 Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 Battle Series. We are here in the brand new season kicking off. We started last week with that Ryoga team, and we're carrying on with a brand new team. This week I'm just logging on to the Wi-Fi to the BattleSpot, so we'll see the team in a minute on the screen. As always, it is down in the description below. There is a raw paste and a poker paste of the team, and it is a little bit different from last week. We had requested last week from one of you guys, so if you would like to see another team featured next week, if we don't stick with this one or in the future, please let me know in the comments section down below, and we will make sure to feature whatever you would like to see going forward. I'd like to get through as many archetypes as possible going forward. I feel like this one that we're going to play this week is something that we can probably mould in really refined going into next week on the channel, so we may play this one for two weeks, but let me know down in the description, down in the comments section, down in the description, what am I talking about? I'm sorry, I'm a bit delirious today. Here is the team. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris, just for you guys to know. As I say, I'm feeling a bit delirious today. Here is the team. We've got Groudon, we've got Kyoga, we've got Tap Coco, Stack Attacker, Salamence, and Incinero. So lots of familiar picks here, and like I say, this feels like a team that needs refining. And what I want to do and what we used to do on the channel was we play a team and start out with it, we test it, and then we refine it in the second week. So we may do this, but if you guys would like to see other calls played, like I say, I'm happy to move on and this team might work out and we might be able to just identify some stuff and finish up the week with a refined product rather than dragging it out for two weeks so we can get through more teams because, bear in mind, we've only got so probably the 15th of November to play this battle series in Ultra before we move into Sword and Shield, which is what everyone will want to see after Sword and Shield is released. And I've got a ton of content planned for when Sword and Shield comes out. Very excited for it. And before we do anything, let's get over into this screen so we can see our rating and stuff like that. And as I say, I'm feeling a little bit delirious today. I've not felt very well. Do you know, do you know when you get that feeling? When you're like, I just don't feel right. And I've had that literally all day. I felt like I've had these horrible bouts of like dizziness and feeling sick and just shaky and it keeps coming and going. And you're probably sitting there thinking, why are you recording tonight? Well, tonight I had some free time and I thought I'll put the team together. We'll get some episodes out because who knows, tomorrow I might be really ill. But I do feel like I'm getting really sick. And it feels like it's kind of one of those things that will either go away or it'll hit me really hard. And I hope it's the form and not the letter. So yeah, if I'm just jabbering as well, I do apologise. I do feel a little bit out of sorts. But I hope you're all well. Hope you all had a great weekend and are looking forward to some Pokemon games as well. I'm finally playing Dual Primals. I kind of wanted to throw Cracellia in there. But with Cracellia, I just feel like Bronzong would make sense as well. Cracellia Bronzong are obviously the obvious picks here. But Stack Attacker just gives us that better answer to Zornius. It obviously helps us a lot more when really that week against Evelta. Even though we've got Cocoyne of our own, I just feel like Stack Attacker with White Guard helps us out a lot more. We've got Skill Swap there. We've got the Trick Room. And I just feel like Stack Attacker can give the team a lot more than what. Bronzong or Cracellia can. And maybe that's something we look at and change later on in the week. But we've got our first opponent. So first test, here we go. So we'll hop straight into team preview. Right, our first opponent is running a team of Phaerothon, Landerous Theorian, Landerous Theorian, Duskmen across my Kyoga and Shininger, that Pokemon that gave us so many troubles last week on the channel. And so our Trick Room here is going to be like pretty good, especially seen as Groudon is a kind of main Trick Room user. Yeah, like Groudon doesn't really care about Phaerothon at all. Incineroar, like Faker Trick Room, I don't know how they're going to kind of get around that, to be honest, so we