 Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you all well had a great weekend whatever you're up to but thank you for tuning in We are here again today kicking off with this team that we played last week on the channel We've made some alterations because there was a few things Then we looked at last week when we were playing with the team that we thought maybe we could tweak here and there So we've not made a lot of changes But the changes I will go over in a minute But before we do the team is always is down in the description if you'd like to check it out Then there is a role-paced and a poker paste you can try it out yourselves take it away And if you do make sure to let me know how you get on with the team So just to recap the team going into this week because after this week We will be going into a brand new team if you've got suggestions that you'd like me to play We've got a boatload that we've had already that I'm taking into consideration But if you've got any strong preferences with what you'd like to see played next week Then let me know down below in the comments and I'll make sure to try and feature them going forward So just to recap the team. We've got the miniaturist. It is the mega of the team This is where one of the changes came in we had in power water But we didn't really use it very much last week and we did mention on Friday How useful probably something like even pulse would be so that laws your opponent's pokemons The target pokemons special attack by two stages when hit by that status condition If not a status condition status move obviously And so we've replaced in power and put that on there for the miniaturist And then the other change we've made to the team was the lunala and we have taken off raw It was very useful, but I feel like why God would be a lot more useful So we've replaced raw white guard there And then I think we got rid of magic room on top of Lele and give a taunt. So they're all the changes I think the little tweaks are always the good things to do in a team without making big changes because the team is actually Working quite well, and I've had some games with this team off off of episode and it's been doing alright So hopefully we can continue that on have a really strong finish with this team And I've got to admit It's probably one of my favorite teams that I've created in the ultra series So I'm really enjoying it and I think this this team is capable of kind of coming up against most archetypes in the format so Apart from when we got absolutely bopped by the trick room team last week And if you haven't seen last week's episodes and you'd like to check them out before coming into this second week with the team then I'll put a card up there for you and we can you can catch up and then come into today's episode. So Without further ado, we've got the music on I guess it's time just to get into the battles And as always if you do enjoy this kind of content guys Please remember to drop a like on the video to subscribe to the channel and leave your comments because I love hearing from you And I will say one thing. We're not even in the right screen So there we go rating 1750. I have been playing a little bit, but hopefully we can continue that 1796 Japanese player rated to kick us off today. What a treat for us all and we've got we've got we've got there We go. There we go green screen. What are you doing green screen is playing up today? I'm gonna have like leakage over here. Anyway, let's get into team preview and we can get into this first one today Oh, they're chaos. So we've got our first opponent Andy is playing Salamence caught on a Tapa Coco Tapa Lele Kyoga and a dusk main necrosma, which is likely to be ultra necrosma because of that Inclusion of the Tapa Lele there So we've got to try and see what we can do around this team You're gonna have mega Salamence gonna be the mega on the team and the z moves obviously gonna be on the alternate Crosmo probably Min Speed control is obviously gonna be Tailwind from Salamence or Cortana potentially you could have a lecture web on the Tapa Coco So that's something else to watch out for I like Minetric in this match. It's faster than everything else on my opponent's team We have to be careful about the delay link as it is scarred and but I do like Minetric here We can do a lot of work and it puts off the to Coco being so oppressive as well So I think I will bring the Minetric Lunala for speed control is quite reliable. So I'm quite happy bringing Lunala up top as well Tapa Lele of our own I think it would be very good, especially if the alternate Crosma Does appear and probably Kyoga in our last slot and we'll we'll click in and get Into this first one and see how we get on and one of the things I was gonna say before before we got rudely interrupted by a first opponent of the day was that I started a new job last week Yeah, and it's so Where I used to have like a 15 20 minute walk every day. I've now got like a 45 45 40 minute cycle. It's like 7.2 miles. So and then longer days as well So it's been pretty tiring and obviously with fear on the way and things like that But basically what I'm getting around to saying is you guys have been amazingly supportive on all the content from last week and Left a bunch of comments and I haven't replied to any one of you So I'm super sorry about that It is something that I do like to do and I will get round to doing it Hopefully I keep saying things are