 Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing well for anyone new to the channel. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris. And in today's episode, we're going to be continuing on with our VGC Series 8 content today, featuring a team based all around the Ice Rider Calyrex Pokemon. So you can see here the team is on your screen. There'll be a poker face down in the description below. And if you stick around to the end of the episode, which I really hope you do today, there will be a rental code at the end. So you can try this team up for yourself and have a bit of ice meme and fun for yourself. Obviously, the team is named. It is a bit of a meme, but it's also something that I've wanted to try out for a little while now. Obviously, the Dragon, Dragapult and Colossal Combination. We know all about that. I've scoffed Dragapult to give us a jump on pretty much most things, including Regi Alecki in the format. It just means we can get the surf off pretty easily. The only thing we need to be a little bit aware of, but careful of is sucker punch from things like Oshifu could be a bit problematic. Then the next part of the team is the Dusklops Kalorex. I'll leave that in the details till we get into the battles because that is the really the creme de la creme of this team. And this is where this team kind of started from. And then we've got tagged on the end. Just for a bit of support is the Tap of Finney and the Rillaboom. As I say, there is a poker face down below. The rent will be at the end and without further ado, let's get into our first match of the day. Okay, we've got poker champ up first, playing a team of Kyogre, Kingdra, Metagross, Pikachu, Tornadus and Indidi. So what are we looking at? We've got two fake out users on my opponent's team, Pikachu. What am I talking about, two? We've got one fake out user, Pikachu on the team. It could be a potential G-Max Pokemon. You know, the G-Max is going to be something that we're going to have to be aware of. It can cause us all sorts of issues. They've got that Tornogre combination as well as well as the Kingdra that can cause Rillaboom, all sorts of issues. Have they got away to Subtract Room? Definitely with the Tornadus. But Dragapult should outspeed... Wow, it's not going to outspeed the Kingdra in the rain. I don't think, because Kingdra hits... Well, modded Kingdra it will. Timid Kingdra, no. I don't think so. I don't think so, because we... No, we should. We should outspeed Kingdra. But then again, do we want to bring Colossal to a water matchup? I don't think so, really. I think what we'll do is... We'll lead with Tapufini. No, we won't. We'll lead with Rillaboom. Yeah, we'll lead with Rilla, Dusclops, Tapufini, and Calyrex. So this is going to be... Yeah, probably the one that we want to go with today. And go with Ice Rider mod. Metagross is going to be a bit of an issue. Obviously with no fire type to kind of hit it with. But Calyrex can deal with it. You know, it depends if my opponent goes down the route of utilizing the Metagross as their maximum. Maybe identifying that the Calyrex is going to be the the Pokemon that we're going to kind of rely on here. Because it's just a bit too tough for us to make the most of the Colossal in these situations. Okay, so we've got a couple of options here. We can nail the Kyogre with a grassy glide. Or we can go for a trick room and fake out the Tornadis and just allow the Kyogre to walk around. It's not going to be able to take down the Dusclops. The worry for me would be if the Kyogre maxes and we lose the ability to get a trick room up. Which could put us in a little bit of an awkward spot. But we'll go for that. I think we've got to avoid the taunt at all costs. And try and take... Yeah, the Kyogre's maxing. It's gone after the Dusclops. I mean, we're going to be able to stop the Tornadis. Turn one. Stop the trick room here. The tailwind. But we're not going to be able to get a trick room up. Which is a little bit of a shame. I mean, we're still going to have Rillaboom active next turn. Which is always good to weaken the Kyogre. Unless they go after the Rillaboom. Do they go after the Rillaboom? I don't know. Max Geyser. This is something I should have calc'd with Dusclops. I don't know if I'm going to take it. Oh, Dusclops! You hero! You hero Dusclops! I love you so much! There we go. Okay, well, we're in the driving seat now. We've got all everything we need. All set up. We can Wood Hammer the Kyogre. Can we paint split? I mean, we have to. Wood Hammer the Kyogre. And paint split into the Tornadus. It's going to be a shame if we lose Dusclops now. But we may not. Wood Hammer should take down the Kyogre. I really want to get Calyrex on the field now. Because we want to utilize this Leia and Glacial Lance combination. Which is where the team kind of came from. I was talking with... Come on, take the Rayla Boon down, please. Yes! We love it! Okay, there we go. The problem would be, is if we see a taunt from the Tornadus onto our Dusclops. Which would shut down the ability for us to get the Leia off. But we've got that board position set up quite nicely now. Which is ideal. The Max Pokemon is gone, so we don't need to worry about that. And Glacial Lance is just an absolute nuts move. Yeah. If we can get the Leia off, we're sitting in such a great position. We are sitting in such a great position. I'm going to try it. For the entertainment of this episode, we're going to try it. If we get taunted, it's not so good. But hopefully, we don't see the taunt. Hopefully my opponent is more concerned about trying to get some damage on the board. We don't see it. Here we go. We don't even need to Max Ice Rider. Here it is, peeps. It is the perfect combination. The best combo. Sick combo that you're going to see in this format. Badabing. Bye bye, everything. Welcome boosts. That's two boosts we're going to get