 Hi everyone I hope you're all well having a great day thank you so much for tuning into another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series we are here to Tuesday and we kicked off on our last episode with an x-ray build that you guys voted to see going forward in the Ultra series on the YouTube channel Paul last week so we're going to continue on with that today just to quickly recap the team and as always the team paste and poker paste are down in the description below if you'd like to check that out for yourselves in your own time outside of this video and try it out if you do try it out make sure to let me know in the comments how you get on with it but just to recap we've got the mega requires of the Zernius the lander is theory and it's got it has got the Z move there the tapu finny incinero and Serena so we didn't really get to feature the Serena over Zernius yesterday and so hopefully we can bring that in today's episode and get a little bit of spotlight for those two and if you missed yesterday's episode you'd like to go back catch up with that before coming into today's episode I'll link a card up there for you you can check that out and then come back into this one and have a lot of fun with all of us so let's get some music on and then we can hop straight into today's episode hopefully it doesn't take too long to find opponent and as always guys if you enjoy this sort of content make sure to leave a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and more importantly than anything else do leave your comments down in the comment section below because I love and I'll always say this hearing from you guys and we have such a great community here so right music before I forget what are we going to click into Cyrus I guess and we've got our first opponent the episode which is going to be a 1709 rated Japanese player right and they are playing a team of Kyogre Lunala, Celesteela, Zapdos, Tapufini and Incinero hmm just from the rating it seems like it's going to be a bit of a harder one but a really nice one to feature we always want to be featuring these higher rated players so we've probably got the Primal Kyogre the Lunala there there's going to be maybe it's probably going to be Tailwind rather than Trick Room here but we can't discount the Trick Room the Celesteela is going to be a bit awkward for us to deal with because we don't have much outside of Incinero to hit that for super effective damage we've got the Intimidate Support from the Incinero we've got the Misty Terrain Support from the Tapufini it's probably got Nages madness Icy Wind things like that and then Tailwind Support from that Zapdos as well that is pretty threatening as well if we don't really keep it in check so there's not many physical attackers on my opponent's team so the Intimidate Support here isn't really massively necessary outside of that Celesteela maybe Hermincinero feels like the most important thing for us so getting rid of that Kyogre early on is going to be a huge thing for us to do now I do probably want to bring Incinero I think here do we got Xerneas and try and just cut through the team as fast as I can with Xerneas bring Tapufini is something to switch in on that Kyogre that's going to be a bit threatening and then the Rayquaza as well in the back and I think we'll look in with those and get into this one one of the things I will say to you guys is when you're going on the battle spot don't be scared about a rating like I'm getting myself a little bit worked up because I know this this player that we're about to go into a match with this done a bunch of games they're doing really well so their teams perform really well but don't think about the rating thinking about the rating is where the biggest downfall straight away think about the Pokemon that are out in the field right now the things that you need to deal with straight away so we are going to see the Tapufini and the Celestiala come up my opponent and we do lead off with our Incinero instantly put a little bit of pressure on to that Celestiala and the Tapufini there but the one thing that we have to think about because we've got a pretty easy setup here with our GM ANSI but we have to be very careful about that Finney because it could potentially have his to really shut us down and stop us being able to do very much so maybe it's not the best idea to go for the GM ANSI straight away here and well I do probably want to try and get it's one of those things if a fake out the Celestiala the Tapufini could switch out and we could potentially see ourselves in a really awkward position the next turn if we don't go for that GM ANSI but I'm going to go for the fake out I do want to try and maybe scout out a potential haze so I'm just gonna go for a moonblast into the Tapufini here rather than go for the GM ANSI here. Tapufini gonna switch out Kyogre coming now I don't mind catching the Kyogre with a moonblast it is primal Kyogre you've always got to think like always I'm like so beady-eyed when it comes in and think is it scarfed no it's not please it's not I'm done dealing with scarf Kyogre if we can get this special attack drop here I mean the other thing here was we could have had a pretty easy setup with our GM ANSI and like just double thinking ourselves here a little bit too much as it kind of cost us slightly okay so we do see the leftovers revealed on the Celestiala here I think one thing we've got a pretty easy switch into now is the Tapufini on our side