 Thank you. Hello friends. Welcome back to another episode yet on the channel I hope you're all doing great as always and for anyone new to the channel My name is Lee also known as Osiris today. We're gonna continue on with our VGC series 10 content We're in the warm-up period now We're on the rundown to the rules reverting officially on the 1st of August So like I said on our previous episode what we're gonna do in these next few weeks is just a look and Explore a few of the archetypes who common ones to start us off with and then we'll devil a little bit deeper as the Weeks go on into the run-up of that Rule set actually become an official on the 1st of August so lots of content to get through And obviously I want to start off with the kind of the big teams the big Pokemon that are more popular I'm gonna be more centralised into the format hence why we started off with Zashin We did Zernius in our last episode and today we're gonna move on to another big Pokemon And that is gonna be Kayoga so obviously here we've got a very common build at the minute And it is very standard, but it's standard for a good reason because I think it's important to kind of Play these standard teams get you aware of them and obviously Provide you with a poker piss if you want to try them out because it gets your head around how these teams are working And there are some variations Obviously, they're kind of the standard Kayoga that you're seeing on these teams is gonna be 252 252 timid And I'm sorry like I've played for far too long. I see the value in it I see the value in choice scarf, but it's not my preference of how I like to play Kayoga I do like a little bit defensive bulk in Kayoga and it allows us to take a few extra additional attacks I don't like being in those endgame situations where your opponent playing It's very tight and you get to that endgame situation and you know for a fact they've got one Attack on you you've got one attack on them and they're able to kill you just because you've not got that defensive Bulk and you know some players can play around that because then they adapt their game plan going forward But it's just not for me I like that little bit of security behind Kayoga because it is capable of taking a lot of damage and You can bulk it out even further than this I've got some extremely defensive bulky Kayogas and you know with items like mystic water They do kind of compensate for that lack of Special attack investments, so there are options there for Kayoga, but it does come down a personal preference I'm just sorry. I'm not going with the 252 in this episode, but don't get me wrong There's nothing wrong with that if you're comfortable with that if you like the way that Kayoga kind of plays Go for it because it works and it is so effective for so many players. It's just not my preference and Hence why I don't really want to play it in today's video and hopefully by you know bringing this onto the channel kind of opens Your eyes up to a few different ways with how Kayoga can be played and I've done it again I'm like literally switching cameras and I'm talking into this camera and I should be talking into this one So sorry if that if it doesn't make sense, but we'll get to it in the end Anyway, this is the kind of standard build that we're gonna see from Kayoga You're gonna have the the first five Pokemon on most Kayoga teams are gonna be very similar You're gonna have the Kayoga obviously gonna be the main restricted of the team brings the rain Got that water spout scald some of them are going thunder. It gives you a little bit of a nicer matchup against In particular bulky waters that can kind of otherwise wall you and But I personally don't think you need it if you game plans correct I think with things like Serena and things like Regi Alec You should be able to deal with those pretty well without needing to compensate for that thunder again It's down to personal preference how you believe and feel you want the Kayoga to play There are some really risque sets out there where they've got water spout ice beam and thunder I don't know if that's the most optimal because it kind of leaves you a bit locked if you're late in the game You've taken a lot of damage and you're kind of relying on that water spout That's really reduced at that point And I like scald because wide guard is flavor of the week at the minute Obviously a lot of spread moves in this format, you know things like mind show hit them on top stack attacker Celesteela all these Pokemon with wide guard are popping up and causing a lot of problems for these Pokemon that rely heavily on these Spread attacks and that's one thing I would say probably in this episode in particular a big important point to take away Let's have a look through the list on showdown of Pokemon that can learn wide guard So you don't get caught up by it You can kind of prepare yourself going into it Expected at least and if it's not there then it's a bit of a bonus you can use those spread attacks But just get yourself kind of swatted up on those Pokemon. So the Kayoga like I say Min sent a point to the team and everything else is kind of in and around there