can go for that, go for that. I mean, their best lead looking at their team previous is probably going to be Landerous Kyoga. That would be my kind of best bet. We'll go Groudon and do we want to bring Kyogre as well? Kyogre is going to be nice as a switching, although Mence could just generally be good as well. It's a toughie, but I think I'll go Kyogre, you know? I think I'll go Jupymal. Yeah, well. OK, we've got our first opponent. We're going to go in with Jupymal's. There's an argument there that Salamence could be good because it's a nice switching for Landerous. We can hit the Barathon. We can hit the Sheninja for good damage. We've got Draco Meteor on there as well to hit Ultranacrosm, if it does turn out to be Ultranacrosm, but we'll see. We're not going to see that Landerous and Kyogre lead. We're going to see the lovely, pink, shiny, Duskmane, Nacrosm, and the Thunderous here. I would imagine the Thunderous probably has taunt, maybe. That would be like my best guess. The Duskmane's probably got the trick room there, so. Getting the Intimidate onto it's nice. And you know what? I'm just going to fake out the Thunderous here and I am going to trick room because I feel like. If the Nacrosm I has got. Ah. What is this? What is going on? Okay, free win. This just makes me feel like I'm going insane. You know, I said I feel delirious. This just doesn't happen. But that's a bit disappointing. We'll get into our next one. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the next opponent, but sad that we're not able to get that game underway. I don't know why you'd forfeit. Maybe you just think I've got no way to stop the trick room. I'm just going to lose and I don't know. You would have a go though. You would have a go. Maybe they didn't have a correct move on one of their Pokemon. Possibly. It could have been a number of different issues there. Music, what are we going to go for? I never picked Battle Royale. And I'm never, I'm not really a big fan of it at all. I always look at it and just cringe a little bit. I always think of how. That's the why. I don't know. There might be a lot of how fans out there, so I'm sorry if you do like that guy, but he's not, not, not for me. We've got Radiant up next, so we'll get into Team Preview and stop talking about how and Battle Royale and stuff. Right, our next opponent is running Rabombi. Groudon, Xerneas, Tug of Tomorrow, Salamence and Kangus Khan. So we've got Jool Megas on this team. We've got the Salamence and the Kangus Khan depending on what the matchup is. You've got the speed control. Got to be from the Rabombi, probably providing tailwind support. Tug of Tomorrow, Fast Fake Out, Groudon and Xerneas. So trick room gonna be really good here if we can get it up. It's gonna be difficult to get it activated, but I mean, if we can get it going then, it's obviously gonna make things a lot easier for us, isn't it? Stacks does so well against Xerneas. Like the majority of this team really, apart from the Groudon, so that's the one big thing that we need to make sure that we are dealing with here. I do like my on Groudon in this matchup as well, but then again, I do like Kyogre as well. Do you want to bring Kyogre? Like Kyogre is just, Jool Primal is good. We could potentially lead off with something like Stack Attacker, Mence or Incineroar. Like Incineroar is gonna be pretty decent here anyway. So I think yeah, Jool Primal, Stacks and Incineroar, we'll go with that and we'll see how we get on. Hopefully we can finish this match. Do you imagine if we had like three games and each one was like forfeit first turn? Be the weirdest episode ever, but it's not gonna happen that. I feel confident about Radiant. He's gonna play with that. Gonna see Groudon and Kangus Kong come out for my opponent. Uh, I mean, do we trade fake outs here? I mean, are they gonna fake our Incineroar? That's the big question here. Or are they gonna fake Stacks out? Who knows? I wonder how fast that Groudon is as well. I mean, getting the Intimidate off is always gonna be nice. Do they fake out Stacks? I don't think they do. I think they fake out Incineroar like honestly and just go for Presby's Blitz. Although I don't think they do. They probably think that we've probably got Shukka or something on, let's go trick room. Let's try and get the trick room up with Stacks and let's go for a fake out into Groudon. I think they probably think we've got like Shukka Barry or something on the Stacks. So we'll take the Presby's Blitz. So they probably want to fake out Stacks at this turn. I would imagine. We'll just trade fake outs, yeah. Fake out? Where you going? Yeah, so we'll trade. It