for the price of none. I don't know how that works out, but there we go. It's going to be the quickest match in history now that we get this. This is why it's important. I think one of the things that I would look at is making sure that Dusclops, 99% of the time is able to take that Max Geyser from the Kyogre. Because if you cannot take that move, then it's just, you know, you're kind of on to a hide and to nothing. Because then you're relying on having redirection in the team. The team makeup looks a little bit different. I'm going to see the Indeedy come out. But I imagine we might see the forfeit from my opponent. But nice quick one today. But just showing the actual utility of this. Like this combination is just, it's just ridiculous. Put it this way. A minus one Glacial Lance life orb can take down a Max Charizard. It's pretty nasty. We'll just do it anyway just for the, you know, the sake. Because there's really no stopping this once you start getting the ball rolling. And if you get a double KO the first turn, we haven't even maxed yet, you know? This is the thing. We haven't maxed. We haven't needed to max. We don't need to max. You don't need to max with it. This is why Colossal really complements it quite nicely or something like Charizard could complement this pairing quite nicely. Because you're going to really want to be maxing. You're other Pokemon you're wanting to going to be utilizing Glacial Lance is your kind of main kind of attack and option. With that layer you're going to want to be like just chucking it out. Getting the double chaos. And then if you need to max it, I guess you can, but it's not always something I'm like, it's not in the forefront of my mind with this, but it's just nice to be able to share these things with you peeps. It is something that I kind of, it was the brainchild between myself and Johnny, Johnny Hacks. Very good friend of mine, very good player, Italian player. And we've been like talking about it for the last week and a bit now and just working on a team. And I just, you know, I could work on it and work on it and work on it. And it might not be the finished polished article that I want it to be, but I'm sure I'll get there in the end, but I just wanted to put it up here today because I think this team functions quite nicely. It's a little bit of fun. It's a little bit of light hearted building away from all of the serious stuff. And, you know, these combinations are quite nice to bring to the table, especially for the community to say, look, this is what you can do with this combination of Pokemon. Like I say, it's pretty tough on dust globs. I think you need some heavy life protection for it around the format, you know, Ghost Rider Calyrex, not so great. Oh, the battle room. Here we go. Here we go. Colin Hire. What a guy. So Colin is a great player, obviously a great streamer, content creator as well, but I've known Colin for a long time. And yeah, this is going to be fun. Maybe streaming, maybe this is on stream. Maybe we can get some highlights here, but we're seeing the Pikachu again. So the Pikachu popping up again. And this kind of like common toner got build. I think the problem is here is if we see like Urshufu Tornadis, it could be a little bit of a problem. You know, we could go Colossal Dragapult, but again, I don't feel like against Kyogre it's like the best thing to be to be to be running, you know, it could be something that we run in the back potentially. I think dust globs we have to bring. I think really boom, we have to bring like the lead that I would be most worried about here would be Urshufu and Tornadis like 100%. We'll bring Calorax. What's our last one going to be? I mean, we could bring Colossal, but I don't really feel like it's going to do that much. I think probably tap of Fini. I mean, the better one, it gives us a bit of room against like the water switchings. If it gets a little bit awkward, but hopefully it doesn't. I think we'll go to the point where we can get the dust globs set up next to the Calorax ice rider. Keep wanting to call it Glastria, but obviously it's just part Glastria. And if we can get that set up with the Lier intact, then yeah, I think it could be quite useful. So we're going to see that same lead as we saw in that first game. The thing is, I don't think this is going to be as easy as that first game. No disrespect to my first opponent, but you know, when you're going up against a player that's Colin's caliber, you know, he's going to know what to expect. So I don't think it's going to be as straightforward as that last one. So we've got the yoga, we've got the tonatus. We need to stop the taunt. That's a big goal here. And hopefully we can stop. We can take the Kyoga boosted Max Geiser because I'm guessing that's what's going to come out. I think you have to go for that. And hopefully little clubs can hang on. The problem is though I don't think we'll get away with okay, there's a tonatus switching out. Does it make sense? Sinor are going to come in. Minus one Rillaboom. But you don't mind. Are we just going to take a water spot then? I mean the taunt of the field makes me feel so much better right now. There's a fake out. I think we have to go for it though. We have to go for that. There's a water spot. That's fine. I really don't mind that at all. Take that all day long. All day long. And there's the trick of the room. So what are we going to do? We're going to pain split into the yoga. Do I try and get glastria on the field now? I would like to get glastria out as soon as possible because we want to make sure we're taking advantage of these trick room turns. We're going to pain split onto the Kyoga room. Can we? I mean we could max. We could max the boom. I don't think it's the play though. I think Kyoga might switch out. If it does that's not bad. I think we could. The problem is you turning onto Kyoga. We're