start cutting through my opponent's team. Um We're not going to be able to get rid of the jealous in but I Think if we can get a sword stance up it might be all right And we can go for it. The problem is going for the airstream again That's the issue with the the gel. I mean if we double into jealous and actually that might be the better idea because that's the only That is the only trick room threat in the field and I think if it hasn't got a Recovery of Barry in citrus or one of the super berries. We should be able to get it between a combination of yeah this That's really unfortunate There's no Barry there, but we are going to be able to get the jealousy. So that's kind of nice We don't see a reflect there which could have hampered us a little bit you get a crit when it doesn't matter which is Classic toga kiss spirit break gonna come out again And I mean I don't mind this too much because once we've like got rid of the dynamics We haven't been boosting our speed or anything we're quite capable of just switching talk is out at this point Dynamics is gonna end and we still have to contend with something that my opponent is going to dynamics as well But and I can't really own here as well because I think there's too many turns of the terrain left so Yeah Now we could Sword stance could I mean we could iron head and just go for a dazzling gleam The hot had arena is probably gonna max I'd imagine Yeah, there's the the bibrary berry which makes a lot of sense still no reflect though, which is good And this will get rid of the grim snow but The only issue is we see the trick room now and it does give my opponent a free switch into something Wow Did we not get the grim snow? Wow, that was a week doesn't mean very weak doesn't mean okay, no okay I think we have to follow me and we have to go for another iron head which Cuz you kind of worry about the the mystic Other the max flare really we just got a hope that we can take a And we can take the had arena down with an iron head even maxed I think we should be able to the following gonna be super useful here So I think we're just like this match is just showing like the basics of how good Toa kisses support next something like X could rail But the grim snow I'm like it's doing nice work. Isn't it with that spirit break? It's such a good move I think one that's not really looked up on enough the max play coming out We do take that so that's quite nice And the Sun is up But if we get rid of that I had a ring now that would be perfect because the trick rooms up. We've got talk all to come in It's gonna be slower than a couple of job Come on get it. Yeah, and now I think because the trick rooms there for us to take advantage of To close this one out So we get away with this one by the skin of our teeth I think but because it could have went Really really badly for us. We made a few mistakes in the early game We didn't lock in the team that we actually wanted to bring here, but it turned out to be not too bad, but The only thing that could have went wrong would be the concolder coming in and but I mean, it's still all right Isn't it? It's still should be all right And Depends what the concolder goes for I think I'm gonna actually go for a sword stance here And obviously I want to go for an eruption and we could see the concolder go for a Mach punch But it's not gonna do that. That's fine We should get rid of the Grim snarl now the light screen is gonna run out in a couple of turns So that will help us We're gonna see 100% we're gonna see the the flame all back to it But that that's fine because I mean at least it's not a salt vest That means that our damage output is a is a lot better And by just taking advantage of this term where it is protecting we can boost up with exkidro And now we've got two really big threats on the field I think that's what you want to be doing in situations like this You want to be kind of like trying to split your Your opponent's kind of attention as much as you can and these sorts of situations Um Many turns of trick room we've got left, I don't know let's I mean It's just iron head iron head and eruption a Mackpunch will hurt talk all for sure But it means that if the if you're talking talk all it means the exkidrill still got his sash going on We're not even gonna see that hammer arm coming out. Oh Oh The bigger void and then we clean up so yeah good game to my opponent like I say there was a few I just a little bit of rust for us to kick off with today, but Too much talk in team preview and Then just not paying attention to our max move and then hypnosis thing, but you know Classic classic classical Osiris players in it Caught on camera. No, um Yeah, but I think we managed that the situation all right the tricking going up for us definitely helped us and just I think making the decision Earlier on where we didn't switch in the exkidrill where we made the the decision to make sure that we as sash was intact And I think that's the the big thing to make sure because it just gives us a security Later in the game didn't it when when we wanted to utilize exkidrill a little bit more so we've got our next opponent and We will get straight into it and hopefully will not time out here We've got Rotom wash toga kiss tokel and dragapult Cobra night and the grim sell some of the grim snarl, but a bit of a different team here We've got a definite trick room on there that can perform well in trick room Which is the tokel, but no trick rooms that are on my opponent's team I'm probably gonna be looking at speed control methods from the the cover night and the toga kiss Probably max a stream on both of those And then the other one is gonna be grim snarl with potentially thunder wave there. So What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? I mean going trick room and gigalith here feels like it could be really good and then tokel so Toge kiss again is pretty nice For us, we just got to worry a little bit about the the Rotom wash that could be a little bit problematic for us And so I think we will go goth and tell Not really worried about the dragapult to be honest Do we go togy? I think we probably want toga kiss. Do we want exgadrill though? Don't think so. Don't think so. We'll go gigalith And we'll go talk hall. Yeah, let's look him with these four and let's get into it Five seconds to spare. I thought I would have like 30 seconds, but no talking through these things the time flies My friends. So let's see how we get on in this one. Hopefully we can get a double a double W in this episode. That would be very nice And then that sets us up nicely for the next episode later in the week So we've got grim snarl and dragapult for my opponent This lead kind of indicates to me that dragapult could be with this policy And we do need to worry about potentially The grim snarl faking out a goth a talent I think faker from the grim snarl when it's paired with dragapult makes a lot of sense So, I mean we go for the trick room and We could go for a yawn into dragapult for sure. That's not a bad option at all I think yeah, we'll do that because I think the dragapult does max here But goth a tell should take ooh Should take should take we should have followed me. Oh No, the thick tears. Do we take this over the conceit very depends if it's a light bulb or not You might do Yeah, we take it. Okay. Oh