does break our sash, which is a little, oh no, we're not even sash, shall we? Where I think, are we safe to goggles? Yeah, okay. Well, this isn't the worst. Cause we can buy God a new turn. I do worry about the Kangus Con with potentially going for a low kick here, but it hasn't got low kick. And I don't know if, hmm. Yeah, we can buy God. I think we might have to bypass. I just don't want to take a Presby's Blitz. We might have to bypass a trick room just for the moment. I'm gonna buy God, switching Kyogre. I feel like Presby's Blitz comes out, probably low kick as well from Kang. You might see double edge into Incineroar, but it's more likely to see low kick if the Kang's got it. It's bound to have it, I would imagine. But we'll get our weather up. We'll just rub this grout on and put a little bit of pressure onto it, going into this next turn, at least we won't take any damage from Presby's Blades here. So, ooh, eruption. We didn't even need to do it. Oh, we could have went for it. As a drain punch, I mean, Stax taking it pretty well, considering. We could water spot here and just switch it in Incineroar. Cause we're gonna see an Earth Power from the grout on. If it stays in, I don't think it will. Like, I really don't think it will. We could take this opportunity to trick room and hope that the grout on switches out and we could switch in our own grout on. We're probably gonna see, we're gonna see an Earth Power. That's the question. Do you stay in with grout? I don't think you stay in with grout on. I think you switch your grout on out. I'm gonna trick room and I'm gonna switch into Incineroar. I'm gonna call it. I think you grout on, you don't wanna lose, yeah. So you're gonna switch it out. That's fine. Rebombi, whatever. Whatever you do, Rebombi. And then we'll get Incineroar in. We'll get another Intimidate onto the can, which means we should be able to take the drain punch if we do see that and we get a trick room up, which is the big thing. Then the next time we can get our gravity up, which is the other big thing for us. And we can, it's gonna be close. It's gonna be close. But that's fine. Because we can fake out gravity if we want and then jarra ball into the Rebombi. We're probably better going for, oh, we haven't got gravity, have we? We're putting, yeah, we're gonna jarra ball into the Rebombi and we're gonna you turn out into the can. It's fine. Yeah, I couldn't fit gravity onto the stacks even though I would have liked it. It's just hard cause you're kind of going without a move then. Like, yeah, you need jarra ball, you need trick room, need wide guard. You've either got skillswap or gravity and we've went for skillswap here. Maybe gravity is just the better option cause we've got the dual primers so we don't need to rely so much on our weather abuse but skillswap kind of does appeal to me with Groudon where we can skillswap beast boost onto it and then start just wrecking stuff. Although with the gravity, it would be a lot better. We're gonna see a fake out from the Kangascon. Here we go. I should take down the Rebombi. Oh, it's sash Rebombi. Tasty. We'll get the you turn out. We'll bring in our own Groudon if Stack Attacker gets through this turn. That's pretty nice for us. I don't know what the Rebombi's gonna do. Rebombi, what are you gonna do? Well, I wonder if I don't know what the Kangascon will take out. Should have just like attacked unless he timed out or misclicked. I don't know. So here we go. We've got the Sunup. Rebombi, pollen puff. Where's that going? Okay, into stacks. That's fine because now we get Aaron Sinemoy. We've still got to trick him up. And we can go for, we can go sword stance and fake out if we would like to do that, which might not be a bad idea. Fake out the Rebombi, just sword stance, I think. Yeah, the Kangascon is so weak right now. How do we even need to fake out? Could we just do you turn out on the Rebombi? Might be better, you know, and get Kyogre onto the field because does my opponent have salamence? Yeah, but they're not bringing the salamence to this game, they're just regular salamence. So it's better with Kangascon. Kangascon's like minus three as well, so it's doing nothing. And having that intimidated in the back is going to be way more useful. And if we see the Groudon switching here for my opponent, it's quite nice because we're going to be able to get a sword stance up, really putting a lot of pressure. And they get the rain up as well. Where we will, there we go. You see, you're going to see the Kang switch out. I just need to get the Rebombi because we don't want to risk any pollen puff damage. So, but this isn't the worst thing