bringing glastria and it's going to take a massive chunk. We're better off switching it the next turn in all honesty. Um We could max. Or we could just switch in now. I'm going to U-turn out on the Kyoga slot. Yeah. It's fake out the boom. Yeah, that's fine. I mean take down the rele boom. That's what we really want. That's what I really want to see. That is what I want to see. Pain split is ideal. There's a water spot again. Please take boom down. Please take boom down. No, boom is just too strong. We need you off the field. Come on. Come on boom. We need you off the field. We're going to have to paint split into the Incineroar now and I think probably just would hammer into the Olga. I think that's the best idea for us. And then we can or we could just U-turn out onto the Incineroar slot. I think that's probably the best idea. Or just would hammer the Kyoga. Is he going to keep it in? Is he going to keep it in? That's the thing. Do we U-turn out onto the Incineroar? I think he probably keeps. I'm going to grassy glide. Because we're going to get good damage into it anyway. We'll reduce the damage of the water spot. Kyoga's going to protect. This is what we want. I want the Incineroar to take down the Rillaboom. We want the Rillaboom off the field. So there we'll get some nice health back from this Incineroar. Perfect. Please take down boom. Come on. Parting shot. Come on. I need you to go down. I need you to go down boom. Because now we're going to see the Incineroar come back in for the Kyoga. We're probably going to get taunt. Taunt baited from. I think the Tornadus will taunt us. As we see the Incineroar coming on the other slot. So I think what we'll do is I mean we could stay in with those Clops and go for Yeah. I think that's what we'll do. I think we'll go for a Night Shade into the Kyoga expecting the Incineroar to come in there. Will you turn out into the Tornadus and get boom off the field. Keep it around for later if we need to get Glaciery out in the field. Now we're so deep into these trick room turns. We're so far behind which is not ideal. I'm going to admit like Colin's doing a really good job of kind of not allowing us to get the the board position that we kind of want on the field but we do get to see the Incineroar come in which is ideal. So the Intimidate is already on the field which is perfect for when. Glastria comes on we're going to see a taunt. We're not going to see a taunt. We're going to see Hurricane Hurricane coming out. Glastria don't really want to I don't really want to bring Glastria in on a Hurricane to be honest hmm not Glastria, Calyrex especially if we get confused it's not ideal it's not ideal at all. Is it better to bring in Tepithinia and switch back to Rillaboom and try and get the trick room? I don't know, no. We'll bring in Calyrex. We're going to take a Hurricane. We're going to take it. We'll have to we'll have to, we'll have to unless they go after the dust globs which they maybe do, I don't know well they go after the dust globs here. I just want to damage onto it. Okay, so that's not so bad hmm Senorail getting a bit of health back. Okay, so we've still got Leia is it an option? I think we go for it. I think we go for the Leia and the glacial lance it's not going to pick up the knockout on Senorail but the fact is whatever comes in if we don't see a taunt is going to get absolutely tanked by this Leia glacial lance we're going to see the taunt now I don't think we do we do, okay it's still not the worst thing in the world it's still not the worst thing in the world honestly because the glacial lance it's going to mean that we can actually remove the taunt so we can switch out dust globs for later in this game and that damage to Cortana is just disgusting imagine if we got Leia on that at least we get a plus one as well so it mitigates the Intimidate coming in and in fact my opponent still has their max so I think you're more likely to go where you going with your max pokemon here I don't think it's Kyogre it's hard to max Cortana in this situation as well that mentions send back to normal grassy terrain ends which is perfect timing so we don't really want to be bringing really boom back onto the field just yet I don't think I think well when Kyogre is in a phenomenal spot isn't it to do max quake into Cortana in hopes that they bring in the Incinero get the special defense boost yeah I think bring Tapofinian max quake I think that's what we do and then we try and carve out an end game with dust globs where we can get it in on the field get the trick room up and carve out a wind condition that way if Cortana stays on the field we take it down if Incinero comes in we take it down it doesn't look like they're switching out at all I think the Kyogre we're going to see probably a double up here into Glastria and the thing is we still it's going to be Cortana that's interesting that is interesting now what are we going to see from Cortana max steel spike has to be right max steel spike what's about would you go after the dust globs though I don't think you would maybe though maybe you're scared of like broken a weakness policy you know a lot of players run weakness policy on Ice Rider Kylo X still going to be close because Cortana is going to do a chunk of damage to us hopefully not enough to put us in what's about range that shouldn't be it's alright the Kyogre defense boost definitely helps it out against Rillaboom yeah I mean we take that it's not as comfortable as we'd like to be taking it for sure but at the same time getting rid of the Cortana makes this match so much easier for us we've got Incineroar to come back in now we are plus one problem is though we're not going to be able to take another water spout or get the trick room up now with Kalorex so it's likely what we're going to have to do is sac Kalorex now protect Finny get Rillaboom onto the field that'll be