to help support it Although they're not slouches themselves. You've got tornadoes Kayoga very common combination. Obviously the tornadoes Provides the tailwind support which so it then supports the Kayoga and a lot of other things on the team In this set you can see variations between having icy wind and protect But the other three moves are pretty much staples with the hurricane for that stab attack Obviously benefits from the rain getting that 100% accuracy there and then taunt to shut opposing setup opposing trick room down And it makes it life a lot easier Especially coming off the prankster where you're not relying on a speed stat icy wind is really nice to kind of counteract opposing tailwinds in situations of focus sash is an option there if you can't put it on the Tornadis then things like mental herb are quite good Whimsicots popping up with taunt likes to taunt tornadoes turn one and stop you getting your tailwind up and then things Snowball from there so mental herbs a nice option But I don't feel like we need it in this team especially with something like Serena that can kind of come in and block those Priority attacks in Cinerol makes a lot of sense in this team We need a fire type the dark typing is really nice as well gives you intimidate big thing obviously helps out against that Zashin match up a bunch and so a very standard in Cinerol Went with a little bit of a different one in this one the the previous two episodes that we've done We went for a very defensive kind of in Cinerol just to have that little bit of security against him Mianchiao, but I don't feel like we necessarily need it here in this team We'll get to a few other reasons why not later on in this and this team build And then yeah, there's not too much to say about in Cinerol. It takes plus two moon blasts from Zornius and can take a bunch of other attacks It's just staying power on the fields really good got the citrus berry just for a little bit of recovery there as well And then we move on to the other star of the team Which is Serena seen a massive spike in usage since series 10 kind of kicked off on showdown and for good reason it blocks priority attacks with its Queen Majesty ability Which is honestly in my opinion one of the best abilities in the game blocks prankster blocks faker blocks grassy glide All things that are going to cause this team a lot of issues because you know generally you want to fake out the tornado Stop the tail when you want to grassy glide the Kyogre and it goes on and on and on You know so you really are able to capitalize if you play this Serena correctly in this team and it's such a good Pokemon I've opted for the assault vest I like the the the the bolt that it gives you the staying power that it gives you and Now with access to triple axel it's it's incredible It has lost faint, but I think it gains so much more with triple axel and faint really ever give you you know you can get rid of Protects and you can break wide guards, etc But I think the fact that you can pressure things like tornadoes now thunderous now flying types is Just so invaluable and also the fact that you can pretty much knock out most really booms as well with the triple axel There is the drawback that it's not as accurate But again, it's an it's an incredible option and I really do like it payback is a nice option to pressure Shadow rider calyrex now you could go something like you turn here. So it gives you that pivot a little bit of bonus when it comes to board positioning and Readjusting that but I think the benefit with the assault vest and you can really slam on some damage on on shadow rider Calyrex to kind of stop that momentum that it is able to do and really overcome the team Because if once they can stall out the tailwind if they can remove the tornadoes and things get very difficult Whereas Serena with this can put a lot of pressure on alongside the the incinerator and a few other members of the team And so yeah, right here like you here It's gonna be a main kind of counter option to those bulky waters along with Serena Obviously provides an additional method of speed control with electoral web and just with that speed stat as well It's gonna be able to come in out of tailwind if it does end and just kind of be a bit of a creep a cleanup crew You know red you're like he amazing really good against opposing coyote guys and stuff like that And so yeah, generally these are the five and like we've seen Oh, what's his name to the I can't remember what his name is So I do apologize, but there was a coyote build that won a big online tournament over the past few days Same five Pokemon, but had she ninja here over the Amungus We've seen other builds where maybe we've got rillaboom in instead of Serena with the Amungus So there are variations Urshifu in there as well to give options And so we'll see variations of the Kyogre builds. They all play very differently Depending on this last Pokemon in particular Sometimes without the Serena as well I just feel like Serena just to kind of ties the team together and personal big finest Serena as well I played a lot back in them 2016 and 2019 I think it was 2019 I'm not