settling down, but I will be finding a rhythm soon So hopefully things will get a little bit better as you go forward, right now Let's get into this battle because we've got Tapa Coco. We've got dusk me in the Crosma. Um, so I think what we could do is probably not We have to be careful about the um definitely about Earth power I want to vault switch out and Coco and I'm gonna just set up a tailwind while I've got the opportunity to Hopefully we don't see trick room I'm yammering too much to even concentrate on the battle, but we'll get into it right now I promise I promise we'll let I'm gonna vault switching out on the Coco because I feel like the Coco is the one thing That will attack you to potentially break a shadow shield on our Lunala The duskman might protect because of the the threat of the z move potentially We're not going to see that. We're just going to see vault switch into the Coco get some decent damage off there Preserve that intimidate as well and keep everything in the back. Um one of the things we could potentially do is uh Could bring in Kyoga. I just don't see my opponent Going for an electric type attack into the magnetic slot It's more likely to go earth power Like I could bring in Lele but I kind of want to preserve Lele until that duskman decides to Ultra burst. Okay. We'll bring in Kyoga. I just don't see you attacking like you don't unless you do what like We did vault switch out onto the electric type because it's likely they don't predict So might see that that wouldn't be ideal for us Could be the first trap we fall into but hopefully it's not we'll get upon all you'll see it but we should get Atel wind up um sky drop Took lunala up into the sky. Hmm no tailwind for us and then trick room That works out like a lot better for us to be honest like it really does now the Coco's out of the equation here um But we do have the potential to go for a water spout uh with a Kyoga and um We definitely don't want to go for a tailwind now I could just go for a side shock into the the type of Coco. Um Moon guy's beam probably is a bit stronger So I'll go for that just because side shock might miss the knockout there and we want to we want to pick up the knockout onto the Coco and they intimidate obviously handy there. Um, we are taking it No, the dust means slaw. Coco does avoid that water spout single target I don't know if it is actually clocked a single target though. There's a sky drop Lunala not going to be able to attack here, but uh, I shot a shield busted So What are we looking at right now? Um, we know that the knockout is slower than a kyoga It's probably going to be able to get another photon guys are off But we could potentially just go for a scald and then um Do we z move into The coco It's just I feel like it's probably a salt vest Is it salt vest or not? Or is it just a support one? It's just I don't want to um this screen today This screen the screen everything's falling apart behind me. Um, I do apologize. I'm very sorry the equipment um I'm going to go for the moon guys beam The the z move into the coco just to make sure because I want to get rid of it I don't want to I don't want to attack into it and it turn out to be not a salt vest and then um Yeah, we take another photon guys have scald here should be enough to get the the dust main Yeah, so we pick up the knockout there and we'll guarantee the knockout onto the coco with the z move now Do we all be able to do we're going to have to cut this scene which might give me an opportunity to fix my backdrop It's okay. We don't want to see leaking leaking in but yeah, we should pick up the knockout Um, it's just like I said, I don't want to risk it if it's a salt vest And hitting into the coco it should be more there even a salt vest here over. Yeah, we're just it's a bit overkill but at the same time If it is a salt vest, it's likely that the moon guys beam or the side shop doesn't pick up the knockout kayaka and lunala We're probably going to see kayaka come in from my opponent But we do have the why god that we haven't revealed yet, which might be useful to us. Um, oh, it's tapu lele And if that is scarf lele Hmm It's tricky, isn't it? Oh, it's not scarf. Okay So we need to start with tail wing Hmm seed lele This is what carton I would have been Extremely extremely good Huh, okay. We've got our own tapu lele. It's just about what's slower on my opponent's end You've got to imagine that cow that's probably slower than ours um But that cow that's probably slower than the lele Hmm I just don't want to uh, how many turns of trick room we got to We could be cheeky and try and get a scald off into the lele and why god Um Probably not a bad idea to do And then that gets us around at least one of these turns of trick room Um, what we've got in the back. I think we should be all right. Yeah, there's the water spout So we we will avoid that. Hopefully our cow goes slower than the lele. Yeah, okay. Let me get this off Burn burn burn. No burn. Oh shed a ball not what we want to see That's not the worst Not the end of the world Hey, we'll bring him a net trick. I would have brought in tapu lele, but The thing is with tapu lele, we can't protect so we would be prone to taking a water spout from this opposing coyote um Intimidate it's not gonna matter too much now It's not gonna be easy tying this one up to be honest. The the lele is a bit tricky um Especially because the water spout will probably take down our own coyote now