of the field and maybe just scout out what this Kyogre Celestiala wants to do and just protect here because we can set up a GM ANSI if we want but we have to be a little bit wary about that Celestiala has got access probably to leech seed and those heavy slimes will be hitting us for decent damage although because zonius is so heavy you can kind of alleviate that a little bit with an intimidator too which is always useful so we'll bring in Tapufini it's gonna be able to soak up those water type attacks we'll keep Incineroar around for another day we did identify and team preview how important that Incineroar will be for the late game potentially we're just gonna see the Kyogre protect here as we are gonna see a leech seed from the Celestiala okay that's fine now one of the things we could do is GM ANSI and then heal pulse or GM ANSI and just go for a scald kind of tempted to scald the Celestiala because if we can get a cheeky little burn onto it it makes things way easier for us zonius going into the rest of this game we can't avoid taking a leech seed but we do have heal pulse so we can get around that somewhat and as long as we get the GM ANSI up here we'll be able to take these water type attacks from the Kyogre a lot better and just getting that initial damage onto it with the new last make sure that there's water spouts up it is carrying it I'm gonna be hitting as hard as what we potentially think they're gonna do alright there's the boosts boost boost boost there's the scald very nice we do have to do the Kyogre do we get the burn though get the burn Finney on form here we go there's a scald back as we're attached to the ground we don't get burned which is good flash cannon even better you know it is like that's that's exactly what we want to see now and it's such a nice place now just to heal pulse and the burn doesn't even matter on the seller stealer does it at all let's heal pulse and go for a moon blast I mean we could just dazzling gleam there is the risk of a wide guard coming out here and which you don't really want to take and we need to stop pressuring the seller stealer now so we'll moon blast it with our those any so we're gonna see Kyogre switch out just retreat tap the finny come back onto the field now I guess my opponent probably wants to alleviate the damage from this scald that it's potentially doing because there would have probably been in range there to pick up the knockout we are able to get this heal pulse get zonius back in fighting ship and there's the leech seed oh that is that is hard breaking for my opponent you need the leech seed there to kind of let this seller stealer do some work tap the finny now coming in for my opponent it's still the threat of haze for sure we have to worry about um but do we do we go for a moon blast into the finny or do we just dazzling gleam I think we probably just dazzling gleam scald there's still the risk of a haze coming out from the opposing finny for sure and it wouldn't surprise me but we're doing enough work now to kind of okay that's a little bit of a shame I think we had a few roles going our favor early on but we put ourselves in a position to get ourselves set up so we could take this game and I think we would have closed it out regardless of the roles or not the seller stealer the match would have just been a lot more prolonged but it does mean because you get that early victory here we might be able to squeeze a few games in today so that would be ideal depends on how long the second game will be but we'll jump into it right now and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent as always if it does my friends we'll just cut out and come right back into it we'll go Giovanni music for this next one okay we'll be right back when we bump into our next opponent and like magic I don't even need to cut that because I was just sitting there for two seconds then we got our next one so we'll hop straight into team preview okay so our next opponent in this playing qr code team it's an interesting one it's made up of evaltal incinero type of finni amungus landeris and zernius so we've got that x and y combination here that we saw so popular in sun and moon and not so popular in the the ultra series but I still think it's got quite a bit of potential here it's kind of the standard team you know you've got the double intimidated support there from the landeris theory and the incinero the fake out support there type of finni is the the kind of key piece to this team in supporting everything the amungus is there to shut down any opposing flying type threats that my opponent will see and then the zernius is going to be the thing that tries to set up I would say that it's either z move maybe on the evaltal or it's probably more likely to be a salt vest so I think one of our main things that we need to try and do against this team is is get rid of the the finni before we do anything else so I think what we'll do is bring serena to this one we'll lead serena and zernius here um actually one of the things we could potentially do is lead incinero zernius brings serena and then I think bring the racoasa as well yeah and that should be enough I think to deal with this sort of team so I feel pretty confident with this let's get straight into it it's a good luck to my opponent with your lovely lipstick and your fan fan dress so um I'm sorry I'm sorry I need to stop doing this I'm like yeah you're all gonna think I'm super weird but it's just for the the um the