sure but whenever we had the last restricted format I did love Serena. It was one of my favorite Pokemon in that format and Yeah, so I've opted for Amungus here. I've been testing it out with the Rocky helmet I think it's incredible Because it really punishes things like zashing things like Urshifu and makes those there's Pokemon Especially the sash Sash Pokemon like Urshifu a lot easier to manage because you can easily hit them with like a hurricane But you take them down to the sash But then you switch into something like Amungus and they kind of KO themselves And you're not taking a lot of damage anywhere and you've got the regenerator to kind of switch out and get that health back It's an incredible option We saw Rocky helmet and past formats a long time ago as a popular option on Amungus When things like Megacangus Con were around where you'd see the fake out into it get a lot of damage on to itself At the same time is getting a fake out and very little damage onto you So you can utilize Amungus in a nice way especially with that rage powder where you can draw in those physical attacks And make sure that the the physical targets are taking that rocky helmet damage while protecting your partner in Pokemon It's an incredible option especially against things like Rillaboom Clear smog is great because you can come in and really disrupt Zernia's teams It makes dealing with Zernia so much simpler because you can spawn it on the Geomancy Then you can clear smog it and just yeah, it's it's just really straightforward But it's very effective and it gives you an option inside a trick room as well Which can be otherwise a little bit problematic for this team because We'll go back to the Kyogre now because I haven't really talked about the spread here now I did mention at the start I don't really like generally that kind of 252 252 spread and that's just personal preference Like I say, there's nothing wrong with that It's just down to personal preference and people will have their preferences on how they like to play Kyogre So there's some benchmarks that I wanted in particular One of them was until went to add speed ready a lekkie with this speed stat We can do that. So we don't need to worry about ready a lekkie when we've got the tailwind up at least We're going to be able to fire off water spot before they can attack which is good the other thing that I wanted to do is really and Take a grassy glide from a Rillaboom and because sometimes I'm not going to be in the situation where I can get Serena on the field Of Serena's going down and Kyogre I feel I played a lot like it is going to be like a late game Pokemon I don't play it very often is an early game Pokemon Especially with the the kind of influx of Rillaboom that we've got in the format at the minute I kind of like to try and clear those Pokemon out bring Kyogre in at the end Hopefully have some sort of speed control left in the tank or fake out support at least and then kind of use Kyogre to kind of Clean the game up. Now the defense investment really helps here. It means you can take like at least like One grassy glide from a what is it? Let me just double-check this for us 252 adamant Rillaboom within assault vest So if they've got the miracle seed, you're gonna need the intimidate But we do have intimidating the team to kind of help out with that to mitigate that so there are options there Obviously against something like Zashian as well You are gonna be able to let me just plug in some some attacks because behemoth blade and Sacred Sword are gonna be a two I'm not gonna include wild charge because it's not a very popular option sacred sword has a A 73% chance to kill and that's on plus one So if you can get it down to neutral then you're gonna be able to at least Outdamage it with skull the lawn To to beat it in that one-on-one situation. So the defense investment here quite important and in particular for the the Rillaboom Especially if Serena isn't around but I mean if Serena's around it means you can beat it Outright because you can ice beam it twice before a congrassi glide you and you're always gonna be able to outspeed it So that is a team hopefully the intro here wasn't too long-winded And we've went through a few variations of a different variations and kind of what the standard build is And as always we'll have a couple of games of the team now the poker paste will be down in the description It's always and if you have been playing with Kyogre and you've got your own variation I'd love to hear about it to do drop a comment down below Let me know about your Kyogre experiences How you feel about it if you like it in the format at the minute or if you're not a huge fan Or if you just kind of not got the hang of it yet So have a few games see what we bump into on the ladder and as always it's gonna be a lot of fun So what do we got here viker vault? I'll creamy a very good Pokemon in this format I think very under looked at the minute Pelopa Urshfu the ice rider and Rillaboom I'm trying to think what's going on here. Obviously trick room here with the the ice rider I think is one of the big things gives us a few headaches really to be