 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. In today's episode we are continuing on finally with our x9 draft league content. It is going into week six so last week was week five but there was scheduling issues and I apologize for myself that there was no content covering that. So we are going up against Steve and Pokemoncast. This week is the man himself behind the super effective podcast. Big fan myself so I'm sure a lot of you have heard of it and it's going to be a really good game this week. I'll throw his team up on the screen so you can see what we're going up against this week. It's going to be a very tough one. It was difficult to prepare against for sure. He's got the Reggie Alecki, Polito, Durant, Ludicolo, Doraladon, Crookadile, Betik, Kingdra, Moltres, Alolan Persian and Galarian Slobro. I think he's had an amazing draft. I think you look at this team it's got options all over the place. You've got Intimidate with the Crookadile that's great. You've got lots of Swift swim abusers in there the Ludicolo, the Betik, Kingdra and things to kind of complement those Pokemon especially with the Moltres. All things that are giving me a hard time kind of preparing with. I think I really expect Steve to kind of go with something like Reggie Alecki, Polito, the Durant as well, does well against the Charizard straight up. Ludicolo, probably not. I think we'll probably see Kingdra and I think we'll see Moltres and Galarian Slobro. That would be my best guess although we might have curveballs thrown at us because you don't know what they're thinking and the best way to get an idea of what they're thinking in their perspective is obviously by checking out their side of the battle so a little plug here as always. Steve's channel, Pokemon Cast and all the socials and things are linked down in the description below so if you want to check out the other side of the battle after this one then please do and definitely if you have done that let me know your thoughts on the battle today. Obviously getting on to our team as well. Something I wanted to kind of just throw up before we started because I am aware that I've not done an analysis video this week and I do have to apologize for that again but I think if we start with it here then I can quickly go through the thought process of what we're trying to do and see if we can get any of these little tricks kind of working today. So I've opted for a weakness policy Venus so you can see it's very bulky here. It is able to take the main kind of big attacks from Steve's threatening Pokemon obviously. Kingdra being one of them with Max Airstream it's going to be difficult to deal with and that Moltres as well. They're the two and really you would think oh well we've got Venus or Torkall I'm going to want the sun up most of the time but that's not necessarily what I want in this match. I really want the rain up because we've got that weather ball we can take advantage of that. If we're plus two as well with a weakness policy boost then we're going to be able to deal with that Moltres a lot easier especially under trick room. Now we do have to be very careful around the Glaring Slowbro obviously that has got access to trick room as well so it can reverse the trick room and it's likely probably going to have something like on tempo so it makes me not want to carry taunt really anywhere in the team because I don't feel like we necessarily need it and if Mimikyu can be worked well enough we should be able to get that that board position up and then Venus or in a phenomenal position so we're not generally using Venus or like the conventional route of that chlorophyll ability even though it is going to be an option for maybe a late game if Venus or is able to stick around so that's one option there. The Mimikyu is the big one here we could have went for something like Mental Herb because you've got to worry about taunt from things like especially the Alolan Persian but at the same time if we go down that route then we leave ourselves so vulnerable to getting picked up knocked out by a combination of like what really scares me is Reggio Lecki Durant with Electro Web and then just the Max Steel Spike which without the Bibiri Berry and without Durant on minus one we cannot survive with Mimikyu so we need that that Berry to be able to get the trick room up in that situation and again against those two Pokemon if we do see that we're quite comfortable known if we get the Intimidate off then we can get the trick room up and then we can kind of start going from there get something like Venus or on the field and stop plowing through stuff and light screen makes sense because it then supports the Venus or a little bit better it means that we don't need to necessarily have a Cobra Berry or an Ochaberry which were the two other options that I was kind of looking at here so that just helps bolster everything Phantom Force play rough going to be very good throughout this game I feel did toy with the idea of Shadowclaw but I think you know Phantom Force it gives us a turn off the field especially if we're in an awkward spot and need to just preserve Mimikyu and then guarantee and attack off the next turn get around protect it's always very useful Scrafty going to be a key member of the team have given it the Cobra Berry here just to take those big and max air streams because again the Kingdra and the the Maltres are going to cause us all sorts of issues now I could have went with Stone Edge here but I've got it I've got an actual little strategy going on that I think is going to work out and it's kind of where the team