entertainment factor and these downscreens before we get into the the um the games and I have a bit of a sporadic mind with random things pop into it all the time but I hope you guys appreciate it right we're gonna see the incinero and zernius come out it's like playing snap all over again um and incinero and zernius come out for us do maybe have the faster fake out um what I'm gonna try for the geomancy anyway here um I think the worst thing that could happen is potential role on the opposing incinero that would be that would be terrible but at the same time we might drag enough any and then we can get rid of their geomancy we do get the fake out into the zernius uh where they're faking out into us very very good very good very good very good okay um now let's do a mancy um and let's snarl yeah let's snarl let's just sit in front of it and snarl we're probably making the exact same attacks each turn both of us to be honest they're probably snarl as well gonna be that old chestnut going around this barbecue a few too many times so we'll see the geomancy on the opposing zernius we're definitely speed tying between our zerniuses you know that that's one of the beauties I always think about running max speed zernius if um you know at the very worst you're always going to be losing a speed tie which is not the worst thing in the world but it also helps you indicate what speed tiers other opposing zernius have gone for as well so we'll match match who's going to get the snarl off first or are we going to see a u-turn oh it's blah blah okay we should be able to take this pretty comfortably yeah that's not too bad that's not so bad and we get the snarl off which is very good um and we can protect zernius the next turn go for another snarl which is always the thing that we like to do again if we see a roll from the opposing zernius it puts us in a terrible position but we do get the snarl off as well so we're kind of checking the opposing zernius along the way so it's still not the worst thing in the world we do protect maybe the opposing zernius protects nope just dazzling gleam which kinkat will be able to take pretty comfortably yeah there's a low kick not enough to proc our berry though incinero avoids and the zernius takes the hit so that's fine that's fine I do really like low kick on incinero I wonder if this is Preston's build it featured and did so well with earlier in the season um now we can go dazzling gleam and I think what we do is I don't really want to bring anything in so I'm just gonna U-turn out onto the opposing incinero because yeah then potentially we can get rain as a moonblast from the opposing zernius oh it's in time incinero do we hang on now oh poor cat you did so well though my good cat friend not gonna be able to okay take another but we can potentially get our serena in now and go helping hand dazzling gleam and that should be enough to get both targets I'm hoping that would be incredible if that was the case um yeah let's go dazzle definitely get the incinero and let's go helping hand helping hand I love this attack I really do it's not an attack but it's a support option it's one of my favorite support options that we've got in the entire pokemon series it's almost something that I've really enjoyed using throughout the vgc scene if you we use the speed tie that's really that's really disappointing but I mean we are taking those pretty comfortably and then you're still in a nice place we don't quite get the opposing zernius but it's not the worst I think you've got to be careful if you bring in either eval or something like landeris here yeah because we can we can get the eval with um moonblast definitely you can't calc evy eval to take a plus two moonblast and I think what would do is we go for a u-turn into the zernius yeah with with serena that should be enough maybe not sucker punch queen your majesty blocking so that's a little bit unfortunate for my opponent and my opponent's winning every single speed tie come on give us a break you get the moonblast off there and if the u-turn isn't enough we've got rare quasi to come in with extreme speed so that'll be able to pick up the knockout pretty easy onto the zernius but serena's saying no no no I don't want you sticking around so serena coming back just nice we'll get rey in and um just showing again you know we had a game last week with the ultra and across my zernius team where we got a double geomancy up and just in center all absolutely crushed us with those snails we couldn't get any momentum in the game um and it just again shows how useful that is and having that option of and not having that option just makes so much of a difference doesn't it you see the landeris come in it's gonna get the intimidate off onto both targets but we can moonblast mega evolve and that should be um oh dragon ascent that should be enough to deal with the landeris even if it's scarfed we're in a great position and we might see the full fit which means we probably aren't going to be able to get the third game in today which is incredible and I hope you're all looking forward to having a third game featured because I always love being able to feature extra games you know we do feature two and it keeps it to that 30 minute mark which i think is probably as much as i want to do for a daily episode for you guys um even though i'd love to do more but we do streams on a tuesday which is going to be tonight so if you're around we will be streaming over on twitch this evening