 Hey everyone, I hope you're all well having a good day. Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series. We are in the Ultra series and we kicked off this week continuing on with the reindeer team that you can see on the Screen in front of you now just to give you guys a quick recap of the team We've got the Kyogre the Tornadus Swampert, which is the mega of the team mega Swampert The Azernius incineral and the pherothon now like I said at the beginning of the week We'll probably change things up in tomorrow. We're gonna have a few Suggestions from you guys to end up the week and take us into the weekend before we come back with a brand new team next week So if you've got any suggestions on what you'd like to see next week I've already said that I'll probably play my Bristol regional team So if you guys would like to see that next week then do let me know if not There's other calls that you'd like to see featured going forward in the Ultra series Just leave a comment down below and I will make sure to feature as many of them as possible So getting into today's episode As always the team is down in the description below There's a role-paced apocapace tried out take it away and let me know what you think about it though that further ado I guess it's time just to get in to the episode So I guess it's probably good if we pump some music up and we probably want to get over to our to our correct screen so Ratings not too bad just under 1700. Hopefully we can creep above that by the end of the week It would be pretty nice if we can and we'll try our best. Let's kick off with elite 4 today And I have a couple of episodes today with this team I really like it to be honest that the mega swamper is like putting in a lot of work We had a great suggestion earlier than we can it was something I was thinking about replacing earthquake with stanton tantrum and We had it in our last episode It did super well and so hopefully that continues on but it's been really fun And as always guys just a little reminder as always if you do enjoy this content Make sure to leave a like on the video do subscribe to the channel and leave your comments down below We've got a good friend fellow flinch squad member Luigi So this is gonna be a treat for us all so I'm just gonna hop over into team preview and we'll go through that right now Okay, so we've got Luigi is playing a team of a zernius requires a katana teppu finny crowbat and Incinero so really solid an XY court that we've seen do really well recently in the ultra series and for good reason You've got the requires that they're kind of denies the weather and then the zernius is the other restricted there They just get set up and rips through teams You've got the crowbar going to be the speed control on this team Potentially caught on that and you've got a look at the teppu finny is another mode of speed control with the icy wind It's probably got haze as well to prevent things Getting set up on our side of the field and then the incineroar with fake-out support obviously and intimidate support as well So I'd imagine we'll probably see the incineroar come out for my opponent now What we want to do is make things as hard as possible because I want to utilize tornadoes But if they bring the incineroar, I do want to bring the Kyoga And I think we definitely need incineroar in this match And it's what we bring is our last Pokemon Do we want the ferrathorn ferrathorn does a really nice job against the majority of this team except the incineroar and the cartana And I think I do want to bring it, you know, I do I think we'll utilize our tailwind support We're gonna have to really utilize Um Kyoga to the best of our abilities here to deal with the majority of things like the the rikwaza, but I think We should be alright like tornadoes has a big role playing this game shutting down the crowbar And like I say what I want to do is limit my opponent's options if they leave the incineroar crowbar here So yeah, they can fake out tornadoes deny us that tailwind But if they do that then they have to take a water spell and they lose incineroar Which frees up our ferrathorn and so instantly already going into this match We're thinking about that and that's what you've got ain't got to do in this format You've got to think about what you can do to deny your opponent Ways around them shutting you down and if they do shoot you down you've got to try and punish them so Pokemon 101 anyway, we're gonna see the incineroar and crowbar like we thought so that's that's a good start for us and I will Go for a taunt into that crowbar straight away just to deny Being able to do anything set up a tailwind or anything like that and I am gonna go for the Do I got origin pulse or water spout because I feel like they might call They might call Us doing this and super finding into the the the kaiyoga And our water spout wouldn't be doing as much damage Um, I'm just gonna water spout. So I think they try for the tailwind if they fake out tornadoes Which they do Oh Cheeky taunt into our tornadoes shutting us down. That's a nice play But they do in turn take that water spout which you know, um The thing is though now it gets a little bit tricky because The zernius probably