started from it's all based around Azumarill now if you look at the team that Steve's got I think it finds it very difficult to deal with the Azumarill especially if we've got the Lightning Rod support from Ryperia so that's the big thing here we obviously got a watch out for Ludicolo now I'm making a big presumption that we're not going to see Ludicolo if we do game plan is going to have to change we're going to have to go a different direction but we've got other methods to deal with stuff so it's not too bad but I think if we can get it maxed next to Scrafty the Intimidate is going to help it out a bunch and then what we can do is we can max Starfall this is where the Swagger comes into play and we kind of get around not needing Bellydrum then is we can max Starfall Swagger out on Azumarill and set it for like the late game when we're not maxed but also take advantage of it in a max situation which is quite nice benefits from the rain as well and the moveset we could have went for Bounce here but I thought about it again I was like I don't expect the Ludicolo to come so let's go for Superpowered hits a Doraladon and other members of his team a lot harder and gives us the opportunity to boost our attack as well when we are maxed and Toakal I think is super necessary in this game it disrupts the rain if we're in a bad spot it can come in and really kind of slow things down from that perspective and I haven't went for Protect on it which is a little bit strange but I really felt like I needed all of these these attacks I think the earth power is really important for a bunch of things solar beam we're going to need it if we're going to go one on one late game against the Polytod we need to make sure the sun's up in that situation and then the Moltres as well if we're in a trick room situation Ancient Power is going to be super useful to help deal with that and then we've got the Pashaberry so we've got at least a little buffer when we switch Torcall in to be able to take that you know so that definitely helps out and then we'll round off with Lightning Rod Ryperia I've went Lightning Rod primarily to protect the Azumaril which is such a centerpiece to this team if we see the Red Jaleck it's going to be a bit of a problem to deal with Ryperia kind of helps solve that the sash makes things a bit more simpler we don't have to worry about specific calcs or things happening in game to disrupt that and then I decided on Metal Burst as an option to play with the sash it made sense there was loads of options like Ice Punch for Crocodile there was Hammer Arm we could use there was Thunder Punch as well Fire Punch if we decide to max and get the sun back up the list goes on but I felt overall Metal Burst is something that will maybe win us one game and that's that could be really clutch in the end so Metal Burst if you don't know it's a bit like Counter and Miracord but it's 1.5 damage back to the opponent whatever you've taken so if we get hit with a max Geyser from a Kingdra we'll be able to knock out that Kingdra with the return damage from this so we can potentially knock out pretty much anything on his team with Ryperia in the right situation we need to make sure that that sash stays intact though that's the big thing for us so that's a big thing going forward that is the team though in a nutshell I'm excited about this week I think it's going to be really good and we'll wait now to just get the match set up with Steven we'll be right back when we get into the game friends okay we are here we're setting up the battle okay rules are getting decided which is good uh oh I'll decide them then it's nice to be back with x9 draft league content we've locked in with our team so we're ready to go I'm interested to see what he's brought because like I say I kind of went through what I expect to see but I could definitely see things like Berthik as well I could see things like Kukadal I think they all like warrant a place on the team and like I say he's been doing very well with the team as well so wouldn't surprise me to see these ludicolo no okay well we got ludipolly uh Persian the the slowbro Kukadal and um the Maltres okay well I think because there's no inclusion of um the king dread does make it a little bit easier for us gotta watch out for taunt especially from that Kukadal as well you know the Persian Kukadal make things quite difficult for us um I think yeah uh it's it's tough now because the ludi complicates things for a zoomer all for sure you know and you look on face value with this and you think well charizard would be a great shout here and I did think about a lot but not enough to warrant a place now I'm expecting to see something like maybe you know if you want to stop trick room really really desperately I could see him leading like Persian Kukadal here and to to get the fake out the faster fake out and then the taunt off to stop scrafty um meq getting it up but I think I'm gonna go on meq scrafty I think I'm gonna go venus all and our last pokemon I get you know do we go with the toe call do we allow him to get the rain up and just run with it or do we go with something like riperia that could do a lot of work especially with that metal burst I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with riperia in this first one here we'll see we'll see how it shapes up hope I'm not wrong about needing a zoomer l here because if we don't see the ludi then you know it's um it's a zoomer l territory but it's enough to kind of scare me off we got another game after this for sure guaranteed whatever happens good luck to steve and uh it's gonna