seven p.m we'll be playing some something very fun so do come by hang out it's always a nice evening we've got such a nice community here on the channel um so it's uh it's always nice to have newer members join us over there and play some battle spot and just chill out talk about pokemon stuff and just general things that are going on we'll go with legendary pokemon we've got another high rated japanese player so we'll go straight into the team preview oh this looks like a tasty team it is a bit of a mirror match we've got the zernius and the reqaza there the incinero type of finny bishop very interesting here from my opponent and the amungus so what are we looking at here i'm seeing x-ray team it's going to be mirror more than anything else it makes it very difficult for us to utilize our intimidate support here though with that bishop being something so predominant for my opponent um what do we do what do we do here because we need intimidate ideally to deal with the reqaza um i don't really want to lead off with zernius either um and i don't believe we have high jump kick on our serena no we do not hmm do we lead our restricteds oh this is really really really difficult um i think what we'll do is lead zernius and serena we'll bring incinero and reqaza like incinero does all right against bishop as long as it's not got low kick so outside of that we should be all right i'm gonna lock in with those we'll jump straight into i'm in screen and we'll wait for our opponent to lock in it's not going to be an easy game and we haven't brought tapu finni here which makes the imungus a little bit more threatening look at that cute little komo hat or is it um one of the pre evolutions hack mo or something i don't know that's probably komo isn't it i don't know i haven't bought that suit because it's so expensive and i don't have the money in game so i just spend it on random things like pokeballs and other stuff waste my money so we're gonna see incinero zernius come out for my opponent this is one of the things that i didn't want to have us fall into the trap off here you know because of how threatening that bishop was it's always something that my opponent can do is is take advantage of that threat in team preview and lead off with something so devastating like this and if you don't lead appropriately to it then there's not a lot you can do uh right i think we'll go for the geomancy and we'll switch straight into our incinero there's no way my opponent fakes out here with the um serena out on the field so should be pretty safe to get our incinero in and it allows us the room to have fake out going into the next turn um oh cool and once we've got a boosted zernius up and running it's just about managing it and making sure like we're not going to be able to deny my opponent getting dead geomancy up and that if we don't geomancy ourselves here then we're just falling so far behind in the game it's going to be over very quickly so we need to geomancy ourselves here need to get an intimidate on the incinero to reduce the damage from potential flare blitz from that incinero we don't see a fake out so that's good i'm not detecting that which is excellent for us um we'll probably see a flare blitz from the incinero that's what i could imagine it might go for um a flare blitz into the serena to get rid of that for the late game because serena is very good especially when ray quasi comes in late game to deny those extreme speeds especially if we're taking a lot of damage already with a zernius right there's a geomancy again losing speed ties every time i'm wondering now i'm like is a zernius actually max speed off we played a different one let me have a quick look uh we're running a slow zernius so just ignore everything i've said about everything because we're not losing speed ties at all we're just a slow zernius right we're running a bit more of a bulky one which makes sense in this sort of team it means you can take things from a pause and requires us a little bit better um and especially with the double intimidate but i think i'd probably prefer to run the zernius i've run all season which is the max speed one with quite a bit of bulk in defense a little bit in hp and no i don't like seeing a moogess at all um okay we have to fake up the zernius i think but we can't really afford to i think we've got to uh it's difficult the moogess is a real pin i'm gonna moonblast the zernius no i'm gonna doesn't gleam yeah i'm gonna does something because i feel like i don't know if there's any is protect so i don't feel like it would it's just if it does protect i'm gonna doesn't gleam yet i'm gonna doesn't gleam and i'm gonna fake out the moogess the inclusion of a moogess here for my opponent okay so that's not too bad that's not too bad at all okay that's fine oh moogess carry and protect that's not like a moogess we are used to seeing hmm now we've got to get rain re is our only hope going to this next one uh we've got to protect our zernius here try try try try and get a flablets off into this moogess i don't know if we're going to be able to though it puts on a lot of pressure moogess with protect in the ultra series a lot better than no protect like we've been seeing it run throughout ooh so cheeky so cheeky bringing in the incineroar probably removing our incineroar from play yeah the opponent's making some nice reads nice plays here so we're not uh there's a moonblast it's into the the incineroar so we do lose it a little bit unfortunate