in the world because now we're kind of pinning my opponent. Like we're going to get a Kyogre out. We've got sword stance Groudon out. So my opponent can only fake out one of our two Pokemon here. And whichever one he doesn't, the other one's going to like wreck. So I think the best bet for my opponent if they do bring the Kangascon back in is to probably fake out the Kyogre because the Presbyter's blades could miss. That would be my thinking, my logic anyway. And it depends though if the Groudon, the opposing Groudon's special or not. I think your best bet is to probably do that and then, yeah, hope that it misses and you get like an earth power into our Groudon. But we're doing all right at the minute. We've still got a couple of turns of room left. So, you might not even see the Kangascon back in, but I would imagine it will be the Kangascon. Let's see. That's a Zernius. Oh man, this is all gone. Pete Tong for my opponent. Yeah, this is like disastrous for them. Only like you need to bring Kang in there. I think you needed the fake out support. So we'll just click our Presbyter's blades and I won't spout because whatever happens here, whatever doesn't protect is going down. Zernius protecting. Depends how slow this Groudon is as well. Presbyter's blades. Okay, well, still not the end of the world. It does hit the Groudon. And the Kangascon gonna make its way back onto the field. It's gonna try and stall at the trick room obviously with its fake out, which isn't a bad idea with the Zernius to try and get this GMATC up. But we still gotta turn the trick room and Groudon sitting in an uber nice position right now. So I'm not too worried and we still got Inciner on the back as well. I think the big thing for us really is to make sure that our Groudon stays alive and kicking. We'll go off the water spot and we'll go for another Presbyter's blades. But we're sitting pretty nice. Last turn of trick room I think there's a fake out from Kanga into Kyogre. You're going for the Presbyter's blades, but if it doesn't miss, then you're screwed. And it doesn't miss. Here we go, plus two. Can we take down the Zernius? We can't, but it doesn't matter if it gets our GMATC off. It really doesn't now. You're done. You're done. I swear. We've got Inciner on the back and what we can do now is switch our Kyogre out for Inciner or just Fire Punch. And Groudon isn't going down to a Moon Blast or a Dazzle, unless they've got something like Hidden Power Ground, which would be all the memes in one. Yeah, so Dual Primal's doing all right. Doing all right. We'll switch into Inciner and then we'll go for that Fire Punch because switching the Kyogre out will lift the rain. Rain, rain go away. We don't need to risk a Presbyter's blades and we'll just go for a Fire Punch. Fear Punch. There's a cat coming in. Here we go. Tasty Intimidate. So useful onto the deer, as always, Dazzle and Gleam. Gonna come out, do some nice damage, but Groudon, like a champ, go on. Boosh. There we go, and good game to my opponent. And a nice way for us to kick off today. So I kind of will take that first march, like. So there's no words for it, it's the shameless victory from our opponent's forfeit term on game one. But that one was a nice one. I mean, the team kind of worked pretty nicely there. And we overcame a pretty powerful call. I still know we're low ladder at the minute, but it's an example of how the team can work for sure. And there's definitely potential here, I think, with your primals. I don't know if you get that feeling when you're first playing your team, but I was going to totem and we got Mattia. But you get a feeling with the team when you first play with it, when testing with it, and it just feels right. And this team kind of has that feeling, so we'll see, we'll see. Got our next opponent, so let's hop through it into team preview. And our next opponent today is running a team of Xenius, Kangus, Khan, Lunala, Stack Attacker, Smigo, and Incineroar. So we've got a combination here of Lunala, Xenius, very popular in the beginnings of the Sun series, doing so well. And then kind of dropped off after that. And I still think it's a really, really powerful combination that we're not seeing enough of, probably. Xenius obviously boosts up with the J-Man, so you got potential upside up on the Lunala, it offers tailwind support, you got the Stack Attacker that offers the trick room support there. Smigo with its fake out alongside Incineroar and Kangus Khan, so three fake out users here, really supporting the entirety of the team. I think we need Coco in this match, to be honest, because Coco's electric terrain helps us a bunch against Smigo's