honest because We can't taunt it it's gonna be the only trick room Pokemon on the team kind of tempted to lead I mean we could lead I kind of tended to lead Tornados in Cinerol I don't know if I'm wondering could we bring a mungus here just in case a trick room goes up because one of The options we could do is just allow the trick room to go up and then let mungus come in But then you've got to worry about the alchemy that stops everything guy and have been put to sleep Which makes it a little bit more tricky and I think we bring Kyogre to this one and Do we want a mungus anywhere for the rage powder because it is gonna be kind of useful? I think it's either that or Serena and Yeah, let's go for a mungus. It's good for a mungus. Okay, so And color X We can't get the tone off because they're gonna fake us out We can trade fake outs I guess it's turning and go for a taunt because I think they're primarily gonna go for the trick room I think they have to go for the trick room here with the kind of Pokemon that they've got In the back, so there's a fake out Just going straight for that glacial lance, but okay. Well, that's that's all right I Could go off tailwind now I think we part and shot out into the color X. It's just we don't really have the switches It's like do we lose tornadoes now? It's probably most likely that we do It's gonna make dealing with the the ocean for a little bit more tricky course And we could switch in Kyogre, but there's always the risk of a grassy glide into that slot, you know, so I Think we go tailwind and I think we go parting shot into the color X. Yeah, okay We're gonna see Michael come out. Um, yeah, there's a grassy glide So it wasn't worth risking the Like the the Kyogre switch there bring Kyogre in now We'll be able to get in sin or all onto the field and we can just Mean they're likely gonna switch the relaboom out here, I think but at the same time like I kind of want to I mean the viker volts minus one, right? So I think we just fake out relaboom and just water spout. Yeah, they're gonna bring it out Okay, and then just protect it So we'll get some good damage onto the alchemy Probably knock it out and really booms gonna end of the field. Oh, we don't that that's actually better for us to be honest That is better for us because we can now go for a parting shot into the viker vault And what's about because that will get rid of the alchemy before it can go for a decorate So that's gonna be the thing and I think the big thing for us is to try and Keep the the the incident on the back. So we've got that active fake out the active intimidate For later on in this game. Let's see if this gets there. That does. Okay, I Thought might hang on I thought might hang on but no, okay. Well one turn until when left. This is ideal This is ideal Because yeah, be just parting shot once again, I mean There is the thing where I'm like, hmm Do we just flab let's into it because it is gonna trick room probably but then is that is that a terrible thing? I think getting the parting shot off into it. It's probably more important here really boom coming in I'm just gonna no protect. Oh, okay Parting shot we'll get I mean this back in at least we can put that color extent minus two Zen head But okay, so not the scariest of scary things So we've got nice switching to incident one out the grassy terrain has actually left the field So we're in it not a bad spot where we could potentially just switch incident all back in And protect Kyogre here and then we got a clean ice beam onto that really boom the next turn Now they're gonna okay This still works out unless they got trick room here, which then no, they're not gonna make it greedy Really greedy greedy. Okay. Well, we don't have the rain up anymore But I mean incident or in a great position where it can just probably just flab let's knock out and Just what's about as well. Yeah, okay, we'll get rid of the radio What's it? I'm gonna do decorate. Yeah, okay. I mean, yeah, that's that's all about okay Very good game to my opponent and you know what that is a nice It's a kind of a nice team as well to see it as well kind of doing so well on the ladder So yeah, very good. Um We'll move on to our next one. We'll see if we can get another result. Oh, this is a tasty tea I like this build. I like this build a lot with the Volcarona and the zernius obviously we did cover a kind of similar one This one's obviously got the liner is in But what are we looking at obviously double fake out? It's all over the shop at the minute Rage powder is gonna be a little bit difficult to get the tornadoes toned on to the The zernius course And then we got the regi a lecky to kind of contend with as well. I Think what would do is I think we'll go to notice Kyoga I think we definitely need Serena in this match. Do we want incinero? I kind of feel like double grass is probably the play here makes it difficult against the Volcarona, of course But we just have to be a bit careful Okay, okay. Well, this is This is it's tempting of course to tailwind and Hmm, I think we just taunt and then we'll switch into a moogus because you know, they're gonna be sashed a lecky a hundred