be a really good one right got persian we got maltress this is all right for us this is all right fake out into the persian and we get ourselves our trick room up okay that is where we are going with this 100% we don't worry about the the max airstream from the maltress because we've got the callback um and if they fake us out then that's fine they think they can go for that it means that mimmy q's kind of left alone we get our trick room up and that's all that matters famous last words and all yeah i'm not really like the thing you could do is switch in maybe um the slow bro here which again i don't mind seeing the maltress leave the field for slow bro because in scrafty still in a really good spot um but you see how good like a zoomer would have been as a lead here so he's led pretty well in regards to knowing how kind of put off we are i had a crazy idea about running sap zipper belly drum a zoomer but okay no max there oh that is really unfortunate for missing the hurricane so we get very lucky in that turn very unfortunate out the rain hurricane does miss and we're in a nice spot here where we can potentially get a light screen up do we want to switch in do we want to switch into venus or just yet or do we double up into that persian you know it's a possibility like we could just drain punch drain punch and and play rough i don't think we need to set our light screen up just yet like the player of drain punch will be enough to get the persian maltress protects so we're going to get that double up into the persian and uh take an early lead here which is always always nice um i can say the persian taken that pretty well with that fur coat ability but i'm hoping the player rough is going to be enough to uh to clean up just connect it oh it hangs on hangs on what evian that is brilliant so the snarl coming out from the persian uh breaks the disguise the main thing um do switch the persian out and maybe keep it for for late game potentially the problem here is that we're not really taking advantage of our trick room right uh you know i'm going to crunch the persian and i'm going to set a light screen up yeah because we're not taking advantage of our trick room our trick room turns are taken down and you know we might not be in a position where we're able to get a second trick room up which then makes things very difficult for us very difficult unless it is the rain core on the back and then venus all comes in and has a great time um i think the hurricane miss definitely definitely makes things a little bit easier for us but we'll see how it goes see how it goes see how this plays out that persian is a beast though all right i don't know what the maltrait our maltrait has gone gone away okay so polytod coming out okay that's fine that's fine we like that we like that we like the rain coming because we want the rain unbeknown to him i think the rain players oh this is slow bro this is big for us because we get the crunch let's cook it out okay that's that's okay that's fine we know what we're dealing with now um should have just rain punched would have been better crunch is going to do minimal damage minimal okay all right well we get the light screen up which is useful i think now's a good time to get something like venus on to the field um could we pull a double switch probably not probably not i think someone following me on uh on um twitch so thank you very much i think we just play rough into the crooked ale gotta worry about maybe weakness policy there as well you know and if it maxes and it goes like max quick into our um into our venus slot then we're not gonna enjoy that too much but you've got to think you probably want to get rid of the trick room from the mimic you before anything else you know you want to get rid of that um so there's no trick room possibility like going forward in the match it makes things a bit more streamlined from we could i'm gonna switch out maltres coming in yeah okay well i don't again i don't mind this too much i really like yeah it's not it's not terrible it's called coming out into mimic you that's all right and the player rough gonna do minimal damage to that maltres okay so i think now we start by going full big damage into that polytod we switch out into scrafty because i want to keep mimic you around for later i want to be able to get that trick room up if we can uh gotta remember that the persian's still kicking around as well so that's gonna make things a little bit tricky for us of course but i think mimic use quite important to us our hole and if we can get rid of the polytod like i don't expect the polytod to stay in here but the thing is with that residual damage kind of starting hopefully this turn as well as where they activate our weakness policy um and with the light screen up it makes it a bit easier to kind of handle the maltres so let's say you don't think anything's switching out here polytod probably just protecting i guess if it's not switching out might say help in hand hurricane though so we're pulling the trigger first on venu because i think this residual damage going to be so so so imperative to us so let's see if we can make the venu count in the rain normally once the sun and it doesn't even matter if the the the maltres decides to go for the sun now it sets the sun up because it can um polytod protecting which is fine super fine get that g-max fine lash off which is what we want it kind of makes it difficult for the persian to come back on the field as well because it's all low health um and we'll see a hurricane i reckon now check button okay persian comes in here that's ideal