spore abuse and things like that. So I will bring Incineroar, Coco. Do we want, I think we need Gradon and Stax as well, you know? So I'm gonna have to leave Kyogre Salamence. I just think we need, no, you don't want this screen. We're just blocking out our opponent. Sorry, Matt, yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I just feel like we need the trick room and we need Stax and Gradon. I think as an end game, it could be quite useful to have. Let's see how we get on. The terrain's gonna be so important for us here. We're gonna see Kangus Khan and Xenius come up for my opponent. It's not the worst, honestly, because you can try and fake out the Xenius and bolt switch into it as well, the Kangus Khan. Like, we always say it can only fake out one thing and you either trade fake out or you don't. I mean, the other thing is we could go for a Z move into Xenius and just get some damage onto it, which might be more useful, honestly, for like, later in the game. We'll go for that. We'll go for the Z move there. I really don't want the GM anti going up. Kangus Khan actually gonna withdraw. We're gonna see, we're probably gonna see a protect. Which is not good. But it's not the end of the world. It really isn't. And there's a protect, yeah. Okay, fake out and Z move. I mean, at least we're getting some damage onto Xenius now, but it isn't the end of the world. And my opponent is just gonna, I think this whole game is gonna cycle these fake out users to support the Xenius. So we've gotta try, I think, to get our trick room up and get ground on in a position where we can start doing some decent damage to the zone. We do get at least some damage off onto the zone when there's a Z move. Now, where do you fake out? Do we just double U-turn and Vault switch just to try and get some sort of pivot? We're gonna see fake out come out. It's gonna stop the incinerator. Probably not the worst as we get the Vault switch into the Xenius and get some decent damage onto it. To be honest, that's probably in Precious Blades range now. And we'll get ground on onto the field. Because the next time we could Sword Stance, do we Sword Stance? I just feel like the Xenius protects the next turn. There's the GM ANSI, which is obvious. Yeah, this next turn, I feel like the Xenius probably protects and the Incinerator closes U-turn out. And I probably want U-turn out as well with Incinerator. Yeah, I'm gonna go for that Sword Stance now. Well, we've got the opportunity too. And I'm gonna go for a U-turn out onto the opposing Incinerator. I just think the Xenius protects. I think you don't leave it like wide open now. There's no intimidate to come in from my opponent. A Fire Punch probably takes it down. Oh, you've got to suspect that it does. So you want that support next to it. So my opponent really is in that position where we probably are gonna see that happen. The Kangas can't come in now, which is fine. Yeah, let's protect. Which is fine for us, because we can bring in Stack Attacker, which then splits my opponent's options. You know, they've got to either go for the fake out into Stack Attacker to stop that trick room, or they've got to fake out into the ground on and prevent the precipice blades, which can take both of their Pokemon down. And I don't think a double up from either at this point is gonna be enough to take down what we've got out on the field. You're gonna have the Dazzle and low-kick Stack Attacker. But if you do that, then ground on hits his blades and we pretty much will take this game if that happens. I'm gonna trick room and I'm gonna go for the blades. So we'll see what my opponent goes for. I can say if they trick room, I think they kind of seal their fades because Incineroar coming in can intimidate us, but it's not really helping against the Stack Attacker at this point. So there's a Kang mega revolving. Moon Blast going for the double into something. It's going into the ground on. Can they get the ground on? Ooh, they might be able to, you know. Okay, where are we going? Oh, okay, that's fine. I don't mind because a Presbyter's blade should hit here. They do take stacks down. We did it, yes. Okay, here we go. Bye bye Kang, bye bye Moon. And this is fine because now we do have our Incineroar on the back. If it is Lunala and Incineroar for my opponent, that's fine. I'm bringing Coco right now because I don't want our Incineroar intimidated and I'm like, yeah, it's Lunala. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Yeah, that's super fine, isn't it? And what would probably, you could just double protect here, to be honest. I've got to worry about a potential. I mean, I'm just going to press the blades and hmm, or do I? Do I preserve ground on and go for, I could just double protect here. I could just double protect. I want to preserve ground on, you see, for an end game against the Incineroar. I don't really want to drag this end game out against my opponent. Now we could see Z move here from Lunala, but I think what I'm going to try and do next turn is switch ground on out into Incineroar and then vault switch with Coco on the Lunala. There's the tailwind. I think you still attack ground on because it threatens your Incineroar. This could kind of backfire on us. Quite a lot. But I'm willing to do this. Vault switch out onto Lunala. I think you attack the ground on to protect your Incineroar at this point. And if you Z move into Incineroar, that's fine. I just want to break the shadow shield. That's the main thing here. Coco should still at speed the Incineroar. Here's the Z move. I'm hoping it's into the ground on. Make more sense to be into the ground on, honestly. Like we just protected, we're pretty open to this attack. Once you take it down, Incineroar's got a lot. It is into the Incineroar, so that's good for us. We'll take that pretty nicely for that stupidly strong Z move. We are going to see the vault switch into the Lunala. Now, Darkers Lyra should be able to pick up the knockout. We'll go ground on back onto the field. And I think the next turn, we need to just Darkers Lyra the Lunala and hope that it hasn't got protect. And then once the Lunala's down, the Incineroar is easy to deal with. Fleeblitz going to be into ground on. Intimidate will help us out a bit. It's still going to do a little bit of damage, which we don't like to see, but I mean, at this point it's not too bad. Yeah, so we'll go for that Darkers Lyra. Like this should take the Lunala down. We'll protect the ground on. It's just whether or not the Lunala has protect or not. Or focus blast. Hopefully it doesn't, we don't lose this game. But we, I feel all right about closing this one up. We should be all right. And Lunala does reveal protect. So that's still fine. We're probably going to see the Incineroar. Hopefully it hasn't got low kick. Now it's got U-turn. It does go into our Incineroar. That's not doing enough though, is it? It really isn't doing enough damage. And even it double up now, I think we're going to be all right. But I do think you probably double the Incineroar here. So I'm going to stay in with ground on and go for a Precipus Blades. Because there is a small chance that we do take Moonlight's Beam and you never know, like a crit U-turn could take down Incineroar here. But it does leave our ground on open to get this Precipus Blades off. And I think we take this U-turn to be honest. Oh, we jinxed ourselves. Precipus Blades, it does hit. Thank goodness. Right, we just need to stall the tailwind out now. Well, we're fine. He said, oh no, we don't. There's the tailwind gone. Cocoa coming back in. That's not great. And we don't actually have Thunder either. We have got Thunder, which we don't want to really be clicking. It's probably not the most optimal move to have on it when you're pairing it with the Sun. So we'll go for a Vault Switch. We'll go for a Fire Punch, whatever happens here. We're going to lock this up. I can't believe Incineroar got crit there. I can't believe it. Vault Switch is actually enough to take down the Lunarland. Good game to my opponent. So that wraps up today's episode, my friends. I hope you've enjoyed it. I do apologize for the deliriousness and just general jabbering from myself. As I say, I'm not feeling my best. I'm not feeling great, but it's been amazing fun getting going with this dual primal team. And we've started the week perfectly with two really good victories. We'll be back tomorrow with the dual primal team. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you think of the team in general and where you'd maybe steer it if you were going to change things up later in the week. But as it stands at the moment, the team kind of feels pretty good. So I hope you're looking forward to the rest of the week's battles with it. And as I say, we're probably going to be one of those ones. If you don't take it on another week, we'll probably tweak it, come the end of this week and finish it up and try and get that nice polished article by the end of the week. For you guys to try out and test out as well. So I'm going to end it here. I'm going to say have a great day. Evening, morning, whatever time of day it is, wherever you are. I love you all very much and I will see you all for the next episode very soon. So until then, take care of yourselves and bye-bye.