 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Road to Ranked roulette series. I hope you're all doing well. Thank you so much for tuning in and we are going to be finishing up the week with our roulette team that we started off with this week. If you missed any of the episodes this week, would like to catch up on the phenomenal team that we had to begin the week with from the roulette. Then click up here, I'll put a card up, you can check those matches out after this episode or before this episode so they're all in sequence. But I'm going to just spill it right now, you know what? I've just sat down to record today's episode and I did two battles, I did the whole episode. We had the most incredible game for our last game and I went down to end the episode and click stop recording and I hadn't even clicked start recording. So I must have just missed the start recording. I feel like crying, I feel like crying. So, so disappointing because we did the bonus button and everything like that so we've got one bonus button left to activate this week. Obviously I know what the bonus button is going to be but we'll try and make it up. So we have one bonus button left going into this episode. It is our Patreon button that gives our Patreons the opportunity to nominate a Pokémon to put into the team. Obviously we have to select a random one to take out and we'll do that right now. So we'll head over to the wheels, see which Pokémon is going to be taken out this week. And it is per ugly. I already knew this. It's very sad. It's per ugly. I'm so sad about this. But down the hindsight, we do have four suggestions from our Patreons this week. We've got three fake out users within those four selections. So hopefully we get one of Incineroar, Scrafty or Mr. Mime and we don't get Pseudo-Woodo. I'm sorry Ryan. Who suggested Pseudo-Woodo? This is a perfect Pokémon. Make sure to get your nominations in for the rest of the week as well. That the poll is up on the channel right now for next week's teams. Hopefully Pseudo-Woodo comes into the squad next week. But we're going to hop over to the wheel now, see which Pokémon got selected for today's episode. Definitely recording right now. So we'll be back in one moment and see who will be selected for our sixth member of the team. Mr. Mime! So Nigel, thank you so much Worms Eye for the suggestion here. We're going to have Mr. Mime integrated into the team. It's always the team is down in the description below. There's a reward paste, poker paste of the team. And just to finally recap the team before we go into this final episode today in two battles. We can see that we have got Mr. Mime, Luxury, Mega Benet, Dragonite, Xerneas and Groudon. 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Not only because I love hearing from you, but because if you leave a comment, you'll also be in the draw for this hat, as I say once again. Got a first opponent, make haste. Let's see. Team Preview. So our first opponent today, running out an awesome team. Star Raptor, Lunala, Smeagol, Medicham, Wimsacott, and Duskman, the Crosmer. I wonder if that's Ultra and the Crosmer. What a great team. What a great team. This looks like the ultimate roulette team if we could ever get it. I mean, yes. So we've got speed control from all sorts of Pokemon here. The Star Raptor has access to Tailwind as long with the Lunala and the Wimsacott. And then we've got Trick Room being a thing as well that can be played by the Lunala, the Duskman, and also that Wimsacott as well. So we've got fake out support in this Smeagol, the Medicham. We need to watch out for an on-call that we need to be very careful of. Very careful around that Wimsacott. Is this one for Banette? Could Banette be an option here? Maybe. Could be decent. I feel like Luxoray is quite good as well with its intimidates. We need to be very careful around this Smeagol with the potentially Spore. So I might lead off with Mr. Mime, Luxoray. Restricted Pokemon we're going to need, I think, Groudon for sure. And then did we just throw in Zornius because Zornius is just generally a good Pokemon. I think we're going to lock in with those. And let's win my opponent to pick their selections. It's so sad. Like the two matches that I had with the team were incredible, especially the last match. It was against a QR code team against the this year's Japan National winning team. And it came right down to the wire and it was a lot of manoeuvring and got the ZG Mansi up and then another Geomancy up on top of that. And I'm so sad that I wasn't able to actually feature that. And it was all a combination of Mr. Mime, Groudon and Zornius coming out on top against the Sogaleo at the end. And it was just incredible. So sad. Okay, let's try and replicate some epicness for this one. We've got Medicham and the Lunala coming out for my opponent here. Okay, so let's snarl. We get the Intimidate onto the Medicham, which is really nice. Obviously, Mr. Mime can't really do too much here. So we could potentially fake out the Medicham, but it's probably going to fake us out, I would imagine. We could go for a SciShock into it. It is a part psychic type, so we'll just be hitting it for neutral damage. The other option is to kind of scout out the Lunala going for... It's pretty risky. We could scout out them going for a Tailwind. It's