I think i'm gonna just double protect here just to be a bit passive get rid of this last turn of trick room And then we're in a a little bit of a better A better place going into this next turn where we can Try and toggle down this coyote Because it's likely to attack you Yeah, and then the next turn I would say it's likely to protect And that's where we can try and Try and do some stuff. I guess It's whether or not I want to switch in tapu lele now um Or do I want it do I want to snarl? Or eerie impulse Like I'm gonna scald the lele And i'm gonna eerie impulse it as well And i'm gonna hope that the coyote protect on my opponent's side of the field No Okay, well, that's not the end of the world because the alias switches pulls a coyote in We get the minus two onto it. So that's fine Okay, first game. We are actually using it scald is not really going to do too much to it but Ally switch revealed Okay, it's not too bad what we're gonna see what's about, okay I mean we we should take this But yeah, I mean minetrix not taking that overly well Um I mean I could protect I could protect and I could just snarl here I think snarling is not bad to be honest Yeah, I'm gonna snarl. I'm gonna snarl And if we see motion and against again, then then at least we get around it No, I like switch but coyote is like minus three now. So We're in a We're in a lot better position. It's just that opposing lele. That's a bit of a pain to deal with Um, minetrix will go down likely here. Yeah And then the coyote go for an urgent pulse Thunder, okay Not so ideal. Not so ideal Okay, now teppie lele Teppie lele, what do we what do what can we do? I don't think we can take down the opposing lele Ah Yeah, the thunder is a bit of a pain um Like you don't really want to lock into psychic Because then we can't really hit the The opposing type of lele is hard and it's got shadow ball as well, which is the big problem I'm going to double into the lele. I think here. Um with a moonblast Could I do anything else? That's the question Could I do anything else? Go swaps aren't really going to do anything here taunt uh psychic I'm going to moonblast I'm going to double the lele because I think that's the one thing that will attack here and I think the coyote Okay, okay another ally switch kind of well If you get a special attack drop, this would be this would be worth it I would get the burn that would be even better Burn burn burn Burn, baby burn thunder. Okay Kyle double but minus three mind will it It's more than enough. Okay Right The burn is helping us out. We don't really need to concentrate too much on that coyote right now The psychic terrain has disappeared. We have to worry about the shadow ball from the opposing lele Um, but two moonblasts should take it down. Can we do this? Can lele do do the work? Come on lele. Let's do this My favorite tapping of all time. Come on lele. Don't let me down in this moment This moment of truth we need we need we need you to pull through we need big damage A special attack drops. We need all the shenanigans here to get the win. Come on moonblast. Yes Ally switch now. Come on special attack drop would be beautiful. Come on. No Okay, what's this going to be like minus one It's too much it's gold minus three in the rain We do take it Ah, this is where we can't really win now because Kyle goes down next turn Tape lele, what have we seen we've seen ally switch we've seen shadow ball we've seen side shock and I'm assuming it's got protect Have we seen a fourth move? I don't know Like my opponent just double attacks here and they win Like that is the the plane the only way for me to win this is for them to protect something um Like protect the tapu lele attack with the kyogre because it's going to go down anyway And that would that would then maybe give them But that that would mean they're cocking up. I'm going to moonblast the kyogre in the hope of doing this But I just don't see it happening. Yeah, they're going to shadow ball Hmm See lele this is where katana would have been Yeah shadow ball it's going to be too much Very close very good game to my opponent nice way for us to kick off today, but Never like a loss never like a loss Hmm Just trying to think where we could have maybe went a little bit differently Yeah, um, I think katana and the selection would have been the thing to bring Um really when when you look at it overall katana would have been better there, especially for that end game, but um And there was that moment that brief moment in team preview where I was thinking about it over the kyogre But then we opted for the kyogre. So we can't really blame that So we'll get back into our main screen. See what dent that's made on our points. Hopefully not too much Um, and let me just try and solve this screen out here because this is really not great It's not great That might be better There we go. Okay. Let's get some music on and we haven't taken that much of a dent kanto pokemon next opponent The high rate opponent from japan Tomped it was the japanese nationals this weekend. If you guys haven't watched that hit me up Uh, check my twitter account out. I tweeted up the the link to the live stream It's all there on youtube now for you to rewatch some really good games, but we'll get into this next one One of my favorite cores in this format the lunala groudon And then you've got a supporting cast of cangas corn tapu fini incinero and stack attack I guess it's kind of familiar things that