i think it'll be the crocodile though um um and make more sense and then a hurricane from that maltres into venus off which we should take pretty comfortably considering it's not maxed but they may chase down the mimikyu here you know it's like the thing where they're like all right let's get rid of the mimikyu let's get rid of the trick room option so that's not a possibility going forward it's going to be the persian so the persian gonna we're going to be able to say goodbye to that going forward um get that weakness policy proct which is exactly what we want and now we can smack that maltres this next turn with a um with a big with a big bad water attack and probably put it in range to kind of take it take it down maybe if it doesn't max but then you can't really underestimate the crocodile as well the problem is obviously we've got the scrappy out in the field trick rooms ended which isn't great but again we do our fake out and our disposal so at least we can fake out this next turn and we still got ryperia in the back as well we've got to think about that like the big priority for us is probably getting rid of polytode ryperia can kind of it's not great against crooked out of course but the other metal burst we can kind of fall back on a little bit are we gonna throw all our tricks out here but again if we win this with with venus so you got to think like do we see the ludicolor next game i don't think we do you know i think the venus saw was too much of a problem for him to uh to bring the ludi so i think then we start thinking about the zoom row but we've got to concentrate on this match right now it is the most important of course um we go for like striking to maltres and we'll go for that fake out into the crooked out we may see the crooked out max here because i think again you've got to think like max quake is going to benefit them right now because the the special defense boosts are going to be like really beneficial right um and there's always the argument where you're like hmm do we just switch out scrafty here potentially and then get that intimidate onto the crooked out a bit later i think if we can remove the maltres then i don't really worry about the trick room too much because then i think we switch scrafty out um to get the intimidate onto the crooked out but it depends what this is it is the maltres maxon which is better for us honestly because now our fake out is actually meaningful and it'll be interesting to see how much damage this does this geyser does so fake out beautiful love it max a stream i'd imagine we should take it like a champ like a champ here we go okay this is this perfect if we can remove the maltres now i think we win this but i don't know the geyser from the venus all the sudo water type come on there we go okay there we go brilliant brilliant okay that makes things so much easier for us because now we just uh literally intimidate shuffle around um the residual damage now going to eat this crocodile make things so much easier for us like we just get scrafty out sack off mimikyu um yeah i think we just attack into the polytod here oh do we yeah we attack into the polytod are they gonna have enough to take down venus all this polytod even going to outspeed venus all that's the thing like the crocodile i don't think an earthquake is going to take us down don't think a high horsepower take us down um yeah battle canceled so we do take the first one uh pretty well handily with venus or soul one up which is great so that worked out really well now i can't rest on that at all i think i think like i say one of the things we've got to stop thinking about as this next game and i do think that zoomerall is probably the player because i think as much as ludicolo is great it does not want to contend with uh the likes of um it doesn't want to contend with the likes of uh with venus all you know so i think the zoomerall scrafty lead here is probably the way for us to go um at the battle again but i think we still need to bring the venus all as i kind of back up in case we do see the ludi because you never know what your opponent's thinking you never know how they're kind of thinking what we're going to do as well um so a zoomerall scrafty venu the other thing as well you know what we could potentially see is the slow brawl uh which we have to be very very careful for and kind of tempted to bring the right period just because of the metal burst yeah we're locking with that we're locking because i think it gives us a guaranteed knockout onto something if we play it smartly and we can just get it onto the the board and another one another one if you can hear that bleeding over i do apologize i need to uh the notifications aren't uh knocked off when i've got this open but uh whoever is following on twitter thank you so much we are streaming later this evening i am recording this as of now on friday so let's see let's see what we go with but i'm feeling i want the zoomerall i want to get the i wanted to get the the metal burst off i wanted to get the venus all gone and i wanted to get the zoomerall gone but obviously you know all these wants it's been greedy if we can get the zoomerall going in this one i'm going to be like super chuffed and it's the game plans kind of worked out which is very rewarding sometimes you know but it's um way way way beyond that yet we've got to get through this next one and a lot can change and we cannot underestimate what steve is going to do because we've not seen too much from his team so far persian and maltres perfect that's like we want this we want this we want this all day now we've