more likely to go for a Trick Room though, and go for an Encore into that slot. We could just get some damage onto the Medicham and go for a SciShock there. I'm just going to do the SciShock, play the safer option. It would have been nice to catch the Lunala out if they go Tailwind and then lock them into that for sure. It's likely they've got the Z move as well though, so you can't really get the Moss out of the lock. There's a fake out coming out. It's going to be into Lux Array. Okay, so we get a free SciShock into this Medicham. Get some damage onto it at least, taking it down to half health, which is decent. We could have gone away with that Encore lock for sure there, which is a little bit of a shame. I think we'll go for a Snarl again, and I think there's no way we're going to catch the Medicham with the Encore lock here. We'll go for another SciShock into the Medicham. I think it's the best option that we can do. Medicham with Drawing, what we're going to see come in. It's going to be the Nacrosma, so not ideal for us. But the Snarl does help, especially if that is Ultra Nacrosma. We're going to just see Moongai's Beam. It's probably into the Mr Mine here. Yeah, that's fine. Take us down to our Sash. We're not going to really get much more use out of Mr Mine unfortunately right now. The SciShock is going to do very minimal damage to this Nacrosma. But the Snarl will do decent damage to both targets, especially breaking this Shadow Shield on that Lunala, which is the big important thing for us right now. Not doing too much to that Nacrosma, like I say. But it probably is Ultra Nacrosma, I would imagine. Because you went for the Tailwind. That would be my only thing. Let's go for an Encore into... No, let's not. There's no point of going wide guard, I don't feel right now. I don't really want to switch Mr Mine out, either we don't want to take too much damage from anything else. Coming in, we could just get a bit more damage with the SciShock into the Lunala here. We'll probably get a bit more out of that than anything else I'd imagine from this point. And just hopefully Mr Mine goes down. We may see the Lunala switch out, but no, we're just going to see another Mungai theme. Where are you going this time? We're not going to sit with the Duskmen. Go for that Ultra Burst, though. So maybe it's not... It's going for the Earth Power, though. You should take this with the Assault Burst and the Snarl. Wow. Look how bulky Luxray is! It's a beast! Get another Snarl off, which is nice. Further reducing everything on my opponent's side of the field. And this sets up a nice opportunity for Groudon to actually come in now. I really am tempted to bring in Xerneas to get the Z, GM and C up. But at the same time, we could be dealing with Duskmen that has... I mean we can bring Xerneas in, right? We'll bring Xerneas in. We'll switch out Luxray. We'll protect. We'll just do a little bit of scouting. You see what my opponent got us for here? Yeah. Because they could have the Sunsteal Strike. And I just want a scout for that. Although, do they with Earth Power? Would you do that? Would you do that with Earth Power? I wouldn't have thought you would. I think we're probably alright going for the Z, GM and C here. I'm going to do it. And bring in Groudon. Because it's quite important to keep Luxray in the back for the Intimidate Support later on. Both mine is 2, not really pressuring Xerneas too much. We're going to see the Lunalis switch out. Let a champ come back in, which is fine. I think the worst thing that we can potentially have here is obviously the fake out the next turn from the meta champ. We'll kind of put Xerneas in its tracks. Stop it in its tracks. But, let's see. If this N'Krozma got Ultra Burst, if it does, then it's good for us. It has got Sunsteal Strike. No! Now we are connected, I think. Man, that does so much damage. I'm banking on it, not having it really. And it does have it. So, it makes it very difficult for us to function now. Get this GZ, GZ, GM and C up. I think we get a Precious Blader for sure. But, I don't think it's going to be enough at this point because I think the meta champ probably goes for... It could just attack, to be honest. The other Precious Blades, you just go for it. The Tailwind has pitted out, so maybe Groudon's in a position. We probably could have erupted here rather than Precious Bladed. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know what would have been better, to be honest. Not the GM and C, and probably would have been the play. Every time we've done it, we've been... It's been a bit of a sticking point for us. I don't think it's the most optimal way to run Zernius. It is pretty me-me, but a fake-out stops it completely now, which is not ideal. But, let's see what my opponent does. Am I Panic? Maybe Panic? I don't know. Let's see. Oh, we're going to see Ultrinocrossman pop out. It probably just goes Sunseal Strike into... Probably see a fake-out. And then it pop the... Ooh, Bullet Punch. What? Wow. Huh. Didn't see that coming. Do our speed above, so... I mean, that's good for us, I guess. I'm going to take an Earth Power, though. The process is minus one. Oh, Photon Geyser. Just probably better, to be honest. And... Man, it still does so much damage, but we still have access to it. Z move the next turn, which