comes in for that incineroar um Isn't the worst thing in the world because we still got we've still got access to origin pulse So it worst if the zernius that's the requiser That really comes into the field comes into the mix now. We could pull a double switch here. You could do We could just origin pulse and switch into incineroar Hmm Because the intimidate will be very useful for us. Um I might do that. I might just bring in incineroar and I think I might just go protect here onto kaiyoga Because we don't want to take a super fine dragon ascent The worst thing here would be if that requiser goes for soldier dance though That would be pretty bad for us, but we'll see what my opponent does I think I'd be tempted to go super fine dragon ascent into the kaiyoga I don't want I wouldn't want to leave my requiser in front of a kaiyoga that could just ice beam me without kind of punishing that that play So I'm gonna see the ray mega evolve Okay, and it will get rid of our rain. What are we gonna see? Let's see. So protect on our side of the field Super fang. Oh, they're targeting into the incineroar slot that's smart And dragon ascent there. Okay That's fine Now normally you wouldn't want to fake out into a crowbar because it's got any focus Because it's solar health and fake out is a priority attack We do want to go that way I think Um, and I am just gonna ice beam the requiser if it does decide to dragon ascent then It will take a ton of damage crowbar Doing the smarter thing and katana hitting the field now. Okay That's fine Fake out break potential. Wow. It's not sashed. Is it it's not gonna be sashed Earth power. Oh Okay, doesn't want to take the the dragon ascent drop, but we take that pretty nicely get a nice beam off It's gonna be weakened by the delta stream, but at the same time it's not the worst Okay, so it's not Desirious, which is good to know now we need to preserve Incineroar I might have to sack to near this And I think I might bring in ferrathorn as well for kayaga so we can get it back in get our rain up Um, we might lose Our tornadoes here, but the one thing that we've got to keep in mind is that we want to try and intimidate This katana. We want to try and put this requiser down to minus two as well As a leaf blade. Yeah A ferrathorn will take that pretty comfortably and we'll probably see a dragon ascent into the tornado Oh An earth power that's even better for us to be honest because now we get the tail wind up Um, although the other thing is what we could potentially do is hurricane Into the katana Slot it's got to feel threatened right now though. It really does My opponent's got a crowbar in the back, but it's a good time for us just to actually tailwind and Hmm Do we sack incineroar here I think it might be worth sacking incineroar because I'd imagine the katana probably sacred swords Or fight teams ease into the incineroar slot, which was the ferrathorn to get rid of it But you don't really mind too much as long as we get a tail wind up We get kayaga back in and we've got tornadoes kayaga Intel wind and I don't feel like there's very much my opponent can do at that point There's a z move So it's going to be the fight team is he it's tending to be the thing that players are running on katana at the Minutes so just make sure you're aware of it when you do come up against it in battle my friends And the katana is going to get rid of its beast boost, which is not ideal But at the same time as long as tornadoes sticks around it's it's all right that requires us minus two at the minute So it's not really But in too much pressure on to um tornadoes tornadoes to be able to deal with katana This is a dragon descent. Okay Can tornadoes just stay out of extreme speed range? That's the thing. I don't know if we can Oh, I don't know It's gonna be very very very close Okay, we'll bring in kayaga Katana will go down to a water spout. No doubt about it Yeah, so we'll we'll just water spout and we will Because one thing it could see happening is um The requires are switching out to the crobat Potentially to come back in and get the delta stream get rid of the boost get rid of the drops and things like that So that's something they could do I will hurricane into the katana and I'm just gonna water spout as well But I I probably see the the requiser. Yeah going out katana will protect It'll make a lot of sense. It's not really too much else we can do here. Yeah, so and then the ray comes in gets it's It's delta stream back up, but But we do have uh, we can't get the role play. That's the only thing Hmm And we need the role play It's just we won't get the role play because they'll get extreme speed before we can role play It makes sense because a delta stream if hurricane was 100 accurate, wouldn't it? Um, okay, we've got two turns to tailwind left Do we go hurricane into katana and um I think we've got to take advantage of this turn because Like the one thing I'm gonna try and double into katana and hope that an ice beam is enough to take the katana down Right extreme speed. Yeah, that makes sense It's all about whether or not our ice beam can take down this katana or not Hopefully it is enough Oh, it's not enough. It's not enough. Nah, and I don't think we