but it's not the end of the world it is not the end of the world because we're going to be able to bring in our serena good old serena um and we do have access to the help and hand don't we know so we can help and hand moonblast help and hand dazzling gleam um the problem is we are the slaw zernius which makes things a bit difficult but help and hand dazzling gleam no maybe help and hand moonblast is the better play here because then we can put this zernius potentially in range for an extreme speed to take it down yeah and i think we've got a plan for that i don't know i don't think my opponent protects the zernius here i'm just trying to think of different situations where they could maybe get an advantage so i'll go straight back out i'm just going to hit the field once again um does the zernius just protect here and then you've got access to rage powder the next turn now it goes for the moonblast it's going to be into serena okay that's fine this opens the door for rayquaza to come in but i mean we take a plus two moonblast because serena is just a boss anyway hey we do get the help and hand moonblast if we can get this special attack drop as well that would be incredible but if we put it probably put it in range for a dozen gleam now um but we can't just sit freely in front of this moonblast um okay i'm going to you turn out onto the moonblast and try and get rayquaza in we probably lose serena to um a dazzling gleam here i'd imagine because of the rage powder now and it is moonblast yeah and we're going to see a spore into a spore into a moongus uh the yeah into the zernius slot into the protect that's what i was trying to say and so we'll get rayquaza in now um now we're all right now we're all right because we're kind of covering the a moongus and we've got the extreme speed we can take advantage of but the dazzling gleam will be enough to get the zernius um and the combination here should be all right the problem is we're taking a lot of damage in the process of doing this so when the rayquaza comes onto the field for my opponent they're going to be in a way stronger position than we are because we'll have likely taken a lot of damage prior to this turn even if we're able to clear the field here imagine the moongus switches out um and the incineral maybe come in or we could see a protect here as well the zernius has got to be worried about an extreme speed for sure um but i don't think i can afford to do that yeah i think i need to go driving a scent into the moongus um and i think my opponent needs to attack the rayquaza to put it set out for a win late game so zernius actually protects if this a moongus doesn't protect this is massive for us i mean massive for us because oh we're gonna get the a moongus i don't agree with this play unless it's got a cobra berry it has got the cobra berry is it gonna be able to survive i don't know if it will you know i know the cobra berry myself it doesn't leave you with very much health now it's not enough the dazzles enough to get it was that a critical hit as well maybe that's a bit unfortunate if it was i didn't see the text unfortunately in my and on all of this mysterious air gone around my eyesight is all hazy right incineral coming back onto the field so the first thing we need to do here is just double protect because if we can preserve our i mean one of the things you could do i can't do it i can't do it i can't like i'm tempted to go for extreme speed into the zernius here but i can't risk a fake out it's like 50-50 that we get it right um but you've got to imagine the Rayquaza's in the back for my opponent you've not seen it yet but i can't imagine that's the last thing for my opponent to come in all right now i think we just dazzle and go for another dragon ascent into the incineral here because that should clear it'll take us down to our sash and then we've only got the Rayquaza to deal with after that which is all right it's all right isn't it moonblast where you going into zernius no special attack drop do we get the zernius we do we do we do and Rayquaza still got his sash so everything is fine in the world hopefully this is enough to get the incineral that's the big question here because that's what we need to do if our sash gets broken and things aren't looking great for us come on yes come on Rayquaza you boss man you boss man yes so where to do this i can't believe it so we're having a good time so far let's hope we can clean up whatever's left in the back which is the Rayquaza huh it's still not over by any means but i feel like two on one makes it a little bit easier for us to manage uh we'll just go moonblast and we'll go dragon ascent and to the Rayquaza and i think with the combination we've got here we should be able to close this one up my opponent just fall fits and gives us the game so very good game to my opponent we've had some really high rated opponents in today's episode which has just been incredible and we've done so well with the team as well which has been even more really enjoyable so guys it's probably been the best episode we've had in the ultra series so far so i hope you've enjoyed it we've had some incredible games so far in the series and to be able to see that so early on is really nice so i'm gonna wrap things up there we're just under 30 minutes so that's perfect have an amazing day let me know in the comments what your thoughts on today's episode and i'll see you very soon for the next one so until then guys take care and bye bye