enough to get rid of the Olga and then Finny can take care of the Incineroar so we should be alright I think if it plays out in my head like that I might not might not we might see some other tricks but we're going to have to let Kalorex go down here I think that's the best thing that we can do for everyone involved I mean if we can get the knockout onto Incineroar somehow here that would be incredible I just don't see it happening probably going to see a fake out into the Finny just to protect yeah and then the water spout again it's a pretty free hit it's going to be enough even with the boost we're not taking this nah we needed just that little bit more health but I mean Kalorex it's kind of done its job you know dealing with the Cartana Colin did made it very difficult for us to utilize our utilize our trick room you made it very difficult and that's the problem like when your trick room turns aren't being utilized it is extremely difficult to make use of them now the question is do we see have we got enough with Finny to take down the Incineroar because you know the play from him is protect Kyoga and then attack attack really boom with Incineroar but I'm hoping like though yeah we're not going to see that so grassy glide going to be enough to get the Kyogre ooh not enough not enough water spout coming out not going to do enough though at all but hopefully this is my thinking like the muddy water should be enough to get the Incineroar with the rain boost that would be ideal and then we don't really need to worry it's not quite enough to get the Incin but at this point it's kind of locked so we can close this one up but what an exciting opponent to have on this episode you know like Colin is someone I've admired as a player for a long time his content's great obviously there's maybe some of you that watch him I'm sure there is but he's a great player in general and I remember playing him at Worlds in 2014 he was there my only loss in Swiss he was playing a badass Aegislash team and it was very hard to break down but Colin's a great guy making very good content so it's a pleasure to actually feature him on the channel you know it'd be nice to do a collab with him in future Colin if you're listening get in touch you're a good guy it would be great and everyone would enjoy it good game to Colin and like I say what a nice way to end the episode and the team's done not too bad it's not done too bad it's not the ice meme it's not so much of a meme we didn't get to feature the colossal but I mean that's the thing I didn't really want to feature the colossal too much it's kind of a mod in there to help out with the calorex against the more threatening stuff so I've got a really fast mod offensive mod that I can just set up and just blast through things clear the way for dustclops and calorex icerider coming after that and potentially just glacial lance everything I'm glad we got to see the the back end of that anyway so what I'm gonna do actually I need to get a rental team up so I need to trade this team over to my other cart and then put it up there so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna leave this now and we'll be right back with the rental team when I've traded everything across and we've done that friend so I'll see you in a moment right friends here is the rental team from today's episode you're probably a little bit confused I definitely am I'm in different clothes I'd probably look a little bit different the lighting's different it is a different day what I'm doing this I was planning on putting this over to my other cart where I have another Nintendo online account unfortunately I haven't got far enough in the game to get the range of unity to get the calorex icerider over there so I've had to take down the rental team I can throw that team up on my other cart if there are you out there that want to play that so let me know down in the comment section below and obviously other teams in future I'll be able to put over to that cart there will be limitations on some of the restrictions but for the majority of them it will be fine if you try out this team I hope you have a lot of fun it is a bit of fun it's not super serious but I think there are elements within this team that are very good obviously the layer and the glacial lance combination between the disclops and the calorex is incredible so that's something to take advantage of scoff dragopult is a bit of fun as well the shadow ball actually picks up the knockout on to ghost rider calorex so you're going to outspeed it you've got the opportunity to outspeed regi alecki with the scoff as well a bunch of stuff even with chlorophyll even in tailwind you're going to outspeed them to get colossal where it needs to with the scoff that was the main reason we've seen a lot of speed control in this format very early on so it kind of helps you get around that one and as I've mentioned before I think the last two slots are definitely interchangeable Rotom Wash Amungus could work there there are a lot of options but all in all the team is very fun like I say it's got some nice techs in it hope you have a lot of fun with it and we'll wrap it up there we'll be back next week as always with more VG content more teams to play around with and as I've always mentioned throughout the the weeks doing this so far even though I'm sticking to kind of standard teams it would be great to get your opinion on what restricts you'd like to see featured obviously dialogue is going to be next week 100% maybe park here as well so we have a bit of room to play around with still lots of suggestions that I can take into consideration we'll try and get through these restricts and these really good teams as soon as we can so thanks for tuning in friends have a great weekend whatever you're up to and I'll catch you for another episode very soon so until then take care and bye bye