is... Oh, I don't think we're going to be able to do this one now. No, I think the big issue here was definitely going for that Z. G-Man, so you're getting greedy. Smigo coming back onto the field, can fake-out, can spoke, can do all sorts of shenanigans. Yeah, it's not a great first game for us at all. We really probably needed some speed control here, I think. We'll go for a Press of His Blades again, and we'll go for a... Snarl. Snarl, snarl. I don't think we're going to be able to get the snarl off. It should outspeed the Smigo, though, but it probably goes for a fake-out into... Oh, like... Okay, I'm going to just see it protect here. What's the Smigo going to do? Put us to sleep? Has the Smigo got a sash? Blatantly got the sash. It has to have the sash. Yeah, there we go. It's a Groudon to sleep. Yeah. Okay. We'll get rid of it now, but I mean it just opens the door for Lunala to come back in. I wonder if... Could Luxurya do this by itself? Can Luxurya take down the Nuckrosma with a snarl? I mean, you just double Luxurya now, really. Groudon just takes a nap. Takes a nap. But, saying that... I think the Lunala's way too far out of snarl range, unfortunately. We'll go for a precipice blades, and we'll go for the snarl. Groudon has to take a full turn of sleep here. If Luxurya can somehow manage to take a double up here, that would be pretty impressive. I just don't see it happening. Maybe the Lunala takes a turntail winding. That could be all we need. So, we might still have a chance. I don't really see us having much of a chance, though. I feel like we're facts against the wall. But, we'll hold out hope for Luxurya. Hopefully it can do something here. That would be incredible. Imagine pulling off a win now from this position. Groudon's faster than both, so that's interesting. There's an earth path from the Nuckrosma. Groudon hopefully can take this. Yeah, okay. Z move, right. Where you going? Into Luxurya, this will pick up the knockout. I don't think we can take this, even with the assault vest from this range. We'll cut this, we'll be right back, and we'll find out. It's actually into the Groudon. We might actually have a chance. Luxurya could do this. Come on, snarl. If you can take down the Ultranacrosma now, we definitely got a chance to do this. Come on. Take down the Ultranacrosma, please. Take it down, please. Come on, come on, come on. That's so weak. So weak. So weak. Luxurya, can we do it? Nuckrosma's minus two. Still has. Can we do it? I mean, we've got to keep snarling. I don't know if Luxurya can do it. Is there a chance? I mean, I would, like, this would be the best thing ever if Luxurya can beat these two. I just don't see it happening. Let's see, it's taking too much damage. Okay, that's doable. We've guys been, let's see. We need to pick up a knockout now, really, on both, I think. Yeah. We need to knock out both now. And we can't do it. We can't do it. And we're not going to be able to take another combination. Luxurya did so well, though. You've got to take your hat off to Luxurya. So, at this point, maybe, I don't know what would have been a better way to go round it, ground on sleep, and we didn't really have too much of an option at the panel coming in and picks up the kill and good game to our opponent. Unfortunately, we can't pick up the victory there, which is a little bit of a shame. But it's kind of panning out, like, the episode that I didn't record that I thought I was recording, where we lost that first game and then we said, let's come back, let's give this team a really good sendoff, and we came back and we did that. So, let's see if we can replicate that and see if it comes back in any shape or form where we can maybe do it. So, let's see, let's see, let's see. Disappointing. That would have been epic, though. I mean, that would have been the most epic thing if Luxurya could have come back and done that. So, the unfortunate thing is we're not going to be able to hit the 1,500 mark this week. But it does give us something to aim for next week. Let's go with the Aether Foundation for our music here. We're setting our rating 1423. I'll just pull the screen over so you can see. Bit unfortunate. But, like I say, we've got an opportunity next week to do this. So, make sure you do get your nominations in for next week. The poll is up on the YouTube channel now. Nominations are where you go. So, nominate one Pokemon, and they will all get put into the wheel and we will select a random team next week. Remember, you can nominate anything that is legal in the BGC 19 format. So, we've got our next opponent of the episode. It is Sun. And he is running a team of, let's get into team preview. He's running Groudon, Incineroar, Tapococo, Dustman, Nacrosma, Gengar, and the Salamence. So, potentially two mega Pokemon here. We've got the Gengar, we've got the Salamence. If I was going to guess which one was the mega, it says Salamence. So, maybe you just have both and just decide on depending on the matchup. You're going to have probably Ultranacrosma here paired up with that Groudon. Tapococo for the terrain control and then the Incineroar. I think out of everything Luxor is really good with that Intimidate support here. And I maybe want to bring, I maybe want to bring Dragonite here just for an immunity to at least the Groudon's ground type attacks. I think it would be pretty useful. We probably need Groudon on our own to help with the Tapococo, that Duskman, Nacrosma, Ultranacrosma potentially. Do we bring Zornius here? I'm not massively fond of Zornius in this matchup, to be honest. And I think we could probably do without it. And I'm kind of leaning towards Benette. Yeah, Benette, Dragonite and Groudon is my fall. But then, do we just sack those off and bring Zornius instead? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. I've left the Groudon out. If it's Duskman, Nacrosma and not Ultranacrosma, we're screwed. That's my only reason why I'm bringing Zornius here. And the Tapococo matchup obviously gets a lot harder. But we've got to try and just force our way through this. It might pan out overall pretty well here. Luxorite and Benette coming out for us. What a combination of Pokemon. Way more style points than our opponent who's leading off with the double Intimidate. How good would Perugli have been here? Isn't Perugli so sad? So sad. All right, so we get an Intimidate back. We are faster than Incineroar. Obviously Benette can't be faked out here which is a nice thing. So we can take advantage of that potentially here. But we are Intimidated as well. I think what I'll do is just go for an Ice Fang into Salamence, try and get some damage off. We're probably going to get faked out into that slot though. We could get Dragonite in. Might be quite nice getting Dragonite in. Although keeping Dragonite for when the Groudon comes out is probably a better idea anyway. Good Phantom Force. It's not where you're going to be ideal. We could just protect. Just protect. Benette. Or we could switch out into Xenius. Let's do that. Let's keep Benette for later on. And let's switch into Xen. Let's see. My opponent probably goes Tailwind, faked out. That's what I would imagine. We'll probably see. But I could be wrong. Xenius isn't too worried here, regardless of whatever happens. I mean, the Salamence is intimidated so its damage output isn't going to be as bad as what we think it is. There's the faked out. There's the Tailwind. It's fine. Super fine. Now you probably switch Salamence out now. I'm going to switch. Looks right out. Yeah, probably better to switch it out. And here we go for the... I don't think we'd go for the GMC here because it's just not worth our while going for it. We could go for... We could just protect to stall out my opponent's Tailwind for sure. Yeah, it's not a Vipline. I'd imagine maybe the Salamence going out here and the Groudon coming in. Or we could just see an attack from the Salamence and then a U-turn from the Incineroar here. It's just if our Shadow Shield gets broken, our Multi Skill gets broken on our Dragonite. It wouldn't be ideal. Hyper Voice. Okay. Dragonite. Yeah, our Multi Skill does get broken and flablets. Okay, so that's not the worst thing in the world. So we can match Tailwind for sure. Or we could Dragon Dance. Dragon Dance. Probably better off going for a Tailwind right now. Or we could switch in again. I mean, one thing we could potentially do is get Luxorating and now go for all we could Tailwind. I think Tailwinding is probably better, right? Yeah, we Tailwind. And then we go for the Zegeomancy. Because then if we go for it this turn they keep both Pokemon out on the field. Okay, that's fine. Yeah. And then we get Oh, what's this? Ah, Dark DMZ. Okay, maybe not going to get a Tailwind up. But we're not going to... I don't think this will be into Zernius. I think this will be into Dragonite. And if it isn't to Dragonite, Dragonite goes down like we are going to see. If it goes down then we get Luxorate back onto the field and get another Intimidate onto both these physical type attacks. It gives Zernius that little bit of momentum. Wow. Dragonite is a beast. We're going to get a Tailwind up. This is even better. Okay. We get our Z move. Going to get the initial boost. And then the next turn what we can do when our Tailwinds up, Zernius will not outspeed Salamence, but it will outspeed the Incineroar. So we should be able to get our Jmancy complete this next turn. At least. The worst thing that can happen, of course, is that we do see what it's going to say. I don't know. Worst thing, yeah, Roar on the Incineroar. That could be bad. But it's Z move, so it's likely got Darker Slayer, Fake Out, U-Turn, and Flare Blitz. And I think what we'll probably see now is a Double H Flare Blitz in Zernius. I'd imagine. But getting the Intimidate off should put us in a position where we are able to survive both of these attacks. Minus two. They're both minus two. We get the Jmancy up before either attack. So that's good information. Unless the Salamence has got Roar. I reckon the Salamence has got Roar. Must do. That's the only reason why it's... Oh no, it hasn't. It's just bulky and slow. I guess we do get the Speed Boost, so we would have to speed it anyway. So we'll match the tailwind, yeah. There's the Hyper Voice. There's the Flare Blitz. Yeah. Now, I mean, look at that. Look at that! Take it. Now we're plus three. Now we're in a good position to start doing some work. Let's Super Power the Incineroar. And let's Dazzling Lean. Plus three, I'll get the Salamence. A million times over. Luxury. Once again, coming in amazing. So Salamence is going to protect