percent They're gonna go for a yeah Okay, well the next turn it's alright because we just tailwind and We can just spoil into The zernius or clear smog into it as well, you know, I don't think it's gonna Geomancy though I think it's gonna switch into something and Might be better to almost Clear smog into the a lecky just to break a sash there Tailwind and sport actually because I Yeah, they switch that out that makes sense. We tailwind get that up. We'll get the Kyoga in the next turn Yeah, whatever comes in I think it'd be zernius to be honest What's really okay, that's a nice play from my opponent. We still get to actually keep Tornado switches a bit of a bonus so we can just hurricane and switch serena in here And the rain kind of helping us out with the the incinerator at this point anyway So if I mean I'm talking about if it does flat blitz, of course But the hurricane depending on how this real is kind of trained might have a chance to take it down May do may not as well. So we will soon see But this is the thing like as soon as they lose Incineroar in this game like we're already able to identify if they lose incineroar in this game They've got very little that can deal with the moongus and the moongus can just have an absolute field day So we do see the zernius take a switch in No fake out Just a taunt which is interesting. Okay And we switch into a moongus What are they switching? I mean we could power whip I think power whip into zernius is a nice play because it gets so much damage onto it, you know They may parting shot with incineroar and protect the zernius, but the same time I'm like I'm not super concerned about the incineroar, you know, we haven't got intimidated So we can't Lord to attack but at the same time. I'm like a moongus is so safe. Really. Yeah We're gonna see the protector power In parting shot. Yeah, that's fine. I mean what comes in though like really boom with fake out. He can't fake out a moongus Yeah It makes it difficult for my opponent because I think the next term what we can do is just if the really boom comes in here We can triple axel it And we can just go Well, we can just spawn into that zernius really because there's no worries They can't stop us unless the really booms got taunt, which would be a little bit of a problem But I don't see it having to want now the incineroar coming in. So that's fine. That can take a quick nap. Oh We don't need that we don't need that triple axel miss This is a the problem with that move sometimes, you know The thing is though really my opponent's having a lot of issues with with a moongus yet Except they've got the safety goggles and they've they've they've totally Outdone out done us here. So we're in a little we are in a little tricky spot to my opponent playing really well And to kind of pin us down They still think What are you gonna do? We're gonna sacrifice tornadoes. I don't think so You do need to reset I Just don't want it. I mean what we could do is rage pattern bringing Kyogre They're not gonna Fake out. I don't think yeah, they go vault switch, which is fine and then Parting shot. I think as well really coming in this just allows us. Okay, taunt. That's fine. It's fine We could bring in Serena now, but at the same time I don't feel like it's the play I think I've got to make a double switch though because I don't really want to bring in I want to get tornadoes onto the field. That's the big thing for us. I think Clear smog the boom get tornadoes in Lecky From beating Yeah, we can't we can't really switch anything out at the minute. It's not it's not ideal We need break the sass on a lecky tailwind But I feel like the Alecky's just gonna vault switch out anyway But we'll get a tailwind up so that does give us a little bit of an option For the next few turns. I mean my opponent's playing it really well with this double and this double fake out You know, and this is what holds a lot of these teams together You know, they're the pivoting out and playing it like super well like with these repositioning Pokemon Just trying to carve out these little scenarios where you're able to kind of get a little bit of an advantage Yeah, and you can see my opponent doing really well with the regi like you just keeping it off the field So with this vault switch just in and out So this sash that I'm assuming is there which may not be but it does make sense when you look at the team They look like there's a sash pretty much anywhere else You turn an incineroar gonna come back in a rocky helmet doing some nice work there first, of course And if they did is the incineroar it kind of opens the door for us now to bring Kyogre Which is which is exactly what we want because we can then switch it into Serena get that regenerate and reset the taunt And then get rid of the incineroar and do some route well probably pick up the knockout on Zernius and almost forcing the Zernius to switch out for really booming that situation so It's quite difficult for my bond at my opponent here to to kind of get the leg up at this point where we've got that till wind We're definitely down on numbers But because of that you turn it's kind of opened the door