can win now No, we really needed that and like Luigi's played that really nicely Um, managing the board position to get the requiser back in Um, and I kind of losing the incineroar options are kind of limited there Hmm Maybe we could have switched out Tornadoes to ferrathorn protected kayoga. It's just that that situation You kind of want to take advantage of your tailwind because you've only got so many tailwind turns left Um, but let's see if we can do something here with ferrathorn I mean There's there's no chance. There is no chance Poor ferrathorn is done for sacred sword There we go. Yeah, and very good game to Luigi. So overcoming The swamp hurt squad, but That's that's fine Interesting that the katana outspread the the requiser there as well But very good game to Luigi very well played And nice to feature you on the channel my friend as I say he is one of the the patrons and the flinch squad Circuit player so we will be featuring him. I'm sure in weeks to come and always nice to play him. So We will move on and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent If it does of course guys, I will let I'll cut this out and we'll come straight back to when we do bump into someone And we've got our next opponent of the episode. So let's hop straight into team preview Okay, our next opponent today is running a team of garrados incinero, zonius gradoon, nyligo and Minetrix, so you've got to imagine Well, it could be two megas on this team. You could have mega garrados and mega minetrix now garrados doesn't Fit so well with gradoon because of obviously it's water typing It's kind of conflicted with the desolate land ability on the gradoon But I've got the restricted pair of zonius and gradoon. It's a nice combination. We've seen do so well This year in the ultra series But a lot of different supporting members here got the nyligo which has been doing super well recently mega minetrix is an Interesting one if it is mega minetrix and then the incinero there with the support fake out and intimidate, right? What are we gonna do here? Hmm Tornadis is definitely good um Swampert kayoga could be decent. I mean I could I'm kind of tempted to go swampert Incinero The intimidate's always going to be good. Swampert puts pressure on the nyligo Um, we probably the thing is that I really need tornadis, don't I because tornadis. Yeah, let's go tornadis kayoga and Farathorn farathorn should we go farathorn? Farathorn's pretty good if we can keep the rain up, which uh, we'll have to be Confident that we can do that I just feel like farathorn's so good against the majority of this team like the nyligo zonius garrados mega garrados um The rest of the team kind of threatened a little bit, but like I say if we can keep the rain up then it's not so bad So lead off with tornadis and our swampert and we'll see incinero and zonius come up for my opponent. Okay Now the problem here is if we've led the incinero with the tornadis we can trade fake outs To mon and then taunt the next turn, which we can't really do now Which is a little bit frustrating, but what we could potentially do is go into Then we could go into kayoga and just waterfall The zonius Just a kind of would like to get farathorn on the field. That's the only thing um Let's go into farathorn here and let's go make it evolve and Go waterfall into Yeah, let's waterfall There's no way we out speed the zonius So I doubt there's a flinch chance, but then the next turn we can switch in Kayoga potentially Because the fake out comes out into the tornadis for sure But we've got to time it right so we don't bring kayoga until The ground on hits the fields It's a gemante And I think the next thing you probably protect zonius and you turn out With incinero Wow that did like nothing minus one no rain up. Wow Was that okay? hmm Yeah, so we could double protect here just to deny hmm Or we actually just attack into the incinero here and protect farathorn Or allow the ground on like allow the ground on to come in Let's go for the incinero. I I think it you turns. Let's get some damage onto it No protect from the zonius Wow, I could have just Protected swampert and attack, but then yeah Okay Now the problem is yeah, I've got it. I kind of have to bring kayoga and things are going from bad to worse now I can't believe you could have just made that play it seems so obvious, but I mean fair play to my opponent Wow Let's see about this with gyro ball into the zonius for sure Uh, and we have to switch the kayoga straight out because the ground on comes straight back onto the field Um, now if you're incinero, I think you probably You turn out Well, you might go for a flablet thinking that you can take down the kayoga with Okay I'll probably see you turn and then comes the ground on I would imagine Just whether or not Farathon can take a moon blast precipice blades without any intimidating support from our end Hmm Let's see So my opponent just thinking about what they're wanting to do here, but you imagine it's going to be the ground on It's got to be the ground on Come on, dude. Let's go You've only got like three well two choices. There's a crowd People we haven't got leftovers on Farathon because right now that would be pretty handy They've