Yeah, it's light bulb. Okay. I thought maybe it might do a bit more, but we do we do take it So that's fine. I mean toga kisses in a nice position. We get a trick room up So I mean you can't really complain. Can we It's whether or not we want to We want a max toga kiss again because right now Let's see opponent got that would be a bit of a problem. Obviously the cover night Okay, but we got we got tall call So it's not the worst thing in the world and we can get rid of the dragapult with a max star four I'm kind of tempted just to do bring Gigalith in and max and go max starfall into Into dragapult and then if my opponent does decide to bring Rotom or something a bit later It means that like gigaliths got a little bit more protection with the the mystics ring We get rid of dragapult which is pretty nice for us because it's gonna be one of my opponents like big threats for them to Be able to do big damage to us. So dragapult gonna withdraw We'll probably see that later on the game So we really want to be taking advantage now of our Max turns and our trip room turns as well And I think because we've got something like banded gigaliths sitting next to us It's gonna be doing a lot of damage even if the Rotom on the opposite side of the field goes for The dynamics I think the only thing we need to worry about a little bit is the the fake tears into toga kiss and then the the max play from We are gonna see a foul play that does a heck of a lot of damage because of the band there on ourselves Okay, but that's a nice chunk of damage isn't it and we do get the mystics right now I Think I think if we go for max max starfall rock slide again. I think we still get the Rotom It's whether or not We can I don't know. I think like big tears could be a bit. No, I think I think we still get it I think we just lock into rock slide here We should take another foul play from the Grimstone and we'll go for the max starfall again So let's see. Let's see what my opponent does But I think one of the big things about getting your trick room set up and then getting something like gigalith onto the field Especially when you're holding the band. It was such a good Pokemon like back in the 2017 season it was such a big Pokemon like midway through that that season where it just really started doing a lot of work and it was It was such a pain to deal with and it's because you get this this board position set up with it And you can just start doing like So much damage as we'll see in a minute Grimstone is gonna switch out what's coming in Coco, okay, I don't really mind. I don't mind this at all as long as we don't see the Rotom the Rotom gonna max No, wow, okay. Well Stuff is gonna go Go hard now We still got plenty of trick room turns left. We have to be a little bit worried about the The talk all Because it does have solar beam and it can throw out some big fat damage onto gigalith here like a It can probably chaos now that the the sand's not we haven't got a special defense boost But I mean that damage there on the switching is pretty nice So, let's see. Is it gonna be grim snarl? No, it's dragger pull draggy Still got one turn I Think what I probably would do here is Do I sack got the town I? Think you do because really I'm not too worried about I think we go for another max thoughtful into the dragger pull just to try and get rid of it I'm not really worried about an eruption now from the talk all if we sack off a tell here It just means we get gigalith back in and the sands up So yeah, we'll mean that we should take attacks a little bit better from The talk all but we are probably going to see it max oh Dragger pull to maxing that's interesting is it a max guard? There's a good code it will 100% go down and Depends how it's trained I guess but yeah, it has the max guard I think trying to stall at these trick room turns. There's the solar beam Which will take down a gopher tell But I think by getting a gigalith back onto the field it almost forces the Forces the grim snore switch really And this is our last turn of our dynamics, so We'll get giggle it back in just to disrupt the Sun and It's going to be Interesting to see whether or not a rock slide. Oh, maybe we've got for something else. Maybe we go for earthquake Although rocks like stabs, so we're gonna get a bit more damage off. It's just whether or not Now we'll go we'll go rock slide and dazzle I Don't know if that's gonna be that combination is gonna be enough to get the dragger pull. We'll see though We'll see we'll see you soon find out and but the tall cause Never really tight position here stays in and goes for maybe heat wave or a flamethrower It's not really gonna be doing too much something like toca kiss or Giggle it really at this point or either switches out and then the grim snore comes in Wow, okay, so I You do take it up just about Which is nice. Let's see what the damage is like. Okay. Now. This is a single target single target Vaseline gleam can we take can it take it? Oh Just about but the sand up is gonna help us max phantasm coming out into to because we should take this Yeah, and then the grim snore to come back on to the field But the thing is with the grim snore. I think if it had fake out would have used it earlier on and So we still got follow me so we can just use toca kisses the fodder here just to But the life the life orb and the air sign damage actually enough so Oh Strong enough to take this and dimension is actually turned back to normal Which is a little bit unfortunate for my opponent because if they could have hung on that one more turn They would have been in a really strong position with their dynamic Pokemon bringing in grim snore as well Which we know has the fake tears and but now we can just we're locked into Plus we are and I mean we'll just doesn't gleam and looks like probably foul play into But just canceling the battle. So that's a nice Second win for us today. So after a really good start this week with a really strong team I think trick rooms are really good archetyped in this format And I think it's really something that you need to tech for because it's probably the first time in a lot of years We've got really viable means of Utilizing and setting up hard trick room as an option now Yeah, I would say this isn't like it's hard hard trick room But really it kind of is we've got modes where we can play out of trick room But we're primarily always gonna have want to get a trick room set up in these matches And we've got enough here to help us do that At the minute, so it's been a little bit of fun. I hope you've enjoyed the episode my friends Do leave your comments down below. Let me know what your thoughts are on today's games and Any thought you've got on where you would maybe go with the team if you're changing things up Or what aspect you'd like to see in our next episode Hopefully we can get the weakness policy bullet punch Toe case hitman top going in our next episodes. Do stay tuned for that I'll be up later this week and like I said, I'll release the rental team with that as well So have a great rest of your day my friends Thanks as always for tuning in if you've enjoyed this episode do drop a like on the video Do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content VG content and I'll see you all for the next one So until then take care of yourselves and bye bye