for us to To have an opportunity where we can kind of get the Kyogre into the field in the position that we wanted in Especially with the Serena in the back where we can really kind of take advantage of This board position that we got and yeah, that's only it's definitely going down this next turn 100% as we get the auger in and like I say, we'll switch out and just water spout and there the incineroar not gonna be able to take this Let's just got a pass show and it's like ridiculously bulky But you can see the really boom coming on to the field now We still got two turns of tailwind in effect and we can kind of close the game up from this point And you can see now where this team really kind of has a real good Ability to get to just control games, you know what's about we can just water spot again to be honest because The triple axel water spot is gonna be enough to get the boom and they're gonna have to like protect around That there's only see that goes down or they switch it out now to something like a lecky Or incineroar like they can't stall this out, but if they haven't got protect them really boom It's kind of done. It's kind of done Because once really boom goes down like between Serena Kyogre and and the Moongus we should be all right kind of dealing with what's left. So we'll see Yeah, like you coming in. Okay Yeah, and this is actually great So we actually get a little bit of a role there and take the two things that are causing Kyogre all the issues down The rain does end which is a little bit unfortunate, but at the same time It's not the worst because we can I think just high jump kick Incineroar water spout It's likely there's only as protect here But even if it doesn't and even if it survives and even if it goes for that Geomancy We've got a Moongus in the back to come in Play a smog and deal with it, but you see we don't really need it So very good game to my opponent You know it was a very tough one there and I think they played amazingly well So it just shows if you can kind of like just have that little bit of patience and just kind of clinch that board position You need like that one turn where we got the u-turn there From the really boom it opened the door for us And it was very difficult for my opponent to kind of come back from if the real boom had stayed in there Makes things a lot more difficult for us because it's it's got the position at that point where We bring in the Kyogre we're forced to switch in the Serena Probably not able to take down the really boom from the health that it's at it gets very complicated But then again the Kyogre probably able to take an attack from at least one attack from the really boom So don't know but it would have been very difficult and just saying that is the place where it opened up for us Anyway friends here is the team as I say once again the pace is down in the description below It's pretty standard outside of the Kyogre and maybe the Serena spread, but I think all in all it's pretty standard It's stuff that you probably be quite familiar with But it's a nice team and it can do a lot of work in the format and it's one I think I would strongly suggest having a go with if you haven't already just to get your head around how this team Plays and get your head around where the openings for this team are and how you can approach it If you're not playing this or even if you're playing the mirror against it Which would be a nightmare, but it'll get you familiar with how to beat this team how this team can win And that is the best way to kind of approaching how to kind of overcome these big archetypes and one of the reasons why I've done The videos like I've done this week so far on on series 10 I don't want to jump in with guide videos and stuff like that I want to jump in like at the point where I think it's very useful for you to kind of pick something up Try it out and I honestly am a big advocate of you know You can theory up as much as you want But I don't think you're gonna get as much benefit as hands-on kind of battling as you would do Writing stuff down on paper looking at a damage calculator. You need to jump in you need to play on the ladder and get that experience So hopefully it's helping you hopefully you found it entertaining Hopefully you've enjoyed today's episode if you have please drop a comment down below Let me know how you are feeling about series 10 in it going forward And I hope you're all enjoying it. Remember that we do have a big Friendly weekly tournament running this Friday. It'll be kicking off at 8 p.m UTC plus one which is UK time at the minute and it'll be run until 11 o'clock So hopefully you can join it's open to everyone the the code is over on the community panel of the Channel so go check that out and hopefully you can join in on Friday It'll be a lot of fun. I'm gonna try and play and I'm gonna try and stream as well So it will be fun if a few you can join in as well So and have a great rest of your day. Thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you all for another episode very soon So until then friends, take care of yourselves and bye. 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