you're going to see with this restricted core It's going to go for trick room more than anything Um, you can't take away the fact that there could be a tailwind mode to support something like the cangas corn But double fake out there, you know, one of them got intimidated as well from the incinero Then you got the tapu fini It's likely going to be very slow to support that primal groudon and then the stack attack Which is the slowest thing in the world. Um in the world of pokemon. Anyway, kaiyago going to be really big for us here You know, um kaiyago is going to be very important Um for us, especially with that groudon the incinero On the stack attacker. So making use of that's going to be really important I think cot honor as well is going to be very useful for us and tapu lele being able to deny my opponent Their modes of setting up the the tailwind and stuff like that. So I'm going to lead lunala I'm going to lead kaiyago bring tapu lele and I'm going to throw cot honor in the back And I think we're going to lock in with these four So what I'm going to hopefully see is my opponent try to lead out with those Those fake out as like ideally it would be incinero because you've got the lunala And then what we can do to one is either switching um Lele for kaiyago and zemo the lunala or we can um vice versa Lele for lunala and and what's about with kaiyago to get rid of We're going to see groudon come out. That's so good for our uh, uh, kaiyago lead because the groudon likely slaw likely will be underspeeding our kaiyago So Oh No, um no weather for us Not not this time around there's a nice lead from my opponent And predicting that we potentially lead this to kind of cover our lunala because the kaiyago guy I feel Does cover against the incinero, which is probably one of the more bigger threats um You can you normally see from from your opponent, so um It's like what we've got in the back though for this lead which kind of makes things very difficult for us Uh, can we stop the um the tailwind? I don't know if we can I really don't know if we can um Now we do have wide guard which does help us out lords We've got the zemo I think it's probably good to launch that off as soon as possible into the stacker just to get some damage there Um now of everything what's better to come in like are we going to need the lele for later? Um Lele is probably the one thing that we've got which we can kind of expend I guess It's just if our terrain gets overwritten and we lose lele Then our psychic seed is null and void with our katana, which makes things a little bit more difficult for us to kind of Take hits claws out the match, but predominantly my opponent's team Is going to be more physically based and special It's just the lunala that would be the more special side of things, but we are going to see The ground on protect so we get away with that a little bit We're going to throw out the zemo from lunala here. Um, it's where the raw would have been really good obviously Um, but at the same time we've got wide guard for that So into the stack attack. I don't expect this to pick up the knock up, but it'd be nice if it did So close isn't it so close. There's a trick room. No, we can't really do too much about that But one thing we can do is hope that the stack attacker doesn't have Doesn't have skill swap. That would be the one first thing that we need to We need to try and get around Um, the next thing is the wide guard that we've got here that we're going to make use of now and get a kayoga back on the field because if they don't have skill swap then We're in a nice position to get kayoga and pretty safely here You've got to imagine that the the stack attack are probably gyro balls on lunala Which will do respectable damage, especially when we haven't got intimidate support here. Um, but bring him a net trick to this sort of game It's not really that best suited just for intimidate when we can get around it in other ways So we'll launch off the wide guard. Hopefully we see a press of his blades throwing up from the The ground on I'm gonna see the gyro ball, but it's into that what was lele slot into the kayoga now And a substitute coming up from the ground on okay don't mind that don't mind that at all and because We can we can we can we can I guess we just do we water spout or do we? um I don't really want to take I do want to take the stacker down. That's the thing And I don't think my opponent I really I'm gonna hope my opponent doesn't go press of his blades here I'm gonna go moon guys beam into the stack attack and I'm gonna scald into the ground on hopefully we might see a wide guard as well, which would be I'm just going to gyro ball gyro ball Okay, dude nice damage Called a bluff, but because press of his blades is such a dodgy move Um, it does miss Kayoga, you're not able to take it. We are gonna get the scald off the wide guard would have been the better caller Um, we want to make sure we're trying to get rid of the uh the sub on the ground on and then this next turn we can We can wide guard And what's about and it will be enough to get the ground on at least the moon guys beam here gonna be enough to take them Stack attack herself once we can hopefully stall out these turns of trick room Then we might be in a decent position to kind of close up this game We're gonna have to worry about opposing lunala coming in now. So it's all about protecting our lunala. I feel more than anything else um It's just