got to know that I mean, did we tailwind? and protect here Nah I think we have to just switch in we have to switch in kayoga So I'm not feeling massively confident about Farathon taking this but we'll see if we can get rid of this zonius and still have Kayoga in a decent shape Then I think We might be all right. We might be Moon blast We're going Into kayoga You're a madman eruption. You're a madman. I don't understand this Okay So It's definitely not over What we probably need to do is try and maneuver tornado sing So we could get I wonder if we could get a cheeky leech seed on to the incinerole because I feel like the ground on probably Another ground on might not switch out It's just if the ground on goes full Hmm Because the other option I've got is switch Farathon out into tornadoes Protect kayoga so the rain's up. It's fine. Next turn we get a tailwind up But the problem is then I can't protect kayoga So I'd have to switch in Farathon sack it to get kayoga back in and then we're kind of good to go And to be honest that might be the better way to do things here So let's let's try that It's just whether or not the ground on switches out It's not gonna It's gonna go for an earth power. I think oh it's going P blades when you turn into that slot as well. Okay Um Yeah, we've just got a tailwind now and Yeah sack Sack off or go Incinerole definitely you turns out though But we can still pull ourselves back into this Just as I got on goes for like an eruption now thinking he's gonna switch it out. There's the earth power. Okay Problem is we really we really need Farathon to go down here. That's that's what we need. We don't need that Okay, because I don't know if there's a safe way for us to get A kayoga back in now Hmm Because we can jarra bull the nile ego. It's just I can't switch kayoga in right now I'm oh can I can I? No, I can't it's too low health to switch in I've got to sack something So I'll go for the hurricane into ground on I go for the gyro ball into the nile ego But ferrathorn's still gonna under speed the ground on so it's whether or not the ground on attacks for the eruption Okay And we might be all right then maybe Tony this still has a sash. So we're all right there Hurricane actually hits which is perfect Now if you can get rid of this nile ego Ah day continental crash If we can get rid of the nile ego now we can lock the weather more It's just the only problem is Tony this can't avoid the fake out But then the ground on can't really touch us. We know it's got power precipice blades eruption. So there's a sash Jarra ball Oh, we just miss out the kill there. Hmm How many turns of tail wind have we got left to? We need to lose something right now um This is the yeah, I don't think we can do Anything I think you fake out the tornadoes and then We could we get our weather back in but then it's too late then The only thing I think you could do is maybe fake out Kyogre So if we go that way and then go jarra ball into the nile ego And then maybe we can switch back out To tornadoes to sack it And then get Kyogre back on the field finally But I don't know I'd still say the ground on's probably faster than our Kyogre There's a fake out Yep In power It doesn't work. We get the jarra ball. Okay, so there's still hope for us here In power fire nile ego Hardcore, okay now do we just Like we need the tail wind we need the tail wind We can't do this without the tail wind And I think you just eruption here because we've got one turn left now and it's no good. It's no good to us right now Hmm See we could protect Kyogre And we could go for H seed into the ground on Because then we get tornadoes in if ferrathon falls you can role play And then origin pulse And hope we see an eruption And the only way we win this is by my opponent just being like right well Eruption we'll get both of them We don't need to worry about it. I can get rid of the tornadoes and if that ground on decides to go eruption We can win with an origin pulse So we've got to try we've got to try if they go with power then It's that we're done for we're done. So we'll go role play Let's try Let's hope you've got eruption my friend click that eruption button. Please click the eruption button Oh, come on so tense Primordial see Come on eruption, please Come on hit Yes Come on Kyogre whale to the rescue. Here we go. Very good game to my opponent What a way to finish the episode. So that is awesome Man finest margins finest margins And this is why it'll only work in best of one You wouldn't be able to catch your opponent out on the best of three like this But I've been seeing this all week with the role play, but it is very nice And It's been a nice episode. We had Luigi game one. We had this great game game two So we ended up with with a nice with a nice victory as well to kick us off And finish up this build of the team because tomorrow do not miss it guys We're going to be back with some suggestions from you guys With a really fun variation of this team to finish us off before going into a new team next week So I will just say thank you so much for tuning in guys. I hope you enjoyed today's episode Have a great rest of your day and I will see you for the next one. So until then take care and bye. Bye