got to think like what's he gonna switch in what's he going to switch in i mean the hurricane is well in game one we've got to say that affected that game majorly like if he hits that we have got the cobra berry but at the same time makes things very difficult for us um do we just commit do we commit with with uh with the zoomerall here and do we go for the swagger i don't know if i'm like super worried about the maltres i kind of am i at the same time i kind of don't want to just leave the maltres kind of to its own devices um but i'd like to get the swagger gone and like if we can get the you know so we can't underestimate the maltres got max um now i think we go for it i think we go for it here no i think let's not be greedy let's not be greedy no let let us do it let us do it let us do it i don't think we're gonna have time we'll locked in the fake out at least we're gonna max the zoomerall here ah faffing around okay well nothing's switching out i think we'll see fake out into persian and we'll see a hurricane into uh yeah fake out into scrappy from persian in a hurricane um maltres protects okay well that's that's that's fine that's fine uh unless we see potting shot now we see the the fake out let's see starfall this is the target that we went for take it down is that sashed or is it just an absolutely yeah it's sashed okay i was like this thing's like calked like so well so well right um what can switch in scrappy flinched i think we go for the geyser which one's more powerful i need to move out of the way i need to see and what's what's the button to see more options it's 130 and that's 90 so this is the one we want into maltres and we want to go for that swagger as well into zoomerall and that kind of helps us mitigate a little bit against the potting shot if we do see that come out from the persian here because it's a definite possibility you know um but with the misty terrain up yeah this is fine this is fine because especially i can't see the polytode coming in i can see the crucadile coming in which the swagger then definitely helps you know i think the crucadile 100% comes in here we may see like but the maltres not maxing either that's polytode oh my god no we're we're going for we're going for the big rain play what's the maltres doing hurricane yeah okay it's into scrafty we take that so well and we can't be confused either because of the terrain then we get the geyser and this is no way is this maltres surviving right well that's that we're gonna get a swagger off as well hopefully it hits and then that puts zoomerall plus two no damn it it was gonna happen it was gonna happen wasn't it i cursed us i cursed us uh that would have been so good that would have been so good if that had been the case but i can't complain slobber all that's the other thing yeah okay well we got riperia the thing is if it's slower than us that makes it very difficult that makes it very difficult it might be better off preserving something like um i mean we can smack it with a geyser because you know it is boosted i think it's better if we preserve something like scrafty here though um and bring in like venus all because i i expect i expect the slobber or two to max here i think yeah it would make more sense the slobber was a really good shout you know i just don't know how much damage you're gonna do when we're minus one and i think it's more important that we preserve scrafty for later in this game yeah the slobber on maxing and this is the other pokemon that did scare me give me give me fears because the the maxus boosting that polytod this can get quite dangerous quite quickly and it's a great pick against you know the zoomerall not only the the ludi but um there's a skull yeah it really takes up pretty well and then the geyser at least we're gonna get another geyser off that's not bad damage it's really not it really isn't if we had that this is capped we do get a plus one but maybe i don't know if an earth power and a max geyser is going to be enough to get the slobber or probably not but we can um switch around we can switch around for sure we could bring scrafty back in because we can check the polytod although the one thing that i would say is we're probably like we've got to worry about um we can't protect here do we just lose we just lose the zoomerall and go for another liquidation i think we go liquidation and i think we switch back into scrafty here because i think the polytod protects and i think we see a max we could see a max mine storm into the venusaur so then the polytod's a little bit freer going forward it's risky because if we lose scrafty here it's not ideal but i think scrafty is like bulky enough to come in and take a skull at least polytod protect let's see that max mine storm wow that does a lot of damage to crit yeah we get very lucky okay yeah and max mine storm okay well we get it and now i think a liquidation is going to be enough to pick up that and then we can just go for the fake out into the polytod the crit again is huge for us because it really hampers their ability like i don't know if like two liquid oh quick claw activating there we go okay love to see it can we take this i don't know if we can there's the eject button bye bye toad can we take this i don't know if we can i don't know if we can maybe we can maybe maybe Persian coming back out onto the field quick claw there we go can the assault vest do it not enough makes it difficult but then max turns are done now so that's that's a plus um and we do have the option where we can bring in like i want to keep right period because i think right period if we can