whether or not we see tapu finny in the back that would be A bit annoying now the opposing lunala coming in Does make things a little bit difficult So like you're gonna see moon guys beam into our lunala Um We're a side shock. I'm kind of tempted Hmm How many turns of tailwind trick room we've got two okay, we can we can get through these turns. I feel I feel we can Okay, let's bring in katana and let's Do we scald the ground on that's just yeah, I don't I'm gonna scald it because I don't want To get another substitute up if we get allowed to get a substitute up That's never gonna be good for us. We're just gonna be on the back foot So protecting here would have been ideal, but at the same time Uh, I don't want to fall into the track where that guard on able to get another substitute up and Like we're seeing now and we're not punishing that. We're just allowing it Um to get that up and we are slower than the opposing lunala. So that's interesting. That's good information going into um at least the next turn So we do see the ground on just go for that sub moon guys beam It's gonna be into our lunala for sure because they've got to check that slot. They have to check that slot. That's the thing um I mean that's crazy damage, isn't it? That is that is big crazy damage We can I think what I'm gonna do smart strike and water spout here Because if we can break The shadow shield on the lunala that'd be ideal if we say why god that's not gonna be ideal But we haven't water spout at all. So I point it probably in the the mine frame that yeah They're gonna carry on going for the scald because that's what they've been going for because they expect wide guard So why waste why god when my opponent's not really going for that spread damage? So hopefully we can catch my opponent of god now be amazing garden gonna switch out so it can get the weather back later We're gonna see tapu finny now hit the field. We don't really want to be losing cartona in this situation, but at the same time Breaking the shadow shield is the the main thing that we want to do I'm hoping that the lunala attacks into the kayaka here and leaves that cartona alone But I don't think they're gonna Oh, we're gonna see a z move. It's gonna be into the kayaka. I think Um, I reckon Can we take it? That's the thing. I don't know. I feel like there's a chance we can take it It's into cartona. Okay. That's it's sad to see cartona go down, but Not really much else we could do here does Switch off those dimensions, but this does mean that we are able to get our lunala back on the field Now does the tapu finny have an attack to take our lunala down? I just don't think they do I'm gonna moon guys beam into the opposing lunala. I need to get kayaka off the field And because with the grad on in the back, we've got to keep in mind that the grad on could come in at any time and So I need to try and preserve our kayaka. So we win that weather war At the end of the day, so I'm gonna bring in lele. We're kind of covered from the lunala threat anyway by Kind of attacking the opposing lunala. So that's not the worst. We are going to see the grad on actually switching So it's going to take It is going to take a moon guys beam. We'll see what this tapu finny does. It might go for a hill pulse You never know never never know, but my opponent's only mode of speed control is that lunala So if we can keep that thing checked We'll be all right So moon guys beam into the grad on We actually oh That's pretty big That goes for the hill pulse, but it fails That's a bit unfortunate because I don't think the grad on actually Gets knocked out there. So we get a bit lucky with that. Now the lunala gonna come in on my opponent's side of the field Uh, it is in moon guys beam range. I would imagine that the finny has got It's icy wind It's whether or not you go for the icy wind now because we could double the finny if the lunala if we expect the lunala to to protect We could double the finny and we will probably get it With size shock and psychic Um, I think i'm gonna go for that Ah, do I do a moon blaster? That's the thing. I think probably moon blast is better Moon blast side shock because I don't want to be locked into to psychic against the lunala So i'm gonna moon blast gonna side shock the finny and I hope the lunala protects Okay, so my opponent forfeits that is sad I think we would have maybe won that the crit on the ground on obviously swung everything in more direction But I think we would have been all right, uh, even without the crit To be honest, it might have been a little bit more difficult the hill pulse going on to it, but I mean at that point Yeah, it's still not over by a long shot, but then my opponent's got to worry about the 50 50s Where if we double up into a certain slot, um They're gonna have icy wind support as well So there's a lot of things that might have thing But I would have felt comfortable in that position to ground on coming and had survived But we're gonna wrap things up there guys. Thank you so much for tuning into the episode It's been a good one I think to kick us off this week Let me know what you think of the little adjustments to changes that we've made and obviously we're gonna finish the Week up with this team. So I'm gonna have a lot more games to come. So don't miss any of the episodes This week we'll be back with more tomorrow. So until then take care of yourselves. Thanks for tuning in and have a good one So until then bye. Bye