here. Dazzling Lean coming out. I think the thing that we need to do is just deny my opponent getting any Speed Control set up for the rest of the game. And as long as that Salamence is taken care of, then we can do that for sure. Looks very not in the best position. Now, especially if the Groudon makes its entry onto the field, we've got to think that the Duskman is still kicking around. So we need to be able to deal with that. And now my opponent has the opportunity to get a tailwind up for sure. And we don't have our Groudon, which is the one thing that we would probably like in this situation. Luxury not going to be out speeding in a cross mode, but we can definitely get the Salamence and Dazzling Lean. And maybe we go to Snarl and Dazzling Lean here. Just to stop that tailwind. I think we mentioned it before. Now Crossman actually gone for a protect here. And the Salamence is going to try and get a tailwind up, but it's not going to be able to. Not a plus three Dazzling Lean. Okay, so the Speed Control is gone for my opponent. Crit didn't matter. Crit mattered! Crit mattered! Crit never mattered today. Not a million years. I wonder what the Damage Calc would have been. So our tailwind pit is out now, which is fine. We're going to see the Groudon come in. Okay. I wonder what a plus three Moonblaster is to a Groudon. Interesting to see, right? I think what we'll do is we'll switch Luxury out. We'll get Dragon Eye back onto the field. Should we protect? Should we protect their new system? I don't see the, you know, ultra-bursting here. I feel like it's probably got Sunsteel Strike and it probably goes for an attack here. So we'll scout that out. We'll see if it has got the Sunsteel Strike. We could get Punish though. Sub on Groudon. Trick Room here could be a thing. Groudon actually protecting here. And across we're not ultra-bursting. It might not be. It has got the Sunsteel Strike though. Now we should be able to guarantee another tailwind up for ourselves. Here we could Dragon Dance as well. Or we could just Dragon Claw. The Groudon, double into that slot. And a Dragon Claw and a Moonblast. Maybe enough to get it. And then we've got Burnet to deal with N'Krosma, which I think will be fine. Especially with Luxury in the back. Let's go for the Double Up. Ooh, N'Krosma actually gone for the Cheeky Protect here. Which is interesting. There's a Moonblast. Let's see, plus three. What are we doing to Groudon? Well, coming out speed. We do. Oh, it's all coming together now. This is great stuff. What better way to end this week than with a match like this. Now we are going to be able to see what a plus... Let's go for a Dragon Dance. A plus three Moonblast does to a Duskman N'Krosma. I don't expect it to do too as much damage. But it'll be interesting to see how much it does, regardless. Wow. It's crazy. Super resisted. Dragon Dance. Here we go, boys. And girls. And everyone else. Who's viewing? Sunseal Strike. We'll lose Ernest now. For sure. But I think we're going to be fine. We've got Mega Burnet to come in. Cause all sorts of shenanigans from the back. So we can Phantom Force and we've still got Luxury as well. Which I think at this point Luxury could even come in and probably win this game by itself. Especially with the Assault Fest. It's all good it was against that. Ultron N'Krosma in the last game and the Duskman... Yeah, let's just go Dragon Claw and go... Photon Phantom Force. Cause Mega Burnet should take an attack from N'Krosma. It should do. I would imagine it does. Like Duskman is like pretty powerful. That's the thing. You've got to remember how strong that is. Wow, it's going for the Protect. Okay, it just gives us the win now. Granting us that win. Because Phantom Force cannot be... You cannot hit through. You cannot protect against it. It hits through, protect. That's what I'm trying to say. Let's go for Tailwind. And the game's pretty mature by now though. And my opponent just forfeits. So, one incredible way to end the week. Plus 3 Zernius doing the work. So, I'm just going to say thank you so much for each and every one of you tuning in. The first game to kick us off wasn't that great but we nearly had epicness with Luxury when it did nearly take down those two in the end. And if it had a little bit more about it it maybe would have been able to do the business against Lunala and that Ultron N'Krosma. But unfortunately it was just a little bit too much for it. But I would say the team on a whole has been amazing this week. So, thank you to each and every one of you for the nominations. I'm sorry that we weren't able to get over that 1,500 mark but we will be a lot better shape going into Monday's episode and a lot closer to that 1,500 mark than we were at the start of the week where we were in the 1,300 which is crazy. We're very close to 1,500 now. So, hopefully next week is the week that we do it. Remember guys, the poll is up on the channel right now. Go over and make sure you get your selections in for this next team starting Monday. Make sure you do leave a comment as well and put into the draw for this amazing hat and we'll be doing the giveaway on Monday. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have an incredible weekend, whatever you're up to and I will see you all on the next one. So until then, take care and bye-bye.