finish off the match right period versus polytod and get the metal burst then it's it's great really but let's see let's see because we can just double up into the slob or now like you know an earth power and a crunch is going to be enough and i'm not like massively concerned about this person like it's really good at disrupting but it's not going to be like putting too much damage onto the field at least this turn by itself anyway you know i've got to worry about foul play of course all those things it's the quick claw that you worry about more than anything you know touch word it doesn't activate again because that will complicate things was a quick claw was it just a quick draw ability i don't know which one was too hyper moment to uh to to to realize what was going on with the crunch yeah part psychic gonna be there be there be the one for us here so Persian and polytod rain stops just ready for polytod to come back in and a drain punch and a leaf storm should do it should seal it should do i've been too greedy wanting the metal burst but it was a nice idea i think um we could have maybe got it going but leaf storm into polytod and then drain punch into the Persian that should be enough potentially i think we'll see parting shot maybe onto venu um but with venus so i'm not kind of i'm not like super worried about about the polytod otherwise you would be but as long as we get rid of the Persian i think we've we've cracked this i see wind coming out from the Persian gonna drop our speed by one point this polytod gonna do i just need one hp on that Persian that's all we need get that weakness policy boost which is nice uh but we'll be attacking after the polytod now um the hip nose is coming out okay okay i love it i love it nose is coming out the drain punch is gonna be enough to get this Persian nose so it is gonna be all right um and if venus also stays asleep we might be able to see we might be able to resurrect the idea of a right period coming in you know and getting that metal burst off because that'll be the next pokemon to bring on to the field if we can if we can do this so we'll go for the leaf storm again i think we'll just drain punch just try and get some health back i think they'll target down i mean you target down the venus here i think but it also makes sense to go after the scrafty as well um because as soon as the venus all wakes up it's kind of over this drain punch doing nothing to this bulky toad uh we'll probably take or maybe one more scald so there's time for venus all to wake up venus all might be the one that gets the the knockout here maybe we'll see we'll see kind of want it to be right period though come on take down scrafty allow right period to come in get the burn get the burn get the burn i'm kind of praying for my opponent i think what we'll do is we'll try and get one more drain punch off um and we'll protect venus all and try and get right period on to the field and then we'll try in we'll try and get the metal burst you might not allow us to do this you know we'll see we'll see we'll see it's sure about in a bit but it's just such a nice tech and like metal burst i've got this thing with metal burst where i'm like it's such a good move you never see it and it is very gimmicky and it is like a one-off once your opponent knows about it then it just doesn't work right um venus all wakes up we get the protect which is great scrafty will go down now which is fine so we get the right period can we do it please like let us do it let us do it and then everything's kind of fulfilled right so scrafty you've done amazing being a great pokemon in this set and right period here we go let's do it let's just protect venu and go and go metal burst watch i reckon steve's gonna be like nah nah nah i'm gonna i'm gonna forfeit now get the double protect so that's good okay he's probably like what's going on at this scald oh no he's gonna he ruined it ruined it ruined it's ruined it's ruined now it's ruined it's ruined it's ruined the hypnosis but i mean we just keep clicking um we just keep clicking metal burst how many have we got we've got 16 of them so you can't attack right period it's got to attack in the pot the hypnosis hits again okay we should have taken our opportunity dragging this out way too long um we'll get this metal bit we'll get the metal burst off i'm sure these are our last two pokemon we'd like imagine if we lost from this position we'd have no one to blame but ourselves just add a minute about getting the metal burst off i hope you i hope you don't mind friends i just feel like we need to we need to for right period come on scald right period he's gonna put us to sleep i think he's gonna hypnosis us yeah does miss venus all wakes up okay stealing our time but then venus all did so well in this match can't really deny it and we do pick up a win so massive massive good games to steve and yeah definitely check out his side of the battle like i say all these socials are linked and his channel down in the description below thank you so much for tuning in friends we do pick up another victory so that's great for our road ahead this the south west skull bunnies pushing on in the the x9 league so we'll be back next week everything is planned we'll have analysis uh we'll have our buddies in for analysis as well and then we'll have the game following that so thank you so much friends for tuning in have a great rest of the day whatever you're up to and leave your comments down below let me know what you think of today's battle and i'll see you all for another episode very soon so until then take care and bye bye